Ever want to rampage through the house like Godzilla after finding one more candy wrapper?
A class for exhausted parents to stop rampaging, put the tiny city back down, and figure out what's really going on.
I want the sneaking to stop Self-paced course plus a live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy, so the lessons fit your real family. Just $39.You found them again. Under the bed. In the couch. Shoved in every pocket like your eight-year-old is running a tiny foil-based smuggling operation.
And here comes the roar, rising up from somewhere near your feet, the urge to stomp through the living room flattening everything in your path, right on schedule, before you can catch it.
Is this the start of something bigger?
Why are they hiding it?
Am I making it worse?
Hold on. The monster stomping through your house was never really the candy, and it was never really you. It's fear, and fear makes terrible parenting decisions, especially in a rubber suit.
Because here's what the wrappers are actually trying to tell you: they are not the problem. They're a love note from your kid. And the note says, I learned that some food is contraband, so now I'm in training to become a ninja.
You didn't teach that on purpose. Nobody handed you a manual. Actually, most of us got the OTHER BS manual, the one that said watch the sugar, watch the portions, watch the body, and then acts shocked when a childhood of being watched turns into a lifetime of hiding.
I'd like to hand you a different manual. There are no charts in it.
You've tried everything. And it just keeps happening.
You've limited the candy. Stopped buying it. Kept an eye on it. Explained balance until you were blue in the face. Loosened up, then tightened right back up again.
And nothing actually changed.
You're exhausted from planning around the candy, trying to out-think the sneaking, running the whole surveillance operation in your own kitchen.
Here's why, and it's going to sound too simple, which is how you'll know it's true.
Restriction creates hunger.
Hunger creates hiding.
Hiding creates panic.
Panic creates more restriction.
Around and around you go, foil wrappers piling up under the bed like the world's saddest confetti at the world's least fun party.
The strategy itself is the thing making it worse. So we're going to trade it for one that works.
You're not overreacting.
Underneath the wrappers is a whole set of worries most parents are afraid to say out loud.
Diabetes. Weight. What does this mean for their health?
The fear that this could turn into something much bigger.
Am I repeating the exact shame and restriction I grew up with?
The quiet dread that I might be accidentally seeding disordered eating in my own kid.
I'm not going to tell you those worries are silly. They're not. They're the reason a good, loving parent turns into the candy police in the first place.
But here's the freeing part. What you actually want is simple:
- To stop feeling like the candy police and feel like a parent again.
- To know your kids are building a genuinely healthy relationship with food.
- For candy to stop being the single most exciting thing in the house.
- To stop lying awake wondering if you're making it worse.
And the thing that gets you there is not a better rule. It's a set of skills. Social and emotional skills, the kind that outlast every diet ever invented, because unlike a diet they don't expire, backfire, or require your kid to fear their own body to work.
That's exactly what No More Candy Wrappers is for.
I'm a board-certified pediatrician. I'm also an improv comedian. I say "Yes, and" for a living in two wildly different rooms, and at some point I decided they were the same room.
So let me be straight with you about what this is not.
This is not a meal plan. This is not portion control wearing a friendlier font. This is not thirty-seven ways to smuggle cauliflower into a muffin so your child can be tricked into nutrition like a raccoon at a campsite.
If any of that is what you came for, I love you, and this is the wrong show. You can slip out now, no hard feelings, we'll wave.
Still here? Oh good. Let's play.
No More Candy Wrappers Under the Bed
A self-paced course of bite-size videos, plus one live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy, so the teaching fits your actual family and not some imaginary family from a parenting book.
Think of it this way. The course is the pattern. The Make It Fit session is where I take your measurements. You've got your own magical tailor here, and we are not sending you home in something off the rack that pinches in all the wrong places.
Here's what changes:
- 🔍 Understand exactly why the sneaking is happening. (It's not what you think.)
- 💬 Know precisely what to do, and what not to do, the moment you find wrappers.
- ✨ Lower the obsession so candy becomes no big deal.
- 🛡️ End the sneaking without becoming Momzilla or declaring a family-wide candy embargo.
- ❤️ Make changes without damaging the single most important thing: your relationship with your kid.
Here's how it works
No More Candy Wrappers is a self-paced course of bite-size videos. You watch on your own schedule. Once you buy it, it's yours to keep. No expiration. No countdown timer trying to scare you into your own credit card.
Then you bring it to a live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy. Sessions run twice a month, so you choose the one that works for you. You'll be in a small group of parents working through the exact same thing, and you'll leave knowing what you're doing differently tomorrow.
Why self-paced actually works
- Watch at 10pm after bedtime, or 6am before the chaos. Your schedule, your pace.
- Pause the video to go try something. Come back when you're ready for more.
- Rewatch the parts that hit different the second time. (They will.)
- Bring your real questions to your Make It Fit session and get them answered for YOUR family, not a hypothetical one.
What you'll learn
A series of bite-size videos, grouped into three arcs that build on each other. Watch one over coffee. Watch three after bedtime. Go at whatever pace your actual life allows.
First, the step that has to happen before you change anything
- Discover what the sneaking is actually telling you. (It's not what you think.)
- Shut down the internal alarm system that turns a single wrapper into a full crisis.
- Know exactly what to say, and what to stop saying, in the moment.
- De-escalate before the fuse is even lit. Every time.
This is the foundation everything else stands on. Most parents feel relief before they're even through it.
Then, what's actually driving your kid's candy obsession
- Understand why the standard advice (balance, moderation, "just one") makes the obsession stronger, not weaker.
- Get a clear picture of your child's specific relationship with candy, and what's quietly feeding it.
- See exactly where the dynamic breaks down in your family, and why.
- Learn the one mechanism that actually shifts a kid's relationship with food for good.
You'll come out of this seeing your child, and the candy, completely differently.
And finally, the piece that changes everything
- Use the clues you've gathered to connect with your child in a whole new way.
- Learn what real allyship looks like when you find the wrappers. (Hint: it isn't agreeing. It's being present.)
- Design your own connection experiment to run this week.
- Leave knowing exactly how to show up in the hard moments without damaging the relationship.
Most parents come out of this feeling something they haven't felt in a long time: like they've got this. And then they bring it live to their Make It Fit session.
Make sure the lessons fit your real family
One live small-group session with Dr. Wendy. Choose from dates held twice a month.
The course gives you the teaching. Make It Fit is where you make it yours.
You bring the specifics of your real family, the three kids with three completely different reasons for raiding the candy bowl, the partner who isn't on the same page, the kid whose brain works nothing like the parenting books assume. And I help you apply what you've learned directly to what's actually happening in your home.
These sessions are kept small on purpose, so there's room for your family's specifics. Seats are limited, and the sooner you start, the sooner you're in the room.
I'm the only pediatrician specializing in eating disorder prevention for entire families. This is your chance to get my eyes on your family, directly.
Everything you get
- 🎥 Self-paced course of bite-size videos.
- ♾️ Yours to keep. Watch, rewatch, and rewatch again. No expiration.
- 👥 One live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy, small group, held twice a month, so you choose the one that works for you.
- 🎯 Tangible teaching points so change becomes easy in your house.
- 🧪 Bite-size experiments to run at home so you start seeing change right away.
- 🔨 Tools for the hard moments so you know how to reconnect when candy brings tension to a head.
- 📬 the exhale newsletter. Ongoing support in your inbox every Wednesday.
- 🤝 A path forward. If you want ongoing support, the Family in Focus® program is your next step.
Ready to create the changes your family needs?
Enroll in No More Candy Wrappers: the course, yours to keep, plus a live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy.
If candy is taking up too much mental space. If the sneaking feels like a red flag. If you're tired of lying awake at night second-guessing every move.
No More Candy Wrappers was built for exactly this moment.
About Dr. Wendy
- Pediatrician
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Navy Captain (Ret.)
- Improv Comedian
I'm the only pediatrician specializing in eating disorder prevention for entire families.
A dual-board-certified pediatrician and lifestyle medicine physician, I've spent over 20 years in exam rooms with families caught in weight conversations, food fights, and well-intended advice that quietly created more harm than good at home.
I'm also a retired Navy Captain and an actual improv comedian who performs on an actual stage. The single most useful credential I own is the improv one. Sit with that.
Family in Focus® was built to change what those exam rooms taught me. This is help without harm. We focus on relationships with food, body, and each other, so habits can shift without shame, pressure, or restriction.
Trauma-informed. Size-inclusive. Relationship-centered. Eating disorder prevention.
And this is where that work begins.
Finally break the cycle, once and for all.
I don't wait until we have to fix kids.
I help parents. Now.
I help you move forward without the stress, the anxiety, and the 2am worry about repeating cycles of shame and control around food and body.
Because parents are the ones who create the environment where change actually grows: healing, safe relationships with food, emotions, body, and family.
I'm ready to make changeFrequently Asked Questions
How does the self-paced format work?
You get immediate access to the videos in your private portal. Watch them in order, at your own pace. The course is yours to keep. Each one is bite-size and gives you something specific to practice at home before you move on.
Then you join Dr. Wendy for one live Make It Fit session, so the lessons fit your real family. Sessions are held twice a month, so you choose the one that works for you.
Parents love that they can watch at 10pm after bedtime, pause to go try something, and come back when they're ready. No rushing. No falling behind.
How does the Make It Fit session work?
After you enroll, you'll choose one live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy. They're held twice a month, so you pick what works. They're small-group on purpose, so there's room to bring your own family's specifics.
This is where you make the teaching fit your home, ask your real questions, and leave knowing exactly what you're doing differently tomorrow. Seats are limited, so the sooner you start, the sooner you're in the room.
When are the Make It Fit sessions?
Inside the course portal you'll find the upcoming dates and times. They run twice a month, and you choose the one that fits.
Our family is neurodivergent. Will this work for us?
Yes, and: we ARE neurodivergent. This whole approach was built by and for brains that don't run on tidy step-by-step systems, so if anything, we get ND families a little better than we get the neurotypical ones. Sensory stuff around food, rigidity around food, big feelings around food, all of it is welcome, and none of it is a flaw to correct. It's information. We work with the brain your kid actually has, not the one some parenting book wishes they'd been issued. And Make It Fit is exactly where we tailor the approach to how your specific kid is wired.
But what if my kid has an actual diagnosis?
Don't we all, honestly? Half of parenting is quietly collecting diagnoses like a scavenger hunt nobody signed up for. Here's the real answer: this course is about the relationship and the emotional skills around food, and those matter regardless of any label, and often matter MORE when there's a label in the mix. It's not a replacement for your kid's medical or therapeutic care, and I'll say so plainly if something's outside my lane. But the connection piece works for every single kid. That's kind of the entire point.
What age is this for?
For parents of kids of all ages, from little ones through late adolescence.
Is this secretly a diet, or a "get my kid to eat healthy" thing?
No, and if that's what you're after, I'll lovingly point you elsewhere. I'm weight-inclusive and I don't do restriction. We're not shrinking anybody. We're ending the war.
What's the difference between this and the Family in Focus signature program?
This course is laser-focused on the struggle you're having with candy sneaking at home. It's built to give you quick, tangible wins in one very specific corner of food and family.
If you want full family transformation across your relationships with food, body, and each other, that's what the ongoing Family in Focus® program is for.
Stop the sneaking. Build the relationship.
Start today. Watch on your schedule. Then bring the specifics of your real family to your Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy.
The skills last a lifetime. The diet never did. Let me show you the difference.
I'm ready to make changeNo refunds. This is a self-paced course, yours to keep, plus one live Make It Fit session with Dr. Wendy. Sessions are held twice a month, in a small group, and you choose the one that works for you.
Parents create tremendous change watching on their own schedule and then bringing it live to make the lessons fit their family (#truth!). This is for parents ready to shift the dynamic at home.
