s2/e24 "Clean Eating", Food Rules, & Orthorexia with Kelsey Pontius, RD (@sportsdietitiankelsey)

We all want to be healthy, right? We all want to be faster, better runners, right? What happens when our quest to "be healthier" becomes something more dangerous and restrictive? In this deep and wide-ranging discussion with sports dietitian Kelsey Pontius, RD (@sportdietitiankelsey) about "clean eating", orthorexia, food rules, and more, we cover... Why it's so hard to change our deeply held beliefs and emotional ties to certain ways of eating The spectrum of orthorexia and the choices we make around food The aspirational/socio-economic factors of "clean eating" The allure of restrictive diets Unintentional underfueling "Clean race fuel" options Injury risk with underfueling RED-S and why weight loss "works" to make you faster at the beginning (before causing serious issues later on) How to unpack your own relationship with food and more! Meteor Nutrition arose after lifelong athlete, Kelsey Pontius RD, LDN  wished to pursue her passion for the impact of nutrition on the human body in mot