Truce with Food with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
You've done Weight Watchers. Therapy. The functional medicine workup. You know more about nutrition than most people. And yet, you still can't make it stick. So now you're wondering if you're just the problem.
You are not the problem. The framework you needed—that integrates real, lasting change—just never showed up, so you keep blaming yourself instead.
Truce With Food® is a podcast for women in perimenopause and menopause who are exhausted from emotional eating, binge eating, overeating, and food noise taking up more space in their lives than they ever wanted. If you're eating when you're not hungry, can't figure out why what used to work no longer does, or just want a real conversation about your relationship with food and your body, you're in the right place.
Host Ali Shapiro is a holistic nutritionist, cancer survivor, and creator of the research-based Truce With Food® framework that’s also built on 19 years of real client results. She healed her own relationship with food and has spent nearly two decades helping other women do the same through honest conversations about food, psychology, physiology, and why showing up with a C+ effort gets you further than any plan that demands perfection ever will. And how the real work is to be counterculture and trust in satisfaction, not more discipline.
New episodes every other Wednesday.
Truce with Food with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
300. What Really Works for Women Over 40: Three Essential Lessons
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Welcome to the 300th episode of Insatiable! To celebrate this milestone, I’m sharing three essential lessons every woman over 40 should know about health, weight loss, and nutrition in midlife.
After years of making this show and working with real life clients, I’ve seen what actually works for women in perimenopause and menopause—and it’s not counting calories, cutting carbs, or blaming yourself when your body doesn’t respond the way it used to.
Instead, we need to improve the quality of our food, quit punishing ourselves with exercise, and learn how to pivot without triggering our inner-perfectionist.
Want to know more? Tune in and share this one with your friends. These insights will save you so much time, energy, and (maybe even) digestive distress.
Learn about:
- The reality of counting calories and eating less over 40
- Why you need to eat carbs (especially if you can’t sleep)
- How to find joy in exercise (even if you’ve never been consistent!)
- Pivoting into a flexible mindset and prioritizing your health as you age
- Why pushing harder is rarely the answer and there is no perfect plan
Mentioned in this episode:
- ⭐️ FREE Workshop on September 3rd — Untangle Your Food Triggers: Catch Yourself Before You Fall Off Track
- ⭐️ Why Am I Eating This Now? — Get earlybird pricing on our next live cohort
- Why I Joined Orange Theory (even though it’s “Bad” if you’re over 40)
- Insatiable named to FeedSpot’s Top 20 Emotional Eating podcasts
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