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

give yourself permission to overeat

1 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Jim Katsoulis that proposes a behavioral experiment: instead of constantly trying to restrict overeating, allow yourself to overeat while closely observing how it feels. The speaker argues that noticing the unpleasant physical/psychological consequences of overeating (it feels "gross") makes avoiding it more automatic over time.

Give yourself permission to overeat and you may find something interesting. Happens when you shift your focus from trying to stop yourself from overeating all the time to allowing yourself to overeat but paying attention to the consequences. You quickly realize that overeating feels gross and you don't like it. So the more you pay attention to that consequence, the more natural it is to avoid overeating automatically because it doesn't feel good.