He Lost 176 Pounds by Facing What He Was Actually Eating to Escape — Here's Jared Gleaton's Story

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 4, 2025 · 40m

For years Jared Gleaton used food the way most people use anything that numbs — to manage grief, quiet anxiety, and push down depression that had no other outlet. The 176 pounds he lost were not just physical weight. They were the accumulated cost of years of emotional eating that had become his primary coping mechanism. What he shares with Stacey Chillemi about the moment he hit his breaking point, the specific mindset shifts that broke the cycle of turning to food for comfort, and the process of building a relationship with food that is based on nourishment rather than escape will give you…