Hunger Habit

Don't eat this, eat that, count calories, exercise more, pull yourself together... these and other pieces of advice are what people struggling with unhealthy eating habits often hear. The result: they feel bad, blame themselves, and wonder why they seem too weak to overcome their "wrong" behavior. This creates a vicious cycle of shame, guilt, and self-hatred that only exacerbates eating problems and makes true healing impossible.

In over 20 years of clinical research and work with patients, neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist Judson Brewer has developed a step-by-step program that helps us understand the real reasons behind unhealthy eating behaviors, allowing us to return to a healthy relationship with food. The origins of our eating problems do not lie in our supposedly wrong behavior but stem from patterns in the brain that initially proved advantageous in evolutionary terms but can often turn counterproductive in today's world of constant food availability—leading to binge eating, overeating, cravings, and loss of control, which can result in obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

Judson Brewer does not present a dietary or nutrition guide here; instead, he addresses the root of the problem: we learn to permanently shed unhealthy eating behaviors by understanding the processes and behavioral patterns in the brain responsible for them and recognizing how we can deliberately change and control them. When we finally understand ourselves, self-love replaces self-hatred, and food becomes once again what it should be: enjoyment and pure joy of life!.