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HERself

74. HERself Expert: Alyssa Miller, Dietitian, on Intuitive Eating, Food Freedom, and Establishing Healthy Habits in Childhood

HERself

Abby and Amy

Best Self, Comparison, Opportunity, Health & Fitness, Purpose, Grow, Education, Parenting, Honest, Vulnerable, Mental Health, Future, Kids & Family, Real, Self-improvement

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This one is jam-packed full of good information! Alyssa has years of experience in her dietitian practice and weaves in personal stories that are SO easy to relate to. She has a way of helping women break the chains and find food freedom and makes the steps to get there super tangible. Much of what we learned about eating and issues surrounding food started in childhood and Alyssa walks us through how we can help establish good habits for our children, even when they throw roadblocks in our w...

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it's a tension between how women were raised, how women were taught, what we learned, what we

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lean into, growing up. And it's this idea of diet culture. Really, the diet industry telling us

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we're not good enough, but we will be if we do this diet or if we take this pill or if we take

0:14.9

this supplement or if we lose this weight. And it's that tension between that. And what we feel

0:19.1

internally of this constant cycling and getting on the next diet and off the diet and on the diet

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and it's this constant tension of living in this gray. I'm Amy and I'm Abby and as women, we are

0:38.4

constantly comparing ourselves to others. But your life isn't supposed to look like hers. Being

0:44.8

your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow with a

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we get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

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Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

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Today on the podcast, we have Dietitian Alyssa Miller. On Instagram, she is known as Mama and

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me are D. She has a podcast called Nutrition for Little's and she co-hosts the podcast Diet

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Rioters whose tagline is drop diets and pick up your life. I know that this is going to be such

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an important interview. Could we get started by you introducing yourself for our audience?

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Absolutely. First of all, thank you so much for having me. Hi, everybody. My name is Alyssa Miller.

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I'm a registered Dietitian. I'm a Mama of two and I host two podcasts. I'm really passionate

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about helping little ones be raised in an environment where it's a healthy relationship to food.

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And I really saw this connection with picky eating, being their first experience to feeling

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pressure around food and how that develops into adolescence and adulthood where we, as we all know,

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are pressured around food and our body and body image and all those sorts of things. I'm just

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really passionate about helping moms raise healthy, independent eaters. So I focus a lot on

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picky eating, but I also realize that I can't focus on picky eating without also not helping mom

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