If you've been listening to me for a while, you know that losing weight follows

stopping over eating. And that follows learning to eat like a natural eater.

So why is it easier to wait to be hungry than it is to stop eating when you get that

enough signal? This is a helpful concept for you to learn and that's what we'll cover in this

coaching episode today. Welcome to episode 291, why it's easier to wait to be hungry than to

stop when you've had enough. Hello my friend, I'm Cookie Rosenblum, your master weight loss coach

and author, and I'm here to help you stop overeating. This is episode 291. After you listen,

be sure to get my free training. How to stop overeating in three steps at weightlossmadereal.com

slash three steps. The number three, because what we're talking about is what you need to learn.

You need to stop overeating if weight loss is your goal. Okay, let's dive into our coaching session

today. In order to lose weight, you need to stop overeating, which means not eating more than your

body needs. To break it down even further, you don't eat when you are in hungry, and you stop when

your body is had enough. Not your mind, because your mind will always want more of the things that

taste good to you. Now, stopping when your body's had enough is probably something that you're not

doing. If you're struggling with your weight, then you're either starting to eat before you have

physical hunger, or you're continuing to eat after your body's had enough, or maybe you're doing

a combination of both. Today we're going to talk about what causes each reason for overeating

and why it's usually harder to conquer stopping at enough than it is to wait for hunger to begin.

Your reasons for starting to eat, when there isn't really physical hunger, they can vary,

and they usually either emotional triggers or simple mechanical habits. Emotional triggers might

be stress, worry, anxiety, boredom, or even happiness, and these emotional triggers when you've

responded to them often enough can become habits. Or maybe you weren't triggered by an emotion,

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