Paula’s Professional Biography

Paula Miller is an award-winning dietitian who loves Lindor chocolate.  In her size inclusive practice, Sunrise Nutrition Consulting LLC, Paula passionately helps individuals challenge harmful nutrition beliefs, reclaim joyful eating and find peace with food.  Her greatest satisfaction is helping people let go of guilt to embrace all food, ending chronic overeating, undereating, and binges. 

As a teen, Paula’s own disordered eating tendencies led her to study nutrition in college, obtaining both a Bachelor and Master of Science in Dietetics.  As an Army dietitian Paula gained experience in both inpatient and outpatient nutrition care, teaching weekly classes on cardiovascular health, diabetes, and many other conditions.  After her military service she assisted homecare and hospice patients, counseled pregnant women and parents in the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program and spent 12 years teaching basic nutrition and joyful eating to college students. Along with her Registered Dietitian Nutritionist credential she is a Licensed Be Body Positive Facilitator and has advanced training with the Ellyn Satter Institute. She currently speaks to audiences about ditching the guilt for joyful eating, making peace with their here-and-now bodies, and helps individual clients struggling with disordered eating and food concerns leave eating struggles & body loathing behind. 

In her spare time Paula enjoys time in nature walking or gardening with her kids, enjoying beautiful sunsets, and savoring tasty food and lazy vacations with her husband, a chef.

In her work, Paula offers clients freedom from diet culture with her scientific knowledge of nutrition & eating psychology.  Along with this evidence-based information, she also brings real-world experiences from her journey to peaceful eating, her varied patient experiences and her role as a Mom feeding two children. 

Paula’s background includes:

• Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Kansas State University

• Accredited dietetic internship in the U.S. Army

• Master of Science in Dietetics from South Dakota State University

• Multiple awards including:

  • Outstanding Graduating Senior in Dietetics

  • Georgia Dietetic Association Recognized Young Dietitian Award

  • Wichita Dietetic Association Recognized Young Dietitian Award

• Previous Professional experience:

  • Inpatient and outpatient dietitian with active duty, veterans and retirees at Fort Benning, Georgia

  • Home care & hospice dietitian in Wichita, Kansas

  • Dietitian for the Harvey County Health Department’s Women, Infant and Children nutrition program

  • Online & In Person college instructor for Tabor College, Butler Community College and Hesston College

• Training Paula is most proud of, and finds most useful:

  • Ellyn Satter Institute’s Treating the Dieting Casualty (How to Eat)

  • The Body Positive’s Licensed Be Body Positive Facilitator Training

• Hours and hours and hours of continuing education and supervision from dietitians more experienced than myself. I believe in training to be the best for you!