November 12, 2022 • 17 mins
OUTWEIGH: Riley Laster (dietician + big fan of intuitive eating) is our expert guest this week with Amy. In this episode (3 of 3) they talk about how raising your kids in a diet-free buffer zone has been going (what you’ve found to work for you and your family, why you’ve felt the need to do this) and this episode is your permission slip to like food!!!!!!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I won't let my body outly outweigh everything that I'm made,
DOT won't spend my life on to change. I'm learning
to love who I am again. I'm strong, I feel free,
I know who every part of me it is beautiful
and then will always outwit if you feel it with
(00:24):
your hands in the air. She's some love to the
boom by the Let's say a good day and did
you and die out Happy Saturday? Outweigh fam Amy here
and I am here with Riley Laster, who is a dietitian,
big fan of intuitive eating and on Instagram she has
(00:46):
one of the funniest by by it culture accounts in
my personal opinion, and she's at Riley Laster. And Riley,
you are a mom of two recent mom of day
MoMA too, so you're not quite to the age where
your kids might be picking up on certain ways that
you talk about your body or talk about food. But
(01:07):
I'm sure it's at the forefront of your mind, and honestly,
I don't think it could ever start too soon, because
you just want to get in that routine and decide, Okay,
what kind of parent am I going to be? How
am I going to show up? Because I'm an adopted
mom that adopted kids in the middle of a needing
disorder and then you know, two years later in her recovery.
So they've had two versions of me. And they adopted,
(01:29):
so they weren't babies. They were you know, seven and ten.
And my ten year old daughter the first two years
with me, she was like, this is horrible. Well who's
this woman that she took me my amazing life and
now you know, feeds me this and I can't have
any And then now you know she's she's even expressed
to me at fifteen, she's like, you're it's your way
(01:50):
better than you used to be. This is awesome. I
love that. And so I find that relief, especially as
she's maturing as a teenage girl and the pressures that
are going to that are already on her, and that
at least I know at home it's going to be
a safe space. And so you may be navigating it
as a mom if you're listening right now, or dad,
(02:11):
or maybe you are an aunt, or maybe you're a teacher,
or you run the Sunday school at church, Like, are
you around kids in any way, shape or form or
I think this conversation could also just apply to you,
because I feel like my eating disorder brain, Riley was
very immature in a kid brain like it was stunted
in a way, and so some of this information just
(02:34):
might be helpful for for you. We're going to talk
about that today. Raising kids in what Riley calls a
diet free buffer zone. So what is your plan with
your kids? Or as a dietitian, when you're working with clients,
how do you encourage them to have that buffer zone?
It's a bomb line because people in larger bodies are
(02:55):
not treated great, especially in our country, and I know that.
So as a dietitian, I would love to have every
patient that comes in sight, let's put white loss on
the back garner. But that's not always ethical because for
a lot of people who are attempting white loss, they're
doing that for a sense of security. They have people
(03:17):
in their life who you know, may only show up
if they're trying to lose weight. That's the only way
that they get respect in certain spaces. So that is
my goal for everyone to manage their medical nutrition therapy
outside of white loss. It doesn't always happen because like
I said, it's a safety mechanism for a lot of
(03:39):
people attempting white loss, and I totally get that. And
as far as my girls, it's ironic because I say,
a diet culture free buffer zone, and that is impossible.
It's impossible. Our language around food, even in school, you know,
is let's learn about good and bad food. Let's healthy
and unhealthy. And I try to even teach you know,
(04:02):
patients I have now, like if your blood sugar is
dropping something with a good amount of sugar, it's going
to be healthier than a piece of roccoli. It's it's situational,
and we've really taken all the situational you know out
of it's we just want black and white because that
makes it easy, and it's not like that. And I
(04:25):
want my kids to see the nuance. I want them
to know this food makes me feel good because I
know right now, if I eat, you know, just a
ton of sugar, I have pcos, I know I'm not
gonna feel good. I know that's not good for my hormones.
But if I don't eat any sugar, same, it's still
not good. But I know what I what I can
(04:48):
eat to make myself feel good, and that may not
be what diet culture says, it may not be what
the school literature says. And I want my kids to
be able to make their own decisions around food and
feel empowered because I was a kid who loved food
but felt like that was wrong almost. I was a
kid who never had any body edge issues until I
(05:12):
was told my body was not great. Until I was told,
you know, you need to lose weight. And then I
was like, wait, what, I think my body is awesome?
Do you remember when you guys heard it. I feel
like I was one of the bigger kids in our
friend group, so like, you know, guys would say it
every now and then I had, you know, coaches say
things about my body. I tore my a c l
(05:34):
in high school and gained some weight during recovery, and
it just made people so uncomfortable. And you know, going
through adolescents, I gained weight, and um, that made people
uncomfortable and just it's tough because the mama bear in me.
I'm like, if anybody called out my kid's body, I
(05:55):
would freak out on them. But you know, in that situation,
these were people I trusted saying this, and I really
took it to heart. I look back and I'm like
I wish I could have just blocked all that out
and kept on my course, because I would have been
so much better off. You and I both know as
a teenager, it's very, very difficult to block it out.
(06:17):
I mean, have someone comment on your body in that way,
which is the reason why we shouldn't comments on anybody
weight loss or weight gain. And also I have had
to acknowledge multiple times, especially what I've learned through different
guests that are coming on, and I've even questioned my
(06:37):
role in this space as someone in recovery and you know,
co hosting and hosting a podcast and knowing my thin privilege,
I've wrestled with, oh do I even belong here? Or
how can I even I just don't feel like I'm
not the voice of this, and then I realized, oh wait,
I'm not trying to be the voice and not to
(06:58):
offer just a dose of encouragement and hope to know
that recovery is possible and it affects eating disorders and
disordered eating affects all kinds of people. There's different events
that are out there, and I just know, like I
don't know necessarily that I have a lane, but my
lane is just having a conversation so that people don't
(07:18):
feel alone, and just being a resource of information if
you're exploring recovery or you want to learn how to
raise your kids in a diet culture free home. Because
I've also been in both places, like I've you know,
obsessed with food for myself and for my kids and
trying to control that, and then I've also been way
(07:40):
more laid back and knowing that yes, it's important for
me as a mom to make sure my kids get
certain nutrients, but I don't have to have these rigid
rules or speak of food as good or bad like
you were mentioning earlier, which we can't control set at school.
M Exactly, I always want my kids to feel a
(08:01):
safety net at home, knowing that they're allowed to like food.
I want them to know how to cook, to how
to prepare food, how to you know, have these just
have a normal relationship and even if the whole world
is screaming at them, you're not healthy enough, you're not
small enough. I want them to be able to feel
safe in home because and that's a thing that I
(08:22):
want to teach them because I also have thin privilege,
but I never recognized that growing up because I did feel,
you know, those comments about my weight. I was experiencing,
you know, being treated differently because of my weight. Then
as an adult, I get away from this space and
I'm like, wait, I have thin privileged, so I do
(08:42):
want them because you know, they're grown up. They might have,
you know, the body I had in high school, and
I want them to know that's okay, that's nothing to
feel bad about because I didn't always have. I had
family members on both sides of my family that died it.
So it was very comfortable for me to just site, yeah,
you know, genetically i'm shaped like these women. I need
(09:04):
to die like they're doing, and I want my kids
to I want to break that cycle for sure. Yeah,
and knowing that weight doesn't equal health, and you know,
we've had medical doctors on outweigh affirming that and how
they're having to work extra hard because there are a
lot of doctors that don't have that mindset. And so
(09:26):
there's a lot of shame going to the doctor because
you feel like you're gonna be told, well, the solution
is just lose weight, and that's not the case. And
so I'm thankful for doctors that have come on to
make sure that we know that message, and so I
just want to read it or rate it here. But
the messaging that's around us in society is that's what
(09:47):
kids grow up to think that weight equals all kinds
of things and trying to un undo that. You know,
you said something that stood out to me a second ago.
You said you're allowed to like food. I love that.
(10:09):
What a mantra right there, just you are allowed to
like food and you're not a failure because of it's
not a character flaw. It's great, you know, And I
could we where some kids or some of us listening
as adults, like as children, we got that messaging of oh,
I'm not allowed to like this kind of food, especially
(10:30):
if you grew up. I don't know how old are you, Riley, Okay,
so I'm forty one, So we're ten years apart. Be
a little bit of a difference. But growing up as
a night like in the so everything was fat free everything.
I mean maybe the sugar free stuff was coming in
because like atkins had started to be a thing, and
so I don't know, there was like the sugar free
(10:51):
candies they would sell, which would make me as sick
as all get out by the way you ever want
to do is eat a whole bag of sugar free
gut me bears. Like, just don't do it. You will
be on the couch in cramps, dying. Um right there
with you. Like I said, I had my little job
at the nursing home, and to try to keep up,
you know, my diet, I would just munch on sugar
(11:13):
free candy all day. And um, that went very wrong
for me. It's horrible. I could thinking I need to
do Uh, I'm an influencer, and yeah, I can't move
today because those rocked my world one day, like I'll
never forget it. I had a very vivid memory of
a time that I went to the grocery store and
(11:34):
I filled up. It was like the sugar free gummy
bears in like the bin where you can make your
own bag, you know, Oh my god, let show them
all out. And then I just couldn't because I was
so obsessed with food. Of course, you can't you start
eating it, you can't stop, and it's sugar freeze. Why
would I stop? And I was when over my sister's
house and then I was stuck there. I think I
(11:56):
spent the night because I was in such pain, which
I in some people, depending on what you haven't going
on medically, a sugar free candy might be all that
you can have. Well that's great, but you you likely
know that you're going to have if you have one piece,
or you're going to be fine. But with them, I
eating to sort of I could have one piece or
one I had to have the whole back. And I
(12:17):
was in such pain, curled up on my sister's couch,
and I remember my sister's saying, what is wrong with
your sister? And I was so and the noises that
were coming out of me, and oh it was so bad.
It's so word. Let's say, how many people have I
had this experience? I love hearing about this because I'm
(12:39):
right there with you if I would if I was mortified.
And so, you know, I say all that because depending
on which era you grow up in, and for me,
it was a fat free era that moved into the
sugar free but also there was like the slim fast
where you know, shake for lunch, innocence of little dinner
(12:59):
were I I did them all And so as a kid,
I was exposed to so much because that's what society
told me. And so I am so thankful for hopefully,
like your your young uns, Riley, that they're not doing
by the time they're teenagers, they're not going to be
exposed to all this crazy all these crazy diets that
mess with their brains. Because I truly think that my
(13:23):
eating disorder really took off because I started dieting at
such a young age and my brain went into survival mode,
you know what to do. And so that's why the
binging started is because it was like, Okay, I don't
trust you, so if you're gonna give me food, then
I'm just gonna keep eating it because I don't know
what you're going to feed me again, And so I
(13:45):
had to rewire my brain. So that's why I love
that statement so much, is you're allowed to like food
and you are allowed to eat it. And I think
that that's a great much or whether you're saying it
to a kid, or you're saying it to yourself, or
you're saying it to a friend or loved one that
needs that encouragement. Absolutely put it on a T shirt.
(14:05):
I should. I think March I need influencer. March do, Riley,
you do, it would be off the change, it would
be out of control. Well, you're someone out there that's
just making such a positive impact. Because there are some
dietitians I will say that have gotten into the reels
(14:26):
or the TikTok's or whatnot, and there's just I'm trying
to think of a good word to describe it. So
I'll go with ikey hard to watch. I feel as
though they have good intentions, but they are trying to
get noticed and trying to get the clicks and trying
(14:46):
to be controversial and trying to I don't know, slam thing.
It can be off putting. Yeah, there you go. It's
ikey and off putting, and I would just like to
acknowledge that you do it in such an awesome opposite
of icky way and putting. It's very welcoming, good and
(15:07):
it's humorous and light and funny, and I feel like
we need more of that in the world. And so
I just want to encourage you to keep the content
coming and don't be embarrassed. Your accident is precious and adorable.
So I love and hearing. I'm an influencer, and so yeah,
don't be embarrassed about anything you put up. I would
(15:29):
like you to actually start creating more so get after it.
I thank you. I love to hear that, and I
just I'm thankful for our conversations the last three weeks.
I just want to encourage people to go back and
listen to the other two if you missed it. In
the first one two weeks ago, she shared some of
her personal story with clean Eating, and then in the
second one we talk more about her life as an
(15:51):
influencer and how that came about. And then you know,
any final thoughts for today's when it comes to raising
kids in this crazy world, Uh, just go back to Yeah,
you're you're allowed to like food. I think that that's
the title of episode. Quite honestly, that's the takeaways. You're
allowed to like food. You're allowed to like all kinds
(16:13):
of food. You're allowed to pizza, and you're allowed to
also like salad, and they'll be on the same plate.
It doesn't have to be for pizza one day salad
all day the next. And so that's our to you.
And if you're living that way again, no shame. You're
not alone. It's a journey and our hope is that
(16:36):
you'll get there and you'll join us over here on
this side us come to the dark side with us
the dark side. Okay, well, Riley, thank you so much again.
People can check you out on Instagram at Riley Laster
and I'm also at Radio Amy And in the meantime, Riley,
I will see you on Instagram. And I know we're
both in Tennessee. So I've already told you if you
(16:58):
ever come to Nashville, you better look me up on
Instagram and send me a note. I want to make
a swigging out winser video with you. It would be
so fun. I'm good, Okay, Well, I will talk to
you later. I hope you have I hope you have
the day you need to have. My friend Catch, she's
a therapist, and that's one of her favorite things to
(17:19):
say is to have because it's not always that you
need to have a good day, but you need to
have the day you need to have. I like that
I won't let my body outly outweigh everything that I'm made,
DOT won't spend my life on to change. I'm learning
to love who I am again. I'm strong, I feel free,
I know who every part of me it is beautiful
and then will always outwit if you feel it with
(00:24):
your hands in the air. She's some love to the
boom by the Let's say a good day and did
you and die out Happy Saturday? Outweigh fam Amy here
and I am here with Riley Laster, who is a dietitian,
big fan of intuitive eating and on Instagram she has
(00:46):
one of the funniest by by it culture accounts in
my personal opinion, and she's at Riley Laster. And Riley,
you are a mom of two recent mom of day
MoMA too, so you're not quite to the age where
your kids might be picking up on certain ways that
you talk about your body or talk about food. But
(01:07):
I'm sure it's at the forefront of your mind, and honestly,
I don't think it could ever start too soon, because
you just want to get in that routine and decide, Okay,
what kind of parent am I going to be? How
am I going to show up? Because I'm an adopted
mom that adopted kids in the middle of a needing
disorder and then you know, two years later in her recovery.
So they've had two versions of me. And they adopted,
(01:29):
so they weren't babies. They were you know, seven and ten.
And my ten year old daughter the first two years
with me, she was like, this is horrible. Well who's
this woman that she took me my amazing life and
now you know, feeds me this and I can't have
any And then now you know she's she's even expressed
to me at fifteen, she's like, you're it's your way
(01:50):
better than you used to be. This is awesome. I
love that. And so I find that relief, especially as
she's maturing as a teenage girl and the pressures that
are going to that are already on her, and that
at least I know at home it's going to be
a safe space. And so you may be navigating it
as a mom if you're listening right now, or dad,
(02:11):
or maybe you are an aunt, or maybe you're a teacher,
or you run the Sunday school at church, Like, are
you around kids in any way, shape or form or
I think this conversation could also just apply to you,
because I feel like my eating disorder brain, Riley was
very immature in a kid brain like it was stunted
in a way, and so some of this information just
(02:34):
might be helpful for for you. We're going to talk
about that today. Raising kids in what Riley calls a
diet free buffer zone. So what is your plan with
your kids? Or as a dietitian, when you're working with clients,
how do you encourage them to have that buffer zone?
It's a bomb line because people in larger bodies are
(02:55):
not treated great, especially in our country, and I know that.
So as a dietitian, I would love to have every
patient that comes in sight, let's put white loss on
the back garner. But that's not always ethical because for
a lot of people who are attempting white loss, they're
doing that for a sense of security. They have people
(03:17):
in their life who you know, may only show up
if they're trying to lose weight. That's the only way
that they get respect in certain spaces. So that is
my goal for everyone to manage their medical nutrition therapy
outside of white loss. It doesn't always happen because like
I said, it's a safety mechanism for a lot of
(03:39):
people attempting white loss, and I totally get that. And
as far as my girls, it's ironic because I say,
a diet culture free buffer zone, and that is impossible.
It's impossible. Our language around food, even in school, you know,
is let's learn about good and bad food. Let's healthy
and unhealthy. And I try to even teach you know,
(04:02):
patients I have now, like if your blood sugar is
dropping something with a good amount of sugar, it's going
to be healthier than a piece of roccoli. It's it's situational,
and we've really taken all the situational you know out
of it's we just want black and white because that
makes it easy, and it's not like that. And I
(04:25):
want my kids to see the nuance. I want them
to know this food makes me feel good because I
know right now, if I eat, you know, just a
ton of sugar, I have pcos, I know I'm not
gonna feel good. I know that's not good for my hormones.
But if I don't eat any sugar, same, it's still
not good. But I know what I what I can
(04:48):
eat to make myself feel good, and that may not
be what diet culture says, it may not be what
the school literature says. And I want my kids to
be able to make their own decisions around food and
feel empowered because I was a kid who loved food
but felt like that was wrong almost. I was a
kid who never had any body edge issues until I
(05:12):
was told my body was not great. Until I was told,
you know, you need to lose weight. And then I
was like, wait, what, I think my body is awesome?
Do you remember when you guys heard it. I feel
like I was one of the bigger kids in our
friend group, so like, you know, guys would say it
every now and then I had, you know, coaches say
things about my body. I tore my a c l
(05:34):
in high school and gained some weight during recovery, and
it just made people so uncomfortable. And you know, going
through adolescents, I gained weight, and um, that made people
uncomfortable and just it's tough because the mama bear in me.
I'm like, if anybody called out my kid's body, I
(05:55):
would freak out on them. But you know, in that situation,
these were people I trusted saying this, and I really
took it to heart. I look back and I'm like
I wish I could have just blocked all that out
and kept on my course, because I would have been
so much better off. You and I both know as
a teenager, it's very, very difficult to block it out.
(06:17):
I mean, have someone comment on your body in that way,
which is the reason why we shouldn't comments on anybody
weight loss or weight gain. And also I have had
to acknowledge multiple times, especially what I've learned through different
guests that are coming on, and I've even questioned my
(06:37):
role in this space as someone in recovery and you know,
co hosting and hosting a podcast and knowing my thin privilege,
I've wrestled with, oh do I even belong here? Or
how can I even I just don't feel like I'm
not the voice of this, and then I realized, oh wait,
I'm not trying to be the voice and not to
(06:58):
offer just a dose of encouragement and hope to know
that recovery is possible and it affects eating disorders and
disordered eating affects all kinds of people. There's different events
that are out there, and I just know, like I
don't know necessarily that I have a lane, but my
lane is just having a conversation so that people don't
(07:18):
feel alone, and just being a resource of information if
you're exploring recovery or you want to learn how to
raise your kids in a diet culture free home. Because
I've also been in both places, like I've you know,
obsessed with food for myself and for my kids and
trying to control that, and then I've also been way
(07:40):
more laid back and knowing that yes, it's important for
me as a mom to make sure my kids get
certain nutrients, but I don't have to have these rigid
rules or speak of food as good or bad like
you were mentioning earlier, which we can't control set at school.
M Exactly, I always want my kids to feel a
(08:01):
safety net at home, knowing that they're allowed to like food.
I want them to know how to cook, to how
to prepare food, how to you know, have these just
have a normal relationship and even if the whole world
is screaming at them, you're not healthy enough, you're not
small enough. I want them to be able to feel
safe in home because and that's a thing that I
(08:22):
want to teach them because I also have thin privilege,
but I never recognized that growing up because I did feel,
you know, those comments about my weight. I was experiencing,
you know, being treated differently because of my weight. Then
as an adult, I get away from this space and
I'm like, wait, I have thin privileged, so I do
(08:42):
want them because you know, they're grown up. They might have,
you know, the body I had in high school, and
I want them to know that's okay, that's nothing to
feel bad about because I didn't always have. I had
family members on both sides of my family that died it.
So it was very comfortable for me to just site, yeah,
you know, genetically i'm shaped like these women. I need
(09:04):
to die like they're doing, and I want my kids
to I want to break that cycle for sure. Yeah,
and knowing that weight doesn't equal health, and you know,
we've had medical doctors on outweigh affirming that and how
they're having to work extra hard because there are a
lot of doctors that don't have that mindset. And so
(09:26):
there's a lot of shame going to the doctor because
you feel like you're gonna be told, well, the solution
is just lose weight, and that's not the case. And
so I'm thankful for doctors that have come on to
make sure that we know that message, and so I
just want to read it or rate it here. But
the messaging that's around us in society is that's what
(09:47):
kids grow up to think that weight equals all kinds
of things and trying to un undo that. You know,
you said something that stood out to me a second ago.
You said you're allowed to like food. I love that.
(10:09):
What a mantra right there, just you are allowed to
like food and you're not a failure because of it's
not a character flaw. It's great, you know, And I
could we where some kids or some of us listening
as adults, like as children, we got that messaging of oh,
I'm not allowed to like this kind of food, especially
(10:30):
if you grew up. I don't know how old are you, Riley, Okay,
so I'm forty one, So we're ten years apart. Be
a little bit of a difference. But growing up as
a night like in the so everything was fat free everything.
I mean maybe the sugar free stuff was coming in
because like atkins had started to be a thing, and
so I don't know, there was like the sugar free
(10:51):
candies they would sell, which would make me as sick
as all get out by the way you ever want
to do is eat a whole bag of sugar free
gut me bears. Like, just don't do it. You will
be on the couch in cramps, dying. Um right there
with you. Like I said, I had my little job
at the nursing home, and to try to keep up,
you know, my diet, I would just munch on sugar
(11:13):
free candy all day. And um, that went very wrong
for me. It's horrible. I could thinking I need to
do Uh, I'm an influencer, and yeah, I can't move
today because those rocked my world one day, like I'll
never forget it. I had a very vivid memory of
a time that I went to the grocery store and
(11:34):
I filled up. It was like the sugar free gummy
bears in like the bin where you can make your
own bag, you know, Oh my god, let show them
all out. And then I just couldn't because I was
so obsessed with food. Of course, you can't you start
eating it, you can't stop, and it's sugar freeze. Why
would I stop? And I was when over my sister's
house and then I was stuck there. I think I
(11:56):
spent the night because I was in such pain, which
I in some people, depending on what you haven't going
on medically, a sugar free candy might be all that
you can have. Well that's great, but you you likely
know that you're going to have if you have one piece,
or you're going to be fine. But with them, I
eating to sort of I could have one piece or
one I had to have the whole back. And I
(12:17):
was in such pain, curled up on my sister's couch,
and I remember my sister's saying, what is wrong with
your sister? And I was so and the noises that
were coming out of me, and oh it was so bad.
It's so word. Let's say, how many people have I
had this experience? I love hearing about this because I'm
(12:39):
right there with you if I would if I was mortified.
And so, you know, I say all that because depending
on which era you grow up in, and for me,
it was a fat free era that moved into the
sugar free but also there was like the slim fast
where you know, shake for lunch, innocence of little dinner
(12:59):
were I I did them all And so as a kid,
I was exposed to so much because that's what society
told me. And so I am so thankful for hopefully,
like your your young uns, Riley, that they're not doing
by the time they're teenagers, they're not going to be
exposed to all this crazy all these crazy diets that
mess with their brains. Because I truly think that my
(13:23):
eating disorder really took off because I started dieting at
such a young age and my brain went into survival mode,
you know what to do. And so that's why the
binging started is because it was like, Okay, I don't
trust you, so if you're gonna give me food, then
I'm just gonna keep eating it because I don't know
what you're going to feed me again, And so I
(13:45):
had to rewire my brain. So that's why I love
that statement so much, is you're allowed to like food
and you are allowed to eat it. And I think
that that's a great much or whether you're saying it
to a kid, or you're saying it to yourself, or
you're saying it to a friend or loved one that
needs that encouragement. Absolutely put it on a T shirt.
(14:05):
I should. I think March I need influencer. March do, Riley,
you do, it would be off the change, it would
be out of control. Well, you're someone out there that's
just making such a positive impact. Because there are some
dietitians I will say that have gotten into the reels
(14:26):
or the TikTok's or whatnot, and there's just I'm trying
to think of a good word to describe it. So
I'll go with ikey hard to watch. I feel as
though they have good intentions, but they are trying to
get noticed and trying to get the clicks and trying
(14:46):
to be controversial and trying to I don't know, slam thing.
It can be off putting. Yeah, there you go. It's
ikey and off putting, and I would just like to
acknowledge that you do it in such an awesome opposite
of icky way and putting. It's very welcoming, good and
(15:07):
it's humorous and light and funny, and I feel like
we need more of that in the world. And so
I just want to encourage you to keep the content
coming and don't be embarrassed. Your accident is precious and adorable.
So I love and hearing. I'm an influencer, and so yeah,
don't be embarrassed about anything you put up. I would
(15:29):
like you to actually start creating more so get after it.
I thank you. I love to hear that, and I
just I'm thankful for our conversations the last three weeks.
I just want to encourage people to go back and
listen to the other two if you missed it. In
the first one two weeks ago, she shared some of
her personal story with clean Eating, and then in the
second one we talk more about her life as an
(15:51):
influencer and how that came about. And then you know,
any final thoughts for today's when it comes to raising
kids in this crazy world, Uh, just go back to Yeah,
you're you're allowed to like food. I think that that's
the title of episode. Quite honestly, that's the takeaways. You're
allowed to like food. You're allowed to like all kinds
(16:13):
of food. You're allowed to pizza, and you're allowed to
also like salad, and they'll be on the same plate.
It doesn't have to be for pizza one day salad
all day the next. And so that's our to you.
And if you're living that way again, no shame. You're
not alone. It's a journey and our hope is that
(16:36):
you'll get there and you'll join us over here on
this side us come to the dark side with us
the dark side. Okay, well, Riley, thank you so much again.
People can check you out on Instagram at Riley Laster
and I'm also at Radio Amy And in the meantime, Riley,
I will see you on Instagram. And I know we're
both in Tennessee. So I've already told you if you
(16:58):
ever come to Nashville, you better look me up on
Instagram and send me a note. I want to make
a swigging out winser video with you. It would be
so fun. I'm good, Okay, Well, I will talk to
you later. I hope you have I hope you have
the day you need to have. My friend Catch, she's
a therapist, and that's one of her favorite things to
(17:19):
say is to have because it's not always that you
need to have a good day, but you need to
have the day you need to have. I like that
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