Emotional Eating Unwrapped

In this episode, Alana unpacks four ways even “healthy” diets can disconnect you from your body. She talks about how food rules, clean eating, wellness protocols, and constant planning can start to create stress around food, even when everything looks healthy from the outside. This episode is for the woman who eats clean, knows a lot about nutrition, and still feels anxious when life interrupts th...

In this episode, Alana unpacks what intuitive eating actually is, why it works for some women, and why it can completely backfire for others when the deeper foundation is not there yet. She explores how intuitive eating is often presented as the antidote to diet culture, but for women with a history of emotional eating, chronic dieting, disordered eating, or trauma around food and their bodies, “j...

In this episode, Alana breaks down three ways emotional overeating can disrupt hormone balance - and why it is not simply a willpower problem. She explains how eating in a stressed or dysregulated state can affect cortisol, insulin, hunger and fullness signals, and even estrogen and progesterone. This episode is for the woman trying to balance her hormones, lose weight sustainably, and stop feelin...

In this episode, Alana sits down with Anna Wolfe for a conversation about the overlap between sobriety, eating disorders, emotional eating, body image, intimacy, and relationships. Anna shares how food was the first thing she ever used to cope, how her relationship with food and alcohol became deeply intertwined, and how recovery changed far more than her behaviors. It changed how she related to h...

In this episode, Alana unpacks how modern conveniences - especially smartphones, food delivery apps, instant access, and constant stimulation - could be making emotional overeating more likely to show up in your daily life. She explores how boredom has been removed from daily life, how the gap between wanting something and getting it has closed and why that missing friction matters so much when it...

In this episode, Alana and Brittny unpack why food can feel so hard to manage when you are not physically hungry, but you are overwhelmed, bored, restless, or emotionally uncomfortable. They explore why eating can become fast relief, how food acts as a grounding tool for the nervous system, and why modern life makes it harder to sit with stillness without reaching for something. This is a compassi...

In this episode, Alana explores why meal plans can feel helpful at first - but often stop working just as quickly. She breaks down how meal plans offer short-term relief by reducing decision fatigue and creating a sense of control, while also showing how they can disconnect us from hunger, agency, and self-trust. This is a compassionate conversation for anyone stuck in the cycle of starting over,...

In this episode, Alana explores a question many women quietly carry but rarely say out loud: Can motherhood trigger emotional overeating? She breaks down why emotional eating in motherhood is often not about willpower or lack of discipline, but a response to identity loss, chronic overwhelm, guilt, loneliness, resentment, and a nervous system looking for relief. Alana unpacks how food can become a...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana breaks down one of the most confusing parts of healing your relationship with food: realizing that not every urge to eat is actually hunger. Sometimes it is hunger - but sometimes what feels like hunger is really a dopamine-driven urge for relief, stimulation, reward, or emotional change. She walks through four common thought...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana tackles a question that quietly haunts so many people: is it normal to always want food? She breaks down the difference between thinking about food and obsessing about food, and explains why the goal of healing is not to never think about food again - it’s to change your relationship to those thoughts so they no longer feel t...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana breaks down one of the most important distinctions behind emotional eating: the difference between satisfaction and stimulation. If you’ve ever eaten a full meal and still felt like something was missing, or found yourself continuing to eat even when you were already physically full, this episode explains why. This episode is...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana unpacks five subtle triggers behind compulsive eating - the kinds of moments that often go unnoticed because they look so normal on the surface. While many people assume compulsive eating is caused by obvious stress, conflict, or bad days, this episode explores the quieter patterns that can set the cycle in motion long before...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana explores the connection between emotional eating and how you show up in your relationships. What feels like a food issue is often a deeper pattern of overthinking, emotional depletion, and trying to find resolution. Through a real Q&A-style conversation, this episode breaks down why food gets louder after certain conversa...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana explores the often-overlooked connection between sobriety from alcohol and the sudden rise of food-related struggles that many people experience afterward. She explains why removing alcohol doesn’t eliminate the underlying need it was serving, and how the nervous system naturally searches for a new way to regulate when that c...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana explores the pattern she frequently sees in high-functioning women who appear capable, successful, and put together on the outside but feel disconnected from their bodies internally. She explains how constantly overriding physical and emotional signals like fatigue, stress, and hunger can quietly dysregulate the nervous syste...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana explores the often misunderstood cycle connecting body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and binge behavior. Many people understand parts of this pattern. They know restriction can lead to binging and that shame or body dissatisfaction often follows. They may even see how social media increases the pressure. Yet the cycle still...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana shares the three moments that changed her relationship with food. The shift did not come from more discipline or better rules. It came from recognizing that food was regulating emotions she did not yet know how to handle, learning she could feel an urge without automatically acting on it, and realizing that restriction can lo...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode, Alana explores what really changes when hunger gets quieter and why the deeper issue was never appetite, but regulation. She breaks down how lowering food noise can create relief without automatically building self trust. You may feel more control. You may eat less. But internally, something can still feel unsettled. She unpacks: •...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) Some days you are not hungry at all. You look up and it is 3pm and you realize you forgot to eat. Other days, it feels like you could eat all day and still think about food. And what makes it harder is the thought underneath it:Why can’t I just be consistent? In this Q and A episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped, Brittany and I answer real question...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) It usually doesn’t feel dramatic at first. You just notice you’re thinking about food more. Hunger feels sharper. Cravings feel louder, more urgent. And the part that’s hardest to name is the fear underneath it: Why does this feel so much harder right now when I didn’t change anything? In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped , Alana breaks do...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) At some point, usually after 35, your relationship with food may start to feel different. You’re not sick. You didn’t lose discipline all of a sudden. But your eating habits don't feel the same anymore. Today skipping meals leaves you feeling shaky. Eating less only makes the food noise louder. And the things that used to “work” now seem to bac...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) It usually happens the morning after. You wake up, catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, and something feels off. Your body feels heavier. Your face looks different. Your stomach feels full in a way that feels alarming. Before coffee. Before your day even starts. The panic is already there. In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped , Alana...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) There are certain foods that get blamed over and over again for weight gain. Not because they’re actually doing damage but because they’re easy to fear, easy to cut out, and easy to point to when something feels off. In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped , Alana breaks down the five foods most often accused of causing weight gain and why re...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped , Alana talks about what she wishes she had understood sooner about stomach pain and bloating after overeating and why trying to “fix” it with more control often makes it worse. Rather than focusing on the food or the urge, this conversation explores what your body actually goes through during and after...

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast) In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped , Alana explores why eating past full can quietly mess with your head, often more than binge eating ever did. She explains why eating past fullness feels so destabilizing, how it slowly erodes self-trust, and why stopping doesn’t always feel settling or safe. Through real-life examples and lived insight...