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

Give yourself permission to overeat #programyourselfthin

7 Sept 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief video, Jim Katsoulis proposes a counterintuitive strategy for controlling overeating: instead of constantly trying to suppress the urge, give yourself permission to overeat while deliberately observing the unpleasant physical and emotional consequences. By focusing attention on how overeating feels gross and uncomfortable, you develop an automatic aversion to the behavior, leading to natural self‑regulation without the need for constant willpower.

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.