Eat the F*cking Food

About Eat the F*cking Food

Stop dieting. Stop apologizing for hunger. Start eating like a woman who plans to be here for a long time. Eat the F*cking Food is a nutrition and mindset podcast for women who are exhausted by diet culture and confused by conflicting nutrition advice. If you’ve tried low carb, no carb, calorie counting, points, powders, or “starting over on Monday” and still feel tired, bloated, hormonal, or stuck, this show is for you. This podcast helps women understand how to eat enough, especially in midlife, by breaking down nutrition, metabolism, and hormones in a way that actually makes sense. We talk about why 1200 calories is never the answer, how chronic under eating impacts hormone health, gut health, digestion, sleep, and energy, and how to build a balanced plate without fear or food rules. Each week, we cover topics like diet myths, popular diets explained, intuitive eating foundations, blood work and lab results, bloating and gut health, GLP-1 medications and lifestyle support, and how to heal your relationship with food after years of dieting. You’ll hear from nutrition coaches, strength coaches, hormone experts, and women who believe strong is better than skinny, prioritize good health, and know that nourishment is not something you earn. This isn’t about weight loss at any cost. It’s about metabolic health, energy, hormone balance, and freedom around food. Subscribe for honest conversations about women’s nutrition, body image, hormone health, and learning how to actually eat. Your body isn’t broken. It’s underfed. Connect here: https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/

Publisher

Kristin Collins

Category

education · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jan 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   038: What Emma Navarro's RED-S Teaches Midlife Women | Kristin Collins

   Constant fatigue, trouble sleeping, frequent injuries, and a shorter fuse than usual can all be signs you're not eating enough. When American tennis player Emma Navarro shared in 2026 that she had been diagnosed with Hashimoto's and RED-S, or relative energy deficiency in sport, it put a name to what happens when you chronically burn more energy than you take in. You don't have to be a pro athlete for this to apply to you. If you're a midlife woman playing tennis or pickleball, running, doing Pilates, ferrying kids everywhere, and running your job, your house, and your family, you may be under-fueling for the life you're actually living. Kristin Collins, nutrition and body composition coach for midlife women and host of Eat the Fcking Food, explains what RED-S is, the real-world symptoms of under-fueling, and why she believes women are hit harder after a lifetime of messages that tie our worth to the number on the scale. She defines maintenance calories, the amount of food you need every day to meet your energy needs without the scale moving, and shares how she went from eating 1,400 to 1,600 calories a day to adding 400 to 600 more. Her sleepless nights and digestive issues disappeared, her menopause symptoms eased, and she recovers faster on the tennis court. If you're tired of feeling sick and tired, it's time to eat the fcking food. In this episode, you’ll discover: What RED-S, or relative energy deficiency in sport, actually is, and why burning more energy than you eat leads to fatigue, injuries, poor sleep, and mood changes in women. The signs you're not eating enough to watch for in midlife, from constant tiredness and trouble sleeping to anxiety, rage, brain fog, and hair loss, even if you're not a competitive athlete. What maintenance calories are, and why knowing how much food keeps your weight steady, your sleep solid, your digestion happy, and your hands and feet warm is the foundation of any goal. Why cutting calories or carbs based on a feeling instead of your actual numbers can cost you fiber, heart health, and thyroid health, and makes healthy eating impossible to sustain. How Kristin Collins added 400 to 600 calories to her old intake of 1,400 to 1,600 a day, and what changed for her sleep, digestion, menopause symptoms, and tennis game. Why under-fueling affects female athletes more than male athletes, and how decades of tying worth and health to body size keep midlife women eating less than their bodies need. A quick body check-in that reveals signs you're not eating enough, and why fueling your real energy needs is how you stay strong and independent as you age. We talk about: 00:00 Why this tennis story applies to every woman 00:42 Emma Navarro shares her Hashimoto's and RED-S diagnosis 02:05 What is RED-S and how does under-fueling happen 02:55 Signs you're not eating enough, from fatigue to rage 04:00 Why busy midlife women need more fuel, not less 04:50 What are maintenance calories and why do they matter 06:10 Kristin's story of eating 1,400 to 1,600 calories 07:23 What changed when she ate 400 to 600 more calories 08:24 Why cutting carbs and calories blindly backfires 09:51 Why does under-fueling hit women harder than men 11:37 A quick body check-in to spot under-fueling 13:22 Why the holidays are the best time to start Ready to find your maintenance calories before the holidays? Email Kristin at kristin@kristincollinshealthcoaching.com or send her a message on Instagram to get started. Connect with me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/ (https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kristin.collins (https://www.youtube.com/@kristin.collins) Website: https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/ (https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/) #MidlifeNutrition #UnderFueling #REDS #RelativeEnergyDeficiency #EmmaNavarro #WomenOver40 #WomenOver50 #MaintenanceCalories #EatMore #AntiDiet #AntiDietCulture #MenopauseNutrition #WomensTennis #PickleballLife #WomenWhoLift #FuelYourBody #WomensHealth #MidlifeWomen #EatTheFuckingFood

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   037: Probiotics, Food Tests, and Bloating: What's Wasting Your Money | Brittany Carpenter & Kristin Collins

   Is bloating normal? A little bit is. Your belly is meant to push out more by evening than it did first thing in the morning, because food has volume and digestion takes time. The bloating that signals a real gut problem is different: hard, painful, visibly pregnant, and there from your first sip of water. If you have been cutting gluten, dairy, and everything else trying to find the food behind your bloating, constipation, or rushed trips to the bathroom, this episode will save you time, money, and a lot of sad salads. Kristin Collins, menopause nutrition coach and host of Eat the F*cking Food, sits down with Brittany Carpenter, MS, RDN, a functional medicine dietitian who healed her own severe gut issues after a bout of food poisoning. With gut health and fibermaxxing everywhere in 2026, Brittany cuts through the noise: why food sensitivity tests are not a reliable guide, why a low FODMAP diet manages symptoms without fixing the cause, what SIBO and dysbiosis actually are, and why most probiotics stop working the moment you stop taking them. She also shares the simple daily combo she swears by for constipation: two kiwis, skin on, plus two to three tablespoons of chia seeds or ground flax. Stop asking which food is the villain. Start asking why your gut is reacting at all. In this episode, you’ll discover: Is bloating normal? Why your belly naturally pushes out more by evening, and how to tell everyday expansion apart from painful, all-day bloating that signals a real gut problem worth investigating. What your stool says about your gut health, from pebbly and incomplete to loose, oily, or mucus-covered, and why you should always turn around and look before you flush. Why food sensitivity tests may be a waste of money, and why Brittany Carpenter asks why your body is reacting to foods instead of which foods you should cut. Why cutting gluten and dairy can make you feel better for reasons that have nothing to do with gluten or dairy, and why it might be time to add the cookie back in. Do you need a probiotic? Why Brittany says probiotics do not repopulate your gut long term, and why a label that just says lactobacillus tells you almost nothing about what you are getting. What a normal bowel movement looks like, why not eating enough is the number one cause of constipation Brittany sees in women, and how two kiwis plus chia or flax daily can help. Is bloating normal when you add more fiber? Not if symptoms get worse. Why that means healing your gut comes before weight loss, and which foundations to check first: alcohol, sleep, food, and movement. We talk about: 00:00 Getting into gut health, literally 01:34 What does a healthy gut actually look like 05:00 Is bloating normal or a real gut problem 09:45 Are food sensitivity tests worth the money 12:22 SIBO, dysbiosis, and leaky gut explained simply 14:49 Why cutting gluten and dairy made you feel better 18:46 Food restriction and your kids' relationship with food 22:16 Do you actually need a probiotic 27:39 What normal poop and constipation really look like 29:31 Why not eating enough causes constipation in women 30:54 Kiwi, chia, and when more fiber backfires 32:50 Gut health foundations and when to get help Connect with Brittany Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dietitianbrittany/ (https://www.instagram.com/dietitianbrittany/) Website: https://dietitianbrittany.net/ (https://dietitianbrittany.net/) Connect with me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/ (https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kristin.collins (https://www.youtube.com/@kristin.collins) Website: https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/ (https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/) #GutHealth #Bloating #Constipation #GutHealthForWomen #Probiotics #SIBO #LowFODMAP #FoodSensitivity #FiberMaxxing #DigestiveHealth #HealthyGut #FunctionalNutrition #MidlifeNutrition #MenopauseNutrition #WomenOver40 #AntiDiet #FoodFreedom #EatTheFuckingFood

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   036: Emotional Eating Isn't a Willpower Problem | Dr. Kristine Gravino

   How to stop emotional eating starts with understanding that it was never a willpower problem, it is an automatic loop your brain runs on autopilot. If you have ever stood in front of the freezer at nine o'clock reaching for something to make yourself feel better, then judged yourself for it the next morning, you are not broken and you are not alone. Emotional eating is a learned pattern wired into your nervous system, often starting in childhood, and it intensifies in midlife as hormone shifts make emotional regulation harder. Food noise, stress eating, and reaching for wine or sweets to self soothe are all part of the same loop, and that loop can be spotted, interrupted, and changed. Kristin Collins, nutrition and body composition coach and host of Eat the F*cking Food, welcomes back Dr. Kristine Gravino, a licensed psychologist with over 24 years of experience helping midlife women untangle emotional eating patterns. Dr. G walks through her SHIFT Method, a five-step framework for spotting the trigger, hearing the thought, interrupting the spiral, feeling through the discomfort, and trying a new response, plus the science behind why sitting in a hard feeling for ninety seconds lets it crest and pass. You will also learn why thirty grams of protein at breakfast can lower anxiety, and how to tell real hunger from food noise. If you have ever felt ashamed of reaching for chips at nine o'clock, press play and stop blaming yourself for a pattern that was never your fault. In this episode, you’ll discover: What actually separates emotional eating from physical hunger, and why most women can't tell the difference until they learn to spot their own trigger pattern first. Why emotional eating is never a willpower problem, and how it functions as an automatic, learned loop that gets programmed into your nervous system starting in childhood. How Dr. Kristine Gravino's SHIFT Method interrupts the pattern in five steps: spotting the trigger, hearing the thought, interrupting it, feeling the discomfort, and trying a new response. Why sitting in a hard feeling for ninety seconds lets the emotional wave crest and fall, and why white knuckling a craving without this step rarely holds past a night or two. The real signs that separate physical hunger from food noise, and why under fueling during the day is often the hidden reason you are starving by nine at night. Why starting your day with thirty grams of protein can lower anxiety and depression, and what skipping breakfast for coffee alone does to your stress response instead. Why midlife hormone shifts make emotional regulation harder, and how naming what actually triggers you, exhaustion, loneliness, feeling underappreciated, is the first step to changing it. We talk about: 00:00 Why Dr. G is back to talk about emotional eating 01:04 What actually counts as emotional eating versus eating 03:00 How emotional eating gets programmed as a child 07:26 The first thing to know, it is not your fault 09:53 Why your nervous system blocks logical thought 12:38 Introducing the SHIFT Method for breaking the loop 15:00 How to interrupt the thought before you reach for food 16:26 Why sitting in discomfort for 90 seconds works 17:36 Why no change ever comes from comfort 22:38 What is the real difference between emotional and physical hunger 25:41 Why 30 grams of protein at breakfast lowers anxiety 29:13 How burnout led Dr. G to build the SHIFT Method Connect with Dr. Kristine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drkgravinowellness (https://www.instagram.com/drkgravinowellness) Website: https://drkgravinowellness.com/ (https://drkgravinowellness.com/) Connect with me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/ (https://www.instagram.com/kristinrcollins/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kristin.collins (https://www.youtube.com/@kristin.collins) Website: https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/ (https://kristincollinshealthcoaching.com/) #EmotionalEating #StressEating #FoodNoise #NotYourFault #ShiftMethod #MidlifeWomen #WomenOver40 #WomenOver50 #PerimenopauseSupport #AntiDietCulture #NervousSystemRegulation #EmotionalRegulation #ComfortEating #MentalHealthMatters #HormoneHealth #NoMoreShame #WomensHealth #DietCulture #BodyImage #EatTheFuckingFood

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