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're back in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Haley today. Welcome, Haley.

Thank you so much, Mark. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad we're doing this.

So the ideas, we're going to spend some time together. And you and I haven't met before.

And I'm going to do my best to help you with whatever you would like to accomplish with food and body.

So if you could wave your magic wand and have whatever you want relative to food, body, health, what would that be for you? It would be consistently

choosing the right foods, the healthy foods, consistently. You know, just day in and day out.

So consistently choosing the right foods.

And the reason you want to consistently choose the right foods would be?

Well, obviously, I mean, from a physical point of view, would be to maintain my weight

because when I don't choose the right foods, my weight goes up and down. So I would like to maintain my weights. But I'd also like to maintain my weight because when I don't choose the right foods, my weight goes up and down.

So I would like to maintain my weight.

But I'd also like to maintain my health.

And as I've said, I have fibro fibrominolgia.

So I do need to eat consistently well to manage that chronic pain.

And I need to manage my sleep.

So consistent eating for me is not about the size I'm at.

It's mostly about my sleep patterns.

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