220 - Having Control In Environments I Have No Control Over
Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling
Maggie Sterling
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We got an email from a listener that we are responding to today. Cole asked "My parents live out of town and I quite often will go home and see them. I know that whenever I go home, there will always be sweets in the house, there will always be some kind of home baking, and I end up binge eating while I’m not in the environment I have control over. I can’t control what is in my parents house, so how can I go there, have a treat if that’s what I desire, but not spiral into a scarcity mindset, eat everything knowing that I am only at my parents for a short time and will go home back to my controlled environment that doesn’t have such a breadth of choice of food I know aren’t good for me… physically and mentally!
I would love to hear your view, or even the topic raised through one of your podcasts! It’s a barrier I am determined to overcome this, but feel a bit stuck!"
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | We're back at it again, and I received an email from someone, a gentleman who listened to the podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | Shout out to the gentlemen's who listen to the podcast. Shout out to the gentlemen. Right. It's a gentleman. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah. You know. And he kind of, you know, said that obviously he understands that the podcast is |
| 0:39.3 | and the work that I do and my program is geared toward women, but how big of an effect the |
| 0:43.6 | podcast has had on him and the weight loss that he's had and how much progress he's made. |
| 0:48.4 | But he brought up something that I actually see come up quite a bit between, I'm trying to think where it came up recently, |
| 0:57.1 | a site separate from this email, but coaching, obviously. Yeah, it was a client that I coached, |
| 1:03.5 | and then a client who said she had listened to that coaching call, is she prepared to do the same |
| 1:06.5 | thing? And then I get this email that basically comes down to parents' houses, if we're being really |
| 1:12.9 | specific. But the question that, and let me just expand on that, expand on that a little bit, |
| 1:20.4 | going home to your parents, going on a trip, going to a place where you don't have control |
| 1:25.6 | over what is around there and that being a big driver |
| 1:28.7 | of overeating, binge eating. And it like throws people off because they feel like they're doing |
| 1:33.6 | pretty well in their own environment, but not so much when they go to. I would say this is |
| 1:39.1 | specifically like old environments that they're used to. So the question... I would say you could even generalize it |
| 1:45.0 | even more and that you're changing the environment and you don't have control over it. Yeah. So the question |
| 1:52.1 | he specifically asked that I kind of pulled out was where I am really struggling is how to feel |
| 1:57.1 | like I have a sense of control when I'm not in an environment I have control over. |
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