Food addiction, ultra processed food recovery, and metabolic health are explored in this episode of Real Food Recovery Podcast™. This conversation focuses on metabolic dysfunction, energy production, and simple daily habits that support sustainable recovery and improved vitality.
Real Food Recovery Podcast™ was created from a deeply personal journey through processed food addiction, recovery, and the search for lasting peace. After decades of struggle, Paige Alexander now uses this space to share honest conversations, practical tools, and real life insights to help others break free from food obsession and rebuild trust with themselves.
This is Part 2 of a 2 part series with Natalie Ellis. If you have not listened to Part 1, be sure to start there for the full context around mindset, thoughts, and behavior change.
In this episode, Paige sits down again with Natalie Ellis, a certified life coach with a degree in Human Development from Brigham Young University, to shift the focus from mindset into physical health, specifically metabolic health, energy, and how the body functions.
Natalie breaks down metabolic dysfunction in simple, practical terms, explaining how the body’s ability to create energy becomes compromised over time and how that dysfunction is at the root of many common health issues, including weight gain, blood sugar imbalance, fatigue, and brain fog.
She shares 10 simple, actionable strategies you can begin using today to support your metabolism and restore energy, including walking after meals, eating more single ingredient foods, improving sleep, getting morning sunlight, supporting gut health, and moving more consistently throughout the day.
Rather than overwhelming change, this conversation focuses on small, sustainable shifts that help the body return to balance and function the way it was designed.
If you have been feeling stuck, low on energy, or unsure where to start, this episode offers a clear and approachable path forward.
Find more about Natalie on Instagram or email her at natalie.ellis.coaching@gmail.com
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Real Food Recovery Podcast™ is an original educational podcast focused on healing your relationship with food, rebuilding self trust, and creating a sustainable, recovery aligned way of living.
What is Real Food Recovery Podcast?
If you feel stuck in cycles with ultra-processed food, cravings, weight struggles, and a loss of control, you are not broken, and you are not alone. Hosted by Paige Alexander, this podcast goes beyond diets, calorie counting, and quick fixes to uncover what’s really driving your relationship with food.
You’ll learn how to:
• Break free from ultra-processed food dependency
• Rebuild trust with real, whole, single-ingredient foods
• Understand the science behind cravings and habits
• Heal the emotional patterns tied to food
• Create sustainable weight loss without obsession
This isn’t about restriction, it’s about restoration. In this new chapter of Real Food Recovery, Paige brings a deeper, more personal approach to what it truly takes to find freedom with food. If food isn’t the answer…let’s start asking better questions.