14. Hey mom, your relationship with food is impacting your child. Ft. Gabi Kahn

Aug 8, 2021

In today's episode, we interview Gabi Kahn, non-diet dietitian and owner of Methodd Nutrition. She works with moms who struggle with the vicious diet cycle and want to create a healthy relationship with food and their body in order to help themselves and protect their young daughters from a lifetime of dieting. 

 

In this episode you’ll hear:

• Gabi shares why her niche is on food relationships between mom’s and their daughters (2:30)
• How a mother’s relationship with food affects her child's relationship with food (6:41)
• Diets sometimes stem from a place of love and nurture, but it still has detrimental impacts (9:46)
• The hurtful impact of subliminal messages (13:23)
• How do we combat this issue and what do moms need to do? (14:09)
• The effect of negative biases (17:30)
• Gabi shares recommendations on how to deal with children who start picking apart their own bodies (19:28)
• How to encourage parents to promote body diversity with their kids? (21:19)
• The lack of control in the outside environment can impact children’s relationship with food (24:34)
• Dealing with parents who have internalized fatphobia (27:03)
•  What Gabi recommends parents should say in the event someone else makes a comment about their child (31:42)
• How to be a good role model for your child (33:56)

IG: @gabikahn.rd

Link to work 1:1 together: https://www.methoddnutrition.com/services

Connect with Brittany & Lauren:

Brittany’s IG: @nofoodfears

Brittany’s Website: https://www.brittanymodellrd.com/ 

 Lauren’s IG: @loandlemons

Lauren’s Website: https://laurenrd.com/