If your brain turns into a human calculator around food — automatically counting, analyzing, tracking ingredients or portions before you even realize it — you are not failing.

This is automatic food tracking, and it’s a learned neural pattern your brain has practiced for years.

In this video, I guide you through a short somatic reset designed to help interrupt that mental math loop and bring your nervous system back into the present moment.

This is not about willpower or forcing thoughts away. It’s about giving your nervous system enough safety to turn off the calculating mode.

The 3-minute practice begins at 5:46 if you’d like to jump straight to it.

This reset can be especially helpful if you notice:

• feeling like a human calculator around food

• automatic tracking of ingredients, calories, or portions

• mental math starting before you even take a bite

• looping, analytical food thoughts you can’t shut off

• urgency to figure food out instead of experiencing it

We use breath, body sensation, and a gentle neural-shifting phrase to interrupt the loop and offer your brain something new to wire toward.

Over time, this helps reduce the pull toward constant tracking and creates more ease, presence, and trust with food.

What we’ll do together:

• a grounding breath to settle the nervous system

• a somatic pattern interrupter

• a simple phrase to shift out of mental tracking

• a reminder to keep this light and easeful (because the nervous system learns best that way)You don’t need more discipline.

You don’t need to try harder. Your nervous system just needs support.

🤍 Take a few minutes and reset with me

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 Why Automatic Food Tracking Happens

01:46 Gentle Tapping to Set Up the Nervous System

03:00 Breath Rhythm Explained (Interrupt the Mental Loop)03:29 Phrases to Create New Neural Pathways

05:46 Somatic Practice Begins (Turn Off the Human Calculator)

08:26 How to Make This Practice Stick

This podcast supports nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and intuitive eating by addressing automatic food tracking and mental food math at the root.

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Eileen Mitchell, 500 RYT

Specializing in Therapeutic Practices for Nervous System Regulation | Holistic Health Coach | Intuitive Eating Counselor

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