Weight-loss psychology without diet whiplash.
Outsmart Overeating is a warm, direct coaching show about why food can feel hard even when the rules feel obvious. Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes focus on the mental patterns behind overeating, from all-or-nothing thinking to nighttime food loops.
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Outsmart Overeating is a coaching-style show about the psychology underneath compulsive eating, emotional eating, and repeat diet relapse. It starts from a blunt premise. Most people who struggle with food already know the surface-level advice, but the knowing does not stop the nighttime snacking, the food noise, or the all-or-nothing spiral after one choice feels off-plan. Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes spend their time in that gap. Episodes often begin with a recognizable scene: standing in the kitchen after dinner, bargaining with cravings, trying to be good all day, or deciding the day is ruined because dessert happened. Then the show slows the moment down. What was the thought? What feeling needed relief? What habit loop took over before the person could name it? That framework gives the conversations a steady, cumulative rhythm, where one idea gets restated through examples until it becomes harder to dismiss. The show is diet-skeptical, but it is not vague about change. It talks about hunger and fullness signals as skills, not as moral tests. It treats restriction, deprivation, and constant resistance as fuel for later urgency around food. It also keeps returning to identity: becoming someone who eats, thinks, and behaves differently over time, rather than white-knuckling a plan until it breaks. Client stories add texture. Melanie’s episode brings in decades of dieting, a 40-pound change, body image regret, and the emotional weight of avoiding photos during earlier seasons of life. The conversations can be candid. They are also warm. Shame is named, but it is not used as a tool. The show works best for listeners who want a firm, plainspoken explanation of why they keep returning to food for relief and why another stricter plan may only deepen the pattern. Its core promise is not novelty. It is repetition with clarity: notice the loop, understand the need, and practice a different response before the old one becomes automatic again.
Made for: The show is for busy women and dieters who feel out of control around food despite knowing what to do. It especially fits people dealing with food noise, nighttime eating, emotional eating, and repeated start-over cycles.
What sets it apart: Outsmart Overeating stands apart by treating overeating as a thought-feeling-action loop rather than a willpower failure. Its strength is the patient breakdown of ordinary food moments into specific mental patterns that can be noticed and changed.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Clear coaching conversations make the habits, emotions, and everyday pressures behind overeating easier to recognize.
Outsmart Overeating keeps returning to the moment when knowing what to do around food stops being enough. Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Miramontes use coaching conversations and client interviews to examine the thoughts, emotions, and habits beneath compulsive eating.
Food rules go on trial here, with your midnight kitchen return as Exhibit A.
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A patient look at the thoughts, habits, and self-judgments that can make food knowledge hard to follow.
Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes take up a familiar frustration: knowing what to eat yet still struggling to follow through. Rather than treating a sense of being out of control around food as a personal failure, they examine the pattern behind it.
Melanie's wall of fame turns body-image history into a quiet case for staying in the picture.
An old set of photographs gives this episode its cleanest emotional frame as Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes revisit former client Melanie's changing relationship with weight, memory, and self-image.
A patient look at the thoughts that connect fullness, tiredness, and automatic eating.
Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes focus on the small, often missed thoughts between feeling full and reaching for another snack. They ask listeners to pause, name what they are feeling, and tell tiredness apart from hunger before using food as the default answer.
A practical conversation about hearing hunger before it has to shout.
Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Miramontes look at how people can relearn hunger and fullness cues after years of tuning them out, often through dieting. The strongest part is the way hunger is treated as a gradual language rather than a sudden alarm.
A clear, grounded look at how daytime restriction can turn an ordinary evening into another pantry trip.
A pantry search 20 minutes after a meal opens into a sharper look at the day that led there: chips turned down at work, candy skipped, tacos swapped for a soggy salad, and willpower already worn thin by evening.
A candid Thanksgiving discussion about food pressure, dieting rules, and keeping control of what goes on your plate.
Thanksgiving becomes a stress test for dieting rules, cravings, and the familiar pressure to prove you can "live a little" by eating more. Leslie Hooper and Steph start from Reddit questions before settling into a sharp case: an 18-year-old who has lost 50 pounds while dealing…
A candid, humane conversation about the emotional work that can begin after weight loss.
Rachel's story gives this single episode a clear center: a long dieting history, weight loss, and then the less tidy question of what comes after the goal.
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Leslie Hooper and Coach Steph Miramontes discuss the difference between mind hunger and physical hunger, sharing a Reddit story that illustrates how confusing these signals can be for those struggling with overeating.
Coach Steph Miramontes introduces the mind-shift method to help women stick to their diet without willpower or restriction.
Leslie Hooper and Steph discuss how to make the most of the remaining 100 days in 2025, especially for those who have abandoned their New Year's resolutions.
Leslie Hooper and Coach Steph analyze Reddit posts about Thanksgiving anxieties, offering strategies to avoid overeating.
Host Leslie Hooper interviews client Rachel, a 29-year-old dietitian from Central Florida, about her decade-long struggle with dieting, binge eating, and programs like CrossFit and 75 Hard.
Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes use Outsmart Overeating EPISODE 111 to answer why people feel out of control with food even when they know what to do.
Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Miramontes bring back past client Melanie to talk about life about two years after the Unstuffed program.
Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Miramontes focus on the invisible thoughts that lead to overeating, using examples like "I've already messed up today," "I'm too tired to care," and "stopping now still matters." They say the mind shift method works by noticing the thought, naming the feeling it creates, identifying the action it drives, and then choosing a more goal-supporting thought.
Leslie Hooper and Steph Miramontes discuss the psychological triggers behind the 'screw it' moment when dieting, where a small slip leads to a full binge.
Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Niramontes discuss why nighttime is a common time for overeating and how to overcome it.
Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Miramontes discuss how years of dieting disconnect people from their innate hunger and fullness signals and how to rebuild that connection without calorie counting.
Leslie Hooper and co-host Steph Miramontes explain why people keep eating after they're physically full — not from lack of willpower but because the homeostatic system (physical hunger) and the hedonic system (pleasure and reward) are separate, and dieting only satisfies the first.
Leslie Hooper and Steph discuss how to make the most of the remaining 100 days in 2025, especially for those who have abandoned their New Year's resolutions.
Leslie Hooper shares a Reddit story about distinguishing mind hunger from physical hunger to overcome compulsive eating.