How Overthinking & Decision Anxiety Led to Emotional Eating | Half Size Me 732

Half Size Me

Heather A. Robertson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Watch this episode on YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/hIKZi9TYt50 In episode 732 of The Half Size Me™ Show, Heather talks to HSM Academy member Julie. They chat about: How to give herself permission to eat fun food. Why it's important to be part of a supportive community. How to sabotage her lower brain chatter. And more! Subscribe to Half Size Me Podcast Premium for access to our library of HUNDREDS of hours of past episodes! As a subscriber to Half Size Me Podcast Premium, you will get: --Access to the entire 650+ episode archive --Access weekly episodes a day EARLY --Access to EXCLUSIVE, subscriber-only episodes including the Coaching Karolina and Coaching Sarah series --Access to subscriber-only audio responses to “Ask Me Anything” questions Become a podcast premium subscriber today and make Heather and the Half Size Me show a part of your weight loss journey! Do you want to get support and connection at a price you can afford? Then check out the Half Size Me Academy here: https://www.halfsizeme.com/hsm-academy/ About Half Size Me The Half Size Me™ Show is a weekly podcast. It will inspire and motivate you no matter where you are in your weight loss journey. Whether you're just getting started losing weight or having worked on your health and wellness for years, this show is for you! The Half Size Me Show is hosted by Heather Robertson, who lost 170 pounds over a period of 5 years and has maintained since 2012. Heather did it by learning new eating habits, getting regular exercise, and changing her mindset. On her popular weekly podcast, The Half Size Me Show, Heather shares her own lessons and struggles with you, and she shows you how to handle the real challenge of any weight loss journey... weight maintenance. Be sure to subscribe to The Half Size Me Show and join Heather every week as she shares information, inspiration, coaching, and conversations with REAL people who've learned weight loss isn't only about losing pounds, it's about finding yourself. Disclaimer: Heather is not a doctor, nurse, or certified health professional. What worked for her or her guests may not work for you. Please talk with your doctor, dietician, or other certified health professionals when seeking advice about your own weight loss or weight maintenance plan. All information included in The Half Size Me™ Podcast and on HalfSizeMe.com is for informational and inspirational purposes only. For additional disclaimer information, please visit HalfSizeMe.com.

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0:00.0	Half-Size Me episode 732 brought to you by the amazing Half-Size Me Academy.
0:05.9	To join us, please go to half-sizeme.com forward slash join.
0:11.2	Hello, lovely listeners.
0:12.7	I am your host, Heather, and I am thrilled to be with you here today.
0:17.3	And I am going to be working with Julie.
0:19.5	She is somebody who's really struggling with lower
0:22.7	brain thoughts around not being able to keep the weight off she has done a successful job of
0:30.3	losing weight she's actually been using manjaro and some weight loss medications and she did a
0:35.0	really really awesome job but then her mind comes in and says,
0:38.9	but wait, are you going to get to keep it off? And does it, you know, does the fact that you used a
0:44.9	medication, you know, mean something less about your journey? So there's a lot of lower brain
0:49.9	chatter around this for Julie and we really dissect it in this call and if this is something you
0:55.4	personally struggle with you hear a voice in your head it talks to you it tells you know you're
1:01.8	going to gain all the weight back what's the point or oh no going on a medication is cheating
1:07.3	you should be able to do this without medication. Whatever the story is, I want you to
1:14.2	question it because keep in mind, this is a really important thing that I think a lot of times
1:18.8	we forget. The habits that you've been doing for the last five, 10, 20 years, whatever those
1:24.8	habits are, you haven't died from them. You've been able to survive
1:29.7	on this planet Earth doing those habits. So as far as your lower brain is concerned,
1:35.4	they are safe. So any habit you've always had eating cookies at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
1:41.5	being terrified of gaining the weight back every single time you lose
1:44.9	the weight, whatever the thing is, it has never brought you to death. So it is safe. It can reproduce
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