Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness. I am Leah Kleintrode. I'm a registered and licensed

dietitian and I have been working in the field of nutrition for the past six years. I teach nutrition

classes in our Woodbury office and I also work individually with clients either in person

or via Zoom or on the phone. And the other week, I worked one-on-one with a gal who lives in

upstate New York. She is a caregiver for her husband, and especially the last, oh, six to eight months or so,

she really had to kind of take the helm at the house and had to put her own needs on the

back burner for a while just to kind of get everything stable with her husband's health.

But she had her own things that needed attention to. So she

decided she wanted to prioritize nutrition again. And she contacted us. We got an appointment

with her. And we just really had to work with her on creating a simple, straightforward plan

that felt doable for her so that she could be freer to attend to all

her other responsibilities. That's great. She was making herself a priority. Right. Exactly. And

again, we think oftentimes you think about self-care as bubble baths and massages and stuff like that.

But good nutrition is one of the best self-care

tools out there. And you notice when it's gone. You notice when it's not there anymore when

you're really on the struggle bus with that. So yes. So she was in upstate New York, but I've had

clients also from Florida, Idaho, and every once in a while an international client will come

through. That's kind of fun, right? Yeah. So I, you know, I remember, oh, I had an Australia client one.

So did I. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of fun when you get some different areas of the world and different

viewpoints come into. And then even some of our local clients prefer prefer virtual appointments.

You don't have the commute. You can do it at home in your sweatpants. While other people really

still want that in person, like face-to-face connection, we can do either one. And I always tell my

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