Welcome to the Psychology of Eating Podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway

into a happier, healthier life.

Now here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology

of Eating, Mark David.

Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

Here we are in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Emily today. Welcome, Emily.

Hi, thank you. Yeah, thanks for being here.

So the idea is you and I haven't met before,

and we're going to spend some time together and hopefully give you whatever assistance you need

to take the next big leap forward.

And my favorite question to ask is if you could wave your magic wand and get whatever

you wanted with food, body, health, what would that be for you? Yeah, I've been thinking about this

a lot last couple of days. And I feel like the biggest thing is just to actually trust myself in my

body and, you know, eat when I need to eat, stop when I've had enough and then stop thinking about food after that until it's like time for me to eat again.

Yeah. So you want a relationship with food that's just easier, gentler, no worry.

Yeah. How I feel like it's supposed to be.

So when it's not the way that it's supposed to be or you'd like it to be, how does it look

these days, your experience of food?

Yeah, so my biggest, like like the worst time for me is nighttime evening.

Really after dinner is when I struggle the most.

But I feel like any time that I eat like a meal, when I'm finished,

it's really hard for me to stop thinking about food.

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