In this week’s episode of Beyond the Feed, I was joined by senior Lanie McCarty, a math education major and former women’s soccer player at Piedmont University. McCarty shared her experience with career-ending injuries, recovery, and how practicing intermittent fasting has established a routine in her own eating.
McCarty discussed how navigating a career-ending injury helped her find joy in fitness and new methods for her nutrition. McCarty started intermittent fasting after doing research on some of its benefits. She found that leaving enough time for your body to fully digest the food from the previous day is more beneficial for metabolism.
Intermittent fasting has been found to increase cellular repair, reduce inflammation, and, in some cases, promote fat burning. Although these were all reasons McCarty researched when beginning her fasting journey, she found a different outcome. She has developed a little more intuition with her eating habits.
“A lot of mornings I wake up and my body is just not hungry until 11 or 12 o’clock,” said McCarty. “I have been trying to be very intentional about just listening to my body.”
McCarty’s experience with fasting has led her to listen to the hunger cues her body emits rather than proposing an eating schedule to follow. This prompted me to raise the question around the ever-so-popular term, “food noise.”
Food noise, largely used on social media platforms to describe the repetitive and often overconsuming thoughts of food, has become common jargon on health-based social media accounts. McCarty, knowing the term food noise, said that intermittent fasting has helped develop routines that have quieted that food noise. “Being in a more consistent routine has helped with that,” said McCarty.
The struggles with food noise are becoming more of a prominent issue on social media. McCarty found that routine fixed that, but what other solutions are there for food noise?
What are some ways that you combat food noise?
BEYOND THE FEED 
Leave a comment