And then babies out, and you still have some additional weight on you, right?

And so the thought is, oh, I'll just go back to eating what I was eating before.

Or it's okay if I skip meals because I have this weight to lose anyway.

But the reality is our nutrients are actually higher in postpartum,

you know, in the immediate sense because we're healing, we're not sleeping.

If you're breastfeeding, you know, your nutrient needs remain high for a really long time.

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And now let's get into this week's episode.

Hey guys, happy Monday.

So today, I'm a podcast we are talking all about postpartum nutrition and specifically functional nutrition.

So I admit before I recorded this episode, I really didn't quite understand what functional nutrition was.

And trust me, we're going to get to it out.

Well, she's going to explain all of it if you're like, what even is that?

But it is so interesting how our hormones and our body systems are all connected in a lot of what we eat.

Today, I had Allison from Motherwell Nutrition on the podcast,

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