270 - Escaping Your Emotional Autopilot: How to Take Control of Your Daily Decisions
Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling
Maggie Sterling
4.8 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Maggie and Ryan discuss the importance of breaking out of autopilot mode to create real change in your life. They explore how many people wake up and immediately allow external inputs to dictate their day instead of choosing intentionally how they want to feel and act. The hosts share personal experiences about observing their thought patterns and how these directly impact emotions and behaviors. This conversation reveals how the same principles apply to weight loss and presents a compelling case for why you can't create change while running on default programming.
03:10: Maggie explains why living on autopilot prevents you from making the changes you want in your life
07:40: The importance of starting your day with intention rather than external influences
14:20: Ryan shares a personal story about choosing not to let a frustrating situation ruin his entire day
19:10: Maggie describes how to observe your thoughts without judgment and break negative thought patterns
34:30: Discussion on becoming a different person by consistently making different choices every day
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's waking up and deciding you're going to choose to feel how you would like to feel today. |
| 0:03.1 | This is literally why we plan our food. |
| 0:05.3 | This is literally why we make all those decisions in advance because you guys have all been blessed with a part of your brain that allows you to think in advance and make decisions in advance and to say, this is how I'm eating today. |
| 0:15.2 | This is how I'm showing up. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm not going to overeat. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm going to pay attention to when I'm physically hungry. I'm going to stop when I've had enough food, I am deciding that I'm going to be that person. And when you guys |
| 0:24.6 | don't plan, when you don't make your thought plan, when you don't wake up and decide who you're |
| 0:28.0 | going to be every morning, you are the old person that got you overweight. End of story. And so when |
| 0:33.9 | you want to change that, you must wake up and decide to be someone new. |
| 0:52.7 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to today's podcast. |
| 1:14.2 | It's good to be here. Good to be here. How are you doing, Ryan? I'm doing great. One of my clients was like, I miss you guys asking each other how you're doing. And I thought it was a joke. And she's like, no, seriously. And I was like, because we've had people complain about that exact same thing. And I think it's funny. People like things and then people complain about the same thing. So you really never know if you're doing anything right. But we do our best. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don't. And that reminds me, |
| 1:18.2 | if you guys are enjoying this podcast, we would love to see a review from you. I guess you can leave a comment and a like a star rating. You can just leave comments on episodes on Spotify and you can |
| 1:23.3 | leave like a star rating. We recommend five stars for sure. And then on Apple, you can leave a |
| 1:28.3 | rating and review. Can I ask specifically for Spotify users? We have a 4.7 rating and I don't like that. |
| 1:34.9 | Oh. And so specifically on Spotify, we have a 4.8 on Apple on Apple. Can you can you just leave a quick |
| 1:41.3 | five stars? And you're saying specifically on purpose. Right. Okay, okay. To annoy people. |
| 1:44.9 | Okay. |
| 1:45.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.9 | So can you just tap the, like, it's not even to ask you for a comment. |
| 1:49.1 | It would be so easy for you to just tap that five stars. |
| 1:52.3 | And if you, if you have a reason to tap less than five stars, please ignore this. |
| 1:57.1 | Hey. Anyways, there's been some questionable reviews coming in lately and then I realized we never |
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