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

not overeating is unnatural

23 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Jim Katsoulis argues that resisting overeating when food is present is 'unnatural' because human biology evolved in food-scarce environments that favored consuming available food. In today's food-abundant context, he says people must consciously train and practice the skill of leaving food uneaten to manage weight; persistence improves this skill.

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To not overeat when there's food in front of you is an unnatural behavior, but it's a skill you need to develop if you want to master your weight. You need to remember that we've evolved over millions of years in a food scarce environment to have biology that wants to eat everything that's in front of us while we can, because we don't know if there's going to be more food after it. But now we live in a food abundant environment and we have to train ourselves, we have to develop the skill of leaving food there. And it's not a natural thing. So it's something you have to practice and work on. It's something that if you keep with it, you're going to get better at it.