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

Today, we have a very timely and popular topic to discuss with you. Many of us are thinking at this

time a year about the ways to shed that weight that we've gained over the course of the last few months, over the course

of winter.

Perhaps this was weight that started to come on around Halloween time.

It continued through the holidays.

And then pretty soon it's Groundhogs Day or it's Valentine's day or we're coming up on st patrick's day and

our heads are just kind of coming above water coming out of winter right now and we're starting to

realize oh maybe i've kind of slipped into some habits that really weren't serving me or my metabolism

and this is a very common thing that we hear that over the last, you know,

five, six months during the winter season I put on maybe it was 10 pounds, 15 pounds, 20 pounds,

maybe even a little bit more. So our question that we want to help you answer this morning is

how can we start making improvements

to our diet and our lifestyle habits now so that we are feeling lighter, more energized,

and like the best versions of ourselves, come the long-awaited springtime.

And here in Minnesota, that's been a very long-awaited springtime.

Every year.

Every year it feels like it, yes.

So before we get too much further into our topic, let me introduce ourselves.

My name is Leah Kleintrot.

I'm a registered and licensed dietitianian and I have worked with clients over the past

five years here at nutritional weight and wellness. And weight loss is certainly the big, popular

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