The following is an Operation Podcast production.

It's going to be an unpopular opinion at the beginning of your podcast, but I'm going to say,

I think of food as fuel.

I don't disagree.

I'm a registered dietitian with a degree in human metabolism and clinical nutrition.

And I believe that food interacts with everything.

And, you know, on a cellular level, we need it as fuel.

I do think that birthday cake and

candy and alcohol has a place in our diet. I think that is called normal eating. I think if we do it

multiple times a day, feel bad about it, or multiple times in a week, you have a bad habit. But I think a lot of

people are confused or are hearing lots of noise from the

world outside of themselves and they're not concentrating on what their body needs. And so it causes

a disordered, you know, relationship with food, sort of speak. I'm going to help them heal their

relationship with food. Is weight loss really a matter of discipline? No, I think it's a matter of...

Hey everyone, I'm Kim Shapira and author of This Is What You're Really Hungry for. This is

Ever Forward Radio.

Hello and welcome to Everford Radio. Welcome to Everford Radio. Welcome to 2025. I'm dropping the first bonus episode for you here. January 2nd, 2025. I thought what better way to kick things off with the wellness perspective than with celebrity dietitian Kim Shapira.

Kim is a celebrity dietitian and nutrition therapist, an

author with almost three decades of expertise under her belt, including working in hospitals,

sports clinics, addiction centers, universities, and so much more. She holds a BS and exercise

science, just like me. Actually, I've got the same undergrad degree. As well as a

master's in human metabolism and clinical nutrition, she is here to teach us what we are really

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