Fueling Our Runs & Feeding Our Souls With Dietician, Dr. DeLorenzo Ep. 182

Imagine a world where the pressures of maintaining a certain body image in competitive sports could be transformed into a thriving career that empowers others. Dr. Theresa DeLorenzo, a former gymnast turned dietitian, shares her remarkable journey from navigating the challenges of restrictive eating to cultivating a fulfilling career in athletes' nutrition. Her story is a testament to resilience and transformation, as she uses her personal experiences to help others achieve optimal health through nutrition and yoga therapy. A powerful narrative of self-discovery and healing, Dr. DeLorenzo illustrates how past adversities can pave the way to impactful change.

Many active women struggle with the balance between dieting and exercise, often falling into the trap of thinking weight loss should be the end goal. Our conversation with Dr. DeLorenzo sheds light on these common misconceptions and emphasizes the importance of sustainable lifestyle changes instead of temporary diets. By focusing on proper nourishment and understanding the pitfalls of under-fueling, especially in the athletic realm, we explore how incorporating nutrient-dense foods can naturally reduce unhealthy cravings. This engaging dialogue serves as a reminder that a well-rounded fitness regime should prioritize health and nutrition, with weight loss as a beneficial byproduct rather than the central aim.

Takeaways

• Dr. DeLorenzo's journey as a gymnast shaped her career.
• Mindful eating can help individuals reconnect with their bodies.
• Sustainable nutrition is key to long-term health.
• Athletes need to fuel their bodies properly to perform.
• Menopause can significantly impact nutritional needs.
• Positive body image is crucial for overall well-being.
• Yoga therapy can aid in improving body image and nutrition.
• Restrictive diets often lead to unhealthy eating patterns.
• Listening to your body is essential for proper nutrition.
• Nutrition should be personalized and not one-size-fits-all.

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Chapters

• 0:10 Nutritionist Dr. Teresa DeLorenzo's Journey
• 16:18 Misconceptions of Dieting and Exercise
• 23:41 Menopause Symptoms and Nutrition Strategies
• 35:19 Empowering Women Through Self-Acceptance

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:10

Welcome to Ella Go. My name is Lisa. Join me on the journey in having real raw and uncomfortable discussions about fitness, health and everything in between, because, let's be honest, this journey would suck if we don't get our shit together. Welcome back to the Elegoo podcast. My name is Lisa, I am your host and I'm super excited about today's episode. We have Dr Teresa DeLorenzo. She is a registered dietitian. She is the owner and founder of Nutrition for Optimal Performance. Dr DeLorenzo works with athletes to help them to make sure they are eating the correct proportion of macro and micronutrients to perform their best. Come up with a race day nutrition hydration plan to feel and race as good as possible, improve their gastrointestinal health as well as improve their body image. Dr DeLorenzo is a 200-hour trained yoga teacher and holds a certification yoga therapy with an emphasis on improving body image. She uses yoga therapy as adjunctive therapy for clients with anxiety, body dysmorphia and pain, and teaches aerial yoga classes.

Speaker 2: 1:36

Oh, yeah, she's full of tricks here you have to come over. Yeah, she's full of tricks here I got, I'm gonna you have to come over. Okay, she does this in her home yoga studio and she's currently working on a somatic movement therapy certification. That's something we have in common, Teresa, so welcome Teresa.

Speaker 1: 1:59

Thank you. Yes, we will have to get you here for some aerial. I love being upside down as a former gymnast, so I've got lots of aerial swings down there I love it.

Speaker 2: 2:11

I love it. So, so many good things that you're going to be bringing to this conversation. So for anyone who is listening, teresa, I think I've been following. I don't know how. I was like how do I follow these people? How did this happen? And I wanted her on here because obviously she is incorporating movement as well as being a registered dietitian. So those are like, really those go hand in hand.

Speaker 1: 2:40

They should go hand in hand.

Speaker 2: 2:42

So I'm bringing her on here so she can drop some nuggets, but obviously, talking about her bio, she's going to be dropping more than what I thought she was going to be dropping.

Speaker 2: 2:50

So, Teresa, just give us a really quick introduction of your background and you know how did you get into becoming a dietitian? I know this is like a twofold question because I also want you to share your journey, because when you and I talked you can't tell by looks and when you and I were talking you blew my mind and shared very you know things that were. You were very transparent on your journey and you were put on a whole another level in my mind Just what you had to go through to be where you are today. So share that with the listeners.

Speaker 1: 3:36

All right, I'm happy to. So yeah, I was a gymnast. I was a gymnast as a child. I think I started when I was about six, and gymnastics back in the day was you look a certain way, and if you don't look that certain way it's going to be harder. So my sister and I were both very involved in gymnastics, actually to the point where our coaches sort of thought that our parents put a lot of pressure on us and it was more like we were just really into it and it was all us. Like my dad had built us a bar, that it was in my bedroom and we had a balance beam in the living room and then outside we had to have a bar and a beam outside. It was like my poor parents, their living room was a gym Surely not what they envisioned. So I spent my whole childhood, up into the age of 16, as a gymnast. Every night we were there for hours and hours.

Speaker 1: 4:33

And when I was probably in puberty I think I was about 14, when your body starts to change, my coach said to me one day we were at I think it was in the summer, it was all day in the summer summer camp, all day, every day kind of thing. And he just looked at me and he was like I don't really think I can spot you anymore because you're too big. And it was like this mind blowing, what are you kidding? And of course, as a 14 year old I'm not like I wish that I was, but unfortunately I wasn't. Just like, oh, screw you, this strong person that I feel like I am now, but I wasn't. I really took that to heart and allowed that to shape how I viewed myself and I changed my eating habits dramatically overnight and I really started to count everything. I wasn't in the era of weighing things yet, but I would count things, I think, as a person OCD. So it just kind of made me very structured and rigid and I did lose weight. They went on vacation. He came back my coaches were married at the time and they came back from vacation and the look on his face when he returned to the gym was like oh no, what have I done? Cause it was such they were gone for two weeks and there was a dramatic change in how I looked and you know.

Speaker 1: 6:11

So I continued with gymnastics as long as I could, but being that restrictive in how I ate, it was career ending. I couldn't. I landed from a dismount on the bars and my ankle just you know, I didn't have the strength to support myself. So I really really badly injured my ankle. I was out for a long time with that. I came back still very restricted, probably even more so because I wasn't doing as much gymnastics and then I also, in bars, went to catch the bars, and because my bones had just probably suffered so much from the lack of intake, you know, the lack of nutrition, the lack of calories, I jammed my fingers and broke all of my bones in my hand right before Regents and it was just one injury after another, another, and it just I couldn't. I was done, so I had to stop.

Speaker 1: 7:07

And so that really, you know, at the time I didn't realize that I would choose a career that helped me to help others. So when I work with people now and they explain what they're feeling and going through and I and I, I will respond with something like I get it. A light bulb goes off. They're like oh, you didn't just read about this in a book, you actually are in my head right now. Kind of creepy, right. But I've been there, I've lived it. So I remember shadowing my dad's cousin and she was a dietician and I was like, yes, this is the career for me.

Speaker 2: 7:51

I can help people with what I've experienced and help them to get better because of what I've gone through. That's just incredible. And so two things as you were talking. The first one is did that guy ever come back and be like sorry for saying?

Speaker 1: 8:05

anything. No, no, he kind of went off the deep end. A little bit Long story, but yeah, no, no, no, we did. Actually, like I said, our coaches were married. They went through a really bad breakup not too long ago and we did get together with the wife breakup not too long ago and we did get together with the wife and she sort of um, you know, admitted that, yeah, there was some things that they didn't realize what they were doing was impact, how that was impacting a lot of the gymnasts. Um, so she sort of acknowledged it. Um, no, he wasn't the kind of person that was going to do that. No, he wasn't the kind of person that was going to do that.

Speaker 2: 8:44

Wow, Okay, I was hoping that he was, but okay, and then Not so much luck. And then the other thing is you know, teresa, it's so amazing that when we pick these professions, they almost we pick them because not only we want to help other people but we're also like saving ourselves. Like I think about when I why did I become a therapist, like I? I want to become a therapist because I wanted to know why the hell I was thinking the way I was thinking.

Speaker 1: 9:18

And I wanted to work on my myself. And then isn't that amazing?

Speaker 2: 9:20

And then I wanted to work on myself oh yeah. Right. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, like I wanted to study that.

Speaker 1: 9:27

I almost feel like at this point I'm so. My business coach said the other day she's like you are you breathe this stuff, like you just embody this, and I almost feel like nutrition chose me. You know, it's like this thing that I just there was no other career that was going to be what I did. This is it. And yeah, I totally went to college to learn more about it. But, yeah, it definitely helps form. It keeps you honest, right. It keeps you on track because you have to be a good role model. So if ever I'm like, oh nope, these people are watching me, they're listening to me. You have to stay on track and that it does. It does help you to stay true to what you're saying.

Speaker 2: 10:16

Yeah, I love that. So with that you do not. Just, you're so different from other dietitians and I was just saying this in my story, that that, because I just got done interviewing another registered dietitian and I said this to her. I said you guys all have that similar background. Obviously you are in the research of how our bodies react to food and the needs and this is not just like a quick study, this is an expertise that you have and yet you all are different, like there's something, like you are taught. You know I'm reading your bio and you implement the whole. Now you're going to be implementing somatic therapy and you know that movement and how that even incorporates with how your mind and body.

Speaker 2: 11:06

I mean, I get that sense of wellness from you and that's somebody else who, although they're you know, they're educating women about the same thing, but it's on a. It's different.

Speaker 1: 11:18

Different level. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:20

I just love that, because I often say you know you can't say well, dime a dozen register, a dietitian no he was like differentiate yourself, do something different.

Speaker 1: 11:47

And at the time I fell in love with NICU and I did, you know, neonatal nutrition, and and then it sort of evolved into what I do now, my sports nutrition practice, which is, you know, I have my sports nutrition clients, my body image clients and a lot are both, you know. But yeah, so I do that. You mentioned that mind body piece. I use yoga therapy, so I don't just teach yoga, I also am a yoga therapist. Because when people fall down these I guess I'm going to call it a trap with this restrictive eating of whatever it is there's so many iterations of restrictive eating. They disconnect their mind from their body and they're like I have to do this, I can't do this, I should do that. And we get disconnected. Our mind and body are no longer communicating with each other.

Speaker 1: 12:32

So that yoga therapy component of my practice is let's reconnect. What is your body actually? You know. When people ask me, well, how much should I eat? I don't know. Ask your body, when people ask me, well, how much should I eat? I don't know. Ask your body, what should I have? What is your body telling you? I'm not in it. You have to be able to reconnect your mind and body and figure out what that is, that it's asking you. We all need different things, we're doing different activities, we deplete certain things and you have to be able to honor. Well, first of all, know and then honor right, oh, I might be craving this, but I feel like I shouldn't, or whatever and being able to connect and know what that is and then being able to honor that. So that's how I use yoga therapy, with that, to sort of like let's get back to what your body's asking for, versus all these rules that we get attached to you know.

Speaker 2: 13:25

Yeah. And so let me ask you this because I'm curious what you have to say about this so, even though we talk about this whole listening to your body, mind-body connection because it is a thing, people, it is a thing and yet yet we still have people talking about this restrictive way of dieting and almost talking about it like it's the law the opposite way.

Speaker 1: 13:53

You know one of the things when.

Speaker 1: 14:05

I was in my restrictive days was nope, nope, chips aren't allowed. Oh, let me tell you, I don't go a day now without eating chips. But I had a client say to me one time but how do you stop? And I said I can stop, because I don't think of it as a bad food, I think of it as a food that I love and because I'm allowed to have it, I can stop. Right, when you say I'm not allowed to have this, I'm doing something wrong, you just keep going. I'm never going to do this again. Yeah, right.

Speaker 2: 14:48

You know, it's like this vicious cycle and yeah, yeah, so I was, I know, and and I wonder, do you think? So we're going to get a little deep here, okay, so I wonder, do you think, is it because, cause you, you know, you hear a lot of younger people doing it?

Speaker 2: 14:55

you know a lot of these younger folks who are not just even losing weight, but even, like men, who want to like, build bulk muscles and like that is the rule. Do you think that? Maybe it's because, I mean, it is working at their, at their age at that time it works quote, unquote for a while, right.

Speaker 1: 15:19

But then your body's needs and cravings kick it right. And then your body's like, okay, I'm done with you restricting this, I'm done with you not eating that, I'm done with you not eating enough. So yeah, it works quote, unquote for a little while, until it doesn't. And then you've done so much damage to your metabolism because you've restricted and you've done so much damage to your ability to eat moderately because you've done so much damage to your metabolism because you've restricted, and you've done so much damage to your ability your ability to eat moderately, because you've restricted yourself from things that you love that then you sway the other way.

Speaker 2: 15:53

Yeah, yeah, see I, I, I agree, totally agree. Um, it just there's this thing on the side that says echo cancellation. Oh good, it's gone. So I was like I don't want to have to go through that editing. That's a pain in the ass to do that, okay.

Speaker 1: 16:11

All right.

Speaker 2: 16:12

All right, let's go back to what we were talking about. Yeah, I completely agree with you, teresa. So let's talk a little bit more. You know we talked about that, but that kind of segues way into the misconceptions of dieting, you know. And let's talk a little bit more about the athletes and not just like and we say athletes, I mean if you're running, you're working, you're an athlete, you know.

Speaker 1: 16:39

Yeah, if you're moving your body.

Speaker 2: 16:40

You're an athlete, you're an athlete. So I'm going to help the women who are listening, who are getting the self-doubts in the head. We're talking about you ladies, okay. You ladies who are working out yoga, whatever, running whatever Okay, that's who we're talking about.

Speaker 1: 16:54

So let's talk about the misconceptions of those women when it comes to dieting and eating and all of that when it comes to dieting and eating and all of that, if you can't do it forever, like literally ask yourself is this thing that I'm about to embark on, whatever it is X, y, z plan feasible to do for the rest of my life? Truthfully, like being completely honest with yourself, if you, if the answer is no, this is, I'm going to do this for a little while, don't bother, it will backfire. It has to be sustainable. It sounds so cliche, but it has to be a lifestyle change, one of the things that people are so surprised by when they come to work with me. We do our Zoom visit and then it'll be done and they're like wait, what do you want me to take out of my diet? I'm like you're not going to take anything out, you're going to pull all of these nutrient-dense things in, and then you might crave a little bit less of the other things because you're filling in nutrient gaps.

Speaker 1: 18:00

I think it's hilarious when people are like you know, I just I'm good all day, right, they're good all day, whatever that means to them. And then at night I just can't stop eating the chips or the candy and I'm like okay, but maybe you're being too good, right? You're not eating. Usually. If that's the case, if that's the thing that they're eating all night, you're probably not eating enough carbs. So let's add bread to the, let's add some carbs to the salad that you eat for lunch, or let's have whatever.

Speaker 1: 18:30

Adding carbs usually is the thing and they're like. But then I'm adding calories. I'm like, well, you're adding whole grains and then you're going to eat less chips later. I'm not telling you to not eat them, but you're probably not going to need as many of them. But it also requires you to not just do that out of habit, but to check in. Do I really want them? Am I craving them? When am I done? Kind of thing. But yeah, I'm not taking things away, because if I tell you you can't eat pizza, you can't have chips, then I have to do that too. That's probably not going to happen, let's be honest. So, yeah, it's more about finding something that's sustainable, like what does your body really need? Let's fill in those gaps and then there's less of an insatiable need for the cookies and the candy and the chips which there's space for. But maybe you don't need to eat the whole bag because you're actually satisfied with what you ate throughout the day.

Speaker 2: 19:32

Yeah, let me ask you this, because I often get a lot of women who want to be part of this running, you know, want to start running and they also want to lose weight. Let's, let's talk about that, teresa.

Speaker 2: 19:47

Okay, Well, cause this is something I I I have shared before, and I mean I DNF. I failed a marathon because I was trying to lose weight. While I was running, I didn't realize if I'm going to work out like a beast. I got to eat like a beast, Like I was exactly drinking, and that's what got me to fail Right.

Speaker 1: 20:10

They're competing goals Like do you want to do the marathon or do you want to lose weight? You can't do both. You will either not get to the starting line because of a stress fracture, or you'll get to the starting line because of a stress fracture, or you'll get to the starting line and then you're so under fueled from fatigue and under nourishment that you're going to run, you're going to bonk, you're not going to get to the finish line. So, one way or another, you got to make a choice. And also, why are you choosing to start running? Is it to lose weight, or is it because you want to do that? You want to do that movement, or you want to?

Speaker 1: 20:46

You know, my daughter said to me the other day mom, if you didn't run, who would you hang out with? And I'm like I don't know, I probably wouldn't have many friends. But you know, when I got divorced, I was like, oh no, what do I do now? That was sort of this, I guess I'll start running. And then it was like oh no, what do I do now? That was sort of this, I guess I'll start running. And then it was like oh no, now the kids are here and I have to run, but it kind of takes over. But it's like when someone becomes a vegetarian. I ask them well, why Are they reasons that are sound, or are they? I'm trying to restrict and lose weight, and if you're starting to run because you want to lose weight, let that just be an aftermath versus something you're trying to accomplish with it, because that you will get hurt and then you won't be able to do it.

Speaker 1: 21:38

Yeah, like my gymnastics right, like you can't do these intense things under fueled, you're not meeting the demands, and that kind of reminds me of if people think, oh well, I'm just not menstruating because I'm exercising so much, that's a symptom of under fueling, you know. Yeah, and that's when your bones are going to get depleted, that's, that's when you're going to get hurt. That's not, oh, it's just because no, that's not you know.

Speaker 2: 22:10

So I love that. You said the aftermath. That could be the aftermath, and you know the why and and that's why I always say, when you, when someone tells me, well, I want to run cause I want to lose weight, I said let's get a little deeper than this. Why do you want to lose weight? Like what? What's going on? You know it's not. There's something else going on. Let that be the why. You know, not the let's fix my lack of my void in my life, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 22:36

So I love that you said that, because it is.

Speaker 1: 22:39

It is an aftermath and it's amazing, when you don't focus on the weight loss, how you do lose weight when you're focusing on you know joy, yeah, just the amazing things that come from running, the adventures it takes you on, the friends you make, the runner's high and all the things yes.

Speaker 2: 22:59

So let's talk a little bit about menopause, because you and I, when we first met, we got into that discussion and it almost right I know feeling hot already it almost plays into what I was asking about. You know you have these younger folks who you know it's sustainable now, but you get. I mean how many women like I was at a menopause talk and how many women are like you know they're doing their workouts, they're doing their macronutrients and they're restricting and then all of a sudden I turned 49 or I'm thinking.

Speaker 2: 23:36

I'm like what the fuck happened.

Speaker 1: 23:39

Or 41. Like menopause, the onset of symptoms is. The average age when it starts is 36 to 46. So people are like, oh my gosh, I'm too young. That can't be what's going on. Yeah, it could be what's going on, definitely. And yeah, so there's a whole. This could be a whole, nother conversation.

Speaker 2: 24:04

I know, just give us a little. You know a little clip.

Speaker 1: 24:07

The bite-sized conversation is essentially estradiol, which we've been poo-pooing our whole life and we're like, oh, I have PMS, guess what? Now PMS is all the time and estradiol is saying bye, and estrone, which is like this nasty estrogen, is upregulating and taking over as estradiol falls. And estrone is inflammatory, it breaks down our bones, it breaks down our muscle mass, it makes us fatigued and our GI health is impaired, our energy levels are impaired, our ability to do the things that we're used to doing is impaired. So estradiol is sort of protecting our bones, our muscles, our inflammation, and now that's dropping and estrone is doing the opposite. So it's this like complete shift.

Speaker 1: 25:05

And you know it's a lot of times people will go to their doctor or whatever, and they'll go on hormone therapy, which, in my opinion, everyone's entitled to theirs. That's sort of a band-aid Like we can help to mitigate those, the estrone metabolic byproducts with food, and I have this whole program that I do with women and we introduce all these foods that help to up, get that estradiol back in our system and break down the negative effects of the estrone. And it's amazing, it's like the hot flashes dissipate, the muscle soreness, the achiness, all this stuff goes away and we're able to sort of, you know, because running gets a little bit harder, like it gets hard again. It's like when you first started running almost, and then, if you can shift those hormones back a little bit, it feels so much better, so much better.

Speaker 2: 26:04

So, in a nutshell, everyone, the hormones are going to impact your runs, it's impacting your eating and you're going to have to change the way you do. Like she just said. It gets back to being hard again and you're like what happened.

Speaker 1: 26:18

What happened Right?

Speaker 2: 26:19

Yeah, menopause happened, so anyways.

Speaker 1: 26:22

Menopause happened and, as much as you don't want to hear it, guys, tofu is your best friend during menopause, I know yes.

Speaker 2: 26:32

Just eat it.

Speaker 1: 26:32

I've got so many recipes, but yeah, there's ways to it can be made in so many great ways you got to give it a chance.

Speaker 2: 26:38

people Okay.

Speaker 1: 26:39

You really do yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:41

All right. So, teresa, what do you see work for women that work with you and I'm sure that's a loaded question. I asked the same question to the other dietitian what are some of the things that you have seen and maybe some of the techniques that you share with these women that they're like you're telling me I can't restrict and you're telling me I can eat what I want. Uh, I can't restrict, and you're telling me I can eat what I want. Uh, are you kidding me? And then how many times they come back to you and they're like holy crap, how the hell did this?

Speaker 1: 27:12

Oh, my gosh, I can think of two really dramatic examples of clients who came to me. They came to me into my journey into positive body image program Cause they were like I don't like the way I look, I overeat these things. And we worked, we did my journey into positive body image program, which is like once a week we do nutrition counseling, once a week we do yoga therapy, to like, help them reconnect. So we reconnect the mind, the body. And we worked on eating mindfully. And one of them her issue was like Hershey's kisses at night. Like she just opened the bag and it just they'd all go down.

Speaker 1: 27:50

I'm like we're gonna eat mindfully, she's like, but then I'm gonna taste it and then I'm gonna eat more. No, you're gonna taste it and you're gonna know when you've had enough. And she's like oh, my god, I used to eat like 20 of these and now I have two and I'm she was like what? How did that? I? She was afraid to actually taste it. But then when she tasted it, she's like oh, I tasted it and now I'm good.

Speaker 1: 28:16

And I had another one same program, journey into Positive Body Image. She was like ah, once I take the cheese out at night, like, and it's because they viewed these foods as off limits and bad. But then they're like I just have to have them because their bodies were even. They're craving magnesium or calcium or whatever. And she's like you are crazy, maybe, but you are really telling me that if I eat mindfully and pay attention and eat the things that my body's asking for, I'm going to be able to take out that block of cheese, have a couple slices and put away. I'm like yes, yes. She's like all right, you're nuts. I'm like all right, all right, well, let's see what happens, let's just give it a shot. So, like you know, a couple of weeks later, she's like I can't believe this, like I literally can take it out and I'm like tasting it and being present instead of doing all the things to distract myself from the fact that I'm eating the thing that I love. But I'm actually paying attention.

Speaker 2: 29:10

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 29:10

And she's like I can like take it out, eat a normal amount and put it away. I can't. She was mind blown, Mind blown.

Speaker 2: 29:17

Yeah, obviously you have different applications here, but what you are doing is you are giving people the permission to ask the questions that they're afraid to ask. Yeah, what do I want right now? Right. And people don't understand when you say to your brain or yourself don't have this, you want it. Yes, right, don't have that, but why do I?

Speaker 1: 29:56

now I'm fixing it, now I want it Right, and if I say you can have that and that's no longer a bad food, it's not. There's so many reasons we eat. We eat because it's good, we eat because it's something we grew up with. We eat because it's part of our culture. Like you shouldn't tell yourself I can't have these things, why. Who made that rule up?

Speaker 2: 30:12

You know, yeah, exactly. So one of the questions I was going to ask you was what does it look like to work with you? And you kind of dropped a little bit about the yoga. So, you know, someone comes to you and say, Teresa, and let's have a runner, because I'm sure there's women here that are runners listening. Yeah, you got a runner. They come to you and maybe they're in the beginning stages and they want to start eating healthy as a running runner and fueling their runs. What does that look like to work with you?

Speaker 1: 30:45

Yeah, so that program, my high performance program, would be. We would meet every other week and we'd sort of go through okay, here's all the things that I'm eating. First they would fill out this form that says that gives me like an indication if there's any nutrient deficiencies that they might have, for whatever reason, from running from not eating certain things, from whatever, there's many reasons that someone might come with a nutrient deficiency. We'll go over all the things that they're eating. I'll sort of say, okay, you're really not getting enough of this, that or the other thing, and then we'll add in the things that they need. And then they can email me, text me in between visits. We meet every two weeks gives them enough time to sort of try all the things, see what works, see what doesn't, and then we meet every two weeks for as long as they, you know, feel like they need to. So a lot of times it's first filling in those nutrient gaps and then we start working on okay, let's bring in some foods now that are going to enhance your performance, then we'll weave in foods you know. All right, you've got a long run on Saturdays. Here's what Friday is going to look like. Okay, what are the foods you're going to eat the next day to recover.

Speaker 1: 31:48

Or you know, maybe you have a big race coming up, whether it's a half marathon or a marathon or whatever, and what does that look like? How do you get to that without bonking, without feeling like garbage, and what does that sort of look like? So that's a nutshell. You know of the high performance program it's. You know you always have access, you can always reach out. I can't tell you how many texts I get from the grocery store. This one or that. How does this look? You know, is this what you said, which is great? You know, yeah, so that's sort of how that looks. And then people will be like, okay, I got through that event, I'm going to pause, and then they'll be like, all right, wait, I got another one, I want to make sure all the things are in place, or a bigger event or something has shifted in their life, and they want to circle back, and so that's yeah, sort of, and I'll give them recipes along the way that sort of coincide with the foods that we're working on, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2: 32:42

Okay, so let's talk about someone who you do implement the yoga and the other things. So what does that look like?

Speaker 1: 32:49

therapy, and that can be done in person or Zoom, depending on preference and location, and all of that. And it starts with, instead of let's slap a Band-Aid on and just move forward like where did this start, why did this start? And let's uncover some of this. And there's a lot of journaling and let's work through some of the things that come up and it's it's not a weight loss, it's not like I'm going to come into this and lose 30 or 40 pounds. It's I'm going to love what I look like. A lot of people lose weight because they're being more mindful in what they eat and the binging cessates and things like that. But yeah, so it's about learning how to eat mindfully, learning how to listen to your cravings, honor them and be present. And, yeah, so, lots of journaling. I'm going to launch a new cohort for that and there's going to be this really amazing retreat at the end of it that everyone will kind of come together and share their success. So, yeah, super excited for that.

Speaker 1: 34:06

I've been wanting to do. I do retreats every year. I've done two a year for a while. This year I'm adding the third, the Fall Fitness Festival, and next year I'm adding one in Narragansett, rhode Island because that's where I lived in college and it's this really special place to me because we lived on the beach. But it was also like where I learned how to shift all of this, and so that's where this journey I just got chills that's where this journey into positive body image retreat will be, so that I can just share, share my story, share that and like have everyone come together and share their successes as well.

Speaker 2: 34:39

Okay, that's awesome, and where could someone like, if they're interested in this, like, where could they look?

Speaker 1: 34:45

like if they're interested in this, like where could they look? Yeah, so my website nutrition-for-opcom. Okay, All of that good stuff is there my yoga classes, the retreats, all the programs. And if someone's not sure, like maybe they want to work with me but not sure what program is best for them, they can just reach out and we can have a chat and figure it out, and you're also on social media.

Speaker 2: 35:08

What are your handles for?

Speaker 1: 35:10

Yes, instagram is Teresa DiLorenzo Nutrition.

Speaker 2: 35:13

Okay, okay, all right, teresa, I had so much fun talking to you.

Speaker 1: 35:19

And you know.

Speaker 2: 35:21

I think the work you're doing for women and loving their bodies and it, you know. When you were talking, I thought to myself if we just did a little bit more of this, like, yes, you know, and it's amazing, the more you do this, the more things let go you know Um, and I think you are teaching women how to feed into themselves, not only literally. Literally, figuratively all of it, but feed into that soul so that they can be happy and find joy in their lives, find that peace with themselves.

Speaker 2: 36:00

Yes, absolutely so. I love what you're doing. Thank you so much for being a part of the show.

Speaker 1: 36:07

Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2: 36:09

I loved it and, like I said, the listeners. If you want to get a hold of Teresa, you can go on her website and go on her social media handles. I'll be putting this all in the notes so that you can just click and get to her really quickly. And again, teresa, thank you. Thank you, all right, until next time. Bye.