Sep 6, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
If your eating habits feel automatic, they’re not. They’re trained. On this episode of Coach Talk Radio, Sandra Beck sits down with health coach Erin Kerry to unpack the real driver behind what’s on…
Sandra BeckHostErin CareyGuest
hey everybody this is sandra beck and i'm here with erin carey of sparking wholeness and we are talking today about limiting beliefs around food and i know erin as i've gone through my health journey in the past couple years i've really had to examine my limiting beliefs two of them was I don't like this food.
And the other thing that my limiting belief that I had to change was I grew up with depression era parents.
And I still struggle with how do I not waste food? I even, you know, crunch up the eggshells of my eggs and the coffee grounds and I put them on my plants or sometimes I put a little bit of calcium in with my dog food.
Not that we're advocating wastefulness, but there's got to be a, you know, a balance here.
And I realized how many crazy limiting beliefs that I had that were limiting my health.
And I know for me, just because I've done so much nutrition training and, you know, digging into all the different dietary theories and all of that, I think a lot of my limiting beliefs have had to do with eating things like bananas, like, Ooh, it's high glycemic or watermelon, Ooh, high glycemic food.
It's, and, and getting caught up in these nuances of, Instead of realizing that, wait a minute, these are natural whole foods that have phytonutrients that can be beneficial.
And I never owed overdose on bananas, but I can sure overdose on, but on donuts, you know, like that I have so many, it's like, there's so much nutritional information out there.
I love learning new things, but it can really mess with my mindset about what I'm eating instead of going, what does my body actually need to feel good? So yeah, I love that.
Well, yeah, because, you know, as I, you know, I had a lot of time, honestly, like during my chemotherapy treatments, you know, I was given, and I'm just going to say this, given the gift of a day off from my life without guilt.
Yeah, no, it wasn't, you know, the chemotherapy part wasn't fun and the after effects wasn't fun, but it showed me how I could step away from my life and for one day a week who knew you know was it stressful yes was it scary yes but when i would sit there i have a lot of time to think because it was in an era where they weren't letting people into the hospital so i'm by myself so i'm sitting there with my journal and then i'm you know they're bringing me apple juice which i always thought was disgusting and then they give you a little apple juice they give you a little cracker and in the absence of anything else i'm like hmm like hey this apple juice isn't bad like hey you know this apple juice tastes pretty good and you know i had we had apple trees growing up like i was so done with apples like by my 20s that i had this this belief around them that i didn't like them and i really think you know there's also mouth feel there's texture there's flavor there's how something's prepared you know i love fish and i grew up with fish and my kids and my dad are not big fish eaters until i prepare it differently like yeah if i put a big fishy piece of fish that's oily and greasy and then you know smells fishy no one's gonna like that But when I create fish tacos and there's a little dollop of sour cream and there's some onions and some cabbage and things, all of a sudden they're like, hey, this is great.
What is this? And of course I lie through my teeth and tell them, you know, it's a new kind of chicken.
We have beliefs that if we don't eat and me doing this intermittent fasting that I've been doing that really helped me a lot with certain things in my treatment, I was raised, you have to have breakfast every morning.
hey everybody this is sandra beck and i'm here with erin carey of sparking wholeness and we are talking today about limiting beliefs around food and i know erin as i've gone through my health journey in the past couple years i've really had to examine my limiting beliefs two of them was I don't like this food.
And the other thing that my limiting belief that I had to change was I grew up with depression era parents.
And I still struggle with how do I not waste food? I even, you know, crunch up the eggshells of my eggs and the coffee grounds and I put them on my plants or sometimes I put a little bit of calcium in with my dog food.
Not that we're advocating wastefulness, but there's got to be a, you know, a balance here.
And I realized how many crazy limiting beliefs that I had that were limiting my health.
And I know for me, just because I've done so much nutrition training and, you know, digging into all the different dietary theories and all of that, I think a lot of my limiting beliefs have had to do with eating things like bananas, like, Ooh, it's high glycemic or watermelon, Ooh, high glycemic food.
It's, and, and getting caught up in these nuances of, Instead of realizing that, wait a minute, these are natural whole foods that have phytonutrients that can be beneficial.
And I never owed overdose on bananas, but I can sure overdose on, but on donuts, you know, like that I have so many, it's like, there's so much nutritional information out there.
I love learning new things, but it can really mess with my mindset about what I'm eating instead of going, what does my body actually need to feel good? So yeah, I love that.
Well, yeah, because, you know, as I, you know, I had a lot of time, honestly, like during my chemotherapy treatments, you know, I was given, and I'm just going to say this, given the gift of a day off from my life without guilt.
Yeah, no, it wasn't, you know, the chemotherapy part wasn't fun and the after effects wasn't fun, but it showed me how I could step away from my life and for one day a week who knew you know was it stressful yes was it scary yes but when i would sit there i have a lot of time to think because it was in an era where they weren't letting people into the hospital so i'm by myself so i'm sitting there with my journal and then i'm you know they're bringing me apple juice which i always thought was disgusting and then they give you a little apple juice they give you a little cracker and in the absence of anything else i'm like hmm like hey this apple juice isn't bad like hey you know this apple juice tastes pretty good and you know i had we had apple trees growing up like i was so done with apples like by my 20s that i had this this belief around them that i didn't like them and i really think you know there's also mouth feel there's texture there's flavor there's how something's prepared you know i love fish and i grew up with fish and my kids and my dad are not big fish eaters until i prepare it differently like yeah if i put a big fishy piece of fish that's oily and greasy and then you know smells fishy no one's gonna like that But when I create fish tacos and there's a little dollop of sour cream and there's some onions and some cabbage and things, all of a sudden they're like, hey, this is great.
What is this? And of course I lie through my teeth and tell them, you know, it's a new kind of chicken.
We have beliefs that if we don't eat and me doing this intermittent fasting that I've been doing that really helped me a lot with certain things in my treatment, I was raised, you have to have breakfast every morning.
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