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Another Mother Runner

#470: Holistic Nutrition with Dietitian Tamar Samuels

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Health & Fitness, Running

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Coach Amanda talk with Tamar Samuels, a registered dietitian nutritionist, co-founder of Culina Health, and new first-time mother runner. Tamar offers insight into: 

-how to manage weight-loss expectations when training for longer races; 

-the nutritional challenges for runners of switching to a plant-based diet; 

-making peace with carbohydrates and using them to help reach health goals; 

-why she steers runners away from intermittent fasting; and, 

-the importance of not labeling foods based on morality. 

Amanda shares details (and emotions) about her upcoming move out west, and Sarah tells why she’s been touring houses. Dietitian Tamar joins at 15:06.


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Welcome to another Mother Runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined by Amanda Loudon. Hello, Amanda.

1:04.8

Hello there. How are you? Good. It's been a while. It has been a while. Yeah. Yeah. And you have big news in your life.

1:13.0

I do. I am moving west to Boulder area. Yeah. From Maryland. It's a big move.

1:21.2

It's a huge move. And I have been going through all the emotions of that actually over the last couple of days because it's so exciting and I can't wait and I know it's all going to be great.

1:31.5

But there's a lot of, I guess I'm feeling like a sense of loss for giving up my network here.

1:39.9

Yeah. Question of the sanity of that, you know, but I'm trying, I think that's normal. And I remind myself that good things come with risk. So yeah, things come with risk. I like that.

1:52.4

So I never occurred to me. Are you a native of Maryland? No, but I have been here pretty much the vast majority of my adult life. So it really feels like home. I think, you know, as you can relate it as everyone can relate once you raise your kids in a place, it becomes home, you know.

2:07.9

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so if you would share a little bit about why you are making the move.

2:14.9

This sounds like my therapy session yesterday.

2:19.9

Sit upright, Amanda. Sit upright.

2:26.9

You know, I have, I have always, always loves Colorado and felt very called to it and felt very called to the mountains.

2:34.9

And you know, if I were to pick a spot in the entire country where I also have a network of people, not, not not the deep ties that I have here, but I have ties in that area, that would be it.

2:47.9

So I don't start from complete zero. And you know, my kids are really excited about it too, which is, which is helpful. I would not have done this because Audrey still has a couple years of high school to go.

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