Truce with Food with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC

In today’s episode, I sit down with friend and colleague Kevin Geary from the Rebooted Body to get his take on consistency. You’ll discover: Why Kevin doesn’t believe in long-term goals and only to focus on the short term. The three manipulators that cause inconsistency The inner personas that block us from being in touch with our authentic self, sets us up for unhealthy habits. And I bring up an...

Agency is a word rarely associated with weight loss and healthy eating. Yet it’s a root cause of emotional eating and bingeing. In this episode, Ali shares: What agency is and why it’s critical to weight loss and health How the degree of agency we have determines if we overeat or full out binge Coaches Insatiable listener Stephanie Cahill on where she’s lacking agency today and beginning steps to...

If you haven’t already you are going to be bombarded by cleanses, powders, pills and juices galore! Spring is in the air and people want to shed the winter weight, but do these detoxes even work? We find that they set you up for failure and can make you feel even worse, both physically and emotionally. We want to share ways that you can shed that winter stagnation that is both gentle and super eff...

We meet up with Linda to hear what’s happened since her last Insatiable visit. Has she kept her weight off? Has she dropped more? Spoiler alert: Linda’s food and life are better! We discuss how diets underestimate you, what you miss out on with diets like Weight Watchers and how she reacts to “falling off” now.  This episode will inspire you to bet on yourself.

Katie Hess is a flower alchemist and the founder of LOTUSWEI, one of the world’s leading floral apothecaries. After 15 years of independent research of flower and plant-based healing, her flower-powered community is thriving in over 15 countries. She instigates a revolution with the premise that you transform the world by transforming yourself (with a little help from flowers!). Katie travels worl...

Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project has identified 2 eating types: The abstainer and the moderator. We wanted to shed some light on how these two personality types are only one way of looking at someone’s often very complicated relationship with food. In this episode we share where we agree and disagree with these two distinct categories.

You eat clean, you eat garbage....it’s a cycle you can’t seem to break. Why are you able to be so in control at certain times in your life and others you just fall apart? The answers are awaiting you in this episode. Discover the core of what it takes to be consistent and no matter what roadblocks come your way, you have the personal power to run them over, rather than let them run you.

Emily McDowell, the creator of Empathy Cards and a cancer survivorherself, has been disrupting the stationery industry since 2013 with her “greeting cards for the relationships we actually have.” She has appeared on Good Morning America, NPR, NBC, and CBC News, and has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Women’s Health, Business Insider, and many more. When a friend loses their job, a...

Do protein powders actually work or even apply to most people? Or are they only for meat heads in the gym? This episode will tell you who will benefit from protein powder, how to figure out the best quality to buy and the 3 questions you don’t even know to ask to get the most bang for your body and buck.

Do you find that certain foods are a gateway for you? You can’t just have one? Why are there certain foods that trigger us? And they are never carrots and green smoothies. In today’s episode we talk about the key questions to ask yourself that will enable you to finally be around your trigger foods and not eat them. There is a physical and emotional component that we have to take into account and...

Justine Musk is a writer of fiction + nonfiction, a speaker of two TEDx talks and a divorced feminist mother of 5 boys (who are awesome). Her work has been published by Penguin, Simon + Schuster and Marie Claire, among others; an answer she wrote about self-made billionaires onquora.com went viral and received attention in the New York Times. She blogs at www.justinemusk.com about how we can learn...

Sas has a Masters degree in Coaching & Mentoring from Oxford Brookes, and is a Certified Dr. Martha Beck Life Coach. She has also been coaching women leaders for the past 6 years in adaptive challenges. Find out why it’s great news that you only made it to day 9 of your Whole30 cleanse or your resolutions have already gone to shit. It turns out even though you think weight watchers, whole 30 o...

We have to start getting out of the cycle of exercise as punishment, eat as a reward. Our body image depends on it. What if we told you there is a way to cultivate inner strength, which then is reflected back to you in what you see in the mirror? Many of us have tricky and unhealthy relationships to working out, causing more harm than good in the long run. In this episode we discuss cultivating a...

Fat is not your enemy, this is a very outdated message that we are hanging on to and at our detriment. Even if you think you are getting enough healthy fat, most people are not. Fat supports your brain, hormonal system and helps you to lose body fat! In today’s episode we will teach you how much is enough and how to easily get fat into your diet, even when on the go.

Jacquette Timmons is a financial behaviorist who works with everyone from the middle class to the 1% - helping them manage their choices around money. Most of her clients currently have or desire to have an entrepreneurial stream of income. In particular, she integrates financial and behavioral analysis to help them blend the emotions of money with the math of money, let go of their money "ba...

2016, that’s a wrap! We couldn’t be more thrilled with where this show has taken us this past year. In this episode we reveal the top 5 episodes, based on listener downloads, updating you on what we’ve learned since those episodes aired and revealing what’s in store for the year 2017.

Selling women empowerment and a certain lifestyle associated with “girl power” appears well meaning, but it’s a tricky business. It turns out you can’t buy empowerment. And selling a “lifestyle” often means making you feel even worse about your imperfect body and lack of time and money. In this episode with Kelly Diels, an expert on the female lifestyle empowerment brand, learn to be more discerni...

Maria Emmerich is a wellness expert in nutrition and exercise physiology. She's the author of Keto-adapted, your guide to accelerated weight loss and healing. She's also the author of the “The ketogenic Cookbook“ as well as 8 other books. She has a passion for helping people start a healthier lifestyle. Weight loss is often a side effect of helping treat any number of problems including...

Figure out the importance of yin (the feminine) and yang (the masculine) and how everything in your life is always trying to find a state of equilibrium. People, places, and foods all have energetic qualities that directly affect how you feel, what cravings you experience and how you react to the world. Trying to find a balance doesn’t necessarily work, so let’s talk about what does.

We all need to learn to breathe in the good shit and exhale the bullshit and typically meditation is the conventional way to let go of the stress in our lives. However there are many ways we can get the benefits of meditation without sitting still and closing our eyes. In today’s episode we are here to offer up unexpected forms of relaxation and depending on what kind of constitution you have, cer...

People often say they feel blocked or stuck with heavy emotions and food, booze and bad tv are the only choice they have to cope. In this episode, we will talk about how to stop anesthetizing you feelings and face them head on in a way that is empowering and not scary.

Today we talk to Jolene Hart about her latest book and her own story as a top beauty editor for InStyle Magazine. Despite having access to every beauty opportunity, she struggled with painful cystic acne and inflammatory blemishes that covered her whole face and left her feeling like a fraud in her own industry. In this episode Jolene explains how she was able to clear her acne naturally and how b...

Conventional wisdom tells you to visualize success in order to achieve a goal, but in this episode we will reveal a better technique that’s more effective than just positive thinking. How can you gracefully get on the same page with your hosts and hostesses when it comes to wanting to eat healthy at a holiday gathering?and lastly what to measure so you can eliminate your guilt from over indulging...

What is Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine?  How can this 5000 plus year old form of medicine support your hormones, stress, and immunity? We had the amazing Kara dive into the details for us and it went beyond our expectations. Ali and I always joke that Kara is a medicine woman, witch doctor or I even say Jesus, jokingly, but something about what she does is miraculous, although she’ll...