Hey loves! You remember how yesterday I mentioned that lots of new & fun things are coming to BHC? Things that are going to hopefully offer you value and give you positive takeaways to implement into your life? Well, so many of you told me that you wanted more ideas on healthy eating, nutrition tips, recipes, etc. so today I am introducing a new recurring series on the blog: Nutrition Tip Tuesday! And not only that, but one of my dearest friends and soon-to-be RD is going to be serving these up to us!! I’m just as excited to learn more from her here each week. Not only is she incredibly smart & down to earth, but her approach to nutrition and eating is a breath of fresh air. I think you’ll see what I mean 🙂 With that…I’ll let Emily take it away!!
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Hi friends! Emily here — a Registered Dietitian in training (or RD2Be, as we like to call it) currently living in Atlanta. I’ve known Bess for over 4 years and have always been inspired by her dedication to fitness and a healthy lifestyle. You know it’s a good friendship when you can watch the Bachelor, drink wine and eat cheese AND talk for hours about workouts and banana
oatmeal.
Anyways, I thought I’d share a little bit about myself and my journey to becoming a Registered Dietitian (it’s been a long one!). I have always loved food, but I didn’t stumble upon this career path until about 5 years ago. I majored in Sociology in college and worked in marketing in DC for several years afterwards. I found myself becoming more and more interested in nutrition,
and decided to take the plunge to go back to school, which was so scary at the time. I left my full-time job in DC, moved to Charlotte, and started completing all of the coursework required to become a Registered Dietitian (Microbiology, Medical Nutrition Therapy, and Organic Chemistry oh my!) while getting my Masters in Nutrition.
After two years of textbooks, I applied to Dietetic Internship programs, which are essentially residencies for RDs. I matched with Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and am almost done with my 9-month internship (66 days left, but who’s counting)! I’ve spent these 9 months in rotations in the hospital, community and even a few weeks of food service management. It has
been the most intense year of my life (and did I mention I’m getting married in July?!) but it will all be worth it in a few short months. The last step to becoming a RD is to take the Registration Exam, which I hope to do in June. I can’t wait to start practicing as a RD and sharing my passion for nutrition, intuitive eating, and cultivating a healthy relationship with food. In the meantime, I’m so excited to be sharing a weekly Nutrition Tip with y’all!
I wanted to start off with something pretty basic this week. This week’s tip can essentially be boiled down to… You. Do. You. It can be so easy in this day and age to look to external cues for how best to fuel your body. Between social media, magazines, TV shows, books. etc., we are constantly bombarded by nutrition information. Eat this many calories! Don’t eat gluten! Shop all organic! Don’t drink beer! Don’t eat after 8pm! Sugar is bad! It’s nearly impossible to avoid and it’s even harder to figure out what’s fact and what’s fiction. But here is one thing we do know. Everyone’s bodies are different. There is no one size fits all nutrition plan. Just because your friend eats a certain number of calories per day or is doing the Whole30, it doesn’t mean that you need to do those things, too! I know this sounds so straightforward, but I think it is always good to remind ourselves to be gentle with our bodies. No one knows your body better than you. So for this week’s Nutrition Tip, I would challenge you to tune-out the nutrition white noise, and give yourself permission to tune-in to what your body is telling you about what it needs to feel its best. More on that, next week!
Please let me know in the comments if there is anything you want to know more about for these Nutrition Tip Tuesdays going forward. Huge thank you to Bess for letting me share her little corner on the internet <3
xo,
Bess & Emily!
PS- Y’all head over and give Emily a follow on Instagram and say hello! xx!
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