Learning to cook was an important step in ending my food battle. And then post-Truce with Food, I found myself less interested in food, cooking included.  Cooking became “assembling”. We still ate most of our meals at home; it just became some version of frozen vegetable, rice and chicken, give or take some garlic powder. Meh but manageable.   Then we became new, sleep-deprived parents and COVID hit. Cooking was important but even less of a priority. I knew when I did have the time and energy, I enjoyed cooking if it was simple and delicious. How could I get back to a place where cooking was sustainable, simple and enjoyable? I asked Meghan Telpner, founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, to help sort out the jumble of feelings many of us feel towards cooking. Sometimes cooking feels like a chore. And sometimes it fills our soul. How can we make cooking and the food we eat more satisfying? In this episode, Meghan shares: 1. Easy ways to incorporate the flavors and foods that reduce and eliminate cravings for super sugary and salty foods. 2. How the more sugar or salt we eat, the more we want (and how this interferes with feeling satiated from lesser amounts of sugar and salt). 3. An experiment to really get what sugar or salt is doing to your taste buds and body. 4. Why the act of cooking is so fulfilling to our bodies and how knowing this makes me more excited to cook more. 5. Easy ways to incorporate texture and smells, which influence our food satisfaction.

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Season 12, Episode 2: Culinary Nutrition: How to Cook for Health and Taste with Meghan Telpner

When we think of feeling satisfied from food, we often think satisfaction comes from more and more food and/or sweet/salty foods. Yet with some basic body knowledge, we can decode what’s actually happening instead of thinking more willpower is the answer. And in the end, feel more satisfied from healthy food and in control of indulgences. After some time away from the mic, Ali gives a personal update and shares:  An unexpected root cause of why we don’t feel satisfied from healthy food and how to change this (and why COVID made eating healthier so much harder) The food shift that instantly reduces cravings while increasing satisfaction of healthy food. The three main lifestyle factors that make healthy food and life more satisfying The sleep-food connection and sleep trouble-shooting tips based on what Ali’s learning from her own sleep coach and perimenopause An overview of the stress-pleasure “checkbook” physiology, its affect on how much we think about food, our food satisfaction and how to balance it so healthy food becomes more satisfying and we feel in control with indulgences 

Season 12, Episode 1: Guilt-Free Ways to Increase Food Satisfaction

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Ali pops in to share exciting news on Insatiable Season 12 and Truce with Food certification for those healing professionals who value coaching mastery, depth, and deep client impact starting in September 2021. She also shares and a personal update on her transition into Motherhood and post-partum weight loss journey, including her radically different approach to her postpartum body now that she’s not indoctrinated by diet culture.  https://www.alishapiro.com/certificationopenhouse

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The COVID behavioral health trajectory mirrors the out-of-control eating cycle. The toll of our COVID era is why many of us turned to food for the first time or eating issues returned for others. Or for others, it got worse, better, or stayed all-or-nothing. If we can understand our COVID eating has deeper root causes than “willpower” or “discipline”, we have a genuine shot at profound and radical individual and collective change (yes please). In this episode, Ali shares: The six COVID phases, which mirrors the out-of-control eating cycle How the COVID uncertainty trigger intensity and duration influenced our eating How we end up being all-or-nothing with our eating Beginning steps to get out of this cycle and rebuild better than before Recovery ideas for your body and mind If this podcast resonated with you and you want to go deeper for individual insights, join my upcoming free coaching workshop on May 12 at https://alishapiro.com/covid-out-of-control-eating-workshop/ 

Special Insatiable podcast: COVID: The Emotional Eating Arc of the Pandemic

Ali gives a pep talk about how to navigate the building post-quarantine weight loss pressure diet culture will be capitalizing on. She also offers accessible ideas and free resources of what to do instead of trying extreme detoxes or diets to feel comfortable in your body when it finally comes time to leave the house for more than a grocery store run. 

Navigating post-quarantine weight loss pressure

Ali shares a personal health and podcast update on the new Insatiable 13 release date.

Insatiable Update

Ali shares details about the next Insatiable podcast season and a personal update on why there will be no Fall season and ways to connect and work with her until next season.

We have so many beliefs about working out: mainly that we should do the same thing and always be “crushing it”. But this approach to working out doesn’t honor the ebb and flow of women’s bodies. This often leads to sugar cravings from exhaustion and wanting to reward ourselves for slogging to the gym when a nap would have gotten us better results! To help educate, inspire, and fill in some major missing holes with our female biology, Alisa Vitti joins us to discuss: How society is set up on a man’s hormonal clock and why we need to change to honor our female, infradian clock (and why no one is talking about this) What the infradian clock is and how it’s a root cause of health, immune and weight issues How to work-out so we honor our bodies needs and don’t turn to sugar from exhaustion or stalled results When our metabolism is slower and faster and how to eat and work-out to align to ensure a healthy metabolism 

Season 11, Episode 7: How to Exercise to Prevent Sugar Cravings with Alisa Vitti

Alcohol is one of the most consumed forms of sugar and quitting alcohol can lead to an increase of sugar cravings and consumption. In this episode, We are the Luckiest author Laura McKowen and I discuss: Her process to sobriety, which included recognizing our collective, unhealthy story around alcohol and her most important practice How she learned to own her personal story and discern what was her truth versus the judgments she had about herself to heal her pain The relationship between her drinking and history of eating disorders How she stopped eating so much sugar after it initially increased with sobriety 

Season 11, Episode 6: Quitting Alcohol and Managing Sugar Cravings with Laura McKowen

PMS cravings. Sleep disruption caused by perimenopause. The pain and emotional toll of endometriosis. All of these issues can be exasperated by sugar and also the reason we turn to sugar. How can we get out of this downward spiral? In today’s episode with Fix Your Period author Nicole Jardim, we will discuss: Sugar’s role in disrupting our hormones (and thus our period, thyroid and perimenopause symptoms) The master “trap door” to less period and hormonal sugar cravings When in your menstrual cycle you are more sensitive to sugar cravings and when you can have sugar and not feel the effects as much Navigating hormonal challenges from endometriosis to perimenopause (including the emotional and soul callings) The easiest tips I’ve ever heard to reduce and prevent sugar cravings caused by your hormones Join us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/

Season 11, Episode 5: Fix Your Period Cravings with Nicole Jardim

Since childhood, sugar has been used to reward us. Whether it was for being good for Dad or Grandma, reading books for Pizza Hut Pizza’s Book It or treating ourselves for losing weight, the “I deserve this” eating pattern is reinforced constantly. We will explore the root cause of this emotional eating pattern and how to overcome it.  In this episode, we will discuss: The root cause stories that created this pattern in our culture, families and weight loss and healing approaches The importance of “self-authoring” a new story (and what self-authoring is) so you can change these three reactions to stress  How to prevent “busy boredom” and the need to unwind at the end of the day with sugar Join us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/ 

Season 11, Episode 4: How to Stop “I Deserve This” Eating

Not eating the right foods for our unique bodies creates anxiety. This anxiety shows up as a felt sense of anxiety AND also “needing something more” to eat but not knowing what that is or a general feeling of being unsatisfied with what they just ate. To help us go into depth and teach us about this sugar-anxiety feedback loop, I’ve invited a holistic psychiatrist and my friend Dr. Ellen Vora onto the show. In this episode, we will discuss: Real and false anxiety How and why sugar creates anxiety Clean eating versus nutrient-dense foods Dr. Vora’s top foods to add in for reducing anxiety and sugar in one’s diet Caffeine’s role in anxiety and how to end your coffee habit Join us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/

Season 11, Episode 3: How to Stop the Sugar-Anxiety Feedback Loop with Dr. Ellen Vora

Loving sugar or salty carbs isn’t only about taste. The main root cause of craving processed foods is it’s often your body's way of trying to “keep the lights on” from physiological imbalances.  In today’s episode with Ali Miller, holistic RD, we will discuss: What is happening physically that requires us to “feed the (sugar) beast” and how to end the physical addiction of sugar cravings Why ketones and metabolic flexibility matter and being “keto” isn’t the only way to get there A radically different idea of food freedom that clashes with Intuitive Eating because of how processed foods deregulate the body Why zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia get a “zero” in Ali’s book Join us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/

Season 11, Episode 2: When Sugar Becomes Addictive with Ali Miller, RD

Before we can end our dependence on processed foods (whose main ingredient is sugar), we need to understand root causes of how we ended up with a highly addictive food supply. How did the radical or unnormal become so normal? To turn our understanding upside down to right side up, we will discuss: Why we need to understand our stories and the “psychological immune system” they generate in order to change our food and lifestyle habits The separation and reductionist stories that have led us astray about how we view nutrition and our bodies   How the “trust authority” story make us believe from the time we are kids that what is on the shelf is safe (and what our “good” medical choices are in the coronavirus age) A new story and questions to guide us to make better nutrition choices for our individual and Earth bodies (and how these questions can unite vegans and Paleo communities!) 

Season 11, Episode 1: Root Causes of Sugar Addiction with Charles Eisenstein

Are you fed up with food? Disgusted by diets? Bitter about the whole body-beauty industry? This is *not* another weight-loss program. Host Ali Shapiro, Founder of Truce With Food, dedicated academic, and well-known health and nutrition coach, shares a more truthful approach to curbing your cravings, emotional eating, bingeing, bargaining, and other diet derailments. Join Ali for interviews, practical advice, and radically honest discussions about food, truth, transformation and reform.

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