It’s Taco and Mandy’s final double date of the season, and they’re ecstatic to finally have on fellow dietitian/podcaster Melissa Joy Dobbins and her husband Mark Buchmann. In their chat, they gab about the highs and occasional rocky roads of remarriage, what pushed Melissa to work in media, and how she wants people to take a “guilt free” apporach to eating and living well.

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ABOUT MELISSA & MARK:

Melissa Joy Dobbins is a dietitian, certified diabetes educator and host of the nutrition podcast Sound Bites. In addition, she is a spokesperson and provides health care professionals with the media skills they need to get their message ou. Her husband Mark Buchmann is a veteran of the U.S. Navy who now works as a network engineer and CEO of background investigation company Global Verification Network. The couple is based out of Chicago.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How Melissa’s lateness managed not to get in the way of her and Mark’s first date.
• The ways people censor their own food choices when dating and trying to impress a dietitian.
• Learning to live comfortably with children from a previous marriage.
• Melissa explains her “Do More With Dinner” initiative and how it came to be.
• Scheduling meals and activities in a household between two partners who have very different communication philosophies.
• Melissa and Mark’s advice for recent divorcees looking to get back into the dating game.
• How Melissa and her step-daughter’s video on chocolate milk became part of a school curriculum!
• Melissa’s “guilt free” approach to nutrition and suggests some tips for couples looki