September 13, 2021 • 53 mins
Gizelle and Robyn sit down with fitness guru and expert master Anabell Brown to talk about nutrition, fitness and living well!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Welcome, Welcome. It is
another episode of Reasonably Shady. My name is Gizelle Briant
and I am with what's up everyone? This is Robin Dixon.
(00:23):
It's so good to see well here, I mean, for
you to hear us. Are you sure do you want
to start over? No? I don't than what I mean.
I don't know what I mean. It's so thank you
for coming back. That's what I want to say. Thank
you for being here with us once again. We have
a wonderful show as always. Yes we do, Yes we do,
and you guys are like actually making us happy out
(00:44):
here in these streets. A whole lot of people are
now like catching on and listen to Reasonably Shady every Monday,
and we just want to say thank you. I mean,
thank you so much. I love it when people are
like literally like, oh my gosh, I can't wait for Mondays.
You know, it's it's awesome. So I we really really
really appreciate you all. Thank you, And as usual, per usual,
(01:05):
we have our Reasonably Shady moment of the week. Don Robin,
I've been really upset I'm gonna go first, what happened? Okay,
So I've started like really getting into my smoothies. Okay,
Grace works at a smoothies spot. She can't be the
(01:26):
only one in the house drinking smoothies. So I have
my little smoothie situation. So I like, I have like
prepackaged smoothies that come to the house, and then I
buy fruit to kind of add to it. So I
went to Safeway. Yeah, I'm calling out Safeway the other day,
and I like bought a bag of peaches. I was
so excited. I was like, oh my god, these are
gonna be soon yummy. Okay, So like three of them
(01:48):
not only were like spoiled, but they exploded. There was
like nasty peach juice that was like oozing out of them.
These weren't frozen peaches, No, these were what are you
calling I'm frozen regularly. These were like they were in
the produce section. So wait, so you didn't know that
before you put them in your shopping cart. Well, I
(02:09):
think that they were fine. They were because I actually
picked them up and analyzed them because I picked them
up one by one. But in twenty four hours, they
had peached nasty peach juice oozing out of them. So
safe way, y'all did me dirty? Yes, y'all did me dirty?
And I'm mad at y'all. So I need a refund
or just like when I come in, y'all know me,
just give me some free peaches. That's where there's like
(02:29):
fruit flies and stuff all around. No, but it was
just nasty peach juice. Yeah, gross, I'm sorry about that. Yes,
maybe it wasn't meant for you to have a peach smoothie.
I was gonna add it to my spinach and my mangoes,
my watermelon in my bootberries. I just throw everything. I
throw everything, and it's really good for my inside. I
(02:50):
were talking about my inside robbing. Um okay, So my
shady moment of the week goes to my brain and
sparkling new washing machine. Yes, you know, I recently moved,
so I don't know if it's the washing machine or
the house. So my brand sparkling new house and my
brand sparkling new washing machine. About this brand new g
(03:13):
E profile washing machine. It's blue front loader. It's like
all these buttons and yes, but all this stuff, this
damn washing machine. The power trips on it. All good time,
all the time. So we have to go downstairs in
the basement and go to the circuit break right and
you know, turn it back on. But it's so frustrating.
I'm like, it's a brand new house, it's a brand
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new washing machine, so it might not do the whole load,
and it might like and you don't even know. I
don't even know until we go to like, oh, let's
put the stuff in the dryer, and then we can't
open the door because the door is locked. You know what.
I'm mad at the what's that person called the contract,
the electrician something. Yeah, so I gotta get I gotta
get them over there. It's just it's so frustrating though,
(03:55):
Like imagine, like you think you're accomplishing something. You're going
your laundry, yes, laundry day, you know, oh, my clothes
are in the washing and you go and you're like
the ship didn't even wash and the boys need their
underwear a word, Oh my gosh, so yes, that's super
freshrat Okay, yeah, that's what you need to get that
handled because we can't we can't live like that. Yes, absolutely,
(04:17):
I need a refund. Yes, refund, electrician, get your ass
to Robin's House. Okay, there's that on that. We have
a whole lot to get into today because we have
a nutritionist with us and um, we're gonna be learning
all about our body. Yes, that is a hot topic
in itself. Nutrition, health, fitness, all that is hot topic
in itself. Yeah. But there's one thing that struck me,
(04:38):
that bothered me that I was reading on social media
the other day and I was like, I'll be damned. Okay,
so this woman sent her friend who couldn't come to
her wedding and invoys for her plate at the reception.
I saw that. I hear about that. Who does that?
(05:00):
Tacky people? Yes, okay, So I feel like when you're
planning a wedding, you should know some of these people
aren't going to show up, right, like you should just
kind of chalked it up as a loss. So, yeah,
don't like sending an invoice, that's TACKI However, when I
have not shown up to a wedding for whatever reason
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that I r s v P two, I actually will
send them on top of my gift. I will send
them kind of what I think my plays. That's so
nice because I just don't show up. We're so reasonable
exactly exactly there we go. There's a reasonable part. Yeah,
because I think, like, you know, okay, these people paid
X amount of dollars expecting me or me and wanted
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to show up, and we didn't show up for whatever reason.
Let me send them the money for that, because you know,
it's just I I respect that. I know how shoot,
like how how big of a financial burden weddings are? People?
They are? So you know, I will try my know,
I will try to do what I can and just
send money on top of my gift that I was
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already sending. Very reasonable the future, you know, brides, whatever
if if if your people don't show up, don't be
an ass and send him an invoice. But if you
are that person that doesn't show up, try to like,
you know, have some respects and the courteous. Don't do
what I do. Do what Robin done. Okay, But I
was reading in the comments that men should men are
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saying that they should get their money back if the
date is bad and they didn't take it. A woman
out and spend all this money on her, and then
then that's gavin. No more like a guy should ask
for his money back. Okay, we would. So if a
guy is dating a woman, yes for a month, a week,
a week, yes, and it doesn't work out, he wants
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the money back and send her invoid. I'm just gonna
say I wish i'd do would We don't have to
talk about this law because it's out real crazy. That's like,
what is this is the problem with our society today?
Like that men are not chival us anymore? Like no,
I'm sorry, man, that's a that's a cost of dating. Yes,
you know the process. Yeah, so like if it don't
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work out, that's on you. That's on you. Do you
got choked up to the game? Sir? That's crazy. Yeah,
there were actually men saying that that should happen. Yeah,
so needless to say, they won't be dating me or
my right. We know that. Okay. And just for the
record of God, if I guy ever gives me a gift,
I'm never gating it back, okay, nothing, no, no, nothing,
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Like what if it's a car, I'm keeping it really
or selling it or something, but you're not gonna ask
for it back. That's what you're not gonna do. What
if it's like like a rod taking a picture next
to j Lo's car, yeah, you were real crazy for that.
Wait what hap? Oh my god, Rob, I'm gonna have
you to keep up with what's going on in these streets. Okay,
well we'll talk about that later anyway, because we have
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so much to talk about as it relates to our bodies, nutrition,
what we eat, if we work out, if we don't.
So actually, um, this episode is actually entitled get off
the Damn Couch. Okay, get off the damn couch, Robin. Okay, So, yes,
we're about to get into her topic. I just want
to stop y'all and tell you I'm so excited because
Nancy Pelosi just texted me. What did she say? It's
(08:17):
Nancy Pelosi. I had to reach out before my critical
midnight deadline. Republicans just shuttered their fifth straight fundraising record
last Like, why don't you do that? Really, it's not
Nancy Pelosi stopping like I've had Joe Biden text me.
Never had any of these people texts because you've never
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donated to the Democratic Party. I have donated to the
Democratic Party, but you never gave them your phone number. No,
oh my gosh, really it's Nancy Pelosi. Really let me call. No,
it's not should I call his number and be like, Nancy,
what's our girl? No, you should not, No, you should
not anyway, So it's distracted. Yes, and I'll we do
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we do. We do have a guest today. We do
have a guest today. This is amazing because you know,
I love learning about my body what's best for me.
I feel like knowledge is like power, and I want
my body to be banging at all times. Absolutely, yes, absolutely,
And as we get older and older, it's more important
to realize, like what we put in our body is
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so important. Um. So, I'm so excited to introduce our
next guests. Anna about Brown, who before I get into this,
she actually has been my trainer before. Um we worked
together for a really long time. Not a long time,
it's like a year or so maybe, Yeah, for about
a year. She was awesome. I enjoyed working out with her,
and then I got lazy, so um but I plan
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on picking back up my workouts with Anna. And if
you do watch The Real Housewives of Potomac, you saw
Anna in the third episode maybe where we worked out
in the freezing cold. Yes, freezing cold. Um. So it
was really cool to work out with Anna and get
back back in the saddle with her. But Anna Bell
Brown is a leading fitness professional and kettle bell guru
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fifteen years of experience. So her Instagram page is kettle
bell Chicks at kettle bell Chicks Love That. Yes, she
specializes in kettle bells, breaking barriers as the first female
kettle bell manufacturer in the industry, and offering a series
of colors particularly pleasing to women, such as hot pinks. Yes,
the hot pink kettle bells are everything. And it's so
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funny because it's like it makes me like want to
work out, you know what I mean, Like when you
see these cute kettle bells, you're like, yes, I want
to work out these cute kettle bells and you actually
actually saw them on the episode, so they're super cute.
So Anna, thank you so much for being here. Thanks
for having me. Ladies, thank you so much for being here.
And especially because you know, we all kind of fell
off in the pandemic and we just threw any any
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type of routine that we had. We just do that
thing in the trans can. Yes, so let's like getting
us back into the groove. What she we be doing, like,
give us, give it to us. I think, you know,
it's fair to acknowledge, UM, to give ourselves a little
grace during this time, because we all went through it,
whether it's you know, we come from losing our jobs
or you know, just losing motivation or experiencing people you
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know dying all around us. Because it is a hard time, UM.
So extending grace first of all, you know, realizing that
you know this is not normal circumstances UM. And then
you know, perhaps starting slow. I think perspective is everything
when you're starting a new anything, new challenge, a new
mindset UM. So you know, progress over perfection experiencing that
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instead of like zero to a hundred type things. So
that way you don't feel bad if you don't reach
a goal, or if you don't wake up early in
the morning and beat yourself up and then you get
discouraged and then you spiral backwards. Right, So progress over perfection, UM. First,
get up, do something you don't necessarily have to go
into a gym. A lot of gyms still, you know,
have the mass mandate. A lot of people still don't
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feel comfortable going outside. UM. You can buy equipment, you
can go outside UM to sweat and do your own thing.
You can call an accountability partner, someone like a thread.
I have a bunch of text threads that I have
different types of people in and you know, whether it's
from hey, wake up, I did something, send a screenshot
of your workout that yeah, because you know, sometimes you
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can say that you're doing something and meanwhile you're in bed,
you're lying. Everybody's a liar, every once a liar. So
you know, little accountability groups or there are different apps
nowadays that you can kind of go to um and
just you know, being mindful that, you know, being nice
to yourself because especially you know, you can't just go
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from experiencing this trauma then bad habits and then boom
you're into it, you know again back to grace. Right.
So I don't know, just be nice to yourself. So
I've heard that, you know, I work out all the time,
but you know I don't eat well well, I do,
but I don't I fall off. My eating is inconsistent,
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my working out is consistent. But I've heard that eating
is everything. Like I could really just not go to
the gym and just eat right right. It is um,
you know, I think things are set there for different reasons,
like for cardio, if you're doing cardio. Um, that's gonna
help move the scale, that's gonna shift and lose the calories.
You're gonna lose weight. The stringth train is developed to
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shape your physique. So if you're sculpting, bring your inner
thighs in a little bit and bringing that waistline in,
lifting the butt, getting rid of the cellul you have
a strength train right my language, Right now, I think
I'm getting excited. Yeah. And then the nutrition is there
to feel your workouts to give you the energy to
go forward. And then the water is there, you know,
depending on how many times you're working out today. If
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you're working out once and if you're doing an hour
of cardio, then you need to supplement your body with
the water being lost in the electro lights. So everything
really goes hand in hand. You can't just cardio bunny
your way through life, or just stringth train or just
eat clean. You really have to try to uh use
a little bit of those three or four components. Okay,
but if I eat clean, I don't have to go
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to the gym. I think it's important to go to
the gym, uh for first. You know, cardiovascular activity, it's
good for your body. It's good for functional organs and
all that good stuff. So it's definitely important just to
do a little bit, maybe thirty minutes um a day,
four times a week, starting with that, you know. And
it doesn't have to be intense. It could be yoga,
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it can be stretching. You can go from massage doing
sauna like anything really works as long as you're getting
out there and doing something progressive for your body. So
for me, my I guess choice of weight management is
(14:48):
intermittent fasting. So and you know that because even when
I started working out with you and you wanted to
put me on a nutrition plan and you were like, Okay,
well you gotta eat this at this time and I'm like,
well wait, but I can't eat until twelve o'clock. And
you're like, I know that. Kind isn't that terrible? It
works for some people that yeah, didn't work for you.
(15:08):
So it worked, yes, so it worked for me. Um,
But now it's to the point where I know that
our body kind of gets used to stuff. So then
you plateau. Right, So now I'm wondering, like, okay, am
I at a plateau? And if I was to stop
inter minute fasting, will I then gain weight, do you
know what I mean? So because I'm not very disciplined,
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Like my issue is, I'm not disciplined with my eating, um,
my schedule. So I'm kind of like so for me
just saying, Okay, I know that i'm going to eat,
I'm gonna start eating at twelve pm, I'm gonna stop
eating at eight pm, and I can kind of eat
whatever in between those hours. Like that's easy for me
versus really trying to like manage what I eat, you
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know what I mean, like and be on like, Okay,
so you eat eat whatever between noon and eight pm,
eat whatever, I whatever I mean, But I still try
to like stay you know, I don't like overdoing. It's
not like I'm eating McDonald's all day. But I'm just
not very strict with my diet. Um even though I
naturally just like to eat healthy um, but I'm not
strict with my diet. But I just feel like at
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some point that's going to just plateau and then I
have to switch it up. And then what am I
switching up to? So how many years have you been
doing this? I've been doing this investing probably three two
to three years. Okay, so at this point you think
just plate toad. Well, well know because what happened. Okay,
so during the pandemic, I fell out, Like when the
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pandemic first started, I fell off because I was literally
eating like all day, all night, like I tell a
story problems like Gelle. I had like, um, a couple
of ice cream bars. It was like midnight, and I
was like what I was doing that a lot of evil? Yes,
it was crazy. I was like up all night until
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four in the morning. I because we were just like
what is going on? And was just you're just staying
up all night. And and so when I said, okay,
enough of this, I'm gonna let me get back to
my internet and fasting. Let me be strict about it.
I I literally lost like fourteen pounds and how long. Um,
I mean maybe like a couple of months or so. Yeah,
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that's right. Well yeah, but that's the thing with um
intermittent fasting or diets, Like I really try to stay
away from that word, the term, because it has a
negative stigma to it and be I like intuitive eating.
So listen to your body. When you're hungry, eat, don't
deprive yourself. Um. There's tons of misconceptions in the fitness industry,
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And when it comes to diet, you know, they're like,
I'm gonna starve myself. I'm not gonna eat and then
I want to be skinny. Yeah, but then your organs
are gonna shut down. You don't have the energy. It's
not healthy. And then as soon as you do eat something,
your body's gonna hold in store that and use it
as fat instead of burning throughout the day. So you
definitely want to just intuitively eat. It's it's again nice
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concept treating yourself nicely, giving yourself grace, eat what you want. Um,
not everything obviously, but within reason um. And and really
try to stay away from the junk food. Ordering out,
you can make or duplicate the same foods that you
were eating at Cava or Chipotle, but make it healthier. Right.
We can control the sodium that goes into our food. Um.
If you go out and cola is relatively healthy right,
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quote unquote that's what everyone thinks. But I get the
double spicy meatballs and rice and it's so salty, But
then that's where the water retention comes in. So it's
a healthier alternative, but it's super high in sodium. Okay,
So talk to me about whole food versus clean food. Yeah,
so it's really the same thing. Yeah, Whole foods are
just foods that aren't processed um and that you can
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like your vegetables, your meats, all that good stuff. That's
what it is. I mean, so clean is the same thing.
Clean eating is like no processed foods, no junk food,
no sugar, no alcohol. Oh no, I'm not doing it,
I know, but it works though. It does. But you
thing you made at the whirl like you just walk
around angry. So what Okay? So for people who not
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that they wanna, like, you know, drop a whole lot
of weight, not that they're on like a strict weight
loss program, but for people who just want to live
a healthy life nutritionally, like, what do you recommend like
their day look like as far as eating, Yeah, I
definitely recommend any type of whitefish, even salmon that's a
little bit fatterier, but that's fine too. It's healthier, um,
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lean proteins, chicken, turkey, tuna, flank, steak, any of that
good stuff. And then carbs. A lot of people are
for some reason shy from using carbs. Cars it's what's
helping us build the booty, giving us mass. So I
can bust out with some pasta. You can bust up
with some whole grain pasta and call it a day.
Whole grain pasta, I mean you can use What about
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the sauce? What am I putting on top of it?
So all? Is it dry? No, it's not dry, m
olive oil, a little bit of palm cheese or again
within moderation, right, I'm not saying restrict yourself, because no
one wants to live, especially right now. I know I
don't know about you, girls, but I'm used to like
where I find comfort is in food, and I'm with
foodie and so I don't want to roster greedy girls.
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We're the worst. If you've ever seen this on television,
we're eating yeah, yeah, it's My mother is like, can
you stop eating on tv? It's just sweet, hurt yeah, hungry, right,
hungry and crazy? Right, So yeah, pasta, brown rice, keen wall,
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sweet potatoes. Fruit again another misconception. It's better than you know,
processed sugar, but it's still sugar, right, So again within moderation. Yeah,
I've always shied away from fruit a little bit because
I've heard that it's it's very high in sugar. And eat.
You know, sugar is not good for you. So are
there certain fruits to avoid more than others or ones
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to eat more than others? Yeah? I like berries, any
type of berry, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, any of those watermelons
super low and chigar rather than like the other pineapple, papaya,
all that everything serves its terms, Like papaya is good
for inflammation, so with pineapple, all that good stuff. So
really it just depends. Salad another misconception. Everyone's like, oh,
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I'll eat salad all day. Yeah, but then it's the
stuff that onto right. Salad kind of makes me bloated recently.
So maybe because you're using too much. A lot of
that is fibrous food, like the green leafy greens that
might be too much for you, Like broccoli is very fibrous.
And so I don't really refer that to any of
my clients. It's funny, yesterday my client chests to me.
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She's like, I'm so bloated. She just got off the
meal plan and now she's trying to maintain. She ordered
a meal prep company and they gave her she's so blowed.
I'm like, that's why I didn't broccoli kale. Kale is
good any dark leafy greens. But again, I've once made
a smoothie I put a ton of kale, trying to
overcompensate from like what I did yesterday, right, super bloated,
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the next day, super bloated. So it'll definitely help you
retain water. Loading how she retaining water? No eating that
too much and obtaining water. You know, your your body
is always talking to you, so always listen to it.
Like if I skip a meal, if I go more
than two hours without eating, my stomach will start to
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bloat out. So immediately I drink water to help flush
that out, and then I eat a meal. You don't
get that, You guys don't get that. I think I'm
just bloated just because we're bloated. Because your body is
asking for food. You need a free next time, next
time you're bloated. That's like so opposite of what I
think I would think. Let me not eat now, I'm
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going to get bloated. And that's the thing. Quartos levels
go up, hormones are raving, your body is reacting. Your
body is telling you, hey, feed me, I'm hungry. Yeah,
listen to your body until when you say you eat
every two hours? Like, what are you eating every two hours?
I would be huge at that point. I'm eating egg whites, chicken, turkey.
But right now I'm Robin knows my little journey. I've
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been trying to lose weight for the last I don't know,
six months now. So you look great, by the way,
thank you people out there who can't see us, she
looks fantastic. But in all, honestly, when when I saw Anna,
what was that in February March March we filmed a
workout scene outside I noticed that she had gained a
lot of weight, right pounds? Wow? Yeah, are you supposed
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to say that as a friend? Just I'm just asking
for It's fine, Yes, We're comfortable, okay. And honestly, when
I saw her, I was like, I need to call
her after this and check on her to make sure
she's okay. Because as a first of all, as a woman,
I know, you know a lot of our self worth
or happiness is tied into our weight. Um. But as
a trainer, you know, I know that that's tied into
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your career and your job and just like you're being
and so I was like, let me just call her
and check on her and make sure that she's okay.
Do you feel extra pressure all the time because you're
a trainer all the time, Like, this is the first
time in my entire career fifteen years that I've overweight.
You're not. You're not overcome on now, You're not overweight. No, no,
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I promise you. I don't I promise you. I don't
remember what you look like. When I saw her, I
knew it was abnormal, you know what I mean. It
was to the point where I was like, something's not right, right, Yeah,
And I knew, you know, it was you know, right, pandemic.
And I'm sure there was a lot of stress and
other stuff going on, and so you know, I definitely
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wasn't judging. I just wanted to make sure that you
were okay. Yeah, it was nice. She She actually did
call right after we filmed, and I was so embarrassed.
I didn't take the call. I told you I was working,
but I was just I couldn't. Yeah, I was in
a really low place in my life. Um. I think
last October I got put on Sitala fram which is
an anti anxiety slash depression on medication that make you
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gain Wait right, it made me gain thirty five pounds
in five months. And so it wasn't even just the
weight gain. It was like uncontrollably. I was never satiated.
I was hungry all the time. The things I was
eating is really really bad. I mean, and I was
drinking at tending m no worst. No. I was eating
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pizza mozzarella listed top ramen. Who does that, nobody. But
it wasn't even just the water, you know, the waking.
It was the water retention that came with it. So
literally we aired or we filmed in March. The next
day after filming, I got off the meds good along
with other meds like for control and stuff. And for
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three months. It wasn't until June. I was driving in
my sister's house and I literally felt something inside of
me like kind of deflate quote unquote deflate, and I said,
oh my gosh, my bloating is gone. And since June,
I've lost twenty pounds. Oh, and I wasn't able to.
I mean, I was killing myself. I was working out,
eating king, working out twice a day. Rather you know,
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how I get down and nothing. It was the medication.
The cortisol levels were up, my homebones were off balance.
It takes a while, so we will need to know that.
You need to know that everything plays a part in
what's going on with your body, so medications, how you're feeling, anxiety, depression,
all that, like that all plays a part in holding
on to wait and check on your friends. Robin noticed
(26:15):
immediately that something wasn't right, and she checked on me.
I have friends that still haven't checked on me. Okay,
they just they just like some friends. I guess they
just don't want to like push the needle and like
offend you. But I just knew, like I'm like, I
know that you're not happy, right, you know what I mean?
I was, and and to be honest, I was not
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going to air or at all. Like the first thing
I told you, I think was I gained a lot
of weight and you're like, oh, you're fine, I think
thinking like it was fine. And then the only reason
I did it was because of my kettle bows. That
was it. And then when it aired, I literally almost
slit my wrist. I was just so awful. But look
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at the courage of you, like sharing that story, like
that's amazing you, Like women were so hard on ourselves, right,
and we have to stop doing that to ourselves because
we're adding even more and more stress unnecessarily. Right. I'm
so proud of you for showing up because you know,
if you were in a not in a happy place,
it still took a lot of bravery to do that,
and honestly to show people like, you know, no matter
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what you're going through in life, you still gotta you know,
show up for yourself. Yeah, show up for yourself, because
that's that's how you're going to get out of it.
That's true. Okay, let's go back to like the like
some some simple tips like Okay, if it's like you know,
like lunch dinner type things, yea, yeah, snack. Yeah. So
everyone loves eggs, right, so you can do you guys
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don't like eggs, no, I mean I'm speaking for everyone.
Everyone doesn't like eggs that I don't. I've got a
egg girl. So here's a cute thing. If you like pancakes, right,
everyone likes pancakes, right, okay, Sarah, butter So if you
do a little bit of oats like oatmeal, and then
mix it in with some egg white or chose regular eggs,
and then that's boom. That's your batter for pancakes. So
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you have oatmeal pancakes. Yeah, uh yes, okay, so I
eat oatmeal every day, yes, for breakfast. Okay, So you're
telling me I can take liquid egg whites, pour it
in there to kind of make it the consistency of
like a pancake, and then make it as a pancake
and then put some butter in the pan. Yeah or
throw yeah, live your life, just okay, and then cook
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it up. And that's my pancakes, and that's your pancake.
You're telling me that's gonna taste good. That's gonna taste good,
and it's healthy. You have egg white and you have oats,
so the oak okay, they have to be like the
quick dissolved oats. They can be yeah, not steel cut
still puts too hard, Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try and
then put some peanut butter on top of it, and
dre's a little bit of honey. But you don't like that,
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you can use that. But that's a healthier alternative. It
doesn't have to be from zero to a hundred. You
can make small changes and then boom, you have more
protein than your morning meal. Right. So protein is is
key to building lean muscle and losing fat. Okay, okay,
now let's stop there with breakfast, because I have been
always taught like breakfast is the most important meal of
the day. You have to eat breakfast. You have to
eat breakfast. Is that true? It is true. It helps
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feed up your metabolism throughout the day. Again, it helps
give you energy. Um. Some of my clients, when I
asked them, like, what is your typical day, look like
most of the time they're not losing weight because they're
under eating. And one of the things that they don't
do is they don't eat breakfast. They have to eat breakfast.
As soon as you add a meal or two in boom,
that's where the magic happen. It's okay, So I don't
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eat breakfast clearly because I intermittent fast, but even before then,
I didn't really eat breakfast. And I will always find
that when I did eat breakfast, I was starving the
rest of the day, metabolism spiking up already just like that.
And to me, you know, my ignorance, like that's a
bad thing. I'm like, I don't want to be like,
you know, eating like all the times. But that's not bad.
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That's like you're supposed to eat frequently. Yeah, if you're
frequently hungry every few hours, you're metabolisms up. That means
you're working out, you're eating consistently. That's what you want.
That's where the magic happens. That's when you start to
lose weight and fast magic. I thought it was apparently breakfast.
The hard heart for me is there's so many conflicting misconceptions. Yeah,
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just just so so you're I mean, and I'm sure
you're gonna be like, you know what, just stick to
like the eating every how many okay, so how many men? Okay,
So let's get to lunch, because we did past that
was breakfast. So for lunch, breakfast and I'm gonna say, yeah,
where's the snack. You can have a smoothie. You can
have Greek yogurt with some fruit, peaches, pine nuts, or whatever,
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any type of right. M A grapefruit is a natural diuretic.
So when when I see natural diuretic, it just helps
excrete fluid. Right, So okay, I really like lace potato chips.
And then I love the day round leavinish. So you're
like a little bag, not the big bag, just like
you know that little bag that you're put in your
kids lunch. Yeah, that just like gets the edge off. Yeah,
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so that's cure. You like the crunchy becausist and see
a little salt you can do kill chips. That's perfect.
She's killing me. If you want change, no one's asking
you to change. What. Okay? Okay? What do you think
about parmesan crisp? I love that? Okay? So you go
to Whole Food and it's like they're you know where
the olive bar is there, they sit on top and
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it's like they promise parmesan. They're I think they're like bait.
They're like it's like she's yeah, so who would that
be more acceptable than the laces potatoes? She's perfect. I
didn't know about that. Yeah, I love that would be better. Okay,
I'm gonna get those tomorrow, right, okay, all right, So
then you can do a big salad darkly for greens
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instead of a little lettuce. That's more nutritious, so as
in kale, kale, spinach, color, greens, any of that good stuff. Right,
Rugla is great. Okay. It's a little bit more peppery too,
so it gives it a little consistency. Um loaded up
with as many vegetes as you want, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, asparagus,
whatever you want. And then a lean protein, so salmon,
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a whitefish, chicken, breast, tuna, any of that. I know, tuna.
A lot of people are like, well, what's tuna without male? Right? Well,
I have a surprise. You can use tuna and avocado.
It's the same consistency and it's still gonna make it. Yes,
avocados of mayo. That makes sense. It is not a
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lie together. Yes, okay, but then then it's going to
look cream it's weird. I'm gonna try it. I'm trying.
I'm trying, Okay, alright, avocado, set of mayonnaise. Yes, in
your tuna. Okay, and then you live in your life.
You're drinking your water and then another snack or not. Okay,
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So when when do I get to have something sweet?
Because you know, at this point in time, I didn't
eat my chips in for the other snack. Can I
have like some chocolate? Now, you can have some chocolate
cookies something. You can have chocolate, dark chocolate, coco cocoa,
coco chocolate. You can have a smoothie, you can have
I'd be smoothied out. Oh, you do more smoothies in
the morning, you see, I mean that'd be two smoothies
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when you have your first one. But she offered it
earlier for my snack. But if you don't have a smoothie,
you can have yeah, or the other snacks that I said,
the Greek yogurt, the grape fruit, all that, okay, okay,
all right? So for me, I know Robin does intermitte intermittent.
I can't. Why can't I say that word intermittent? Okay?
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So I eat breakfast, lunch, and then I feel like
I want to be done really after lunch. After lunch,
is I mean if I if I eat dinner, I
really don't want to eat past like four o'clock. I know,
I'm an old lady in the may Jeese, you know
almost intermitted fastings. Know we have a different window window
because but my reasoning is because A if I eat late,
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I can't sleep. You can't know what's late late? It
is like eighty my spirit animals. So is that like
am I depriving myself of nutrients and things that I
need because I basically kind of cut dinner out. Okay,
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And but how do you feel during that time, do
you feel our energy? Uh, well, you're on a different schedule, right,
Everyone's on a different schedule, nurses, trainers. You have your
own thing. But if you're up for the next seven hours,
you definitely want to eat. So you're sleeping, that's something different,
and that's that's fine. So then how many times would
you say you eat between a meal and a snack
a day? Um, one to four? Okay, that's not bad.
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That's not bad. So like breakfast, a snack, um, lunch, lunch,
and then a snack and I'm done. That's not bad.
And I drink a lot of water. But but sometimes
I get worried because sometimes I do, Like if I
wake up in the middle of night and go to
the bathroom, I am a little hungry, right because I
haven't really eaten a big breakfast, but I mean a dinner.
But if I eat that dinner, trust and believe, I
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can't really sleep. But if you're eating dinner at six,
you have enough time to kind of, you know, get
rid of that. Did you not here? I go to
bed at eight thirty, but six you have two hours
to digest Okay, okay, try it? Okay, But do I
need it. I feel like I don't need these extra
if you don't feel like you need it. But if
if your goal is weight loss, I don't even know
what your goals are. My goal is to just be
you know, a bit. I think for anyone who's trying
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to lose weight needs to eat frequent, smaller meals during
the day, intuitive eating, not restrict, stay consistent, and drink
their water and work out. Okay, So then okay, so
let's get to everybody else, normal people. What do you
recommend for dinner? So for dinner again, something more lean,
not as well. You can have your carbs at lunch
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or your snacks um dinner, a little bit less carbi,
whitefish salad, maybe some asparagus that's again a natural diuretic.
Any type of fish, any type of chickens good again,
tuna lean lean lean. Okay, and is this realistic? Like?
How long can you can? You? Really? Like? I feel
like if your goals are important to you, and if
you're prioritizing you, and if you really want to do something,
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then you'll do it. But again, the progress of a
perfection method, right, You're probably not going to do that
seven days a week, but maybe you'll do it and
maybe the next week maybe you'll do some carry out
options that are mimicking what you're trying to do. I
like that, right, But again, keep it in mind that
anything that you do order outside, it's going to be
drained in the salt and the dressing. So so, because
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so I like to go out to eat, or that's
really bad. No, that's not bad. I go out all
the time. I mean, but I stick to well, I
don't always stick to but if I'm being good or good, um,
I do white fish salads and and then I do
do dessert. So I don't either. So actually I have
a rule if I don't if I go out, I'm
not gonna drink and have dessert. I'll either do one
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or the other. I like that, you know, you're just
that's reasonable. That like that tell us what processed foods
and what a bad diet like does to us, you
know what I mean, Like some people don't really realize
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what we're doing to ourselves. Inflammation number one, it will
have you inflamed, bloated, like chronic bloating, joints, hurting, uh,
smelling differently, bo I mean it comes right out with alcohol, right,
you go out the night before the next day, you're like, well,
the same thing with processed foods. You age more, your
skin elessicity isn't s tight um Yeah, and then you
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know you're not hydrated, you have a harder time moving,
your sluggish and really that affects your whole mood. So
depression maybe a side effect insomnia, not sleeping or sleeping
too much. So it's really you know what you're eating.
It's so food is medicine? Really, could you tell us
like a few things, I don't know, three or five
items for people to try to avoid at all costs,
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and then maybe like three to five that you should
definitely try to incorporate on a daily basis. So pizza,
which one? Which one? Like, so this is avoid avoid pizza, yeah,
like like every other day. You can't eat pizza every
other day. It's protein. Cheese is protein, right, Yeah. But
a lot of people, even as adults, are walking around
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their lactose intolerant, they have no idea why oh I
am and I know it and I don't even care,
and I'm like, okay, so, but I have a question,
like what about like California crust pizza. Okay, I haven't
had that, But what is that healthier? I mean, that's
a California cauliflower. Again, that's a healthier alternative. You can
try to mimic the bad foods to something that's different
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that you're going to cook at home, that you have
control over with the condiments. Okay, A lot of time
is more of the condiments more than anything and stuff
that makes it taste good. But I pizza, but cheese
on pizza is like he like, it's so heavy they
drink it, which is why it's so good, right, yeah,
ice cream and alcohol. Stay away from ice cream and alcohol.
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I watered to leave. I know, I want to leave
so well, ice cream is dairy, right yeah, so so
we're just a dairy. If you can not all, you
don't have to cut it out, but you know, be mindful,
right okay. And so why why I know alcohol is
like really bad. It's just calories. You don't need caloriestion
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on Okay, it's just you know, just save that. I mean,
but if you're drinking it straight and taken to the
head right with a little bit of lime, that's different. Okay. Okay,
So it's healthier alternative when the cocktails to just exactly
I can do that exactly. That's how we live our lives,
right right, Okay, so that's four because it's more. Um,
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let's see what to avoid eating out like the McDonald's,
the the fast food, the chicken nuggets, all that is trash.
Like I remember, I haven't had McDonald's in such a
long time, and two years ago ahead McDonald's and I
immediately I was in a food coma. I went straight
to sleep. I was like, that's not normal. They are
naturally putting things in your foods to make you feel
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that way, but they're addictive if they're fries are like
out of control though they're really I don't even like
their friends like their fries them. Okay, al right, so
and so what should we incorporate? What you know, more
water number one, more greens, dark water. How do you
feel like or how important is to put like limb.
I always see like whatever you want to do, you
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can even put raspberries, blueberries, anything to make it cute
for you to you know, keep a little flavor, not
even to give it flavor, but like is it important?
Like is lemon? Is lemon something that's it's different detoxification?
Yeah inclamation, yeah, so people do that for that, but
I just drink it straight if you can tolerate. Some
people naturally don't like that. It's too plain and so
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me too. It's so good, you know. I remember when
I was in college for what, I don't know why,
Like I and I used to I used to drink
juice and soda like Cherry Coke, all this stuff all
the time in college. And for whatever reason, one day
I was just like, I'm going to stop drinking soda
and juice and I'm just going to drink water. And
I did that and I literally lost like fifteen pounds immediately.
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That's crazy, right, that's crazy, Yeah, shouldn't. And I never
looked back like so now it's like, you know, I
drink water for the most part. I drink a juice
or something. It's like I don't know, like I'm just
for whatever, you know. Sometimes you ever just like I
just want to some juice. Yes, you know, I don't
know what I'm like lacking at that time. That maybe
I'm just like all my period or something. Maybe again again,
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being mindful of how your body is reacting, right, and
when sometimes I like to drop things down, like why
am I feeling like this, I'm bloated, I haven't eaten
blah blah. And then sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm hungry.
But that's a good tip, like like taking note of
how your body is feeling. When you're feeling a little
off exactly like that. And maybe you were having cravings
because of your one week out or that time. Can
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you go back to the stuff to avoid? Um? What
do you think about corn? Corn? Because I hear bad
things about corn. It's hard to digest. Corn is hard
to digest. It does a little kernel breaks in your system. Yeah,
I mean a thing moderation. I don't like to restrict
or you know, it's not cold turkey. The whole progress
over perfection. So eat it sometimes but not too much. Okay,
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just keep that in mind, all right, water, waterpate, dark
leafy greens, any kale, color greens, spinach, any of cook
cook the kale can definitely it takes out a little
bit of the nutritional value aspect of it. Raw. I
think it's probably better, but if you can't, like, I
don't like salads, so I really just add a little
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bit of bone broth or chicken broth and then that's it.
Garlic and then call it. You don't like that. What
are you talking about? Cooking my greens? Saute bone broth? Yes?
How is that? It's like bone like chicken broth? VEG.
You heard a bone broth? Yeah, I cook my when
I cook my kale, I cook it in chicken broth,
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So I means similar. Okay, Yeah, broth is a bone
from it is like the broth from chicken. Yes, okay, okay.
Sometimes I do put olive oil on it and put
it in the oven. Yeah that's good. That's good. Okay,
you can do that for your kale chips. Yes, asparagus
which is like my number one go to natural diuretic. Really,
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I have like a treat meal the night before next day,
I'm eating asparagus and many spears, like how much I
would say, like I would say six or seven spears
are three ounces? That's good for one, you know, sitting
I do like double or triple sometimes. Really. Yeah, it's
a natural diretic. It's just my shoes. Like flush your
system exactly. Actually like that like your slow that's that's good.
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So you have a cheat meal if you ate bad
the day before, try to get some, but don't give
it to your man. Correct yes, because it makes their stuff.
Yeah it doesn't. Yeah, do you not eat asparagus? That's
life changing, life change? Yes, Okay, I'll get something. You
should try it now, okay. And I like to cook
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mine and you tell me this, Okay, I'll put the
oven on like four. It's like to roast them, drizzlelement
olive oil, little Himalayan or coacher salt, crack, black black pepper,
a little bit of garlic something, and um, put them
in the oven. What about like I don't know, twelve
minutes or something. I like my little crunch and then
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they're really good. Is that good? That's perfect? Get that perfection.
I like mine steams. I like I'm super bland though.
I find that the more seasons I use, the more
cravings I have. So to eliminate that when I'm trying
to lose weight, I don't use any season. So my chicken,
my fish, my salmon, I just put it straight into
the oven. Well nothing, Yeah, it's weird. And I know
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when I was working out with Anna, Anna would actually
cook food from Oh my god, I forgot about that
and would bring them to the gym and we put
in her back and it was like this hell. It
was all that healthy, bland stuff, and I was like,
but how did you feel? I know she hated it?
Didn't you? Did you eat it? I hated it? I
mean I ate it, but I hated it. But how
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did you feel during did you feel good or the same?
I'm sure I felt good. I can't even remember. I can't. Trauma, okay, trauma?
So did you give us five? One? So water darkly
for greens, asparagus, um, fruit right, fruits good, grapefruit again,
natural diuretic. Any type of fruit is better than anything sweet?
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Right again? Progress over perfection. And then last one. I
would just say moving, work, working out, its sweat. I
don't care what you get. Get up off the couch,
go outside and walk while it's hot. Maybe you're sweating
from this. Get those toxins out through your boards. Okay. So,
as Robin told you earlier, sleep alive. Isn't this good?
Isn't this a healthy thing? Sleeping is good? But why
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are you sleeping? Because I'm tired? Okay, I don't sleep
a lot, but I go to bed. She goes about
it early and she wakes up at what time? Like
five schedule? Okay, yeah, you're getting six to eight hours. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's that's normal. Okay, that's not enough. That's not enough. No,
she's getting enough sleep. You're not. You're I'm getting more
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sleep than you. I need like nine oh I need
like nine hours. Okay, wake up, Okay, give me your sleep.
What time you go to bed? And normally I'm not
on a schedule, but okay, if I go to bed
at midnight, Um, yeah, midnight, I'm waking up eleven sometimes
(46:48):
and I'm in bed right robes not calling me or
text me, are you know? Yes? But the other day
I texted you a picture and you replied like early
in the morning. Um, so yeah, yeah, I'm midnight, going
to bed at midnight and waking up at like nine. Well,
when you know when the kids are in school, right, Okay,
you're getting eight and nine out. So as long as
you're getting eight or nine, you're good. Eight six or eight,
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you're good. Okay, Okay, we're doing that. Okay, So we're
doing something good. Okay. So I have a question. It's
kind of the opposite of nutrition for weight loss, like
what about for kids. So I have two boys, they
play sports, they're growing. You know, Gsel's got girls that
are growing. But you know, especially for the boys, we
want them to grow and be strong and taller and
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you know all that, Like, is there anything like what
do I need to be doing for my kids so
that they can avoiding? You know, we as you as parents,
not a parent, The quick things we want to do
is just take our kids out and go through the
drive through or Uber eats or whatever. Cook your food
for your children. Yeah, I know what about these working moms,
(47:52):
I got like eighteen jobs. There's all these meal prep
delivery services. Now I think that's better. They want my
kids like they want me. But pastas. Yeah, but I
guess the same. Okay, So I asked that because you're like, oh,
eat eat eggs and you know that's for weight loss,
lean this and lean that. But I'm like, what if
I want them to Yeah, kids are trying to lose weight.
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I don't think that a lot of them, right, So
like for athletes, boys, yeah, whatever they want, they're going
to burn it off, especially your kids, right, they're going
to burn it off. Pastas are good for protein and
car especially the night before for games. Um, everyone always
eat spaghetti like before games period. Um, they're probably not
eating any spinache or any salads like that, but grilled chicken.
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I think kids will eat fun vegetables, carrots, cauliflower, rice.
I don't have kids eat stuff like that. You know,
well they probably won't even know either. You can trick them.
You can trick you know, put some peas in some things,
or make a fun uh one of my my nieces
and nephews like the chocolate protein we put chocolate protein powder,
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peanut butter, put a little bit of banana, some fun
snacks in there, and then they'll eat it right up
because it's chocolate. So you know, doing stuff like that,
and then you can also add greens and it won't show.
That's also a way of getting the kids eat some green.
Love it. Okay, you have given us a lot to
think about. Okay, good And I don't understand why I'm
(49:19):
looking at you now. I don't have a pink kettlebell
in my house. I would get a great one, but
I don't know if that was this what we were doing.
I mean, I would just be happy to swing it around.
We need to get you one. No, but this has
been great information. I feel like, um, definitely, I'm taking
away the little pancake thing. I'm gonna make in the
morning trail and the egg whites. I'll send you a recipe, okay,
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and then I'm going to definitely buy some asparagus perfect
so I can ask some stinky p exactly. That's the
way to go, Rother. What are you going to do?
What am I going to do? You know? I think
I'm going to think long and hard. But if I'm
going to break my inter minute fasting and get and
get on like more of a normal like breakfast, snack, lunch,
you know what I mean, and just see what that
does for me, and then just commit to cooking, you know,
(50:05):
more of like the lean proteins, like you said, honestly
with this pandemic, Like it's so crazy. When the pandemic
first started, I was like cooking all day, right because
we were in the house and I was cooking breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. And then it just I hit a wall
where it got to the point where all I would
do is door dash and uber eats and now, oh
(50:28):
my god, it is so hard to get out of it.
And so I'm kind of like I'm getting out of
it finally, but I need to like really make it
like more of you know, cooking at home is the norm,
and then eating out it's not like it was. It
just got so bad. So's that's a hard rut to
get in and get out of. Yes, I'm not out
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of it. I'm still in it. Yeah, I'm still there too,
but I'm like slowly getting there, slowly getting there. So um,
but I definitely want to like and it's so weird
I used to eat I do think about how, you see,
I used to cook asparagus all the time. I haven't
made asparagus and forever, you know what I mean. So,
I think for people like you, a lot of people
are like that. One thing, you know, the meal prep services.
(51:11):
They're better than the fast food stuff. You're going to
give you your sweet potatoes, whatever, brown brice or whatever.
You can customize it with whatever you like and then
have that instead of you know, Uber Eats or delivery. Right,
that's a healthier alternative. I like that, Like the meal
prep Yeah, okay, I do get a blue Apron box
you know, for them for you know, almost every week,
(51:33):
so and I think those are much healthier than right,
It's already there is convenient people are paying for the
convenience aspect of it. Right, we don't. I mean, I'm
soaked over cooking right now. I've been cooking for four
months straight and I'm like, I'm over it. But i
still have my goals and to lose another fifteen pounds
and that's what I have to do, one day at
a time. Okay. So then the last when you do
(51:54):
go out to eat, are there you know some people
I say, okay, they tell the people, okay, cook my food,
but don't use any salt or don't any butter or
should you do that when you go out? Yeah, restaurants
are very friendly to people who have different allergies or
anything like that too. Preferences, right, So if you ask
for a salad, maybe bring the dressing onto the side
or no salt because a lot of people are salt sensitive,
(52:16):
like myself, and I asked for that all the time.
I almost start doing that. You can ask them to
bring a side of salt. And then you can exactly
little things like that, drinking the water of course, salads
and before you eat, to try to suppress the appetite
a little bit, you know, a little sttle things. So yeah,
and doritos and oreoles are great, right, they're great. Yeah,
And my less potato exactly all right, well, thank you
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so much, thank you for visiting us at Shady. That
is our show and um, don't forget to either live
your life reasonable or shady, yes or both. Thank you
and you can check on out once again Instagram, UM
and www dot dot com or annibal spitness dot com.
Love it a lot of thanks for you, all right,
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thank you everyone. Fine. Reasonably Shady is a production of
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Giselle Briant, and Reasonably Shady.
Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Welcome, Welcome. It is
another episode of Reasonably Shady. My name is Gizelle Briant
and I am with what's up everyone? This is Robin Dixon.
(00:23):
It's so good to see well here, I mean, for
you to hear us. Are you sure do you want
to start over? No? I don't than what I mean.
I don't know what I mean. It's so thank you
for coming back. That's what I want to say. Thank
you for being here with us once again. We have
a wonderful show as always. Yes we do, Yes we do,
and you guys are like actually making us happy out
(00:44):
here in these streets. A whole lot of people are
now like catching on and listen to Reasonably Shady every Monday,
and we just want to say thank you. I mean,
thank you so much. I love it when people are
like literally like, oh my gosh, I can't wait for Mondays.
You know, it's it's awesome. So I we really really
really appreciate you all. Thank you, And as usual, per usual,
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we have our Reasonably Shady moment of the week. Don Robin,
I've been really upset I'm gonna go first, what happened? Okay,
So I've started like really getting into my smoothies. Okay,
Grace works at a smoothies spot. She can't be the
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only one in the house drinking smoothies. So I have
my little smoothie situation. So I like, I have like
prepackaged smoothies that come to the house, and then I
buy fruit to kind of add to it. So I
went to Safeway. Yeah, I'm calling out Safeway the other day,
and I like bought a bag of peaches. I was
so excited. I was like, oh my god, these are
gonna be soon yummy. Okay, So like three of them
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not only were like spoiled, but they exploded. There was
like nasty peach juice that was like oozing out of them.
These weren't frozen peaches, No, these were what are you
calling I'm frozen regularly. These were like they were in
the produce section. So wait, so you didn't know that
before you put them in your shopping cart. Well, I
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think that they were fine. They were because I actually
picked them up and analyzed them because I picked them
up one by one. But in twenty four hours, they
had peached nasty peach juice oozing out of them. So
safe way, y'all did me dirty? Yes, y'all did me dirty?
And I'm mad at y'all. So I need a refund
or just like when I come in, y'all know me,
just give me some free peaches. That's where there's like
(02:29):
fruit flies and stuff all around. No, but it was
just nasty peach juice. Yeah, gross, I'm sorry about that. Yes,
maybe it wasn't meant for you to have a peach smoothie.
I was gonna add it to my spinach and my mangoes,
my watermelon in my bootberries. I just throw everything. I
throw everything, and it's really good for my inside. I
(02:50):
were talking about my inside robbing. Um okay, So my
shady moment of the week goes to my brain and
sparkling new washing machine. Yes, you know, I recently moved,
so I don't know if it's the washing machine or
the house. So my brand sparkling new house and my
brand sparkling new washing machine. About this brand new g
(03:13):
E profile washing machine. It's blue front loader. It's like
all these buttons and yes, but all this stuff, this
damn washing machine. The power trips on it. All good time,
all the time. So we have to go downstairs in
the basement and go to the circuit break right and
you know, turn it back on. But it's so frustrating.
I'm like, it's a brand new house, it's a brand
(03:34):
new washing machine, so it might not do the whole load,
and it might like and you don't even know. I
don't even know until we go to like, oh, let's
put the stuff in the dryer, and then we can't
open the door because the door is locked. You know what.
I'm mad at the what's that person called the contract,
the electrician something. Yeah, so I gotta get I gotta
get them over there. It's just it's so frustrating though,
(03:55):
Like imagine, like you think you're accomplishing something. You're going
your laundry, yes, laundry day, you know, oh, my clothes
are in the washing and you go and you're like
the ship didn't even wash and the boys need their
underwear a word, Oh my gosh, so yes, that's super
freshrat Okay, yeah, that's what you need to get that
handled because we can't we can't live like that. Yes, absolutely,
(04:17):
I need a refund. Yes, refund, electrician, get your ass
to Robin's House. Okay, there's that on that. We have
a whole lot to get into today because we have
a nutritionist with us and um, we're gonna be learning
all about our body. Yes, that is a hot topic
in itself. Nutrition, health, fitness, all that is hot topic
in itself. Yeah. But there's one thing that struck me,
(04:38):
that bothered me that I was reading on social media
the other day and I was like, I'll be damned. Okay,
so this woman sent her friend who couldn't come to
her wedding and invoys for her plate at the reception.
I saw that. I hear about that. Who does that?
(05:00):
Tacky people? Yes, okay, So I feel like when you're
planning a wedding, you should know some of these people
aren't going to show up, right, like you should just
kind of chalked it up as a loss. So, yeah,
don't like sending an invoice, that's TACKI However, when I
have not shown up to a wedding for whatever reason
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that I r s v P two, I actually will
send them on top of my gift. I will send
them kind of what I think my plays. That's so
nice because I just don't show up. We're so reasonable
exactly exactly there we go. There's a reasonable part. Yeah,
because I think, like, you know, okay, these people paid
X amount of dollars expecting me or me and wanted
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to show up, and we didn't show up for whatever reason.
Let me send them the money for that, because you know,
it's just I I respect that. I know how shoot,
like how how big of a financial burden weddings are? People?
They are? So you know, I will try my know,
I will try to do what I can and just
send money on top of my gift that I was
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already sending. Very reasonable the future, you know, brides, whatever
if if if your people don't show up, don't be
an ass and send him an invoice. But if you
are that person that doesn't show up, try to like,
you know, have some respects and the courteous. Don't do
what I do. Do what Robin done. Okay, But I
was reading in the comments that men should men are
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saying that they should get their money back if the
date is bad and they didn't take it. A woman
out and spend all this money on her, and then
then that's gavin. No more like a guy should ask
for his money back. Okay, we would. So if a
guy is dating a woman, yes for a month, a week,
a week, yes, and it doesn't work out, he wants
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the money back and send her invoid. I'm just gonna
say I wish i'd do would We don't have to
talk about this law because it's out real crazy. That's like,
what is this is the problem with our society today?
Like that men are not chival us anymore? Like no,
I'm sorry, man, that's a that's a cost of dating. Yes,
you know the process. Yeah, so like if it don't
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work out, that's on you. That's on you. Do you
got choked up to the game? Sir? That's crazy. Yeah,
there were actually men saying that that should happen. Yeah,
so needless to say, they won't be dating me or
my right. We know that. Okay. And just for the
record of God, if I guy ever gives me a gift,
I'm never gating it back, okay, nothing, no, no, nothing,
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Like what if it's a car, I'm keeping it really
or selling it or something, but you're not gonna ask
for it back. That's what you're not gonna do. What
if it's like like a rod taking a picture next
to j Lo's car, yeah, you were real crazy for that.
Wait what hap? Oh my god, Rob, I'm gonna have
you to keep up with what's going on in these streets. Okay,
well we'll talk about that later anyway, because we have
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so much to talk about as it relates to our bodies, nutrition,
what we eat, if we work out, if we don't.
So actually, um, this episode is actually entitled get off
the Damn Couch. Okay, get off the damn couch, Robin. Okay, So, yes,
we're about to get into her topic. I just want
to stop y'all and tell you I'm so excited because
Nancy Pelosi just texted me. What did she say? It's
(08:17):
Nancy Pelosi. I had to reach out before my critical
midnight deadline. Republicans just shuttered their fifth straight fundraising record
last Like, why don't you do that? Really, it's not
Nancy Pelosi stopping like I've had Joe Biden text me.
Never had any of these people texts because you've never
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donated to the Democratic Party. I have donated to the
Democratic Party, but you never gave them your phone number. No,
oh my gosh, really it's Nancy Pelosi. Really let me call. No,
it's not should I call his number and be like, Nancy,
what's our girl? No, you should not, No, you should
not anyway, So it's distracted. Yes, and I'll we do
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we do. We do have a guest today. We do
have a guest today. This is amazing because you know,
I love learning about my body what's best for me.
I feel like knowledge is like power, and I want
my body to be banging at all times. Absolutely, yes, absolutely,
And as we get older and older, it's more important
to realize, like what we put in our body is
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so important. Um. So, I'm so excited to introduce our
next guests. Anna about Brown, who before I get into this,
she actually has been my trainer before. Um we worked
together for a really long time. Not a long time,
it's like a year or so maybe, Yeah, for about
a year. She was awesome. I enjoyed working out with her,
and then I got lazy, so um but I plan
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on picking back up my workouts with Anna. And if
you do watch The Real Housewives of Potomac, you saw
Anna in the third episode maybe where we worked out
in the freezing cold. Yes, freezing cold. Um. So it
was really cool to work out with Anna and get
back back in the saddle with her. But Anna Bell
Brown is a leading fitness professional and kettle bell guru
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fifteen years of experience. So her Instagram page is kettle
bell Chicks at kettle bell Chicks Love That. Yes, she
specializes in kettle bells, breaking barriers as the first female
kettle bell manufacturer in the industry, and offering a series
of colors particularly pleasing to women, such as hot pinks. Yes,
the hot pink kettle bells are everything. And it's so
(10:30):
funny because it's like it makes me like want to
work out, you know what I mean, Like when you
see these cute kettle bells, you're like, yes, I want
to work out these cute kettle bells and you actually
actually saw them on the episode, so they're super cute.
So Anna, thank you so much for being here. Thanks
for having me. Ladies, thank you so much for being here.
And especially because you know, we all kind of fell
off in the pandemic and we just threw any any
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type of routine that we had. We just do that
thing in the trans can. Yes, so let's like getting
us back into the groove. What she we be doing, like,
give us, give it to us. I think, you know,
it's fair to acknowledge, UM, to give ourselves a little
grace during this time, because we all went through it,
whether it's you know, we come from losing our jobs
or you know, just losing motivation or experiencing people you
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know dying all around us. Because it is a hard time, UM.
So extending grace first of all, you know, realizing that
you know this is not normal circumstances UM. And then
you know, perhaps starting slow. I think perspective is everything
when you're starting a new anything, new challenge, a new
mindset UM. So you know, progress over perfection experiencing that
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instead of like zero to a hundred type things. So
that way you don't feel bad if you don't reach
a goal, or if you don't wake up early in
the morning and beat yourself up and then you get
discouraged and then you spiral backwards. Right, So progress over perfection, UM. First,
get up, do something you don't necessarily have to go
into a gym. A lot of gyms still, you know,
have the mass mandate. A lot of people still don't
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feel comfortable going outside. UM. You can buy equipment, you
can go outside UM to sweat and do your own thing.
You can call an accountability partner, someone like a thread.
I have a bunch of text threads that I have
different types of people in and you know, whether it's
from hey, wake up, I did something, send a screenshot
of your workout that yeah, because you know, sometimes you
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can say that you're doing something and meanwhile you're in bed,
you're lying. Everybody's a liar, every once a liar. So
you know, little accountability groups or there are different apps
nowadays that you can kind of go to um and
just you know, being mindful that, you know, being nice
to yourself because especially you know, you can't just go
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from experiencing this trauma then bad habits and then boom
you're into it, you know again back to grace. Right.
So I don't know, just be nice to yourself. So
I've heard that, you know, I work out all the time,
but you know I don't eat well well, I do,
but I don't I fall off. My eating is inconsistent,
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my working out is consistent. But I've heard that eating
is everything. Like I could really just not go to
the gym and just eat right right. It is um,
you know, I think things are set there for different reasons,
like for cardio, if you're doing cardio. Um, that's gonna
help move the scale, that's gonna shift and lose the calories.
You're gonna lose weight. The stringth train is developed to
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shape your physique. So if you're sculpting, bring your inner
thighs in a little bit and bringing that waistline in,
lifting the butt, getting rid of the cellul you have
a strength train right my language, Right now, I think
I'm getting excited. Yeah. And then the nutrition is there
to feel your workouts to give you the energy to
go forward. And then the water is there, you know,
depending on how many times you're working out today. If
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you're working out once and if you're doing an hour
of cardio, then you need to supplement your body with
the water being lost in the electro lights. So everything
really goes hand in hand. You can't just cardio bunny
your way through life, or just stringth train or just
eat clean. You really have to try to uh use
a little bit of those three or four components. Okay,
but if I eat clean, I don't have to go
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to the gym. I think it's important to go to
the gym, uh for first. You know, cardiovascular activity, it's
good for your body. It's good for functional organs and
all that good stuff. So it's definitely important just to
do a little bit, maybe thirty minutes um a day,
four times a week, starting with that, you know. And
it doesn't have to be intense. It could be yoga,
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it can be stretching. You can go from massage doing
sauna like anything really works as long as you're getting
out there and doing something progressive for your body. So
for me, my I guess choice of weight management is
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intermittent fasting. So and you know that because even when
I started working out with you and you wanted to
put me on a nutrition plan and you were like, Okay,
well you gotta eat this at this time and I'm like,
well wait, but I can't eat until twelve o'clock. And
you're like, I know that. Kind isn't that terrible? It
works for some people that yeah, didn't work for you.
(15:08):
So it worked, yes, so it worked for me. Um,
But now it's to the point where I know that
our body kind of gets used to stuff. So then
you plateau. Right, So now I'm wondering, like, okay, am
I at a plateau? And if I was to stop
inter minute fasting, will I then gain weight, do you
know what I mean? So because I'm not very disciplined,
(15:30):
Like my issue is, I'm not disciplined with my eating, um,
my schedule. So I'm kind of like so for me
just saying, Okay, I know that i'm going to eat,
I'm gonna start eating at twelve pm, I'm gonna stop
eating at eight pm, and I can kind of eat
whatever in between those hours. Like that's easy for me
versus really trying to like manage what I eat, you
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know what I mean, like and be on like, Okay,
so you eat eat whatever between noon and eight pm,
eat whatever, I whatever I mean, But I still try
to like stay you know, I don't like overdoing. It's
not like I'm eating McDonald's all day. But I'm just
not very strict with my diet. Um even though I
naturally just like to eat healthy um, but I'm not
strict with my diet. But I just feel like at
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some point that's going to just plateau and then I
have to switch it up. And then what am I
switching up to? So how many years have you been
doing this? I've been doing this investing probably three two
to three years. Okay, so at this point you think
just plate toad. Well, well know because what happened. Okay,
so during the pandemic, I fell out, Like when the
(16:38):
pandemic first started, I fell off because I was literally
eating like all day, all night, like I tell a
story problems like Gelle. I had like, um, a couple
of ice cream bars. It was like midnight, and I
was like what I was doing that a lot of evil? Yes,
it was crazy. I was like up all night until
(16:59):
four in the morning. I because we were just like
what is going on? And was just you're just staying
up all night. And and so when I said, okay,
enough of this, I'm gonna let me get back to
my internet and fasting. Let me be strict about it.
I I literally lost like fourteen pounds and how long. Um,
I mean maybe like a couple of months or so. Yeah,
(17:19):
that's right. Well yeah, but that's the thing with um
intermittent fasting or diets, Like I really try to stay
away from that word, the term, because it has a
negative stigma to it and be I like intuitive eating.
So listen to your body. When you're hungry, eat, don't
deprive yourself. Um. There's tons of misconceptions in the fitness industry,
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And when it comes to diet, you know, they're like,
I'm gonna starve myself. I'm not gonna eat and then
I want to be skinny. Yeah, but then your organs
are gonna shut down. You don't have the energy. It's
not healthy. And then as soon as you do eat something,
your body's gonna hold in store that and use it
as fat instead of burning throughout the day. So you
definitely want to just intuitively eat. It's it's again nice
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concept treating yourself nicely, giving yourself grace, eat what you want. Um,
not everything obviously, but within reason um. And and really
try to stay away from the junk food. Ordering out,
you can make or duplicate the same foods that you
were eating at Cava or Chipotle, but make it healthier. Right.
We can control the sodium that goes into our food. Um.
If you go out and cola is relatively healthy right,
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quote unquote that's what everyone thinks. But I get the
double spicy meatballs and rice and it's so salty, But
then that's where the water retention comes in. So it's
a healthier alternative, but it's super high in sodium. Okay,
So talk to me about whole food versus clean food. Yeah,
so it's really the same thing. Yeah, Whole foods are
just foods that aren't processed um and that you can
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like your vegetables, your meats, all that good stuff. That's
what it is. I mean, so clean is the same thing.
Clean eating is like no processed foods, no junk food,
no sugar, no alcohol. Oh no, I'm not doing it,
I know, but it works though. It does. But you
thing you made at the whirl like you just walk
around angry. So what Okay? So for people who not
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that they wanna, like, you know, drop a whole lot
of weight, not that they're on like a strict weight
loss program, but for people who just want to live
a healthy life nutritionally, like, what do you recommend like
their day look like as far as eating, Yeah, I
definitely recommend any type of whitefish, even salmon that's a
little bit fatterier, but that's fine too. It's healthier, um,
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lean proteins, chicken, turkey, tuna, flank, steak, any of that
good stuff. And then carbs. A lot of people are
for some reason shy from using carbs. Cars it's what's
helping us build the booty, giving us mass. So I
can bust out with some pasta. You can bust up
with some whole grain pasta and call it a day.
Whole grain pasta, I mean you can use What about
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the sauce? What am I putting on top of it?
So all? Is it dry? No, it's not dry, m
olive oil, a little bit of palm cheese or again
within moderation, right, I'm not saying restrict yourself, because no
one wants to live, especially right now. I know I
don't know about you, girls, but I'm used to like
where I find comfort is in food, and I'm with
foodie and so I don't want to roster greedy girls.
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We're the worst. If you've ever seen this on television,
we're eating yeah, yeah, it's My mother is like, can
you stop eating on tv? It's just sweet, hurt yeah, hungry, right,
hungry and crazy? Right, So yeah, pasta, brown rice, keen wall,
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sweet potatoes. Fruit again another misconception. It's better than you know,
processed sugar, but it's still sugar, right, So again within moderation. Yeah,
I've always shied away from fruit a little bit because
I've heard that it's it's very high in sugar. And eat.
You know, sugar is not good for you. So are
there certain fruits to avoid more than others or ones
(20:52):
to eat more than others? Yeah? I like berries, any
type of berry, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, any of those watermelons
super low and chigar rather than like the other pineapple, papaya,
all that everything serves its terms, Like papaya is good
for inflammation, so with pineapple, all that good stuff. So
really it just depends. Salad another misconception. Everyone's like, oh,
(21:12):
I'll eat salad all day. Yeah, but then it's the
stuff that onto right. Salad kind of makes me bloated recently.
So maybe because you're using too much. A lot of
that is fibrous food, like the green leafy greens that
might be too much for you, Like broccoli is very fibrous.
And so I don't really refer that to any of
my clients. It's funny, yesterday my client chests to me.
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She's like, I'm so bloated. She just got off the
meal plan and now she's trying to maintain. She ordered
a meal prep company and they gave her she's so blowed.
I'm like, that's why I didn't broccoli kale. Kale is
good any dark leafy greens. But again, I've once made
a smoothie I put a ton of kale, trying to
overcompensate from like what I did yesterday, right, super bloated,
(21:55):
the next day, super bloated. So it'll definitely help you
retain water. Loading how she retaining water? No eating that
too much and obtaining water. You know, your your body
is always talking to you, so always listen to it.
Like if I skip a meal, if I go more
than two hours without eating, my stomach will start to
(22:15):
bloat out. So immediately I drink water to help flush
that out, and then I eat a meal. You don't
get that, You guys don't get that. I think I'm
just bloated just because we're bloated. Because your body is
asking for food. You need a free next time, next
time you're bloated. That's like so opposite of what I
think I would think. Let me not eat now, I'm
(22:37):
going to get bloated. And that's the thing. Quartos levels
go up, hormones are raving, your body is reacting. Your
body is telling you, hey, feed me, I'm hungry. Yeah,
listen to your body until when you say you eat
every two hours? Like, what are you eating every two hours?
I would be huge at that point. I'm eating egg whites, chicken, turkey.
But right now I'm Robin knows my little journey. I've
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been trying to lose weight for the last I don't know,
six months now. So you look great, by the way,
thank you people out there who can't see us, she
looks fantastic. But in all, honestly, when when I saw Anna,
what was that in February March March we filmed a
workout scene outside I noticed that she had gained a
lot of weight, right pounds? Wow? Yeah, are you supposed
(23:22):
to say that as a friend? Just I'm just asking
for It's fine, Yes, We're comfortable, okay. And honestly, when
I saw her, I was like, I need to call
her after this and check on her to make sure
she's okay. Because as a first of all, as a woman,
I know, you know a lot of our self worth
or happiness is tied into our weight. Um. But as
a trainer, you know, I know that that's tied into
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your career and your job and just like you're being
and so I was like, let me just call her
and check on her and make sure that she's okay.
Do you feel extra pressure all the time because you're
a trainer all the time, Like, this is the first
time in my entire career fifteen years that I've overweight.
You're not. You're not overcome on now, You're not overweight. No, no,
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I promise you. I don't I promise you. I don't
remember what you look like. When I saw her, I
knew it was abnormal, you know what I mean. It
was to the point where I was like, something's not right, right, Yeah,
And I knew, you know, it was you know, right, pandemic.
And I'm sure there was a lot of stress and
other stuff going on, and so you know, I definitely
(24:26):
wasn't judging. I just wanted to make sure that you
were okay. Yeah, it was nice. She She actually did
call right after we filmed, and I was so embarrassed.
I didn't take the call. I told you I was working,
but I was just I couldn't. Yeah, I was in
a really low place in my life. Um. I think
last October I got put on Sitala fram which is
an anti anxiety slash depression on medication that make you
(24:47):
gain Wait right, it made me gain thirty five pounds
in five months. And so it wasn't even just the
weight gain. It was like uncontrollably. I was never satiated.
I was hungry all the time. The things I was
eating is really really bad. I mean, and I was
drinking at tending m no worst. No. I was eating
(25:08):
pizza mozzarella listed top ramen. Who does that, nobody. But
it wasn't even just the water, you know, the waking.
It was the water retention that came with it. So
literally we aired or we filmed in March. The next
day after filming, I got off the meds good along
with other meds like for control and stuff. And for
(25:32):
three months. It wasn't until June. I was driving in
my sister's house and I literally felt something inside of
me like kind of deflate quote unquote deflate, and I said,
oh my gosh, my bloating is gone. And since June,
I've lost twenty pounds. Oh, and I wasn't able to.
I mean, I was killing myself. I was working out,
eating king, working out twice a day. Rather you know,
(25:52):
how I get down and nothing. It was the medication.
The cortisol levels were up, my homebones were off balance.
It takes a while, so we will need to know that.
You need to know that everything plays a part in
what's going on with your body, so medications, how you're feeling, anxiety, depression,
all that, like that all plays a part in holding
on to wait and check on your friends. Robin noticed
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immediately that something wasn't right, and she checked on me.
I have friends that still haven't checked on me. Okay,
they just they just like some friends. I guess they
just don't want to like push the needle and like
offend you. But I just knew, like I'm like, I
know that you're not happy, right, you know what I mean?
I was, and and to be honest, I was not
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going to air or at all. Like the first thing
I told you, I think was I gained a lot
of weight and you're like, oh, you're fine, I think
thinking like it was fine. And then the only reason
I did it was because of my kettle bows. That
was it. And then when it aired, I literally almost
slit my wrist. I was just so awful. But look
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at the courage of you, like sharing that story, like
that's amazing you, Like women were so hard on ourselves, right,
and we have to stop doing that to ourselves because
we're adding even more and more stress unnecessarily. Right. I'm
so proud of you for showing up because you know,
if you were in a not in a happy place,
it still took a lot of bravery to do that,
and honestly to show people like, you know, no matter
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what you're going through in life, you still gotta you know,
show up for yourself. Yeah, show up for yourself, because
that's that's how you're going to get out of it.
That's true. Okay, let's go back to like the like
some some simple tips like Okay, if it's like you know,
like lunch dinner type things, yea, yeah, snack. Yeah. So
everyone loves eggs, right, so you can do you guys
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don't like eggs, no, I mean I'm speaking for everyone.
Everyone doesn't like eggs that I don't. I've got a
egg girl. So here's a cute thing. If you like pancakes, right,
everyone likes pancakes, right, okay, Sarah, butter So if you
do a little bit of oats like oatmeal, and then
mix it in with some egg white or chose regular eggs,
and then that's boom. That's your batter for pancakes. So
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you have oatmeal pancakes. Yeah, uh yes, okay, so I
eat oatmeal every day, yes, for breakfast. Okay, So you're
telling me I can take liquid egg whites, pour it
in there to kind of make it the consistency of
like a pancake, and then make it as a pancake
and then put some butter in the pan. Yeah or
throw yeah, live your life, just okay, and then cook
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it up. And that's my pancakes, and that's your pancake.
You're telling me that's gonna taste good. That's gonna taste good,
and it's healthy. You have egg white and you have oats,
so the oak okay, they have to be like the
quick dissolved oats. They can be yeah, not steel cut
still puts too hard, Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try and
then put some peanut butter on top of it, and
dre's a little bit of honey. But you don't like that,
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you can use that. But that's a healthier alternative. It
doesn't have to be from zero to a hundred. You
can make small changes and then boom, you have more
protein than your morning meal. Right. So protein is is
key to building lean muscle and losing fat. Okay, okay,
now let's stop there with breakfast, because I have been
always taught like breakfast is the most important meal of
the day. You have to eat breakfast. You have to
eat breakfast. Is that true? It is true. It helps
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feed up your metabolism throughout the day. Again, it helps
give you energy. Um. Some of my clients, when I
asked them, like, what is your typical day, look like
most of the time they're not losing weight because they're
under eating. And one of the things that they don't
do is they don't eat breakfast. They have to eat breakfast.
As soon as you add a meal or two in boom,
that's where the magic happen. It's okay, So I don't
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eat breakfast clearly because I intermittent fast, but even before then,
I didn't really eat breakfast. And I will always find
that when I did eat breakfast, I was starving the
rest of the day, metabolism spiking up already just like that.
And to me, you know, my ignorance, like that's a
bad thing. I'm like, I don't want to be like,
you know, eating like all the times. But that's not bad.
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That's like you're supposed to eat frequently. Yeah, if you're
frequently hungry every few hours, you're metabolisms up. That means
you're working out, you're eating consistently. That's what you want.
That's where the magic happens. That's when you start to
lose weight and fast magic. I thought it was apparently breakfast.
The hard heart for me is there's so many conflicting misconceptions. Yeah,
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just just so so you're I mean, and I'm sure
you're gonna be like, you know what, just stick to
like the eating every how many okay, so how many men? Okay,
So let's get to lunch, because we did past that
was breakfast. So for lunch, breakfast and I'm gonna say, yeah,
where's the snack. You can have a smoothie. You can
have Greek yogurt with some fruit, peaches, pine nuts, or whatever,
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any type of right. M A grapefruit is a natural diuretic.
So when when I see natural diuretic, it just helps
excrete fluid. Right, So okay, I really like lace potato chips.
And then I love the day round leavinish. So you're
like a little bag, not the big bag, just like
you know that little bag that you're put in your
kids lunch. Yeah, that just like gets the edge off. Yeah,
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so that's cure. You like the crunchy becausist and see
a little salt you can do kill chips. That's perfect.
She's killing me. If you want change, no one's asking
you to change. What. Okay? Okay? What do you think
about parmesan crisp? I love that? Okay? So you go
to Whole Food and it's like they're you know where
the olive bar is there, they sit on top and
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it's like they promise parmesan. They're I think they're like bait.
They're like it's like she's yeah, so who would that
be more acceptable than the laces potatoes? She's perfect. I
didn't know about that. Yeah, I love that would be better. Okay,
I'm gonna get those tomorrow, right, okay, all right, So
then you can do a big salad darkly for greens
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instead of a little lettuce. That's more nutritious, so as
in kale, kale, spinach, color, greens, any of that good stuff. Right,
Rugla is great. Okay. It's a little bit more peppery too,
so it gives it a little consistency. Um loaded up
with as many vegetes as you want, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, asparagus,
whatever you want. And then a lean protein, so salmon,
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a whitefish, chicken, breast, tuna, any of that. I know, tuna.
A lot of people are like, well, what's tuna without male? Right? Well,
I have a surprise. You can use tuna and avocado.
It's the same consistency and it's still gonna make it. Yes,
avocados of mayo. That makes sense. It is not a
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lie together. Yes, okay, but then then it's going to
look cream it's weird. I'm gonna try it. I'm trying.
I'm trying, Okay, alright, avocado, set of mayonnaise. Yes, in
your tuna. Okay, and then you live in your life.
You're drinking your water and then another snack or not. Okay,
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So when when do I get to have something sweet?
Because you know, at this point in time, I didn't
eat my chips in for the other snack. Can I
have like some chocolate? Now, you can have some chocolate
cookies something. You can have chocolate, dark chocolate, coco cocoa,
coco chocolate. You can have a smoothie, you can have
I'd be smoothied out. Oh, you do more smoothies in
the morning, you see, I mean that'd be two smoothies
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when you have your first one. But she offered it
earlier for my snack. But if you don't have a smoothie,
you can have yeah, or the other snacks that I said,
the Greek yogurt, the grape fruit, all that, okay, okay,
all right? So for me, I know Robin does intermitte intermittent.
I can't. Why can't I say that word intermittent? Okay?
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So I eat breakfast, lunch, and then I feel like
I want to be done really after lunch. After lunch,
is I mean if I if I eat dinner, I
really don't want to eat past like four o'clock. I know,
I'm an old lady in the may Jeese, you know
almost intermitted fastings. Know we have a different window window
because but my reasoning is because A if I eat late,
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I can't sleep. You can't know what's late late? It
is like eighty my spirit animals. So is that like
am I depriving myself of nutrients and things that I
need because I basically kind of cut dinner out. Okay,
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And but how do you feel during that time, do
you feel our energy? Uh, well, you're on a different schedule, right,
Everyone's on a different schedule, nurses, trainers. You have your
own thing. But if you're up for the next seven hours,
you definitely want to eat. So you're sleeping, that's something different,
and that's that's fine. So then how many times would
you say you eat between a meal and a snack
a day? Um, one to four? Okay, that's not bad.
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That's not bad. So like breakfast, a snack, um, lunch, lunch,
and then a snack and I'm done. That's not bad.
And I drink a lot of water. But but sometimes
I get worried because sometimes I do, Like if I
wake up in the middle of night and go to
the bathroom, I am a little hungry, right because I
haven't really eaten a big breakfast, but I mean a dinner.
But if I eat that dinner, trust and believe, I
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can't really sleep. But if you're eating dinner at six,
you have enough time to kind of, you know, get
rid of that. Did you not here? I go to
bed at eight thirty, but six you have two hours
to digest Okay, okay, try it? Okay, But do I
need it. I feel like I don't need these extra
if you don't feel like you need it. But if
if your goal is weight loss, I don't even know
what your goals are. My goal is to just be
you know, a bit. I think for anyone who's trying
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to lose weight needs to eat frequent, smaller meals during
the day, intuitive eating, not restrict, stay consistent, and drink
their water and work out. Okay, So then okay, so
let's get to everybody else, normal people. What do you
recommend for dinner? So for dinner again, something more lean,
not as well. You can have your carbs at lunch
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or your snacks um dinner, a little bit less carbi,
whitefish salad, maybe some asparagus that's again a natural diuretic.
Any type of fish, any type of chickens good again,
tuna lean lean lean. Okay, and is this realistic? Like?
How long can you can? You? Really? Like? I feel
like if your goals are important to you, and if
you're prioritizing you, and if you really want to do something,
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then you'll do it. But again, the progress of a
perfection method, right, You're probably not going to do that
seven days a week, but maybe you'll do it and
maybe the next week maybe you'll do some carry out
options that are mimicking what you're trying to do. I
like that, right, But again, keep it in mind that
anything that you do order outside, it's going to be
drained in the salt and the dressing. So so, because
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so I like to go out to eat, or that's
really bad. No, that's not bad. I go out all
the time. I mean, but I stick to well, I
don't always stick to but if I'm being good or good, um,
I do white fish salads and and then I do
do dessert. So I don't either. So actually I have
a rule if I don't if I go out, I'm
not gonna drink and have dessert. I'll either do one
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or the other. I like that, you know, you're just
that's reasonable. That like that tell us what processed foods
and what a bad diet like does to us, you
know what I mean, Like some people don't really realize
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what we're doing to ourselves. Inflammation number one, it will
have you inflamed, bloated, like chronic bloating, joints, hurting, uh,
smelling differently, bo I mean it comes right out with alcohol, right,
you go out the night before the next day, you're like, well,
the same thing with processed foods. You age more, your
skin elessicity isn't s tight um Yeah, and then you
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know you're not hydrated, you have a harder time moving,
your sluggish and really that affects your whole mood. So
depression maybe a side effect insomnia, not sleeping or sleeping
too much. So it's really you know what you're eating.
It's so food is medicine? Really, could you tell us
like a few things, I don't know, three or five
items for people to try to avoid at all costs,
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and then maybe like three to five that you should
definitely try to incorporate on a daily basis. So pizza,
which one? Which one? Like, so this is avoid avoid pizza, yeah,
like like every other day. You can't eat pizza every
other day. It's protein. Cheese is protein, right, Yeah. But
a lot of people, even as adults, are walking around
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their lactose intolerant, they have no idea why oh I
am and I know it and I don't even care,
and I'm like, okay, so, but I have a question,
like what about like California crust pizza. Okay, I haven't
had that, But what is that healthier? I mean, that's
a California cauliflower. Again, that's a healthier alternative. You can
try to mimic the bad foods to something that's different
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that you're going to cook at home, that you have
control over with the condiments. Okay, A lot of time
is more of the condiments more than anything and stuff
that makes it taste good. But I pizza, but cheese
on pizza is like he like, it's so heavy they
drink it, which is why it's so good, right, yeah,
ice cream and alcohol. Stay away from ice cream and alcohol.
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I watered to leave. I know, I want to leave
so well, ice cream is dairy, right yeah, so so
we're just a dairy. If you can not all, you
don't have to cut it out, but you know, be mindful,
right okay. And so why why I know alcohol is
like really bad. It's just calories. You don't need caloriestion
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on Okay, it's just you know, just save that. I mean,
but if you're drinking it straight and taken to the
head right with a little bit of lime, that's different. Okay. Okay,
So it's healthier alternative when the cocktails to just exactly
I can do that exactly. That's how we live our lives,
right right, Okay, so that's four because it's more. Um,
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let's see what to avoid eating out like the McDonald's,
the the fast food, the chicken nuggets, all that is trash.
Like I remember, I haven't had McDonald's in such a
long time, and two years ago ahead McDonald's and I
immediately I was in a food coma. I went straight
to sleep. I was like, that's not normal. They are
naturally putting things in your foods to make you feel
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that way, but they're addictive if they're fries are like
out of control though they're really I don't even like
their friends like their fries them. Okay, al right, so
and so what should we incorporate? What you know, more
water number one, more greens, dark water. How do you
feel like or how important is to put like limb.
I always see like whatever you want to do, you
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can even put raspberries, blueberries, anything to make it cute
for you to you know, keep a little flavor, not
even to give it flavor, but like is it important?
Like is lemon? Is lemon something that's it's different detoxification?
Yeah inclamation, yeah, so people do that for that, but
I just drink it straight if you can tolerate. Some
people naturally don't like that. It's too plain and so
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me too. It's so good, you know. I remember when
I was in college for what, I don't know why,
Like I and I used to I used to drink
juice and soda like Cherry Coke, all this stuff all
the time in college. And for whatever reason, one day
I was just like, I'm going to stop drinking soda
and juice and I'm just going to drink water. And
I did that and I literally lost like fifteen pounds immediately.
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That's crazy, right, that's crazy, Yeah, shouldn't. And I never
looked back like so now it's like, you know, I
drink water for the most part. I drink a juice
or something. It's like I don't know, like I'm just
for whatever, you know. Sometimes you ever just like I
just want to some juice. Yes, you know, I don't
know what I'm like lacking at that time. That maybe
I'm just like all my period or something. Maybe again again,
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being mindful of how your body is reacting, right, and
when sometimes I like to drop things down, like why
am I feeling like this, I'm bloated, I haven't eaten
blah blah. And then sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm hungry.
But that's a good tip, like like taking note of
how your body is feeling. When you're feeling a little
off exactly like that. And maybe you were having cravings
because of your one week out or that time. Can
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you go back to the stuff to avoid? Um? What
do you think about corn? Corn? Because I hear bad
things about corn. It's hard to digest. Corn is hard
to digest. It does a little kernel breaks in your system. Yeah,
I mean a thing moderation. I don't like to restrict
or you know, it's not cold turkey. The whole progress
over perfection. So eat it sometimes but not too much. Okay,
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just keep that in mind, all right, water, waterpate, dark
leafy greens, any kale, color greens, spinach, any of cook
cook the kale can definitely it takes out a little
bit of the nutritional value aspect of it. Raw. I
think it's probably better, but if you can't, like, I
don't like salads, so I really just add a little
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bit of bone broth or chicken broth and then that's it.
Garlic and then call it. You don't like that. What
are you talking about? Cooking my greens? Saute bone broth? Yes?
How is that? It's like bone like chicken broth? VEG.
You heard a bone broth? Yeah, I cook my when
I cook my kale, I cook it in chicken broth,
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So I means similar. Okay, Yeah, broth is a bone
from it is like the broth from chicken. Yes, okay, okay.
Sometimes I do put olive oil on it and put
it in the oven. Yeah that's good. That's good. Okay,
you can do that for your kale chips. Yes, asparagus
which is like my number one go to natural diuretic. Really,
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I have like a treat meal the night before next day,
I'm eating asparagus and many spears, like how much I
would say, like I would say six or seven spears
are three ounces? That's good for one, you know, sitting
I do like double or triple sometimes. Really. Yeah, it's
a natural diretic. It's just my shoes. Like flush your
system exactly. Actually like that like your slow that's that's good.
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So you have a cheat meal if you ate bad
the day before, try to get some, but don't give
it to your man. Correct yes, because it makes their stuff.
Yeah it doesn't. Yeah, do you not eat asparagus? That's
life changing, life change? Yes, Okay, I'll get something. You
should try it now, okay. And I like to cook
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mine and you tell me this, Okay, I'll put the
oven on like four. It's like to roast them, drizzlelement
olive oil, little Himalayan or coacher salt, crack, black black pepper,
a little bit of garlic something, and um, put them
in the oven. What about like I don't know, twelve
minutes or something. I like my little crunch and then
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they're really good. Is that good? That's perfect? Get that perfection.
I like mine steams. I like I'm super bland though.
I find that the more seasons I use, the more
cravings I have. So to eliminate that when I'm trying
to lose weight, I don't use any season. So my chicken,
my fish, my salmon, I just put it straight into
the oven. Well nothing, Yeah, it's weird. And I know
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when I was working out with Anna, Anna would actually
cook food from Oh my god, I forgot about that
and would bring them to the gym and we put
in her back and it was like this hell. It
was all that healthy, bland stuff, and I was like,
but how did you feel? I know she hated it?
Didn't you? Did you eat it? I hated it? I
mean I ate it, but I hated it. But how
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did you feel during did you feel good or the same?
I'm sure I felt good. I can't even remember. I can't. Trauma, okay, trauma?
So did you give us five? One? So water darkly
for greens, asparagus, um, fruit right, fruits good, grapefruit again,
natural diuretic. Any type of fruit is better than anything sweet?
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Right again? Progress over perfection. And then last one. I
would just say moving, work, working out, its sweat. I
don't care what you get. Get up off the couch,
go outside and walk while it's hot. Maybe you're sweating
from this. Get those toxins out through your boards. Okay. So,
as Robin told you earlier, sleep alive. Isn't this good?
Isn't this a healthy thing? Sleeping is good? But why
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are you sleeping? Because I'm tired? Okay, I don't sleep
a lot, but I go to bed. She goes about
it early and she wakes up at what time? Like
five schedule? Okay, yeah, you're getting six to eight hours. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's that's normal. Okay, that's not enough. That's not enough. No,
she's getting enough sleep. You're not. You're I'm getting more
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sleep than you. I need like nine oh I need
like nine hours. Okay, wake up, Okay, give me your sleep.
What time you go to bed? And normally I'm not
on a schedule, but okay, if I go to bed
at midnight, Um, yeah, midnight, I'm waking up eleven sometimes
(46:48):
and I'm in bed right robes not calling me or
text me, are you know? Yes? But the other day
I texted you a picture and you replied like early
in the morning. Um, so yeah, yeah, I'm midnight, going
to bed at midnight and waking up at like nine. Well,
when you know when the kids are in school, right, Okay,
you're getting eight and nine out. So as long as
you're getting eight or nine, you're good. Eight six or eight,
(47:11):
you're good. Okay, Okay, we're doing that. Okay, So we're
doing something good. Okay. So I have a question. It's
kind of the opposite of nutrition for weight loss, like
what about for kids. So I have two boys, they
play sports, they're growing. You know, Gsel's got girls that
are growing. But you know, especially for the boys, we
want them to grow and be strong and taller and
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you know all that, Like, is there anything like what
do I need to be doing for my kids so
that they can avoiding? You know, we as you as parents,
not a parent, The quick things we want to do
is just take our kids out and go through the
drive through or Uber eats or whatever. Cook your food
for your children. Yeah, I know what about these working moms,
(47:52):
I got like eighteen jobs. There's all these meal prep
delivery services. Now I think that's better. They want my
kids like they want me. But pastas. Yeah, but I
guess the same. Okay, So I asked that because you're like, oh,
eat eat eggs and you know that's for weight loss,
lean this and lean that. But I'm like, what if
I want them to Yeah, kids are trying to lose weight.
(48:15):
I don't think that a lot of them, right, So
like for athletes, boys, yeah, whatever they want, they're going
to burn it off, especially your kids, right, they're going
to burn it off. Pastas are good for protein and
car especially the night before for games. Um, everyone always
eat spaghetti like before games period. Um, they're probably not
eating any spinache or any salads like that, but grilled chicken.
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I think kids will eat fun vegetables, carrots, cauliflower, rice.
I don't have kids eat stuff like that. You know,
well they probably won't even know either. You can trick them.
You can trick you know, put some peas in some things,
or make a fun uh one of my my nieces
and nephews like the chocolate protein we put chocolate protein powder,
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peanut butter, put a little bit of banana, some fun
snacks in there, and then they'll eat it right up
because it's chocolate. So you know, doing stuff like that,
and then you can also add greens and it won't show.
That's also a way of getting the kids eat some green.
Love it. Okay, you have given us a lot to
think about. Okay, good And I don't understand why I'm
(49:19):
looking at you now. I don't have a pink kettlebell
in my house. I would get a great one, but
I don't know if that was this what we were doing.
I mean, I would just be happy to swing it around.
We need to get you one. No, but this has
been great information. I feel like, um, definitely, I'm taking
away the little pancake thing. I'm gonna make in the
morning trail and the egg whites. I'll send you a recipe, okay,
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and then I'm going to definitely buy some asparagus perfect
so I can ask some stinky p exactly. That's the
way to go, Rother. What are you going to do?
What am I going to do? You know? I think
I'm going to think long and hard. But if I'm
going to break my inter minute fasting and get and
get on like more of a normal like breakfast, snack, lunch,
you know what I mean, and just see what that
does for me, and then just commit to cooking, you know,
(50:05):
more of like the lean proteins, like you said, honestly
with this pandemic, Like it's so crazy. When the pandemic
first started, I was like cooking all day, right because
we were in the house and I was cooking breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. And then it just I hit a wall
where it got to the point where all I would
do is door dash and uber eats and now, oh
(50:28):
my god, it is so hard to get out of it.
And so I'm kind of like I'm getting out of
it finally, but I need to like really make it
like more of you know, cooking at home is the norm,
and then eating out it's not like it was. It
just got so bad. So's that's a hard rut to
get in and get out of. Yes, I'm not out
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of it. I'm still in it. Yeah, I'm still there too,
but I'm like slowly getting there, slowly getting there. So um,
but I definitely want to like and it's so weird
I used to eat I do think about how, you see,
I used to cook asparagus all the time. I haven't
made asparagus and forever, you know what I mean. So,
I think for people like you, a lot of people
are like that. One thing, you know, the meal prep services.
(51:11):
They're better than the fast food stuff. You're going to
give you your sweet potatoes, whatever, brown brice or whatever.
You can customize it with whatever you like and then
have that instead of you know, Uber Eats or delivery. Right,
that's a healthier alternative. I like that, Like the meal
prep Yeah, okay, I do get a blue Apron box
you know, for them for you know, almost every week,
(51:33):
so and I think those are much healthier than right,
It's already there is convenient people are paying for the
convenience aspect of it. Right, we don't. I mean, I'm
soaked over cooking right now. I've been cooking for four
months straight and I'm like, I'm over it. But i
still have my goals and to lose another fifteen pounds
and that's what I have to do, one day at
a time. Okay. So then the last when you do
(51:54):
go out to eat, are there you know some people
I say, okay, they tell the people, okay, cook my food,
but don't use any salt or don't any butter or
should you do that when you go out? Yeah, restaurants
are very friendly to people who have different allergies or
anything like that too. Preferences, right, So if you ask
for a salad, maybe bring the dressing onto the side
or no salt because a lot of people are salt sensitive,
(52:16):
like myself, and I asked for that all the time.
I almost start doing that. You can ask them to
bring a side of salt. And then you can exactly
little things like that, drinking the water of course, salads
and before you eat, to try to suppress the appetite
a little bit, you know, a little sttle things. So yeah,
and doritos and oreoles are great, right, they're great. Yeah,
And my less potato exactly all right, well, thank you
(52:39):
so much, thank you for visiting us at Shady. That
is our show and um, don't forget to either live
your life reasonable or shady, yes or both. Thank you
and you can check on out once again Instagram, UM
and www dot dot com or annibal spitness dot com.
Love it a lot of thanks for you, all right,
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