December 31, 2025

The Truth About Binge Eating with Jenny Eden Berk

44 minutes

Do you think diets work? Think willpower is the problem? Think again.

Jenny Eden Berk spent 13 years teaching structured low-calorie diets—and watched people gain the weight back every single time. As a binge and emotional eating coach and culinary nutritionist, she discovered what meal replacements and restrictions couldn't fix: your body rebels when it doesn't feel safe.

In this episode, Jenny shares how mindful eating changed everything—from breaking up with Wheat Thins to craving broccoli, and why eating slowly revealed that the foods she thought she loved were actually filled with chemicals. If you've ever eaten an entire sleeve of crackers without tasting them, felt out of control around food, or believed you needed more willpower, this conversation will shift everything you thought you knew about eating.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Why chronic dieting puts your body in constant fight-or-flight mode
The scarcity mindset that makes your body hold onto fat
How to use your five senses to eat mindfully and feel satisfied faster
Sensory-specific satiety: why that first bite of chocolate is always the best
Getting out of your head and into your body with vagal tone exercises
Planning meals without obsessing: the green/orange/red day system
Sleep, hunger hormones, and why you feel like you have a tapeworm
Celebrating small wins to build actual motivation

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Want to learn more about Jenny’s work? Visit her website at www.jennyedenberk.com

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BEST MOMENTS:

"When you can have that sort of allyship with your body in a different way and start to listen to it deeper and start to respect your body and to really listen, to understand what it wants and needs, you might be really surprised."

"Small wins turn into big wins. And if you are acknowledging them, you're much more likely to continue to do them. It actually creates momentum."

"Don't forget that we also internalize a lot of critical voices from the past and from media and from other influences. If you can turn that on its head and welcome in this nicer voice, this gentler voice, this voice that's more supportive, then you're going to call it more often."

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