Eating Habits for Life

If you’ve ever thought “I’ll just go back to my old habits and weight,” this episode is for you. You put real effort into a plan, it went well for a while, and then life got busy and everything slipped, so now the idea of trying again feels like setting yourself up for the same disappointment.

I’m walking you through why your brain makes that prediction, what it’s actually trying to do for you, and the one shift that changes how you see the whole pattern. Then I’m giving you a simple exercise to help you start believing this time can be different.

In this episode:

• Why “I always go back” feels so true after past attempts
• What your brain is trying to protect you from
• Why the approach, not you, is what kept the changes from sticking
• A short exercise using your own strengths to build belief in yourself

This is the first episode in a short series on the thoughts that keep high-achieving women from the eating habits and weight they want.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

How do I stop eating for comfort? It’s one of the most common questions I get from high-achieving women, and it usually shows up after a rough day at work, at 8pm on the couch when you’re not hungry but the ice cream is calling, or right after a meeting that left you stressed and drained.

In this episode, I explain why emotional eating happens, why stress eating feels so automatic, and why fighting cravings with willpower stops working right when you need it most. I also share what does work to stop eating for comfort, and how one client’s stress, overwhelm, and anxiety dropped so much that she set a new career goal for herself.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What eating for comfort is, and why it’s the same thing as emotional eating
• Why the primitive part of your brain reaches for food when you feel an uncomfortable emotion
• Why willpower, portion control, and swapping food for scrolling, shopping, or alcohol don’t stop the habit
• How to break the habit of emotional eating without needing to be perfect
• The first step of a skill you can practice this week to stop eating for comfort

Who this episode is for: high-achieving, career-driven women who struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, overeating, mindless snacking, or cravings at night, and who are ready to lose weight without dieting or white-knuckling it.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

What if the reason weight loss feels so hard has less to do with your body or willpower, and more to do with 5 thoughts you keep telling yourself?

If you’re a high-achieving woman who can handle just about anything life throws at you but still struggles with emotional eating, overeating, cravings, or weight loss, this episode is for you.

When you’re successful everywhere else, it can be especially frustrating to feel stuck with food and your weight. You might even wonder what’s wrong with you.

Here’s what I want you to know: you don’t lack discipline. You may be caught in thought patterns that are making lasting weight loss harder than it needs to be.

In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I’m breaking down 5 common thoughts that can sabotage your weight loss efforts, fuel overeating, and keep you stuck in the cycle of dieting and starting over.

You’ll learn:

• Why perfectionism can make it harder to develop sustainable eating habits.
• How your approach to cravings may actually be making them stronger.
• The surprising way all-or-nothing thinking can turn one eating decision into an entire evening of overeating.
• Why past weight regain doesn’t mean you can’t lose weight and keep it off.
• What exhaustion and decision fatigue have to do with nighttime snacking and emotional eating.

I’ll also share the story of a busy business owner who lost 20 pounds while working with me, eating chocolate every day, and enjoying catered events and dinners out.

She eventually lost about 30 pounds, not by eating perfectly, but by changing her thoughts and addressing why she was eating in the first place.

If you’re tired of thinking about food all day, battling cravings, stress eating, or feeling guilty after overeating, you can learn to approach food differently.

Imagine feeling more confident in your body, trusting yourself around food, and losing weight without constantly starting over.

That’s the work we do inside Lighter, my one-on-one coaching program for women who want to change their eating habits at the root and build habits that support lasting weight loss.

Ready to feel more at peace with food and confident in your body? Book your free consult with me at katemjohnston.com/consult.

You don’t need to eat perfectly. You need a different pattern.

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You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way.

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

Ever feel like your eating habits don’t make sense, even when you’re doing everything “right”? Unresolved grief could be the missing piece.

This week, I’m joined by Dawn Michele Jackson, Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, to talk about the surprising link between grief and emotional eating.

Grief isn’t only about losing a loved one. Dawn shares the many ways it shows up in life, from divorce and other life and career changes, and why you may be carrying it without realizing it.

We dig into how grief affects your eating habits, why food becomes a way to cope, and why willpower can’t fix what’s really going on underneath.

You’ll also learn how to heal from grief in a way that leads to genuine peace and joy, rather than just “being strong” and burying it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The hidden ways grief shows up beyond the death of a loved one
• Why grief can drive emotional eating, stress eating, and overeating
• Why “being strong” keeps you stuck
• How to start healing grief so food stops being your comfort

Discover how Dawn can help you with grief:

Schedule a Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/dawnmichelejackson/30min

Website: https://www.dawnmichelejackson.com

Substack: https://substack.com/@dawnmichelejackson

Heart Healing Conversations Podcast: https://www.dawnmichelejackson.com/podcast

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

With Halloween just around the corner, comes tempting treats, sugar cravings, and overeating the Halloween candy. However, imagine that this Halloween is different and you're able to trust yourself around candy, enjoy a treat or two, and move on without food guilt.

In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm sharing how to stop overeating Halloween candy, particularly when it's in the house. I'm also sharing a couple of common strategies I see that fall a little short of being a true solution, and how to build in self-trust so you're not battling with willpower.

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

If you're tired of eating habits that only work while you're "being good," this episode is for you.

I'm sharing the 7 eating habits you can actually keep for life - the same ones I help my clients build in Lighter.

These are the habits behind clients who lost weight and kept it off for months and even years, through babies, breakups, and stressful seasons.

You'll walk away knowing exactly what makes an eating habit sustainable so food and weight can finally stop taking up so much space in your head.

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

Feeling like your work stress or overwhelm keeps affecting your eating and don't know what to do about it?

In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm breaking down the 3 stress eating patterns I see most often in high-achieving women, so you can spot exactly which one is running the show for you.

I'm also sharing some of my methodology for how I help my clients still have healthy eating habits despite the stress and overwhelm in their lives.

Then I'm giving you 3 quick wins you can use starting today, even in the middle of your most overwhelming week at work.

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You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way.

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

🍪Get the Free Class

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

If you've ever caught yourself craving salty snacks, sneaking bites off your kid's dinner plate , or reaching for ice cream the second the house finally goes quiet, this episode exlains exactly why.

I break down what's actually happening in your brain when chaos hits at home and food becomes the thing you reach for. Whether that's toddlers melting down, a mess in the house, or kids or pets demanding your attention.

You'll hear a real client story that probably sounds familiar, plus a reflective question to help you spot your own underlying reason for these eating habits, this week.

By the end you'll understand why your eating patterns when you come home to chaos aren't about willpower, food, or you as a person, but instead something else entirely.

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

If you've lost the same 10 or 15 pounds more than once, or you're stuck in a cycle of struggling to feel in control around food, there's a reason it keeps happening, and it's not what you think.

I break down what's actually going on in your head that keeps you looping on food and weight, even when you're doing all the right things.

I share a client story with two specific shifts that finally broke her stress eating and her identity as an overeater.

And I give you one simple action to start today, so you can catch the pattern before it turns into eating.

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Tired of struggling with this on your own?

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

She pushed her plate away, boxed up the rest, and walked out of the restaurant without a second thought, and it had nothing to do with willpower.

In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I break down the one automatic thought that keeps so many high-achieving women eating past full every time they go out to eat.

You'll hear exactly how one of my clients caught that thought and flipped it, and why it changed everything about how she eats out now, and broke her overeating habit.

Stick around for a powerful mindset shift you can use today or this week, that makes stopping at enough so much easier.

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Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.

Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.

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✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....

By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.

Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.

You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.

I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.

Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]

*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.