Kate Johnston

Eating Habits for Life

Health EN ↓ 244 episodes

Eating Habits for Life is a sustainable weight loss and eating habits podcast for women in healthcare who struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, overeating, cravings, and binge eating — especially after long shifts and high-stress days. You’re disciplined and successful at work. Yet when it comes to food, it feels frustratingly hard. You know what’s healthy. You understand portion control. But consistency feels out of reach — leading to shame, weight loss struggles, and starting over on Monday. This is changeable. With a compassionate, science-backed approach that addresses eating habi...

Author

Kate Johnston

Category

Health

Podcast website

katemjohnston.com

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Food Craving vs. True Hunger 30.03.2023

It can be so tough to tell whether those hunger signals are because of a food craving or if they're because of true hunger. So, in this episode, I'm sharing 3 ways to tell if it's a food craving vs. true hunger. That way, you can start getting a better understanding on when you're truly hungry or if it's a craving just disguised as hunger. __________ FREE CONSULT Finally break free from overeating...

5 Mindset Shifts to Help You Lose Weight 23.03.2023

It’s not just about what or how much you eat, exercise, sleep, hydrate, etc. when it comes to losing weight. It’s also about how you think about yourself, food, weight loss and anything related. How you think, will determine how you feel. How you feel, will then affect your actions or inactions....creating a result. So, to help create the weight loss result you WANT, shifting some of those more ne...

5 Best Ways to Avoid Failure with Eating Habits & Weight Loss 16.03.2023

Part of success with breaking bad eating habits or losing weight is decreasing risk of failure. When you are feeling like you're failing, it's VERY easy to give up, which really is true failure. So, in this episode, I'm teaching you the 5 best ways to avoid failure with weight loss or making progress with your eating habits. That includes emotional eating, overeating, cravings, etc. __________ FRE...

Your Level of Belief 09.03.2023

Your level of belief in your ability to reach your eating habit or weight loss goal may be what's holding you back from the results you truly desire. In this episode, I'm explaining belief as well as how it relates to different types of goals. I'm also helping you determine your level of belief and how to move it along the belief spectrum. __________ FREE CONSULT Finally break free from overeating...

Social Eating Habits 02.03.2023

In this episode, I'm sharing some social situations where we may find food to be the primary focus, and how to change those social eating habits. The benefit of making other aspects of the social situation the primary focus rather than food, is that those other aspects provide a much higher amount of pleasure. You'll also find it to be much longer-lasting. Listen in for some practical tips and get...

Eating Habits And How You Experience Life 23.02.2023

Did you know that how you experience your life (how you think, feel, and act) can be greatly impacted by your eating habits? Specifically, improving your eating habits will greatly enhance your life in more ways than just improving your physical health. Listen in to get all the juicy benefits. __________ FREE CONSULT Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, starting with a f...

Why Weight Loss Feels Hard 16.02.2023

One of the biggest things stopping you from reaching your weight loss goals is that weight loss feels hard to you. When something feels hard, it lessens your desire to do the actions to get the weight loss results you want. So, in this episode I'm sharing why weight loss feels hard and once you understand why, you'll understand how to make it feel easy. __________ FREE CONSULT Finally break free f...

Thought Habits and Your Results 09.02.2023

It's not just your actions that determine your results. It isn't your circumstances either. Your thoughts play a massive role with your results. Any results. Whether it's weight loss, quitting junk food, stopping boredom eating, etc. When you think the same or similar thoughts repeatedly, they can become thought habits. In this episode, I'm explaining how exactly your thought habits affect your re...

5 Crucial Weight Loss Habits 02.02.2023

Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss comes down to your habits. There are 5 crucial weight loss habits that you're going to want to be aware of and work on if you want to lose weight and keep it off. #5 is my personal favorite and establishing this one helps make the others easier. You'll also discover that these 5 crucial weight loss habits will benefit your life in other ways besides j...

Stress and Eating Habits 26.01.2023

Stress not only doesn't feel good, but it also can wreak havoc on your eating habits. The human brain wants the discomfort of the stress to go away and one of the quickest ways to do that is to counteract with the pleasure from tasty food. That can lead to overeating or eating unhealthy foods. That's not the only way stress can affect your eating habits though, and weight gain isn't the only negat...

Why Willpower Fails 19.01.2023

Recently, I was a speaker at a world-wide Habit Coach Summit and presented on why willpower fails to change eating habits. The audience was primarily people in the industry, but I wanted to bring this talk to you as well. So, in this podcast episode, I've shifted the talk around so that it speaks to you. I'm helping you understand why needing MORE willpower isn't necessary, and why relying on will...

Emotional Eating: Is It Even a Problem? 12.01.2023

Emotional eating may be something you notice you do on occasion or frequently. But, when is it a problem? And, is it even a problem? In this episode, I'm sharing the difference between when emotional eating is just episodic versus when it's a habit. I'm also talking about why and when it can be seen as a "problem," plus sharing something that emotional eating is actually quite useful for. ________...

Part 3: Rewarding Yourself 05.01.2023

Rewarding yourself for a job well done with eating behaviors is not only fun, but is a crucial part in the behavior sequence. Meaning, if you want to make or break an eating habit, the reward is key. In this episode, I'm explaining why you need a reward, what is a motivating reward for humans, the difference between immediate and long-term rewards, and the best kind of rewards. __________ FREE CON...

Part 2: Making it More Difficult 29.12.2022

Join me in Part 2 of this 3-part series, where I'm discussing what is required for an eating behavior to occur in the first place. Plus how to make it less likely you'll do a particular eating behavior you're trying to do less of. Also, I'm giving several examples for situations you may experience, of how you can set yourself up for success with some simple tips. These tips minimize the likelihood...

Part 1: Eating Behavior Triggers 22.12.2022

Listen in over the next 3 weeks to this 3-part series, where I'm teaching you how to address each component of the behavior sequence. The behavior sequence is the sequence of events (trigger, behavior and reward) that must occur over and over again to form a habit. So to break a bad eating habit, you must do the behavior sequence less frequently, which means you need to weaken it as much as you ca...

4 Ways to Make Weight Loss Fun 15.12.2022

When you think about weight loss, getting to the finish line seems to be where most of the enjoyment lies. What if the process of weight loss were fun though? I'm sharing 4 ways to make weight loss fun, so you can enjoy the process AND the result, increasing the chance you'll reach your biggest weight loss goals. __________ FREE CONSULT Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habit...

What ACTUALLY Motivates You 08.12.2022

There's a lot of misunderstanding about motivation and it needs to be cleared up. If you don't know what actually motivates you, then you'll put in WAY too much effort to change your eating habits, lose weight, etc. only to give up when the motivation is no longer there. So, in this episode I'm sharing precisely what you need to know about motivation, plus sharing how to create more motivation, so...

Weight Loss and Your Emotions 01.12.2022

If you haven't been getting the weight loss results you want, I know exactly why. The emotions driving your actions are not the type that will drive the RIGHT actions. The actions that you need to be doing, or avoiding, to get the results you desire. The great news is you have more control over your emotions than you think, which is what I'm sharing with you in this podcast episode. I'm also shari...

Overindulging Without the Regret 24.11.2022

'Tis the season for pies, cookies, cheese platters and.....regret. Regret that often follows the overeating and overindulging. But what if you could decide to overindulge without the regret? Or if you unintentionally overindulged, but were able to hit "delete" on the feeling of regret afterward? I'm sharing exactly how you can do this in this episode podcast. __________ FREE CONSULT Finally break...

Your Belief About Food 17.11.2022

Your belief, or beliefs about food can either help or hinder you in your journey to healthier eating habits. Learn how your belief about food in general, a specific type of food, or even amounts of food will generate a feeling that then either serves as great fuel to do the things you need to do to create the results you want. Or, how your belief(s) can generate a feeling that does NOT serve as gr...

Getting Out of the Dieting Cycle 10.11.2022

The quick weight loss results that some diets can give you can be very enticing. That's often why you might be drawn to them, but unfortunately, also the reason why are potentially failing to sustain the weight loss. In this episode, I'm talking about several diets over the decades, some of them really, well...wacky. More importantly, I'm sharing why it's easy to get into that dieting cycle and al...

Overeating and Your Brain's Job 03.11.2022

Many women feel like there’s something wrong with them if they have a habit of overeating. So, if you feel that way too, you aren’t alone. I want you to know that there isn’t anything wrong with you and I’m sharing why in this episode. I’m also sharing the first steps that will help you to get a little control over your overeating. Even just understanding why you overeat, is going to be key to bre...

9 Worst Weight Loss Tactics 27.10.2022

There is a lot of weight loss advice and tactics out there, some of it good, some of it well... terrible. If you've been having trouble losing weight and you feel like you've tried so many things, it may be that you were using some tactics that just set you up for failure. Or, if you're new to the weight loss or eating habit journey, then avoiding these 9 worst weight loss tactics will save you ti...

Are You Using Food as an Escape? 20.10.2022

Using food as an escape from discomfort is a very common "bad" eating habit. It easily becomes a habit because food not only provides a little bit of temporary pleasure, but it also helps you to not feel that negative emotion. But, that's only temporary and will just lead to an eating habit that may be contributing to weight gain, preventable disease, and even more negative things. I'm teaching wh...

Mindful Eating Even When You're Busy 13.10.2022

Being a busy career woman and mindful eating don't seem to mix all that well, however mindful eating doesn't have to take as much time as you might think. The benefits are pretty substantial too, especially if you're trying to form healthier eating habits. Research even shows that mindful eating tends more often than not to lead to weight loss, if that's one of your goals with changing your eating...

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