The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast

If you're struggling to shed those pounds despite doing "everything right," this episode is for you. Join Kristin as she delves into the three common roadblocks that may be hindering your weight loss journey.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The importance of nurturing a healthy relationship with food and why labeling food as "good" or "bad" could be sabotaging your efforts.
• How negative self-...

Welcome to a deeply personal episode of the Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast, where I invite you to join me on a journey through the intricate connection between grief and emotional eating. As I share my own experiences of profound loss, I offer insights and strategies for navigating the complex emotions that accompany grief.

• Understanding Grief: I delve into the multifaceted nature of grief, sharing raw and authentic stories...

In this episode of the Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast, I'm diving into why giving up snacking can be a game-changer for weight loss and managing emotional eating. Let's chat about how snacking can sneakily become a habit and a way to dodge dealing with our feelings. Plus, we'll explore why spacing out meals is key for keeping our blood sugar levels steady and boosting fat burning.

I'll also emphasize the p...

There’s so much hope and positivity when you decide to work towards a goal and that momentum is a great motivator in the beginning. It can keep you moving forward and taking action, even when things get difficult and challenging. But there is also a huge mental game that goes along with striving for a goal and it is this piece that so many people are missing, and it is what I want to address this week.

In this week’s podcast, we wil...

It can be exciting to set a goal for yourself that you really want to achieve, and when you start to see progress towards reaching it….nothing can be more rewarding. 

But have you ever felt yourself starting to obsess about wanting to achieve something? I’m talking the “can’t stop thinking about it all day and night" kind of thinking. When does it cross the line from being a healthy pursuit of a goal, and it moves into perfecti...

The holidays can be both magical and anxiety-provoking all at the same time. In this episode, I'll discuss the sometimes tumultuous waters of holiday emotions and food. And I will provide you with actionable steps to take to make your holidays more manageable. 

The six areas we will explore are:

• 🎁 Dealing with other people: We've all got those relatives or coworkers who seem to know exactly how to push our buttons. I&...

Do your emotions influence your food choices? 100% they do! If you have ever found yourself elbow deep in a carton of Ben & Jerry’s after a fight with your partner, you know this to be true.

Why does this happen?

In this week’s episode of The Breakthrough Emotional Eating podcast, I’m diving into the impact of emotions on our eating habits. I will break down why we crave certain foods when stressed, sad, or lonely. From the psych...

Life throws curveballs, and sometimes you have to pivot and change your focus to get through life’s ups and downs. When those times happen, and you realize it is time to get back to working towards your goal, whatever it is, getting back on track can be challenging. 

For most of us, the goal is weight loss and sometimes, we have to take a break but when it is time to get back to it, how do you do it and set yourself up for succ...

Have you ever had that "I forgot who I am" moment when life throws a curveball your way? Join Kristin Jones, host of the Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast, this week as she takes you on a recent journey through her own moments of self-doubt when she was faced with a new challenge, and how she took the doubt and turned it into determination to overcome her fears and worries about her own abilities. 

Episode Highlights:

Have you ever wondered why your brain does the strange things it does, or how your thoughts can change the way you see the world? On this week’s Breakthrough Emotional Eating podcast, I am  here to unravel some of the coolest truths about your thoughts and how they impact your life.

I’m  going to break down five simple but mind-blowing facts about thoughts that can seriously up your mental game:

• Thinking Doesn't Equal Truth...

In part two of our study of the subconscious mind, this episode is going to be devoted to ways that you can reprogram your subconscious to start working for you and help you reach the goals that you want to achieve in your life. 

Why does the subconscious seem to be doing things to sabotage our efforts when we really think that we are doing everything we can to achieve our goals?  Those limiting beliefs that we discussed last episod...

Some would say that if you’re breathing then your mind is conscious. But what about the unconscious mind? How does something that you use 95% of the time really affect your life? What is the subconscious and what does it actually do?

Everyone has a moment where they say they want to do something but then don’t. On today’s podcast you will learn the 6 subconscious realizations that will help in moving you forward with any aspect of y...

Something I hear from people who are interested in doing my program, but are hesitant..."I just don't think I have time to attend the meetings and post in the group. It just seems too much of a time commitment."

And I get that.

Meet Shawn....

Shawn is a member of The Breakthrough Membership and she decided when she joined that she was going to do the program in a way that was going to fit into her busy life.

She is an es...

Motivation is a tricky thing. 

Some days, you don’t need anything to get you to stick with your meal plan, or get outside to take a walk, or to ignore the birthday cake that is sitting in the break room at work. 

But then there are other days…..days when you just want to throw away all of the hard work you have done and end up face first in a tub of Ben & Jerry’s. 

So what do you do on those days? How do you turn it around and sta...

We have all fallen for it.

The e-mail you find in your inbox that promises a loss of five inches off your waist in one week if you drink a certain combination of juices and herbs before bed. 

Or the late night infomercial that tell you that if you count a certain number of macros each day and that will guarantee you a weight loss of 10 pounds in a week.

There are so many lies, half-truths, and myths regarding weight loss out there and...

Do you have those days where your head feels filled with thoughts, worries, concerns, judgements, projections, and miscellaneous toxicity? Sometimes, it can get so crowded inside our brain that it feels like it just might explode. 

Do you know what I am talking about? 

I bet you do, and it can feel confusing regarding how to handle these types of situations but I am going to share with you on this week’s podcast the answer to emptyin...

Working towards a goal can be exciting at the beginning….the prospect of making a change that could alter your life in a positive way creates hope for a better life.

But what happens 7, 10, or 14 days later when the allure of achieving your goal is no longer as strong and you are distracted by the next new thing to catch your attention? Your motivation dies a slow death and suddenly the goal you so desperately wanted to achieve is n...

If you are an emotional eater, it is more than likely that at some point you have overeaten to a point of discomfort, and as a result have felt shame and guilt about it. This type of situation is not exclusive to emotional eaters, and if this has happened to you, it would be considered a binge episode.

But here is the wild thing…. it is really considered a binge because it involves eating more than usual AND the feelings that arise ...

Your brain is NOT always on your side.

It makes up stories.

It lies.

It makes you believe things about others and yourself that aren’t true.

Do you know what you have to do to stop these things from happening?

You just have to start questioning it, and know that your first thought regarding a situation is always your brain’s, but the second thought is yours.

Choose wisely!

But how do you do that?

In this week’s podcast, I take you through ...