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There are as many ways to have a difficult relationship with food as there are ways to eat. It\u2019s hard to get conversations about these challenges right, but today we\u2019re taking the plunge and exploring the habit of eating when we\u2019re not hungry with psychiatrist Dr. Jud Brewer.\xa0\nDr. Rick, Forrest, and Dr. Jud start by discussing our often flawed approach to conversations about eating patterns, shame spirals, and the many problems with diets. They then move the conversation from what we eat to how we eat, applying Dr. Jud\u2019s work on habits and craving to the challenge of emotional eating. Specific topics include the neuroscience behind how our hunger cues and emotional cues get mixed up, common habit loops related to food, reward value and the importance of creating a prediction error, the nature of craving as wanting without liking, mindfulness-based tools, and how we can create a bigger, better offer for our brains.\nAbout our Guest: Dr. Jud Brewer is a psychiatrist, the director of research and innovation at Brown University\u2019s Mindfulness Center, a professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, and a research affiliate at MIT. He\u2019s also the bestselling author of a number of books, including The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and his most recent book The Hunger Habit.\nDisclaimer: If you struggle with a serious restrictive eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia nervosa, the material in this conversation will not support your needs. Please consider working with your doctor or mental health clinician, or using the free resources at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org. If you need immediate help, call the ANAD hotline at 1-888-375-7767.\nYou can watch this episode on YouTube.\nKey Topics:\n0:00: Introduction and disclaimer\n2:40: The surprising finding from Jud\u2019s smoking cessation program\n6:05: What Jud\u2019s new book is not about, and information vs. behavior\n11:05: The mental health impact of dieting, and the problem with willpower\n18:05: Hedonic hunger, and food-mood wiring\n24:15: Bringing awareness to how we eat, and our cultural conditioning\n31:50: Developing freedom of choice, and the MBSR raisin exercise\n36:20: A walkthrough of mindful eating\n44:25: When you don't want to let go of a behavior, and finding the bigger better offer\n52:50: Kindness, curiosity, and other tools for improving interoception\n57:00: Ways to find the bigger better offer\n1:07:45: Caring for our future self\n1:11:30: Recap\nForrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.\xa0\nSupport the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.\nSponsors\nGet your stand on with UPLIFT Desk! Go to UPLIFT Desk.com/BEINGWELL for 5% off your order of one of their fantastic standing desks or office products.\nJoin over a million people using BetterHelp, the world\u2019s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!\nWant to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.\nTrust your gut with Seed\u2019s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month.\xa0\nStart each day right with IQBAR\u2019s bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Just text BEINGWELL to sixty-four thousand (64-000) and get an exclusive offer of 20% off plus free shipping.\nConnect with the show:\n\nSubscribe on iTunes\n\nFollow Forrest on YouTube\n\nFollow us on Instagram\n\nFollow Forrest on Instagram\n\nFollow Rick on Facebook\n\nFollow Forrest on Facebook\n\nVisit Forrest's website