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Hey guys, it's Paige. Welcome to another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. I'm so, so glad you're here. Wouldn't you know it? I'm actually interviewing another person named Christy. Today on the podcast. Her name's Christy Cheek. She's a registered nurse and owner of the Food ERN blog and she is here to talk a little bit more about what it means to find your own way with

intuitive eating. Now we're going to be talking specifically about some food allergies that she's

struggled with and how to combine

medically necessary restriction with the idea of intuitive eating. But I think if you don't

have food allergies, I think you should still listen because I think no matter who you are,

we have to find a way to individualize and make intuitive eating work for us instead of working

against us. So I'm really glad you're here. And Christy, do you want to go ahead and say hello?

Thank you, Paige. I'm so excited to be here and talk with you today about intuitive eating

and my story with food allergies. Exactly. Well, great. I'm glad you're here too. So overall sort of preview

for people, that's the basics of what we want to talk about. We want to talk about your journey

to discover intuitive eating despite having some real limitations and some true medical

restrictions you have to follow. and that's a tricky thing to

navigate and I'm excited to get into that and talk to you about your experience with it but let's start

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