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- 0:39Okay, y'all, there is a first time for everything, and today is the first time,
- 0:46and maybe the last time, that I'm actually recording this podcast from my car.
- 0:54So, long story short, I had a podcast on deck to record, and we had to,
- 1:01on that day, we had to end up going to see a vehicle.
- 1:05We are shopping for a big mama car for
- 1:08this third baby on the way and it was a drive and so to see this vehicle and
- 1:15say I'm like okay well I'll just everything else for work is wrapped up so I
- 1:19will just do this podcast on
- 1:20the road and so here we go the auto might or the audio might be terrible.
- 1:28But I'm gonna do my best and so I even have
- 1:30like I brought my little fancy I have a tiny mic and I
- 1:33brought that but it does not want to stay connected
- 1:36correctly in my car so anyway we were just doing it all school and
- 1:40if y'all know and I think I think it's a great example of
- 1:43the topic of this of this podcast conversation which
- 1:47is perfection is impossible and so like how
- 1:50are we going to move forward anyway right and
- 1:53so I think that's a really good foundation to stand on as we head
- 1:56into talking about this topic now I
- 1:59know some of y'all are going to ask me if I did get the car
- 2:02and I did not we got all the way over there and
- 2:05they just you know how
- 2:08when you get the ick like some people just give you the ick and
- 2:11this car finance guy just gave
- 2:14us the ick gave me the ick big time was really
- 2:17trying to manipulate us with numbers and I was like bruh
- 2:20you have you have
- 2:23come to the wrong ones for that because jess.
- 2:26Is such a numbers guy so just
- 2:29i didn't love the vibe i did i didn't you know and we weren't
- 2:32desperate enough for the vehicle and so we did
- 2:35not get a car and i'll say we're we're headed back and
- 2:38jess is like i feel like i mean
- 2:41i took i feel like i took an l today babe you know like he's
- 2:44just kind of feeling frustrated because we've been looking for a specific type of
- 2:46vehicle for a while now with the baby
- 2:49on the way and i'm like
- 2:52dude you didn't take an L like it just wasn't meant to be like this just wasn't
- 2:57meant to be and he stopped and he looked at me and he said who are you like
- 3:02who even are you these days and it's true you know like the me in fact the vehicle
- 3:07that I'm in we bought shortly after I had glory and,
- 3:10That version of me was so anxious to get the vehicle that, like,
- 3:15I was ready to pay more money.
- 3:17I was ready to, you know, get it without even, you know, worrying about all
- 3:20the important things to, you know, make sure you don't get a lemon or whatever.
- 3:23Like, I was just so anxious to get it. And then that, in turn,
- 3:27makes him as my husband and the leader of our home anxious, right?
- 3:31And it makes him in a tizzy and whatnot.
- 3:33And so this time around, it was seriously so different.
- 3:37On the drive down there, I'm like, okay, it'll be what it's going to be.
- 3:39I'm a podcast in this car either way you know and so I think that's just such
- 3:44a testament to I love little reminders like this I'm just a testament to the work that I.
- 3:52Did on myself and I'm continuing to do on
- 3:55myself to keep my nervous system at bay
- 3:59and and I mentioned this because I think this this matters
- 4:02in this topic today and so I'm going to go ahead and dive on into
- 4:05the topic and we're going to talk about when you
- 4:08overeat right like when you
- 4:11feel like you blew it because you overate like
- 4:14what do you do next right because we
- 4:17can see it going you know one of two ways we
- 4:20can either get on over it and get
- 4:24back on track or we can put ourselves in
- 4:27a tizzy and make it worse right and so
- 4:30a lot of times if we are dysregulated or
- 4:34if our emotions are out of whack or you
- 4:37know if we are just all up in our fields or
- 4:40really distracted or whatever we can
- 4:43allow ourselves to continue that road destruction
- 4:46instead of just saying hey let's get
- 4:49back on track and so today I kind of want to just talk through that
- 4:52and hit some points with you you know and this may be something you listen to
- 4:56now but then you come back and you listen to it again on the day that you actually
- 5:01do experience that overeat or you know the weekend or the week that you experience
- 5:05that overeat you know it's not always one meal it can be like a whole week of
- 5:09a free-for-all and then you're like, oh my gosh, what have I done, you know?
- 5:13Okay, so the first thing that I think is super, super important in this entire issue.
- 5:21Is, why did it happen? Okay. And I know, like, who wants to reflect back on
- 5:27their mistakes? Not me, right?
- 5:30But it can often be the most beneficial thing you could do for yourself in this situation, right?
- 5:36Is to say, okay, I over ate, instead of running from it and hiding from it and
- 5:42trying to pretend like it didn't happen, right?
- 5:44Or instead of starting to just tell myself all these negative,
- 5:47horrible things about myself.
- 5:50Can I really, honestly, like, detach from the feelings, detach from,
- 5:55you know, what the state that I'm in right now, if I was a friend of the person
- 6:01that did this, right, if I was on the outside looking in,
- 6:06could I ask myself, why did this happen, okay, like, what has been going on
- 6:10that may have led to this, for instance,
- 6:14were you hardcore on trying
- 6:17to quote diet this week right and so you were
- 6:19really tight with your calories you were trying to eat like mainly vegetables
- 6:24and lean proteins you know things that weren't like you didn't have as many
- 6:28filling things as maybe last week would have entailed you know were you were
- 6:33you trying to really tighten up with your nutrition and maybe.
- 6:39The volume wasn't quite
- 6:42enough that you needed to stay full and then
- 6:45that turned into what full-on hanger but cut
- 6:48because of it you know a lot of times when people try to lose weight they go
- 6:51all in and they truly under feed themselves in a in a like huge effort to try
- 7:01to see like some major weight loss in a short amount of time and you feel like
- 7:05oh you feel so good about it at first You're like, oh,
- 7:08look at me. I'm so strong. I have so much willpower.
- 7:10But we know from, you know, if you've ever listened to another episode of mine,
- 7:15willpower is not infinite.
- 7:18It is not everlasting. And so as you are not eating and not eating and saying
- 7:24no to the donuts and no to your co-workers to Mexican and no to your kids forever.
- 7:28Driving through chick-fil-a and you know your willpower is
- 7:31diminishing and could you
- 7:34have just hit the bottom of that willpower tank you know because we use our
- 7:36willpower for other things as well like you know stress at
- 7:39work and whatnot emotional things you
- 7:42know we're all constantly burning through that willpower and so could that have
- 7:47been the case like could you have hit the bottom of your willpower tank or could
- 7:52you just have truly truly not eaten enough like your body finally was like dude
- 7:57you've got to feed me some more food you know could that have been the case.
- 8:02Were you okay this happens to a lot of
- 8:05my clients oh a lot were you busy
- 8:09like did you have a super busy day or even
- 8:12a super busy week and you just didn't have much time
- 8:15to check up with yourself with your
- 8:18food like there was no way you had time to meal prep or think
- 8:21about anything so you're just kind of grabbing snacks or hardly eating
- 8:24like I cannot tell you how many of our ladies and
- 8:27myself included sometimes right will just get so caught up
- 8:30and so busy in their day and be like crap I
- 8:33worked through lunch or you know I forgot my afternoon snack and
- 8:36then they get home and they're ravenous right
- 8:40you're you're winding down from the day you're feeling that
- 8:43release from the day and you're also cooking dinner
- 8:46and so then what happens you binge out on snacks
- 8:50while you're cooking dinner you're like shoving the cheese in your mouth it's
- 8:54supposed to go on top of the casserole also while you're cooking dinner right
- 8:58and then you eat way too much of your dinner portion as well this happens so
- 9:02often and so it's like instead in that moment instead of feeling like oh my gosh oh,
- 9:10why did I do that? I'm such a failure. Like, can you just honor,
- 9:13honor yourself and give yourself some grace, like truly look at that situation
- 9:18and say, okay, I can understand why I did this.
- 9:21You know, it was a crazy day.
- 9:24Like I can understand why I did this. Right.
- 9:28Or this is a big one for me lately is, are you not getting enough protein?
- 9:34Okay. Protein, all of our macronutrients work together to
- 9:37keep us full y'all know this by now but like protein really
- 9:40does help us like keep the
- 9:44fullness longer so if
- 9:46you were eating like a bunch of carbs or a bunch of fat or
- 9:49whatever and not much protein you can
- 9:52find yourself hitting that bottom and being ravenous before
- 9:56you know it and so for me this is the thing right now because
- 9:59protein is just not really my jam it never has
- 10:02been but when i'm pregnant it's really not and so
- 10:06then i'm like oh my gosh why am i wanting to eat the house
- 10:08down and then i'll realize okay because you've had probably 20 grams of protein
- 10:12all day and it's 4 p.m you know what i mean and so really just like looking
- 10:17at that okay could that be an issue for you or this is another really big one
- 10:22i see okay are you going throughout maybe your day,
- 10:28your week, heck, your month, I don't know, you know, are you smothering out your emotions?
- 10:34Like, are you, are you feeling emotions and feeling feelings trying to bubble
- 10:39up in you and you're just like, I cannot look at that.
- 10:42I do not have time for that. You know, I cannot face that right now because
- 10:47emotional eating is a for real life thing, right? And so if your emotions cannot escape.
- 10:54If you cannot release your emotions and you just continue to shove them back
- 10:59down, shove them back down, baby, they are going to fight harder and they are
- 11:03going to fight in different.
- 11:05And so this is why sometimes you've had a really hard and stressful day,
- 11:08but like your co-workers don't know it because you are Miss Peppy at work and
- 11:12your husband doesn't know it because, you know, he's got his own stuff to worry about.
- 11:16And your kids don't know it because you want to be the excited, happy mom.
- 11:20And then guess who finds out? Guess who's the one that finds out?
- 11:24Your pantry cabinets, right? Like the doors to your pantry at 10 p.m.
- 11:30Because you cannot continue to just push it down, push it down,
- 11:34push it down and not expect it to still try to come up in some way or another.
- 11:40It presents itself in some form or fashion, regardless of, you know,
- 11:46how hard you try to keep it down.
- 11:48And so I see this a lot. And this is why I'm with IPFM Plus Ladies.
- 11:53We we really dive into this because
- 11:56they they want to like ignore
- 12:00that part like they just want to be like okay why can I not choose to eat healthy
- 12:04every day why do some days go and I get a salad and then some days I eat endless
- 12:10baskets of chips and queso and a margarita and just so happens those some days
- 12:14turn out to be like Thursdays or Fridays or Saturdays right And I'm like,
- 12:18well, you probably was struggling all week long emotionally and mentally,
- 12:23but weren't allowing yourself to feel it, right?
- 12:27And so thinking about that, like, do you find yourself at the end of a stressful
- 12:32week or in an emotional period, like overeating more often too?
- 12:38Those two go hand in hand. There's a ton of science behind it, right?
- 12:42Or did you just set your bar too high this week?
- 12:46And this is something we talk about a lot here but like did you
- 12:49say you were going to stay within your
- 12:52calories and you were going to work out every day and you're going to drink your
- 12:54water and then you also signed up to work your kids class party and then you
- 12:58also you know had to help your husband organize something for work and then
- 13:02you also were going to your mom's to help her decorate or like you just had
- 13:06so many things going on and you you had great intentions when you set out to do all of this, correct?
- 13:15But we do not hold an endless capacity.
- 13:19We are not robots. We are not superhumans. And this is something that the world,
- 13:24baby, it will tell us that we are.
- 13:26The world will say, you are a superhuman. You can do more, more, more, more, more.
- 13:30You can consume more, more, more, more, more. But what happens is we want to explode.
- 13:34And so sometimes we explode with our food, right? Like we just like binge out to numb out, right?
- 13:40Because everything feels so heavy and so stressful.
- 13:43And so just did you set that bar too high? Do you need to zoom out and say,
- 13:48okay, I have got to say no to something. I have got to...
- 13:52Take some time to rest. I have got to ease up, right?
- 13:57Another thing is our hormones. And this is one, this is something so funny that
- 14:02I did not realize I was going to get to know about RPF and plus ladies.
- 14:06But like, I have gotten very, for my ones that have been around for a little
- 14:10while, I've gotten very in tune with when their cycles are about to come on.
- 14:15Like, I'm like, okay, I feel like you're about to start your period next week.
- 14:19Like, what's your, what's your app say and they're like oh my gosh yes I'm
- 14:22supposed to start Tuesday or whatever and and so you
- 14:25I can just tell because again they find
- 14:28themselves slipping more you know that they
- 14:31they are going over their calories more often and also the
- 14:34mental frame the mental mindset their
- 14:38frame of mind that they're in is different
- 14:41it's not as positive it is
- 14:44you know a little more highs and lows and
- 14:48so again that is like we always
- 14:51want to fix it right like I'm gonna say okay yeah
- 14:54I'm about to start my period but still I should be losing I should be doing
- 14:57this I should be no like can we just offer ourselves like some grace can we
- 15:02just say man these hormones we got we got Eve to thank out here you know for
- 15:09these hormones and like I'm just gonna be gentle with.
- 15:14This week. I'm going to have some compassion with myself for the next few days.
- 15:18Being gentle with yourself and having compassion are not the same things as
- 15:23just saying, I'm going to have a free for all and I'm going to forget about my goals.
- 15:26Like you can still have goals while also being gentle with yourself and having compassion, right?
- 15:33Like those are two things that can coexist.
- 15:37And so the next question that I would like really encourage you to ask yourself after,
- 15:42you know, why why did this happen the next question would
- 15:45be what happens next right like what you
- 15:48have the power to choose what's going to happen next okay you may feel like
- 15:54your your thoughts and your emotions are dictating your next step but they're
- 16:00not you have the power to stop that okay and so what i see a lot of women doing
- 16:05is spiraling after this they're like oh i'm such a failure.
- 16:08You know, I can't do this.
- 16:10Like, this is the pattern I always choose.
- 16:13You know, I'm never going to lose this weight. Like, just, they,
- 16:16yes, they overate and it may affect their weight loss, right?
- 16:21Like, it may affect their weight loss, depending on how severe it was.
- 16:24A lot of times it's not as severe as you think it is.
- 16:27You're just so disappointed in yourself for not doing what you set out to do, right? Right.
- 16:32But that like the the swimming and the
- 16:36in the disappointment in yourself is doing nothing to
- 16:39move you forward it is steadily holding
- 16:42you in place or moving you backwards in the goal that you set and most of you
- 16:48listening right now I know without a doubt you have done this so often that
- 16:53you know it like you know well I'm gonna sit here I'm gonna have a pity party
- 16:58for myself for the next few days.
- 17:01I'm going to eat the house down for the next few days in the midst of my baby party.
- 17:04And then I'm going to find the motivation to start back up again and try to
- 17:08reach my goals again, right? Because I'm going to get sick of it.
- 17:11I'm going to get sick of the fact that I let myself go, you know?
- 17:15And that is a repeating cycle. And that is the exact reason you are not seeing progress.
- 17:22That is quite literally the exact reason. If you would get out of that cycle,
- 17:26those multiple days, weeks, months of cycle of saying, I'm going to hit it hard
- 17:31versus, well, I'm just going to feel sorry for myself and let myself,
- 17:35you know, do whatever I want to.
- 17:36If you would stop that cycle and just say, yep, I overate, but that meal doesn't
- 17:43have to dictate my next meal, right?
- 17:46Like I can still choose for this meal that it's going to look the way I want it to look.
- 17:52I can still choose to make the right decision, right?
- 17:57And so it's thinking about.
- 18:01What comes next and how you
- 18:04in an ideal world want that to look and a
- 18:07lot of times it's thinking about it now it's thinking about it before it happens
- 18:12when you're in the midst of your pity party after the overeat it's going to
- 18:16be 20 times harder to like pick yourself up off the floor but if right now you
- 18:21say to yourself okay next time I overeat you know if I can catch myself mid-over-eat,
- 18:27that would be amazing. But if I don't catch myself, okay.
- 18:30But next time I do it, I'm not allowing myself to take that behavior into the next meal.
- 18:37Not tomorrow, the next meal. Okay. A lot of people are like,
- 18:40oh, I'll just start over tomorrow or I'll start over Monday.
- 18:43No, no, we don't have time for that.
- 18:45We are starting the next meal. The next thing you put in your mouth needs to be thought about.
- 18:52It does not need to be emotion-based and it
- 18:55needs to be something that you feel like was a
- 18:57wise choice because then you are that is you
- 19:00taking that effort to correct your behavior
- 19:03and it's it's not even really about
- 19:06like the weight loss or the calories or whatever it's about
- 19:09your brain when you take that next step to
- 19:12correct your behavior you're telling your brain this
- 19:15is not what we do anymore no like gone
- 19:19are the days that we overeat and
- 19:22then sit in that for for days and weeks and
- 19:25you know continue to eat calories in
- 19:28excess and choose you know unhealthy foods and
- 19:31and go against every single thing we're trying to strive for
- 19:34food wise right gone are those
- 19:37days brain so get used to this because this
- 19:40is the new me the new me knows she's not
- 19:43perfect and yeah may have an overeat every now and then but she is going to
- 19:47get right back on track at the next meal at the next thing that she puts in
- 19:53her mouth right and so that is like it's it's a course correction and what you'll
- 19:59notice after you do it a while is.
- 20:03You start to be able to course correct in the midst. Like you start to,
- 20:07you know, you see yourself going down that same rabbit hole.
- 20:10Like I'm about to go back for my second plate or I'm about to continue eating
- 20:14even when I'm full or whatever.
- 20:16And you are, you have, it's like, I told a PFM Plus client this today.
- 20:20This was about something different about her showing up for her exercise.
- 20:25It's like flexing a muscle, right? The more you do it, the more you set out
- 20:29to do something and then follow through with it, the easier it becomes to course correct as you go along.
- 20:39And so you are training your brain to change its direction and do the right thing.
- 20:46Do the thing that you know you would be more proud of tonight when you went to bed, right?
- 20:52And so another thing that I just, I want to talk about here just before we kind
- 20:56of wrap up, well, a few, two more things, but I want to encourage you when you do have an ovary,
- 21:02to move your body and not from a, not from a perspective of like,
- 21:06I got to burn off these extra calories that I ate, you know,
- 21:10cause that, that seems like a punishment mindset,
- 21:13but more from a, a perspective of when we move our body, we release endorphins.
- 21:21Things just don't feel as heavy anymore.
- 21:27When we, in our body, we feel, we feel emotions inside of our body.
- 21:33We feel the things inside of our body, right? And so if you've had an overeat
- 21:36and you're disappointed in yourself, you feel that, right? Like it shows up.
- 21:40You have tightness in your chest. Your shoulders feel like they're squeezed up to your ears.
- 21:46You may be clenching your jaw, right?
- 21:50You just may notice yourself being a lot more tense or you may notice yourself
- 21:55being a lot more like slumped, you know, like that posture of just defeat and
- 22:01I've given up and that kind of thing.
- 22:03And so we feel those emotions in our body.
- 22:07And so sometimes we just need to take that time to reset those feelings and
- 22:15getting out, taking a walk,
- 22:18even doing like a 10 ass chat GPT to write you a 10 minute full body workout,
- 22:23something easy, moderate or hard, you know, whatever you want to do. I don't know.
- 22:28But just to get your blood pumping and get your mind on something different
- 22:34and let your body kind of release some of that stress,
- 22:39some of that weight, some of that overwhelm that otherwise you would just sit
- 22:44in, right? And then what would you do?
- 22:46You would scroll your phone looking for, you know, easy, easy ways out or,
- 22:50you know, you would, you would ruminate on all
- 22:54the negative of things there is to ruminate on in the world you
- 22:57know like you wouldn't make it any better but if
- 23:00you could just say like okay I I agree and
- 23:04like no I'm not proud of it no and honestly Constance I can't even feel like
- 23:09forgiveness for myself right now I do feel a lot of guilt you know but I can
- 23:15go move my body I can release some of this tension that is inside of me so that Hopefully,
- 23:22I'm able to clear my brain and walk forward in a more positive mindset so that
- 23:28I don't continue on this path of tension and frustration and guilt and shame
- 23:33and probably make it feel even worse. Right.
- 23:37And so that and obviously, yes, moving your body is going to burn calories.
- 23:40It's going to make you feel better totally across the board. Right.
- 23:43About the whole thing. But but for me, moving and that is releasing.
- 23:51The thing inside your body that you're feeling that doesn't feel so great.
- 23:55And it's a game changer. And so I will say I'm in the midst,
- 23:59if you've been following me on social lately, you know, I'm in the midst of
- 24:02like really trying to work through some things with the business and just how
- 24:07I want the programs to look and how I just feel this coming upon a season of change.
- 24:11And I'm like, OK, what does this look like?
- 24:14And I am so frustrated because I can't get clear.
- 24:17Like I cannot find the clarity of what this
- 24:20actually looks like for us right now and I'm
- 24:23in deep prayer about it and I think that's part of it I think God's
- 24:27going we're gonna see you know let's just let's just hang around and see how
- 24:30long we can we can you know look to me for this and we can surrender for this
- 24:34I don't think I'm going to get the answer immediately and I think that's part
- 24:39of my surrender process with the Lord right but it still doesn't stop the fact
- 24:43that I am I'm frustrated.
- 24:45I'm annoyed. And I think that could be said for so many of y'all with your weight loss journey, right?
- 24:50Like, you know, this is a walk in discipline.
- 24:54You know, your weight loss journey is a walk in daily, like surrendering food
- 24:59to the Lord, daily surrendering, like your control to the Lord and daily trying
- 25:03to, you know, have more of that discipline and.
- 25:08For not only the health of your body, but for the Lord, right?
- 25:11And so I know you can relate to what I'm saying. And so I found myself in a
- 25:16lot of frustration. And so I will literally just, like, when I can, stop and go for a walk.
- 25:22And it can't be long all the time, right? Like, I can get on my walking pad
- 25:25for a few minutes. I can go maybe make one lap outside in my neighborhood.
- 25:30But, like, it can't be, you know, a 45-minute walk. And that's okay.
- 25:36We don't need 45 minutes. to still
- 25:39feel that good release that can come from moving your
- 25:42body and even if you can't do that y'all you can
- 25:45if you're stuck in an office all day or somewhere you can
- 25:48go to the bathroom do 10 squats when
- 25:51you stand up do 10 push-ups against the wall
- 25:54you can do that circuit like three or four times like you can
- 25:57you can find something to move your body you know
- 26:00and so I just wanted to
- 26:03throw that out there because I think oftentimes all
- 26:07we need is that quick reset and we
- 26:10just don't make the effort like we just don't put that
- 26:13first foot in front of the other to make the effort to do the reset but once
- 26:18we do we're so glad we did and we noticed that things don't feel as heavy it
- 26:25doesn't feel as miserable like we don't feel as big of a failure and we are
- 26:29we kind of reset our brain to say,
- 26:31okay, I can do this, right?
- 26:33It's not going to be perfect, but I'm not going to give up on myself.
- 26:36And that truly is the end game.
- 26:40There is absolutely nothing you can do after you've overeaten that will course
- 26:46correct it or, well, that will.
- 26:50Erase it how about that there's nothing you can do after an overeat that will erase it,
- 26:55and and that's that's part of the frustration right like we're just
- 26:57like oh if I could just go back and fix that you know what I mean and you can't
- 27:01you cannot and so a lot of times we go to this punishment mindset like I shouldn't
- 27:08have done that so I need to go do xyz or I need to not eat tomorrow and that
- 27:12really doesn't help because it still keeps you in that negative frame of mind.
- 27:17And so all you can really do is do your best to release it and then walk in
- 27:25the way you know that you want to walk.
- 27:28Decide that you're going to show up at the next meal as the person that you want to show up as.
- 27:35Okay. And so that is with any goal, any, anything, it's, it's every,
- 27:40small step we are choosing to show up
- 27:43as the person that we want we want to be the person we
- 27:45desire to be and part of that includes
- 27:48letting go of maybe the
- 27:51person you didn't love you know three hours ago when she was eating the row
- 27:56of Oreos in the pantry you know you didn't you didn't love that version of you
- 27:59and so you've got to let go of it because it's stewing on it isn't going to
- 28:02help so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this episode Lord have mercy I hope it don't sound I'm like,
- 28:09who knows what out here on this podcast this week.
- 28:14But as always, and y'all, oh my gosh, especially on the topic of overeating, remember to say.