I would love to lose a couple of pounds
but I always find myself, around three o'clock
when the kids are getting home from school,
reaching for that snack jar,
trying to get a salty sweet, you know,
something to eat.
Is there anything you have that I can--
Your around children right?
My sister complains about this too. Yeah.
...that I can combat those cravings with?
You know what's interesting is that one of the chapters
in my new book is called Crush the Cravings,
because people have to understand the difference between
hunger and cravings.
Hunger is something that's physiologic.
It's your body saying I need nourishment I need energy
and it doesn't--
I've depleted the tank.
Absolutely. Right, right.
Where as a craving is temporary.
A craving is a chemical thing in your head.
So I wanna show here this is what dopamine does.
So dopamine is a bodys happy chemical.
So when you eat a food it goes into your taste buds,
it sends a signal up into your brain and says,
wow this tastes great release the dopamine.
Dopamine makes you feel better.
It gives you a sense of pleasure.
So what happens is, when you see that food again,
for me as a kid it was fried dough, at the state fair--
Oh yeah, he looks like he eats a ton of fried dough a day.
I love fried dough.
This is what her snack tray looks like.
You have kids too probably?
Yeah I was raising my hand because I identify with this.
How much of this is maybe a word that we don't like using
when it comes to food habit and addiction.
Yes. So it's addictive in the form of chemical.
So the dopamine is released when you eat those snacks,
makes you feel good, then you want more and more of it.
So the minute you see that snack again,
it starts releasing dopamine It starts triggering the
dopamine and you think you need it. Right?
Absolutely.
And it's a revolving door right?
The revolving door.
You know what you do?
Don't have a snack tray. Like honestly.
I know it sounds..
But really if you can't get to it, you won't have it.
If you, you have to know yourself.
Some people can say I'll have a half a bag and be done.
Some people can do that. Others who can't do that--
No one that I know by the way.
(laughs loudly)
I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.
(crowd clapping)
A couple of cookies. I like chocolate chip cookies.
But you gotta just take it out,
honestly, because you won't see it,
because when you're seeing it
you're triggering that dopamine,
but here are some alternatives.
I brought some things here.
Okay.
That you can try.
One of my favorites and Aron, our producer, she loves this.
These are chocolate covered frozen banana slices.
Over here, and I'll help you make this.
Okay.
This is my recipe for baked apple heaven. Okay?
So we have some rolled oats.
We have some pekans. Oh I'm from upstate New York
I can roll with the oats.
Okay. There you go.
So we have some pekans, Okay.
that's what I'm talking about.
We have some cinnamon. Yeah.
And we have some nutmeg. Yeah.
Okay put a little coconut oil in there.
[Man With Glasses] All right.
And then you mix that up.
Or a little bourbon.
(crowd laughing)
Or a little bourbon. But you core your apples out like so.
No. That goes in the dish.
Little cider in the dish.
Yeah to cook it in. And then I'll let Nate--
Let me get a bowl, Rachel watch out.
Maple syrup?
Little syrup.
Okay. All right.
You need some sweetener in there dude.
Oh rolling with the homies.
(Rachel laughs)
Then you just scoop it here into the apples.
Okay. all right.
You can put cider or water in the bottom.
Oh spilling, is that all right?
And you bake it, every five to ten minutes you baste it,
with either the water or the cider and then--
Just cider don't.
Don't do water. I know.
Don't cheap out
on apple common. Exactly.
(crowd laughing)
And then at the end, the last five or ten minutes,
you just let it sit there by its self.
We got some in the oven.
We got some here. Rachel's gonna get that out.
All right.
Okay.
And then, this is great too.
So if you have that like you want salty and you want sweet--
Oh these smell delicious.
They look great right?
I'm sorry but these smell great.
So here we have some--
Careful sweetheart these are hot.
(crowd clapping)
oh wow they look great. Look great right?
So here you just have some watermelon and some feta.
You get your salt, you get your sweet. It's very easy.
These are saying you can snack but its healthier.
If you order watermelon and feta in a restaurant,
they'll charge you 28 50 for it.
(crowd laughs)
You make it at all its like four cents a serving.
Four cents that's right.
That's what the chips are right?
The salty and the sweet. Yes absolutely.
And they just keep us coming back.
Yeah, and so the book will show you
these are ways to actually fight those cravings,
to get rid of them, and therefor,
last thing real fast by the way is,
Cravings are temporary. Sometimes you can just outlast them.
Distract yourself, do something else
and they will go away absolutely.
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