February 26, 2024 • 44 mins
Christina Orman shares her story of a truly amazing young woman and a lively Georgia Peach, who seems to accomplish more in a 24 hour day than anyone else we have interviewed. This dedicated mom and nurse just keeps drilling down and achieving one fitness goal after another, all while raising kids and maintaining and furthering a career. She reveals what worked, what didn’t, how she includes her kids and how she keeps it all together to make sure she isn't the last item on her list of important things to do.
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https://burnbootcamp.com/
https://toughmudder.com/
https://www.georgiaparkouracademy.com/
https://cleaneatz.com/
https://purifiiv.com/
Christina has been a nurse for 10 years. She has spent most of her career in the Emergency Department but also has experience in the ICU and in a cancer treatment clinic. Throughout her career she noticed many people with chronic debilitating diseases that could be prevented with lifestyle changes. This provided the inspiration needed to make better choices in life and become the best version of herself. She started working out regularly and eating a healthy and balanced diet. Christina says she feels great and has more energy than she used to. She loves living healthy so much that she wants to inspire others to do the same. This is why she became a Transformative Nurse Coach. Christina is excited to share her knowledge and coach others through their lifestyle transformations.
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(00:11):
This is Angela Grayson fromthe Loving Life Fitness Podcast.
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
It's all possible.
(00:31):
It’s time to wake up.
Here we go.
Hello, everybody.
This is Angela Graysonfrom the Loving Life
Fitness Podcast.
Today I have with meChristina Orman.
We're going to be talkingabout her great lifestyle
that she tweaked here and therethroughout the years so that she
(00:54):
can become the bestversion of herself.
Hey, Christina, How you doing?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
So happy and excited to have youon the show.
Not only is Christina goingto tell us all about herself
because I think she's atrue inspiration, but also she's
my niece, and I watched herthroughout the years
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with her struggles in healthand fitness to become the best
version of herself.
So, Christina, let's go backand let's tell a little bit
about yourself.
Well, I played sportsmy whole life, and then
I had a child when I wasvery young, when I was 20,
and I kind of was justworking all the time
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and I was doing so full time.
And then, you know,flash forward, I'm in
my mid-twenties and I was like,Oh my gosh, I'm not in shape
anymore, you know?
And that kind of iswhen I started thinking like,
Oh my gosh, I'm getting older.
I better get it together.
I didn't really know how orwhere to start.
(01:59):
And then I startedworking as a nurse, and that is
when I started seeing everythingthat happens.
When you make badlifestyle choices
and I see patients with allthese chronic illnesses
and diseases and they canbarely walk in their are like
in their fifties,some of them are even younger.
(02:19):
And I would think aboutgrandma and Grandpa and how they
were living on their ownall the way into their nineties
and doing good.
And I was like, I want to belike that.
How do I get there?
And then, you know, that'show I started.
What's gone to the gym.
And then I started just readingabout health and fitness,
reading about boomers,watching podcasts, listening
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to documentary.
I would try things for myself,some things would work.
Sometimes I wouldn'tstick with it, and then I'd
have another kid,and then I just would eat
whatever I wanted and I wouldgain about £50
and then the cycle would startall over again.
Mm.
Yeah.
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All those cravings when you'repregnant, that doesn't help any.
Right now.
Yeah.
It's hard to loseall that baby fat after you've
given birth and you've hadthree kids.
So three times, three timesa round of, of
gaining and losing.
Gaining and losing.
Gaining and losing.
When you first started tryingto lose weight, what was your
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fitness regimen like?
Started out doing online videosin the living room.
And then I waskind of like, well, I do better
when I'm pushed.
So I started going to the gymand I went regularly.
And there is this one instructorwho is really tough,
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and I thought I was goingto pass out several times.
And I think I always threw upseveral times that I liked it
because I saw thebiggest difference when I took
her classes.
No, been in the gym, relocated,and it just it relocated
to a difficult area to get to.
The traffic was terrible.
And so then I started runningthough, and now I'm all involved
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in Florida.
Then when I moved backto Georgia, that's
when I got pregnantwith Delaney, the Last
of my Children.
And so the cycle started over.
So I started doingthe workouts again and I did
one program.
I can't rememberwhat it's called,
but they sent me the littlefood containers to portion
your food.
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And so I did that.
And I try to work out at home.
I would run and thenI started doing Half Mudders
and I kind of startedhanging out with people
that were in shape.
And then I really realizedthat I was definitely not
in shape.
I'm not to a certain pointbecause they're all like,
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Oh, just take the back, fill,you know, the way to fall off.
And it did.
But you have no muscleand then it comes right back.
And then I realized how terriblethose are for your heart
and your body in general.
So I decided I was never goingto do those again.
And I just had tostart working out regularly and
I had to commit to it.
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And that is when I startedgoing to burn Victim.
So that's a group fitness gym.
You did the same workoutfor that day, so you just
take a time.
We go and everybody doesthe same workout, but it's in
a group setting and every daythe workout changes.
They have accountability groups.
You get trainer meetingsthat help you
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with your nutritionand everything like that.
So and I started that gym.
That is really whenI felt like, okay,
I finally found aG ended up fit into
I feel comfortable going.
And so I've just been doing thatnow for 30 years.
Three years you've kept upwith the same type of workout.
They change it every day.
So yeah, they change itevery day.
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You have what you mighthave Arm Day, then you'll have
like day or they have myathletic auditioning, body
weight conditioning.
And no matter where you goin the country, if you
go on vacationand there is a burn
boot camp locationthere, you can go and it's
the same day for thewhole country.
So if Monday is Arm Daythis week, the whole
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country of Burn boot campis doing Arm Day.
That wow.
You know, So it's not like, oh,I'm going to go out of town
on Thursday and Friday.
And you did arms in Newnanand I go to Florida
and they have our now they'restill going to have the same
days at noon.
So it's pretty cool.
MM Okay.
And tell us about yourtransformation.
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What have you seensince you started going there?
Well, the first thingthat I noticed is my cardio was
a lot better.
I even had friends notice.
We went, I didanother Tough Mudder
or some of the things people,and they were like,
I can really tell this one wasso much better
than the first onebecause the first one was tough.
You know,there is a lot of running.
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So I noticed my cardiohealth was better and I just
felt better even mentally.
You know, I haven'thad as much anxiety,
you know, I just I feel happyand healthy.
And that was thefirst thing that I noticed.
And then I started gettingmuscle definition and then
that just mainly how moreencouragement to go.
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And so now I've startedmacroeconomy.
It's hard though, right now.
That's my new journey iswe did a challenge for a month
and I counted my macrosand prior to this I've talked
to several differentnutritionists and I talked
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to trainers and I told themmy goal and my goal is that
I want to get downto like 8% body fat.
Mm.
And they said, yeah, that's partof my fitness that I was it
get now laid percentI have to like get on
the nutrition.
Mhm.
(08:02):
And even though I eat healthyyou have to do a lot
more than just eat healthy.
Yeah.
You have to really pay attentionand balance everything.
So yeah I did thatand I actually lost 4% body
fat and gained 3% muscleand four weeks.
Very good.
So where about right nowwith your percentages.
(08:22):
And that wasactually last month.
So I've gone two more weeks.
So in two weeks I'll go,I want to do it for
another month and see.
Mm.
And night break.
Yeah.
Feel good.
Awesome.
Yeah.
That's what it'sall about, right.
Not just looking good.
Feeling good.
Yeah.
Having more energyfor your life.
(08:42):
Not only do you work a lot, butyou also have those three kids
running around that you got tokeep up with and
and your lifestyleand being happy with yourself
and everything that's goingon around you.
Yeah, yeah.
You put in your biothat you became a transformative
nurse coach.
Tell us about that.
So after I had been workingon a pill and I started
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to realize that there area lot of people
that just don't knowhow to be healthy because I will
ask patientsor I'll ask a friend
and they think thatthey're making good choices.
But they feel bad.
They're like, I don't know, I'mjust not lily white
that I'm trying to do thisand that, or they get illnesses
or things going wrongand they feel terrible.
They have no cluewhere to start.
(09:27):
And so I thought, well, I needto do something to make changes.
And I researched, you know,and I as a nurse, help
people live healthieris modern medicine
doesn't exactly do that.
And, you know, it's like it'sgood for certain things,
but it makes people feel like,oh, if you're overweight,
(09:50):
we're going to give you a pill.
It's a quick fix.
Oh, if you have side effectsfrom the pill or you need
another pill for that,that affects and it
just continues.
And I wanted to justteach people.
So I found a courseit was a seven month course
that I just finishedand I had to do
120 coaching hours.
I just finished.
So now I'm a transformativenurse coach.
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I'm not sure howI looked at doing a LLC
to possibly, you know,just start a business
doing that.
So I just finishedthis past month to about
two weeks ago.
Congratulations.
That's awesome.
So was not only bookwork.
I mean, I'm sure youlearned a lot about health
and fitness and helping peoplechange their lives
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and feel better, but what otherintensity did you have with
this course?
It was really it was onlineand they had different sections
that they opened throughout.
So it was just nutrition.
There are a lot of link abouthealthy eating.
They taught you how to talkto people.
It's sort of like motivationalinterviewing.
Get deep with somebody and tryto figure out how you're
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helping them figurethemselves out.
You know, you're not goingto tell them this is what
you need to do.
Any kind of askquestions in a way that they are
figuring out for themselves.
You know, what it is they want.
Why do they want to changewhat will change look
like for them?
And then it kind of helped themmap out their own journey,
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even though part of that waswe had to coach from people
or whatever it was.
And it's interestingbecause some people
coach people onlike time management and they're
just like, I'm so stressedout at work because I can't
manage my time.
And it wasn't reallya physical help, but more like
emotional and what mentalhealth, you know, they're like,
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I'm, I'm anxious.
I can't do this at work.
I'm stressed out, I don't knowwhat to do.
And kind of helping themthrough that because we did
have to also do likea mental health
partner and neededmindful practices with them.
And then, you know, we haddiscussion boards and we had
virtual meetings and thingslike that.
We share casestudies about people
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that we worked with.
Mm hmm.
So very psychologically tryingto get into the psychological
part of trying to get peoplehealthier, changing their
their habits and the waythey think about their lifestyle
and what they can doto improve it so that they could
be healthier and try to getan exercise plan into their
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lifestyle.
Do you actually come upwith exercise programs for them?
So that's not reallywithin the scope of a nurse,
and that is something I actuallywas looking into getting
a personal trainer certificateat some point
because I have to be carefuland I have people like the Board
of Nursing.
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It's kind of weird because ifyou're working under
if I'm working under onenursing license, I have to stay
within that.
Go, Okay, There's something Ithought of them.
Yeah, because that would bethe next step, right?
But there's so manypeople out there that do
need the help with whatyou've done so far.
(13:10):
They might not realize,even when they come to you, that
that's all that they need.
Trying to figure out howthey can fit a program
into their scheduleor maybe something
that they need to give upand put something else in
so that theycan live a healthier lifestyle.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, even thoughtabout becoming there's
(13:32):
another certificate to becomea functional nutritional
counselor.
Mm.
And so I'm veryinterested in that now
because I just want to teachpeople it's a lifestyle change.
So it's not goingto happen overnight.
But like they said,maybe they can
give up one healthy habit or onehealthy food and replace it
with a healthier version.
(13:53):
Mm hmm.
And then over time,when you start
replacing the battle to good,then suddenly you're
just like, wow, I'm doing sogood here.
I feel so good.
You know, the next timeI'm little changes.
Yeah, it makes a big differenceover time.
Absolutely.
Let's go back to the factthat you have three little ones
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at home or two little onesand how do you fit all this
into your schedule?
That's a challenge for peopleright there.
How do you do that?
That is challenging.
You know, think all that.
My job, I only have to workthree days a week.
Uh huh.
So sometimes on the daythat I work and don't get to go
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to the gym, adult love that,but is make up
for it on days off.
And those days are very fullbecause I have to go to the gym,
I have to keep up with house,get the kids from school.
We do our homework with yourextracurriculars.
And then usually what I'll dois whenever they're practice,
(14:58):
there's normally trackand I'll try to run or walk
the track just to get some extrasteps in.
During that time, I don't know.
I've just I've gottenlucky somehow.
So I try to schedule my thingsaround the kids bowl
in their sportbecause it's always
on your mind, right?
(15:18):
So, you know, you need to do it.
So even though every dayis different, you figure it out
every day.
Maybe you think about itthe night before.
Do you ever do thatthe night before or even at
the beginning of the week?
Like, how am I going to do thisall week long?
Yeah, well, I normally start nowbecause my schedule comes out
or week increments and Iwrite everything
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on the calendar.
That's part of the day.
The work I write down, the daysthat the kids have the
And when I first startedgoing to the burn boot camp
and doing the gym all the time,I would write down on the
calendar, date all my thingsto do gym or get an hour
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across them, all that that jeteven even though it sounds
silly, I'll even put grocerystore like, you know, I'm doing
the grocery storetoday in between, you know
and that's what that's what I doand I just cross it off
as I do it.
Were you always that organizedwith, you know, I was nine,
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my mom?
Not for that.
I, I can look at youas I got older and then the kids
are getting older and they havemore pain and they orga.
You're not going to get itdone. Yeah.
Then life is just going to feelscattered and chaotic
and you know this and you'reforgetting that.
(16:41):
And then you end up beinglast on the list, right?
Yeah, And I did,I did work on Monday
through Fridayand that was tough.
So I actually understood inthat lifestyle too, because when
I did that, it was likeI felt like I was even busier
because it's like, wake up,everybody get ready,
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go to school, go to work.
I would get off and then I wouldgo to the gym and then I'd pick
the kids up from school.
And knowing how sportsand everything.
And then by the time weget home, it's like, okay, we're
we're doing homework in the caror homework before
practice starts and thenget it home, shower, bed.
But I did it because mythought about it is time
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goes by so fast.
And if you don't take careof yourself right now,
then you're going to be behindand the next thing
you know, you're 56and any move?
Hardly, because you justsat there and didn't
do anything.
So even thoughit's hard sometimes to get
the fitness aspect and you justhave to do it that way,
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you're able to take care ofyour grandkids
when they get older or when yourkids grow up, you can travel.
You're still able to do thingsfor yourself.
Absolutely.
Excellent.
That that's what kindof motivates me to.
Yes.
So I've seen pictures of youand your kids doing
sports together outdoors thatlook like some kind of a
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obstacle course.
So you involve the kidsin all kinds of outdoor
activity, too.
You're an inspiration to them.
Tell me what you do with themto get them moving
and stay healthy.
Well, I'll let them on theirtablet sometimes, but they have
spring tans.
Or if it's a rainy day,you know, they might be longer.
But they do play outsidewhen we go to sport,
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I'll take the dog to the fields.
So like when Liam's doinghis baseball practice, Delaney
and I walk the dogand she enjoys that.
We take walksin the neighborhood.
I did sign them up for the kidsTough Mudder, which was the
obstacle course, and they hadso much fun.
They brought a friend.
It was they had ablast doing that.
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We go hiking.
There are a lotof like nature parks
and stuff around as longto get outside into light, learn
to enjoy life and not be stuckon a tablet 24 seven
and I want themto be well-rounded though.
Ego one Delaney goes to a balleton Thursday.
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That's Liam and I date nightwhen we go to Starbucks
and we play board games.
We have an hour and a halfand we don't have any bond,
no electronic anything,and we just play games and just
spend time together and theykind of learn to value that.
That's sweet though, and then Ijust want them to learn
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that there's so,so much to like.
There are so many things to do.
So every time, like last summer,I took them to see like
historical sitesand even though I'm sure they're
a little bit bored, like inthe museums and stuff,
they always find somethingthat they think is
funny or silly is not the mostentertaining thing they've done,
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but they'll remember itas being there.
You know?
And I always try to make it funand they'll be some fun after
I try to take that, you know,talking to the world of Coke
in Atlanta, the aquariums,I just try to get them out
the top two places in Floridawe've gone and done.
I'm taking themto New York City.
(20:17):
Wow.
This this summer?
Yeah. Yes.
So we're going to gosee all the thing.
And I already toldyou don't have a car there.
So we're going to have to dosome walking there or up
for them.
I've had themin training, walking through the
neighborhood, butnow we're going to go all
through the city.
But it's nice though.
(20:39):
Yeah.
I never want them to be scaredto be adventurous, you know?
Mm.
That is really cool.
And as a result, those kidslook great too.
You know, a lot of kidsthese days, you see them,
they're they're gaining weight,getting a little chunky,
overweight, don't wantto be outside.
So it's really nice to seethat you have children
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who enjoy that.
They see you, too.
They see you and what you do.
And that's an inspirationto them to be just like
their mama.
Well, I hope thatI can inspire them.
Yeah, they get things.
So right now,the ladies involved in ballet,
the lady does ballet.
Yeah, she was doing gymnastics.
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She's not doing gymnasticsright now, but she's
doing traveling.
And she's really goodat it, too.
Oh, yeah.
And she loves the dance.
And I love that for herbecause you can always dance,
even when she's an adult.
They have adult dance classesthat she could teach dance just,
you know, somethingthat she'll always
be able to do.
Yeah.
And what about Liam?
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What is he up to?
Liam does a football,and right now he's in baseball.
He did soccer and basketballat times, but he's sticking to
the baseball and footballright now, and he does
parkour also.
It's pop.
Parkour.
Well, you know, the AmericanNinja warrior,
you know, on the TV.
You know, there though, there isa place here that it's called
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the Georgia Parkour Academy.
And that's where Delaneydoes tumbling.
And they offer ninjawarrior courses and they
offer parkour,which is, you know, the people
that are like jumping onthe building.
Yeah.
And that's what it is, though.
They have in this big gym.
They have all theselittle obstacles and they
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teach the kids how tojump over the boxes.
Totally.
They're hurry, you got to jump.
And the technique of being ableto jump over all these obstacles
really fast and the guy that I'mthat was actually on American
Ninja Warrior, I know he does itbecause some of
his friends did it.
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The last hour to takein Delaney tumbling And I'm just
sitting there.
I was like, well,why don't you just,
you know, do parkour while she'sdoing her tumble class?
So just giving themsomething to do, it keeps them
moving.
And he enjoys it.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah.
The wild and crazy.
It it is the morekids love it, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
Yep.
Which comes backto adults, you know, we stopped
doing all those crazy,wild things when we get older.
And, you know, if we could justact like kids again, how much
better in shape would we be?
Yeah, right.
Instead of sitting around,just get up and play, right?
(23:29):
Yeah, absolutely.
Get up and do something.
Even yardwork.
You know, I'm all of that'snot as much fun.
But yeah.
Yard work and your plantsand vegetable plots.
Oh, how's that goingor something?
It's good.
I do it every year.
Yeah.
On my little mini farm now.
(23:51):
You know, I have thechickens too.
So you're eating really wellfrom your garden.
Do you get enough foodfrom your garden to.
I did that last year.
Last year?
It didn't do very well.
I don't I'm not sure whya lot of people around here
had issues last year,so hopefully this
year will be better.
But I normally yeah, I normallyhave tons of peppers, tomatoes.
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I have a blueberryand blackberry bush and a squash
and zucchini.
I usually have a bunch, sosometimes I even give it away.
Nice thing about thatis, you know, you get past
the pesticides and thepreservatives that they put on
all of our freshsupposedly produce at the
grocery stores.
It's nice having a gardenif you have the time for that.
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That's something elseyou get into your life.
Yeah.
Little farm.
Yeah.
Since we're talking about foodnow, it's let's talk
a little bit more aboutthe way you eat and how
you keep it organizedso that she can stick to it
all week long.
You get my protein in.
I learned that I beyond thegrocery store, any buy regular
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oatmeal there or anotherkind of oatmeal.
It's called Kodiak Oatmeal.
It has extra protein.
So I get that.
I'll get my protein intake.
I substitute like when Imake spaghetti for the kid
instead of eating the pumpkin,it'll be a spaghetti squash.
And then I turnthen to the noodles.
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And that's what I have.
I've tried to get the kids toeat that, and they are right now
with the new doesn't work.
You know, I try toI do eat fried foods
sometimes, but I try to eat thatvery rarely.
I just try to eat fresh like me.
And I eat a lot of salads.
I have started getting likecarrots and celery in instead of
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department ranch and dip themand rice.
I don't drinkjuices very rarely, you know,
I don't drink a lotof Korean grape and apple juice
and things like that.
It's just loaded with sugar.
I hardly ever have sodaand drink the sparkle waters.
That was my transitionbecause I like the carbonation.
(26:05):
Yeah, the that was ahealthier version of the soda,
I guess.
So I do that now.
I've been doing thatfor years, actually.
I rarely ever drink during soda.
I don't drink that much.
I cut down on drinkinga whole lot, though.
He's like, Oh, when I go to eat,I need to get a beer
or I need to have a black one.
Now put that down.
Why?
I hardly ever greenbeer at all anyway.
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Normally if I drink itlike a glass of red wine
or something andI try to eat organic when I can,
if it makes sense.
I'm not sure aboutthe organic cereal.
I feel like it's probablystill processed.
I don't know.
I have to do a lot of researchto see if that would
even be worth the extra money,produce and stuff.
I try to get organic and then Itry not to buy
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anything that says added sugar.
Okay, so you sounds likeyou make it easy on yourself.
You really don't go too crazy.
You just make better choices.
Yeah, yeah, it's easierthat way, especially with
a family.
You know, if you're goingto be cooking
completely separate things fromthe kids, that makes it
really hard.
And the kids eat vegetablesand stuff.
(27:09):
So, you know,when I make chicken and chicken,
rice and vegetables that theyhave on cheesecakes,
all of that, then when Igo to work, I started there's a
company called Raney,and they have little mills
that are frozen.
And I get those because it'sjust a healthier version.
And they have macros on there.
So I normally stock up on thoseand they're like $8 and mil.
(27:32):
But if you think, well,if I went and got something
at cafeteria work, it probablymore than that.
So, probably so yeah,they see that you have the kids
helping you in the kitchento chop vegetables and
and make things so they'relearning to you right there
beside you.
Yeah.
To make their mealsand make better choices.
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That's, that's greatto have them in the kitchen
with you doing thatmaking Grandma's Esther all it.
Yes.
They love that.
Yeah they are.
I think it's fun.
I tell stories about, you know,I made something for grandma.
You know, I'll say this isgrandma recipe and they love it.
And then I try to tell themto, like, when we cook things,
(28:17):
you know, I'll have themask Alexa.
Ask Alexa what this is good for.
So they learn, you know,they love avocados,
so it's good.
I just want them to be mindfulof what they're eating.
They know making better choicesso that as they get
older, it's easier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tell me about strugglesthat you have had
(28:38):
throughout the years and how areyou were able to overcome them?
Well, I had a lot of strugglesbecause really it's just
being able to commitand be consistent while being
a single mom and workingfull time and taking care
of the yard and the animal,you know, it's a lot.
(29:00):
So that's why I went up and downat one point was on the diet,
you know, because it was hardto establish a good routine
and it was hard to know.
It took a lot of timeto come up with me just knowing
how to find healthyfoods quickly and how to make
those meals.
And I didn't know how to do it.
(29:22):
And I just kind offigured it out.
But it took years.
And then on I finally was like,okay, I have to commit to it.
I have to stick with it.
And once I got the routine,it was okay, but or then it was
sometimes I wouldwork out for month and it would
go, I wouldn't realize.
And that's why I startedwriting it in my agenda,
because I hope, like, you know,next thing you know, it's been
(29:43):
two months.
And I'm like,When's the last time
I worked out my And,you know, it's been a long time.
Whoa.
So it was like that.
And then with the kids sportand then those changed
football practice mainly Monday,Wednesday now
and baseball seasoncomes around.
It's Tuesday, Thursdayand then I have football
and ballet on the same day.
But once you're in a routineand you're writing it down
(30:06):
to do it, you put iton the calendar
as part of your day and youfind the time to do it.
But it was hard.
Yeah.
And then, of course,there's always a monkey wrench,
right things orOh yeah, that you people might
get sick.
You've got kids to deal with,they get sick.
You get sent home, changesneed to be made or you fall off
the bandwagon a little bitand then you come back again.
(30:29):
You ask being ableto come back again,
that's another hard thingfor a lot of people
when they fall offtheir schedule, be able to
bounce back and get towhere they were before.
Oh yeah.
Because when I was workingat one hospital
and I had a child care issueand so I had to leave
(30:50):
and I was like, I can't workin the hospital anymore
because I'm having troublewith them to watch my kid.
And I was havingto take up overtime
just to be able to afford to paythe babysitters or the days
that I work.
And that's how I ended upat the Monday through Friday.
So that was a major life change.
And then I foundwhere I work now and it's a lot
(31:12):
more flexible and so nowI will make it work.
I found a baby sitter.
She's been with mefor years now, for two years.
She's amazing.
And the babysitting factor has,whether you're the girl
or a lot of times it's peoplewould come and then they know
when you're stressed outabout all of that,
(31:33):
it makes it harderto focus on her.
So any you know, when youget stressed, you make that
habit already.
My drank too muchsomething or you
my people will strap unhealthymom downtown You're an amazing
woman, Christina.
Look at you.
You raised three children.
(31:53):
Got a great career, too.
And so while going to school,earning these
extra certificationsso that you can help
other people, not only yourself,but you're still thinking
about others.
How great is that?
And still balancing the work?
The family, the home, the pets?
(32:13):
Yeah, all of it.
And you're you'rein great shape.
You look great.
You are.
You're happy.
Look at how far you've come.
I know.
Well, thank you so much.
Yeah, I have come a long way.
I'm so proud of it.
I still try to alwaysbe better, though.
I try to, you know,just keep going
and stay positive and everythingalways seems to work out.
(32:38):
So right now, are you workingin the emergency room
as a nurse or wherewhere are you at
with your career?
So I'm working in theemergency room.
That's my full time thing.
And then I, I just pickup shifts here and there.
And another place.
It's called Purify I.V.
and it's an IV hydration place,though.
(32:59):
It's in a chiropractor's office.
And the guy that ownsit is someone I work
with in the E.R.
And so he knows about nottransformative of the nurse
coach desires and how I wantto be able to help people
live healthy and the peoplethat are there.
And it's in a chiropractor'soffice, they all are kind of
(33:20):
on the same page as far as,you know, health and fitness
and trying to be healthierin general. So hopefully
it'll maybe open some doors.
Yet.
It sounds it sounds likeyou've landed a nice
little place there.
Tell me about the IV hydration.
They just have differentbags of hydration
that you can get and it justhas different like vitamins
(33:43):
and minerals in them.
If you want a bag, you just comein, you pick which one you want
and there's a mini actually,and then you just
get your fluid.
They get B12 shot,they do semaglutide for weight
loss, which, you know,I don't love that,
but they're actuallymaking some comments
(34:04):
about trying to have peopleeducated on lifestyle changes
and combination with that.
And it's right there in thechiropractor's
office and it's next to the gymthat I go to, though
some people will just, you know,they might go work out and see
the chiropractor and then get abag of fluids and a B12 shot.
Yeah.
Do you do you try tohelp people decide
(34:24):
what they might needoff of that menu?
Look at what their symptomsmight be.
Yeah.
Kind of.
You do it sortthere's a whole menu
and it says whateach bag has in it
and what it is good for.
So if you want hydration, you'retrying to call different things.
I can't remember all the thingsbecause I just
(34:45):
started doing that.
But the whole menuwill tell you it.
You just want you don't wantany of the vitamins at all
and use one just a bag of fluidstill you're dehydrated.
You can get that.
But tells you on the menuwhat each one is good for.
I know quite a few peoplewho have gone for the B12.
Yes, I have had the B12 shots.
(35:05):
Yeah, Low energy and a littleneed a little boost.
And did it makea difference for you
when you got your B12 shot?
Yeah.
And you can tella little different.
Yeah.
Some people I'm just so activeand always moving,
but a lot of people,they get them regularly and
so they know they're like,I need it.
(35:28):
But I also takea lot of vitamins and stuff
in general, so I don't knowhow much.
At a certain point your bodycan't process all of it.
Yeah.
So you take a lot of vitaminsor vitamins?
I take a prenatal vitamin,I take creatine,
I take collagen, fish, oil,B12 and vitamin D,
prenatal vitamins.
(35:48):
Why?
Yes, because they justwork better.
Every time I takeprenatal vitamins, my hair is
like, thicker.
My nails are thicker.
Oh, I've taken a women vitaminjust like the vitamin for women.
But I just.
It is as good when I takea prenatal vitamins.
It's subtle.
My fingernails are thickerand my hair is better.
(36:10):
Yeah, maybe I need to try thatbecause my nails
are always breaking though.
Mine do too.
And for some reason when Itake the prenatal vitamins,
they're so much better.
Wow.
Like mine are nurse and free ATLvitamins are.
I know. So.
Yes, I feel I'm nowherenear pregnant in Natal.
(36:31):
I didn't have any more babiesin the future for, you know,
I had a hysterectomy.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's let your other sistersdo the baby thing, right?
Yeah, I, you know, I just nowgot to where I don't have
to bathe somebody, you know,because for 16 to say that son
(36:53):
of one of them got to the ageor they can give themselves
their own shower.
I had another baby and they gotbig enough to get a shower
and I had another baby,you know.
So now Delaney's sick.
I'm finally like,Man, the first time in 16 years
I can say, Y'allgo get a shower.
You're free.
(37:14):
I'm free.
I don't have to give anybodya bath.
Yeah, that's liberating,isn't it?
Yeah.
And I get to get happy.
Yeah, so I'll get that out.
I wondered, like,one would be like,
when I don't have a little baby,but I'll find.
You'll find out one day againwhen your grandma.
(37:36):
Not too soon.
Now, that's now.
Hopefully not.
Yeah.
I'd like for you to thinkfor a second about goals
that you would like to giveour listeners.
First, about health and fitnessthat could possibly reach more
and how to get there.
One goal would be to take awayone unhealthy item
(37:58):
that you consume.
Well, you know, take it awaycompletely.
You're just if you'redrinking sodas
all the time to say no, I'm nothave any.
So during the week,I'll have a soda on the weekend.
The same with alcoholor fried foods, just something
that is unhealthy that you'reeating too much of or drinking
too much up at that name.
And then another goalwould be just to try to do
(38:21):
30 minutes of activity threeor four times week.
Whether you walk for 30 minutes,you have a gym membership, swim
one in the pool,if you like that, go outside
and you go height somewhere,anything just 30 minutes, 3
to 4 times a week in them.
How to do that would be tomake a calendar and add it
(38:42):
on calendar, get itinto your schedule, and then
make sure you do it and committo doing it and try to like
fitness and help apps and stuffon social media.
Because I cleared out anythingthat was politics
and negative energyand I just started liking
(39:02):
these pages that had peoplewho are into health and fitness.
And it doesn't just have tobe hardcore high
intensity fitness.
There are some people that justthey sell herbs or they
meditate regularlyor they do yoga and I
like their pages.
And so my newsfeedon social media always has
(39:23):
something healthy.
There are peoplethat dance that way
and their danceclasses will pop up
and that just kind of helpsinspire me and, encourage
me to keep going.
So if people do that kind ofyou always see it
and it keeps itfresh on your mind.
Very good.
Do you dance?
(39:44):
I don't really dance.
I did take a barclass at the gym.
I've done Zumba classes and Ithought about taking adult belly
laugh where Delaney goesto ballet, Zumba, about how cool
would that be?
But I didn't.
I don't have time forbelly laugh now.
Yeah. Yeah.
I have to draw the line.
You know, I haveno schedule right now, so.
(40:05):
But yeah, soI never dance large.
I never took dance or anythinglike that.
Now, is it good?
So at least are have a littlemore time.
Yeah. Yeah.
And you in the lady can she canshow you some moves show
or she can write you guysin your spare time
in the living room.
She can show you some of herballet moves.
Oh yes, she would love that.
Yeah, she could teach Liam, too.
(40:28):
That would be fun.
Yeah.
Yeah. No.
Who is that?
Do we have the lady there?
You know, say hi.
Hi. Hi.
Delaney, little ballerina.
She's here and gone up.
She said, Oh, yeah.
Cartwheels in the background.
Beautiful.
Nice.
Does she ever get you to docartwheels?
We do cartwheel and we hadheadstand contest and we've had
(40:52):
bridge contests and I alwayswear them and she always
wins them.
Awesome.
We got to keep on tryingto get Mommy better at that.
Get it, get her better it beacting like a kid.
Yeah.
Rach.
Oh, she said I need tostretch more.
Yeah, that's a great that's,that's a great thing
(41:13):
I'm going to say actually.
Yeah.
Do you incorporate thatinto your physical fitness
routine at all?
Flexible.
I do sometimes,but actually do it
probably more.
Our bodies definitely need that,especially as her muscles
get stronger.
Enhanced flexibility should beincorporated into your regiment.
Yes, that's very cool.
(41:35):
So there's another thing to puton your calendar.
Yes, stretch it doesn't taketoo long.
I could have been stretchingwhile we're talking.
Yeah, it's just thatthe computer on the floor, even
for again.
All right, Christine, it'sbeen so nice talking to you.
You're a true inspiration,not only to your family.
(41:57):
It's brought you a long wayfighting through their struggles
to get to where you needto be in life and to keep
those lifestyle changes goingso that you can continue
with those new habitsthat you've learned
from eating better, substitutingbetter things in your diet,
writing down your schedule.
(42:17):
So important to help youkeep on track.
That's great.
And I know that whenpeople listen to this recording,
they'll be able to takeyour ideas and put them to
work for themselvesso you can know that you're
helping others just by talkingabout what you do.
If anybody wants to reach outto you to talk about
your transformativenurse coaching, would you be
(42:40):
open to that?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you can share your knowledgewith them and try to help them
on the right path to best formtheir lives.
I would love to do thatbecause everybody has to find
their own way.
What's good for me in my routineis not good for someone else.
Nothing.
They might do somethingdifferent.
(43:00):
They might need to dosomething different.
It's not a one way fits all.
Yeah.
And sometimesit's so hard for us to look
at our lifestyle files and thinkthat we just can't make
any changes.
But when somebodyelse looks at it, maybe they can
help you just tweak it hereand there and try to get
things out to make things betterfor you.
(43:21):
Yeah, in the long run, we allwant to be happy, healthy
and feeling good, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
Christina, thank you so muchfor being on the show today.
Thank you for having me.
Absolutely inspired methrough the years to, you know.
Yeah.
Your beach, yoga and fitness.
The.
(43:42):
Yeah, it's always active.
It's me and anybodythat I can inspire them.
Seeing what I do, that's.
That's awesome, you know?
All right, well, you take careand I'll pick it
up, as you said.
All right.
Bye bye.
This is Angela Graysonfrom the Loving Life
Fitness Podcast.
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To help others in their fitnessjourney.It’s all possible.
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This is Angela Grayson fromthe Loving Life Fitness Podcast.
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
It's all possible.
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It’s time to wake up.
Here we go.
Hello, everybody.
This is Angela Graysonfrom the Loving Life
Fitness Podcast.
Today I have with meChristina Orman.
We're going to be talkingabout her great lifestyle
that she tweaked here and therethroughout the years so that she
(00:54):
can become the bestversion of herself.
Hey, Christina, How you doing?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
So happy and excited to have youon the show.
Not only is Christina goingto tell us all about herself
because I think she's atrue inspiration, but also she's
my niece, and I watched herthroughout the years
(01:16):
with her struggles in healthand fitness to become the best
version of herself.
So, Christina, let's go backand let's tell a little bit
about yourself.
Well, I played sportsmy whole life, and then
I had a child when I wasvery young, when I was 20,
and I kind of was justworking all the time
(01:37):
and I was doing so full time.
And then, you know,flash forward, I'm in
my mid-twenties and I was like,Oh my gosh, I'm not in shape
anymore, you know?
And that kind of iswhen I started thinking like,
Oh my gosh, I'm getting older.
I better get it together.
I didn't really know how orwhere to start.
(01:59):
And then I startedworking as a nurse, and that is
when I started seeing everythingthat happens.
When you make badlifestyle choices
and I see patients with allthese chronic illnesses
and diseases and they canbarely walk in their are like
in their fifties,some of them are even younger.
(02:19):
And I would think aboutgrandma and Grandpa and how they
were living on their ownall the way into their nineties
and doing good.
And I was like, I want to belike that.
How do I get there?
And then, you know, that'show I started.
What's gone to the gym.
And then I started just readingabout health and fitness,
reading about boomers,watching podcasts, listening
(02:41):
to documentary.
I would try things for myself,some things would work.
Sometimes I wouldn'tstick with it, and then I'd
have another kid,and then I just would eat
whatever I wanted and I wouldgain about £50
and then the cycle would startall over again.
Mm.
Yeah.
(03:01):
All those cravings when you'repregnant, that doesn't help any.
Right now.
Yeah.
It's hard to loseall that baby fat after you've
given birth and you've hadthree kids.
So three times, three timesa round of, of
gaining and losing.
Gaining and losing.
Gaining and losing.
When you first started tryingto lose weight, what was your
(03:24):
fitness regimen like?
Started out doing online videosin the living room.
And then I waskind of like, well, I do better
when I'm pushed.
So I started going to the gymand I went regularly.
And there is this one instructorwho is really tough,
(03:44):
and I thought I was goingto pass out several times.
And I think I always threw upseveral times that I liked it
because I saw thebiggest difference when I took
her classes.
No, been in the gym, relocated,and it just it relocated
to a difficult area to get to.
The traffic was terrible.
And so then I started runningthough, and now I'm all involved
(04:07):
in Florida.
Then when I moved backto Georgia, that's
when I got pregnantwith Delaney, the Last
of my Children.
And so the cycle started over.
So I started doingthe workouts again and I did
one program.
I can't rememberwhat it's called,
but they sent me the littlefood containers to portion
your food.
(04:28):
And so I did that.
And I try to work out at home.
I would run and thenI started doing Half Mudders
and I kind of startedhanging out with people
that were in shape.
And then I really realizedthat I was definitely not
in shape.
I'm not to a certain pointbecause they're all like,
(04:50):
Oh, just take the back, fill,you know, the way to fall off.
And it did.
But you have no muscleand then it comes right back.
And then I realized how terriblethose are for your heart
and your body in general.
So I decided I was never goingto do those again.
And I just had tostart working out regularly and
I had to commit to it.
(05:12):
And that is when I startedgoing to burn Victim.
So that's a group fitness gym.
You did the same workoutfor that day, so you just
take a time.
We go and everybody doesthe same workout, but it's in
a group setting and every daythe workout changes.
They have accountability groups.
You get trainer meetingsthat help you
(05:34):
with your nutritionand everything like that.
So and I started that gym.
That is really whenI felt like, okay,
I finally found aG ended up fit into
I feel comfortable going.
And so I've just been doing thatnow for 30 years.
Three years you've kept upwith the same type of workout.
They change it every day.
So yeah, they change itevery day.
(05:55):
You have what you mighthave Arm Day, then you'll have
like day or they have myathletic auditioning, body
weight conditioning.
And no matter where you goin the country, if you
go on vacationand there is a burn
boot camp locationthere, you can go and it's
the same day for thewhole country.
So if Monday is Arm Daythis week, the whole
(06:17):
country of Burn boot campis doing Arm Day.
That wow.
You know, So it's not like, oh,I'm going to go out of town
on Thursday and Friday.
And you did arms in Newnanand I go to Florida
and they have our now they'restill going to have the same
days at noon.
So it's pretty cool.
MM Okay.
And tell us about yourtransformation.
(06:37):
What have you seensince you started going there?
Well, the first thingthat I noticed is my cardio was
a lot better.
I even had friends notice.
We went, I didanother Tough Mudder
or some of the things people,and they were like,
I can really tell this one wasso much better
than the first onebecause the first one was tough.
You know,there is a lot of running.
(06:59):
So I noticed my cardiohealth was better and I just
felt better even mentally.
You know, I haven'thad as much anxiety,
you know, I just I feel happyand healthy.
And that was thefirst thing that I noticed.
And then I started gettingmuscle definition and then
that just mainly how moreencouragement to go.
(07:20):
And so now I've startedmacroeconomy.
It's hard though, right now.
That's my new journey iswe did a challenge for a month
and I counted my macrosand prior to this I've talked
to several differentnutritionists and I talked
(07:41):
to trainers and I told themmy goal and my goal is that
I want to get downto like 8% body fat.
Mm.
And they said, yeah, that's partof my fitness that I was it
get now laid percentI have to like get on
the nutrition.
Mhm.
(08:02):
And even though I eat healthyyou have to do a lot
more than just eat healthy.
Yeah.
You have to really pay attentionand balance everything.
So yeah I did thatand I actually lost 4% body
fat and gained 3% muscleand four weeks.
Very good.
So where about right nowwith your percentages.
(08:22):
And that wasactually last month.
So I've gone two more weeks.
So in two weeks I'll go,I want to do it for
another month and see.
Mm.
And night break.
Yeah.
Feel good.
Awesome.
Yeah.
That's what it'sall about, right.
Not just looking good.
Feeling good.
Yeah.
Having more energyfor your life.
(08:42):
Not only do you work a lot, butyou also have those three kids
running around that you got tokeep up with and
and your lifestyleand being happy with yourself
and everything that's goingon around you.
Yeah, yeah.
You put in your biothat you became a transformative
nurse coach.
Tell us about that.
So after I had been workingon a pill and I started
(09:05):
to realize that there area lot of people
that just don't knowhow to be healthy because I will
ask patientsor I'll ask a friend
and they think thatthey're making good choices.
But they feel bad.
They're like, I don't know, I'mjust not lily white
that I'm trying to do thisand that, or they get illnesses
or things going wrongand they feel terrible.
They have no cluewhere to start.
(09:27):
And so I thought, well, I needto do something to make changes.
And I researched, you know,and I as a nurse, help
people live healthieris modern medicine
doesn't exactly do that.
And, you know, it's like it'sgood for certain things,
but it makes people feel like,oh, if you're overweight,
(09:50):
we're going to give you a pill.
It's a quick fix.
Oh, if you have side effectsfrom the pill or you need
another pill for that,that affects and it
just continues.
And I wanted to justteach people.
So I found a courseit was a seven month course
that I just finishedand I had to do
120 coaching hours.
I just finished.
So now I'm a transformativenurse coach.
(10:11):
I'm not sure howI looked at doing a LLC
to possibly, you know,just start a business
doing that.
So I just finishedthis past month to about
two weeks ago.
Congratulations.
That's awesome.
So was not only bookwork.
I mean, I'm sure youlearned a lot about health
and fitness and helping peoplechange their lives
(10:35):
and feel better, but what otherintensity did you have with
this course?
It was really it was onlineand they had different sections
that they opened throughout.
So it was just nutrition.
There are a lot of link abouthealthy eating.
They taught you how to talkto people.
It's sort of like motivationalinterviewing.
Get deep with somebody and tryto figure out how you're
(10:56):
helping them figurethemselves out.
You know, you're not goingto tell them this is what
you need to do.
Any kind of askquestions in a way that they are
figuring out for themselves.
You know, what it is they want.
Why do they want to changewhat will change look
like for them?
And then it kind of helped themmap out their own journey,
(11:21):
even though part of that waswe had to coach from people
or whatever it was.
And it's interestingbecause some people
coach people onlike time management and they're
just like, I'm so stressedout at work because I can't
manage my time.
And it wasn't reallya physical help, but more like
emotional and what mentalhealth, you know, they're like,
(11:44):
I'm, I'm anxious.
I can't do this at work.
I'm stressed out, I don't knowwhat to do.
And kind of helping themthrough that because we did
have to also do likea mental health
partner and neededmindful practices with them.
And then, you know, we haddiscussion boards and we had
virtual meetings and thingslike that.
We share casestudies about people
(12:06):
that we worked with.
Mm hmm.
So very psychologically tryingto get into the psychological
part of trying to get peoplehealthier, changing their
their habits and the waythey think about their lifestyle
and what they can doto improve it so that they could
be healthier and try to getan exercise plan into their
(12:27):
lifestyle.
Do you actually come upwith exercise programs for them?
So that's not reallywithin the scope of a nurse,
and that is something I actuallywas looking into getting
a personal trainer certificateat some point
because I have to be carefuland I have people like the Board
of Nursing.
(12:47):
It's kind of weird because ifyou're working under
if I'm working under onenursing license, I have to stay
within that.
Go, Okay, There's something Ithought of them.
Yeah, because that would bethe next step, right?
But there's so manypeople out there that do
need the help with whatyou've done so far.
(13:10):
They might not realize,even when they come to you, that
that's all that they need.
Trying to figure out howthey can fit a program
into their scheduleor maybe something
that they need to give upand put something else in
so that theycan live a healthier lifestyle.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, even thoughtabout becoming there's
(13:32):
another certificate to becomea functional nutritional
counselor.
Mm.
And so I'm veryinterested in that now
because I just want to teachpeople it's a lifestyle change.
So it's not goingto happen overnight.
But like they said,maybe they can
give up one healthy habit or onehealthy food and replace it
with a healthier version.
(13:53):
Mm hmm.
And then over time,when you start
replacing the battle to good,then suddenly you're
just like, wow, I'm doing sogood here.
I feel so good.
You know, the next timeI'm little changes.
Yeah, it makes a big differenceover time.
Absolutely.
Let's go back to the factthat you have three little ones
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at home or two little onesand how do you fit all this
into your schedule?
That's a challenge for peopleright there.
How do you do that?
That is challenging.
You know, think all that.
My job, I only have to workthree days a week.
Uh huh.
So sometimes on the daythat I work and don't get to go
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to the gym, adult love that,but is make up
for it on days off.
And those days are very fullbecause I have to go to the gym,
I have to keep up with house,get the kids from school.
We do our homework with yourextracurriculars.
And then usually what I'll dois whenever they're practice,
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there's normally trackand I'll try to run or walk
the track just to get some extrasteps in.
During that time, I don't know.
I've just I've gottenlucky somehow.
So I try to schedule my thingsaround the kids bowl
in their sportbecause it's always
on your mind, right?
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So, you know, you need to do it.
So even though every dayis different, you figure it out
every day.
Maybe you think about itthe night before.
Do you ever do thatthe night before or even at
the beginning of the week?
Like, how am I going to do thisall week long?
Yeah, well, I normally start nowbecause my schedule comes out
or week increments and Iwrite everything
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on the calendar.
That's part of the day.
The work I write down, the daysthat the kids have the
And when I first startedgoing to the burn boot camp
and doing the gym all the time,I would write down on the
calendar, date all my thingsto do gym or get an hour
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across them, all that that jeteven even though it sounds
silly, I'll even put grocerystore like, you know, I'm doing
the grocery storetoday in between, you know
and that's what that's what I doand I just cross it off
as I do it.
Were you always that organizedwith, you know, I was nine,
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my mom?
Not for that.
I, I can look at youas I got older and then the kids
are getting older and they havemore pain and they orga.
You're not going to get itdone. Yeah.
Then life is just going to feelscattered and chaotic
and you know this and you'reforgetting that.
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And then you end up beinglast on the list, right?
Yeah, And I did,I did work on Monday
through Fridayand that was tough.
So I actually understood inthat lifestyle too, because when
I did that, it was likeI felt like I was even busier
because it's like, wake up,everybody get ready,
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go to school, go to work.
I would get off and then I wouldgo to the gym and then I'd pick
the kids up from school.
And knowing how sportsand everything.
And then by the time weget home, it's like, okay, we're
we're doing homework in the caror homework before
practice starts and thenget it home, shower, bed.
But I did it because mythought about it is time
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goes by so fast.
And if you don't take careof yourself right now,
then you're going to be behindand the next thing
you know, you're 56and any move?
Hardly, because you justsat there and didn't
do anything.
So even thoughit's hard sometimes to get
the fitness aspect and you justhave to do it that way,
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you're able to take care ofyour grandkids
when they get older or when yourkids grow up, you can travel.
You're still able to do thingsfor yourself.
Absolutely.
Excellent.
That that's what kindof motivates me to.
Yes.
So I've seen pictures of youand your kids doing
sports together outdoors thatlook like some kind of a
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obstacle course.
So you involve the kidsin all kinds of outdoor
activity, too.
You're an inspiration to them.
Tell me what you do with themto get them moving
and stay healthy.
Well, I'll let them on theirtablet sometimes, but they have
spring tans.
Or if it's a rainy day,you know, they might be longer.
But they do play outsidewhen we go to sport,
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I'll take the dog to the fields.
So like when Liam's doinghis baseball practice, Delaney
and I walk the dogand she enjoys that.
We take walksin the neighborhood.
I did sign them up for the kidsTough Mudder, which was the
obstacle course, and they hadso much fun.
They brought a friend.
It was they had ablast doing that.
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We go hiking.
There are a lotof like nature parks
and stuff around as longto get outside into light, learn
to enjoy life and not be stuckon a tablet 24 seven
and I want themto be well-rounded though.
Ego one Delaney goes to a balleton Thursday.
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That's Liam and I date nightwhen we go to Starbucks
and we play board games.
We have an hour and a halfand we don't have any bond,
no electronic anything,and we just play games and just
spend time together and theykind of learn to value that.
That's sweet though, and then Ijust want them to learn
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that there's so,so much to like.
There are so many things to do.
So every time, like last summer,I took them to see like
historical sitesand even though I'm sure they're
a little bit bored, like inthe museums and stuff,
they always find somethingthat they think is
funny or silly is not the mostentertaining thing they've done,
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but they'll remember itas being there.
You know?
And I always try to make it funand they'll be some fun after
I try to take that, you know,talking to the world of Coke
in Atlanta, the aquariums,I just try to get them out
the top two places in Floridawe've gone and done.
I'm taking themto New York City.
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Wow.
This this summer?
Yeah. Yes.
So we're going to gosee all the thing.
And I already toldyou don't have a car there.
So we're going to have to dosome walking there or up
for them.
I've had themin training, walking through the
neighborhood, butnow we're going to go all
through the city.
But it's nice though.
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Yeah.
I never want them to be scaredto be adventurous, you know?
Mm.
That is really cool.
And as a result, those kidslook great too.
You know, a lot of kidsthese days, you see them,
they're they're gaining weight,getting a little chunky,
overweight, don't wantto be outside.
So it's really nice to seethat you have children
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who enjoy that.
They see you, too.
They see you and what you do.
And that's an inspirationto them to be just like
their mama.
Well, I hope thatI can inspire them.
Yeah, they get things.
So right now,the ladies involved in ballet,
the lady does ballet.
Yeah, she was doing gymnastics.
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She's not doing gymnasticsright now, but she's
doing traveling.
And she's really goodat it, too.
Oh, yeah.
And she loves the dance.
And I love that for herbecause you can always dance,
even when she's an adult.
They have adult dance classesthat she could teach dance just,
you know, somethingthat she'll always
be able to do.
Yeah.
And what about Liam?
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What is he up to?
Liam does a football,and right now he's in baseball.
He did soccer and basketballat times, but he's sticking to
the baseball and footballright now, and he does
parkour also.
It's pop.
Parkour.
Well, you know, the AmericanNinja warrior,
you know, on the TV.
You know, there though, there isa place here that it's called
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the Georgia Parkour Academy.
And that's where Delaneydoes tumbling.
And they offer ninjawarrior courses and they
offer parkour,which is, you know, the people
that are like jumping onthe building.
Yeah.
And that's what it is, though.
They have in this big gym.
They have all theselittle obstacles and they
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teach the kids how tojump over the boxes.
Totally.
They're hurry, you got to jump.
And the technique of being ableto jump over all these obstacles
really fast and the guy that I'mthat was actually on American
Ninja Warrior, I know he does itbecause some of
his friends did it.
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The last hour to takein Delaney tumbling And I'm just
sitting there.
I was like, well,why don't you just,
you know, do parkour while she'sdoing her tumble class?
So just giving themsomething to do, it keeps them
moving.
And he enjoys it.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah.
The wild and crazy.
It it is the morekids love it, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
Yep.
Which comes backto adults, you know, we stopped
doing all those crazy,wild things when we get older.
And, you know, if we could justact like kids again, how much
better in shape would we be?
Yeah, right.
Instead of sitting around,just get up and play, right?
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Yeah, absolutely.
Get up and do something.
Even yardwork.
You know, I'm all of that'snot as much fun.
But yeah.
Yard work and your plantsand vegetable plots.
Oh, how's that goingor something?
It's good.
I do it every year.
Yeah.
On my little mini farm now.
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You know, I have thechickens too.
So you're eating really wellfrom your garden.
Do you get enough foodfrom your garden to.
I did that last year.
Last year?
It didn't do very well.
I don't I'm not sure whya lot of people around here
had issues last year,so hopefully this
year will be better.
But I normally yeah, I normallyhave tons of peppers, tomatoes.
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I have a blueberryand blackberry bush and a squash
and zucchini.
I usually have a bunch, sosometimes I even give it away.
Nice thing about thatis, you know, you get past
the pesticides and thepreservatives that they put on
all of our freshsupposedly produce at the
grocery stores.
It's nice having a gardenif you have the time for that.
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That's something elseyou get into your life.
Yeah.
Little farm.
Yeah.
Since we're talking about foodnow, it's let's talk
a little bit more aboutthe way you eat and how
you keep it organizedso that she can stick to it
all week long.
You get my protein in.
I learned that I beyond thegrocery store, any buy regular
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oatmeal there or anotherkind of oatmeal.
It's called Kodiak Oatmeal.
It has extra protein.
So I get that.
I'll get my protein intake.
I substitute like when Imake spaghetti for the kid
instead of eating the pumpkin,it'll be a spaghetti squash.
And then I turnthen to the noodles.
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And that's what I have.
I've tried to get the kids toeat that, and they are right now
with the new doesn't work.
You know, I try toI do eat fried foods
sometimes, but I try to eat thatvery rarely.
I just try to eat fresh like me.
And I eat a lot of salads.
I have started getting likecarrots and celery in instead of
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department ranch and dip themand rice.
I don't drinkjuices very rarely, you know,
I don't drink a lotof Korean grape and apple juice
and things like that.
It's just loaded with sugar.
I hardly ever have sodaand drink the sparkle waters.
That was my transitionbecause I like the carbonation.
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Yeah, the that was ahealthier version of the soda,
I guess.
So I do that now.
I've been doing thatfor years, actually.
I rarely ever drink during soda.
I don't drink that much.
I cut down on drinkinga whole lot, though.
He's like, Oh, when I go to eat,I need to get a beer
or I need to have a black one.
Now put that down.
Why?
I hardly ever greenbeer at all anyway.
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Normally if I drink itlike a glass of red wine
or something andI try to eat organic when I can,
if it makes sense.
I'm not sure aboutthe organic cereal.
I feel like it's probablystill processed.
I don't know.
I have to do a lot of researchto see if that would
even be worth the extra money,produce and stuff.
I try to get organic and then Itry not to buy
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anything that says added sugar.
Okay, so you sounds likeyou make it easy on yourself.
You really don't go too crazy.
You just make better choices.
Yeah, yeah, it's easierthat way, especially with
a family.
You know, if you're goingto be cooking
completely separate things fromthe kids, that makes it
really hard.
And the kids eat vegetablesand stuff.
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So, you know,when I make chicken and chicken,
rice and vegetables that theyhave on cheesecakes,
all of that, then when Igo to work, I started there's a
company called Raney,and they have little mills
that are frozen.
And I get those because it'sjust a healthier version.
And they have macros on there.
So I normally stock up on thoseand they're like $8 and mil.
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But if you think, well,if I went and got something
at cafeteria work, it probablymore than that.
So, probably so yeah,they see that you have the kids
helping you in the kitchento chop vegetables and
and make things so they'relearning to you right there
beside you.
Yeah.
To make their mealsand make better choices.
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That's, that's greatto have them in the kitchen
with you doing thatmaking Grandma's Esther all it.
Yes.
They love that.
Yeah they are.
I think it's fun.
I tell stories about, you know,I made something for grandma.
You know, I'll say this isgrandma recipe and they love it.
And then I try to tell themto, like, when we cook things,
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you know, I'll have themask Alexa.
Ask Alexa what this is good for.
So they learn, you know,they love avocados,
so it's good.
I just want them to be mindfulof what they're eating.
They know making better choicesso that as they get
older, it's easier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tell me about strugglesthat you have had
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throughout the years and how areyou were able to overcome them?
Well, I had a lot of strugglesbecause really it's just
being able to commitand be consistent while being
a single mom and workingfull time and taking care
of the yard and the animal,you know, it's a lot.
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So that's why I went up and downat one point was on the diet,
you know, because it was hardto establish a good routine
and it was hard to know.
It took a lot of timeto come up with me just knowing
how to find healthyfoods quickly and how to make
those meals.
And I didn't know how to do it.
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And I just kind offigured it out.
But it took years.
And then on I finally was like,okay, I have to commit to it.
I have to stick with it.
And once I got the routine,it was okay, but or then it was
sometimes I wouldwork out for month and it would
go, I wouldn't realize.
And that's why I startedwriting it in my agenda,
because I hope, like, you know,next thing you know, it's been
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two months.
And I'm like,When's the last time
I worked out my And,you know, it's been a long time.
Whoa.
So it was like that.
And then with the kids sportand then those changed
football practice mainly Monday,Wednesday now
and baseball seasoncomes around.
It's Tuesday, Thursdayand then I have football
and ballet on the same day.
But once you're in a routineand you're writing it down
(30:06):
to do it, you put iton the calendar
as part of your day and youfind the time to do it.
But it was hard.
Yeah.
And then, of course,there's always a monkey wrench,
right things orOh yeah, that you people might
get sick.
You've got kids to deal with,they get sick.
You get sent home, changesneed to be made or you fall off
the bandwagon a little bitand then you come back again.
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You ask being ableto come back again,
that's another hard thingfor a lot of people
when they fall offtheir schedule, be able to
bounce back and get towhere they were before.
Oh yeah.
Because when I was workingat one hospital
and I had a child care issueand so I had to leave
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and I was like, I can't workin the hospital anymore
because I'm having troublewith them to watch my kid.
And I was havingto take up overtime
just to be able to afford to paythe babysitters or the days
that I work.
And that's how I ended upat the Monday through Friday.
So that was a major life change.
And then I foundwhere I work now and it's a lot
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more flexible and so nowI will make it work.
I found a baby sitter.
She's been with mefor years now, for two years.
She's amazing.
And the babysitting factor has,whether you're the girl
or a lot of times it's peoplewould come and then they know
when you're stressed outabout all of that,
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it makes it harderto focus on her.
So any you know, when youget stressed, you make that
habit already.
My drank too muchsomething or you
my people will strap unhealthymom downtown You're an amazing
woman, Christina.
Look at you.
You raised three children.
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Got a great career, too.
And so while going to school,earning these
extra certificationsso that you can help
other people, not only yourself,but you're still thinking
about others.
How great is that?
And still balancing the work?
The family, the home, the pets?
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Yeah, all of it.
And you're you'rein great shape.
You look great.
You are.
You're happy.
Look at how far you've come.
I know.
Well, thank you so much.
Yeah, I have come a long way.
I'm so proud of it.
I still try to alwaysbe better, though.
I try to, you know,just keep going
and stay positive and everythingalways seems to work out.
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So right now, are you workingin the emergency room
as a nurse or wherewhere are you at
with your career?
So I'm working in theemergency room.
That's my full time thing.
And then I, I just pickup shifts here and there.
And another place.
It's called Purify I.V.
and it's an IV hydration place,though.
(32:59):
It's in a chiropractor's office.
And the guy that ownsit is someone I work
with in the E.R.
And so he knows about nottransformative of the nurse
coach desires and how I wantto be able to help people
live healthy and the peoplethat are there.
And it's in a chiropractor'soffice, they all are kind of
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on the same page as far as,you know, health and fitness
and trying to be healthierin general. So hopefully
it'll maybe open some doors.
Yet.
It sounds it sounds likeyou've landed a nice
little place there.
Tell me about the IV hydration.
They just have differentbags of hydration
that you can get and it justhas different like vitamins
(33:43):
and minerals in them.
If you want a bag, you just comein, you pick which one you want
and there's a mini actually,and then you just
get your fluid.
They get B12 shot,they do semaglutide for weight
loss, which, you know,I don't love that,
but they're actuallymaking some comments
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about trying to have peopleeducated on lifestyle changes
and combination with that.
And it's right there in thechiropractor's
office and it's next to the gymthat I go to, though
some people will just, you know,they might go work out and see
the chiropractor and then get abag of fluids and a B12 shot.
Yeah.
Do you do you try tohelp people decide
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what they might needoff of that menu?
Look at what their symptomsmight be.
Yeah.
Kind of.
You do it sortthere's a whole menu
and it says whateach bag has in it
and what it is good for.
So if you want hydration, you'retrying to call different things.
I can't remember all the thingsbecause I just
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started doing that.
But the whole menuwill tell you it.
You just want you don't wantany of the vitamins at all
and use one just a bag of fluidstill you're dehydrated.
You can get that.
But tells you on the menuwhat each one is good for.
I know quite a few peoplewho have gone for the B12.
Yes, I have had the B12 shots.
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Yeah, Low energy and a littleneed a little boost.
And did it makea difference for you
when you got your B12 shot?
Yeah.
And you can tella little different.
Yeah.
Some people I'm just so activeand always moving,
but a lot of people,they get them regularly and
so they know they're like,I need it.
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But I also takea lot of vitamins and stuff
in general, so I don't knowhow much.
At a certain point your bodycan't process all of it.
Yeah.
So you take a lot of vitaminsor vitamins?
I take a prenatal vitamin,I take creatine,
I take collagen, fish, oil,B12 and vitamin D,
prenatal vitamins.
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Why?
Yes, because they justwork better.
Every time I takeprenatal vitamins, my hair is
like, thicker.
My nails are thicker.
Oh, I've taken a women vitaminjust like the vitamin for women.
But I just.
It is as good when I takea prenatal vitamins.
It's subtle.
My fingernails are thickerand my hair is better.
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Yeah, maybe I need to try thatbecause my nails
are always breaking though.
Mine do too.
And for some reason when Itake the prenatal vitamins,
they're so much better.
Wow.
Like mine are nurse and free ATLvitamins are.
I know. So.
Yes, I feel I'm nowherenear pregnant in Natal.
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I didn't have any more babiesin the future for, you know,
I had a hysterectomy.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's let your other sistersdo the baby thing, right?
Yeah, I, you know, I just nowgot to where I don't have
to bathe somebody, you know,because for 16 to say that son
(36:53):
of one of them got to the ageor they can give themselves
their own shower.
I had another baby and they gotbig enough to get a shower
and I had another baby,you know.
So now Delaney's sick.
I'm finally like,Man, the first time in 16 years
I can say, Y'allgo get a shower.
You're free.
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I'm free.
I don't have to give anybodya bath.
Yeah, that's liberating,isn't it?
Yeah.
And I get to get happy.
Yeah, so I'll get that out.
I wondered, like,one would be like,
when I don't have a little baby,but I'll find.
You'll find out one day againwhen your grandma.
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Not too soon.
Now, that's now.
Hopefully not.
Yeah.
I'd like for you to thinkfor a second about goals
that you would like to giveour listeners.
First, about health and fitnessthat could possibly reach more
and how to get there.
One goal would be to take awayone unhealthy item
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that you consume.
Well, you know, take it awaycompletely.
You're just if you'redrinking sodas
all the time to say no, I'm nothave any.
So during the week,I'll have a soda on the weekend.
The same with alcoholor fried foods, just something
that is unhealthy that you'reeating too much of or drinking
too much up at that name.
And then another goalwould be just to try to do
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30 minutes of activity threeor four times week.
Whether you walk for 30 minutes,you have a gym membership, swim
one in the pool,if you like that, go outside
and you go height somewhere,anything just 30 minutes, 3
to 4 times a week in them.
How to do that would be tomake a calendar and add it
(38:42):
on calendar, get itinto your schedule, and then
make sure you do it and committo doing it and try to like
fitness and help apps and stuffon social media.
Because I cleared out anythingthat was politics
and negative energyand I just started liking
(39:02):
these pages that had peoplewho are into health and fitness.
And it doesn't just have tobe hardcore high
intensity fitness.
There are some people that justthey sell herbs or they
meditate regularlyor they do yoga and I
like their pages.
And so my newsfeedon social media always has
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something healthy.
There are peoplethat dance that way
and their danceclasses will pop up
and that just kind of helpsinspire me and, encourage
me to keep going.
So if people do that kind ofyou always see it
and it keeps itfresh on your mind.
Very good.
Do you dance?
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I don't really dance.
I did take a barclass at the gym.
I've done Zumba classes and Ithought about taking adult belly
laugh where Delaney goesto ballet, Zumba, about how cool
would that be?
But I didn't.
I don't have time forbelly laugh now.
Yeah. Yeah.
I have to draw the line.
You know, I haveno schedule right now, so.
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But yeah, soI never dance large.
I never took dance or anythinglike that.
Now, is it good?
So at least are have a littlemore time.
Yeah. Yeah.
And you in the lady can she canshow you some moves show
or she can write you guysin your spare time
in the living room.
She can show you some of herballet moves.
Oh yes, she would love that.
Yeah, she could teach Liam, too.
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That would be fun.
Yeah.
Yeah. No.
Who is that?
Do we have the lady there?
You know, say hi.
Hi. Hi.
Delaney, little ballerina.
She's here and gone up.
She said, Oh, yeah.
Cartwheels in the background.
Beautiful.
Nice.
Does she ever get you to docartwheels?
We do cartwheel and we hadheadstand contest and we've had
(40:52):
bridge contests and I alwayswear them and she always
wins them.
Awesome.
We got to keep on tryingto get Mommy better at that.
Get it, get her better it beacting like a kid.
Yeah.
Rach.
Oh, she said I need tostretch more.
Yeah, that's a great that's,that's a great thing
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I'm going to say actually.
Yeah.
Do you incorporate thatinto your physical fitness
routine at all?
Flexible.
I do sometimes,but actually do it
probably more.
Our bodies definitely need that,especially as her muscles
get stronger.
Enhanced flexibility should beincorporated into your regiment.
Yes, that's very cool.
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So there's another thing to puton your calendar.
Yes, stretch it doesn't taketoo long.
I could have been stretchingwhile we're talking.
Yeah, it's just thatthe computer on the floor, even
for again.
All right, Christine, it'sbeen so nice talking to you.
You're a true inspiration,not only to your family.
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It's brought you a long wayfighting through their struggles
to get to where you needto be in life and to keep
those lifestyle changes goingso that you can continue
with those new habitsthat you've learned
from eating better, substitutingbetter things in your diet,
writing down your schedule.
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So important to help youkeep on track.
That's great.
And I know that whenpeople listen to this recording,
they'll be able to takeyour ideas and put them to
work for themselvesso you can know that you're
helping others just by talkingabout what you do.
If anybody wants to reach outto you to talk about
your transformativenurse coaching, would you be
(42:40):
open to that?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you can share your knowledgewith them and try to help them
on the right path to best formtheir lives.
I would love to do thatbecause everybody has to find
their own way.
What's good for me in my routineis not good for someone else.
Nothing.
They might do somethingdifferent.
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They might need to dosomething different.
It's not a one way fits all.
Yeah.
And sometimesit's so hard for us to look
at our lifestyle files and thinkthat we just can't make
any changes.
But when somebodyelse looks at it, maybe they can
help you just tweak it hereand there and try to get
things out to make things betterfor you.
(43:21):
Yeah, in the long run, we allwant to be happy, healthy
and feeling good, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
Christina, thank you so muchfor being on the show today.
Thank you for having me.
Absolutely inspired methrough the years to, you know.
Yeah.
Your beach, yoga and fitness.
The.
(43:42):
Yeah, it's always active.
It's me and anybodythat I can inspire them.
Seeing what I do, that's.
That's awesome, you know?
All right, well, you take careand I'll pick it
up, as you said.
All right.
Bye bye.
This is Angela Graysonfrom the Loving Life
Fitness Podcast.
(44:04):
To help others in their fitnessjourney.It’s all possible.
It's time to wake up.
Here we go.
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