Katy Gaston, RD, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA (2025)

08/09/2024

Here is a photo of me and my dog to say thank you for being here even when I haphazardly post.

Being public about my marathon training has been harder than I thought for a few reasons. One just being that I’m tired and busy with the training so I forget. But I think the larger reason is because sometimes it’s hard to be vulnerable about it.

It’s hard to say that I don’t know what I’m doing and I’m learning as I go. It’s hard to say that for a while I wasn’t sure I was going to complete the training because the miles were getting to be really difficult and my body was protesting.

But now, with just a 20 mile run left before I start winding down my training, I’m feeling steady. I have been supporting a runner’s knee for the past month through rest, PT, braces and acupuncture and I think it finally feels stable and managed. I have figured out a schedule and my social life has slowed down to where I feel like I can put my training first. I have more of a sense of when to push myself and when to slow down.

So that’s where I’m at with just three weeks to the big race! Thanks for listening 💕

07/09/2024

12 Miles - I am about 2/3 of the way through training and my body is feeling the miles.

It has made me realize the importance of taking care of my body with stretching, PT and icing.

Training for a marathon can be easily romanticized I think, but really it feels anything but glamorous most of the time.

As I near the end I’m looking forward to completing the training and the race. I’m also looking forward to my body not feeling so worn down 😅.

07/02/2024

16 Miles - I haven’t been updated on the weekly miles in a bit because honestly it’s been getting tough. Physically yes of course, but honestly it’s been the mental and emotional that’s been harder.

I was getting into a space of being really critical of myself and my training, that if I wasn’t doing it perfectly to plan and my pace was slow then I was failing (which is a whole other post).

I realized this though and made some changes and I feel like my run today went better because of it. I’m getting into quite the high mileage and race day is getting closer and closer!

The marathon mindset that is needed for training is no joke 😅

Also PS my Summer Thrive Guide is available for download off my website or in the product link in this post! It’s definitely not too late to snag it since summer has barely started in my book. If you want a guide to have a summer of intuitive vibes that don’t include anything about weight loss and having a beach body then this guide is for you! Feel free to ask any questions and there is also a pinned post on my IG page with more info 🌴🦩

06/26/2024

I interrupt this not-so-regularly scheduled programming to say that I have a new workbook available to download now!

Technically I launched it to my website on the first day of summer, but the promptly went out of service for four days 😬

But here we are, and we are ready to support you this summer! It can be hard with all the diet culture messaging around being seen in a swimsuit, but know that you can have whatever summer you want in the very body you are in now. This is a quick and easy guide that will ease you through 4 activities around vibes, clothing, body and food that will be the building blocks for an intuitive and body confident summer.

Available in digital or printable formats on my website KatyGaston.com

(As you can see I’m very into the Palm Springs summer vibes and so I am loving the style of this guide 😜)

Please ask any questions in the comments or feel free to DM me and let’s THRIVE this summer!

06/04/2024

12 Miles - aka the run that taught me I can get through a terrible run.

Okay it wasn’t that terrible. But there were a lot of things that came up that I had to pivot and go with, and in the end I did complete the 12 miles.

At the start of the run I realized the map I made for myself wasn’t going to work so I had to pivot and run a larger loop in the first half. I have a live tracker telling me how many miles I’m doing so that was fine. Until I realized at mile nine my phone was dying.

I turned the tracker off, guessed at what route would give me the closest to the last three miles and pressed on.

“Don’t Stop The Music” came on, which then became my anthem as my phone battery ticked down - 6%, 4, 2….

My legs were cramping, I wanted to cry, I drank the last of my water to have the water fountain I stopped at to refill be broken and I didn’t even know how many miles I was doing.

I finally got to the car, my phone at 1%, me at 0 and I saw that I had in fact done 12.3 miles - not bad for guessing the last of the route, not bad at all.

After a “bad” run it’s hard not to get in your head that this is how it will be. But I don’t think that after “good” runs, I just am glad it went smoothly and then I think about the next one. So I will do the same with the reflection for this run. I’ll take from it what I need to - that I really need to do my PT and stretches - and press on with the training.

08/08/2022

🌱Trying out something new!🌱

Two other RDs and I ( and ) decided to try out doing some videos with our thoughts about eating disorders, diet culture, etc.

Episode one is our Origin Stories of how we got into the field and little fun facts about us.

If you liked this video please like and comment so we know to keep doing it, and maybe one day a podcast??
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05/23/2022

Some random foundational Intuitive Eating bullet points on what this process is:

• A way to enhance your inner eating knowledge and body cues so that you can eat “normally” without food rules and diet culture

• A path to decreasing obsessing over food to live a life full of big things

• Learning to taking up space mentally, physically and emotionally

• Increasing self-trust instead of this idea that your body is broken

• Getting out of the constant diet cycle that leaves you more confused, frustrated and hopeless every time you do it

Comment below of more random bullet points of what IE or ED recovery means to you!
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05/20/2022

Perfectionism says that there is a “right” and “wrong” way. A “good” and “bad” way.

Perfectionism tries to block you from your intuitive self because it doesn’t allow messiness, practicing or the unknown.

Breaking up with perfectionism will lead you to learning more about yourself than you could ever think possible.

You are meant for more than just “perfect”. 💖
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05/20/2022

Perfectionism says that there is a “right” and “wrong” way. A “good” and “bad” way.

Perfectionism tries to block you from your intuitive self because it doesn’t allow messiness, practicing or the unknown.

Breaking up with perfectionism will lead you to learning more about yourself than you could ever think possible.

You are meant for more than just “perfect”. 💖
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05/18/2022

📣I’m officially an Intuitive Eating Certified Counselor 📣

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I’ve been so caught up in all the things I’m doing with my private practice that I’m a little delayed in this announcement!

What this means:

✨I know the framework I’ve been using for years in 1:1 sessions on an even deeper level

✨I have access to the science-backed studies and research papers in support of Intuitive Eating

✨I’ve received supervision (formal discussion of work in the field) with herself meaning I’ve been able to enhance my IE skills

✨I get to put this cool logo on my website 😉

I’m excited for this news for myself, but mostly because it means I get to help people even more than before!

I feel like getting this certification will be utilized most in 1:1 sessions for now (link in bio to learn more about these), but will inform so much of my upcoming workbook for creative recovery with intuitive eating! I know it’s a lot of exclamation points but I’m just so excited!
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03/18/2022

Artist’s Way x Intuitive Eating Roadmap

Week Four

Some things that I didn’t say in the videos was that I did struggle with this week. I think it is just like what is said in Artist’s Way, I felt like I was throwing a tantrum in a lot of ways to doing some of the exercises or reflections. I think that showed up in me having difficulty with thinking of an Artist’s Date and if I even really “deserved” to. If anyone else is struggling through this or just in general, I just wanted to say you are not alone! We’ll keep plugging away at this together 💖
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03/07/2022

Artist’s Way x Intuitive Eating Roadmap

Week Two Summary Video

I tried a little different format with just uploading the videos to my grid as a whole, there were too many videos to compile when they were broken down in the stories and I found an app that works for captions. Learning as I go!
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