193 - Q&A: Urge To Binge At Every Meal, Negative Body Image Despite Success
Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling
Maggie Sterling
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today we're taking a few questions...
- How to overcome the urge to binge eat every meal? The title almost says it all. I can go for hours with no food, but once I start eating it is as if my body says: do it, f’ing do it
- Long story short: this is my 4th big weight loss, so far I went from 335 to 219 pounds. My goal is around 135 lbs, so I have a long way to go. On one hand, it’s amazing that after so many failures to maintain the lost weight, I still try lol. And it’s amazing that I’m now 116 pounds lighter. It’s easier to walk, breathe, go up the stairs etc. But sometimes when I look in the mirror, I get so frustrated and upset with how I look. I’m still obese as per BMI (I’m 5’8). And I feel the problem is that there is a disconnect between how my brain thinks I should look after losing 116 pounds and how I look in reality, if that makes sense. On days like this I just want to say to hell with it and stop all efforts and get back to my uncontrollable eating.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:14.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:17.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:18.0 | It's going good. |
| 0:19.0 | We were just having a conversation unexpectedly about some |
| 0:22.2 | deep life stuff. Yeah. That was, yeah. Sometimes we just sit down and then we get distracted and we just talk about, you know, |
| 0:33.7 | uncertainty. Uncertainty. Nobody likes it. Nobody likes the uncertainty. Especially Maggie. |
| 0:38.5 | I hate it. Yeah, right? My biggest issue is giving up control and like trying to know how. |
| 0:43.9 | So if you guys think you're alone with like needing to know how this is going to turn out, |
| 0:47.4 | needing to go what, know what direction you're going in, need to know what this looks like 10 years from now, |
| 0:52.2 | need to know, need to know what this looks like 10 years from now. Need to know, need to know. I don't think you |
| 0:54.3 | need to know. I think you're better off just sitting like in, in the, not the comfort, but trying |
| 1:00.6 | to get comfortable with knowing that you're in a transitionary phase. Yeah. You know what I mean? |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah. It's hard. And we'll do an update, but like I definitely am. And I feel like things are very different and my mind is very different. And like everything is different. And that is kind of, it's good. It's good, but it is, I was thinking the other day, like sometimes good things don't feel good. Sometimes things that are really helpful and useful and and when |
| 1:29.4 | things start making more sense, you don't necessarily feel like, oh, like the heavens are |
| 1:34.7 | shining a light down on you. You're like, oh, shit. It doesn't, it's good. It's what you want, |
| 1:40.6 | but it also can lead to some confusion. So ambiguous. Yeah, that's another podcast, |
| 1:46.9 | but I was doing another podcast outline, and that was something that I had written down. It's like, |
| 1:52.5 | I see that a lot of the time with weight loss, which again, I'll get into that in a future podcast, |
| 1:55.8 | but I see people lose weight and then they freak out. Like, it's not good. It doesn't feel good. |
| 1:59.8 | It makes them scared. It makes it, |
| 2:01.4 | it triggers like this uncertainty inside of them, this cognitive dissonance about what's for them and what's not. |
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