Rewire Your Weight with Rachel Foy
Aug 21, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
Welcome back to *ReWire Your Weight*, the podcast for high performers who are ready to silence the constant food noise and finally experience peace with eating. I’m Rachel Foy, and in today’s episode…
I thought that sugar was the issue, it was chocolate, it was carbohydrates, it was having certain things in my house, it was my appetite, it was the cakes down the road in this beautiful cafe when I used to live in Munich but it was about food therefore the obvious solution for me at the time was always to try and change the food and I did that through trying to eat less removing it controlling it finding a different diet becoming more disciplined not buying the foods that I believed I couldn't trust myself around and do you know what happened none of that and I mean honestly none of that actually changed anything and it also never answered a much more interesting question.
Why could somebody eat two biscuits, so somebody else, why could they eat just two biscuits, put the packet back in the cupboard and genuinely forget that they existed while me, I could then spend the next two hours knowing that those biscuits were still in the kitchen and becoming obsessed by them and trying to stop myself thinking about them and trying to distract myself until eventually I I would end up giving in and eating the whole box of biscuits.
So perhaps the biscuits weren't actually the most important part of that equation.
This is what I mean when I say food noise and thinking about food obsessively is often a brain problem rather than simply being a food problem.
Of course, what and how much we eat can affect hunger and satiety and energy, physical health, etc.
If you're genuinely though under eating, for example, your brain becomes more interested in food for an entirely different appropriate biological response.
However, there is another layer to eating that I don't think we talk about enough.
I know that I do, but out there in the big wide world of ours, conversations around food and eating and food noise and everything connected to also weight loss as well this is not spoken enough about and it's the fact that your brain learns it learns associations between food and emotion it learns rules about what you're allowed to eat it learns habits around particular times places situations It learns which behaviors produce reward, which behaviors provide relief.
And once those patterns become established, changing the contents of your plate doesn't necessarily change the pattern running in your brain.
So today on this episode, I want to give you 10 signs that what you're struggling with right now may not simply be a food problem.
I thought that sugar was the issue, it was chocolate, it was carbohydrates, it was having certain things in my house, it was my appetite, it was the cakes down the road in this beautiful cafe when I used to live in Munich but it was about food therefore the obvious solution for me at the time was always to try and change the food and I did that through trying to eat less removing it controlling it finding a different diet becoming more disciplined not buying the foods that I believed I couldn't trust myself around and do you know what happened none of that and I mean honestly none of that actually changed anything and it also never answered a much more interesting question.
Why could somebody eat two biscuits, so somebody else, why could they eat just two biscuits, put the packet back in the cupboard and genuinely forget that they existed while me, I could then spend the next two hours knowing that those biscuits were still in the kitchen and becoming obsessed by them and trying to stop myself thinking about them and trying to distract myself until eventually I I would end up giving in and eating the whole box of biscuits.
So perhaps the biscuits weren't actually the most important part of that equation.
This is what I mean when I say food noise and thinking about food obsessively is often a brain problem rather than simply being a food problem.
Of course, what and how much we eat can affect hunger and satiety and energy, physical health, etc.
If you're genuinely though under eating, for example, your brain becomes more interested in food for an entirely different appropriate biological response.
However, there is another layer to eating that I don't think we talk about enough.
I know that I do, but out there in the big wide world of ours, conversations around food and eating and food noise and everything connected to also weight loss as well this is not spoken enough about and it's the fact that your brain learns it learns associations between food and emotion it learns rules about what you're allowed to eat it learns habits around particular times places situations It learns which behaviors produce reward, which behaviors provide relief.
And once those patterns become established, changing the contents of your plate doesn't necessarily change the pattern running in your brain.
So today on this episode, I want to give you 10 signs that what you're struggling with right now may not simply be a food problem.
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