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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome.
Welcome to the Ready SetCollaborate podcast with Wanda
Pearson.
I am so excited to have myguest, Davida Bostic, and she's
going to talk to us aboutintegrative nutrition, health,
and I know I need to get myselftogether, Davida, you probably
don't have to be helping me out.
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I have a sweet tooth and I needto get rid of that sweet tooth.
My doctor already told me thatI am so excited for you to come
and share your knowledge thatcan help people get it together,
because this is 2025 and healthis so important.
To be able to do the rightthings to stay alive longer,
right?
Say hello to the audience,davida.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Hi audience.
It's Davida Bostic, integrativeNutrition Health Coach.
How's everyone?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yes, yeah, I'm so
excited.
I've been trying to get her onand I got her on.
This year has been a great.
We've had some great guests on,really help people, and this is
very important to what you'redoing as far as helping us to do
the right thing, to have theright approach to our nutrition.
So I think all of us can usethis and I want my husband to
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hear this too.
He's going to hear it too.
As far as what we should andwhat we shouldn't do, let's get
this show a party on the roadhere, and I'm going to talk
about the Vita's bio.
Meet the Vita Bostic, anintegral integrative nutrition
health coach and the creator ofthe MAI health food model a
practical approach to nutritionthat helps busy individuals lose
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weight, boost energy and cutsugar without giving up
convenience.
With years of experiencecoaching entrepreneurs,
professionals and parents,davida believes in meeting
people where they are andguiding them through the ultra
process, through landscape,toward a sustainable whole foods
lifestyle.
Forget strict diets.
Her method is all aboutrealistic, lasting health
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transformation.
I love that.
So I can.
I don't have to give upeverything you can help me do.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
No, you don't have to
.
You don't have to give upeverything right now.
Giving up everything is reallynot for everybody, and just the
way that the mind naturallyworks is just going cold Turkey
on things Usually.
It's not sustainable.
We're beings of habit, and soit's habits that really help us
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make long-term changes, not justus deciding one day okay, light
bulbs on, we're going to make achange.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It is the habits that
sustain us Absolutely and
habits are hard to break.
So by you starting off slowlyand getting us to the point that
we need to be in yes, when youcome in to actually help us be
sustainable, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Did I say that right?
Yes, yes, ok, thank you.
I'm going to ask some questionshere for you.
I wanted to know what inspiredyou to become a health coach.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
What inspired me to
become a health coach.
Growing up, my dad used to doamateur bodybuilding when he was
younger, and so growing up withhim, just having him around.
Of course, by the time we wereborn, he wasn't bodybuilding
doing amateur bodybuildinganymore, but growing up, just
him being around.
He believed in fitness.
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He was a very fit man.
He believed in his supplements.
He believed in eating healthy.
He used to research a lot offoods.
He would always inspire me andmy brother to just try a lot of
different things.
He introduced us to a lot ofdifferent foods at the time.
He introduced us to things likegoat milk, honey and banana
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sandwiches and with raisins andit was like what is this man
doing?
We would have oatmeal and wewould have tropical fruit
oatmeal and we're like why yougot papaya and oatmeal type of
thing?
But my dad would always say no,you got to eat it, you got to
make sure you get your nutritionin, like you got to explore
food.
So just growing up, him and mymother being entrepreneurs, they
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were always on the go.
They were always on the go andthey actually helped inspire me
to become a health coach.
To be honest with you, justhaving that background and
having parents who worked a lot,my mom couldn't get in the
kitchen every day and cook sothey would always try to source
like the best options of food.
My dad was very big on us takingmultivitamins, drinking a lot
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of water and, just over time,just living that lifestyle.
Then witnessing a lot of mymom's friends and our family
friends and just their healthand how they suffered from
health issues and things likethat.
I just put it together.
Put it together.
I'm like, okay, what is a goodlifestyle?
A healthy lifestyle?
Every night, my dad would do aset of sit-ups, push-ups and
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jumping jacks.
No matter how tired he was,he'll sleep and do jumping jacks
because he was just thatmotivated and adamant about
getting your fitness in everyday.
That really became a catalystfor me to become a health coach
and it helped to really push mein the direction to want to be
able to help people, because Inoticed that a lot of people
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usually suffer, especially whenthey're busy.
They have children, you runbusinesses or you have a very
high demanding career.
You suffer in choices, careeryou suffer in choices and just
being able to have someone in acommunity that understands how
to make good choices, to developgood habits to live a healthy
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life.
That's what really motivated meto become a health coach.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That's inspirational,
I tell you, especially when you
learn from a young age to beable to do this and you
definitely get that this was God, this was your mission from God
.
Yeah, you have to build hislegacy.
Yes, that is great.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
What does integrative
nutrition mean?
Yeah, integrative nutrition isbasically an approach to
nutrition that factors in thewhole person, but not just the
whole person, but what works forthe whole person.
Integrative nutrition alsotakes into account the multiple
health modalities veganism,paleo, all the different type of
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diets, all different type ofmodalities, whether they're
holistic or medical, to help fixor get to the root of a problem
with a person.
For me personally, based on theprinciples of integrative
nutrition, I developed somethingthat I like to call the seven
sovereign foods.
Right, integrative nutrition tome focuses on these core
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perspectives, and it isspirituality, nutrition,
physical fitness, knowledge ofself, community, environment and
emotional health.
When you talk about integrativenutrition, there's a wheel that
I basically created that hasthose seven factors on it, and
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those seven factors isintegrative nutrition.
It's not just about what youeat, it's not just about how you
eat it, it's not just abouteating period.
It's about how you move, it'sabout how you think, it's about
how well you know yourself, itis about the environment you're
in, the community you're in, andtaking into account how all of
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these elements help to frameyour mind in the proper way to
make good decisions about yourhealth on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's awesome and
I'm going to make you repeat
those at the end of the sevenprinciples.
Yeah, no, I agree with all ofthose that you're saying here.
So, yeah, that's going to beyour ending note.
Now, what are the sevenprinciples?
Again, I'm actually the readers.
Are you going to tell us whatthe principles are?
But no, it really makes senseto do that.
How was whole food lifestyledifferent from a typical diet?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah.
So I lived a whole foodslifestyle for a long time coming
, being a teenager, coming intoadulthood.
A whole foods life, a wholefoods lifestyle, is not a
restrictive lifestyle.
It is something that naturallygoes with the flow of how your
life is.
It is about those choices,again, that you make on the
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daily basis.
A whole foods lifestyle is, inthe morning, instead of me
having a five stack of pancakeswith eggs, guess what I'm going
to do?
I'm going to have lemon waterand a bowl of berries with some
grapes and some oranges, andthen I'm going to go on a 15
minute walk.
Typical diets usually say youcan't eat this, you can't eat
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this, you can't eat that, youcan't eat that.
A whole foods lifestyle saysokay, this is the time that I
have, this is the money that Ihave.
I'm going to take this and makethis choice and then and I'm
doing I'm making this choice forthe betterment of my health I
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cannot, I'm not choosing to eatthis because someone said I
can't.
If I choose not to eatsomething is because it's not
the best for me.
So a whole foods lifestyle isalso not just about what you eat
, it's how you eat it, but alsothe mindset behind how you eat,
what you eat, and I'm going togive you another example Whole
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foods lifestyle mindset is forlunch.
I'm just going to decide to eata heavy lunch so I can eat a
lighter dinner.
I know that bread bloats me.
I know that I have an allergyto cheese me.
I know that I have an allergyto cheese.
I'm not a vegan per se, but I'mnot going to have anything with
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gluten for lunch and I'm notgoing to have anything with
cheese in it for lunch.
What I'll do, I'll getsomething that has more rice,
more vegetables, and I'm goingto make sure that every meal
that I eat has a raw vegetableon it or a fresh vegetable.
I have to eat a salad or I haveto eat a bowl of fruit.
That is a whole foods lifestyle.
Typical diet says no.
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You can't.
Sometimes without reallysometimes coming from a place of
biasness as to why this is theultimate best and not
necessarily what is the best foryou in your situation that is,
that's powerful.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, now I can think
I can do that.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Cause I was asked.
I actually asked what are thefoods that has less sugar in it?
Yeah, I know I'm not a papayadrinker, but I said, okay, I got
strawberries.
I do like strawberries.
Yeah, I didn't realize.
I love pineapples, but I guessthat has a lot of sugar.
Can you eat pineapple too?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, yes, yeah,
because it's a natural sugar.
The sugar that comes from afruit, when the plant converts
that sugar in the fruit, isdifferent from the sugar that
you get when it's processed in afacility.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay, that's good to
know.
Yeah, I think I go on that.
Whole foods, yeah.
So how can someone transitionto a whole food diet easily?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Okay, this is where I
came in.
This is where I come in atright, someone transitioning
into a whole foods diet easily.
Like I say, I take into accountthe what I like to call the
seven sovereign foods.
But there's a method that Icreated and you read it earlier.
It's called the my Health FoodModel M-A-I.
I don't call it the May, I callit the my Health Food Model.
And the my Health Food Modelbasically stands for minimize,
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alternate and integrate.
It's not about going cold turkey, cutting everything off.
It's about taking small stepsto minimize something first.
Once you start makingminimizations on something that
you know hey, I have a problemwith sugar, I have a problem
with meat, I have a problem witheating fatty fried foods we're
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going to minimize that.
Once we can minimize that, thenwe're going to work on the
alternations.
What do I like?
That can give me the samesatisfaction.
That is a great alternate andusually that's where you would
stay for a while.
You will stay in the minimizingand alternating because why?
You can still eat what you wantto eat, and most of the time you
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can.
It just comes in a form of howyou eat it, right?
For instance, if someone hasloved cookies right.
What a lot of people don't knowis they may think that, oh, I
love the sweetness of crunchycookies, or I love chocolate.
But sometimes it's really noteven the taste of the cookies
that you want, it's actually thecrunch of the cookie that you
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want.
It is the texture that you want.
This particular texture you canget from cookies.
So now we know, okay, this ismore of a texture thing, not
necessarily a taste thing.
Now we're going to think about,okay, what is an alternative to
this crunchy type of cookiethat gives me this same feeling?
And so now we're minimizing thetraditional cookie and now
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we're alternating with somethingelse, just one at a time, one
at a time.
Okay, I can tolerate this, Ican tolerate this.
And then, once we do theminimize, alternate rotation for
a while.
Guess what we go to integrateOnce you get to the integration
stage, the integration is youknow what?
I am absolutely going to makethis a permanent staple in my
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life.
I am going to now do more ofthis.
I am going to do more of this.
And with the my Health Foodmodel, I know it works for me.
It's worked for a lot of peoplearound me that I've talked to,
that I've given them tips on howto fix that, people that I've
coached and things, and I justhope it works for the world to
be honest with you.
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But that's definitely one thingthat I saw, because people
don't like to be told no, theydon't like to be told no, they
don't like to be told I can't.
Because sometimes when you sayyou can't, no, it's like I think
I want to go do it more.
How do you like that?
And so it's like how do youbreak that habit?
And it's let's minimize it,let's find out, which, again, is
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where a health coach comes intoplace.
A health coach helps you findwhat the problem really is, and
sometimes the problem.
Most of the time, the problemis usually not exactly what you
think it is.
It's not necessarily the taste,it's not necessarily the place
that you're going, it is thefeeling that you get from doing
this thing.
And so if we can find minimize,find alternations for that
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feeling, then we can actuallystart to integrate healthier
lifestyles.
That's how a person would beable to transition to a whole
foods diet more easily easily.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Wow, that's deep and
that's so true.
I was going to ask you what MAIand I wrote it down here
Minimize, alternate andintegrate.
That's M-A-I.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Health food model.
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, so that's
awesome.
That's awesome.
That really does make sense.
Yep, that crunchiness ofcooking, that's what I need.
To give up my yeah.
So we got to get an alternateof that.
How do you help clientsovercome their food cravings?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, so, in terms of
overcoming food cravings, what
I just explained with the myHealth Food Model, that's how we
start the steps of overcomingthose food cravings, because
that's one step.
Another step would also be liketesting, doing DNA testing to
see are there any imbalances inyour system that's causing your
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brain to say, hey, I need moreof this red meat, I need more of
this chocolate, because there'ssomething in that food that
your body is probably saying,hey, I, when you give me this, I
feel better.
Give me more and more of this.
So there are two ways, like Isay, it is with the testing, to
make sure that your nutrition,mineral levels and everything
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like that is good, which, ofcourse, is something that can be
overseen by a nutritionist ordietitian Because, again, I'm a
health coach.
I offer the solution, I provideyou with the tools and I offer
you the solution to get to theproblem and I help you implement
the tools and I offer you thesolution to get to the problem
and I help you implement thehabits right, but I'm not the
one that helps to diagnose andgive you all of that stuff like
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that.
But yeah, that's how you can dothat, that's how I help my
clients with their cravings.
We get to the root of that.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And that makes sense.
Yeah, I definitely love whatyou're saying here, so it's just
, yeah, trying to get started.
I'm happy you're on againbecause there's a lot of
information here.
What role does stress and sleepplay in nutrition?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
oh my gosh, it is so
much to unpack.
It is so much to unpack withthat stress and sleep.
Okay, stress is a number one.
Let me reframe that Sleep is anumber one pillar to good health
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and nutrition.
Okay, because when you sleepand you have good sleep your
body actually craves the properthings.
Your brain can function better,your nerves, your neuron,
everything in your body comes onsync.
It's like it comes online whenyou have proper sleep.
Okay, because you're not just,it's not just about the act of
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sleeping, but the biologicalprocess of when you sleep.
That also factors into yourenvironment.
Ok, good sleep is alsodetermined by environment.
Sleep major pillar Now stressis a major pillar in destroying
health, in destroying health,and knowing how to properly
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manage stress and not allowstress to interrupt one of your
main pillars of health, which isyour sleep, is what helps you
with proper nutrition.
Like I say to me, nutrition isthe spirituality, is the
knowledge of self, is theenvironment, the community, is
the physical, health is all ofthat.
The role that stress and sleepplays in nutrition is one is the
destroyer and one is thecreator.
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One helps to build your healthand one helps to deconstruct
your health.
And when it comes to the waythat your body processes food,
when it comes to the way thatyour body processes minerals,
vitamins, from the food that youeat, when it comes to how you
eat, what you desire to eat,even cravings.
When your sleep is not on point, you crave a lot more unhealthy
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foods because your body istrying to do what it's trying to
release the stress.
When your body is overstressedbecause of poor sleep, your body
is going to say, hey, go eatthis sweet thing, go eat this
red meat, go get that fried food, go get that.
Those are all signals to reducestress and those are.
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That's just.
It's just so much to unpackthere, but those are some of the
main pillars of how stress andsleep play a role in nutrition.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wow, that's awesome
as far as how you laid it down.
Yeah, that's so important, girl, we're running out of time here
.
What are some of thebudget-friendly whole food
options that you can use?
Okay, budget-friendly, makingit fun and easy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Well, okay, budget
friendly whole foods options.
Let's see budget friendly.
When you say budget friendly,what we're talking about?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
no more than fifty
dollars yeah, with the food cost
today, I don't know okay.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
so some budget
friendly whole foods options.
Fresh vegetables are usuallyalways the best those.
Those are usually your topwhole foods, next to fresh.
You can do frozen foods.
So you can do things likebananas, oranges, those basics.
Berries, raspberries,blackberries, strawberries,
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blueberries, those types ofthings.
Sometimes even treat yourselfto maybe a dragon fruit, some
type of exotic fruit, once aweek, just pay the $5 for it, $2
, $ type of things.
Sometimes even treat yourselfto maybe a dragon fruit, some
type of exotic fruit, once aweek, just pay the $5 for it, $2
, $3 for it.
Because the amount of nutritionthat you get from that food
versus a $5 meal at McDonald'sor Burger King is really going
to benefit your health longerterm.
So you can do berries, oatmealIf you're into oatmeal, even
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quinoa, just get a bag of quinoa, do a half a cup of quinoa in
the morning and season it andput some fruit on the side.
Or you can do frozen fruit,like the dragon fruits, the
mixed berries, and makesmoothies with it.
So those are some verybudget-friendly whole foods
options.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That's good.
Smoothies with smoothies bepart of that.
Can you make smoothies withthat, like the?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's usually what I
do.
I make smoothies with the fruitand the yogurt.
Yeah, that's good to know.
How can we make it fun and easywith families?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
How could you make it
fun and easy with families?
Get the family involved.
Definitely, get the familyinvolved With me.
When I because I have mychildren, when we're eating
healthy, I allow them to say,hey, okay, everybody, pick a
fruit.
I'm going to pick a fruit.
What type of fruit do you want?
And most of the time it'susually expensive fruit bowls.
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But I say, no, we're not goingto do a $30 fruit bowl.
We're going to spend about $20.
We're going to get some bags offruit.
We're going to make our ownfruit bowls, which usually come
out a lot better, so definitelygetting the family involved,
family community involved.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's
awesome, I agree.
So, yeah, you're giving me someideas here, but I got to talk
to you offline.
As far as I need to, mine is,for some reason.
So what's a simple go-to mealyou recommend?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A simple go-to meal
that I recommend.
Okay, a lot of people feel likethis is not the best because
people like variety, but asimple go-to meal is some rice.
I like to do coconut rice withsome black beans, right, and a
kale salad, a blueberry kalesalad.
So you just get some kale,blueberries and maybe some vegan
feta cheese, or you can do whatthey call it's called like a
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pate, like a cashew or nut pate.
You toss those, the kale andthe blueberries in that with
some type of bread, some type ofbread.
You can do things likeunleavened bread.
You can do a cornbread.
A lot of people in the Souththey eat the cornbread.
So you can do a cornbread, youcan do a pita bread.
But I usually like to balancemy plates with being a protein,
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a starch, a grain and a freshfruit, a vegetable and water.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
OK, ok, that and
water.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Okay, okay that makes
sense.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That makes sense,
Girl.
We run it out.
It's time here, but let me askyou this, and then we're going
to do the final takeaways howdoes the mindset affect eating
habits?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
To be honest with you
, mindset is the number one
factor that determines goodeating habits, and that is one
of the reasons.
That's the main reason why Iactually developed the my health
food model because, like I say,I realize people don't like to
be told no.
You cannot do no.
If you, if we can continue tofeel like we're in control of
our choices, we will make betterdecisions long-term.
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And so mindset is the numberone key.
If I know, if I make thedecision to say you know what,
this is not good for me, so I'mgoing to minimize this.
But let me try with somethingelse.
I feel good about this.
You know what.
I'm going to make this along-term thing.
And the next thing by the timeI get to the end of the my
Health Food Model, which is theIntegrate, I'm no longer eating
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that thing.
That's unhealthy for me, butbecause it's been making me feel
so good during this time, I cantake this with me long-term and
with a lot of people that Ihave helped with the my Health
Food Model, they still use thesesame principles to this day and
it works for them.
My mom called me sometime, mysister called me and they're
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like hey, this is snack, I'mtrying to eat, this is snack.
But you know what?
I did this the other day, butwhat I'm going to do?
The last two weeks I've been ontrack like this, I've been on
track like this and they're verymindful, very aware, just for
that.
But mindset is the number one.
If your mindset is not right,it's not going to work.
And, believe it or not, there'sa large percentage of people
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and I'm not going to say thepercentage because I don't want
to be inaccurate, but there'sactually a large percentage of
people that revert after goingon strict diets.
Most of them don't, and that'swhy a lot of large weight loss
companies and stuff they'rebillion dollar industries
because people do not stay ontrack with strict diets.
They don't.
It's not practical to life.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
This is great because
it's an alternative that you're
offering, because when you goon those diets and you lose the
weight, then you get off them,then you're gaining the weight
back again.
What you're offering isactually an alternative that
minimize alternate, mai.
Minimize alternate integrate.
That's great we're winding down, but tell us those seven
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principles you told us aboutagain.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Okay, yeah, so the
seven sovereign foods of health
is spirituality, nutrition,physical fitness, knowledge of
self, community, environment andemotional health.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
That makes sense.
That's great.
That is great.
So where can listeners connectwith you?
Because you give?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
me a lot of great
information.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
My head is like
spinning, okay, I got it.
Listeners can connect with meon Instagram.
My Instagram is my name DavidaBostic, my TikTok is my name
Davida Bostic, or you can justlook up Davida.
You can find me there, and myYouTube is Davida Bostic, so you
just look for my name andyou'll find me.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Okay, and we spell
your name D-A-V-I-D-A.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
David with an A.
Yes David with an A, yes Davidwith an A.
And then, Bostic.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's awesome,
davida.
I appreciate you being on thepodcast with me and you gave
some great inspiration as far aswhat we do, because now, like I
said, this is 2025.
Now we need to get ourlifestyle together.
Yes, most definitely To be ableto live a longer life.
Yes, but no.
Thank you so much for being onthe podcast.
And I'm going to have you onagain because you gave a lot of
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stuff.
She does so many other things,but we just picked this subject
for today.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yes, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Definitely connect
with Davida Bostic.
She definitely have a lot ofthings to share to help you get
on the right track as far asdining, eating the right foods
and your lifestyle to live along life, most definitely.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Thank you once again.
Audience, I want you to makesure that you share, like and
follow Ready Set Collaboratepodcast with Wanda Pierce.
I'm on all podcast platform aswell as YouTube, so definitely
connect with us and connect withDavida.
Thanks again, davida.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Yeah, thank you, ms
Wanda.
Bye, bye.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That wraps up another
episode of Ready Set.
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