Meghan Makena

01/20/2026

Some of us don’t think we have a food problem but we’re trying to lose weight. We live a healthy lifestyle and eat clean. Maybe there’s just 20 pounds that won’t budge no matter what we try.

But there’s sometimes hidden pattern running that we’ve normalized for so long we don’t even notice it: micro-overeating. Having seconds at dinner when we’re already full. A snack or two in the afternoon because we’re bored or lonely, not genuinely hungry. Half a bar of dark chocolate before bed.

It doesn’t look like a problem. But it’s doing the same thing a binge does . . . more subtly. It’s filling in the places where life isn’t nourishing us.

I don’t believe there’s anything “wrong” with eating a little past full here and there if that’s how someone wants to live. But for me, it was a pattern I wanted to shift so I could be in full integrity with the work I do and walk my talk for the women I guide.

When I stopped filling in the gaps with food, I couldn’t avoid looking deeply at my life anymore. And my eyes opened to what wasn’t working. Choosing to stop overeating completely forced me (in the most wonderful way) to create a life that was worth being fully present for, and didn’t require me checking out at the end of the day.

I easily let go of over 20 pounds of extra weight without fasting windows or counting a single calorie, but that’s not the point.

The point is: I stopped needing treats as my buffer, because my life became my primary source of nourishment. And food went back to being what it’s designed to be: Food.

If you’re eating clean, working out, doing “all the right things” and still can’t stop reaching for a little something extra at night . . . And I say this with love: it might be time to look at what you’re actually hungry for 💛

01/19/2026

Exciting things are coming. Will share more soon 💛

01/19/2026

When your body can't process food properly, it feels heavy, sluggish, or depleted. Stress and emotions work in a similar way. When they aren't allowed to move through, you end up feeling emotionally backed up, weighed down by unresolved tension that has nowhere to go.

This buildup is uncomfortable, and it drives you to reach for snacks or treats, not out of true hunger, but because you're trying to get relief from how uncomfortable it feels to exist in your own body.

Without learning to digest stress and emotions, you could be "on track" for weeks with a new eating plan, but then one day eat an entire bag of chips on your way home from work. Or you're doing great on a sugar-free cleanse, but after a hard day, you reach for the chocolate you didn't even want, yet somehow couldn't resist.

- From my book inside of Stop the Nighttime Spiral. Check it out here:

For Woman Who Are Done With The Food Struggle

01/18/2026

A taste of what we’re doing inside of Omega 🌹

01/15/2026

Feeling out of control with food doesn’t get solved by more self-control or the “just right“ nutrition plan. It’s about getting out of protection mode and learning to feel at home in your body 💛

01/12/2026

For 20+ years I was in a constant war with food and my body.

👋🏼 If we’ve never met, I’m Meghan, and I help women end the war with food and their bodies.

But I didn’t start here.

When I was five years old, my mother left me for a year to go to graduate school across the ocean. I was left with extended family, and when I would get upset, they would feed me. That’s when I learned that food was my “mother.”

By age ten, I was writing in my journal, “I hate myself. I hate my body. I wish I didn’t exist.” I would push my hands into my belly and feel disgusted with what I saw.
For the next two decades, I tried everything. Diets, therapy, nutritional counseling. Acupuncturists, personal trainers, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, Overeaters Anonymous, water fasting, juice cleanses, meditation, Reiki, Ayurvedic retreats in India. That’s just to name a few.

What perplexed me the most was I was disciplined and health-conscious. I knew how to eat well, but I still felt out of control with food.

At my worst, I was eating thousands of calories at night when I wasn’t even hungry, crying myself to sleep, wishing I didn’t exist.

What finally changed wasn’t another food plan. It was:
- learning how to come home to my body
- Healing my mother wound from the inside out
- Restoring my bio-intelligence
- establishing a healthy relationship with structure, so that it feels like loving boundaries rather than restriction
- Learning how to actually digest emotion and move stress through my body, not just talk about it in therapy.

Today, it doesn’t occur to me to reach for food to self-soothe. I know exactly what to do with my breath, my body, my inner leader and my inner leader. I feel at home in my own skin for the first time in my life.

And now I teach other women how to do the same. If this speaks to you, feel free to message me or comment below with what resonates. I’m here for you.

XO 💞
Meghan

01/12/2026

What if nighttime over eating isn’t self sabotage but it’s your body stuck in protection mode and doing everything it can to comfort you after a long, stressful day?

I made a training and book that show you exactly how to comfort yourself in a true way so that nighttime eating stops, ruining your evenings, and causing you to wake up every morning with regret inflammation and bloated body. DM me “peace” and I’ll send it to you 💗

01/12/2026

A mini deep dive into the difference between giving up through willpower 💪🏽 versus giving up through grace 🕊️

01/12/2026

If you overeat at night, this is for you 💛 in this video I break down the exact steps to go through to feel better soon and not have it find info a spiral 🫶🏼

01/11/2026