278 - Why Your Brain Can't See What's Holding You Back (and How Coaching Fixes This)

Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

Maggie Sterling

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

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder why you can listen to weight loss advice but still struggle to make progress? You might be missing something crucial that your own brain can't recognize. Despite your best efforts, hidden thought patterns could be sabotaging your progress without you even realizing it. Discover why having someone else look at your thinking patterns makes all the difference in finally breaking through weight loss plateaus. This episode exposes the gap between learning information and actually implementing it effectively.

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05:45: Why your brain has blind spots you can't see on your own

13:15: How avoiding triggers (like the scale) actually delays growth rather than helping it

19:21: Setting effective weight loss goals versus avoiding them due to past negative associations

34:30: When you might need one-on-one support versus group coaching for your weight loss journey

Transcript

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0:00.0	Scales cannot create drama for you.
0:02.2	The only thing creating drama for you
0:04.2	is your interpretation of the scale
0:06.2	and what you make it mean when it goes up.
0:08.2	So when we hide the scale,
0:10.2	all we're doing is temporarily delaying
0:14.2	the negative thoughts you have about the scale
0:16.0	the second you start weighing again,
0:17.6	all of those thoughts are right there waiting for you.
0:19.4	So if you'd like to delay this work,
0:20.8	that's totally fine, it's up to you. But I want you to know that avoidance isn't creating
0:24.2	a new relationship. You're just saying, put that out of the way. We'll deal with it later. It's not
0:28.0	going anywhere. That stuff doesn't go away. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast today.
0:46.3	Good morning.
0:47.0	We are back with the Why We Over Eat podcast, ready to party.
0:50.9	It's a great day. It's a Monday when we're recording this.
0:54.8	Yeah. Why is it a great day? I don't know. Because you're choosing to see the good. I's a great day it's a Monday when we're recording this yeah why is it a great day I don't know because you're choosing to see the good I got a lot of good sleep I got
0:59.1	I got a lot of sleep last night too I feel energized kids are out of school in three weeks
1:03.2	yeah summer starting yeah wait I'm excited stuff to things to look forward to look forward to
1:08.1	I want to do an entire podcast on that actually put that on on the list. Put it on the list. Okay. It's on the list. Um, so today we're going to talk about coaching. We're going to talk about coaching. And I'll tell you why. Because when when we asked my clients like what if there was any confusion that they had around this process, the work that I do,
1:29.4	the concepts that I teach, the program that I had, like where, what was the gap there?
1:33.9	And one that really surprised us both was people being like, the fuck is a coach.
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