187 - Letting Go Of Your Diet Baggage

Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

Maggie Sterling

Fatloss, Education, Self-improvement, Losingweight, Diet, Weightloss, Coach, Lowcarb, Mindset, Dietcoach, Health & Fitness, Dieting, Ketocoach, Keto

4.8 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We all have a diet history... mine used to be keto. A weightloss focus can become part of our identity. We start to believe that dieting is what “keeps us in check” and that feels like a prison after a while. In this episode we learn how to open up to possibility that there is something better. That you can get what you want without strict rules and restrictions.

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. Happy Friday. I hope you guys are all doing well a couple weeks ago. I said that I was
0:23.2	struggling a bit, which is true, but I'm doing a lot better. I'm feeling good and I'm excited
0:29.2	to share this podcast with you today because it's just been something that's been on my mind
0:35.5	and something I see with clients a lot.
0:38.0	And I think it's going to be really helpful for you, whether you're a client of mine or not.
0:41.0	We have to remember that if we have dieted our whole life, we are just like a lifetime dieter,
0:50.5	that leads to a creation of a dieting identity. So a weight loss focus becomes part of who we are.
0:58.7	We believe that we are just someone who has to lose weight, is always losing weight, is always on
1:05.5	the next diet, is always in that pattern. So much so that when we decide to stop dieting we don't really know what to do
1:13.1	with ourselves and i've seen that come up with clients in the past i've seen it come up with myself as
1:16.8	well dropping that identity of chronic dieter with a weight problem is not the easiest thing to do
1:23.5	and what i see many of my clients do is they want to stay super connected to their past and that
1:29.3	dieting history. They have, we all have this story and we have everything we've been through and
1:34.8	when it started for us and who was involved and it's heavy. It's a heavy story. But the problem
1:41.7	with focusing on that and spending a lot of time focused on that
1:45.2	identity and that past is that it deepens that identity. It has us believing that that's who we
1:51.2	are and what our brain will do is it will look for confirmation that that is who we are. We are
1:55.6	caught trying to do something new and yet holding that deep belief of who we are, you have to open
2:03.2	yourself up to believe that there is a version of you that isn't consumed with dieting.
2:08.2	And I can think of two specific times when this happens.
2:10.9	This happens when you join a program like mine, like you join a program like Vibe Club where
2:14.9	you're like, I'm done dieting, even if you still want to lose weight.
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