453-Coach Corner: How to Stop Food Noise Without GLP-1

Food noise is dominating the cultural conversation — but it's not a new phenomenon, and it's not a disease. In this Coach Corner episode, Stephanie Dodier breaks down what food noise actually is, what causes it, and how health professionals can coach clients through it using a Cognitive Behavioral Coaching framework — no pharmaceutical intervention required.

Health professionals will learn how to address food noise at all three levels: the cognitive (food rules), the somatic (eating cues including the often-missing satisfaction cue), and the identity level (untethering food from body size).

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why food noise is a signal from your body, not a malfunction to be silenced
• How diet culture created the problem GLP-1 is being sold to fix
• The cognitive tools to dismantle food rules driving the mental chatter
• Why the satisfaction cue is the most overlooked piece of the puzzle
• Why body image work is a clinical prerequisite — not an add-on

Mentioned in the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

Study Mentioned in the podcast: Hayashi et al. (2023) — What Is Food Noise? A Conceptual Model of Food Cue Reactivity: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10674813/

Minnesota Starvation Study: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/10/hunger

Ragen Chastain: What is food noise?: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/reader-question-what-is-food-noise