October 17, 2025 • 28 mins
In this conversation, Erin Stanczyk, Founder of Eat Move Rest, shares her transformative journey towards a healthier lifestyle, focusing on her transition to a plant-based diet, the creation of her cookbook, and the importance of involving family in healthy eating habits. She emphasizes the significance of daily habits, mindfulness, and community support in achieving and maintaining health. Erin also provides practical tips for those looking to start their own health journey, highlighting the importance of gradual changes and the role of rest in overall well-being.
Takeaways
- Erin experienced significant health issues during her college years.
- She discovered the importance of food as medicine.
- Transitioning to a plant-based diet was a gradual process for Erin and her husband.
- The Happy Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook was created to help others on their health journey.
- Daily habits like movement and mindfulness are crucial for health.
- Involving children in healthy eating fosters better habits.
- Starting with small changes can lead to significant health improvements.
- Community support is vital for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
- Rest and mindfulness are often neglected but essential for well-being.
- Erin emphasizes the importance of leading by example for her children.
Chapters
00:21 Erin's Journey to Health and Wellness
09:37 Transitioning to a Plant-Based Lifestyle
11:35 The Happy Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook
14:02 Daily Habits for Health and Fitness
16:34Balancing Family Life and Health
21:31 Tips for Eating More Plants
22:46 Future Goals and Community Building
Find out more about Erin:
Erin shares her wisdom through Eat Move Rest, a platform she co-founded with her husband Dusty to help others live a more vibrant, plant-powered lifestyle. Together, they’ve inspired millions through their YouTube channel, retreats, and now their brand new book, The Happy Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook — enjoy better living for the whole family with this down-to-earth, full-color plant-based cookbook featuring 75 of our most delicious recipes!
Whether you’re just starting your wellness journey or looking to simplify your routines, Erin’s mission is clear: to make healthy living approachable, sustainable, and joyful for everyone. 🌱
→ Learn more: eatmoverest.com→ Watch on YouTube: Eat Move Rest→ Get the new book: The Happy Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook
Keywords
plant-based, health journey, cookbook, healthy eating, family wellness, lifestyle changes, mindfulness, superfoods, daily habits, community support
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(00:05):
Hi, I'm Crystal. And I'm Michael, and we're the
founders of Super Plans. If you're ready to improve your
health and live a life you love,hit subscribe and let's get
started. Welcome to Super Health Talk.
Welcome to podcast. Today we're excited to have a
special guest, Aaron Stanzig, a certified health and lifestyle
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coach, fitness instructor and Cofounder of Eat, Move, rest and
now also the author of her new book, the happy healthy plant
based cookbook. Alongside her husband Dusty,
Aaron inspires families to eat more plants, moving daily and
getting quality rest. Welcome Aaron.
Thank you for joining us today. So excited I want to dive in a
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little bit more in your, in yourjourney Today we're going to
really talk about your weight loss journey and how you, you
know how you really made those lifestyle changes.
I read that you experience weight gain, get anxiety
attacks, hormonal imbalances. And can you take us back a
little bit through that time andshare with you we're going
through? Yeah, definitely.
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Well, thank you so much, Crystalfor having me on today.
I'm excited to be here. I feel like we align on so many
different levels. So this yeah, yeah, I feel like
taking it back. I always kind of like to start
back in high school because I was kind of starting to figure
out who I was, or so I thought. You know, I was a straight A
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student on honor roll, top 3% ofmy class and I was doing sports
and extracurriculars and I wouldcome home from school.
My mom was kind of ahead of her time.
She was already juicing and making me and my brother, who
was also an athlete, like juicesand healthy meals.
But on the same, the flip side, the flip side of that, we were
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also, you know, like eating the standard American diet.
So a lot of like processed foods, restaurant foods, fast
food, a lot of sugar was like a candy holic.
I would hide like Dusty when we got together later down the
road, he was like, you have candy everywhere, like in your
glove compartment in your car, you know, you know, like in
random drawers everywhere. I'm like, sorry.
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So I got the full spectrum of food, the good and the bad.
And then when I got to college, that's when I really kind of
derailed, so to speak. I didn't know how to cook.
I never paid attention when my mom was like, honey, do you want
to help me in the kitchen? I was like, uh, uh, that's not
for me. So in college I was like, I
didn't even know how to boil water.
So I was living off of, again, more of the processed packaged
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food that I had I've been introduced to throughout my
youth as opposed to like, you know, cooking and juicing or
going to grab a smoothie even. You know, it was just staying
out late and honestly, like probably just doing the normal
college thing, drinking and justsocializing.
And I feel like somewhere along the line I lost sight of like
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even looking in the mirror and recognizing who I was anymore.
Like I, I remember this one day,like going to the college rec
center with my roommate and my best friend and like stepping on
the scale. And I was just shocked that I
had somehow so quickly gained somuch weight, more than the
freshman 15 that we all hear about.
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And that was pretty disheartening to me.
So I was kind of, you know, like, well, you know, I can
still go out and party. I just need to exercise it off
during the week. And so it was like this roller
coaster and that definitely didn't work.
Like, you know, we, I know now that food is really the true
starting point to better health,but I tried to go that route and
it just ended up being this, youknow, entry point into like
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really poor mental, physical andemotional health.
You know, I started having brainfog and just really like,
lethargy, hormonal imbalances and irregularities, knee
breakouts, things like that. Anyway, yeah, Long story short,
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lots of symptoms. I felt like I was just in this
tangled up, sticky web. And, you know, I would ask my
dad, who's a physician, like, isthis normal?
Is that normal? Like, I started feeling like I
was having symptoms of some sortof like, autoimmune disorder,
like multiple sclerosis with like, a numbness and tingling
and just like my extremities, I just felt really weak and,
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again, foggy. And it was creating so much
panic and anxiety within me. I became this like
hypochondriac. And we're supposed to feel like
we're invincible in our 20s, youknow, And I definitely wasn't.
And I realize now, why was I expecting to feel good when I
wasn't doing good things for myself?
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So somewhere along the line, towards the end of college, I
got together with Dusty. We started getting healthier.
But you know, we started doing what we were told, like
consuming a lot of clean proteinand like the free range eggs and
all that kind of stuff, grillingour own meat at home instead of
fast food processed things. But I still wasn't feeling good.
And it wasn't until I came upon this idea of food as medicine
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and like Whole Foods, raw foods,living foods, eat the rainbow.
I'm a whole food plant based diet.
And we learned about doctor Esselstyn and heard him speak at
a local hospital in Nebraska where I'm from.
And we just decided to like try it for 40 days, but we didn't
want to go completely vegan because that seems totally like
unattainable and like we might die.
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We were kind of afraid that we wouldn't survive it.
So we tried to go vegetarian for40 days and it was, it was
pretty much a breeze. I'm, I got to say, because I
still didn't like to cook. And I'm like, if I don't have to
touch a slimy piece of raw meat,I am in for this.
So we enjoyed it and Dusty went out and celebrated at day 40 and
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got a burger. But we realized that it was
attainable. We felt better and my weight was
kind of like going back to whereit was supposed to be and all of
that. So we decided let's just, you
know, take our time and let's see how how far along we can get
with this vegan thing, this plant based diet.
So we just like slowly and steadily overtime eliminated
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foods. And I feel like that made it
really healthy for us instead ofjust like swiping everything
clean from the from the fridge and the pantry and trying to
like incorporate a bunch of new foods we had never tried before.
We just did it slowly over time and felt better and better and
better. And blood work got better too.
So like this, you know, straightA student in me felt really good
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when I was getting those like straight A's, so to speak, on my
blood work report. Like my cholesterol before had
been super high and lots of heart disease on my dad's side
of the family and my mom's side.I had actually, I don't talk
about this very often, but my dad's brother, who he was
closest with, he was one of ten kids.
So his brother actually had a heart attack and passed away in
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his face. And now being that I am a year
and a half away from turning 40,that seems far too young to me
and, and just super sad for, youknow, his kids and my cousins
and my uncle who's had several heart bite or my dad has had a,
a bypass. Now my grandpa had several, same
with my, my grandpa on my mom's side.
So I was like, the cholesterol thing just really, really scared
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me enough to be like, I don't need the eggs, I don't need the
animal products. And the cool thing is, you know,
every single plant food contains0 cholesterol and every animal
product it does contain it. So it was an easy way to improve
it dramatically in a short period of time.
It's a journey, right? Like even if I hear you talk
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about it, it's like it's so interesting, like a lot.
I think it's, it's never an overnight.
Like yes, I, I personally went overnight vegan, but it's always
your health. It's just such a journey and I
think you continue, you know, continuously learn and get to
know your body. Our bodies are changing.
So I think it's just so interesting to hear, right?
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And that also your focus, if I listen to you, it's not just
eight, it's actually really like, how do I get healthy?
And I think that's such a powerful reminder where I think
we so often in the world we live, it's so much about only
the way we look, right, and wantto look a certain way.
But it's so important to like, shift that focus to, OK, but how
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do I actually feel every day? And like, what is my true
health? And getting work done at least
once a year is like such a good reminder of that, right?
Like what is actually going on inside your body?
Yeah, yeah, There was that window of time where I just
wanted to look better and I did start looking better, but my
blood work showed that I wasn't actually like necessarily
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feeling better with the cholesterol being high and all
that. And yeah, there are, there's
kind of like 3 prongs really. You know, we want to look
better, yes, we want to feel better and we want to live
longer, hopefully. So yeah, that I think the looks
department is just one part and all the three that can be
changed radically. Percent and it's off they go
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together. I think that's the powerful
thing, right, Where you actually, if you, I often I feel
if I shift my mindset more to health, it's like kind of
everything else, right? Just also follows, follows along
because you don't just signal out one thing.
Yeah. So how if you think about the
interest transition, you also talked about raw living food.
(09:32):
So like, well, how you like how you were eating then in the
beginning versus how you're eating now.
How has that changed? And like what?
What does it look like? Like a typical day for you right
now? Yeah, I think as soon as I went
completely plant based, then I stumbled upon raw vegans who
were totally eating only raw foods.
And I was like, Oh my gosh, there's a whole nother level to
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this. Like it's just getting insanely
and my mind is blown. But seeing so many people living
these like vibrant, abundant lives was just like super
appealing to me. So I was like, you know, I'm
just going to try and do like incorporate more living foods
into my diet. I don't feel like I want to go
completely raw. So I started doing, you know,
just like eating raw for breakfast and lunch and then
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more of the hearty warmed cookedfoods at dinner time.
And that's kind of how I, I, I adhered to that, I would say
pretty consistently for the first few years.
And then I got pregnant and all of a sudden I, I was just like
craving a little bit more substance, I guess.
And then especially after givingbirth to Max, my first born, I
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was reading about like oats and how they can be great for
lactation and I was like cravingthem.
So still, I would say to this day, I'm really embracing a lot
of the raw foods, but not quite.I'm not so rigid with it to
where I only eat raw during the day and only eat cooked at
night. It's a good blend throughout the
day, but I try to incorporate raw foods at every meal.
And it's been working really well for me.
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For example, like, you know, starting the day with a big
delicious green smoothie with lots of super foods in it
lunchtime, like a lot of grazing, grazing on fruit
throughout the day. And then just like raw rainbow
salads and I'll, you know, sprinkle in like some baked, you
know, muffins or brownies that are like homemade from scratch
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with like the oats and all thoselike chia and flax, Lots of
great ingredients in those. And dinner time is like a Curry
or a soup or a Stew. Sounds great.
That sounds good and then that leaves me a little bit also than
I feel is a good transition. Your cookbook.
Tell us more about it. How's that journey been?
The happy healthy based cookbook?
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What inspired you to? I mean, it's probably your
journey. What inspired you to write it
and what's inside like why should people get it?
And tell us more about. It yeah, I feel like because it
was such a long process for us to transition and we didn't have
a lot of recipes under our belts.
We basically made the road map and the recipes that we wish we
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would have had when we got started because it's kind of
hard to find recipes that are exactly what fit our criteria.
We wanted them to be high raw, really colorful, oil free,
mostly gluten free. Like you can make every single
recipe gluten free and soy free if you want to.
And you know, it's so cool to beable to now open our own
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cookbook and make our own recipes.
It's a I love having a tangible work of art that we just poured
our heart and soul into. So that's kind of, you know, why
we wrote it. And like I said, we did all the
heavy lifting for you. So if you're someone who is
wanting to go plant based or youknow, maybe you're vegan, but
you're a junk food vegan, we hear that a lot.
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Like these are just clean, pure and simple recipes and they're
straightforward too, because we really feel like simple is
sustainable. You know, if you're doing like
these complex recipes with obscure ingredients, sometimes
it's like a one and done. You do it once and then you're
like, I don't think I can replicate that.
That was too much work, you know, So we, we tried to keep
them very manageable, especiallybecause we're busy parents and
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we know a lot of our readers aretoo and our followers.
And then there's also, I really love that we created a, a 40 day
plan within there and we thought, let's do 40 days since
that's kind of how we started. And it goes above and beyond
just a 40 day meal plan. We also incorporate guess
there's the meal plan, but we also incorporate movement and
then mindfulness. So all things eat, move, rest.
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So you can kind of get a feel for like, you know, it helps you
to gain a little bit of momentumso that it feels like you're
creating an entire new lifestyle, not just a new diet.
Because if you have all three ofthose things and you can do them
better, you're going to feel better across the board.
And so, yeah, it's a really fun.We've been doing the challenge
as an online community right nowon a private Facebook group.
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And so that's been. Super fun.
Nice. And tell me more.
So if you, you talked about really the lifestyle changes,
right? So for you guys, it was like the
diet like really changed. And then if you think about what
were the other things that really helped you to really
achieve the, the health you're in today?
What, what were some of those things that like are your daily
habits and things that you said,hey, they really like, changed
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the way I feel, Yeah. Honestly for me, I think with
movement, it was when I quit thegym and started working out at
home with just like a yoga mat, a few dumbbells and like some
type of guided workout video like I did.
I've done just so many differentlike free videos I've found on
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YouTube over the years. And if I can find something like
that, it guides me and it keeps me focused.
And yeah, that's what helped me a bunch with like the fitness
side of things. It's like I'm feeling good.
I have this newfound energy because I'm eating so healthy.
I want to move my body. So I think the at home fitness,
it's just like it's easy. I don't have to go to and from
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somewhere. And you know, if it's easy,
again, it's attainable. And it made me decide to say yes
to movement every single day. And then with rest kind of the
same thing. Like there's so many helpful
apps on our phone and you know, tools right at our fingertips,
many of them are free. So just like focusing on even if
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it's just like one minute breathwork today or I'll do a 10
minute meditation today, there'sall kinds of simple ways to rest
effectively, even in like a little condensed window of time
that can really have a profound impact.
That's so true, OK, And I'm wondering how it is for you also
being a parent. But I think one of the things
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I've learned also within, right?Like I have my list of things
that make me feel good, but thenoften it's like what I've
learned now, right? You have to be so flexible,
right? So where I used to be very rigid
of like I have to do this amountof work, I have to do this, I
need to like I had this like very rigid list where I'm now
much more like, OK, if it if it is this one minute breath work
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and that's all I can do today, right?
That's something. And to just kind of stack the
little things throughout the dayversus like, oh, I need to first
do these 10 things before I start my day 505, which, yeah.
Mornings just. Friends sometimes, right?
So how, how is it for you and how like, how do you combine
those things also with your family life?
Or do you have tricks where you do your workouts with your kids
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there or like how how do you make that happen?
Yeah, because also homeschooling, right?
Yes, yes, I do think it's funny to, I'm thinking back right now
to one of our early YouTube videos before we had kids and I
did like my morning routine because those were popular.
People love watching those. And I'm like, whoa, it would be
funny to do a now and then. Like, here's what it used to
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look like, Here's what it looks like now.
Because before it was like your morning routine was so intense
and so amazing that it almost ran into like the afternoon.
Unless it's like a full day thing, you know?
Sometimes so lunch. It was hilarious.
If I look at it, I remember the comments.
I would guess like just wait until you have kids.
And I was like, what do I mean? I'm like, I'm like, oh, if I
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have like half an hour alone. The thing is I'm so efficient
now with the timer, I'm like, OK, I can do like very short
effective workouts. I can like I can do everything a
little shorter but just get it done right?
Yeah, I thought, I do remember my mom telling me that, and it
really put me at ease. She's like, you just become more
effective at time management andyou learn what's important and
what's not. And yeah, you do become more
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efficient and I think that we dojust like bake the kids into
everything that we do. Like when we're outside
exercising, we've got a little rebounder trampoline that they
love to jump on. And I've got like my little 1
and 2 LB dumbbells that live or Max can pick up and like kind of
mimic what I'm doing and their scooters and bikes for the
driveway. And then, yeah, the same with
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mindfulness. Honestly, we've been doing this
tapping app and it's been reallycool because they love it.
You know, they get to repeat these positive affirmations that
I know is having a professional found impact on them because
they repeat these things to their babysitter and their
friends and it's just the coolest thing.
So, you know, and when we're making food, we absolutely
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involve them in the kitchen. Everything from like letting
them pick their own produce at the grocery store or plant their
own seeds in the garden or sprouting something in the
kitchen to like chopping and cutting and blending and all the
things. So it's it's super fun to see
them just eating it up, literally.
They have so much fun with all of it.
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And it's not always, like, perfect and pretty, you know, if
there are meltdowns and you justwork around it and yeah.
Yeah, no, it's so true. And the kids, I mean they're
eating plant based as well. Do they eat exactly the same as
you or how do you, how do you are there some different things
you do where you like? Hey, I sometimes make additional
things for the kids or how do you guys do that?
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Yeah, for example, you know, if I have like a big Chipotle style
Buddha bowl with rice and beans and tons of veggies and like
salad greens in it for the kids,we like make a wrap and we put
all those ingredients in it and heat it up and it's nice and
crispy and they can dip it in ketchup, ketchup or salsa if
they want to. The important thing is that
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they're getting like all of these nutrients, but like
sometimes having a wrap or something makes it more
effective for them. Or like if we have pasta at
dinner time, like the kids love the brown rice pasta and Dusty
does too, but I like the like chickpea pasta.
So like, you know, sometimes we'll like boil 2 sets of
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noodles or mix them together, but for the most part we're
eating the same thing. Sometimes we just change up,
like the way it gets gets down, you know?
Yeah, that's so true. It's also so funny.
I realize like sometimes even ifI make something slightly
different, they always come backto what?
Right now our my kids are relatively young, obviously
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still, but Neo, for example, so in the face is like even if I
give him something else, he's like, I want the Mama has right.
Yeah, I mean. That too.
And everything. And he starts eating sprouts and
he's dipping raw properly and hummus.
I'm like, what is he doing? I'm like, what?
See, didn't know this is what hewants, right?
But it's, it's such a powerful reminder too, that we also set
their normal. And I'm sure they're going to go
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through faces where they want tohave something else Then like
right now he's in the face. I want what?
Mama and you know, I'm or Mama and daddy.
So yeah, it's it's just so funnyto see and but that they can
thrive and right. And that they eat fruit and
veggies if that's what you're eating as well.
I think that's always for any parent listening.
It's like if you want your kids to eat something different,
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sometimes a good place to start with, like, OK, like how can I
eat more of the healthy stuff too?
And they might start modeling itas well.
Yeah, definitely that lead by example, monkey see, monkey do.
It's they're always watching more so than they are hearing
what we're saying. They're watching what we're
doing. It's so true.
No, it's so true. Okay.
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I'm like looking at the time, we're slowly heading there
already again, which is crazy. If you have any tips for anyone
who is thinking about wanting toeat more plants, what what are
your like top free tips? For them, I would say like 3
really easy steps to get started.
I mean like there's two different routes you can take.
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I would say either, you know, start by eliminating just an
animal product at a time can be an easy way to start.
So I just say pick the low hanging fruit, whatever you
don't care for the most, whetherit's meat, dairy or eggs.
Like just see if you can challenge yourself even to doing
that, like like a meatless Monday or challenge yourself to
seven days of whatever animal product, eliminating that.
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Or maybe start by just doing 1 plant based meal a day for a set
period of time and then slowly go to two meals and then finally
three meals and just go at your own pace and give yourself
grace. So I think I always just think
having a blender and making a delicious smoothie and putting
in like some leafy greens is a good starting place because you
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can make it taste really good and hide things in there that
are good for you that might not taste that palatable, especially
if you're new to this diet and lifestyle.
So I would say those are some great starting points, yeah.
Great. Last question.
I think it's a big one. What are your future goals for
your health? But also like are there new
things coming? What's what are you guys all
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planning? Yeah, we aren't like huge
planners, but we have ideas. We would definitely love to
write another book. We would love to host more
retreats like we've done in the past in Costa Rica.
So we're, we've kind of been looking into some new places to
explore around the globe and just building our, our online
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community and our membership is where we're really pouring into
right now. Just taking as much feedback as
we can to make it as awesome as we possibly can.
Just to really, I think that that's the biggest thing like
for anybody when you're wanting to get healthier, not even go
vegan, but just get healthier, you'll find that you feel you
can feel a little bit isolated or unsupported or friends stop
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calling sometimes or they feel judged because you're doing
something good for yourself. So I think, you know, we all
experience that and having the online community is like such a
blessing to just have someone who can hold you accountable,
relate to you. You can link arms with who's on
a shared, has a shared vision. They're on the same path and
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trajectory as you. It's kind of like you're
charging port, you know, you keep showing up for our weekly
calls and things like that. And it's kind of like lugging
your phone in when the battery starts to go low.
Like you get plugged in again and you stay close to the fire
and it just brings you back and reminds you why you're doing
what you're doing for yourself. So that's kind of where we're
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going with things, and it honestly charges us too.
It's so much fun to, you know, just get to connect with people.
So true. Hey, this is exciting.
Anything for your, for your health, anything that you're
currently like. I mean, I think we all go
through phases like what is likethe thing you are really
focusing on right now and learning, maybe learning
something new. I always enjoy trying new
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superfoods. Right now I'm thinking about
Ashwagandha like something for like stress and resilience.
So I think that's always fun to,to discover or try a new
superfood and and kind of experiment with yourself and see
how it can change the way you feel and like small tweaks.
I feel like the superfoods are kind of like the cherry on top,
like they aren't going to like cure your hangover like they
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say. But if you're eating healthy,
try adding one of those in and see how it might shift the way
you feel for the better. And so I would say that's one
thing. And then also for me, if I was
thinking about all things eat, move, rest, I would say the rest
thing tends to get neglected themost.
And so I'm trying to figure out how I can be more consistent
with rest like I am with healthyfood and my daily workouts.
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Rest is a little bit more like ethereal sometimes.
So I'm like, how can I make it something concrete I can do
every day to just be a little more chilly, a little more Zen?
It's something that I'm also always working with and I
sometimes feel even like it's almost like a night routine
where I feel those are actually sometimes harder than a morning
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routine, right? Because it's in the evening also
when you're tired, right? And I know I should just, like,
go upstairs, go take a bath and like, do actually, like, some of
like, stretch, like things that I actually know or even
meditate, right? Things that I actually know
would make me feel really good. But when you're already tired,
to then make the decisions to dothe things that make you feel
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good are actually so much harderin the evening than it is in the
morning. Yeah.
That's something where I'm like,I know what I should be doing,
but I really actually don't feellike doing it even now.
I know it's gonna make me feel better, Right.
So it's like so interesting in the evening where I think that
is the rest hard drive where it's just so easy to grab your
phone and scroll and just do something.
And then 1/2 an hour later, likewhat did I do with the actually
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30 minutes I had for myself? Like what am I doing?
For sure. That is one thing you're
reminding me that I gave up for Lent this year is stop scrolling
in bed. You know, like instead of having
my phone there in bed right before my head hits the pillow
and I go to sleep, just put it on airplane mode, set it aside
and instead like read or just goto sleep.
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And I'm I'm already sleeping more soundly.
I've always been a good sleeper,but that's it's definitely
helped. And I can tell, you know, it's
like instead of trying to cheat the system where I put it on,
like the night mode where it's kind of an orangish tint on the
screen to avoid the blue light, And then I've got my blue light
glasses on, blocking it. And it's like, rather than
cheating the system, I just needto not be on it.
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And yeah, it's been great. Yeah, it's put away.
So we have a rule, just no phones in the bedroom.
Yeah. Michael's alarm clock.
Nowadays, he has a watch for running and there is actually
the alarm on there and it vibrates.
And he always gets up earlier than me.
So he just like, has a silent, basically vibrating alarm around
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his wrist, which is kind of funny.
And I always wake up with the kids right now still.
So yeah, that's how it works. Hey, let's pause here.
Otherwise, we're gonna continue talking.
Routines are important, I think,for anyone.
And I think that's just, it's a good reminder, right, to set out
some of those intentions. I think it's it can be like one
small thing. I like how you set where you're
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like, OK, I just like decided one thing to change is that I
don't want to scroll, Brad. Yeah, I think it's like that's
such a powerful reminder or change everything about your
whole night right away. But you start with one thing and
just continuously do that. It becomes normal.
And then you can always change one another thing.
Again, Yeah, definitely love that.
Good. Thank you Aaron for joining the
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podcast. It is your journey has been and
is so inspiring and I'm sure you're the listeners are going
to be really enjoying it. And for anyone who is listening,
we'll put in the show notes everywhere where you can find
Aaron and eat, move, rest, or wecan get our book.
Let's link that all up. And that's it for today.
Well, hopefully anyone who's listening, we'll see you next
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week again. Let's see.
But we'll hear you next week again, so thank you.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Hi, I'm Crystal. And I'm Michael, and we're the
founders of Super Plans. If you're ready to improve your
health and live a life you love,hit subscribe and let's get
started. Welcome to Super Health Talk.
Welcome to podcast. Today we're excited to have a
special guest, Aaron Stanzig, a certified health and lifestyle
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coach, fitness instructor and Cofounder of Eat, Move, rest and
now also the author of her new book, the happy healthy plant
based cookbook. Alongside her husband Dusty,
Aaron inspires families to eat more plants, moving daily and
getting quality rest. Welcome Aaron.
Thank you for joining us today. So excited I want to dive in a
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little bit more in your, in yourjourney Today we're going to
really talk about your weight loss journey and how you, you
know how you really made those lifestyle changes.
I read that you experience weight gain, get anxiety
attacks, hormonal imbalances. And can you take us back a
little bit through that time andshare with you we're going
through? Yeah, definitely.
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Well, thank you so much, Crystalfor having me on today.
I'm excited to be here. I feel like we align on so many
different levels. So this yeah, yeah, I feel like
taking it back. I always kind of like to start
back in high school because I was kind of starting to figure
out who I was, or so I thought. You know, I was a straight A
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student on honor roll, top 3% ofmy class and I was doing sports
and extracurriculars and I wouldcome home from school.
My mom was kind of ahead of her time.
She was already juicing and making me and my brother, who
was also an athlete, like juicesand healthy meals.
But on the same, the flip side, the flip side of that, we were
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also, you know, like eating the standard American diet.
So a lot of like processed foods, restaurant foods, fast
food, a lot of sugar was like a candy holic.
I would hide like Dusty when we got together later down the
road, he was like, you have candy everywhere, like in your
glove compartment in your car, you know, you know, like in
random drawers everywhere. I'm like, sorry.
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So I got the full spectrum of food, the good and the bad.
And then when I got to college, that's when I really kind of
derailed, so to speak. I didn't know how to cook.
I never paid attention when my mom was like, honey, do you want
to help me in the kitchen? I was like, uh, uh, that's not
for me. So in college I was like, I
didn't even know how to boil water.
So I was living off of, again, more of the processed packaged
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food that I had I've been introduced to throughout my
youth as opposed to like, you know, cooking and juicing or
going to grab a smoothie even. You know, it was just staying
out late and honestly, like probably just doing the normal
college thing, drinking and justsocializing.
And I feel like somewhere along the line I lost sight of like
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even looking in the mirror and recognizing who I was anymore.
Like I, I remember this one day,like going to the college rec
center with my roommate and my best friend and like stepping on
the scale. And I was just shocked that I
had somehow so quickly gained somuch weight, more than the
freshman 15 that we all hear about.
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And that was pretty disheartening to me.
So I was kind of, you know, like, well, you know, I can
still go out and party. I just need to exercise it off
during the week. And so it was like this roller
coaster and that definitely didn't work.
Like, you know, we, I know now that food is really the true
starting point to better health,but I tried to go that route and
it just ended up being this, youknow, entry point into like
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really poor mental, physical andemotional health.
You know, I started having brainfog and just really like,
lethargy, hormonal imbalances and irregularities, knee
breakouts, things like that. Anyway, yeah, Long story short,
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lots of symptoms. I felt like I was just in this
tangled up, sticky web. And, you know, I would ask my
dad, who's a physician, like, isthis normal?
Is that normal? Like, I started feeling like I
was having symptoms of some sortof like, autoimmune disorder,
like multiple sclerosis with like, a numbness and tingling
and just like my extremities, I just felt really weak and,
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again, foggy. And it was creating so much
panic and anxiety within me. I became this like
hypochondriac. And we're supposed to feel like
we're invincible in our 20s, youknow, And I definitely wasn't.
And I realize now, why was I expecting to feel good when I
wasn't doing good things for myself?
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So somewhere along the line, towards the end of college, I
got together with Dusty. We started getting healthier.
But you know, we started doing what we were told, like
consuming a lot of clean proteinand like the free range eggs and
all that kind of stuff, grillingour own meat at home instead of
fast food processed things. But I still wasn't feeling good.
And it wasn't until I came upon this idea of food as medicine
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and like Whole Foods, raw foods,living foods, eat the rainbow.
I'm a whole food plant based diet.
And we learned about doctor Esselstyn and heard him speak at
a local hospital in Nebraska where I'm from.
And we just decided to like try it for 40 days, but we didn't
want to go completely vegan because that seems totally like
unattainable and like we might die.
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We were kind of afraid that we wouldn't survive it.
So we tried to go vegetarian for40 days and it was, it was
pretty much a breeze. I'm, I got to say, because I
still didn't like to cook. And I'm like, if I don't have to
touch a slimy piece of raw meat,I am in for this.
So we enjoyed it and Dusty went out and celebrated at day 40 and
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got a burger. But we realized that it was
attainable. We felt better and my weight was
kind of like going back to whereit was supposed to be and all of
that. So we decided let's just, you
know, take our time and let's see how how far along we can get
with this vegan thing, this plant based diet.
So we just like slowly and steadily overtime eliminated
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foods. And I feel like that made it
really healthy for us instead ofjust like swiping everything
clean from the from the fridge and the pantry and trying to
like incorporate a bunch of new foods we had never tried before.
We just did it slowly over time and felt better and better and
better. And blood work got better too.
So like this, you know, straightA student in me felt really good
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when I was getting those like straight A's, so to speak, on my
blood work report. Like my cholesterol before had
been super high and lots of heart disease on my dad's side
of the family and my mom's side.I had actually, I don't talk
about this very often, but my dad's brother, who he was
closest with, he was one of ten kids.
So his brother actually had a heart attack and passed away in
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his face. And now being that I am a year
and a half away from turning 40,that seems far too young to me
and, and just super sad for, youknow, his kids and my cousins
and my uncle who's had several heart bite or my dad has had a,
a bypass. Now my grandpa had several, same
with my, my grandpa on my mom's side.
So I was like, the cholesterol thing just really, really scared
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me enough to be like, I don't need the eggs, I don't need the
animal products. And the cool thing is, you know,
every single plant food contains0 cholesterol and every animal
product it does contain it. So it was an easy way to improve
it dramatically in a short period of time.
It's a journey, right? Like even if I hear you talk
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about it, it's like it's so interesting, like a lot.
I think it's, it's never an overnight.
Like yes, I, I personally went overnight vegan, but it's always
your health. It's just such a journey and I
think you continue, you know, continuously learn and get to
know your body. Our bodies are changing.
So I think it's just so interesting to hear, right?
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And that also your focus, if I listen to you, it's not just
eight, it's actually really like, how do I get healthy?
And I think that's such a powerful reminder where I think
we so often in the world we live, it's so much about only
the way we look, right, and wantto look a certain way.
But it's so important to like, shift that focus to, OK, but how
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do I actually feel every day? And like, what is my true
health? And getting work done at least
once a year is like such a good reminder of that, right?
Like what is actually going on inside your body?
Yeah, yeah, There was that window of time where I just
wanted to look better and I did start looking better, but my
blood work showed that I wasn't actually like necessarily
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feeling better with the cholesterol being high and all
that. And yeah, there are, there's
kind of like 3 prongs really. You know, we want to look
better, yes, we want to feel better and we want to live
longer, hopefully. So yeah, that I think the looks
department is just one part and all the three that can be
changed radically. Percent and it's off they go
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together. I think that's the powerful
thing, right, Where you actually, if you, I often I feel
if I shift my mindset more to health, it's like kind of
everything else, right? Just also follows, follows along
because you don't just signal out one thing.
Yeah. So how if you think about the
interest transition, you also talked about raw living food.
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So like, well, how you like how you were eating then in the
beginning versus how you're eating now.
How has that changed? And like what?
What does it look like? Like a typical day for you right
now? Yeah, I think as soon as I went
completely plant based, then I stumbled upon raw vegans who
were totally eating only raw foods.
And I was like, Oh my gosh, there's a whole nother level to
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this. Like it's just getting insanely
and my mind is blown. But seeing so many people living
these like vibrant, abundant lives was just like super
appealing to me. So I was like, you know, I'm
just going to try and do like incorporate more living foods
into my diet. I don't feel like I want to go
completely raw. So I started doing, you know,
just like eating raw for breakfast and lunch and then
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more of the hearty warmed cookedfoods at dinner time.
And that's kind of how I, I, I adhered to that, I would say
pretty consistently for the first few years.
And then I got pregnant and all of a sudden I, I was just like
craving a little bit more substance, I guess.
And then especially after givingbirth to Max, my first born, I
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was reading about like oats and how they can be great for
lactation and I was like cravingthem.
So still, I would say to this day, I'm really embracing a lot
of the raw foods, but not quite.I'm not so rigid with it to
where I only eat raw during the day and only eat cooked at
night. It's a good blend throughout the
day, but I try to incorporate raw foods at every meal.
And it's been working really well for me.
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For example, like, you know, starting the day with a big
delicious green smoothie with lots of super foods in it
lunchtime, like a lot of grazing, grazing on fruit
throughout the day. And then just like raw rainbow
salads and I'll, you know, sprinkle in like some baked, you
know, muffins or brownies that are like homemade from scratch
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with like the oats and all thoselike chia and flax, Lots of
great ingredients in those. And dinner time is like a Curry
or a soup or a Stew. Sounds great.
That sounds good and then that leaves me a little bit also than
I feel is a good transition. Your cookbook.
Tell us more about it. How's that journey been?
The happy healthy based cookbook?
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What inspired you to? I mean, it's probably your
journey. What inspired you to write it
and what's inside like why should people get it?
And tell us more about. It yeah, I feel like because it
was such a long process for us to transition and we didn't have
a lot of recipes under our belts.
We basically made the road map and the recipes that we wish we
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would have had when we got started because it's kind of
hard to find recipes that are exactly what fit our criteria.
We wanted them to be high raw, really colorful, oil free,
mostly gluten free. Like you can make every single
recipe gluten free and soy free if you want to.
And you know, it's so cool to beable to now open our own
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cookbook and make our own recipes.
It's a I love having a tangible work of art that we just poured
our heart and soul into. So that's kind of, you know, why
we wrote it. And like I said, we did all the
heavy lifting for you. So if you're someone who is
wanting to go plant based or youknow, maybe you're vegan, but
you're a junk food vegan, we hear that a lot.
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Like these are just clean, pure and simple recipes and they're
straightforward too, because we really feel like simple is
sustainable. You know, if you're doing like
these complex recipes with obscure ingredients, sometimes
it's like a one and done. You do it once and then you're
like, I don't think I can replicate that.
That was too much work, you know, So we, we tried to keep
them very manageable, especiallybecause we're busy parents and
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we know a lot of our readers aretoo and our followers.
And then there's also, I really love that we created a, a 40 day
plan within there and we thought, let's do 40 days since
that's kind of how we started. And it goes above and beyond
just a 40 day meal plan. We also incorporate guess
there's the meal plan, but we also incorporate movement and
then mindfulness. So all things eat, move, rest.
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So you can kind of get a feel for like, you know, it helps you
to gain a little bit of momentumso that it feels like you're
creating an entire new lifestyle, not just a new diet.
Because if you have all three ofthose things and you can do them
better, you're going to feel better across the board.
And so, yeah, it's a really fun.We've been doing the challenge
as an online community right nowon a private Facebook group.
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And so that's been. Super fun.
Nice. And tell me more.
So if you, you talked about really the lifestyle changes,
right? So for you guys, it was like the
diet like really changed. And then if you think about what
were the other things that really helped you to really
achieve the, the health you're in today?
What, what were some of those things that like are your daily
habits and things that you said,hey, they really like, changed
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the way I feel, Yeah. Honestly for me, I think with
movement, it was when I quit thegym and started working out at
home with just like a yoga mat, a few dumbbells and like some
type of guided workout video like I did.
I've done just so many differentlike free videos I've found on
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YouTube over the years. And if I can find something like
that, it guides me and it keeps me focused.
And yeah, that's what helped me a bunch with like the fitness
side of things. It's like I'm feeling good.
I have this newfound energy because I'm eating so healthy.
I want to move my body. So I think the at home fitness,
it's just like it's easy. I don't have to go to and from
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somewhere. And you know, if it's easy,
again, it's attainable. And it made me decide to say yes
to movement every single day. And then with rest kind of the
same thing. Like there's so many helpful
apps on our phone and you know, tools right at our fingertips,
many of them are free. So just like focusing on even if
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it's just like one minute breathwork today or I'll do a 10
minute meditation today, there'sall kinds of simple ways to rest
effectively, even in like a little condensed window of time
that can really have a profound impact.
That's so true, OK, And I'm wondering how it is for you also
being a parent. But I think one of the things
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I've learned also within, right?Like I have my list of things
that make me feel good, but thenoften it's like what I've
learned now, right? You have to be so flexible,
right? So where I used to be very rigid
of like I have to do this amountof work, I have to do this, I
need to like I had this like very rigid list where I'm now
much more like, OK, if it if it is this one minute breath work
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and that's all I can do today, right?
That's something. And to just kind of stack the
little things throughout the dayversus like, oh, I need to first
do these 10 things before I start my day 505, which, yeah.
Mornings just. Friends sometimes, right?
So how, how is it for you and how like, how do you combine
those things also with your family life?
Or do you have tricks where you do your workouts with your kids
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there or like how how do you make that happen?
Yeah, because also homeschooling, right?
Yes, yes, I do think it's funny to, I'm thinking back right now
to one of our early YouTube videos before we had kids and I
did like my morning routine because those were popular.
People love watching those. And I'm like, whoa, it would be
funny to do a now and then. Like, here's what it used to
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look like, Here's what it looks like now.
Because before it was like your morning routine was so intense
and so amazing that it almost ran into like the afternoon.
Unless it's like a full day thing, you know?
Sometimes so lunch. It was hilarious.
If I look at it, I remember the comments.
I would guess like just wait until you have kids.
And I was like, what do I mean? I'm like, I'm like, oh, if I
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have like half an hour alone. The thing is I'm so efficient
now with the timer, I'm like, OK, I can do like very short
effective workouts. I can like I can do everything a
little shorter but just get it done right?
Yeah, I thought, I do remember my mom telling me that, and it
really put me at ease. She's like, you just become more
effective at time management andyou learn what's important and
what's not. And yeah, you do become more
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efficient and I think that we dojust like bake the kids into
everything that we do. Like when we're outside
exercising, we've got a little rebounder trampoline that they
love to jump on. And I've got like my little 1
and 2 LB dumbbells that live or Max can pick up and like kind of
mimic what I'm doing and their scooters and bikes for the
driveway. And then, yeah, the same with
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mindfulness. Honestly, we've been doing this
tapping app and it's been reallycool because they love it.
You know, they get to repeat these positive affirmations that
I know is having a professional found impact on them because
they repeat these things to their babysitter and their
friends and it's just the coolest thing.
So, you know, and when we're making food, we absolutely
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involve them in the kitchen. Everything from like letting
them pick their own produce at the grocery store or plant their
own seeds in the garden or sprouting something in the
kitchen to like chopping and cutting and blending and all the
things. So it's it's super fun to see
them just eating it up, literally.
They have so much fun with all of it.
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And it's not always, like, perfect and pretty, you know, if
there are meltdowns and you justwork around it and yeah.
Yeah, no, it's so true. And the kids, I mean they're
eating plant based as well. Do they eat exactly the same as
you or how do you, how do you are there some different things
you do where you like? Hey, I sometimes make additional
things for the kids or how do you guys do that?
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Yeah, for example, you know, if I have like a big Chipotle style
Buddha bowl with rice and beans and tons of veggies and like
salad greens in it for the kids,we like make a wrap and we put
all those ingredients in it and heat it up and it's nice and
crispy and they can dip it in ketchup, ketchup or salsa if
they want to. The important thing is that
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they're getting like all of these nutrients, but like
sometimes having a wrap or something makes it more
effective for them. Or like if we have pasta at
dinner time, like the kids love the brown rice pasta and Dusty
does too, but I like the like chickpea pasta.
So like, you know, sometimes we'll like boil 2 sets of
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noodles or mix them together, but for the most part we're
eating the same thing. Sometimes we just change up,
like the way it gets gets down, you know?
Yeah, that's so true. It's also so funny.
I realize like sometimes even ifI make something slightly
different, they always come backto what?
Right now our my kids are relatively young, obviously
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still, but Neo, for example, so in the face is like even if I
give him something else, he's like, I want the Mama has right.
Yeah, I mean. That too.
And everything. And he starts eating sprouts and
he's dipping raw properly and hummus.
I'm like, what is he doing? I'm like, what?
See, didn't know this is what hewants, right?
But it's, it's such a powerful reminder too, that we also set
their normal. And I'm sure they're going to go
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through faces where they want tohave something else Then like
right now he's in the face. I want what?
Mama and you know, I'm or Mama and daddy.
So yeah, it's it's just so funnyto see and but that they can
thrive and right. And that they eat fruit and
veggies if that's what you're eating as well.
I think that's always for any parent listening.
It's like if you want your kids to eat something different,
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sometimes a good place to start with, like, OK, like how can I
eat more of the healthy stuff too?
And they might start modeling itas well.
Yeah, definitely that lead by example, monkey see, monkey do.
It's they're always watching more so than they are hearing
what we're saying. They're watching what we're
doing. It's so true.
No, it's so true. Okay.
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I'm like looking at the time, we're slowly heading there
already again, which is crazy. If you have any tips for anyone
who is thinking about wanting toeat more plants, what what are
your like top free tips? For them, I would say like 3
really easy steps to get started.
I mean like there's two different routes you can take.
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I would say either, you know, start by eliminating just an
animal product at a time can be an easy way to start.
So I just say pick the low hanging fruit, whatever you
don't care for the most, whetherit's meat, dairy or eggs.
Like just see if you can challenge yourself even to doing
that, like like a meatless Monday or challenge yourself to
seven days of whatever animal product, eliminating that.
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Or maybe start by just doing 1 plant based meal a day for a set
period of time and then slowly go to two meals and then finally
three meals and just go at your own pace and give yourself
grace. So I think I always just think
having a blender and making a delicious smoothie and putting
in like some leafy greens is a good starting place because you
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can make it taste really good and hide things in there that
are good for you that might not taste that palatable, especially
if you're new to this diet and lifestyle.
So I would say those are some great starting points, yeah.
Great. Last question.
I think it's a big one. What are your future goals for
your health? But also like are there new
things coming? What's what are you guys all
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planning? Yeah, we aren't like huge
planners, but we have ideas. We would definitely love to
write another book. We would love to host more
retreats like we've done in the past in Costa Rica.
So we're, we've kind of been looking into some new places to
explore around the globe and just building our, our online
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community and our membership is where we're really pouring into
right now. Just taking as much feedback as
we can to make it as awesome as we possibly can.
Just to really, I think that that's the biggest thing like
for anybody when you're wanting to get healthier, not even go
vegan, but just get healthier, you'll find that you feel you
can feel a little bit isolated or unsupported or friends stop
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calling sometimes or they feel judged because you're doing
something good for yourself. So I think, you know, we all
experience that and having the online community is like such a
blessing to just have someone who can hold you accountable,
relate to you. You can link arms with who's on
a shared, has a shared vision. They're on the same path and
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trajectory as you. It's kind of like you're
charging port, you know, you keep showing up for our weekly
calls and things like that. And it's kind of like lugging
your phone in when the battery starts to go low.
Like you get plugged in again and you stay close to the fire
and it just brings you back and reminds you why you're doing
what you're doing for yourself. So that's kind of where we're
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going with things, and it honestly charges us too.
It's so much fun to, you know, just get to connect with people.
So true. Hey, this is exciting.
Anything for your, for your health, anything that you're
currently like. I mean, I think we all go
through phases like what is likethe thing you are really
focusing on right now and learning, maybe learning
something new. I always enjoy trying new
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superfoods. Right now I'm thinking about
Ashwagandha like something for like stress and resilience.
So I think that's always fun to,to discover or try a new
superfood and and kind of experiment with yourself and see
how it can change the way you feel and like small tweaks.
I feel like the superfoods are kind of like the cherry on top,
like they aren't going to like cure your hangover like they
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say. But if you're eating healthy,
try adding one of those in and see how it might shift the way
you feel for the better. And so I would say that's one
thing. And then also for me, if I was
thinking about all things eat, move, rest, I would say the rest
thing tends to get neglected themost.
And so I'm trying to figure out how I can be more consistent
with rest like I am with healthyfood and my daily workouts.
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Rest is a little bit more like ethereal sometimes.
So I'm like, how can I make it something concrete I can do
every day to just be a little more chilly, a little more Zen?
It's something that I'm also always working with and I
sometimes feel even like it's almost like a night routine
where I feel those are actually sometimes harder than a morning
(25:21):
routine, right? Because it's in the evening also
when you're tired, right? And I know I should just, like,
go upstairs, go take a bath and like, do actually, like, some of
like, stretch, like things that I actually know or even
meditate, right? Things that I actually know
would make me feel really good. But when you're already tired,
to then make the decisions to dothe things that make you feel
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good are actually so much harderin the evening than it is in the
morning. Yeah.
That's something where I'm like,I know what I should be doing,
but I really actually don't feellike doing it even now.
I know it's gonna make me feel better, Right.
So it's like so interesting in the evening where I think that
is the rest hard drive where it's just so easy to grab your
phone and scroll and just do something.
And then 1/2 an hour later, likewhat did I do with the actually
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30 minutes I had for myself? Like what am I doing?
For sure. That is one thing you're
reminding me that I gave up for Lent this year is stop scrolling
in bed. You know, like instead of having
my phone there in bed right before my head hits the pillow
and I go to sleep, just put it on airplane mode, set it aside
and instead like read or just goto sleep.
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And I'm I'm already sleeping more soundly.
I've always been a good sleeper,but that's it's definitely
helped. And I can tell, you know, it's
like instead of trying to cheat the system where I put it on,
like the night mode where it's kind of an orangish tint on the
screen to avoid the blue light, And then I've got my blue light
glasses on, blocking it. And it's like, rather than
cheating the system, I just needto not be on it.
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And yeah, it's been great. Yeah, it's put away.
So we have a rule, just no phones in the bedroom.
Yeah. Michael's alarm clock.
Nowadays, he has a watch for running and there is actually
the alarm on there and it vibrates.
And he always gets up earlier than me.
So he just like, has a silent, basically vibrating alarm around
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his wrist, which is kind of funny.
And I always wake up with the kids right now still.
So yeah, that's how it works. Hey, let's pause here.
Otherwise, we're gonna continue talking.
Routines are important, I think,for anyone.
And I think that's just, it's a good reminder, right, to set out
some of those intentions. I think it's it can be like one
small thing. I like how you set where you're
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like, OK, I just like decided one thing to change is that I
don't want to scroll, Brad. Yeah, I think it's like that's
such a powerful reminder or change everything about your
whole night right away. But you start with one thing and
just continuously do that. It becomes normal.
And then you can always change one another thing.
Again, Yeah, definitely love that.
Good. Thank you Aaron for joining the
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podcast. It is your journey has been and
is so inspiring and I'm sure you're the listeners are going
to be really enjoying it. And for anyone who is listening,
we'll put in the show notes everywhere where you can find
Aaron and eat, move, rest, or wecan get our book.
Let's link that all up. And that's it for today.
Well, hopefully anyone who's listening, we'll see you next
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week again. Let's see.
But we'll hear you next week again, so thank you.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
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