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Episode Summary
In this bite-sized episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher introduces the idea of eating systems, the quiet, often invisible forces that shape our food behaviours and keep women stuck in the cycle of weight loss and regain.
If you’ve ever thrown yourself into a diet, followed all the rules, seen some progress only to watch the weight creep back on, this episode will help you understand why. It’s not about willpower. It’s not about motivation. It’s about the personal, complex eating system that lives beneath the surface of every food choice you make.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- What an eating system really is, and why it matters more than any food plan
- How simple food rules like “finish everything on your plate” can evolve into complex, emotional eating patterns
- The difference between eating for relief vs. eating for hunger
- Two key signs that your eating system is driving your weight
- Why diets fail, not because you’re doing it wrong, but because they ignore the system that’s already running your eating
- How systems thinking offers a new pathway to long-term change
Key Takeaways:
Everyone has an eating system. It’s shaped by childhood experiences, role models, and family rules and most of it operates below the level of conscious awareness.
You can’t override a system with willpower. Diets and food plans only work when they align with your system, and most don’t.
Eating systems aren’t broken. They’re intelligent. They were built to keep you safe, even if they no longer serve your goals.
Understanding your system is the first step. When you see how it works, you can finally stop fighting it and start changing it.
Who This Episode is For:
- Women who are stuck in the cycle of weight loss and regain
- Anyone who’s followed diet after diet without lasting results
- Listeners curious about the deeper reasons behind their food patterns
- Health-conscious, capable women who know something’s not adding up, but don’t know what’s missing
Coming Up Next…
Join me in Episode 2 when I'll talk with my friend Lisa to explore appetite, hunger, and hungering, and how eating systems respond to each in very different ways. This eye-opening conversation will help you decode your body’s signals and make sense of the urges you often feel around food.
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Enjoying the podcast?
- Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.
- Share it with a friend who’s stuck on the dieting roller coaster, it might be exactly what they’ve been looking for.
For more resources, visit:
WeightingForHappiness
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By Bronwyn FletcherEpisode Summary
In this bite-sized episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher introduces the idea of eating systems, the quiet, often invisible forces that shape our food behaviours and keep women stuck in the cycle of weight loss and regain.
If you’ve ever thrown yourself into a diet, followed all the rules, seen some progress only to watch the weight creep back on, this episode will help you understand why. It’s not about willpower. It’s not about motivation. It’s about the personal, complex eating system that lives beneath the surface of every food choice you make.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- What an eating system really is, and why it matters more than any food plan
- How simple food rules like “finish everything on your plate” can evolve into complex, emotional eating patterns
- The difference between eating for relief vs. eating for hunger
- Two key signs that your eating system is driving your weight
- Why diets fail, not because you’re doing it wrong, but because they ignore the system that’s already running your eating
- How systems thinking offers a new pathway to long-term change
Key Takeaways:
Everyone has an eating system. It’s shaped by childhood experiences, role models, and family rules and most of it operates below the level of conscious awareness.
You can’t override a system with willpower. Diets and food plans only work when they align with your system, and most don’t.
Eating systems aren’t broken. They’re intelligent. They were built to keep you safe, even if they no longer serve your goals.
Understanding your system is the first step. When you see how it works, you can finally stop fighting it and start changing it.
Who This Episode is For:
- Women who are stuck in the cycle of weight loss and regain
- Anyone who’s followed diet after diet without lasting results
- Listeners curious about the deeper reasons behind their food patterns
- Health-conscious, capable women who know something’s not adding up, but don’t know what’s missing
Coming Up Next…
Join me in Episode 2 when I'll talk with my friend Lisa to explore appetite, hunger, and hungering, and how eating systems respond to each in very different ways. This eye-opening conversation will help you decode your body’s signals and make sense of the urges you often feel around food.
Subscribe & Share
Enjoying the podcast?
- Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.
- Share it with a friend who’s stuck on the dieting roller coaster, it might be exactly what they’ve been looking for.
For more resources, visit:
WeightingForHappiness