Featured RD: Summer Edition

Hey AAI blog readers! Please welcome Heather Rudalavage, RD, LDN as our Featured RD for the month of July. Check back every Friday to read her posts!

Hello, I am Heather Rudalavage a registered dietitian living and working in

Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia. I am so honored to be chosen as the featured

RD for the AAI blog!

I plan to post weekly blogs for the month of July. I hope you will

check back often and please let me know if there is something you want to know more

about. Any blog ideas you want to offer would be greatly appreciated. Keep those

comments coming!

I currently own Intuitive Nutrition, a business that I started less than 2 years ago. I am

here to tell you that if I can start a business after being out of the field for a few years

and while raising 3 young children, you can too - but, more on that in future blogs!

I use a non-diet approach called Intuitive Eating, (thank you Evelyn Tribole RD and

Elyse Resch RD!) with many of my clients and I get a lot of satisfaction from helping

clients begin to tune into their inner wisdom when it comes to eating well. Having 3 kids

has given me lots of experience when it comes to child nutrition, and when I get a

pediatric client I use a mix of personal experience and Ellyn Satter - love her!

When I am not shouting the benefits of intuitive eating from the rooftops, or at least from

my local Starbuckʼs which is where I see all my clients, I enjoy the outdoors, Yoga,

trying new recipes (The Pioneer Woman is my new favorite) spending time with my kids,

reading and knitting. I have to admit, I have small addictions to Paperback Swap,

Amazon, buying new yarn and Iced Tea.

For the most part I enjoy what I do. Being your own boss has many positives and some

negatives too. I love being able to read copious amounts of books and share ideas with

my clients, and I appreciate being able to work from home a lot of the time. Running a

business and having a family can be challenging, it’s true. When you own the business

you really never stop working, but at the moment, I wouldn’t trade it for the world!

Thanks AAI for inviting me to be the feature RD blogger, I am looking forward to sharing

my thoughts with you.