I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day! Today on the podcast, I had a fun episode for you to listen to post-holiday. Our guest, Andy Mathis is the dietitian and owner of Beautiful Eats & Things and Little Eats &  Things. In this episode we discuss starting a food blog, how the South influences Andy’s cooking, navigating picky eating and how to become more confident in your body.   Andy hopes to inspire you to enjoy food and cooking, and show that not all Registered Dietitians are obsessive calorie-counting, kale-obsessed individuals! Andy is a registered dietitian that received her Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Consumer Sciences, Concentration: Dietetics from the University of Montevallo and her Master’s Degree in Health Studies/Health Promotion from the University of Alabama. She has been a Licensed/Registered Dietitian since 2009.   In this episode we discuss: Andy’s journey to becoming a dietitian and creating Beautiful Eat and Things How living in the South influences Andy’s cooking Advice to anyone who wants to start their own blog on how to get started How Andy started Little Eats & Things and how she keeps food playful for her little ones How Andy recommends navigating picky eating with littles How dietitians can be curvy too, and how Andy created confidence around this Andy’s relationship with her body and how she navigates poor body image days How Andy practices wellness without obsession   Learn more about Andy:   Beautiful Eats & Things https://www.beautifuleatsandthings.com/  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/beautifuleatsandthings/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/beautifuleatsandthings/ Twitter (BeautifulEandT): https://twitter.com/BeautifulEandT Pinterest (BEandThings): https://www.pinterest.com/BEandThings/ TikTok (@beautifuleatsandthings): https://vm.tiktok.com/Jd728bJ/    https://www.tiktok.com/@beautifuleatsandthings/   Little Eats & Things http://littleeatsandthings.com/  FB: https://www.facebook.com/littleeatsandthings/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/littleeatsandthings/ Twitter (LittleEandThing): https://twitter.com/LittleEandThing Pinterest (LittleEandThing): https://www.pinterest.com/LittleEandThing//   This episode is brought to you by my holiday survival guide. This free e-book will help you enjoy and celebrate the holiday season, food included. Click here to grab yours!   This episode is also brought to you by my love for all things Primally Pure. For Black Friday, their new holiday home collection will be available and I cannot wait for you to try it! This collection features our signature Holiday essential oil-based scent profile (Sweet Vanilla Mint). Products include: Non-Toxic Candle, Body Wash, Body Butter, and Tinted Lip balm. This home collection releases THIS FRIDAY and you can also use the code NOURISHVM25 for 25% off your order.   Other holiday deals from Primally Pure include free shipping through next Monday and site wide deals of $10 off $75 purchase / $20 off $100 purchase / $35 off $150 purchase.   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.  Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community. Live Q&As are hosted every week. Join the waitlist for next enrollment for our online course, Permission Stage Playbook.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria’s Instagram Victoria’s Website Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram Nourishing Minds Nutrition website