Why does the brain associate weight loss with dying, and what happens when you stop fighting your body and flip the brain instead?
Josh Trent welcomes Weight Loss Expert, David Zappasodi, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 792, to reveal why weight gain is often a survival strategy, how subconscious identity and polarity drive compulsive eating, why willpower and restrictive diets fail, what a true Brain Flip does to dissolve fear, mourning, and self sabotage around weight loss, and how allowing transformation instead of forcing change creates sustainable freedom in the body and mind.
In This Episode, David Zappasodi Uncovers:
[01:15] Consciousness Brain Flip
- Why losing weight can feel like dying.
- How experiencing a heavy body makes people feel alive.
- What a brain flip does to us.
- How an inner conflict is created.
Resources:
- David Zappasodi
- 072 Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind With David Zappasodi
- 229 Brain Flip Weight Loss: David Zappasodi
- 345 Zach Bush MD: Humanity, Consciousness & COVID19
- 779 Dan Go: Weight Loss Is a Spiritual Process Disguised as Fitness
[06:50] Weight Gain As a Survival Mechanism
- Why people associate being overweight with being safe.
- How many people who have gone through a traumatic event gain weight.
- Why children’s brains register that they should look like everyone else.
Resources:
[09:40] What Story Do You Attach to Food?
- How the subconscious can override the conscious mind.
- Why the stories around the experience of food shape our identity.
- How the sensation of eating food only impacts us if we attach a certain story to the sensation.
[13:30] How Polarity Shapes Your Identity
- Why addiction is a non-conscious pattern of one-sidedness.
- How polarities form our identity.
- What creates a connection between junk food and enjoyment.
[15:20] Face The Darkness
- Why we need to be able to see the consequences of poor eating habits in order to create a change.
- How David upgraded his coaching system to help people lose weight.
- Why the more deeply we face the dark, the more we can open up to the light.
- How he uses pain to help people open up to weight loss.
[19:00] Can You Believe Your Own Mind?
- Why the brain flips are much easier than shifting identity.
- How we’re addicted to believing our own mind.
- Why the closer we get to a transformation, the more the mind tries to keep us where we are.
[22:20] Willpower Won’t Fix Your Problems
- Why willpower and discipline fail.
- How willpower and discipline don’t address the root cause of our compulsions.
- What creates a physical compulsion such as overeating.
- Why we don’t have to know where the compulsion originated in the past.
Resources:
[28:35] The Cause of the Jojo Effect
- Why healing the physical component of addiction can’t be done through talk therapy.
- The reason why people regain weight after losing it.
- How weight loss doesn’t equal progress.
- Why sustainable weight loss is not forced and difficult.
[31:50] Restrictive Diets Don’t Work
- Why Ozempic is not a sustainable weight loss solution.
- How restrictive diets create eating disorders.
- Why starvation leads to more fat storage.
[34:45] Reprogram Your Brain
- Why time doesn’t affect our physical programming.
- How David helped a woman who drank 12 cans of soda every day for 30 years.
- Why we stay attached to our identity after we’ve removed the physical drive.
[38:25] Your Mind Wants to Keep You Stuck
- How our identity becomes addicted to struggle.
- Why the subconscious mind prioritizes struggle over actualizing the goal.
- How many people are scared of finding a real solution that works.
[42:15] The Fear of Losing Weight
- How fear teaches us an aspect of our struggle that we haven’t looked at yet.
- Why people mourn weight loss.
- How we hold onto the extra weight.
- Why pain moves through families until someone has the courage to face it.
- How children copy the behaviors that we’re hiding.
- Why our eating habits influence our children’s eating habits.
[50:35] Forcing Change VS Allowing Transformation
- Why focusing on weight loss keeps people stuck.
- How we can lose weight without focusing on weight loss.
- The difference between forcing change and allowing transformation.
- How we can make transformation happen naturally.
- Why weight loss is not the same as weight repression.
[56:05] The Solution to Losing Weight Is Easy
- What led David to offer his online program for free.
- Why the solution is easier than we think.
- How the mind thinks complex challenges are solved by complex solutions.
Resources:
“To the brain, losing weight feels like dying because being heavy has become associated with living. On a daily basis, heavier people are experiencing the physical sensations of heaviness, when they’re getting out of bed, when they’re getting into the tub, when they’re putting shoes on, etc.. At the exact same time, they’re experiencing the physical sensations of being alive because they are alive. And when being heavy becomes equated with life, then being light becomes equated with death. ” — David Zappasodi
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All Resources From This Episode
- 072 Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind With David Zappasodi
- 229 Brain Flip Weight Loss: David Zappasodi
- 345 Zach Bush MD: Humanity, Consciousness & COVID19
- David Zappasodi
- 779 Dan Go: Weight Loss Is a Spiritual Process Disguised as Fitness
- 183 Dr. Kyra Bobinet | Living A Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons In Brain Science
- 492 Robb Wolf | Mental Health Sovereignty: How To Make Your Mind Wise + Strong Amidst Chaos
- Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind by David Zappasodi
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About David Zappasodi
David Zappasodi is a weight loss expert and creator of the Brain Flip Method, a mindset-based approach that helps people lose weight by changing the way their brain relates to food, cravings, and self-control.
Rather than relying on rigid diets or willpower, David teaches clients how to rewire the subconscious patterns that drive overeating, emotional eating, and self-sabotage. The Brain Flip Method focuses on identity level change, helping people feel calm around food, trust their body again, and lose weight in a way that is sustainable and stress-free.
With a direct, practical teaching style, David is known for helping people break lifelong weight loss cycles by flipping the mental switch that makes healthy choices feel natural instead of forced.
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