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Episode 9

Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to discover how Steven Broad lost 100 pounds in 2021 through the Noom neuroscience weight loss approach.

Steven Broad is a software product manager in the energy industry who lost 100 pounds in 2021 and has maintained that weight loss. His work-life has been an adventure through software engineering, consulting, medical physics, scientific computing, energy economics, and academia. He has lived mainly in California and Indiana, with a few stops in Cleveland, OH, St Louis, MO, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and London, GB. These days, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage children in Rocklin, CA. In his spare time, he enjoys dark comedies and fantasy adventures (film, tv, theater, or print), becoming a distance runner, mentoring a handful of young and talented professionals, music from the early 20th century, and philosophical discussions.

Steven Broad has great nutritional advice rooted in neuroscience and running/exercise:

• Steven's trigger point for losing weight happened after a backpacking trip with his daughter. He didn't feel good and wanted to feel better.
• After a seminar on mindfulness and journaling, Steven found out about the Noom neuroscience approach to weight loss after listening to a My New Diet Is An App: Weight Loss Goes Digital on NPR. 
• Steven signed up for the program and loved the combo of neuroscience and weight loss, which he also coupled with running. Steven used to run in high school, so he decided to get back to running and feeling the joy of moving.
• Steven was attracted by the big neuroscience component, such as understanding the ghrelin hormone, and why it was important to eat foods high in fiber, such as brown rice instead of white rice, and more fruits and veggies. 
• Steven Broad thinks that discipline is overrated, as people need to build a habit first. 

On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:

• You will learn through the help of neuroscience and running that weight loss is easier when developing a habit, which is easier than discipline alone. 
• How to form good habits and apply the one-second rule. 
• How to combine running with good nutrition.
• You will also learn that the neurochemical release from running is more powerful than eating fatty or sweet foods. 
• The Noom philosophy approach to eating emphasizes that nothing is off limits and that you don't need to taste a lot of cake, for instance, as by the fifth bite, or so, you don't need it anymore. 
• How to believe in yourself, focus on the present, and make changes in your lives with the help o

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