Living Life Unbinged with Kristy

NEXT STEPS 💕 SHARE this with a friend you think would enjoy this episode. 🦋 Find more resources: lifeunbinged.com ✨ Website: https://lifeunbinged.com 📧 Support: support@lifeunbinged.com What if the word “treat” doesn’t mean what we’ve been taught to think it means? In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, I’m sharing a simple moment at my son’s football game that completely changed the way I think about food, rewards, and the word treat itself. For years, like most families, we used ...

NEXT STEPS 🦋 If you’re looking for a faith-based community of women walking through this together, you can join the Surrender Sisters here: https://lifeunbinged.com/surrender-sisters/ 📖 Download the FREE Guide – Breaking Free From Food Addiction: https://lifeunbinged.com/breaking-free-from-food-addiction ✨ Website: https://lifeunbinged.com 📧 Support: support@lifeunbinged.com If you’ve been trying to walk in freedom on your own (and it still feels heavy), this episode is for you. In toda...

Twenty years ago, while struggling with overeating, emotional eating, and constant sugar cravings, I decided to attend a meeting with Overeaters Anonymous because I was desperate to find freedom. At the time, something surprising had already started happening. After removing processed sugar and flour, the cravings were finally beginning to calm down. For the first time in years, my mind felt clearer and I was starting to feel hopeful. But during one of those meetings, something happened that ...

If you’ve ever tried to overcome food cravings or sugar addiction through pure discipline, only to feel exhausted and discouraged, this episode offers a powerful perspective shift. In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, we unpack a familiar verse that many people quote but rarely pause to truly understand: “The joy of the Lord is your strength.” This conversation explores what that verse actually means and why lasting change doesn’t come from more willpower, but from a deeper source of s...

If you’ve ever wondered why old habits seem to come back so easily (even after you’ve decided to change) this episode will help it make sense. In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, we look at a simple story about a neighborhood road detour that reveals something powerful about how our brains build habits. After weeks of driving the same temporary construction route, the brain naturally kept following the old pattern, even after the road was fixed. And that small moment offers a powerful...

If you’ve ever felt consumed by a habit, craving, or addiction, this episode will speak straight to your heart. In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, we share a powerful full-circle story about addiction recovery, clarity, and what happens when obsession finally lifts. Years ago, a man in long-term sobriety made a simple comment: “The trees are so green.” At the time, it seemed small. But decades later, after walking through sugar addiction and finding freedom, that statement made perfe...

If you’ve ever wondered whether weight loss medications could finally bring you peace with food, this episode is for you. In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, we’re having an honest, grace-filled conversation about weight loss shots, and the deeper question many women are quietly asking: Will this actually heal my struggle with food? With compassion and biblical wisdom, this episode explores the difference between temporary change and lasting transformation. While medication isn’t sinf...

If you’ve ever said, “I don’t understand how I lost control again,” or “I was doing so well… until I wasn’t,” this episode is for you. In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, we’re talking about the moment that matters most for women with a high propensity for sugar addiction and binge eating: the first bite. For many women, the struggle with food isn’t about the whole day, the whole week, or the whole plan. It’s about one moment. One decision. One bite. Because for someone wired like thi...

If food feels like it’s always in the background of your mind, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone. In this episode of Living Life Unbinged, we’re talking about food noise, the constant mental chatter about eating, restricting, starting over, craving, and negotiating with yourself all day long. It’s exhausting, overwhelming, and for so many of us, it quietly runs our lives. Food noise isn’t hunger. It’s obsession. It’s a brain trained to look to food for comfort, relief, reward, or ...

Temptation doesn’t mean you’ve failed, it means you need a plan. In this episode, we’re talking about how to build a temptation plan, a simple, faith-filled escape plan you can put into action when cravings and food noise get loud. Even when you’ve committed to freedom from sugar and flour and have a solid food plan in place, temptation can still show up, especially when you’re tired, stressed, lonely, anxious, or overwhelmed. And during those moments, willpower alone isn’t enough. Rooted in ...

For so many of us, surrender sounds good in theory… but terrifying in practice, especially when it comes to food, weight, and control. In this episode of Living Life Unbinged, we’re talking about what biblical surrender really looks like, not giving up, not failing, but finally releasing control and letting God carry what we were never meant to handle alone. Rooted in Proverbs 3:5–6, this episode explores what it means to trust God in all our ways — including our appetite, our cravings, our b...

For years, I was trapped in sugar addiction, food obsession, and the constant cycle of shame, starting over, and feeling stuck. Food ruled my thoughts. Cravings controlled my choices. And freedom felt impossible. But Jesus changed everything. In this very first episode of Living Life Unbinged, I’m sharing my personal story — how God met me in my brokenness, helped me break free from sugar addiction, quieted the food noise in my mind, and led me to lose over 100 pounds through surrender, faith...