#236: Holiday Survival Strategies from a Holistic Nutritionist
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 18 November 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Holiday nutrition advice: Sarah and co-host Ellison Weist tuck into a conversation with Ellie Kempton, a Denver-based holistic nutritionist and the official nutritionist of the Train Like a Mother Club. A big believer in “simple advice and cues,” Ellie shares five strategies for surviving the holiday season, including a few that might surprise you. She laughs at how she taught herself to become a slow eater (it’s a method that we suspect might work for many mother runners!). Find out what Ellie refers to as “bubble wrap” as you head to a party, and get advice on how to fill an entree plate once you get there. She encourages gals to eat with gusto instead of fear, saying the holidays need to be about renewal not depletion. The conversation wraps up with the three gals take a deep dive into something called “oil pulling” (who knew?!). Fresh off a visit to Connecticut, Sarah shares a family update—and talks up a chicken recipe she cooked for her clan. And, as promised, here’s the PDF of Ellie talked up...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Delive a Rule, because anything goes this Christmas. |
| 0:06.0 | Yes, even sprouts on a pizza or gravy on sushi. |
| 0:10.0 | The rules are, there are no rules. Have a Cantonese on Christmas Eve or a |
| 0:15.2 | Balty on Boxing Day and when you're so over the leftovers bring on the ramen |
| 0:20.2 | From big brands to local favorites this Christmas it's all on your doorstep with |
| 0:25.0 | deliver room. Geographical restrictions, Ties and C service and delivery fees apply. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm delighted to be joined by |
| 0:44.4 | Ellis and Weese today. Hello Sarah. Hello Ee, what's you up to? Getting ready to |
| 0:50.2 | head back south. Yes, yes. We will we will talk about trips in a sec but let's remind people |
| 0:56.4 | you're the main thing that you talk about in the intro books books books and more books |
| 1:01.6 | and I've had kind of an odd couple of weeks haven't been reading as much but I can say |
| 1:08.6 | especially since the National Book Awards are this evening that I loved love love news of the world |
| 1:15.9 | I Paulette Giles and I really think you would enjoy it. |
| 1:20.3 | Oh why is that? It's historical fiction. It's about an older gentleman, a retired army officer who travels around |
| 1:30.6 | parts of Texas and essentially what he does is he's a news reader and this is post civil war and he brings a news to communities that otherwise might not have it. |
| 1:43.1 | And he just like reads it in town square? |
| 1:45.6 | He reads it, he reads it usually in, you know, |
| 1:48.7 | sometimes a general store, sometimes a church, |
| 1:51.8 | wherever he can have a gathering. |
| 1:55.0 | And that part is fascinating, but then at the early part of the book, |
| 1:59.0 | what happens is somebody comes to him and says, |
| 2:02.0 | listen, we've got this nine-year-old girl |
| 2:05.0 | who was rescued from the Indians, the Kila Indians, |
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