You Don’t Need More Discipline. You Need More Satisfaction.
Truce with Food bridges the gap between knowing and doing by meeting you exactly where you are.
Discover your food stage to know what works for where you are to create lasting change.
Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
AS Featured in 100+ Media Outlets: You Know What to Eat.
But Not Why You Can't Stick With It.
You’ve read the books, tracked the macros, followed the plans—you know the path but walking it feels like a battle.
Maybe you're “good” for days or weeks, then it all falls apart—and you can't quite explain why beyond feeling deprived or stressed. Or you’ve sworn off diet culture only to find yourself at midlife with some health concerns that would be wise to get ahead of yet you can’t stay on track long enough to get results.
The truth? You’re not broken—but your approach is. What looks like not enough discipline and “self-sabotage” is actually self-protection.
Until you understand why your falling off track makes sense, you’ll continue to work so hard for so little.
Do perimenopause and menopause make you want to feel like your body is yours again?
With others yet mentally calculating how to be alone to eat?
Do stress, rebellion, or that buzzy “MORE” energy take over your best laid food plans?
Journal, meditate and do therapy yet still feel bad and turn to food?
Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHCYou Don't Need Another Nutrition Plan. You Need Deeper Understanding.
Hi, I'm Ali!
I understand the frustration of knowing so much about nutrition, yet still finding yourself stuck in vicious eating cycles from secret eating to bingeing (while also thinking I’m smart enough to figure this food thing out).
Having grown up in the 80s and 90s, I've tried all the approaches . I went to my first Weight Watchers meeting at 11 years old and was an early adopter of functional medicine in my mid-20s. But no nutrition approaches explained why I wasn't doing what I knew was good for me, despite being super disciplined in every other area of my life.
Can you relate?
That knowing-but-not-doing gap sparked an insatiable curiosity in me, which led to leaving Corporate America and return to school for holistic nutrition and developmental psychology, in tandem with now, 19 years of working with real clients.
What I discovered reorganized the cosmos for myself and my clients: what we think of as "food issues" actually have very little to do with food. They're symptoms of brilliant life patterns that have gotten you quite far. But now? They’ve outlived their usefulness (this is why more willpower and discipline—essentially over-functioning— usually aggravates the problem and leads to failure).
Through this deep understanding, I created Truce with Food. I’ve had the honor and privilege of helping hundreds of people discover that their relationship with food is a beautiful invitation into unlocking the life they were meant to live (and yes, I know how that may sound if you are in the throes of emotional eating).
Here’s what I know for sure, the answer isn't trying harder at the wrong problem.
It's addressing that something deeper you sense is going on yet can’t name.
Yet.
Truce with Food
Truce with Food
You'll understand why your on/off and out-of-control eating makes so much sense, so you can finally see your patterns are brilliant and with compassion.
You’ll experience support that feels nurturing rather than seeking out a judgmental expert that doubles down on your perfectionism. This creates lasting motivation, rather than panicked “I can’t gain more weight” shame-based motivation. Shame-based motivation burns quickly yet ends in a crash-and-burn (kinda like fuel from processed carbs).
Deep Listening That Affirms Wholeness
Here’s What You Can Expect
1
Make Connections That Have Been Elusive For Years
2
You'll gain the courage to look inward for a clear understanding of what's really happening when you eat out of alignment with your goals.
This means you’ll discover the "why" and way through to transform exhausting eating patterns you've struggled with for way too long.
Freedom From All or Nothing Patterns
3
You'll discover your on or off eating patterns extend way beyond food. And that being either good and perfect (or bad and imperfect) each suck in different ways. Neither are satisfying.
Instead, you’ll find the client described “I want more of this” satisfying and sustainable path. Here, you’ll discover how to want to want to make the healthy choice, even if right now, you think you’re incapable of being moderate around sugar and chips.
The ProcessHere’s How it Works…
Find Your Food Stage
Step 1
Identify your current food stage so you know where you are starting from and your next best step on the path to results that feel good and thus, last.
Step 2
Start On Your Truce with Food Path
Follow the research-backed, client-proven framework that bridges the gap between knowing and doing so you can build trust in satisfaction, not restriction.
Step 3
Live Free, For Good
Experience the results and food freedom that flow from the clarity, confidence, and ease that come from working with yourself, not against yourself.
Real Lasting Results
Truce with Food Changed My Life…
Before Truce with Food, I was in a constant cycle of bingeing or eating poorly and then getting angry and spending so much energy figuring out how to “fix” myself. Thanks to the tools, I can’t remember the last time I binged. I feel more free in my life as the program helped me transform my perfectionist mindset. The program is challenging, yet it changed my life. It was completely worth it and I’m so thankful!” —Krista I., Colorado
One Year Out of This Process…
This is about getting to the root of things, not hovering on the surface as too many other programs/plans do. As a result, I stopped slipping with my healthy eating and falling into old thought patterns. I got unstuck and have the tools to keep going. One year out of this process, I have a deeper understanding of my relationship to food thanks to the tools I learned in this program (I’ve also lost 20 pounds).” —Dr. Tina H. Boogren, Colorado
The Gift That Keeps on Giving…
I’d seen other mindful eating specialists, nutritionists, and therapists, but they each seemed to focus more on temporary fixes and solutions that didn’t resonate with me. Truce with Food reframed my thinking around food and my eating behaviors. Ali guides us through a truly enlightening self-discovery process that is based on both experience and science. This program taught me a whole new way of thinking and talking to myself. I developed self-reflection and introspection skills AND gained vital knowledge about blood sugar, metabolic processes, and gut health. Truce with Food is the gift that keeps giving. —Alexandria E., Pennsylvania
Truce with Food Programs
My programs are intentionally designed to meet you where you are and guide you through the four food stages from diet hopping to a truce with food.
We all have to pass through all four stages
(I myself was at Stage 1 for 18 years!).
From Stage 1: “I just want someone else to tell me what to eat” to to Stage 4: “I get that my battle with food mirrors an internal battle of getting my needs met (and focusing more on the food is a waste of resources)”.
You cannot fail at these programs (they don’t double down on your perfectionism. They’re designed for you to break free from when perfection doesn’t serve you).
Failure only comes from not showing up imperfectly. If you’re willing to hang in there with a C+ effort, you’ll succeed beyond what you can imagine right now.
Path 1
Clarity
Begin to uncover the emotional patterns and nourishment gaps driving your hunger and cravings.
The Truce with Food: Clarity Program (formerly Freedom from Cravings) is a self-paced program that will shift your mindset from trying to be good based on someone else’s rules to feeling good based on your body’s wisdom.
Your Emotional Eating Blueprint is coming soon.
These programs build a bridge from Stage 1 to Stage 2.
Path 2
Consistency
The Truce with Food: Consistency program is a 12-week coaching group or self-paced experience to identify triggers, learn your needs, and experiment with getting those needs met (and the feelings that come up about having needs!).
Experience and start to trust in feeling good and trusting in satisfaction.
Live group program registration opens February 11, 2026 or get a head start now with the self-study and credit the full cost towards the live group program.
This experience shows those in Stage 2 the bridge to Stage 3 and gives Stage 3 people the foundation for “why what worked, worked” and how to do more of that to continue on in Stage 3.
Path 3
For Good
The Truce with Food: For Good program is a 6-month mentorship container to deepen embodiment so this is just naturally how you live. Discover how increasing agency—not discipline—leads to results and freedom you cannot even imagine right now.
All participants must have taken Truce with Food: Consistency to be eligible for Truce with Food: For Good.
This experience facilitates Stage 3 and Stage 4, which is walking and deepening living the path outlined in Stage 2.
Program Participants In Their Own Words…
FAQs
If you’re like many of the women I’ve worked with, you’re insatiably curious. You have questions. I have answers.
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