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Chatting with Cara - The Relationship with Food Podcast

Cara Meehan - The Mindful Eating Coach

A podcast for women stuck in the diet cycle, emotional eating and the "I"ll start Monday" patten. If you eat when stressed, overwhelmed or bored and feel guilty every time this show is for you. We talk about food freedom, breaking self-sabotage, and building a sustainable relationship with food without another diet." Find me here - Facebook - Coaching with Cara Instrgram - @coachingwcara Email - cara@coachingwithcara.co.uk If you would like to enquire about my 1-1 coaching then please book

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00:16:40

GLP-1 drugs, food noise and your relationship with food

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2026/10/02

Are GLP-1 drugs actually improving your relationship with food, or just quietening it? In this episode of Chatting with Cara, I'm talking honestly about GLP-1 drugs, food noise, and why appetite suppression isn't the same as food freedom.In this episode I talk about - My stance on GLP-1 drugs. No judgement as always as my firmly believe you have full autonomy over your own body.What food noise actually is. The constant background chatter about food, thinking about it, planning it, being

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00:17:27

Why you know how to lose weight but not how to...

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2026/09/25

You know how to lose weight. You know how to gain it back. But has anyone ever taught you how to maintain it? In this episode I break down why chronic dieters get stuck in a rinse-and-repeat cycle of losing and regaining and it's not down to willpower or determination.I was chatting to a woman recently who summed it up perfectly, she said "I knew how to lose weight, I knew how to gain weight, but I didn't know how to maintain weight." If that hits home, this one's for you

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00:20:29

Why I only trust evidence-based nutrition (and what...

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2026/09/18

Someone sent me a supplement in my DMs this week. It had 1,500 reviews and was £25 for 30 capsules, so £50 a month for her and her husband. I had a look on PubMed for evidence that it works. Turns out most of the research is in mice, and the human trials hadn't really come back with anything. 1,500 reviews and basically no evidence.This podcast takes you right back to 19 year old me at the University of Leeds, doing a Sports Science degree, failing first year statistics and having to resit it

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00:17:12

It's common, but it's not normal (and why that...

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2026/09/11

Tracking your calories. Weighing your oats. Taking a photo of yourself in your underwear for a stranger on the internet. All incredibly common. None of it normal. In this episode I unpick why the two conversations that inspired today's show, one with a client, one with a friend who's been in my life for twenty years and she's showed me just how normalised diet culture is.This one's part story time, one part wake-up call. If you've ever tracked your macros, sent a "before you

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00:18:31

Why September beats new year for real change

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2026/09/04

Ready to break the diet cycle and build a healthy relationship with food? In this episode, I explain why September (not January) is the perfect time to stop starting again on Monday and finally do the deep work.If you've done every diet going, low carb, intermittent fasting, Slimming World, Weight Watchers, the shakes, the supplements, and you're still stuck in the same patterns, this one's for you. I talk through self-sabotage, all-or-nothing thinking around food, and why willpower

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00:17:35

Myth busting intuitive eating (why you won't "eat...

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2026/08/28

You think if you stopped dieting, you'd eat everything in sight, don't you?Ice cream for breakfast. Chocolate for dinner. That whole packet of biscuits.In this episode of Chatting with Cara I'm myth-busting the 3 biggest fears keeping women going back to diets and not trusting themselves to break the pattern and come on over to be a intuitive eater.Because breaking the diet cycle doesn't work the way you think it does. In this episode I cover -The "I'll eat everything"

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00:17:57

Snacking all day? It's probably emotional eating....

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2026/08/21

Snacking all day? It's probably emotional eating....In this episode I break down why emotional eating shows up as snacking, using a real conversation I had this week with someone about to join The Intuitive Table.She wanted to know if working on her relationship with food would actually stop her snacking. Short answer: yes. Long answer: this episode.This one's for anyone who's ever stood in front of the fridge, snack drawer or biscuit tin without really knowing why, or ended the day

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00:15:57

Too tired to cook dinner, too wired to sleep.

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2026/08/14

You skip breakfast because there's no time. You grab lunch at your desk, in the car, standing at the chopping board. By 3pm you need a coffee just to function. Dinner becomes whatever's quickest. And by 11pm, when everyone else is finally asleep, you're scrolling your phone telling yourself this is "your time", even though you'll regret it at 6am.If that's you, I want you to hear this clearly: this isn't a discipline problem. It's not about being disorganised,

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00:17:44

The supplement drawer that's hiding your relationship...

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2026/08/07

Open your supplement drawer. Go on, actually do it. The magnesium for sleep. The B12 for energy. The green powder that's meant to fix your gut. The menopause one. The one you can't even remember buying. We've all got one and in this episode I explain why it's never really been about the supplements.Every single thing in that drawer started with a feeling. You felt something, you felt bad about it, and you wanted to fix it. That's not you falling for marketing, that's just

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00:20:27

Diets give you rules. This gives you freedom.

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2026/07/31

You've tried the shakes. The app where you photograph your dinner. The plan where Tuesday's your free day. You've got the t-shirt, well multiple t-shirts. But have you ever tried building a healthy relationship with food? In this episode I talk about why that's the one thing yoyo dieters never try, why it works when nothing else has, and why food freedom starts the moment you stop looking for the next plan.In this episode I cover -● Why "I've tried everything" usually

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00:18:57

Why you already know what to do (and still don't do it)

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2026/07/24

Stop the diet cycle for good? You've tried every diet going. You know your macros, you've read the books, you've got the apps. So why are you still starting again every Monday?In this episode I'm explaining why the diet cycle was never an information problem, it was always a psychology one. I'm taking you back to my sports science degree, my PT days, and a very unexpected lesson from a houseplant, to explain why "just try harder" or "just be more disciplined"

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00:16:15

Why this generation will be the last to diet.

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2026/07/17

Remember when everyone smoked indoors? When you'd come home from a night out absolutely reeking of it and nobody batted an eyelid? That was normal. Until it wasn't. In this episode, I draw a comparison between the smoking ban of 2007 and where I believe diet culture is heading and why I think we're right at the start of a generational shift that is going to change everything.This one is high-level. We're not going deep today. We're zooming out, looking at the bigger picture, and

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00:13:51

Take your seat at The Intuitive Table

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2026/07/10

That Sunday night feeling, you know the one. You're already planning Monday, already writing the meal plan in your head, already telling yourself “this time it'll be different”. But somewhere in the back of your mind, that voice is going - “it never is”.If you've been in the diet cycle for years and I’m going to say it maybe even decades, this episode is for you. Because the problem isn't your willpower, your determination, or your discipline. You don't need more of any of those

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00:23:50

The Diet Graveyard: Where did all those diets...

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2026/07/03

Slimfast. The Special K Challenge. Skinny teas. The Dukan Diet. If you're wincing right now, this episode is literally for you. Today I'm taking you on a nostalgic trip through the diet graveyard, all the diets and products that had their moment and quietly disappeared. And more importantly, what that actually tells us about the diet cycle, and how to finally break it.This isn't about shame. It's about recognition. Because every diet you ever tried? That was you showing up for

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00:22:13

How I went from 1,300 calorie spreadsheets to food...

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2026/06/26

I tried one of those "eat what you want and lose weight" programs. The spreadsheet landed in my inbox, the calories came out at 1,300, and I thought, there is absolutely no way. In this episode I share the full story: what that eight-week program actually looked like, why it set me up to fail, and the moment that changed the way I coach forever.This one's personal. It's story time, grab a brew.In this episode I cover -Why I signed up to a calorie-tracking program as a newly

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00:34:42

Episode 100. My Story | How I Got Here

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2026/06/12

100 episodes. I know. I genuinely can't believe I'm saying that.I wanted to do something different for this one. No notes (yes I do plan the podcasts), no framework, no big strategy episode. Just me, in my stepdaughter's bedroom hiding from the noise, telling you my life story. Because the more you know me, the more everything else I talk about actually lands. And I think that's worth doing at 100, don't you?So this one is all about how a sporty kid with a PE teacher as a Mum

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00:13:58

Body image confidence starts here: How to appreciate...

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2026/06/05

Stop waiting until you love how you look before you start loving your body. In this episode, I'm talking about body appreciation and it might just change everything about how you see yourself.I was listening to Jamie Lang's podcast, Good Company, and Paris Fury said something that stopped me. When asked what she was most proud of, she said her body, she's had seven kids, and she was talking about it like a person. Not a problem to fix. Not something to shrink. Just something to be

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00:18:30

Break the diet cycle - You already have everything...

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2026/05/29

You've been searching for the next diet, the next plan, the next thing, but what if the answer to breaking the diet cycle wasn't out there at all?In this episode I'm talking about something I see all the time with the women I work with, and something I've fallen into myself.Constantly looking externally for fixes when actually, everything you need is already inside you. This is one of those "I never thought about it like that" episodes, and it might just change how you see

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00:16:08

Stop solving the wrong problem: emotional eating edition

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2026/05/22

Do you keep trying to fix your emotional eating but nothing works? You might be solving the wrong problem.If you struggle with stress eating, comfort eating, or boredom eating and you're tired of the all-or-nothing thinking food cycle that never leads to real food freedom, this episode is for you.I dig into why smart, capable women keep plugging the wrong hole when it comes to their relationship with food. Using a real client example involving those sugary iced coffees you keep buying on the way

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00:15:34

Those "fat memes" you keep sharing? They're not as...

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2026/05/15

You've seen them. The pig dancing in front of the pool. The person tucking into dessert seconds after complaining about their body. The guinea pig waddling to the kitchen after a cry. They're all over Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and every time they get reshared, they reach more and more people.They feel harmless. A bit of self-deprecating humour. A relatable giggle. But they're not harmless and in this episode, I explains exactly why.This one is more of an "I never thought about it

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