33. PCOS Kitchen: With Special Guest Meggie Connelly, MS, RDN, LDN

December 12, 2023

I am excited to bring you another conversation with one of our community members, Registered Dietitian, Meggie Connelly. Meggie is an original Living Plate Rx member who leverages all the resources to support her community – women touched by PCOS.

Through a mix of one-to-one counseling, courses, and now a membership, Meggie serves up a unique approach to PCOS management that addresses many of the barriers her ideal clients face.

We talk about how Meggie landed on this niche and how she continues to refine her niche as well as the important role culinary instruction plays in her virtual practice. Meggie shares her insights into the approach, content, equipment, and mindset necessary to do this [and she shares some bloopers that happened along the way.]

We’ll cover:

Landing on the PCOS Niche
The Important Role of Culinary Instruction
What is Necessary to Refine the PCOS Niche

In this Episode:

[03:36] What was Meggie’s takeaway from the FNCE Conference?

[05:51] Meggie tells us her history of becoming a Registered Dietician and Nutritionist serving individuals with PCOS.

[08:56] Why did Meggie decide to help people with PCOS?

[12:13] “There’s a lot of fear around cooking and eating in the PCOS community.” – Meggie

[17:27] Focusing on behavioral change as a dietician and nutritionist whatever your niche.

[19:30] What does applied knowledge look like in Meggie’s practice?

[23:45] How is Meggie structuring her membership based on what she learned as a member of Living Plate Rx?

[27:30] What does a virtual cooking demo look like for Meggie?

[34:04] How does Meggie select the recipes she will share with her PCOS community?

[40:20] The most valuable equipment for facilitating these cooking demos.

[44:03] How does Meggie balance her private life and running her private practice?

[50:16] Advice from Meggie on how to niche down your target audience.

[52:21] Your Content Cure for this week.

Your Content Cure for this week is a bundle of content to support you with facilitating virtual culinary nutrition programming as well as a consumer-facing ebook about nutrition and PCOS. Here is the link:

>> DOWNLOAD YOUR RESOURCES HERE<<

About Meggie Connelly, MS, RDN, LDN

Meggie is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Culinary Nutritionist who helps individuals with PCOS and chronic dieters go from confused, frustrated, and exhausted to confident and balanced.

She holds a Master’s of Science and Bachelor’s of Science degrees in Dietetics from D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY. Her research focused on identifying the perceived risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women with PCOS. Her first love has always been food, so before becoming a dietitian, she received a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management from UCF.

Her experience as a dietitian has ranged from private practice, clinical nutrition, bariatric weight loss centers, dialysis, food service management, and LTC. She finds nutrition coaching to be the most rewarding job as she helps individuals fall in love with food again.

When she is not saving individuals from a life of bland food, she is a mother, wife, and PCOS advocate. She enjoys reading, cooking, baking, sewing, traveling, thunderstorms, yoga and strength training.

Meggie Connelly