Food addiction isn’t just about food, it’s about the emotional battles happening inside us every single day. In this powerful episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary reveals the seven emotional demons of addiction: anger, fear, shame, guilt, remorse, resentment, and self-pity.

Metabolic syndrome affects millions of women and many don’t even realize they have it.

If you’ve been doing “everything right” with food, dieting, or weight loss but still struggle with belly fat, blood sugar issues, fatigue, cravings, or stubborn weight that won’t budge, this episode is for you.

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, I break down what metabolic syndrome actually is, how it develops, and why it’s not a willpower problem.

Drawing on the research and teachings of Dr. Ben Bikman, we talk about the real root cause behind metabolic syndrome: insulin resistance and how years of blood sugar spikes, emotional eating, food addiction, and chronic dieting quietly set the stage for metabolic dysfunction.

You’ll learn:

• What metabolic syndrome is and how it shows up in the body

• Why insulin resistance, not calories, is the real driver

• How food addiction and emotional eating contribute to metabolic damage

• Why traditional dieting often makes metabolic syndrome worse

• What actually helps reverse metabolic syndrome in a sustainable way

• How food sobriety and real food can support metabolic healing

This episode connects the dots between metabolic health and your relationship with food, so you can stop blaming yourself and start working with your body instead of against it.

If you’re ready to understand why your body has been fighting you and what to do about it, this conversation will give you clarity, compassion, and a path forward.

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Can you have health or weight loss goals in recovery from food addiction, binge eating, or compulsive eating without being disordered?

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary breaks down a common and damaging myth in the recovery space: that wanting to change your body or improve your health automatically means you’re slipping back into disordered thinking or diet culture.

The truth is having health or aesthetic goals is not the problem. The real issue is how those goals are pursued and whether they support or sabotage your recovery.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why wanting weight loss or aesthetic goals does NOT mean you’re failing at recovery

• The critical difference between recovery-driven goals and diet-culture behavior

• How to evaluate your health decisions through the lens of food sobriety

• Why recovery must always come first and how goals can coexist without relapse

• How to pursue strength, confidence, and better health without returning to obsession or restriction

If you’re in recovery from food addiction or emotional eating and feel conflicted about wanting to change your body, this episode will bring clarity, relief, and permission to move forward without compromising your freedom.

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**This episode was recorded in October**

If you’re frustrated that your weight, cravings, blood sugar, or health “aren’t fixing fast enough,” this episode is your reality check.

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Coach Mary breaks down why true healing from food addiction, emotional eating, and metabolic damage cannot happen on a 30-day timeline and why expecting quick fixes keeps so many people stuck in relapse, burnout, and self-blame.

You’ll learn why detoxes, supplements, and medications often provide short-term symptom relief but fail to create lasting change, how biology actually heals at its own pace, and why consistency, not urgency, is the key to real food freedom.

Mary explains how years of stress, processed foods, dieting, and using food as a coping mechanism reshape your body and brain and why reversing that damage requires patience, a roadmap, and stacked daily wins over time.

If you’re tired of chasing fast results and ready to build real, sustainable healing from the inside out, this episode will help you shift your mindset and stay committed to food sobriety for the long haul.

Grab your copy of my FREE 9 page Beginner’s Guide to Food Sobriety https://www.foodfreedomwithmary.com/foodsobrietyguide

Food Freedom Online Course: https://www.foodfreedomwithmary.com/foodfreedomcourse

Food Sobriety Mini Course -https://www.foodfreedomwithmary.com/foodsobrietymc

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Self-esteem plays a much bigger role in food addiction, binge eating, and emotional eating than most people realize.

What if food sobriety wasn’t about restriction, control, or “being good”… but about peace?

In this episode, I’m sharing what food sobriety truly means to me after nearly 12 years in recovery. Not the polished version, but the real one, showing up for myself, feeling emotions instead of escaping them, building self-trust, setting boundaries, and finally living with clarity and presence.

Food sobriety didn’t shrink my life it expanded it. It brought mental peace, authentic joy, and the freedom to be fully myself without apology.

If you’re tired of battling food, stuck in emotional eating, or longing for a calmer relationship with food and with yourself, this episode will help you reframe what recovery can actually look like.

Do you feel like food takes up way more space in your mind than it should even when you “know what to do”?

In this episode of the Food Freedom Podcast, Mary breaks down why emotional eating, binge eating, and food obsession are not caused by a lack of willpower. Instead, they’re driven by deeper emotional patterns like perfectionism, guilt, self-judgment, and using control as a coping mechanism.

If you’re stuck in the exhausting cycle of doing well for a while, then feeling like everything falls apart overnight, this episode will help you understand what’s really happening beneath the surface and why trying harder only keeps you trapped.

Mary shares both personal insight from decades of recovery and professional experience coaching women toward food sobriety, self-trust, and lasting peace with food.

If you’re tired of the all-or-nothing mindset and ready for a more compassionate, psychology-based approach to emotional eating recovery, this episode is for you.

If you’re trying to recover from food addiction but still feel stuck in the cycle of bingeing, restricting, negotiating with food, and starting over every Monday, this episode is for you.

In this powerful Food Freedom Podcast episode, Mary breaks down why you can’t heal food addiction while keeping one foot on both sides of the line. Living in the “comfort zone” not fully committing, promising tomorrow, white-knuckling through good days and falling apart on hard ones is where food addiction and disordered eating patterns survive.

This episode goes beyond willpower and motivation and gets to the real issue: truth, commitment, and making a clear decision to pursue food sobriety. Mary explains why managing the crazy isn’t recovery, how the comfort zone feels safer than change, and why freedom from binge eating and compulsive eating starts with drawing a hard line.

If you struggle with emotional eating, food obsession, or feel like you keep repeating the same patterns with food, this episode will challenge you to stop negotiating and start choosing real healing.

You’ll learn:

• Why the “comfort zone” keeps you stuck in food addiction

• The difference between managing symptoms and true recovery

• Why willpower isn’t the solution to binge eating and emotional eating

• How commitment and structure create food sobriety and peace with food

This episode is for anyone ready to stop playing games with food, break free from disordered eating behaviors, and finally experience lasting food freedom.