If you struggle with emotional or binge eating and feel stuck in cycles of restriction, guilt, and starting over, this podcast is for you.
You’ll learn why binge eating isn’t a willpower issue, how to break free from the binge–restrict cycle, and how to approach food with compassion instead of control.
This podcast is for anyone ready to leave diet culture behind and build a healthier, more peaceful relationship with food.
Client stories this week: control, perfectionism and things keeping you stuck
Are you actually recovering from binge eating and emotional eating, or have you just found new ways to control food?
You might have stopped dieting, but are you still monitoring your portions, counting your steps, avoiding certain foods or trying to make sure every meal is as healthy as possible?
In this episode, we're exploring how seemingly positive habits can sometimes become new ways of maintaining control, and why this can keep you stuck in the same cycle of food guilt, restriction and binge eating.
We'll look at the fear behind letting go of food rules, why trusting yourself around food can feel so uncomfortable, and three practical ways to start loosening the control that might be holding you back.
To book a free, no pressure chat to learn more about my 1-2-1 program, click here:
https://drsarahcookenutrition.as.me/?appointmentType=47479976
19 Oct 2026
When You’re Doing Everything “Right” But You’re Still Stuck
You’re eating regularly. You’re trying to eat balanced meals. You’re learning about emotional eating. You’re working on your relationship with food.
And yet… you’re still stuck.
You’re still thinking about food all the time. You’re still bingeing occasionally. You’re still feeling anxious when you eat certain foods. You’re still feeling like you need to compensate when you’ve eaten ‘too much’.
So what’s going on?
Sometimes the problem isn’t that you’re not doing enough.
It’s that some of the things you’re doing right are still helping you feel safe and in control
We break down how diet rules often get swapped to “recovery rules” and how to get curious about what these rules are providing, and how to shift away from these to a more intuitive approach to eating. We discuss how rules can create safety and a sense of certainty that will feel familiar in recovery, and how to progress out of the “messy middle”.
To book a free, no pressure chat about working with me, click below:
https://drsarahcookenutrition.as.me/?appointmentType=47479976
12 Oct 2026
Is Monitoring Your Weight Really Keeping You in Control?
“If I know what I weigh, I can keep things under control.”
Maybe you weigh yourself every morning.
Maybe you check your weight after a holiday, weekend, meal out or period of eating more.
Maybe you tell yourself you’re not obsessed with the number — you just like to “keep an eye on it.”
But what if the thing you believe is keeping you in control is actually making it much harder to heal your relationship with food?
Because if your food choices, exercise, mood and sense of whether you’ve “done well” are constantly being influenced by a number on the scales, do you really have food and body freedom?
This episode discusses the false sense of control weighing brings, the use of it as feedback, how it can offer temporary reassurance, how it keeps the “diet voice” alive and addresses the fear of letting this sense of control go and what is underlying it. We also go through practical steps to help change this pattern.
To book a free, no pressure chat about working with me 1-2-1, click below
https://drsarahcookenutrition.as.me/?appointmentType=47479976
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