Rewire Your Weight with Rachel Foy
Aug 28, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
Rachel Foy explores why part of you can desperately want to stop overeating while another part resists giving it up. Food may be providing comfort, relief, stimulation, reward, or a way to switch off…
What if part of you doesn't actually want to stop overeating? Now this was a conversation that came up recently in a client call that I had and I just want to share my experience I guess around this because honestly it's not usually spoken about as much as I think it should be because this is surprisingly common.
What if a part of you right now doesn't actually want to stop overeating, thinking about food, using food when you're feeling stressed, turning to food when you're feeling a bit fed up? Now I know that it sounds like a strange question, particularly if everything that I've just mentioned, such as overeating, is something that you have struggled with for years.
I hate promising myself that tonight's going to be the last time I will ever do it, only to find myself doing exactly the same again and again and again.
But wanting to stop experiencing the consequences of a behaviour isn't necessarily the same as being completely ready to let go of that behaviour itself.
And this is something that that I think we need to talk about far more when it comes to overeating, binge eating behavior, emotional eating, and kind of anything in between all that.
Because honestly, human behavior is rarely as straightforward as we would like it to be.
We can... genuinely want to change something and at exactly the same time feel a huge amount of resistance towards changing it in the first place.
Now that does not necessarily mean that you are unmotivated, it doesn't mean that you don't want it enough or that you're not able to or that again there might be something wrong with you.
Often though what it does mean is that the behaviour that you're trying to change is also doing something really important for you and from a brain perspective This actually makes complete sense.
What if part of you doesn't actually want to stop overeating? Now this was a conversation that came up recently in a client call that I had and I just want to share my experience I guess around this because honestly it's not usually spoken about as much as I think it should be because this is surprisingly common.
What if a part of you right now doesn't actually want to stop overeating, thinking about food, using food when you're feeling stressed, turning to food when you're feeling a bit fed up? Now I know that it sounds like a strange question, particularly if everything that I've just mentioned, such as overeating, is something that you have struggled with for years.
I hate promising myself that tonight's going to be the last time I will ever do it, only to find myself doing exactly the same again and again and again.
But wanting to stop experiencing the consequences of a behaviour isn't necessarily the same as being completely ready to let go of that behaviour itself.
And this is something that that I think we need to talk about far more when it comes to overeating, binge eating behavior, emotional eating, and kind of anything in between all that.
Because honestly, human behavior is rarely as straightforward as we would like it to be.
We can... genuinely want to change something and at exactly the same time feel a huge amount of resistance towards changing it in the first place.
Now that does not necessarily mean that you are unmotivated, it doesn't mean that you don't want it enough or that you're not able to or that again there might be something wrong with you.
Often though what it does mean is that the behaviour that you're trying to change is also doing something really important for you and from a brain perspective This actually makes complete sense.
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