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This guest has been on the show more 27 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: than anyone else. She was the first guest ever on 28 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: the show and she's the cutest, most beautiful, most incredible 29 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: guest we ever have had on the show. Of course, 30 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: speaking about the one, the only hardest guest to book 31 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: of all time, longest commute to the studio of all time, 32 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: my incredible wife, Radi de v Lukia. For those of 33 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: you that don't know, Radi is a clinical dietitian, nutritionist 34 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: and always learning cook. Radi brings a modern approach to 35 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: the ancient principles of holistic wellbeing and earned her Aravedic 36 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: Health Counselor one degree at the California College of Aravada. 37 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: Right now, I couldn't be more excited or more proud 38 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: of Radi because her book, her first ever book, is 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: out right now. It's called Joyful. It has more than 40 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five plant based recipes, and it's 41 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: all about cooking effortlessly, eating freely, and living radiantly. Obviously, 42 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever wanted you to get a 43 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: book more than this one, even more than my books. 44 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: This is the most important book that I want you 45 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: to get this year. Please go and grab a copy. 46 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: We've put the link in the caption in the comments. 47 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: Wherever you are right now, go and order Joyful. Welcome 48 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: to the show, my amazing wife and the love of 49 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: my life, Raddy de Look. 50 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: Thanks, Oh my gosh, you're so professional doing this. 51 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: I mean we've been doing it for a bit. It's 52 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: better than the first time you came on, like five years. 53 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: Amazing. Thanks for that intro. Really appreciate. 54 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: I'm genuinely so proud of you. Like looking at this book, 55 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: and obviously I've had the inside track of watching you 56 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: work on this book for the last three years. The 57 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: amount of energy, the amount of effort, the amount of lives. 58 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: The amount of devotion that's gone into this book is amazing, 59 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: and it's so beautiful for those of you that don't know. 60 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: When you do get it, you can take off this 61 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: part even though Raddy's face, take my face out, take 62 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: my favorite part off, and look how beautiful this? 63 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I made it that way. 64 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: Stunning book. 65 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: I wanted people to be able to have a coffee 66 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: table book but also know that it's my cookbook. But 67 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 3: I like the part where you can just take my 68 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 3: face off and leave it on your table for a 69 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: little surprises. 70 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: Inside. 71 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: I have so many questions for you, because even though 72 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: I've seen you work on this, I find that when 73 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: you get inside someone's mind and heart, you understand so 74 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: much more about what they've created. And even though I've 75 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: watched you from the outside, I don't always know all 76 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: the inside. So I want to dive straight in. And 77 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: one of the things I love about this book is 78 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: the beautiful pictures you have with your family. Ye, your bar, 79 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: who's your grandma, your mom, your dad. I'm in it 80 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: as well. I've got one picture. But what I love 81 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: is that your family have been such big inspirations for 82 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: you in your cooking. Journey, and I just wanted to 83 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: go through your grandma, mom, sister, family, dad, like you know, 84 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: just the people in your life that have inspired you, 85 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: and I wanted to know what have you learned from 86 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: each of them or what have you gained from each 87 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: of them in your cooking journey. 88 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 3: I would say that because one both of us grow 89 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: up an Indian family, food is literally, always has been, 90 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 3: and always will be the center of everything, whether it's celebrations, 91 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 3: there is making sure that we eat dinner every single 92 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 3: day together. And so I think I've learned to form 93 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 3: connections through eating because of having grown up with it. 94 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 3: That is my place where I feel I can connect 95 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 3: to someone the most when we're sharing, you know, a 96 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 3: delicious meal or a nice dessert together. 97 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: And so there's that. 98 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 3: But also, you know, both our moms had full time 99 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 3: jobs growing up, but she still managed to make breakfast, 100 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 3: like homemade breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day. And 101 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 3: so watching her do that for us with so much love, 102 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 3: and also eating her food and feeling her love through 103 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 3: the food, I think my deep connection with food comes 104 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 3: purely through that. To having experienced that from her, my 105 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 3: grandma's the same she passed everything down to my mum 106 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: in that way. My mom was cooking with my grandma 107 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 3: from the age of like twelve, and she gets her 108 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 3: love for it from her as well. So I definitely 109 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: think that it feels like something generational that's been passed 110 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 3: down into. 111 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: Me and my dad. 112 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 3: My dad is someone who, you know what he said, quiet, 113 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: He's so sweet, and whenever my mom would go away 114 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 3: for work or anything, he would always step in and 115 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: be someone who he wouldn't be like, let's just order out. 116 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,559 Speaker 3: He would find something he could make mac and cheese 117 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 3: really well. So my dad's mac and cheese is. 118 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 2: In the cookbog. 119 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 3: That's like my one memory of growing up where my 120 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 3: mom would go away he would make this mac and 121 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 3: cheese and we'd the one time we'd get to sit 122 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 3: in front of the TV and eat, and we'd eat 123 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 3: mac and cheese and sit in front of the TV. 124 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 3: And so I really I feel like I mean, which 125 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 3: is the same as everyone. I'm sure I could not 126 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 3: have created this book without all of the inspiration that 127 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 3: I've got from them, Like all the recipes are so 128 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 3: inspired by where we're from, like from India, from our 129 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: heritage of things that we've grown up eating and then 130 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 3: my mom and all the things that I feel like 131 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 3: on my comfort foods when I think about her. And 132 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 3: so actually a lot of the recipes are connected to 133 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 3: memories and things that I can I can make and 134 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 3: then feel the love and the energy of the person 135 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 3: that I ate it with or that I cooked it 136 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 3: with or that cooked it for me. It's completely weaved 137 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 3: and and just created through family. Like that is what 138 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 3: the book is about, and that is what I hope 139 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 3: people feel when they read it. 140 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it comes across and it's so beautiful because 141 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: you see all of those influences and all of those 142 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: energies that come in. And one of the most interesting 143 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: things about you is that you obviously trained as a 144 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: nutritionist and then a dietitian, both of your degrees, and 145 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: then you've become an irvatic health counselor and studied diavasa 146 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: as a big part of your learning journey. And I 147 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: know you consider yourself a continuous student and wanting to 148 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: develop those skills. But walk me through how those two 149 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: things have impacted your understanding of food. 150 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 3: I started off doing my degree as a nutritionist and 151 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 3: a dietitian, and so then I was working in hospitals 152 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 3: where I was seeing everything from diabetes clinics to the 153 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 3: elderly who are malnourished, to little children like pediatric clinics 154 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 3: trying to get little fussy eaters to eat a little 155 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 3: bit more. And so I actually loved working in that. 156 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 3: I loved being someone who could be patient, facing seeing 157 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 3: them every week, trying to see their progress, and feeling 158 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: like I had a direct impact to them. But the 159 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 3: only part I kind of struggled with was naturally, when 160 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 3: you're part of a system, you have to recommend what 161 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 3: the system recommends. And so that was a bit difficult 162 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 3: for me because I always wanted to be food forward 163 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 3: versus supplements or you know, anything in a bottle, but 164 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 3: sometimes that's not, you know, the easiest or most efficient way. 165 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 3: And so I definitely loved it, but I felt there 166 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: was a slight disconnect. And then when we moved to 167 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 3: New York, I threw myself back into study and I 168 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: found Araveda. And for anybody who doesn't know what Aveda is, 169 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 3: ira means life. Veda means knowledge and it's basically the 170 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 3: science of life. 171 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 2: And it as soon as. 172 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 3: I learned about it, it clicked everything felt like it 173 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 3: made complete sense, and it felt just like when you 174 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 3: go to a place and it feels like home. When 175 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 3: I learned about Aravada, I felt like I'd found my 176 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: home in the practice and the rituals and the understanding 177 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 3: of my body. The differences between the two were incredible, Like, 178 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: you know, Western medicine and Western healing is all about curative, 179 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 3: like you get to the point of disease and then 180 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 3: let's figure out how to cure it, whereas in iravader 181 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 3: it's all about how can we start understanding our body, 182 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 3: How can we start noticing the symptoms, the things our 183 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 3: bodies trying to tell us, and how do we tune 184 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 3: into that so that we catch everything a few steps 185 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 3: before disease so we can actually have an opportunity to 186 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 3: prevent it. And on top of that, it's so individual, 187 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 3: like a lot of the time with Western medicine it's 188 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 3: one size fits all. And I really appreciate so much 189 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 3: of Western medicine, the diagnostics, like how we're able to 190 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 3: figure things out through so many systems that we have, 191 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 3: but the one thing we kind of lack is this 192 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 3: individual nature of the way you eat tomato, which we 193 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 3: know you eat tomato, and I eat tomato whenever I 194 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 3: make a meal. It affects you so differently to me, 195 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 3: and so I love the INDIVI your nature of healing 196 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 3: our body as me like, not what this person online 197 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 3: is telling me, not what this book is telling me, 198 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 3: but let me observe and be an active participant in 199 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 3: my health every single day, so that when I eat something, 200 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 3: I'm not eating this salad because this person told me 201 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 3: it was the best thing for their body. I know 202 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 3: I'm eating it because it's the best thing for my body, 203 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 3: and I feel it through the way my body feels, 204 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 3: through how my digestion is. Yeah, those are like a 205 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 3: couple of differences that I found. And then I just 206 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 3: started learning more and more about this holistic practice and 207 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 3: started practicing it. So now I know how it feels 208 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 3: and I can share it with other people having practiced 209 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 3: and lived it. 210 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: I love that point that you just made about being 211 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: an active participant in how you feel. And I didn't 212 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: start with this, but I wanted to say it now. Sadly, 213 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: you had to give up all those patients in everyone 214 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: you worked with to only have one patient, and that 215 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: hasn't been me for the last eight years. That you've 216 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: been coaching me, and you've been my health coach and 217 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: my health guru, and you have helped me with so 218 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: many things, whether it was really working on my sugar addiction, 219 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: working on my addiction to soft drinks, pizzy drinks, what 220 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: do they call them? Me eisodas so many things I 221 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: had that I thought i'd figured out. So I loved 222 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: meditating and reading and working on the mind, but I 223 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: didn't want to physically work out. I didn't care about 224 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: the body, and you helped me understand that. You probably 225 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: switched my sleep schedule around. I think when we met, 226 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: I was someone who could sleep a lot later, and 227 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: now I sleep really really early, and that was a 228 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: big part of what you changed. And all of those 229 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: have made me feel healthier and happier every single year 230 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: because you've helped me build these habits. And I just 231 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: want to add none of that was done through force, 232 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: None of that was done through telling me what to do, 233 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: but you were always patiently coaching and guiding me as 234 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: in how I showed enthusiasm or what I wanted to learn. 235 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: And so what I love about this book is that 236 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: you've taken all of that and you've now made it 237 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: accessible to anyone who wants to change their habits. And 238 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: that's what's so amazing about this book. It's not a 239 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: cookbook in that yes, it does have one hundred and 240 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: twenty five recipes, and it does have it does have recipes. 241 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: He is a cookbook. 242 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: It is a good book, but it really has all 243 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: of these day to day guides on habits and how 244 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: to change your rituals and your morning routine and your 245 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: evening routine and practices with food and without that improve 246 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: your life. And so as someone who's been a recipient 247 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: of your coaching and of your guidance, I'm so excited 248 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: that everyone gets to have this now through Joyful. 249 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 3: We've been such a good student, I feel like I 250 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: haven't even had it hasn't really been you being a student. 251 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 3: You've always wanted to make yourself better in some way, 252 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 3: and I think that's the difference, right like you can 253 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 3: we know this from having parents and you know, having 254 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 3: different teachers in our life that I've learned best through 255 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 3: observing someone or experiencing how amazing they are through the 256 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 3: practices that they've done. So when I was writing the book, 257 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 3: I knew I wanted it to come from a place 258 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 3: of love and knowledge, because I think that is the 259 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 3: place where people learn the best and make sustainable change. 260 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 3: It's like I can tell people that eating a certain 261 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 3: way is terrible for you and you're going to die earlier. 262 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 3: Like whatever it is that you know, you could say 263 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 3: to really scare someone into it, but that just makes 264 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 3: them either want to hide from themselves or it makes 265 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 3: them want to cut up into a ball and kind 266 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 3: of be like I need to ignore this because it's 267 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 3: just too much information and it's overwhelming. And I do 268 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 3: think what you said about you know, me teaching you, 269 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 3: you were an active participant in your health, and I 270 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 3: think that is actually the key. 271 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 2: Like for me, I've intertwined. I said. 272 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 3: When I first wrote this cookbook, I was like, I 273 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 3: do not want it to just be a cookbook. I 274 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: love sharing food with people, it is my love language. 275 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 3: But what I want more is food is just one aspect, 276 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 3: Like we all know food is just one pillar of 277 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,319 Speaker 3: our health. And then to be able to intertwine throughout 278 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 3: your day all of these micro these micro habits that 279 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 3: create such major impact. And that's what it did for me. 280 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 3: Like one of the things in there is breath work 281 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 3: and I think about this so much, and I just 282 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 3: took a deep breath now, because breath has honestly saved 283 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: me from being someone who has mass anxiety going into 284 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 3: things that I find so difficult, and by the way, 285 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: not even difficult things things that I find difficult, so 286 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 3: going into events where there's lots of people coming onto 287 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 3: interviews and speaking in places where I don't have full 288 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 3: control over it, like having all those my minor things 289 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 3: which actually impacted me so much. Breath work has been 290 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 3: the one thing that's allowed my mind to slow down, 291 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 3: for me to collect my thoughts, for me to energize 292 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 3: myself in the afternoon, for me to help relax me 293 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 3: in the evening. 294 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: And so I've shared. 295 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 3: Breath works to like really take people through their day 296 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 3: to tackle and handle everything that comes our way. And 297 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 3: so from breath work to the way that we eat 298 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 3: and the way that we connect to our food, all 299 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 3: of that helps us create more joyful moments throughout the day. 300 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 3: And the more joyful moments you have throughout the day, 301 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 3: the more joy you end up with every single day, 302 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 3: Like it accumulates throughout the day. 303 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: I want to dive into some things in the book 304 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: now because I want to give people a sense of 305 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: how this cookbook is shaped and curated in order to 306 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: help people. And I wanted to start off by asking 307 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: you this question about the modes, because you break down 308 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: the modes is like a big part of your book, 309 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: and you talk about the three Could you walk us 310 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: through these three modes and how we think about food 311 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: when it comes to these three Yeah. 312 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 3: So the three modes in AVEDA essentially the energies of 313 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 3: the world, of everything that we eat, of everything that 314 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 3: exists externally and internally. And so there's the mode of goodness, 315 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 3: the mode of passion, and the mode of ignorance. And 316 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 3: so I've spoken about it in the sense of our 317 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 3: lifestyle and our food. That's how I focused it in 318 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 3: the book. And so mode of goodness are basically foods 319 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 3: which make you feel good on a basic level. It's 320 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 3: foods that nourish you deeply, that that nourish your body, 321 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 3: that that are filled with prana. Now, prana is life force, 322 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 3: and what that means is having the most amount of 323 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 3: vitality and energy in that in that produce. And so 324 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 3: a simple way to explain it would be you pick 325 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 3: an apple from the tree. At that point that apple 326 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 3: has the most amount of nutrient value, it has the 327 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 3: most amount of life, and it's just been taken from 328 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 3: the tree. It has, you know, the most, it's the 329 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 3: most abundant in that form. And then you take it 330 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 3: home and you leave it out for a couple of days, 331 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 3: and you leave it out, and slowly, slowly, the quality 332 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 3: externally starts getting bad. You see these brown spots that 333 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 3: come up, and then slowly it starts getting mushy inside. 334 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 3: And so the thing is, you can eat something in 335 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 3: its purest form, or it can end up degrading and 336 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 3: becoming something which can move through the most down to 337 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 3: something that's no longer beneficial for you. But the point 338 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 3: is trying to eat the most amount of foods that 339 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: that form within this that fall within this mode of goodness. 340 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 3: And so the types of foods would be fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, 341 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 3: you know, like avocados, and like just all the foods that. 342 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 2: Come from a fresh, natural place. 343 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 3: And so if you possibly can bi organic way you 344 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 3: can the less chemicals, the less things that are put 345 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 3: onto your foods that are unnatural, the better. And then 346 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 3: lifestyle wise, mode of goodness are again the things that 347 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 3: don't just make you feel good in the moment, but 348 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 3: actually bring goodness to your life long term. And so 349 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 3: a lot of the time we mistake our temporary joys 350 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 3: for things which are good for us, and I think 351 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 3: is learning how to differentiate the two. So you know 352 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 3: that for me, when I'm eating a sugary downer and 353 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 3: the moment, it brings me joy and sometimes that's great, 354 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 3: but actually in the long term it may ruin my sleep, 355 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 3: it may make me lisagic in the morning. And so 356 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 3: the foods that actually bring energy and good digestion, all 357 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 3: the things that make your bodily systems feel good, those 358 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 3: are the foods in the mode of goodness, and also 359 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 3: the activities are the same. And then when you get 360 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 3: to the mode of passion, So all those foods that 361 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 3: you eat that give you immediate gratifications, so the sour, 362 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 3: the salty, the chili, all the things that you'd put 363 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 3: into your food to create that kind of burst of 364 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 3: flavor into it, those are still okay to have. But 365 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 3: again in moderation mode of goodness being the larger amounts 366 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 3: of foods than activities that you do. Mode of passion 367 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 3: will be a really intense workout that gets you sweating 368 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, at the end of it, you know, 369 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 3: it really gets your aggression out. So that's a mode 370 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 3: of passion activity. And the foods would be what I 371 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 3: just said, like chilis and sour foods and spices that 372 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 3: are really intense. 373 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,239 Speaker 1: And they have their place as well, of course they do. 374 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 3: All of these have their place, by the way, they 375 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 3: all have their place, but as we go down, you 376 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 3: have to have less and less of those foods. And 377 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 3: then the last one is mode of ignorance, and those 378 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 3: are the foods that essentially make your body feel like 379 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 3: lifeless and lethargic and make your digestion feel sluggish. And 380 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 3: those type of foods end up being foods which are 381 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 3: deep fried because it's so dense and heavy in oil, leftovers, 382 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 3: foods that have gone bad in the fridge that have 383 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 3: been there for a long time, basically food that have 384 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 3: lost their life, and according to Abada, also meat and 385 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 3: foods which no longer have life in them, like animals 386 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 3: that have died and then they no longer have that vitality. 387 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 3: And so yeah, it's just being mindful about all the 388 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 3: things that fit into those mods and how they're affecting you. 389 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 3: And it's not just on our body. It has the 390 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 3: ability to affect our mind and our consciousness too, because 391 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 3: everything carries energy, So whatever energy that food has when 392 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 3: we're digesting it, it's also assimilating into our blood and 393 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 3: then our bones and then our entire being, and so 394 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 3: it can also affect our minds. So a lot of 395 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 3: the foods in those categories, they also will affect our 396 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 3: mind in the same way they affect our body. 397 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: And I love this because I know you've done this 398 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: for yourself before you keep and I've been You've recommended 399 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: it for me to do as well is doing like 400 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: a food diary or food audit for a week and 401 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: actually just testing it out, because I think sometimes we 402 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: don't realize how subconsciously some of these things work and 403 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 1: how subtly they work. And if you hadn't taught me 404 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: in how to spot these things where it's like, well 405 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: did you sleep bad? Oh wait a minute, what did 406 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: you eat the night before? Right? Often we think it's 407 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 1: so mental, but so often it is physical. It is biological. 408 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: It is to do with what you consumed. 409 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, we've I think we've tuned out of our body 410 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 3: so much. You know, when they say about your own 411 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 3: inner voice of when you're in a voice, when you've 412 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 3: got too many voices that you have allowed to be 413 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 3: louder and louder around, your inner voice becomes you know, quiet, 414 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 3: or it becomes damp. And in the same way our 415 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 3: inner cues, our inner intuition about our own body, we 416 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 3: kind of end up losing that because we're constantly hearing 417 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 3: avocados are amazing for you, So you end up being 418 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 3: in avocado every day, even if it's making your tummy 419 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 3: feel bad. 420 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 2: These salads are amazing for you. So then you end 421 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 2: up being those salads, and slowly your body is screaming 422 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:07,959 Speaker 2: at you. 423 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, it starts to whisper, and it's like, 424 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 3: oh it's a bit, I feel a bit uncomfortable, and 425 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 3: then you ignore it. And then you're like, oh, my 426 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 3: skin is breaking out and or I'm losing my hair 427 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 3: or you know, your external symptoms start to come. And 428 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 3: still you're like, it's nothing to do with my food. 429 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to keep eating this, And so 430 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 3: you slowly, slowly start quietening your own bodily cues that 431 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 3: you completely start to deteriorate your body just because you've 432 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 3: stopped listening to it, and then your body stops communicating 433 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 3: to you, and if it does, it will scream at 434 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 3: you until your body gets to the point of breaking down. 435 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 3: You get ibs, or you end up getting gut issues, 436 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 3: you end up getting skin issues, and so we don't 437 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 3: seem to be able to catch ourselves in the point of, Oh, 438 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 3: I'm feeling a little bit uncomfortable today. I wonder what 439 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 3: it was that made me feel uncomfortable. And so the 440 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 3: diary is really important because if you do struggle with 441 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 3: any physical you know, problems at the moment, digestive issues, whatever, 442 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 3: start doing the diary of this is what I ate 443 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 3: and this is how it made me feel. Two to 444 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 3: three hours after that's usually how long it will start 445 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 3: taking to digest your food, and then start pairing that 446 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 3: up with Okay, this didn't make me feel good, so 447 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 3: I'm going to cut that out and then me see 448 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 3: how I feel. It's a process of elimination and it 449 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 3: does take a little bit of work, but it makes 450 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 3: such a difference because then you're not Then your body 451 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: will start talking to you a little bit more the 452 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 3: more you listen to it. 453 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like what I told you last night, where 454 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: I've been exercising, I've been meditating, I've been feeling really great. 455 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: I've been sleeping really well. And then for the past 456 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: four nights, I've just had such a busy schedule that 457 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: my morning routine, evening routine, everything went out of wag. 458 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,679 Speaker 1: And then last night I was like, I just need 459 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: to eat sugar, and I know exactly why. I know. 460 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: I was like, I literally haven't turned to where was 461 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: last night? 462 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 2: I literally for three weeks. 463 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, for three weeks I was I had no refined sugars, 464 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: and I was absolutely fine. But then the last four nights, 465 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: my schedule was crazy. And so last night I ordered 466 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: a chocolate fudge cake at Tirama Soup and had a 467 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: scoop of ice cream and it was amazing, and I'm 468 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: really happy I did it. But at the same time, 469 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: I noticed why I was craving it, because for three 470 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: and a half weeks, have not craved it at all. 471 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: And again, I'm not making I'm not trying to food 472 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: chain people or make people feel bad. I really enjoyed 473 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: that food that I had last night, but it was 474 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: a recognition of how much my body didn't need that 475 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: when I was doing all these other things and how 476 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: much I resorted to it as well. 477 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's a wreck. 478 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 3: You have noticed what your triggers are for wanting foods 479 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 3: that are just there to give you a hit that 480 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 3: you need. And so you already know that when I 481 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 3: have lack of sleep, when I don't have time to rest, 482 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 3: when I don't get my weekends, when I'm going from 483 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 3: one thing to another to another slowly, it's deteriorating me. 484 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 3: And then I get to that point. And so I 485 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 3: think what you've done is you've recognized it, so you 486 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 3: know where you're leading, you know where you're going, and 487 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 3: then you'll have to you know, you have your sugar dose, 488 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 3: which is fine, like everybody loves having a little bit 489 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 3: of something, but the fact that you're able to recognize 490 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 3: that the I know this is going to happen, like 491 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 3: this is what's going to it's going to lead to 492 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 3: if I continue down this road. 493 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: Yeah donuts tonight, Yeah, definitely. I wanted to dive in. 494 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: There's something beautiful that you did in your book, and 495 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: I thought these were really well written and explained and 496 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: super unique as well, and things that I don't hear 497 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: people talk about all the time. So I wanted to 498 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: dive into it. You have nine tips for living joyfully, 499 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: and the reason I wanted to ask you about some 500 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: of these my favorite ones is because I think they're 501 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: underestimated and they have a huge impact on the food 502 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: we eat. And so I'm just going to pick some 503 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,479 Speaker 1: of the ones that I like. So number two is 504 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: called eat until satisfied, not stuffed. And I was thinking 505 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: that until I met you, I definitely believed that I 506 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: would eat till my limit. Yeah, and now I'm like 507 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: wanting to know what's made and how much there is 508 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: and everything else. But walk us through why it's important 509 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: to eat until satisfied, not stuffed. 510 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, and AVEDA, it says that you should eat until 511 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 3: your three quarters satisfied, not for And so what that 512 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 3: means is not yourself to the point. So there's such 513 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 3: a fine line between eating enough to fuel our body 514 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 3: and then eating so much that it then makes us 515 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 3: feel drowsy lethargic afterwards, and so learning what those cues 516 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 3: are for your body is really important. And so it's 517 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 3: easier for our body to digest when we haven't over stuffed. 518 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 3: Like think of your stomach as like a furnace where 519 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 3: you constantly keep putting things on top, and so naturally 520 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 3: there's only a certain amount of digestive juices that are 521 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 3: flowing in your digestive system, so it's like it produces 522 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 3: enough for the amount that you should be eating, and 523 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 3: then you end up overdoing it and overwhelming it where 524 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 3: your digestive juices aren't actually allowed or aren't able to 525 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 3: digest everything that's in there. So then what happens is 526 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 3: your food remains undigested. Your undigested food ends up fermenting 527 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 3: in your stomach. You then get gut discomfort. You then 528 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 3: feel a bit slothy after your meals, feel bloated, feel bloated, 529 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 3: so then those those foods end up fermenting, producing toxins 530 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 3: in the body. Then you start getting headaches and just 531 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 3: feeling really groggy, or they're like, I wonder why I 532 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 3: feel this way. 533 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 2: I just ate a full meal. 534 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 3: I felt energized, but I thought I would get energy 535 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 3: from it, but instead it's made me feel worse. And 536 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 3: so the three quarters full thing is you will know 537 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 3: when you've eaten too much when you instead of feeling 538 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 3: energized by the meal you're eating, you feel the opposite. 539 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 3: You feel lethargic, you feel under the weather, you feel groggy, 540 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 3: and so that's a good indication to you that maybe 541 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 3: you've either eaten the wrong foods or most likely you've 542 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 3: eaten a little bit too much. And so the way 543 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 3: to actually make sure you do that is conscious eating 544 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 3: and like mindfully eating, because the fact is, when you're distracted, 545 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 3: you've got a burrica in one hand, you're typing on 546 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 3: the other, you're talking to people like you're all over 547 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 3: the place. So what happens is when you end up 548 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 3: eating your food, you haven't yet prepped your body to say, hey, 549 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 3: by the way, food's coming. And so when your body 550 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 3: knows that, by the way, you may not have even 551 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 3: looked at what you're eating, food start. Your digestion starts 552 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 3: as soon as you look at food. That's the beginning 553 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 3: of when our digestive juices start flowing. Our tongue knows 554 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 3: to produce the enzymes it needs to start, you know, 555 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 3: digesting the food from the mouth. And so when you 556 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 3: don't give it enough notice, you start eating and your 557 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 3: body's like, oh, I wasn't ready to digest all this food. 558 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 3: And so the taking looking at the food, you know, 559 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,719 Speaker 3: having a prayer of gratitude just before you eat a 560 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 3: second with the food to tell your body food is 561 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 3: coming to nourish you now, then taking a bite slowly 562 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 3: eating it, you'll notice that when you eat slowly, and 563 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 3: by the way, I don't mean you have to long 564 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 3: out your meal for like an hour, it's just taking 565 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 3: bite at a time instead of eating a bite before 566 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 3: the last bite's finished. When you do that, you'll notice, oh, 567 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 3: I actually only made it through like three quarters of 568 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 3: this burrito, and actually I feel actually great like this, 569 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 3: This feels good for me, This feels like enough, whereas 570 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 3: if you eat that fast, your body doesn't even get 571 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 3: to tell you, oh, okay, I'm stuff now until it's 572 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 3: too late. 573 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: Absolutely. And then the next one that you were kind 574 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: of leading onto is this idea of chewing your food, 575 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: like the importance of that. But before I do that, 576 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: I want to talk about the one you just said, Like, 577 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: I think it's so so so interesting thing to hear 578 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: about how the digestive process starts. I know, like until 579 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: I met you, had never heard that in my entire 580 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: life of wait a minute, my body actually has to 581 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: be ready to eat, But that actually makes so much sense. 582 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: It's like when you're at a restaurant, you order what 583 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: you want and then they have to prepare it. Yeah, 584 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,959 Speaker 1: and then you're being prepared to eat it. But we 585 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: almost want our body to respond like technology where it's 586 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: like on off, like do this now, do that now, 587 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 1: and it's almost like, well, no, your body needs to 588 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: through the scent, through the site, through everything else, like 589 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: needs to actually feel ready. And that's such a powerful point. 590 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: It's such an important point. 591 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 3: When you put a kettle onto bore water, like everything 592 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 3: takes a little bit of time, and our body is 593 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 3: a system, like it takes a second to gear up, 594 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 3: just like when it's rested for eight hours at night 595 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 3: and then suddenly you're waking up and you're throwing in 596 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 3: your coffee and you're throwing in all this heavy food 597 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 3: and your body's like, oh my gosh, I just got up. 598 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 3: Give me a second. It's like someone screaming at you 599 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 3: when you're waking up. And so that's how body feels too. 600 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 3: Chewing your food, Chewing your food. 601 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 2: Oh okay. 602 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,959 Speaker 3: So I have this memory of my that my granddad, 603 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 3: every time we will sit down for a meal, he 604 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 3: would remind all of us you have to chew I 605 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 3: think it was like thirty two or like some thirty 606 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 3: two times like chew your food, and so everyone would 607 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 3: have to sit there chewing their food like thirty two times. 608 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 2: You don't have to do it thirty two times. 609 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 3: That's like the recommended amount because the fact is the 610 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 3: more you digest in your mouth, which is what our 611 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 3: teeth are for, the more that you break it down, 612 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 3: the less word OUs stomach has to do. So if 613 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 3: you're eating food, even if it's small, even if it's big, 614 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 3: it's like our teeth were made to break down the food. 615 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 3: Our tongue was made to release the enzymes to break 616 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 3: it down. You skip that part, your stomach's doing double 617 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 3: the work. Then it needs to chewing your food. So 618 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 3: if you're having digestive issues, one of the simplest things 619 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 3: you could do is chew your food a little bit better, 620 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 3: because if your digestive juices or your gut is a 621 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 3: little bit weaker, it's going to find it even harder 622 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 3: to break things down. So whether it's raw food, so 623 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 3: it's you know, sometimes cook foods you can get away with. 624 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 3: Soups you can get away with, of course, but the 625 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 3: things you have to really pay attention to chewing more 626 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 3: are the things with the roughage around it, so like 627 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 3: more fiber around it, the beans, salads, when you're eating salads, 628 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: especially if chew it well so that it gets broken down. 629 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: I mean, that's such a simple yet huge point. I know, 630 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: as someone who eats very fast, and you've slowed me 631 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: down so much. But I always found that I had 632 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: to eat quick because when I worked in the corporate world, 633 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: you didn't really get a lunch, and so you'd quickly eat, 634 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: and you didn't want to be seen eating because you're 635 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: always being judged for not working hard enough. 636 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 2: Wow. 637 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: And so I got into this habit of like eating 638 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: really really quick. And what I realized was, yes, I 639 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: could eat quick, but it's exactly what you said. I 640 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: wasn't chewing my food properly. Obviously. I'm then getting cramps 641 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: or feeling bloated or whatever else it may be, and 642 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: you don't feel good and now you're not working or 643 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: you're not alert at work because you're not feeling great anymore. 644 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: And so it sounds so simple, but that ability to 645 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: chew your food effectively, And I love what you said 646 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: about how the stomach's doing double the work. Again, we 647 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: don't look at our body as a system. No, and 648 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: so we don't recognize that, Oh, that's what's putting pressure 649 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: on my stomach, and that's why I'm feeling pain because 650 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: I could have eaten food that's good for me, but 651 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: I'm not chewing you. I'm not breaking it down. 652 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. 653 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that one. Okay, I'm pigging some more 654 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: because these nine methods of eating joyfully are living joyfully 655 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: are brilliant. So that's a couple of them. I wanted 656 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: to pick a few more. This one was intriguing to 657 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 1: me because you put eat and cook with your hands. 658 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 3: Yes, you know, I mean in our culture and Indian 659 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 3: culture and in many of Eastern traditions you eat with 660 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 3: your hands. And again that's another way. It's another sign 661 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 3: to your body because we've gotten used to holding metal things, 662 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 3: so our body doesn't actually know. It could think that 663 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 3: we're about to saw something. It could think that we're 664 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,959 Speaker 3: about to write something. You know, there's no connection. It's 665 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 3: dead material that you're holding onto do and so you 666 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 3: start cutting your food up and your your body's looking 667 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 3: at it, but it doesn't quite understand. Like so I 668 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 3: can see the food, but I can't touch the food 669 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 3: and then suddenly you put it into your mouth and 670 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 3: it's like, oh, we're eating now. So our hands have 671 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 3: nerves and as soon as they start feeding the food. 672 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 3: You know, even with children, if you think about it, 673 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,239 Speaker 3: touch and texture is such an important part of your 674 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 3: body recognizing what you're doing. And so that's just another 675 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 3: indication to your body that you are about to eat. 676 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 3: And also a connection to food. Again, we have such 677 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 3: a disconnect to the food that we're eating. It doesn't 678 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 3: kind of allow you to do anything else. Your hands 679 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 3: are a little bit dirty. You're connecting with the food 680 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 3: that you're eating, and so one it removes distraction and 681 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 3: you doing other things, and two it just allows you 682 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 3: to reconnect back to the food that you're eating. 683 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: It helps when your hands are a cooking pan, like 684 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: you can hold really you can hold really hot food 685 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: like literally throws something into the air and you will 686 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: just be like sit dowding there going why is Yeah. 687 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 3: My mom calls them asbestos hands. I don't know what 688 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 3: that means, but she's always called it that. I think 689 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 3: it's like a thing when they were younger, like asbestos. 690 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 3: But my mum has it too. I think it's just 691 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 3: a cook thing. You just get like numb at the 692 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 3: tips of your fingers. 693 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 2: You just pick anything up. 694 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: One more that I wanted to focus of all of these, 695 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: Like I said, there's nine, I'm just being some of 696 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: my favorites was and this one I think is a 697 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: big one for people. And this one is a big 698 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: one for me. Avoid cold drinks and iced beverages. 699 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 3: This is one that whenever I've shared it with people 700 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 3: who have had gut issues, without fail, they've said, oh 701 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 3: my god, my gut has changed so much since I 702 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,479 Speaker 3: stopped drinking cold drinks. 703 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 2: Game changer. 704 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 3: And the reason is your body when it is starting 705 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 3: to eat, is creating heat. Like if you think about 706 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 3: a furnace, you think about a fire for it to 707 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 3: burn something. Our digestion is like a fire. 708 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 2: It needs heat. 709 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 3: So there's your body trying to build up this heat 710 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 3: and take all its energy towards your stomach, and then 711 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 3: you're going and then dampening the fire. Dampening the fire 712 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 3: over and over again. Is your body's just heating up. 713 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 3: The acids are just building up, and then you're like, oh, 714 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 3: let me dialute the acids and let me dampen the fire. 715 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 3: The digestivefier that's happening. One part of it is the 716 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 3: cold drink, like the cold part of it that's dampening 717 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,760 Speaker 3: the fire. And the other part is too much liquid 718 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 3: when you're eating is dialuting your digestive juices. What's recommended 719 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 3: is like a half a cup of warm water or 720 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 3: some warm tea that you can maybe with some spices 721 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 3: for your digestion, drinking that slowly sip at a time 722 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 3: as you're eating your food, and then like half an 723 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 3: hour after or half an hour before you can if 724 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 3: you really want to tea, can drink or drink. 725 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,399 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's such a and it's so common, right, 726 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,439 Speaker 1: Like I grew up in a house where I would 727 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: have a can of sprite, yeah, chilled right next to my. 728 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 2: Ma the pizza. 729 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, there is whatever else it may be, and you 730 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: get so used to it or like you know, we 731 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: have a friend w or will just put loads of 732 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: ice into water, yeah, about to have their meal. And 733 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: it's so normal. It's a normal part of culture. But 734 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 1: it's not necessarily good for you. 735 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, which is the same as everything that we see. 736 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 3: It's like there's so much just because it's the most 737 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 3: common thing to do it doesn't mean it's the right 738 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 3: thing to do for us. 739 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And so those are some of my favorites. 740 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,919 Speaker 1: I said, there's so many more, but I thought those 741 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,919 Speaker 1: were so unique, and I'd never heard them anywhere before. 742 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: I've obviously learned them through you, but they're so simple, 743 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: and what I love about them is you don't need 744 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: to you don't need to learn a new skill, you 745 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: don't need to develop a new habit. These are things 746 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: that you can start practicing right now. 747 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 2: What else you learn from a book I wanted. 748 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: To ask you about. I mean, I learned a lot 749 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: from your book, but I learned it from you, and 750 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 1: now the book is going to help lots of people. 751 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: So I think one of the biggest things for people 752 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,280 Speaker 1: these days is a lot of people are missing meals, yeah, 753 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: and skipping meals, And often what ends up happening is 754 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: then your first real meal is dinner, like your first 755 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: real meal, like substantial meal, and naturally we end up 756 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: over eating or we end up you know, we're trying 757 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,279 Speaker 1: to get all the new tune, so let meal. What's 758 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: your take on skipping meals and how does that affect us? 759 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: And what can we do if we find that to 760 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: be a pattern in our life. 761 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that you know it's it's a 762 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,839 Speaker 3: very specific thing to your body type, and you will 763 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,760 Speaker 3: know just by doing it whether you are the body 764 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 3: type that can take it or not. I have a 765 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 3: body type where I can not eat in the morning 766 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 3: till I've worked out. I work out on an empty stomach. 767 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 3: I then will have my meal maybe at like ten 768 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 3: eleven o'clock. I will fast for a long period of 769 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 3: time and my body thrives off it. You with your 770 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 3: body type, your digestion is so strong and fiery, and 771 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 3: your body type is search that you have to have 772 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 3: your meals on time. When you wake up, you're ready 773 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 3: to eat. You're hungry by the afternoon, like clockwork. You 774 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,400 Speaker 3: are hungry like every meal has to be at the 775 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 3: right time, otherwise you feel that negative effect. You feel 776 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 3: your stomach getting a city like. You feel all those effects, right, 777 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 3: And so I would say you really need to I mean, 778 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 3: I know, I wish I could give a direct answer, 779 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 3: but that would be wrong. You have to see if 780 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 3: when I am waking up and if I'm hungry straight away, 781 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 3: your digestive system is ready to eat. If you're waking 782 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 3: up and you're like, I could go another three hours 783 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 3: without eating. Test out, Test that out for yourself. And 784 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 3: so there are certain body types where, especially if you're 785 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 3: quite a slim build, you lose weight quite often, quite easily. 786 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 3: You generally are quite ravenous and hungry all the time. 787 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 3: You probably need to be having your meals regularly, and 788 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 3: if your digestion is suffering when you don't, that's an 789 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 3: indication that you need more regular meals. For me, if 790 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 3: I end up skipping a meal, my body actually is 791 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 3: good with fasting, and it actually feels better sometimes and 792 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 3: less lethargic when I do do that. So sometimes I 793 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 3: will last off like two meals and I'll be okay 794 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 3: with it, but I think, yeah, there's so much where 795 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,720 Speaker 3: it's like intimittent fasting is amazing, And then someone doesn't. 796 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 3: They're like, I feel awful, but like they said, it 797 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 3: works for me, but I feel so bad doing it. 798 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 2: Then don't do it. It's not for your body type. 799 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 3: The active participant thing keeps coming up in my mind, 800 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 3: but it is work to figure out yourself, just like 801 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,479 Speaker 3: when you're figuring out your partner and you're figuring out 802 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,479 Speaker 3: you know your relationship with them. 803 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 2: Your body is the same. 804 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 3: It's waiting for you to listen and learn from it, 805 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,160 Speaker 3: and it will tell you what it needs. 806 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think what's been my personal experience is 807 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:32,239 Speaker 1: that when you don't listen to these smaller initial warnings, 808 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: the body just gets louder and harder and harsher, and 809 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,800 Speaker 1: we think there's something wrong with our body, when actually 810 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 1: your body's been doing the right thing all along. This 811 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: is telling you to be an activity participant and listen 812 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,320 Speaker 1: to me. It's like your partner that just gets louder 813 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,239 Speaker 1: and louder and louder if you're not listening, or your 814 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,759 Speaker 1: alarm clock gets louder and louder and louder. When you're not. 815 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,279 Speaker 2: Listening, you're waking up. 816 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And so your body's trying to get you 817 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 1: to do this time. Yeah, yeah, all right. One question 818 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,240 Speaker 1: I want to ask you is, on a busy day, 819 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: what's one practice you can implement to make sure you 820 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: slow down. What's one thing you do and one thing 821 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: people could do? Because I feel like eating fast it 822 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: sounds like drinking fast. We do a lot of things fast, 823 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: and that seems to cause a lot of issues. 824 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,239 Speaker 3: For me because as you know, my mind, the way 825 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 3: I talk, everything is quite this and then this and 826 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 3: then this, and I'm all over the place. And so 827 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,360 Speaker 3: I can relate to being someone who's very fast minded 828 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 3: and constantly feeling like I'm all over the place. I 829 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 3: have to just say, breath, work again. Breath before you eat. 830 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 3: Take three breaths before you go into something that you're 831 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,920 Speaker 3: worried about. Take three breaths, like really feel deep breaths 832 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 3: going into your body, because we take such shallow breaths. 833 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 3: Your breath is the anchor between your mind and your body. 834 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 3: It brings you back into your body. It allows you 835 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,520 Speaker 3: to reconnect with yourself. And so it sounds really simple, 836 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,600 Speaker 3: but I guarantee you, like, take a breath right now, 837 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 3: Like take a breath and feel what happens to your body. 838 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 3: It automatically slows down. Every time I've gone from in 839 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,040 Speaker 3: this podcast from where I'm speaking fast, I've taken a 840 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 3: breath and then I slow down. I've taken a breath 841 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,800 Speaker 3: and I've slowed down. And so my cure to having 842 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,799 Speaker 3: a fast mind and having the habit of being like. 843 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,320 Speaker 2: That has been just taking a breath. 844 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,920 Speaker 3: And it's like as simple as it gets right, like, 845 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 3: breath is there for you. It's ready to be used 846 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 3: and navigate your emotions your day and help you in 847 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 3: some way if you allow it to. 848 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it's a great natural tool that's built into 849 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,480 Speaker 1: the body. Yeah, in order to help you set a 850 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,919 Speaker 1: pace for life. And if you think about it, every 851 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 1: single one of your emotions is monitored by breath. Like 852 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 1: when we're nervous and we're anxious, our breath gets shallower 853 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,320 Speaker 1: and quicker. And when we're calm and focused, our breath 854 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 1: becomes deeper and slower. And when we're stressed, or we're 855 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaker 1: under pressure, or we're late for something and we're worried, 856 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: our breath gets shallower and gets quicker. Exactly when you're 857 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: feeling like you're in the right place and you made 858 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,760 Speaker 1: it on time and all of those things, your breath 859 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 1: gets deeper and slower again. And we also have always 860 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 1: said to people, we also say things like that takes 861 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,040 Speaker 1: my breath away, like when something's really beautiful, it's breathtaking. 862 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: And we also say things like let me just catch 863 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,399 Speaker 1: my breath or let me take the breath because it's 864 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,720 Speaker 1: linked to our emotions. And so we've learned to realize 865 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,720 Speaker 1: that our breath changes, but we haven't learned to realize 866 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,160 Speaker 1: we can change our breath. And what you've just described 867 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,919 Speaker 1: is you can choose to change your breath in order 868 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,520 Speaker 1: to feel the way you want to feel. I completely agree. 869 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can really navigate your emotions through it. Like 870 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,480 Speaker 3: I think about when I'm crying, Like, depending on how 871 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 3: I'm crying, my breath changes completely. You know, if you 872 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 3: think about when you see someone really intensely crying, they're 873 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,839 Speaker 3: breathing so shallow, they're feeling so overwhelmed, and suddenly their 874 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 3: breath is getting faster. They can't even speak because they can't, 875 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,799 Speaker 3: you know, they can't catch their breath to actually say 876 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,919 Speaker 3: something thing. And so, yeah, breath can navigate your emotions, 877 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,760 Speaker 3: your day, your mind everything. 878 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 1: What's something you've changed your mind about this past year 879 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: when it comes to your mindset around health or the 880 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:15,720 Speaker 1: way you eat food? 881 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:16,520 Speaker 2: Protein. 882 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:22,719 Speaker 3: I grew u vegetarian, and my sources of protein being 883 00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,680 Speaker 3: from an Indian family as well, was lintails and beans, 884 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,040 Speaker 3: and you know those are actually the main sources for us. 885 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 3: And then when I started learning more about while I 886 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 3: was working out and the amount of protein my body needs, 887 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,280 Speaker 3: you know, my book, I talk about how the average 888 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 3: American I think it was something like has over seventy 889 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 3: five percent more protein than they need. So there's one 890 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,840 Speaker 3: side where because of the foods that people are consuming, 891 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,560 Speaker 3: they're actually over eating on protein to a point where 892 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,520 Speaker 3: it can harm your body. But then I find with 893 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 3: vegetarians and if your plant based, you actually can get 894 00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 3: the right amount that you need. 895 00:42:58,640 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 2: And I've been managing to. 896 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,719 Speaker 3: Do that, but it does take a little bit more 897 00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,680 Speaker 3: work to get it, to navigate and get it into 898 00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 3: your food. But I've noticed what a difference it's made, 899 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,920 Speaker 3: Like everything from hair full, hair shedding. When I started 900 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,520 Speaker 3: increasing my protein, my hair was shedding less, my skin 901 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 3: was getting better. I was feeling more satiated and more 902 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,560 Speaker 3: full in my meals because sometimes I realized my meals 903 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,760 Speaker 3: were focused so much on carbohydrates that they were being 904 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,440 Speaker 3: digested so fast, and I was hungry even though I 905 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,800 Speaker 3: had such a large meal, I was still hungry so often. 906 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,680 Speaker 3: And then I started introducing protein and I could last 907 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,600 Speaker 3: three four hours, five hours between my meals and I 908 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,799 Speaker 3: felt satiated. Right, It's made such a difference, And so 909 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,919 Speaker 3: you know, some of the for anybody who's plant based 910 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,799 Speaker 3: or thinking about having more plant based days and they 911 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,120 Speaker 3: want protein. I would say, obviously beans and lentils are 912 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,839 Speaker 3: great sources of that. But then also, you know, I 913 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,000 Speaker 3: kind of want to dispel the myth around tofu being 914 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,760 Speaker 3: bad for you, because there have been so many studies 915 00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,120 Speaker 3: that have been done yes to say that when you 916 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,040 Speaker 3: have you know, they talk about soyer and how it 917 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,239 Speaker 3: affects your hormones and your eastern levels. Those studies were 918 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,320 Speaker 3: done on people who are having such an excessive amount 919 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,640 Speaker 3: of soyer. It was like, imagine having five or six 920 00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,560 Speaker 3: blocks of soyer every single day, and so I mean 921 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:21,480 Speaker 3: like blocks of tofu. Let's say, so naturally, anything in excess. 922 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: Not chunks, large blocks, large blocks. 923 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, anything in excess, of course, that's going to cause 924 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,520 Speaker 3: negative effects on your body. Everything has that. There's anything 925 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,000 Speaker 3: in excess, even water and excess. 926 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,160 Speaker 2: You can have too much water. 927 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,400 Speaker 3: And so I would say that if you are health 928 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 3: having a healthy natural amount of tofu or soyer in 929 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,520 Speaker 3: your diet, it's not going to affect your hormone levels. 930 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,319 Speaker 3: And I mean, I'm happy to share the studies at 931 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 3: some point you know about that, but I've really researched 932 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,600 Speaker 3: it because I was scared of it too, so soyer 933 00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,480 Speaker 3: is a great source of it. Another great sauce is 934 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,360 Speaker 3: from your nuts and your seeds hemp seeds, flax seeds, 935 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,840 Speaker 3: like you know, in two tablespoons, I think there's nearly 936 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,239 Speaker 3: like six grams protein. Now you may think that's a 937 00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,520 Speaker 3: small amount, but you add that into a few dishes 938 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,000 Speaker 3: every single day, like throughout the day, and you can 939 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,480 Speaker 3: gain so much from it. And then obviously you've got 940 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,840 Speaker 3: your your meat alternatives, which do you have that. I 941 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,759 Speaker 3: try to avoid that as much as possible and get 942 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:14,680 Speaker 3: it from natural means. 943 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,600 Speaker 2: But there are so many. 944 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,120 Speaker 3: Great ways to get protein into your diet, and that 945 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,720 Speaker 3: for me this year has been I've really been focusing 946 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,040 Speaker 3: on that and it's been a game changer. 947 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. I've felt the difference as well. For sure, 948 00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,080 Speaker 1: it's been huge. What's the biggest change you've made in 949 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 1: your health journey that has changed your relationship with food? 950 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,480 Speaker 3: Eating to make my body feel good, not look a 951 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:42,839 Speaker 3: certain way, because I realized that, you know, a lot 952 00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 3: of my book is to do with the journey I've 953 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,080 Speaker 3: had to go through with food, where I remember when 954 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:52,640 Speaker 3: we met, I was so conscious about the way that 955 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,960 Speaker 3: I was being perceived and the way my body looked 956 00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,040 Speaker 3: that I would want to eat a way that I 957 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:05,799 Speaker 3: thought made me look better, and especially this last year, Yeah, 958 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,560 Speaker 3: the last couple of years, I've been trying to improve 959 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,000 Speaker 3: my relationship with food because I didn't realize how much 960 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,320 Speaker 3: it was impacted by the way I wanted to look 961 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 3: versus the way I wanted to feel. You know, a 962 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,960 Speaker 3: lot of the recipes in this book and a lot 963 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,799 Speaker 3: of the things that I've shared are helping people to 964 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,359 Speaker 3: connect back to their body but create a better relationship 965 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,880 Speaker 3: to understand that food, Like you don't have to choose 966 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,879 Speaker 3: between food that between food that makes you feel good 967 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,480 Speaker 3: and food that brings you joy. Food can be both, 968 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,200 Speaker 3: and you can learn how to do that and the 969 00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,200 Speaker 3: way to cook to make you feel that way. Like 970 00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,520 Speaker 3: we normally associate if I want to look a certain way, 971 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,239 Speaker 3: I have to eat salads and things just leaves, and 972 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,920 Speaker 3: I can't have any fun when I'm eating, because anything 973 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,680 Speaker 3: that brings me joy is going to be bad for me, 974 00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,480 Speaker 3: Like it's going to be something that doesn't make me 975 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,640 Speaker 3: look a certain way. But actually, how you feel when 976 00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,799 Speaker 3: you're eating and how you feel in your life is 977 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,760 Speaker 3: so feel it's so much more satisfying when you nurture 978 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:10,480 Speaker 3: that versus constantly living to figure out how you're going 979 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,239 Speaker 3: to change the way you live. 980 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:13,640 Speaker 2: Extending both can be true. 981 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:15,839 Speaker 3: You can want to change your external body, but at 982 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,160 Speaker 3: the same time thinking about how is my inside feeling too, 983 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,439 Speaker 3: and doing both at the same time is possible and 984 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,520 Speaker 3: will make you feel so much better. I was listening 985 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,200 Speaker 3: to something today and it was talking about self objectification, 986 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,799 Speaker 3: and it was really interesting because it was talking about 987 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:37,319 Speaker 3: how we view ourselves constantly as other people view us. 988 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,319 Speaker 3: We live our life as other people view us, So, 989 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 3: for example, on this podcast and maybe thinking how am 990 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,360 Speaker 3: I gonna sit in a way where I'm going to 991 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,320 Speaker 3: look the most flattering, and how am I going to 992 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,400 Speaker 3: like move my body in a way where maybe they 993 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,879 Speaker 3: don't get the bad side of me? And so you're 994 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:58,120 Speaker 3: constantly living through other people's perception of you, essentially objectifying yourself. 995 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,400 Speaker 3: And so I feel like having a better relationship with 996 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,440 Speaker 3: food has allowed me to care less about those things 997 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,680 Speaker 3: and live from inside out rather than outside in. 998 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,480 Speaker 1: So powerful, Yeah, so powerful, And that requires so much 999 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:17,960 Speaker 1: courage and going against the grain because society has conditioned 1000 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,680 Speaker 1: us to think a certain way. Like I remember years 1001 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,560 Speaker 1: and years and years ago, I remember walking through a 1002 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:28,280 Speaker 1: department store and the line above the kind of billboard 1003 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,080 Speaker 1: above the makeup section said get the natural look. Yeah, 1004 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,680 Speaker 1: And I just found that hilarious because I was like, 1005 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,839 Speaker 1: you obviously already have the natural look. I'm not saying 1006 00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,080 Speaker 1: there's anything against makeup. I have no issues with it. 1007 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,400 Speaker 1: I'm good with it. It's great. It's just it's interesting 1008 00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,759 Speaker 1: how it's being sold to us, and so we're being 1009 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,960 Speaker 1: convinced that the natural isn't good enough, or there's a 1010 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,279 Speaker 1: way to be more natural. And each to their own. 1011 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,040 Speaker 1: Everyone's allowed to do whatever's right for them. But I 1012 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,760 Speaker 1: think the more we live our life through the lens 1013 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,520 Speaker 1: of will people think I look good like this, will 1014 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,759 Speaker 1: always be disappointed because there are some people who think 1015 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:04,720 Speaker 1: you look good and some people who think you don't. 1016 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,640 Speaker 1: Like we talk about this a lot with fashion, Like 1017 00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,520 Speaker 1: I really enjoy fashion. Yeah, but when you see my fashion, 1018 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,880 Speaker 1: truths is you're like, I'm not sure what you're doing, mate, 1019 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,480 Speaker 1: And then and then everyone else will think it looks great. 1020 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,120 Speaker 1: But the point is I'm doing it for myself. 1021 00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:16,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. 1022 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 1: That's the only person that you can ever do it 1023 00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,000 Speaker 1: for because it's so hard to win. Like you could 1024 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,200 Speaker 1: have everyone think you're amazing and one person think you're not, 1025 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,040 Speaker 1: or the other option where everyone thinks you're crazy and 1026 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,920 Speaker 1: one person thinks you're amazing and the day the one 1027 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,680 Speaker 1: person you need to feel that way as you. Yeah, right, 1028 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,080 Speaker 1: That's what I'm hearing. 1029 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,000 Speaker 3: From you totally, and you kind of rob yourself of 1030 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:43,040 Speaker 3: experiences like I was talking to Liz Moody. I was 1031 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,000 Speaker 3: talking to this guy and she was saying, how you 1032 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,080 Speaker 3: know when you go to the beach and you look 1033 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,440 Speaker 3: into the sea and you see the sand underneath you, 1034 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,920 Speaker 3: and you're like you're thinking, oh, I want to go 1035 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,960 Speaker 3: into the ocean. But I'm a bit worried about what 1036 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,960 Speaker 3: people are going to think about me in this swimsuit. 1037 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,560 Speaker 2: I've had that. I've robbed myself of so many experiences. 1038 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,080 Speaker 3: We've gone to poor parties and I've been I'm not 1039 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:05,960 Speaker 3: getting in the pool, like just so you know, I'm 1040 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,239 Speaker 3: not going to get in the pool right now because 1041 00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,040 Speaker 3: I don't feel comfortable, and I've robbed myself of so 1042 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,960 Speaker 3: many experiences. Where she was like, think about when you're 1043 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,320 Speaker 3: eighty years old and you look back at those experiences 1044 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,400 Speaker 3: and you're are you going to say to yourself, so 1045 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:19,919 Speaker 3: glad I didn't get in the pool that day because 1046 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,799 Speaker 3: they would have seen my cellulight, or are you going 1047 00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,760 Speaker 3: to think I'm so glad I jumped into that ocean 1048 00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:29,040 Speaker 3: and I felt that ocean around me, and I created 1049 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,520 Speaker 3: these memories and I felt the sand beneath my feet, 1050 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,080 Speaker 3: and I had the experience. And so I've really been 1051 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,520 Speaker 3: thinking about that a lot more of like having the experience, 1052 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,960 Speaker 3: because whenever I've gone into situations where I'm constantly consumed 1053 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,319 Speaker 3: by other people's view of. 1054 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:44,720 Speaker 2: Me, I've not been present. 1055 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,759 Speaker 3: I barely remember the event, I barely remember where I've 1056 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,759 Speaker 3: what I've been doing, or where I've been. Like, there's 1057 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,880 Speaker 3: so much such lack of presence which doesn't allow me 1058 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,799 Speaker 3: to even experience what I wanted to. And I feel 1059 00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,799 Speaker 3: like that's kind of changed throughout the time. I'm still 1060 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,680 Speaker 3: working on it, but it's definitely. Yeah, all of that 1061 00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,239 Speaker 3: fuels into everything, Like it really changed the way I 1062 00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,239 Speaker 3: was eating and connecting to my body too. 1063 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you've also found this, and this why 1064 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,239 Speaker 1: I'm excited for people to get the book is that 1065 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:15,200 Speaker 1: you've found a way to make healthy food really tasty. 1066 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,439 Speaker 1: And I always say that to you, like I find 1067 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,440 Speaker 1: it so easy. I'm so lucky to have you. And 1068 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,359 Speaker 1: I always say that to everyone when everyone's like, oh, wow, 1069 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,040 Speaker 1: you live a really healthy lifestyle, Like you don't know 1070 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,399 Speaker 1: who I'm married to, right, And it's and now it's 1071 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,400 Speaker 1: almost like everyone gets to have you in their kitchen 1072 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,040 Speaker 1: through the book where they can also feel that way 1073 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,840 Speaker 1: and feeling confident that when you're cooking for your family 1074 00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,120 Speaker 1: that you don't have to sacrifice taste in order for 1075 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:38,920 Speaker 1: it to be good. 1076 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:39,600 Speaker 2: For you exactly. 1077 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,719 Speaker 1: And a big part for you with that is is 1078 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,480 Speaker 1: the spices and the hams that you talk about. So 1079 00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:49,040 Speaker 1: walk us through what you're fascinated with spices, Like our 1080 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,879 Speaker 1: nickname for you is spice Scale. Yeah, because of that, 1081 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: like in the actual sense, like what walk us through 1082 00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,799 Speaker 1: the value of spices and why they make food flavorful 1083 00:51:58,880 --> 00:51:59,480 Speaker 1: and good for you? 1084 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,120 Speaker 2: To ask me because it's literally my favorite topic about 1085 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:08,080 Speaker 2: this book. Spices have you know been a part. 1086 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,440 Speaker 3: Of our life, our whole life, because I remember even 1087 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,280 Speaker 3: when we were younger, I would be I'd be coughing 1088 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,720 Speaker 3: and sneezing at my mum we'd do spices in water 1089 00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,520 Speaker 3: to like boil boiler tea with spices to help me 1090 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:21,640 Speaker 3: with that. Or you know, when you get a cut 1091 00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,800 Speaker 3: or a bruise, our parents are getting out this tumeric 1092 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,920 Speaker 3: patty and like putting it onto our scabs. 1093 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,400 Speaker 2: And you know, we grew up with that. 1094 00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,480 Speaker 3: But I didn't realize the power of them until I 1095 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,120 Speaker 3: started studying the medicinal potency and benefit of them. And 1096 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,240 Speaker 3: so yes, they make your food taste and look vibrant, 1097 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,760 Speaker 3: like it's amazing. You can take like a humble potato, 1098 00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:44,360 Speaker 3: and you can mix different spices together and taste different 1099 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,120 Speaker 3: parts of the world through just the spices you're using. 1100 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,480 Speaker 3: So spices not only take you to different parts of 1101 00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,960 Speaker 3: the world and help you to experience different cultures and cuisines, they. 1102 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 2: Also allow you to buy really basic. 1103 00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,240 Speaker 3: Ingredients and elevate them and make them feel so different 1104 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,800 Speaker 3: every single day. And the benefits of spices, oh my goodness, 1105 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:04,719 Speaker 3: well you know this. For the past I don't even 1106 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,840 Speaker 3: know how long ten years I've used spices in my 1107 00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:10,080 Speaker 3: medicine box. Spices have been my go to if I 1108 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,080 Speaker 3: have a headache, essential oils and spices. If I have 1109 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,840 Speaker 3: a headache, what do I go to, Yeah, yes, oil, 1110 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,400 Speaker 3: my peppermint oil. Like if I have a cough, what 1111 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,560 Speaker 3: do I tell you that I'm gonna make you edgewage 1112 00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,000 Speaker 3: seeds in water? And I have found when I've allowed 1113 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,960 Speaker 3: my body to rely on natural means to heal itself. 1114 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,040 Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is like the spices, 1115 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,480 Speaker 3: the oils, whatever I'm using, the food that I'm eating, 1116 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,919 Speaker 3: my body's immunity has gotten better and better. The way 1117 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:39,000 Speaker 3: that my body reacts to being in stressful environments has 1118 00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,879 Speaker 3: changed because I've allowed my body to heal itself through 1119 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,200 Speaker 3: what I'm actually putting into my body, and so I 1120 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,840 Speaker 3: actually have feel my best when over the past few years, 1121 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,879 Speaker 3: progressively as I've done that. And it's so easy because 1122 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,279 Speaker 3: all you have to do is there's spices you can 1123 00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,520 Speaker 3: buy ground or whole or in mixes of blends that 1124 00:53:58,560 --> 00:53:59,880 Speaker 3: you can just add in. You don't even have to 1125 00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 3: think about it. You can put it into your hot 1126 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,719 Speaker 3: water in the morning. One of my favorite things is CCFT, coriander, cumin, 1127 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:06,840 Speaker 3: and fenelty. 1128 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:07,520 Speaker 2: Easy way. 1129 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,799 Speaker 3: If you're not used to using spices at all, even 1130 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,760 Speaker 3: if you don't cook at home, add these three spices 1131 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,760 Speaker 3: in equal parts a teaspoon of each into hot water. 1132 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,359 Speaker 3: Beautiful way to add in spices without you even having 1133 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,960 Speaker 3: to do much and then experiment with your food. Become 1134 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,160 Speaker 3: like a play in your kitchen. I really think you know, 1135 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,040 Speaker 3: the book is not prescriptive. I actually want you to 1136 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,560 Speaker 3: use the book and the recipes to play in the 1137 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,279 Speaker 3: kitchen and sub things out. And I've got so many 1138 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:36,799 Speaker 3: things where I'm like, if you don't have this, use this, 1139 00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,840 Speaker 3: if you don't have this, use this, because nothing about 1140 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,360 Speaker 3: food has to be prescriptive, and so spices are a 1141 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,279 Speaker 3: really fun way to do that. So, yeah, one of 1142 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,799 Speaker 3: the huge intentions and goals with my book is for 1143 00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,360 Speaker 3: you to have a spice cover that is full and 1144 00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,319 Speaker 3: overfall by the time you get to the end. And 1145 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,120 Speaker 3: I've got a chart in there to tell you what 1146 00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,880 Speaker 3: the benefits of them are, how you can use them 1147 00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,520 Speaker 3: to your medicinal benefit, but also to make a food 1148 00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:02,480 Speaker 3: taste way better. 1149 00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:04,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's really important that You've got so 1150 00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,439 Speaker 1: many charts and graphs, Yeah, things to make it really 1151 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,239 Speaker 1: easy in the book for anyone to understand, because a 1152 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,160 Speaker 1: lot of people may be thinking, God, I have never 1153 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,880 Speaker 1: really used totally how many spices I'm not really aware 1154 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,840 Speaker 1: of them, but you've actually made that really simple. 1155 00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,400 Speaker 3: And then I'm like, pick a spice a week and 1156 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,360 Speaker 3: play with it. Pick a spice a week, add it 1157 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,399 Speaker 3: into different things like nutmeg, add it into milk, your 1158 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,160 Speaker 3: milk at night, not meg. It is a mouth sedative. 1159 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,280 Speaker 3: It helps with sleep in the morning for your digestion. 1160 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,360 Speaker 3: You know, for centuries, Indians have eaten fennel seeds. 1161 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,480 Speaker 2: After their meal. It's a tradition. 1162 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,640 Speaker 3: You go to Indian restaurant, you go to an Indian house, 1163 00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,359 Speaker 3: they will be passing around fennel seeds after their meal. 1164 00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,799 Speaker 3: That's because it is amazing for gas, for bloating, for 1165 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,640 Speaker 3: digestive relief after you've eaten, and so like, try our 1166 00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,680 Speaker 3: fennel seeds and your you know, water. 1167 00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,319 Speaker 2: In the morning. This so, pick one thing. 1168 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,640 Speaker 3: You don't have to be overwhelmed with so many different 1169 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,719 Speaker 3: practices and spices and things in the book. Pick one 1170 00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,239 Speaker 3: or two a week that you want to incorporate and 1171 00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,000 Speaker 3: see how you like it, see how your body reacts 1172 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:01,239 Speaker 3: to it. 1173 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. I mean, you just mentioned two 1174 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,160 Speaker 1: things that I wanted to speak to you about. People 1175 00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,880 Speaker 1: have always been fascinated with your morning and evening routines. 1176 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, what does your morning routine 1177 00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:15,600 Speaker 1: look like now? And why have you chosen the specific 1178 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:16,640 Speaker 1: things that exist in it? 1179 00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,680 Speaker 2: Good question? Are you not part of my morning routine? 1180 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:25,280 Speaker 3: You don't know what my morning what is my morning routine? 1181 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,160 Speaker 1: So I don't know what happens before I wake up? 1182 00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:27,640 Speaker 1: That's right. 1183 00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:32,279 Speaker 3: So I wake up in the morning and brush my 1184 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,799 Speaker 3: teeth and also use my tongue scraper, which by the way, 1185 00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,040 Speaker 3: is an irateic ritual that if you don't do that 1186 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,239 Speaker 3: is a must. You don't know how clean your mouth 1187 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,720 Speaker 3: can actually be if you haven't used a tongue scrape. 1188 00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,400 Speaker 3: But it's also really important to remove tuxins that have 1189 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:47,839 Speaker 3: built up over the night, because that's the time your 1190 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,480 Speaker 3: body starts to clean up and take away the toxins 1191 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:51,960 Speaker 3: in one place that they come out is on the 1192 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,680 Speaker 3: top of your tongue, and so tongue scraping is a must. 1193 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,239 Speaker 3: And then I make my CCFT in the morning, sit 1194 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:02,480 Speaker 3: down for my meditation, and I have mondro meditation practice, 1195 00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,960 Speaker 3: as you know, and that's usually for about an hour 1196 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,319 Speaker 3: and a half mixed in with breath work to help 1197 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:12,799 Speaker 3: me refocus and keep bringing my mind back to my practice. 1198 00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:18,280 Speaker 3: And then I usually get ready for my workout, go 1199 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:22,160 Speaker 3: for my workout, and that ranges from Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1200 00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,640 Speaker 3: a weight workout and love weight training. It really helps 1201 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,040 Speaker 3: to build strength and I feel confidence in my body. 1202 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,640 Speaker 3: The other days, I'll either do running or like a 1203 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,120 Speaker 3: heated yoga class, other things that help also stretch out 1204 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,760 Speaker 3: my body, because I find weight training kind of shortens 1205 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,600 Speaker 3: your muscles, whereas pilates and yoga really helps to lengthen them. 1206 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,640 Speaker 3: It's kind of a mix of both. And then I'll 1207 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,880 Speaker 3: come back, get ready and then what else do I do? 1208 00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:46,640 Speaker 1: Oh? 1209 00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:47,840 Speaker 2: Then I eat my breakfast. 1210 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:52,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I don't normally have a breakfast, so at 1211 00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,000 Speaker 3: the moment, I'm trying to do savory breakfast after listening 1212 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,120 Speaker 3: to Glucos Goddess and really trying to incorporate more savory foods, 1213 00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,360 Speaker 3: and I prefer savory breakfast anyway. So I do everything 1214 00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:06,680 Speaker 3: from a sour doough toast with some sort of protein 1215 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,200 Speaker 3: on it. So either like having a good amount of 1216 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:11,520 Speaker 3: hummus with lots of veggies. I'll put like tomatoes and cucumbers, 1217 00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,600 Speaker 3: maybe doing and I'll sprinkle some sort of spices on top, 1218 00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:18,440 Speaker 3: So whether it's you know, toasted corianderses or cuman powder 1219 00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:20,440 Speaker 3: and then a bit of. 1220 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,440 Speaker 2: Hot sauce because I just love hot sauce, and. 1221 00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,600 Speaker 3: Then I'll have that, or I've been having these like 1222 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,400 Speaker 3: protein bagels, you know, topped with the same kind of thing, 1223 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,240 Speaker 3: and then I'll have a protein shake afterwards. 1224 00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,560 Speaker 1: So what about your lunches when you don't want to 1225 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:35,280 Speaker 1: feel lethargic after your lunches, because so often we struggle 1226 00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,000 Speaker 1: to know what to eat because we still have a 1227 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,640 Speaker 1: few hours of work left. Like what do you do 1228 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,040 Speaker 1: for your lunches? What do you enjoy? 1229 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, I try to keep it balanced in the sense 1230 00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,480 Speaker 3: of I will still have a carbohydrate at lunchtime. And 1231 00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:49,960 Speaker 3: by the way, our body is so in sync with nature, 1232 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:54,320 Speaker 3: and our digestion is the strongest when the sun is 1233 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,320 Speaker 3: at its highest, and so the sun is at its 1234 00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,760 Speaker 3: highest naturally in the middle of the day, and so 1235 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,000 Speaker 3: our lunch should actually be our largest meal of the 1236 00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,920 Speaker 3: day ideally, because that's when our digestion is the strongest. 1237 00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,320 Speaker 3: It's able to digest like the heavier things that we 1238 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,320 Speaker 3: want to eat, and so I will have like a 1239 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,240 Speaker 3: larger portion of my carbohydrates if possible in the afternoon, 1240 00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,240 Speaker 3: and then I will mix in lots of different veggies. 1241 00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,760 Speaker 3: Like eating the rainbow is no joke. You have to 1242 00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,280 Speaker 3: eat variety of colors, and so I will make sure 1243 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,680 Speaker 3: that when I'm doing my sharp I have a variety 1244 00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,560 Speaker 3: of vegetables with different colors because each of those colors 1245 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:29,200 Speaker 3: represent different nutrients and different vitamins and minerals. And so 1246 00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,720 Speaker 3: to make sure you're also getting enough of what you 1247 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,840 Speaker 3: need in terms of vitamins minerals, make sure that you 1248 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,280 Speaker 3: have a variety of different colors on your plate. So 1249 00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,080 Speaker 3: I'll buy like pink radishes, I'll buy cucumbers, I'll buy 1250 00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,040 Speaker 3: different colored carrots, and either I'll have them on the 1251 00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,240 Speaker 3: side or I'll just quickly saute them, have it with 1252 00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:51,120 Speaker 3: either some noodles or throw some tofu in there scrambles. Honestly, 1253 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,320 Speaker 3: I just make sure I know the basics of Like 1254 00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,320 Speaker 3: a really good way of doing is write down where 1255 00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:57,200 Speaker 3: your protein is going to come from, what vegies you 1256 00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,280 Speaker 3: love eating, and what carbohydrates you like, and then just 1257 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,080 Speaker 3: mix it all in. I love doing a one part thing, 1258 01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:03,280 Speaker 3: So I'll throw a noodles, I'll throw my veggies I'll 1259 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,520 Speaker 3: throw in some tofu, mix it all up, or I'll 1260 01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,680 Speaker 3: do a scrambled like scramble tofu on toast. I just 1261 01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:10,840 Speaker 3: know that the areas I need to make sure I 1262 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:12,880 Speaker 3: have in my meals, and then I kind of just 1263 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,760 Speaker 3: pick and choose between go between them and decide what 1264 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,760 Speaker 3: I feel like and what flavors I want dinner. 1265 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:24,080 Speaker 2: Dinner, know, oh my gosh, dinner. I mean, you know, 1266 01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:25,280 Speaker 2: it can be so varied. 1267 01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,280 Speaker 3: I love for me a doll or a soup or 1268 01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:32,960 Speaker 3: like a beanie curry I'll probably have. I wouldn't have 1269 01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:35,680 Speaker 3: like as much like flatbread or rice with it, just 1270 01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:37,560 Speaker 3: because I try not to have too many carbs at 1271 01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,240 Speaker 3: night or something too heavy at night. But I love 1272 01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,840 Speaker 3: Indian spices are just my comfort food and at night, 1273 01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,040 Speaker 3: especially when it's cold outside. I love having a mixed 1274 01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:48,040 Speaker 3: lentil like. 1275 01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,840 Speaker 1: Doll and all of these recipes in the book. 1276 01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh there's a really good like red lentil 1277 01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,280 Speaker 3: doll in there. There's also my mom's three bean curry 1278 01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,840 Speaker 3: with coconut milk, and oh it's so good, so much 1279 01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,840 Speaker 3: flavor in it. Yeah'll usually do that or a one 1280 01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:04,000 Speaker 3: pot thing because at night, you you just want to 1281 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,440 Speaker 3: throw everything in one thing and not spend too much 1282 01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:07,919 Speaker 3: time in the kitchen. And so there are so many 1283 01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,400 Speaker 3: recipes in there that are like thirty minutes and then 1284 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,160 Speaker 3: other ones where maybe you feel like spending a little 1285 01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:13,520 Speaker 3: bit more time in the kitchen, and so you can 1286 01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,000 Speaker 3: spend an hour creating a beautiful meal if you have 1287 01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:16,720 Speaker 3: time on the weekend. 1288 01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so lucky that I get to be the recipient. 1289 01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:20,560 Speaker 2: You are the guinea pig. 1290 01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:23,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, in the guinea peah, all of this intested. Yeah, 1291 01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,360 Speaker 1: what about your evening routine? How has that been constructed 1292 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:27,600 Speaker 1: for you? 1293 01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:32,960 Speaker 3: My evening routine is usually I try to as soon 1294 01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,000 Speaker 3: as I stop working and usually go walk for a 1295 01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:35,480 Speaker 3: little bit. 1296 01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,640 Speaker 2: I find it really helps me to wind down. 1297 01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,920 Speaker 3: I won't do an intense workup, but I'll definitely walk, 1298 01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:42,320 Speaker 3: go on the treadmill for about like twenty minutes half 1299 01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:45,760 Speaker 3: an hour, listen to something. And then one thing that's 1300 01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,760 Speaker 3: really helped me is I don't like bright lights at night. 1301 01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,480 Speaker 3: I really try to avoid bright lights. It's made such 1302 01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,640 Speaker 3: a difference to my like sarcadian rhythm, the rhythm of 1303 01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:58,320 Speaker 3: your body that helps with sleep. Artificial life really messes 1304 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,120 Speaker 3: with that and so whether it's using candles or really 1305 01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,680 Speaker 3: keeping the lights dim, that for me has helped me 1306 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,080 Speaker 3: notice that, oh wow, I'm actually really tired by eight 1307 01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,120 Speaker 3: thirty or nine, and it's time for me to get 1308 01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,640 Speaker 3: into bed rather than And by the way, TV has 1309 01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,360 Speaker 3: the same light, and so do our phones, and so 1310 01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,440 Speaker 3: for me, the bright lights are too intense for me, 1311 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,120 Speaker 3: and it and it really, you know, messes with my 1312 01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,960 Speaker 3: rhythm of sleep. So I've started using candles and stuff 1313 01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,919 Speaker 3: a lot more. And then we've been trying to read 1314 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,160 Speaker 3: a lot more. And so I'll if I'm by myself, 1315 01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:29,200 Speaker 3: I'll read. Sometimes we'll show a little cheeky show of 1316 01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:32,560 Speaker 3: something which might be called love Island, Not Gonna. 1317 01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:33,720 Speaker 2: Lie, And then. 1318 01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,000 Speaker 3: And then oh, eat dinner, and that before that, and 1319 01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:41,320 Speaker 3: then one of my favorite practices, which is like a 1320 01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,960 Speaker 3: self love ritual for me is a younger. It's a 1321 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,240 Speaker 3: really beautiful practice of a younger is it's Yeah, I 1322 01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,800 Speaker 3: talk about it in the book, and it's it's massaging 1323 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,120 Speaker 3: your own body with oils. That's as simple as it is. 1324 01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,920 Speaker 3: But if you think about it, how many times a 1325 01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,320 Speaker 3: day do we probably have a lot of negative self talk, 1326 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,760 Speaker 3: and how many times a day do you give yourself 1327 01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,600 Speaker 3: a hug, and like just it's literally like giving yourself 1328 01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:06,640 Speaker 3: a hug, just as when someone's had a long day, 1329 01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,640 Speaker 3: a hard day, they come home and you give them 1330 01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:10,680 Speaker 3: a hug, like you give them a cuddle. And in 1331 01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:13,480 Speaker 3: the same way, our nervous system wants us, wants to 1332 01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,480 Speaker 3: hear from us and feel from us that I love 1333 01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,640 Speaker 3: you and I care about you. And one of the 1334 01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,040 Speaker 3: most amazing ways of doing that is by just giving 1335 01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:22,040 Speaker 3: yourself a little massage. And so whether it's just the 1336 01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,880 Speaker 3: bottom of your feet, putting the warm oils on your hands, 1337 01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,040 Speaker 3: massaging the bottom of your feet, that's where all of 1338 01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,560 Speaker 3: our nerves end and so bottom of your feet, or 1339 01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,920 Speaker 3: even giving yourself a little scout massage, or if you 1340 01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:35,560 Speaker 3: have time, have a warm shower and larth your body 1341 01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:38,880 Speaker 3: in those oils. Oils actually help to lubricate your nervous system. 1342 01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,760 Speaker 3: They seep into your skin. They basically act as a 1343 01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,880 Speaker 3: hug for your nervous system. They help to soothe your 1344 01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,040 Speaker 3: nerves at night, and so that's been one of my 1345 01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:49,360 Speaker 3: favorite rituals that I do before I sleep. Yeah, and 1346 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,280 Speaker 3: I'll do that whether it's a two minute one quickly 1347 01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,360 Speaker 3: or if I have a bit longer on weekends. Then 1348 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,600 Speaker 3: I just kind of love myself up till I'm really 1349 01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:56,080 Speaker 3: deep fried. 1350 01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. 1351 01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,600 Speaker 1: I love it. No, And I'm glad that we went 1352 01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,520 Speaker 1: through a whole day because I think so often we don't. 1353 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,439 Speaker 1: There was so much that just came out of that. 1354 01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,960 Speaker 1: Oh good in terms of like, you know, like what 1355 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,960 Speaker 1: to eat in the morning, why you eat certain things 1356 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,160 Speaker 1: in the afternoon, why you don't eat them a nighttime. 1357 01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:14,240 Speaker 1: Like we just learned so much and so many practices, 1358 01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:16,760 Speaker 1: and again for anyone who wants to understand them more deeply, 1359 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,760 Speaker 1: they are well explained. Inside joy for the book. 1360 01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:21,080 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what can I say? Well more thing? 1361 01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:21,680 Speaker 1: Of course you get. 1362 01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,080 Speaker 3: I realized actually, you know, I was going through a 1363 01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,440 Speaker 3: period where I was finishing eating by five pm, like 1364 01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,040 Speaker 3: I wouldn't eat anything after that. And what was amazing 1365 01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:33,000 Speaker 3: is I was using Yeah, I was using a tracker 1366 01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:36,080 Speaker 3: and for my sleep I was using the Whoop at 1367 01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,920 Speaker 3: the time, and I noticed I was getting one hundred percent. 1368 01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:43,600 Speaker 3: I've never had this one hundred percent sleep score on 1369 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:46,160 Speaker 3: my work, and it was telling me and I'd gone 1370 01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,120 Speaker 3: from being seventy percent to having one hundred percent. Every 1371 01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:52,440 Speaker 3: single day. Wow, And it was because my body was 1372 01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:56,840 Speaker 3: not working while it was sleeping. And so yeah, because 1373 01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,880 Speaker 3: when you're when you end up eating late at night, 1374 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,720 Speaker 3: when you're trying to sleep and your body's trying to 1375 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:06,680 Speaker 3: rest and you know, actually spend time having downtime, it's 1376 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,640 Speaker 3: actually still working digesting its food. And so you can 1377 01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,600 Speaker 3: wake up after eight hours sleep feeling so tired still 1378 01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,959 Speaker 3: because your body's actually been working half of the time 1379 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,600 Speaker 3: to digest what you've been eating. So that was like 1380 01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:21,960 Speaker 3: a big, like aha moment for me where I was like, wow, 1381 01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,680 Speaker 3: that really does make sense. Having lighter meals at night 1382 01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,600 Speaker 3: affects so much, including your sleep. 1383 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. That's great. No, that's huge, and 1384 01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,440 Speaker 1: that's amazing. I mean to have a thirty percent increase 1385 01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:36,480 Speaker 1: in your sleep score because your food is not being 1386 01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:39,640 Speaker 1: digested while you're sleeping, because so many of us are 1387 01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:41,280 Speaker 1: eating so close to sleep. 1388 01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:45,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, A little snack, a little dessert, sugar. 1389 01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, huge. What they want to do? I want to 1390 01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,640 Speaker 1: do something fun with your work. So I'm going to 1391 01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:54,600 Speaker 1: ask you questions that I want you to link back 1392 01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:58,720 Speaker 1: to recipes that apply to those questions. Oh, okay, when 1393 01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,200 Speaker 1: you can look at your book if you need to 1394 01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:04,200 Speaker 1: to show us. But example of the question, there's no example. 1395 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,160 Speaker 1: We're just going straight. So the first question I'm going 1396 01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,640 Speaker 1: to ask is if someone has a long day at work, 1397 01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,040 Speaker 1: they're really tired, but they do want to make a 1398 01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,800 Speaker 1: home cooked meal, that's the easiest one that they can go. 1399 01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:19,760 Speaker 3: My rainbow noodle stir fry. Okay, it's like super easy. 1400 01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,560 Speaker 3: What I would say is have your veggies cut up earlier. 1401 01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:24,000 Speaker 3: Then it's literally like a ten minute meal. 1402 01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:24,680 Speaker 1: Amazing. 1403 01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got this really great sauce with it. You 1404 01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,160 Speaker 3: get your veggies, you get everything all in one thing, 1405 01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,400 Speaker 3: and it still tastes good and it feels like takeout. 1406 01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,760 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay good. How do you how do you 1407 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,280 Speaker 1: recommend people meal prep? Because that's an important part of 1408 01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:37,720 Speaker 1: all of this. 1409 01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:42,000 Speaker 3: Chopping takes up so much time my day. My meals 1410 01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,280 Speaker 3: are cut down significantly when I've chopped my peppers beforehand, 1411 01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,480 Speaker 3: when I've grated my cabbage, when I've you know, everything 1412 01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:50,160 Speaker 3: that you possibly can. I wouldn't say to do it 1413 01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:52,160 Speaker 3: too in advance, because as soon as you cut up 1414 01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,800 Speaker 3: a vegetable, it starts to spoil. And so I'd say 1415 01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:56,760 Speaker 3: you can cut up peppers two three days in advance. 1416 01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,240 Speaker 3: Same with like carrots, cabbage and stuff. Tomatoes go bad 1417 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,600 Speaker 3: straight away you cut them up by like an hour later, 1418 01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,320 Speaker 3: they're bad. Avocados as well, and so there are certain 1419 01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:08,760 Speaker 3: things you can chop up, and I recommend doing that, 1420 01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:11,560 Speaker 3: especially if you're someone who has been wanting to eat 1421 01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,720 Speaker 3: more at home but just don't have the time to 1422 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,280 Speaker 3: cut up your stuff in the weekend, because at least 1423 01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:18,520 Speaker 3: I'll give you a good three four days worth of 1424 01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,439 Speaker 3: chopped up stuff that allows you to eat at home. 1425 01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:23,480 Speaker 3: And that's been a good change for me. I've been 1426 01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:26,400 Speaker 3: so busy lately, and I've still since I've got back here. 1427 01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,840 Speaker 3: I'm actually so proud that I have not ordered out 1428 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,360 Speaker 3: or eaten out once, and that's been That's crazy for 1429 01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:36,400 Speaker 3: me because I've also been thand but having things chopped 1430 01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:39,120 Speaker 3: up and also having planned what I'm gonna eat. 1431 01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:40,360 Speaker 2: Usually we end up. 1432 01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,520 Speaker 3: Ordering out when you're like, oh, I've got nothing planned 1433 01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:45,280 Speaker 3: and I just don't even want to look at my 1434 01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:46,240 Speaker 3: fridge and figure it out. 1435 01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,080 Speaker 2: Figuring it out is half the battle. 1436 01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,200 Speaker 3: So if you already know and you already have the ingredients, 1437 01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:52,080 Speaker 3: it makes it so much easier. 1438 01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,040 Speaker 2: And then you've chopped up. You've basically done half the work. 1439 01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:54,720 Speaker 1: I love it. 1440 01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:55,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 1441 01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:58,360 Speaker 1: Okay, so let's say another scenario. I've got all these scenarios. Okay, 1442 01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:01,880 Speaker 1: So someone's got some they're dating, coming over for the 1443 01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:03,720 Speaker 1: first time, second time. Maybe they can make in them 1444 01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,360 Speaker 1: something this time. What do you cook for someone to 1445 01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:08,680 Speaker 1: impress them from your book? My god, I want to 1446 01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:09,400 Speaker 1: show off, you. 1447 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:10,360 Speaker 2: Know, good question. 1448 01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:16,519 Speaker 3: I would say my Jaalipino cheesy doughballs. You know why, 1449 01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,360 Speaker 3: because the other day it's so good. You can have 1450 01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:21,360 Speaker 3: like there's a masala topping to go on top too. 1451 01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,080 Speaker 3: But the reason I say that is because it shows 1452 01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,559 Speaker 3: that you don't take things too seriously, that it's a 1453 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:27,400 Speaker 3: fun dish that's. 1454 01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,800 Speaker 2: Like a pull apart, try too hard. 1455 01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:30,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't try too hard, You're ship. It's a 1456 01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:32,839 Speaker 3: sharing dish where you kind of pull apart the bread 1457 01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:38,440 Speaker 3: and it's fun. It's also just the poper flavor of vibrants. 1458 01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:41,360 Speaker 3: And also who doesn't love a good bread dish? 1459 01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:42,240 Speaker 2: Bread is life? 1460 01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:42,720 Speaker 1: Love it? 1461 01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:43,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. 1462 01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:46,240 Speaker 1: If you've got another scenario, if you've got the girls 1463 01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:47,479 Speaker 1: coming out of it's girls night. 1464 01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:51,400 Speaker 3: Okay, So for girls night, I would probably say the 1465 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:55,240 Speaker 3: roasted red pepper tagula telly, and then mixed with that 1466 01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:59,439 Speaker 3: we're not yeah, roasted pepper tagula telly, and then doing 1467 01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,400 Speaker 3: like the butter bean and tomato salad because you always 1468 01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:06,320 Speaker 3: want something a bit lighter on the side, and then 1469 01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:11,280 Speaker 3: having some sort of veggie side because you always need 1470 01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:14,040 Speaker 3: I have a whole veggi hero section, so I'd probably 1471 01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:18,160 Speaker 3: do like the zucchini bubbuganese or the sweet and salty broccolini. 1472 01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,400 Speaker 3: And then for dessert, because for a girls night you 1473 01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:27,560 Speaker 3: need dessert. I have this decadant cake which is amazing. 1474 01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,679 Speaker 3: It's like one of the best desserts in here, I'd say, 1475 01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:32,439 Speaker 3: and maybe the other day the. 1476 01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,720 Speaker 2: Triple chocolate Brownie Black Forest Celebration cake. 1477 01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,920 Speaker 3: But what I do is I deconstruct it so it 1478 01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:38,240 Speaker 3: ends up being a brownie Sunday. 1479 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,400 Speaker 2: So that would be my ultimate girl's night that I do, 1480 01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:45,479 Speaker 2: Ultimate guy's night, Ultimate guy's night. Easy. I would do 1481 01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,240 Speaker 2: my bean burgers. 1482 01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:49,599 Speaker 1: Okay, I like that. I like that. 1483 01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:53,400 Speaker 3: I would do my bean burgers. I then would do 1484 01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:57,920 Speaker 3: bean burgers with the side of my dad's mac and cheese, 1485 01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:01,280 Speaker 3: and then for a bit of balance, I'd probably throw 1486 01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:06,479 Speaker 3: in some veggies, which would be in the form of 1487 01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,240 Speaker 3: my golden caramelized fennel. I think that'd be a nice, 1488 01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:14,400 Speaker 3: like little refreshing side dish. And then for dessert, I'd 1489 01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:17,479 Speaker 3: probably have to go for cookies three ways. 1490 01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:20,160 Speaker 2: That sounds good, crumble yeah like that? 1491 01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:29,840 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah. And last scenario date night. I mean, 1492 01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:32,719 Speaker 1: I've been really lucky because IF has been testing recipes 1493 01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,000 Speaker 1: from the books every day, so I've been spoiled every day. 1494 01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:41,160 Speaker 2: But no, what date night I'd probably go with? It depends, 1495 01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:41,920 Speaker 2: is it like a. 1496 01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:45,240 Speaker 1: Like like a married couples live together for a while, 1497 01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,240 Speaker 1: they want to make a special day they do you like. 1498 01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:52,160 Speaker 3: My Mexican lasagna because that was so fus It's just 1499 01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:56,040 Speaker 3: so tasty. And then I'd throw in maybe like my warm, 1500 01:10:56,120 --> 01:11:00,960 Speaker 3: nutty super food salad on the side. Oh and maybe 1501 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,000 Speaker 3: my cavalin the sweet potatoes with cavalinera pasta. 1502 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:05,719 Speaker 1: So when are we doing data? 1503 01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I can make it all tonight straight up. 1504 01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:13,200 Speaker 1: And the cake ooh, but clover cheesecake. 1505 01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,880 Speaker 2: Or my chocolate mud pie for you because you love chocolate. 1506 01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,880 Speaker 1: Chocolate mud both of those are yeah, Rady, I'm so 1507 01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,240 Speaker 1: proud of you and I am so excited, honestly for 1508 01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,720 Speaker 1: everyone to have you in their kitchen, because I'm so 1509 01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:28,040 Speaker 1: grateful to have you in ours. And like you all 1510 01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:30,599 Speaker 1: just heard, there are obviously over one hundred and twenty 1511 01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:33,360 Speaker 1: five plant based recipes in the air, and every single 1512 01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:35,680 Speaker 1: one of them sounds amazing, and I can truly say, 1513 01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:37,760 Speaker 1: as someone who's eaten every single one of them, yeah, 1514 01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:41,040 Speaker 1: multiple times, I'm not bored of them. They're incredible. And 1515 01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:44,760 Speaker 1: I think anyone who gets this book and cooks from 1516 01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,120 Speaker 1: it is going to invite so much joy, so much energy, 1517 01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:50,160 Speaker 1: so much vibrancy into their life. And that's what I 1518 01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:53,680 Speaker 1: wanted to ask you as a final question around you know, 1519 01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,360 Speaker 1: you call the book Joyful. You talked about cooking effortlessly, 1520 01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:01,599 Speaker 1: eating freely, and living radiantly, Like, what is your hope 1521 01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:05,800 Speaker 1: for people? Because this isn't just about It isn't just 1522 01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,920 Speaker 1: about the recipes. It's about inviting abundance into their life. 1523 01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:13,280 Speaker 3: It is three intentions. One intention is reminding people that 1524 01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:15,200 Speaker 3: you do not have to choose between the food that 1525 01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,080 Speaker 3: makes you feel good and food that brings you joy. 1526 01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:18,160 Speaker 2: It can and should be both. 1527 01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:24,240 Speaker 3: To that life is about all those little joyful moments 1528 01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,800 Speaker 3: to accumulate to bring you more and more joy throughout 1529 01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,240 Speaker 3: the day, whether it's through your practices, your wellness rituals, 1530 01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:32,600 Speaker 3: or through the food that you're eating. And three that 1531 01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:36,559 Speaker 3: you feel you spice up your life like you fill 1532 01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:40,599 Speaker 3: your coboards with your spices that spice up your body, 1533 01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:43,320 Speaker 3: but also spice up your food too that really create 1534 01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,680 Speaker 3: vibrance because spices are vibrant and create more vibrance in 1535 01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:47,880 Speaker 3: your body in your life too. 1536 01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:50,920 Speaker 2: And actually, I don't know last one. 1537 01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:54,720 Speaker 3: I feel like I am a seriously grateful student of 1538 01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:57,519 Speaker 3: many great teachers, and it really was a way for 1539 01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,800 Speaker 3: me to be able to share so much of what 1540 01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:02,760 Speaker 3: I've learned from the people that have taught me so much, 1541 01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:07,160 Speaker 3: from my mum to my aravadic teachers, to my spiritual teachers. Everything, 1542 01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,360 Speaker 3: I was able to accumulate that and pour it into 1543 01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:12,960 Speaker 3: this book. And I'm so excited for people to feel 1544 01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,400 Speaker 3: the changes that I have felt in my life through 1545 01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:16,840 Speaker 3: everything that I've shared in there. 1546 01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:19,320 Speaker 2: So yeah, that's my intention for it. 1547 01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:22,120 Speaker 1: The book is called Joyful Everyone. More than one hundred 1548 01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:25,040 Speaker 1: and twenty five plant based recipes by Radi de Vlukia 1549 01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,200 Speaker 1: co Care FORU Lessly eat freely and live radiantly. You 1550 01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:29,840 Speaker 1: know what I'm going to say, Go get it right now. 1551 01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,240 Speaker 1: I would mean the world to me. I love supporting you, 1552 01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:35,720 Speaker 1: not just because you're my wife, but because you are 1553 01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:40,840 Speaker 1: so incredibly talented and so smart, and I think this 1554 01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:45,280 Speaker 1: book is going to change so many homes, families, and relationships, 1555 01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:49,120 Speaker 1: so it's definitely changed ours. Thank you so much, loving. 1556 01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:51,480 Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on, so exciting. 1557 01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,320 Speaker 1: And so excited for you. 1558 01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:54,879 Speaker 2: Thanks everyone. 1559 01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,080 Speaker 1: If you love this episode, you'll love my interview with 1560 01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:02,479 Speaker 1: Dr Gabor Matte on understanding your trauma and how to 1561 01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:06,200 Speaker 1: heal emotional wounds to start moving on from the past. 1562 01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:08,559 Speaker 2: Everything in nature grows only where it's vulnerable. 1563 01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:11,240 Speaker 1: So a tree doesn't go where it's hard and thick, 1564 01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:11,640 Speaker 1: does it. 1565 01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:14,040 Speaker 2: It goes where it's soft and green and vulnerable.