Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

Today we have an interesting, and I believe, a very important topic.

We're going to talk about

how to lose weight without dieting. And I bet some of you are saying to yourself, well,

that's not possible. Well, think of it this way. Did you need a special diet to gain weight?

That's a funny way to look at it, It is. We didn't need a special diet.

Did you say to your friends, I'm going to eat these brownies, chocolate covered carmels,

my favorite white mocha coffee, to drink to gain, I'm going to drink and eat this way to gain weight.

Of course not. I'm quite certain you didn't tell your friends that at all.

Or think in your own brain. You know, this is what I'm going to do to gain weight.

Now that I have your attention, I'll introduce myself. I'm Melanie Beasley. I'm a registered

dietitian and I've had a variety of nutrition type jobs over the past 20 years, including

jobs that required me to put clients on weight loss diets, even liquid fast diets.

I know from research that 500 calorie weight loss diets will lead to a slower metabolism

and to binge eating.

And let's face it, you're pretty darn miserable on those.

Oh, absolutely.

A person really just can't sustain 500 calorie diet for very long.

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