Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of Hot Healthy, Never Hungry.

Today is a very cool moment. You're getting two for the price of one. We have two dietitians in the studio,

and we have someone who's, dare I say, iconic. Everyone knows Rachel Goodeats,

I feel like, especially if you're looking at little healthy high protein recipes. She's a moment.

So we have Rachel here. I'm so excited to dive into her new cookbook. I'm so pumped to kind of

just hear a little bit more about motherhood. I'm also a mom. By the way, Rachel, I'm not sure

if you know that. So we talk a lot about on this show motherhood and staying healthy and it's like, how do you find time to fit in a workout and make food for your kid? Oh, wait, we got to make food for ourselves. So a lot of things to juggle. But anyway, I'm so excited you're here. Welcome to the show. Lauren, thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. I love it. Whenever I have someone on the show, I love to kind of go back to the beginning because oftentimes, especially when you're a practitioner, dietitian, personal trainer, so much of your story growing up or your experience with nutrition and fitness can really shape the way you coach

and how you talk to people. So, you know, going back to the day before you became Rachel Goodeats

and before, you know, you became a dietitian or trainer, what was a little bit about your story

and background with nutrition and fitness that has kind of evolved and shaped you into

the practitioner you are now.

I grew up playing sports, so I feel like I've always been at sports oriented and, you know,

exercise has always been something in my life. I think it was in high school where I really started to think more about nutrition and what I was eating and good for you

doing it in high school. I mean, yeah, I didn't grow up by any means the healthiest person.

Like I feel like I was an average 90s kid, toaster strudal, cheese it, like all the things.

But yeah, I don't know what clicked clicked I think it was just my mom was always

really good at having you know like a really big salad on the table for dinners and so I think just

starting to cook with her and learning all of the tips and tricks there was really helpful for me

and kind of putting two and two together. So I went to Oregon State to study

dietetics. And soon after, I did my dietetic internship and I was so lucky to be able to

kind of make my own rotations. And so I was able to shadow the sports dietitian at Oregon State.

And I worked with the football players and the soccer players.

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