You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 105.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Hey, my friends. How are you today?

Doing amazingly well.

I hope that you have signed up for the webinar that's coming up.

Stop overeating webinar. If you haven't, you can just go to Life Coach School.com, click on that top banner.

It's $97.90. There will be a replay.

And it's also great to sign up for it if you're interested in working with me long term. You don't have to.

You still get the 90 minutes and all the information you can take it and run with it from there.

But if you're interested in working with me long term, it's a great introduction to the work that we will be doing together over the next six months.

So today, I want to talk to you about weight loss and desire because I think one of the most important things that has come out of my work with myself and also with my clients through the stop overeating master class is how important it is to understand.

The difference between stopping overeating and stopping desiring to overeat.

So here's how I want you guys to think about this.

And I will ask you this question. And what's really fascinating is I asked this question at the very beginning of working with my students and at the end and the answers were very different.

But if I was going to ask you, would you rather not desire extra food?

Or would you rather just be able to manage it better?

And here's what most of my students will say. They'll say, I just want to be able to eat a piece of cake.

I just want to be able to have an ice cream cone. I just want to be able to sit down and have a half a plate of pasta and just eat like a normal person.

And what I will say to them that's very challenging for those of us who have food issues to understand is that the desire to overeat in those of us who overeat is stronger than it is in normal people.

So when they say they want to eat like a normal person, what they're really saying is they want to desire food less.

So the best example I have of this is with drinking alcohol. So I have a very good friend who always orders drinks and is very uninterested in actually drinking them.

...