If you’ve ever felt like your appetite is totally out of whack—always hungry, never hungry, craving everything, or suddenly full after three bites—you’re not alone. In this episode of Confident Eaters, Georgie and Christina dig into two key hormones that shape your hunger and fullness: ghrelin and GLP-1. You’ll learn what they are, how they work, and how daily habits like sleep, stress, meal size, and even food order affect them. Plus, we break down the science behind popular drugs like Ozempic,...
Aug 15, 2025•16 min•Ep. 52
The term 'hormone balancing' is widely used in wellness marketing, but it often lacks specificity and can be misleading. Despite its frequent use, true hormonal imbalances are serious medical issues that can impact various aspects of health, including metabolism, menstrual cycles, bone density, blood pressure, and fertility. If you're experiencing symptoms like irregular sleep, intense cravings, or irregular periods, you're not alone. We're here to help clarify what's really going on with your h...
Jul 25, 2025•22 min•Ep. 51
In this episode, we address a listener's concern about whether years of dieting and intermittent fasting have affected her hormones. The term 'hormone balancing' is widely used in wellness marketing, but it often lacks specificity and can be misleading. Despite its frequent use, true hormonal imbalances are serious medical issues that can impact various aspects of health, including metabolism, menstrual cycles, bone density, blood pressure, and fertility. If you're experiencing symptoms like irr...
Jul 04, 2025•20 min•Ep. 50
It's common for many of the people we work with to desire to lose weight. However, many of them have been on and off the diet roller coaster for a large portion of their life, and can get burnt out from pursuing a goal of weight loss solely. Sometimes, clients decide that they want to work towards a different goal, such as performance in exercise, maintaining current habits, or body acceptance. When working with our clients, one of the most important part of our jobs as coaches is to stay attune...
Jun 13, 2025•22 min•Ep. 49
Today, we join a conversation with my (Georgie's) client Kerry, who is close to graduating. We only have a couple weeks left of working together, and she has lost weight successfully and steadily. She's been through this process diving into the challenges one by one, practicing new skills to manage them. You could think of today's episode as a glimpse into what it looks like once someone has moved pretty far into successfully changing their behaviors and losing weight. Kerry is a really great ex...
May 09, 2025•31 min•Ep. 48
Today, we join Georgie and her client Chelsea once again. Chelsea has been making great progress, and you will see that she's somebody who has always taken a very easygoing approach to meeting her goals to lose body fat and weight while still enjoying her life and having a good time practicing for competitive dance, which she engages in regularly. As you hear right from her own lips, she has made so much progress without suffering because she has been patient, because she's allowed the process t...
Apr 18, 2025•28 min•Ep. 47
Have you ever started a house project, knowing you have the tools you need, but you can't find the toolbox? You can experience the same thing when you are trying on new skills to cope with the difficulties of life, but food and eating still seems to be the default tools, and you can't access your new skills or tools in your time of need. We call this "the gap". It's that space between the knowing better and the doing better. Knowing has to come first, but then there's a lag where your old habits...
Mar 14, 2025•15 min•Ep. 46
In today's episode, we are going to talk about some of the things that our clients have raved to us recently about. Sometimes, more than one of our clients will really love a certain product or app independently, so we have been keeping track of those things to share with you in case you could use some of these tools. There's some pretty cool stuff that's come around, from air fryers, to instant pots, to walking pads. But we want to make it clear that we're not here just to tell you to buy more ...
Feb 21, 2025•36 min•Ep. 45
Today we are going to hear another call between Georgie and her client Chelsea. When you are managing your weight and seeing the scale go in the direction you want it to, it's important to keep weight loss in perspective of your overall life. It can be so easy to want to get too hooked on the scale and try to "hurry it up" which can lead to potentially overextending yourself into diet land. Chelsea is aware of this and taking caution. Additionally, Georgie and Chelsea talk about what to consider...
Jan 24, 2025•24 min•Ep. 44
If you’ve resolved year after year to lose weight without seeing lasting results—or tried to stop caring about weight altogether but found it impossible to let go—you’re not alone. In this episode, we dive into a recent conversation from Georgie’s client, Kelly, whose struggles echo what so many experience. Maybe you've also tried to take steps which should be effective at reducing your body weight, like eating more fruits and vegetables, drinking fewer sugary beverages, and learning to eat beca...
Jan 10, 2025•9 min•Ep. 43
Winter is here! For many of us, it's a long stretch of the year—one that can throw a wrench in even the best-laid health plans. If you're someone who tries to stay active, eat well, and nurture your mental wellness throughout the year, you probably know that winter brings its own unique set of challenges. Whether it's battling the winter blues, staying on track during holiday festivities, or simply managing the cold, winter can make healthy living feel more difficult. If you're feeling the seaso...
Dec 13, 2024•40 min•Ep. 42
Maybe you are like many people we work with: you know how you want to eat, but your actual eating often looks pretty different. This can happen for all sorts of different reasons, but some of our clients can narrow it down to the ever changing environment of their life. Maybe you travel often, making your home in several countries in any given year. Each stop means a different kitchen, different grocery store, and different routines. Or maybe you aren't a constant international traveler, but per...
Nov 22, 2024•12 min•Ep. 41
If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, maybe you've taken hold of many of the skills it takes to become a confident, sensible eater. And it's working! But maybe you still have times when you are more vulnerable to eating unnecessarily. (In other words, when you aren't hungry). This might be due to boredom, stress, or some other non-hunger reason. If so, a great thing to be working on is emotional awareness, which then paves the way for emotional management. That's exactly what Geor...
Nov 01, 2024•15 min•Ep. 40
Could your boundaries use some work? If you've struggled with your health and weight for some time, you might be able to pinpoint it on certain life stressors, a demanding job, an injury, genetics, or the belief that you lack discipline. Sometimes, however, hidden factors like low self esteem and lack of healthy boundaries play a much bigger role in weight gain than people imagine. Luckily, we can improve these with some intentional work, and it contributes to success in permanently losing weigh...
Oct 11, 2024•26 min•Ep. 39
We often hear from our clients that body and weight have been a topic of conversation from the time they were little kids. Your body and weight may have been criticized, policed, praised, scrutinized, shamed, or complimented early in life and it doesn't stop when we grow up either. Your personal trainer, doctor, friends, or spouse might say something about your weight, especially if it has gone up or down recently. Receiving critical comments about our bodies can be annoying, discouraging, and d...
Sep 20, 2024•29 min•Ep. 38
When people are trying to change their food patterns, it's not always as straight forward as "just doing it". Why is that? What we see with our clients is that all sorts of things can get in the way like emotions, cravings, and food preferences. Join Georgie, Maryclaire, and Christina as we discuss what the research says about food cravings, what influences them, and how we can help our clients who deal with them. We cover a range of questions in this episode: Do food cravings have anything to d...
Aug 30, 2024•40 min•Ep. 37
Do you ever just feel like saying "Screw it!" to your nutrition goals? Maybe you are like some of our clients who feel like they have two modes: one in which they are very organized and diligent with paying attention to their health and nutrition and another mode where they just want to cut loose from all of that now and then. Sometimes, you might have a busy week or going through a difficult season and it just feels like too much work to try and do all of your "healthy things". With our 1:1 cli...
Aug 02, 2024•28 min•Ep. 36
We are back again with another episode to discuss TREATS here at the Confident Eaters Headquarters! In the previous episode, we talked about evaluating your treats for worthiness. We also pointed out that not all situations are ones where a treat can be fully enjoyed. We also touched on how FOMO can trick us into eating more treats than we would want to be consuming in order to make progress toward weight loss goals. If you missed Part 1 of this episode, check it out HERE . A lot of our clients ...
Jul 12, 2024•17 min•Ep. 35
Injectable weight loss drugs such as Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro are a hot topic. They have a lot of promise and generate a lot of excitement, along with massive profits. They also arouse suspicions and concerns for many people and we are here to talk about it. In this week's episode, join us for a coaches chat, as Georgie, Maryclaire, and Christina talk about weight loss drugs, the most recent research around it, and our first hand experience coaching clients who are taking them. We cover a ra...
Jun 21, 2024•40 min•Ep. 34
This week, we are excited to share a Client interview from our 1:1 coaching program. Join Coach Christina and her former client, Jamie, as they discuss her journey of overcoming diet perfectionism and learning how to simplify and streamline the habits to make the most of her efforts. We all have different challenges, backgrounds, habits, and lifestyles. Jamie, like many of our clients came into coaching with a lot of nutritional knowledge. Jamie is an independent self-sufficient hardworking pers...
May 31, 2024•28 min•Ep. 33
Here at Confident Eaters, we love treats! Treats are one of life's pleasures! In our quest to help you be healthier and more confident, we want to make sure that you have a lot of fun included. And, if lowering your body weight is on your list of goals you want to achieve (like almost all of the clients we work with do), then reducing the amount of these low nutrition foods is most likely on the list of things you need to do to achieve your goals. However, we have a unique strategy that we use t...
May 10, 2024•41 min•Ep. 32
Do you struggle with saying no? If you are someone who tends to do what others want all the time ahead of your own wants, you might be people pleasing. We see it as a struggle for many of our clients and it can become a real problem on their journey to becoming a confident, sensible eater. If you notice signs like you are feeling resentful or heading to burnout, or feel disconnected to your own preferences and needs, that can sometimes be the cause for your emotional eating or overeating and can...
Apr 12, 2024•23 min•Ep. 31
Is food stress ruining eating for you? Food stress can take on many forms! Maybe you are dealing with life stress and don't enjoy eating, maybe you are stressed about eating the "perfect" macronutrient targets, overthinking what to make and how much to eat, or maybe you are overeating due to stress. Regardless of where you're coming from, the Confident Eaters coaches have your back! Join Georgie and Christina in this episode as we sort out the challenges you might be facing with food stress. We ...
Mar 22, 2024•36 min•Ep. 30
How come you don't write meal plans? Am I putting in enough effort to make a difference? Why am I not losing fat if my body is in "fat burn mode"? If you have had any or all of those thoughts or questions on your journey to food freedom, then you're going to get a lot out of this episode. Listen in on Coach Georgie's conversation with Haylin Alpert, the owner of Core Principles Gym in Stamford, CT, as they discuss common questions we get in the Nutrition coaching world. (If you missed their othe...
Mar 01, 2024•20 min•Ep. 29
What do you do when you've finally decided to quit dieting, but everyone around you seems to still be starting this diet or that and talking about it constantly? "Diet talk" is all around us, but that doesn't mean we have to fall prey to the juice cleanse your coworker lost 6 lb. on, or the diet book your mom really wants you to read. In this episode, coaches Georgie and Christina give you practical tips and real client insights as to how you can navigate diet conversations gracefully and effect...
Feb 23, 2024•24 min•Ep. 28
Have you ever heart of an end of eating ritual? An end of eating ritual is not anything involving tiki torches in the jungle. We're talking about a simple behavior that you can practice doing at the end of your meals to help with moving on. Even though you have completed thousands of meals in your life, you might wonder why would you consider adding one now? If you are someone who has a difficult time ending your meals, whether that is from wanting to delay having to begin an unpleasant task, or...
Feb 16, 2024•22 min•Ep. 27
Do you regularly move for enjoyment? Maybe you have a checkered past with exercise and you equate fitness with suffering and a "no pain no gain" mentality. If so, it can feel like a chore you need to do rather than being something you enjoy, or something that brings relief from stress or the other benefits that can come from exercise. In this episode, we're talking all about how to unlock joy in fitness and how to transform your exercise mindset. The reason this is important is because if we enj...
Feb 09, 2024•41 min•Ep. 26
Is sugar going to kill you prematurely? Is eating a banana the same thing as eating a snickers bar? Why do I feel out of control around food? What about if I want something but I don't want it at the same time? How do I make the right decision? I f you have had any or all of those thoughts or questions on your journey to food freedom, then you're going to get a lot out of this episode. Listen in on Coach Georgie's conversation with Haylin Alpert, the owner of Core Principles Gym in Stamford, CT,...
Feb 03, 2024•26 min•Ep. 25
In life, we are not immune to discomfort and disappointments. It's part of the human experience! It can come in the form of physical pain, relational conflict, disappointing news, and good ole day to day frustrations, just to name a few. How do you normally handle discomfort? Unfortunately, many of us were not taught how to handle discomfort in a constructive way. Because of this, we learn maladaptive ways of coping, which can lead to further frustration, self-sabotage, and giving up on reaching...
Jan 28, 2024•30 min•Ep. 24
Do you struggle with staying motivated? Lots of people love the fresh start of the New Year to create health goals. Have you been feeling that or riding that high? But what happens if motivation wanes over time or you suffer a setback? Is it just a matter of having "enough" discipline to push through? Or could something else be going on? In this week's episode, join coaches Georgie and Christina as we dive into the topics of motivation and curiosity. Both of these are significant for understandi...
Jan 19, 2024•34 min•Ep. 23
