Should I Avoid Unhealthy Foods? Red 40, Seed Oils, Red Meat and More

The holidays can be a challenging time when it comes to food, body image, and weight. In this episode of The Food Freedom Life Podcast, Registered Dietitian Brittany Cory shares practical tips and expert advice on navigating the season with confidence and ease.Learn how to: ✨ Manage food guilt and avoid overeating traps ✨ Build more compassion with your body and shift focus away from weight✨ Shift your mindset away from diet culture pressures that are making you binge✨ Challenge food rules and support your mind AND body through your choices✨ Cultivate mindful eating habits that let you enjoy every biteWhether you’re stressed about family gatherings, navigating food anxiety, or feeling pressured to meet unrealistic body standards, this episode will empower you to embrace the holidays with joy and food freedom.Grab my ⚡️BLACK FRIDAY DEAL⚡️ Start 2025 feeling confident with food and your body with $100 off my signature group coaching program, Food Freedom University (group starts January 14, 2025). PLUS sign up before December 2 and get a bonus 1:1 kickstart call to support you through the holidays. Book your free discovery call here to secure your spot 🎉

This week on The Food Freedom Life Podcast, Registered Dietitian Brittany Cory hosts Maggie Nick: a recovering burned out, overachieving, people pleasing, perfectionist, pushover + former "good" kid turned trauma therapist. She’s an expert on healing your inner critic and how to stop beating yourself up, and she teaches a revolutionary approach to healing low self-worth + ALL the ways it can show up: perfectionism, people pleasing, self-hate, anxiety, fear of letting others down, feeling not good enough. She is here to help you understand yourself on a profound and healing level so you can be the parent you needed to your inner child (AND to your child, if you're a parent).She’s also a Parenting Expert + the Founder of ✨Parenting With Perspectacles✨, where she teaches about Big Feelings + Accountability with LOVE not shame for toddlers + teens + everyone in between. So you can raise kind, confident kids who feel good enough!In this episode, Brittany and Maggie dive into: Maggie's history and why she became a trauma therapistThe development low self-worth, particularly in those who grew up as "good kids" or people-pleasersHer definition of "good girl trauma" and how to identify how it shows up for youPractical steps to quiet the inner critic and start building a healthy sense of self-worthHow we can start reparenting our inner child to meet our unmet needsFollow Maggie on IG @maggiewithperspectaclesCheck out Maggie's membership, Camp Lovable

You’re not addicted to food, and you’re not addicted to sugar…even if you feel like food has power over you and you struggle with intense cravings, this episode will help you understand what is going on in your mind and body when you’re feeling those cravings that pull you towards food. In this episode, Registered Dietitian Brittany Allison welcomes Sabrina Magnan, an intuitive eating and food freedom coach who helps women overcome binge eating, emotional eating and food obsession by addressing the root cause of their struggles with food. After years of suffering from disordered eating, body dysmorphia and food/body obsession, Sabrina has made it her mission to help millions of women break free from diet culture so that they can focus their time, energy and mental space on creating the life of their dreams.Tune in to listen to Brittany & Sabrina talk about what causes food cravings, what your cravings are telling you, how to manage food cravings and more. Find Sabrina on InstagramCheck out Sabrina's podcastI'm currently accepting 2 new clients! Book a free discovery call

Does the goal of loving your body keep you feeling obsessed with how it looks? How does body love differ from body positivity and body neutrality? What should you be working towards in order to feel better about your body?In this episode of The Food Freedom Life Podcast, Registered Dietitian Brittany Allison dives into helping you discover your path to overcome your body image issues and find true self acceptance. If you've ever felt like your body is a constant "work in progress," this episode is for you. Britt shares the three key pieces that transformed how she navigated her body image struggles and helped her find peace and fulfillment.Are you tired of the endless cycle of binge eating, emotional overeating, and struggling with poor body image? It’s time to break free and step into a life of balance and confidence with Food Freedom University! We get started on September 16 and spots are limited! Book your 30-minute discovery call today 🌟

In this episode, Registered Dietitian Brittany Allison dives into a major hurdle she sees come up with her clients and in conversations on social media - fear of weight gain. No matter where you are on your food freedom journey, whether you've just started, maybe you haven't taken the plunge yet, or perhaps you've been on your food freedom journey for a while now, if you still have a fear of weight gain it can hold you back from truly being free around food. Britt unpacks this fear of weight gain and how to start overcoming it so you can move forward in your food freedom journey, feel more at peace with food and your body and ultimately, take care of yourself and your health from a values-driven and balanced place.Get support in your food freedom journey this fall with group coaching! Book your free discovery call today. We start September 16! Learn more here ✨

In this week's episode, Becki, a past Food Freedom University group coaching client joins Brittany Allison on the Food Freedom Life Podcast. Becki shares her journey of how she not only changed her diet, but how she's changed her life. By unpacking her internalized fatphobia and challenging her fears of weight gain, she took steps towards a sustainable existence and found a path for her LIFE, not just a path to fit into some jeans or look better for her high school reunion.Join others like Becki who are ready to overcome emotional overeating, binge eating, and getting stuck in body image spirals inside Food Freedom University. The next group starts September 16! Spots are limited. Book your free group coaching discovery call here.

In this episode, Registered Dietitian Brittany Allison dives into overeating and why you do it even when you know you feel awful afterwards. She explores the physical and psychological reasons behind overeating and how to begin to break the overeating habit using nervous system regulation strategies so you can find food freedom, feel normal with eating and support your mind and body. Follow Britt on InstagramEnd the fight with food & body inside the Empowered Eaters Collective

In this episode of the Food Freedom Life podcast, host Brittany Allison answers an important question: should you avoid certain foods because they're unhealthy? She explores the concept of food neutrality and viewing all foods without labeling them as good or bad. She emphasizes the multifaceted role of food in providing joy, connection, and cultural experiences, beyond mere physical nourishment. Brittany discusses the importance of evaluating your personal health values and the impact of diet culture on your food choices. She also addresses the health concerns around red40, seed oils, red meat, and the balance between nutritional needs and emotional well-being, encouraging listeners to make informed, empowered decisions about their diet while avoiding restrictive mindsets.Join the Empowered Eaters Collective! My monthly membership with daily prompts, weekly live coaching calls, private community support, new content every month, and access to my vault of courses including my signature Food Freedom Forever course.Price goes up on on August 1! Join now for $37/month.

Healing from the diet-binge cycle wasn't easy, and I made a lot of mistakes a long the way. Now as an Intuitive Eating Dietitian, I am here to share the 5 key steps I would tell my past self to focus on if I wanted to get out of the diet binge cycle all over again (but much smoother and quicker this time). In this episode, I talk about: Understanding weight set point and its impact on the bodyPrioritizing mental health instead of solely focusing on weight lossSurrendering to the healing process and trusting it without expectationsRe-establishing healthy eating patterns and addressing physical restrictionChallenging limiting beliefs about food, body, and healthNormalizing trigger foods and my step-by-step process of food habituationSeeking support in the journey towards food freedomJoin other women in your journey to end the fight with food and body inside the Empowered Eaters CollectiveBook a free consultation for 1:1 coaching with Brittany

In this replay episode of The Food Freedom Life Podcast, Britt talks about how to work on letting go of the obsessive food and weight thoughts that come up when you're experiencing binge eating and emotional eating. She gets into how your brain is wired to work, which will give you a new perspective and move you toward freedom from these thoughts.Find freedom from obsessive food & body thoughts inside the Empowered Eaters Collective💫Follow Britt on Instagram