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My name is Leah Kleintraud. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian with a master's degree in nutrition, but I also have an undergraduate

degree in exercise science, which these days, I mean, feels like a lifetime ago that I was getting

that undergraduate degree. And so I'm really looking forward to chatting with my co-host today, Brandy Burrow, about the marrying of those two degrees.

So we're going to be talking about fueling for movement.

And so I like to think of that.

In other words, how can we make sure our nutrition is working with our physical and our exercise goals and not against them?

So, Brandy, it's good to see you again.

It's good to see you.

Yeah.

And I know we'll talk about this here at the beginning, but I know exercise, movement, fitness, these are all important aspects for you and they have been for a while.

So why don't you just tell us a little bit more about like what role movement plays for you?

Yeah, I mean movement has been a really important part of my life for a long time.

Didn't really start that way. I would describe myself as an indoors kid growing up.

But it became more of a curiosity when I started on my health and weight loss journey as a teen. So that became something I used to

support my weight loss, and it really did help. Yeah. But, you know, as time went on, I discovered

all the other things that it did for my body in the way that I felt. Yeah. So it started

out just kind of riding my bike around the farm. I remember the first run I went on. Oh, nice. Core memory.

Very core memory. My dad was coming home. He just, he stopped on the side of the road and was like

confused. He thought there was an

emergency and I was running for help. You know, it was so unusual that I would be doing something

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