Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. Today I'm going to cover a few things.

The first one being why people overeat and the questions that you need to ask that you're probably not asking.

And then the second one being a really, really important conversation I had on Instagram with somebody that I think will resonate with

probably literally everyone to some degree or another. So I'm going to start with why people

overeat. There are many reasons that people overeat. But when it's not hunger, it's often some

kind of unmet need.

And I heard someone use this analogy in actually a completely different context, but I thought,

this kind of works quite well for overeating as well.

So the analogy is that you can think of overeating like a smoke alarm.

The noise of the alarm, or the sound going off, that's the overeating like a smoke alarm. The noise of the alarm or the sound going off, that's

the overeating. But that part isn't the problem. Obviously, the fire that is causing the alarm to go off or the unmet need when it comes to overeating, that's the problem. And what most people do is they just focus on turning

off the alarm, right? They focus on trying to stop overeating as opposed to solving the actual problem,

finding out what's causing the fire, finding out what's causing the overeating and getting to the

root cause of it. This is why a lot of things can seem to work for a short period of time.

Now, there are, like I said, many reasons that people overeat.

And we need to figure out initially what that reason is for you.

And often it's boredom, or some kind of dissatisfaction in a certain area of your life,

whether it's your social life, your dating life, your work life.

Largely, I think it's that people don't feel like they have a purpose and I think that's one of the,

I'm probably not spoken about enough, but like the real keys to living a life that you enjoy,

it's actually having purpose, like so much happiness

comes from waking up with some kind of purpose. Sometimes people overeat to numb feelings,

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