Hey, y’all. Today’s episode is just a little different than usual. It’s actually a great opportunity for you to hear a live call that I did for my members. So I wasn’t planning on putting it in the podcast, but when I see something that a lot of women are doing, I like to make sure that everybody gets to hear it.

And in this particular podcast, this live that I did was also the same thing. I have a Facebook community for all of my members, and when I see a problem, I go in and I do something—a live training—or I talk about it live so that they can fix things that are hosing them in weight loss immediately.

And let me tell you what I saw. There was a woman who was eating a tiny amount of food all day long so she could save up for her dinner.

That little bit of saving up was hosing her weight loss. It was a problem. It was causing her to not be able to stop eating at night.

So what we want to do is not be trying to prevent overeating at night by underfeeding all day long. Now, I get why we do it. It sounds like it’s reasonable. It sounds like it makes sense. But I’m telling you right now that it flies in the face of your physiology.

It sets you up to eat way more than you need to.

It is a huge problem for a lot of women.

So in this podcast, you’re gonna hear me teach why this happens, what’s going on, and things that you can do so that you are not underfeeding all day and then blowing it later and feeling like, “I do good all day, but for some reason, I can’t keep it together at night.”

So enjoy this one. I know it helped my members. They raved about it, and I know it will help you too.

So let’s talk about what I came on to talk about.

There is a post that is so good that I have been commenting and working with someone on, and it is all around saving up during the day to be able to eat later for a variety of reasons. And I kinda just wanna go over all the reasons why this is probably not working.

So let’s just start with what we’ve been talking about. The first thing is that she was saying that she’s working an unpredictable schedule right now.

She’s got a brand-new work schedule. She’s not even getting home and able to eat dinner until ten o’clock at night, so she wouldn’t normally be eating that late, but her work schedule’s different. And so, as I was reading, as she was posting her food plan, I noticed it just looked like she wasn’t eating at all during the day. She had planned for breakfast.

I believe it was a mini sausage biscuit something, which is probably, if I had to guess, a cool 250 calories.

Then for lunch was a Lean Cuisine, which is probably, like, another 300 calories.

So we’re already starting the day and trying to work a full day till ten o’clock. I think she goes in at noon living on 500 calories. Then she has a small protein box. Just notice some of the language that we’re talking here.

Mini this, lean that, small this—which raised all kinds of red flags to me—because the small protein box was like, I don’t know, cheese and a little bit of meat and some grapes or some ****. Right.

Now, that food is not bad. I’m not sitting there telling y’all this is bad food.

What I am telling you, though, is that women are very conditioned to think that if they’re overweight or they have had a problem overeating, that somehow restricting and eating tiny is like the penance that we have to pay for all of the sins—that we can’t control ourselves around our favorite foods or, like, after a long day, for some reason, we are not able to eat.

So I wanna cover this stuff because it’s important for you to know. Otherwise, you stay stuck in this trap of barely eating, the whole time thinking, “I shouldn’t eat much because I’ll blow it later, just in case I blow it.” Or what she was saying is, “My husband—what if he makes a heavy meal?”

As if a heavy meal’s a bad thing.

There’s nothing wrong with a heavy meal. I eat heavy meals all the time, but I don’t lose control around them anymore because I’m not going in like a starved animal.

So I wanna talk about all of it. Let me finish what she also wrote because I asked her. She says, “I’ve been trying not to eat that late, but I’m hungry when I get home.”

I’d be hungry too if I’d been eating less than what a typical toddler eats in a day.

She’s not even getting toddler amounts of food, and most toddlers need around 2,000 calories a day because they’re super active. So a little toddler needs a lot of food, but a big grown-ass woman who’s working all day doesn’t?

Like, let’s just all say this together.

I at least deserve to eat what a ******* toddler eats in a day.

Amen. Hallelujah. Okay.

Now then I asked, “Well, do you eat light through the day for a reason?” I’m just curious because I eat heavy through the day.

I’m already—let’s see.

My breakfast typically is three eggs cooked in some butter, and then I do Dave’s Killer Bagels with—I like the, what is that one? Bagel Everything or whatever. I put some sugar-free jelly on that, and then I do about a half a cup of blueberries with that.

That is just breakfast.

That is just to get Corinne’s ass going. I also drink 16 ounces of a kombucha most days for the gut health. That is just literally to wake my body up, to be able to get through a day.

Alright.

Then I typically will eat at least a lunch. Now every now and then I have to miss lunch, and so I will eat more breakfast if I know I’m gonna have to miss lunch because I’m gonna use what we call practical eating, which means—practical eating simply means if you know you can’t get food and you’re not hungry. Just like my typical breakfast is plenty on a day when I’m gonna eat lunch around twelve or one o’clock.

Now, if I’ve got calls with everybody, which happens at least twice a week, then I know I need to add more to my breakfast. I might even add a yogurt and double down on my berries, maybe even throw in some butter on my bagel.

So it’s just important that you know these things because the goal of No BS is not to starve your ass off. I’m gonna tell you the science behind starving in just a minute.

But my lunch is usually a big-ass salad. It’s usually got—I mix regular dressing with, like, usually about a tablespoon of regular dressing. I love Thousand Island. It’s my favorite.

Sometimes I do honey mustard, just whatever we got. I mix that with a quarter cup of cottage cheese and stir it up real good. I just like a big wet-ass salad. Then my salad usually has at least five ounces of some kind of protein, whether that’s tofu.

My sister-in-law makes this really good fried tofu. I eat that. Sometimes it’s got steak on it. Sometimes it’s ground turkey.

Sometimes it’s chicken. It’s just whatever protein I’m feeling like for the week is what I eat.

I also put chickpeas on it. I put cheese on it. If I have some hard-boiled eggs, I will dice up a hard-boiled egg, loads of lettuce, and I usually do, like, tomatoes, onions, and chopped celery. Those are my favorite vegetables on a salad. So I eat a big-ass salad.

Then in the afternoons, I almost always eat another half a cup of cottage cheese. I love cottage cheese. Oh my God. I’ve loved cottage cheese since I was a little girl. Don’t come at me. I mean, I’ve been eating cottage cheese since I was yay high.

I mix that with a full banana and some cashews. I stir that up. I do put Splenda in the cottage cheese along with the banana.

Don’t get me started on a good banana mayonnaise sandwich because I do love a good banana mayonnaise sandwich.

So I stir that up, and I eat that. And then I eat a dinner, and then my dinner, like this week, is five ounces of steak.

It’s a sweet potato. I buy the smaller ones. I don’t buy the giant ones. I just bake it.

I don’t put **** on it. I don’t need **** on it. And then I eat about—I don’t know—I eat some green beans, just however much I wanna put on the plate, and they’re cooked in bacon.

And then sometimes I even eat a snack after dinner.

Now look.

This is why when I get around a hamburger or some french fries or some nachos, I’m not going face down in it as if I’m going to die.

So one of the things that happens when we eat light is we do this thing called undereating. Okay? Your body, like, puts it into a trauma response.

Your body doesn’t feel safe when it feels like it’s being starved or when it’s getting too little food. And so, for a lot of you, you’re overweight because you do a lot of starving most of the day, or you do starving for two to three days, being good, or you’re starving for five days and then you blow it all on the weekend. And your body is sitting there going like, “Oh my God. Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong. We’re not eating enough to match the energy needs.”

And then what happens is that when you get around food, you do not have the wherewithal to say no, to just eat to enough, or to not break your plan. This happens for a reason.

When your body feels like it’s not getting enough food, it then depresses the energy. Okay? You have two parts to your brain. You have the part that we think with. So just think, like, thinking brain is in the front. I used to tell everybody, the brain is like a mullet.

We got business up front, and we got a party in the back. So business up front, the thinking part of your brain, that is what makes good decisions. That is what thinks about your goals. That is what will remember your why. That is what makes plans. That is what, like, slows you down, negotiates in your head for the things you actually want.

Well, guess what happens when we eat light all day?

The thinking part of our brain has to shut down.

Your thinking part of your brain only runs about five to ten percent of the day.

And anything that you do to drain it of its energy is going to make it, as the day goes on, get more and more and more depleted.

And so if you go home after eating light all day, you don’t have your thinking brain online anymore. Now the party is in charge: the habit brain.

The habit brain is the one that does not think. It only reacts and responds to, “What’d you do last time this happened? Oh, that’s what we’ll do this time.” It literally does not think about your goals. It does not think about your whys. It could give two ***** about your weight loss. It is sitting back there in reserve, waiting to do things that the logical brain’s not gonna do—the thinking brain.

Now there are lots of pieces to this.

Lots of pieces. If you’re not getting enough sleep, guess what?

The front part of your brain—that’s a trigger for it to shut down. Not getting enough food, that’s a trigger for it to shut down. If you’re dehydrated, that also depletes it of its energy and wants it to shut down. If you have a really stressful day or you are somebody who works themself up to a tizzy—let’s say your boss, say you turned in a report.

You poured your heart and soul into it, and you did your best work, and your boss just took it, never said, “Good job, Corinne. Oh my God. Star employee. Let me just do a special callout to you,” blah blah blah. Your boss never said a word. If you sit there for day one worrying you didn’t do a good job, day two mad that your boss isn’t doing something, day three sitting around feeling depressed because you’re in a soul-sucking job where you don’t get any recognition—

well, you are emotionally wearing that brain out.

You’re saying, “I would rather sit here and catastrophize and worry and stew and agonize and create crazy-ass stories in my head and deplete the logical part of my brain so that when I need it, when it comes to dinner, it’s like, ‘*****, I ain’t got nothing left.’”

Now you wasted it all day sitting behind your desk, clutching pearls, worrying about your job, worrying about things that you had no facts about.

So we want to protect the thinking part of our brain at all costs. There are ways to protect it. Drink ******* water. That’s, like, the easiest one of all.

If you ever needed motivation to drink your water, drink your water because a lot of us think, like, “Well, water helps flush out the fat.” It does. But the one thing that water will do is it will make sure that you at least aren’t making donkey-ass decisions about what to eat because you’re dehydrated and your logical brain is like, “Oops. The stores are low. Here’s a reason why I should, like, let the party in the back make every decision.”

Because the party in the back, you know what it’s used to? Well, every time you’re tired, every time you’re stressed, every time you’re low on energy, when it’s five o’clock and you don’t feel amazing, it’s like, “I’m supposed to do what I always do.”

“Let’s order pizza. Let’s eat more than we planned. Let’s just eat until we get some energy back.”

It’s just trying to get your energy back. It’s trying to counterbalance the scales. The problem is the habit brain is not gonna sit there and be like, “Oh, if I just eat two, you know, veggie slices of pizza, that will balance the scales.” The habit brain is not thinking.

It’s just gonna eat, and it’s just gonna get lost in it tasting good, and it’s gonna be like, “Oh, this is so amazing.” It’s gonna start feeling better, and it thinks more is better.

So when you eat light during the day, you are turning off the part of your brain that can make logical decisions.

And then you wonder why, when you get home at the end of the day, like, a heavy meal is overly tempting.

Quit putting yourself into a position for good food, tasty food, or a heavy meal to take over because the food is not doing it. You are, by undereating and not giving yourself what you need. It is so much better to go into those meals fueled with plenty of **** on board because then it’s a lot easier to think. Now it’s easier to hear yourself want to eat more and to stop it for good reasons, to remind yourself of your whys or to remind yourself of, like, “Oh, I’m just used to eating more than enough, and I’m still trying to get used to this.”

This is why it feels hard. “Oh, I’m sitting here thinking that if I don’t finish this, that I’m wasting that heavy meal. I’m gonna hurt his feelings. Oh, I’m not used to thinking in my new ways yet.”

Stopping at enough doesn’t mean I’m wasting food. Stopping at enough feels different because I’m used to cleaning my plate.

And actually, I’m not really wasting food. I actually am wasting food when I clean that plate because every time I clean my plate, how will I ever allow my mind to know how much I should serve myself? If I only ever clean my plate, then every single time, my habit brain is like, “Make the plate the same. Never adjust your portion sizes.”

You don’t have a reason for your brain to ever think you should adjust your portion size because you never have anything left. Your brain makes the conclusion of, like, “Oh, that’s how I’m supposed to be serving myself.” So how will you ever save money? How will you ever eat less?

How will you ever make any other decisions if you don’t stop wasting food in your body?

You know, wasting it on your ass is a thing too.

Every time you say, “I’m wasting food when I throw it in the trash,” I just want you to remind yourself, like, “I can waste it in the trash or I can waste it on my ass. Which one do I wanna start learning how to do?” Because I’m real good at wasting it on my ass. I mean, it’s like, just turn around and look. Like, I’m an expert at it.

I think I wanna not be an expert at that. So I wanna get really good at understanding, like, it will take me a couple of weeks of maybe throwing away a little bit of food because I’m learning to listen to my body. And then that means that in a couple of weeks, I’m probably gonna buy less groceries, or I’m gonna be serving myself less, which means we’ll have more leftovers, which can, you know, last longer. Or if I don’t like leftovers, then I’ll quickly learn I can buy less food, and I’ll start saving money.

But we gotta think about it in those terms.

So let’s see what else she has to say.

She says hubby will bring home yummy food for me that I can’t resist. Of course, you can’t say no to it. If you’re coming in like a starved animal and he’s offering food that tastes good, what do you expect your habit brain to do? Go, “Oh, no.”

“Let us just keep eating like peasants. Let us just keep eating too little to survive life. Let me just put you in harm’s way.” Your brain thinks a famine is coming.

It’s still living in primal times. It ain’t living in 2026. It’s living in, like, 1906, 1806, 1706, ’06.

Like, it literally thinks that if you’re not eating enough, then what we are actually doing is we are starving it.

We’re starving it, and it doesn’t want that.

And it can’t reason.

It can’t sit there and think. That is why I teach you being hungry is not a moral victory. Starving yourself is not the answer to weight loss. For every one of you who keep trying to do this, I want you to ask yourself a simple question.

How many years have I been trying to eat light or eat little, and I’ve seen the scale just go down and I never regain my weight? How many years have I tried to eat light, and I’ve noticed I’ve had way more control around foods that I love or way more control around food the moment I start eating?

Proof is in the pudding.

Ain’t not one of you gonna be able to tell me that I’ve got an amazing relationship with food, and I’ve lost all my weight and kept it off. “Corinne, I’m here because I love paying you money.

I was looking for a charity. I decided I don’t wanna give to charities. I like Corinne. I wanna give her money every month so she can buy ******* tights to work out in.”

Not one of you joined for that reason. You all joined because you know that the way you think about food is ******* busted. The way I think about food makes a lot of sense.

And mine is based in psychology, and it’s also based in physiology.

Yours is based in fear.

What is the worst that’s gonna happen if you start eating more food during the day and give your body what it needs? I will tell you the worst thing that will happen.

The first few times at night, you will be in the habit of still overeating.

You will want to overeat because you’re very used to it, but this will be the difference. When you go in with enough food, you’ll start hearing that you’re doing it. You’ll start noticing what’s going on because your logical brain will now be online. You will not have worn it out. You will hear all of your fears. You will hear all of your sexy talk to just, just have a little. Like, I love the, “Well, he brought it. He brought in yummy food,” as if your husband bringing yummy food home is somehow a bad thing.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing.

I think it would be lovely for all of you to be able to lose weight because you know how to eat yummy food.

To me, it’s a great thing.

Number one, he’s doing you a favor. You’re not having to cook after a long day.

Number two, he’s buying you **** you like. Like, a lot of you, what do you want?

This is what I hear. Y’all give me always the catch-22. “Well, my husband doesn’t support me because he brings home yummy food. Well, my husband doesn’t support me because he says I should eat salads.”

What the **** are we doing, ladies? What the **** are we doing, ladies?

We are our own worst enemy.

We.

It ain’t them. It is us.

We don’t know how to take care of ourselves. We keep relying on other people to do an inside job.

We say, “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”

It is time for y’all to be well-fed women.

I don’t want y’all eating like, you know, a huge famine is fixing to sweep across the world.

I don’t want that for you.

You should not be eating light in order to hopefully not blow it at night. Because what happens is you spend your entire day thinking, “I’ll probably blow it.” Otherwise, why would you eat light?

And then, of course, when it comes time to eat, your logical brain is offline, and then all you’ve done is given your habit brain orders all day long of, like, “Now look out for all the reasons why we might overeat.”

And then it’s just like, “Oh, there’s one, and you thought we would do it.” So now your brain—like, your habit brain—only works on commands.

If you’ve been commanding it to look for opportunities to overeat, don’t be shocked that you do it nine times out of ten, eight times out of ten, seven times out of ten.

Do not be shocked. So if you spent your entire day telling yourself, “I’m gonna be a well-fed woman so that when I go home at night, I can make good choices, so that when I go home at night, I can think through things, so if I do get tempted, I’ll be able to think through it,”

why are we not having that conversation in our head?

It gives our brain such better commands.

It does a million fist bumps, solids for ourselves.

That’s what we need to be doing.