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Speaker 1: co host a J Holiday. What's up, Tam, Hey girl,
Speaker 1: Hey y'all, it's me official team. I love y'all. Thank
Speaker 1: y'all for tuningy and hey girl, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: What's up, y'll? I'm chilling. Hey y'all, girl, Why the fund?
Speaker 1: Do I get judged for not telling people I love
Speaker 1: them every episode? I'm confused because we went live yesterday
Speaker 1: and people was hating on me. They want your love,
Speaker 1: they got it, they got it. I appreciate y'all. That's
Speaker 1: what I do. I appreciate all of our listeners a thousand,
Speaker 1: trillion percent. Okay, don't ever be mistaken, man, I love me.
Speaker 1: I mean a J don't love me. Damn that Like
Speaker 1: I give a funk. I don't. How's your weekend? What
Speaker 1: the fund did I do this weekend? I did nothing, really,
Speaker 1: I just cholled out the same ship. Um. I was
Speaker 1: supposed to go to this Battle of the Bands on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but I skipped out on that too, so I was
Speaker 1: just in the house this weekend. Did I do anything
Speaker 1: this weekend? You want a date? Did you not? I
Speaker 1: went on a date baby. This baby was twenty six
Speaker 1: years old. I know I'm only thirty two and trans age,
Speaker 1: so that didn't make it that much of an age difference.
Speaker 1: But that's just the conversation was just not giving what
Speaker 1: I needed it to give at all. I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: talk about anything else. I'm not even gonna go there.
Speaker 1: Just no, it was not the best day. And I
Speaker 1: put on my fur coat, wasted my damn coat. You
Speaker 1: ain't posted a picture sequal wearity again? Yeah, yeah, show live,
Speaker 1: let it go any any below thirty out this bitch
Speaker 1: and the coda is back out. You just wait. I
Speaker 1: just can't wait to put the fur on. I wear
Speaker 1: mine yet this year. Yeah, global warming, they're gonna make
Speaker 1: it where we can't wear this bitch around here in
Speaker 1: a minutett. Yeah, it's definitely. I remember like October's October
Speaker 1: through February as a kid, it used to be like
Speaker 1: brick outside, Like we had some damn eighty degree weather
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and then they dropped back
Speaker 1: down recently, right, Like my grandma said, y'all better get
Speaker 1: your house in order. I can't tell the season. Jesus
Speaker 1: coming back soon, get together shame. I used to be
Speaker 1: so mad at my grandma for that, Like why we
Speaker 1: gotta get our house in order? And why you old?
Speaker 1: You don't need all your whole ship? Now are you old?
Speaker 1: And now I gotta get my house in the way? Judgment,
Speaker 1: judgment all right. This week in stupid Internet News, the
Speaker 1: sins of the week, Um, did y'all see um Franklin
Speaker 1: sat also known as Dampson driss I think that might
Speaker 1: be his name. UM and Lorie Harvey have taken their
Speaker 1: relationship to the next level. UM and Dampson posted on
Speaker 1: Instagram and picture of them kissing and all in love
Speaker 1: like you saw that? Yeah, So last month they were
Speaker 1: trying to pair hair with um our our boyfriend Jonathan Major's,
Speaker 1: but apparently it's it's been Dampson she's been dating, so
Speaker 1: the Internet is trying to drag her as always per usual. Uh,
Speaker 1: Meek Mills took it, took the online and was like,
Speaker 1: yall like basically like y'all need to get your home
Speaker 1: girl type ship, Like, why I'll let your whole girl
Speaker 1: for all these niggas, Like whose business is that we
Speaker 1: don't know who this woman has had sex with? And
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure is less than the regular daglasmegla woman
Speaker 1: out here. Okay, And here's the thing, right, if you
Speaker 1: put a microscope on any woman's life, you might see
Speaker 1: a couple of men, and any single woman right your
Speaker 1: microscope her life, you'll see that she's dated men, you know,
Speaker 1: especially if she's attractive and she can have her pick
Speaker 1: of the litter, and they're calling her a pass around.
Speaker 1: Let's wait, all right, let's we'll pass her around. But
Speaker 1: when she's gonna be passed to your ass never? And
Speaker 1: that's why because your Christmas left, two Christmas is ago, fall,
Speaker 1: Christmas is to go, and she didn't went tow different
Speaker 1: niggas and not your ass he cod Oh my goddamn nerve.
Speaker 1: I wish Meek knows could just I still I still
Speaker 1: loves but he is just very problematic lately. How you
Speaker 1: getting a boxing match at the boxing match down and
Speaker 1: watch your hands down and watch the festivities. So now
Speaker 1: I did see recently where Lorie Harvey was on um
Speaker 1: an E News interview, and she was asked, you know
Speaker 1: what's like some of the misconceptions um and like the
Speaker 1: biggest rumors she's heard about herself. So one she said,
Speaker 1: you know, I even heard it I was a lesbian.
Speaker 1: So she said that was a rumor, and like, damn,
Speaker 1: shut up, lesbian, shut up. You don't even like ch
Speaker 1: for real. No, I just been talking to go ahead,
Speaker 1: But she said, so. The other misconception was or the
Speaker 1: other big rumor was that she had dated um a
Speaker 1: son and father. She said that wasn't true. And you
Speaker 1: know they're talking about Diddy and Justin, So I wonder
Speaker 1: which one she actually dated, because you were hanging out
Speaker 1: with Diddy both. Yeah, you definitely, we saw yeah, we
Speaker 1: see you out. Yeah. Just because she's hanging out with men,
Speaker 1: that does not equate to her smashing everybody. I need
Speaker 1: people to mind in business when it comes to Lorie Harvey.
Speaker 1: She's a beautiful girl and she she's popping and she's
Speaker 1: not getting pregnant by none of these niggas. That's the
Speaker 1: blessing in it all. I love it. Don't get these
Speaker 1: men come in you ladies? All three? Al right? So
Speaker 1: like next for sin stupid internet news this. Um. I
Speaker 1: actually saw this on Spiritual World. So this is a
Speaker 1: Twitter feed from a woman. Her at is my teacher
Speaker 1: a freak. I cream in your coffee. So apparently her
Speaker 1: and her boyfriend they do only fans videos together and
Speaker 1: like essentially their porn stars. So she took the Twitter
Speaker 1: to explain like what had been happening between her and
Speaker 1: her boyfriend. So she said, can I tell you guys
Speaker 1: a super embarrassing story that really had me hurt. We
Speaker 1: went to go work with this girl and when she
Speaker 1: would suck his dick, it would be on brick. When
Speaker 1: we would switch, his dick would go on noodle. Then
Speaker 1: when she was riding him, he almost nutted four times.
Speaker 1: That was the day I lied to myself, even though
Speaker 1: I knew what it really was. Being a content creator
Speaker 1: is fun until you are working with other girls and
Speaker 1: they called I guess pooring his content creation. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you put a camera on anything, it's
Speaker 1: our content creation working with other girls and your man
Speaker 1: can't keep his dick up for you. But every time
Speaker 1: is the other girls turning, He's like a brick the ship.
Speaker 1: Nobody tells you. So um. She actually took to Twitter
Speaker 1: spaces her and a boyfriend slash coworker um content creator
Speaker 1: right to talk about what's actually transpiring in their relationship,
Speaker 1: and he was basically saying, it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with you physically. I think oftentimes women, if a man isn't,
Speaker 1: you know, showing us that affection on an intimacy, we
Speaker 1: automatically go to think it's like there's something wrong with
Speaker 1: how look and then you're comparing yourself to how another
Speaker 1: woman looks. Right, So, if you're in a sexual setting,
Speaker 1: y'all fucking and and and all this stuff, and his
Speaker 1: dick is getting hard for somebody else and not you.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like me no more. He doesn't like my
Speaker 1: pussy no more, he don't like my face no more.
Speaker 1: And also she was saying, like the girls are thicker,
Speaker 1: like bigger than her, you know, more thicker girl. So
Speaker 1: it's like, if that's what you like, why don't you
Speaker 1: just do that? So on Twitter spaces he was saying, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't have anything to do with you
Speaker 1: how you look athetically. Um, there's other things like, um,
Speaker 1: one is that this is a new girl. We know
Speaker 1: men like variety, especially if you're actually letting him have
Speaker 1: a variety like he's sucking you and whoever else you're
Speaker 1: recording it, that's a good time for a man, right you.
Speaker 1: You've invited this thing into your relationship slash uh coworker relationship.
Speaker 1: I don't know, um, but I think it's the home
Speaker 1: things that's been getting to him. But my thing was,
Speaker 1: why didn't you have Why don't you have a conversation
Speaker 1: with her privately? Why the hell is this conversation taking
Speaker 1: place on goddamn Twitter spaces? Even if y'all have like
Speaker 1: this public life, that's hella embarrassing, right, But I mean
Speaker 1: if you're all sucking on camera, seemed like y'all can
Speaker 1: talk about it in public, right Yeah, But apparently they
Speaker 1: can't because she's thinking like, oh, it's how I look
Speaker 1: is the problem, And he's like, no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't really like your personality anymore. That's why his dick
Speaker 1: ain't getting hard. Yeah, because it's not like the dick
Speaker 1: don't work. It clearly works, right, it just don't work
Speaker 1: for you. I would have noted that whole motherfucking's said
Speaker 1: all over the cameras lights it with a look like
Speaker 1: an episode of Jared Springer, because don't do that. Don't
Speaker 1: play me like that. You're dick. Better rise. You got
Speaker 1: thirty seconds for their brotherfucker to get up before this
Speaker 1: ship turned into something different. But you better get out
Speaker 1: of the way. But I thought that ship was hilarious.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They might need to go to therapy
Speaker 1: or just split up, y'all. Man, I think it's trying
Speaker 1: to break up. Weird. Yeah, yeah, it's trying to b up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine that? Well, first of all, I'm just
Speaker 1: not participating in nothing like that. I don't think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I could not imagine him like going noodle for
Speaker 1: me and then like rock hard for somebody else and
Speaker 1: I'm standing there looking at me. Everybody got the die.
Speaker 1: He got somebody else to do it. Meanwhile, Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan's is rumored to be dating some uh white model
Speaker 1: named Amber Jepson. So Michael van Jordan has been spending
Speaker 1: more time in the UK because he's like the newest
Speaker 1: minority owner of the English soccer team a f C Bournemouth,
Speaker 1: and they're saying that he's there for that, but he's
Speaker 1: also out there with this new girl and she white.
Speaker 1: I'll say, like white girls, Like thank y'all for listening.
Speaker 1: But uh, I just I want him to be with
Speaker 1: a black woman girl. I love me. So Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan's nah, I think he. I think that I was
Speaker 1: surprised him and um Lorie Harvey was together since we
Speaker 1: back on them. I was surprised they were even in
Speaker 1: a relationship. I think he might is personality maybe more
Speaker 1: suited for a white woman. I think that's about right.
Speaker 1: I think that um ain't no way killed manger is
Speaker 1: more suited for a white woman. I cannot see that
Speaker 1: he was playing a real nigger. He ain't a real nigger.
Speaker 1: Yes he is. I don't accept that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: More problems to all those people, like maybe they weren't
Speaker 1: supposed to be together. Hopefully it's relationship with this woman,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. We've heard some other little side
Speaker 1: things about Michael B. Jordan's So I hope, um, I
Speaker 1: hope it's a real relationship, you know, because they'd be
Speaker 1: they'd be okay with that, they'd be down for that ship.
Speaker 1: All right. So we've been real life harder. But this
Speaker 1: next topic is not lighthearted at all. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Darius Miles, he's a young man that plays basketball for Alabama. UH,
Speaker 1: he shot a young lady twenty three years old and
Speaker 1: killed her, and the narrative is stating that he killed
Speaker 1: her because she didn't want to talk to him, and
Speaker 1: that he shot into the vehicle that she was in
Speaker 1: UM and she passed from this. According to Tuscaloosa Police
Speaker 1: Department UM, the shooting occurred after an argument that had
Speaker 1: unfolded into the strip off University Boulevard. That's really a
Speaker 1: sad chain of events for this young woman and this
Speaker 1: young man life because he's going to prison and she
Speaker 1: is no longer with us, and you really have to
Speaker 1: think about, like the mindset of a person that would
Speaker 1: kill you for not wanting to talk to them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the victim's name UM is twenty three year old
Speaker 1: Jamia Jamia Harris, and I can kind of relate to
Speaker 1: that situation because Tammy, I don't know about at you,
Speaker 1: but when we started Benedict, like my freshman and my
Speaker 1: first month, I literally called my mom and like I
Speaker 1: want to come home because the men on campus was
Speaker 1: being real nasty, like if you didn't hauler at them,
Speaker 1: like you're getting cussed out. This is really happening to
Speaker 1: me in real life. I remember at UM. You probably
Speaker 1: noticed nicked to. We'll talk about it offline, but like
Speaker 1: really wanting to fight me at a football game because
Speaker 1: I didn't talk to his homeboy, not even him. I
Speaker 1: got cussed out because I ain't talked to his homeboy.
Speaker 1: So this type of ship really really happens because we
Speaker 1: know the male ego can be very, very fresh, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So now as women, we have
Speaker 1: to try to navigate that in the safest way possible.
Speaker 1: And to me, the safest way is to stay strapped.
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but just thinking, yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and that's said that it has to be that way,
Speaker 1: Like you can't turn down the person if you're not
Speaker 1: interested without having to be concerned with your life. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to have alcohol, you know was involved him
Speaker 1: and another guy who did who would who didn't actually
Speaker 1: attend UM the school. They were both arrested. Um, this
Speaker 1: type of ship happens, and it needs to stop. This
Speaker 1: is not the first time where a woman has been
Speaker 1: violated for just you know, dismissing the advances of a man.
Speaker 1: And it's it's disgusting. It's like, can we take into
Speaker 1: consideration like I'm your sister, I'm your mama. Look at
Speaker 1: me in that way and then maybe you won't violating.
Speaker 1: I'm stole somebody's daughter, you know. So this is unfortunate.
Speaker 1: And this girl as a mother, she has a child.
Speaker 1: The child was motherless. Yes, yeah, all because you can't
Speaker 1: smash that's all. I feel like a nigg a little
Speaker 1: too scary coming up to me asking me for my number.
Speaker 1: If I'm not in a position to run and get
Speaker 1: away fast, I will just give them my number. I'll
Speaker 1: give them a number. Yeah, but calling you in your face,
Speaker 1: like they're gonna call your number right there in your face,
Speaker 1: and like the same, you're real number that that's happened
Speaker 1: to me before I gotta go up out of here. Look,
Speaker 1: I usually give him the real number of him call
Speaker 1: one time and block him. Yeah, that's all I do.
Speaker 1: That's all I do. But it's a shame that we
Speaker 1: have to even go through um those measures. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just the world that we live in, and it's
Speaker 1: nothing that I don't think. There's nothing that a woman
Speaker 1: can do Differently, something's a change amongst men because we
Speaker 1: have a lot of real life predators out here, and
Speaker 1: they just have that they have that predatory setting on.
Speaker 1: He could be a nice basketball player, good students, straight,
Speaker 1: A's all that, but something something happens, and that's that's
Speaker 1: in his setting. That's he doesn't have that filter on
Speaker 1: and not be a fucking animal right and take somebody's
Speaker 1: life because they don't want to talk to you. Like,
Speaker 1: that's so wild to me. He probably should have been
Speaker 1: in jail a long time ago if that was all
Speaker 1: it to know, Yes, because there's no way this is
Speaker 1: the first time he's He probably has been violating women
Speaker 1: before in some type of way, Like I don't understand
Speaker 1: how you go from loving women to this being you
Speaker 1: know what you do to a stranger or I don't
Speaker 1: know if he knew her. I don't know the official story,
Speaker 1: but this is what I saw a family member put
Speaker 1: out on social media, like my child is dead because
Speaker 1: she wouldn't holler at you. Essentially black crime child. Ladies,
Speaker 1: strap up, get your gun? Is your listen? That's your
Speaker 1: rights in American until they change the gun laws and
Speaker 1: make it safer on this planet for us practice it. Yes,
Speaker 1: ye okay, so as you're listening. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you knew, but today is national Women's Healthy Weight Day
Speaker 1: and it falls every on every Thursday of the third
Speaker 1: full week in January. And we have something very important
Speaker 1: to tell you. Each of us is unique in our
Speaker 1: own way. A healthy way is the natural body weight
Speaker 1: in relation to being healthy is defined by physical, mental,
Speaker 1: and social well being, which means getting the right amount
Speaker 1: of nutrition, exercise, mental stability, and sleep. So the first
Speaker 1: thing that people notice about us is our physical appearance, obviously,
Speaker 1: so it's no surprise that we get so conscious when
Speaker 1: someone mentions our weight. Sadly, many people believe that being
Speaker 1: thin is equal to being healthy, y'all. That is not true.
Speaker 1: Being skinny isn't always healthy. We could be healthier than
Speaker 1: a person who weighs less than us. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a conversation about being healthy and what that looks like
Speaker 1: for all of us, So stay tuned. Alright, guys, I
Speaker 1: know before the break I mentioned that today is Women's
Speaker 1: Healthy Weight Day. So today we got someone on very
Speaker 1: special to and dear to my heart, Miss Christina Elkins
Speaker 1: on Instagram. She's organic Chrissie, and she is all things healthy.
Speaker 1: She has taught me so much about diet and exercise,
Speaker 1: and she's just a a bitch overall. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted I wanted to have a conversation with her because
Speaker 1: I want all our listeners to live their best, healthy life.
Speaker 1: And you know understand that you don't have to be
Speaker 1: skinny to be healthy. So we're gonna get into that. Hey, girl,
Speaker 1: what's up. It's great to see you guys. You guys
Speaker 1: look beautiful. Thank you so to you. Y'all listen if
Speaker 1: y'all listen to only audio, I guess we ain't putting
Speaker 1: our videos like that. But she has humongous, beautiful afro
Speaker 1: puffs and she's just a bad bitch. She rocked rough
Speaker 1: and stuff with her afro process every day. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for having me on the show. So Christina used
Speaker 1: to be a chubby girl. How did you transition? Like
Speaker 1: you one day you woke up and you was like,
Speaker 1: I want to be fit or what happened? To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, you know, especially now we live in
Speaker 1: the world where you know, plus size women women and
Speaker 1: just being calm, sitable within your body is a very
Speaker 1: strong wave. And you know, I always let people know
Speaker 1: you have to love yourself every step of the way,
Speaker 1: whether you're on the bigger end the smaller end. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter that self love is key, but for me personally,
Speaker 1: I am only five one, so I am truly a
Speaker 1: definition of a shorty. Okay, and at being five one
Speaker 1: my biggest way. Um well, the last I stepped on
Speaker 1: the scale, I saw two d and seventeen pounds. For
Speaker 1: anyone who is that short, that really feels like three
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, you know. So I was very uncomfortable. Did
Speaker 1: I love who I was as a person? Yes? Was
Speaker 1: I still smiley, big personality, you know, everything that Chrissie
Speaker 1: is now. I was still that girl, great mom, great work,
Speaker 1: or great friend. But I was not happy with how
Speaker 1: I felt in that way. So I always tell my ladies, listen,
Speaker 1: love yourself, but you wake you gotta wake up to
Speaker 1: you every day. So if you ever aren't fully liking
Speaker 1: what you see or how you feel, you have to
Speaker 1: make that change. And for me, that change was going
Speaker 1: to the doctor, having my doctor tell me eu OBEs,
Speaker 1: but not even that. She told me you have high cholesterol,
Speaker 1: you're pre diabetic, and you know a couple of other
Speaker 1: things that was linked to my lifestyle at that time.
Speaker 1: That's nobody wants to hear that news. So once I
Speaker 1: heard that news for me plus um, being uncomfortable with
Speaker 1: the size and navigating with that plus size body at
Speaker 1: that time, I decided to make the change. And what
Speaker 1: did that change look like for you? Like, the first
Speaker 1: thing I knew I had to do was changed my diet. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's like I knew that I do that before
Speaker 1: I became the expert that I am now, because I
Speaker 1: had a full blown relationship with food. Yes, a relationship,
Speaker 1: and we all do. If you think about it, food
Speaker 1: looks and feels different for all of us. UM. A
Speaker 1: lot of our memories happy mostly are linked to food.
Speaker 1: Certain foods can bring up emotions, you know, certain drinks
Speaker 1: can make you think about certain times. So, like most Americans,
Speaker 1: I had a love affair with food. And when you
Speaker 1: couple that with the stressors of life. I was a divorced,
Speaker 1: single mom, so I was always working and grinding, trying
Speaker 1: to provide the best for my children without the support
Speaker 1: of their father. So that was a stress over my head.
Speaker 1: The job I was working at the time and their
Speaker 1: high sales demands, that was a stress over my head,
Speaker 1: and just the day to day. As we as women,
Speaker 1: how we can just struggle with who we are just
Speaker 1: trying to really find our identities and and love us,
Speaker 1: love ourselves who we are. All of those stressors is
Speaker 1: what major girl take comfort and food, right, So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm eating, I'm drinking, I'm making any excuse. I'm getting
Speaker 1: off for work from Northstrom, Like, you know what, cheesecake.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give me some small plates and a couple
Speaker 1: of drink flights because my boss like we made excusefu
Speaker 1: when I can't. I'm single, so I can't eat, no
Speaker 1: dick up, so i'd be eating or so well, Look,
Speaker 1: food is a comfort. Listening for it comfort y'all. And
Speaker 1: I feel like we know how to inject it, however,
Speaker 1: and whenever we want to. If we're happy, it's time
Speaker 1: to eat. If what's sad, it's time to eat. If
Speaker 1: we stress, it's time to drink. So I was going
Speaker 1: through all of those life emotions and food, what's my comfort?
Speaker 1: Point blank? Like how do you separate yourself? Like? How
Speaker 1: what did I need to separate myself from that relationship?
Speaker 1: I have a toxic relationship with food, I think because
Speaker 1: there's this place down the street called Crave, and they
Speaker 1: got these two cupcakes with sixteen dollars and the biggest fuck.
Speaker 1: And when I'm feeling any type of way, I would
Speaker 1: want to bugs bunny cupcakes. But how do I, like,
Speaker 1: if I'm sad, how do I not order to bugs
Speaker 1: bunny cupcakes? How'm gonna eat carrots instead? Like? So, I, oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're sitting, you won't down? Yeah, when I'm
Speaker 1: like depressed, that's what I lose weight. Okay, I get
Speaker 1: you get huh? So, so you don't eat when you're upset? No,
Speaker 1: and so relationships, I can tust on both of those
Speaker 1: because those are both issues that people have. Either they
Speaker 1: will overeat, you know, and eat and or grab all
Speaker 1: of the wrong things, or they'll shut down and not
Speaker 1: eat and drink before so, I'll first talked about Timmy's
Speaker 1: question for me, um changing that narrative um with not
Speaker 1: looking at food as a comfort. It had to come
Speaker 1: within me and my desire to change so because I
Speaker 1: knew I needed to lose weight and I no longer
Speaker 1: wanted to be categorized as you know, as obese, and
Speaker 1: more importantly, forget the categorization, the just feeling and looking
Speaker 1: how I did. I wanted to look better in my clothes.
Speaker 1: I wanted to give myself more options. Guys. I wanted
Speaker 1: to cross my legs and feel comfortable just enjoying the
Speaker 1: the day to day feminine things in life that I
Speaker 1: was struggling in my overweight body. For me, so once
Speaker 1: I had to come to the realization that in order
Speaker 1: for me to change, my relationship with food had to happen. Um.
Speaker 1: One of the things I poured into was my fitness.
Speaker 1: I knew that fitness had to become my friend. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm the type of girl where I couldn't even jog
Speaker 1: to the mailbox. Okay, I felt like I was having
Speaker 1: a full blown asthma tack. But I was reading in
Speaker 1: all of my research how fitness exercise can be a
Speaker 1: stress reliever. So I had to now start substituting healthy
Speaker 1: habits to relieve my stressors and instead of leaning towards
Speaker 1: the pizza, the cupcakes or whatever. So listen, it was
Speaker 1: not an overnight process, guys. It really took one day
Speaker 1: at a time when I would get into those moments.
Speaker 1: Because I also was going through therapy as well during
Speaker 1: this time, so I have to be very transparent about that.
Speaker 1: And when I would talk to my therapist about my feelings,
Speaker 1: she would say, it's about substituting the bad behavior for
Speaker 1: a good one. So when you are feeling a certain way,
Speaker 1: she says, Chrissie, just go for a walk, you know.
Speaker 1: When you want some junk, try to say, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna eat a nice, healthy serving of fruit instead. Now,
Speaker 1: again it's easier said than done. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, when you want something bad enough, when
Speaker 1: you want that change bad enough in your life, you
Speaker 1: are going to slowly but surely find a way. So
Speaker 1: those were some of the initial steps that I took
Speaker 1: to help stop leaning on food as my really as
Speaker 1: my stress reliever. And if I did eat food, it
Speaker 1: was a healthier option instead of the worst case option.
Speaker 1: And when I started doing that, the scale moved for me.
Speaker 1: And once I started that, saw that scales start to move,
Speaker 1: and I started feeling better than my momentum just multiply
Speaker 1: times a hundred, right, So for me, I'll do all
Speaker 1: the things. I'll eat the right foods, and as soon
Speaker 1: as I start to see my body change just a
Speaker 1: little bit, I getta okay, yeah, And then when you
Speaker 1: look back up, you back where you fucking guarded. Man, Damn,
Speaker 1: that is my cryptonite I can't get. So most people
Speaker 1: go through um it's when you're on a weight lost journey,
Speaker 1: health journey, and sometimes other journeys in life in general.
Speaker 1: When you start to feel a little bit better, when
Speaker 1: you start to move out of that space just a
Speaker 1: little bit, we all get what's called a false sense
Speaker 1: of confidence. Right, so you're feeling yourself, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I then lost ten pounds, my ways to start to
Speaker 1: look a little more snash. I got a little bit
Speaker 1: more energy. I'm trying to be out in the streets
Speaker 1: to show everybody, and they lost this ten pounds. But
Speaker 1: being out there is what got you where you are
Speaker 1: in exactly the social eating social. I tell all of
Speaker 1: my ladies, I'm like, wait a minute, you worked so
Speaker 1: hard to lose this forty pounds just to go on
Speaker 1: vacation to eat all that weight back on your body.
Speaker 1: But you don't think like I don't feel like you
Speaker 1: should deprive yourself a lot like vacation. It's really hard
Speaker 1: to stick to that diet on vacation. It really is.
Speaker 1: But these are the tips that I give my clients.
Speaker 1: You know, when I work with Tammy, once upon time,
Speaker 1: I would always tell her Tammy. Just hit me up
Speaker 1: when you know you're about to go out, let me
Speaker 1: help you make some better choices. So to your point, yes,
Speaker 1: I want my clients to enjoy themselves if it's an
Speaker 1: occasion that is definitely worth celebrating, not just so on
Speaker 1: so and yms and everybody over there, because everybody else's
Speaker 1: occasion cannot be your occasion. Let's keep that one, okay,
Speaker 1: especially when you have specific goals that you're trying to
Speaker 1: achieve with your body and health. So I always tell
Speaker 1: my clients to choose wisely. Pick wisely, tell me what
Speaker 1: means the most to you, and we can find a
Speaker 1: way to navigate, because the truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: when we go out, we don't have to get the
Speaker 1: worst thing on the menu all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: there are better choices that can be made. And I
Speaker 1: also tell people pick your demon what means more to
Speaker 1: you having a couple of glasses of champagne or having
Speaker 1: that crazy meal. Do you have to do both all
Speaker 1: the time? You know, So once you learn those balances,
Speaker 1: thing all right, Well, Chrissie, like my clients would say, Chrissie,
Speaker 1: I want to order this crazy entree. I haven't had
Speaker 1: in a long time. But you know, I'll drink water
Speaker 1: and I'll skip dessert, like you gotta. You have to
Speaker 1: create those fair balances for you to still be able
Speaker 1: to achieve what you're trying to achieve with your health
Speaker 1: and your body. Right. I don't let me tell you.
Speaker 1: She used to get so like I. I call her
Speaker 1: from the restaurant and just send her a picture of
Speaker 1: the menu, like, bitch, where am I eat? And then
Speaker 1: she picks the old salad with and it'll be like
Speaker 1: all this amazing ship on the menu and I'm eating
Speaker 1: like the little vegetables in a piece of bake fish
Speaker 1: like that. I know it was like it was right, No,
Speaker 1: it was right though. It was right to choose those
Speaker 1: things from the menu with what I was trying to achieve, right,
Speaker 1: But I used to be like this bit that's how
Speaker 1: I would feel. I want to listen to you. You
Speaker 1: know it was. It was hard. And let me remind you, guys,
Speaker 1: it is not a restaurant's job to cook for your health.
Speaker 1: That's why in the restaurants I think the menus. The
Speaker 1: menus kind of help now because they have the calorie
Speaker 1: count next to the item, so I don't eat out
Speaker 1: a whole lot. I like to cook my food. I
Speaker 1: like to see how my food is prepared, so I
Speaker 1: don't really eat fast food for real. I'll eat French
Speaker 1: fries from places. But when you go to a restaurant nowadays,
Speaker 1: unless it's like a five star, they usually have the
Speaker 1: calorie count next to the item, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times that will deterred me from ordering what I really want.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, like calories in one setting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even if it's not on the menu, it's on
Speaker 1: the website. So I always tell my clients, if you
Speaker 1: know what you're going, just quickly go to the website
Speaker 1: or even I'll tell people send me the link to
Speaker 1: the restaurant and that will allow me to look at
Speaker 1: the menu and then to your point. Um. Some restaurants
Speaker 1: are very thrilled. They'll tell you not only the caloric intake,
Speaker 1: they'll tell you like the how much sodium, how much
Speaker 1: sugar into your point. Knowledge is power, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times people kind of want to have
Speaker 1: the you know, if I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: it won't matter. But actually educating yourself asked to how
Speaker 1: many calories carved, sugar and sodium is in your foods
Speaker 1: that you love. That can be a very sobering moment
Speaker 1: like wow, like I did such a sens the other day.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this today, this, this weekend. This is why
Speaker 1: I'm not looking and feeling the way I want to feel. Right,
Speaker 1: I'd rather eat my calories than drink them. I'd rather
Speaker 1: I'd rather drink my calories and liquor than eat and
Speaker 1: and or. And then of course we have the grand
Speaker 1: combination of people who do both. They drink there. But
Speaker 1: for me, when I was on my journey, I have
Speaker 1: to be honest. I did initially still drink my patron
Speaker 1: and pineapple, that was my favorite drink. Um. I still
Speaker 1: did get some results because I definitely modified it. But guys,
Speaker 1: when I let go of alcohol for one solid year,
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I felt the best I
Speaker 1: had ever felt on my transition. Um, on my transformation,
Speaker 1: and I always challenge my clients try to at least
Speaker 1: go thirty days dry, six weeks dry, eight weeks, because
Speaker 1: you really will let your face. Girl, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: my face was so telling just now. Um, you said
Speaker 1: you didn't drink no liking for one whole year three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five days. I told myself, Chrissie, what's
Speaker 1: one year out of your entire life, since you've been
Speaker 1: drinking since you were twenty one until now, to try
Speaker 1: not to have something that is of no value to you.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. You know, alcohol has zero value nutritional
Speaker 1: value you to the body. It actually starts to start
Speaker 1: to get technical, it actually breaks your body down when
Speaker 1: you drink it, immediately from the time that you swallow it,
Speaker 1: your inner body, your organs eight alcohol. We like it,
Speaker 1: We like it. But anything that alters you and and
Speaker 1: and your body cannot digest and filter and know what
Speaker 1: to do with it, those are harmful things. So that's
Speaker 1: the truth about it. But again, we like it. We
Speaker 1: mix it with juice, soda, shake it up, twisted, put
Speaker 1: a rim on it. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it still is poison. But we just like it. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a the funniest poison that ever came out. Sure,
Speaker 1: I I ain't gonna lie, but when I let go
Speaker 1: of it for a year, that really elevated my transformation
Speaker 1: to the next level. The level of clarity, the immediate
Speaker 1: blow and inflammation that came off my body, even from
Speaker 1: cutting alcohol. I think sometimes we get used to see
Speaker 1: in a certain way every day. We don't even realize
Speaker 1: that it's not normal. But when you start eliminating certain
Speaker 1: foods out of your diet um, then you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: Like how was I even living like that before? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely addicted to food and people. I don't really
Speaker 1: like pick up the substance. Like I don't have to
Speaker 1: drink alcohol at all. I don't have to smoke weed,
Speaker 1: food people like they go together. That's why, like in
Speaker 1: the relationship, I'm gonna gain of most weed. Absolutely for me.
Speaker 1: I'm a social drinker, Like I got a bunch of
Speaker 1: looker at my house, but I don't touch it when
Speaker 1: I'm in here by myself. You know, some people can
Speaker 1: just drink at home alone. I can't do that and
Speaker 1: just sit here until somebody comes over, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's have a drink if they come over. But I
Speaker 1: won't drink it. But weed, that's a different story. I'm
Speaker 1: a puff puff on my weed. I mean about that.
Speaker 1: Let me talk about weed. Hookahocause very popular now, all
Speaker 1: the different flavors, vaping, whatever, um, all of those activities
Speaker 1: lead to. Unfortunately for food choices. Guys, um, they really
Speaker 1: really do UM. Usually UM at hookah bars they'll have
Speaker 1: desserts right the fried foods because they grow together. So
Speaker 1: anytime you in the same as drinking, any time you're
Speaker 1: taking something that's gonna mellow you out, kind of get
Speaker 1: you on chill, that's when the munchie start to happen.
Speaker 1: So I even tell that um can that smoke weed
Speaker 1: or even consume edibles for whatever the reason they do it.
Speaker 1: I warned them and I say, listen, be very very mindful.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily the weed itself, but it's the effect
Speaker 1: of it on you that can start you what I
Speaker 1: call grazing. That's like how a cow just grazes in
Speaker 1: the field. You start having Okay, little notch over here,
Speaker 1: a little French friend here, let me get an the
Speaker 1: drink because of how it affects you. So again, you know,
Speaker 1: people do what they do. But I let people know again,
Speaker 1: when you're on that health journey, when you're trying to
Speaker 1: reach a goal, when you're trying to lose weight or
Speaker 1: improve something in your health, you might want to put
Speaker 1: those things on the back burner. So you just don't
Speaker 1: want us to be happy at all what you What
Speaker 1: I want you guys to do is to fall in love.
Speaker 1: And I know this sounds dramatic, but just hear me out.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to fall in love with the
Speaker 1: things that are really gonna save your life, because we
Speaker 1: already love all that stuff like we love all that.
Speaker 1: We love the the alcohol, the we the food, whatever
Speaker 1: your vices, you love that. You love it so much
Speaker 1: that you let it alter you think about it. People
Speaker 1: will eat a certain way, know when they're gaining weight,
Speaker 1: but that gaining weight doesn't stop them from eating it.
Speaker 1: That's addiction. So we love those things and those activit
Speaker 1: it these sometimes to our detriment. So I want to
Speaker 1: change the narrative for people as a coach and teach
Speaker 1: them to fall in loves that are gonna heal, fall
Speaker 1: in love with foods that are gonna heal their body,
Speaker 1: teas that are gonna be cleansing to them. Um, and
Speaker 1: just with lifestyle. Fall in love with the lifestyle that's
Speaker 1: going to add years to your life instead of a
Speaker 1: lifestyle that's going to ultimately take years away from your life,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense right, or just alive and sick,
Speaker 1: which is the worst part. I want to have a
Speaker 1: quality of life. You know, I think you know a
Speaker 1: lot of younger people, Um, they don't really think about
Speaker 1: how they're gonna look and feel when they're forty, fifty, sixty,
Speaker 1: depending on their starting age. You know, me being almost
Speaker 1: forty five, I'm thinking, well, Chrissie, how do you want
Speaker 1: to look when you're fifty? How do you want to
Speaker 1: feel when you're sixty? Do you want to still have
Speaker 1: this vitality energy, big smile, great, you know, do you
Speaker 1: still want to have that or do you want to Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: go along with the flow of the stereotypes for this
Speaker 1: country where people retire and have to use their whole
Speaker 1: retirement on their health. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend these years working just to
Speaker 1: not be able to enjoy my retirement because I'm sick,
Speaker 1: because I'm on two three medications. When I think back
Speaker 1: seven eight years ago, when the doctor was telling me
Speaker 1: all of these things that were wrong with me back then,
Speaker 1: if I just think if I never checked it, where
Speaker 1: I'd be now. I wouldn't be organic Christie, let's be real.
Speaker 1: I would probably be on insulin because I would have
Speaker 1: been a full blown diabetic and I would have had
Speaker 1: high blood pressure, high cholesterol big er because let's be honest,
Speaker 1: if we don't battle the demon, at some point, it's
Speaker 1: gonna catch up with us. So I just decided to
Speaker 1: invest in my health for one case, which is making
Speaker 1: those deposits to ensure when I'm older that I'm able
Speaker 1: to live the quality of life that I deserve after
Speaker 1: having given so much of myself in my younger years.
Speaker 1: That's smart and that's dedication. I don't I suck at that.
Speaker 1: So so do you think that in the black community
Speaker 1: in particular, right Big Mama is celebrated. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: definitely I think it's like a detriment to to to
Speaker 1: our community. But we act like, you know, it's okay.
Speaker 1: But Big Mama and Big Sisters, Like, is we we
Speaker 1: are unhealthy? Yeah, we're just not. Culture. Yeah, as a culture,
Speaker 1: So how do we? How do we um? Because women
Speaker 1: can state all the things they don't like about men,
Speaker 1: like I don't want a short man, I don't want
Speaker 1: a bald man. I don't want to I like bald
Speaker 1: men or whatever it is. But the minute no man
Speaker 1: says anything about a woman's weight, it's like all hell
Speaker 1: hell is about to break loose loose like, even if
Speaker 1: he's just stating its reference. I like slimmer women absolutely
Speaker 1: well at the end of the day, Like like Tammy
Speaker 1: started off, it's not about necessarily being skinning, but it
Speaker 1: is about being the healthiest version of yourself. And I
Speaker 1: had to keep evaluating what that was for me because
Speaker 1: it's gonna look different for each person. Um. But I
Speaker 1: always tell people, you're never truly your best self. You know,
Speaker 1: when you are not eating majority healthy, exercising, um, And
Speaker 1: when you, in my opinion, don't fully you're not fully
Speaker 1: comfortable with how you look and feel. If you have
Speaker 1: that little nag in the back of your head. That's
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about compulsive or obsession, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to that extreme. But if you wake
Speaker 1: up every day and you're looking to marry and you like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you look good, you're pretty, you're great, you're an amazing woman,
Speaker 1: but you're not fully liking how you feel in that
Speaker 1: space that you're occupying, that means there can be changed.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, guys, we do this in other
Speaker 1: aspects of our lives, don't We don't we self reflect
Speaker 1: and and see how we can improve as a worker,
Speaker 1: a person, a girlfriend and wife, a mother. That is
Speaker 1: called growth. But everybody gets so sensitive when it comes
Speaker 1: to the physical because, like you said, in certain cultures,
Speaker 1: the plus sized woman with the ample body, you know,
Speaker 1: that is just the expectation. I remember growing up. My
Speaker 1: mother used to always say, don't nobody want a bag
Speaker 1: of bunges but a dog? And I'm like, okay. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, Mommy, that's that's obesity. So what
Speaker 1: are we doing here? So to your point, I do
Speaker 1: struggle a lot of times, not just with us, but
Speaker 1: I service a lot of other cultures. Guys. Listen, my
Speaker 1: Latino ladies like look, I like my plantes, I like
Speaker 1: my rs, I like my beans, Africans, you know, I
Speaker 1: have my clients that my Italians. When you grow up
Speaker 1: eating a certain way, and most of the women, as
Speaker 1: I would say, even Italian women there, they're healthy women.
Speaker 1: It's like the norm. But the problem is as we
Speaker 1: get older, that's not translating into healthy. And I keep
Speaker 1: telling people in the United States it looks so different here.
Speaker 1: Think about in other countries they're still walking, cycling there
Speaker 1: in their gardens, they are still doing a lot of
Speaker 1: physical activity. And they're eating rice and pasta and everything else.
Speaker 1: But they're not as overweight as Americans. We take all
Speaker 1: the elevators, escalators, people move us park our cars as
Speaker 1: close to the entrance as possible. We don't do the work, guys,
Speaker 1: We don't. We don't walk to the town. They still
Speaker 1: do that. In Europe it is normal miles every day,
Speaker 1: like it's nothing. We don't do that. So what we
Speaker 1: eat sticks to us and makes us sick. Mm hmmm yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah, because over in China, like a large fry
Speaker 1: is like a small fry here. Yeah, so even our
Speaker 1: portions are way bigger. Everything is bigger in America. Europe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Europe too. I remember because I was living there for
Speaker 1: three years and then I came back home and I
Speaker 1: went through a fast food restaurant and I was like,
Speaker 1: I want the large drink, and baby it was a gallon.
Speaker 1: I had forgotten how big a large drink in America
Speaker 1: was Like God, damn right, were running in the car
Speaker 1: like them to sell those dollar tees, those big gass
Speaker 1: dollar tease that's criminal, hundred grams of sugar. And you
Speaker 1: know what's sad is in Europe fast food. Now, don't
Speaker 1: get me your own fast food. It's still fast food,
Speaker 1: but in Europe they have a higher standard of food.
Speaker 1: So the fast food in Europe is actually a higher
Speaker 1: quality then the fast food that the franchises um serve us.
Speaker 1: In the United States, it's like night day, you know.
Speaker 1: People will go over there and be like, how did
Speaker 1: I have a Wendy's Burger? And it really was like
Speaker 1: all beef, grass fed, like real deal. But in the
Speaker 1: United States everything is crazy highly processed, you know. And
Speaker 1: I tell people it's not even necessarily how much you
Speaker 1: eat all the time, it's what you're eating. A simple
Speaker 1: kids meal from a fast food restaurant can still run
Speaker 1: up in you a thousand calories. Stop thinking because it's small,
Speaker 1: those little that four piece nugget, that's four hundred fifty calories,
Speaker 1: five hundred calories and it's not including the hundred calories
Speaker 1: for the sauce. Why why are you stressing us out?
Speaker 1: You're just ruining my day. I know that to tell
Speaker 1: me all the time, though, don't I Oh, and she
Speaker 1: becaussed me off. I had a I had a doctor pepper,
Speaker 1: and then all right, we had went to lunch and
Speaker 1: I had spread with my lunch and then we were
Speaker 1: in here like recording some commercials or something like that,
Speaker 1: and I had a doctor pepper that was in the
Speaker 1: fridge and she was like you about to drink That
Speaker 1: was like, yes, you saw me pull it out of
Speaker 1: the refrigerator. I didn't set it on the counter to
Speaker 1: just look at it. She was like can I see it?
Speaker 1: I was like okay, She's like, this has sixty three
Speaker 1: grams of sugar in it. I was like, oak about weed, Like,
Speaker 1: think about a pile of weed. That's how my sugar
Speaker 1: is in it. Think about sixty grams of weed. It's
Speaker 1: a lot that I think about it. And put sugar
Speaker 1: in everything. You can't escape it. They put sugar and
Speaker 1: things where it's not even supposed to be everything. And
Speaker 1: you know you had mentioned the point a planet h
Speaker 1: earlier where you were like, hey, I prefer to cook
Speaker 1: at home because I'm able to control the narrative. And
Speaker 1: that's the type of coach that I am. I tell
Speaker 1: my clients. I try to teach them to really get
Speaker 1: into the food prep part of this journey because you
Speaker 1: are in control of your food. You see what spices
Speaker 1: and seasonings, you see the marinades. You're the one preparing it.
Speaker 1: You know, we are so trusting when we go out
Speaker 1: to eat, We really really trust that they're doing what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do back there in that kitchen and
Speaker 1: that air, all the regulations are being followed, and that
Speaker 1: magic arm that comes out from the back to place
Speaker 1: it on our table. That there was no snaff foods
Speaker 1: in between A and B. That's a lot of trust, guys.
Speaker 1: We don't know. And then restaurants won't also tell you everything.
Speaker 1: Half of the marinades, even in salads, they put sugar.
Speaker 1: I went to a Caribbean, a popular local Caribbean restaurant
Speaker 1: the other day, and I'm like, why do these greens
Speaker 1: taste like sugar? They started at it suggar. I can
Speaker 1: taste it. My palette is so sensitive now, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: they didn't do that before. But you have to understand, guys,
Speaker 1: it's by not by chances, by design. The more sugar
Speaker 1: and other addictive ingredients that these places can add to
Speaker 1: their food, what we're gonna do. We're gonna be lined
Speaker 1: up like the correckheads ready for some months. There are
Speaker 1: and you and we are so As a as a
Speaker 1: trainer at coach, I try to educate my clients and
Speaker 1: have them start to think about these little things that
Speaker 1: obviously they weren't thinking about, to help them be more
Speaker 1: conscious and making better choices. And ultimately back to the
Speaker 1: question you're asking me, how much weight did I lose?
Speaker 1: A j It took me eighteen months, but I lost
Speaker 1: ninety four pounds in eighteen months. That's a whole and
Speaker 1: that's just died exercise lifestyles. No medical assistance, no, okay,
Speaker 1: great question. No, no weight loss surgery, no dieting pills. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, poop and tea, no waste trainers, none of
Speaker 1: those things that are sold to us. And and and
Speaker 1: you know, as aids Um, I did it all by numero,
Speaker 1: you know, changing my diet slowly but surely, you know, um,
Speaker 1: and then stepping up my exercise. I started off just
Speaker 1: walking because that's all I can manage because Joel foot breathe.
Speaker 1: And then I started doing what I call a joggle,
Speaker 1: which is a little run walk, and then um. From there,
Speaker 1: I did get a personal trainer who worked with me
Speaker 1: for maybe about seven months, and then she left the industry.
Speaker 1: But during that time with her, she introduced me to
Speaker 1: lighter weights five, eight and ten pounds. I know, I
Speaker 1: didn't really go over fifteen pounds with her, um, and
Speaker 1: that was the foundation. And during that time with her,
Speaker 1: I would like to say, my love for weight training
Speaker 1: grew um. And after I stopped working with her, that's
Speaker 1: when I started challenging myself with some of the same movements,
Speaker 1: just with heavier weights. And then I fell in love
Speaker 1: with weight training. So I found myself lifting weights three
Speaker 1: to four days a week and then improving on my
Speaker 1: running on the other days. So I went from being
Speaker 1: able to barely run to the corner to the mailbox
Speaker 1: to running up to six miles a day. M hmm. My.
Speaker 1: My heaviest weight UM to date for a dead lift
Speaker 1: was to forty UM. I was able to do that um.
Speaker 1: And so I guess what I'm saying is I became
Speaker 1: now addicted to all of the right things. I became
Speaker 1: addicted to the lifestyle of eating healthy. I became addicted
Speaker 1: to doing the physical activities that was making my body
Speaker 1: look like an athlete. I actually I thought it was
Speaker 1: a compliment when people would ask me, like if I
Speaker 1: was out in the street, do you're on track? Are
Speaker 1: you a gymnast? That that made me feel good. Because
Speaker 1: it's like, if I'm gonna be in the gym putting
Speaker 1: in net work, I want to look like you know,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who go to the
Speaker 1: gym every single day, but they don't change. I'm changed
Speaker 1: and there a little. Then I just start and then
Speaker 1: that's not true. You do change. Because I was looking
Speaker 1: at some pictures from when we first started. You look
Speaker 1: totally different from when we first started, Like you lost weight.
Speaker 1: I had done gain weight since I've probably lost so
Speaker 1: I've lost about seventeen pounds in the last two years
Speaker 1: or so because my fat max was always to seventeen.
Speaker 1: So now I teeter between like one and two hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: And I don't mind nobody knowing my weight whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel like black women have a different I'm five four,
Speaker 1: so I'm not, you know, super tall, but like average
Speaker 1: side average height woman. But do you think like black
Speaker 1: women have a different um fat threshold? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I like to say skinny fat. It's
Speaker 1: for black women, right, No, But I don't want to
Speaker 1: be I don't think my body's type I will ever
Speaker 1: look super skinny. I think the smallest I've ever been with,
Speaker 1: like one fifty and I stole was super thick, so
Speaker 1: I would give you similar answer to that, And I
Speaker 1: wasn't skinny though, That's what I'm saying. You still look,
Speaker 1: you still have some nice thickness to you. So the
Speaker 1: technical world, the technical answer in the fitness world is no.
Speaker 1: You know, a body type is a body type, you know,
Speaker 1: but we do have different sized frames. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go as far as say big boned it like
Speaker 1: we heard growing up. But you can't have us I am.
Speaker 1: You can't have a frame, a medium frame and a
Speaker 1: larger frame. And that's just based on your genetics. That's
Speaker 1: just based on who your parents are, how they were.
Speaker 1: So for me, I am tiny. I have the tiniest angles,
Speaker 1: the tiniest little risk. I'm you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I know that I was meant to be a tiny,
Speaker 1: petite little thing. But there are women, um like I
Speaker 1: have a client super tall six to my one client Ali,
Speaker 1: She's a big girl. Even at her smallest, she still
Speaker 1: was a big girl. So it's all on your frame,
Speaker 1: It's all on your genetics. So I tell people again,
Speaker 1: it's not about skinny, It's about being the best version
Speaker 1: of your body and I think that that is what
Speaker 1: I want to challenge each and every one of my
Speaker 1: clients to find what that is. Sometimes we get just
Speaker 1: so used to being whatever size we are and accepting
Speaker 1: and then when you have everybody said, girl, you look good,
Speaker 1: and you know, guys who all that baby, don't go that.
Speaker 1: Don't like a bag of box with the dog. You know,
Speaker 1: when you get told that your whole life, when you're
Speaker 1: on the thicker side of the fence, you know, you
Speaker 1: get comfortable with that. But I always at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I asked my ladies, well, how do
Speaker 1: you feel. If you're with this, that's one thing, But
Speaker 1: if you're like, yeah, get lots of compliments and me
Speaker 1: and like the way I look. My friends tell me
Speaker 1: I'm cute, But I'm feeling when died. When I walk
Speaker 1: up and downstairs, my back hurt. You know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: struggling finding pants that fit because I'm small at the top,
Speaker 1: being at the bottom or whatever. So that's where you
Speaker 1: have to step up and say, all right, let me
Speaker 1: slowly but surely get on this mission defining the best,
Speaker 1: the best version of me. So one seventies like my like,
Speaker 1: that's my favorite week. One seventies my favorite week. So Tammy,
Speaker 1: you saw it on my scale. I've written out one
Speaker 1: seventy point five and I have that on the uh
Speaker 1: the reader on the scales every time I get on there.
Speaker 1: That's what it says. So for me, it's she can
Speaker 1: have a piece of paper over the number, so when
Speaker 1: she stepped on it, it just already tell her what
Speaker 1: its period. Pool. We manifested one seven and do you
Speaker 1: over here. So for me, it starts in the mind.
Speaker 1: So once I make my mind up this is what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, then I do it. But we also know,
Speaker 1: like you know, faith without the actual works is what
Speaker 1: it is. Well, you know what, let me pick you back,
Speaker 1: let me take you back on that. One thing I
Speaker 1: always tell my clients is you have to envision the wind.
Speaker 1: You have to see yourself winning in order to do it.
Speaker 1: You trust and believe those Olympic athletes they already saw
Speaker 1: themselves crossing that fishing finish line, getting that and standing
Speaker 1: on that partium. They have envisioned it for years before
Speaker 1: it happened. When people build big corporations, anything that's grand,
Speaker 1: those people are like I dreamt about it, I had
Speaker 1: visions about it. I saw it unfolding before my eyes.
Speaker 1: So our health thoes have to be taken with that
Speaker 1: same level of urgency as we take care your goals.
Speaker 1: Like look, people chase the bag, they want their money,
Speaker 1: their visuals say they manifested. They're like, look, I want
Speaker 1: to be comfortable, I want to live a certain lifestyle.
Speaker 1: And then they begin to do what they need to
Speaker 1: do to make that happen for them. But the same
Speaker 1: thing has to be for our help. We have to envision.
Speaker 1: So I tell my clients, if you know or think
Speaker 1: you know how you want to look, where you want
Speaker 1: to be, you have to first and foremost believe that
Speaker 1: you will do it. If you come to me as
Speaker 1: a client already defeated, you know like, I know this
Speaker 1: is what I need, but I probably ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 1: You're speaking that over your life, you know when people
Speaker 1: like Christie it's just too hard, I can't do it. Well,
Speaker 1: then you can't do it because you're not convincing yourself
Speaker 1: and telling yourself you will do it. So everybody's journey
Speaker 1: is different. It took me eighteen months to lose ninety
Speaker 1: four pounds. I coached a client she lost a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty pounds in twelve months. Does that mean that
Speaker 1: she was more successful than me? That's her path. So
Speaker 1: you have to walk your path to health and wellness
Speaker 1: and start off with the little things and then attack
Speaker 1: the bigger things. But know that at the whole time,
Speaker 1: you have to know that there's that pot of goal
Speaker 1: waiting for you at the end of the rainbow. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: So y'all hear that, listeners, if you somewhere sitting fat
Speaker 1: and unhappy with your body. I try to be funny,
Speaker 1: but she said that she could She could barely walk
Speaker 1: to the mailbox, and it was just all these small
Speaker 1: steps that got her to the bigger goal of her
Speaker 1: ultimate fitness. So if y'all hear that and you feel inspired,
Speaker 1: please get your ass up right now and walk your
Speaker 1: ass to on the street. And I'm about to start
Speaker 1: to you know, I'm remotivated me, Christie, because you know
Speaker 1: I'm a no no. I still will go. I just
Speaker 1: I fall off, like I'll get back to it and
Speaker 1: I'll be running and I'll be doing all the things.
Speaker 1: I was doing cardio every day for forty our minutes,
Speaker 1: and I did that for like two or three months.
Speaker 1: I was doing that and I could see my body
Speaker 1: changing dramatically. And then I was like, damn, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I'm about to go on vacation. I started going to Jamaica,
Speaker 1: I started eating. I was old villas. I saw you
Speaker 1: because you know how. I was doing Instagrams. Yes, I
Speaker 1: was doing the most. And then I look up and
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I gotta gut again. I was
Speaker 1: right back. I'm sitting here right now, I rubbing my
Speaker 1: belly like damn, let me get my ass up and
Speaker 1: go back to the gym. So we were talking about earlier, right,
Speaker 1: we have to fine balance. I don't want to deny
Speaker 1: as a coach anybody anything that they love, but we
Speaker 1: have to learn how to find a happy dance with
Speaker 1: the foods that we love versus the lifestyle that we're
Speaker 1: really ultimately no, we need to be living. Um. I
Speaker 1: think it's just the overboard of it all. I tell people,
Speaker 1: for example, we can enjoy a cocktail, but do we
Speaker 1: have to enjoy five cocktails. It's the learning what moderation
Speaker 1: looks like for you. We can never look at what
Speaker 1: anybody else does and say, well, they eat pizza, drink
Speaker 1: beer every day and have abs. Well that's them. We
Speaker 1: don't know what their makeup is, their body right now
Speaker 1: may allow them to do that. For me, if I
Speaker 1: look at food, I could gain temp I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't eat anything right. We have to learn what that
Speaker 1: looks like for us and set our limits. Like even
Speaker 1: for me, people ask me, well, Chrissie, do you ever cheat?
Speaker 1: Do you ever eat outside your lifestyle? Absolutely? I'm human.
Speaker 1: I like what I like to, But do you know
Speaker 1: what I do? I planned the cheat. I don't impulsively cheat.
Speaker 1: I have found historically when I either let other people
Speaker 1: pressure me or I impulsively be like, oh I want
Speaker 1: this and I go do it, I go overboard. But
Speaker 1: when I plan it out and I say, all right, Chrissie, Sunday,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go to crack a barrel. You're gonna enjoy
Speaker 1: two blueberry pancakes and mimosa side of bacon, whatever, and
Speaker 1: that is what your meal is gonna You're gonna enjoy
Speaker 1: that moment. I mentally prepared myself to go into that.
Speaker 1: We'll just call it cheap, and I already know what
Speaker 1: I'm eating, and after I eat it, it's done versively.
Speaker 1: Versus if someone was just like, come on, girl, let's
Speaker 1: go to brunt. Then I'm doing the French toast. I'm
Speaker 1: doing the mimosas I'm doing. Ever the muffin looks good,
Speaker 1: We'll look at that Danish because it's impulsive. I did
Speaker 1: not prepare myself because I have to remember I am
Speaker 1: two snacks away from obesity. I never forget where I
Speaker 1: came from. I never forget where I started. I am
Speaker 1: still that girl. Okay, come on. I don't dislike lasagna.
Speaker 1: I don't dislike liquor, but I learned that it's not
Speaker 1: good for me to consume it how I used to.
Speaker 1: So again, it's that falling in love with the things
Speaker 1: that are gonna heal you and extend your life, and
Speaker 1: learning to kind of place more distance with those other foods.
Speaker 1: It's not that you can't have them, but we cannot
Speaker 1: go overboard. So learning moderation for you it as an
Speaker 1: individual with the assistance to hear me out of a coach.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to do a shameful plug, but it's
Speaker 1: the truth. Guys. You know, if left up to our
Speaker 1: own accord, we're not gonna hit that mark because what
Speaker 1: you think is your moderation when as others are on
Speaker 1: looking now, that ain't it, You've already gone overboard. So
Speaker 1: I think that people do need to partner themselves. It's
Speaker 1: no different than the therapist. Guys. You need to sometimes
Speaker 1: put certain people in your life to help you look
Speaker 1: at things a little bit differently so you can make
Speaker 1: better choices. It's like a relationship. People will choose the
Speaker 1: same man over no again and no, and they ain't
Speaker 1: no good. And I'd be like y'all going down the
Speaker 1: same food path that you've been all for years, knowing
Speaker 1: as soon as you eat one bite, you're gonna eat
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Why are you doing that? Right? Because
Speaker 1: it's hard. A lot of us are eating the foods
Speaker 1: we grew up off of. I've changed my dad. I
Speaker 1: know I don't eat like anybody in my family, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I still don't lose the weight like I
Speaker 1: want to because I consume more carbs now for the
Speaker 1: most part. But that's why the mothers are responsible for
Speaker 1: the nutrition of the family. If you're eating bad, your
Speaker 1: kid's gonna be fat as hell, Like everybody's gonna be
Speaker 1: big as hell. No, this bit is addicted to candy canes,
Speaker 1: and that is pure sugar. Right, it's only for Christmas.
Speaker 1: So I haven't had a candy cane until December and
Speaker 1: then over it's over. Guys, think about how I love peppermint. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's like somebody fucking grandmama, like I'm with you, But
Speaker 1: you know easily don't. Isn't there always something like around
Speaker 1: the fall when we got pumpkin spice everything, caramels, chocolate, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Mocha drinks change it, the drinks change at Starbucks.
Speaker 1: It's by design, so to me, each season brings on
Speaker 1: something girl. As soon as it starts getting even though
Speaker 1: black folks can grill all you round, but as soon
Speaker 1: as the weather starts getting warm, oh everything, it's time
Speaker 1: with this. And then as each I feel as each
Speaker 1: season comes, companies start what advertising other things for us
Speaker 1: that we really feel like we have to have these things.
Speaker 1: And again, when you're working with a coach who's always
Speaker 1: mindful of the trends and aware of what's going on,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like the little angel that's on your shoulder.
Speaker 1: You know, there's like the devil and the Angel. The
Speaker 1: Devil's like, girl gonna do it? You know that that
Speaker 1: meme on install Don't do it? Girl, don't do it.
Speaker 1: I did it, so I'm gonna come up and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like, Okay, listen, I know you want that,
Speaker 1: but let's just think about this for a minute before
Speaker 1: you go into that. We've already lost ten pounds. We
Speaker 1: gotta go to lose twenty pounds. Are you sure that's
Speaker 1: worth you missing out on your results and having someone
Speaker 1: like that who's genuinely in your core, not your cousin,
Speaker 1: not your auntie, not your girlfriend, not not your man
Speaker 1: because he's gonna want to take you out every night.
Speaker 1: You need a very genuine good person that's in your
Speaker 1: corner to always remind you of what your goals. And you, Christie,
Speaker 1: you're so patient because I know I used to be
Speaker 1: getting mad at you and ship like you'd be telling
Speaker 1: me what to do and it almost felt like a
Speaker 1: narcotics anonymous honestly, because she was like my sponsor, Like
Speaker 1: I'd be calling her in the middle of night like,
Speaker 1: which I'll about to eat this motherfucking don don't do it, girl,
Speaker 1: You're gonna ruin your sobriety. That's how I used to be.
Speaker 1: I think both me and Tam have commitment and accountability issue.
Speaker 1: The other day, I was at the gym and the
Speaker 1: guy asked me if I wanted to sign up for
Speaker 1: my free personal training. I'm like, but didn that means
Speaker 1: I gotta come like I don't want to be committed
Speaker 1: to having to do this thing. And that's why I
Speaker 1: probably never had a personal training. I know Tammy does
Speaker 1: better with that. She'll get she'll stick with. But then
Speaker 1: but then it also is is expensive. It's not cheap.
Speaker 1: It's not cheap. And then yeah, that's when I fall off,
Speaker 1: especially when it starts adding up and my my pockets
Speaker 1: started getting a little broke. I'd be like, I could
Speaker 1: do this by myself. I don't need to pay nobody.
Speaker 1: But that's why I do. I do need to pay somebody,
Speaker 1: because when I have somebody showing up at my building,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be here at eight o'clock, I know I
Speaker 1: gotta get up and be they're gonna be here. Now.
Speaker 1: See what Chrissy was easier to like ditch her because
Speaker 1: she was virtual. All I had to do is just
Speaker 1: not answer my phone, you know, but to this day
Speaker 1: her get no girls still virtual? All right, Well, let
Speaker 1: me hit me up as soon as you're back in
Speaker 1: New streets. Up bead, I'm there. All you gotta do
Speaker 1: was answer your phone. You could work out. You don't
Speaker 1: even have to go down to your gym. Girl, I
Speaker 1: would look at that ship and be like, get somebody else,
Speaker 1: go back to sleep. I'm like, you're gonna decline me
Speaker 1: on the virtual call for some ship I don't pay for, right,
Speaker 1: That's how you for all the field. She's still gonna
Speaker 1: get her money. So fucking well, listen, I'm so. I
Speaker 1: am so glad as a coach. I actually take my
Speaker 1: job for real. Seriously, you talk to any of my clients,
Speaker 1: A lot gonna be like, well I already paid up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, and I'm gonna show up and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be here and do my job. I've never ever
Speaker 1: thought like, well, dang, I got the money, so I'm good.
Speaker 1: They don't want to show up now. I really care
Speaker 1: about each and every one of my clients. It's sometimes
Speaker 1: it's like and I think that's because I used to
Speaker 1: be obese, overweight. I was very unhealthy, And I think
Speaker 1: because I come from that space, I wish I had
Speaker 1: somebody that was on me like I'm all my clients
Speaker 1: when I went through that journey first of all. I
Speaker 1: went through so many years of inconsistency of up and
Speaker 1: down to get me to that eighteen month period, okay,
Speaker 1: of the straight and narrow. During that eighteen months where
Speaker 1: I was just hitting all of my marks, guys, it
Speaker 1: was hard. It was lonely because guess what, I'm now
Speaker 1: behaving different than everybody else around me. I'm not eating
Speaker 1: what they're eating. I'm not drinking what they're drinking. I
Speaker 1: am more organized with my time, and I had to
Speaker 1: be very strict about that. Even my kids. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll do whatever you want, but mommy has
Speaker 1: to go grocery shopping first. I gotta get my work
Speaker 1: out in first, and then we can do X, Y
Speaker 1: and Z. Sometimes that can be reward and lonely at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know. So I try to be
Speaker 1: for my clients with I did not have for myself,
Speaker 1: which was that constant support. To your point, I would
Speaker 1: have times where I'm laying in the bed late at
Speaker 1: night and I just want to eat the worst possible
Speaker 1: thing and drink whatever I want. I would want to.
Speaker 1: I even remember crying over certain foods that I want
Speaker 1: it real bad and I couldn't have them. That's addiction,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean when you really want what you
Speaker 1: want in that moment and you are convince yourself emotionally
Speaker 1: that's what you need to feel better, and then you're
Speaker 1: telling me I can't have it. Like you said, you
Speaker 1: want to throw hands, you know. So I tried to
Speaker 1: be that support, that comfort, and that reassurance to each
Speaker 1: and every client that I served to help them realize, look,
Speaker 1: you're not alone. And then everything that I tell my
Speaker 1: clients to do, I'm doing it. Everything I tell you
Speaker 1: wanna eat, I'm eating or have a every workout I've
Speaker 1: put people through, every bird be every jump squad, I
Speaker 1: do it too. And it was me doing those things
Speaker 1: that helped to get me where I am now. And
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna take it back to what you first said,
Speaker 1: it's not about being skinny. Skinny doesn't eat equate health.
Speaker 1: I I actually coach. I do nutrition coaching from people,
Speaker 1: not just overweight people. I help people who are staying
Speaker 1: game weight. I help people who are overweight lose weight.
Speaker 1: And then I also have a segment of clients that
Speaker 1: come to me who are already at their goal weight,
Speaker 1: but they just eat horrible and they just want to
Speaker 1: learn how to prepare healthy meals and put together food.
Speaker 1: So it's not about being skinny. You can be skinny
Speaker 1: and still be diabetic. You can be skinny and still
Speaker 1: have high blood pressure and and and fail your your
Speaker 1: physical So it's not about that. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: to your point where you go on my page and
Speaker 1: you scroll my page and see my videos that I
Speaker 1: post up, I have hips I have, but you know
Speaker 1: I have me on my bones. But it's all about
Speaker 1: being the best version. I said that you can be
Speaker 1: for yourself. Now, if I want to be super skinny,
Speaker 1: I know how to do that. You know. I got
Speaker 1: down to at my smallest a hundred twenty five pounds.
Speaker 1: I was super tiny, and according to the medical charts,
Speaker 1: that's what I was supposed to be. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you. The weight that I enjoyed the
Speaker 1: most for me with muscle was like a buck fifty
Speaker 1: So according to their charts, a hundred and fifty pounds
Speaker 1: and still overweight. But I had more muscle than fat.
Speaker 1: So it's like they couldn't really say anything, you know,
Speaker 1: versus being one fifty one eighty of a higher body
Speaker 1: fat percentage, I think that's where the dynamic comes in.
Speaker 1: The scale is just a tool, okay, to help you.
Speaker 1: But that's why a lot of coaches say, hey, hit
Speaker 1: those weights, yes, get your diet together, but the way
Speaker 1: training is going to be the turning point on your
Speaker 1: body composition. Because when I weighed one fifty one five,
Speaker 1: that was a lot for my height, but I still
Speaker 1: look like I was like one thirty, right, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So that's what it's about. It's I
Speaker 1: guess what I'm saying. It's not just one thing, it's
Speaker 1: all things. It's the healthy eating first, it's how you
Speaker 1: train second. And I would have to say before all
Speaker 1: of those things because you guys touched on it, it's
Speaker 1: the mindset you have to be ready to change. I
Speaker 1: work with a lot of people that tell me they
Speaker 1: want to change, but their actions show me they're not
Speaker 1: add percent ready to change. I'll be trying, though, But
Speaker 1: I'm motivated right now and remotivated because we've got some
Speaker 1: big ship coming up and I want to be the
Speaker 1: best version of myself doing it. So I'm remotivated. After
Speaker 1: I hang up with y'all, I'm not gonna get that pizza.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the gym. I had a coopon
Speaker 1: healthier pizza. Y'all. There's so many other ways to make
Speaker 1: the healthier versions of the foods that we love. Listen
Speaker 1: with air fryers alone, the invention of that still being
Speaker 1: able to put food in there get a crisp to it.
Speaker 1: What do we love about fried food? It's the crisp,
Speaker 1: you know. But in order to get the crisp, you
Speaker 1: gotta fried and oil and and flower. But if air
Speaker 1: fire now has allow you to get those crispy wings
Speaker 1: without it being breaded, it allows you to get chicken
Speaker 1: tenders crispy. You know, you have to be willing. I
Speaker 1: guess what I'm saying to discover new things. We can't
Speaker 1: get so caught in our old ways of doing things
Speaker 1: that it's going to be to our detriment. So one
Speaker 1: thing I'd like to challenge my clients is to open
Speaker 1: their minds and open their thinkings. Just because you ate
Speaker 1: a certain way growing up, like you said, or you
Speaker 1: were exposed to certain things, doesn't mean this what's best
Speaker 1: for you now right right? Sorry, tell our listeners where
Speaker 1: they can find you, where they can soak up some
Speaker 1: of this good healthy motivation and energy okay, well, thank
Speaker 1: you again for having me. You can find me on
Speaker 1: my Instagram at Organic Underscore Chrissie. And let me say last,
Speaker 1: but not least, guys, I have a comic book. I
Speaker 1: have created a comic book with um Concrete Comics, Black
Speaker 1: owned all the way around. I had a vision years
Speaker 1: ago to create a superhero that was focused, as corny
Speaker 1: as it may sound, on healthy eating and fitness. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to give that image to the black community,
Speaker 1: to our Black children, to our Black adults, to show
Speaker 1: them that you can unlock your own version of a
Speaker 1: superhero within yourself through your lifestyle. Because when I look
Speaker 1: at where I used to be walking up and up
Speaker 1: and downstairs winded, can't even breathe can't even run to
Speaker 1: the corner to being able to run six miles, dead
Speaker 1: lift over two hundred pounds, that is a superhero. I
Speaker 1: became my own version of a superhero. So I created
Speaker 1: Organic Chrissie the Superhero, and her story is going to
Speaker 1: be very unique. And I partnered up with Concrete Comics
Speaker 1: and they're going to allow me to tell my real
Speaker 1: life story, but of course, as a comic book creator,
Speaker 1: they're going to add the twist to it to give
Speaker 1: myself super you know, my enemies, my nemesis and everything
Speaker 1: like that. The story unfolds right here and Shaker, I'm
Speaker 1: um in Charlotte. Excuse me. I'm a protector of my city.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like a female Luke Cage. So I
Speaker 1: don't have greasings out of my eyes, I don't fly,
Speaker 1: but my lifestyle is what allows me to have superhuman strength.
Speaker 1: So you get you get strength from spa. I get
Speaker 1: strength from spinash. And you know, it's so funny because
Speaker 1: Popeye was the first cartoon if you really think about it,
Speaker 1: that equated food to strength and energy, and it was
Speaker 1: so telling back then. Pop Spinach is one of the
Speaker 1: higher protein vegetables and he was always say eat your vegetables,
Speaker 1: grow your biceps. So yes, in that concept, the foods
Speaker 1: that I eat and how I train is what helped
Speaker 1: me to unlock my innerviews. So I have a free
Speaker 1: Kickstarter that's in the link in my bio that's kind
Speaker 1: of just like a preview to her. But the first
Speaker 1: edition will be coming out in And when I first
Speaker 1: saw myself drawn and the comic book sketches, I cried
Speaker 1: because it's like, guys, that's huge, but let's be honest,
Speaker 1: black superheroes is still an up and coming thing. It's not.
Speaker 1: And a black woman superhero that looks like can they
Speaker 1: find this on your It's inne tree and when you
Speaker 1: link on a click on the link tree, you'll see
Speaker 1: comic book. It'll take you to the Concrete Comics website
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to read that first kickstarter. That's
Speaker 1: so dope, girl, that is so super dope. Like, we
Speaker 1: really appreciate you for coming on. Thank you, We love
Speaker 1: you so much. All right, so I'm gonna definitely hit
Speaker 1: you up because I might need to jump back on
Speaker 1: your bad way. If you got time or space four,
Speaker 1: we'll see you. Though I ain't gonna ain't no problems.
Speaker 1: I might I got commitment issues that might he The
Speaker 1: first workout is always free, so just test me out.
Speaker 1: You might like the waters. The workout is good. It
Speaker 1: is just every week. That's the that's the hard part.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna we're gonna get our lives together. Girl.
Speaker 1: Thank you Booby, So listen, guys. If you enjoyed this episode,
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Speaker 1: hold your pizza. No peace by y'all,