Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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Just keeping down the cobblestones, looking for fun and feeling groovy.

Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

If you're worried that you have gained or are gaining weight during this stressful time,

we're definitely so stressful, Brittany, with this pandemic.

That's crazy.

The ongoing at home and working from home.

And you're not the only one.

I'm hearing it more and more in clinic. In fact, a survey of 8,000 U.S. adults published in the

Journal of Obesity found at least a third of adults in the U.S. reported the coronavirus

pandemic has led to dramatic changes in their good health habits. Today we want to talk

about some of these behaviors and ways that you can avoid weight

gain during the pandemic or during any other highly stressful time in your life. Now that you know

what we're going to be discussing this morning, I want to introduce myself and our co-host.

I'm Melanie Beasley and I have been a registered dietitian for the past 30 years.

One of the joys in my life is sharing the benefits of eating real food with as many of you as possible.

I can speak to the benefits of eating real food, both professionally and, of course, personally as well.

If you read my bio on weight and wellness.com,

you'll see that I've had some very serious health problems over the years myself.

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