Tina Haupert is the owner of Carrots ‘N’ Cake as well as a Certified Nutrition Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P). She started the Carrots ‘N’ Cake blog in 2008 and has expanded her career over the years to become an online nutrition and fitness coach. She lives in the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband, six-year-old son Quinn and their pug. 

What we talked about: 

• Transitioning the Carrots ‘N’ Cake blog from being her main profession to becoming a nutrition coach and functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner (FDN-P)
• How she loves being a FDN-P because she gets more information instead of guessing what the problem is and she is essentially a “body detective”
• How she uses a macro based approach to help her clients reach their body composition goals 
• Taking the blog from a side job to becoming a coach, creating fitness programs and writing books
• Her recently published “Everything Macro” cookbook!
• How she and her husband knew that they wanted to wait to have kids for a while, but a combination of being really sick with an ulcerative colitis flare and her sister having a child pushed them to decide to want to have kids 
• Thinking it was going to take a long time to get pregnant, but it happened very quickly 
• Still questioning whether or not they will have another child
• Having all ulcerative colitis symptoms go away once she got pregnant and having a very healthy pregnancy, but the delivery of Quinn caused things to fall apart 
• What it was like being sick for 3-5 months with a newborn and breastfeeding
• Her background getting diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and the journey she has taken with it from different treatments and holistic approaches to diet changes to her current treatment 
• How her son knows that she can’t eat certain foods and gets IV treatments, but doesn’t fully understand how serious ulcerative colitis is
• Tips for getting kids engaged in fitness and healthy eating 
• The power of getting a good night’s sleep 

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