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A collection of 16 posts

Wired for Weight Loss
Obesity

Wired for Weight Loss

Research on the stress triangle, survival circuits, and fear memories published between 2008 and 2013 laid the groundwork for a new treatment of obesity: positive plasticity of the wires that activate the Stress Triangle.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Weight Loss: Make It Easy!
weight loss

Weight Loss: Make It Easy!

Stress activates the Big 8 Chemicals that drive overeating, binge eating, mindless eating, and food addiction. Rewire the offending circuits so that weight loss can become effortless and lasting.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
4 min read
Instant Appetite Suppressant!
Stress Eating

Instant Appetite Suppressant!

Commit to spiraling up before you eat, then do not restrict your eating. Instead, hunker down and wipe out the wire that is causing it. Stop the tyranny of restraint. Instead, spiral up before eating and rewire that circuit.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
New EBT Book!  1-2-3 JOY!
Stress Eating

New EBT Book! 1-2-3 JOY!

Dr. Mellin's book maps out a new way to lose weight without drugs or diets that is designed to stop cravings and overeating by changing the brain's neural circuitry.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
EBT: A Natural Alternative to Weight Loss Drugs
Obesity

EBT: A Natural Alternative to Weight Loss Drugs

There is so much fervor about weight loss drugs that one would think obesity is a condition of GLP-1 deficiency. It is not. These drugs deliver an abnormal boost to GLP-1 receptors that

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
6 min read
Spiral Up before you eat!
Stress Eating

Spiral Up before you eat!

The root cause of overeating and weight gain is stress wires in the brain. Tired of feeling out of control with food and weight? Learn how to rewire circuit and create more freedom in your life.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Tired of being Overweight? Rewire Your Body Circuit
Stress Eating

Tired of being Overweight? Rewire Your Body Circuit

The Body Circuit drives overeating and weight regain. Learn how to rewire your Body Circuit with EBT.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Holiday Stress Making You Hungry?
Stress Eating

Holiday Stress Making You Hungry?

The overwhelming stress of COVIID-19 causes chemical surges that cause cravings, lethargy, chronic hunger and weight gain. Use EBT to stop stress eating and weight gain.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Comfort from Food?
Stress Eating

Comfort from Food?

Overeating is the easiest way to feel better. When you see three ways it blocks our joy, food begins to lose its appeal! There are better addictions or we can become wired for joy and have freedom from all of them!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Why We Overeat!  #6 – A Mini-Meltdown
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat! #6 – A Mini-Meltdown

Taking control of food means using a simple emotional technique, having a do-it-yourself opportunity to clear away stress and spiral up to joy – Craving GONE!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
New Research: Keep the Weight Off
BBH Science

New Research: Keep the Weight Off

Want to get healthy? As you launch a new lifestyle plan, dig a bit deeper and pair it with a way to keep it off. New research links maintaining 75% of weight loss with the best health effects.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Why We Overeat #2 - It's A Silly Wire!
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat #2 - It's A Silly Wire!

It's the wires in our emotional brain that trigger us to overeat. These wires tell us what to do. What's Brain Based Health? Skills to shut off or rewire those messages and drives.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Switching Brain States: Magical!
Brain states

Switching Brain States: Magical!

Brain states remain mysterious, as even after we know the science that explains them, switching brain states is absolutely magical.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Why We Overeat #1 - My Story
Stress Eating

Why We Overeat #1 - My Story

The brain is very personal! It stores the circuits that tell the story of our lives, which are re-activated without our awareness or approval to cause repeats of past experiences, including stress eating.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Brain-Based Weight Loss
Stress Eating

Brain-Based Weight Loss

Lasting weight loss rests on smart rewiring. Weight and food are so core to survival that the emotional brain controls them. Clearing out two specific wires is core to experiencing weight loss that lasts.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
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