Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness. I am Teresa

Wagner. I am a registered and licensed dietitian. And today our topic is about the thyroid.

Did you know that three quarters or 75% of adults in the U.S. are either overweight or obese?

And with those statistics, it makes sense that I have many clients

with a goal to lose weight. And of course, they want to lose it fast. When weight loss is slow,

we want a reason. Oftentimes in counseling, questions about the thyroid come up. They may ask,

do I have a thyroid problem?

Or is my weight loss slow because of my thyroid?

Today we want to address how a dysfunctional thyroid can be the cause of a slow metabolism

and why it seems impossible to lose weight.

However, what if it isn't all about your thyroid? What are other reasons for

slow weight loss? You may have a number of questions, and we may have answers for you.

Joining me is Elizabeth Leppert, who is a licensed nutritionist with a master's degree in

clinical nutrition from the National

University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. You may have already met Elizabeth hosting

our Nutrition for Weight Loss Facebook Community Discussion page where she shares recipes,

she answers questions, and she helps keep people motivated. I love watching her

lives. They're filled with great ideas. I think people that think that we as nutritionists and

dietitians, that this is all easy for us, but we look to each other and we look to our clients

actually for motivation and inspiration to keep us on track as well.

So welcome to the show, Elizabeth.

Thanks, Teresa, and good morning to all of our listeners this morning.

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