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.

We are in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Kathy today. Welcome, Kathy.

Hi, Mark. It's good to be here. I'm so glad we're doing this and, you know,

this is our opportunity to just spend some time together and see if we can move you forward in anything that you're facing with food and body. So if you could wave your magic wand and have whatever you wanted

when it came to food and body, what would that be for you? It's probably two things. So one would

be to be able to control myself with food more. So it's really dramatically different from where

it was, say, three years ago.

But I still have those moments, those days when I don't want to eat something and I do,

and then I can't stop eating.

And then the second one for me would be to not be so afraid of food.

So I used to be afraid of food because of weight and only because of weight.

And then two years ago I had a heart attack.

And so now the weight and the food and what I eat is even more of an issue.

You know, I'm frightened of certain food types.

I don't know whether I should eat them, can eat them.

So it would be to kind of lose some of that fear.

And I eat very healthily, but there's still a lot of fear around food. How old are you, Kathy?

I'm 60.

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