In this episode, Nic discusses the five secret signs that indicate a troubled relationship with food and body image. Through real-life examples, she highlights the struggles many women face, such as the Groundhog Day cycle of dieting, the secret double life of binge eating, and the mental calorie counting that detracts from enjoying food.

Each red flag serves as a signal for the need for support and healing. Nic emphasizes the importance of community and self-compassion in overcoming these challenges and invites listeners to join her program, 'Break Up with Binge Eating.'

ENROL: https://www.bingefreebestie.com/bubwe-doors-open

Takeaways

• Recognizing red flags in your relationship with food is crucial.
• The Groundhog Day cycle indicates a need for change.
• Secrecy around eating habits can lead to shame.
• Mindful eating can help reclaim joy in food.
• Body image issues often stem from diet culture.
• Expert knowledge doesn't equate to personal success in dieting.
• Community support is vital for healing.
• Self-compassion is key to overcoming binge eating.
• You can enjoy food without guilt or mental math.
• Transformation is possible with the right support.

In this episode of Binge Free Bestie, Nic discusses the complex relationship between food freedom and weight loss goals. She addresses common fears about intuitive eating leading to weight gain and explains why traditional diets often fail. Nicole emphasizes the importance of healing one's relationship with food and how it can coexist with health and weight loss aspirations.

She introduces her group coaching program, The Break Up, designed to help individuals break free from the binge-restrict cycle and achieve lasting change without the constraints of dieting.

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

In this special bonus episode in collaboration with the Studio Chat Podcast, I am sitting down with my friend and follow therapist Barb to talk about healing your relationship with food and breaking free from binge eating.

I share my personal journey from restrictive dieting and binge eating to achieving true food freedom-without guilt, shame, or diet culture. And Barb shares her experiences in the health and fitness industry and how this led to her struggles with food and body image.

Barb and I dive into:

✨ How to start shifting away from food guilt and restriction
✨ Practical tools for emotional regulation and self-compassion
✨ The power of community in recovery

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

📍 Follow Barbara & the Podcast:
🎙 @studiochatpodcast
💆‍♀️ @self_care_studio

https://selfcarebybarbarathompson.com.au

Don’t forget to rate & review if this episode resonated with you! 💜

Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz about GLP-1 medication like Ozempic, Saxenda & Wegovy, and how they help quiet food noise. But what happens when you stop taking them? Will the food chatter come back? What about weight loss surgery—does it fix binge eating for good?

In this episode, I’m diving deep into the truth about food noise, binge eating, and why quick fixes won’t heal your relationship with food (but mindset work will!).

If you’ve ever wondered:

💭 Why do I think about food ALL the time?
💭 Will weight loss finally make food obsession go away?
💭 What if I stop my injections—will I gain all the weight back?
💭 How do I actually heal my relationship with food for good?

… then this episode is for you.

I’ll share my personal journey with weight loss surgery, my thoughts on GLP-1s, and the two biggest things you can do right now to start reducing food noise—without relying on restriction.

🎧 Hit play to learn how to quiet the food chatter and step into true food freedom!

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break Up My 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

Have you ever felt like your body size makes you unworthy of love? Do you fear that your partner will leave if your body changes? You’re not alone.

In this deeply personal episode, I unpack where these fears come from, how diet culture conditions us to believe love is conditional on our weight, and how to challenge these thoughts with self-compassion. I also share my own experiences—both in past relationships where I felt unworthy and in my marriage now, where my husband supports me through bad body image days (but ultimately, healing my body image is my responsibility).

You’ll learn:

💡 Why society makes us feel like love has a weight limit.

💡 What to do when you fear your partner will stop loving you if your body changes.

💡 Self-compassion exercises for when you feel "too big" to be loved.

💡 The biggest mindset shifts that help you break free from these fears.

You are not unlovable. You are not "too much." Your body does not determine your worth. Tune in now and let’s rewrite the script. 💜

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break Up My 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

Why Can’t I Stop Eating Chips / Peanut Butter / Chocolate!?

Breaking Free from 'Trigger' Foods

Have you ever caught yourself Googling, Why can’t I stop eating chips? Why do I always overeat cereal? Why do I lose control around bread?

If so, you’re not alone—and this episode is for you.

In today’s episode of Binge-Free Bestie, we’re diving into:

✔️ Why certain foods feel impossible to control yourself around

✔️ The surprising reason why you’re not actually addicted to food

✔️ How restriction and food guilt make cravings worse

✔️ The exact steps to break free from this cycle so you can eat without fear

I share my own personal experience of feeling completely out of control around chips-how I couldn’t stop eating them at parties, how I bought them every day when I moved out, and how I finally stopped feeling powerless around them. Spoiler: It wasn’t about willpower-it was about giving myself permission.

💡 If you’re tired of feeling stuck in this cycle, tune in now!

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

Exercise shouldn’t feel like a punishment. In today’s episode, I’m diving into my journey of breaking free from diet culture’s grip on movement and how I finally found ways to move my body with joy—not guilt. If you’ve ever struggled with an all-or-nothing mindset around exercise, hated working out, or felt stuck in toxic fitness culture, this episode is for you!

In this episode, I cover:

✨ How diet culture ruined my relationship with exercise

✨ My shift from punishment to joyful movement

✨ The biggest myths about exercise we need to unlearn

✨ Practical steps to start moving in a way that feels good

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

I thought surgery would be the answer. I thought losing weight would fix everything. But no one told me that weight loss surgery doesn’t heal binge eating- for me, it actually made it worse.

If you’ve ever believed that weight loss was the key to happiness, or if you’ve considered (or already had) weight loss surgery and still feel stuck in the cycle of binge eating, this episode is for you.

In this raw and honest episode, I’m sharing the real truth about my gastric sleeve surgery—what I expected, what actually happened, and the biggest lessons I learned when I realized shrinking my body didn’t fix my struggles with food.

I break down:

✔️ What my life looked like before surgery—endless diets, food obsession, and feeling out of control.

✔️ The initial high of rapid weight loss—and why I thought I had “fixed” my eating.

✔️ The moment I realized I was still binge eating—even with a tiny stomach.

✔️ The truth about weight loss surgery and binge eating recovery (the part no one warns you about).

✔️ The steps I actually took to heal—beyond just losing weight.

💜 If you’re feeling stuck, if you’re tired of chasing the next weight loss solution, or if you just want to know how to finally feel at peace with food, this episode is a must-listen.

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

Ever found yourself eating past fullness—even when you know you’re stuffed? You’re not alone, and it’s NOT just about willpower. There are deeper reasons why this happens, and in today’s episode, I’m breaking it all down.

💡 In this episode, we’ll cover:
✅ Why dieting and restriction actually make you overeat
✅ How physical and mental restriction keep you stuck
✅ The role of emotional eating—and what to do instead
✅ Practical strategies to stop eating past fullness without guilt or restriction

If you’re tired of feeling out of control around food, this episode is for you.

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie

Ever feel like food is taking over your brain? 🍕🍩🍔 Whether it’s obsessing over what you should eat, feeling guilty about what you did eat, or constantly craving the foods you’ve told yourself you can’t have—it’s exhausting.

But here’s the truth: food noise isn’t about willpower. It’s a direct response to restriction, diet culture, and the binge-restrict cycle. In this episode, we’re breaking down:

✅ Why food thoughts take up so much space in your brain
✅ How restriction (both physical and mental) fuels food obsession
✅ Practical steps to finally quiet the food noise

✨ Links & Resources

🆓 Free Guide: The Emotional Eater’s FixYour first step to understanding why you emotionally eat — and what to do instead.👉 Download it here

💥 Join The Break UpMy 8-week online course to stop binge and emotional eating, heal your nervous system, and build body trust — for good.Includes lifetime access + over $1500 in bonuses.👉 Enrol here

📲 Follow me on InstagramFor daily support, education, and anti-diet truth bombs.👉 @bingefree.bestie