*s2/e24 "Clean Eating", Food Rules, & Orthorexia with Kelsey Pontius, RD (@sportsdietitiankelsey)

The Running Explained Podcast

Running Explained

Sports, Running

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We all want to be healthy, right? We all want to be faster, better runners, right? What happens when our quest to "be healthier" becomes something more dangerous and restrictive? In this deep and wide-ranging discussion with sports dietitian Kelsey Pontius, RD (@sportdietitiankelsey) about "clean eating", orthorexia, food rules, and more, we cover...

Why it's so hard to change our deeply held beliefs and emotional ties to certain ways of eating
The spectrum of orthorexia and the choices we make around food
The aspirational/socio-economic factors of "clean eating"
The allure of restrictive diets
Unintentional underfueling
"Clean race fuel" options
Injury risk with underfueling
RED-S and why weight loss "works" to make you faster at the beginning (before causing serious issues later on)
How to unpack your own relationship with food
and more!

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Meteor Nutrition arose after lifelong athlete, Kelsey Pontius RD, LDN wished to pursue her passion for the impact of nutrition on the human body in motion. Kelsey grew up playing competitive soccer, and eventually ended her career as a D1 soccer player to transform into a distance runner who since has qualified for the 2020 and 2024 US Marathon Olympic Trials. Through several instances of her athletic background, she felt the ebbs and flows with nutrition on performance. She knew she was destined to help other athletes benefit from the implementation of optimal nutrition.

Aside from working with ambitious athletes, Kelsey has worked in the clinical arena with a multitude of different medical complexities, and has out an emphasis on injury healing and gut function. Having a variety of different experiences in dietetics has given Kelsey the necessary tools to allow wholesome food heal and fuel the remarkable human body.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker.
0:06.9	When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers.
0:15.2	So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster runner. There's no question
0:22.9	too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. My guest this week is sports
0:31.1	dietitian and Olympic trials qualifying marathoner Kelsey Pontius. Kelsey grew up playing soccer and eventually transitioned to becoming a
0:39.4	distance runner, quite a fast one at that. In her career as a dietitian, she has a focus on
0:45.1	injury, healing, and gut function. And in this episode, we are talking about the topic, the overall
0:53.5	concept of quote unquote, clean eating, the rules,
0:59.3	behaviors and beliefs we have around foods and assigning good and bad labels to different
1:06.4	foods or food groups and the concept of orthorexia and the spectrum along which all of these different
1:15.1	behaviors can fall. So this is not about necessarily eating disorders, but about certain ways
1:24.2	of thinking about food or that you might not even realize are actually undermining
1:29.7	your ability to do the things you want to do in your running.
1:34.9	Kelsey, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here.
1:38.2	Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Elizabeth. I've been really excited to hop on here with you.
1:42.4	So for those listeners who don't know you, go ahead and tell us about yourself.
1:47.3	How did you become a runner and how did you become a sports dietitian?
1:50.9	Oh, man.
1:51.7	So it goes all the way back to I grew up playing soccer and I ended up playing college soccer.
1:59.7	And shortly after, I became a runner because shortly after
2:03.3	like ending my collegiate career, I had to do something. So running is so simple. And we just all
2:11.3	love the beauty of like only needing a pair of shoes to kind of stay in shape after, you know,
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