Why High-Achieving Women Struggle With Food (and How to Finally Stop Starting Over) — with Holistic Nutritionist Casey Weiss
About this episode
This episode explores why high-achieving women struggle with food and offers insights on breaking free from dieting cycles.
You can run a business, a household and a packed calendar — so why does eating well feel impossible? In this episode of Females Thriving Over 30, Soraya sits down with holistic nutritionist Casey Weiss to unpack why high-achieving, type A women get trapped in cycles of dieting, overeating, food guilt and starting over every Monday — and why discipline and willpower are exactly the wrong tools for the job. Casey shares her own journey from chronic dieting and food obsession to food freedom, and breaks down the psychology and biology behind the all-or-nothing eating pattern: perfectionism, "good food vs bad food" thinking, food noise, and the blood sugar roller coaster that drives nighttime overeating. ✨ What You’ll Learn in this episode Why the mindset that made you successful is sabotaging your relationship with food The food-mood journal method that beats calorie counting (and why MyFitnessPal keeps you stuck) How undereating during the day causes binge and overeating at night Why your metabolism is NOT broken after 30 — and what actually changed Emotional eating, shame and the childhood roots of your food rules The truth about GLP-1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy)…
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