Eating Habits for Life

Kate Johnston

Eating Habits for Life is for women who have it together everywhere else but struggle with emotional eating, overeating, snacking, consistent healthy eating, and sustainable weight loss. You’re successful and capable in your career and personal life, but building a healthy relationship with food and your weight has felt frustratingly hard. And it’s taken up far too much of your mental energy. Whether it’s eating for comfort after a tough day, overeating at dinner when you go out, or struggling to stay consistent with healthier, more mindful eating, you know these patterns are making it harder to trust yourself around food and feel confident in your body. Maybe you struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, binge eating, mindless eating, or cravings. Or maybe you know exactly what a healthy diet looks like but still find yourself caught in the cycle of starting over every Monday, gaining weight, or struggling to lose weight and keep it off. And maybe you’ve wondered whether you just need more willpower or self-discipline. But that’s not the problem. When you understand what’s actually driving your eating behaviors, you can build healthier habits, develop a calmer and more sustainable relationship with food, quiet the food noise, and work toward the weight you want without constant restriction, counting calories or portion control. Hosted by Kate Johnston, a former Physician Assistant of 15 years and now an Eating Habits & Weight Loss Coach for high-achieving women, this show explores why willpower, portion control, and restriction alone so often fall short. Plus, how your mindset, emotions, stress, perfectionism, burnout, and deeply ingrained habits shape cravings, overeating, and weight loss struggles. With 250+ episodes, you’ll find practical, psychology- and science-backed strategies to change those patterns at the root. You’ll learn: ✔️ What’s really driving emotional eating, stress eating, cravings, and mindless eating ✔️ How to stop food guilt and shame, and start understanding yourself ✔️ How to build consistent, sustainable eating habits without relying on willpower ✔️ How to handle emotions and stress without automatically turning to food ✔️ Why dieting, restriction, and all-or-nothing thinking keep you stuck ✔️ Mindset tools that make healthy eating easier to sustain and weight loss more achievable Imagine eating foods you enjoy, recognizing when you’re satisfied, and no longer thinking about food all day. That’s where we’re headed. Want guidance on where to start? Start with these two episodes: 🎧 7 Eating Habits You Can Actually Keep for Life Listen here: https://katemjohnston.com/7-eating-habits-you-can-actually-keep-for-life/ 🎧 Probability vs. Possibility Mindset for Eating Habits and Weight Loss Listen here: https://katemjohnston.com/probability-vs-possibility-mindset-for-eating-habits-and-weight-loss/ New episodes weekly. Subscribe so you don’t miss one, and share the podcast with a friend who could use it. Ready to explore what personal help looks like so you can feel trust around food, confident in your body, and be more present in your life? It starts with a free consult where we’ll explore what’s driving your eating habits, clarify what you really want, and map out your next steps. 👉 Book your free consult: https://katemjohnston.com/consult Want to learn more about my work first? Explore my one-on-one coaching program, Lighter: https://katemjohnston.com/lighter *The content in this podcast and my coaching services are for informational purposes only and do not replace medical advice or consultations with a healthcare or mental health provider.

  1. 3d ago

    How Do I Stop Eating for Comfort?

    How do I stop eating for comfort? It’s one of the most common questions I get from high-achieving women, and it usually shows up after a rough day at work, at 8pm on the couch when you’re not hungry but the ice cream is calling, or right after a meeting that left you stressed and drained. In this episode, I explain why emotional eating happens, why stress eating feels so automatic, and why fighting cravings with willpower stops working right when you need it most. I also share what does work to stop eating for comfort, and how one client’s stress, overwhelm, and anxiety dropped so much that she set a new career goal for herself. In this episode, you’ll learn: What eating for comfort is, and why it’s the same thing as emotional eatingWhy the primitive part of your brain reaches for food when you feel an uncomfortable emotionWhy willpower, portion control, and swapping food for scrolling, shopping, or alcohol don’t stop the habitHow to break the habit of emotional eating without needing to be perfectThe first step of a skill you can practice this week to stop eating for comfort Who this episode is for: high-achieving, career-driven women who struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, overeating, mindless snacking, or cravings at night, and who are ready to lose weight without dieting or white-knuckling it. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  2. Oct 27

    Why Weight Loss Feels So Hard for High-Achieving Women: 5 Thoughts Keeping You Stuck

    What if the reason weight loss feels so hard has less to do with your body or willpower, and more to do with 5 thoughts you keep telling yourself? If you’re a high-achieving woman who can handle just about anything life throws at you but still struggles with emotional eating, overeating, cravings, or weight loss, this episode is for you. When you’re successful everywhere else, it can be especially frustrating to feel stuck with food and your weight. You might even wonder what’s wrong with you. Here’s what I want you to know: you don’t lack discipline. You may be caught in thought patterns that are making lasting weight loss harder than it needs to be. In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I’m breaking down 5 common thoughts that can sabotage your weight loss efforts, fuel overeating, and keep you stuck in the cycle of dieting and starting over. You’ll learn: Why perfectionism can make it harder to develop sustainable eating habits.How your approach to cravings may actually be making them stronger.The surprising way all-or-nothing thinking can turn one eating decision into an entire evening of overeating.Why past weight regain doesn’t mean you can’t lose weight and keep it off.What exhaustion and decision fatigue have to do with nighttime snacking and emotional eating. I’ll also share the story of a busy business owner who lost 20 pounds while working with me, eating chocolate every day, and enjoying catered events and dinners out. She eventually lost about 30 pounds, not by eating perfectly, but by changing her thoughts and addressing why she was eating in the first place. If you’re tired of thinking about food all day, battling cravings, stress eating, or feeling guilty after overeating, you can learn to approach food differently. Imagine feeling more confident in your body, trusting yourself around food, and losing weight without constantly starting over. That’s the work we do inside Lighter, my one-on-one coaching program for women who want to change their eating habits at the root and build habits that support lasting weight loss. Ready to feel more at peace with food and confident in your body? Book your free consult with me at katemjohnston.com/consult. You don’t need to eat perfectly. You need a different pattern. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  3. Oct 20

    Grief and Emotional Eating: How Unresolved Loss Shows Up in Your Eating Habits (with Dawn Michele Jackson)

    Ever feel like your eating habits don’t make sense, even when you’re doing everything “right”? Unresolved grief could be the missing piece. This week, I’m joined by Dawn Michele Jackson, Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, to talk about the surprising link between grief and emotional eating. Grief isn’t only about losing a loved one. Dawn shares the many ways it shows up in life, from divorce and other life and career changes, and why you may be carrying it without realizing it. We dig into how grief affects your eating habits, why food becomes a way to cope, and why willpower can’t fix what’s really going on underneath. You’ll also learn how to heal from grief in a way that leads to genuine peace and joy, rather than just “being strong” and burying it. In this episode, you’ll learn: The hidden ways grief shows up beyond the death of a loved oneWhy grief can drive emotional eating, stress eating, and overeatingWhy “being strong” keeps you stuckHow to start healing grief so food stops being your comfort Discover how Dawn can help you with grief: Schedule a Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/dawnmichelejackson/30min Website: https://www.dawnmichelejackson.com Substack: https://substack.com/@dawnmichelejackson Heart Healing Conversations Podcast: https://www.dawnmichelejackson.com/podcast __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  4. Oct 13

    How to Stop Overeating Halloween Candy

    With Halloween just around the corner, comes tempting treats, sugar cravings, and overeating the Halloween candy. However, imagine that this Halloween is different and you're able to trust yourself around candy, enjoy a treat or two, and move on without food guilt. In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm sharing how to stop overeating Halloween candy, particularly when it's in the house. I'm also sharing a couple of common strategies I see that fall a little short of being a true solution, and how to build in self-trust so you're not battling with willpower. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  5. Oct 6

    7 Eating Habits You Can Actually Keep for Life

    If you're tired of eating habits that only work while you're "being good," this episode is for you. I'm sharing the 7 eating habits you can actually keep for life - the same ones I help my clients build in Lighter. These are the habits behind clients who lost weight and kept it off for months and even years, through babies, breakups, and stressful seasons. You'll walk away knowing exactly what makes an eating habit sustainable so food and weight can finally stop taking up so much space in your head. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  6. Sep 29

    3 Ways to Still Eat Healthy When You're Stressed or Overwhelmed at Work

    Feeling like your work stress or overwhelm keeps affecting your eating and don't know what to do about it? In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm breaking down the 3 stress eating patterns I see most often in high-achieving women, so you can spot exactly which one is running the show for you. I'm also sharing some of my methodology for how I help my clients still have healthy eating habits despite the stress and overwhelm in their lives. Then I'm giving you 3 quick wins you can use starting today, even in the middle of your most overwhelming week at work. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  7. Sep 22

    Why You Crave Food When There's Chaos at Home

    If you've ever caught yourself craving salty snacks, sneaking bites off your kid's dinner plate , or reaching for ice cream the second the house finally goes quiet, this episode exlains exactly why. I break down what's actually happening in your brain when chaos hits at home and food becomes the thing you reach for. Whether that's toddlers melting down, a mess in the house, or kids or pets demanding your attention. You'll hear a real client story that probably sounds familiar, plus a reflective question to help you spot your own underlying reason for these eating habits, this week. By the end you'll understand why your eating patterns when you come home to chaos aren't about willpower, food, or you as a person, but instead something else entirely. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

  8. Sep 15

    Failing at Food and Weight? Here's What You're Missing

    If you've lost the same 10 or 15 pounds more than once, or you're stuck in a cycle of struggling to feel in control around food, there's a reason it keeps happening, and it's not what you think. I break down what's actually going on in your head that keeps you looping on food and weight, even when you're doing all the right things. I share a client story with two specific shifts that finally broke her stress eating and her identity as an overeater. And I give you one simple action to start today, so you can catch the pattern before it turns into eating. __________ Tired of struggling with this on your own? Let's chat about where you're at, your goals, and we'll see if it's a great fit. You'll leave with a next step or recommendation either way. ✨Book a 15-min Fit Call __________ Discover more about Lighter, my signature private coaching program. ✨Check Out Lighter __________ Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today. Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself. 🍪Get the Free Class __________ FIND ME ON: Substack: Follow or Subscribe LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me __________ ✨Helping high-achieving women create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life.... By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings. Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits. You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably. I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that. Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now] *The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.

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Eating Habits for Life is for women who have it together everywhere else but struggle with emotional eating, overeating, snacking, consistent healthy eating, and sustainable weight loss. You’re successful and capable in your career and personal life, but building a healthy relationship with food and your weight has felt frustratingly hard. And it’s taken up far too much of your mental energy. Whether it’s eating for comfort after a tough day, overeating at dinner when you go out, or struggling to stay consistent with healthier, more mindful eating, you know these patterns are making it harder to trust yourself around food and feel confident in your body. Maybe you struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, binge eating, mindless eating, or cravings. Or maybe you know exactly what a healthy diet looks like but still find yourself caught in the cycle of starting over every Monday, gaining weight, or struggling to lose weight and keep it off. And maybe you’ve wondered whether you just need more willpower or self-discipline. But that’s not the problem. When you understand what’s actually driving your eating behaviors, you can build healthier habits, develop a calmer and more sustainable relationship with food, quiet the food noise, and work toward the weight you want without constant restriction, counting calories or portion control. Hosted by Kate Johnston, a former Physician Assistant of 15 years and now an Eating Habits & Weight Loss Coach for high-achieving women, this show explores why willpower, portion control, and restriction alone so often fall short. Plus, how your mindset, emotions, stress, perfectionism, burnout, and deeply ingrained habits shape cravings, overeating, and weight loss struggles. With 250+ episodes, you’ll find practical, psychology- and science-backed strategies to change those patterns at the root. You’ll learn: ✔️ What’s really driving emotional eating, stress eating, cravings, and mindless eating ✔️ How to stop food guilt and shame, and start understanding yourself ✔️ How to build consistent, sustainable eating habits without relying on willpower ✔️ How to handle emotions and stress without automatically turning to food ✔️ Why dieting, restriction, and all-or-nothing thinking keep you stuck ✔️ Mindset tools that make healthy eating easier to sustain and weight loss more achievable Imagine eating foods you enjoy, recognizing when you’re satisfied, and no longer thinking about food all day. That’s where we’re headed. Want guidance on where to start? Start with these two episodes: 🎧 7 Eating Habits You Can Actually Keep for Life Listen here: https://katemjohnston.com/7-eating-habits-you-can-actually-keep-for-life/ 🎧 Probability vs. Possibility Mindset for Eating Habits and Weight Loss Listen here: https://katemjohnston.com/probability-vs-possibility-mindset-for-eating-habits-and-weight-loss/ New episodes weekly. Subscribe so you don’t miss one, and share the podcast with a friend who could use it. Ready to explore what personal help looks like so you can feel trust around food, confident in your body, and be more present in your life? It starts with a free consult where we’ll explore what’s driving your eating habits, clarify what you really want, and map out your next steps. 👉 Book your free consult: https://katemjohnston.com/consult Want to learn more about my work first? Explore my one-on-one coaching program, Lighter: https://katemjohnston.com/lighter *The content in this podcast and my coaching services are for informational purposes only and do not replace medical advice or consultations with a healthcare or mental health provider.

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