Why Your Hunger Changes Week to Week (3 Reasons It’s Not ‘Lack of Control’)
Emotional Eating Unwrapped (Sober Eating Podcast)
In this episode, Alana explores why hunger can change from week to week — and why those shifts are often misinterpreted as a loss of control.
She breaks down three key reasons appetite can suddenly feel louder, including stress, emotional load, sleep, hormones, and what happens when you start reconnecting with your body after years of restriction or fear around hunger. Drawing from her own experience and years of clinical work, Alana explains how diet culture teaches us to mistrust hunger — and why that mistrust creates more chaos, not less.
This conversation unpacks the difference between physical hunger, emotional hunger, and relief-seeking, and why increased hunger is often a sign of reconnection rather than regression.
Through grounded insight and real-life context, Alana helps listeners stop personalizing hunger and begin responding to it with curiosity and steadiness — replacing panic and self-judgment with a calmer, more confident relationship to their body.
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Takeaways
Hunger changing week to week isn’t a loss of control — it’s your body responding to your life.
Increased hunger often shows up when you stop ignoring your body, not when you’re doing something wrong.
Emotional hunger isn’t about food; it’s about relief after holding it together for too long.
Panicking about hunger creates more chaos than hunger itself.
When you respond with curiosity instead of fear, eating becomes steadier and less extreme.
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