"I feel so fat."
"I know what to do but I just can't stick with it."
"I've already screwed up today. I'll eat whatever I want and then I'll start my diet tomorrow."
"Why can't I control this?"
"I'll just finish off the ice cream and then I'll never bring it into the house again."
Does any of that sound familiar?
You love food, and you hate it. It brings you so much joy…and so much pain. It’s your best friend. It’s your worst enemy. It’s a love/hate relationship.
A relationship that needs to change.
You’ve always knows you’re an emotional eater, but you’ve never known what to do about it. The only option seemed to be dieting. Uggh—dieting!!! You’ve tried a million of them. You’ve counted calories, weighed your food, and eaten things you hate. You even learned how to make kale chips. But dieting didn’t work. Not long-term anyway. And that damn scale always makes you feel that you aren’t good enough.
Diets don’t fix your emotional eating. They never have, and they never will. It’s time to do something different. It’s time to change your relationship with food and with your body.
Hello! Allow me introduce myself. My name is Dr. Kim Daniels (she/her/hers), and I help womxn understand WHY they turn to--and away from--food so they can approach food with awareness, enjoy eating what they want, manage their emotions without food, and feel calm while they're standing in front of the fridge.
I’m an Emotional Eating Coach with a background in Psychology who uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intuitive Eating approaches to help women who struggle with emotional eating, binge eating, and negative body image. The combination of these two approaches is the absolute best way to change your relationship with food and your body.
Period.
I’ve been working with women for 20 years now and I have to tell you, when I started, I did everything wrong. Because like everyone else, I was focusing on all of the wrong things. I was focusing on helping them maintain food logs, track their calories, and set exercise goals. We worked on trying to get motivated to meal prep every week. We talked about goal weights and clothing sizes. The goal was always weight loss.
And do you know what? It never worked. NEVER. Not because these women weren’t trying. They were definitely trying. They had spent their lives trying. No, it never worked because…
Weight loss as a goal does not work.
Listen, I get it. You want to lose weight. I mean really, who doesn’t? We’re constantly told that thinner is better, healthier, and more attractive, and that we should all be working on shrinking ourselves. It makes sense that many parts of us have taken that message to heart.
But here’s the deal: focusing on weight loss doesn’t work. Why? Because it leads to dieting. And dieting leads to:
A lack of control over food (yep—the more you try to control it, the less in-control you feel) ;
Binge eating (restricting leads to binge eating all. the. time.) ;
Emotional eating (dieting is stressful and what do many of us do when we’re stressed? We eat!);
Eating foods that you don’t even like (hello kale chips), which takes all of the joy out of eating and you end up despising food;
Disordered eating and full-blown eating disorders; and
Weight gain. Yes—dieting and trying to lose weight very often lead to weight gain. It doesn’t work!
If weight loss isn’t the goal, then what is?
Understanding why parts of you turn to food;
Learning how to sit with and process your feelings;
Being flexible with food. No rigid rules, no list of off-limit foods, no calorie-counting;
Using Intuitive Eating strategies to tune into your body and eat in a way that honors your body’s needs;
Eating with lots of joy and zero guilt;
Focusing on other aspects of life that make you happy. Your weight is the least interesting thing about you!
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a positive, healthy relationship with food—and with your body?
You can. And that’s where I come in.
Here’s How I Help:
When I work with clients, I use a combination of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intuitive Eating to help them heal their relationship with food and their body, once and for all. Learn more about each below.
