269 - Szid's Story: From Food Obsession To Food Freedom
Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling
Maggie Sterling
4.8 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, Maggie sits down with Szid, a longtime Vibe Club member who has maintained her goal weight for the past two years. Syd shares her personal journey from strict keto dieting to finding sustainable food freedom and mental peace. Their conversation explores the challenging transition between restriction and overeating, while revealing the surprising truth about food noise and obsessive thoughts. Listeners will discover practical insights about the time it truly takes to transform your relationship with food and build lasting trust with yourself. This candid interview offers both hope and realistic expectations for anyone feeling trapped in diet mentality.
02:50 - Szid's experience with strict keto during lockdown
04:30 - The physical and mental toll of extreme restriction
06:42 - Transitioning from restriction to overeating everything
09:10 - Learning to identify "enough" and finding balance
14:00 - The mental switch that changed everything for Szid
16:30 - How to handle urges and the dramatic reduction in food noise
21:20 - The surprising truth about how long transformation really takes
25:20 - The freedom of becoming selective about what you truly enjoy
30:10 - Simplifying food choices and ending food obsession
33:20 - Taking it one day at a time: advice for the journey
37:20 - Building a new identity around food and living without fear
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I used to think about food all the time. It used to be really, really bad because I used to have the urges coming up and, you know, I want sugar, I want cake, I want this and that. |
| 0:12.7 | There were days like when I was just after keto, I was telling my husband, like, oh, maybe shouldn't eat carbs next weekend and five minutes later, oh, |
| 0:21.7 | should you go get a croissant? It was like every time I said I want to restrict something, |
| 0:27.1 | five minutes later, oh, I want this. I know that feeling. My brain was like ping ponging. So, you know, |
| 0:34.3 | but I want pasta, but I want this. Every time, you know, not going to eat sugar, oh, but that cake looks so good. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.7 | You know, it was, it was really, really drowning. |
| 0:45.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. Hello, everybody, welcome to the podcast today. |
| 1:10.2 | Today is going to be a very special episode because I have got one of my longtime vibe club members, Sid, here to talk |
| 1:13.2 | about her experience with Vibe Club and her progression from a keto lifestyle, diet mentality, |
| 1:19.8 | to food freedom, weight loss, being a badass, lifting all these heavy things that we see you doing. |
| 1:26.6 | So welcome to the podcast, Sid. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, they're not that have yet. |
| 1:31.4 | So getting there. |
| 1:32.7 | You're getting buff. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm proud of you. |
| 1:35.0 | So Sid has been in Vibe Club since I opened. |
| 1:38.0 | And that was in October of 2020 as when Vibe Club opened. |
| 1:42.5 | And when did you hit your goal, your goal weight? |
| 1:46.8 | Probably about two years ago. So I've been maintaining since then. So my weight is the scale, |
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