02/03/2026
My client Abby came to me about 4 months ago really frustrated.
She’s smart, capable, handles a million things at work… and then by the end of the day she’d catch herself standing in the kitchen grabbing random food between calls thinking, “why can’t I get it together?”
Sometimes she wasn’t even hungry.
She’d just grab snacks because they were there. Or because she wanted something to take the edge off the stress.
Abby thought it was a discipline problem.
It usually isn’t.
When your brain has been making decisions all day, food becomes whatever is fastest and easiest. Honestly, anyone would do the same thing in that situation.
So instead of telling her to try harder or cut foods out, we just made her days easier and less chaotic. We put a simple plan in place and a backup for busy days so she wasn’t winging it all week.
We also worked on noticing the stress triggers so food wasn’t the automatic answer every time.
Once that clicked, the cravings slowed down fast. Her energy got better and she wasn’t finding herself in the kitchen after every call.
Nothing was wrong with her. Her day just wasn’t set up to support her.
If you’re curious what this could look like for you, send me a message. We’ll talk through what’s going on and I’ll share what I’d change first to finally see progress.