How To Master Your Mindset Around Health | Thomas DeLaur

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0:49I can have the most steadfast meditator monk that I'm talking to and they will still battle with this, right? And it's some to the point where we have so many things that are just available at our fingertips that are just not in alignment with how we've continued to evolve as technology and food production and the food industry is growing at an exponentially faster rate than how we are changing. So we have these things that are available that just simply shouldn't. And outside of putting yourself in a locker and away from these foods, a total echo chamber, you are fighting temptation all the time.

1:24And we have to recognize that there's only so much power in your prefrontal cortex. There's only so much willpower. Yeah. Like it's a finite resource. I had a really, really bad like sinus infection. I couldn't taste or smell for like two months. Right. And that was something where I realized like, why am I still craving these certain foods? I can't even taste them. Right. And it was like this aha moment where I'm like, this is clearly a mental thing because something sweet hits your taste buds. It's not just the taste of it. It's what it's doing in the brain. So changing your relationship with food, changing your relationship with struggle has been a very big thing.

1:59For me, I always had this kinesthetic awareness thing with my workouts. With workouts, it was like, if I inflicted pain upon myself and it was positive pain for a workout, I could flip this kinesthetic switch that was like, I called it my pain switch. And I would flip that pain switch. And you know, as an athlete, that's sometimes just what you do and it happens inadvertently. Sometimes you visualize it, but visualization is huge. So for me, I'd visualize flipping the pain switch. the switch is off I can now push it harder and push it past my normal aerobic capacity and aerobic whatever I realized why can't I apply that same thing to nutrition without becoming robotic but becoming very very aware so I've changed my relationship with how food makes me feel as simple as it sounds whenever I would eat something for about two or three months I would simply say like food is fuel food is fuel because you don't want to take the fun out of it I still love food right when you do that but you have to train yourself to believe that like okay if I'm eating this sugar, that's okay, but remember it's fuel and I should use it.

2:53When you change the relationship with food, you're not abstaining, you're changing the reaction. Food is still reward and we are constantly told that food shouldn't be treated as a reward. Don't reward your kids with food. What you have to do is you just have to once again change the relationship with feelings attached to food. Recognize that those feelings are there, but do something with them rather than and just let them be and consume you. If I am gonna go and eat that ice cream, then I'm aware of what that's doing in my body. I'm not gonna let that turn me the other direction and get depressed and go eat more.

3:26I'm gonna say, you know what, this is an opportunity. An opportunity to move more, an opportunity to move tomorrow. And that's not having this transactional relationship again because what you don't wanna do is say, I'm gonna eat some pie and now I'm gonna punish myself by going on the treadmill. That's the exact wrong thing to do. You do say, okay, I'm gonna eat this pie. Great, I've got full glycogen tanks. I'm going to go work out. I'm going to get the best workout of my life. Kids are constantly, I want a snack. I want a snack. It's like they have five stomachs. I don't understand. If they're reaching for like a Lara bar or something that I would still consider healthy, but has a decent amount of sugar from dates and stuff, right?

3:58Like kids just crave these things. And how do I teach them? Yeah, you can eat that, but we should really get out and move. How I translate it to them is, hey, it's fun to feel good. It's fun to feel good, right? Like you've got this energy from that bar. Doesn't that feel good? Like let's get out and let's use that energy. Let's go have fun. and now it's to the point where my kids are like, I have a lard bar, I want to go outside and play. I'm like, this is awesome. Like without actually molding them in any weird way, I've helped them like light a spark to understand that like when they eat this at a young subconscious level in their brain, it's probably forming something that's beyond what we even know in research where maybe they taste something sweet and now they naturally want to move versus saying like, oh, shame, guilt.

4:38I shouldn't have eaten this. It's terrible. No, we're going to go have fun. We're going to play. But I teach them that with not just sugar, I teach them that with fats too, because I think it's also fundamental to learn that all food is fuel. Yes. But be in touch with how it makes you feel. So how I retain that discipline is the exact same way. Like, how do I feel? What do I feel after I eat this? Did I feel crappy? Okay, well, then that's probably a pretty good articulation of what that's doing in my body.

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