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 backfire.

In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped, Alana explains why eating feels harder after 35 and why that isn’t a failure.

She walks through the real reasons food feels different now: why skipping meals creates urgency, why extreme diets stop working, and why cravings get louder when life gets heavier.

This conversation isn’t about going back to how you used to eat.It’s about understanding what your body is asking for now and why more rules, restriction, or intensity are no longer the answer after age 35.

If you’ve felt confused, frustrated, or  worried that something is “wrong,” this episode brings clarity and relief.

For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method

The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

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A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle  Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now, not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

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Takeaways

• Eating feels different after 35 not because something is wrong, but because the body has less tolerance for inconsistency.Skipping meals and eating less don’t create control anymore  they create urgency and louder food thoughts.

• Emotional eating isn’t a failure of discipline; it’s a response to fatigue, responsibility, and a full life.

• Cravings and food noise are signals asking for steadiness, not stricter rules. Extreme diets stop working when the body prioritizes predictability over intensity.

• Consistent, boring, regular eating becomes calming at this stage  and calm is what the body responds to.

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 unpacks one of the most common fears women carry :Did one day of overeating just undo everything?

She explains why one day of eating more does not cause real weight gain and why it can still feel so destabilizing when it happens. This conversation breaks down the three real reasons overeating feels scary, why the fear isn’t actually about calories or food, and what the body is really reacting to in those moments.

If you’ve ever woken up after overeating feeling like you “lost something” about yourself, this episode puts language to that experience.

Leave us a voice message for our next Q&A episode!

For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating® Sequence

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle  Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body nownot just after weight loss. → Enroll here

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What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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Takeaways

• One day of overeating doesn’t cause weight gain, the spiral that often follows is what changes the body over time.

• The fear after overeating isn’t about food or calories; it’s about what the body expects you to do next.

• Discomfort in the body doesn’t mean damage, it usually means the body is adjusting.

• Weight shifts come from instability, restriction, and punishment, not from a single eating day.

• Trust isn’t built by never overeating; it’s built by responding without urgency, control, or backlash.

• Calm, normal eating after overeating matters more than trying to “fix” the moment.

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 removing them has rarely brought the relief women are hoping for.

She explains what’s actually happening when foods like bread, dessert, pasta, cheese, and snacks feel “out of control,” and why the problem isn’t the food itself, but the state your body is in when you eat it.

This conversation isn’t about convincing you that these foods are “fine.”It’s about understanding why they became charged in the first place and how to relate to them without fear, urgency, or backlash.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to earn, restrict, or manage these foods to stay in control, this episode offers a different way to see what’s really driving the pattern.

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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method

The Sober Eating® Sequence

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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Takeaways

• These foods get blamed because they’re easy targets, not because they cause weight gain.

• The body responds more to fear and deprivation than to specific ingredients.

• Pleasure doesn’t lead to weight gain — unpredictability does.

• Eating foods late or after restriction changes how the body experiences them.

• Consistency and safety matter more than cutting foods out.

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 an overeating episode. Why digestion struggles when your system is still tense. How shame and self-criticism prolong physical discomfort. And why bloating is often a sign of overwhelm, not weakness.

You’ll hear why the fastest path to relief isn’t stricter rules, compensating behaviors, or pushing your body harder but changing how you respond in the moments after eating.

If you’ve ever treated bloating as proof that you did something wrong, this episode offers a different way to understand what’s happening and how to help your body settle instead of bracing against it.

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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method

The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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Takeaways

• Overeating impacts your nervous system, not just digestion.

• Bloating often lingers because your body never fully settled after the episode.

• Self-criticism adds stress that your body has to process physically.

• Trying to compensate sends the message that something is still wrong.

• Relief often comes from how you respond after overeating, not from fixing the food.

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, Alana breaks down what’s actually happening in the moments when you keep eating even though your body is already satisfied.

This conversation reframes eating past full as a protective response, not a lack of control. You’ll hear why fullness can feel exposed, why silence after eating is often the real trigger, and how food becomes a way to delay what comes next when the day finally slows down.

Rather than focusing on willpower or awareness, this episode invites you to understand the function of the behavior and why responding with curiosity instead of self-judgment is what actually changes the pattern.

Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as [email protected]!

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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method

The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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TAKEAWAYS

• Eating past full often creates more self-doubt than binge eating because it feels subtle and confusing.

• Fullness can feel unsafe when food has been your main source of grounding or certainty.

• Many people keep eating not for hunger, but to delay the end of the experience.

• The silence after eating is often the real trigger — not the food itself.

• Awareness alone doesn’t stop behavior; safety and capacity do.

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast)

In this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped, Alana explores why overeating and hunger shifts are rarely random — even when they feel chaotic.

She unpacks how eating behaviors show up in very specific emotional and physiological moments, especially after long periods of self-management, containment, and holding it together. Through lived insight and real-world examples, Alana explains why your body can experience stress even when you don’t consciously feel overwhelmed — and why food so often becomes the place where that tension finally releases.

This conversation reframes overeating, night eating, and fluctuating hunger as communication rather than failure. You’ll hear why these patterns aren’t about discipline or rebellion, but about safety, autonomy, and relief — and how understanding the moment underneath the behavior can change your relationship with food without tightening control.

Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as [email protected]!

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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get

StartedInvisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method

The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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Takeaways

• Overeating isn’t random, it shows up in specific moments when your body is trying to solve something.

• Your body can experience stress even when your mind feels “fine.”

• Hunger and eating often intensify when you finally stop managing yourself.

• Emotional hunger isn’t about food; it’s about relief and autonomy.

When you stop panicking about eating, the behavior loses its charge.

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast)

In this episode, Alana explores why hunger can change from week to week — and why those shifts are often misinterpreted as a loss of control.

She breaks down three key reasons appetite can suddenly feel louder, including stress, emotional load, sleep, hormones, and what happens when you start reconnecting with your body after years of restriction or fear around hunger. Drawing from her own experience and years of clinical work, Alana explains how diet culture teaches us to mistrust hunger — and why that mistrust creates more chaos, not less.

This conversation unpacks the difference between physical hunger, emotional hunger, and relief-seeking, and why increased hunger is often a sign of reconnection rather than regression.

Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as [email protected]!

Leave us a voice message for our next Q&A episode!

For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method

The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

Explore more from Be Well by AK

Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram @bewellbyak.

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Takeaways

• Hunger changing week to week isn’t a loss of control — it’s your body responding to your life.

• Increased hunger often shows up when you stop ignoring your body, not when you’re doing something wrong.

• Emotional hunger isn’t about food; it’s about relief after holding it together for too long.

• Panicking about hunger creates more chaos than hunger itself.

• When you respond with curiosity instead of fear, eating becomes steadier and less extreme.

Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast)

In this Q&A episode, Alana answers the five most common questions she hears about overeating, especially from women who feel composed on the outside but struggle quietly with food, control, and guilt.

The questions include:

• How do I stop overeating at night?

• Why do I eat past full even when I know better?

• Is one day of overeating going to make me gain weight?

• Why am I craving food even when I’m not hungry?

• How do I stop feeling guilty after I overeat?
  

Rather than offering tips or rules, Alana explores what’s really happening underneath these patterns — the role of nighttime, pressure, perfectionism, food noise, and the way guilt tends to follow high expectations.

Through personal reflection and lived clinical insight, this episode helps listeners understand why knowing more doesn’t change behavior, why overeating isn’t a personal failure, and how food often becomes the place we go when the day finally slows down.

This conversation is for the woman who isn’t trying to fix herself — she just wants to understand why this keeps happening, and what begins to shift when she stops making food the problem.

Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as [email protected]!

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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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In this week’s episode, Alana explores the emerging science behind “food noise,” drawing from a recent review article in Nutrition & Diabetes that defines food noise as persistent, intrusive food thoughts perceived as unwanted or distressing.

Alana reflects on how this new clinical definition helps women understand the mental load behind constant food thoughts, the checking, planning, negotiating, and self-questioning that can quietly run all day.

She breaks down what researchers are now identifying as key features of food noise, cognitive burden, persistence, dysphoria, and self-stigma and discusses why so many high-achieving women mistake these patterns for a willpower problem when they’re actually part of the body’s alert system.

This episode invites listeners into a calmer, more nuanced way of interpreting their inner chatter around food, not as failure, but as information.

[Click Here To See Food Noise Article]

Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as [email protected]!

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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started

Invisible Weight Detox

An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here

For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™

The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here

GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA

Elite VIP

A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here

Concierge

For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here

A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey

Coming Home to Your Body

A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here

Free Quiz:

What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz

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Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram @bewellbyak.

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Takeaways

• Food can feel like a reliable friend during emotional highs and lows.

• Building a compassionate, consistent relationship with yourself is the foundation of true healing.

• Emotional overeating isn’t about willpower — it’s about unmet needs for safety and support.

• Your inner ally helps you pause and make intentional, self-honoring choices.

• The higher self is not perfection — it’s maturity, discernment, and calm.

There’s a moment in every woman’s journey where the old way stops making sense.

For Jamille, that moment didn’t look dramatic. It was quiet — a piece of cake she couldn’t bring herself to eat halfway, the panic of a closed restaurant, the feeling that food had more authority over her life than she did.

In today’s episode, she shares how she went from a childhood shaped by shaming comments — “suck in your belly… no man will want you” — to decades of bingeing, punishing diets, secret spirals, and a belief that she would always live this way.

Her story is not just about the 99 pounds she lost — it’s about the woman she became in the process. A woman who no longer fears buffets, who can leave candy in the house without losing herself to it , who wakes up before dawn to meet her own life on purpose rather than in reaction 

We talk about the slow, steady rewiring that happens when you stop performing control and start practicing presence — the tiny shifts that build into a kind of inner maturity you can feel in your posture, your choices, your quiet moments.

If you’ve ever wondered whether long-term patterns can truly change, this conversation is proof that they can — and that the change begins long before the weight comes off.

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