How Your Dieting Habits Affect Your Kids: Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Breaking the Cycle

Send us Fan Mail Your kids are always watching—and sometimes they reflect the habits, fears, and behaviors you are still trying to change in yourself. In this episode, we have an honest conversation about parenting, restrictive dieting, body image, and the subtle ways children absorb our relationship with food. After my daughter begins getting emotional around meals—saying she is hungry but that food is “grossing her out”—I recognize language that could potentially signal a growing struggle ...