February 5, 2025 • 29 mins
Chrisy and Kerry tackle the often hilarious, sometimes harrowing world of dysfunctional diets and exercise routines. From extreme calorie restrictions to the absurdity of living out of a bento box, the ladies share their personal tales of weight loss attempts that went off the rails. Enjoy another episode of finding humor in the messiness of life!
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DJ Nick (00:08):
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry (00:19):
Hello Dysfunction Junkie family.
How is everyone doing out there?
Chrissy, how are you?
Chrisy (00:27):
Oh, I'm doing just fine, I guess.
Thank you, we're starting a newyear and we're moving along, I
guess.
Kerry (00:35):
Yes, we are.
So we're like what a month now,basically almost into the new
year, and the weather isdisgusting here in Northeast
Ohio and I'm trying to get thismarathon training done and this
weather is not cooperating.
Chrisy (00:50):
Oh, no, we got, no, you got it.
Kerry (00:52):
I'm doing the gym Like I go to the gym.
I go to.
You know I do all that stuffbut to get my outdoor running
done it's not happening.
Whenever it's negative teenwind chills and 20 degree
weather and snow and ice yeah,screw that.
Chrisy (01:05):
Do I need to like maybe be in a car in front of you and
sort of maybe try to clear theroad for you as you run behind
the car and I'll cheer for you.
Go, carrie, go.
Kerry (01:15):
Carrie, I think I need like a heat blower is more of
the thing.
It's not the desire.
I've got the desire to run,I've got that down.
I just can't stand this weather.
It does not help my diet and myexercise routine right now.
Chrisy (01:28):
So I can also have a music playing the Rocky theme.
Kerry (01:31):
Oh, that would be good.
Chrisy (01:33):
Yeah, all right.
Kerry (01:34):
Well, if this weather lingers much longer up here,
then we might need to, you know,take some, you know extreme
measures on that.
Chrisy (01:42):
So hopefully we'll get through it somehow.
Kerry (01:47):
Yes, yeah, so dieting seems to be a good topic for
this time of year month in,after all those New Year's
resolutions and everything.
And Chrissy and I were talkingabout the dysfunctional diets
over the years.
So, chrissy, take it away,because I am the queen of
dysfunctional diets over theyears.
Chrisy (02:06):
So, chrissy, take it away, because I am the queen of
dysfunctional diets.
Unfortunately, they wereencouraged for me.
I don't know why, but they were.
Yeah, I just always wonder whywe're encouraged at the to make
that resolution.
Yeah, that we're going to gethealthier in the new year.
Were you that unhealthy in theyear prior or in like, many
(02:26):
years prior, or did you justlike completely go out of
control in december?
exactly, and I wonder if thepush to be healthier in a new
year encourages us to becompletely part of just a
debaucherous lifestyle.
Yes, month prior to the yearending.
Kerry (02:44):
Yeah, For the last six weeks, from November till you
know, January or December 31stit is it's out of control.
I mean all the food, all thecookies, all the pastries, all
the parties, everything.
For those last six weeks I haveno food control, no
self-control when it comes tofood, whether I'm on a diet or
not, or just right.
So, yeah, it's the last sixweeks of the horrible.
(03:07):
So you're right.
That probably is why it leadsup to the new year resolution of
oh, I got it.
I got to now lose the extra 10pounds I put on, plus that
whatever I put on for the wholeyear before.
Chrisy (03:18):
We should do a where you're totally healthy, yeah, or
totally unhealthy, like Januarythrough October, and then you
just try to be completelyhealthy and just like completely
trash everybody else who'saround you, trying to have a
good time, like you're being,you know, the healthy one.
(03:39):
But yeah, it's a crazy thoughtto have.
Kerry (03:59):
Be healthy and breast and my whatever.
I wish I had that control.
I wish I had that desire.
I wish I could be thatcommitted.
But I just look at that and gohow are you living?
How is life enjoyable whenyou're?
When you're doing that, You'reliving out of the bento box.
Chrisy (04:14):
Well, if you really like that type of food, and that's
wonderful.
Kerry (04:19):
Yeah.
Chrisy (04:19):
But you know, denying yourself is a huge part of the
problem and you just got to tryand be reasonable.
This has all taken me a verylong time to figure out and I
will explain because I have beenon so many horrible diets.
I was just making notes aboutwhat we were going to talk about
(04:41):
today and I have to tell youthat I believe that I probably
have lost enough weight andgained enough weight back to
probably have created one wholefull grown person.
I believe that because when youwant the quick fix of the
weight loss, especially whenyou're younger and I think I
(05:02):
think we've become better ingeneral with understanding that
the quick weight loss is notgood.
I'm sure, there are still peoplewho just want it, but when
you're younger, you really wantit.
Kerry (05:13):
You're just in a hurry, you got to get into that dress
or got to do whatever thebathing suit.
Season's coming up.
Chrisy (05:19):
I have been on diets that have dropped a lot of
weight quickly.
When I was younger I could goon those diets now.
Ain't going to happen.
Because I'm just at that agewhere your body's just going to
fight against that.
No, thank you, it's going tohold on to all that fat because
it's like you're not younganymore.
You better keep all this fornutrients, because you're going
to need it.
Kerry (05:38):
You're so cute if you think you can do that.
Still, your body says to youyeah, you can't even think.
Chrisy (05:43):
Oh, maybe I'm still no.
Kerry (05:44):
No.
Chrisy (05:45):
Diet required me to limit my calories to 600
calories a day for a few days,then bump it to nine Wow.
Then, for a whole week, whichwas like a splurge, you went to
12.
Wow, all of it had menu plans.
And you were able to followthis and stick to it Once I got
into the mindset of it.
I was, and when I was younger Iwould be on that for three
(06:11):
weeks and I know people aregoing to say this is impossible,
but I literally would drop 15pounds in three weeks.
Kerry (06:14):
Oh, I believe it, I was.
Chrisy (06:15):
I was very hungry and I was exercising and then you had
one week off.
So it was a three weekcommitment and then you had a
week off.
Kerry (06:22):
Did you go crazy, you go crazy.
Chrisy (06:23):
So usually I would gain back five, five to seven pounds
back on and then you do it again.
Oh my god, I did another crazy.
I was so mad.
My, my mother generally wouldencourage this oh my god to do
these diets, because I think shewas of the opinion that dieting
like that was healthy if,especially if you were losing
weight yeah I ate parsnips.
(06:44):
I don't even know if I can find.
If I saw a parsnip in a storeI'd probably freak out.
I'm sure you would.
Kerry (06:50):
But it was all parsnips.
Chrisy (06:52):
Yeah, and I was like really hostile about that one
with my mother because she keptmaking me eat part and she kept
trying to prepare them indifferent ways for me yeah.
I stuck to it and after a weekof parsnips I lost nothing, oh
my God, and I was so angry.
Kerry (07:08):
So angry.
I can't, I can't imagine that Iwould have cheated.
I would have been like, okay,mom, I'm eating your parsnips.
And then shut the bedroom doorand out come the candy, out come
the chips.
I give you credit for stickingto it.
Chrisy (07:21):
I did, but is it all at a cost?
It was it was not because onceyou had time off or you decided
you were going to take yourbreak, you went so crazy.
Kerry (07:29):
Right, you went the other way, just destroyed everything
you did Right.
Chrisy (07:34):
And then I did have another diet which was really
weird.
I don't know.
I can't remember any of theother menu parts of it, except
that it told you to have vanillaice cream and raw hot dogs and
I would take and cut up a rawhot dog and I would stick it in
the vanilla ice cream and Iwould eat it.
Kerry (07:52):
I don't remember if that diet was successful or not I'm
having flashbacks and when wetalked about new year's eve and
we were talking about hot dogsand the sauerkraut and all that,
like it's the same thing yeah,well, no, hot dogs and
sauerkraut's fine, I don't knowthat you should put hot dogs in
ice cream, but they were raw.
What's the difference between araw hot dog and a cook hot dog?
Chrisy (08:10):
well, because it's cold and the ice cream's cold.
I don't know if you want to puta greasy, warm hot dog in your
vanilla ice cream oh, chrissy Imean you.
Kerry (08:19):
I'm trying to rationalize what.
What is the nutritional gamelike what?
What was the theory, theorybehind this that was making you
think that I don't know.
Chrisy (08:28):
I don't know if at that young age.
Google this I was in highschool and maybe when you're
that young, a sugar you hear theterms sugar, rush, yeah, which
doesn't exist for me anymore.
As soon as I eat anything sweet, I pass out.
Kerry (08:42):
I'm Googling this as you're talking Hot dog and ice
cream diet.
Chrisy (08:47):
Well, don't say the name .
I remember the name of the diet.
Kerry (08:50):
I won't say the name.
Chrisy (08:51):
But if it even comes up, they may tell you do not ever
do this for it will ruin yourhealth.
But as I've gotten older Ilearned that, oh my gosh, it
really is a thing, is it?
It is, yeah, it is.
Everybody in my room right nowis going DJ Nick's on his phone,
carrie's on her phone.
(09:12):
Oh my God, Does it explain whyit's beneficial to do that?
Kerry (09:16):
I'm trying to get to that point.
Chrisy (09:18):
I would hope, because this was 35 plus years ago.
Kerry (09:22):
This diet works and there is science that says it's
dangerous.
Chrisy (09:26):
No, freaking way, of course.
So yeah, it was, it was.
Kerry (09:31):
Oh, my God, that's.
Chrisy (09:32):
Yeah, my mom did encourage this because, you know
, I was supposed to look acertain way.
Kerry (09:40):
Right.
Chrisy (09:41):
I wanted to look a certain way.
Kerry (09:42):
Right.
Chrisy (09:43):
So that's most of my teens and into my 20s and early
30s.
Probably the best thing thathappened to me was when I
decided to start a family Rightand I decided to get healthy.
Kerry (09:55):
See, I never really thought about my weight growing
up.
Chrisy (10:00):
You're very fit.
Kerry (10:01):
If you can run, which you're doing and you've done in
the past, there is a level offitness you have that I have
never achieved Well but I alwayshave to remind you, but when I
run I always got that stitch inmy side and it's only kind of
recently that I've learned howto control that.
But I was, I.
Just weight was never an issue.
I mean food was always an issuefor me.
(10:22):
I mean food and my familyequated love.
Food and my family was comfort.
Then there was the whole icecream.
Meant we're going to have somekind of very uncomfortable
conversation.
So there was that, you know,kind of bad association of food.
As much as I never reallythought about weight like I
couldn't even tell you how muchI weighed in high school, I have
no idea.
I don't know if I ever steppedon a scale other than a doctor's
(10:43):
office.
Chrisy (10:44):
You were thin.
I remember you, you'rebeautiful.
Kerry (10:48):
You're still beautiful.
Chrisy (10:50):
But when I and you're taller than me too, damn you
Height helps.
Kerry (10:56):
Yeah, height does help a little bit.
It wasn't until I graduatedfrom college and I was working
at a major theme park and wasperforming on stage where all of
a sudden I became conscious ofmy weight, although they never
said it to me, but I rememberthe women and the young girls I
worked around with that therewas the, you know people that
(11:17):
were in charge of ourperformances or whatever that
they would get on them abouttheir weight.
Now I know I was heavier thanthem because these girls were
wearing like a size four, sizesix.
I don't think I ever fit intothat, like I never remember
wearing clothes that small, butfor whatever reason they didn't
get on me and I think part of itwas that I was a strong
personality.
So I think my boss was kind ofnew.
(11:38):
Like you pick on me about weight, I'm going to be really coming
back at you, but I did becomeconscious of my weight.
But at the same time, I thinkat that point in my life I did
have a good metabolism and withthe jobs that I was doing I
exerted so many calories a day.
It didn't matter what I ate,because I wasn't going to eat as
I.
It just did too much scubadiving and doing all the things.
(11:59):
It was just so much output so Igot to eat whatever I wanted.
But then when I got my like agrownup job, my body still
wanted to eat like that and Icouldn't do it anymore because
you know now I had a sedentarylifestyle.
Chrisy (12:12):
So activity is definitely a plus.
I would have to say activity inyour mind should be important.
Not to go crazy, though, don'tbe overdoing it.
But I subscribe now to.
I try to commit to 30 minutes aday for five days a week.
Oh, that's good, and I thinkthat that's.
(12:32):
I think that's sort of whatthey recommend, anyhow.
Kerry (12:34):
Yeah.
Chrisy (12:35):
And it's doable.
If I try to do any more than 30minutes physically I could,
yeah, but if I did, I think Iwould discourage myself because
then it would become more effortand I would get upset with
having to be away from my familyor away from something I want
to do.
Kerry (12:50):
Right the other thing.
Chrisy (12:52):
I don't want to promote anything, but what has worked
for me is not an extreme levelbut the intermittent fasting.
Yeah, I do agree that they dosay that it's probably good to
give your system a break fromhaving to work to.
Yeah when you eat, you knowdigest and everything else.
So the fasting is good.
So I do like that.
(13:12):
But sometimes you have to becareful, because sometimes I
intermittent fast and it's notbecause I'm doing it on purpose,
because sometimes Iintermittent fast and it's not
because I'm doing it on purpose,but because I didn't maybe
start out my day eatingsomething and then I get busy.
Kerry (13:25):
Yes, I get very hungry, yep.
Chrisy (13:29):
Then the hangry and then I probably eat stuff I should
not, or a lot of it, yes, butwhen I was younger, too, I was
so extreme, so probably that waswhy I was fairly successful at
maintaining these horrible diets.
Kerry (13:42):
I still can't get over the ice cream and hot dogs Flash
.
I can't.
Chrisy (13:46):
Because when I did something, there was like no
middle ground for me and I'vetried to get better as I've
gotten older I am definitely a.
You know, they say there's agray area.
It's not always black, it's notalways white.
For me, it was either high orlow, and this is the.
There was nothing in the middle, there was no way to negotiate,
and so if I was not eating, Iwas not eating right.
(14:08):
And if I was eating, oh my god,was I?
Kerry (14:11):
yeah, I mean and you know , that's kind of funny because
my personality I am very, youknow, very black and white like
this is right, this is wrong.
These are the rules, these arenot these.
Everything is like that veryrigid for the most part.
And then there's not a lot ofgray, not when it comes to food
and diet and exercise.
I'm I for whatever reason, thatdoes not translate over into my
brain there, so I don't havethat commitment Now I can get
(14:34):
committed to so many things thatlike it's not a lack of
commitment and everything.
If I have a goal, I'm going toachieve that goal.
In fact, my son, the other,probably about a month ago, said
something and it was like soendearing to me.
We were talking about somefuture plans and my son said
when has Carrie ever plannedsomething and it didn't happen?
You know?
So like that showed me that herecognizes that when I set a
(14:55):
goal that it happens, I make ithappen.
But why can't I stick to a diet?
Then it's the same.
I can't when it comes to food.
It's a bad, bad relationship,Just not good.
Chrisy (15:06):
I think that the fact that you're committed to just
being a physical person, yeah.
And I don't see you eatingextreme food.
Kerry (15:14):
Oh well well, I know already.
Did you not see me chow downwhen we went and got tacos and
tequila?
Well, well, I know already, notsee me chow down.
Chrisy (15:22):
When we went and got tacos and tequila no, I didn't
you didn't seem to eat any moreor less than anybody else.
No, but it's just, youdefinitely can commit yourself,
and I remember this from thefact that from high school and
early on I mean, you said I'mgoing to do this.
Kerry (15:38):
Yes.
Chrisy (15:38):
And you would do it.
Yes, I probably took theapproach that don't I'm going to
do this and you would do it.
Yes, I probably took theapproach that don't say you're
going to do anything, yeah, anddon't do it, and then no one's
disappointed and you're notdisappointed.
So I am very distracted easilyand my brain goes in all
different.
Kerry (15:58):
Yeah.
Chrisy (15:59):
I guess I have a focus issue.
Kerry (16:01):
Yeah, I know I do Right, but you're able to focus when
you commit to these crazy turnipdiets.
Chrisy (16:07):
Well, not, anymore Not anymore, but back then you did.
I tell you something the lasttime I went on one of these
crazy things.
Kerry (16:13):
What was it?
Chrisy (16:14):
It was probably after I had my daughter, Although I
really was fairly fit and I didnot gain.
I gained the same amount ofweight with all three of my kids
, which I only gained 12 poundsthrough each pregnancy and I
generally afterwards lost thatand then some.
Just that.
My activity level and things Iwas doing.
(16:34):
I did try to go on, after mydaughter, an extreme diet that I
had tried in the past, becauseI was like I just really want to
lose this much and I know, thisdiet used to work for me, so
I'm going to do it.
My gallbladder gave out on me.
Kerry (16:46):
Now it probably was bad already, because I probably ice
cream and hot dog diet.
Chrisy (16:53):
Well, maybe or something else, but I mean I had a severe
gallbladder attack.
It was pretty funny because Ididn't like I never.
I used to get like heartburnand stuff, but I like spicy food
, so I just assumed that was it.
Kerry (17:08):
Yeah.
Chrisy (17:08):
And all of a sudden it hit me and I can't say it was
because of that, but it wasclose to and it was actually I
was on my week off, so I waslike eating.
Kerry (17:17):
Yeah.
Chrisy (17:18):
And I remember laying in bed with this pain in my upper
stomach and I said, because Iate a bunch of spaghetti the day
before and I was like, I calledmy husband I said he was not
home, he was out of town.
And I said the spaghetti it'snot digesting, it's stuck in my
gut, it won't go anywhere else.
Kerry (17:36):
And I'm in pain and I ate too much, much.
Chrisy (17:39):
And then when I called the doctor and I told where the
pain was, they're like oh, honey, you need to go to the
emergency room, it's probablyyour gallbladder, and it was, oh
my god and I was so upsetbecause number one I had never
had any major surgery okayoutside of having a baby.
Yeah, they were gonna have totake.
And I'm like, well, wait, I wasborn with all this equipment.
You're're going to takesomething away.
(18:01):
I don't know that my body isgoing to want to be missing that
.
And they're trying to tell me.
But it doesn't work.
It's not doing what it'ssupposed to anymore.
I'm like, are you sure?
Because you know, sometimes youtake stuff and then I'm like,
whoops, no, it was fine, youcan't put it back after that,
take.
Kerry (18:19):
And then I'm like whoops, no, it was fine, you can't put
it back.
After that, take it out and youstill have the pain.
Chrisy (18:23):
Oopsie, yeah, but it was hilarious because I actually
had it like Easter weekend thatthey had to do the surgery to
get that gallbladder and theywere able to do it
laparoscopically.
I was just going to ask youlaparoscopically which they were
, but the surgeon did not knowfor sure he's going to be able
to do it, Because I guess thestone was enormous and when they
took it out so my incision wasa little bit bigger than normal
(18:45):
for that.
But they were able to pull itout and the guy he took it out
to the room outside, to thewaiting area where my husband
and some other family memberswere waiting until I was
finished.
He had this thing in a jar.
He showed it to him and myhusband said it looked like a
(19:05):
black easter egg.
Kerry (19:05):
It was perfect, it was huge and it was black and there,
and the doctor was amazed thatI never had, oh my, anything
prior to that.
Okay, now here's the bigquestion do you still have that
black easter egg?
You didn't keep it?
Chrisy (19:10):
no, but I bet you he keeps everything.
He probably uses it apaperweight on his desk.
I would have.
I wish somebody, you know,because when I had this happen,
the phone taking pictures thing-Right wasn't a thing.
I did not get to see what thislooked like.
They didn't even show you.
It's probably in a medicaljournal somewhere.
See what happens when youextreme diet.
(19:31):
This could be you, yeah, itcould be.
So watch out when junkies donot extreme diet.
It's not worth it.
Don't encourage your kidshealthy lifestyles.
I try to tell my my oldestdaughter look, don't worry about
how you, you're beautiful andshe is stay active and just eat
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healthy, and that you've got totell people that it's very
important.
Nobody ever told me that oneperson and the other thing was
my mother always pushed music,and I'm not saying I'm not
crapping on music programs.
Music is important.
I am very glad I can read music.
I can play to some extent.
It was enjoyable to some level,but that was all my mother was
interested in encouraging me todo.
Kerry (20:13):
Oh for a career.
Chrisy (20:15):
For anything, any extracurricular activity.
Kerry (20:17):
Oh, I see.
Chrisy (20:18):
It was all music.
Kerry (20:19):
I get where you're going with that now, okay, and I don't
want to be like, hey, I'm thegreatest.
Chrisy (20:24):
I'm not the greatest, but I am fairly athletic.
I am good at many differentsports.
Kerry (20:29):
And you were given that chance.
Chrisy (20:30):
growing up, I was never, ever told you should go out for
this.
You should go out for that.
Number one.
My father didn't feel a girlshould be that involved in
sports.
Number one my father didn'tfeel a girl should be that
involved in sports and generallyhe wasn't interested in really
participating.
Right, If you were playingsports as a girl, I think he
would.
If I was a boy, I would haveshown up, Just they, just I
(20:54):
think it would have been morethat they would have had to been
committed to, I think, themusic thing, because it was more
.
Kerry (20:59):
I could stay home and people could come and give you
lessons there, passive yeah, itwas less off there.
Chrisy (21:05):
They didn't have to take me anywhere Not that my mom
didn't she would take me formusic lessons but I really feel
like they should have encouragedthe sports thing, because I
think that would have helped too, instead of throwing me on
extreme diets and making me siton a stationary bike, which I
still love.
I think it's just that's what Ido like to do the stationary.
Kerry (21:18):
Right, I think treadmills are wonderful.
Chrisy (21:20):
Any kind of equipment that encourages you to move
Right Is good.
Kerry (21:23):
Yes, I know, and I think that you know that just realized
, while you were talking aboutthat, a little difference
between you and I.
So my dad, after having fivegirls I think he realized he
wasn't getting a boy Right.
So with me he did do thingslike he they did I played
softball and you know justdifferent things and stuff but I
(21:44):
think it was like he realized Iguess you know you have four
girls and you have a big gap andthen you get this last fifth
one and it's a girl too.
This is all you're getting.
So if you want to makesomething out of this tomboy, it
is you know.
So I did have a little bit ofthat growing up.
Chrisy (21:58):
But let me tell you something else that always
amazed me with you and with thepeople that you were friends
with while we were in school,being in the band.
Kerry (22:05):
Yes.
Chrisy (22:06):
Playing an instrument.
Kerry (22:07):
Yes.
Chrisy (22:08):
And moving.
Junkies, but let me tell youthis when I played an instrument
, it was stationary like my bike.
Chrissy's all about stationary.
I'll move like crazy, but Onlyone place.
It's like a cartoon with me I'mnot going anywhere, but I'm
moving like crazy.
Yeah, the fact that anybody whois in a band marching band, I'm
(22:29):
talking, although I guess, arock band too.
Now I did.
I was in a rock band briefly,and I was.
Kerry (22:35):
I would sing.
Chrisy (22:36):
But that kind of movement is yeah, you're
jiggling around, look at me,move A band, a marching band,
that you are able to do thosedifferent movements and stuff
yes, yes, and continue to playand stay on.
No, it's a different level offantastic.
(22:57):
Yeah, I give props to that.
Kerry (22:59):
That is amazing I didn't think about that.
Chrisy (23:00):
You're right, and so and plus the fact that you're
carrying something right,sometimes heavy oh my gosh.
Kerry (23:06):
I'll never forget, because one of the bands I was
in was like a competition bandand you had to try out to be in
this band.
It was like, collected from allthe different kids in the area,
created this, this band, and wewould travel and compete.
I was playing the xylophone, soit was this really heavy piece
of equipment.
I swear to god, I think thatthing weighed like 50, 70 pounds
(23:26):
.
It was probably half my weight.
So we were doing this paradeand I think we were in wisconsin
doing the parade or something.
But it was really long, it wasin the summer, it was hot.
We're wearing this big uniform.
I normally wouldn't have marchedwith that.
I normally would have had thebells, but the kid who was
supposed to play the xylophonegot sick, so they moved me over
(23:46):
to that.
So I was marching with thisheavier piece of equipment and
we're doing this parade and Iwas committed.
I was like no, I'm making itthrough the judging stand or
whatever.
And I mean it was hard, it was.
I do remember like I wasstruggling and I didn't know at
the time the precursors of likepassing out.
You know where you would getthe chills and you know like the
(24:07):
shakes and all this other stuff, right, but I had been
experiencing that for like amile while we were on this
parade route and I thinkeveryone around me could tell
that like I was maybe going topass out because they kept
trying to take them from me andI'm like no, I got it, I'm doing
this.
Chrisy (24:25):
I'm doing it.
There's that commitment I wastalking about.
Kerry (24:28):
Right, but I wasn't dieting.
I was you know something?
Chrisy (24:32):
else you had a goal and you were going to stick with it.
Kerry (24:34):
So, finally, when we passed the judging stance and I
knew that basically our judgingpart was over, they came over
and I was like, okay, fine, youcan take this from me and I'll
never forget, they lifted thatoff of me.
It took two guys.
I mean, that's how heavy thisfreaking thing was.
They, the parents, came over,lifted it off of me and thank
(24:54):
God somebody was behind me,because as soon as they lifted
that boom, I started going down.
Never had experienced that andI remember starting to pass out
and going down and I was like inmy brain, what is going on?
And I realized what washappening and I just like, no, I
, you will not pass out.
No, like I was still in thatcompetition.
Like, no, you can't, you know,this will look bad on the, on
(25:15):
the, you know judging orwhatever.
But yeah, I'll never forgetthat.
Yeah, so you're right.
I guess marching band was anendurance sport, it's definitely
so.
Chrisy (25:25):
anybody out there who did band or is currently or has
children doing band tons ofadmiration for that, because it
can't be easy.
Anybody who's sitting therewatching that has to, I would
hope, acknowledge that the kidsand people who do that.
Kerry (25:41):
It's crazy.
It's fantastic who do that.
It's uh, it's fantastic, so,but well, this was good to wrap
up.
Uh, a little bit on where we'reat and in our dieting month
into the year.
So what I want to know from thejunkies is I want to know what
crazy diets you guys have doneor are on, or whatever or
considered yeah, real quick.
Chrisy (26:02):
One other thing yeah, when they talk about dry January
.
Kerry (26:05):
Oh yeah.
Chrisy (26:06):
What's that about?
What's that?
Kerry (26:07):
concept about.
I've never heard of that.
Chrisy (26:08):
Well, I mean, I guess, I mean only recently.
Kerry (26:12):
But why?
Because they're trying to gethealthy.
I guess because they drank toomuch the six weeks before.
Chrisy (26:17):
But isn't the whole.
I'm going to join the gym.
I'm going to eat better thisyear.
The resolution's not enough.
Now they have to also declaredry January.
Dry like it's dry skin JanuaryCause yes, in Northeast Ohio I'm
always like wondering what theheck is everybody dry January?
How much did you drink you need?
Kerry (26:39):
to be all dried out now.
Chrisy (26:41):
I just imagined somebody in like some tank, you know,
just like completely dry, I meanmaybe.
Kerry (26:46):
I would need to be like a dry July because we go on our
big vacation in June and that'sprobably my heavy drinking
season of the year, so I wouldhave to do dry July because the
dry January.
But I never really heard ofthat until recently.
Chrisy (26:59):
We need to start like just throwing stuff in the wrong
order out there and confusingeverybody.
Well, we're, like everybody,dry August Everybody for dry
August, it's dry.
Kerry (27:09):
Or what's the thing they do with the beard?
No shave November.
Oh my God, is that a thing?
Oh, that's a thing my husbanddoes it, is it for a girl?
Chrisy (27:17):
No it's no, shave your legs.
Everybody's walking aroundlooking Europeanan yeah, it is.
Kerry (27:22):
It has to do with, I think it's supporting cancer or
something.
Well, that I can get behind,but it's like a whole no shave
thing.
But I hate it because then hegets all like out of control
well, what is the januarybenefit?
Chrisy (27:36):
I I don't know.
It's certainly not benefitingthe uh industry that sells the
uh spirits definitely budweiserdidn't come up with that one.
Kerry (27:44):
No, I don't think so, bogan david, maybe benefits your
liver.
Chrisy (27:47):
A benefit your liver?
Yeah, I don't know yeah, allright.
Kerry (27:51):
Well, that could be another thing someone find out
where this dry january thingcame from and tell us so?
Chrisy (27:56):
yeah, and junkies, I would just say remember, just
eat healthy foods.
Splurge when you want, amen,just some minor physical
activity.
I'll do everybody the best,don't do extreme stuff, yeah.
Moderation Because it leads tomany, many years of just
unfortunate gain of weight anddiscouraging your positivity.
(28:20):
And Oregon started deciding togive up on, you know, trying to
do what they're supposed to do.
You know I still miss mygallbladder.
Kerry (28:34):
All right, everybody.
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All right, bye-bye junkies.
Eat those ice cream and hotdogs.
Yeah, let me know, yum, yum.
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry (00:19):
Hello Dysfunction Junkie family.
How is everyone doing out there?
Chrissy, how are you?
Chrisy (00:27):
Oh, I'm doing just fine, I guess.
Thank you, we're starting a newyear and we're moving along, I
guess.
Kerry (00:35):
Yes, we are.
So we're like what a month now,basically almost into the new
year, and the weather isdisgusting here in Northeast
Ohio and I'm trying to get thismarathon training done and this
weather is not cooperating.
Chrisy (00:50):
Oh, no, we got, no, you got it.
Kerry (00:52):
I'm doing the gym Like I go to the gym.
I go to.
You know I do all that stuffbut to get my outdoor running
done it's not happening.
Whenever it's negative teenwind chills and 20 degree
weather and snow and ice yeah,screw that.
Chrisy (01:05):
Do I need to like maybe be in a car in front of you and
sort of maybe try to clear theroad for you as you run behind
the car and I'll cheer for you.
Go, carrie, go.
Kerry (01:15):
Carrie, I think I need like a heat blower is more of
the thing.
It's not the desire.
I've got the desire to run,I've got that down.
I just can't stand this weather.
It does not help my diet and myexercise routine right now.
Chrisy (01:28):
So I can also have a music playing the Rocky theme.
Kerry (01:31):
Oh, that would be good.
Chrisy (01:33):
Yeah, all right.
Kerry (01:34):
Well, if this weather lingers much longer up here,
then we might need to, you know,take some, you know extreme
measures on that.
Chrisy (01:42):
So hopefully we'll get through it somehow.
Kerry (01:47):
Yes, yeah, so dieting seems to be a good topic for
this time of year month in,after all those New Year's
resolutions and everything.
And Chrissy and I were talkingabout the dysfunctional diets
over the years.
So, chrissy, take it away,because I am the queen of
dysfunctional diets over theyears.
Chrisy (02:06):
So, chrissy, take it away, because I am the queen of
dysfunctional diets.
Unfortunately, they wereencouraged for me.
I don't know why, but they were.
Yeah, I just always wonder whywe're encouraged at the to make
that resolution.
Yeah, that we're going to gethealthier in the new year.
Were you that unhealthy in theyear prior or in like, many
(02:26):
years prior, or did you justlike completely go out of
control in december?
exactly, and I wonder if thepush to be healthier in a new
year encourages us to becompletely part of just a
debaucherous lifestyle.
Yes, month prior to the yearending.
Kerry (02:44):
Yeah, For the last six weeks, from November till you
know, January or December 31stit is it's out of control.
I mean all the food, all thecookies, all the pastries, all
the parties, everything.
For those last six weeks I haveno food control, no
self-control when it comes tofood, whether I'm on a diet or
not, or just right.
So, yeah, it's the last sixweeks of the horrible.
(03:07):
So you're right.
That probably is why it leadsup to the new year resolution of
oh, I got it.
I got to now lose the extra 10pounds I put on, plus that
whatever I put on for the wholeyear before.
Chrisy (03:18):
We should do a where you're totally healthy, yeah, or
totally unhealthy, like Januarythrough October, and then you
just try to be completelyhealthy and just like completely
trash everybody else who'saround you, trying to have a
good time, like you're being,you know, the healthy one.
(03:39):
But yeah, it's a crazy thoughtto have.
Kerry (03:59):
Be healthy and breast and my whatever.
I wish I had that control.
I wish I had that desire.
I wish I could be thatcommitted.
But I just look at that and gohow are you living?
How is life enjoyable whenyou're?
When you're doing that, You'reliving out of the bento box.
Chrisy (04:14):
Well, if you really like that type of food, and that's
wonderful.
Kerry (04:19):
Yeah.
Chrisy (04:19):
But you know, denying yourself is a huge part of the
problem and you just got to tryand be reasonable.
This has all taken me a verylong time to figure out and I
will explain because I have beenon so many horrible diets.
I was just making notes aboutwhat we were going to talk about
(04:41):
today and I have to tell youthat I believe that I probably
have lost enough weight andgained enough weight back to
probably have created one wholefull grown person.
I believe that because when youwant the quick fix of the
weight loss, especially whenyou're younger and I think I
(05:02):
think we've become better ingeneral with understanding that
the quick weight loss is notgood.
I'm sure, there are still peoplewho just want it, but when
you're younger, you really wantit.
Kerry (05:13):
You're just in a hurry, you got to get into that dress
or got to do whatever thebathing suit.
Season's coming up.
Chrisy (05:19):
I have been on diets that have dropped a lot of
weight quickly.
When I was younger I could goon those diets now.
Ain't going to happen.
Because I'm just at that agewhere your body's just going to
fight against that.
No, thank you, it's going tohold on to all that fat because
it's like you're not younganymore.
You better keep all this fornutrients, because you're going
to need it.
Kerry (05:38):
You're so cute if you think you can do that.
Still, your body says to youyeah, you can't even think.
Chrisy (05:43):
Oh, maybe I'm still no.
Kerry (05:44):
No.
Chrisy (05:45):
Diet required me to limit my calories to 600
calories a day for a few days,then bump it to nine Wow.
Then, for a whole week, whichwas like a splurge, you went to
12.
Wow, all of it had menu plans.
And you were able to followthis and stick to it Once I got
into the mindset of it.
I was, and when I was younger Iwould be on that for three
(06:11):
weeks and I know people aregoing to say this is impossible,
but I literally would drop 15pounds in three weeks.
Kerry (06:14):
Oh, I believe it, I was.
Chrisy (06:15):
I was very hungry and I was exercising and then you had
one week off.
So it was a three weekcommitment and then you had a
week off.
Kerry (06:22):
Did you go crazy, you go crazy.
Chrisy (06:23):
So usually I would gain back five, five to seven pounds
back on and then you do it again.
Oh my god, I did another crazy.
I was so mad.
My, my mother generally wouldencourage this oh my god to do
these diets, because I think shewas of the opinion that dieting
like that was healthy if,especially if you were losing
weight yeah I ate parsnips.
(06:44):
I don't even know if I can find.
If I saw a parsnip in a storeI'd probably freak out.
I'm sure you would.
Kerry (06:50):
But it was all parsnips.
Chrisy (06:52):
Yeah, and I was like really hostile about that one
with my mother because she keptmaking me eat part and she kept
trying to prepare them indifferent ways for me yeah.
I stuck to it and after a weekof parsnips I lost nothing, oh
my God, and I was so angry.
Kerry (07:08):
So angry.
I can't, I can't imagine that Iwould have cheated.
I would have been like, okay,mom, I'm eating your parsnips.
And then shut the bedroom doorand out come the candy, out come
the chips.
I give you credit for stickingto it.
Chrisy (07:21):
I did, but is it all at a cost?
It was it was not because onceyou had time off or you decided
you were going to take yourbreak, you went so crazy.
Kerry (07:29):
Right, you went the other way, just destroyed everything
you did Right.
Chrisy (07:34):
And then I did have another diet which was really
weird.
I don't know.
I can't remember any of theother menu parts of it, except
that it told you to have vanillaice cream and raw hot dogs and
I would take and cut up a rawhot dog and I would stick it in
the vanilla ice cream and Iwould eat it.
Kerry (07:52):
I don't remember if that diet was successful or not I'm
having flashbacks and when wetalked about new year's eve and
we were talking about hot dogsand the sauerkraut and all that,
like it's the same thing yeah,well, no, hot dogs and
sauerkraut's fine, I don't knowthat you should put hot dogs in
ice cream, but they were raw.
What's the difference between araw hot dog and a cook hot dog?
Chrisy (08:10):
well, because it's cold and the ice cream's cold.
I don't know if you want to puta greasy, warm hot dog in your
vanilla ice cream oh, chrissy Imean you.
Kerry (08:19):
I'm trying to rationalize what.
What is the nutritional gamelike what?
What was the theory, theorybehind this that was making you
think that I don't know.
Chrisy (08:28):
I don't know if at that young age.
Google this I was in highschool and maybe when you're
that young, a sugar you hear theterms sugar, rush, yeah, which
doesn't exist for me anymore.
As soon as I eat anything sweet, I pass out.
Kerry (08:42):
I'm Googling this as you're talking Hot dog and ice
cream diet.
Chrisy (08:47):
Well, don't say the name .
I remember the name of the diet.
Kerry (08:50):
I won't say the name.
Chrisy (08:51):
But if it even comes up, they may tell you do not ever
do this for it will ruin yourhealth.
But as I've gotten older Ilearned that, oh my gosh, it
really is a thing, is it?
It is, yeah, it is.
Everybody in my room right nowis going DJ Nick's on his phone,
carrie's on her phone.
(09:12):
Oh my God, Does it explain whyit's beneficial to do that?
Kerry (09:16):
I'm trying to get to that point.
Chrisy (09:18):
I would hope, because this was 35 plus years ago.
Kerry (09:22):
This diet works and there is science that says it's
dangerous.
Chrisy (09:26):
No, freaking way, of course.
So yeah, it was, it was.
Kerry (09:31):
Oh, my God, that's.
Chrisy (09:32):
Yeah, my mom did encourage this because, you know
, I was supposed to look acertain way.
Kerry (09:40):
Right.
Chrisy (09:41):
I wanted to look a certain way.
Kerry (09:42):
Right.
Chrisy (09:43):
So that's most of my teens and into my 20s and early
30s.
Probably the best thing thathappened to me was when I
decided to start a family Rightand I decided to get healthy.
Kerry (09:55):
See, I never really thought about my weight growing
up.
Chrisy (10:00):
You're very fit.
Kerry (10:01):
If you can run, which you're doing and you've done in
the past, there is a level offitness you have that I have
never achieved Well but I alwayshave to remind you, but when I
run I always got that stitch inmy side and it's only kind of
recently that I've learned howto control that.
But I was, I.
Just weight was never an issue.
I mean food was always an issuefor me.
(10:22):
I mean food and my familyequated love.
Food and my family was comfort.
Then there was the whole icecream.
Meant we're going to have somekind of very uncomfortable
conversation.
So there was that, you know,kind of bad association of food.
As much as I never reallythought about weight like I
couldn't even tell you how muchI weighed in high school, I have
no idea.
I don't know if I ever steppedon a scale other than a doctor's
(10:43):
office.
Chrisy (10:44):
You were thin.
I remember you, you'rebeautiful.
Kerry (10:48):
You're still beautiful.
Chrisy (10:50):
But when I and you're taller than me too, damn you
Height helps.
Kerry (10:56):
Yeah, height does help a little bit.
It wasn't until I graduatedfrom college and I was working
at a major theme park and wasperforming on stage where all of
a sudden I became conscious ofmy weight, although they never
said it to me, but I rememberthe women and the young girls I
worked around with that therewas the, you know people that
(11:17):
were in charge of ourperformances or whatever that
they would get on them abouttheir weight.
Now I know I was heavier thanthem because these girls were
wearing like a size four, sizesix.
I don't think I ever fit intothat, like I never remember
wearing clothes that small, butfor whatever reason they didn't
get on me and I think part of itwas that I was a strong
personality.
So I think my boss was kind ofnew.
(11:38):
Like you pick on me about weight, I'm going to be really coming
back at you, but I did becomeconscious of my weight.
But at the same time, I thinkat that point in my life I did
have a good metabolism and withthe jobs that I was doing I
exerted so many calories a day.
It didn't matter what I ate,because I wasn't going to eat as
I.
It just did too much scubadiving and doing all the things.
(11:59):
It was just so much output so Igot to eat whatever I wanted.
But then when I got my like agrownup job, my body still
wanted to eat like that and Icouldn't do it anymore because
you know now I had a sedentarylifestyle.
Chrisy (12:12):
So activity is definitely a plus.
I would have to say activity inyour mind should be important.
Not to go crazy, though, don'tbe overdoing it.
But I subscribe now to.
I try to commit to 30 minutes aday for five days a week.
Oh, that's good, and I thinkthat that's.
(12:32):
I think that's sort of whatthey recommend, anyhow.
Kerry (12:34):
Yeah.
Chrisy (12:35):
And it's doable.
If I try to do any more than 30minutes physically I could,
yeah, but if I did, I think Iwould discourage myself because
then it would become more effortand I would get upset with
having to be away from my familyor away from something I want
to do.
Kerry (12:50):
Right the other thing.
Chrisy (12:52):
I don't want to promote anything, but what has worked
for me is not an extreme levelbut the intermittent fasting.
Yeah, I do agree that they dosay that it's probably good to
give your system a break fromhaving to work to.
Yeah when you eat, you knowdigest and everything else.
So the fasting is good.
So I do like that.
(13:12):
But sometimes you have to becareful, because sometimes I
intermittent fast and it's notbecause I'm doing it on purpose,
because sometimes Iintermittent fast and it's not
because I'm doing it on purpose,but because I didn't maybe
start out my day eatingsomething and then I get busy.
Kerry (13:25):
Yes, I get very hungry, yep.
Chrisy (13:29):
Then the hangry and then I probably eat stuff I should
not, or a lot of it, yes, butwhen I was younger, too, I was
so extreme, so probably that waswhy I was fairly successful at
maintaining these horrible diets.
Kerry (13:42):
I still can't get over the ice cream and hot dogs Flash
.
I can't.
Chrisy (13:46):
Because when I did something, there was like no
middle ground for me and I'vetried to get better as I've
gotten older I am definitely a.
You know, they say there's agray area.
It's not always black, it's notalways white.
For me, it was either high orlow, and this is the.
There was nothing in the middle, there was no way to negotiate,
and so if I was not eating, Iwas not eating right.
(14:08):
And if I was eating, oh my god,was I?
Kerry (14:11):
yeah, I mean and you know , that's kind of funny because
my personality I am very, youknow, very black and white like
this is right, this is wrong.
These are the rules, these arenot these.
Everything is like that veryrigid for the most part.
And then there's not a lot ofgray, not when it comes to food
and diet and exercise.
I'm I for whatever reason, thatdoes not translate over into my
brain there, so I don't havethat commitment Now I can get
(14:34):
committed to so many things thatlike it's not a lack of
commitment and everything.
If I have a goal, I'm going toachieve that goal.
In fact, my son, the other,probably about a month ago, said
something and it was like soendearing to me.
We were talking about somefuture plans and my son said
when has Carrie ever plannedsomething and it didn't happen?
You know?
So like that showed me that herecognizes that when I set a
(14:55):
goal that it happens, I make ithappen.
But why can't I stick to a diet?
Then it's the same.
I can't when it comes to food.
It's a bad, bad relationship,Just not good.
Chrisy (15:06):
I think that the fact that you're committed to just
being a physical person, yeah.
And I don't see you eatingextreme food.
Kerry (15:14):
Oh well well, I know already.
Did you not see me chow downwhen we went and got tacos and
tequila?
Well, well, I know already, notsee me chow down.
Chrisy (15:22):
When we went and got tacos and tequila no, I didn't
you didn't seem to eat any moreor less than anybody else.
No, but it's just, youdefinitely can commit yourself,
and I remember this from thefact that from high school and
early on I mean, you said I'mgoing to do this.
Kerry (15:38):
Yes.
Chrisy (15:38):
And you would do it.
Yes, I probably took theapproach that don't I'm going to
do this and you would do it.
Yes, I probably took theapproach that don't say you're
going to do anything, yeah, anddon't do it, and then no one's
disappointed and you're notdisappointed.
So I am very distracted easilyand my brain goes in all
different.
Kerry (15:58):
Yeah.
Chrisy (15:59):
I guess I have a focus issue.
Kerry (16:01):
Yeah, I know I do Right, but you're able to focus when
you commit to these crazy turnipdiets.
Chrisy (16:07):
Well, not, anymore Not anymore, but back then you did.
I tell you something the lasttime I went on one of these
crazy things.
Kerry (16:13):
What was it?
Chrisy (16:14):
It was probably after I had my daughter, Although I
really was fairly fit and I didnot gain.
I gained the same amount ofweight with all three of my kids
, which I only gained 12 poundsthrough each pregnancy and I
generally afterwards lost thatand then some.
Just that.
My activity level and things Iwas doing.
(16:34):
I did try to go on, after mydaughter, an extreme diet that I
had tried in the past, becauseI was like I just really want to
lose this much and I know, thisdiet used to work for me, so
I'm going to do it.
My gallbladder gave out on me.
Kerry (16:46):
Now it probably was bad already, because I probably ice
cream and hot dog diet.
Chrisy (16:53):
Well, maybe or something else, but I mean I had a severe
gallbladder attack.
It was pretty funny because Ididn't like I never.
I used to get like heartburnand stuff, but I like spicy food
, so I just assumed that was it.
Kerry (17:08):
Yeah.
Chrisy (17:08):
And all of a sudden it hit me and I can't say it was
because of that, but it wasclose to and it was actually I
was on my week off, so I waslike eating.
Kerry (17:17):
Yeah.
Chrisy (17:18):
And I remember laying in bed with this pain in my upper
stomach and I said, because Iate a bunch of spaghetti the day
before and I was like, I calledmy husband I said he was not
home, he was out of town.
And I said the spaghetti it'snot digesting, it's stuck in my
gut, it won't go anywhere else.
Kerry (17:36):
And I'm in pain and I ate too much, much.
Chrisy (17:39):
And then when I called the doctor and I told where the
pain was, they're like oh, honey, you need to go to the
emergency room, it's probablyyour gallbladder, and it was, oh
my god and I was so upsetbecause number one I had never
had any major surgery okayoutside of having a baby.
Yeah, they were gonna have totake.
And I'm like, well, wait, I wasborn with all this equipment.
You're're going to takesomething away.
(18:01):
I don't know that my body isgoing to want to be missing that
.
And they're trying to tell me.
But it doesn't work.
It's not doing what it'ssupposed to anymore.
I'm like, are you sure?
Because you know, sometimes youtake stuff and then I'm like,
whoops, no, it was fine, youcan't put it back after that,
take.
Kerry (18:19):
And then I'm like whoops, no, it was fine, you can't put
it back.
After that, take it out and youstill have the pain.
Chrisy (18:23):
Oopsie, yeah, but it was hilarious because I actually
had it like Easter weekend thatthey had to do the surgery to
get that gallbladder and theywere able to do it
laparoscopically.
I was just going to ask youlaparoscopically which they were
, but the surgeon did not knowfor sure he's going to be able
to do it, Because I guess thestone was enormous and when they
took it out so my incision wasa little bit bigger than normal
(18:45):
for that.
But they were able to pull itout and the guy he took it out
to the room outside, to thewaiting area where my husband
and some other family memberswere waiting until I was
finished.
He had this thing in a jar.
He showed it to him and myhusband said it looked like a
(19:05):
black easter egg.
Kerry (19:05):
It was perfect, it was huge and it was black and there,
and the doctor was amazed thatI never had, oh my, anything
prior to that.
Okay, now here's the bigquestion do you still have that
black easter egg?
You didn't keep it?
Chrisy (19:10):
no, but I bet you he keeps everything.
He probably uses it apaperweight on his desk.
I would have.
I wish somebody, you know,because when I had this happen,
the phone taking pictures thing-Right wasn't a thing.
I did not get to see what thislooked like.
They didn't even show you.
It's probably in a medicaljournal somewhere.
See what happens when youextreme diet.
(19:31):
This could be you, yeah, itcould be.
So watch out when junkies donot extreme diet.
It's not worth it.
Don't encourage your kidshealthy lifestyles.
I try to tell my my oldestdaughter look, don't worry about
how you, you're beautiful andshe is stay active and just eat
(19:52):
healthy, and that you've got totell people that it's very
important.
Nobody ever told me that oneperson and the other thing was
my mother always pushed music,and I'm not saying I'm not
crapping on music programs.
Music is important.
I am very glad I can read music.
I can play to some extent.
It was enjoyable to some level,but that was all my mother was
interested in encouraging me todo.
Kerry (20:13):
Oh for a career.
Chrisy (20:15):
For anything, any extracurricular activity.
Kerry (20:17):
Oh, I see.
Chrisy (20:18):
It was all music.
Kerry (20:19):
I get where you're going with that now, okay, and I don't
want to be like, hey, I'm thegreatest.
Chrisy (20:24):
I'm not the greatest, but I am fairly athletic.
I am good at many differentsports.
Kerry (20:29):
And you were given that chance.
Chrisy (20:30):
growing up, I was never, ever told you should go out for
this.
You should go out for that.
Number one.
My father didn't feel a girlshould be that involved in
sports.
Number one my father didn'tfeel a girl should be that
involved in sports and generallyhe wasn't interested in really
participating.
Right, If you were playingsports as a girl, I think he
would.
If I was a boy, I would haveshown up, Just they, just I
(20:54):
think it would have been morethat they would have had to been
committed to, I think, themusic thing, because it was more
.
Kerry (20:59):
I could stay home and people could come and give you
lessons there, passive yeah, itwas less off there.
Chrisy (21:05):
They didn't have to take me anywhere Not that my mom
didn't she would take me formusic lessons but I really feel
like they should have encouragedthe sports thing, because I
think that would have helped too, instead of throwing me on
extreme diets and making me siton a stationary bike, which I
still love.
I think it's just that's what Ido like to do the stationary.
Kerry (21:18):
Right, I think treadmills are wonderful.
Chrisy (21:20):
Any kind of equipment that encourages you to move
Right Is good.
Kerry (21:23):
Yes, I know, and I think that you know that just realized
, while you were talking aboutthat, a little difference
between you and I.
So my dad, after having fivegirls I think he realized he
wasn't getting a boy Right.
So with me he did do thingslike he they did I played
softball and you know justdifferent things and stuff but I
(21:44):
think it was like he realized Iguess you know you have four
girls and you have a big gap andthen you get this last fifth
one and it's a girl too.
This is all you're getting.
So if you want to makesomething out of this tomboy, it
is you know.
So I did have a little bit ofthat growing up.
Chrisy (21:58):
But let me tell you something else that always
amazed me with you and with thepeople that you were friends
with while we were in school,being in the band.
Kerry (22:05):
Yes.
Chrisy (22:06):
Playing an instrument.
Kerry (22:07):
Yes.
Chrisy (22:08):
And moving.
Junkies, but let me tell youthis when I played an instrument
, it was stationary like my bike.
Chrissy's all about stationary.
I'll move like crazy, but Onlyone place.
It's like a cartoon with me I'mnot going anywhere, but I'm
moving like crazy.
Yeah, the fact that anybody whois in a band marching band, I'm
(22:29):
talking, although I guess, arock band too.
Now I did.
I was in a rock band briefly,and I was.
Kerry (22:35):
I would sing.
Chrisy (22:36):
But that kind of movement is yeah, you're
jiggling around, look at me,move A band, a marching band,
that you are able to do thosedifferent movements and stuff
yes, yes, and continue to playand stay on.
No, it's a different level offantastic.
(22:57):
Yeah, I give props to that.
Kerry (22:59):
That is amazing I didn't think about that.
Chrisy (23:00):
You're right, and so and plus the fact that you're
carrying something right,sometimes heavy oh my gosh.
Kerry (23:06):
I'll never forget, because one of the bands I was
in was like a competition bandand you had to try out to be in
this band.
It was like, collected from allthe different kids in the area,
created this, this band, and wewould travel and compete.
I was playing the xylophone, soit was this really heavy piece
of equipment.
I swear to god, I think thatthing weighed like 50, 70 pounds
(23:26):
.
It was probably half my weight.
So we were doing this paradeand I think we were in wisconsin
doing the parade or something.
But it was really long, it wasin the summer, it was hot.
We're wearing this big uniform.
I normally wouldn't have marchedwith that.
I normally would have had thebells, but the kid who was
supposed to play the xylophonegot sick, so they moved me over
(23:46):
to that.
So I was marching with thisheavier piece of equipment and
we're doing this parade and Iwas committed.
I was like no, I'm making itthrough the judging stand or
whatever.
And I mean it was hard, it was.
I do remember like I wasstruggling and I didn't know at
the time the precursors of likepassing out.
You know where you would getthe chills and you know like the
(24:07):
shakes and all this other stuff, right, but I had been
experiencing that for like amile while we were on this
parade route and I thinkeveryone around me could tell
that like I was maybe going topass out because they kept
trying to take them from me andI'm like no, I got it, I'm doing
this.
Chrisy (24:25):
I'm doing it.
There's that commitment I wastalking about.
Kerry (24:28):
Right, but I wasn't dieting.
I was you know something?
Chrisy (24:32):
else you had a goal and you were going to stick with it.
Kerry (24:34):
So, finally, when we passed the judging stance and I
knew that basically our judgingpart was over, they came over
and I was like, okay, fine, youcan take this from me and I'll
never forget, they lifted thatoff of me.
It took two guys.
I mean, that's how heavy thisfreaking thing was.
They, the parents, came over,lifted it off of me and thank
(24:54):
God somebody was behind me,because as soon as they lifted
that boom, I started going down.
Never had experienced that andI remember starting to pass out
and going down and I was like inmy brain, what is going on?
And I realized what washappening and I just like, no, I
, you will not pass out.
No, like I was still in thatcompetition.
Like, no, you can't, you know,this will look bad on the, on
(25:15):
the, you know judging orwhatever.
But yeah, I'll never forgetthat.
Yeah, so you're right.
I guess marching band was anendurance sport, it's definitely
so.
Chrisy (25:25):
anybody out there who did band or is currently or has
children doing band tons ofadmiration for that, because it
can't be easy.
Anybody who's sitting therewatching that has to, I would
hope, acknowledge that the kidsand people who do that.
Kerry (25:41):
It's crazy.
It's fantastic who do that.
It's uh, it's fantastic, so,but well, this was good to wrap
up.
Uh, a little bit on where we'reat and in our dieting month
into the year.
So what I want to know from thejunkies is I want to know what
crazy diets you guys have doneor are on, or whatever or
considered yeah, real quick.
Chrisy (26:02):
One other thing yeah, when they talk about dry January
.
Kerry (26:05):
Oh yeah.
Chrisy (26:06):
What's that about?
What's that?
Kerry (26:07):
concept about.
I've never heard of that.
Chrisy (26:08):
Well, I mean, I guess, I mean only recently.
Kerry (26:12):
But why?
Because they're trying to gethealthy.
I guess because they drank toomuch the six weeks before.
Chrisy (26:17):
But isn't the whole.
I'm going to join the gym.
I'm going to eat better thisyear.
The resolution's not enough.
Now they have to also declaredry January.
Dry like it's dry skin JanuaryCause yes, in Northeast Ohio I'm
always like wondering what theheck is everybody dry January?
How much did you drink you need?
Kerry (26:39):
to be all dried out now.
Chrisy (26:41):
I just imagined somebody in like some tank, you know,
just like completely dry, I meanmaybe.
Kerry (26:46):
I would need to be like a dry July because we go on our
big vacation in June and that'sprobably my heavy drinking
season of the year, so I wouldhave to do dry July because the
dry January.
But I never really heard ofthat until recently.
Chrisy (26:59):
We need to start like just throwing stuff in the wrong
order out there and confusingeverybody.
Well, we're, like everybody,dry August Everybody for dry
August, it's dry.
Kerry (27:09):
Or what's the thing they do with the beard?
No shave November.
Oh my God, is that a thing?
Oh, that's a thing my husbanddoes it, is it for a girl?
Chrisy (27:17):
No it's no, shave your legs.
Everybody's walking aroundlooking Europeanan yeah, it is.
Kerry (27:22):
It has to do with, I think it's supporting cancer or
something.
Well, that I can get behind,but it's like a whole no shave
thing.
But I hate it because then hegets all like out of control
well, what is the januarybenefit?
Chrisy (27:36):
I I don't know.
It's certainly not benefitingthe uh industry that sells the
uh spirits definitely budweiserdidn't come up with that one.
Kerry (27:44):
No, I don't think so, bogan david, maybe benefits your
liver.
Chrisy (27:47):
A benefit your liver?
Yeah, I don't know yeah, allright.
Kerry (27:51):
Well, that could be another thing someone find out
where this dry january thingcame from and tell us so?
Chrisy (27:56):
yeah, and junkies, I would just say remember, just
eat healthy foods.
Splurge when you want, amen,just some minor physical
activity.
I'll do everybody the best,don't do extreme stuff, yeah.
Moderation Because it leads tomany, many years of just
unfortunate gain of weight anddiscouraging your positivity.
(28:20):
And Oregon started deciding togive up on, you know, trying to
do what they're supposed to do.
You know I still miss mygallbladder.
Kerry (28:34):
All right, everybody.
Well, thank you for joining us.
Be sure to check out ourFacebook page for any you know.
Give us any of those commentsand feedbacks.
Also, wherever you're listeningto us from a five-star review
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We sure appreciate it.
We sure do.
All right, bye-bye junkies.
Eat those ice cream and hotdogs.
Yeah, let me know, yum, yum.
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