128: How Intuitive Eating is Supporting my Growth Mindset

128: How Intuitive Eating is Supporting my Growth Mindset

Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation with host Tamar Medford drops straight into a problem many people in recovery quietly face: swapping alcohol for obsessive dieting and control around food. Tamar talks candidly about being “a chronic dieter since pretty much the age of 18” and how that all‑in mentality followed her from addiction into sobriety and then into entrepreneurship.

She links cross addiction to sugar and dieting, sharing how cutting out carbs and sugar never really addressed the question she was avoiding: “I never took a look at why I don’t stop.” That question leads her into intuitive eating. A friend tells her, “I eat what I want, when I want,” which initially sounds terrifying through an addict’s lens.

Instead of blindly jumping in, Tamar studies the approach, reads about it, and begins mindful practices like pausing to check her hunger on a “scale of one to ten” and learning to “eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full.” She also describes the emotional wobble of deleting tracking apps, ditching the scale, and letting go of labelling foods as good or bad. A small but powerful win?

Keeping ice cream in the freezer for over a week and having just “a little bit when I’m having a craving for sugar” without bingeing. For entrepreneurs in recovery, Tamar highlights how feeding the brain properly ties directly into focus, productivity, and avoiding burnout. She links intuitive eating, hypnotherapy, and meditation to a broader growth mindset, where health supports business rather than sabotages it.

Anyone who has ever started “one last diet on Monday” or binged like it was the “last supper” may recognise themselves here. Tamar’s story might get you asking: what would change if food was just food, and you actually trusted your body again?