305: Scrolling Is Making Us Fat, Stupid, and Tired

The Low Carb Hustle Podcast

Nate Palmer

Health, Self-improvement, Keto, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Femaleweightloss, Diet, Education, Intermittentfasting, Nutrition, Loseweight, Weightloss, Paleo, Carnivore, Lowcarb, Fasting, Exercise, Ketogenicdiet, How To, Ketogenic, Womenshealth

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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Ever finish a meal, walk to the fridge, and start making the exact same thing you just ate?
Yeah. I’ve done that.
And it’s not because I’m a goldfish — it’s because I was SCROLLING while I ate.

In this solo episode, I’m diving into how your phone might be quietly wrecking your metabolism, your sleep, your workouts — and your ability to actually feel full.

This isn’t a “throw your phone in the ocean” rant.
It’s a real look at how screen time hijacks your brain and what you can do about it — from a guy who still sometimes watches jiu jitsu fails when he should be training.

What You’ll Learn:

Why scrolling before bed leads to fat gain and exhaustion the next day
How scrolling during meals makes you hungrier and messes with satiety
The study that proves phone use in the gym crushes workout intensity
What “interoceptive awareness” is — and how Instagram breaks it
3 simple rules to protect your energy, attention, and fat loss

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have you ever eaten a full meal and then found yourself standing in front of the fridge 10 minutes later?
0:05.6	I'm just a little confused.
0:07.4	This happened to me like two weeks ago.
0:09.7	And it was because I was scrolling TikTok while I was eating.
0:14.2	I'm not proud of this, to be honest.
0:16.3	I literally made some tacos with some leftover chicken that I had had.
0:20.5	I ate the whole thing while
0:22.0	scrolling TikTok. And then I walked to the fridge because I was like, oh, I know I got some chicken
0:26.6	in there that I could make into a taco. And I was looking for this chicken that I had literally
0:30.8	just eaten and I couldn't find it. And it was very confusing until I realized that I had cooked that
0:35.8	and eaten it already. And I'm not proud of this.
0:38.1	And I feel a little bit dumb.
0:39.3	And but my loss is your gain here.
0:42.0	Because I didn't remember eating it.
0:43.7	My brain was really just logged into the TikTok feed, watching someone build a cabin out of sticks, not looking at my food, not thinking about it.
0:53.1	And that's what it really hit me,
0:54.4	that like the black mirror, the phone in my hand, it's not just stealing my time and making
0:59.3	me feel a little bit of joy in my existential crisis. It's also stealing my energy,
1:03.8	my focus, my satiety, probably my gains too. Welcome to Get Leener and Live Longer,
1:09.5	the show for busy people who want to maximize
1:10.9	their energy, burn fat, and build a body that feels as good as it looks. I'm your host, Nate Palmer.
1:15.8	I've been a coach since 2008 and a reluctant life coach to anyone who's found themselves
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