Renee Belz & Lauren Sambataro Finding Freedom From Emotional Eating & Food Disorders with Amber Romaniuk l Unpacking and Healing What Lies Underneath Our Hunger for Ultimate Body Freedom
In this episode, we sit down with Amber Romaniuk for a deep dive into the numerous root causes of emotional eating. She discusses how the food industry has shaped our behaviors by promoting highly processed, dopamine-driven foods that hijack our brain’s reward pathways and keep us stuck in cycles of craving, guilt, and restriction. Amber highlights the role of dopamine in these patterns, showing how food becomes a quick emotional fix and how disrupted hormones, gut health, and blood-sugar balance can intensify cravings. She offers practical steps for healing, including building awareness around emotional vs. physical hunger, stabilizing blood sugar with nourishing foods, supporting digestion and hormones, and cultivating safety and self-trust instead of restriction or shame. Addressing food addiction, she emphasizes compassion, mindset work, and non-food coping tools to break binge-and-restrict loops. She also shares her insights into the use of GLP-1 medications, as well as more information about her Body Freedom Program, which helps women release diet culture, heal their relationship with food, balance hormones and digestion, and create lasting “body safety” through mindset shifts, nutrition, and emotional healing—all aimed at achieving freedom from food obsession and reconnecting with the body’s innate wisdom.
Amber Romaniuk is an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert, with 12 years experience helping high achieving women create a level of body confidence, intuition and optimal health through powerful mindset healing, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food.
She does this through addressing the key negative thoughts, patterns and limiting beliefs that keep women stuck in the same behaviors for years and decades, that they haven’t been able to break.Her podcast “The No Sugarcoating Podcast” has 2+ million downloads, over 600 episodes and is listened to in over 90 countries.
Amber overcame her own emotional eating after gaining and losing more than 1000 lbs and spending over $50,000 on binge foods, and spending 5 years balancing her hormones and digestion. She also dismantled her deep limiting beliefs and behaviors keeping her stuck in the same looping patterns.Now she helps others achieve the biggest healing miracles of Body FreedomTM so they have the confidence and health to create amazing lives.
SHOW NOTES:
0:39 Welcome to the podcast!
1:40 Amber Romaniuk’s Bio
2:11 Welcome her to the show!
3:09 Her turning point
9:34 Influence from the food industry
11:52 Impact of childhood on eating behaviors
13:44 Numbing out with food
15:20 Renee’s journey with food
19:39 Low Dopamine
25:58 Food disorders in men
27:28 The Kardashian influence
30:04 Intuition & discernment for self-healing
32:58 *MIMIO HEALTH*
34:49 The downsides of GLP-1s
39:45 Food addiction & Perimenopause
49:02 Body positivity movement
52:22 Her morning routine advice
57:42 Body Freedom Program
1:00:20 Where to find her
1:01:06 Her final piece of advice
1:01:44 Thanks for tuning in!
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