Hello and welcome to Dishing of Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

My name is Leah Kleintrote. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian and I'm your host for the show today.

On today's show, I am answering a question that came in from our Dishing Up Nutrition

Facebook page. So in case you didn't know, we have a special page on Facebook. It's called Dishing

Up Nutrition. You could request to become a member. And this is a great place to leave questions

or suggestions that you would like to have us talk about here on the show. So this person's

question is, it's one specific question, but there is some context behind it. So the main question

that this person is asking is, is there such thing as diet fatigue?

So she goes on to give us some context saying that she's been doing a keto or low carb approach for

the last two years. She wanted to lose 10 pounds, actually ended up losing 15 and was able to maintain

from there, made it through a lot of big events, funerals, weddings, cruises, vacations,

things like that, stayed on course with that eating plan, little tastes here and there.

And then she says that this fall hit and she wanted to start

introducing carbohydrates, things like apples, beans, rice into the diet. So more real food types of carbs.

And she says, suddenly I was so tired of low carb. I wanted breadcrumbs in my meatballs and my

meatloaf. I wanted to put beans and corn

in my chili. And it did lead to a little bit of a slippery slope with eating some sugar over

the holiday season. And she ends with saying, I was really tired of that way of eating despite

getting great results and great labs. I'm trying to be in a good frame of

mine as I want to continue with the low carb lifestyle. So again, circling back, the main question is,

is there such thing as diet fatigue? And this is, it's such a great question. There's a lot that I would

love to unpack here. I'm going to try to

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