Podcast Episode Index
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Definitions and Boundaries to solve recurring weight gain
Episode 46 overview
Most explanations for weight regain begin with calories and end with willpower.
But what if the boundary around the problem is too small?
In this episode Bronwyn explores one of the foundational ideas behind systems thinking: boundaries.
She explains how expanding the investigation beyond food revealed patterns, experiences and influences that traditional weight-loss approaches ignore.
If you've ever wondered why diets fail to explain recurring weight regain, this episode offers a different way of looking at the problem.
This episode illustrates how:
- Boundaries determine solutions.
- Calories aren’t the entire problem.
- Weight regain occurs within a larger life context.
- Expanding the boundary changes what becomes visible.
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The Hidden Logic of Relief Eating
Episode 45 overview
Relief eating is often treated as a willpower problem, but what if it’s actually part of a larger eating system?
In this episode, Bronwyn Fletcher explores the hidden logic beneath relief eating and why diets fail to create lasting change when the underlying system remains untouched.
Through the story of Meri, this episode examines weight regain, food rules, secrecy around eating and the role food can play in helping women manage overload, tension and emotional discomfort.
This episode introduces the three stages of relief eating and explains why understanding the eating system changes the conversation from blame to diagnostic clarity.
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When weight regain is really about the life you’re living
Episode 44 overview
In this episode, Bronwyn explores the story of Soraya, a successful woman trapped in a long cycle of weight regain, dieting and overeating.
What initially looked like a food problem slowly revealed itself to be something much deeper: the emotional strain of living a life built around duty instead of personal choice.
This episode explores:
- why diets fail in complex systems.
- how calorie restriction creates catch-up eating
- the difference between food problems and life problems
- why understanding your eating system changes everything
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Why do diets fail, even when you follow them properly?
Episode 43 overview
In this episode, Bronwyn explores Maggie’s experience of weight regain through the lens of her eating system. What looks like a willpower problem is something else entirely; a system built around not trusting herself with food.
You’ll hear how relief eating develops, how early family conditions shape long-term patterns, and why controlling food intake doesn’t resolve the underlying structure.
- This is not about better habits.
- It’s about understanding why you eat.
- If you’ve experienced weight regain, this episode will change how you see it.
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Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.Why eating habits don’t solve weight regain.
Episode 42 overview
In this episode, we go deeper into why systems, not habits, are driving weight regain.
Learn why fast weight loss leads to rebound gain, why your eating system has its own goal, and why “low and slow” is the only approach that creates lasting change
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Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.
Episode 38 overview
Most women assume that as adults they should know what ‘enough’ food looks like. But portion confidence, stopping cues, and self-trust don’t appear automatically.
They’re built through early experiences of choice, permission, and authority at the table. In this episode we explore Agency: who decided what and how much you ate and how those early meal dynamics can shape adult patterns like dieting dependence, private overeating, and fear of judgement.
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Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.Why Diets Fail-Childhood Food Access and the Eating System.
Episode 37 overview
Most weight loss advice focuses on what you’re eating now, but your eating blueprint was created much earlier. In this episode, we look at childhood food access; whether you could get food when you needed, and what you learned to do when you couldn’t.
These early conditions form directly link to your eating behaviours today.
Understanding food access closes the gap between cause and effect and explains why dieting alone doesn’t solve weight regain.
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Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.How Childhood Food Rules Drive Weight Regain.
Episode 36 overview
Childhood food rules shape how you eat long before dieting begins. This episode explains how early patterns become part of an eating system that drives overeating and weight regain in adult life.
These early conditions form directly link to your eating behaviours today.
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How Childhood Food Rules Drive Weight Regain.