Breaking Free from Food Fear with Jacob Smith

American Glutton

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What happens when nutrition myths collide with lived experience and real science? In this episode, Ethan sits down with Jacob to explore the confusion, fear and evolving beliefs around food, dieting and identity.

They talk about breaking free from restrictive rules, learning to trust your body and replacing guilt with grounded understanding. The conversation digs into calories, keto history, processed food fear, personal patterns and how to rebuild a healthy relationship with eating.

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 Welcome and intro

01:09 Falling into nutrition misinformation

02:51 Studying nutrition and shifting beliefs

04:46 Ethan’s dieting history

07:09 Calories in calories out realization

10:06 Fear and judgment around food

12:23 Personal experimentation and routines

14:48 Learning to individualize nutrition

16:42 Keto, identity and starting over

18:58 Trusting real science

21:44 Shifting the goal from weight loss to fat loss

24:43 The dark side of extreme calorie restriction

28:25 Coaching through mindset and misinformation

31:32 The problem with cookie cutter coaching

33:56 Missing life because of food rules

38:24 Food fear and social consequences

41:22 Why online nutrition beliefs shift

43:54 Ultra processed food vs mindset

46:34 Diet soda, health claims and nuance

48:54 Reintroducing processed foods without chaos

51:06 The failure of abstinence based eating

53:13 Food as culture and connection

55:09 Final thoughts and closing

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0:57.9	Hi, I'm Ethan Soply.
1:00.1	Welcome to American Glutton.
1:02.0	Outside of acting, my two favorite things to do are diet and eat.
1:05.9	I have a very complicated relationship with food,
1:08.3	and on this podcast, we're going to talk about all of it.
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