Ep. 158 | From "Fat Camp" to Losing 100 Pounds: Ilana Muhlstein on the Best Healthy Eating Habits For Yourself and Your Kids
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein shares her story of growing up in a home where fast food was the norm. As her dependence on food grew, her parents sent her to what she calls "fat camp." That's where she had the life-changing realization: "You only get one body."
From that moment, Ilana began making small, consistent changes that led to losing over 100 pounds, and keeping it off. Now she leads a community of over 300,000 people who are learning to have a healthier, more joyful relationship with food.
In our conversation, we talk about the impact of giving kids a sugar-loaded diet on physical and mental health - how it affects their mood, focus, and energy for the rest of the day.Â
Ilana shares the two parenting patterns she sees most often when it comes to food—letting kids eat whatever they want or reacting out of frustration instead of planning ahead—and how to instead learn how to .
She offers practical, realistic tips for raising balanced eaters, teaching kids about carbs, protein, and energy in ways that make sense to them. We also explore how nutrition affects not just physical health, but mental health, confidence, and the parent-child relationship.
If you've ever wondered how to help your kids make better food choices without turning every meal into a battle, this episode is full of encouragement and easy, actionable ideas.
Get Ilana's book, Love The Food That Loves You Back.Â
Find Ilana on IG: @raisingbalancedeaters and Ilanamuhlstein.com
Follow along with me on Instagram: @livingeasywithlindseyÂ
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, we were never promised that life would be easy. Sometimes it is hard and super crazy, |
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| 0:23.8 | and making perfect memories and imperfect homes. I love to dig deep and talk about the really |
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| 0:38.3 | navigate through life less stressfully and more purposefully. |
| 0:42.1 | We will laugh together and struggle together. |
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| 0:55.2 | I am Lindsay Maestis. Welcome to the Living Easy Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Living |
| 1:06.0 | Easy podcast. This is Lindsay Myestis and I'm so excited today to introduce you all to Alana Mollstein. |
| 1:13.9 | Alana has not only a bestselling book and cookbook. |
| 1:17.5 | She also has a houseware line and is a dietitian nutritionist. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm very excited for this episode, specifically because my boys have been really struggling |
| 1:26.1 | in the area of nutrition as a whole. So thank you so much for being here, Lana. Thank you for having me. So how are you all handling summer? How has it been so far for you? It's great. You know, it's a change in the routine, which is a shakeup for everyone. But I think that's healthy. Yes. You know, we have to be challenged a little bit. |
| 1:45.1 | Even as a, you know, a registered dietitian who's been in the nutrition space forever, |
| 1:49.8 | you know, I was always like so excited to feed my kids and change the way I raised them |
| 1:55.8 | because I was raised on takeout television meals, no home cooking, tons of junk food, just super |
| 2:06.1 | unhealthy parents, like, you know, not because they wanted to, but they just struggled |
| 2:12.7 | with yo-yo diet after yo-yo diet, after fad diet. |
| 2:16.1 | And it was like just a really unhealthy home just overall |
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