rather than having a list of diet rules that you're being told to follow and that's what you're using externally to make every food decision.

This philosophy really coaches you to listen to your own body and make decisions about how you feel and how you want to feel from all the different foods and movement you're engaging in.

Hey everybody, Emily, a body here. You are listening to another installment, a hurdle moment from hurdle, a wellness focus podcast where I connect with everyone from your favorite athletes to top experts in industry CEOs about their highest highs, toughest moments and everything in between.

We all go through hurdles in life and my goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride toward your own big potential and of course have some fun along the way.

For today's episode, I am chatting about intuitive eating with Michelle Pilipitch. She is a registered dietitian and a herdler who honestly made my day, my week, my month by reaching out to me coming to the herdler huddle in person in New York and making her mission to pitch me about coming on the show.

Well, she's on the show today and she's giving us so much of her expertise again on the topic of intuitive eating. We talk about what is intuitive eating, what the 10 principles of intuitive eating are, what the benefits of this practice may be, what the downsides can be, and what someone who may be interested in eating more intuitively needs to know how can they get started and what potential road box or hurdles they may hit along the way.

I love this conversation. It is full of really interesting tidbits and so much great insight from Michelle. What I really appreciate about Michelle is that she made a pivot in her life to seek out a profession that really interested in her despite originally heading down a different path.

That can be a really hard decision something I think a lot of us can relate to. So I really appreciate her shutting some insight on her process and how she went about seeking out a career as a registered dietitian.

Make sure you're following along with the show over on the socials. It's at herdler podcast. I am over at Emily Abadi and with that, let's get to herdling.

Today I am sitting down with Michelle Pilipich. She is a registered dietitian and we are here to talk all things intuitive eating. How are you doing today, Michelle?

I'm doing great. I'm so excited to be with you.

Okay, we just need to tell a little, we need to have a little exciting moment for you. So Michelle was at the herdler huddle in New York. She let me know in the huddle. She was like Emily, I dream of coming on hurdle.

And this is just one of those examples of going after what you want.

Yes, so here's what happened because you probably don't even know this. I had emailed you once before pitching myself for the show.

Prior to the huddle, probably was lost in your inbox. I'm sure you get like thousands of emails. And I was like, okay, I'm just going to keep going for it.

I have always been super career driven very much about just ask for what you want. So once you posted about the event and Alec is a friend of mine in my book club, who I know you know, she and I were like, okay, we're going and I thought, this is my moment.

I have to tell her, I have a couple of like big career goals. One was to be on hurdle. The others to be on the today show. So that one we're still working on.

Okay, the fact that in the same breath, you were like my career goals are to be on Emily bodies podcast and also to be on the today show.

You're up there. You've done it.

That is very kind of you. I'm so grateful that this thing that I have here is something that makes you excited and humbled that it is a quote unquote career goal for you and amped that we are making it happen today.

So Michelle, welcome to the show as I told the hurtlers as you also identify you are a registered dietician. Why don't you give us a little background about how you got into this field before we dive into all things into

intuitive eating. Sure. So it's a funny winding story because yes, my my major in college was actually I did a double major government and Spanish.

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