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- 0:28This is the Eat more Carbs podcast.
- 0:36Hello and welcome to the Eat More Carbs podcast.
- 0:37My name is Jenna Fischer and I'm here with my Co host Riley
- 0:40Beatty. Today I'm going to be talking to
- 0:41Riley all about her journey from being AD one athlete to becoming
- 0:44a sports dietitian. Before we get into some of the
- 0:46questions for Riley, what's your high and low?
- 0:48So my low this week is the weather.
- 0:52It is P soup outside in Charleston right now.
- 0:54I'm not a fan. Like, I do not know how I was
- 0:58running around playing soccer in this weather, you know, 15 years
- 1:02ago because it is like 85% humidity outside.
- 1:06And I I just, I'm not, I'm not strong enough for it these.
- 1:09Days. That's fair, especially when
- 1:10it's already warm out and then you add humidity on top of that.
- 1:13It's just the worst combination. I think the worst part about it
- 1:16is I have like a false sense of like hope because I look at the
- 1:19weather and I'll be like, it's 75° out and I'm like, yes, I
- 1:23love this temperature. And then it'd be like, but it
- 1:25feels like 98 because we have 85% humidity.
- 1:28So my hopes are just crushed on a daily basis.
- 1:31And it's hard to do anything when it's just like hot and slow
- 1:35and muggy outside well. I think that one of the big
- 1:37issues I have, and I've shared about this on a different
- 1:39podcast, but like every time I go outside and like I start
- 1:42sweating and then I'm like soaking wet and then I have to
- 1:44change my outfit and it's this whole ordeal.
- 1:46I'm going through like three or four outlets per day.
- 1:48What about your high? So my some people might think
- 1:51this is a low, but it's it's not bad because I love food.
- 1:54But something that you and I have talked about on previous
- 1:56podcasts is that I sometimes, because my mom brain now, I
- 2:00forget my highs and my lows. So I've been writing them down.
- 2:03I noticed that a lot of my highs, if not a majority of my
- 2:07highs are related to food. And that's not a bad thing
- 2:09because we love food. But I thought it was interesting
- 2:11that a lot of the highs are like food related.
- 2:15Like I tried a new food or a new flavor came out or something
- 2:18related to food. I also love that this is a
- 2:21reminder that food is not just fuel, but it's something for
- 2:23enjoyment. It's clear based off of my high
- 2:25list. Or even like Charlie, trying new
- 2:27foods. She just tried beans.
- 2:29Does she? You like them?
- 2:30Yeah, we did like some like some like unsalted refried beans and
- 2:33I like mixed some milk with them to like, make a paste.
- 2:35And she's like, like everything that she's had.
- 2:38That's awesome, yeah. What about you?
- 2:40What's your high in your? Low.
- 2:40I'm going to start with my low this time of year, same as
- 2:44Riley, kind of like with the increase in temperature when I'm
- 2:47trying to do any type of cardiovascular exercise during
- 2:50this time of year when it is so much hotter out, my heart rate
- 2:53is so much higher than it is in cooler temperatures.
- 2:56And I don't know that much about that correlation, but like I
- 3:00know that there is something there and how much harder it
- 3:02feels to exercise, especially for me cardiovascular wise this
- 3:07time of year. So if you're like me and you're
- 3:09kind of getting discouraged by seeing like it's harder to run,
- 3:12it's harder to keep up with pace, it's harder to keep up
- 3:14with time and all those things. Like it might simply have
- 3:17something to do with like the environment that you're running
- 3:19in. It's not necessarily that like
- 3:21you're making regression in your training or things like that.
- 3:24So it's a low for sure. But at the same time, like a
- 3:26good reminder that like that doesn't necessarily mean that we
- 3:28aren't progressing in our training and things like like
- 3:30that. So that's my love for the week.
- 3:31That's a good reminder because I will say that my time is going
- 3:34down because of the weather. Thank you.
- 3:36Yeah, My high is that we officially know that we are
- 3:39going to be staying in Arizona for a little bit longer.
- 3:41So everything is official. Everybody knows now what's going
- 3:45to be happening with us. And that was mostly to do with
- 3:47my husband's job. But I'm really happy to know at
- 3:49least for an extended period of time where we're going to be.
- 3:52I'm really excited not to have to move again this year.
- 3:56I feel like I've moved once every year.
- 3:58That's what that feels like, me being very dramatic and I'm
- 4:00really excited to be staying in the same place, to not have to
- 4:03kind of pick up and start over again.
- 4:04Very excited. Huge high.
- 4:05Yeah, yeah. That's so exciting.
- 4:08Thanks. We're excited for sure.
- 4:09Today we're going to be talking all about your journey from D1
- 4:13athlete to Sports Rd. So First off, if you didn't
- 4:16know, Riley played Division One soccer at NC State.
- 4:19Why soccer this is? Such a great question because
- 4:23when I first started in sports, I don't think soccer was the
- 4:26move really. Yeah, I first started off
- 4:28playing soccer. I guess my first memory of me
- 4:30playing soccer was like YMCA. There's like 20 kids on the
- 4:34field. Like everybody's running around,
- 4:35like chasing the soccer ball. And like, I was not into it.
- 4:39I was not into it, which is like kind of crazy because I'm so
- 4:42competitive. The only memory I have is like,
- 4:44running around in like a penny. That was like way too big for
- 4:47me. And my mom told me the last game
- 4:50of our season. This is so random that I
- 4:51remember this, but the last game of our season that if I scored
- 4:54two goals, Please remember that. I have not scored any goals the
- 4:57entire season. I don't think touched the ball.
- 5:00If I scored two goals that she would buy me a banana split from
- 5:03Dairy Queen. Like that is my memory with
- 5:05soccer and I did not score two goals.
- 5:07I think I might have touched the ball in like that last game
- 5:09because I was so motivated to get the banana split.
- 5:12I didn't get the banana split because my mom was like, you
- 5:14didn't score two goals, but I wasn't going to.
- 5:16I think I just I just always loved being outside and as I
- 5:20like started to get older, I would play outside and soccer I
- 5:23feel like is what everybody plays.
- 5:25And then I slowly got into soccer when we moved from
- 5:30Minnesota, where I started soccer, to North Carolina, which
- 5:33is now where I claim I'm from. My dad became my coach.
- 5:36I don't know. I just started really liking it,
- 5:38became one of the better kids on the team.
- 5:40And I just, I've always really liked it.
- 5:42And I did try other sports like basketball and volleyball and
- 5:44things like that, which I really liked volleyball, but I'm short.
- 5:47But I've never succeeded. I didn't like basketball because
- 5:49they blew the whistle at you too much.
- 5:51I felt like, yeah, I just like, always liked soccer.
- 5:54And then it kind of just like my love for it grew as soon as I
- 5:58got in middle school, high school, I was like, I'm playing
- 6:01in college, like that's what I'm going to do.
- 6:03And my parents like didn't push me or anything.
- 6:05It was all it was all self motivated.
- 6:07So you already knew, even in middle school and in high
- 6:10school, that like college soccer, collegiate soccer was
- 6:12your goal. Was it college soccer something
- 6:14that you felt was like just the natural next step?
- 6:16Or did you feel like you needed to like, work really hard to be
- 6:19a collegiate soccer player? I think it's super interesting
- 6:21because now working with athletes, like these days when I
- 6:24was playing, there was not a pro option.
- 6:27So the highest you could go was college sport for women.
- 6:32And they've even seen that transition, like working in
- 6:34college sports, like over the last, you know, 5-10 years where
- 6:38almost every single guy that comes in like would come into my
- 6:41office, baseball, football, soccer, basketball, they were
- 6:44like, I want to play pro, I want to go to the league.
- 6:46And that was never an option. Like that wasn't something that
- 6:49you did as a woman soccer player.
- 6:51That dialogue is now changing a lot, which is really cool
- 6:54because now we see, you know, these women athletes coming
- 6:56through and being like, I want to play pro and, you know,
- 6:58different sports. So so I think for me, I thought
- 7:02I want to play college soccer because that's the highest
- 7:04level. Yes, there was like the US team,
- 7:06but that wasn't that wasn't happening for me.
- 7:08I wanted to play because I just wanted to be the best because I
- 7:10was competitive and I knew that college soccer was the way to do
- 7:13that. I also just really loved the
- 7:15sport. You weren't ready to walk away
- 7:16at the end of high. School and I think was really
- 7:19interesting too, is we were talking about how the
- 7:22environment around you like shapes you and because of the
- 7:25teams I was on, it was almost like an expectation that you
- 7:29were going to play. They call it soccer like that's
- 7:31why you were on the team. It's like to play soccer in
- 7:33college. We've talked a lot about your
- 7:35fueling once you got to college, like ice cream in NC State, and
- 7:40that being something that was a regular staple for you.
- 7:42But did you feel at the time when you were playing in college
- 7:44that your fueling was adequate to support your training?
- 7:47No, I think that started early in high school as well, because
- 7:50I don't think I understood the importance of nutrition.
- 7:53Then it started to really affect my play and my body composition.
- 7:57And there was some negative things said to me during that,
- 8:01like recruiting process kind of when I was going through
- 8:03puberty, when I was kind of figuring myself out in high
- 8:05school, all that really fun stuff.
- 8:07I started to develop, you know, really negative behaviors and
- 8:12thoughts about food. I wouldn't say it was like a
- 8:14conscious thing. I would still like eat ice
- 8:17cream, but then I would skip dinner so I could eat the ice
- 8:19cream. So there was a lot of like rules
- 8:21I had made-up and a lot of like good foods, bad foods, things
- 8:25like that where I was probably overfueling if you want to look
- 8:29at it from like calorie perspective.
- 8:31But then I was under feeling for the athletic demand I was
- 8:34putting on my body. What are some things that you
- 8:35wish you could go back and change about that time and
- 8:37feeling like what would be the number one thing?
- 8:40I really think that I wish I just had more education around
- 8:43it, especially at a younger age, because if I had better
- 8:46education around it and if I had more positive messaging, I think
- 8:51that would have really helped some of my behaviours going
- 8:54forward because that foundation is just so important.
- 8:56Even if you can kind of change your beliefs at an older age, I
- 9:00feel like there's always going to be some struggles that you
- 9:03inherit from those negative experiences earlier on.
- 9:07When you graduated, did you know that the next step for you was
- 9:10to become a dietitian? Was that the goal?
- 9:12I actually want to go to medical school, which is kind of funny
- 9:14now because I always joke that if I had gone to medical school,
- 9:17I would probably be in the same position I am now because I have
- 9:20such like a entrepreneurial heart where I would have
- 9:23probably just started like a medical practice and done
- 9:26something similar to what I'm doing now, but just in a
- 9:28different space. I had to go to medical school
- 9:31because to become a dietitian, you have to take a ton of
- 9:33science classes. When I first went into
- 9:36undergrad, my main priority was to play soccer and my dad
- 9:40actually suggested nutrition because I like to eat.
- 9:43But again, right, that kind of goes back to like, I loved food.
- 9:46I was eating all this food I didn't understand.
- 9:48I had like, it was this, I was stuck in this like weird love,
- 9:51hate relationship with food. I was like, OK, maybe I'll, you
- 9:54know, studying nutrition with nutrition, you have to take all
- 9:57these science classes. I was doing well and I, I was
- 10:00like achieving in the science classes.
- 10:02So when you start to get good grades and like biologies and
- 10:05chemistry's and things like that, people sort of push you
- 10:08that medical route. And there was not really such
- 10:11thing as a sports dietitian yet. So my options were kind of like
- 10:14physical therapy or maybe go orthopedic surgery wise so you
- 10:18could still be around sports. I was like kind of toying
- 10:21between those areas. And then I decided to go the
- 10:25physician route just because again, I was doing good in the
- 10:28science classes. I going that route, I took the
- 10:31MCAT. I actually interviewed at a
- 10:32couple places throughout that journey and then paired with me
- 10:35touring, tearing my ACL first game I'm senior year, I really
- 10:39started to understand the importance of nutrition and
- 10:42realized that the medical route wasn't for me.
- 10:45I used to be like, oh, I love nutrition, so I'll just
- 10:48incorporate it into my practice as a physician.
- 10:50And like now I know that's would have never happened.
- 10:52Kind of throughout that journey, basically getting hurt,
- 10:55understanding the importance of nutrition, starting to actually
- 10:58face some of the maybe bad behaviors I had and some of the
- 11:01negative thoughts that I had and seeing how wrong those were.
- 11:05And then coupled with becoming a big girl and having to find a
- 11:08job and figuring out what you really wanted like outside of
- 11:11athletics. Once you made the choice to
- 11:12become a dietitian versus becoming a physician, you were
- 11:16then getting your master's degree in nutrition and exercise
- 11:20Physiology from San Diego State. And then after you had obtained
- 11:23your master's degree is when you chose to apply for the Dietetic
- 11:26internship. What did you take away from your
- 11:28master's program and then as far as like your application process
- 11:31to UNLV to matching with your Dietetic internship, what was
- 11:34that time like? I think during that time it was
- 11:36actually very interesting because we always talk about how
- 11:38like you either get into nutrition because you love food
- 11:41or you fear food. And I think I initially started
- 11:44getting into nutrition because I loved it, but then I also like
- 11:47subconsciously feared it. I think when I started my
- 11:50master's program, a lot of those fears like came to the surface
- 11:53and that beginning to learn about nutrition and then also
- 11:57being retired from sport, I think was a dangerous
- 12:00combination that may be fed into some of these more dangerous
- 12:03behaviors. Lots of body dysmorphia, lots of
- 12:05restriction. Kind of through my education,
- 12:08through my own personal journey, I think that's where my
- 12:11perspective on nutrition really changed because this isn't
- 12:14against anybody or isn't supposed to say anything bad
- 12:17about anybody, but we don't really learn a lot about like
- 12:20positive nutrition in our undergrad or in our DPD work.
- 12:23We don't necessarily learn a lot about sports nutrition in our
- 12:27undergrad work. So a lot of it is about disease
- 12:30states, about the negative sides of food.
- 12:32And I think I really had to do a lot of like, self work to kind
- 12:36of like rework that mindset, yeah.
- 12:38Totally agree with you. I know that you and I both were
- 12:40interested in UNLV because they said as we applied that there
- 12:43was a sports focus of UNLV's internship.
- 12:47They gave you as much sports rotations as they possibly
- 12:50could, but that was still very limited and shallowed in
- 12:52comparison to the amount of work that we were doing in a hospital
- 12:54where you're doing a lot of medical management of disease
- 12:57through nutrition, I guess is the best way to say that where
- 12:59we're kind of playing like, OK, this has happened now what do we
- 13:03do with food versus how can we use food in a positive way to
- 13:06enhance performance? Which I'm thankful that we did
- 13:09have the experience that we did, which included meeting one
- 13:12another, but also to be able to have some exposure to sports
- 13:15nutrition during our internship because a lot of people don't
- 13:18get that experience in their internship.
- 13:20But you had a lot of like sports nutrition experience before the
- 13:24internship. You were working with the
- 13:26Olympic team in Southern California and kind of doing a
- 13:29couple other things there. Would you say that that's really
- 13:31where your idea for becoming a sports dietitian came from?
- 13:34Or was it like somewhere along the way you decided that being
- 13:37in sports and coupling those things together was the route
- 13:39you wanted to take? I feel like it's almost a
- 13:41perfect storm because in 2014 when I graduated from undergrad,
- 13:46that's when the deregulation of feeding happened in the NCAA.
- 13:50And if people are not familiar with a deregulation of feeding,
- 13:53but this air quotes and very simplifying legislation, but it
- 13:56allowed universities to spend as much money as they wanted.
- 14:00Again, air quotes wanted could on feeding their student
- 14:04athletes. When this legislation passed, it
- 14:07really helped the sports dietitian career path expand
- 14:10because now universities were spending money on feeding their
- 14:14athletes and they needed people to help them do that.
- 14:17Therefore, sports dietitians really came into play here.
- 14:19That wasn't really an option. Like we had a sports dietitian
- 14:23who was awesome at NC State, but she was very limited.
- 14:26She had all these teams. We're also really restricted on
- 14:29like what she could provide us. There was a protein limitation
- 14:33on certain things. They couldn't provide protein
- 14:35powder. You have to, I can't remember
- 14:37what it was, but I believe the legislation was like you could
- 14:40only provide products that were less than 30% protein by weight
- 14:44because then it was like a supplement and you have to be
- 14:46really careful about like you have to even the playing field.
- 14:49She was really limited on what she could do.
- 14:51So there wasn't a lot of interest in the sports nutrition
- 14:55space and becoming a sports dietitian before this, like
- 14:58deregulation of feeding. So this deregulation of feeding
- 15:01happened and then all these places started to bring
- 15:04awareness to sports nutrition and they needed people to help
- 15:07them out, like with interns and things like that.
- 15:09And throughout that process, that's when I really realized
- 15:12that like, this is where I was meant to be.
- 15:14At the time, you and I met with after you had already matched to
- 15:17UNLV. Obviously we've talked about
- 15:19before we were interns at the same hospital.
- 15:21We spent so much time together. But the thing you would always
- 15:23say was when people would ask you what do you want to do with
- 15:26your career? What do you want to do as a
- 15:27dietitian? And you would say, I want to be
- 15:29a sports dietitian and I want to make athletes big and strong.
- 15:31Like, I will never forget that. That's always been like kind of
- 15:33your motto when you approached sports nutrition.
- 15:36And about halfway through our internship, you were one of the
- 15:39very first interns in our cohort to receive a job offer.
- 15:43Can you talk a little bit about that and like, what you had to
- 15:46do during that time to set yourself into that position?
- 15:49Because that was one of the things that you did really well.
- 15:52And that was one of the things that I didn't do as well was set
- 15:55myself up for success, like during the internship with a
- 15:58potential job outside of it. Obviously, like my career
- 16:01interest at the time wasn't necessarily sports, but what did
- 16:03you do to make sure that that was an option for you at the end
- 16:06of the internship? This is actually really
- 16:07interesting, and I want to come back to this because I think
- 16:09it's really interesting how we took very different approaches
- 16:12to the internship. Because I actually used to
- 16:15really be jealous of you because I thought it was such a great
- 16:19approach that you took. Because you came in and I
- 16:21remember you being like, I want to try everything because I
- 16:24don't necessarily know exactly what I want to do.
- 16:26So you came in with a much more open mind than I did because I
- 16:29came and I was like, everybody get out of my way.
- 16:32I'm being a sports dietitian. I match that, you know, V
- 16:35because it's like one of the shortest internships possible.
- 16:37I don't have any clinical experience.
- 16:39I need clinical experience. So now I can go work in sports
- 16:41and I was kind of never minded with that.
- 16:44And I also it worked out, but I just want to give you like props
- 16:48because I was I remember being like, Dang, maybe I should take
- 16:51her. I think that's really
- 16:53interesting because there are definitely pros and cons to each
- 16:55because from my perspective, I was like, Oh, shoot, I, I wish I
- 16:58had the ability to walk in to rotation and tell that preceptor
- 17:02like this is what I want to do. I want to spend extra time here.
- 17:04I want to have, you know, my elective rotation here and all
- 17:07those things. But at the same time, there is
- 17:09benefit to, to not knowing exactly what you want to do
- 17:11because then you can walk into every single rotation in the
- 17:15mindset of is this what I want to do with my career?
- 17:18And like, give it everything you've got to figure out if it's
- 17:20what you really like. And I didn't have a ton of like
- 17:22exposure to a lot of different things.
- 17:24Even if you are already to be walking into a opportunity,
- 17:28whether that be the actual Internet or not.
- 17:30Just like view it as a potential for what your life could look
- 17:34like and like. Try to envision yourself as best
- 17:36you can like in that position if you are in a situation more
- 17:39similar to mine. So even if you don't have
- 17:41everything as figured out as Riley.
- 17:42I think I was like so gung ho on it though, because I am a little
- 17:46bit obviously like I'm a little bit older than you.
- 17:48Like that's, that's not a bad that's just facts.
- 17:50So I had spent a year trying to figure my like ish out and I
- 17:55knew I was passionate about sports nutrition because so many
- 17:58people told me that I was never going to become sports dietitian
- 18:00work, especially like in my master's program and things like
- 18:03that. People are like you like
- 18:04electrolytes, like you should work in renal, like not many
- 18:06people are become sports dietitians.
- 18:08And I think I had such a chip on my shoulder of like, I'm gonna
- 18:11prove you all wrong. So I was like, this is what I
- 18:14want to do with that. And kind of going back to your
- 18:16original question, before I vented, I went tangent wise.
- 18:20I had a lot of experience with like volunteer work and I tried
- 18:24to do whatever I could to get a leg up, try to get as much
- 18:27experience as I could because especially in the sports world,
- 18:30it's super, super small. Everybody knows each other.
- 18:32Getting experience is going to help differentiate you from
- 18:35somebody else who's just, you know, doing well in their
- 18:37science classes. Another thing too is because I
- 18:40had experience in different areas, then I really reiterated
- 18:44and reinforced where I wanted to work in sports nutrition.
- 18:48Because a lot of the time we think that we want to work in a
- 18:52certain area of sports nutrition and then we do not have
- 18:55experience in it and we jump into it and we're shocked by
- 18:59what it actually entails. So my recommendation would be
- 19:03making sure that you're getting experience in different areas of
- 19:06sports nutrition because you don't necessarily know what
- 19:09you're getting yourself into. It's really important to to get
- 19:13additional like feedback basically.
- 19:15What is your advice like? Final pieces of advice for
- 19:18someone who wants to become a sports dietitian.
- 19:20I think there's two big things here.
- 19:21One of them probably isn't UNPOT.
- 19:23Actually, they might be both unpopular opinions, but the
- 19:25first one is reiterating the importance of getting
- 19:29experience, trying out different areas.
- 19:31I hear this all the time from interns who are like, I want to
- 19:33work pro sports, great, let's do it.
- 19:36If you're working pro sports, you can't tell me that you only
- 19:38want to work 40 hours a week. You can't tell me that you want
- 19:40to work nine to five. You can't tell me that you want
- 19:42to have your weekends off because you're going to be
- 19:44working those weekends. You're going to be working off
- 19:46hours. If you come and tell me I like
- 19:48to do education and team talks, it's probably not happening at
- 19:51the pro level. And I think what so many people
- 19:53do is they're too focused on the maybe the type of athletes that
- 19:57they want to work with and they should be focused on the
- 19:59environment. That they want to work in.
- 20:01So figuring out what's important to you, like your why, and then
- 20:06looking at jobs, not just looking at like the type of
- 20:09athlete or the team or things like that.
- 20:10Because I think that's a mistake that a lot of people make as
- 20:13they get to tunnel vision on trying to work with an athlete
- 20:16at a certain level. I think that's such great advice
- 20:18because it's really easy to get caught up in the glamour of the
- 20:20idea of working for a specific team, especially if it's one
- 20:23that you have, you know, maybe followed for a while or you find
- 20:27they're fueling like a great program or whatever it is.
- 20:30But really thinking about like the environment and whether or
- 20:32not that fits your life. And the second one is going to
- 20:35be kind of controversial, and it's probably an unpopular
- 20:38opinion, but I think it needs to be said.
- 20:40I'm actually kind of nervous saying this, but if you're
- 20:43somebody that is going into nutrition because you fear food,
- 20:46you have to solve your own issues first before you can help
- 20:50other people. If you feel like you are
- 20:52struggling with nutrition, struggling with body image, you
- 20:55really have to make sure that you do the inner work first
- 20:58before you can help other people because you do not want to be
- 21:01projecting onto other individuals.
- 21:03And I feel like that's a little bit of a hard and harsh take,
- 21:06But I had to go through that journey.
- 21:09And I can tell you that if I was trying to help people 10 years
- 21:14ago when I was not in a good space, I would have not been
- 21:17providing quality care. And I think that is again
- 21:20something that you have to consider if you want to work on
- 21:22nutrition. I think that would go for
- 21:24probably all areas of nutrition. And it's not like you have to be
- 21:27completely healed, right? Like, there's hard days,
- 21:29there's, you know, things like that.
- 21:30You cannot protect your problems onto your clients or your
- 21:32athletes. I think there are so many great
- 21:34things that you've just shared as far as your journey, not only
- 21:37as AD one athlete, but also your journey to becoming a sports
- 21:40dietitian. I feel like it's really common
- 21:42and really popular for those who have been previously involved in
- 21:45sports to have some type of a career that's in some way
- 21:48connected with sports, whether that be nutrition or something
- 21:50like physical therapy or even a physician who works as you know,
- 21:53a team doc, sports doc, something along those lines.
- 21:56Thank you so much for sharing all of this.
- 21:57I think it's incredibly valuable just to talk about your journey
- 21:59because because there are so many people who are interested,
- 22:01not just about your background as AD one athlete, but also like
- 22:04what's it take to become a sports dietitian?
- 22:06If you have additional questions for Riley and I, especially
- 22:08about becoming a dietitian, becoming a sports Rd. you can
- 22:10leave them below or you can find us online.
- 22:12We're at the more carbs podcast. You can find Riley on Instagram
- 22:15at Riley dot Beatty dot nutrition and you can find me at
- 22:18Jenna dot Fisher dot nutrition. Thank you so much for listening
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- 22:24more carbs.