September 29, 2025 • 28 mins
We explore how faith reshapes health, from healing disordered eating patterns to building sustainable strength in midlife. Candace shares lab-driven insights, honest mindset shifts, and why listening to your body beats chasing trends.
• faith as the lens for health choices
• healing from bulimia with tools and truth
• movement for mood, clarity and energy
• strength over vanity as we age
• labs and DUTCH testing to personalize care
• supplements with re-testing to adjust
• nutrition experiments and macro awareness
• carbs for stress support and recovery
• renewing the mind and kinder self-talk
• practical routines: walking, lifting, breaks
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DrTabatha (00:11):
Hey, welcome back to the Midlife Reset
God's Design to Overcome WeightGain, Anxiety, and Hormone
Issues for Good.
I'm Kirsten Lindquist, andtoday I have the absolute joy of
welcoming, well, two women thatI adore, um, both of faith and
purpose.
Candace Cameron Beret, one ofmy friends from QVC, is here,
and then, of course, we all knowDr.
(00:32):
Tabitha Barber.
Let me talk just a little bitabout uh Candace so you can, if
in case you don't know her, sheis an actress, producer, and New
York Times best-selling author.
She is known as everyone's bigsister, DJ Tanner, from the
iconic television shows FullHouse and Fuller House.
She's also starred in more than50 Christmas and cozy mystery
(00:52):
movies and is a former co-hostof The View, and she currently
hosts her self-titled podcast.
She's an entrepreneur whosebrand extends from entertainment
and lifestyle to faith andfamily.
Candace is both outspoken andpassionate about her family and
her faith, and she continues toflourish in the entertainment
industry as a role model towomen of all ages, which is
(01:14):
exactly why we wanted to haveher in this summit.
Candace, it's so great to haveyou here.
Thank you for being here.
Thanks.
I'm so happy to be here.
I'm gonna let Dr.
Tabitha, who we all know asjust kind of the head of this
summit, take it away and talk toyou about what life is like and
how you're managing yourhormones and your faith.
(01:35):
So thanks for being here.
And Dr.
Tabitha, take it away.
Candace (01:39):
Thank you, Kirsten.
You're awesome.
We love you.
We do love you.
Thank you so much for doingthis.
You are such a shining lightfor so many women.
As Kirsten mentioned, we grewup with you, and our children
are now growing up with you.
So you have so much influenceover the women in this country
that I just I want you to helpus be a voice and show women
(02:04):
that there's another way tolive, there's a better way to
live.
You don't have to struggle,right?
That's when I read your booksand I, you know, see everything
that you're doing.
It's you are on this journeywith us and you're so
transparent about it.
So I would love for you just totalk to us a little bit about
how does caring for yourphysical body help you in all
(02:28):
aspects of your life?
Because we all know you justkind of took charge of your
health one day and you haven'tstopped since, right?
I know.
Speaker 03 (02:36):
Gosh, you know, I it really is a journey, isn't it?
It it your health, your whetherit's fitness levels, how you
view food, all of that reallystarts at your upbringing and
what you're introduced to, howthe people around you spoke
about those types of things.
And it really uh creates or candefine how you view yourself,
(03:01):
how you view those aspects ofyour life.
And um, and sometimes we needto reprogram and we need to
reset as we get older.
And I think that also somepeople might not have had um
terrible experiences with withfood or fitness, but as our body
changes when we get older, wejust find ourselves not
(03:24):
understanding it and looking atit like what just happened, what
changed?
And if I'm not changing, whatis my body doing?
And it feels reallycomplicated.
And honestly, it it has beenfor me.
I've had really complicatedrelationships with with food in
my life and just body image ingeneral, living in our world, in
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our culture, comparing myselfto so many other people.
I think we just all naturallydo that.
And at this stage in my life, Ithink entering the 40s was has
been my favorite decade so far.
I haven't hit 50 yet.
That's next year.
(04:08):
But I really found what workedfor me, and I I also find that
that continually evolves andchanges year after year because
I'm always just dissecting mybody.
How's my body feeling?
What's what's yeah, what'sworking and what's not.
And as I'm about to enter my50th decade, um I, or fifth
(04:35):
decade, but you know, my in my50s, I just want to come at it
like with strength andconfidence and power, even if I
don't know all the answers.
I don't want to be scared aboutit.
I don't, I want to beinquisitive.
I want to ask all the questionsto people that have gone
(04:56):
through the things that I amabout to go through and just try
to tackle it as best as I can,but truly through the lens of
how God sees me first.
Candace (05:10):
Yeah, absolutely.
That's why we love you so muchbecause you are just like a
go-getter.
Let me figure this out.
And I'm not afraid to sharewhat I'm doing.
And if it's right, I'll let youknow.
And if it's not, then we'llpivot, right?
And you know, I just think it'sincredible that you have been
on this journey for so long.
I didn't realize you wrote abook back in 2011 about your
(05:34):
physical body and your faith.
And I just would love for youto talk a little bit about how
do we bring God into our healthjourney, into these daily
choices that we're doing?
Because it sounds to me likethat has been your cornerstone,
and that is why you continue tobe so successful and and tackle
(05:56):
this health journey the way youhave.
Speaker 03 (05:59):
Yeah, I it it has been foundational for me.
And again, I'm I I'm stillworking through that
relationship with God andultimately wanting to see and
feel how He sees me and how heviews me and and question my own
motives as to why I want tomake certain decisions that I
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want to do, like what is the whybehind it, and what does God
have to say about it?
And sometimes I wrestle withthose questions and answers, but
that that is my foundation, andthat's the the place that I
start with everything.
And so, in that that was thevery first book I wrote that you
were talking about calledReshaping It All.
(06:44):
Now, that book is more than 10years old.
I'm sure if I reread that book,I would tell you do not take
any of the gliot things that arelike, you know, food-related
things that I was doing at thetime.
I don't think I eat anythinglike that anymore.
Um, so there's probably a lotin there that I would, I, I
(07:05):
could go back and refresh.
But the foundation of thatbook, which stays true today, is
that having such a difficultrelationship with food and my
life and my and my bodystruggling with an eating
disorder, I've uh been a I'm abulimic.
Um, I still say it because it'snever gone away for me.
(07:26):
I just have the tools to makegood decisions now and and to to
fight off those prompts whenthey hit me.
And so um, but it all kind ofit's really started for me.
That journey was was that whenI was at a place where I felt
(07:46):
very lonely in my life, therewere so many changes happening
in my life.
I didn't know what to do withthem.
And so food was my comfort,food was my friend, and I was
like a little raccoon and justgo to the grocery store and then
at night like binge eat all ofthis food because it it stuffed,
(08:07):
you know, it stuffed myemotions basically.
It stuffed them down.
It gave me pleasure in themoment of eating things that I
would not normally eat.
And, you know, and then thecause and effect of what
happened after was really awfuland traumatic on my body for so
many years.
And um, and the the connectionpiece that really changed all of
(08:31):
that when I had to start askingmyself questions even before I
would start the process was umthat why am I running to food?
Why aren't I running to God toask him?
Um, and so I was using thatfood as an emotional comforter
for me instead of turning toGod.
And when I had that revelationor someone asked me that
(08:54):
question, it was very convictingfor me because I thought, you
know, well, this is somethingI'm doing to myself, it's not
hurting anyone else.
So who cares?
And yet we can read biblicallythat we, you know, we hear it
all the time, which can often betaken out of context, but my
that my body is a holy temple.
(09:14):
Absolutely.
But it is a holy temple.
I house the Holy Spirit, andit's something that God made and
created and designed my bodyuniquely, set apart from anyone
else's.
And so when I come to thatreality face to face, and yet I
(09:40):
choose to abuse my body, howeverthat is, whether abusing your
body may be out of laziness andand just not even taking care of
it all, not caring about it, ifit's um really physically
hurting it like I did, um, it'sreally saying, God, you you made
a mistake and your creationsucks.
(10:03):
I don't believe in it, it'sawful, and I don't believe that
you're good because this is thisis disgusting and gross.
That's basically what I wastelling God for so many years,
that what you made is gross andum, and then treating it badly.
And so I don't think if I everstood before God or I talked to
(10:27):
God, I mean, even in my prayerlife, I would never say
something like that to him, likewhat you made is awful.
Like he's the God of theuniverse.
And so those are the bigquestions that you have to ask
and that I started asking andsaying, okay, you know, where is
all of the emotional discomfortstemming from?
(10:48):
And why aren't I talking to youabout this?
You know, that really is whatmotivated the whole journey and
the shift of my mindset.
And that's just continued, youknow, 20, 30 years later, and
that keeps evolving as I'mgetting older.
Candace (11:06):
Yeah, I feel this so deeply.
I I hated my body and I was somean to it.
I was mad at it because itwouldn't function when I was
sleep deprived and when I wasliving on garbage.
And I just remember the daythat I realized I was talking to
myself in a way that I wouldnever talk to anyone that I
(11:26):
loved.
And so it really is us havingto reprogram and renew our mind.
And so much of it issubconscious, we're not even
realizing it's happening.
So, was this something thattook you a while to like
continue to just get yourthoughts captive, like it tells
us to do in the Bible?
Is it still ongoing to thisday?
(11:48):
Because for me, it really is.
Like I continue to have torenew my mind every day.
Speaker 03 (11:53):
Yeah.
Oh, I do, I do a hundredpercent, absolutely.
And um I mean, the best thingwas just connecting that
relationship with God and mybody.
And those those were the firststeps.
But it's something I have to doevery day, just like you do.
(12:14):
And it's gotten easier over theyears in the sense that I I see
I see so much goodness in mybody now.
I see how my body has carriedme, not only has carried three
babies, but how as I get olderevery year, that I'm getting
stronger.
Um, I can lift heavier weightstoday than I did 10 years ago.
(12:38):
And that thrills me.
It excites me.
It gives me motivation to keepgoing.
And I'm grateful as I look atmy mom who's 75.
I looked at my my grandmotherwho lived till she was 98.
And I look at the strength oftheir physical bodies that
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carried them for my grandmotherfor so long, but who actively
carries my mom who is in goodhealth.
And and like that's what I,that's the motivation, right?
It's just, I think hopefullyfor everyone listening, like
that as I've gotten older, it'sless about, oh, I want to be
(13:23):
this size.
Oh, it has to look exactly likethis, and oh, I want to fit
into like I'm not trying to be20 years old anymore.
I just want to be the bestversion of Candace and I want to
kill it in my 50s.
I want to kill it in my 60s andmy 70s and my 80s.
Like I'm that just inspires me.
Candace (13:42):
Yes.
Amen.
Oh my gosh.
I just turned 50 early a couplemonths ago, and so I feel all
of that.
I just wanted to go into it thestrongest and healthiest I've
ever been in my life, not justphysically, but mentally and
spiritually, you know, and youjust you don't care anymore.
You let a lot of that go.
It's like, oh, it's not aboutvanity.
(14:04):
And so I'm really hoping womenare hearing that message today
that this is not a superficialthing.
You wanting to look good and bestrong and healthy and be able
to lift weights, that is waydeeper than you fitting into
your clothes.
Speaker 03 (14:19):
Listen, we want to be able to open that peanut
butter jar, that pickle jar whenwe're 80 years old.
Like you need strength, youneed the grip strength.
So go get those farmer carriesand like get your dead weight
and walk around.
So you can't do that whenyou're 80.
Candace (14:34):
I know it's crazy.
All of a sudden you're like,can I get up off the chair by
myself?
You know, our priorities shifta little bit.
Speaker 03 (14:43):
You know, my my husband's mother is 76 years
old, and uh she was having a lotof trouble getting off the
couch and even, you know, goingfor very short walks.
And his mom, my husband hasbeen telling his mom for years,
like, mom, you have to, you haveto do some level of fitness.
(15:05):
And anyway, she finally startedgoing to a gym a couple days a
week, doing very, very lightstuff.
But the improvement in eightmonths for her is night and day.
She's so much happier.
Um, there's nothing aboutvanity, but it's like she
couldn't bend over to tie hershoes or get up without
(15:27):
struggling.
And now she can.
And she finds that activity umjust a wonderful part of her
life, and she looks forward toit.
And, you know, that those kindsof things make me so happy and
inspiring.
But um, so many of us when weget older can get sedentary, and
it's like the worst thing youcan do.
So um, anyway, it's like prepnow, prep now.
Candace (15:50):
Yes, yes.
Well, and it's never too lateto start.
I think that's a reallyimportant point.
But you mentioned something,she mentally feels better.
And I personally, if I don'twork out for three or four days,
all of a sudden I'm slidingdown the slope of depression.
And it might take me a day ortwo to realize wait a second, I
(16:11):
haven't been working out.
And I know that you've had thatstruggle as well.
So I would love for you to justcur encourage women and help
them understand how doesexercise change your mental
health?
Speaker 03 (16:23):
Yeah, it changes it drastically and so much.
Yeah.
So exercise is my biggest toolthat I use.
And when I say exercise, itjust means a walk.
Like it doesn't mean you don'thave to you don't have to go
lift weights and go to a gym oryou know, sweat super hard.
Fresh air, body movement.
(16:44):
Um, and if you can't get thefresh air, still body movement.
So going out for a walk canliterally change everything
about you and give you mentalclarity.
And that is one of the toolsI've used uh in so many aspects
of my life.
Like I have I love my work, butI have a lot of stress that
(17:04):
comes with my job and withtravel.
Um, I have three grownchildren, you know, there's like
it's life.
We all have that.
And exercising can clear mymind, it can give me a reset,
and um, but also gives me itactually gives me more, I I
(17:27):
would say, um, oh gosh, now I'mhaving brain fog right now.
Um it just it it give itenergizes me through throughout
the day.
I mean, if I'm lifting reallyheavy and have a hard workout
day, okay, it might be tired.
But just going when I'm in myoffice, I make sure I get up and
I don't sit for more than twohours without getting up and
(17:47):
taking a 10-minute walk.
And I'll just go walk aroundthe block.
Because again, that's theexercise and the fresh air that
clears everything out.
And when I'm particularlystruggling with something or I'm
stressed out, it I mean, youcan probably talk about it from
a more scientific point of viewthan I can.
Um, but it's just, I don't knowif it's the endorphins or it's
(18:10):
the sweating or something, butthere's just like a release of
everything, and it just seems tomake it all go away in a
healthy way.
Candace (18:18):
Yeah, absolutely.
I I mean, I I can go into thescience, but I say it's like
taking out the trash.
Like you just get so muchmental clarity from it, you
know, that runners high.
I used to be addicted to thatbecause you would get it on a
whole nother level.
But any kind of movement reallydoes help with that.
So I know that women want toknow like, what is your daily
(18:41):
regimen at this point in yourlife?
Now that you are in your 40sand you're looking to go into 50
as strong and powerful as ever,like what are you doing on the
regular?
Speaker 03 (18:54):
So last year, because I really had goals to
come into 50 years old at um atthe best I could.
And I wanted to take the nextlevel and just learn more about
my body.
And so I did blood work.
This is last October.
Um, never had done blood workbefore just to see where
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everything was at.
All my levels of everything, myhormones, my um, my, you know,
whatever, my iron, mytestosterone, my estrogen, my
progesterone.
I just had no idea.
So doing blood work and thenhaving someone who understands
it all read it to me and thensee where my levels were high,
(19:38):
where they were low, where theywere great, gave me such this
powerful overview of my own bodythat I was like, oh, so maybe
there's some things that youmight be worrying about.
You're not really sure, buthaving some blood work done can
either it can give you a peaceof mind, or it could give you an
(20:01):
awareness of some things whereyou're like, oh, well, I am low
in iron.
This could be helpful, or mythyroid doesn't work, or I'm
really high in testosterone, andthat's why I'm like really
aggressive with my husband orsomething.
I don't know.
But this was wonderful.
So I did that, and um, and Iand I took a Dutch test also,
(20:23):
which is like even more.
It just has more.
I love that you're doing all ofthis.
This is so good.
Okay.
What did you learn?
Well, I learned that overallI'm a very healthy person and
most of my levels were reallygood, which was so exciting to
me.
I was like, all right, I'vebeen I've been on this road for
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let's say 20 years, since myearly 30s.
And um, and like all of thathard work has paid off.
Like everything's pretty good.
But I definitely had somedeficiencies and um and some
places where I've just struggledin general.
And and so I I was I'm workingwith a company that that is just
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helping me go through all ofthose.
And um, and I've learned a lot.
So I'm I've added supplementsinto my regimen.
I never took any kind ofsupplements before ever.
And now it's like I need asuitcase for them when they
travel.
It's like my vitamin A, my D,my D H E or D E H and my K3 and
(21:33):
my proline and my uh mymagnesium and my, I mean, it's
just a it's like a lot, butsupplements where I feel great.
And I even have had since I'vehad blood work done again to now
check my levels after um I didit about after seven months, and
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then realize like, oh, okay,something's balanced out really
well.
So I'm easing off some of thesupplements.
And that it's just powerfulinformation.
So I'm I'm recommending that ifyou're, you know, what I don't
know what age range you guys areat, but I have loved this tool.
And um, and then you know, I'mI consistently pretty
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consistently work out.
It depends on my movie filmingschedule because I can't work
out the way I normally do whileI'm filming, but but I'm still
consistently active takingwalks.
Uh, and then when I'm notfilming, I I enjoy lifting
weights.
And then food has also, I feellike food for me is just an
(22:38):
ongoing learning process becausewhat has worked for eating for
me 10 years ago doesn'tnecessarily work for me now.
We're also we learned so manythings about food, which
honestly most of it confuses me,and I get mad at it because
you're told one thing one yearand a whole other thing the next
(23:00):
year, and you're like, How muchprotein am I supposed to have?
Wait, is the vegan diet thebest?
Is you know, like all of thesethings which make me want to
scream.
And ruin every other woman.
So what I'm trying to do, and Ifeel like every woman is always
like, but you're healthy, whatare you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
And I've like I've been theremy whole life.
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I'm always asking what otherpeople are doing.
And what I've been learning onthis journey in the last year is
that it actually doesn't matterwhat they're doing.
You need to do what is rightfor your body.
And so, and it, but it's gonnatake trial and error.
So I've actually gone throughdifferent patterns of different
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types of eating, um, countingmacros, counting like calories,
which I hate.
I've never done it in my life.
And with an eating disorder,I'm like, I don't want to count.
But at this point, I was like,okay, but I need to learn.
I really need to learn what myportions are and weighing food
and what is macro, how much arein fats and protein and
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carbohydrates?
And so I'm learning it and I'mdoing it as tedious as I can
feel sometimes.
And I've gone through saying,okay, well, what if I'm eating
more keto for four weeks?
What if I'm eating super highprotein, low fat for four weeks?
And I've actually gone throughdifferent cycles of it to figure
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out what is how my body and mygut health are adjusting best to
it.
And like, I kind of it it'staken about eight months where I
finally am like, okay, I feellike um I know what my body uh
works best on right now, whichare carbohydrates.
It needs them.
Candace (24:50):
I love that message so much.
And it might be because youhave some adrenal issues going
on, a little excess stress.
You you need the carbs.
I that is literally what I helpwomen understand is get back in
tune with your body.
It will tell you what it needs.
It's trying to talk to you tous all of the time, but we have
been ingrained to ignore it orcover up those symptoms, and
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those are just messages from ourbody.
So thank you for highlightingthat point because it's really
important that what's workingfor your girlfriend might not be
working for you, right?
And that's okay.
Yeah, it really is.
So thank you so much.
This is absolutely incredible.
I just see you as such ashining light for women going
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through this transition in life.
And I just want women to beempowered because it's actually
the second half is so muchbetter than the first half
because we have less things toworry about.
We have the wisdom now that Godhas downloaded to us that we've
learned from our trials andtribulations, right?
So thank you for sharing all ofyour wisdom.
Speaker 03 (26:00):
I just you're so welcome.
I could keep talking about thisforever, which is why like
Kirsten and I just also getalong and like, and I just look
forward to listening more to youand all the things that you're
sharing with everyone.
And um, I'm grateful for forthe both of you and and what you
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do to help to help women likeus just go through this journey
a little better, feel like we'renot alone, and that there are
answers out there for us becausethere are.
Candace (26:32):
Oh, fills my heart.
Wow, what a powerfulconversation.
I hope Candace's story remindedyou that you are not alone.
Healing is possible when weinvite Jesus into the journey.
There's so much more wisdomahead.
So please don't stop here.
Keep watching these interviewsbecause each one offers unique
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insight into how you can reclaimyour health, restore your
energy, and renew your purpose,body, mind, and soul.
So please join us every day inthe live connection call.
I am gonna answer yourquestions live.
Let's get healthy together.
This is so good.
I love you, ladies.
Hey, welcome back to the Midlife Reset
God's Design to Overcome WeightGain, Anxiety, and Hormone
Issues for Good.
I'm Kirsten Lindquist, andtoday I have the absolute joy of
welcoming, well, two women thatI adore, um, both of faith and
purpose.
Candace Cameron Beret, one ofmy friends from QVC, is here,
and then, of course, we all knowDr.
(00:32):
Tabitha Barber.
Let me talk just a little bitabout uh Candace so you can, if
in case you don't know her, sheis an actress, producer, and New
York Times best-selling author.
She is known as everyone's bigsister, DJ Tanner, from the
iconic television shows FullHouse and Fuller House.
She's also starred in more than50 Christmas and cozy mystery
(00:52):
movies and is a former co-hostof The View, and she currently
hosts her self-titled podcast.
She's an entrepreneur whosebrand extends from entertainment
and lifestyle to faith andfamily.
Candace is both outspoken andpassionate about her family and
her faith, and she continues toflourish in the entertainment
industry as a role model towomen of all ages, which is
(01:14):
exactly why we wanted to haveher in this summit.
Candace, it's so great to haveyou here.
Thank you for being here.
Thanks.
I'm so happy to be here.
I'm gonna let Dr.
Tabitha, who we all know asjust kind of the head of this
summit, take it away and talk toyou about what life is like and
how you're managing yourhormones and your faith.
(01:35):
So thanks for being here.
And Dr.
Tabitha, take it away.
Candace (01:39):
Thank you, Kirsten.
You're awesome.
We love you.
We do love you.
Thank you so much for doingthis.
You are such a shining lightfor so many women.
As Kirsten mentioned, we grewup with you, and our children
are now growing up with you.
So you have so much influenceover the women in this country
that I just I want you to helpus be a voice and show women
(02:04):
that there's another way tolive, there's a better way to
live.
You don't have to struggle,right?
That's when I read your booksand I, you know, see everything
that you're doing.
It's you are on this journeywith us and you're so
transparent about it.
So I would love for you just totalk to us a little bit about
how does caring for yourphysical body help you in all
(02:28):
aspects of your life?
Because we all know you justkind of took charge of your
health one day and you haven'tstopped since, right?
I know.
Speaker 03 (02:36):
Gosh, you know, I it really is a journey, isn't it?
It it your health, your whetherit's fitness levels, how you
view food, all of that reallystarts at your upbringing and
what you're introduced to, howthe people around you spoke
about those types of things.
And it really uh creates or candefine how you view yourself,
(03:01):
how you view those aspects ofyour life.
And um, and sometimes we needto reprogram and we need to
reset as we get older.
And I think that also somepeople might not have had um
terrible experiences with withfood or fitness, but as our body
changes when we get older, wejust find ourselves not
(03:24):
understanding it and looking atit like what just happened, what
changed?
And if I'm not changing, whatis my body doing?
And it feels reallycomplicated.
And honestly, it it has beenfor me.
I've had really complicatedrelationships with with food in
my life and just body image ingeneral, living in our world, in
(03:48):
our culture, comparing myselfto so many other people.
I think we just all naturallydo that.
And at this stage in my life, Ithink entering the 40s was has
been my favorite decade so far.
I haven't hit 50 yet.
That's next year.
(04:08):
But I really found what workedfor me, and I I also find that
that continually evolves andchanges year after year because
I'm always just dissecting mybody.
How's my body feeling?
What's what's yeah, what'sworking and what's not.
And as I'm about to enter my50th decade, um I, or fifth
(04:35):
decade, but you know, my in my50s, I just want to come at it
like with strength andconfidence and power, even if I
don't know all the answers.
I don't want to be scared aboutit.
I don't, I want to beinquisitive.
I want to ask all the questionsto people that have gone
(04:56):
through the things that I amabout to go through and just try
to tackle it as best as I can,but truly through the lens of
how God sees me first.
Candace (05:10):
Yeah, absolutely.
That's why we love you so muchbecause you are just like a
go-getter.
Let me figure this out.
And I'm not afraid to sharewhat I'm doing.
And if it's right, I'll let youknow.
And if it's not, then we'llpivot, right?
And you know, I just think it'sincredible that you have been
on this journey for so long.
I didn't realize you wrote abook back in 2011 about your
(05:34):
physical body and your faith.
And I just would love for youto talk a little bit about how
do we bring God into our healthjourney, into these daily
choices that we're doing?
Because it sounds to me likethat has been your cornerstone,
and that is why you continue tobe so successful and and tackle
(05:56):
this health journey the way youhave.
Speaker 03 (05:59):
Yeah, I it it has been foundational for me.
And again, I'm I I'm stillworking through that
relationship with God andultimately wanting to see and
feel how He sees me and how heviews me and and question my own
motives as to why I want tomake certain decisions that I
(06:22):
want to do, like what is the whybehind it, and what does God
have to say about it?
And sometimes I wrestle withthose questions and answers, but
that that is my foundation, andthat's the the place that I
start with everything.
And so, in that that was thevery first book I wrote that you
were talking about calledReshaping It All.
(06:44):
Now, that book is more than 10years old.
I'm sure if I reread that book,I would tell you do not take
any of the gliot things that arelike, you know, food-related
things that I was doing at thetime.
I don't think I eat anythinglike that anymore.
Um, so there's probably a lotin there that I would, I, I
(07:05):
could go back and refresh.
But the foundation of thatbook, which stays true today, is
that having such a difficultrelationship with food and my
life and my and my bodystruggling with an eating
disorder, I've uh been a I'm abulimic.
Um, I still say it because it'snever gone away for me.
(07:26):
I just have the tools to makegood decisions now and and to to
fight off those prompts whenthey hit me.
And so um, but it all kind ofit's really started for me.
That journey was was that whenI was at a place where I felt
(07:46):
very lonely in my life, therewere so many changes happening
in my life.
I didn't know what to do withthem.
And so food was my comfort,food was my friend, and I was
like a little raccoon and justgo to the grocery store and then
at night like binge eat all ofthis food because it it stuffed,
(08:07):
you know, it stuffed myemotions basically.
It stuffed them down.
It gave me pleasure in themoment of eating things that I
would not normally eat.
And, you know, and then thecause and effect of what
happened after was really awfuland traumatic on my body for so
many years.
And um, and the the connectionpiece that really changed all of
(08:31):
that when I had to start askingmyself questions even before I
would start the process was umthat why am I running to food?
Why aren't I running to God toask him?
Um, and so I was using thatfood as an emotional comforter
for me instead of turning toGod.
And when I had that revelationor someone asked me that
(08:54):
question, it was very convictingfor me because I thought, you
know, well, this is somethingI'm doing to myself, it's not
hurting anyone else.
So who cares?
And yet we can read biblicallythat we, you know, we hear it
all the time, which can often betaken out of context, but my
that my body is a holy temple.
(09:14):
Absolutely.
But it is a holy temple.
I house the Holy Spirit, andit's something that God made and
created and designed my bodyuniquely, set apart from anyone
else's.
And so when I come to thatreality face to face, and yet I
(09:40):
choose to abuse my body, howeverthat is, whether abusing your
body may be out of laziness andand just not even taking care of
it all, not caring about it, ifit's um really physically
hurting it like I did, um, it'sreally saying, God, you you made
a mistake and your creationsucks.
(10:03):
I don't believe in it, it'sawful, and I don't believe that
you're good because this is thisis disgusting and gross.
That's basically what I wastelling God for so many years,
that what you made is gross andum, and then treating it badly.
And so I don't think if I everstood before God or I talked to
(10:27):
God, I mean, even in my prayerlife, I would never say
something like that to him, likewhat you made is awful.
Like he's the God of theuniverse.
And so those are the bigquestions that you have to ask
and that I started asking andsaying, okay, you know, where is
all of the emotional discomfortstemming from?
(10:48):
And why aren't I talking to youabout this?
You know, that really is whatmotivated the whole journey and
the shift of my mindset.
And that's just continued, youknow, 20, 30 years later, and
that keeps evolving as I'mgetting older.
Candace (11:06):
Yeah, I feel this so deeply.
I I hated my body and I was somean to it.
I was mad at it because itwouldn't function when I was
sleep deprived and when I wasliving on garbage.
And I just remember the daythat I realized I was talking to
myself in a way that I wouldnever talk to anyone that I
(11:26):
loved.
And so it really is us havingto reprogram and renew our mind.
And so much of it issubconscious, we're not even
realizing it's happening.
So, was this something thattook you a while to like
continue to just get yourthoughts captive, like it tells
us to do in the Bible?
Is it still ongoing to thisday?
(11:48):
Because for me, it really is.
Like I continue to have torenew my mind every day.
Speaker 03 (11:53):
Yeah.
Oh, I do, I do a hundredpercent, absolutely.
And um I mean, the best thingwas just connecting that
relationship with God and mybody.
And those those were the firststeps.
But it's something I have to doevery day, just like you do.
(12:14):
And it's gotten easier over theyears in the sense that I I see
I see so much goodness in mybody now.
I see how my body has carriedme, not only has carried three
babies, but how as I get olderevery year, that I'm getting
stronger.
Um, I can lift heavier weightstoday than I did 10 years ago.
(12:38):
And that thrills me.
It excites me.
It gives me motivation to keepgoing.
And I'm grateful as I look atmy mom who's 75.
I looked at my my grandmotherwho lived till she was 98.
And I look at the strength oftheir physical bodies that
(12:59):
carried them for my grandmotherfor so long, but who actively
carries my mom who is in goodhealth.
And and like that's what I,that's the motivation, right?
It's just, I think hopefullyfor everyone listening, like
that as I've gotten older, it'sless about, oh, I want to be
(13:23):
this size.
Oh, it has to look exactly likethis, and oh, I want to fit
into like I'm not trying to be20 years old anymore.
I just want to be the bestversion of Candace and I want to
kill it in my 50s.
I want to kill it in my 60s andmy 70s and my 80s.
Like I'm that just inspires me.
Candace (13:42):
Yes.
Amen.
Oh my gosh.
I just turned 50 early a couplemonths ago, and so I feel all
of that.
I just wanted to go into it thestrongest and healthiest I've
ever been in my life, not justphysically, but mentally and
spiritually, you know, and youjust you don't care anymore.
You let a lot of that go.
It's like, oh, it's not aboutvanity.
(14:04):
And so I'm really hoping womenare hearing that message today
that this is not a superficialthing.
You wanting to look good and bestrong and healthy and be able
to lift weights, that is waydeeper than you fitting into
your clothes.
Speaker 03 (14:19):
Listen, we want to be able to open that peanut
butter jar, that pickle jar whenwe're 80 years old.
Like you need strength, youneed the grip strength.
So go get those farmer carriesand like get your dead weight
and walk around.
So you can't do that whenyou're 80.
Candace (14:34):
I know it's crazy.
All of a sudden you're like,can I get up off the chair by
myself?
You know, our priorities shifta little bit.
Speaker 03 (14:43):
You know, my my husband's mother is 76 years
old, and uh she was having a lotof trouble getting off the
couch and even, you know, goingfor very short walks.
And his mom, my husband hasbeen telling his mom for years,
like, mom, you have to, you haveto do some level of fitness.
(15:05):
And anyway, she finally startedgoing to a gym a couple days a
week, doing very, very lightstuff.
But the improvement in eightmonths for her is night and day.
She's so much happier.
Um, there's nothing aboutvanity, but it's like she
couldn't bend over to tie hershoes or get up without
(15:27):
struggling.
And now she can.
And she finds that activity umjust a wonderful part of her
life, and she looks forward toit.
And, you know, that those kindsof things make me so happy and
inspiring.
But um, so many of us when weget older can get sedentary, and
it's like the worst thing youcan do.
So um, anyway, it's like prepnow, prep now.
Candace (15:50):
Yes, yes.
Well, and it's never too lateto start.
I think that's a reallyimportant point.
But you mentioned something,she mentally feels better.
And I personally, if I don'twork out for three or four days,
all of a sudden I'm slidingdown the slope of depression.
And it might take me a day ortwo to realize wait a second, I
(16:11):
haven't been working out.
And I know that you've had thatstruggle as well.
So I would love for you to justcur encourage women and help
them understand how doesexercise change your mental
health?
Speaker 03 (16:23):
Yeah, it changes it drastically and so much.
Yeah.
So exercise is my biggest toolthat I use.
And when I say exercise, itjust means a walk.
Like it doesn't mean you don'thave to you don't have to go
lift weights and go to a gym oryou know, sweat super hard.
Fresh air, body movement.
(16:44):
Um, and if you can't get thefresh air, still body movement.
So going out for a walk canliterally change everything
about you and give you mentalclarity.
And that is one of the toolsI've used uh in so many aspects
of my life.
Like I have I love my work, butI have a lot of stress that
(17:04):
comes with my job and withtravel.
Um, I have three grownchildren, you know, there's like
it's life.
We all have that.
And exercising can clear mymind, it can give me a reset,
and um, but also gives me itactually gives me more, I I
(17:27):
would say, um, oh gosh, now I'mhaving brain fog right now.
Um it just it it give itenergizes me through throughout
the day.
I mean, if I'm lifting reallyheavy and have a hard workout
day, okay, it might be tired.
But just going when I'm in myoffice, I make sure I get up and
I don't sit for more than twohours without getting up and
(17:47):
taking a 10-minute walk.
And I'll just go walk aroundthe block.
Because again, that's theexercise and the fresh air that
clears everything out.
And when I'm particularlystruggling with something or I'm
stressed out, it I mean, youcan probably talk about it from
a more scientific point of viewthan I can.
Um, but it's just, I don't knowif it's the endorphins or it's
(18:10):
the sweating or something, butthere's just like a release of
everything, and it just seems tomake it all go away in a
healthy way.
Candace (18:18):
Yeah, absolutely.
I I mean, I I can go into thescience, but I say it's like
taking out the trash.
Like you just get so muchmental clarity from it, you
know, that runners high.
I used to be addicted to thatbecause you would get it on a
whole nother level.
But any kind of movement reallydoes help with that.
So I know that women want toknow like, what is your daily
(18:41):
regimen at this point in yourlife?
Now that you are in your 40sand you're looking to go into 50
as strong and powerful as ever,like what are you doing on the
regular?
Speaker 03 (18:54):
So last year, because I really had goals to
come into 50 years old at um atthe best I could.
And I wanted to take the nextlevel and just learn more about
my body.
And so I did blood work.
This is last October.
Um, never had done blood workbefore just to see where
(19:17):
everything was at.
All my levels of everything, myhormones, my um, my, you know,
whatever, my iron, mytestosterone, my estrogen, my
progesterone.
I just had no idea.
So doing blood work and thenhaving someone who understands
it all read it to me and thensee where my levels were high,
(19:38):
where they were low, where theywere great, gave me such this
powerful overview of my own bodythat I was like, oh, so maybe
there's some things that youmight be worrying about.
You're not really sure, buthaving some blood work done can
either it can give you a peaceof mind, or it could give you an
(20:01):
awareness of some things whereyou're like, oh, well, I am low
in iron.
This could be helpful, or mythyroid doesn't work, or I'm
really high in testosterone, andthat's why I'm like really
aggressive with my husband orsomething.
I don't know.
But this was wonderful.
So I did that, and um, and Iand I took a Dutch test also,
(20:23):
which is like even more.
It just has more.
I love that you're doing all ofthis.
This is so good.
Okay.
What did you learn?
Well, I learned that overallI'm a very healthy person and
most of my levels were reallygood, which was so exciting to
me.
I was like, all right, I'vebeen I've been on this road for
(20:44):
let's say 20 years, since myearly 30s.
And um, and like all of thathard work has paid off.
Like everything's pretty good.
But I definitely had somedeficiencies and um and some
places where I've just struggledin general.
And and so I I was I'm workingwith a company that that is just
(21:09):
helping me go through all ofthose.
And um, and I've learned a lot.
So I'm I've added supplementsinto my regimen.
I never took any kind ofsupplements before ever.
And now it's like I need asuitcase for them when they
travel.
It's like my vitamin A, my D,my D H E or D E H and my K3 and
(21:33):
my proline and my uh mymagnesium and my, I mean, it's
just a it's like a lot, butsupplements where I feel great.
And I even have had since I'vehad blood work done again to now
check my levels after um I didit about after seven months, and
(21:54):
then realize like, oh, okay,something's balanced out really
well.
So I'm easing off some of thesupplements.
And that it's just powerfulinformation.
So I'm I'm recommending that ifyou're, you know, what I don't
know what age range you guys areat, but I have loved this tool.
And um, and then you know, I'mI consistently pretty
(22:16):
consistently work out.
It depends on my movie filmingschedule because I can't work
out the way I normally do whileI'm filming, but but I'm still
consistently active takingwalks.
Uh, and then when I'm notfilming, I I enjoy lifting
weights.
And then food has also, I feellike food for me is just an
(22:38):
ongoing learning process becausewhat has worked for eating for
me 10 years ago doesn'tnecessarily work for me now.
We're also we learned so manythings about food, which
honestly most of it confuses me,and I get mad at it because
you're told one thing one yearand a whole other thing the next
(23:00):
year, and you're like, How muchprotein am I supposed to have?
Wait, is the vegan diet thebest?
Is you know, like all of thesethings which make me want to
scream.
And ruin every other woman.
So what I'm trying to do, and Ifeel like every woman is always
like, but you're healthy, whatare you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
And I've like I've been theremy whole life.
(23:23):
I'm always asking what otherpeople are doing.
And what I've been learning onthis journey in the last year is
that it actually doesn't matterwhat they're doing.
You need to do what is rightfor your body.
And so, and it, but it's gonnatake trial and error.
So I've actually gone throughdifferent patterns of different
(23:47):
types of eating, um, countingmacros, counting like calories,
which I hate.
I've never done it in my life.
And with an eating disorder,I'm like, I don't want to count.
But at this point, I was like,okay, but I need to learn.
I really need to learn what myportions are and weighing food
and what is macro, how much arein fats and protein and
(24:08):
carbohydrates?
And so I'm learning it and I'mdoing it as tedious as I can
feel sometimes.
And I've gone through saying,okay, well, what if I'm eating
more keto for four weeks?
What if I'm eating super highprotein, low fat for four weeks?
And I've actually gone throughdifferent cycles of it to figure
(24:30):
out what is how my body and mygut health are adjusting best to
it.
And like, I kind of it it'staken about eight months where I
finally am like, okay, I feellike um I know what my body uh
works best on right now, whichare carbohydrates.
It needs them.
Candace (24:50):
I love that message so much.
And it might be because youhave some adrenal issues going
on, a little excess stress.
You you need the carbs.
I that is literally what I helpwomen understand is get back in
tune with your body.
It will tell you what it needs.
It's trying to talk to you tous all of the time, but we have
been ingrained to ignore it orcover up those symptoms, and
(25:14):
those are just messages from ourbody.
So thank you for highlightingthat point because it's really
important that what's workingfor your girlfriend might not be
working for you, right?
And that's okay.
Yeah, it really is.
So thank you so much.
This is absolutely incredible.
I just see you as such ashining light for women going
(25:38):
through this transition in life.
And I just want women to beempowered because it's actually
the second half is so muchbetter than the first half
because we have less things toworry about.
We have the wisdom now that Godhas downloaded to us that we've
learned from our trials andtribulations, right?
So thank you for sharing all ofyour wisdom.
Speaker 03 (26:00):
I just you're so welcome.
I could keep talking about thisforever, which is why like
Kirsten and I just also getalong and like, and I just look
forward to listening more to youand all the things that you're
sharing with everyone.
And um, I'm grateful for forthe both of you and and what you
(26:21):
do to help to help women likeus just go through this journey
a little better, feel like we'renot alone, and that there are
answers out there for us becausethere are.
Candace (26:32):
Oh, fills my heart.
Wow, what a powerfulconversation.
I hope Candace's story remindedyou that you are not alone.
Healing is possible when weinvite Jesus into the journey.
There's so much more wisdomahead.
So please don't stop here.
Keep watching these interviewsbecause each one offers unique
(26:53):
insight into how you can reclaimyour health, restore your
energy, and renew your purpose,body, mind, and soul.
So please join us every day inthe live connection call.
I am gonna answer yourquestions live.
Let's get healthy together.
This is so good.
I love you, ladies.
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