Host Lindsey Elizabeth Cortes introduces the Female Athlete Nutrition Podcast, aiming to help female athletes overcome confusing and harmful nutrition messages, and includes sponsorships for Wave Bye menstrual cycle products and Lindsey’s REDs resources and membership.

Lindsey interviews binge eating expert Amber Abila, who shares her progression from calorie restriction and vegan dieting as a teen to bingeing, purging, and over-exercising, with therapy helping bulimia but not binge eating. Amber explains binge eating often stems from restriction and nutrient deficiency, and discusses how hyper-palatable foods and added “natural flavors” can intensify cravings, referencing concepts from The Dorito Effect and artificial sweeteners. She emphasizes shifting from weight-loss focus to feeling normal around food, treating bingeing as a changeable habit, using mindset tools like visualization (featured in her free audio “Stop a Binge Before It Starts”), and building regular meals before refining hunger/fullness cues. Amber outlines her three-month coaching and notes overeating and binge eating use similar strategies.

Amber Abila helps women stop binge eating & overeating by rewiring their brains so they can feel normal and in control around food for good.

After years of trying everything from therapy to intermittent fasting, nothing worked until she learned about the psychology of habits which led to her losing 30 lbs, eliminating food noise, and gaining her life back.

She now walks others step by step through her process in her signature Confident Eater Program as well as in her podcast, in the top 2% worldwide, called “Become a Confident Eater.”

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Episode Highlights:

03:00 Meet Amber Obealah
05:24 From Dieting to Binging
06:54 Cookies Then Purging
08:19 Why Therapy Fell Short
10:43 Binge Eating As Habit
12:17 Confidence Over Control
16:20 Restriction To Binge Stats
18:55 Rock Bottom Breakthrough
20:31 Letting Go Of Weight Loss
21:50 Why Binge Eating Starts
27:51 Flavorings And Cravings
29:05 Flavor Drives Cravings
29:48 Orange Prediction Error
30:40 Restriction And Nutrient Gaps
31:29 Dorito Effect Explained
32:55 Back To Real Food
33:46 Pregnancy Cravings Decoded
36:43 Diet Foods And Sweeteners
39:21 Relearning Fullness
42:45 Trust Timeline For Change
44:24 Mindset Mantras Visualization
47:35 Coaching Process Overview
49:34 Overeating Versus Bingeing
51:36 Final Wrap And Resources

Resources and Links:

The Confident Eater Podcast with Amber Abila
Follow The Confident Eater on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theconfidenteater_/
Follow Amber Abila on Youtube
Follow Amber Abila on Facebook
Amber Abila's Free Support Group
For more information about the show, head to work with Lindsey on improving your nutrition, head to: http://www.lindseycortes.com/
Join REDS Recovery Membership: http://www.lindseycortes.com/reds
WaveBye Supplements – Menstrual cycle support code LindseyCortes for 15% off: http://wavebye.co
Previnex Supplements – Joint Health Plus, Muscle Health Plus, plant-based protein, probiotics, and more; code CORTES15 for 15% off: previnex.com
Female Athlete Nutrition Podcast Archive & Search Tool – Search by sport, condition, or topic: lindseycortes.com/podcast
Female Athlete Nutrition Community – YouTube, Instagram @‌femaleathletenutrition, and private Facebook group

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