Insatiable with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC

Learning to cook was an important step in ending my food battle. And then post-Truce with Food, I found myself less interested in food, cooking included. Cooking became “assembling”. We still ate most of our meals at home; it just became some version of frozen vegetable, rice and chicken, give or take some garlic powder. Meh but manageable.  Then we became new, sleep-deprived parents and COVID hit. Cooking was important but even less of a priority. I knew when I did have the time and energy, I enjoyed cooking if it was simple and delicious. How could I get back to a place where cooking was sustainable, simple and enjoyable?I asked Meghan Telpner, founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, to help sort out the jumble of feelings many of us feel towards cooking. Sometimes cooking feels like a chore. And sometimes it fills our soul. How can we make cooking and the food we eat more satisfying?In this episode, Meghan shares:1. Easy ways to incorporate the flavors and foods that reduce and eliminate cravings for super sugary and salty foods.2. How the more sugar or salt we eat, the more we want (and how this interferes with feeling satiated from lesser amounts of sugar and salt).3. An experiment to really get what sugar or salt is doing to your taste buds and body.4. Why the act of cooking is so fulfilling to our bodies and how knowing this makes me more excited to cook more.5. Easy ways to incorporate texture and smells, which influence our food satisfaction.Send me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

When we think of feeling satisfied from food, we often think satisfaction comes from more and more food and/or sweet/salty foods. Yet with some basic body knowledge, we can decode what’s actually happening instead of thinking more willpower is the answer. And in the end, feel more satisfied from healthy food and in control of indulgences.  After some time away from the mic, Ali gives a personal update and shares: An unexpected root cause of why we don’t feel satisfied from healthy food and how to change this (and why COVID made eating healthier so much harder) The food shift that instantly reduces cravings while increasing satisfaction of healthy food. The three main lifestyle factors that make healthy food and life more satisfying The sleep-food connection and sleep trouble-shooting tips based on what Ali’s learning from her own sleep coach and perimenopause An overview of the stress-pleasure “checkbook” physiology, its affect on how much we think about food, our food satisfaction and how to balance it so healthy food becomes more satisfying and we feel in control with indulgencesSend me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

Send me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

Ali pops in to share exciting news on Insatiable Season 12 and Truce with Food certification for those healing professionals who value coaching mastery, depth, and deep client impact starting in September 2021. She also shares and a personal update on her transition into Motherhood and post-partum weight loss journey, including her radically different approach to her postpartum body now that she’s not indoctrinated by diet culture. https://www.alishapiro.com/certificationopenhouseSend me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

The COVID behavioral health trajectory mirrors the out-of-control eating cycle. The toll of our COVID era is why many of us turned to food for the first time or eating issues returned for others. Or for others, it got worse, better, or stayed all-or-nothing.If we can understand our COVID eating has deeper root causes than “willpower” or “discipline”, we have a genuine shot at profound and radical individual and collective change (yes please).In this episode, Ali shares:The six COVID phases, which mirrors the out-of-control eating cycleHow the COVID uncertainty trigger intensity and duration influenced our eatingHow we end up being all-or-nothing with our eatingBeginning steps to get out of this cycle and rebuild better than beforeRecovery ideas for your body and mind\If this podcast resonated with you and you want to go deeper for individual insights, join my upcoming free coaching workshop on May 12 at https://alishapiro.com/covid-out-of-control-eating-workshop/Send me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

Ali gives a pep talk about how to navigate the building post-quarantine weight loss pressure diet culture will be capitalizing on. She also offers accessible ideas and free resources of what to do instead of trying extreme detoxes or diets to feel comfortable in your body when it finally comes time to leave the house for more than a grocery store run. Send me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

Ali shares a personal health and podcast update on the new Insatiable 13 release date.Send me (Ali) a text message.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

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.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

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.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!

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.Make sure to check out Ali’s new website trucewithfood.com, and take the new Find Your Food Stage assessment!