Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
Talking with Emma is the podcast for women who are tired of obsessive food thinking, struggling with body image and feeling like food and weight is the one thing they can’t get sorted.
I’m Emma Wright — feminist health coach, author, and someone who knows exactly how exhausting it is to live like not matter how much you try, your health is never quite “good enough.”
After years of controlling my weight, focusing on food, exercising harder, and constantly feeling like a failure, I discovered something different — and more powerful:
Coaching tools that help you trust yourself again - and take charge of your health the way you want to.
Each episode, I’ll share the tools I use with clients who want relief health feeling so confusing — and who are ready end emotional eating, stop thinking about food all the time and improve their body image.
If you’re ready for those things, this podcast is for you.
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Download the Self-Assessment — a free tool to evaluate what’s really going on beneath the food and body thinking.
Curious about working together?
I’m currently welcoming new 1:1 clients. Book a no-cost consultation where we’ll talk about how to achieve the health goals you have and what kind of support you need to do that, and of course, whether coaching with me feels like the right fit.
Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight
46: The Hunger That No One Told You About
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If you have ever had the experience of eating well all day and then finding yourself in the kitchen cupboards, wondering what just happened — this episode is for you.
Most of us have been taught that food noise, cravings, and loss of control around food are willpower problems. They are not. They are hunger problems. And specifically, they are a type of hunger that almost nobody in the wellness space talks about.
In this episode, I introduce the three types of hunger — physical, emotional, and diet backlash — and break down the one that is almost certainly behind your loudest food thoughts.
What you'll learn in this episode:
Why humans are biologically wired to think about food, and why that is not a character flaw
The difference between physical hunger, emotional hunger, and diet backlash hunger — and why they need completely different responses
What diet backlash hunger actually looks and feels like in real life — including the "I've already blown it" spiral, and why the foods on your forbidden list are the exact ones you can't stop thinking about
What restriction has to do with the loudness of your food noise
What weight loss jabs actually do to hunger signals, and why the backlash returns when they stop
Why you are not broken, bad at weight loss, or lacking willpower — and what is actually going on instead
Mentioned in the episode:
Free masterclass, End Food Noise Without Weight Loss Jabs (or giving up on health). I walk you through an exercise that shows you exactly which type of hunger is driving your food thoughts.
The masterclass will give you a completely different way of understanding what has been happening.
Register here.
Curious about working together?
I’m currently taking private clients. Book a consultation to discuss what you want to achieve, and you’ll leave with a clear, step-by-step, individualised plan to achieve it. Whether I can help you achieve your goal or not, you’ll leave knowing what the next steps are.
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