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The Breakthrough Emotional Eating PodcastAuthor: Kristin Jones
The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast helps individuals address and manage all aspects of emotional eating and weight loss through understanding why it happens, how to recognize and stop it, and realizing that changing the body only happens after you have changed the mind. Restrictive diets and depriving yourself of foods you love is not the answer, and Breakthrough shows you there is another way to address this deeper issue. Listeners will learn practical tips and strategies that will guide them towards a healthy relationship with food, and with themselves. Kristin Jones is a certified life coach and fitness instructor specializing in helping women break free from emotional eating and overeating. With over 17 years of experience in education, she understands the challenges of balancing a demanding career with personal well-being. Having personally struggled with an eating disorder, she brings a unique perspective and empathy to her coaching work.Through her signature program, Breakthrough Emotional Eating, Kristin combines the power of Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) with practical tools and strategies to help clients cultivate a healthy relationship with food, and themselves. By addressing underlying emotional issues and limiting beliefs, she empowers women to find freedom, self-love, and lasting transformation.In addition to being a certified yoga and fitness instructor at Life Time in Walnut Creek, CA, she also hosts a podcast, Breakthrough Emotional Eating, has a YouTube channel, Kristin Jones Coaching, and is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, When Food Is Your Drug: A Food Addict's Guide To Managing Emotional Eating. Language: en Genres: Education, Self-Improvement Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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BEE #161: Why Food Obsession Is NOT The Real Problem
Tuesday, 21 April, 2026
Message me with comments or questionsIf you can follow the meal plan for a couple of days and then suddenly feel like everything unravels, this episode is for you.So many women think the problem is a lack of discipline, but that is rarely the full story. In this episode of the Breakthrough Emotional Eating podcast, I discuss the deeper issue underneath the all-or-nothing cycle with food: the loss of self-trust that gets built over years of chronic dieting, pressure, restriction, and harsh food rules.If you have ever felt like cravings get louder the moment you try to be “good,” like food takes over your thoughts, or like you keep ending up back at square one, I want you to know that there is nothing wrong with you. Your brain is responding exactly as it should, but that doesn’t mean you have to accept it. Food obsession is often a predictable response to deprivation, not a sign that you are weak or incapable.Inside this episode, I walk you through the restriction-to-deprivation-to-preoccupation cycle and explain why chronic dieting often creates the very struggle women blame themselves for. We also talk about how the belief “I can’t be trusted around food” becomes an identity trap that quietly chips away at self-worth, confidence, and hope for lasting change.I share the framework behind my free 3-Day Lose The Food Obsession Challenge, happening April 27th-30th inside my Facebook group, Breakthrough Emotional Eating: Change Your Beliefs & Lose Weight. In the challenge, we focus on small wins, moderation without punishment, and rebuilding trust in yourself one choice at a time so that sustainable weight loss and a healthier relationship with food can finally begin to stick.Click the link here to sign up for the free 3 Day Lose The Food Obsession Challenge.I hope to see you inside the challenge. Connect with me online:1. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristinjonescoaching/2. You Tube channel, Kristin Jones Coaching: https://www.youtube.com/@KristinJonesCoaching443. You Tube channel, Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@breakthroughpodcast-443 . Website: https://www.kristinjonescoaching.com If you want to learn how to stop nighttime eating, get my 3 Day Nighttime Snacking Reset: https://go.kristinjonescoaching.com/nighttime-snacking-reset Needing more specific and direct support for your emotional eating and overeating? Check out my online course, Stop Dieting Start Feeling, and my personalized coaching program, Breakthrough To You. If you found this episode helpful, don't forget to leave a review on the platform you used to listen and share it with your friends on your Instagram stories. Also, be sure to follow me on Instagram @breakthroughemotionaleating, and don't hesitate to slide into my DMs to share your thoughts and fee...












