In Episode 11, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker discusses how we might reconcile the oft discrepancy between relying on lab values and other data points to serve as health markers with patients' lived experiences. She uses examples like that of the BMI chart to illustrate how little is being captured in numbers on a page and suggests some reasons why clients and clinicians alike may be more likely to defer to rote numbers a than to think and listen critically to individuals' inner worlds.