Truce with Food with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
You've done Weight Watchers. Therapy. The functional medicine workup. You know more about nutrition than most people. And yet, you still can't make it stick. So now you're wondering if you're just the problem.You are not the problem. The framework you needed—that integrates real, lasting change—just never showed up, so you keep blaming yourself instead.Truce With Food® is a podcast for women in perimenopause and menopause who are exhausted from emotional eating, binge eating, overeating, and food noise taking up more space in their lives than they ever wanted. If you're eating when you're not hungry, can't figure out why what used to work no longer does, or just want a real conversation about your relationship with food and your body, you're in the right place.Host Ali Shapiro is a holistic nutritionist, cancer survivor, and creator of the research-based Truce With Food® framework that’s also built on 19 years of real client results. She healed her own relationship with food and has spent nearly two decades helping other women do the same through honest conversations about food, psychology, physiology, and why showing up with a C+ effort gets you further than any plan that demands perfection ever will. And how the real work is to be counterculture and trust in satisfaction, not more discipline. New episodes every other Wednesday.
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May 13, 2020 • 1h 10min
229. When Sugar Becomes Addictive with Ali Miller, RD
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 cravingsWhy ketones and metabolic flexibility matter and being “keto” isn’t the only way to get thereA radically different idea of food freedom that clashes with Intuitive Eating because of how processed foods deregulate the bodyWhy zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia get a “zero” in Ali’s bookJoin us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/
May 6, 2020 • 1h 9min
228. Root Causes of Sugar Addiction with Charles Eisenstein
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 habitsThe 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!)
Apr 8, 2020 • 1h 16min
227. How to Eat and Live Well During High Anxiety Times (Special Pandemic Episode)
Insatiable is back with a special podcast to support you now. In this episode:•Why we feel out of control around food now•An unnecessary layer of anxiety we can eliminate with this mindset shift (and the hidden "optimal conflict" opportunity)•Simple and easy ideas to get back in control with food and our well-being•Q&A with our communityTo join a future live podcast recording and receive the corresponding coaching materials and resources, get on my list at alishapiro.com
Feb 26, 2020 • 54min
226. Food Freedom 6: Sugar Rehab
Ah, sugar…referred to as the sugar dragon, sugar siren, and sugar addiction. There are physical and emotional root causes and solutions of how to reduce sugar in your life.In this episode, we will discuss:Why sugar is so dangerous and yet it comforts us5 easy food swaps and additions to your diet to naturally prevent cravingsThe four emotional triggers that cause sugar cravings and how to work through triggers without sugarTo join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-food
Feb 19, 2020 • 54min
225. Food Freedom 5: End the Guilt (and Downward Eating Spiral)
How can you enjoy your favorite indulgences without the guilt so that one piece of dessert or pizza doesn’t turn into “well the day is ruined, let’s keep going.”. We’ll discuss how to do this, specifically with:Why we feel we are on a “balance beam” (or track) with being good and how to lose the “track” all togetherAli’s rule of thumb on what foods to add to your meals so you don’t crash from your favorite sugar or salty treats4 mindset tools to transform “bad” or guilty choices into advantages for your health and weight loss goals
Feb 12, 2020 • 44min
224. Food Freedom 4 End the Restrict-Binge Cycle
To end the restrict-binge cycle, we have to address the three root causes of bingeing: deregulated blood sugar, restriction and our story that makes us be all-or-nothing, with food just being one area we approach life like this. We’ll discuss:How to stop restricting after a binge using the “3-5” ruleHow to get out of the all-or-nothing cycle that is the root cause of the bingeing in the first place.The three stress responses that lock us into all-or-nothing and how to start seeing new choicesTo join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-food
Feb 5, 2020 • 43min
223. Food Freedom 3: Redefine Self-Acceptance
There are many definitions of self-acceptance when it comes to accepting our bodies. I used to think self-acceptance meant resignation. And that didn’t feel like freedom. In today’s episode, we’ll redefine self-acceptance and discuss:The four stages to mastery of self-acceptance for our goals and food choices so we can embody the full range of our true, magical capabilitiesHow taking responsibility for our food allergies can enable us to become intuitive eaters and powerful leaders in our lives.How to not feel deprived with food allergies or life for more eating consistencyTo join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-food
Jan 29, 2020 • 50min
222. Food Freedom 2: Feel in Control, Not Controlled by Food
You want to want to make a healthy choice. And you don’t want to feel deprived. How do we sink below this seemingly conflicting choice of eating the cookie and feeling crappy or not eating the cookie, feeling deprived and setting ourselves up for overeating or a binge? In today’s episode, we’ll discuss:How Intuitive Eating is a great start yet doesn’t go far enough in helping us feel in control of foodThe difference between control and choice and how choice gets you further with your nutrition, health and weight-loss goalsHow to choose to align with your physiological and psychological feedback loop so you can feel good and not deprived with your food choices.To join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-food
Jan 22, 2020 • 49min
221. Food Freedom 1: Stop Monitoring Yourself around Food
Many of us monitor ourselves with food. It becomes an obsession; we monitor if we look fat. We monitor if other people are fat or thin. More scrutinization often ends in exhaustion, leading to “I know I shouldn’t but F@$# it”. In other words, more monitoring is counterproductive. But there is hope, and a way to break this cycle. In this episode, we will grapple with the questions of: How do we get out of this monitoring but not executing cycle? How do we rebalance our body and brain chemistry while also healing the emotional?How do we not restrict, and instead, discern what is right for our physiological design?How do we feel satisfied, satiated, and healthy so that we actually feel great in the skin we are in, not just resigned to a body that we’re not really comfortable in and doesn’t feel healthy because we feel like bad feminists or otherwise shamed by the body positivity movement?To join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-food
Jan 15, 2020 • 45min
220. The 6 Freedoms of Sustainable Weight Loss
In my approach, weight-loss as a side-effect of balancing your body with the right foods for you (i.e. there isn’t one way of eating that works for everyone) and addressing the emotional reasons we fall off track by overtime, rewriting our story. This approach unlocks options and freedoms previously unknown to you. In this Insatiable episode, I’ll share how your food and weight battle can serve as post-traumatic growth, the 6 “food freedoms” unlocked by the Truce with Food process based on the 6 most common ways that clients and listeners say their weight obsession “handcuffed” them and more of my own story about how I did this for myself and tips for you to get started for yourselfTo join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-food
