How I Lost 150 Pounds: Breaking Free From Food Addiction & Binge Eating
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to break free from food addiction and binge eating? Tania Lyon knows firsthand. For decades, she struggled with morbid obesity, disordered eating, and the cycle of restriction and relapse. At her heaviest (likely more than 300 pounds), she feared for her health, and even simple tasks like tying her shoes were difficult.
But today, Tania has lost 150 pounds and found balance. Not through perfection, but through a deep understanding of her own hunger drive and a strategy of eating when hungry.
In this episode of The Exam Room, Tania shares:
- The foods that once triggered binges and how she avoids them now
- What finally worked for her
- The role of plant-based eating in her long-term transformation
- Why "eating when hungry" is more complex than it sounds
You can learn more about Tania on her website: https://www.transformshadows.com
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | I just remember the pain of moving and I was starting to have trouble tying my shoes and my clothes were tight. |
| 0:13.0 | I was going to need to go up another size. I didn't want to do that and so I really, really wanted to figure out how to get control of this problem in my life. |
| 0:23.4 | How sweet is it to have your life back? |
| 0:25.5 | It's amazing. |
| 0:26.9 | It's hard not to regret not getting a hold of it earlier, but the reason why I've centered my story is hopefully to help others understand some of those clues to success. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome to the Exam Room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Washington, D.C., Little Rock, Arkansas, and Motola, Mozambique. |
| 0:57.6 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:02.1 | This is episode 71 of season 8, number 670 overall. |
| 1:07.8 | And right off the top, I would like to let you know that this is one of the more |
| 1:12.6 | powerful interviews that we have ever done. Because so rarely does someone allow themselves |
| 1:18.9 | to be completely vulnerable. But my guest today, Tanya Lion, was willing to put it all out |
| 1:26.3 | there in hopes of helping someone who's walking in the same shoes that she once filled. |
| 1:32.3 | You see, she can help answer the question that millions feel there is no answer to. |
| 1:37.3 | Certainly they feel no answer for them anyway because they feel trapped or lost or hopeless. And that question is this. What does it take |
| 1:49.3 | to break free from food addiction and binge eating? Tanya knows this answer. She knows it firsthand because |
| 1:57.8 | for decades she struggled with morbid obesity and |
| 2:01.8 | disordered eating and the cycle of restriction and relapse and at her |
| 2:07.8 | heaviest which was somewhere over 300 pounds she feared for her health she was |
| 2:12.9 | worried about it and even small simple tasks that we think nothing about like tying a shoe were so hard for her. |
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