Episode 54: Abbie Attwood Returns To Remind Us That If We Move, We're An Athlete Runners of The Bay

Abbie Attwood returns to answer all of your questions about nutrition, body image, properly fueling for performance, RED-S, and eating disorders. This is an amazing episode full of actionable insights, helpful ways to think about performance and nutrition, and vulnerable oversharing from Abbie, Brigitte, and Mimi! If you missed Abbie’s first episode where she shares her amazing story, check out episode 47.

In this episode we tackle:

🥖 Why is it so hard for athletes to fuel appropriately?

🤔 Why do we often discredit how much energy we expend?

💜 How to begin to improve body image?

🌧 The difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder

🥞 If I ate a large meal before a run, do you still need recovery fuel after?

🏃🏻‍♀️Thoughts on fasted runs? Benefits? When to do them if at all?

🦴 How does RED-S happen? How to heal from it?

⌚️ What *can’t* smart watches tell us about our health?

⚡️ What counts as intense exercise?

🗣 How to talk to the negative voices in your head

🩸 Exercising while on your period

🛑 Why we need to stop “what i eat in a day” content

🙈 Why sometimes it is better not to look at race photos

🦄 Why there is no holy grail or one-size fits all diet when it comes to nutrition

Follow Abbie Attwood on Instagram @abbieattwoodwellness and on Twitter @abbie_attwood. Find out more about her and her coaching on her website and go here to and book a FREE 20 min consultation!

Photography by Ian Tuttle @iantuttle

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Music is California by The Spectacular Fantastic.