342 // Is Food Noise A Real Thing?

Written By Nicole Hagen

In this Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast episode, host and Nutrition Coach Nicole Hagen explores a question so many people are asking right now: is food noise a real thing - or is it just a buzzword?

From constant internal chatter to feeling like your brain never shuts off when it comes to food, this episode breaks down what people mean when they talk about food noise, whether there’s scientific support for the phenomenon, and why so many women struggle with it.

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn:

  • What “food noise” actually sounds like

  • Why food noise isn’t a medical diagnosis, but is a very real lived experience

  • The research-backed links between restriction, under-eating, and food preoccupation

  • How dieting, food rules, and control increase intrusive food thoughts

  • What actually helps quiet food noise in a sustainable way

Nicole also explains why the current extreme weight loss culture, including rigid dieting and fast fixes, often amplifies food noise rather than resolving it.

If you’ve ever felt like food takes up way too much space in your head, this episode will help you understand why that’s happening, remove the shame around it, and show you how to quiet the food noise moving forward. 

Nicole Hagen

A Nutrition Coach, adoptive mom, dog mom, and mint chocolate chip ice cream lover.

I didn’t always have this business: the Masters degree in Nutrition Science and Public Health, the passion, the clients... in fact, years ago you could have found me endlessly counting calories and trying to find my worth on the scale and at spin class, exhausted in my pursuit of (what I thought was) health and happiness.

In my early twenties, I struggled with crash dieting and disordered eating. Little did I know, those circumstances would be my one-way ticket out of my restrictive relationship with food & fitness. Those experiences led me here: to the life-giving, sustainable, habit-based nutrition philosophy I embody today. Today you can find me living life without a calorie counting app and spending time with my husband, one year old son, and our two crazy golden retriever pups.

I enjoy spending my free time reading, sipping on matcha lattes, and dreaming of ways I can help other women create healthy, confident relationships with food without selling their souls to food rules and calorie counting apps.

Because nothing lights me up more than helping women live full and vibrant lives without food fear, rules, or restriction. I want to be that permission granter in your life that whispers: “you really can do this” while the rest of the world continues to settle for short-term satisfaction.

https://nutritioncoachingwithnicole.com/
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