Have you ever told yourself you would stop after a few chips, one cookie, or one episode — and then couldn't? Have you spent years believing the problem was your willpower, your discipline, or your relationship with food? You are not broken. You were never supposed to easily resist what the food industry spent decades and billions of dollars engineering you to crave.

In Episode 16 of The Original Self Podcast, psychology-informed life coach Evet DeCota dismantles the myth of weak willpower and reveals the real science behind why stopping is so hard. Drawing on her own academic research into stress, impulsivity, and hyper-palatable food consumption, Evet takes you inside the neuroscience of craving, the psychology of self-blame, and what it actually means to find your way back to a body you can trust.

This is not a diet ...