Lose Your Cravings Podcast with Keysa Amaro

192: Body Trends

In this episode of the Lose Your Cravings, we take a deep dive into the return of the “skinny trend” and explore how shifting beauty standards continue to shape women’s relationships with their bodies, food, and self-worth. From the rise of GLP-1 medications and ultra-thin celebrity culture to fashion trends, capitalism, patriarchy, and the ever-changing “ideal” female body throughout history, this episode unpacks why body ideals are never really about health — they’re about culture, power, and profit. Through a non-diet, mindful lens, we examine how these pressures influence emotional eating, cravings, body image, and the tendency for women to shrink themselves physically and emotionally. Most importantly, this conversation encourages women to step away from chasing impossible standards and instead focus on strength, energy, mental health, self-respect, and creating peace with food and their bodies.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

191: Why Not Take a GLP-1?

190: Letting go of the Outcome

In this episode, we explore the powerful shift from outcome-based goals—like hitting a certain number on the scale or achieving a specific result—to process-based goals that focus on the daily actions within your control. While outcome goals can feel motivating, they often lead to pressure, perfectionism, and feelings of failure when the result isn’t achieved, even when meaningful progress is made. Instead, process-based goals offer a more supportive, sustainable path by helping you build consistency, self-trust, and confidence through small, intentional behaviors. By focusing on what you can do each day—like pausing before eating, creating supportive routines, or caring for your body—you move away from judgment and toward curiosity, ultimately creating a more peaceful and empowered relationship with food and your body.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

189: Intuition

In this episode of Lose Your Cravings, we explore the powerful difference between intuition and fear—and why understanding this distinction is key to healing your relationship with food and your body. You’ll learn how intuition shows up as a calm, steady inner knowing, while fear tends to be loud, urgent, and rooted in control or “what if” thinking.We’ll talk about how years of dieting and external rules can disconnect you from your body’s natural signals, and how to begin rebuilding that trust through simple, supportive practices. This episode will help you slow down, tune in, and start making choices from a place of self-trust rather than fear—so you can feel more grounded, in control, and at peace around food.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me!Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

188: Same Ice Cream, Different Experience

In this episode of the Lose Your Cravings podcast, I share two very different experiences with the exact same situation: eating ice cream from a carton at home after a long day. In the first story, the pull of diet culture, food guilt, and an all-or-nothing mindset leads to a cycle of inner conflict, overeating, and shame. In the second, the same moment unfolds with awareness, self-check-ins, and permission to eat, creating a calm and satisfying experience. Through these personal stories, I explore how our relationship with food—not the food itself—shapes our behavior and emotions around eating. I also share how leaving diet culture and learning to pause, listen to your body, and approach food without morality can transform your experience with eating and help you move toward peace with food, one small step at a time.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

187: Caring for Your Body Without Trying to Shrink it

In this episode of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast, we explore what it truly means to care for your body without trying to shrink it, especially in a culture shaped by diet trends, fitness pressure, and unrealistic pop culture ideals. For women struggling with body image and emotional eating, shifting away from weight loss as the main goal can feel deeply challenging—but also incredibly freeing. We discuss how diet culture ties self-worth to size, why this impacts cravings and emotional eating, and what a wellness-focused approach can look and feel like instead. You’ll also hear three practical strategies to help you move from body control to body care, redefine success beyond the scale, and begin building a more peaceful, supportive relationship with your body.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

186: The Diet Mentality that is Keeping You Stuck

In this episode, we unpack the familiar “diet starts Monday” mindset and why it keeps so many women stuck in cycles of cravings, overeating, and starting over. Rather than a lack of willpower, this reset mentality is revealed as a learned response to diet culture’s all-or-nothing thinking, which teaches us that mistakes mean failure and that control is the solution. This episode gently explores how restriction and pressure dysregulate the nervous system, amplify cravings, and erode trust around food—and why cravings themselves are not the problem. Through a non-diet, compassionate lens, listeners are guided toward a different path: staying present instead of resetting, regulating before restricting, replacing rules with curiosity, and focusing on how they want to feel rather than what they need to fix. The core message is clear and reassuring—real change doesn’t start on Monday; it starts with responding to yourself with care, awareness, and connection right where you are.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

185: The Everest Effect

In this episode, we explore the Everest Effect as a compassionate, non-diet framework for healing your relationship with food. Using the metaphor of climbing Mount Everest, we normalize the ups and downs of working with cravings, emotional eating, bingeing, and body image—showing why progress is never a straight line. Periods of feeling grounded and using tools to sit with cravings are part of the climb, while days of overeating are not failures but necessary returns to “base camp” that help us acclimate, gather awareness, and build capacity. Rather than responding with shame or restriction, we invite curiosity, self-compassion, and support, reminding listeners that each cycle deepens trust, resilience, and choice—and that sustainable change with food happens through gentleness, not force.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

184: Meal Planning From a Non-Diet Perspective

Meal planning doesn’t have to feel like another diet rule you’re failing to follow. In this episode of Lose Your Cravings, we explore the key mindset differences between diet meal prepping and non-diet meal prepping—and why traditional planning often fuels cravings, guilt, and body frustration instead of easing them.You’ll learn how a non-diet approach to meal planning can support nourishment, satisfaction, and self-trust without rigidity or pressure. If you’re tired of starting over every Monday, battling cravings, or feeling like food controls your life, this episode offers a gentler, more sustainable way to plan that actually works with your body, not against it.Join my Nourished Mind + Body Community here!Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me!Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.

183: Allowing vs Reacting: The Skill That Changes Everything

In this episode of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast, we explore the powerful difference between allowing emotions and reacting to them, and how this skill can gently transform cravings, emotional eating, and everyday stress—from a non-diet perspective. You’ll learn how reacting is a natural nervous system response meant to stop discomfort, why it shows up in many areas of life (not just with food), and how allowing emotions creates space for awareness, choice, and self-trust. Become a sponsor of the Lose Your Cravings Podcast here!patreon.com/loseyourcravingsGet my FREE Guide: Break Free From Nighttime EatingWant to dive deeper into ending your cravings and overeating once and for all? → Book a call with me! Keysa Amaro helps women manage their emotional eating and cravings without deprivation or complicated meal plans so they can show up fully in their life and career.