Host Johnny Guidry is joined by Neena Perez of the Straight Talk, No Sugar Added podcast for an honest look at how eating for comfort after a tough day can become a crippling compulsion. This episode explores behaviors, causes, treatment, and and hope for people who feel stuck in a pattern of overeating.
Note: Johnny and Neena both face compulsive eating and speak to their experiences, but are not medical practitioners.
You can find Neena Perez’s podcast, Straight Talk, No Sugar Added here: https://straighttalknosugaradded.libsyn.com
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Episode transcript via automatic software follows below; please excuse any inaccuracies in the software’s transcription.
Speaker 0 00:00:02 Ever since you can remember, you felt something in your chest telling you to move, to love, to speak, to try day after day. You pretend you don’t hear calling. Maybe you dismiss it as silliness or worse that it’s there ready for you, and it will wait for you. And as long as you, my name is Johnny G and I invite you to join me on a journey of awakening as we dare to embrace our light. This is refractive.
Speaker 1 00:00:46 Hi everybody, me and my friend, Nina Perez. We’re so excited to welcome you to a special collaboration of our two podcasts. So this is a really special event for us. We’re taking straight talk, no sugar added, and we’re adding some refractive to it. And we’re just going to make our own kind of a gumbo today. How are you doing Nina?
Speaker 2 00:01:09 I’m doing great. And this is so much fun. I have been looking to collaborate with you for some time, as you know, and I’m so glad we both found that time that we can do this. So this is going to be a lot of fun. And I think it’s going to be insightful too.
Speaker 1 00:01:23 Yeah. And this is a topic that I know has touched both of our lives pretty deeply. I, I know that my listeners will, will recognize the theme and I imagine yours will too.
Speaker 2 00:01:33 They will. I have another platform as well. Um, that’s called memoirs of a fat girl and that’s my health and wellness journey. So people know this about me. So this is going to be really fun. All right.
Speaker 1 00:01:46 All right. So, uh, everybody just, uh, to pull back the curtain, we are talking about compulsion’s and especially compulsive eating today and how it is so prevalent in our world. We’re taught as kids that eating for comfort is a way to cope. And, you know, I mean all the way down to that hard wiring of the brain, it feels good to nourish ourselves, right? It feels good to take care of that basic needs and it can run a muck and, and become a problem later in life. I know that was the case for me. And, uh, Nina. It was the case for you too. Would you like to talk about, um, how eating for comfort became a struggle for you?
Speaker 2 00:02:31 Yeah. Um, I mean, it’s still a struggle, right? I mean, it’s still an every day getting up, fighting it struggle. Um, so for me was I was abused as a child, so I couldn’t find comfort where I was, uh, wasn’t really being supported. So I didn’t realize that this was what I was doing as a child, but I got really addicted to sugar. So it was like sugar sandwiches and, you know, spoonfuls of sugar and candy and whatever. And I think that the hardest thing abou...
