Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker.

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.

So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster, runner. There's no question

too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. My guest this week is sports

dietitian Natalie Robertello of B-Field Sports Nutrition. Natalie has an amazing background as a

sports dietitian. She has all the qualifications, all the education, she is a board

certified specialist in sports dietetics, she knows her stuff. But instead of talking about

what you should eat, today we're talking about the beliefs that we have around eating certain

ways, why we tend to eat a certain way, what it means, the mindset and

belief systems we have around fueling in a sports specific capacity, fueling for performance.

And this is a, you may have heard kind of dribs and drabs of conversations in other episodes I have with dietitians.

But today we're really diving into the stuff where we talk about diet culture, mindset, fear of carbs, fear of eating too much.

The things that we may not realize are preventing us from

fueling ourselves to our best and fullest capacity so we can feel our best

and perform at our best as well so I hope you enjoy this conversation Natalie is

absolutely fantastic and I know that it was a great chat for me too Natalie

welcome to the show I'm excited to have you here.

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. So before we get started on our topic today, go ahead and

tell us about yourself. How did you become a runner? And what led you to become a sports dietitian?

Oh gosh, believe it or not, I used to hate running when I, it's a funny story.

I did all the sports like growing up in high school, you know, track, cross country, soccer,

basketball, did it all.

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