Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness. I'm Melanie Beasley,

and I'm a registered and licensed dietitian. I have over 30 years of experience working with a variety

of clients, and I've been a dietitian at a prison, I've been a dietitian in the military, in the Navy,

and in various hospitals and clinics. Tells you how long I've been doing this job.

Currently, however, my favorite job is sharing nutrition information on this podcast

and working one-on-one with clients who have health challenges such as cancer,

osteoporosis, pain, inflammation, gut issues. I speak to these health challenges from a

clinical point of view and from my own personal experience as I have had my own health

struggles. And real food nutrition has made a tremendous difference in my own health recovery,

so I like to share that with my clients. I do understand

what works and what doesn't work, and what works is eating real foods. Now, if you're listening to

this podcast because you want to lose weight, we asked the perfect co-host to tell you what worked

for her and how it changed her life and her career choice.

Our focus today is on the power of protein and weight loss. But let me introduce Brandy Burrow,

who's lost 50 pounds as a teenager and has maintained those good numbers on the scale for

the past 20 years. Congratulations.

Yes, thank you. Brandy, tell us a little bit about your weight loss success story.

Well, I'm happy to, and I'm really excited to be here today to share my story, and hopefully

it inspires some of our listeners out there. And it is a true story. My health and wellness journey started when I was about

13 years old. Oh gosh. So young. That's so hard. Yeah. I mean, it was tough. But I mean,

ultimately it did change the entire course of my life. And it led to about a 50 pound weight loss.

Wow. Yeah. As a teenager. For me, I never really thought that that would

...