How to Love Food and Lose Weight | Michelle Shapiro RD

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:02)
Welcome to The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent conversations.
Thank you In today's episode of The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, I sit down with integrative and functional registered dietician from New York City. She has over eight years of experience, serving over a thousand clients to reverse their anxiety, heal long-standing gut issues, and approach weight loss lovingly and in a body neutral way.
Michelle is a force of nature.
I guarantee we will be seeing more of her. She is an absolute rising star and one of my favorite people. This woman, she is something special. You'll have to check her out. I'm so excited for you guys to listen to it. She is hilarious, knowledgeable, and gracious.
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Also, very vocal on many things like body positivity, intuitive eating, anxiety, and you've gone through your own journey, you've lost over 100 pounds.

**Michelle Shapiro** (4:39)
Yes, and I am so freaking excited to be here with you today.
And I will tell you a little bit more about what my story looked like. So, I grew up in New York City in Queens, which was a super diverse place in just about every way you can imagine. And had an amazing upbringing. Part of that upbringing for me was that I always occupied a larger body from the age of around 5 to 18 But when I grew up in Queens, it wasn't that big of a deal. It wasn't something that I was like, had so many issues with. I was still able to make friends. I had amazing grades. I had like a very robust life. And then I was going away to the University of Delaware for my dietetics degree and realized the people there are not going to be like the people in Queens. You know, they're not going to instantly know me. They're not going to know who I am as a person. And in reality, like society judges you for the way that you look.