Why You’re Starving at 4pm (And What to Do About It) | HSM 740

Half Size Me

Heather A. Robertson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Watch this episode on YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/A-yqCfJlTgA In Episode 740 of the Half Size Me Show, Heather talks with Miryam about how her pattern of skipping meals early in the day was leading to desperate, compensatory eating later. They also chat about The biology of compensatory hunger (it's not just willpower!). How to eat more protein early in the day to prevent afternoon crashes. The fire alarm analogy: understanding the prerecorded voice in your head. 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 740 brought to you by the amazing Half Size Me Academy to join us.
0:07.3	Please go to halfsize me.com forward slash join.
0:11.9	Hello, lovely listeners.
0:14.1	I am your host, Heather.
0:15.7	And today I have a wonderful coaching session with Ms. Maryam.
0:20.7	And she is really struggling because she's
0:24.1	taking care of a baby. She is noticing that she gets overtaken by hunger at different times
0:30.3	of the day, and she's really struggling come 4 o'clock in the afternoon because by that point,
0:36.6	all the things that she has skipped eating during the day
0:40.0	are kind of coming back in a compensatory fashion. And she's looking for food desperately later
0:46.2	in the day. And I see this a lot with busy people. They really are like, hey, I'm not super hungry
0:52.0	in the morning. I'm going to drink a cup of coffee i'll deal with this
0:55.6	later and what i often will see is then come three four o'clock in the afternoon they're raiding the pantry
1:01.2	hitting the vending machine at work looking for food so really what we want to do is get much much better at
1:08.2	trying to not skip those meals but eat more consistently in the earlier
1:13.1	part of the day. So if that's something you know you have struggled with, I'm thinking you're
1:17.5	going to get a lot of good nuggets out of today's coaching call. Now, I wanted to remind you,
1:22.3	we're still doing signups for our brand new workshop that is launching and will begin May the 21st, CART smart, spend less
1:30.9	and eat better. And really the focus of this is no coupons, no chaos, just savings. And the reason
1:38.0	I put this together is one of our awesome academy members saw that I was saving quite a bit of money. I had changed up how I was
1:46.2	meal planning and grocery shopping. And she's like, I would absolutely love to learn about that.
1:51.9	So I thought, okay, cool. I'll put a few videos together. And then as I really started to delve into
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