Eric Roberts explains chronic overeating as a physiological response, not a willpower problem. When you combine intense exercise with a calorie deficit, your body panics and triggers hunger and cravings until you binge. His fix: limit workouts to 3-4 weight-lifting sessions weekly, walk 7,000-10,000 steps daily, and create your deficit through diet instead.
It's not a discipline or willpower problem. It's your body responding to overexercise. Think of your body like a bank account. Your calories are your balance. When you start a diet, you make a small withdrawal. You spend a little more than you put in. That's the deficit. The bank is fine with that. When you start overexercising on top of that deficit, you're making massive withdrawals from the bank account, and the bank starts to panic. The account is draining too fast. So what is the What does the bank do? It sends warnings— hunger, cravings, fatigue. And those warnings get louder and louder until you walk into the fridge at midnight and make a deposit, a big deposit. That's the overeating. Here's the fix: less exercise than you think. 3 to 4 days of lifting weights, walking 7,000 to 10,000 steps per day. Your calorie deficit should mostly come from your food, not trying to burn as many calories as possible in your workouts.
