Ep. 08 | Emotional Eating

In this episode of Decoded, I expose how food behaviors—snacking, obsessing, restricting, binging—aren’t about hunger or nutrition.

They’re rituals of self-deception, shaped by your emotional addiction cycle, your childhood programming, and a dysregulated gut you’ve been taught to ignore. This episode is about decoding the emotional architecture behind how you eat, why you crave, and what your brain is really trying to feel.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro: Food Isn’t About Willpower
01:20 – Emotional Eating: The Justification Trap
03:45 – Mac & Cheese, Self-Deception, and 25 Pounds Later
06:15 – Fidget Spinner Snacking and Tunnel Vision
08:22 – The Myth of Willpower and the Shame Spiral
10:35 – Cheat Days, Pizza Guilt, and the Reward Setup
13:00 – Lupus Diagnosis and Food as Medicine
16:05 – Grain Sensitivity, Functional Protocols, and Pain-Based Rewiring
19:45 – Brain Pattern Mapping: Abandoned - Hold It All Together
22:15 – When “Not Wanting to Be a Burden” Creates Damage
24:40 – The Pendulum: Over-Restrictive vs. Over-Permissive Eating
27:30 – Food Scarcity Behavior: Hiding Snacks, Hoarding, Snapping
30:00 – Childhood Programming and Unspoken Food Messages
32:45 – Self-Regulation vs. Co-Regulation: The Nervous System Split