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Food as the New Addiction Resolution
from Find Your God (with Dan St. Germain) · #25
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3 minTim discusses replacing drinking and drugs with overeating as his vice, comparing it to Ray's obsession with fancy restaurants, LA craft services, and family history of diabetes.
- 8:09Tim makes food his New Year's resolution, contrasting it with his years of heavy drinking that nearly caused him to fall down stairs.
- 8:33He compares his obsession with finding restaurants to how some people are to comedy—a haunted house of compulsion that doesn't lead anywhere.
- 9:06Tim wants to stop using food as a reward and instead treat eating purely as sustenance rather than self-indulgence.
- 9:21At 237 pounds and 5'10", he lays out his physical stats as context for the problem he's trying to solve.
- 9:48Approach to overeating should mirror approach to alcohol and drugs—acknowledge you can't handle it rather than pretend moderation works.
- 10:08Doctor told him he's pre-diabetic and advised him to stop smiling, which Tim reads as coded language for losing weight.
- 10:22Family history of rewarding themselves with alcohol hasn't ended well, and his father has diabetes.
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