3 Mistakes Women Make When Trying to ‘Balance Hormones’

In this episode, Alana breaks down three ways emotional overeating can disrupt hormone balance - and why it is not simply a willpower problem.

She explains how eating in a stressed or dysregulated state can affect cortisol, insulin, hunger and fullness signals, and even estrogen and progesterone. This episode is for the woman trying to balance her hormones, lose weight sustainably, and stop feeling at war with food and her body.

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Chapters:

0:00 Why this is not a willpower problem

0:20 Welcome to Emotional Eating Unwrapped

1:18 Emotional overeating is not a food problem

2:14 Mistake 1: Ignoring cortisol and insulin

3:00 What happens when you eat in a stressed state

4:18 Why insulin can go into overdrive

5:05 Why this is not about being “bad” with food

5:43 Alana’s personal experience with weight loss resistance

9:18 Mistake 2: Hunger and fullness hormones

10:13 Why your brain may not get the signal that you are full

11:15 Why women start blaming themselves

12:13 Mistake 3: Estrogen and progesterone balance

13:09 Your hormones are one ecosystem

13:56 How cortisol can crowd out progesterone

14:24 Estrogen dominance symptoms many women recognize

15:34 Feeling “hormonal” without understanding why

16:27 Why Alana had to stop blaming herself

17:13 Responding to life instead of reacting to life

18:03 What changes when you address the root

19:24 How Alana knew she was healing

20:25 Final thoughts and how to support the show

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