1 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: On the Happy Families podcast, Kylie and I have decided 2 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: that we'd like to pull back the curtain a little more, 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: share a touch more of ourselves in the hope that 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: can make a difference in your life. This year, missus 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: Happy Families, mum of six kids, has embarked on a 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: what would you call it, Kylie well being, self improvement, 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: fitness journey, all of the above. 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: I am training for old age. That is my that's 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 2: my catchphrase. It's not very exciting, is it. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: I love it. And we're going to talk to you 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: about the wins and losses and the extraordinary progress that 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: Kylie has made. We know that this is one of 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: those conversations that people have all the time, especially mum's 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: conversations around body image, conversations around feeling good in your skin, 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 1: conversations about what happens after you have babies and you 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: just don't have. 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: Time perry menopause. She wrecks havoc on your life. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about all because I think 19 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: that it's reasonable to say that in the first ten 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: weeks of this year, you have done something that you 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: never thought you could do again, which is get amazing results. 22 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: All of that to come as Missus Happy Families opens 23 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: up about weight loss on the Happy Families podcast. Next, 24 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Happy Families podcast, where you 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: get real parenting solutions every single day. This is Australia's 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: most download of parenting podcasts, where Justin and Kylie calls 27 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: some parents of six kids. Not so much parenting solutions today, 28 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: Missus Happy Families, rather a conversation about your your journey. 29 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: I don't like the word journey. It's one of those airy, 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: fairy woo woo words. But let's go with it anyway, 31 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: your journey with weight. Set the scene. Where does this 32 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: all start? 33 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 2: Well, I want to take you back to the very beginning. 34 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: You and I we got married. I weighed about fifty five, 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: anywhere between fifty five and fifty seven, depending on what 36 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: day and what I did. 37 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: And so for context, you are five foot ten. I 38 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: don't know what that is in centimeters, one hundred and 39 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: seventy six hundred and seventy eight centimeters, and you were 40 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: in the mid fifties, supermodel, skinny, teeny teeny tiny. 41 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: When I had our first child, I put on a 42 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: total of eight kilos. 43 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: And she weighed something like five of those kilos, and 44 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: then there was the after birth and the placentro and 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. 46 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: So within six weeks I was back in my old clothes, 47 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 2: feeling like my old self. But three years later, when 48 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: I fell pregnant with baby number two, I put on 49 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 2: twenty kilos. I felt like just I sneezed and it 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 2: was there. And I fell pregnant again very very shortly 51 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: after that, so I only lost ten kilos with her 52 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: and then put another twenty kilos. So by the time 53 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: we'd had baby number three, I was already sitting at 54 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 2: about ninety five kilos, and over the ensuing fifteen to 55 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 2: twenty years, I have bounced back and forth between that 56 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: kind of seventy eight to eighty kilos up to to 57 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: date was almost one hundred kilos. 58 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: So there was one section, maybe fifteen years ago where 59 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,399 Speaker 1: you got really consistent, really fit, started exercising literally every 60 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: single day with a friend when we were living in Wollongong. 61 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: Shout out to a Lissa because we know a listener 62 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: and David still listen to the pod even all these 63 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: years later, which we really appreciate. And you drop back 64 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: down to something that was in the mid. 65 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: Seventies which is around thirty kilos with her help, it's. 66 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: Around your healthy weight range, right, Like, if you plug 67 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: it all into the computer systems and things, they'll usually 68 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: tell you that that's somewhere around where you're supposed to be. 69 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: So let's talk about now the last couple of years 70 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: perimenopause and higher levels of dissatisfaction. 71 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 2: I don't think there is a single person I've spoken 72 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 2: to who has anything nice to say about perimenoporse. 73 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: Nobody says I was so excited for this, all these changes, 74 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: they're just great. 75 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: All the changes have been so much to take in. 76 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: Incidentally, when I share a well being chart that looks 77 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: at people in different age groups in terms of their 78 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: rates of mental illness and their well being, we've got 79 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: a really big spike with mental illness challenges in our 80 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: young people, and then things sort of settled down from 81 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: about the age of thirty, and then for females in 82 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: the forty five to fifty four age range, there's just 83 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: this massive mental illness spike. Depression, anxiety, stress, dissatisfaction, all 84 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: of the bad stuff and none of the good stuff. 85 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: And I always pointed out, now that we've been through this, 86 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: I always pointed out and say what do you think 87 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: is going on here? For women? And the whole audience 88 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: just erupts. The men look, the men look dazed and confused. 89 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: They're like, I don't know what's going on? What's going on? 90 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: What's this? 91 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: And all the women are just going, oh my goodness. Yeah. 92 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: And one there's always one person in the crowd who 93 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: will shout it out out loud as like, so that 94 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: everybody there's no confusion perimenopause. She will never say it softly. 95 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: It's always loud, and then hilarity ensues as we realize 96 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: just how impactful it is. 97 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 2: So for the last couple of years, I have actually 98 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: got to a point where I was feeling completely helpless, 99 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 2: completely hopeless, and just felt I was destined to live 100 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: at this life of this big, uncomfortable, cumbersome body of 101 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: mine that was just not aging well at all. Like 102 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 2: I'm talking about the ability to be flexible and just 103 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: move comfortably in your own skin. Sitting was hard, standing 104 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 2: was hard, bending was hard, all of it. 105 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 1: And at the risk of saying something uncomfortable and perhaps 106 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: not the most polite, You've watched your mum go through this, right, 107 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: And you always said, I don't want to be like mum, 108 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: and yet it was starting to happen. But you started 109 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: having some conversation with some friends, and I think this 110 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: is the really important part of this discussion that kind 111 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: of gets us to where we are. Talk us through 112 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: the conversations you started having with several of your friends 113 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: around you. 114 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 2: So one of my friends had just recently had a 115 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 2: tummy tuck, and she was just in seventh Heaven just 116 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 2: talking about how for the first time she felt comfortable 117 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 2: being back in her jeans and she was just so excited. 118 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: And it got me thinking. I thought, what would that 119 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 2: mean for me if I could just have somebody take 120 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: it all away. At the same time, I had a 121 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 2: couple of other friends who had decided to go down 122 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 2: the gastric banding. 123 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: So that's the thing where they put bands around your stomach, 124 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: literally shrink your stomach so you can't eat as much food. 125 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And thought about that, and I watched one 126 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 2: of my friends in particular, she could be a poster 127 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: child for this procedure, like for when it works, she 128 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 2: looks amazing, she is living her best life. It's like 129 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: she's got a new lease of life. 130 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: She doesn't get to eat much food, though she doesn't 131 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: get to eat much because the whole idea is your 132 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: stomach is small and the only way you can stay 133 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: that size is to restrict your calories. Yeah. 134 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: And then there were a few other friends who had 135 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: decided to actually try the weight loss. 136 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: Injections, so the gp ones Yeah. Yeah. 137 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 2: And so I was kind of just mulling over all 138 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: of these options and none of them felt good in 139 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 2: my skin, Like I just it didn't feel good, but 140 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 2: I felt like there was no other option available to me. 141 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: I had been moving my body regularly. I felt like 142 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: I had a really well balanced diet. I knew that 143 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 2: I was eating probably more sugar than I should, but 144 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: overall I was getting lots of fruits and vegetables, I 145 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 2: was eating good meats, and I felt like across the board, 146 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: I was doing okay. 147 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: So at this point, you go and see the doctor 148 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: to discuss what you're thinking. After the break, we need 149 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: to talk about your doctor's response and what you decided 150 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: to do instead. We're back. This is the Happy Families 151 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: podcast where you get real parenting, real life solutions, real 152 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: way loss solutions every single day when you listen to 153 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: the podcast. Thanks so much for joining us Kylie, You've 154 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: listened to all of your friends. They're talking about how 155 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: they're doing all of these I don't know if the 156 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: word is radical or extreme because they're so commonplace now, 157 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: but certainly they're pretty invasive. They're quite intensive. 158 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: Think about a tummy touch. You're literally cutting your body 159 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 2: in half. 160 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to call that extreme. I know it's commonplace, 161 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: but it is still pretty extreme. 162 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 2: Like you go gastric banding, You're literally tying a rubber 163 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 2: band around your stomach. 164 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: And I need to be really careful with how I 165 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: say this because I don't want to come across as 166 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: insensitive or inappropriate in any way. I've always been a 167 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: We've always been a family that teaches the kids we 168 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: can do hard things and if you're going to do something, 169 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: you want to do it, it's the right way. The 170 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: right word I'm looking for, Like, there's ways that you 171 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: can do things that are a little bit harder, but 172 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: you'll usually get a better payoff by doing it. There's 173 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: no triumph without the trial. You've got to love the hills. 174 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: Resilience off and doesn't feel like you're being resilient. We've 175 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: got all these things that we talk to the kids 176 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: about all the time. So when you were talking about 177 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: these things, I basically said to you, you get to choose, 178 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: Like I'm not going to tell you one way or 179 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: the other. But I still feel like if we can 180 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: just dial in our our systems, our protocol, our eating, 181 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: and our exercise, I think that we can sort this 182 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: out without having to do something so extreme. And you 183 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: said to me, my body just doesn't work like everybody 184 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: else's bodies. Because I said that the basic equation is 185 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: calories in need to be lower than calories out, and 186 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: I just have to. 187 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 2: Highlight at this point, you and I would go and 188 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 2: do the same amount of exercise. You eat twice as 189 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: much as I eat, and you would drop kilos while 190 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 2: I was gaining them. 191 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel fair. And so you were saying, well, 192 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: I'm going through p perimenopause and my anatomy and my biology. 193 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: It doesn't do what normal humans do because perimenopause is 194 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: not a human thing that humans have to go through. 195 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: It was just and I don't know, I'm not an expert, 196 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: and that I've got a PhD in psychology, I don't 197 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: know human systems like that. But I said, why don't 198 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: you just go and have a chat with the doctor. 199 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: In my mind, I thought the doctor was going to say, 200 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: Justin's right, just go and exercise, get your diet under control, 201 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,239 Speaker 1: and you'll be just fine. What happened with the doctor. 202 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 2: About eighteen months ago. I decided to book in have 203 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 2: a chat with her and tell her what I was 204 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 2: feeling and what I was thinking. At that point, I 205 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 2: was leaning towards a tummy tuck, and I talked her 206 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: through my reasoning. I talked to her through I guess 207 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: that hopelessness that I was feeling the fact that my 208 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: hormones were just running havoc, and I just I felt, 209 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: I felt really just despondent in my being. And she 210 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 2: completely agreed that that was the right thing for me 211 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 2: to do. Yeah. So we talked briefly about my food intake, 212 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 2: we talked briefly about my exercise, but at no point 213 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 2: was there any exploration into what I meant when I 214 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 2: said I've tried everything. 215 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, So I want to be sensitive to we know, 216 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: we get emails regularly from doctors and pediatricians and so on. 217 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: I want to be sensitive that we're not throwing doctors 218 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: under the bus here, but what we are highlighting is 219 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: that the medical system is not designed for what people 220 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: like Peter A. Tia and Andrew Hueman would call what 221 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: medicine three point zero. It's still very much intervention, pharmacological 222 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: and surgical responses to challenges, whereas we would probably prefer 223 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: to have a doctor say, well, I'm not a dietitian, 224 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm not a nutritionist. 225 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 2: Maybe you should see it. 226 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: Maybe you could see one go and try something before 227 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: we start sawing your body in half, so that we 228 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: can make these really significant interventions. So the GP said, 229 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: let's get you off to the specialist and get this 230 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: locked in. 231 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, would you like a referral? I said, you know what, 232 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 2: I'm just going to sit on this for a little 233 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 2: bit longer. This is a really big decision. I'll come 234 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 2: back to you if I need that. And so over 235 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 2: the next few months, as I continued to have conversations 236 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 2: with friends and get more and more frustrated with my 237 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: body and what it was doing and not doing, I 238 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 2: started to wonder if there was a different way, And 239 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 2: out of the blue, one of my friends decided to 240 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: do one of those eight week challenges at the gym 241 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 2: right and I was completely unaware, but She had been 242 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 2: part of a bigger conversation with a group of friends, 243 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 2: and she decided at the end of it that she 244 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 2: would post her before and after photos. They'd obviously had 245 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: a conversation with that I wasn't privy to. And when 246 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 2: I saw those photos, knowing full well that she's living 247 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 2: life exactly like me and feeling all the same things 248 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 2: that I'm feeling. 249 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: Big family, trying to run a business, stretched like crazy, 250 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: not enough time, not enough money, not enough anything. 251 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: Eight weeks it was chalk and cheese what she'd achieved. 252 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 2: It was still obvious that there was a long way 253 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 2: for her to go, but there was physical change in 254 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 2: her body, and it was so inspiring that I literally 255 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 2: said to her, how do I do what you just? 256 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: Yeah? I want what you're having. 257 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah. And so she said, well, actually there's 258 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 2: another talent starting at the beginning of the year. I'm 259 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 2: thinking of signing up for it again. And I said, well, 260 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in. All the way I came home, 261 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 2: I talked to you about it, I shared the photos. 262 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: And I was Debbie Downer, you were a bit I 263 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 1: just said, I don't feel like these and again, if 264 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: these work for you, I want to be sensitive. I'm 265 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: not saying there's a right or wrong here. We're just 266 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: sharing what our experience was. My concern was that these 267 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: kinds of challenges are often not sustainable. You're supposed to 268 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: put your body through all of this stuff for eight 269 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: weeks and then everything's supposed to, I don't know, be better. 270 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: You've created these new habits, and as it turned out 271 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: that friend, everything that she'd lost she put back on 272 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: before the next day we challenge commenced, which kind of 273 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: I looked at you and said, this is what I'm 274 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: talking about. I'm not convinced this is going to be 275 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: the right way to go for us. It might be 276 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: fine for other people, but I don't think that's the 277 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: right thing for us. 278 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: However, in spite of all of your poo pooing, poo 279 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 2: pooing about ten of us decided that we were going 280 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 2: to sign up together. Meantime, you and I started talking 281 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 2: about what this year would look like. 282 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, so we did this quarterly get away. We go 283 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: away for one or two nights. We have a conversation 284 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: about what our goals are. Every quarter we review what 285 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: we've been doing and what we are planning to do. 286 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: And we set up literally an implementation plan to run 287 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: that strategy so that we can achieve our goals. And 288 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: so in what was it mid to late December, just 289 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,319 Speaker 1: before Christmas, we went away and had two nights, and 290 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: the bulk of the conversation for you at least, was 291 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: built around what was going to be the eight week challenge, 292 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: but then we kind of changed our mind. 293 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: The thing that stands out to me the most about 294 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 2: that conversation was the very first question. I asked you, 295 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 2: if you could pick two or three words that would 296 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 2: describe what twenty twenty six would look like, what would 297 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 2: those words be? 298 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: And I groaned and went, ah, I hate doing these 299 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: word things, but fine, And I think that the first 300 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: one that I said was vitality. Yeah, because I had 301 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: just come off six weeks of recovering from food poisoning 302 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: and had lost seven kilos, but I felt horrible. I 303 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: still couldn't eat, and yeah, I just wanted to feel 304 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: vital and strong again. And the second one that I 305 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: chose was the three with vitality, intension, and connection. 306 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 2: That became the foundation for how we looked at this year. 307 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 2: And this is like a really important part of the 308 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 2: journey you've got to pick things that you love doing firstly, 309 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 2: and secondly, have a friend. 310 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: To get someone because when you've got that commitment with 311 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: someone and you've got that appointment, you just show up, 312 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: You just go and do it. 313 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: I get out of bed each morning because I know 314 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 2: that you're going to be there and we're going to 315 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: do a bike ride together, Whereas it's so much harder 316 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 2: if I'm getting up at the crack of dawn to 317 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 2: just go and push out some. 318 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: Cases like keep I'm saying resilience is relational. It's so 319 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: much easier to do this stuff when you've got somebody 320 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: who's by your side. A quick word on the gym 321 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: thing as well. I just don't like gyms, and I've 322 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: had this on and off relationship with Jim's for decades 323 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: because I don't like gyms. But I've been really enamored by, 324 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: really captured by gymnasts. Like I watched what gymnasts can 325 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: do and how strong they are. It's just body weight stuff, right, 326 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: they're on the rings and they're they're able to do 327 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: these incredible things. And I discovered calisthenics. I remember years 328 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: ago somebody was telling me about calisthenics. And I rolled 329 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: my eyes. I'm like, oh, my goodness, how lame. I've 330 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: discovered calisthenics, and I'm like, these these people are so 331 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: staggeringly strong. 332 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 2: You go down a rabbit hole of reels when you wells. 333 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: And so I've been looking on and off for the 334 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: last four or five years for a gym on the 335 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: Sunshine Coast that meets that sort of calisthenic emphasis. And 336 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how I've never found it before, but 337 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: there's a gym that started about three years ago that 338 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: is just down the road from us. I called, I 339 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: had a chat, told him what were after he said, yeah, 340 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: come on in, I reckon, I can fit you in. 341 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: And it was just the best and it has been 342 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: ever since. 343 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 2: And then two other things that I think were really important. 344 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 2: I increased my water consumption. This is something that anybody 345 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: can do. And I had no idea how totally dehydrated 346 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 2: every cell in my body was because I don't drink 347 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 2: enough water. So I went from drinking probably an average 348 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: of one to two glasses of water a day up 349 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 2: to nearly three liters of water a day. The difference 350 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: that that has made, like that is power. Just that 351 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 2: one decision and the last decision I made was eliminating 352 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 2: process sugars. Refined sugars. 353 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're not fanatical about it. 354 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 2: I was about to say, I'm not perfect at it. 355 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 2: But previous to that decision, refined sugars were in my 356 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 2: every day and probably every meal content. 357 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: So we're kind of out of time here. But if 358 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: I was to highlight what I've seen for eight weeks 359 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: or ten weeks basically from somewhere between Christmas and New 360 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: Year right up to now ten maybe eleven weeks now, 361 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: you have consistently ridden your bike about a half hundred 362 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: and fifty to two hundred k's a week. You have 363 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: consistently gone to the gym three days a week. You've 364 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 1: got a program, You've got a personal trainer who is 365 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: guiding you through that and making sure that you're doing 366 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: everything right and being consistent. You've got resilience is relational. 367 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 1: At least three or four nights a week, but sometimes more. 368 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: You and I go for a walk with the dog 369 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: after the dishes are done for about four or five 370 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: k's and that is a game changing. You've been off 371 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: the process sugars. You're drinking water and the other thing 372 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: that I just love that you've done is you started 373 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: taking photos and doing measurements when this began. 374 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 2: So because my friends were doing that eight week challenge, 375 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: I after you and I discussed what we were doing, 376 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 2: and I was making good progress. Within two weeks, I 377 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 2: was feeling better in myself, and we decided that I 378 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: would I would join the little group, the little band 379 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 2: of women, and we would have conversations, but that I 380 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 2: was going to continue doing eight weeks of my own challenge, 381 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 2: my own work alongside them. And part of the challenge 382 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 2: was you had to take a photo diary each Sunday. 383 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 2: You had to check in with photos of front back. 384 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: Inside, front, back, and side. 385 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 2: And then take measurements of your arm, thigh, waist, and 386 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 2: hip measurements. And so I decided that if it was 387 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 2: good enough for them, that I would do that. And 388 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 2: I'm so glad I did, because it's so easy to 389 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 2: look in the mirror on a day to day basis 390 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 2: and actually. 391 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: Not to feel like you're not doing anything. 392 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 2: And if I relied only on the scales, they're the 393 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 2: worst thing in the whole wide world. 394 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 1: So we are out of time, but give us the results. 395 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: This whole conversation is a built up to the results 396 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: and after ten or eleven weeks, where are you? How's 397 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: this going for you? Oh? Sorry, you've also been getting 398 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: You've had this thing called an in body scan, which 399 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: is kind of like a you can go and spend 400 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars on those big expensive Dexa scans, or 401 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: you can go and spend fifty nine dollars on an 402 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: in body scan. So you had one a few weeks 403 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: in and then you had another one just in last 404 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: week or two. What are your results? 405 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 2: So I've lost a total of four kilos of total 406 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: body fat mass. When she actually handed me the prototype 407 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 2: fat prototype of two point three kilos, she looked at me. 408 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 2: She said, coylie, you've lost nearly two of these. When 409 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 2: I felt it, like the weight of it number one, 410 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,719 Speaker 2: the size of it number two, I literally wanted to 411 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 2: cry because I can't see that on my body, Like 412 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 2: I can see that my shape has changed. 413 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: We can see it in the photos. 414 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 2: But I can't. It was like when they first handed 415 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 2: me a baby, where did she come from? Ye? 416 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 1: Like? 417 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 2: How did she fit inside me? Like I'm looking at 418 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 2: this weight and the recognition that I'm no longer carrying 419 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: that I'm no longer having to walk that around every 420 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 2: day was really really empowering. But the biggest number that 421 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 2: was the scariest to see on the page when I 422 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 2: had my first GAM was my visceral fat. So that's 423 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 2: the unhealthy fat that's literally tucked in around all of 424 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 2: your organis. 425 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: So that's the internal fat that you don't actually see. 426 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 1: It's wrapping around your heart and your lungs, and it's 427 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: wrapping around your kidney and your liver. 428 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 2: So that's what causes all the bad stuff diabetes, heart disease, 429 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: all of that. 430 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: So subcutaneous fat is the fat that you can see, 431 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: but viscral fat is deep down on the inside so 432 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: you don't actually see. That, is what you're saying. 433 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 2: That's what causes the big fat tummy as Perryman pause, 434 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: a woman where no one for a hormonal belly, that's what. 435 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: So it's visceral fat. 436 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 2: It's all viscraal fat. 437 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what was the number? 438 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 2: It was nearly double what it would be to be 439 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 2: on the absolute highest end of healthy, right, not the 440 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 2: low end, the high end. So I was looking at 441 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 2: about one hundred and eighty centimeters squared of visceral fat, 442 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,959 Speaker 2: A hundred or below is what I'm aiming for. 443 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: So is that the start or is that the one way? 444 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 2: That was at the start, and I knew it was 445 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,959 Speaker 2: going to be bad, but to actually see it on 446 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: a page was a real eye opener. But the wonderful 447 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 2: thing at that time the guy who helped me with 448 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 2: the scan, he just said, Kylie, you keep doing what 449 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 2: you're doing, and he said that number is going to shift. 450 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 2: Not like the scales where I'm seeing three hundred grams 451 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,360 Speaker 2: a week or something. He said, you're going to see 452 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 2: a massive shift. So after eight weeks, I decided I 453 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 2: really wanted to see if I had done that, because 454 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: the scales are not kind. It's a very very slow grind. 455 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 2: I've lost nearly twenty five centimeters squared. This are all fat. 456 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: So you've gone for all eight weeks, You've gone for 457 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 1: like one hundred and eighty two, one hundred and fifties 458 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: fifty something six. I think, wow, yeah. 459 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, which means if I can continue doing what I'm 460 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 2: doing within the next sixteen weeks, I could be very 461 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: close to one hundred. Like That's how tangible that is 462 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 2: to me now, whereas before it just felt so overwhelming. 463 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 2: So unachievable, and my body wasn't working. 464 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: So let's just also, what we've discovered is that the 465 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: number on the scale is not that important. What matters 466 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: is what's going on the inside. But you've dropped from 467 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: nearly one hundred kilos to you're tapping on the door 468 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: of the ninety ones. Now you're in the very low 469 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: ninety two range in that sort of eight to ten 470 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: week period. And you've also gained muscle. 471 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 2: Mass three hundred grams. 472 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: Right okay, which again means you're losing weight, but you're 473 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: gaining weight, you gaining the right. 474 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 2: I thought it was a pretty puny amount until she 475 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 2: acknowledged to me that for a woman, between one kilo 476 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 2: and one point two kilos a year is phenomenal. 477 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, So you've done a third of that in eight, nine, 478 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: ten weeks. So let's wrap this up. Take home messages 479 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: for people who are listening and going, oh gee, I 480 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: really want to do that, but I was going to 481 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: do the eight week challenge, or I'm I'm just so 482 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: time poor, I'm so stuck. What do you think has 483 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: made this work for you when previously it hasn't worked, 484 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,959 Speaker 1: or you've just sort of thought, No, I just need 485 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: to book in and take some pills or do something 486 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: more invasive. 487 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 2: So the first thing for me is knowledge is power. 488 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 2: The more you know how your body works, the more 489 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 2: competent you feel to do what is needed to meet 490 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 2: those requirements. The second thing is adherence, Like, we just 491 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 2: have to be consistent over time. I didn't just put 492 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 2: on thirty or forty kilos overnight. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 493 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 2: so this has been a twenty year You were hearing. 494 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,199 Speaker 1: To that process for twenty years? Yes, yeah, So how 495 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: long do you need to adhere to this process to 496 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: reverse what took twenty years to do? 497 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 2: And while an eight week challenge might be a great 498 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 2: booster to get you started, and for me it was motivation. 499 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: I saw what my friend achieved. Funnily enough, out of 500 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 2: the ten women that signed up to do that challenge, 501 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 2: there was only one or two who actually adhered to 502 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 2: the challenge for the most part. They were definitely not 503 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 2: one hundred percent, but ninety five percent of them. Yeah, 504 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 2: they gave up, They fell off because life is challenging. 505 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: Okay, so take our messages. You need knowledge is power. 506 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: You've got to be able to do something that you 507 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: enjoy doing. Do it with someone, and here like sticking 508 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: with stick stick with the plan, stick with it at a. 509 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 2: Photo diary on the photo powerful. 510 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: And take those measurements literally, get the little journal out 511 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: and take the measurements. All right, We've gone way over time, 512 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: but I just feel like the story is inspiring. I 513 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: feel like it's important, and I know how often people 514 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: will have these conversations and say it and not what 515 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do. We're not telling you what to do, 516 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: but we do want to share with you that this 517 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: is working. A real treat. Find someone you can work with, 518 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: do something that you really want to do, pay to 519 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: get some help if your finances will allow it, and 520 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: then just stick at it and don't expect it to 521 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: happen overnight, because it doesn't. But my goodness, you're looking fantastic. 522 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: Thanks can't wait to see what happens over the next 523 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: eight or ten weeks. We'll keep you updated because we 524 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: just feel like this is something that is inspiring and 525 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 1: exciting and we'd love to share that with you. Thanks 526 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: so much for listening. We hope that you've got something 527 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: out of it. The Happy Family's podcast is produced by 528 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 1: Justin Roland from Bridge Meat Mumhammonds provides our additional admin 529 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: and research support. If you'd like more. 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