Why You Keep Feeling Like You’re Starting Over With Food
EPISODE 331You finally understand what’s been driving your food struggles. You change how you eat, you feel better, maybe you even think, okay, I’ve got this now. Then months or years later, the cravings come back, your body changes, or you find yourself eating when you’re not hungry again. It can feel like all that progress disappeared and you’re somehow back at the beginning.
After more than 10 years of this podcast and 330 episodes, what I keep seeing is that you may not need another answer. You may already have the right information, just at the wrong point in your own change process. The blood sugar episode that feels life-changing when you’re first realizing your cravings aren’t a willpower problem may not help two years later when you already understand the physiology and what you’re wrestling with is why you still want cookies when you’re alone on a Thursday night. Same information, completely different need.
In this episode of Truce with Food, I explain why timing and sequencing matter so much when you’re changing your relationship with food, and why feeling like you’re starting over doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve lost your progress. I’m also introducing the new free Truce with Food podcast library, built from more than a decade of episodes and organized around the problem you’re actually trying to solve now, so you can find the right next conversation for where you are.
2:42 – Reflections on the good and bad of what happened during the summer season
8:06 – Disillusionment with what’s currently happening in the wellness world
11:19 – The pitfalls of relying heavily on AI for written content
19:28 – The inferior-superior cycle that keeps you ping-ponging between all-or-nothing thinking
23:09 – What I mean by “right information, wrong timing” and why the order of things really matters
31:00 – A newly organized, decade-in-the-making tool designed to guide you toward solutions based on your situation
35:20 – Demonstration of how the new podcast library works using three people as examples
45:54 – How to use the library (including curated paths, how to search, and how it links with your food quiz)
50:38 – Asking for two favors when you use the beta version of the podcast library
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Email: Ali@alishapiro.com
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Episode 321:Why Intuitive Functional Medicine Works When Protocols Don’t with Erin Holt
Episode 267:Esther Blum Demystifies Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for Perimenopause and Menopause Relief
Episode 266:Dr. Stacy Sims on How “Women Are Not Small Men” (especially at midlife & with exercise)
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