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But let's get started on today's episode. And I will be

answering a nutrition question that we've received from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

And the question today is eating for Hashimoto's. I understand gluten-free is important. However, how do you gain weight?

It can be tricky to keep good weight on and eat enough of a nutrient-dense, low-carb, or no-green diet.

Suggestions. I think this is a great question about how to gain weight, and I want to apply this to

anybody that has the goal of gaining weight. And this individual sounds like she's already eating

a lot of real food. She's gluten-free, which eliminates a lot of processed things if she's eating naturally occurring gluten-free food.

But again, I want to broaden this question to anybody who has the goal of gaining weight.

So often people are told if they want to gain weight just to increase calories, whether it be eating ice cream or

waffles or whatever it might be. And of course, these foods are going to help you gain weight,

but it's not necessarily healthy weight that you're gaining from eating these foods.

And then you're putting your body at risk by eating

these high sugar, highly processed foods. This can cause an increase in body fat and possibly an

increase in visceral fat, which is the fat around your organs in your midsection.

And having high amounts of this visceral fat puts you at higher risk for many different health

conditions. So we really want to avoid that. So instead of gaining only body fat to gain weight,

it's much more ideal to gain muscle.

And yes, this is definitely harder to do, but it's possible I have had clients successfully

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