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This week’s guest is Laura Ligos and she is known as The Sassy Dietitian. She is also a well-known food blogger and Registered Dietitian who focuses on “real food nutrition in a fast food world.” Being a CrossFit athlete means she doesn’t have time to deal with heartburn, allergies, or asthma; which is why it’s a good thing she cured herself of all those ailments using a whole food diet approach. She’s also recently begun working with InsideTracker.com to help provide more people with personalized nutrition recommendations based on biomarkers in their blood. In this tasty episode, we talk about all of these topics and more. She also has an InsideTracker discount code exclusively for listeners of the Food Sommelier Podcast.
LAURA LIGOS, MBA, RDN
Laura Ligos is the “The Sassy Dietitian”. She is currently located in Albany, New York and considers herself to be an unconventional Registered Dietitian as she focuses on real food in this fast food world! As an athlete and former sufferer of heart burn, allergies, and asthma, Laura not only preaches a whole food diet approach but she also lives and breathes it daily. She is currently allergy, asthma and heartburn free.
Laura enjoys cooking up a storm in her kitchen (or posting about it on instagram/snapchat), lifting weights and helping her athletes hit personal records in her Crossfit gym, climbing the mountains on a good hike and tearing down them in the snow on her snowboard, or relaxing with a good cup of coffee or wine with her family and friends.
Laura Ligos holds a BS in Nutritional Science from Cornell University and a MBA from Dominican University.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN TODAY’S EPISODE…
1:00 Laura explains the concept of real whole foods
“The lovely thing about living in the 21st Century, and that I love, is that I don’t have to go hunt and gather for my food because I think I probably wouldn’t be too good at it.” – Laura Ligos
2:35 The story of how Laura cured several ailments and health issues using a whole food diet approach
7:08 Laura explains what InsideTracker does to help provide personalized nutrition recommendations
“It’s terrible to think that I thought medications were the only answer.” – Laura Ligos
15:18 Laura tells us why she goes by the moniker “The Sassy Dietitian”
“I love to build women up. I think that we are so negative to ourselves and put ourselves down so much and that just kills me because we are all, I think, strong and beautiful …” – Laura Ligos
17:06 Laura discusses what can be found on her popular food blog
18:17 Laura explains why people sometimes need to break-up with their scale
“It’s just your relationship to gravity. That’s all that your weight is.” – Laura Ligos
21:53 Laura gives her favorite tips for working in the kitchen
24:28 Laura and I reveal our favorite kitchen tools
25:08 Which recipes on her blog are Laura’s current favorites
26:33 Laura discusses her food heroes
27:17 Laura dishes on her top two favorite resources for food inspiration
SOME OF THE RESOURCES DISCUSSED…
To receive 20% off at InsideTracker.com, just enter fspodcast20 at checkout.
NOTE: This discount code will expire one week from the release date of this episode.
If you want to learn more about the recent discoveries regarding fat, I suggest reading Eat Fat, Get Thin by Mark Hyman, MD.
Check out Laura’s top two resources for food inspiration: The Kitchn and Food52.
As Laura likes to say, she’s “all over the interwebs.” Find her on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter.
Laura’s Recipes
Beet & Mushroom Savory Oatmeal
Sweet Potato Soufflé (Gluten-Free, Dairy, Free)
Cherry Mocha Overnight Oats
“Oats have been my new favorite thing recently. I feel like I’ve rediscovered them.” – Laura
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Until next time!
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