Heather Kelly: Eating Psychology Practices and the Benefits of a Paleo Template

Episode 16: Heather Kelly is the owner and operator of OPENutrition. She is an evolutionary sports nutritionist and Psychology of Eating Coach, traveling across the country offering seminars on performance nutrition and mind body nutrition.Over the past few years, Heather has worked with hundreds of people one on one to help them improve their diet and relationship with food. Heather strives to help her clients reach their athletic goals, improve their body composition, as well as cultivate a healthy and satisfying experience with diet.Heather went on to study at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating in Boulder, Colorado and is now a certified psychology of eating coach.Heather also feels that it is critical to address the psychological components of what we eat and is excited to teach everyone about mind-body nutrition.Here's what we talk about:

• Heather's successful rowing career

  1. How Heather 'accidentally" found herself coaching clients one on one with nutrition at her local CrossFit box

  2. How she used Nutrition Data to log her calories to lose weight, per her RD's recommendation, but ended up losing the strength she needed for her athletic abilities

  3. Nourishing Wisdom and the Slow Down Diet

  4. The Hunger Scale

  5. Giving yourself permission to eat "off limit" foods, sometimes in more quantities than usual

  6. The addictive nature of crunchy, salty thingies

  7. How a paleo template can benefit most people (and the definition of paleo)

  8. How her diet has helped her maintain lean muscle mass, reasonable (but still lean) 16% body fat, and a "happy" weight

  9. Developing a healthy relationship with exercise

  10. My Yoga Works

  11. Writing a letter to your body

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