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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
315. Five Shifts to Finally Stay Consistent With Food
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You've followed the plans. Upped the discipline. Doubled down on getting back on track. And still, food and taking care of yourself feel harder than they used to.
You're not the problem. The problem is trying to apply the same strategies you relied on in your twenties and thirties to a body and life that have fundamentally changed.
In this episode of Insatiable, I share the five shifts that finally make consistency possible when perfectionism stops working. You'll learn why your resistance to showing up imperfectly is protective, not personal, and how to stay in the game even when it feels like you're barely moving forward.
3:28 - Why old strategies no longer working for you isn’t a sign of your failure
11:06 - Why C-plus effort triggers disgust and why that disgust has nothing to do with laziness
19:52 - How certainty becomes a shield against vulnerability and keeps you repeating the same all-or-nothing loop
24:51 - Why “momentum” sounds like a soft metric but becomes the only measure that compounds into lasting change
28:52 - The protective resistance that shows up the moment you try to break the cycle and why planning for it is non-negotiable
34:25 – Quick recap of the five shifts that redefine what success actually looks like in midlife with food struggles
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FREE Workshop on February 10th - Untangle Your Food Triggers: Catch Yourself Before You Fall Off Track
Join Ali on August 18, 2026, for her free masterclass, Untangle Your Food Triggers and Catch Yourself Before You Fall Off Track. You’ll unpack the four triggers behind that urgent, buzzy energy around food, what’s happening underneath them, and how to close the gap between knowing what to do and doing it. The recording will be available for one week.
Register at trucewithfood.com/consistency.
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