One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie is a space for honest, unfiltered conversations about food relationships, body image, and the emotional journey to self-acceptance. Hosted by binge eating therapist and intuitive eating coach Dr. Meredith MacKenzie, this podcast dives deep into what it really takes to break free from the cycles of bingeing, restricting and food guilt, in order to finally feel at home in your body. With warmth, insight, and lived experience, this show offers connection and guided support for women who are tired of chasing perfection and ready to reconnect with themselves in a more meaningful way, free from outside pressures.
Each week through solo episodes, guest interviews, and real-life coaching conversations, listeners are invited into real, grounded conversations. Ranging from topics of intuitive eating and binge eating recovery, to reclaiming your body, joyful movement, and navigating life in a culture obsessed with size. If you’ve ever whispered, “I don’t know what else to try,” One Body to Love will offer a new perspective, one rooted in compassion, curiosity, and sustainable change. Whether you’re in the thick of it or slowly finding your way forward, this is your reminder that healing is possible and you don’t have to do it alone.
One Body to Love with Dr. Meredith MacKenzie
ADHD, Dopamine, and Why Food Feels So Loud
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If food has always felt louder for you than it seems to for everyone else — more urgent, harder to reason with, almost impossible to just leave alone — you have probably been given a lot of advice that doesn't actually work.
Not because you weren't trying. Because the advice was never designed for the way your brain works.
In this episode, Dr. Meredith MacKenzie gets into the neurological explanation for why food feels the way it does for women with ADHD (or those who suspect they might have it). This isn't a willpower conversation. It's a dopamine conversation — and understanding the difference changes everything.
In this episode you'll hear:
• [00:00] When food takes up the whole room
• [02:18] ADHD as a dopamine regulation issue — and what that has to do with food
• [03:50] Sensory hunger and why certain foods feel almost magnetic
• [05:20] The executive functioning gaps that make standard advice fall apart
• [05:30] Emotional dysregulation and why emotional eating makes sense in this context
• [07:30] Why mindful eating, meal planning, and trigger-tracking often miss the mark for ADHD
• [10:07] 'You are not failing the approach. The approach has been failing you.'
• [11:40] Five directions that actually work with an ADHD brain
• [14:29] Why naming the mechanism is often the thing that shifts the relationship with it
Resources Mentioned
• Food Freedom Rewind (free private podcast): meredithmackenzie.ca/rewind
• One Body to Love Retreat waitlist: meredithmackenzie.ca/retreat
If this episode was the first time food and ADHD were ever named in the same sentence for you — that matters. There is a framework that fits. You just haven't found it yet.
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