Chatting with Cara

About Chatting with Cara

A podcast for women stuck in the diet cycle, emotional eating and the 'I'll start Monday' patten. If you eat when stressed, overwhelmed or bored and feel guilty every time this show is for you. We talk about food freedom, breaking self-sabotage, and building a sustainable relationship with food without another diet." Find me here - Facebook - Coaching with Cara Instrgram - @coachingwcara Email - cara@coachingwithcara.co.uk If you would like to enquire about my 1-1 coaching then please book yourself a free consultation call in here - https://calendly.com/coachingwcara/call-with-cara

Publisher

Cara Meehan - The Mindful Eating Coach

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Nov 2023

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

116 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Organic, grass-fed, sustainable... What do food labels actually mean? With Professor Nicola Randall

   Ever stood in the supermarket staring at a label wondering what "sustainable" really means? In this episode of Chatting with Cara, I sit down with Professor Nicola Randall, an evidence-based agriculture and agroecology expert, to unpick what's really behind the labels on our food, and how it connects to a healthier relationship with food. We talk about organic rules, grass-fed marketing, palm oil, ultra-processed food stigma, and why "good choices made consistently" matters more than chasing perfection. If you want sustainable eating habits without the overwhelm, this one's for you. In this episode I talk about - What "sustainable" actually means (and why it's not one thing). Nicola breaks sustainability down into three strands, economic, environmental and social and explains why a label saying "sustainable" often has no legal definition behind it at all. The difference between legally regulated labels and marketing terms. Organic has to meet strict legal standards (at least 95% organic ingredients, no synthetic fertilisers or pesticides, no GMOs). Terms like "grass-fed" and "regenerative," on the other hand, are far more loosely defined and open to marketing spin. What certification schemes like Red Tractor and RSPCA Assured actually check. They're not all measuring the same thing, one might be about traceability and British provenance, another about animal welfare specifically. Neither guarantees the lowest carbon footprint. Why demonising ultra-processed food misses the bigger picture. We talk honestly about the socio-economic reality that whole-food, "perfect" eating isn't accessible to everyone, and why shaming people for their food choices only adds more stigma to an already loaded topic. The uncomfortable trade-offs consumers face. You often can't have local AND fair trade AND organic AND affordable all at once. Nicola's take: it's about awareness of what matters most to you, not chasing an impossible ideal. What the future of food might look like. Climate impacts, extreme weather, and global political uncertainty are already changing what farmers can grow and what ends up on our shelves, alongside genuinely exciting developments like urban farming. So next time you're standing in the supermarket aisle feeling overwhelmed by labels, remember: you don't need to know everything. Just get clear on what matters most to you, and let that guide good choices made consistently. Connect with Cara - Thanks for joining me today on Chatting with Cara. I hope today's conversation gave you some food for thought! If you're looking to transform this area of your life I'd love to support you, please get in touch with me using the links below. Email - cara@coachingwithcara.co.uk Website - www.coachingwithcara.co.uk (http://www.coachingwithcara.co.uk) Facebook - Coaching with Cara Instagram - @coachingwcara Ready to explore how we can work together? Book a FREE no-obligation consultation call to discover what's possible. Book your call here. (https://calendly.com/coachingwcara/call-with-cara) Until next time, keep chatting!

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   GLP-1 drugs, food noise and your relationship with food

   Are GLP-1 drugs actually improving your relationship with food, or just quietening it? In this episode of Chatting with Cara, I'm talking honestly about GLP-1 drugs, food noise, and why appetite suppression isn't the same as food freedom. In this episode I talk about - My stance on GLP-1 drugs. No judgement as always as my firmly believe you have full autonomy over your own body. What food noise actually is. The constant background chatter about food, thinking about it, planning it, being preoccupied by it and why it's become such a big part of the national conversation since Oprah spoke about it. Two real conversations that inspired this episode. One person feeling brilliant with less food noise a few months into treatment, another who'd regained a stone from "not listening to their body" and what that tells us. The honeymoon period. Why an improved relationship with food in the first few months on GLP-1 drugs needs unpicking, is it less urge to eat, less guilt after eating, or something else entirely? Why appetite suppression isn't food freedom. The mindset work, identity work, and food noise work that still needs doing because when the drugs are reduced or stopped, that's where sustainability is. What I actually work on with clients on GLP-1s. Language around food (yes, we're removing "cheat meal"), identity shifts as your body changes, hunger and fullness cues, and unpicking things like takeaway habits, no judgement, just curiosity. Connect with Cara - Thanks for joining me today on Chatting with Cara. I hope today's conversation gave you some food for thought! If you're looking to transform this area of your life I'd love to support you, please get in touch with me using the below links. Email -  cara@coachingwithcara.co.uk Website - www.coachingwithcara.co.uk (http://www.coachingwithcara.co.uk) Facebook - Coaching with Cara Instagram - @coachingwcara Ready to explore how we can work together? Fill out this form here and I will be in touch. Until next time, keep chatting!

3. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Why you know how to lose weight but not how to maintain it (break the diet cycle for good)

   You know how to lose weight. You know how to gain it back. But has anyone ever taught you how to maintain it? In this episode I break down why chronic dieters get stuck in a rinse-and-repeat cycle of losing and regaining and it's not down to willpower or determination. I was chatting to a woman recently who summed it up perfectly, she said "I knew how to lose weight, I knew how to gain weight, but I didn't know how to maintain weight." If that hits home, this one's for you. Diets are just a set of rules and rules run out. What happens next is the bit nobody talks about. In this episode I cover- Why diets are designed to bring you back. Diets are a set of rules someone else made and if they actually worked long-term, the diet industry wouldn't be a multi billion pound business. They need you to come back. The all-or-nothing trap. Diets give you total structure, then take it away the second you hit "goal weight," leaving you with no tools to cope especially if you lean towards perfectionism (and you do don't you?). Why life is the real trigger. School holidays, stressful work weeks, family chaos, nobody teaches you how to eat through real life, only how to follow a plan when everything's controlled. What building a healthy relationship with food actually looks like. Learning your own hunger and fullness cues, knowing you can leave food on your plate, being able to say no to another glass of wine, these are the intuitive tools that replace external rules. Why this feels "crunchy" for perfectionists at first. Swapping rigid rules for self-trust takes practice, but it's the only way off the diet rollercoaster for good. If this is you, if you know how to lose weight but have never actually maintained it, if you're stuck rinsing and repeating the same diet cycle, you're my people. I'd love to help you build a healthy relationship with food, for good. FYI - The perfectionism episode is episode 20. Connect with Cara Thanks for joining me today on Chatting with Cara. I hope today's conversation gave you some food for thought! If you're looking to transform this area of your life I'd love to support you, please get in touch with me using the below links. Email - cara@coachingwithcara.co.ukWebsite - www.coachingwithcara.co.uk (http://www.coachingwithcara.co.uk)Facebook - Coaching with CaraInstagram - @coachingwcara Ready to explore how we can work together?Enquire here (https://forms.gle/H2mZkyEvr9WzASwr7) about 1-1 coaching. Until next time, keep chatting!

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