Speaker 1: Apoche production Growing Glows Twelve Days of Christmas. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon. Wherever you are in the world, welcome back
Speaker 1: to Grow and Glow another day of the twelve Days
Speaker 1: of Christmas. If you're new here, we're literally doing twelve
Speaker 1: days in a row. So many epic conversations, so many
Speaker 1: really cool guests, and obviously a couple of solo episodes
Speaker 1: with MOI me. Today I'm doing an episode. This was
Speaker 1: a request in our Facebook forum. I did a post
Speaker 1: asking what you guys would like me to cover, and
Speaker 1: a lot of suggestions even came through my inbox. Was
Speaker 1: around my journey with food, the relationship I have with food,
Speaker 1: how I used to eat to how I'm eating now,
Speaker 1: what I've learned along the way. So that's what we're
Speaker 1: going to do. I'm going to go over my whole
Speaker 1: journey from when I was baby to how now I'm
Speaker 1: eating now, and how I'm eating now feels so damn good.
Speaker 1: I've never felt better or healthier with the way that
Speaker 1: I'm eating right now. Excited to talk about that, but
Speaker 1: let's rewind it back to when I was a baby.
Speaker 1: When I was in hospital as a baby, I actually
Speaker 1: got selmonella from a nurse that did not wash her hands.
Speaker 1: So I was violently ill, like so sick to the
Speaker 1: point where the doctors said to my mum, she's not
Speaker 1: gonna make her overnight. You need to get all of
Speaker 1: your family here to say the goodbyes. I'm still here,
Speaker 1: a miracle. But yeah, I was really really sick as
Speaker 1: a baby. Then as I started to grow up, I
Speaker 1: really just was not interested in food. And I think
Speaker 1: this might have been just trauma from being so sick.
Speaker 1: I was also allergic to my mum's breast milk. I
Speaker 1: couldn't have any dairy. I think my mom put me
Speaker 1: on soy milks to be honest. But yeah, when I
Speaker 1: grew up, I just really wasn't interested in food. I
Speaker 1: was that kid that just wanted like chicken nuggets and
Speaker 1: an orange juice. If I could live off liquids, I
Speaker 1: probably would have. I didn't like any textures. I didn't
Speaker 1: like trying anything new. I didn't like anything spicy. I
Speaker 1: was the fussiest eater. Going into my teenage years, I
Speaker 1: went through a lot of phases of trying so many
Speaker 1: diets and starving myself and being addicted to junk food.
Speaker 1: And I think because I worked since I was really young,
Speaker 1: I always had my money, so I felt like I
Speaker 1: didn't have to be restricted with what I had to eat,
Speaker 1: because even at home, like for example, my stepdad used
Speaker 1: to buy like Whittaker's chocolate and these sour gummy bears,
Speaker 1: which I love sour gummy bears. I love lollies, but
Speaker 1: we weren't allowed touch them. And same with orange juice.
Speaker 1: He would literally put a label on the juice and
Speaker 1: be like, do not touch. So once I started earning
Speaker 1: my own money, like I went crazy on orange juice,
Speaker 1: crazy on lollies, on chocolate, like anything that I wasn't
Speaker 1: allowed at home, I went nuts on. I felt like
Speaker 1: I went through this really big junk food stage. And
Speaker 1: then when I moved out of home, I also felt
Speaker 1: like that kind of continued on because I just felt
Speaker 1: this new sense of freedom of like I can eat
Speaker 1: whatever but the fuck I want, and no one's gonna
Speaker 1: make me eat anything or do anything. Rewind, when I
Speaker 1: was at home, I felt like my relationship with food
Speaker 1: wasn't the greatest. And not that I want to put
Speaker 1: all the blame of my stepdad, but he definitely played
Speaker 1: his role. So for example, I really don't like mushrooms.
Speaker 1: He would put a lot of mushrooms on my plate,
Speaker 1: and I was not allowed to leave the table until
Speaker 1: I ate every single mushroom. Some nights I would be
Speaker 1: there for hours. Other nights he would like send me
Speaker 1: to my room with a smack of my bum or
Speaker 1: like yell at me lock memo room. Like I would
Speaker 1: be punished if I did not eat everything in my plate,
Speaker 1: because there was children in Africa starving a food, and
Speaker 1: I need to be grateful for the food that I've got.
Speaker 1: He used to do it to my little brother too.
Speaker 1: He didn't like tomatoes, so he would pile on tomatoes
Speaker 1: my brother's plates. And there were just meals that I
Speaker 1: didn't like, like kidneys and rice and stuff. And oh.
Speaker 1: So what I started to do is I obviously had
Speaker 1: to consume the food because I was going to get
Speaker 1: in trouble. If I didn't, I'd be really scared. I
Speaker 1: would then go to the shower and make myself vomit.
Speaker 1: This became a part of my every day, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't even from the sense of all I wanted to
Speaker 1: lose weight or be skinny or anything like that. It
Speaker 1: was more about gaining control. I felt like he'd forced
Speaker 1: me to have this food. But once I got out
Speaker 1: of my body, I was like, you no longer have
Speaker 1: control over me. So I felt this sense of like lightness,
Speaker 1: but not in a physical sense more and of just
Speaker 1: like you're not going to control me. You're not going
Speaker 1: to do that to me, And it was crazy. I
Speaker 1: did that for a couple of years and then he
Speaker 1: kicked me out of home when I was sixteen, and
Speaker 1: I went straight to my boyfriend's parents' house and I
Speaker 1: moved him with them, literally rocked up with my suitcases.
Speaker 1: And the first day that I moved him from there
Speaker 1: was the last day that I vomited my food. Once
Speaker 1: I was out of the environment of the pressure around food,
Speaker 1: I started to build a healthier relationship with food. I
Speaker 1: still really didn't have any idea on nutrients and what
Speaker 1: was good for me and what was not. I was
Speaker 1: working at a gym when I turned I think I
Speaker 1: was seventeen. I was working at the reception gym, and
Speaker 1: the personal trainers there were like kind of in the
Speaker 1: mindset of like you can eat takeout, just burn it
Speaker 1: off at the gym. So I would literally would have
Speaker 1: CAFC across the road I would eat KFC and then
Speaker 1: try and smash myself on the gym for hours afterwards.
Speaker 1: Like that's how unh healthy my relationship with exercise and
Speaker 1: food was, and just I suppose lack of education. Gosh,
Speaker 1: this is going like back fifteen years ago. There was
Speaker 1: a period there and it was just before I met Steve.
Speaker 1: I used to do these bikini modeling competitions at nightclubs
Speaker 1: and bars, and it sounds awful, but I knew that
Speaker 1: I wasn't the prettiest girl ever, so I felt like
Speaker 1: I had to rely on having a slim toned figure
Speaker 1: and also having stage presents to help me win, like
Speaker 1: I could do the splits and I'd take out glitter
Speaker 1: and blow on stage. Yeah, I didn't think I was
Speaker 1: the prettiest on there, so I really felt like I
Speaker 1: had to work on my body in beers skinny as
Speaker 1: I could be, so in my comp seasons. At the
Speaker 1: very start, like just before I met Steve, I was
Speaker 1: definitely not eating enough and eating off like apples and
Speaker 1: tuna and crackers, and I didn't have much money either,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it wasn't really healthy. But then once I
Speaker 1: started to learn more about how to eat healthy that's
Speaker 1: my relationship really developed nicely. And then I met Steve,
Speaker 1: and that's when I feel like my health journey really
Speaker 1: kicked off and started. And he could see all of
Speaker 1: my bad food habits and the relationship a hab with food,
Speaker 1: what I thought was healthy compared to what wasn't and
Speaker 1: he just started slowly introducing different meals to me that
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed, Like I never had a protein smoothie,
Speaker 1: and he made me this like protein smoothie. I think
Speaker 1: it was like oats berry chocolate, protein powder and almor milk.
Speaker 1: It might even just be water. And I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so young, and that became my staple breakfast
Speaker 1: for years to come. And that's obviously when my love
Speaker 1: of smoothie started to, you know develop. And Levi was
Speaker 1: his business planner at the time, and then all three
Speaker 1: of us started the Ashybiydness Pickinnibody Challenge, and Levi is
Speaker 1: a natchpath and nutritionist, and I felt like I learned
Speaker 1: so much within the space of a couple of months
Speaker 1: of just being under his wing. He really taught me
Speaker 1: about not even like counting macros, but just making sure
Speaker 1: that I was consuming healthy fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. He
Speaker 1: really tried to make me focus on whole foods and
Speaker 1: cleaner option things with less chemicals, less artificial sweetness, less ingredients,
Speaker 1: just like a wholesome healthy diet with lots of rainbow
Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables, lean quality meats. I suppose more of
Speaker 1: like an eighty twenty way of living. And I felt
Speaker 1: so good, so fast. Within a couple of months of
Speaker 1: kind of adapting what Levi and Steve had taught me,
Speaker 1: I felt so much better. I lost a ton of weight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just felt really really good. Now throughout that time,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've still been on different journeys with
Speaker 1: my food. I felt like when I came off the
Speaker 1: pill at I think I was about twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: my skin went absolutely crazy. And I went on a
Speaker 1: bit of a gut cleanse with Levi where I did
Speaker 1: cut out like gluten and dairy, started getting acupuncture, and
Speaker 1: I felt like I had to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more restrictive to try and figure out what my body
Speaker 1: was tolerating, what made it feel good, where my skin reacted.
Speaker 1: And I learned a lot in that process as well,
Speaker 1: and that's when I really adapted more of a paleo
Speaker 1: way of living and once again less process. But there
Speaker 1: also wasn't a lot of dairy and that or anything.
Speaker 1: But I really found that just focusing on a high
Speaker 1: protein diet gave me way more energy, made me feel
Speaker 1: fuller and more satisfied. My skin cleared up, and I
Speaker 1: just felt it was really easy to maintain. I never
Speaker 1: really got into like say kido. I tried to be
Speaker 1: a vegan for I think maybe two months slash vegetarian,
Speaker 1: but tried to do veganism because there was just so
Speaker 1: much hype around it back then. This is literally probably
Speaker 1: like twelve years ago. But I have never felt worse.
Speaker 1: I felt so blow to my digestive system, my energy,
Speaker 1: my skin went bad again. I hated it. As soon
Speaker 1: as I started eating more animal products again, I felt
Speaker 1: so much better. So I just think for my body,
Speaker 1: a high protein animal based diet works so well. So
Speaker 1: I went to Europe recently with Tajiboy, and over in
Speaker 1: Europe we ate copious amounts of pasta, pizza and ice cream.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I think we do better pizzas in
Speaker 1: Australia if I'm being honest, but their pastor was pretty nice.
Speaker 1: I found it really hard to get any serving of
Speaker 1: vegetable at any restaurant. One of the locations where the
Speaker 1: wedding was. I did get a steak each night, but
Speaker 1: our yeah I diet was a lot of sugar, hot chocolate.
Speaker 1: Tarji is quite fussy, so he had a lot of
Speaker 1: cross ons for breakfast. It was hard to even find
Speaker 1: like eggs, you know, anywhere. Really, I didn't feel very
Speaker 1: healthy over there, but we just enjoyed it and dropped
Speaker 1: in and you know, ate whatever, and we enjoyed the
Speaker 1: ice cream, and whenever Taji wanted to try something new,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, let's do it. But when I
Speaker 1: came back, and I also gone to Bali with Mum
Speaker 1: before that too, and in Bali I had a steak
Speaker 1: that literally changed my life. I got it from this
Speaker 1: restaurant called Grumpy Cow. It was like a striploin wagu deliciousness.
Speaker 1: And since then I have just wanted so much steak.
Speaker 1: But it was after my surgery and after I got
Speaker 1: back from Europe that I just had this intuitive feeling
Speaker 1: and like craving and desire to eat more steak and
Speaker 1: I went nuts on it and I still am on
Speaker 1: that train. I have steak every single day, if not
Speaker 1: twice a day, and I absolutely love it. I've never
Speaker 1: felt better. And this kind of led me into looking
Speaker 1: into back into the paleo way of eating, because over
Speaker 1: the years, I felt like I've been, like I say,
Speaker 1: eighty twenty, I feel like I've been more seventy thirty,
Speaker 1: just intuitive eating and no restrictions. I thought I knew
Speaker 1: what foods would make me feel pretty good. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've got a really good gut foundation, so not
Speaker 1: many things upset my stomach. I don't get very bloated
Speaker 1: or anything. However, I definitely felt a bit brain foggy.
Speaker 1: I still recovering from surgery, and intuitively, I just felt
Speaker 1: like I needed a lot more protein and a lot
Speaker 1: more red meat. And then I'll go into why I
Speaker 1: think my body was telling me that. And that's when
Speaker 1: the animal diet started to kind of pop up into
Speaker 1: my algorithm on TikTok, and I started doing a lot
Speaker 1: of research and Steve and I were looking at it,
Speaker 1: and we were also looking into just different things that
Speaker 1: we wanted to improve on, and one of the examples
Speaker 1: was seed oils and how much seed oils is in
Speaker 1: so much of our food and seed oils are so
Speaker 1: inflammatory to the body, regardless if you've had surgery and not. Like,
Speaker 1: getting your information down it should always be a priority,
Speaker 1: especially for us women as well. If you've got information
Speaker 1: in your body, it's really going to affect your cycle,
Speaker 1: your skin, your moods, your sleep, like literally everything. So
Speaker 1: I'm always about getting my information down. So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: started do a lot of research and the seed oils
Speaker 1: was a huge thing, and we started to look into
Speaker 1: better ways to cook our food, so that was cooking
Speaker 1: with ghee and cooking with beef tallow and yeah, the
Speaker 1: animal diet is really interesting. It's basically meat, organic meat,
Speaker 1: particularly red meat, bone broth, organs, which I know sounds
Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting. I can't eat organs. I actually take them
Speaker 1: in a capsule format. Now, eggs, raw dairy, so raw
Speaker 1: cheese and raw milk, and fruit, a lot of fruits, vegetables.
Speaker 1: But in the animal diet, like a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are experts in this, they say that we can
Speaker 1: get most about nutrients, fiber, minerals and health benefits mainly
Speaker 1: from fruit, so you don't really necessarily need a lot
Speaker 1: of the vegetables. I still eat vegetables, and there's some
Speaker 1: that they say to eat, but definitely make sure you
Speaker 1: are getting all organic. And I suppose just looking at
Speaker 1: your food, at what nutrients they do hold and where
Speaker 1: you can get them from, and eating what you enjoy.
Speaker 1: I personally enjoy eating a lot more fruit than what
Speaker 1: I do vegetables. I still love my sweet tato, I
Speaker 1: still love carrot, I love beans like I do love
Speaker 1: some vegetables, but I have been eating a lot more fruit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so eggs, red meat, fruit, honey. And then I'm not
Speaker 1: fully strict animal diet. There are other things that I
Speaker 1: still incorporate into my diet, like clean trets, because I
Speaker 1: will never not eat clean trees, and even though they're
Speaker 1: full of healthy fats, maybe coconut oil protein powder. I
Speaker 1: just find it's such an easy way to get a
Speaker 1: decent serving of protein into a smoothie in the morning.
Speaker 1: And if I'm ever craving sweet or I'm struggling to
Speaker 1: get enough protein into my day, I'll just have a
Speaker 1: protein shake. And then, of course when I go out
Speaker 1: for date nights or I take taj to Yochea, like,
Speaker 1: I still enjoy treats, but majority of my diet is
Speaker 1: red meat, eggs, raw dairy. I don't drink raw milk.
Speaker 1: I can't bring myself to do it. But I love cheese,
Speaker 1: a lot of fruit, And I tell you what, my
Speaker 1: digestive system has never been better. It wasn't even bad before,
Speaker 1: but it's so much better now. My skin is consistently clear.
Speaker 1: I feel I'm sleeping better, my energy is better. I
Speaker 1: just all around feel less inflamed and healthier. Like I
Speaker 1: really feel healthier. I feel like my sex drive has
Speaker 1: gone up. Same with Steve, like he feels all those
Speaker 1: benefits as well. And we've got our kids just eating
Speaker 1: a lot more protein and a lot more fruits, and
Speaker 1: it just feels really good. So obviously there is no bread,
Speaker 1: rice or pasta. I'm not a massive bread person. I
Speaker 1: was eating a lot of pasta. I thought I'd missed that,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I just feel really good of not
Speaker 1: having it. And we had some bit of ball and
Speaker 1: asy the other night, but you know what, I didn't
Speaker 1: need the past or. I just had like so much
Speaker 1: more meat and cheese and it was just as satisfying.
Speaker 1: And now when I'm talking about this, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that you should go and follow and do what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: This episode is literally just me talking about my food journey,
Speaker 1: and That's where I'm kind of at right now. I'm
Speaker 1: really loving how I'm feeling, and the older I get,
Speaker 1: it is less about what I look like and it's
Speaker 1: more about how I feel and the energy that food
Speaker 1: gives me. As you guys know, I had brain surgery
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, and I have another one
Speaker 1: at the end of January to fix my other aneurism.
Speaker 1: So when you're on blood thinners, if you've missed the
Speaker 1: previous episodes, your periods are on another level, like Holy Moley,
Speaker 1: like literal crime scene. Like I can't leave the house
Speaker 1: for a full day, sometimes two days because they are
Speaker 1: so heavy. I'm now down to one lot of blood thinners,
Speaker 1: which will increase again when I have my next surgery.
Speaker 1: But I think my body like knew what was coming
Speaker 1: and that's why I needed so much more iron. So
Speaker 1: I think the amount of steak I'm eating is really
Speaker 1: so porting my cycle at the moment, and I would
Speaker 1: hate to think how low my energy would be if
Speaker 1: I wasn't consuming the red meat IM eating and getting
Speaker 1: that iron. So even in my period, like I definitely
Speaker 1: get a little bit tired a few days before and
Speaker 1: feel a bit more like wanting to be internal and
Speaker 1: be at home and rest, and I really try and
Speaker 1: honor that. But yeah, I think this way of eating
Speaker 1: is just really supporting my health right now and I've
Speaker 1: never felt better, and same with Steve, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it has been a journey. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've tried every diet under the sun over the years,
Speaker 1: and I don't regret any of that because I think
Speaker 1: that diet and eating isn't a one size fits all.
Speaker 1: I think it's really important for every single individual to
Speaker 1: trial and really tune into what foods are eating and
Speaker 1: what feels good and what doesn't like. If your body
Speaker 1: reacts and responds to certain foods, I feel like that
Speaker 1: is an invitation to actually go, oh, maybe my body
Speaker 1: doesn't like this, Maybe I should try something else. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day two, if you're having
Speaker 1: reactions to foods, you may have some gut issues as well,
Speaker 1: which might be worth getting some bloods done and working
Speaker 1: with the nature path to build up your gut health
Speaker 1: that make sure you're getting enough fiber, et cetera. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this way of eating I really really enjoy I thought
Speaker 1: I would miss sauces. I love sauces like I love
Speaker 1: tomato and barbecue sauces. But I found a brand called
Speaker 1: Mingle and they sell them in health food store, coals
Speaker 1: and woolies. This is not sponsored, by the way. I
Speaker 1: just fell in love them. They have a tomato barbecue
Speaker 1: and a sweet chili and the ingredients are so clean.
Speaker 1: Cheese just makes everything so much better. I do miss
Speaker 1: having chicken sninsels. The chicken sinsel I used to buy
Speaker 1: obviously had crumbs and like other ingredients. But literally, I'm
Speaker 1: eating so much less processed stuff, like it's very natural
Speaker 1: what Earth has kind of given us. And yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels amazing. So that's my journey with food. I love
Speaker 1: hearing about everyone's food. Like I've got a girlfriend that
Speaker 1: is completely vegan and she absolutely thrives and her skin's glowing,
Speaker 1: her digestis is amazing and it feels great for her.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't think there's a one size
Speaker 1: fits all. I think it's about you finding what works
Speaker 1: for your body. But it's cool to trial different things
Speaker 1: to see what works and what doesn't, and you know,
Speaker 1: readjust as you go. I remember when I had tala,
Speaker 1: I had a Duela, and it was really cool to
Speaker 1: learn about the different types of food you should and
Speaker 1: shouldn't have in your fourth trimester. You know. That was
Speaker 1: a lot of like slow cooked things, a lot of
Speaker 1: there was a lot of rice in there, like congi,
Speaker 1: a lot of turmeric late not Latin, not coffees, but
Speaker 1: like turmeric drinks, a lot of tonics, black rice puddings.
Speaker 1: But it was all like warming foods. It was nothing cold,
Speaker 1: and that was really cool. For like twelve weeks, I
Speaker 1: just solely ate what the Duela would recommend because that
Speaker 1: was all the research she'd done. And I felt so
Speaker 1: good in that period and that season because I feel
Speaker 1: like that's truly what my body needed to be able
Speaker 1: to heal internally, to be able to provide and make
Speaker 1: beautiful breast milk, to be able to keep my energy
Speaker 1: as high as it could be with a newborn baby.
Speaker 1: But how I ate in that twelve weeks is very
Speaker 1: different to how I eat now because I'm in a
Speaker 1: different seasons. So yeah, I hope this helps you just
Speaker 1: kind of reflect and check in and to see how
Speaker 1: you're eating. And I suppose coming up to the end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, it's such a beautiful time too,
Speaker 1: for you to do some reflection on your whole life
Speaker 1: and what's working, what's not, and that can be including
Speaker 1: your diet. I love doing a massive clean out of
Speaker 1: my cupboard or my fridge and getting rid of anything
Speaker 1: that's like expired, anything with seed oils. Now there just
Speaker 1: isn't a lot of like crappy options in my cupboard
Speaker 1: and fridge now, like it's all healthier, natural, more alternatives.
Speaker 1: There's still a couple of snacks in there that I
Speaker 1: haven't taken away from Tajiboy yet, Like he loves his
Speaker 1: Milo bars and these rice crackers that do have one
Speaker 1: oil at it that I don't like, but I would
Speaker 1: say like ninety percent of what he eats is really
Speaker 1: healthy and really clean. There is a couple of little
Speaker 1: snacks in there. Overall, good time to have a reflection,
Speaker 1: clean out your fridge and pantry, and really tune in
Speaker 1: and listen to your body. I'm very like intuitive eater.
Speaker 1: I don't have any restrictions on my diet. I just
Speaker 1: really know what's making me feel really good in this
Speaker 1: season of my life, and I'm following that and honoring
Speaker 1: that until it doesn't feel good. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: keep doing it, so I encourage you to do the same.
Speaker 1: I also think these days there's such a big focus
Speaker 1: on counting calories and counting macros, which I think works
Speaker 1: for some people. And I'm not dissing at all, Like
Speaker 1: I have friends that count their macros or count their
Speaker 1: calories and they're on a weight loss journey, or you know,
Speaker 1: I know people that are getting on stage to compete,
Speaker 1: and it all serves its purpose. However, I do wish
Speaker 1: there'd be more of a movement and more focus on
Speaker 1: the actual nutrients in the food and also where it's
Speaker 1: grown and the kind of sprays it on the foods.
Speaker 1: Like I wish there was more movement and people trying
Speaker 1: to eat more organic or like washing their fruits and
Speaker 1: vegetables and looking at their plate of like what nutrients
Speaker 1: am I getting? Rather than am I hitting the numbers
Speaker 1: by the end of the day, Because a thousand calories
Speaker 1: of fruits and vegetables is going to look very different
Speaker 1: or it's going to digest so differently in your body
Speaker 1: compared to a thousand calories of McDonald's meal. There is
Speaker 1: no nutritional benefits to eating and McDonald's meal compared to
Speaker 1: eating all the fruits and vegetables, the amount of fiber
Speaker 1: and minerals and vitamins you get from fruits and vegetables
Speaker 1: compared to McDonald's meals. That's where I don't like when
Speaker 1: numbers come into it because I think sometimes it's at
Speaker 1: the cost of your actual health. And maybe short term,
Speaker 1: I don't know, depending on what you're doing with your calories,
Speaker 1: you may lose weight. But long term, I think we
Speaker 1: need to really think about your health. Maybe that's just
Speaker 1: me getting older, but I think as you get older too,
Speaker 1: you really do just value life so much and you
Speaker 1: know that it is so short and tomorrow isn't promised,
Speaker 1: and when you're younger, you're so focused on looking a
Speaker 1: certain way, and now it's all about longevity, Like I
Speaker 1: want to eat in a way that I know my
Speaker 1: body is thriving so that I can be healthier for
Speaker 1: longer and be around for my kids and my grain kids, etc. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish it was more normalized to focus on nutrients,
Speaker 1: and I wish there was more conversations around that. If
Speaker 1: you are someone that is struggling with inflammation, PCOS and
Speaker 1: hormone issues, skin breakouts, bad sleep, brain fog anything like that.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like, what have you got to
Speaker 1: lose by altering things in your diet. If you are
Speaker 1: finding you are struggling with any of that, and food
Speaker 1: can be medicine, why not try a different way of
Speaker 1: eating and try it for thirty days and see how
Speaker 1: your body responds. I'm not saying it has to be
Speaker 1: the animal diet. It could be whatever it feels right
Speaker 1: for you intuitively. But if you try something for thirty
Speaker 1: days and see improvements and like, that's a win. But
Speaker 1: if what you're doing right now, if you're so sick
Speaker 1: of feeling how you're feeling and you're aren't seeing any improvements,
Speaker 1: take control of your health and trial different ways of
Speaker 1: eating and try to add in more natural foods, less processed,
Speaker 1: less sugars, less takeout, more nature, more higher protein, healthy fats,
Speaker 1: and getting creative with the way that you eat. In
Speaker 1: that sense, and I can almost guarantee one, if not all,
Speaker 1: of those things will improve in your life. The brain,
Speaker 1: the mental clarity, the sleep, your skin, your energy, your moods,
Speaker 1: your sex drive, like all those things that I feel
Speaker 1: like we ought to improve. You've got nothing to lose
Speaker 1: by just trialing and tweaking things in the way that
Speaker 1: you eat. I know, eating organic it can be really expensive. However,
Speaker 1: there's definitely cheaper ways to do it. If you go
Speaker 1: to your like your local farmers' markets. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's always so much cheaper than a health food store.
Speaker 1: So on a Sunday, Steve and I and the kids
Speaker 1: will go down to the markets and we will stock
Speaker 1: up on all of our fruits and vegetables, and it's
Speaker 1: so much cheaper. But then during the week I do
Speaker 1: do a drop into flineeries to restock whatever we need.
Speaker 1: Same with eggs. There are a lot cheaper at the
Speaker 1: markets as well. And I just think for myself, like
Speaker 1: I don't drink, I don't do drugs, you know, I
Speaker 1: really value my health, so that's where I like to
Speaker 1: spend my money. Everyone's so different, you know, you might
Speaker 1: really value going out and having a cocktail with your
Speaker 1: friends on the weekend, but for me personally, it's an
Speaker 1: investment in my health and in my life for longevity
Speaker 1: long term, and that's really important to me. So I
Speaker 1: think it's how we perceive it well. But yeah, there
Speaker 1: is definitely cheaper ways to do it. You can also
Speaker 1: order organic boxes of fruit and vegetables from local farms,
Speaker 1: and I found them to be a lot cheaper than
Speaker 1: going to like your local flanteerries as well. And then
Speaker 1: some fruits and vegetables are more heavily spray than others.
Speaker 1: So for example, strawberries that you buy from coals or woolies,
Speaker 1: there's up to fourteen different pesticides and sprays on them
Speaker 1: that like when you're ingesting that it is just so
Speaker 1: bad for your body, compared to like say a pineapple
Speaker 1: that isn't as many. So if you were to buy
Speaker 1: something organic, I would recommend it being like spinach, strawberries, apples,
Speaker 1: things that you eat the skin, your sweet potatoes, but
Speaker 1: things that have a cover, I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more protected and just no eating organic. Also
Speaker 1: that it's being grown in a beautiful foundation of healthy
Speaker 1: soil as well, and they're not normally plucked or pulled
Speaker 1: out before they've ripened, and you want your fruits and
Speaker 1: vegetables to be fully ripe so that they have all
Speaker 1: of the newtribes in the mouth. They get plucked earlier,
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, they won't be containing all
Speaker 1: the nutrients that you're wanting to get from them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the soil on where your fruit vegetable has grown has
Speaker 1: massive impact on the quality of the fruit and vegetables
Speaker 1: that you're eating. We just want it as less amount
Speaker 1: of sprays as possible. And if you can't afford organic too,
Speaker 1: then you can also wash them at home. You can
Speaker 1: buy fruit and vegetable washes, or I've seen online that
Speaker 1: there's like mixtus you can do with like baking, I
Speaker 1: think baking soda, baking powder and apple sided vinegar or
Speaker 1: something that's a really cool way to do it as well.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to note that my body doesn't react
Speaker 1: badly to bread, rice or pasta and even a lot
Speaker 1: of processed foods, whereas Steve can feel quite brain foggy
Speaker 1: and overall slower and just like not as good when
Speaker 1: he's consuming those things. Because I feel like whenever I
Speaker 1: talk about diet, there's always a little bit of pushback
Speaker 1: or people think I'm being restrictive or I'm giving bad advice.
Speaker 1: Remember this is just my journey. But know that this
Speaker 1: didn't come from a place of feeling crap or hating
Speaker 1: my body at all, or any kind of online pressure
Speaker 1: or influence or losing weight it was simply going with
Speaker 1: what I was craving, and I didn't realize how much
Speaker 1: better I could feel now that I'm eating ninety percent natural,
Speaker 1: organic foods, which just feels so good for my bodies.
Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of the time you can
Speaker 1: start dieting or following a trend online and you're being
Speaker 1: influenced elsewhere. But it's really important for you to check
Speaker 1: in your own body, your own lifestyle, your own goals,
Speaker 1: and finding what works for you. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: wrap it up. Thank you for joining me. I really
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed this, and I'll be back in
Speaker 1: your ears tomorrow. Bye.