Hey team and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host as always Dr. Hazel Wallace.

I'm a medical doctor and founder of the Food Medic.

So I hope you guys are well and not feeling the January blues too much.

Last time we heard from Dr. Rangan Chatterjee who chatted all about stress and how to deal with it in everyday life.

So hopefully some of those tools have been useful.

Now this week we're going to hear from Laura Thomas, who is a registered nutritionist,

specialising in intuitive eating.

Laura helps her clients to build a healthy relationship with food by helping them tune into their

own innate hunger and satiety cues and to also disconnect from diet tools like meal plans and calorie

trackers. Laura also hosts a podcast Don't Stop My Game, calling out diet trends and myths and has just

released her debut book, Just Eat It. Now before I met Laura, I thought

I had my head wrapped around all of this, but listening to her and learning from her, I realized

that intuitive eating is so much more than I'd previously understood. I think the phrase has

been misrepresented in the media, so I've asked Laura to come in and straighten it all out for us i think

the timing of this podcast could not be more perfect as we're right in the middle of january and died

fads and books are literally everywhere and quite frankly they're quite suffocating p s don't forget to

keep listening to the end of the podcast to find out what we will be discussing

on the next episode and to also hear what this week's challenge will be, which I think is perfect

for January.

So, Laura, welcome to the show.

Hi!

You and I have gotten to know each other over the past couple of months, and if for those of you at home who don't know, Laura is equally as mental as I haven't, and has decided to go back to university to also do a master's.

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