What Does Food Noise Actually Mean to You?

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Episode Description

What does food noise actually mean to you?

We hear a lot about quieting food noise, turning it down, or trying to eliminate it completely. But before you decide what needs to happen with those thoughts and feelings, I think it is worth slowing down and figuring out what food noise actually looks like in your own life.

In this episode, I talk about why food noise is going to be different for each of us and why a broad definition can only take you so far.

The term itself can be helpful because it gives us language for something many people experience. But once we attach a label to something, it is easy to start accepting somebody else's definition of what it is supposed to look like and how we are supposed to feel about it.

Instead, I want you to start observing.

What thoughts come up around food? What feelings come with them? What situations seem to make those thoughts louder? What parts of the common conversation around food noise actually apply to you, and what parts do not?

Write it down however works best for you. Use pen and paper, your phone, a journaling app, or anything that helps you get the thoughts out of your head and in front of you.

There is no wrong answer.

The goal is to practice observing what is happening without immediately criticizing yourself or deciding that every thought about food is something that needs to be fixed.

We are constantly surrounded by messages about food. Food can be celebrated, feared, restricted, marketed, moralized, and connected to everything from culture to fitness to weight loss. Of course we are going to have thoughts and feelings about it.

Those thoughts do not automatically mean something is wrong.

Learning to notice them without immediately judging them is a skill, and like everything else we are talking about in this series, it takes practice.