Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

beating yourself up after you overeat

21 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video excerpt from Jim Katsoulis arguing that self-criticism after overeating is counterproductive because it disconnects you from bodily signals. He recommends shifting attention from internal blame to noticing how you feel physically, mentally, and emotionally after an overeating episode to support future behavior change.

Beating yourself up after you overeat or make an unhealthy food choice does not help you because it's a disassociative technique, meaning that during that time when you could connect to your body and feel how shitty you feel, instead you're up in your head beating yourself up, disconnected from the effects that it's having on your body. And so once you stop beating yourself up and start paying attention to how bad you feel physically, mentally and emotionally after you overeat or making a healthy food choice, that is what's going to help you change your behavior in the future.