Food Freedom

Why does quitting sugar feel impossible even when you want it more than anything? In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary explains how sugar hijacks your brain chemistry, fuels emotional eating, and disrupts impulse control, making cravings feel overpowering. You’ll learn why this isn’t a willpower problem and how food sobriety can help you regain control, clarity, and peace around...

January 1 feels full of hope , but for most people it also leads to another cycle of starting over. In this episode, Coach Mary explains why that happens and gives you five practical ways to build real, sustainable food freedom this year. Grab your copy of my FREE 9 page Beginner’s Guide to Food Sobriety https://www.foodfreedomwithmary.com/foodsobrietyguide Food Freedom Online Course: https://www....

f you’re trying to recover from food addiction, binge eating, or emotional eating but still feel trapped in cravings and food obsession, this episode is for you. In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary explains why so much mainstream nutrition advice like eating everything in moderation or calling fast food “healthy” actually makes food addiction worse. You’ll learn how ultra-proce...

Is your relationship with food running the show? Are you constantly changing diets, chasing rules, counting macros, and trying to hack your way to peace… but never actually getting any? In this episode, Mary exposes the normalized disordered behaviors hiding inside modern “wellness” culture from scale obsession to protocol hopping to rigid food rules disguised as discipline. She shares why chasing...

What does it really take to break free from food addiction, binge eating, and emotional eating? In this powerful episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary explores the simple but life-changing truth behind recovery: Choice. Chance. Change. If you’ve been stuck in the cycle of dieting, overeating, guilt, and starting over, this episode will help you understand why nothing changes until you de...

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary dives deep into the difference between validation and growth in food addiction recovery. Many women get stuck seeking reassurance and understanding, but real food sobriety requires action, responsibility, and the willingness to be uncomfortable. Mary explores how validation can become a trap that keeps you stuck in old patterns and how to shi...

Food addiction isn’t just about food, it’s about the emotional battles happening inside us every single day. In this powerful episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary reveals the seven emotional demons of addiction: anger, fear, shame, guilt, remorse, resentment, and self-pity. These internal forces keep us stuck in binge eating cycles, sabotage our recovery, and silence our progress. Mary shares...

Metabolic syndrome affects millions of women and many don’t even realize they have it. If you’ve been doing “everything right” with food, dieting, or weight loss but still struggle with belly fat, blood sugar issues, fatigue, cravings, or stubborn weight that won’t budge, this episode is for you. In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, I break down what metabolic syndrome actually is, how it...

Can you have health or weight loss goals in recovery from food addiction, binge eating, or compulsive eating without being disordered? In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary breaks down a common and damaging myth in the recovery space: that wanting to change your body or improve your health automatically means you’re slipping back into disordered thinking or diet culture. The trut...

**This episode was recorded in October** If you’re frustrated that your weight, cravings, blood sugar, or health “aren’t fixing fast enough,” this episode is your reality check. In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary breaks down why true healing from food addiction, emotional eating, and metabolic damage cannot happen on a 30-day timeline and why expecting quick fixes keeps so man...

Self-esteem plays a much bigger role in food addiction, binge eating, and emotional eating than most people realize. In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down how low self-esteem, inflated confidence, and healthy self-esteem show up in food addiction recovery and how shame, self-criticism, and perfectionism quietly keep people stuck in the binge-restrict cycle. You’ll learn: ​...

What if food sobriety wasn’t about restriction, control, or “being good”… but about peace? In this episode, I’m sharing what food sobriety truly means to me after nearly 12 years in recovery. Not the polished version, but the real one , showing up for myself, feeling emotions instead of escaping them, building self-trust, setting boundaries, and finally living with clarity and presence. Food sobri...

Do you feel like food takes up way more space in your mind than it should even when you “know what to do”? In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down why emotional eating, binge eating, and food obsession are not caused by a lack of willpower. Instead, they’re driven by deeper emotional patterns like perfectionism, guilt, self-judgment, and using control as a coping mechanism. I...

If you’re trying to recover from food addiction but still feel stuck in the cycle of bingeing, restricting, negotiating with food, and starting over every Monday , this episode is for you. In this powerful Food Freedom Podcast episode, Mary breaks down why you can’t heal food addiction while keeping one foot on both sides of the line. Living in the “ comfort zone ” not fully committing, promising...

Are you binge eating… or just overeating? And does the difference really matter? In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down why focusing on labels like binging versus overeating often keeps people stuck and why the real issue isn’t food at all, but the feeling of being out of control. Whether you’re struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, or repeated overeating, this epi...

Excuses and justifications don’t come from weakness they come from the eating disorder voice. In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, we’re talking about the voice of sabotage and how it fuels binge eating, compulsive eating, and disordered eating behaviors. If you’ve ever caught yourself saying: • “I deserve this.” • “I’ll start over tomorrow.” • “One bite won’t hurt.” • “I already blew it,...

Living food sober in a world full of triggers isn’t easy , especially when food is used to be your coping mechanism for stress, emotions, and overwhelm. In this episode, Mary walks you through how to build your Food Sober Toolbox a personalized set of tools, habits, and systems designed to help you stay grounded, reduce cravings, and protect your recovery. You’ll learn the essential emotional, phy...

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down one of the most misunderstood parts of recovery: transfer addiction, when you stop one coping behavior, only to find yourself picking up another. If you’ve ever quit binge eating only to start nightly wine… Or stopped drinking but suddenly can’t stop snacking… Or overly restricted food and found yourself scrolling, shopping, or staying...

In this episode of the Food Freedom podcast, Mary dives into the deceptive trap of the comfort zone and why it’s one of the biggest obstacles to real recovery from food addiction and disordered eating. If you’ve ever felt “stuck” in your healing journey, this episode will challenge the lie that comfort equals safety. Mary explains how staying in your comfort zone leads to shrinking dreams, fading...

Healing sounds inspiring… until it asks you to actually do the work. In this powerful episode, Mary breaks down the truth about food addiction recovery and why so many people stay stuck in the same binge cycles, guilt, shame, and self-sabotage for years. We talk about why comfort keeps you trapped, why dysfunction feels familiar, and why healing requires facing your emotions, changing your habits,...

Struggling with disordered eating but keep falling into the same cycle of “start over tomorrow”? It’s not because you’re weak , it’s because you’re trying to recover alone. In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down the real reason most people stay stuck in binge-restrict cycles: a lack of support and structure. You’ll learn why willpower always burns out, why nighttime cravings...

Social media is pushing women back into the obsession with being “skinny,” and Coach Mary is not having it. From hormone-wrecking weight-loss drugs to influencers encouraging unhealthy fat loss at already healthy weights, this episode exposes the truth behind the trend and why it threatens your long-term strength and freedom. Fair warning: if you’re still chasing skinny, this episode might piss yo...

In this powerful episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down the three types of core beliefs that quietly shape your relationship with food: how you see yourself, how you view others, and how you perceive the world. These deep, often subconscious beliefs influence emotional eating, binge eating, food addiction patterns, and your ability to stay food sober—far more than willpower ever cou...

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary Roberts breaks down a powerful truth about food addiction recovery: you will still get disordered thoughts even when you’re doing everything right. Recovery isn’t about eliminating the urges or permanently silencing the voice of sabotage. It’s about learning to actively disobey the thoughts that once controlled your eating. If you’ve ever wondered...

High blood pressure isn’t genetic, random, or “just part of getting older.” In this powerful episode, Coach Mary breaks down the real root cause behind rising blood pressure and exposes the connection doctors rarely talk about: disordered eating, food addiction, and years of processed, high-sugar, highly-palatable foods damaging your blood vessels. Instead of viewing high BP as a disease or destin...