Rewire Your Weight with Rachel Foy
Sep 4, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
What if some of the rules you follow around food, weight, and health feel like facts only because you’ve heard them repeated for so long? In this episode, Rachel Foy explores how beliefs can hide in…
Like those are relatively easy to recognize as beliefs because there's this obvious element of personal interpretation attached to them.
But what about the things that don't feel like beliefs at all? What about the things that just simply feel true? Now, most of us have grown up accepting certain ideas or ideals about health without ever consciously deciding to believe them.
We know that, you know, BMI, dependent on your experience with it, it's supposed to tell us whether our weight falls within a quote unquote healthy range and how that could impact our future.
Like these ideas are so embedded within our culture that they don't really enter our consciousness as beliefs.
And I think that's where beliefs, for me anyway, become really, really, really interesting.
You see, a belief doesn't have to be something that you consciously decided was true.
Now, many of our strongest beliefs and ideas we've encountered so consistently from so many different sources and over such a long period of time, we've simply never thought to examine them, right? If your parents believed something and your teachers repeated it and doctors use it and governments publish it and magazines write about it, fitness trackers measure it and everyone around you behaves as though it's true, why would your brain question it? Humans are social learners, right? We don't independently investigate every piece of information that we encounter because that will be extraordinarily inefficient.
We simply absorb the rules of the culture that we grow up in and we use authority, repetition and social consensus as shortcuts for determining what is probably true.
So we don't need to personally conduct an experiment to establish that putting your hand in a hot oven would probably burn you, right? I can learn that from somebody else.
The problem is that this same ability allows ideas to become deeply established without us understanding where they actually came from, what they were originally intended to mean, or even whether the version that we currently believe is even accurate.
A repetition creates familiarity and familiarity can easily be mistaken for truth.
So that's why I think that curiosity and discernment are two incredibly important skills, especially when you're changing your relationship with food.
And yes, for many of you listening to this, that's also to do with your health, your well-being, energy, weight, etc.
But they are very important skills, particularly when it comes to these topics of food, weight and health.
Curiosity asks, well, where did this idea come from? And discernment asks, well, what does the evidence actually support? We need both.
Curiosity without discernment can take us into conspiracy thinking and where we reject something simply because it came from an institution or because its history is complicated.
But without curiosity, We can accept things at face value simply because they've been presented with enough authority.
The aim is not to become suspicious of everything, by the way, it's to become willing to examine things, which is what I do day in and day out with my clients and then our coaching program.
Because when you're trying to change your relationship with food, you have to get curious, you have to be aware of discernment, you have to start questioning your own inner world And our belief systems is arguably one of the biggest things.
Like those are relatively easy to recognize as beliefs because there's this obvious element of personal interpretation attached to them.
But what about the things that don't feel like beliefs at all? What about the things that just simply feel true? Now, most of us have grown up accepting certain ideas or ideals about health without ever consciously deciding to believe them.
We know that, you know, BMI, dependent on your experience with it, it's supposed to tell us whether our weight falls within a quote unquote healthy range and how that could impact our future.
Like these ideas are so embedded within our culture that they don't really enter our consciousness as beliefs.
And I think that's where beliefs, for me anyway, become really, really, really interesting.
You see, a belief doesn't have to be something that you consciously decided was true.
Now, many of our strongest beliefs and ideas we've encountered so consistently from so many different sources and over such a long period of time, we've simply never thought to examine them, right? If your parents believed something and your teachers repeated it and doctors use it and governments publish it and magazines write about it, fitness trackers measure it and everyone around you behaves as though it's true, why would your brain question it? Humans are social learners, right? We don't independently investigate every piece of information that we encounter because that will be extraordinarily inefficient.
We simply absorb the rules of the culture that we grow up in and we use authority, repetition and social consensus as shortcuts for determining what is probably true.
So we don't need to personally conduct an experiment to establish that putting your hand in a hot oven would probably burn you, right? I can learn that from somebody else.
The problem is that this same ability allows ideas to become deeply established without us understanding where they actually came from, what they were originally intended to mean, or even whether the version that we currently believe is even accurate.
A repetition creates familiarity and familiarity can easily be mistaken for truth.
So that's why I think that curiosity and discernment are two incredibly important skills, especially when you're changing your relationship with food.
And yes, for many of you listening to this, that's also to do with your health, your well-being, energy, weight, etc.
But they are very important skills, particularly when it comes to these topics of food, weight and health.
Curiosity asks, well, where did this idea come from? And discernment asks, well, what does the evidence actually support? We need both.
Curiosity without discernment can take us into conspiracy thinking and where we reject something simply because it came from an institution or because its history is complicated.
But without curiosity, We can accept things at face value simply because they've been presented with enough authority.
The aim is not to become suspicious of everything, by the way, it's to become willing to examine things, which is what I do day in and day out with my clients and then our coaching program.
Because when you're trying to change your relationship with food, you have to get curious, you have to be aware of discernment, you have to start questioning your own inner world And our belief systems is arguably one of the biggest things.
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