Episode 32: Moms, Daughters, and Disordered Eating with Gabrielle Kahn, MS, RD
Moms, Daughters, and Disordered Eating
Are you a mom struggling with your body shape and size? Are you trying to be a mom to your little ones but also putting pressure on yourself to get to some "pre-pregnancy" size you once were?
In this latest episode of Speaking of Hungry, I'm talking to anti-diet dietitian Gabrielle Kahn. She works with moms who struggle with disordered eating and want to create a healthy relationship with food and their body in order to help themselves and protect their daughters from diet culture.
Even if you're like me who only has boys, you have to listen to this interview with Gabrielle. The information she shares about our kids looking up to us as role models and potentially adopting our disordered relationship with body and food is truly eye-opening. We talk about:
Gabrielle's dieting at 10 years old, how she was awarded a certificate of praise for losing weight from her nutritionist, and how this launched her into disordered eating and mistrusting her body.
How kids are absorbing our diet talk and diet behaviors.
How moms can get to the bottom of eating when stressed and TIRED.
Learning how to accept the way our bodies change and what we can do to feel great that has nothing to do with dieting.
Raising daughters who are body confident and not fixated on being as small as possible.
Being a mom can make our life feel complete yet completely out of control at the same time. The huge swing your life takes going from being independent to suddenly being responsible for a child can bring up tons of emotion and anxiety. Our bodies change, our hormones are all over, we're tired, we're stressed, and many times we turn the focus on trying to perfect our bodies to make all the mom-madness feel ok.
Gabrielle is a Long Island-based dietitian and owner of Methodd Nutrition. She focuses on moms, their relationship with food, their bodies, and how they can positively impact their daughters. Her mission is to help moms feel confident in their bodies at any shape and size, achieve food freedom, and help protect their daughters from a life of dieting, body disapproval, and disordered eating.
Here's where you can find Gabrielle:
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