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Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

291 - Why You're Using Food, Shopping, and Scrolling to Escape

Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

Maggie Sterling

Health & Fitness

4.8845 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ever notice how you can put your phone down and then 20 seconds later it's mysteriously back in your hand? Or how you tell yourself you'll stop overeating, but then find yourself at the gas station buying snacks you don't even want?

In this episode, I'm getting real about urges - not just food urges, but ALL the urges that run our lives. The scrolling, the shopping, the working until midnight, the constant need to be doing something other than just... being here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Stop being mad about your overspending.

0:02.0

Stop being mad about your overeating.

0:03.5

You're over drinking.

0:04.7

You're over scrolling. Stop being mad about it. Because if you're doing that, you're missing the point. The point is it's there to show you something. Because if you're drinking and you said you were only going to have one drink, what's going on? If you're eating and you said and you don't have any hunger, what's going on? if you're spending and there's nothing that you need

0:01.9

and you don't have extra money to be doing this,

0:04.0

what's going on? If you're spending and there's nothing that you need

0:21.6

and you don't have extra money to be doing this, what's going on?

0:25.7

It's just information.

0:27.8

The question is, are you going to get the message from it?

0:30.5

Are you going to get the message?

0:31.8

Otherwise, it's just going to keep popping up.

0:33.6

Oh, yeah.

0:46.4

Yeah. up. Hello, everybody.

0:47.5

Ryan says that I say that at like the beginning of every episode.

0:52.7

But what else am I supposed to say?

0:54.2

I don't know.

0:58.7

Happy Friday.

1:01.0

We are going to chit-chat about urges today.

1:06.6

But first, I also want to thank everybody who reached out after last week's podcast,

1:10.7

after I had like a mild crash out after last week's podcast,

1:14.3

after I had like a mild, just a mild crash out on the podcast.

1:18.2

The crash out was actually received amazingly well, which I really appreciate.

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