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

You know, this morning on the way to the studio, I felt a little crispness in the air signaling that fall is starting.

So for our local listeners, you know what I'm saying, because it is a beautiful fall morning.

For those of you that live in other parts of the country,

though, it might not quite be as cool for you. But we definitely know that fall is here because

the kids are back in school. It's after Labor Day. The fairs are over. And now many businesses

are asking employees to come back to the office for at least three days of the week.

So it's time to get out of our sweats and get those work clothes back on.

Many of my recent clients made appointments with me because, well, through the pandemic,

they did some stress eating,

maybe some stress drinking, and gained some weight. So they turned to nutritional weight and wellness

to get back on track. A common comment that they have made to me is, especially recently,

they say things like, I think my metabolism has slowed down in the last two years

because I just have to look at a brownie or a glass of wine and I gain two or three pounds.

And we've heard this many times, Julian, right?

Where people feel like they aren't even eating the foods and they're gaining weight.

Absolutely.

Before we get into our topic, how to boost a broken metabolism, I want to introduce myself.

I am Teresa Wagner, and I have been a registered and licensed dietitian for about 14 years,

seven of which I have spent working for nutritional weight and wellness, a company whose mission

I can fully get behind, helping each and every person experience better health through eating

real food. That simple but powerful message is key real health through real food when the goal

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