Outsmart Overeating

On this week's episode, Coach Steph Miramontes joins me to discuss the 7 habits required to lose weight permantly.

The first step: You have to lose the dieter's mindset.

Most of the women I've had the pleasure of working with do what all the other dieters do — they practice being overweight and seeking a magical solution.

Instead, you should be practicing what natural eaters do, NOT what overweight women do. This means, understanding and then implementing their eating habits.

I know eating like a dieter forever isn't your intention. You want to lose the weight AND the whole problem.

But if you are approaching it like a dieter, then you are creating more of what you don't want:

• The thoughts of overweight women
• The feelings of overweight women
• The actions of overweight women

….and you are stuck in the struggle.

Of course you're not doing this on purpose. I know it's the opposite of what you want.

If you want to eat and think like a natural eater then you need to stop doing what dieters do, and start doing what natural eaters do.

Join us for the conversation. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you think a 'natural eater' interacts with the world compared to a dieter and how you can adopt some of these habits into your life, too.

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here. Or, if you want to be the first to know when we'll be opening the doors to Unstuffed and get access to our early action bonuses, you can join the interest list.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

DIETING SUCKS!

So why do we keep doing it if we know it doesn't work long-term?

What's the solution? How do we lost weight without the crazy food rules, obsessive calorie counting, and mind-numbing cardio?

In this week's episode, Coach Steph Miramonntes and I discuss the answers to those questions.

You'll discover:

😖 You don't have to hate looking at yourself in the mirror or avoid being in pictures.

🍏 You don't have to restrict and deprive yourself of your favorite foods to get into the best shape of your life.

🚫 You don't have to continue on this crazy merry-go-round without seeing results. You CAN know what it feels like to confidently walk into a room and turn heads.

And with summer around the corner, right now is the perfect time to get started.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here. Or, if you want to be the first to know when we'll be opening the doors to Unstuffed and get access to our early action bonuses, you can join the interest list.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Welcome to the Outsmart Overeating Podcast!

I'm Leslie Hooper. A former certified Personal Trainer and Nutritionist turned Emotional & Binge Coach who has helped over 2500 busy women stop compulsive eating and lose weight once and for all.

It wasn't that long ago that I also felt powerless around food, constantly fighting cravings, bouncing up and down the scale, always with a false promise that I'd get back on track tomorrow.

Fast forward through YEARS of failed diets and lessons learned, and you'll see the transformation that has allowed me to turn my own permanent weight loss success story into a process that changes lives from the inside out.

I created the Outsmart Overeating Podcast to give you simple, actionable, step-by-step strategies to help you do the same.

If you're sick of dead-end diets and ready to master your inner psychology so you can master your eating… without feeling restricted or deprived, you're in the right place.

Let's get into the first episode.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Slow and steady wins the race, but dieters crave fast, fierce, and furious for their weight loss programs.

Instant gratification dominates the mindsets of most dieters. They want quick solutions and quicker results.

Consider what causes you to pursue a long-term project - like writing a book, building a relationship, learning an instrument, etc.

With long-term projects, sooner or later, we need evidence that we're making progress. Without it, it would seem silly to continue pursuing it forever without the reward of accomplishment.

People don't spend 20 years eating healthy and working their tail off at the gym without pleasure and reward mixed in. And if the goal is to maintain a lean physique for forever, we can't rely solely on the external validators, like a scale or mirror. Why?

1. Because those results aren't immediate.

2. Because those results don't continue changing after maintenance.

Unfortunately, this is where most dieters get stuck. Instead of chasing instant gratification in emotional and compulsive eating, what if you learned how to develop a new reward system? How would it feel to be able to delay instant gratification for permanent weight loss?

Dive into this week's episode as we discuss exactly how to do just that.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

In recent years, walking 10,000-steps-a-day has become the marker for a 'successful' day of movement.

You can barely walk down the street without someone stomping past you wearing a FitBit. It feels like its become a global obsession, despite the fact that 10,000 steps is a completely arbitrary number, that originated from a Japanese marketing campaign in the 60s ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Join us in this episode as we discuss how step counting can breed an unhealthy obsession and what signs to look for so it doesn't have the ability to harm your physical health, too.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Binge eaters think that they have an 'eating too much food' problem, and this is why they can't lose weight.

And while there is certainly truth to that, it's not the whole story. We spend only a few hours per week eating, but we spend 168 hours without our thoughts, and it's these same thoughts that cause us to struggle.

Food isn't the problem; it's how we THINK, FEEL, and INTERACT with food that's our biggest hindrance.

Join Coach Steph and me as we drop the hammer on your scarcity mindset and show you how to stop binge eating, once and for all.

Topics discussed:

• Why telling yourself "no" keeps you in a perpetual state of feeling restricted and deprived (which leads to binge eating).
• The real reason behind your obsessive thoughts about food and how to beat them into submission.
• How the 'good food' vs 'bad food' dichotomy is one of the primary reasons why you overeat and why it's critical to your success that you learn how to detach from food emotionally.
• Why the "Last Supper" mentality keeps you stuck in a perpetual state of guilt, causing you to self-sabotage.
• Actionable steps to help you abandon a scarcity mindset and switch to one of abundance, and lose the food obsession forever.

Check out this week's episode and let us know what you think. If there's a future topic you'd like us to cover, shoot us an email or DM.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Sometimes people think fitness professionals are good motivators, but what most don't realize is that motivation is an inside job.

In this episode, I discuss:

• How to get and stay motivated
• Why watching other successful people can be inspiring, but it's actually your THOUGHTS that create a motivating feeling in you
• What is it about January 1st that makes people feel more motivated than any other time of year, when motivation can truly be created on any boring Tuesday afternoon in August
• What causes you to lose motivation and how to prevent yourself from going to down the death spiral of self-sabotage
• Action steps you can take TODAY to create lasting motivation to help you crush your weight loss goals
• Why it's important to continue "refreshing" your motivation through weekly review

Definitely give this one a listen. As the new year is taking off, this is a great episode to help you better understand why you lose motivation and how to maintain it to ensure your success.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Break the cycle of holiday overeating by listening to the FREE video training with the accountability workbook we created just for you to Eat, Drink & Be Merry Without Holiday Weight Gain.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Break the cycle of holiday overeating by listening to the FREE video training with the accountability workbook we created just for you to Eat, Drink & Be Merry Without the Holiday Weight Gain

Macro tracking is often touted as the Holy Grail of fat loss, and while it is effective, it often comes with a heavy mental and physical price tag attached to it.

From constantly being on-guard about how many calories every piece of food you eat contains to avoiding social events because you fear not being able handle the food that's there, for some this can be a one-way ticket to Crazyville, population: you.

Join Coach Steph Miramontes and I as we discuss alternative methods that lead to the same places but with a lot more enjoyment (and lasting results).

Topics discussed:

• The importance of self trust
• Learning how to fish vs being given a fish
• The power of avoiding the extremes and learning to navigate the gray areas of eating and nutrition
• What you'll learn about yourself as you transition away from calorie counting
• Process over results = lasting results

Are you a macro tracker? Do you fear weight gain as a result of mindful eating? Let me know your thoughts.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

Break the cycle of holiday overeating by listening to the FREE video training with the accountability workbook we created just for you to Eat, Drink & Be Merry Without the Holiday Weight Gain

In this episode we debunk the lie that the fitness industry teaches about discipline being the key to a successful transformation and how that philosophy has kept dieters on a hamster wheel for years.

Every frustrated dieter wonders why they can't just be more disciplined. They wonder why they can start off strong and the wheels inevitably fall off.

Generic dieting advice and the "just try harder" narrative is flawed. In reality, most people have tried harder to lose weight than anything else they've ever had to work at.

So if trying harder isn't the answer, what is?

Imagine waking up each day trusting that you aren't going to overeat, that you won't run out of willpower, and you'll go to bed that night feeling proud that you broke the habit of overeating. How would it feel to be in control of food, instead of food controlling you?

Our habits shape our lives and finding the right system makes all the difference in the world.

Whether you've been a Restrictor or a Permitter in your dieting past, your current habits either work for you or against you.

When you understand the power of a habit, for better or worse, it's easy to see how having the right habits, systems, and support in place is a game changer when it comes to fat loss.

In this episode, you'll discover how to become consistent so you can not only achieve your goals, but you can maintain them with ease.

You'll learn:

• How habits have all of the control and developing the right ones will save you years of frustration.

• How the pressures of life keep you circling the diet drain and how to practice being persistent no matter what obstacles you face.

• The real answer to sustainable fat loss that leave you feeling in control of food and never go on a diet again.

If forcing your body into a smaller version of itself through dieting worked, it would have worked by now. It's time to try something different. Something that actually works.

Give this week's episode a listen to learn how.

Connect with Leslie:

• Website• Instagram• Facebook

If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type