BEE #143: Beyond the Scale: Why Weight Doesn't Tell Your Whole Health Story

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After experiencing a serious car accident and learning I was pre-diabetic despite maintaining a normal weight, I was forced to reevaluate everything I believed about nutrition and health. For years, I coached clients through emotional eating under the assumption that moderation and stable weight were enough. But my own health journey revealed the limitations of that thinking—our bodies often signal imbalances long before the scale does. This wake-up call pushed me to dive deeper into how food affects us beyond weight, especially as we age.

As a result, The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast is expanding in scope. While emotional eating remains at the heart of what we do, we’ll now explore personalized nutrition with insights from a range of experts in health and fitness. This isn’t about rigid rules or food restrictions—it’s about tuning into your unique biochemistry and learning what truly supports your energy, vitality, and well-being. Whether you're navigating emotional eating, low energy, or seeking a more intuitive approach to food, this new chapter is for you. Follow along on Instagram @BreakthroughEmotionalEating for continued support and connection.

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3 . Website: https://www.kristinjonescoaching.com

If you want to learn more about how to stop overeating at meals and lose weight easily, get my How To Stop Overeating At Meals Guide: https://go.kristinjonescoaching.com/stop-overeating

Needing more specific and direct support for your emotional eating and overeating? Check out my online course, Stop Dieting Start Feeling, and my personalized coaching program, Breakthrough To You.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Do you want to lose weight but struggle to stay
committed to a meal plan becauseyou constantly feel hungry?
Does food provide you comfortwhen you're bored, angry, lonely
or sad?
If so, you are in the rightplace.
My name is Kristen Jones andI'm a life coach specializing in
emotional eating and weightloss, and I'm also a lifelong

(00:24):
emotional eater.
I want to provide you withinformation, motivation and
support so you, too, can learnto manage your issues with food
and develop a healthyrelationship with yourself.
Welcome to the BreakthroughEmotional Eating Podcast.

(00:59):
My name is Kristen Jones andthank you so much for joining me
this week.
Name is Kristen Jones and thankyou so much for joining me this
week.
It has been more than a hotminute since I have recorded a
podcast episode and I wanted toupdate everybody on some things
that have been going on and somechanges that have been
happening, not only in my lifebut in my business.

(01:20):
So welcome, and we still aregoing to be talking about
emotional eating.
Emotional eating is still themainstay of what I will be
discussing, but I've kind ofchanged a little bit in regards
to my viewpoint on food, so, andI will explain a little bit

(01:45):
more about that.
So let me backtrack a littlebit For those of you who have
been listening for a while andwho listened to my last few
episodes.
I was in a pretty significantcar accident in January and as a
result of that accident, I hadalready started hormone

(02:06):
replacement therapy a week priorto being in this accident and
the accident really put thepodcast on hold.
I did a couple more episodesafter the accident, but life was
just really hard.
I had a very hard time stayingfocused and just staying
committed to anything.

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I don't know if it was a resultof the accident I did not have
any sort of head trauma per sebut I did feel that I just had
lost a lot of motivation and alot of drive to complete things,
and I'm sure many of you canrelate to that.
Sometimes, when we have thesesignificant traumatic

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experiences, those things canhappen, and that was absolutely
what happened.
And so my business continued on, and one of the areas that I
have really been focusing on isthe hypnosis aspect of my
business, and I am such a firmadvocate and believer in the
power of hypnosis and the powerof rapid transformational

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therapy, which is the processthat I take people through, and
hypnosis is a part of that and Ihave really been doing a lot of
focusing on that aspect of mybusiness and it's been
incredibly successful and I'mreally, really pleased with it.
But through the course of goingthrough hormone replacement

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therapy and just kind of gettingmy life back together and being
able to actually get back tobeing physical and being present
in my own body because I had analmost three-month recovery
from the airbag injury that Isustained in my accident and it
took a long time for me to feelair quotes normal, and so that

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process has been a verydifferent thing for me and it's
really forced me to become verymuch very in touch with my body
and present in my own body.
And one of the things that Ihave really realized is that the
way I had been eating and theway I've been advocating people

(04:19):
to eat which I still think isn'ta bad thing still think isn't a
bad thing.
So let me clarify that it's notthat I don't still advocate
that people need to eat whatthey enjoy eating.
I just think there is a levelof awareness of of proper

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nutrition and, especially as weget older, and I think one of
the things and I will never,ever say not to eat a certain
food group, like to not eatsugar or to not eat carbs.
That's never going to be mybelief, but it is.
As we get older and as ourbodies start to respond to

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different things, we absolutelyhave to be aware of the impact
that food has on our bodies.
And so the reason I feel, thereason I've kind of changed this
and I've been changing the wayI've been eating and I've
noticed a significant difference, is that when I went in for my

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initial check and I had my bloodwork done for my hormone
replacement therapy and Irelayed this in my HRT podcast I
learned that my A1c waspre-diabetic.
I was just at the beginning ofthe pre-diabetic range, it was
5.8.
And I was shocked, because I amof normal weight.

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I would not think that I wouldbe pre-diabetic based upon my
weight, because I always thoughtof diabetic or pre-diabetic
based upon my weight, because Ialways thought of pre of
diabetic or pre-diabetic asbeing related to weight.
And it absolutely, itabsolutely is not.
That is not the truth.
Um, because, uh, but I have tobe honest and tell you, know and

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be totally transparent, that Ireally ran with the idea that,
oh, you could eat it and you caneat anything you want, as long
as it's in moderation.
And to me, I always thought aslong as my weight doesn't go up,
everything's great.
Well, my weight doesn't change,but I was eating a lot.

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If I'm honest, I was eating alot of sugar and eating a lot of
sweets and justifying itbecause my weight wasn't going
up.
And so when I went and saw mydoctor and he told me that I was
pre-diabetic, I was shocked andI said well, why am I not 100

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pounds heavier than I am?
And I just happened to beblessed with a really great
thyroid that really helps meprocess.
I process and use everythingthat I eat.
So that's a good thing and abad thing, because I've gone all
this time thinking, well,there's nothing wrong,
everything's super healthy,because my weight hasn't changed

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.
But the reality is, my body andmy blood and my insulin and my
pancreas are not liking what'shappening.
So I've had to really make somechanges for health reasons and
I'll be completely honest, Ifeel so much better.
I have so much more energy.
I have really been focusing oneating protein and eating red

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meat as well as pork.
I've eaten chicken all my life.
I'm done, I'm tired of chicken.
I eat mostly red meat and porkand I love it and I'm really
feeling like I have so much moreenergy and I'm not ever going
to advocate any style of eatingone way or the other, but I

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really want my coaching to nowgo in more of a direction of
really helping people figure outwhat foods make them feel good
and what foods give them energy,and then incorporate those
things in a way that stillallows you to enjoy and pick the

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foods that you want to eat, buthave a health framework to be
able to gauge and judge anddecide what it is that you want
to be eating and what you wantto be putting into your body.
So just a tiny shift ofdirection.
And it is focusing on foodsthat make us feel good and and

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foods that make us good, feelgood for the long run and that
impact our health, and I thinkthat's to me that's the real
change in direction is reallyfocusing on each individual's
health and what's going to bebest for them and what's going
to feel good and what's going togive you energy and help you
live your best life, not onlyfrom a physical standpoint, but

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also from a biologicalstandpoint and from a
physiological standpoint and ahealth standpoint, and your
heart and your you know all ofthe things that we're so in now
that you know, and I think ithappens as we get older that we
vanity kind of goes vanity takesa back seat to.
I want to be my healthiest, Iwant to be giving my body the
things that it actually needs,and so that's kind of going to

(09:23):
kind of be the direction of mypodcast, and I definitely am
going to be seeking out expertsand people that I know and love
and trust and have them come onand share their stories about
with their health journeys andhow they've discovered what
works for them, and notadvocating and saying, oh you

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need to do this, but justexposing my audience to there's
so many different varieties ofways of looking at things and I
have so many friends in thefitness industry who do a
variety of different things andI really want to be able to
spotlight them and highlightthem and highlight what they do
because they're so knowledgeable, and also let my audience then

(10:06):
decide okay, what is it that youwant?
And then be able to helpfacilitate that within my
coaching practice andincorporate the hypnosis into
that as well.
So that's kind of the directionthat we're going in, so I just
wanted to make this a quick,short little podcast episode,
but know that new episodes areon the way and I am so excited

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to get back into a regular ofrecording podcasts.
One other thing, one otherchange.
I am choosing to movecompletely off.
I will not.
I will not be running myFacebook group anymore.
I also had temporarily openedup a school group and I will not

(10:51):
be running that group at allanymore, and I'm going
exclusively through Instagramand just working with followers
on Instagram, and so, if youdon't follow me on Instagram, my
Instagram is at BreakthroughEmotional Eating, and that may
be changing as well.
I'm not sure I may change myhandle on Instagram, but at

(11:13):
Breakthrough Emotional Eatinghas been very appropriate, but I
do want to make sure that I amexposing myself to as many
people as possible and thevariety of things that I do as
well.
So, yeah, for right now, though,at Breakthrough Emotional
Eating on Instagram, all oneword, and I hope to see you as a
follower and, again, keeplistening to the podcast.

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I am so excited to have so manyamazing guests and to interact
with so many more people and tojust have an amazing array of
information and healthinformation and, you know,
personal development informationthat each person can use in
their own way to help you liveyour best life, because really

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that's what we're all trying todo is just live our best lives.
So thank you so much forlistening to this episode and I
hope to see you and see you andhear you listening to my next
episodes as they come out.
Again, thank you for being afollower, thank you for
listening and I will see you inthe next episode, take care.
Thank you for listening to thisweek's episode.

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If you are interested inlearning more about how I can
help you understand and manageyour emotional eating, including
the use of hypnosis to uncoverthe root cause of your eating,
go to my website,kristenjonescoachingcom.
Thank you.