Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

We are a small Minnesota company with the big goal of spreading the real food message

through life-changing nutrition, education, and counseling.

I'm Leah Kleintraud, a registered and licensed dietician, and I have been counseling at nutritional

weight and wellness for the last six, almost seven years now.

I was a bit of a late bloomer getting into the dietetics field. My undergraduate degree was actually

in exercise science. And then I decided to enter the workforce for a couple of years before

deciding to go back to school to the University of Minnesota to get my master's degree in dietetics.

And I actually found and joined the front desk staff at nutritional weight and wellness between my first and second years of graduate school.

And when looking back now, I know I am forever going to be grateful for that Indeed.com posting that I found.

Before I get too much further into the rabbit hole, though, and reminisce further, I want to

introduce my co-host, Teresa Wagner, who is also a registered and licensed dietitian.

Teresa has been at this a little longer than I have, and Teresa, you're going to have to remind

me just how many years it's been for you.

Well, I've been counseling at nutritional

weight and wellness for about a decade. But I practiced a little bit before working here.

I had a crooked path. You said you were a late bloomer. I wasn't so much a late bloomer into the

dietetics degree. I actually knew when I was 12 that I wanted to be a

dietitian. But once I graduated from college, I took a different path. And that lasted for a little

while. So about 17 years ago is about when I got serious about getting back into the field.

And my registration is about as old as my son because I remember taking the

registration exam when I was very pregnant with him. So what a mile marker. Right. So it's easy to

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