How to ease up on the cravings: satisfying the need for dopamine

One of the things about food is it is a stimulation. And for those of us who are creatives, if you're having trouble with being able to lose weight, it may be that you're using food as a sensory stimulation. Like, your body needs something exciting going on. The taste buds give us that sense of sensory pleasure that gets the dopamine going.

I'm inviting you into my experiment: What are the other ways that I can feed my sensory needs?

• How about different kinds of movement to just engage my body and feel the luxury of being physical in my body?
• What about seeing the world, right? Engaging in the gorgeousness of this snow coming out of the sky?
• What about engaging music, music as a sensory luxury?
• Or the play of the imagination - reading a novel or playing with poetry.

Find something that actually stimulates your imagination, your senses, your physical senses, so that you have that dopamine of excitement, pleasure that will make it so that you don't have as much desire, want, need for something that you're eating.

I'm not saying don't enjoy food. Do enjoy food. Don't make it the only thing that you're enjoying. Find other things.

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