Episode 110: Emotional Eating with Psychologist Kim Daniels

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:

Learn more about Dr. Kim Daniels

Food Freedom with Dr. Kim Daniels FB group

Learn more about Mindset