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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Georgie Stevenson. I am a lawyer and health coach,

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Speaker 1: social media influencer, wife and dog mum. On the Rise

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Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast, we dive deep into all things mindset, habits, career, health,

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Speaker 1: relationships and more. This is a podcast for women who

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Speaker 1: want to rise up to be the best version of themselves,

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Speaker 1: who have big dreams in who are willing to put

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Speaker 1: in the work to get there. I want to bring

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Speaker 1: you the tools and actionable steps to feel confident in yourself,

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Speaker 1: inspired to take bold action, and motivated to conquer your goals.

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Speaker 1: Are you with me, your friends, Let's rise and conquer.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, and welcome to another episode of the Rise

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Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast. One of the last ones for twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: which is so exciting. I have a really exciting episode

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Speaker 1: coming out next week which is all about stepping into

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty as your best self, so look out for

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Speaker 1: that one. But today's guest is Victoria myas So. Victoria

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Speaker 1: Myers is a registered dietitian who is passionate about helping

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Speaker 1: women live their lives to the fullest without having to

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Speaker 1: the owner of Nourishing Minds Nutrition, a virtual private practice

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Speaker 1: and online education resource that specializes in helping women ditch diets,

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Speaker 1: heal their digestion, regulate their hormones, and learn to practice

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Speaker 1: wellness without obsession. She is also the host of the

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Speaker 1: Nourishing Women podcast, which is a podcast I love to

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Speaker 1: listen to and it's so informative. Victoria is a wealth

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Speaker 1: This episode has really come at a perfect time because

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Speaker 1: we are heading into the new year, and I know

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Speaker 1: over Christmas and you're not really feeling yourself or you're

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Speaker 1: feeling a bit guilty. But listen to this episode, guys,

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Speaker 1: Victoria runs through all the reasons why you shouldn't do

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Speaker 1: this plus more so, it's come at a really great time.

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Speaker 1: Let's get straight into the episode. Hey Victoria, welcome to

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Speaker 2: Hi Georgie, thank you so much for having me. I'm

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Speaker 2: honored to be here.

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course, I'm so excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: I was just telling Victoria before we jumped on guys,

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Speaker 1: this is really cool, it's so real. So Victoria, as

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Speaker 1: this is the Rise and Conquered podcast, could you let

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Speaker 1: me know what is one thing big or small that

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, So honestly, I would have to say it

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Speaker 2: I'm a new mom, so I have an almost four

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Speaker 2: So for me, I think rising up in that arena

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Speaker 2: So that's my like consistent always rising up and conquering

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I could imagine. And four months that

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel like we are navigating it as best

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Speaker 1: That's so interesting, And I love that last bit that

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Speaker 2: So I consider myself a non diet dietitian, so I

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Speaker 2: So I love this question because I'm sure to many people,

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Speaker 1: I just absolutely love the concept because we shouldn't have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this question because it's a great actionable

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Speaker 1: What do you mean about questions? And can you give

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. And another concept which I think

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Speaker 1: I actually went through a very similar thing at the

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Speaker 1: all right, there's no food rules filled rules, sorry, I

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Speaker 1: can just eat whatever I want. And it was like

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday night and I was like, I'm really craping

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Speaker 1: ice cream, and so like I went and I bought

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Speaker 1: ice cream, not the healthy type or the low calorie type,

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Speaker 1: like just fall on four cream ice cream, which is

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Speaker 1: my favorite, and I ate the whole tub. And then

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm like, oh my god, you know,

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Speaker 1: intuitive eating, I'm just gonna, you know, put on all

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Speaker 1: this weight and go crazy and be so onhealthy. But

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Speaker 1: something that I realize is I continued on that, and

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Speaker 1: it was probably a couple months where I would kind

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Speaker 1: of have these not so much binge episodes, but very

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Speaker 1: much so of I'd go a bit crazy. And it

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Speaker 1: was because for so long I had restricted myself. But

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Speaker 1: then once I gave myself the permission to really go

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Speaker 1: ahead and eat whatever I wanted, the appeal of that

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Speaker 1: no longer was you know, shiny and exciting to me.

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Speaker 1: And because I knew I could just eat whatever I want,

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Speaker 1: it would be a Tuesday night and there was no

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Speaker 1: appeal of you know, eating ice cream if I didn't

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Speaker 1: feel like it. Of course sometimes I do. But I

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Speaker 1: think a big thing is realizing is usually have these

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Speaker 1: like crazy cravings and everything happening because you are so restrictive.

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Speaker 1: And even if you don't think you're restrictive, but I

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Speaker 1: guarantee a lot of people, even if they don't follow

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Speaker 1: a diet, you know, they do have these little food

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Speaker 1: rules which they probably don't think is a big thing,

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Speaker 1: but really it is a restrictive mentality.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely is. And I have to say for most

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Speaker 2: women it is very common to have food rules or

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Speaker 2: just to have this this mentality that you know, I

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Speaker 2: don't need to eat as much as other people. I,

468
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Speaker 2: you know, always comparing our eating habits and always kind

469
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Speaker 2: of be the one that eats the smallest amounts. Or

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Speaker 2: maybe for you it is actual food rules, or it

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Speaker 2: could even be actual dieting or we often find too,

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Speaker 2: especially with orthorexia being such a common thing in today's world,

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Speaker 2: that you know, it's very like, well, I have to

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Speaker 2: eliminate these foods because of X, Y and Z. So

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Speaker 2: taking stock of what actually is valid and what is

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Speaker 2: actually intuition and again utilizing that internal dialogue and starting

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Speaker 2: to get curious if it's all necessary or not, I

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Speaker 2: think it can be a really great process. So because

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Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing I always like to say

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Speaker 2: is like, you can take care of yourself with all

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Speaker 2: of that aside. And I so often feel that people

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Speaker 2: think that when we're talking about intuitive eating, they're like

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Speaker 2: thinking as if we're saying your health doesn't matter and

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Speaker 2: you should just never care to exercise and eat nourishing foods.

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Speaker 2: It's not at all what we're saying. What we're saying

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Speaker 2: is is you don't need a diet in order to

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Speaker 2: have those things be a part of your life.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. You summed that up perfectly. And so before we

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Speaker 1: move on to our next topic, I do have one

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Speaker 1: last question about intuitive eating, and again this is something

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Speaker 1: that I do find gets asked a lot, and it

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Speaker 1: is this whole factor of what happens if I gain

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Speaker 1: weight when I start intuitive eating, And I know everyone's

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Speaker 1: journey is so different because intuitive eating is about getting to,

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Speaker 1: you know, your almost set point where your body feels

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Speaker 1: safe and comfortable. For me personally, I did put on

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Speaker 1: I think about five kilos at the start when I

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Speaker 1: was breaking all the food rules and going a bit crazy.

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Speaker 1: But then once I did get into like really listening

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Speaker 1: to my body and intuitive eating, I think I lost

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Speaker 1: a tiny bit and then I really felt, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: really comfortable in my skin, and I'm like, this is

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Speaker 1: where my body's meant to be. But can you chat

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Speaker 1: to the audience just a little bit about how we

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Speaker 1: can get through that weight gain and fear and change

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Speaker 1: that mind?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's such a valid fear, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's one of the number one things that stops and

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Speaker 2: prevents us from embracing intoitive eating in our lives. And

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Speaker 2: I know for me, it was the biggest fear of

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Speaker 2: them all. So I'm over here like nodding my head

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Speaker 2: because I totally get that. So, you know, I think

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Speaker 2: it's really important and valid to know that it could happen.

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Speaker 2: So you were talking about set point theory, so web

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Speaker 2: set point is is this ten to twenty pound weight

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Speaker 2: range that your body wants to be at. So your

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Speaker 2: body doesn't like to constantly lose and gain weight. It

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Speaker 2: wants homeostasis, and if you allow it, your body will

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Speaker 2: find its set point. So for most people when they

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Speaker 2: enter into intuitive eating, three things could happen. They will

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Speaker 2: either gain weight, they will lose weight, or they will

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Speaker 2: maintain their weight. And I will say again, because most

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Speaker 2: women restrict their eating habits and most women are constantly

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Speaker 2: pursuing weight loss, that it is very likely weight gain

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Speaker 2: is going to occur. And I know that sounds really

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Speaker 2: scary when I'm saying that, and for a lot of

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Speaker 2: people that is just not okay. And again I get

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Speaker 2: it completely, but I promise over time we gain is

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Speaker 2: not something that you will fear or be upset about.

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Speaker 2: You can work through the internal aspects of it and

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Speaker 2: let go of that. So I will even say for me,

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Speaker 2: like I constantly was fearful of weight gain, and I

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Speaker 2: gained quite a bit of weight, like much more than

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Speaker 2: what you mentioned, Georgia, because I was never at my

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Speaker 2: set point. I've dieted from such a young age. My

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Speaker 2: body had to completely rediscover its set point, and it's

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Speaker 2: funny because now it's just not even a concern of mine.

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Speaker 2: So again I just have to say, like, it is

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Speaker 2: normal to fear that, but it is a normal part

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Speaker 2: of the process that can happen. And I think just

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Speaker 2: knowing that upfront can help a little bit. And come

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Speaker 2: back to the concepts of body respect that we were

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Speaker 2: talking about earlier, and finding ways to treat your body

544
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Speaker 2: with kindness and letting go of the desire to lose

545
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 2: weight can really help to shift and just allow you

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Speaker 2: to go through the intuitive eating process while you like

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Speaker 2: go of that desire to lose weight.

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Speaker 1: And something that I found really helpful is I think

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Speaker 1: the reason why I was always you know, because I

550
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Speaker 1: definitely had a touch of allthorexic tendencies. But I realized

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Speaker 1: a lot of my wanting to, you know, lose weight

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Speaker 1: was this ideal that losing weight was healthy and you know,

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Speaker 1: the smaller you are, the healthier you are. And so

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Speaker 1: what I found really helpful is actually diving into like

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Speaker 1: legit studies in literature where they go into it and

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Speaker 1: you really that your weight doesn't necessarily mean or condrelate

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Speaker 1: to your health. I was reading some really good articles

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Speaker 1: on I don't know if you've heard the author Caroline

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Speaker 1: Duna from The Fucket Diet. Should I love her? I've

560
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: had her on the show, and she actually in her

561
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: book The Fucke Diet goes into a lot of great

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Speaker 1: studies where it's actually the opposite and always trying to

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Speaker 1: lose weight is actually very detrimental to our health. So

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Speaker 1: for me, it was kind of about, you know, listening

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Speaker 1: to these external sources that really said the opposite of

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Speaker 1: what we've been told for so long of our lives.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, let's switch gears one last time. And something

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Speaker 1: that I love listening to on your podcast personally is

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Speaker 1: all about period health and out menstrual cycle. So you

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Speaker 1: talk a lot about this, and so I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: get into this, but can you tell the audience just

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Speaker 1: a little bit about, you know, how a women's period

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Speaker 1: works and why it is actually really important for our

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Speaker 1: overall health.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, periods are so important to our overall health. And

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Speaker 2: I'm actually kind of giggling as you're asking questions because

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my goodness, I like talk about every

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Speaker 2: taboo subject I swear in the health world of like

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Speaker 2: the things that no one else wants to talk about

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Speaker 2: are like my passions in life. It just just making

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Speaker 2: me laugh. But yeah, your period is really important, and

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Speaker 2: I think we're seeing that shift in the community at

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Speaker 2: large of women especially online, of being like, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of being on birth control for my entire life.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired of not having a period. Let's figure this

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Speaker 2: out and let's get a natural period back. And it's

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Speaker 2: really important to your overall health. There's reasons around your

588
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Speaker 2: brain health, your bone health, reducing a ris of cancer.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, my favorite things is it's just such a

590
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Speaker 2: beautiful way to connect with yourself. And I have to say,

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Speaker 2: other than intuitive eating, understanding my cycle and connecting to

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Speaker 2: it and getting your regular, consistent natural cycle meaning I

593
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Speaker 2: wasn't on any form is the birth control because the

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Speaker 2: birth control pill is not an actual period, it's so

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Speaker 2: WITHDRAWABWED was such a beautiful way to connect to my

596
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Speaker 2: body and to understand it and to kind of clean

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Speaker 2: my entire life really around what my period does. Because

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Speaker 2: our energy especially shifts a lot. When we're avy living,

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Speaker 2: we have tons of energy, and when we'reminstraating, we're a

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Speaker 2: very inter perspective and we can be a little moody,

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Speaker 2: and we typically want to be by ourselves. And I

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Speaker 2: found that connecting to that and planning my entire lives

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Speaker 2: and my work and how I exercise and how I

604
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: lived my life really around that was such a fun

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Speaker 2: way to live live.

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Speaker 1: That's so interesting and I have had a little bit

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Speaker 1: about this on your podcast. Can we go a little

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Speaker 1: bit deeper? Because I really love what you're saying about

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Speaker 1: planning your life around your menstrual cycle, especially if you're

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Speaker 1: someone like me who was on the pill for so

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Speaker 1: long and then I got off the pill and it

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Speaker 1: took so long to actually get like my natural menstrual cycle,

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Speaker 1: and now that I have it, I am really interested

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Speaker 1: in what you're saying in regards to, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: living life according to it. Can you go in a

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Speaker 1: little bit about how our energy dolls shift when we're

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Speaker 1: going through our cycle.

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Speaker 2: It's called cyclic living, and it's a concept that is

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Speaker 2: definitely out into the online worlds, and basically what it's

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Speaker 2: saying is live your life according to what's going on

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Speaker 2: in your cycle. So your cycle starts on day one

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Speaker 2: of your period, and your period is a time where

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Speaker 2: you are very as I had mentioned introspective, and your

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Speaker 2: mood and your energy is much lower. This is typically

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Speaker 2: not a time where you're gonna want to be exercising

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Speaker 2: a ton. You might also notice that you're craving like

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Speaker 2: all the chocolate and all the magnesium rich foods, and

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Speaker 2: I often would crave like Cruciver's vegetables. And it's just

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Speaker 2: fun to listen to your body. I do have to say, like,

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Speaker 2: I'm just a fan of intuit eating. I don't like

631
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Speaker 2: the whole idea of like cleaning exactly what you eat

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Speaker 2: based off of your cycle, which some people will recommend,

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Speaker 2: but I find your body can tell you those things.

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Speaker 2: So as you continue on in your cycle, you have

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Speaker 2: your period, and as you continue on in your fullick

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Speaker 2: your face. That's the first half of your cycle, your

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00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 2: atygen is rising and you as you are reaching ovulation.

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00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: So about two weeks later, although it can definitely change

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00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: depending on the woman and what's going on with your body,

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00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 2: you reach ovulation and ovulation if this is a time

641
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,959
Speaker 2: where you have like all of this energy and you

642
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: want to do all the things, if you are someone

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00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 2: who likes to be really active and do all like

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00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: the high intensity type interval training, this is the time

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Speaker 2: to do that. This is also the time where you'll

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Speaker 2: probably want to be doing social interactions and planning outings

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Speaker 2: with your girlfriends. Like ovulations when we want to do

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00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: all the things, and for a lot of people too,

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Speaker 2: that's when they're going to be wanting to have sex

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Speaker 2: and when they have a libido and that they have

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Speaker 2: that desire as well. And then after ovulation, our energy

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00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 2: slowly waxes and ways brought the rest of the month too,

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Speaker 2: So your luteal face is the second half, so it

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Speaker 2: kind of dips and flows. So your period is typically

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Speaker 2: a time of low energy and ovulation the time of

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Speaker 2: high energy. And while most women have like a like

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Speaker 2: a twenty eight dcyclelthough twenty one to thirty five days

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Speaker 2: is considered normal. You'll find so basically every other week

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Speaker 2: you're having this shift and moved to her for a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks, your energy is like slowly increasing and

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Speaker 2: then it's very high, and then it slowly dips throughout

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Speaker 2: the rest of the two weeks, and then your period

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Speaker 2: comes and it's like this concet EBB and flow with

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Speaker 2: this energy and this cycling process.

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Speaker 1: I love that I actually was talking to someone the

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Speaker 1: other day, which just reminded me, and she was saying

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Speaker 1: that she will often plan she does events and she's like,

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Speaker 1: I will plan you know, my events and you know

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Speaker 1: stuff where I have to be on stories and on

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Speaker 1: social media around her ovulation because that's when she like

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Speaker 1: really feels her most confident and best in out there,

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Speaker 1: and then she plans like all her planning phases and

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Speaker 1: when she's like just you know, home alone and doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of the back end stuff around when her

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Speaker 1: period is and you know, it's a more inwards time.

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Speaker 2: So I love that. I'm super jealous of that. I

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Speaker 2: would love to do that. That's actually really good ideas

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Speaker 2: to both. I know, I'm like, that's so smart. I

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Speaker 2: don't have a period right now because I'm breastfeeding, and

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Speaker 2: typically when you're breastfeeding, especially for the first year, you

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Speaker 2: don't have a cycle. So I really miss being connected

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Speaker 2: to my cycle that way. But thank you for that idea, Georgie.

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Speaker 2: I might do that once it comes back.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, it is really cool, especially when

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Speaker 1: you get into you know, intuitive eating and you get

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Speaker 1: really connected to your body signals and your buiofeedback, and

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Speaker 1: then you get really connected to your mental cycle and

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Speaker 1: really know when you know you have the energy and

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Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So completely agree. I love

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Speaker 1: getting into those, you know, listening to your body sorts

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Speaker 1: of factors. So one last question before I let you

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Speaker 1: go is, obviously I said before that I did go

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Speaker 1: through a period where I went off the pill and

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Speaker 1: then I couldn't get my monthly back. That was a

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Speaker 1: lot to do because I was restrictive eating as well.

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Speaker 1: But can you tell the audience just a little bit about,

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Speaker 1: you know, if someone doesn't actually have them mental cycle

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Speaker 1: at the moment, what are the sort of process and

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Speaker 1: things to consider to get it back naturally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I know a period can seem very just unnecessary.

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Speaker 2: It can be same annoying, but as we were talking about,

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Speaker 2: having your period is both vital to your health, but

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Speaker 2: it's also really fun and we can really shift the

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Speaker 2: change of perspective to really enjoy your period. So if

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Speaker 2: you're working to get your period back right now, what

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Speaker 2: I want you to know that is it is not

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Speaker 2: something just to ignore. You definitely want to figure out

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Speaker 2: what's going on and get it back. The biggest factors

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Speaker 2: that affect your monthly period and missing is what we

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Speaker 2: call the big four. So that's food, exercise, sleep, and stress.

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Speaker 2: So your body basically because of various factors, So under eating,

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Speaker 2: over exercising, high stress times, and lack of sleep. Those

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Speaker 2: are all big, big stressors to the body. And basically

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Speaker 2: what happens is your body begins to shut down. There's

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Speaker 2: this thing called the hPG access, it's the hypothetic pitumentary

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Speaker 2: gonad access and essentially what happens is that access which

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Speaker 2: tells your body like, hey, it's time to ovulate and

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Speaker 2: then have a period. It completely shuts down when the

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Speaker 2: body is in a state of stress. And as I

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Speaker 2: had mentioned, there's various forms of stress, whether that's under

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Speaker 2: eating or over exercising, or just being in a crazy

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Speaker 2: time of your life, and that can really shut down

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Speaker 2: that process, that beautiful process that we're just talking about.

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Speaker 2: So if you have a missing period, I would absolutely

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Speaker 2: look at those factors and we'll say definitely we find

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Speaker 2: stress and lack of sleep will contribute. But the biggest

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Speaker 2: things are definitely food and exercise. We really underestimate our

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Speaker 2: fuel and the amount of food that we need on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis, and this can make a big, big difference.

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Speaker 2: And then the one thing I did want to say,

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Speaker 2: because it sounds like both of us were on the

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Speaker 2: pill and we both had battles getting our period back.

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Speaker 2: I too had the same thing. I was on it

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Speaker 2: for twelve years and it took me almost I think

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Speaker 2: around fourteen months to get a natural period back afterwards.

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Speaker 2: It was such a long processes, it is a worth

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Speaker 2: while process to endeavor, but you know, the pill just

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Speaker 2: kind of walks with all of us, so you need

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Speaker 2: to be very patient with the process. But that is

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Speaker 2: still even though the pill itself can lead to some

741
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Speaker 2: of these issues, if it's been more than six months,

742
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Speaker 2: that means something deeper is going on, and there's likely

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Speaker 2: a situation of not enough fuel intake to the amount

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Speaker 2: of exercise, or just not enough fuel overall to allow

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Speaker 2: your body to have appeared, because again, your body will

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Speaker 2: literally shut down these processes. Another way you can think

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Speaker 2: of it is your body thinks it's in famine. You know,

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Speaker 2: back in the day, famine was a time where it

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Speaker 2: was not safe to reproduce. Right, So if we are

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Speaker 2: like thinking way back in the time where like we

751
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Speaker 2: like lived back with saber to tigers, or we lived

752
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Speaker 2: in this time where like you know, we were just

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Speaker 2: you know, back in the day, like it's not our

754
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: bodies knew that we shouldn't reproduce in times where there

755
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Speaker 2: was famous or we were running from scary things, and

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Speaker 2: we all forget that these are still stressors to the body.

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Speaker 2: So it's still something you want to consider. Is like, yes,

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Speaker 2: under eating is still stressful to your body, just like

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Speaker 2: the way a femine would be back in the day.

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Speaker 2: I know femines are very rare to happen now, but

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Speaker 2: your body still thinks of it. From that perspective, our

762
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 2: bodies aren't really necessarily up to par with like modern

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Speaker 2: world and modern technology.

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Speaker 1: So true, and thank you so much for touching on that.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. Well, it has been an absolute

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Speaker 1: pleasure having you on the show, Victoria. Before we go,

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Speaker 1: something that I do ask my guests is do you

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Speaker 1: have a recommendation for us? So this can be anything

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Speaker 1: that you're watching or listening or reading that you would

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Speaker 1: recommend to the audience.

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Speaker 2: So right now I'm reading Everything is figure Outable by

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Speaker 2: Marie Folio. Do you do you listen to Marie Furli?

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Speaker 1: Actually I got that on audiobook. I haven't listened to

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Speaker 1: it yet, though, is it good?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. I wish I was an audiobook person,

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Speaker 2: but I have to have physical books, and I am

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Speaker 2: obsessed with this one and I am loving everything she's talking.

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Speaker 2: I've been aware of her and like listening to yourself

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Speaker 2: for a long time, but this book is everything, and honestly,

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Speaker 2: I'm making it my new mantra on life of everything

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Speaker 2: is figure outable because it is.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Well, thank you for that, and thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being on the show. Can you

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Speaker 1: let the audience know where they can listen and find you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: so you.

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Speaker 2: Can listen to my podcast and you can find it

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Speaker 2: on iTunes, stitchers, Spotify, and my website and it's called

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Speaker 2: the Nurishing Women Podcast. We host episodes every Friday, and

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Speaker 2: I've actually recently started hosting them on Tuesdays now. You

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Speaker 2: can also find me at Instagram at at Victoria Myers

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Speaker 2: and my private practices at Nursing Mind's Nutrition, and then

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Speaker 2: my blog and website is Victoriameiers dot net.

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Speaker 1: Amazing. Thank you so much, Thank you, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for listening into this week's episode. If you love to

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