Insatiable with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC

Ali shares details about the next Insatiable podcast season and a personal update on why there will be no Fall season and ways to connect and work with her until next season.Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

We have so many beliefs about working out: mainly that we should do the same thing and always be “crushing it”. But this approach to working out doesn’t honor the ebb and flow of women’s bodies. This often leads to sugar cravings from exhaustion and wanting to reward ourselves for slogging to the gym when a nap would have gotten us better results!  To help educate, inspire, and fill in some major missing holes with our female biology, Alisa Vitti joins us to discuss:How society is set up on a man’s hormonal clock and why we need to change to honor our female, infradian clock (and why no one is talking about this)What the infradian clock is and how it’s a root cause of health, immune and weight issuesHow to work-out so we honor our bodies needs and don’t turn to sugar from exhaustion or stalled resultsWhen our metabolism is slower and faster and how to eat and work-out to align to ensure a healthy metabolismSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Alcohol is one of the most consumed forms of sugar and quitting alcohol can lead to an increase of sugar cravings and consumption. In this episode, We are the Luckiest author Laura McKowen and I discuss:Her process to sobriety, which included recognizing our collective, unhealthy story around alcohol and her most important practiceHow she learned to own her personal story and discern what was her truth versus the judgments she had about herself to heal her painThe relationship between her drinking and history of eating disordersHow she stopped eating so much sugar after it initially increased with sobrietySend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

PMS cravings. Sleep disruption caused by perimenopause. The pain and emotional toll of endometriosis. All of these issues can be exasperated by sugar and also the reason we turn to sugar. How can we get out of this downward spiral?In today’s episode with Fix Your Period author Nicole Jardim, we will discuss:Sugar’s role in disrupting our hormones (and thus our period, thyroid and perimenopause symptoms)The master “trap door” to less period and hormonal sugar cravingsWhen in your menstrual cycle you are more sensitive to sugar cravings and when you can have sugar and not feel the effects as muchNavigating hormonal challenges from endometriosis to perimenopause (including the emotional and soul callings)The easiest tips I’ve ever heard to reduce and prevent sugar cravings caused by your hormonesJoin us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Since childhood, sugar has been used to reward us. Whether it was for being good for Dad or Grandma, reading books for Pizza Hut Pizza’s Book It or treating ourselves for losing weight, the “I deserve this” eating pattern is reinforced constantly.We will explore the root cause of this emotional eating pattern and how to overcome it. In this episode, we will discuss:The root cause stories that created this pattern in our culture, families and weight loss and healing approachesThe importance of “self-authoring” a new story (and what self-authoring is) so you can change these three reactions to stress How to prevent “busy boredom” and the need to unwind at the end of the day with sugarJoin us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/ Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Not eating the right foods for our unique bodies creates anxiety. This anxiety shows up as a felt sense of anxiety AND also “needing something more” to eat but not knowing what that is or a general feeling of being unsatisfied with what they just ate.To help us go into depth and teach us about this sugar-anxiety feedback loop, I’ve invited a holistic psychiatrist and my friend Dr. Ellen Vora onto the show. In this episode, we will discuss:Real and false anxietyHow and why sugar creates anxietyClean eating versus nutrient-dense foodsDr. Vora’s top foods to add in for reducing anxiety and sugar in one’s dietCaffeine’s role in anxiety and how to end your coffee habitJoin us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Loving sugar or salty carbs isn’t only about taste. The main root cause of craving processed foods is it’s often your body's way of trying to “keep the lights on” from physiological imbalances. In today’s episode with Ali Miller, holistic RD, we will discuss:What is happening physically that requires us to “feed the (sugar) beast” and how to end the physical addiction of sugar cravingsWhy ketones and metabolic flexibility matter and being “keto” isn’t the only way to get thereA radically different idea of food freedom that clashes with Intuitive Eating because of how processed foods deregulate the bodyWhy zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia get a “zero” in Ali’s bookJoin us for Freedom From Cravings LIVE at https://alishapiro.com/freedom-from-cravings-live/Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Before we can end our dependence on processed foods (whose main ingredient is sugar), we need to understand root causes of how we ended up with a highly addictive food supply. How did the radical or unnormal become so normal? To turn our understanding upside down to right side up, we will discuss:Why we need to understand our stories and the “psychological immune system” they generate in order to change our food and lifestyle habitsThe separation and reductionist stories that have led us astray about how we view nutrition and our bodies  How the “trust authority” story make us believe from the time we are kids that what is on the shelf is safe (and what our “good” medical choices are in the coronavirus age) A new story and questions to guide us to make better nutrition choices for our individual and Earth bodies (and how these questions can unite vegans and Paleo communities!)Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Insatiable is back with a special podcast to support you now. In this episode:•Why we feel out of control around food now•An unnecessary layer of anxiety we can eliminate with this mindset shift (and the hidden "optimal conflict" opportunity)•Simple and easy ideas to get back in control with food and our well-being•Q&A with our communityTo join a future live podcast recording and receive the corresponding coaching materials and resources, get on my list at alishapiro.comSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Ah, sugar…referred to as the sugar dragon, sugar siren, and sugar addiction. There are physical and emotional root causes and solutions of how to reduce sugar in your life.In this episode, we will discuss:Why sugar is so dangerous and yet it comforts us5 easy food swaps and additions to your diet to naturally prevent cravingsThe four emotional triggers that cause sugar cravings and how to work through triggers without sugarTo join this round of Truce with Food, visit https://alishapiro.com/truce-with-foodSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.