165. Stop Emotional Eating, Lose Weight, and Learn How to Quit the Right Way

165. Stop Emotional Eating, Lose Weight, and Learn How to Quit the Right Way

July 20, 2026 · 49 min · Season 4 · Episode 165

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In this episode, Kim Hynes and Holly Bertone discuss overcoming emotional eating and achieving sustainable weight loss without falling back into diet culture.

Welcome to the Emotional Eats Podcast! You can't understand why you keep getting into the snacks at night so you turn to another diet. You tun to restriction, food rules, chasing the scale, and quitting when life gets hard. If you've ever wondered why you keep ending up in that cycle, this episode is for you. In this episode, I'm welcoming back Holly Bertone for a conversation that builds on our first interview about emotional eating. This time, we're exploring what comes next. Once you begin healing your relationship with food, how do you create lasting, sustainable weight loss without falling back into the diet cycle? The one you have been stuck in for years. Holly shares her remarkable journey from working for the FBI to becoming an emotional eating and weight loss coach, and explains how her background in pattern analysis helped her develop a completely different way of looking at lasting change. Together, we talk about why so many women stay stuck, how diet culture has shaped the way we think about our bodies, the role of identity and nervous system regulation, and why real transformation goes far beyond the number on the scale. Listen to the end because Holly shares that…

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Host: Kim Hynes

Guest: Holly Bertone

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