Episode 194: Holiday Overachieving → Holiday Overeating
Dec 05, 2025
Holiday overachieving is the #1 reason your “I’ll start in January” plan turns into holiday overeating, and you don’t even realize it’s happening. Because right now, there are 3 predictable personality traits that are influencing every food decision you make. They’re the same traits that made you so successful in your career, but are causing you to feel out of control around food, especially this time of year.
After 40+ years of emotional eating myself, and after helping several hundred women conquer emotional eating with tactics I learned as the Chief of Staff for FBI Counterintelligence (yes, really), I can tell you this. Your holiday binges aren’t random.
In this episode, we’re going to take these 3 personality traits, and instead of letting them sabotage you, I’m going to show you how to weaponize them to your advantage so you can stop binge eating, overeating, and stress eating when life feels chaotic… all without dieting, without starving yourself, And especially without waiting until January.
Together, we will unpack:
- The real reason smart, successful women lose control around holiday food, and the 3 hidden personality patterns driving it.
- The silent perfectionism pattern that turns into binge eating behind closed doors.
- How holiday chaos flips your brain into survival mode, and the tiny trigger you never noticed that makes you eat everything in sight.
- Why your overachiever brain goes straight to “all or nothing”… and the microscopic shift that instantly breaks that spiral.
- The sneaky relationship-driven habit (yes, you do this) that makes it almost impossible to say no to dessert at family gatherings.
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