Beyond Binge Eating

byKristina Dobyns

EducationSelf-ImprovementHealthFitnessAlternative

Discover the Beyond Binge Eating Podcast, your go-to resource for overcoming binge eating, compulsive eating, emotional eating, and food addiction. Hosted by Dr. Kristina, the podcast leverages her extensive expertise, including a doctorate in somatic psychology, a master's degree in exercise science, and her background as a professional athlete. Kristina, who had crushing eating disorders for over 20 years, now channels her experience into helping others as an integrative recovery specialist. Episodes include insightful interviews, special co-hosts, and solo episodes. You'll explore cutting-edge research on binge eating, urges and cravings, and dopamine, and dive into topics like sugar addiction and abstinence...

Episodes(40 episodes)

Why Keto, Carnivore, and Nervous System Work Belong Together

People often question whether their struggles with food and health are metabolic, psychological, nervous system-based, or rooted in trauma. However, framing these as separate compartments can be misleading because they are actually different lenses of one single embodied system.For centuries, healthcare has operated as if the mind and body were completely separate, with meditation framed as mental and metabolic health as physical. In this episode, we explore how bridging that gap can change your relationship with food. By using ketogenic or carnivore-style diets to potentially reduce "food noise" and steady your energy, you can create the...

Published: Sep 21, 2026Duration: 10m 1s

Permission to Be Human: Loving Boundaries with Flexibility in Food Addiction Recovery

Most people in food addiction and binge eating recovery know they need structure. Clear lines. Foods that don't work, behaviors that aren't up for negotiation.That structure can be deeply freeing — when the decision is already made, the mental bargaining quiets down. But structure doesn't mean perfection. And perfectionism in recovery can be just as dangerous as the binge itself.In this episode, I'm talking about the abstinence violation effect — also known as the "screw it" effect — and why a single slip doesn't have to spiral into a week, a month, or longer.Real r...

Published: Sep 18, 2026Duration: 5m 11s

The Curious Carnivore’s Way Out of Chronic Gut Issues and Food Obsession

Jessica, also known as The Curious Carnivore, is an Australian content creator who openly shares her personal experience with the carnivore diet. After years of IBS symptoms, binge eating, bulimia, chronic fatigue, and trying countless approaches to feel better, she began experimenting with a meat-based way of eating.Jessica’s story will resonate with anyone who has spent years negotiating with food, managing unpredictable digestive symptoms, or wondering why a seemingly “healthy” diet still leaves them feeling out of control. She speaks candidly about the uncomfortable parts of changing how she ate, including cravings, digestive adjustments, dehydration, and di...

Published: Sep 11, 2026Duration: 36m 14s

Carnivore Doesn't Always Mean Ketosis — Here's What That Means for Your Recovery

A lot of people assume that eating carnivore automatically puts you in ketosis. It doesn't — and for those of us exploring nutrition as a tool for recovery, that distinction matters.In this episode, I'm breaking down the difference between a carnivore way of eating and nutritional ketosis, why the two don't always overlap, and what you actually need to do if measurable ketosis is one of your goals.What You'll Learn:• Why carnivore and ketosis are not the same thing• How protein intake affects your ability to produce ketones (and what glucon...

Published: Sep 9, 2026Duration: 4m 12s

How to Lose 100 Pounds When Food Addiction Runs Your Brain | Committed Carnivore

In this episode, I sit down with Tricia Pierce — the creator behind @CommittedCarnivore on YouTube, and a passionate advocate for understanding food addiction as a neurological issue, not a moral failing. Tricia has lost almost 100 pounds, maintained that loss through radical consistency, and built a life on the other side of compulsive eating that would have seemed impossible during her darkest days.Tricia's story starts in the Midwest: a controlled food environment at home, shaming at the dinner table, her father asking her to publicly list everything she'd eaten in a day. By fifth grade sh...

Published: Sep 7, 2026Duration: 41m 5s

Do Athletes Really Need Carbs? Coach Bronson on Keto, Strength, and Recovery

Coach Bronson specializes in ketogenic sports performance, helping athletes improve their strength, recovery, and overall health. He has nearly 20 years of experience in human performance, holds a master’s degree in exercise science, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Health Science degree.So much fitness advice tells us there is one right way to eat, train, and recover. But what if the best approach depends on how your body actually responds? In this conversation, Coach Bronson encourages a more curious and individualized approach—one that values consistency, recovery, and real-life results over rigid rules and complicated prot...

Published: Sep 4, 2026Duration: 47m 45s

Carnivore During Pregnancy: Meat-Based Tati’s Approach to Nutrition

Tatiana, known online as Meat-Based Tati, has spent the past five and a half years exploring carnivore and meat-based eating while building a lifestyle centered on nourishment, natural living, and simplicity. When we recorded this conversation, she was 37 weeks pregnant with her first baby and taking an even more intentional approach to what she ate and how she cared for herself.In this episode, Tatiana shares how she went from a low-fat bodybuilding diet that left her constantly thinking about food to feeling more satisfied and energized after discovering carnivore. We talk about how her diet has...

Published: Sep 2, 2026Duration: 28m 31s

Sugar Addiction, Biochemical Repair, & Cravings | Bitten Jonsson

In this episode, I sit down with Bitten Jonsson — a registered nurse since 1973, addiction specialist, international lecturer, and one of the earliest forerunners in the field of sugar and carb addiction. Bitten developed the concept of biochemical repair for sugar addicted brains and has treated approximately 6,500 people since the start of 1992.Here's what we cover in the episode:Bitten's own recovery story — from hiding her drinking as a "high-functioning" alcoholic in Sweden to an intervention that changed the course of her lifeWhy she could quit smoking over...

Published: Aug 31, 2026Duration: 51m 14s

Healing Through Your Plate: Girl Gone Carnivore on Health, Healing & the Carnivore Lifestyle

Bee, better known as Girl Gone Carnivore, is a CrossFit Level 2 trainer, Dr. Kiltz-certified health coach, powerlifter, and four-year carnivore.After years of struggling with GERD, PMDD, sugar addiction, alcohol use, and later PTSD, she shares how changing the way she ate became part of a much bigger journey toward resilience, recovery, and rebuilding her life.Here's what we explore:Bee's journey to a carnivore lifestyleRecovering from sugar addiction and alcohol dependenceHow food noise affected her relationship with herselfHealing from trauma, PTSD, and abusive relationshipsThe role of strength training in emotional recoveryWhy nutrition became...

Published: Aug 28, 2026Duration: 43m 5s

From Abuse to Binge Eating to Healing: A Nervous System Recovery Story

In this episode, I sit down with Jacie Gregory — known online as Lady Carnivory — a nervous system regulation coach, co-founder of the CIRS Group podcast and community, and author of 30 Day Carnivore Boot Camp. Jacie started carnivore in January 2020 mostly to disprove a friend, and within nine months her OCD — which years of exposure therapy and medication hadn't resolved — was in remission. She hasn't had an obsessive thought since.Here's what we cover in the episode:How Jacie went from trying to disprove a coworker's keto diet to discovering carnivore in late 201...

Published: Aug 26, 2026Duration: 35m 59s

Former Food Industry Insider Reveals How to Beat Binge Eating | Dr. Glenn Livingston

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Glenn Livingston — veteran psychologist, author of Defeat Your Cravings, and former CEO of a multi-million-dollar consulting firm that worked with Fortune 500 food and pharmaceutical companies before he turned away from that work to help people fight the very industry he once served. His research and theories have been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Sky News, and he's been interviewed on over 300 podcasts. Glenn brings something rare to the recovery space: decades on the inside of...

Published: Aug 24, 2026Duration: 51m 50s

From Vegan to Carnivore: How the Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet (PKD) Reversed Joint Pain & Binge Eating

In this episode, I sit down with Natalie Daniels — a nutrition therapist, author, and educator with more than a decade of experience in therapeutic nutrition. She works with clients around the world and continues to work alongside Paleomedicina in Budapest, supporting people using the protocol in practice. Over the past decade, she has worked with more than a thousand people and become known for translating complex nutritional concepts into practical, everyday strategies.Here's what we cover in the episode:Natalie's 15-year search through vegan, vegetarian, and fruit-based diets — and the six years of joint pain, brai...

Published: Aug 20, 2026Duration: 41m 33s

MD Puts Ulcerative Colitis in Remission on Carnivore — 30 Years, Drug Free | Dr. Jocelyn Foran

Dr. Jocelyn Foran is a medical doctor board certified in anesthesiology and obesity medicine, and a metabolic coach. She was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in her final month of medical school at 24. When she asked whether she should change the way she ate, she was told no — just take the pills. She took them for nearly twenty years. Today she's in remission and drug free on a carnivore diet, and works with people around the world to keep them out of hospitals and into life.In this episode:Growing up meat-based in...

Published: Aug 17, 2026Duration: 34m 54s

He Gained 20 Pounds in 24 Hours — Then Keto Ended His Binge Eating | Robert Sikes

In this episode, I sit down with Robert Sikes — also known as Keto Savage — a lifetime natural competitive bodybuilder, WNBF pro, the World's Leanest Man, formulator of the Keto Brick, and creator of the Savage System, a coaching program for competitors and everyday people that he runs alongside his wife Crystal.Robert came up on the traditional bro dieting playbook — six or seven meals a day, high carb, high protein — and it sent him into years of disordered eating. In 2014 he tore up the script and started experimenting with a strict, high-fat ketogenic approach to bodybuil...

Published: Aug 13, 2026Duration: 40m 46s

How to Stop Binge Eating: Why Abstinence Works Better Than Moderation | Ellen Bennett

In this episode, I sit down with Ellen Bennett — registered dietitian, addiction-informed practitioner, researcher, founder of the Liberate program, and food addict in recovery. Ellen has spent years training as a clinician, and finally conducting groundbreaking research that's challenging everything that the field of eating disorders has taught us about food, moderation, and recovery.Ellen brings something rare to this space: lived experience grounded in rigorous science. She didn't just survive food addiction — she spent years asking the medical establishment for evidence it even existed, and when they told her there was none, she went back...

Published: Aug 10, 2026Duration: 54m 31s

Finding Your Own Path — There's No One Right Way to Recover

You've been told carbs are fine. Carbs are the problem. Eat intuitively. Track everything. Never restrict.Set firm boundaries. No wonder recovery feels impossible — the advice is contradictory, and everyone sounds sure they're right.But here's what the research actually shows: different brains respond differently to food.For some people, moderation works.For others, certain foods trigger loss of control, persistent cravings, and repeated relapse.So the real question isn't "what's the right diet?" It's "what works for my brain, my nervous system, my body?"This episode is...

Published: Aug 6, 2026Duration: 5m 30s

From 35 Years of Dieting to The Accidental Carnivore — Cristie Explains How

In this episode, I sit down with Cristie from Meating Wellness — a fifth-grade teacher, certified health coach, and creator of the Meating Wellness YouTube channel and community. Cristie spent 35 years trapped in a binge-restrict cycle, trying every diet from her teenage years through age 47. Then in 2020, she accidentally discovered carnivore through a random Facebook group comment and one Doctor Berry video — and ended up documenting a transformation that changed not just her life, but her family's.Cristie brings a rare perspective to the carnivore conversation: she's not an early adopter who saw...

Published: Aug 3, 2026Duration: 58m 16s

She Reversed 100+ Health Issues With the Carnivore Diet | Charlene Anderson's 27-Year Journey

In this episode, I sit down with Charlene Anderson — carnivore coach, official Steak and Butter Gal-certified coach, retro model, and owner-designer of the Etsy shop Handmade Retro Top Shop. Charlene has been eating a carnivore diet since 1998 — decades before it had a name, a community, or a hashtag — and she's used it to fight over 100 health issues, the four biggest being Lyme disease, amenorrhea, degenerative disc disease, and trichotillomania, along with binging and purging.Charlene brings something rare to this space: nearly three decades of lived carnivore experience that began out of pure necessity, not trend. Her story...

Published: Jul 30, 2026Duration: 52m 56s

Mindfulness, Movement & Eating Disorders: The ROADE Program with Dr. Mark Hardison

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mark Hardison — occupational therapist, researcher, and co-developer of the ROADE Program — a community-based, mindfulness-driven intervention for individuals with disordered eating, funded by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation.With a background that bridges psychology, occupational therapy, and clinical research, Dr. Hardison brings a perspective rarely heard in eating disorder recovery spaces: that healing has to show up in the daily rhythms of your life, not just in the therapy room.Here's what we cover in the episode:What occupational therapy actually is — and why its fo...

Published: Jul 27, 2026Duration: 27m 27s

Hope, Food Addiction, And Her Mission For its Recognition | Dr. Jen Unwin

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Jen Unwin — clinical psychologist, co-founder of Food Addiction Solutions, and part of the team that published the first-ever treatment study in the field of food addiction.Jen brings something rare to the recovery space: a 32-year NHS career, expertise in the science of hope in chronic illness, her own lifelong personal struggle with sugar addiction — one she couldn't see clearly until nearly 50, despite being an expert in human behavior. Her approach is rooted not in willpower but in understanding food addiction as a real, treatable condition — and in asking the so...

Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 57m 6s