WEBVTT - I Choose...To Answer Your Questions 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:09.760 You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hi, everybody, 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.240 welcome back to the I Choose Me podcast. Okay, so 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:20.599 for this episode, guess what I choose you? I ask you, guys, 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.720 what you want to know about my overall health journey. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.480 And boy, oh boy, did you ask me some great questions. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.680 Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your personal 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.639 experiences and being so vulnerable with me. I really appreciate it. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:40.239 We received so many incredible questions. As I mentioned on 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.320 my story, May is Women's Health Month. Men, don't worry, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.560 you're going to get your time. It's only a week. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.680 But hey, we'll celebrate you and we'll talk about all 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:50.360 that man's stuff. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:50.559 Then. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.560 So back to my ladies. I am going to bring 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:59.120 in Adele today. Our in house therapist, Adele House is 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.760 in the house and we are going to discuss all 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.480 things women's health. This is perfect because we've been through 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.720 all the ups and downs of being a woman together, 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.360 so it feels really right to have her here to 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.880 do this with me today. Now, remember I just want 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.800 to say, Adele and I are not doctors. These answers 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.319 are going to be based purely on our experiences and 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.919 our lessons that we have learned from our many years 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.120 here on this planet. But this is one of my 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.480 favorite things about women, that we are always here for 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.640 each other and always eager to talk and share what 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.720 we know. So, Adele, can you hear me? Are you there? 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:42.880 I'm here? Hi? Denny? 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:44.000 Hi? 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:45.640 Hi? Oh? 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.160 Are you ready? I want to ask you? No, I 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.400 want you to ask me these amazing questions. Let's talk 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:51.800 that way. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.720 Yeah, I'm going to ask you and I'm so excited. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.480 There's some great questions here. So should we just dive 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:57.920 right in? 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:58.600 Yeah? 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.200 Yeah, yeah, okay, oh wow. All right, So let's start 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.520 with this one. This one is from at Mel McDonald. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:11.079 How do you not let social media enhance insecurities? 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.000 Oh? Hi Mel, thanks for your question. That's a doozy. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.799 That's a question we've never even had to think about, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:25.200 you know, until these days of late with the social 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:30.280 media and all. I wish. I wish this wasn't a 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.560 question quite honestly, not that you know, not because of 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.080 you mail, but because you know, it's unavoidable, right, Like, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:46.320 no one is safe from feeling insecure as they scroll scroll, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:51.560 scroll on the gram on the TikToker, wherever you're seeing it. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.040 It's really hard. It's hard for me too. I mean 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.040 sometimes I give myself a no scroll rule, Like I 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.040 don't go in and look at other people's stuff. I 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.000 just go in and post my stuff and talk to 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.679 my friends on there, you know, and respond and do 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.720 things like that. I give myself a scroll break because 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.400 it does it makes it can make you feel yucky, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.360 and it kind of sets a bad tone for the 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.400 rest of your day or your night, especially if you're 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.160 looking at that stuff at night right ah, before bed. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.640 My girls do that, They scroll at night. It like 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.600 puts them to sleep. I don't know what's up with that, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.680 but that cannot be good for you. I tell them 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.080 not to do it, but they do it anyway. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.760 I want to add something here because I've known you 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.880 for so long and I know there was a period 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.560 of time where you took a break on social media 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.360 because it was it was too hard and it was 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.160 getting into your insecurity. But something shifted for you. You 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:58.360 mentally shifted and made it okay for yourself because you 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.480 you have a business, and you have a presence, and 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.920 you are a known person, and you decided you wanted 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.480 to be a part of it. Do you remember what 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:09.440 shifted for you. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.120 I don't remember exactly. I just know that at some 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.800 point I decided to embrace all of it, and through 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.039 people's comments and the stuff that I see on social 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:26.359 it is educating me now instead of upsetting me. I 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.000 tend to just go to the positive things. If something's 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.440 negative or something doesn't feel good right away, I just 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.200 go right past it because I don't have time in 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.000 my life for that kind of those feelings, you know, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.279 and I know how they can sort of derail you, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.120 and I'm not interested in getting derailed anymore. You kind 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:45.839 of have to make that. You kind of have to 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.360 make that decision for yourself, Like I don't want I 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.520 don't want to feel crappy. So guess what, I have 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.920 the power. I'm not going to look at that. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.479 Yes, I saw that shift in you. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.080 And there's tons of people that I follow. I never 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.560 look at their stuff like no offense. But I don't 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.280 look at Kardashian stuff. I don't look at you know, 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.640 the things that like that that are super out there 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.599 for effect or to make people want to see more, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:15.839 like I just avoid that. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.800 So this is so amazing because I want to add 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.599 to this, because this is One of the things that 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.440 I worked on with a lot of people in therapy, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.240 and what we worked on is paying attention to your 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.640 insides when you are scrolling. And if you're only scrolling 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:36.000 like first trappy stuff or you know, like impossible beauty 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.039 standard stuff, you better check in and see how that 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.920 makes you feel. And if you feel less, then then 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.679 your I don't want to say you're doing it wrong, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.080 but you might want to look at how you're doing it. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.039 You maybe start if you start following like positive feeds, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.599 people that are putting out positive content, body positive stuff, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.480 realistic you know for your age kind of content. Start 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.279 following those people instead. And you know what, you don't 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.919 have to unfollow the other people. You can just mute them, yeah, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.560 and go back to them anytime you feel like that's 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.520 you need a little hit of it exactly. You have 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.680 all the control, though. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.159 What do you think you want to go to the 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.919 next one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay, good, all right? I 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:22.239 love this question. This is from at jay a Manny. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.160 I think please discuss the importance of advocating for yourself 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.640 with doctors. I so begged my last doctor to do 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.599 a hormone test and she refused. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:39.960 What ja manny go to a different doctor. Yeah right, Yeah, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.720 Like if you request something from your doctor, that's what 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 they're there for, to give you the information that you're 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.720 asking for. And what a hormone? That's a blood test, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:56.960 isn't it. So that's just a simple blood draw. There's 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.160 absolutely no explanation in my opinion, why a doctor wouldn't 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.520 fulfill your request. Absolutely none. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.800 Yeah, So trust your gut on that, right, trust yours. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.560 You need something, if you want someone, you're paying a doctor, 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.640 ask them for what you need. And if they don't, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.880 I think Jenny's right, you move on to another doctor. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:26.160 I just saw today actually on social my friend and 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:32.000 fellow Q fifty female doctor have doctor Mary Claire, have 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.400 just posted something today on her site. If you need 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:41.360 a verified referral for another doctor who specializes in women's healthcare. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.480 There is a comprehensive list there of physicians, like broken 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.680 down by country, city, state, that kind of thing. It's 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.040 so so helpful, So be sure to check out her website, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.920 thepauselife dot com and just click on menu and then 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.000 go to pause Care. There you'll see it. I hope 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:01.480 that helps. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.720 Love that and actually it's a great segue too. We 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.000 got a ton of menopause questions, right, and you wanted 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.920 to address that, So let me let me tell you 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.880 one here, and then I think, you know, I think 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.240 you're going to expand on it. But this one I 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:22.240 love too. It's at kl Haydn and it's been this 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.480 person is asking what kind of conversations with your significant 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.960 other regarding your health changes around pre or peri menopause 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:30.960 have you had? 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.360 These are so good, I know, you know what. I 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.320 love these questions because they're not like, you know, my 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.360 usual questions that I get. You need to have the conversations. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:41.720 Do you talk to Dave about that? 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:47.880 Mmmmmm? Just recently, because honestly, I am still in my 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:54.920 pery menopausal phase, my peri menopausal era, and at first 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.680 I was like embarrassed by it, and I didn't tell 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.559 him anything, and I didn't talk to my daughters about it. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.120 I didn't talk to my mom about it. I didn't 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.720 even talk to my friends about it, Like I didn't 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.760 know really what was happening. I kind of did with 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.160 the hot flashes and just the feelings I was having. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:18.800 We're all symptoms of perimenopausal things, and so I don't 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.040 really talk to anybody about it, but now after having 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.680 been in it for a while and having learned so 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.240 much about it, because you know, I don't know if 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.840 you notice, but menopause talk is everywhere now these days, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:35.000 like it is a hot topic, and rightly so. This 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.760 is something that we women, lucky, lucky us, yet another 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.680 thing that we go through that men do not. And 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.080 there's been so much research and science and so much 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:55.160 devoted to men's health, but never any specific to menopause. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.959 And men don't know about menopause either. That's the other 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.400 thing I don't know. We hardly know about it. Women 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.480 hardly know about it because our moms didn't talk about it, right, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.120 And I love that it's in the ether now and 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.320 that everyone's talking about it and using their platform to 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.320 talk about it because I feel like we didn't have 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.720 any kind of mentors or models, and so now we 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:21.440 can model for our kids and nieces and for men. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.480 I mean, I think that's what I love about this question, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.800 that yeah, you did you let Dave in at any 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.680 point on? I mean, you kind of have to. You 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.680 can't hide hopboshes. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.560 No, you cannot hide them. You get red, you're sweaty, 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.800 you're taking your clothes off for no reason. I mean, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.360 Dave doesn't mind that he wakes up and I'm naked, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.120 completely naked. All of my clothes have come off in 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.559 the night at some point yep, and he's like, Wow, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.400 what's going on. It's nothing, Do not touch me. I'm 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.480 sweaty and I don't want you to touch me. But yeah, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:59.160 we talk about it now, and it's something that makes 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.880 me feel better. I was just on the phone having 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:06.840 a telehealth appointment with my doctor, doctor Brush, who has 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.880 helped me so much, and you know, we're starting some 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.439 different therapies and just talking about a little a lot 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.120 of different options, and at the end of the conversation, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.960 all of a sudden, I just burst into tears because 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.800 I was like, I don't know, there's some I feel 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.280 so connected to you right now, and I feel so 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.960 grateful for all of this education that you're giving me 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.960 and this help that you're giving me. Like I just 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.840 she was like, what's okay? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.120 Cry? Honey's so sweet because it is vulnerable and you're 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.120 really letting them in and if she's helping you, it 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.800 is so vulnerable and you feel so alone. So I 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:51.480 want your doctor's phone number. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:57.600 By the way, doctor Julie Brush. But the exciting thing 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:03.360 is because we did receive so many questions around menopause 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:10.000 and the conversation perimenopause, premenopause, postmenopause, all the questions, we 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.800 really want to dive into that, and that is something 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.720 that I'm excited to do. We have, like I said, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.080 my friend doctor Haer is going to be coming on 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.560 the podcast in the very near future and we're going 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.439 to break it down and have some really great conversation 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.200 about it. So you guys stay tuned for that episode 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:29.600 for sure. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.640 I am super excited about that. Okay, So should we 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.920 move on to the next question. Okay, this is from 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:41.160 Er Divine or Divine twenty three and the question is 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.320 can you tell us about your meals and your diet? 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:49.440 First of all, I know who you are, Hi, Okay, 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.679 I love this woman. She's amazing. Can you tell us 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.800 about your meals and your diet? Okay? So I try 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.040 to eat healthy. I mean, of course, like there's something 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.040 that shifts in you when you turn fifty. I think 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.600 your food choices all start to matter. Everything that you 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.680 do for your health starts to matter that much more. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.360 And so I've always been a really super healthy eater. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.160 But I gotta say for somebody, I okay, I am 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.840 a vegan to the point of sometimes I might eat 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.760 a little chicken, So that makes me not a vegan. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.960 I don't know what that makes me. But I don't 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:31.160 eat dairy. First of all, I personally think that dairy 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.840 is the cause and the root of so many internal 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:41.000 problems inflammation, gut distress, bad skin as a result of that. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.320 It's not because I'm lactose intolerant, which I have now 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.800 become lactose intolerant because I decided to stop eating dairy 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.520 for health reasons. Now, my body when I do have 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.640 lactose or milk or dairy or butter or anything like that, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.880 my body is like no, thank you, like it doesn't 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.520 want anything to do with it, and it's really uncomfortable. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.320 So I don't eat dairy, and I don't eat, you know, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.960 other animal products. I really try to stay plant based, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.800 except that one once in a while when I eat 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.600 a little disgusting chicken because I feel like I need 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.280 a little boost of of protein. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.920 So you're talking about intuitive eating, right, You're talking about 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.120 that you listen to your body. You're saying you stopped 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.240 eating dairy for health reasons, right, So something was going 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:30.560 on with you those years ago, and you decided that 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.040 dairy was causing that and you stopped eating it and 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.960 you felt better. So really, what you're talking about is 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:40.600 intuitive eating. Yeah, you listen to your gut literally, right, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.880 if you find that you have symptoms or you're not 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.560 feeling well, you think about food first and what might 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:47.720 be crieta. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.560 Okay, I mean think about it because we're putting food 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.200 in our bodies all day long, every single day, and 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.360 it's such a that's what's keeping us alive. So obviously 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.400 what you put in your body is so important. I 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.000 try to buy organic whenever I can, and I have 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.120 some really great recipes that I'm gonna start to share 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.600 on social like breakfast I did. I did two great 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.200 videos for breakfast. One is just this super seed bread 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.320 that I It's gluten free, which is another thing I 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.240 try not to eat is gluten. And I put on 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.040 some vegan ricotta cheese on the top of that and 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:27.280 some no sugar added jelly and jam whatever you want 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:32.240 to call it. Big controversy there, and yeah, that like 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.640 that's a great back for me. I'm a smoothie person. Though, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.320 also like I try to pack every all of my 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.080 nutrients into one smoothie for the day. Then that way 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.440 I know, before i even go to the gym or 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.040 start my day working, I've got all my greens in, 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.800 I've got my nutrients, my Amino's, all the things, all 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.120 the things, all the things. There's a lot in that smoothie. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.840 And I'll definitely share that again with you guys as well. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.760 But yeah, Aaron, just keep it clean. You are doing 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:58.600 a great job. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:15:59.200 I know you. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.600 I know that that you strive to be healthier for 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.680 your beautiful daughters, and I think you're doing a great job. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.960 And I will add that, knowing you all these years, Jenny, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.040 that you I am always very impressed with your relationship 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.400 with food and how you pay attention and you listen, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:22.600 and you you have in your home healthy options for 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.400 you and your girls. Like every time I open your fridge, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.640 I'm like, oh my god, this is such a good fridge. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.320 They're always healthy options. You've just kind of always done that, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.280 So I'm just impressed by that. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.080 Yeah, I try to like keep everything. We bake a lot, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.800 but we bake vegan. We don't use dairy, we use 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.080 any kind of alternative butter or milk when we bake. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.240 When we cook, we don't use regular flour. We use 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:52.640 gluten free flour. Just whenever possible to change a recipe 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.880 into a healthier option, you know, into a healthier version 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.880 of that recipe. That's what we all try to do here, and. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.320 What works for you may not work for somebody else. Right, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.359 it's highly feel visualized. So so what you're also saying 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.000 is listen to your body and pay attention to yourself. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.119 Because at nineteen, I became a pescatarian. Right, fish is 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.760 the only I'm pretty plant based, and then I eat 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.959 fish and that's worked for me for literally since I 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:22.080 was nineteen. Other proteins don't really work for me. So 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.959 listen to your body and figure out, you know, what 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.600 works for you by how food makes you feel. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.199 Right, very important? Thank you? 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.440 Yeah, Okay, so let's see. How about there's a few 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.439 on diet, plant based diet, How do you manage you know, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.280 weight gain and things like that? So I feel like 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:41.359 you kind of covered that. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:47.280 What about this one from Beach Underscore Girl Underscore seventy three. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.640 Yeah, yeah, so you're taking kind of te Yeah, what 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.240 kind of tips do you have on fitness and mindfulness 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.640 around eating, so we can expand on what we were 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:58.639 just talking about. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.400 Well, when it comes to food and fitness, it's really 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:06.200 important to eat something before you exert yourself. Whether you're 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.680 going to the gym, you're going on a walk, going 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.680 on a hike, whatever, going on a bike ride, whatever 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.080 you're doing. Your body needs that energy. So I always 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.879 try to eat before I go work out, and I 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.400 try to eat protein right after I work out, and 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.840 that's usually in the form of a smoothie. I just 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.040 got this thing with it's like a blender you can 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.080 take with you, you know, one of those, you've seen them, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.879 And I just put my protein powder in there and 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.680 then add whatever plant based based milk or water whatever 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.320 I can find after the workout, and I drink that 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.480 on the way home. So my body's getting that protein 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.640 that it needs to convert all that I just did 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:49.479 into muscle. That's really important for lean muscle. And you know, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:55.600 that's it. As far as positive mindfulness around eating, that's 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.960 fun because you can play with that one. I find 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.399 that we just devour our food, you know, we like 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.480 eat and we don't even think about what we're doing 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.560 or just like shoveling it in, and you know, sometimes 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.679 it's a social thing. Sometimes you're just getting it so 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.119 that you can get your mealing because you're starving or 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.040 whatever it is. But sometimes I like to play with 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.479 it and just really think about how many times I'm 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.960 chewing my food, like, think about slowing the whole process down. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.680 And I find that when I eat slower, chew more, 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.720 my body is much happier when it comes to like digestion, 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.040 and I enjoy the meal more. You know, it's about 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.280 that mindfulness when you are eating. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.120 Yeah, and bringing gratitude into eating right. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.280 Right, that's fun too. 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.639 You think about who you're with, if you're out to dinner, 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.639 how lucky you are to be out to dinner, and 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.520 the gratitude of sharing a meal with people you love 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.520 right or at home with your family, rather than just 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.879 shoveling the food, Like, actually, stop, look around, think about 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.080 I am so lucky right now to be enjoying a 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.080 meal with my family, and I'm going to slow down 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.400 and I'm going to think about this food and either 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.800 where it came from or who prepared it. Right, So 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.679 bringing gratitude into it is just sort of a natural 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.560 mindfulness around eating. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.600 I love that And yeah, that slows you right down 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.240 to iah that that's. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:31.639 A gay poet. Yay, let's see. How about Oh I 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.760 like this one too. Okay, this is from at Leanna Swanson. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.879 What was the definitive moment for you to really dial 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.600 in your nutrition and exercise or do you have one? 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.679 Oh, Leana, I've had several one. You're as old as me. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.400 You've reinvented yourself a few times, you know what I mean. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.920 And when I say that, I mean like, I have 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:02.879 gone through ups and downs with my diet, with my body, 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.240 my body image, you know, there have been It's like 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.520 a roller It has been like a roller coaster for me, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.080 especially being you know, in the spotlight sometimes and having 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:17.000 to look a certain way and having people really critique 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.679 things that they shouldn't be critiquing. So I've had to 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.240 really have those come to Jesus moments a few times 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.240 where I don't I notice, I don't feel good. I 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.119 feel like I don't look my best. I'm like, you know, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.840 bogged down or puffy and all the you know, just 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.480 that have that sort of fog. And I like being clear. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.600 I like feeling good. So when I have in the 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.000 past gotten into into those unhealthy grooves where it's just 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:51.840 about convenience and or eating my feelings away because I've 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.560 been known to do that. Who hasn't. Those are the 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.399 times when you're like, hmmm, I need to get a 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.639 handle on this. I need to really dial this in again, 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:07.160 because it doesn't have to be you know, a finite. 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:11.040 It's your Every day you wake up is a new 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:18.040 day to reset everything basically how you want to feel, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:19.800 how you want to see yourself, how you want to 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:24.280 see others. So a great way for me to do 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.760 that is in the mornings to just tell myself today 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.359 is going to be a great day, and tell myself 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:32.720 that I love myself and I'm going to take great 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:33.440 care of you today. 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.080 I love that. And you're also talking about awareness. You're 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:41.199 talking about having awareness, and even if you're sort of 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:43.320 if you kind of go under a little bit and 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:47.800 you're doing some emotional eating, or you can even choose it. 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.000 You can say I am incredibly stressed out right now. 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.120 This is all sad. Yeah, I'm sad right now. I'm 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.520 going to eat something for comfort. But I love the 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:01.680 idea of owning it and even saying it out loud. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.120