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Speaker 1: This is Teapot. Hi guys, welcome back to a another

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Speaker 1: week of Teddy Teapot. I am super excited to talk

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Speaker 1: about this topic because it's something that I truly live

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Speaker 1: and breathe every day. We are going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about lifestyle changes and weight loss. I'm gonna be talking

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Speaker 1: a little bit about what shifted in me, and then

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Speaker 1: I'm also going to have on celebrity trainer, Autumn Calibres

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Speaker 1: and the new coach from the Biggest Loser, Erica Lugo,

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Speaker 1: who I'm super excited to talk to. Um. But I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to kind of start out with answering some

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Speaker 1: listener questions. You know, the first thing that people always

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Speaker 1: ask me whenever they're like, you know, what made you

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Speaker 1: change your life? The first thing I can say is

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Speaker 1: I finally made the decision to do so. For so long,

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Speaker 1: I had, you know, a chip on my shoulder, and

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Speaker 1: any time anybody asked me anything about, you know, living

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Speaker 1: a healthy lifestyle or whatever it was, I would almost

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Speaker 1: get angry. And I had so many excuses on why

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Speaker 1: I couldn't make any changes, you know, like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: can't afford to have a personal trainer and a chef

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Speaker 1: every day, How am I going to do this? Obviously

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Speaker 1: I can't or you know, you know, my husband works

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Speaker 1: no way I can take care of myself. And it

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Speaker 1: wasn't until I stopped looking to other people and started

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Speaker 1: looking within that I started making the change and it

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Speaker 1: was enough is enough. I'm no longer going to discuss

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Speaker 1: it with my friends, my parents, my siblings, anybody in

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Speaker 1: my life. I am going to have some hard conversations

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Speaker 1: with myself. Am I ready to change? Yes? Okay, these

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Speaker 1: are the things that I'm going to do. And I

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Speaker 1: think for me, the reason I started all In is

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Speaker 1: because for me, accountability was key. Because yes, it's easy

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Speaker 1: to say I'm going to change my life, but then

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Speaker 1: four days from then, your friends like, what about Margarita's

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Speaker 1: let's do this, and you're like, well that sounds good,

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Speaker 1: you know. So for me, I had started an Instagram

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Speaker 1: to document holding me accountable, and I would almost at

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Speaker 1: myself and I'd be like, hey, guys, let me know.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I created the business, which we hold

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Speaker 1: you accountable to your goals and your plans. You send

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Speaker 1: us a proof of your breakfast lunch dinner, your snacks,

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Speaker 1: which is a key thing. I never realized that if

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Speaker 1: you actually eat in the right time frame, you no

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Speaker 1: longer get hungry and make bad last minute decisions, which

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Speaker 1: is something I would always do. So some of the

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Speaker 1: key things that I like to get out there is

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Speaker 1: always try to eat breakfast by ten am, lunch by

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Speaker 1: doing that and you're having a snack between each one,

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Speaker 1: you know. So those are key things. Um, somebody asked

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Speaker 1: what my food diary looks like on a typical day. So,

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Speaker 1: I had some oatmeal, which is not brain surgery. You

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Speaker 1: I throw a little snack in my bag, which could

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Speaker 1: a celebrity chef every single time, you know whatever. No,

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Speaker 1: I could throw in some arugula, quenoa, chopped peppers, balsamic um,

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Speaker 1: run this way. No, give yourself permission to take it easy,

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Speaker 1: a dirty, dirty word to a lot of people, and

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Speaker 1: and what doesn't, and it's not punishment, it's just to

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Speaker 1: thing for me is you can't look to be motivated.

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Speaker 1: You have to commit. Motivation waivers one hundred percent. Commitment doesn't.

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Speaker 1: So if you commit to yourself and you say I'm

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Speaker 1: follow through with what you're committed to. You no longer

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Speaker 1: Who cares? It doesn't matter if I'm motivated. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, most of the time, once I get to

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Speaker 1: matter who it is that you're following, that's in the

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Speaker 1: So if you're looking at them and you're saying, wow,

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Speaker 1: your own word, I'm telling you, it's endless the things

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Speaker 1: just you know, a little bit of the basics for

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Speaker 1: me on what has truly changed my life. Also, when

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Speaker 1: when you stop thinking only about yourself. But like, what

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Speaker 1: I'm actually excited to see my husband when he comes

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Speaker 1: we do that sometimes too, but you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But anyways, I am looking forward to talking to Autumn

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Speaker 1: and Erica. So we're gonna take a little break and

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Speaker 1: back with Autumn Calibris, which I'm so excited. I want

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Speaker 1: to Can you just give us a little background on

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Speaker 1: I'm a fitness and nutrition expert. I'm with Beach Body.

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Speaker 1: I've been with them for about seven years now, created

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Speaker 1: eight different programs, everything from one Day Fix and twenty

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Speaker 1: one Day Fix Extreme to eighty Day Obsession. I have

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Speaker 1: with them, to cookbooks, a cooking show. I stay very busy.

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Speaker 1: You're very very busy, and so a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are in this whole mindset of like New decade. I

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Speaker 1: complete new outlook on life starting where really it's like, no,

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Speaker 1: so what would you give What kind of advice would

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Speaker 1: you give somebody looking to change their life coming into Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to live that healthier life yourself, show up for yourself.

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Speaker 1: And and everybody kind of looks for a um, a

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Speaker 1: not motivated every day, but I'm disciplined, so really, you

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Speaker 1: I want to understand what they went through because again

427
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Speaker 1: I need to work through those emotions of like Okay,

428
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,119
Speaker 1: you were betrayed, you have an issue with trust, you're angry,

429
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 1: you don't feel worthy. Don't want to work through that.

430
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: But I don't want to make it about the person

431
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 1: you're getting revenge on, because really, forget them, they're gone,

432
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 1: You're better without them, Like, let's focus on you. What

433
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: do you want? Which I completely agree, And so many

434
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, I'm on the divorce diet or

435
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: the blah blah, here's the thing, And I I definitely

436
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: was out of place when I decided to change my life.

437
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,640
Speaker 1: When you know, I was over two pounds, I was struggling,

438
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: and my husband could eat a chip in front of

439
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: me and it would give me rage. And then when

440
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,400
Speaker 1: he would like try to be supportive, I was such

441
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: a jerk, Like he'd be like, oh, do you want

442
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: to go to running? What do you say? I need you?

443
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: Like I was on him. So it wasn't ever that

444
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 1: I was on when I decided to change my life.

445
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: It was to get revenge on my husband. It was

446
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to look to my husband

447
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: to make me feel good every day. I want to

448
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 1: feel good every day because I'm taking action. And I

449
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 1: think that that's what we sometimes forget. You know it

450
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 1: maybe that husband or that best friend or that whatever

451
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 1: that's you know, driving you crazy, But really it's got

452
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: to be how you feel about yourself, right because there's Look,

453
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: there's plenty of people out there that are of different

454
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: sizes that are very proud of their size and they

455
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: have no issue with somebody saying something about that their size.

456
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: So you and I mean, look, it happens in both ways, right, Like,

457
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Speaker 1: Like I think we assumed that quote like fat shaming

458
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: if you could see me I'm doing, you know the

459
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: air quotes. Fat shaming happens more, but skinny shaping shaming

460
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: happens just as much. I get it all the time.

461
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: I get people commenting like, you're so skinny, you look sick.

462
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: Why don't you eat a cheeseburger, And I'm like, I

463
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: do eat cheeseburgers, like, and no matter what side of

464
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: it you're on, you don't get it. I remember, you know,

465
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: when people would when I was, you know, really in

466
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Speaker 1: a place where I've everything offended me and somebody say like, gosh,

467
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: I can't gain weight, I'd be like, oh, I feel

468
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: so sorry for you, because I could only worry about myself,

469
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, I can't actually have empathy for somebody else

470
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: and what they're going through. And that's something we got

471
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: to think about. We all have to like be a

472
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: little bit more empathetic, understand that we all go through

473
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: different things in our life at different times, and really

474
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Speaker 1: it's just about feeling good in our own skin, whatever

475
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,719
Speaker 1: that whatever that may be for you, Like you're on

476
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: your journey and that's what it's about. Yeah, for sure.

477
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately we have to take a little break and then

478
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Speaker 1: we're going to come back with Erica Lugo from the

479
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Speaker 1: Biggest Loser. Hi, Erica, how are you doing? I'm good?

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Speaker 1: How are you good? I've just been looking so much

481
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 1: into your story and I'm so inspired and I love

482
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Speaker 1: it and I was so grateful that you are able

483
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Speaker 1: to come on today. Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: Do you mind giving my listeners a little background on

485
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Speaker 1: on yourself? Yeah, well I am. I just her thirty

486
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: three years old, about five on Christmas Day, so about

487
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: five and a half years ago. I weighed three and

488
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Speaker 1: twenty two pounds, and um I was I am a

489
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Speaker 1: single mom. I just got engaged too, so that will

490
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 1: be changing soon. But um, I'm a single mom. And

491
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 1: you know, my son was looking up at me asking

492
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Speaker 1: me to play with him, and I was on the

493
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Speaker 1: couch and eating some kind of snack and I just

494
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 1: straight up told my kid no. And I told him

495
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Speaker 1: no because I didn't even have the energy or the

496
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Speaker 1: desire to get up and play, or just I didn't

497
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Speaker 1: want to get up off the couch. And something in

498
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: me was just like, WHOA, he didn't ask to be

499
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: in this world. You brought him here, and you don't

500
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Speaker 1: even have the energy to play with him. So, um,

501
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: I decided to start with the basics. I've honestly been

502
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Speaker 1: overweight my whole entire life. I've tried every single diet

503
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,640
Speaker 1: you can imagine, um, and I just started with the basics.

504
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: I signed up at a local gym. I started, you know,

505
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Speaker 1: watching my calories, working out more, and then over the

506
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Speaker 1: last five and a half years, it's a all from

507
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Speaker 1: that girl to now being a trainer on the Biggest Loser,

508
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty pounds down, building my own fitness brand.

509
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: And it's just it's not what's happened to my life

510
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: in five and a half years. It's so exciting. And

511
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: all of this also while battling cancer. Correct, Yeah, so

512
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: this I haven't even been. It just was a year

513
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: the day after Thanksgiving that I got diagnosed. So I

514
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: got diagnosed in two thousand eighteen, the day after Thanksgiving.

515
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: I had actually gotten a really bad car accident that October.

516
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: I blacked out, completely, just blacked out while driving. Have

517
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Speaker 1: no idea why, um, I should not be alive in

518
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: that car accident, completely totaled my car. But that car

519
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: accident happened for a reason, And you know, when I

520
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: went to go get my m r I for my

521
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: head in my neck. Once they took me to the hospital,

522
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Speaker 1: they found a small mass on the right side of

523
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Speaker 1: my neck, and the day after Thanksgiving I had a

524
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Speaker 1: biopsy and it said I had stage two capillary thyroid

525
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Speaker 1: cancer and it is already spread to my limps nodes

526
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: um and I was going to have to have surgery

527
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: and radiation as soon as possible to to get going

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Speaker 1: on it. So in January of two thousand nineteen, I

529
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Speaker 1: had a full thyroid ectomy, so they took out my

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Speaker 1: full thyroid and thirty three lemp notes because it had

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Speaker 1: spread to that many. And then in March I had

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Speaker 1: my radiation treatment, and then in July I had my

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Speaker 1: first blood scan in thyroid scan, just to see if

534
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: there was any visibility of the disease, and thankfully it

535
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: came back clear. But you know, technically they don't say

536
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: you are cancer free for three to five years, so

537
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: it's it'll be a long journey. But right now my

538
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: body is is learning to recover and do life without

539
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 1: a syroid, and what radiation did to my body did

540
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: a lot too, so it's it's been a constant recovery journey.

541
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Speaker 1: But I've yeah, I've gone through all that while bouting

542
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: cancer too. I mean that's huge. And what do you

543
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: think if you could say, like, these are the three

544
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: things that I've shifted in my life that has made

545
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: me still this outlook and still take care of myself

546
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: during this time for our listeners to hear, what would

547
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: you think those are? Um? You know, honestly, it's just you.

548
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: You gotta put yourself first. And I don't think you

549
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: know as a mother. For me, that's been the biggest

550
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: thing is you know, self care is not selfish. You're

551
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of trials and tribulations throughout your journey,

552
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: and life is gonna, Matthew, where it hurts sometimes and

553
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: you're never gonna accept it. But when you learn to

554
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: put yourself first and put your foot down and set boundaries,

555
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: I've honestly believed, like that's what's helped me overcome everything.

556
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: I completely agree. Like self care has almost become like

557
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: a dirty word, you know when it comes to parenting,

558
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: and then especially in the world of like mom shaming.

559
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: You know, other moms are like how could you do this?

560
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: You know, why would you want to do your poor kids?

561
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: Like I'll be working out and they'll see my son

562
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: behind me, like just playing around, like doing his like

563
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: little abs. I mean, he's five, he's like trying to

564
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: have a people like it's just disgusting that you would

565
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: show him this, and I'm like, show him what like

566
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: living healthy? It drives me nuts. When I first started

567
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: losing weight, and you know, the world of being online

568
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: and being quote unquote an influencer, you're gonna get terrible

569
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: things said about you and to you. And that was

570
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: definitely a thing when I first started losing weight. Is

571
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: everyone said, well, don't you feel bad like you're a

572
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: terrible mother for going to the gym every day and

573
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: doing this, and that could be time with your son.

574
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: You're only gonna get this time once in his life.

575
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: And the way I look at it is I'm actually

576
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: teaching my son that being healthy, going to the gym,

577
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: and taking care of yourself is a normal part of life.

578
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: It's not taboo. It's not something that you should feel

579
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: guilty about. So Connor understands he thinks it's normal for

580
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: adults to go to the gym five or six days

581
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: a week. He actually thinks it's abnormal when you don't

582
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: he's like, Oh, you don't go to the gym. Oh

583
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: you don't work out. Oh, Like that's how he thinks

584
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: because when I started losing weight, he was three and

585
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 1: a half, so that's been life for him or even

586
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: you know, with the it gets loser. I unfortunately got

587
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: so much heat from you know, people out there sending

588
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: me direct messages saying, Wow, you've got a second chance

589
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: at life. You beat thyroid cancer, and here you are

590
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: spending that time away from your son to go chase dreams.

591
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: That's so selfish of you, And I think, Wow, I

592
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: feel so bad for that person because I want that

593
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: person to understand what it feels like to chase your

594
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: dreams and have your child see you chase your dreams

595
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: and be okay with it and understand that sometimes sacrifices

596
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: have to be made, but you you grow thick skin

597
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: to it. But once those people learn that self care

598
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 1: is not self there's still start changing the way they

599
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: think for sure. And also, what a huge thing it

600
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: is when you start changing somebody else's life and you start,

601
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: like so being on the biggest loser and helping people

602
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: feel better and helping people make those changes that they

603
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: didn't think they could change. How not only are you

604
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: helping them, you're helping yourself too. And I think people

605
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: don't realize that when you actually reach out to other

606
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: people and you're able to help them, you're also helping yourself. Yeah,

607
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: and I think it's filling my love bucket back up right,

608
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: Like people don't understand that me helping people the way

609
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: that I do, or me being on the show fills

610
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: my love bucket up so much like it made me

611
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: feel fulfilled, and I don't think people can put that

612
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: together sometimes. So that's it. That's a really good point.

613
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: And uh, I also have autumn calibers. She's on. She's

614
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: on with us too, so it's the three of us,

615
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: so you guys don't get confused listening. But um, I

616
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: have some listener questions that I just wanted to kind

617
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: of throw out to both of you guys because people

618
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: are constantly asking and I am very simple when it

619
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: comes to supplements and pre workouts and all those types

620
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: of things. But I just kind of want to put

621
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Speaker 1: it out there something. A big question everybody asks is

622
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: do you guys think that meal delivery is worth it?

623
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Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, I'm so busy that you know,

624
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: I don't like the convenience of going through drive through

625
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Like I love that aspect of

626
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: having food delivered to my door. I don't know about

627
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: anyone else, but it makes my life easier. Here's the

628
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: thing I I personally try to go back grassroots. Like

629
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: I grew up. I'm Italian. I grew up with my

630
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: dad cooking, my grandma cooking, we owned restaurants. So I

631
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: do think it's awesome at times when you are super busy,

632
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: but really, what I wish people would understand is, like

633
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: you need to get back in the kitchen. It's not

634
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: that hard, it doesn't take that long. If you take

635
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: an hour or two out of your week and prep yourself,

636
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: it's usually way more affordable than the meal delivery service.

637
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: You get more you can feed your family. So there

638
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: are times where I think it's fantastic, but ultimately, like

639
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: I wish people would go back to just taking that

640
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: time because even for me, like I have a son

641
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: he's about to be eleven, Like that's fun time for

642
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: us in the kitchen. I bring him in. My brother

643
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: is a chef, so he watches Uncle Bobby cook. Uncle

644
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: Bobby's you know, the co host of my cooking show.

645
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: So he's like, well, uncle Bobby taught me how to

646
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: hold the knife, can I chop the vegetables? And that

647
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: for him is a lesson as well. Um, so I

648
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: don't think it's bad. I just think that. Yeah, I agree,

649
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: I think it's It's also got to be you. Do you.

650
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: You see what works for you, But don't use mild

651
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: delivery that you can't afford it as your reason why

652
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: you can't change your life, because you can. There's so

653
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: many different options, and if you have the ability to

654
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: be able to do meal delivery, then yeah, pick the

655
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: one that best suits you. But if you don't, don't

656
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: be mad at the person that can do meal delivery.

657
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: Do what works for you. I think the reason so

658
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: many of us hesitate to make a change is because

659
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: we're so worried about what everybody else is doing, right right?

660
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: I agree absolutely, And I think the key thing is,

661
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: no matter if you're making it yourself or somebody else's

662
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: bringing it to you, is that you're eating well rounded meals,

663
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: portion controlled and things that you like. If you're hating

664
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: every second of what you're eating and you're telling your

665
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: mind that it's not gonna make it very appetize thing.

666
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: It's not. UM. Another question that people have asked me

667
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: about is do you have any advice for stretch marks

668
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: and or loose skin. I never have an answer for that.

669
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm but mine kind of way back and

670
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: then some I just embrace like that's kind of how

671
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: I go. But I didn't know if you guys had

672
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: any revolutionary answers for this, you know, I really don't.

673
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: I get that question a lot, and it's just one

674
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: of those things and I have, you know, first off

675
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: on five eleven. So I'm a tall girl. Anyways, I've

676
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: had stretch marks since middle school, just from hitting that

677
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: grows furt and then obviously gaining all the weight and

678
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: then being pregnant. So stretch marks have been there since

679
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: I can remember. And loose skin I have it, you know,

680
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: around my mid section and under my arms, and it's

681
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: one of those things that, as cliche as it sounds,

682
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: you either embrace it or change it and just be

683
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: happy with whatever option you go with. UM. I don't

684
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: fault anyone for wanting to get loose skin removals or jury.

685
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: If that's what makes your heart happy, that's what makes

686
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: you happy. If embracing it makes you happy, embrace it. Um.

687
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: I've just learned to grow comfortable with it. Like it's

688
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: my body, it's my story, and I'm proud of the

689
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: marks that i have on it. You know, I've lost

690
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: a hundred sixty pounds, I've burned the baby, I beat cancer.

691
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: Like that's my body's story. So that's kind of how

692
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: I've always looked at it. Yeah, I say the same thing.

693
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: I don't have horrible stretch marks. I have some from

694
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: having my son. I have some from my fitness competition

695
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: days and how lean you get when you compete and

696
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: then just going back to like a normal size. I

697
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: say the same thing that like those that those are

698
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,280
Speaker 1: your battle wounds. Those are the things that tell your story.

699
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: I've got scars from my c section and a scar

700
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: from or hernie a repair. Um. While I don't have

701
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: loose skin um inn like like some people have if

702
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: they've lost a large amount of weight, you know, thirty

703
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: nine headed towards forty, Like the skin isn't as tight anymore.

704
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: So you wear pants and you know you're in a

705
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: workout video and you bend forward and you're like, that

706
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 1: sucks that skin. But it's just at its skin. It's

707
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: like we all have it, we all need it, like

708
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. So so same thing like everybody

709
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: do you If you feel better getting it removed, then

710
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: that's that's what you do. And if you embrace it, great,

711
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: But there really is no way, um there's nothing you

712
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: can do about it other than get it removed or

713
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: embrace it. And and I think also it's confusing to people,

714
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: you know. And I have been in a place where,

715
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: like I have said, I'm embracing something, but I'm not

716
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: necessarily embracing it. Um. So I think it's it's okay

717
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: to say to yourself, you know what, I don't necessarily

718
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: love this every second of every day, but I've learned

719
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: to dress for it. I love my high waisted compression

720
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: workout pants. You know, whatever it is. And then you

721
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: come around to it when you start talking about it

722
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: as it's not this negative thing in your life, if

723
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: you start saying, oh, you know, for me, it was

724
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: more the loose skin bothered me when I ran because

725
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: I could feel it. And so it's like, okay, what

726
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: can I do to make it change? I can't. I

727
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: don't necessarily want to get surgery to remove it right now,

728
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. I'm gonna find pants that

729
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: make me feel most comfortable. So it's one of those

730
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: things where like you can kind of think outside the

731
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: box and you will come around to embracing it more. Yeah,

732
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: and also keeping in mind that, like you just said,

733
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: like you're not gonna be every single day like oh

734
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: my god, this is awesome. And that goes for everything,

735
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: Like not every day you're gonna be like, oh my god,

736
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: I can't wait to work out. Never, Not every day

737
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: you're gonna love eating your broccoli, Not every day you're

738
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:38,919
Speaker 1: gonna feel fabulous about you know, your appearance. But it's

739
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: about the overall picture and learning to embrace the journey

740
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: and be comfortable in the journey, and recognizing that if

741
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: you're having a bad day, it's just that it's just

742
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: a bad day, but not to let that a bad

743
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: days spiral out of control. Oh, I mean we've all

744
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: had them. I mean, I let's be honest, I wasn't

745
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: having the best day this morning. You can ask everybody

746
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: when I walked in. UM. But uh, and another question

747
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: I had for you, Um, A lot of the time

748
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: people say I don't I don't like working out or

749
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't like eating healthy. What advice would you give

750
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: to somebody who you said, you know, Erica, that most

751
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: of your life, you know, you had not wanted you know,

752
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: you had wanted to lose weight, but you weren't weren't

753
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: very active. What what was it in you that finally

754
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: said enough? Well, honestly, it was that lightbulb moment with

755
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: my son, for one. But not everyone can have that

756
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: light bulb moment. And I tell everyone I may have

757
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: lost a hundred fifty pounds and I may be a

758
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: trainer on the biggest user, but I love cookies just

759
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: as much as you love cookies. Like, just because just

760
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: because you lose the weight or my career is fitness,

761
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: does not mean that it gets easier for me. It

762
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: is honestly a choice that I have to make every

763
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: single day when I wake up and when I decided

764
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: to eat a meal. It's something I have to battle

765
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: through all the time. It doesn't get easier, you just

766
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: get stronger. And I think I learned to find that

767
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: balance because so many people just go right to that

768
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: place of oh, this is how I'm going to eat forever.

769
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: I'm never going to enjoy anything. I've learned to find

770
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: balance in the things that I love, getting creative when

771
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: it comes to cooking. But then also I just you

772
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: have the power. I don't think people realize they have

773
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: the power to truly change their body. And that's by

774
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: food a fuel. You learn to know that, oh my god,

775
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: how look this way? I can do it on my

776
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: own terms. And I just think that's one of the

777
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: best feelings to know what your body is fully capable of.

778
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: And I think that's what I thrive on is you

779
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: found that momentum of Okay, I know what makes me

780
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: feel good. I look good, my attitude better, I sleep better.

781
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: And when you look at all those little things that

782
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: just kind of just kind of goes, I just go

783
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: with it. And I just think people need to get

784
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: to that point to understand, like, WHOA, you have the

785
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: control to change your body and how you look and feel.

786
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the most powerful things ever.

787
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: And I and you touched on something else, something that

788
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 1: people often overlook is the importance of sleep. So rest

789
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: is the like I tell people, rest and recovery is

790
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: do us as important as your nutrition and your fitness

791
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: routine by far, because a lot of the time, what

792
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: happens is you're lighting you know what it was. What's

793
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: the saying. You're lighting the candle at both ends. Yeah,

794
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: righting the candle at both ends, and then you're you're

795
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: bound to You're bound to set yourself up to fail

796
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: that way. So if you need if self care one

797
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: day is to go get a massage or take a

798
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,479
Speaker 1: bath or whatever it. Maybe listen to your body, try

799
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,720
Speaker 1: to find things that can get you to go to sleep.

800
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: Like I remember when I first started changing my life.

801
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: You know, I thought it's all got to be about exercise,

802
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: and I worked out like a crazy person. Like I

803
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: would go to like three workout classes in a day.

804
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: But then I would eat even harder because I had

805
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: no balance with anything. And I thought, well, I'm working

806
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: out hard, so it means I can eat more. And

807
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: I think that's Oftentimes we we want something so we

808
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: do it to such an extreme that we realize that

809
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: we don't realize we're creating something that doesn't actually work

810
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: for us long term and isn't necessarily healthy. So I mean, yeah,

811
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: and and that's that's what we've started to train ourselves

812
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: to do. But I think the biggest thing is whether

813
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 1: it's working out, eating, sleeping, take care of yourself, there's

814
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: balance and especially with sleep. Um, what people don't realize

815
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: is when you don't get enough sleep, right, we all

816
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: want to be multitaskers and do more in less time. Um,

817
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: when you don't have enough sleep and you don't let

818
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: your body regenerate and rejuvenate, you wake up and your

819
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: body immediately is looking for an energy source. So your

820
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: cravings are going to be harder, and you're going to

821
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: probably crave those simple sugars because your body instinctually knows

822
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: that that is a readily available energy source, Whereas if

823
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: you would just get enough sleep, you're not going to

824
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: be looking for that large you know, frappuccino coffee drink

825
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: and then three o'clock crash because you've been dragging all

826
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: day and constantly loading up and spiking and then crashing

827
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: and spiking and crashing. So it's sometimes the most simple

828
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: of things that can make the biggest differences. I agree, yeah,

829
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: And I've always been very you know, especially on social media,

830
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 1: everyone likes this show, their highlight reel verses behind the scenes,

831
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 1: and that highlight reel just constantly makes you feel like

832
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: everyone around you is grinding, and I hate that word.

833
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: It was always grind now, shine later, or grind now

834
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: and keep the grind up. And I'm like, no, I

835
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: hate I hate that phrase because so many people will

836
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: burn out and go all or nothing, and at the

837
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: end of the day they don't realize that you're going

838
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: to spend your help chasing that wealth, whether that wealthy relationship,

839
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: money status, and then eventually, because you're keeping that up

840
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 1: for so long, you're going to spend that exact same

841
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: wealth getting your health back. And I people need to

842
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: find that balance. It's so important that I I fully

843
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: take when people ask you ever stopped working out, and

844
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I took three days off last week

845
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: because my body, said Ericas slowed down. It can be

846
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: so counterproductive when you just go so hard for so

847
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: long that you'll just end up taking your body and

848
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: it won't be sustainable. And I think there's also something

849
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: to be said if your body is telling you to

850
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: slow down, if you're if you're somebody that's going crazy

851
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: in the gym and you're lifting heavyweights, you're doing whatever

852
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 1: it is that's in your tune, to change it up

853
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: and to go on that family bike ride, or people

854
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: look at like, if you're gonna work out, it means

855
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: it has to be in the gym, and it has

856
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: to be this and it has to be this extreme.

857
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: Go on a walk with your family, go take your

858
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: dogs on a walk, go on a hike, go on

859
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: a bike ride, play sucker. I mean, it doesn't have

860
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: to be as cut and dry. It's like, listen, I'm

861
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: personally I don't love going to a gym every day.

862
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I don't like honestly, and it's honestly your body.

863
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: To a lot of women don't understand hormones. And I

864
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: can get in a whole other segment with that. But

865
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: when you do things like you said, going for a

866
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: walk outside in nature and walking with your family, or

867
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: just going for a hike or going to yoga a

868
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: simple class, that lowers your stress hormone which is called cortisol.

869
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: And as a female, we have such high stress levels

870
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: anyways that we don't even realize we're stressed anymore. And

871
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: when you work out in a gym and you go hard,

872
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: that is still stress on your body. Your body is

873
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: not smart enough to be like, oh, well, that's fitness

874
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: stress versus that's warp stress. All it knows is it's

875
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: stress coming from your your drenals. So when you do

876
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: those things like you said, it actually really helps your

877
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: body and will actually be more productive for you. So

878
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: for me, people are always floored when they're saying, oh,

879
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: your routine must be so hardcore. You must be doing

880
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: craftfit and running miles today, and I'm like, nope, I

881
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: go for three to four walks today outside for with

882
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: my son for thirty forty minutes. And I left weights

883
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: five days a week for twenty or thirty minutes Like

884
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: that has helped my body, your cover more than anything,

885
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: and actually keep my weight off because I'm lowering my

886
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: stress hormones. And you've got to listen to your body

887
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: because if you don't listen to it, when it starts

888
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,959
Speaker 1: to talk, it's been gonna yell. And you don't listen

889
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: to what yells, it's gonna knock you out. And you

890
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: want some things that's sustainable for your life, not sustainable

891
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: for this and bub you know, whatever it may be. Yeah,

892
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: gring hashtag no excuses. Well, thank you so much. Eric.

893
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: I know you've got to jump, but you guys should

894
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: definitely tune in to The Biggest Loser on January on

895
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: the USA Network. We are so excited to get watching

896
00:45:52,920 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: me too. Thank you so much, Bye bye. I mean,

897
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: I think the crazy thing, whether it's you and I

898
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: talking or Erica talking with us, the biggest thing that

899
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: I can say that it's to take away from this

900
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: podcast is listen to your body, commit to yourself, and

901
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: make a plan and stick to it. Yeah. That's the

902
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: thing is so many people right and vision and and

903
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and there's no real plan. Like they

904
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: people they go to the first level, but they don't

905
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: go four or five levels deep. They say, I'm gonna

906
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: lose weight. Okay, well what does that mean? Are you

907
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: gonna lose five pounds or you're gonna lose twenty pounds?

908
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose twenty pounds? Okay, Well why do you

909
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: want to lose twenty pounds? Like? What is it because

910
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: you just want to look good for the vacation, which

911
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: is totally fine. Or is it because you know you

912
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: can't play with your kids? Or is it because you've

913
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: come up against a health issue? Like what is that?

914
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: Because saying I want to lose twenty pounds probably isn't

915
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: going to be enough on the hard days where you're

916
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: not motivated to get you to go do that workout.

917
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: But if if I want to lose twenty pounds because

918
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't have the energy to play with my kid

919
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: and that breaks my heart, Yeah, you're going to get

920
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: that work out in. You're gonna get up and go

921
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: do it. And if and also for me, I think

922
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: something that's often tied to weight gain, um is depression.

923
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 1: And I think so often we are looking to feel

924
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: better so that then we can start taking care of ourselves.

925
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: But I can tell you I've struggled with depression and

926
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 1: one of the only things to get me out of it,

927
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: um and especially like I have extreme anxiety and I

928
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: still do is being active and taking care of myself.

929
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: And I know that what I am how I show

930
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: up to things when I haven't taken care of myself

931
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: versus how I show up to things when I have

932
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: is a completely different person. Like I'm high strung as

933
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: it is, like no matter what, So like, imagine me

934
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: when I'm not taking care of myself like I am

935
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: on one like watch out on the roads. So I mean,

936
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 1: I think, truthfully, you know as much as this I've

937
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: already said the saying it's like you do you you

938
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: figure out a plan that works for you, whether it

939
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: is the twenty one day fix or if it's all

940
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: in by Teddy, or it's going to the gym and

941
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: heavy lifting five days a week, whatever it. Maybe you

942
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,919
Speaker 1: find something that you believe in and that you will

943
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: actually do. Yeah. Look, I'm not saying fitness is always fun.

944
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: I know I'm a freak of nature. I really like it.

945
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: Like so it's usually fairly easy for me to do

946
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: my work out because I enjoy exercising it. It's for

947
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,720
Speaker 1: my mental sanity, sanity as much as in my body.

948
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: But I know not about everybody is like that. But

949
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: you can't say, like, I'm gonna do cross fit if

950
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: you hate cross it, Like if you go and you

951
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: dread it and you're like, this is the worst thing,

952
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: that's not the thing for you. If you love to dance,

953
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: find a dance class, pick a dance like dance around

954
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: your house, because that's what you're gonna stick to. That's

955
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: what you're gonna keep doing. So you don't have to

956
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: jump on the band wagon of what everybody else whatever

957
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: fat is going on exactly. But you can also know

958
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: that it will take a little bit of time. When

959
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: I went from not exercising at all to start exercising,

960
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily love it right away. Now I wake

961
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: up and I kind of crave it because I'm like, oh,

962
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: you know what, that's gonna make me feel better. But

963
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: give yourself a little bit of time. But you can

964
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: also play around with it, and it's a great way

965
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: to meet new people. If you're starting to feel alienated,

966
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: you're starting to feel alone, then try a new spin

967
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: class or you know, even if you go or you're

968
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: on peloton or whatever, maybe there's other people and they're

969
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: going to give you that little high five of encouragement.

970
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: Or maybe it's an online class that you're taking, and

971
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, do your research and try different things. There's

972
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: no harm in saying, hey, i'm gonna go try her

973
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: workout video today. You know what, I liked it or

974
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't, but tomorrow I'm gonna try something else,

975
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: and then you see what works for you. You Just

976
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: because you're saying I'm gonna I want to change my

977
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: life doesn't mean that you have to change your life

978
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: the exact same way every single day. And yeah, that's

979
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: so important. The other thing too, is I want people

980
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: to flip their mindset about especially if you're new. Right,

981
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: if you're new to exercising, so many people will will

982
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: like they'll put on twenty one day fix or they'll

983
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: put on a D day session. Well, a D DAP

984
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: session is hour long workouts. Like they're intense, they're they're

985
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: meant for people who have been working out, but that

986
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I haven't had beginner's try it. Here's the thing.

987
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: If you get through fifteen minutes of a D day

988
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: OB session, that is fifteen minutes more than you did yesterday.

989
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: But so many people will look at it as a fail,

990
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: as like I didn't complete it, so I suck. There

991
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 1: I go again, I can't stick with it, instead of saying, hey,

992
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: I had through fifteen minutes of that, good for me.

993
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: Maybe tomorrow I'll get through sixteen or seventeen like, Because

994
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: every little bit is a step in the right direction.

995
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: So if you're new, it doesn't have to be thirty minutes,

996
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be an hour. It has to

997
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: be more than you did yesterday. If you're just working

998
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: to be better than you were yesterday, you're going to

999
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: make progress. It's a lifelong journey. Like you don't get

1000
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: to a set weight and then stop. Your journey is

1001
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: not over. It has to always keep going. If it's

1002
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,479
Speaker 1: really about your health and it's gonna ebb and flow,

1003
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: and you can say so even if you're trying, you know,

1004
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: her workout video in your fifteen minutes and and you're like,

1005
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: I'm dying, I can't do this, then go okay, turn

1006
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,720
Speaker 1: it off and then maybe finish off with a thirty

1007
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 1: minute walk or hit pause. There's no rules to taking

1008
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: care of yourself. So I think that's the biggest thing

1009
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: we have to remember is going into it. Whether you're

1010
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: you know you're looking at Eric on Instagram or Autumn

1011
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: or myself or whomever is that is inspiring you. We

1012
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 1: are ebbing, ebbing and flowing as well. And I am

1013
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: constantly learning and evolving from other people, and I am

1014
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: constantly reaching out and being vulnerable with how I'm feeling.

1015
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: So if you're vulnerable and you're needing that like outreach,

1016
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: there are people that will talk to you, and there

1017
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: are people that understand. And I'm telling you, if you

1018
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: can show a little bit of vulnerability with your goals

1019
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: versus anger, you're gonna see a lot bigger change. I

1020
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,959
Speaker 1: love that, but um, I know I could. I could

1021
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: talk on this for hours, I know, and so not stop.

1022
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: But thank you so much for coming on. I really

1023
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And guys, please email any questions into Teddy

1024
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 1: T at I heart radio dot com. Thank you, guys,

1025
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