Major Life Changes and Binge Eating: A Pathway to Success | HSM 722

Half Size Me

Heather A. Robertson

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In episode 722 of The Half Size Me™ Show, Heather talks with Gay, who found success with binge eating once she focused on the paper and pencil journal (PPJ). They talk about: -- how to make the PPJ work best for you -- dealing with habits during major life changes -- how to give yourself options to manage binge eating -- and more! Support Half Size Me Show’s mission and help us stay free of third-party ads! 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 722, brought to you by the amazing Half Size Me Academy.
0:14.4	To join us, please go to halfsize me.com forward slash join.
0:19.6	All right, lovely listeners, today you're going to get to hear from the person who
0:24.9	helped kind of inspire me to finally put together the program i'm releasing in january called
0:31.4	from frustrated to freedom your personalized weight loss plan i was inspired by gay because she came on as a coaching
0:39.1	client. She had been in our academy a long time ago. She had actually been interviewed for the show
0:44.8	a long time ago. And she came into some hardship. Her husband had passed away. Her binge eating had
0:50.9	come back. And she wanted to get some coaching.
0:58.2	And as I was coaching her and I was walking her through the paper pencil journal and how to use it to help diffuse her binging,
1:01.8	she openly admitted to me something that so many people tell me,
1:05.6	which is I tried doing the paper pencil journal,
1:09.3	but I ended up stopping because I didn't think it was working or I didn't know how to do it or I wasn't sure if I was doing it correctly.
1:18.6	And once I got rock and rolling with it, she noticed an immediate release of the binge eating problem.
1:25.2	She noticed herself being able to get in a calorie deficit.
1:28.3	And because I see so much crazy success with people when they do the process correctly,
1:33.2	and they don't just use it as a glorified way to track calories or they don't use it appropriately
1:39.4	because the magic in it is the self-awareness. It's the noticing patterns. It's the fixing problems.
1:45.9	It's actually diffusing the willpower struggle by putting everything on the left side of your paper.
1:51.8	Often people hear that. They hear it on the show and gay did. She heard me tell other people.
1:57.4	And she says, yeah, but for me and see, and that's how your mind does it, right? It constantly says somehow you're different than all these other people. And she says, yeah, but for me, and see, and that's how your mind does it, right?
2:01.6	It constantly says somehow you're different than all these other people that come on.
2:05.9	But because I heard this so many times, I thought, you know what? I can't coach everybody one
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