Episode Details

Dr. Kim Daniels is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been working with clients for over 19 years and is passionate about helping helping those struggling with eating and weight concerns to make peace with food and their bodies and enjoy a new, healthy life. In this episode we’re talking all about emotional eating, which is more important than ever in this time of high anxiety.

In this episode:

-What Kim learned working with gastric bypass patients

-Why the pre-op psych eval was so important

-Surgery successes and failures

-Emotional Eating: does it exist?

-3 main ways people use food

-ABCs of emotional eating

-When part of you wants to stop dieting...and part of you doesn’t

-How the rules of dieting can serve as a distraction

-The importance of curiosity

-Why night eating is SO common

-Thoughts about the “Quarantine 15”

-Trauma and weight gain

-Weight and safety

Resources mentioned:

Therapy website (for CT residents): https://www.drkimdaniels.com/

Coaching website: https://www.yourweightisnotyourworth.com/

Food Freedom with Dr. Kim Daniels FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2660578360926813/

Erin on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/the.funktional.nutritionist/

More from Erin: https://www.erinholthealth.com/

Your Hormone Revival: https://www.erinholthealth.com/hormones