diff --git a/recipes_source/distributed_checkpoint_recipe.rst b/recipes_source/distributed_checkpoint_recipe.rst
index 8f93c2222d6..374b5af2b7b 100644
--- a/recipes_source/distributed_checkpoint_recipe.rst
+++ b/recipes_source/distributed_checkpoint_recipe.rst
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Now, let's create a toy module, wrap it with FSDP, feed it with some dummy input
 
         def state_dict(self):
             # this line automatically manages FSDP FQN's, as well as sets the default state dict type to FSDP.SHARDED_STATE_DICT
-            model_state_dict, optimizer_state_dict = get_state_dict(model, optimizer)
+            model_state_dict, optimizer_state_dict = get_state_dict(self.model, self.optimizer)
             return {
                 "model": model_state_dict,
                 "optim": optimizer_state_dict
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ The reason that we need the ``state_dict`` prior to loading is:
     import torch
     import torch.distributed as dist
     import torch.distributed.checkpoint as dcp
+    from torch.distributed.checkpoint.stateful import Stateful
     from torch.distributed.checkpoint.state_dict import get_state_dict, set_state_dict
     import torch.multiprocessing as mp
     import torch.nn as nn
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ The reason that we need the ``state_dict`` prior to loading is:
 
         def state_dict(self):
             # this line automatically manages FSDP FQN's, as well as sets the default state dict type to FSDP.SHARDED_STATE_DICT
-            model_state_dict, optimizer_state_dict = get_state_dict(model, optimizer)
+            model_state_dict, optimizer_state_dict = get_state_dict(self.model, self.optimizer)
             return {
                 "model": model_state_dict,
                 "optim": optimizer_state_dict
@@ -252,13 +253,6 @@ The reason that we need the ``state_dict`` prior to loading is:
         optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=0.1)
 
         state_dict = { "app": AppState(model, optimizer)}
-        optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=0.1)
-        # generates the state dict we will load into
-        model_state_dict, optimizer_state_dict = get_state_dict(model, optimizer)
-        state_dict = {
-            "model": model_state_dict,
-            "optimizer": optimizer_state_dict
-        }
         dcp.load(
             state_dict=state_dict,
             checkpoint_id=CHECKPOINT_DIR,