Maria Sylvester Terry, MS, RDN, LDN is a registered dietitian working in private practice in New Orleans. Her mission is to provide nutritional guidance from a lens of self-care and to help clients go from confused to confident with food choices. Working with Maria means cultivating a positive relationship with food, learning how to fuel your body consistently, and approaching nutrition without restrictive food rules. As a former teacher, Maria strives to deliver educational and encouraging content on social media to break through the cacophonous noise of diet culture. 

In the episode Maria shares her journey from teacher to dietitian which was neither "glorious" nor classic, but fueled by poor mental health.

She tells how her definition of what it means to be healthy and fit growing up was dictated by fatphobia and a weight centric pediatrician.

We talk all about what her nuanced gray area approach to nutrition looks like for her clients and discuss some of the frustration with anti-diet culture that we've both been hearing from clients and seeing ourselves.

We then round out the episode with Maria sharing how to approach goals and accountability from a non-diet lens using curiosity and flexibility rather than judgement. 

Questions for Maria? Email [email protected].

Find her on Instagram @vitamin_ri. 

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