Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast)
In this episode, Alana explores why hunger can change from week to week — and why those shifts are often misinterpreted as a loss of control.
She breaks down three key reasons appetite can suddenly feel louder, including stress, emotional load, sleep, hormones, and what happens when you start reconnecting with your body after years of restriction or fear around hunger. Drawing from her own experience and years of clinical work, Alana explains how diet culture teaches us to mistrust hunger — and why that mistrust creates more chaos, not less.
This conversation unpacks the difference between physical hunger, emotional hunger, and relief-seeking, and why increased hunger is often a sign of reconnection rather than regression.
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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started
Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
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Elite VIP
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Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
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Takeaways
Hunger changing week to week isn’t a loss of control — it’s your body responding to your life.
Increased hunger often shows up when you stop ignoring your body, not when you’re doing something wrong.
Emotional hunger isn’t about food; it’s about relief after holding it together for too long.
Panicking about hunger creates more chaos than hunger itself.
When you respond with curiosity instead of fear, eating becomes steadier and less extreme.
Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast)
In this Q&A episode, Alana answers the five most common questions she hears about overeating, especially from women who feel composed on the outside but struggle quietly with food, control, and guilt.
The questions include:
How do I stop overeating at night?
Why do I eat past full even when I know better?
Is one day of overeating going to make me gain weight?
Why am I craving food even when I’m not hungry?
How do I stop feeling guilty after I overeat?
Rather than offering tips or rules, Alana explores what’s really happening underneath these patterns — the role of nighttime, pressure, perfectionism, food noise, and the way guilt tends to follow high expectations.
Through personal reflection and lived clinical insight, this episode helps listeners understand why knowing more doesn’t change behavior, why overeating isn’t a personal failure, and how food often becomes the place we go when the day finally slows down.
This conversation is for the woman who isn’t trying to fix herself — she just wants to understand why this keeps happening, and what begins to shift when she stops making food the problem.
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Find Jamille’s Episode Here → How I Finally Lost 99 Pounds After Years of Binge Eating
For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started
Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
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In this week’s episode, Alana explores the emerging science behind “food noise,” drawing from a recent review article in Nutrition & Diabetes that defines food noise as persistent, intrusive food thoughts perceived as unwanted or distressing.
Alana reflects on how this new clinical definition helps women understand the mental load behind constant food thoughts, the checking, planning, negotiating, and self-questioning that can quietly run all day.
She breaks down what researchers are now identifying as key features of food noise, cognitive burden, persistence, dysphoria, and self-stigma and discusses why so many high-achieving women mistake these patterns for a willpower problem when they’re actually part of the body’s alert system.
This episode invites listeners into a calmer, more nuanced way of interpreting their inner chatter around food, not as failure, but as information.
[Click Here To See Food Noise Article]
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Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
Food can feel like a reliable friend during emotional highs and lows.
Building a compassionate, consistent relationship with yourself is the foundation of true healing.
Emotional overeating isn’t about willpower — it’s about unmet needs for safety and support.
Your inner ally helps you pause and make intentional, self-honoring choices.
The higher self is not perfection — it’s maturity, discernment, and calm.
There’s a moment in every woman’s journey where the old way stops making sense.
For Jamille, that moment didn’t look dramatic. It was quiet — a piece of cake she couldn’t bring herself to eat halfway, the panic of a closed restaurant, the feeling that food had more authority over her life than she did.
In today’s episode, she shares how she went from a childhood shaped by shaming comments — “suck in your belly… no man will want you” — to decades of bingeing, punishing diets, secret spirals, and a belief that she would always live this way.
Her story is not just about the 99 pounds she lost — it’s about the woman she became in the process. A woman who no longer fears buffets, who can leave candy in the house without losing herself to it , who wakes up before dawn to meet her own life on purpose rather than in reaction
We talk about the slow, steady rewiring that happens when you stop performing control and start practicing presence — the tiny shifts that build into a kind of inner maturity you can feel in your posture, your choices, your quiet moments.
If you’ve ever wondered whether long-term patterns can truly change, this conversation is proof that they can — and that the change begins long before the weight comes off.
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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started
Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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In this episode, Alana unpacks a tender truth that so many high-functioning women carry quietly: why being alone can feel like an invitation to lose yourself in food.
She shares her story, the years when silence and unstructured time felt less like rest and more like permission to slip into the ritual of binging. And she explores why these moments never start with the first bite, but with the anticipation of being unwatched, unneeded, unseen.
Through honest reflection and grounded insight, Alana explains how secret patterns form, why they feel so powerful, and what it takes to build a relationship with yourself that doesn’t disappear the moment the door closes.
If you’ve ever felt like you can hold everything together… until you’re alone, this conversation will change how you understand yourself.
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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started
Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
Aloneness isn’t the trigger — it’s the moment your real needs surface.
Binge urges begin long before food enters the picture.
High-functioning women often unravel only in silence, not in public.
In this week’s episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped, Alana is joined by longtime friend and guest Kristin McGee to explore the real emotional terrain behind self-doubt and how it can quietly sabotage our goals, wellness journeys, and sense of worth.
They revisit personal stories and career pivots to reveal how doubt isn’t a flaw, it’s a threshold; a signal that something deeper is asking to be seen.
From wellness fatigue to perfectionism, this conversation goes beyond motivation and into the deeper question: What if your next breakthrough isn’t about doing more, but staying with yourself when it’s hardest to believe you can?
Connect with Kristin Mcgee
Website: https://www.kristinmcgee.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinmcgee/
Substack: https://kristinmcgee.substack.com/
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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started
Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included} → Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
Self-doubt often signals a turning point, not a dead end.
Growth looks like showing up on the days you want to hide.
Real confidence is built through imperfect action.
Transformation doesn’t always feel inspiring and sometimes, it feels like staying.
You don’t need to “feel ready” to begin again.
Chapters
00:00 — Why Doubt Can Be a Sign of Growth
03:15 — Showing Up When You Feel Off
07:42 — The Breakthroughs That Come After Resistance
11:56 — Kristin’s Biggest Transformation
16:30 — Redefining Success in Wellness
20:45 — Trusting the Next Version of You
In this revisited holiday episode, Alana explores the emotional pressure that surfaces during food-centric gatherings and how it often masks as overeating, guilt, or the need to perform “self-control.”
She shares practical insight on managing emotional overwhelm, setting boundaries without conflict, and rethinking what support actually looks like when the table is full but your needs aren’t met.
Whether you're dreading the family dynamics or navigating the pressure to eat “perfectly,” this episode offers tools to help you stay connected to yourself through it all.
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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get Started
Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth, eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
Emotional eating often begins long before the food shows up.
Saying “no” doesn’t make you ungrateful, it makes you self-aware.
Guilt after eating usually points to unmet emotional needs, not a food mistake.
Boundaries aren’t walls, they’re invitations to honor your truth.
You don’t have to perform wellness to be well.
Chapters
00:00 — Why Holidays Are Emotionally Loaded
03:52 — Family Triggers & Food Noise
07:10 — How to Say No with Compassion
11:34 — Why “Safe Food” Isn’t Always the Answer
15:42 — Staying Present with Yourself Through Chaos
21:06 — Redefining Support During the Holidays
In this episode, Alana explores how shame, external validation, and achievement culture shaped the narrative of The Biggest Loser and how those same forces still live in many women’s relationships with food and their bodies today.
She shares her own reflections and lived experience during the show’s peak, alongside a deeper unpacking of what gets lost when transformation is only physical. Together with co-host Brittny, they examine the emotional residue of that era and how to build something more sustainable now.
✨ If this episode resonated with you, check out these related episodes:
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For Newbies to The Sober Eating Movement Looking to Get StartedInvisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together in under 30 days, so you can reclaim your personal power, lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear step by step process that helps you reclaim your self worth eat like a normal person again, and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction. → Enroll here
For a Deeper Transformation with The Sober Eating Method The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to stop food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new proven way of eating for weight loss and enjoyment - without dieting, restriction, or counting macros in as little as 90 days. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem.→ Enroll here
GET 1-1 SUPPORT FROM ALANA
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom. {Luxury 3-day 1-1 weekend retreat with Alana included}→ Apply here
A program designed to support your Sober Eating Method Journey
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
Sustainable change isn’t about control; it’s about integration.
Awareness without support turns into self-criticism.
Shame and visibility can coexist in deeply confusing ways.
There is no one version of “success” that fits every body.
Healing starts when you stop chasing a finish line and start creating a life that fits your truth.
Chapters
00:00 — Why The Biggest Loser Still Matters
04:12 — The Shame Behind the Spotlight
08:45 — What Tough Love Really Cost Us
13:30 — Self-Awareness vs. Self-Criticism
17:50 — The Trade-Offs of Transformation
23:01 — Choosing Yourself Over The Ideal
In this episode, Alana unpacks the truth behind the GLP-1 craze and the emotional side effects no one’s talking about. While these medications can silence food noise and deliver rapid weight loss, Alana explores the deeper cost: the gradual loss of aliveness, joy, and emotional connection.
She reveals how the same hormones that regulate appetite also regulate dopamine, motivation, and pleasure and why numbing one means dulling the other. This isn’t about guilt or shame. It’s about awareness about remembering that peace isn’t the absence of hunger, it’s safety in feeling it.
Alana also shares practices to help women reconnect with their appetite, their body’s signals, and their full emotional range, without losing the results they desire.
Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as podcast@bewellbyak.com!
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Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together so you can lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear process that helps you eat like a normal person again, feel full without spiraling and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction → Enroll here
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to end food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new way of eating — without dieting, restriction, or counting macros. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem. → Enroll here
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom.→ Apply here
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here.
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you from lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
GLP-1s can silence cravings, but they can also mute joy.
Appetite isn’t just about food; it’s your life force.
When you suppress emotion, you suppress desire, creativity, and vitality.
True peace isn’t numbness, it’s the nervous system feeling safe to want.
You can be thin and still feel everything.
Healing your relationship with food means welcoming sensation, not avoiding it.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction to Emotional Eating Unwrapped
00:38 The Real Reason Behind GLP-1 Usage
01:57 The Hidden Costs of GLP-1s
03:13 The Illusion of Calm and the Reality of Numbness
04:41 The Appeal and Downside of Silence
18:10 Reconnecting with Sensation and Desire
23:23 The Path to True Freedom and Peace
24:18 Conclusion and Call to Action
In this episode, Alana addresses a growing trend: women replacing real coaching with AI tools. While AI offers immediate, judgment-free advice, Alana stresses that it can't provide the human connection crucial for true healing.
She explains that emotional issues and habits can't be resolved through logic alone; they require the emotional attunement and co-regulation that only a human coach can offer.
Alana also introduces her Sober Eating Sequence™ program, aimed at reprogramming emotional patterns and creating a secure relationship with food and the body. The episode emphasizes that while AI can be a useful tool, it should not replace the indispensable human element in coaching.
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Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together so you can lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear process that helps you eat like a normal person again, feel full without spiraling and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction → Enroll here
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to end food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new way of eating — without dieting, restriction, or counting macros. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem. → Enroll here
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom.→ Apply here
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here.
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Takeaways
AI can mirror data—but not the emotional chemistry of being seen and supported.
True healing happens through co-regulation with another human, not self-analysis.
You can’t heal a safety wound with more control or logic.
Self-awareness without integration becomes self-criticism.
Coaching isn’t about information—it’s a nervous system experience.
Connection, not perfection, is what rewires old patterns and restores trust.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Emotional Eating Unwrapped
00:32 The Rise of AI in Coaching
02:09 The Importance of Human Connection
04:32 The Hidden Dangers of AI Coaching
05:00 Why AI Feels Supportive but Falls Short
05:36 The Role of Real Coaching
13:08 The Sober Eating Sequence™
14:02 The Emotional Experience of Coaching
15:06 The Limitations of AI in Emotional Healing
18:54 Conclusion and Call to Action
In this episode, Alana dismantles a popular myth: awareness alone changes nothing. You can understand why you overeat, restrict, or self-sabotage—and still repeat the pattern. Why? Because intellectual insight doesn’t reach the nervous system.
Through compassionate teaching and real-life examples, she shows you how to cross the gap from analysis to embodiment—how to stay with sensations, build safety in your body, and act from your higher self (not from panic). Expect grounded tools, elegant reframes, and a direct path out of the shame loop. When awareness opens the door, integration walks you through it.
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Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Movement that finally gets your body and mind working together so you can lose weight and keep it off. No tracking, no shakes, no endless rules. It's a clear process that helps you eat like a normal person again, feel full without spiraling and watch the number on the scale move in the right direction → Enroll here
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to end food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new way of eating — without dieting, restriction, or counting macros. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem. → Enroll here
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom.→ Apply here
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here.
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you From lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Takeaways
Awareness is the light switch; it doesn’t move the furniture.
You can’t think your way into safety; your body must feel safe.
Insight without embodiment becomes emotional avoidance dressed as growth.
The nervous system changes through sensation, breath, and staying, not concepts.
Naming triggers isn’t healing; staying with them is.
Self-awareness without integration fuels self-criticism and shame.
Your higher self doesn’t narrate; she guides.
Repetition in regulated micro-moments rewires trust—that’s where freedom lives.
Chapters
00:00 — Awareness Isn’t Enough
02:30 — Light Switch vs. Furniture
04:30 — Insight vs. Nervous System
06:30 — Triggers: Name vs. Stay
10:00 — Exiting the Shame Loop
13:00 — Real-Life Examples
16:00 — Regulating Uncertainty
18:30 — Higher Self Scripts
23:30 — Takeaways + Next Steps
21:01 — Micro Moments of Self-Care
In this episode, Alana explores what really happens when success or safety reactivates old food and body struggles.
She shares client stories and her own reflections on how the nervous system confuses calm for danger — and why old habits resurface when life finally feels good.
Through clear, compassionate insight, Alana reveals that food chaos isn’t self-sabotage — it’s the body’s way of protecting the good it’s not yet used to holding.
She guides listeners toward integration, showing how to expand their nervous system’s capacity for peace, love, and visibility.
Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as podcast@bewellbyak.com!
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Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Method that helps you stop the nightly overeating, wake up with a lighter body and clearer head, and move through your day free to focus on your life — not on food running in the background. → Enroll here
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to end food and dieting chaos, and release weight naturally through a new way of eating — without dieting, restriction, or counting macros. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem. → Enroll here
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom.→ Apply here
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here.
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you From lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
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Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram @bewellbyak.
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Takeaways
Old food and body patterns often resurface when life finally gets good.
This isn’t sabotage — it’s protection.
The hardest part isn’t chaos; it’s calm.
Safety requires expanding your nervous system’s capacity to receive goodness.
Visibility can feel like exposure — grounding helps you integrate success.
Growth isn’t about getting safety; it’s about learning to stay in it.
Chapters
00:00 — Why success can trigger old habits
02:46 — When calm feels harder than chaos
06:00 — Visibility vs. exposure
09:05 — Food as a control valve
15:14 — Identity lag: when the old self meets the new
18:09 — Expanding your nervous system’s upper limit
22:00 — How to receive goodness and stay in it
In this episode, Alana explores how the cycle of food control, discipline, and self-punishment isn’t a willpower issue — it’s a safety issue.
She shares the deeper truth behind bingeing, compulsive eating, and perfectionism: that they’re not failures, but the body’s rebellion against a life lived in masculine overdrive.
Through stories and practical guidance, Alana shows how to restore safety and self-trust through the feminine portal — by feeling, receiving, and listening to your body instead of managing it.
When you return to that rhythm, food no longer needs to play the role of comfort, control, or escape. It becomes nourishment again.
Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as podcast@bewellbyak.com!
Leave us a voice message for our next Q&A episode!Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Method that helps you stop the nightly overeating, wake up with a lighter body and clearer head, and move through your day free to focus on your life — not on food running in the background. → Enroll here
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to end food and dieting chaos, quiet the nightly cravings, and release weight naturally through a new way of eating — without dieting, restriction, or counting macros. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem. → Enroll here
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom.→ Apply here
Coming Home to Your Body
A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now—not just after weight loss. → Enroll here.
Free Quiz:
What’s your hidden food and self belief pattern keeping you From lasting weight loss? Click here for the Free Quiz
Explore more from Be Well by AK
Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram @bewellbyak.
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Takeaways
Bingeing or overeating is often your body’s rebellion against over-functioning — not self-sabotage.
Food becomes the container for unexpressed emotions when it doesn’t feel safe to cry, rest, or ask for help.Healing happens through the feminine energy of feeling, receiving, and allowing — not forcing.
You can’t “think” your way into safety; you have to listen through your body.
When you feel safe to receive, food stops being your only refuge.
Certainty and self-trust come from walking to your edge — and listening.
Chapters
00:00 — The Masculine Overdrive and Why It Doesn’t Work
07:00 — When Food Becomes the Only Place You Can Pause
13:00 — Expression: How Swallowed Emotions Turn Into Cravings
17:00 — The Feminine Wound: Why Receiving Feels So Risky
24:00 — How Safety Restores Weight Balance and Self-Trust
29:00 — Embodying the Feminine: Feeling Instead of Forcing
31:00 — Walking to the Edge and Listening Through Your Body
In this episode, Alana explores the quiet, unseen reasons food can feel like a loyal friend — especially during emotional highs and lows. Through personal reflection and client stories, she reveals how unmet needs for safety and self-support often drive women to seek refuge in food, control, or perfection.
With clarity and compassion, Alana guides listeners through the process of building an inner ally — the mature, grounded voice that offers agency instead of impulse, calm instead of control.
Each pause, each micro moment of self-care becomes a step toward self-trust — and the freedom to finally feel safe in your own company.
Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as podcast@bewellbyak.com!
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Invisible Weight Detox
An introduction to the Sober Eating Method that helps you stop the nightly overeating, wake up with a lighter body and clearer head, and move through your day free to focus on your life — not on food running in the background. → Enroll here
The Sober Eating Sequence™
The proven 3-phase method to end food and dieting chaos, quiet the nightly cravings, and release weight naturally through a new way of eating — without dieting, restriction, or counting macros. This is where you finally trust your body and food choices, feel at ease in your skin, and stop circling back to food as the problem. → Enroll here
Elite VIP
A 3-month private mentorship where years of struggle collapse into months of precision change. With custom meal development refined daily, private coaching intensives, and direct access to Alana, you’ll stop negotiating with food and step into the woman whose body, confidence, and choices reflect her true power.→ Apply here
Concierge
For the woman who refuses to settle — Concierge is the highest level of private mentorship. With unlimited access to Alana for coaching, every detail and nuance is addressed with luxury-level concierge private support tailored to your real day to day life, so you experience the deepest transformation possible and embody full freedom.→ Apply here
Explore more from Be Well by AK
Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram @bewellbyak.
Follow on LinkedIn
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Takeaways
Food can feel like a reliable friend during emotional highs and lows.
Building a compassionate, consistent relationship with yourself is the foundation of true healing.
Emotional overeating isn’t about willpower — it’s about unmet needs for safety and support.
Your inner ally helps you pause and make intentional, self-honoring choices.
The higher self is not perfection — it’s maturity, discernment, and calm.
Agency — the ability to choose with awareness — is what restores self-trust and freedom.
Chapters
00:00 — The Role of Food as a Friend
02:46 — Building an Inner Ally
06:00 — Understanding Emotional Eating
09:05 — The Concept of the Higher Self
15:14 — The Betrayal Loop and Self-Trust
18:09 — Food as a Messenger
21:01 — Micro Moments of Self-Care
In this episode, Alana dives into the timely and nuanced conversation surrounding GLP1 medications, which are being marketed as game changers for appetite regulation and weight loss. Alana unpacks the physical benefits that many women (and men) experience with these medications, but she also shines a spotlight on what often gets overlooked: the emotional patterns and triggers that persist even as the weight comes off. Through client stories and her own insights, Alana explores the gap between physical transformation and emotional healing, highlighting issues like the borrowed willpower effect, the identity gap, and the grief that can emerge when food’s role in our lives shifts. Listeners will learn why sustaining weight loss goes beyond the number on the scale and requires true emotional integration, self-trust, and mindful rituals.
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Invisible Weight Detox → A 7-day reset that helps you stop the automatic nightly overeating, wake up without the bloated stomach and puffy face, and finally slip into your clothes with ease. You’ll retrain your body to let go of the tension that drives cravings so you can end meals feeling satisfied, move through your day without food noise, and go to bed proud of how you led yourself → Enroll here
Coming Home to Your Body → A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now – not just after weight loss. Enroll here
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Takeaways
GLP-1s are marketed as a solution for appetite regulation.
Weight loss is only part of the journey; emotional healing is crucial.
The borrowed willpower effect can create dependency on medication.
Self-worth and identity may not change with weight loss.
Emotional triggers still exist even with appetite suppression.
Grief over the loss of food as comfort is common.
Chapters
02:53 The Dual Nature of Weight Loss and Emotional Healing
05:43 The Borrowed Willpower Effect
08:31 Identity and Self-Worth in Weight Loss
16:45 The Relationship Mirror and Visibility Paradox
19:34 Closing the Gap: Emotional Integration for Lasting Change
22:19 Building Emotional Alignment and Self-Trust
27:36 Integration for Long-Term Results
In this episode, Alana explores how our relationship with food can serve as a powerful mirror for the way we show up in life. She invites listeners to examine their eating patterns – not just what they eat, but why – and how these patterns often reflect deeper motivations, unspoken needs, and personal boundaries in other areas of life. Through practical examples and client stories, Alana reveals how habits like late-night snacking or people-pleasing around food are often tied to chasing goals that aren’t truly ours or avoiding discomfort in everyday interactions. Tune in to discover how cultivating awareness around food can become a portal to creating a life you actually want to show up for.
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Invisible Weight Detox → A 7-day reset that helps you stop the automatic nightly overeating, wake up without the bloated stomach and puffy face, and finally slip into your clothes with ease. You’ll retrain your body to let go of the tension that drives cravings so you can end meals feeling satisfied, move through your day without food noise, and go to bed proud of how you led yourself → Enroll here
Coming Home to Your Body → A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now – not just after weight loss. Enroll here
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Takeaways
Your relationship with food reflects how you're showing up in life.
Food habits can signal deeper emotional patterns.
Numbing with food often indicates a lack of pleasure in life.
Awareness of eating patterns is crucial for self-discovery.
Food choices should be based on how they make you feel.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Emotional Eating and Life Goals
02:57 Linking Food Habits to Life Goals
05:49 Understanding Numbing and Pleasure Deficits
08:50 Energy Management and Food Choices
11:48 Awareness and Action in Eating Patterns
18:00 Reframing Eating Experiences for Alignment
In this episode, Alana dives into the often-overlooked connection between perimenopause and emotional eating, sharing her own raw experiences navigating unpredictable symptoms and shifting cravings. She brings to light the messy, real-life realities of hormonal changes, how they can intensify our relationship with food, and why so many women feel out of control during this transition. Alana discusses the importance of self-compassion, reframing cravings as signals rather than failures, and adapting routines to honor your changing body. With vulnerability and practical advice, she encourages listeners to view perimenopause not as a decline, but as an opportunity for deeper self-understanding and empowerment.
Leave us a voice message for our next Q&A episode!Invisible Weight Detox → A 7-day reset that helps you stop the automatic nightly overeating, wake up without the bloated stomach and puffy face, and finally slip into your clothes with ease. You’ll retrain your body to let go of the tension that drives cravings so you can end meals feeling satisfied, move through your day without food noise, and go to bed proud of how you led yourself → Enroll here
Coming Home to Your Body → A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now – not just after weight loss. Enroll here
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Takeaways
Perimenopause is a natural transition, not a decline.
Understanding hormonal changes can help manage symptoms.
Cravings during perimenopause are signals, not failures.
Self-compassion is crucial during this time.
It's important to reframe your relationship with food.
Empowerment comes from adapting to changes in your body.
Chapters
00:00 Navigating Perimenopause: A Personal Journey
04:36 Understanding the Biological Changes
09:14 The Emotional Impact of Perimenopause
13:43 Reframing Cravings and Self-Compassion
17:57 Building a New Relationship with Your Body
22:31 Empowerment Through Adaptation and Change
In this episode, Alana explores the concept of the "post-diet hangover" and why every new diet or program feels so familiar, even when it promises a fresh start. Drawing from her own personal experiences, she unpacks the emotional and psychological cycles that keep so many of us stuck in the loop of dieting, slipping, and self-blame. Alana reveals why the allure of diet rules and rituals can feel so comforting, how our nervous systems become wired to find safety in the chaos of starting over, and the deeper identity issues intertwined with our struggles around food. Listeners will learn why so-called failures with diets are not personal weaknesses but natural biological and psychological responses, and Alana shares actionable guidance for stepping off the rollercoaster—including cultivating awareness, self-compassion, and a reconnection to the body’s natural signals.
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Takeaways
The post-diet hangover is a common experience after dieting.
Dieting often leads to a cycle of guilt and self-criticism.
Food restriction triggers a biological response that can lead to binge eating.
Emotional eating is a safety mechanism, not a failure.
Dieting becomes part of one's identity, making it hard to let go.
Awareness is the first step to breaking the dieting cycle.
Chapters
00:00 Understanding the Diet Hangover
13:13 Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Eating
16:02 Reconnecting with Hunger Cues
In this episode, Alana opens up an honest and compassionate conversation about the shifting identity of motherhood, particularly exploring the emotional terrain that surrounds new mothers as they navigate changes in their bodies, their sense of self, and their relationship with food. She acknowledges her own perspective as someone without lived experience of motherhood, yet brings deep insights gained from years of supporting mothers in her work. Alana delves into the pressures to “bounce back,” the grief and joy that coexist during this life transition, and the complex role food can play as both comfort and coping mechanism. With empathy and gentle guidance, she offers tools for finding compassion, reclaiming feminine energy, and gradually moving toward healing.
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Leave us a voice message for our next Q&A episode!The Craving Reset Library is your on-demand toolkit for breaking emotional eating patterns in real time – without relying on willpower or rules. Inside, you’ll find fast-acting audio tools designed to interrupt cravings, regulate your nervous system, and retrain your brain to feel calm, clear, and in control. Whether it’s a 3-minute urge or a full-blown binge cycle, these resets put you back in charge. Click here to access the Craving Reset Audio Library and take control in the moment it matters most.
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Takeaways
Deeper changes beyond the physical body: a transformation of identity
The duality of joy and grief in motherhood
Grieving lost freedoms, previous sense of self, and familiar body image
Paradox of being “over touched” by a baby but “under connected” with adult relationships
Losing connection to sensuality while managing constant physical demands
Food as an accessible, expectation-free source of comfort and sensation
Chapters
00:00 Motherhood: Respect, Humility, Honesty
05:39 Dual Nature of Motherhood
08:14 Compassionate Healing Beyond Comfort Eating
13:11 Embracing and Reclaiming Feminine Energy
In this episode, Alana explores why emotional overeating often intensifies during times of collective global stress, such as political upheaval, economic instability, or health crises. She dives into the science behind how our nervous systems are wired to seek safety and comfort—sometimes turning to food as a soothing anchor when uncertainty abounds. Alana discusses how the disruption of routines and loss of predictable anchors can lead us to use eating as a coping ritual, and she highlights the “I deserve this” loop that can make food feel like our main refuge. Through personal insights and examples from her work, Alana encourages self-awareness and compassion, offering listeners practical ways to diversify their sources of comfort and establish new grounding rituals beyond food.
Enter the giveaway to receive a 1:1 private session with Alana by DMing a screenshot of your review @bewellbyak on Instagram or emailing as podcast@bewellbyak.com!
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The Craving Reset Library is your on-demand toolkit for breaking emotional eating patterns in real time – without relying on willpower or rules. Inside, you’ll find fast-acting audio tools designed to interrupt cravings, regulate your nervous system, and retrain your brain to feel calm, clear, and in control. Whether it’s a 3-minute urge or a full-blown binge cycle, these resets put you back in charge. Click here to access the Craving Reset Audio Library and take control in the moment it matters most.
Coming Home to Your Body → A self-paced course to help you feel safe, grounded, and at peace in a body that's still changing. Learn to build trust with your body now – not just after weight loss. Enroll here
Explore more from Be Well by AK
Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram at @bewellbyak.
Takeaways
Emotional eating is a common response to stress.
It's important to recognize that you're not alone in this experience.
The nervous system plays a crucial role in how we respond to stress.
Food can become a source of predictability during uncertain times.
Collective behavior influences individual eating habits.
Changing deep-rooted patterns takes time and awareness.
Chapters
03:10 Understanding the Nervous System's Role
08:01 The Deserve This Loop and Its Implications
11:22 The Search for Control Amidst Chaos
14:49 Generational Trauma and Emotional Eating
18:06 Rewiring Survival Patterns for Healing
19:06 Practical Steps for Managing Emotional Eating