Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I have Hope Brant with me who is a registered dietician.

She has been on the podcast many times before and we are sitting here in person in our Austin studio.

Hope is here visiting for the weekend.

Thank you for coming, Hope.

It is so awesome.

I'm so happy to be here.

It is one of those things where it's just so awesome to like see it in person right you know is the studio

Does it look like what you thought it did? Yes. Yeah. Good. I mean it's even better in person just

it's peaceful zin vibes.

That's our goal.

We wanted it to feel like a spot in here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's just so much more fun doing podcast in person via all of our

podcasts have been on Zoom so yeah so much more fun. Well it really does make a

difference to just like catch the vibes in person you know? Oh it's huge it's huge, it's huge.

Well, today I'm really excited about this topic because

as a mom to be in a month or so, am really thinking about a lot of these things and by the time

y'all hear of this episode I might already be a mom which is crazy but you know I'm thinking about these things because although

our parents did their best there are some things that I wish they would have modeled

differently to me about food and exercise and I think it would have changed a lot of my behaviors early on in my early adulthood around food and exercise and really put me in a better place.

And so what I want to, what Hope and I kind of organized for you all today is we each came up with

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