Ep. 199: Food Noise, Part 2: The Effect of the Food Environment (You're Not Broken or Powerless)
Brain over Binge Podcast
Kathryn Hansen
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of the Food Noise series, Kathryn explores how the modern food environment and intense cultural pressure around bodies and weight contributes to an overabundance of thoughts about food. This episode is designed to help you better understand why the noise shows up, so you can approach it with less self-blame and more self-compassion. Kathryn acknowledges that some people are more sensitive to today’s environment than others and uses a thoughtful comparison to other natural drives to show that increased “noise” doesn’t have to dictate your actions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Over Binge Podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Catherine Hansen, and today is part two of this food noise series. |
| 0:15.1 | Before I dive in, I want to quickly mention that if you want more support applying this approach in your life, |
| 0:20.1 | I'd love for you to |
| 0:20.8 | join us in the Brain Over Binge Group. We have four group coaching calls per week with me as your coach. |
| 0:26.3 | We also have a private forum for daily accountability, guidance, and encouragement, and you'll |
| 0:31.2 | also get full access to the Brain Over Binge course when you join. You can learn more at |
| 0:35.9 | brainoverbinge.com forward slash group, and that link is in |
| 0:39.3 | the show description. Today I'm going to address an aspect of the food noise topic with the hope that |
| 0:44.4 | this conversation will help you have a better understanding of why food noise is coming up for you, |
| 0:49.5 | and less self-flaming and self-criticism when it does come up. I hope that what I talk about today will help |
| 0:54.9 | you shift your perspective so that the food noise starts to feel like less of a threat, and more |
| 0:59.8 | like a natural, expected, and common response, but one that you absolutely can learn to overcome. |
| 1:06.0 | As a recap from part one, which was the previous episode, episode 198, I talked about what I believe is the |
| 1:12.1 | most important thing to understand as you approach food noise in the context of binge eating |
| 1:16.9 | recovery, which is that binge eating is never a solution to food noise. And in fact, |
| 1:22.7 | binging makes food noise so much worse. I explain that you can learn to avoid acting on the urges to binge, |
| 1:28.8 | even if you have food noise. And that idea is the foundation for this series. You never want to |
| 1:34.8 | feel powerless against binging because you struggle with food noise. But I also get that you do not |
| 1:40.3 | want to be having a lot of food noise. Just because you can avoid binging when you have it doesn't mean you want to stay stuck having a lot of food noise. Just because you can avoid binging when you have it |
| 1:45.7 | doesn't mean you want to stay stuck having a lot of food noise. Once you remove binging from the |
| 1:50.9 | equation, you can start working on solutions. And actually removing binging binging is a huge |
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