If you’ve ever felt like food takes up way more mental space than it should — even when you’re trying to eat “well” — this episode is for you.

Food noise is a term that’s everywhere right now, but it’s often treated like a willpower issue or something that can be silenced with a single solution. In this episode, I slow the conversation down to explore what food noise actually is, why so many people experience it, and why the answer is usually more complex than we want it to be.

We unpack food noise from both a physiological and psychological perspective, explaining how your body’s adaptive responses to overeating, chronic dieting, nutrient deficiencies, stress, and diet culture can all contribute to persistent thoughts about food, cravings, and difficulty feeling satisfied.

This episode is about helping you understand why food noise happens — not to blame yourself, but to recognize that your body and brain are often responding logically to the inputs they’ve been given. And once you understand those drivers, it becomes much easier to know what actually helps reduce food noise in a sustainable way.

In this episode, we cover:

• What food noise is and how it differs from normal hunger or food thoughts

• How the Standard American Diet and chronic overeating can disrupt satiety and reward signaling

• Why insulin, dopamine, and leptin all play a role in cravings and satisfaction

• How chronic dieting and low energy availability can amplify hunger and food obsession

• The impact of nutrient deficiencies on appetite, mood, and cravings

• Why food noise isn’t just physiological — and how diet culture shapes our relationship with food

• Where GLP-1 medications fit into the conversation (and where they don’t)

• What a whole-health approach to reducing food noise actually looks like

If you’ve struggled with food noise, my hope is that this episode helps you feel less confused and less alone — and gives you a clearer path forward that doesn’t rely on tighter control or quick fixes.

And if you’re someone who hasn’t experienced food noise personally, I hope this conversation helps build understanding and empathy for those who are navigating it.

Connect With Coach Diana

Instagram, YouTube, TikTok: @coachdianaleigh

Email coachdianaleigh@gmail.com

If you’ve ever felt like you know stress is impacting your health (but don’t actually know what to do about it) this episode is for you.

In this conversation, I’m joined by somatic practitioner, fitness coach, and functional nutrition specialist Joelle Reyes to unpack what somatics actually is, how stress lives in the body, and why “just managing stress better” often isn’t enough.

We dive into the nervous system from a physiology-first perspective, explaining why chronic stress keeps so many women stuck in symptoms like bloating, fatigue, anxiety, hormonal disruption, and stalled progress even when nutrition and training look solid on paper.

This episode bridges the gap between what you intellectually understand about stress and what your body is actually experiencing, and explains how learning to close the stress loop can make everything feel easier — from digestion and recovery to emotional regulation and training results.

In this episode, we cover:

• What somatics actually is (and what it’s not)

• The difference between top-down (mind-based) and bottom-up (body-based) stress regulation

• Why your body doesn’t know the difference between work stress and physical danger

• What it means to “close the stress loop” and why most people never do

• How chronic fight-or-flight impacts digestion, hormones, recovery, and metabolism

• Why you can’t think your way out of nervous system dysregulation

• How strength training, rest periods, and awareness can become somatic tools

• Practical ways to start reconnecting with your body without doing anything extreme or uncomfortable

• Why feeling your emotions isn’t the same as being overwhelmed by them

Connect with Joelle:

• Instagram: @joellereyes

• Beyond the Weights Coaching: @beyondtheweightscoaching

• Podcast: The Beyond the Weights Podcast

If you’re someone who sets big goals, works hard toward them, and still feels like you’re falling short — even when you’re doing a lot right — this episode is for you.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a personal and vulnerable story from my own life that has nothing to do with weight loss or fitness on the surface, but everything to do with why so many high-achieving women feel like failures despite consistent effort.

We’re talking about how the way we define and measure success can quietly sabotage progress — in business, in health, and in life — and why chasing a single outcome often leads to frustration, burnout, and self-doubt instead of fulfillment.

This episode isn’t about lowering your standards or wanting less. It’s about understanding why outcome-only metrics distort behavior, make progress feel invisible, and turn the process into something you resent — even when it’s working.

• Why you can be doing a lot right and still feel like you’re failing

• How externally defined success metrics warp motivation and behavior

• The parallels between chasing income goals and chasing body transformation goals

• Why focusing only on the end goal creates impatience, plan-hopping, and burnout

• How tunnel vision around outcomes leads people away from sustainable, health-promoting behaviors

• Why success is multi-dimensional — and what happens when you start measuring more than just the final result

• What it actually means to “build foundations” and become the person who can sustain your goals

If you’ve ever felt behind, frustrated, or like you’re constantly starting over — this episode will help you see your journey more clearly and reframe what real progress looks like.

If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to step out of the all-or-nothing cycle, I created a free guide to help you do exactly that:

✨ The January Reset That Actually Sticks ✨

This isn’t a diet, a challenge, or an aggressive overhaul. It’s a grounded reset focused on:

• Fueling consistently

• Building sustainable habits

• Measuring success beyond just the scale or a timeline

• Creating momentum without burnout

Download the free guide here: https://coachdianaleigh.myflodesk.com/januaryreset

When you download the guide, you’ll also be automatically entered to win a 1:1 Intensive with me — a personalized deep dive where we assess your nutrition, training, digestion, symptoms, and habits to identify what’s actually holding you back and map out a clear, sustainable path forward.

In this episode, we cover:Ready to build foundations that actually stick?