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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) What's going on?
Welcome to a brand new episode of the
Fit Women's Weekly podcast.
How's your week going, y'all?
Congratulations.
You've made it to the end of the
week.
Hopefully it's the end of the week for
you.
Hopefully you've got some fun plans for the
weekend.
Were you able to hit your fitness goals?
If not, you still have a couple of
days and just a reminder, something is better
than nothing.
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So if your goal is to work out
three times per week, whether you can knock
out 60 minute workouts, that's awesome.
If you have to knock out a 30
minute workout because that's what your schedule allows
for that day, that's great too.
Even a five minute workout has been proven
to help increase your endorphins and improve your
quality of life.
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So remember, something is better than nothing.
Hit your number of workouts per week versus
always trying to focus on making sure that
you're hitting the perfect workout session individually, right?
Let go of that perfection and just stay
on a consistent routine.
You're going to do a lot better off
knocking out three 30 minute workouts than you
would if you were to knock out one
90 minute workout per week.
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So keep that in mind for us.
Y'all it is my birthday this weekend.
I am turning 41 on Sunday and I'm
not looking forward to it if I'm being
honest.
Actually, this one's hitting me harder than 40.
I don't know if it's because I'm getting
into my forties, but I think it was
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because I kind of had really high expectations
for when I was in my forties and
some life goals that I wanted to try
to accomplish with Dan or work towards.
And the biggest one that I wanted to
do wasn't in the cards for us this
year.
So it's kind of, I know that I'm
being vague because I want to talk more
about this next week, but this past month
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has kind of been an eye opening experience
of me realizing some of my life decisions
that had I been able to go back
in time and change, I might do.
And just kind of accepting the decisions that
I've made got me to where I am.
I can't change it.
And sometimes accepting, even though you got to
do it, it's still really hard.
So this past week has just been hard.
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But again, I'll share more next week about
it.
But I would also love to hear what
are some of the biggest lessons that you've
learned.
If you are in your forties, what are
some of the biggest experiences that you've learned
or some wisdom that you carry with you
and send them to me in Instagram, because
I normally do like a 40 lessons that
I've learned in 40 years.
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But what I'd really like to do is
just I don't have to have 41, but
I'd like to have the lessons from you
guys.
I'll share some of the things that I
learned this past year.
And then if there's like a life lesson
that you would tell your younger self, I
would love to hear it.
So send it to me, Instagram, Kindle Boil
Fitness, or you can email me fit women's.
That's not right.
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Kindle at fitwomensweekly.com.
Sound good?
Now, speaking of Instagram, I asked you guys
for topics that you would like me to
talk about on Fridays or specific questions that
you would like me to answer for you.
And you have not let me down.
So this week, our question is from Mary
and she says, I love your content and
podcast.
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I've been a loyal listener for years.
I have a question you mentioned a while
back that you stopped eating so many veggies
and feel less bloated.
Can you share more details on what you're
doing versus now and the positive changes?
I'm feeling fluffy, even though I know that
that happens.
But I know some of it's just that
I eat so much volume of salad, steamed
vegetables, etc.
that I'm getting GI issues and it looks
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like I have a food baby sometimes.
Thanks for sharing any advice or any advice
in advance.
I'm finding fear if that makes sense if
I can't eat a big plate or bowl
of food and I replace it with something
like a potato or a piece of bread
instead of a head of cauliflower.
I'm looking for some sage advice because I
think that you're in this situation.
And yes, I was in this situation.
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It kind of started.
Gosh, I in my late 20s actually became
vegan.
So at that point, obviously, my life revolved
around eating fruits and vegetables and a lot
of grains.
And I didn't want to be a vegan
where I was supplementing it with processed vegan
foods, right?
Just because it's vegan.
So that meant that I started eating a
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ton of vegetables and fruits to try to
make sure that I was hitting my caloric
needs.
But also, because at that time, I thought
that the more vegetables you eat, the better
it is for you.
And then that was also stressed by the
fact they were having these like 800 gram
challenges, which I don't know if you guys
have ever heard of.
But it's like a 30 day challenge where
you eat 800 grams of fruits and vegetables
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every single day.
And so that just made me think like,
okay, the more fiber, the better the more
vegetables, the better for you.
Right.
But I started to have just some bad
symptoms where I was really bloated after lunch
or really gassy.
That was to be honest, probably my biggest
symptom.
And it was uncomfortable where it was bloat,
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but it was gas.
And I wasn't good to be around.
It was embarrassing.
I was having a lot of bathroom issues
where I was going to the bathroom a
lot.
And it was pretty much every I would
say 30 to 60 minutes after a meal,
this discomfort and this gas would hit me.
And so then I started studying a little
bit more.
I started reading things like the fiber menace
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and started researching.
And I realized that for me, I was
eating, gosh, sometimes three times the amount of
recommended fiber.
So I know that we're always stressing eat
fiber, eat fiber, but you only need about
25 grams of fiber a day.
And I was getting anywhere from 50 to
a hundred grams of fiber per day.
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And it wasn't intentional.
I wasn't trying to do that.
It was just because I was, I am
somebody who likes a lot of volume like
Mary.
And that meant that I was just eating
a ton of fruits and vegetables.
So I decided to start pulling back a
little bit.
And I really did instantly feel better.
I've talked about this on past podcasts before,
two years ago, where I started to just
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decrease the amount of salads because I was
a big salad eater for lunch and I
would eat like a whole entire bag of
salad every single day.
And so I cut that out and I
started realizing, Oh, I'm actually feeling a lot
better.
And so then I started supplementing a little
bit more with start your carbs so that
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I was still making sure that I'm getting
the calories that I need, the different type
of fuel, right?
So foods like greens or a lot of
leafy stuff has a type of fiber in
it that we can't break down.
It's roughage.
So it can build up into our gut,
make us feel bloated, but we're not actually
getting much nutrition from it all the time.
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We're getting macronutrients and we're getting, I mean,
micronutrients, your vitamins and your minerals, but your
body can't break down cellulite cellulose, which is
what makes fibrous roughage what it is.
And so you just pass it out.
Whereas if I was starting to eat more
things like potatoes or carrots, for example, or
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just like start your foods, sourdough bread, just,
or bread in general, I realized that I
was giving my body something where I'm still
getting a little bit of fiber, but it's
more of a soluble fiber so we can
break it down.
It's a little bit better for the, for
gut health overall.
It's very important.
And I'm providing my body with actual carbohydrates
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for energy because in my early twenties, when
I did figure competitions, it was this idea
like carbs are bad.
And it took me a really long time
to break free of that stigma and to
kind of make that change.
Like Mary was talking about where she's scared
to have the potatoes and have the bread.
But here's the thing.
Those foods are filling and they're filling for
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longer.
And when I made that change, I really
did feel a lot better.
And then over the years, it's just kind
of progressed to experimenting more with my body.
You know, I did the carnivore challenge two
years ago and there were some things I
liked about it.
Obviously some things I didn't like about it,
which I have done numerous podcast episodes on
now.
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And then I went back to just like
a quote unquote normal diet where I have
a really good balance of eating fruits, eating
vegetables, eating protein.
And then earlier this year in January, we
bit back and experimented a little bit more
with an animal based diet because Dan wanted
to do that.
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And I actually have felt a lot better
with that.
I'm calling it animal based because the carnivore
people came out after me, which I kind
of expected when I talked about it in
January.
Cause they were like, you're not full carnivore.
You are animal based.
Yes, that is correct.
And that's pretty much what we have stuck
through through for now we're in April for
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these four months where our plates are mostly
animal based products.
So meats, eggs, dairy.
And then I also eat a little bit
of fruit.
I do apples, I do cucumbers.
And then on the weekends, if we want
to have some sort of cheat, we can,
when I was out of town this past
weekend, I didn't worry about it.
I lived life.
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And that to me is what balanced nutrition
is all about having that relationship with food
of not having fear of something, but also
recognizing what makes you feel better.
So for me personally, I have realized that
going a little bit lower on the fruits
and vegetables and keeping it more at about,
I would say I eat probably about a
total of a cup a day versus 800
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grams a day makes me feel better.
Now, does that mean it's going to make
you feel better?
No, but if you're having these symptoms, here's
what I want to stress.
Experiment.
I know that you're nervous to try something
new, but if you're not feeling the best
that you could and you know that then
what's the harm of giving something a try?
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Your body is not going to go into
an unhealthy state in one month.
And if it does, and you don't feel
good about it, you can always change back.
You know, it's just like I tell people
who when back in the day, you know,
like five, 10 years ago when women were
still scared to shrink train, I don't want
to get bulky.
And I would stress the fact you're not
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going to get bulky overnight.
First off, you're not going to get bulky,
but if you're scared of that, you're not
going to get bulky overnight.
You're not going to go to bed, how
you look now, and then wake up tomorrow
looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, right?
The female version of Arnold Schwarzenegger from his
from his heyday.
You have control over those things.
And the same thing goes for your nutrition.
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You're not going to go to bed tonight
feeling how you do and tomorrow wake up
completely different.
You're going to be able to judge.
You might feel great over a couple of
weeks, or you might not feel great, but
at least you've put yourself out there to
say, okay, what can I do?
What can I get in control?
And your chances are really high that it
sounds like with this little bit of food
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fear that this actually might be exactly what
you need to help realize that other foods
for you are a good thing.
Maybe you need to introduce some more complex
carbohydrates or some even some more simple carbohydrates.
Maybe you need some more starches into your
day and you'll feel, oh my gosh, I
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actually have more energy.
It's one of those things you don't know
how good or bad you feel until you
change something up, right?
Like with health.
I see this all the time.
People don't realize that they feel low on
energy because that's just what they've gotten used
to until you start making changes of changing
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your exercise, changing your nutrition, changing your lifestyle
around a little bit.
And all of a sudden you're like, oh
my God, this is what feeling good and
feeling healthy and feeling energized feels like.
So Mary, what I want to say to
you is if you're curious about it, be
your own science project.
Give it a month because I don't think,
I know for sure one week is not
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long enough.
I don't think for most people two weeks
is long enough to get a true idea
of how something works for you.
And then after that month, we evaluate how
things are going, but nothing's going to change
drastically and never know this could be the
path that makes you feel the best possible.
But it does sound like just from the
look of things that you could possibly be
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eating too much fiber if you're so focused
on getting those big bowls of fruits and
vegetables every single day.
So if you are a little bit nervous
of going to the extreme side, like I've
done, then just start with tracking your nutrition
first and getting an idea of where your
fiber is because you might wake up and
be like me where you're like, oh my
God, I'm getting 75 grams of fiber in,
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which is way too much and which is
going to cause bloat and gas and intestinal
distress.
So then maybe instead of doing something so
drastic, like I was doing, just focus on
changing your nutrition to getting just 25 grams.
So that does mean you're going to have
to weigh your food, track your macros a
little bit.
So hold back a little bit and you
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can also make sure I'm going to guess
that if you are eating that much fiber,
then you're probably not getting enough protein, right?
So maybe let's try to up the protein
and change your food ratio around a little
bit in order to now you're going to
hit two new goals.
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You're going to get the right amount of
fiber and you're going to increase your protein
to where it should be.
And I have a feeling that can really
work for you, make you feel good.
So let me know what your thoughts are.
Make sure to hit me back up after
a month.
Let me know how things are going for
you.
And you guys remember, if you have a
question that you want me to tackle here
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Thanks for hanging out with me.
Happy Friday.
I'll be back next week.
As a 41 year old, I don't want
to talk about it.