Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

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health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

Today I had the honor of connecting with Temple Stewart. She is a registered dietitian specializing in low-card

dieting for women's weight loss. I've had the opportunity to speak on several stages with

her in the last year. She's absolutely delightful. We dove deep into her background in

her history of P.C. O. S. and Hashamoto's that she was able to reverse with adopting a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet. We discussed food psychology, woke

nutrition, whether or not if it fits your macros is a good philosophy. The issues surrounding traditional alopathic models of nutrition,

challenges related to nutrition research, weight loss resistance, plateau busters, and five different ways to measure success other than the scale. I hope you will

enjoy this conversation as much as I did recording it.

Welcome Temple, I've been so excited to connect with you. Yeah, I'm so honored to be here. Thank you. I've listened to your podcast so it really is a delight to be able to be on it. Yeah, and so we actually met in Las Vegas

last year at the Kido event,

and then our paths crossed again in Austin

and then again in New York City.

So I feel really fortunate to have interacted with you in three different locations at three different events and I'd love for you to share with listeners a bit about your background so for everyone that's listening, you are a registered dietician, but you're also in naturopathic school. So you've now relocated to another part of the country. And I love your story. You really have a pain to purpose story, you know, how you yourself, you know, healed your body with nutrition along that journey with a couple different, you know, little bumps along the way, you know, things that kind of got you focused on looking at nutrition as medicine.

Yeah, you know, it's been quite the journey, but I feel really honored to have walked it because I think it really helps me when I'm you know having

clients with real life problems and I can say I've been there I understand what

that feels like it all really started probably my second year.

As a student dietician, I was following all the guidelines

and to become a registered dietician

were obviously taught the conventional dietary approach lots of whole grains, limited red meats, you know, the typical stuff that we all know. And so I was following that and I was just getting sicker and sicker and bigger and I was having more and more hormonal issues and I was just so like I was so baffled because I'm doing what I'm being taught yet I'm having like all these issues and I really can't solve it and that's when I started jumping around diet trains try veganism a little bit tried all these things that ultimately led to a PCOS diagnosis when I got down to the

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