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Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

105 - You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Lose Weight

Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

Maggie Sterling

Health & Fitness

4.8845 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We outline the perfectionistic diet mentality that sets you up for disaster, and why staying stuck in this mindset will work against you every single time. I'm sharing the secret to my food freedom, and the truth about the language you might subconsciously be using around what it means to be perfect. 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.maggiesterling.com/post/you-dont-have-to-be-perfect-to-lose-weight

 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Maggie. I've lost a combined 90 pounds after having my two kids and struggling with

0:06.1

postpartum depression and anxiety. I teach you how to lose weight a different way, how to fix

0:10.7

the thoughts in your head, holding you back from finally taking weight loss off your to-do list.

0:15.3

Losing weight doesn't need to be a struggle, and it's my mission to help you love the process

0:19.1

all the way down the scale. If you're

0:21.0

ready to lose weight a different way, then let's get it. Welcome. Welcome, welcome to the podcast.

0:26.9

I just want to start off by saying I'm sick. It is not the coronavirus. I wondered if you were

0:32.3

going to specify. It has been confirmed. I do not have coronavirus, but I am sick and I sound sick and I'm

0:37.1

making all kinds

0:37.7

of sick noises. So I apologize in advance. Yeah, it's, it's a deep voice today. And I'm running on

0:44.9

three hours of deep sleep and doesn't really feel like it. I just told him he should be telling

0:49.0

jokes. Like he should have a full blown like comedy show going on right now just because he should

0:53.7

be in the best

0:54.4

mood the max i ever get of deep sleep is two and a half hours and when i get two and half hours i'm

0:59.7

like an actual unicorn i'm unstoppable so the fact that you got how much three hours 15 or something

1:05.7

and over two hours of REM sleep too yeah you should be more chipper butipper, but that's okay. I'm not like chipper,

1:12.9

but I'm not tired. I don't know. But he's also like going on a week of being sick. Yeah.

1:17.1

Tomorrow. So yeah. Yeah. Let's get into it. Let's go. Something I want to talk about is I think if there's

1:26.5

one thing that comes up so repeatedly for my clients, it's this perfectionist mindset of like, I have to be perfect to lose my weight.

1:36.7

And at a certain point, I think we have to like look at ourselves, especially like people who are online and sharing stuff and like kind of ask how in what

1:45.1

ways am I contributing to that, you know?

1:47.8

Uh-huh.

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