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March 1, 2025 63 mins

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

In April of 2022, I went to Disney World with my family and came back with covid. It was, unfortunately, the Delta strain that left me with long covid. 

I had to use an oxygen concentrator while I slept for about a year while my lungs healed through nebulized steroids and inhalers. I also had the lovely long covid symptom of losing my ability to swallow where I was on an all-liquid way of eating for almost two years. 

It's been quite a journey! While there are a few long covid symptoms I still navigate, I am now able to chew and swallow foods again, can sleep soundly, and generally feel much more grounded and stable in my body.

Along the way, I learned so much about how the body works and that food behaviors are multi-faceted and influenced by many different internal factors. 

In this week's Satiated Podcast episode, I chat with Lily Spechler, Long Covid Registered Dietician, about: 

  • Our own long covid healing journeys
  • What can happen in the body after getting long covid
  • Navigating histamine, mcas, dysautonomia issues
  • How food and supplements can play a role in increasing or decreasing bodily symptoms
  • The non-food reasons you may overeat or gain or lose weight
  • And a lot more!

Even if you don't have long covid there are so many gems in this episode to take away. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/healing-from-long-covid-and-chronic-illness

The next Somatic Eating® Program starts on Thursday, May 22nd. You can join the waitlist to be first to know when doors open and receive a waitlist only gift at ​somaticeating.com​

Always here for you in whatever you're navigating with your food and body. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

Keep in touch with Lily here: 

Website: https://www.longcoviddietitian.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longcoviddietitian/

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