May 17, 2025 • 61 mins
We lost almost 100 pounds each—but spoiler alert: we didn’t magically become perfect humans. In this laugh-through-the-tears episode, Paddy and Belinda unpack the wild, wonderful, and downright weird things that happen after weight loss.
From squeezing into Paul Mescal-style O’Neills shorts to Belinda strutting around in mustard mini skirts (with a zip, obviously), we share what’s changed—from food guilt to fashion fits—and what still hits us hard (hello, body image baggage and funeral rosary anxiety).
Paddy revisits a letter he once read on The Biggest Loser and reflects on the pressure to be “fixed.” Belinda speaks about showing up for herself and finally not caring if she ever steps on a scale again. We talk about protecting our peace, ditching cold shoulder tops, and finding joy in a full-fat ice cream with syrup and a flake—without spiralling into self-hate.
This episode is full of big laughs, deep sighs, awkward honesty, and hard-won freedom. If you’ve ever felt less-than, tried to shrink yourself, or wondered what it might feel like to finally take up space—this one’s for you.
P.S. We’re not fixed. But we’re f***ing free.
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(00:00):
None of this conversation shouldbe taken as medical advice for
you before starting or changing any medical or Wellness
treatment. Always consult your GP and
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(00:23):
Paddy and Belinda jazz hands. Yeah, wonderful.
Jazzed. Up today, Paddy jazzed right up.
But like is this like chemicallycost or what?
Well, kinda. The chemical is because like,
I'm in a good mood because of it, but the sun's out, the sun's
(00:44):
out. We've got this just done my
garden. Weather is amazing.
Like amazing. You were saying you can't wait.
You cannot wait to get out and use your back garden because
it's all primed and ready for use.
Yeah, and I'll send you some pictures later, Paddy.
I'll probably have AG and T in my hand.
Actually, no, I'll have a gin and some Pellegrinio.
(01:04):
Drink responsibly, that is. Yeah, it is that.
It is definitely that kind of weather, isn't it?
Like and. It's only Tuesdays.
It's only Tuesday, I might have another another week of this I
think or so. Yeah.
Yeah, it's up to Sunday anyway. Yeah, I'm thinking on Sunday off
going out to do the stairway to Heaven up in from Anna.
(01:25):
Oh, I've seen it. Yeah, I've done it a couple of
times before and each time I have done it, it has not been
sunny, so I've never got the lovely scenic views.
It's supposed to be quite misty up there as a general place
anyway. Is it?
Yeah, it's not that far from me.Oh, OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'd get there in maybe 45
(01:48):
minutes from here. Wow, how long would it take to
get to from Sligo all the way down to Tipperary Paddy?
Oh, it's a long, long wait, Prairie.
It's a long way to Tipperary. No, you can't mute me.
I can only mute you. Love that for me.
And what for? Yeah, Like I was looking at it
(02:12):
before when we were looking to meet up and I thought we're
coming to where you are and staying there.
And it was at some stage and it was, it was.
Because we have Madden Falls andwe have Tremor and Clanny and we
lovely. Tremor is not Wexford to
Prairie. Sorry, 20 more is Waterford.
No, no, no, you can't claim for more.
Where can you claim for more? I used to go to tomorrow.
(02:34):
No, you can't. I used to go to tomorrow when I
was younger on holidays. I mean, the country did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a bit of a drive, I
think. Because we live so near to it.
And it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't anything to us.
Yeah, our parents wouldn't bringus.
And how are you feeling Like OK,you've had previous summers in a
smaller, lighter body maybe thana few years ago.
(02:57):
OK, about 2018. Yeah, yeah, but like you're
still smaller this summer than say you were again last summer
where this is my first summer being.
No, I still have blubber. Don't be wrong, but like in a
considerably smaller body like I've only had because even after
even after Biggest Loser, I had regained a good bit of weight
(03:20):
come that summer. Right, OK.
Yeah, because it did. Happen quickly for you?
Yeah. You must be feeling yourself all
over. Are you?
You. Must.
Be feeling yourself. That's what we say down here.
That is, I know, I know. Yeah.
No, I got to get those weird emails again.
No, we can't say things like that.
(03:41):
How do you? Have to say nothing and you'll
get those. Emails.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am feeling good if that's what
we have. Yes, I want to say.
Yeah, I think I'm feeling, I'm feeling lighter mentally and
emotionally going into this summer than I have done in a
very long time. Even when I was on keto and I
lost the weight back then, I still had the food knives.
(04:04):
I was still killing. Myself, yes.
But this is completely different.
Do you feel more calmer in your mind?
Yes, 100%. You know what?
It's the space that I now have in my brain, in my mind, the
emotional space I have because Idon't have to wake up every
(04:25):
single morning, kill myself overfood, kill myself overlooking in
the wardrobe. I just get up and every single
thing I put on me fits me, and I'm not tearing and dragging at
it. And actually, most things that I
have from last summer are gone now because I cleaned up my
wardrobe. I have not now.
Yeah. Is that a motorbike or car?
Motorbike. Lower background effects the
(04:48):
joys of life. Yeah, no, that's brilliant.
That's cool. Like for me it is like I I
shared a picture of this maybe acouple of months going about
them, but like off like the O'Neill's shorts, like the short
shorts. And I remember when I did you.
Speedo man as well. Oh God no.
God no. No, no, no, no, no, no.
(05:09):
But I bought a pair of the O'neal's, eh, Shorts like the
Paul Mescal shorts, you know, kind of.
Yeah. Clinging on to a dream there.
Umm. Paul Mescal shot it.
Does he have a aftershave out? I don't know.
Is he a rugby player? What?
Who's Paul Mescal? Paul Mescal from umm, Stranger
(05:30):
people, normal people, stranger people.
That's that's not his fucking name.
Paddy normal people it is Paul Mescal.
Mescal. Yeah, it is.
OK. OK, wait now am I?
See, I made you doubt yourself. You're right.
Yeah, you did. Yeah, You know I'm right, Paul.
No, it is Nesco, yeah. I know it is, yeah.
OK, sorry. Continue on.
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But anyway, so I bought the pair.
I remember when I was in buying,I was like, oh God, what size of
the bike? And they were like they had umm
30. I did have like waist 38 and
waist 36 and stuff like that. And I was like, oh, look at you
and buy the 36 and you're look at it's wishful thinking, but
the fucking. Fit me, did they?
Yeah, this second fit me so it'sbrilliant.
So I can wear and then I'm like I feel, I feel good when I wear
(06:14):
them. More so because they're waist 36
rather than how short they. Are they short Short.
They're short shorts. They are short shorts.
Yeah, yeah, the ties get a good errand.
I've a mini skirt again to wear for the weekend. 4 mini skirts
have you Patty colour? What colour is yours?
Turquoise. Coins.
Mustard actually. What is zip up the front of it?
(06:36):
I can't wait. Oh, God.
But you know, so I'm looking forward to summer and, you know,
it's even things like going out and having a 99 and like getting
the flake in it and getting the syrup.
I'm not feeling bad about havingit, you know?
I just had one with the kids. Oh, lovely.
Now I had a baby one because I was afraid in case.
Oh, side effects. Yeah, good.
(06:59):
Just you mentioning that now. Yeah, that was, I came out the
swimming pool at 4:00. At 4:00, we went over, we got
the ice cream and it's now 452 and I haven't thought about that
ice cream since I ate it. Yeah, that was a normal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, a normal summer and I was
eating ice cream with the boys. I'd be thinking to myself, I
(07:20):
better not eat my dinner or what?
Am I going to eat my dinner for my dinner or it would spiral me.
Yeah. And then I would let go and I
would eat all around me, becausethat one thing would have made
me spiral. Yeah, I opened the glove box in
my car. Goes show how often I open it.
I know there's no point ever breaking into my car because the
(07:41):
glove box contains, uh, my old Slimming World weighing book
from May last year when I'd rejoined Simon World and I
opened it and I was like, wow, Oh, whoa.
I hadn't even thought about thisreally.
Like I know we've mentioned someworld, but I hadn't really
thought about it. And I opened the book and like
was looking at my wayans and my little metallic stickers.
(08:03):
Now I have to say I did like metallic stickers.
I did. I did like that.
That was like a little bit. Of Patty.
Yeah, I know your. Type you wouldn't yeah, I know
your type. You would have shimmied up to
the Wayne scale, stood on it andshimmied back down again, all
the while waiting for the big massive clap at.
The end waiting to be told them slimmer off the week and if I
didn't give him daggers to someone else.
(08:25):
You know, the basket of rot. Rotten fucking fruit.
I like waiting before I go to stand on the scales, but like
you have time to go into a piss and he's got every last drop out
before I go and stand on the scales when actually it makes no
difference. And then it's like, what is the
lightest clothes I can wear? OK, where's your short shorts,
that vests and those shoes that are easiest to get off?
Like you know, so God the thingsand then go get a big take away
(08:48):
afterwards. 100% I used to go inthe mornings and not eat from
6:00 the day before and I wouldn't drink any.
I wouldn't drink water either and he was just defeating the
whole purpose like. Yeah, mine was like half it was
at 8 or half eight on a Saturdaymorning, I think it was.
Yeah, that's a good, good time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I used to think it set me upfor the weekend.
(09:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You could go all out then on a
Saturday, couldn't you have it? Yeah.
Rain. It was lovely.
And you know, and I know like I,I was, umm, I, I, I was very
lucky with the group that I was in, in terms of the people
there. Lovely.
Yeah. And Charlotte, who was just, oh,
I just love Charlotte. But listen, I, I have spent the
(09:32):
past, I don't know how long, twoyears, Slayton Slimming World
and given out about Slimming World and all the rest of it.
And yeah, yeah, Sean, Sean was saying to me a couple of weeks
ago, he said, Belinda, for all the Slayton you do of Slimming
World, he said you fucking lovedit.
I had such an amazing group of friends, girls and the crack.
(09:52):
Sometimes I used you'd, you'd wet yourself with the laughing
coming out of there. We used to go out for meals, we
used to go on walks. We used to have house parties.
Like and that, and I think that's the thing.
If you're in a group that can give you that social element.
And this is where I can try and detach from the the, the, yeah,
the the stuff, the similar stuffversus the people and all that.
(10:14):
And yeah, no, I can get it. I.
Definitely, yeah. Yeah, totally.
And I didn't think about that all the time that I was slating,
slating it. But umm, FYI, Are you sure that
you know but Weight Watchers? I know.
Gone now. Yeah, now it's awful Do.
You know, my God, is it gone globally or is it just in
America? Yeah, it's WW International is
(10:35):
gone. So.
And listen, the other day I was talking to my mother about it
and you know, she done like you,she pulled out her gold card
from Weight Watchers that would have given her, umm, a lifetime
free pass because she reached her goal weight.
And she holds on to that like a fucking trophy, Paddy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking here.
(10:57):
The UK side is still up. Is.
This. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I remember they were, I remember saying this at the time
that they were one of the first kind of groups to get in there
and actually bring out a GLP onetype track.
So they were, which I have to say I was impressed by because
(11:17):
they were at least. Times are changing.
Yeah, they were and that's like a year ago now.
So that that kind of did impressme, whereas that don't impress
me. This is.
A third song. Now stop it, OK?
Stop it. Shania is coming out.
I'm coming out. I won't be working now.
(11:39):
That's well and truly done coming out.
But yeah, so interesting. The UK.
Wait, what? Your site is still up?
So I wonder is it like wait whatis globally or what is
happening? Yeah, but maybe it's just in the
process of bankruptcy. I'm sure it didn't get shut down
immediately. So are they going through that
process, see if somebody else isgoing to buy it maybe?
(11:59):
Oh, I don't know. Because the UK, I'm looking at
the US site, it's still here andthey're still promoting access
to weight loss meds and all that.
That's interesting. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe.
Anyway. Umm, let me ask you a question.
Now that we've been talking about like this summer compared
to other summers and stuff, yeah, how different we feel.
(12:22):
Umm, what would you be able to come up with Five things that
has changed for you since you have lost 100?
Pounds like positive things I'm assuming.
Yes, of course. It's not like Debbie down.
OK, OK, fine. Listeners, come on now.
OK, OK, sorry, sorry listeners. So 5 things maybe that is better
(12:46):
about life since I lost weight, Yeah.
OK. Yeah.
No particular order for the moment.
I will go with photographs. OK, you do.
One and then I'll do 1. Right, I have to.
Get on this as well. Yeah, so previously I would
avoid photographs like the plague.
(13:08):
Like I just did not like when the camera came out and when
people looking for photos. And even then, I would never
want to see them afterwards because I didn't want to know
how bad they were or how bad youall right, make a noise there
and or hope or how bad I looked in the photo.
But now it's more a case of, yeah, let's get a photo.
(13:29):
Let's let's do the photo. Let's, let's take the photo.
Here's here's me. Let people see, umm, you know,
transforming or whatever. And even at the weekend, I was
at a stain. Oh.
Yeah, this is a new concept for.Me stain a joint stag and him
and like even the camera came out then I was like Oh yeah yeah
photos. So that's a big change because I
(13:50):
definitely anytime before, yeah,anytime before when the camera
come out, even then it was used just from like shoulders up type
things, you know, because you can try and, you know, elongate
your neck to make it look thin. And even though I still had a
triple chin like, you know, it could.
Yeah. So photos is the first thing
I'll give you that I think I feel better about now.
(14:11):
Yeah. #2. Umm.
I think this is kind of like photographs.
Or maybe not actually, just I always had that habit of trying
to make myself small, trying to like myself small.
No, no what? Dieting like.
No, no, in my presence. OK, I guess it.
(14:34):
Do you know what I mean? Just always kind of not trying
not to take over too much space or whatever.
Or I just feel like I'm walking taller now and I'm walking
straighter and I have more intention around me as a.
Person. So do you think you're not
trying to fade into the background as much?
(14:55):
Yes, that's it. Yeah, I know.
Like people will say, Belinda, you've never faded into the
background because of my personality, but that
personality probably was becauseI was trying to overcompensate
far in my size and my weight. And you know, people please are
bullshit that comes along with, umm, a bigger person.
Yeah, no, totally. And like this something we
(15:17):
touched on this loosely, uh, theother day, actually, we were
talking about how it may come asa big surprise to people, but
for folks that don't know me, when I'm in groups of new people
or meet new people, I am actually very introverted in
that I don't like being the center of tension.
Believe it or not, I do not likespaces where there is groups of
(15:39):
people that I do not know. And I literally just want to be
like, and this isn't a weird thing.
This is just at all. I don't want to be, Yeah, I just
feel uncomfortable. So I am quite introverted.
I am, I'm guess I'd be kind of like a, uh, what's it an
introverted extrovert or whatever you call it, like
whereby my, my close friends that know me, yes, I'll be a lot
(15:59):
more pain. The hole.
Yeah, painted the hole for them a lot more extroverted, but like
day-to-day life. If I'm out about in town and if
I'm whatever, I very much just umm, like, oh God, there's
somebody or whatever, like now. Insane that.
What do you like in work? Now that I've relaxed into work,
I know people, so, you know, andit's different there.
I'm being paid to show up in a particular way to do a
(16:20):
particular job, so it's different there.
Umm, but yeah, a lot of people be surprised that that I am very
introverted until you get to know me, umm, or until I get
relaxed, uh, kind of. And do you feel that's changed
at all since you've dropped to like 100 lbs?
No, because I don't know, maybe it stemmed originally from my
wish, I don't know. But I don't feel that has
(16:41):
changed. I do think the fundamental
purchase of my personality is that I don't like, I don't like
that kind of spotlight on me or anything like that.
And it just, yeah, makes me, I just want the ground to open up
like and like, even say at the stand over the weekend, like
there was what, two or three other people there than I knew,
But for the most part, I didn't know people.
(17:02):
So again, it was that awkward thing of like standing on the
outlines and just talking to my friend that I was there with and
stuff like that. Umm, and not, that was not a
direct link to Wade or how I thought I looked around.
I thought it was more so just a case of, oh, oh, I'm in an
awkward situation. Umm.
But umm, yeah, obviously here like in our studio and it's just
me and you in the studio. Together in.
The studio, in the studio together, Yeah, in Studio 2IN
(17:24):
Studio 2IN Donnybrook, Montrose,yeah, umm, but umm, but yeah,
another one from me I would say is close.
That whole joy of going shoppingand particularly, like I said
before, that thing of prickling when clothes are fitting me that
I did not expect to fit me yet. So no more than two weeks ago
(17:47):
when I bought the Calvin Klein top that I was saving for the
summer. And then like, oh, sure, I'll
try it on. And I'm like, Oh my God.
So I think more access to more clothes because there's whole
issues with larger size clothes and it's such a an area of kind
(18:10):
of retail and it's a life that Ithink, you know, you almost have
to put up with what's made few as opposed to having great
selections of clothes when you're a larger person.
And that's a shame. And that's what that's what
we've had to do. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely
bland, big something that could be turned into a curtain.
Yeah, and these and these bloodythings that they used to, umm,
(18:31):
do in Evans's and New Look for the larger sizes was these
fucking tops with your shoulders.
They're called cold shoulders and all your shoulder be out.
And this. Yeah, but it they only made it
in bigger sizes. I don't know why you saw the
crap out of. Me, no.
I am still a fan of elasticated.SO if there's something that has
(18:53):
an elasticated waste, I still definitely am a fan of that
because do you know what that is?
More comfortable? It's more comfortable.
You're just showing your age nowthough.
Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe. But yeah, so.
Close my #2 would be, I think, maybe food.
OK. Yeah, so I have unlearned.
(19:14):
I've been trying to unlearn all of the shit that I was, umm,
port for all those years in the slimming clubs and diet rooms
and all the rest of it. And now I eat predominantly to
fuel my body. And I've never done that before
and I've never known about nutrition before and I've never
(19:35):
realized how important it is till now, you know?
And I'm just, and I feel sorry for the Belinda of the past 13
years that she never had the opportunity when she was 25 to
go and learn all this and have afucking amazing life with no
(19:55):
like fueling her body and doing all of the things.
But fucking hell, the next 25 will be twice as good.
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I think like the food side of
things, I am definitely enjoyingfood more, genuinely enjoying
food more. Yeah.
So I am like, yeah, I know we'vetouched this before, but like,
(20:19):
again, I'll go back to I like chicken Caesar salad, a diced up
chicken Caesar. I just cannot get enough.
It is like. A load of bacon in it though.
Patty. A load of it, But you'd have to
have the bacon, the chicken, thecrouton and a bit of lettuce on
the FARC. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, definitely no.
Chicken Caesar. It's like one of the most
(20:40):
amazing foods. I just cannot get enough it.
I love it. I know.
And I need it from anywhere. Yeah.
Another one I'd say #3 from me. I'm going to put energy because
I feel that I definitely more energy, partly because I'm
smaller physically. So like I I think that's part of
its movement is easier. Yeah.
(21:00):
And that's something that reallyhit home when I did the 5K thing
in January, native Women's Aid and that last one, I put like
the 40 kilos back on and wait and try to move then.
Mother of God. And even the other day, like, I
lifted 20 kilos and I was like, this is less than half of what
I've lost and Oh my. God.
(21:21):
So I think those little they're actually, you know, if you've
never done that, I and you're somebody that has lost say
10/20/30, whatever amount of weight, try and find something
that is around that weight and hold it or trying to attach it
to you and just go about for half an hour with it on you till
you see the difference. And it is so such an eye opener
(21:41):
in terms. Of I don't know if I could lift
it, Paddy. Yeah.
Well, you did it. You did it in the deadlift, did
you not? Last week before in the what?
Did I do? Did I do 60?
Yeah, I. Think a deadlift, but the
dumbbell. I couldn't lift the dumbbell,
but I could lift the barbell. Yeah, there's a huge difference,
isn't there? Yeah, yeah, Actually Sean got
two really good dumbbells, 10 KGdumbbells, so I can do my, umm,
(22:05):
RDLS out the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cool number. 3 for me, yeah, I think would be.
I now have the courage to show up for myself and I have the
courage to show up online and I have the courage to keep going
with GLP One insights by BelindaUmm and that's something that
(22:29):
I've always wanted to do and there's no stopping me now.
So I, I'm going to say mine, I think is actually very similar
that I've been for number 4 is along the lines of oh, you're I,
I, I value myself more. Yes.
And I value protecting my space more.
(22:50):
I value saying no to things moreif it's the right thing for me.
Yeah, like I definitely felt that old Paddy would have said a
lot more yeses and given into things because I wanted to keep
other people happy. And maybe because I felt other
people had greater value than meand therefore I had a
(23:10):
responsibility to do things. Whereas now I'm like Nope, not
doing that. Paddy, when I tell you that the
people that are listening to this now will be able to relate
to what you've just said on so many goddamn levels that it's
actually chilling. Like, I know what people do
because I've done it and you have done it also, you know, and
(23:32):
you're just standing your own goddamn space now and take as
much of it up as you like. And like some of this even comes
down to like, and this isn't stuff that I don't think I've
spoke about before most because I don't really speak a huge
amount about like when brands reach out and stuff like that.
Because I, I'm, yeah, I don't know why you just haven't.
But like there's been quite a few times where brands have
(23:52):
reached out and they try definitely they try and take
advantage. And I don't think there's
anything like, by the way to wait or anything like that.
It's more so just a a thing where.
Oh, it's just business. Yeah, it's business, but there
is definitely a bias with some of the brands that have reached
out to me. Umm, we're trying to to have
everything in their favor as opposed to in mine.
(24:13):
And like, initially when I starting out, I would have been
flattered that Oh my God, they want to work with me or they
want to do this or they want to do that.
Yeah, yeah. And now I am the tool.
I am very much like, well, actually, no, we're not.
That is not the terms of how this is going to work or, umm,
(24:33):
no, that does not fit with my own ethics or my brand or what I
know my community would engage with or is right for them.
And you know, that kind of brandrespect and so respect, it's
worth way more than any of you could that any brown might be
showing you. Yeah.
And. But you also have to, yeah, have
(24:56):
to hold on. You just have to hold on to your
brand, hold on to your before, announce your photographs.
Don't let them go. Don't give them to a company
that can use them whenever they want.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely, um, given me more
confidence. Like, no, that's not right.
That's not the right decision regards what money you're
talking about that, that is not the right decision.
And that's only one tiny exampleof like.
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Yeah. Can I just ask you a quick
question just while it's popped into my mind, You know your
before and after photographs that you would put up on
Instagram. Do you watermark those at all?
I don't know. There were used once actually by
yeah, by a fake company last summer.
And this was this was when I'd lost maybe.
I don't know. I'm going to say something like
two or three stone and, and I found it in another group and it
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was somebody selling, uh, fake medications, yeah, fat blocks or
something, something like that. And I reported it to Facebook.
They did nothing. Umm, and I kept spamming the
group and eventually they took down the post, but then they
blocked me. So they did.
That's OK, They blocked me. When I had my keto account, umm
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can't you remember what was called anyway?
Umm I used to watermark mine because mine had been stolen
once for slim and tablets or. Something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't seem to see or
hear of that, umm very much anymore.
Yeah. Umm, are we on #4?
Yeah, because yeah, you're on #4now, yeah.
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Yeah, my number 4 was actually something like yours, raising
your standards. OK, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Protecting your peace.
Yeah, yeah. And walk away from things that
don't serve you. And this like brand things
aside, I think this also ties inwith protecting your space
around other people, which can include friends and family at
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times. Oh.
My God. And that's a tough one for some
people and for a lot of people, for most people actually.
But I think, you know, I, I havedefinitely have a few different
sayings, but I'm like, OK, this might be my circus, but I'm not
taking ownership of these monkeys, you know, or something
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along those lines because I'm like.
We would say not my circus, not my monkeys.
Yeah, but I'm like, sometimes, yeah, sometimes.
If it is your group in whatever particular thing, it might
actually be your circus that youcan't get away from.
But you can make the decision that you know what, I'm not
getting involved in this. I'm saying no to this.
I'm just not even going to reactto it.
That's what I've gotten very good at is not getting umm,
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sucked into like, I don't know the, the, the, the space for
yeah, the space for other peopleare at that.
It's consuming their head because I'm like, Nah, I'm
protecting my mental space and I'm not getting involved with
that because again, I value myself more and I'm protecting
my mental health and that I just.
I just find it really sad that we had to go through all of this
to now come out the other side saying we value ourselves more
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because we have lost weight. It does, yeah.
Yeah. And I don't, and I don't like
the sound of that. Is that because though?
It's not because of the actual weight, is it?
It's not the physical weight. Is it the wanting to be accepted
or want to be included or wanting to be valued in some
other roundabout way because maybe we felt we weren't because
of our weight or we were? I definitely felt.
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It could be before, yeah, Yeah. Well, I would say yes to that.
I would say that I've often feltundervalued and taken advantage
of in situations because of my weight.
It Now those situations may not have been true.
Yeah, there are other people maynot have, but that's how I felt.
And I think with weight loss comes a new energy, comes a new
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side of your personality, maybe that comes out, you know?
Yeah, and this brings me back toactually, if I can find it now,
one of the times from when I wason The Biggest Loser and one of
the clips that I do sometimes share and which I'm going to
just see if I can find here and play really quickly for you.
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But about kind of value and how I used to feel.
And I thought that I had gotten rid of this feeling and this
sensation, but in reality, actually, I I hadn't gotten rid
of this and we're still there. And I guess there's part of my
mind now is OK, do I have I really got rid of this or I'm in
the into this place again where I only think I've got rid of
Anyway, I'll stop and I'll I'll play.
Hopefully this will play OK now through the thing.
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For me, this is probably more important than clothes or
anything else. I've written down some of the
thoughts that I used to have that would stop me doing things.
I can't go out tonight looking like this as I look too fat and
ugly. I feel intimidated around new
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people, especially guys, as I feel inferior to them because of
how I look and because I'm not. I really, really wanted to burn
this letter because it summed upeverything that held the old
Paddy back. All those thoughts that I'd had
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before about being fat, about being ugly, that I don't need to
thank them anymore. Every single person who've been
on this journey felt the exact same way.
It was just really touching thatPaddy had captured that.
Say goodbye to the old you once and for all.
Yeah. So that's kind of what that just
brings back as we were kind of talking.
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So I can't hear you mutable. Poor Paddy, how old were you
there? You sound so different.
I would have been 2828, almost 29, yeah.
(31:05):
You're so young, so young. What do you think When?
What do you feel when you listento that back?
I I get emotional watching that.Yeah.
I like how genuinely do it kind of does hit me a bit.
So it does that they're the thoughts that I had.
And that's what I'm saying. I kind of, I don't know if I did
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get rid of them after Biggest Loser because I definitely and
this one we talked about before,it's not going to be too much.
But I definitely still put a huge amount of pressure on
myself about how I was looking and all that kind of stuff
because of social media at that stage and also.
You came away from that thinkingyou were fixed.
Absolutely, absolutely. Where is it fixed?
Where is, if anything, where I am right now is that I know my
(31:50):
health is in a better place, butI am still second broken like
the rest of us. Those going to be paralyzed,
that can be worked on a bit better and it's not about being
fixed. Yeah, we'll never be.
Fixed to pain. It's not about being fixed.
Yeah, this journey isn't. No, Isn't it's about being
healthier? Yeah.
I'm feeling more comfortable in my own skin.
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Yeah. And can I just interject there
and say that that's kind of withmy #5 as well.
This is the first weight loss journey I have been on where
I've reached this stage of it and weight has very little to do
with it anymore. Yeah, yeah, like.
So little Yeah in my life right now.
Nothing. Nothing could give a shit if I
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had never stood on his scales again.
You know as. Long as I just keep.
Going and doing what I'm doing. And I'm not just saying that
that's what I actually, that's how I actually feel.
That's what I actually believe. That I'm actually OK with the
way that I'm fueling my body. I'm OK with the exercises that I
do. I'm OK with the effort that I'm
(32:55):
putting into other parts of my life and that I'm showing up for
the people that I love. And weight is literally the last
thing. And the rest, yeah, you know,
and I want that for so many other.
People. Yeah.
And I, you know, and that's whatyou get at the end of this
journey. And I'm not at the end of my
journey at all, but 2 1/2 years in, I'm.
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I'm nearing it. Yeah.
Yeah. Level, you know, and it's just
so many people don't know what they can have with this, you
know? Yeah.
And I think that's why it's so important to, you know, like
it's interesting Nova Nordisk have ads out now about, umm,
obviously not about medication because you can't promote a
(33:39):
medication in Ireland, Umm, but in terms of just.
Mentioning obesity in an ad. Yeah, talk to your doctor.
Talk to your doctor specificallyabout obesity.
Have a chat with. It's amazing, you know, and
whatever that route might be, I say some people absolutely the
right route will be that it's not medicated, that you, you
know, there's other options, that it could be psychological
support that somebody needs. But you know, but definitely
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those conversations. All of the above.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
So that's why that's why it can be very difficult when people
ask you about this or that because constantly and even
yesterday, the Q&A and it so many times comes back to I can't
answer that because it's so individual to you, your journey,
your biology, your medical history, all this kind of stuff.
This way you know that first conversation have what your
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doctor and. But I remember when I started
out Paddy umm comparing every single person that was the same.
Time. Journey, Oh my God.
And I, I was obsessed with it, you know, and the only advice I
give to everybody at the moment that I can say to them is
especially my subscribers is this is a really, really long
journey. Yeah, you know a really.
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Long journey. I didn't wake up overnight. 21st
don't. Yes, you know you know what I
mean like so and and that's why I don't expect to wake up
overnight and be like I don't know, 15 stone or whatever I end
up being but big Ding there, buton my side, my headphones are
just got big Ding you. Didn't.
(35:06):
Say Dong Belinda, no innuendos. I'm going to get weird emails.
But and then my #5 then was health, just overall health.
So like I know that my overall health wasn't in the worst of
places before I started this in terms of accident, my blood
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results and that kind of stuff. However, even with that, they
have improved. And I'm also including in this
like my mental health, just justgeneral day-to-day Wellness.
And you know, as we've said so many times, that is the ultimate
goal here is improved health, you know, and longevity.
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Yeah. And that does not necessarily
equate to a particular number ona scales, you know, because I
would have been that stereotypical, I think
overweight person who actually was relatively healthy based on
when you look at my markers, because I would have been quite
active. I was in doing CrossFit, I was
in doing the gym, all that kind of stuff.
And but even with all that, I know my body is in a better
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place than it was like, yeah, you know, it's nearly a year
since I started on eh Majora like in June, June, 14th, 14th
June was that I started. Yeah, probably three years in
September. Yeah, it's mad Anna.
(36:32):
That's a quick. Year for you this year is flown
by Paddy. Flown, flown, I don't how I
don't know how it's like tippingtowards a week 3 of May.
Like it is crazy, crazy. But but yeah, so there are some
of our, I guess our, you know, 5positives to come from kind of
weight loss or related kind of things in our or over our
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journey and stuff, which is which is pretty cool.
Because we've both lost nearly 30% of our body weight.
Yep. Yep, yeah.
But I think. Also as well, what's fair to say
is that you know people that arestarting out this journey and
they're not into movement or they're not into anything like
that. Sometimes you'll surprise
yourself because when you when pounds do start to shift and you
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do start feeling a bit more confident in yourself and you do
start wanting to or feeling likeyou can do a bit more than that
itself will just be a natural progression anyway.
Yeah, to inspire you. Like in fairness, you in the
gym, you know, Like, I know you'd been doing some classes,
but you hadn't been in the gym lifting weights and all that
kind of stuff. And now look at you.
I know. I know I've taken a week off
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Paddy and I swear to God I'm going to.
I'm no, I'm going to be opening my app tonight while I'm lying
in bed seeing if there's a classavailable in the morning.
I have to do a 5K yesterday, 5K today.
I just spam half a kilometer andI was supposed to be doing
nothing. But that's why like with the the
my movement room that I did a couple of weeks ago, like one of
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the emails I got afterwards was so nice from somebody saying
that that was the first bit of movement they had done in so
long and like it just gave. And I like that.
That's exactly why I wanted to try doing something like that.
Umm, so that it's an opportunity.
Let's let's just talk about yourmovement room for just a minute
in case the people are listening, OK?
Don't know what it is. So the movement room is my idea.
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It's essentially a home workout that you do live with me in the
moment. So you can do in your room or
wherever you want. Doesn't have to be in our room,
could be in the garage, could beoutside, wherever you want to
do. But it is a 30 minute movement
session and I'm intentionally calling it movement, not
exercise. And that's really important to
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me because exercise can be very scary for people and some people
might think they cannot do exercise, but the majority of
people can do some element of movement.
So with that in mind, the movement room, it is 30 minutes
where we do a gentle warm up, then we move into movement.
With the movements, there is scaled options.
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So if you can't do a particular thing just yet, we scale it.
We show you a different option. If you can't do that, we come up
with something else. So like it is something that the
majority of people can do no matter where you're starting
from. And you do not have to put your
camera on. You do not have to put, yeah,
you don't have to put your camera on.
You don't have to put your mic on, none of that.
So I do not have to see you. It is about you feeling
(39:32):
comfortable in your own thing. So like, imagine saying that
there's a gym you could go to and do a workout and other
people don't have to see you. Like, Oh my gosh.
Yeah, like, yeah. So that's something that's I
want is to give people the flexibility.
Now there was a couple of the ladies did put their cameras on
and their mics on and watch the chit chats or you know, stuff
that beforehand. Oh yeah.
Because. You do you have a chit chat
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before and after or? Did I hear?
Somebody say you did meditation or something.
Oh yeah. So what we did, yes, what we did
was at the end of the 30 minutesto kind of cool down, umm, I did
a short few minute kind of mindfulness breathing piece and
I'm going to focus a bit more onthe breathing.
On the next two ones as well andjust for a few moments, just to
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bring people to a place of calm and kind of some positive
affirmations in that space as well.
So just by getting people to close their eyes as we're
cooling down and just reinforcing some positive
messaging about ourselves. And then after that we had like
it was meant to be 15 minutes. It was nearly half an hour of
like chatting or asking some answer answering questions for.
People And is there any equipment needed, Paddy?
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No, no equipment. No equipment, just.
Yourself and there's no level ofexpertise needed.
No, it needs nothing. I, I demonstrate everything.
I am literally just here in my old bedroom myself and shown
them all just me and my body. And the only thing we used last
week was a chair for people say they couldn't do squats yet we
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adapt that and like, hey, just sit down on the chair and stand
back up again. So that's that's actually a good
example of something that could be adapted.
Or even use the back of the chair.
So you've got, yeah, exactly. Balance Swift.
Yeah, yeah. Or for the people that couldn't
do the press UPS, we did press UPS off the wall.
So you're just standing and stuff.
So there's loads there and that that's where it's for me to
worry about showing you the thing.
So, so yeah, you. Do you always, umm, put that up
(41:18):
on Instagram and Facebook then when you're going to have the
movement room on? And where can the people find
the link to join us? Yeah, I'm not great at
promoting, promoting things, umm, but uh, yes.
So literally if you go to ptpaddy.com, that will take you
straight to the book and insightso well.
So if you go to ptpaddy.com, that will always show you when
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the next one is. So you'll always be able to see
there when the next bookable 1 is.
So there is one this Saturday, which is the 17th of May I
believe it is. And then there is 1/2 Saturdays
after that as well. So and look at, I don't know how
frequently they're going to be or you know, I do want to play
around with days and times and stuff like that.
But it is €6. And I'd say it's just a chance
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for people to lean in, do some movement in a very safe space.
So you don't even have to put your cameras on.
Or if the case that you want to keep your camera off, mic on,
off, mic on, or just put your mic on for the chitchat
afterwards, whatever the case might be, you can do all that.
Lovely, that's brilliant. And The thing is as well, Paddy,
(42:25):
uh, some of our listeners here at the dose, they might not
necessarily be on Instagram. Yeah, so we have to remember
that as well. So give out your Instagram
handle because you haven't got it up on your on your thing here
either. I think, you know, I think you
should be my manager. Yeah.
I'm just not good. I'd.
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Love to, I'd love to. I love it.
Yeah, so bossy. Go on.
Yeah, so my Instagram handle is at a dose of Paddy.
You can also find me on TikTok at the same.
Although TikTok has been a bit odd because I changed my name
and it's not reflecting the namechange.
But yet if you go to what the new name should be, IE TikTok
(43:06):
forward slash dose, but it stilltakes you to what it should be.
So I know there's something weird going on with TikTok.
But anyway, if you're on Instagram or TikTok and you look
up a dose of Paddy, you will find me excellent and political
wise, we're talking about mine. What about you?
Because you also have your subscribers group and you've
recently reached a changed your name as well on Instagram and
(43:27):
stuff like that. So.
So I used to be Ozempic Insights, but I changed to GLP
One Insights because Ozempic is a brand.
Yeah, it's so I kind of. And also you're, you're not on
Ozempic anymore. Not either.
Exactly. It's a bit more of a broader,
yeah. GLP one yeah, yeah.
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And my e-mail address is glponeandglponepointoinsightsglponepointoinsights@gmail.com.
I had to change that as well because.
You know. But you can find me on Instagram
with GLP 1 Insights and on Facebook you can't find me
(44:08):
because I have a private secret subscribers group.
I have I think nearly 100 ladiesin there now.
And it's a monthly subscription,It's €5 a month.
I answer questions on there every single morning and every
single evening. And umm, I supposed to start
lives last week, but I didn't. I did a few videos instead, but
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yeah, I honestly, I don't think the girls, my subscriber is
girls. They don't realize how much I
get out of that as well. It's like my little my little
cocoon, my little safe space. And I love being in there.
And I loved, I mean, just the messages that I get from girls
and I've, I honestly think, Paddy, that we need to do
something like a really, really good meet up.
(44:53):
How many times have we spoke about?
I know, we really do. Linda, I'm just after thinking
of something go. On.
That we didn't. Do you know people if you e-mail
us, we are shit at getting back to emails.
We never checked the dose. E-mail is there.
Emails there. So it's not that, but we did
have a reach out from the folks at the Bariatric Bash.
(45:18):
So stay tuned. We will follow up on that.
And if you're listening folks that we will be in touch.
So I forgot talking about meetups, Umm, but yes, in
relation to uh, like the dose kind of meet up or whatever.
Absolutely, there's something that we would love to do,
whatever that might look like. It'd be interesting, like to
find way or be interested. Yeah, and if they're interested,
yeah, umm, but yeah, that'll be should we throw?
(45:40):
That up on our Instagrams, Paddyand see if people would actually
be interested. I'll certainly put it into my,
umm, subscriber. Girls.
Yeah, yeah, I think it'd be cool, like if we got a weak
group of people to. I definitely have ideas for what
we could do for a day, but then it comes down to trying to find
a venue and. And all this kind of
availability for everyone. Yeah, like you never get people.
Yeah, but you give people enough.
(46:00):
Umm. Yeah, if you build it, they
will. Come notice.
Yeah, yeah. If you build it, they will come.
Yeah, just give me a lot of notice.
Exactly. But yes, we will.
We will. We will definitely get a meet
up. And so we will.
Umm, what was I going to say there actually?
Oh yes, I saw something on Instagram that caught my eye
that I think you saw as well because you liked it whether you
(46:22):
know you liked it or not. But I'm going to play it OK, and
hopefully this will play it through for us to hear again.
Confirmed weight loss jabs also seem to have an effect on
alcohol intake. Researchers in Ireland found
that Ozempic and other similar jabs reduced alcohol consumption
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in obese people by around 2/3. An earlier American study saw
the amount people drank in one day reduced by almost half.
That is amazing. Yeah.
Like isn't that mad that like sobetween.
For two years, Paddy. Oh, totally, no, I know.
And like I'd be the same. Like I'd say I would never be a
drinker. No, I'm not a big drinker, but
(47:06):
even still, I can see an impact even at the stand.
Like for example, up in Belfast to the weekend, like I had four
drinks for the entire day in like 12 hours is.
That your norm though. No, I definitely would have had
more before. I would have, yeah, I would have
had more before, particularly when we look at like cocktails
and shots and stuff like that. But I just had zero interest, 0
(47:28):
interest. And I would have been just as
happy with like a, you know, dilute and orange as I would
have been like with a cocktail or something like that, you
know? My my Max now is probably about
four drinks. Yeah, absolutely cannot drink
wine. Yeah, that's cannot drink wine
anymore. Yeah.
And I was the queen of red wine,Paddy.
I knew exactly where wines came from.
(47:50):
I knew what notes they had. I knew what food to put with
them. And now I cannot fucking
tolerate it. Kills me.
It's gas and yeah, but yeah, so I thought just that was an
interesting that's. Brilliant.
It's brilliant, yeah. Yeah, no, it is something that I
know Johann Harry pronounce thatright, Yeah.
And touched on in his book as well in relation to.
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And even since like some of the anecdotal stuff that's quite is
that they're looking to see likecould this medication be used
for things to help with addictions for things like
drinking drugs and stuff like that.
It's interesting. It's really, really interesting
to see. And you know, I'm curious to see
what that kind of ongoing yeah, trial and influence offer bring.
But that would be, that'd be brilliant.
(48:33):
Like in America and GOP ones areapproved for sleep apnea
specifically. So aside from obesity for sleep
apnea. And I think is it that they were
also going to the FDA in Americato look for approval for back
pain specifically as well causedby obesity?
(48:53):
Well, you know what's going on with me at the moment.
Yeah. Yeah.
My back. I like, I'm hoping that I'm
going to go in, They're going togive me my last MRI and they're
going to say, bell, you've lost nearly 6 1/2 stone.
Your disc has gone back in again.
That's amazing. I'll be living proof.
So if anybody is listening and they have any rosary beads,
could you please do it? Do an LM link around the rosary
(49:16):
bead for me? Yeah, what for people that are
listening from outside Ireland don't know what rosary beads
are? Oh, what are they?
So how do you tell them? They're bit of string with some
holy be holy beads on them. Holy beads, Holy beads on them.
And you say 10? Is it 10 fathers?
I hear you're asking the wrong person there.
(49:36):
I don't know. If my mother-in-law heard me
talking like that, I. Sure, hear.
Oh my. God, did I ever tell you about
the time I was at just my uncle's funeral and we were
sitting in the room, the morningoffice burial and it was me and
my cousins and all this. This is such an Irish story.
And two decades. Of the rosary before.
(49:58):
Literally, literally, the rosarystarted in the room, right?
I thought the priest was going to say the rosary, right?
No, no, they bounced down that room from like cousin to cousin
or whoever was there to say a decade of the rosary and I was
trying to count. On in.
That situation, I didn't say it no, no.
(50:19):
I was trying to count how many people is there till it gets to
me because I do not know the words and then my sit my sister
so says this to me that she started breaking her whole
laughing because I started hyperventilating or whatever you
call it because I was like Oh myGod, Oh my God they're going to
come to me. I don't know the words.
I literally was sitting there thinking can I Google the words
(50:40):
to the rosary whilst I'm sittingin the room waiting for it to
come to me. I am.
A dead man. I am not even joking, I am
serious. It stopped at the person before
me. Your uncle?
Was it your uncle's? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, he was looking down on you.
Yeah, and he would have found that funny.
He definitely would have found that funny.
But I was like, so my lesson learned is at an Irish funeral.
(51:02):
I am never going to never send the rosary.
By the door, sit by the door. I'm not sure the last one.
I was at umm, the Lord of mercy on him.
Now Sean's uncle Paddy, Umm, he passed away in America.
They brought him home. They brought him into the
sitting room in Sean's mom's house.
And like that Paddy, everybody was saying the rosary and I was
looking at my sister-in-law Alice going.
(51:23):
Yeah. Ask me.
Do not ask me, I know nothing. Yeah, I can mumble.
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so that was lesson
learned. Lesson learned, Yeah.
Umm, so a Belinda, where are we at the moment?
So are you still on 15 milligram?
You're on 15 milligram. Yeah, about 3 weeks ago I
(51:44):
dabbled win 15 milligram. Umm, I got horrendous side
effects of flatulence burping. Do the sound effects.
I can't do a sound effect for a burp.
Umm, I was running away from myself.
The egg. Smell.
Oh yeah, smell. Always horrendous.
My mouth was so dry, I was getting an icky stomach.
(52:07):
And then I thought to myself, that's it, I'm going down to
12.5. I've been on 12.5 for two weeks.
And then of course the other dayI thought, yeah, that's great,
I'll go back up now to 15. Sure, see what the crack is.
No, sure. I've had diarrhea with days
like. OK, OK, yeah.
And my. Suppression is.
We spoke about this as well, Patty.
My suppression is way too. Too high for you?
(52:27):
OK, Yeah. OK, I'm not feeling like I can
get enough nutrients, calories into me to sustain sustainable.
Yeah, health. And This is why, again, when
people do ask me like I did AQ and A yesterday, the day before
and I've got loads of questions on Instagram, actually loads of
questions. Yeah, yeah.
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And through announced them all. But again, a lot of them were
about all this or that. And like it's so important that
if you're feeling that actually I can't eat enough, go and talk
to prescriber, tell them this and work with them to see is
this the right dose or what is the right approach for me.
Please don't be going to like random places like, yeah, go
talk to prescriber. They should always be your go
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to. But that is definitely a cue.
If you're like, I'm struggling to actually get food in and not
just like, say a few days, but actually for a prolonged period
of time. You absolutely need to make sure
that you're nourishing your bodythe right way.
You know, you have to, umm, but yeah.
And funnily enough, Belinda likeI've been on 15 for quite a
while. No, you have.
I was just going. To ask you what's your crack
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now? Like I've been on 15 a good
while and I am finding over the last, I'd say 3:00-ish weeks, 3
to 4 weeks that my appetite feels very suppressed as well.
Like very suppressed as well. So I'm kind of thinking I might
review, but I can actually, you know, what might move them back
down to 12.5 or something. Be a right call there to see how
(53:51):
that works for me. But again, with we'll see which
advice is not going. 100% gone down to 12.5.
I'm ordering my new prescriptionanyway tomorrow so I'll have a
chat to him about. That as well, yeah.
But yeah, yeah, it is. It is.
It's an interesting one and that's why it's it's it's such a
hard thing when people ask you, first of all, you can't give me
the advice, but when people do ask you, oh, what's your
thoughts? And this wasn't that It's like
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my journey is going to be different.
Yours, your body could react differently to this.
And again, there's a huge amountof people that don't even get
near 15 because they don't need to, you know, like this huge
amount of people. I don't think I'll.
Ever need to? Yeah, like I saw recently people
that just were on the the starting doors or the second
doors and I've been on it for months and it's working hard for
them. It's, you know, and this way
it's so important that it's unique, it's individual.
(54:35):
That's why you work. Yeah, Yeah.
And that's why you work with your kind of prescriber as
opposed to be comparing yourselfto other people and kind of
online. So one of the things that come
up interesting though, umm, I had spoke about umm, causing the
medication before my surgery andsomebody had asked why did I
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need to come off my why do I need to come off my Jaro before
I went under general anesthetic?And I was saying, oh give a bit
of the reasons about it and how like, you know, I had
conversations with the Aneta test and stuff like that, that
they could gauge how soon do they need to come off beforehand
yadda yadda. And someone replied back to me
saying I wish I knew this Last June I was put asleep for a
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procedure. When I went to go home, blood
pressure completely dropped and was very sick.
Vomiting. Ended up in A and E the
following week. Isn't that mad?
Yeah. And This is why like it's so
important to keep your medical team on any kind of thing that's
happening or stuff like that because even something
anecdotally now I wouldn't zero medical evidence for this, but
(55:38):
we're talking about was I had a bit of a stomach bug or
something like a week ago, week and a half ago.
And now this is. Medical advice.
This is just. Oh yeah, I know.
I'm saying is like that. I had on a Friday event, so it
was like the day before he's dueto take my, my next dose.
Umm, I had a sandwich before I went to bed and I'm convinced
this was the standard. And I woke up that Saturday
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morning with such horrible cramps and everything and, you
know, all kind of stuff. And that stayed with me for a
week. And then that got me thinking,
my God, I wondered, does the slow down digestive emptying,
Does that slow down then maybe that potential bad food that I
ate from emptying my stomach? No, I know that it won't impact
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my immune system and the response of my immune system try
and fight back. And I don't have an answer to
this. It's purely just a thought.
And so the doctors listening, hello, let us know the dough
study and we'd love to know is that is that a possibility that
if you have something like something that is caused by say,
a bad food or something like that, could the effects of that
last longer? Yeah.
Could it take longer to get out of your system because you're on
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a GLP 1? I don't.
Know well you would presume wouldn't Yeah like you can.
You, yeah. The conclusion that it would and
I and I would go in that direction as well.
Definitely, definitely. Yeah, actually it's something I
might ask. I might ask actually the doctor
the next time. Umm, I might ask him.
Because it'll be. Interesting.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, make it tell you.
(57:04):
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Sorry, Doctor Crotty. Doctor Crotty Umm, we love
Doctor Crotty. Umm, we do.
But yeah, my best wait. Umm, yeah, we have no
affiliation again. We need to, I know because like,
we're not patients of them ending like that at all.
Nothing. No, it's just we love the work
that's doing advocacy and stuff like that.
And we say again. Yeah, and that's, I think that's
(57:25):
why we love them. Yeah, exactly.
But I was speaking to um, somebody from my um operation
team. Thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Transfer, yeah.
And, umm, they were saying that the anaesthetist thinks maybe a
week, maybe 2 weeks. And then she mentioned something
because essentially I'll be on, I'll be lying on my front when I
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have my operation because they're operating on my back,
that my stomach will have to be completely and utterly empty.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
So I don't know. I can't have 24 hours before,
yeah. But it would that be enough time
for it to be empty? I'll have to stop the medication
sooner I think. That's interesting.
Isn't. It.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I never even thought about
that the last time I went in forthat SIM.
That. Exact operation.
In fact, I had no thoughts at all.
At all. Yeah.
Going into that operation and I was just, I was so happy in my
ignorance and it was just this. But now it's all I think about
(58:27):
because I know what's going on. So that's why we're saying a
prayer and decorative the rosaryso.
For Belinda with the Holy Rosary, Yeah.
Holy Holy Rosary, Yeah. Anyway, Belinda, is there
anything? Else now, Paddy, I don't think
there's anything else and I'm just looking outside to seize
the sun out. You want to get out and so.
Yeah, it's still out. I can't wait to get out to my
(58:48):
backpack. All right, OK, well Belinda,
look at have a wonderful next week actually, we will have an
interview with Carl O'Rourke theuneducated PT Yes, we'll be
having the chats finding out a bit about Carl, his thoughts as
a personal trainer on weight loss medications and a bit few
(59:09):
other a few other bits and pieces as well such.
An interesting chap. Yeah, and I think you know,
personal trainers are a funny a bag.
Some can be very again, some canvery pro, some can be very use
it to their own financial benefit and don't.
Get me? Started as we've seen in our
favorite person in in England yeah on on their team once
(59:31):
anymore. But yeah, and, and folks, again,
actually I do, I am going to saythis, right?
If you're seeing a personal trainer online telling you to
mess with doses, to mess with pens to that you're being
tricked by a doctor or trick, please, for the love of God, do
not listen. Don't be listening to them.
(59:52):
Like, they're not a doctor, they're not a qualified
professional that should be talking about this medication
and yeah, anyone. If any of those personal
trainers on online are telling you to mess with your
medication, that is a massive red flag and you should run in
the other direction immediately.Particularly when they're then
(01:00:13):
tagging it with, oh, by the way,I have an app that has a GL P1
track on it. If you want to buy it or get it
or whatever, like download it. So like, you know, there's.
A lot of work to do, Paddy. There's ulterior motives there.
Yeah. Oh God.
I Anyway, I go on hold around there, but I won't.
But anyway, look at Belinda. Have a lovely, wonderful week
ahead. I hope that your back garden
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gets loads loads of fun. It will.
I have to go, Patty. The sunset and I have to go,
Patty. Have a brilliant week.
I'll speak to you soon. Alrighty.
Bye bye. None of this conversation should
be taken as medical advice for you.
Before starting or changing any medical or Wellness treatment,
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always consult your GP and medical care team.
None of this conversation shouldbe taken as medical advice for
you before starting or changing any medical or Wellness
treatment. Always consult your GP and
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another episode of the Dose withyour favorite 2 doses.
(00:23):
Paddy and Belinda jazz hands. Yeah, wonderful.
Jazzed. Up today, Paddy jazzed right up.
But like is this like chemicallycost or what?
Well, kinda. The chemical is because like,
I'm in a good mood because of it, but the sun's out, the sun's
(00:44):
out. We've got this just done my
garden. Weather is amazing.
Like amazing. You were saying you can't wait.
You cannot wait to get out and use your back garden because
it's all primed and ready for use.
Yeah, and I'll send you some pictures later, Paddy.
I'll probably have AG and T in my hand.
Actually, no, I'll have a gin and some Pellegrinio.
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Drink responsibly, that is. Yeah, it is that.
It is definitely that kind of weather, isn't it?
Like and. It's only Tuesdays.
It's only Tuesday, I might have another another week of this I
think or so. Yeah.
Yeah, it's up to Sunday anyway. Yeah, I'm thinking on Sunday off
going out to do the stairway to Heaven up in from Anna.
(01:25):
Oh, I've seen it. Yeah, I've done it a couple of
times before and each time I have done it, it has not been
sunny, so I've never got the lovely scenic views.
It's supposed to be quite misty up there as a general place
anyway. Is it?
Yeah, it's not that far from me.Oh, OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'd get there in maybe 45
(01:48):
minutes from here. Wow, how long would it take to
get to from Sligo all the way down to Tipperary Paddy?
Oh, it's a long, long wait, Prairie.
It's a long way to Tipperary. No, you can't mute me.
I can only mute you. Love that for me.
And what for? Yeah, Like I was looking at it
(02:12):
before when we were looking to meet up and I thought we're
coming to where you are and staying there.
And it was at some stage and it was, it was.
Because we have Madden Falls andwe have Tremor and Clanny and we
lovely. Tremor is not Wexford to
Prairie. Sorry, 20 more is Waterford.
No, no, no, you can't claim for more.
Where can you claim for more? I used to go to tomorrow.
(02:34):
No, you can't. I used to go to tomorrow when I
was younger on holidays. I mean, the country did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a bit of a drive, I
think. Because we live so near to it.
And it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't anything to us.
Yeah, our parents wouldn't bringus.
And how are you feeling Like OK,you've had previous summers in a
smaller, lighter body maybe thana few years ago.
(02:57):
OK, about 2018. Yeah, yeah, but like you're
still smaller this summer than say you were again last summer
where this is my first summer being.
No, I still have blubber. Don't be wrong, but like in a
considerably smaller body like I've only had because even after
even after Biggest Loser, I had regained a good bit of weight
(03:20):
come that summer. Right, OK.
Yeah, because it did. Happen quickly for you?
Yeah. You must be feeling yourself all
over. Are you?
You. Must.
Be feeling yourself. That's what we say down here.
That is, I know, I know. Yeah.
No, I got to get those weird emails again.
No, we can't say things like that.
(03:41):
How do you? Have to say nothing and you'll
get those. Emails.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am feeling good if that's what
we have. Yes, I want to say.
Yeah, I think I'm feeling, I'm feeling lighter mentally and
emotionally going into this summer than I have done in a
very long time. Even when I was on keto and I
lost the weight back then, I still had the food knives.
(04:04):
I was still killing. Myself, yes.
But this is completely different.
Do you feel more calmer in your mind?
Yes, 100%. You know what?
It's the space that I now have in my brain, in my mind, the
emotional space I have because Idon't have to wake up every
(04:25):
single morning, kill myself overfood, kill myself overlooking in
the wardrobe. I just get up and every single
thing I put on me fits me, and I'm not tearing and dragging at
it. And actually, most things that I
have from last summer are gone now because I cleaned up my
wardrobe. I have not now.
Yeah. Is that a motorbike or car?
Motorbike. Lower background effects the
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joys of life. Yeah, no, that's brilliant.
That's cool. Like for me it is like I I
shared a picture of this maybe acouple of months going about
them, but like off like the O'Neill's shorts, like the short
shorts. And I remember when I did you.
Speedo man as well. Oh God no.
God no. No, no, no, no, no, no.
(05:09):
But I bought a pair of the O'neal's, eh, Shorts like the
Paul Mescal shorts, you know, kind of.
Yeah. Clinging on to a dream there.
Umm. Paul Mescal shot it.
Does he have a aftershave out? I don't know.
Is he a rugby player? What?
Who's Paul Mescal? Paul Mescal from umm, Stranger
(05:30):
people, normal people, stranger people.
That's that's not his fucking name.
Paddy normal people it is Paul Mescal.
Mescal. Yeah, it is.
OK. OK, wait now am I?
See, I made you doubt yourself. You're right.
Yeah, you did. Yeah, You know I'm right, Paul.
No, it is Nesco, yeah. I know it is, yeah.
OK, sorry. Continue on.
(05:50):
But anyway, so I bought the pair.
I remember when I was in buying,I was like, oh God, what size of
the bike? And they were like they had umm
30. I did have like waist 38 and
waist 36 and stuff like that. And I was like, oh, look at you
and buy the 36 and you're look at it's wishful thinking, but
the fucking. Fit me, did they?
Yeah, this second fit me so it'sbrilliant.
So I can wear and then I'm like I feel, I feel good when I wear
(06:14):
them. More so because they're waist 36
rather than how short they. Are they short Short.
They're short shorts. They are short shorts.
Yeah, yeah, the ties get a good errand.
I've a mini skirt again to wear for the weekend. 4 mini skirts
have you Patty colour? What colour is yours?
Turquoise. Coins.
Mustard actually. What is zip up the front of it?
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I can't wait. Oh, God.
But you know, so I'm looking forward to summer and, you know,
it's even things like going out and having a 99 and like getting
the flake in it and getting the syrup.
I'm not feeling bad about havingit, you know?
I just had one with the kids. Oh, lovely.
Now I had a baby one because I was afraid in case.
Oh, side effects. Yeah, good.
(06:59):
Just you mentioning that now. Yeah, that was, I came out the
swimming pool at 4:00. At 4:00, we went over, we got
the ice cream and it's now 452 and I haven't thought about that
ice cream since I ate it. Yeah, that was a normal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, a normal summer and I was
eating ice cream with the boys. I'd be thinking to myself, I
(07:20):
better not eat my dinner or what?
Am I going to eat my dinner for my dinner or it would spiral me.
Yeah. And then I would let go and I
would eat all around me, becausethat one thing would have made
me spiral. Yeah, I opened the glove box in
my car. Goes show how often I open it.
I know there's no point ever breaking into my car because the
(07:41):
glove box contains, uh, my old Slimming World weighing book
from May last year when I'd rejoined Simon World and I
opened it and I was like, wow, Oh, whoa.
I hadn't even thought about thisreally.
Like I know we've mentioned someworld, but I hadn't really
thought about it. And I opened the book and like
was looking at my wayans and my little metallic stickers.
(08:03):
Now I have to say I did like metallic stickers.
I did. I did like that.
That was like a little bit. Of Patty.
Yeah, I know your. Type you wouldn't yeah, I know
your type. You would have shimmied up to
the Wayne scale, stood on it andshimmied back down again, all
the while waiting for the big massive clap at.
The end waiting to be told them slimmer off the week and if I
didn't give him daggers to someone else.
(08:25):
You know, the basket of rot. Rotten fucking fruit.
I like waiting before I go to stand on the scales, but like
you have time to go into a piss and he's got every last drop out
before I go and stand on the scales when actually it makes no
difference. And then it's like, what is the
lightest clothes I can wear? OK, where's your short shorts,
that vests and those shoes that are easiest to get off?
Like you know, so God the thingsand then go get a big take away
(08:48):
afterwards. 100% I used to go inthe mornings and not eat from
6:00 the day before and I wouldn't drink any.
I wouldn't drink water either and he was just defeating the
whole purpose like. Yeah, mine was like half it was
at 8 or half eight on a Saturdaymorning, I think it was.
Yeah, that's a good, good time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I used to think it set me upfor the weekend.
(09:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You could go all out then on a
Saturday, couldn't you have it? Yeah.
Rain. It was lovely.
And you know, and I know like I,I was, umm, I, I, I was very
lucky with the group that I was in, in terms of the people
there. Lovely.
Yeah. And Charlotte, who was just, oh,
I just love Charlotte. But listen, I, I have spent the
(09:32):
past, I don't know how long, twoyears, Slayton Slimming World
and given out about Slimming World and all the rest of it.
And yeah, yeah, Sean, Sean was saying to me a couple of weeks
ago, he said, Belinda, for all the Slayton you do of Slimming
World, he said you fucking lovedit.
I had such an amazing group of friends, girls and the crack.
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Sometimes I used you'd, you'd wet yourself with the laughing
coming out of there. We used to go out for meals, we
used to go on walks. We used to have house parties.
Like and that, and I think that's the thing.
If you're in a group that can give you that social element.
And this is where I can try and detach from the the, the, yeah,
the the stuff, the similar stuffversus the people and all that.
(10:14):
And yeah, no, I can get it. I.
Definitely, yeah. Yeah, totally.
And I didn't think about that all the time that I was slating,
slating it. But umm, FYI, Are you sure that
you know but Weight Watchers? I know.
Gone now. Yeah, now it's awful Do.
You know, my God, is it gone globally or is it just in
America? Yeah, it's WW International is
(10:35):
gone. So.
And listen, the other day I was talking to my mother about it
and you know, she done like you,she pulled out her gold card
from Weight Watchers that would have given her, umm, a lifetime
free pass because she reached her goal weight.
And she holds on to that like a fucking trophy, Paddy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking here.
(10:57):
The UK side is still up. Is.
This. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I remember they were, I remember saying this at the time
that they were one of the first kind of groups to get in there
and actually bring out a GLP onetype track.
So they were, which I have to say I was impressed by because
(11:17):
they were at least. Times are changing.
Yeah, they were and that's like a year ago now.
So that that kind of did impressme, whereas that don't impress
me. This is.
A third song. Now stop it, OK?
Stop it. Shania is coming out.
I'm coming out. I won't be working now.
(11:39):
That's well and truly done coming out.
But yeah, so interesting. The UK.
Wait, what? Your site is still up?
So I wonder is it like wait whatis globally or what is
happening? Yeah, but maybe it's just in the
process of bankruptcy. I'm sure it didn't get shut down
immediately. So are they going through that
process, see if somebody else isgoing to buy it maybe?
(11:59):
Oh, I don't know. Because the UK, I'm looking at
the US site, it's still here andthey're still promoting access
to weight loss meds and all that.
That's interesting. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe.
Anyway. Umm, let me ask you a question.
Now that we've been talking about like this summer compared
to other summers and stuff, yeah, how different we feel.
(12:22):
Umm, what would you be able to come up with Five things that
has changed for you since you have lost 100?
Pounds like positive things I'm assuming.
Yes, of course. It's not like Debbie down.
OK, OK, fine. Listeners, come on now.
OK, OK, sorry, sorry listeners. So 5 things maybe that is better
(12:46):
about life since I lost weight, Yeah.
OK. Yeah.
No particular order for the moment.
I will go with photographs. OK, you do.
One and then I'll do 1. Right, I have to.
Get on this as well. Yeah, so previously I would
avoid photographs like the plague.
(13:08):
Like I just did not like when the camera came out and when
people looking for photos. And even then, I would never
want to see them afterwards because I didn't want to know
how bad they were or how bad youall right, make a noise there
and or hope or how bad I looked in the photo.
But now it's more a case of, yeah, let's get a photo.
(13:29):
Let's let's do the photo. Let's, let's take the photo.
Here's here's me. Let people see, umm, you know,
transforming or whatever. And even at the weekend, I was
at a stain. Oh.
Yeah, this is a new concept for.Me stain a joint stag and him
and like even the camera came out then I was like Oh yeah yeah
photos. So that's a big change because I
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definitely anytime before, yeah,anytime before when the camera
come out, even then it was used just from like shoulders up type
things, you know, because you can try and, you know, elongate
your neck to make it look thin. And even though I still had a
triple chin like, you know, it could.
Yeah. So photos is the first thing
I'll give you that I think I feel better about now.
(14:11):
Yeah. #2. Umm.
I think this is kind of like photographs.
Or maybe not actually, just I always had that habit of trying
to make myself small, trying to like myself small.
No, no what? Dieting like.
No, no, in my presence. OK, I guess it.
(14:34):
Do you know what I mean? Just always kind of not trying
not to take over too much space or whatever.
Or I just feel like I'm walking taller now and I'm walking
straighter and I have more intention around me as a.
Person. So do you think you're not
trying to fade into the background as much?
(14:55):
Yes, that's it. Yeah, I know.
Like people will say, Belinda, you've never faded into the
background because of my personality, but that
personality probably was becauseI was trying to overcompensate
far in my size and my weight. And you know, people please are
bullshit that comes along with, umm, a bigger person.
Yeah, no, totally. And like this something we
(15:17):
touched on this loosely, uh, theother day, actually, we were
talking about how it may come asa big surprise to people, but
for folks that don't know me, when I'm in groups of new people
or meet new people, I am actually very introverted in
that I don't like being the center of tension.
Believe it or not, I do not likespaces where there is groups of
(15:39):
people that I do not know. And I literally just want to be
like, and this isn't a weird thing.
This is just at all. I don't want to be, Yeah, I just
feel uncomfortable. So I am quite introverted.
I am, I'm guess I'd be kind of like a, uh, what's it an
introverted extrovert or whatever you call it, like
whereby my, my close friends that know me, yes, I'll be a lot
(15:59):
more pain. The hole.
Yeah, painted the hole for them a lot more extroverted, but like
day-to-day life. If I'm out about in town and if
I'm whatever, I very much just umm, like, oh God, there's
somebody or whatever, like now. Insane that.
What do you like in work? Now that I've relaxed into work,
I know people, so, you know, andit's different there.
I'm being paid to show up in a particular way to do a
(16:20):
particular job, so it's different there.
Umm, but yeah, a lot of people be surprised that that I am very
introverted until you get to know me, umm, or until I get
relaxed, uh, kind of. And do you feel that's changed
at all since you've dropped to like 100 lbs?
No, because I don't know, maybe it stemmed originally from my
wish, I don't know. But I don't feel that has
(16:41):
changed. I do think the fundamental
purchase of my personality is that I don't like, I don't like
that kind of spotlight on me or anything like that.
And it just, yeah, makes me, I just want the ground to open up
like and like, even say at the stand over the weekend, like
there was what, two or three other people there than I knew,
But for the most part, I didn't know people.
(17:02):
So again, it was that awkward thing of like standing on the
outlines and just talking to my friend that I was there with and
stuff like that. Umm, and not, that was not a
direct link to Wade or how I thought I looked around.
I thought it was more so just a case of, oh, oh, I'm in an
awkward situation. Umm.
But umm, yeah, obviously here like in our studio and it's just
me and you in the studio. Together in.
The studio, in the studio together, Yeah, in Studio 2IN
(17:24):
Studio 2IN Donnybrook, Montrose,yeah, umm, but umm, but yeah,
another one from me I would say is close.
That whole joy of going shoppingand particularly, like I said
before, that thing of prickling when clothes are fitting me that
I did not expect to fit me yet. So no more than two weeks ago
(17:47):
when I bought the Calvin Klein top that I was saving for the
summer. And then like, oh, sure, I'll
try it on. And I'm like, Oh my God.
So I think more access to more clothes because there's whole
issues with larger size clothes and it's such a an area of kind
(18:10):
of retail and it's a life that Ithink, you know, you almost have
to put up with what's made few as opposed to having great
selections of clothes when you're a larger person.
And that's a shame. And that's what that's what
we've had to do. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely
bland, big something that could be turned into a curtain.
Yeah, and these and these bloodythings that they used to, umm,
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do in Evans's and New Look for the larger sizes was these
fucking tops with your shoulders.
They're called cold shoulders and all your shoulder be out.
And this. Yeah, but it they only made it
in bigger sizes. I don't know why you saw the
crap out of. Me, no.
I am still a fan of elasticated.SO if there's something that has
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an elasticated waste, I still definitely am a fan of that
because do you know what that is?
More comfortable? It's more comfortable.
You're just showing your age nowthough.
Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe. But yeah, so.
Close my #2 would be, I think, maybe food.
OK. Yeah, so I have unlearned.
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I've been trying to unlearn all of the shit that I was, umm,
port for all those years in the slimming clubs and diet rooms
and all the rest of it. And now I eat predominantly to
fuel my body. And I've never done that before
and I've never known about nutrition before and I've never
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realized how important it is till now, you know?
And I'm just, and I feel sorry for the Belinda of the past 13
years that she never had the opportunity when she was 25 to
go and learn all this and have afucking amazing life with no
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like fueling her body and doing all of the things.
But fucking hell, the next 25 will be twice as good.
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I think like the food side of
things, I am definitely enjoyingfood more, genuinely enjoying
food more. Yeah.
So I am like, yeah, I know we'vetouched this before, but like,
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again, I'll go back to I like chicken Caesar salad, a diced up
chicken Caesar. I just cannot get enough.
It is like. A load of bacon in it though.
Patty. A load of it, But you'd have to
have the bacon, the chicken, thecrouton and a bit of lettuce on
the FARC. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, definitely no.
Chicken Caesar. It's like one of the most
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amazing foods. I just cannot get enough it.
I love it. I know.
And I need it from anywhere. Yeah.
Another one I'd say #3 from me. I'm going to put energy because
I feel that I definitely more energy, partly because I'm
smaller physically. So like I I think that's part of
its movement is easier. Yeah.
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And that's something that reallyhit home when I did the 5K thing
in January, native Women's Aid and that last one, I put like
the 40 kilos back on and wait and try to move then.
Mother of God. And even the other day, like, I
lifted 20 kilos and I was like, this is less than half of what
I've lost and Oh my. God.
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So I think those little they're actually, you know, if you've
never done that, I and you're somebody that has lost say
10/20/30, whatever amount of weight, try and find something
that is around that weight and hold it or trying to attach it
to you and just go about for half an hour with it on you till
you see the difference. And it is so such an eye opener
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in terms. Of I don't know if I could lift
it, Paddy. Yeah.
Well, you did it. You did it in the deadlift, did
you not? Last week before in the what?
Did I do? Did I do 60?
Yeah, I. Think a deadlift, but the
dumbbell. I couldn't lift the dumbbell,
but I could lift the barbell. Yeah, there's a huge difference,
isn't there? Yeah, yeah, Actually Sean got
two really good dumbbells, 10 KGdumbbells, so I can do my, umm,
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RDLS out the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cool number. 3 for me, yeah, I think would be.
I now have the courage to show up for myself and I have the
courage to show up online and I have the courage to keep going
with GLP One insights by BelindaUmm and that's something that
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I've always wanted to do and there's no stopping me now.
So I, I'm going to say mine, I think is actually very similar
that I've been for number 4 is along the lines of oh, you're I,
I, I value myself more. Yes.
And I value protecting my space more.
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I value saying no to things moreif it's the right thing for me.
Yeah, like I definitely felt that old Paddy would have said a
lot more yeses and given into things because I wanted to keep
other people happy. And maybe because I felt other
people had greater value than meand therefore I had a
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responsibility to do things. Whereas now I'm like Nope, not
doing that. Paddy, when I tell you that the
people that are listening to this now will be able to relate
to what you've just said on so many goddamn levels that it's
actually chilling. Like, I know what people do
because I've done it and you have done it also, you know, and
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you're just standing your own goddamn space now and take as
much of it up as you like. And like some of this even comes
down to like, and this isn't stuff that I don't think I've
spoke about before most because I don't really speak a huge
amount about like when brands reach out and stuff like that.
Because I, I'm, yeah, I don't know why you just haven't.
But like there's been quite a few times where brands have
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reached out and they try definitely they try and take
advantage. And I don't think there's
anything like, by the way to wait or anything like that.
It's more so just a a thing where.
Oh, it's just business. Yeah, it's business, but there
is definitely a bias with some of the brands that have reached
out to me. Umm, we're trying to to have
everything in their favor as opposed to in mine.
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And like, initially when I starting out, I would have been
flattered that Oh my God, they want to work with me or they
want to do this or they want to do that.
Yeah, yeah. And now I am the tool.
I am very much like, well, actually, no, we're not.
That is not the terms of how this is going to work or, umm,
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no, that does not fit with my own ethics or my brand or what I
know my community would engage with or is right for them.
And you know, that kind of brandrespect and so respect, it's
worth way more than any of you could that any brown might be
showing you. Yeah.
And. But you also have to, yeah, have
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to hold on. You just have to hold on to your
brand, hold on to your before, announce your photographs.
Don't let them go. Don't give them to a company
that can use them whenever they want.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely, um, given me more
confidence. Like, no, that's not right.
That's not the right decision regards what money you're
talking about that, that is not the right decision.
And that's only one tiny exampleof like.
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Yeah. Can I just ask you a quick
question just while it's popped into my mind, You know your
before and after photographs that you would put up on
Instagram. Do you watermark those at all?
I don't know. There were used once actually by
yeah, by a fake company last summer.
And this was this was when I'd lost maybe.
I don't know. I'm going to say something like
two or three stone and, and I found it in another group and it
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was somebody selling, uh, fake medications, yeah, fat blocks or
something, something like that. And I reported it to Facebook.
They did nothing. Umm, and I kept spamming the
group and eventually they took down the post, but then they
blocked me. So they did.
That's OK, They blocked me. When I had my keto account, umm
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can't you remember what was called anyway?
Umm I used to watermark mine because mine had been stolen
once for slim and tablets or. Something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't seem to see or
hear of that, umm very much anymore.
Yeah. Umm, are we on #4?
Yeah, because yeah, you're on #4now, yeah.
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Yeah, my number 4 was actually something like yours, raising
your standards. OK, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Protecting your peace.
Yeah, yeah. And walk away from things that
don't serve you. And this like brand things
aside, I think this also ties inwith protecting your space
around other people, which can include friends and family at
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times. Oh.
My God. And that's a tough one for some
people and for a lot of people, for most people actually.
But I think, you know, I, I havedefinitely have a few different
sayings, but I'm like, OK, this might be my circus, but I'm not
taking ownership of these monkeys, you know, or something
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along those lines because I'm like.
We would say not my circus, not my monkeys.
Yeah, but I'm like, sometimes, yeah, sometimes.
If it is your group in whatever particular thing, it might
actually be your circus that youcan't get away from.
But you can make the decision that you know what, I'm not
getting involved in this. I'm saying no to this.
I'm just not even going to reactto it.
That's what I've gotten very good at is not getting umm,
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sucked into like, I don't know the, the, the, the space for
yeah, the space for other peopleare at that.
It's consuming their head because I'm like, Nah, I'm
protecting my mental space and I'm not getting involved with
that because again, I value myself more and I'm protecting
my mental health and that I just.
I just find it really sad that we had to go through all of this
to now come out the other side saying we value ourselves more
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because we have lost weight. It does, yeah.
Yeah. And I don't, and I don't like
the sound of that. Is that because though?
It's not because of the actual weight, is it?
It's not the physical weight. Is it the wanting to be accepted
or want to be included or wanting to be valued in some
other roundabout way because maybe we felt we weren't because
of our weight or we were? I definitely felt.
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It could be before, yeah, Yeah. Well, I would say yes to that.
I would say that I've often feltundervalued and taken advantage
of in situations because of my weight.
It Now those situations may not have been true.
Yeah, there are other people maynot have, but that's how I felt.
And I think with weight loss comes a new energy, comes a new
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side of your personality, maybe that comes out, you know?
Yeah, and this brings me back toactually, if I can find it now,
one of the times from when I wason The Biggest Loser and one of
the clips that I do sometimes share and which I'm going to
just see if I can find here and play really quickly for you.
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But about kind of value and how I used to feel.
And I thought that I had gotten rid of this feeling and this
sensation, but in reality, actually, I I hadn't gotten rid
of this and we're still there. And I guess there's part of my
mind now is OK, do I have I really got rid of this or I'm in
the into this place again where I only think I've got rid of
Anyway, I'll stop and I'll I'll play.
Hopefully this will play OK now through the thing.
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For me, this is probably more important than clothes or
anything else. I've written down some of the
thoughts that I used to have that would stop me doing things.
I can't go out tonight looking like this as I look too fat and
ugly. I feel intimidated around new
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people, especially guys, as I feel inferior to them because of
how I look and because I'm not. I really, really wanted to burn
this letter because it summed upeverything that held the old
Paddy back. All those thoughts that I'd had
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before about being fat, about being ugly, that I don't need to
thank them anymore. Every single person who've been
on this journey felt the exact same way.
It was just really touching thatPaddy had captured that.
Say goodbye to the old you once and for all.
Yeah. So that's kind of what that just
brings back as we were kind of talking.
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So I can't hear you mutable. Poor Paddy, how old were you
there? You sound so different.
I would have been 2828, almost 29, yeah.
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You're so young, so young. What do you think When?
What do you feel when you listento that back?
I I get emotional watching that.Yeah.
I like how genuinely do it kind of does hit me a bit.
So it does that they're the thoughts that I had.
And that's what I'm saying. I kind of, I don't know if I did
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get rid of them after Biggest Loser because I definitely and
this one we talked about before,it's not going to be too much.
But I definitely still put a huge amount of pressure on
myself about how I was looking and all that kind of stuff
because of social media at that stage and also.
You came away from that thinkingyou were fixed.
Absolutely, absolutely. Where is it fixed?
Where is, if anything, where I am right now is that I know my
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health is in a better place, butI am still second broken like
the rest of us. Those going to be paralyzed,
that can be worked on a bit better and it's not about being
fixed. Yeah, we'll never be.
Fixed to pain. It's not about being fixed.
Yeah, this journey isn't. No, Isn't it's about being
healthier? Yeah.
I'm feeling more comfortable in my own skin.
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Yeah. And can I just interject there
and say that that's kind of withmy #5 as well.
This is the first weight loss journey I have been on where
I've reached this stage of it and weight has very little to do
with it anymore. Yeah, yeah, like.
So little Yeah in my life right now.
Nothing. Nothing could give a shit if I
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had never stood on his scales again.
You know as. Long as I just keep.
Going and doing what I'm doing. And I'm not just saying that
that's what I actually, that's how I actually feel.
That's what I actually believe. That I'm actually OK with the
way that I'm fueling my body. I'm OK with the exercises that I
do. I'm OK with the effort that I'm
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putting into other parts of my life and that I'm showing up for
the people that I love. And weight is literally the last
thing. And the rest, yeah, you know,
and I want that for so many other.
People. Yeah.
And I, you know, and that's whatyou get at the end of this
journey. And I'm not at the end of my
journey at all, but 2 1/2 years in, I'm.
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I'm nearing it. Yeah.
Yeah. Level, you know, and it's just
so many people don't know what they can have with this, you
know? Yeah.
And I think that's why it's so important to, you know, like
it's interesting Nova Nordisk have ads out now about, umm,
obviously not about medication because you can't promote a
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medication in Ireland, Umm, but in terms of just.
Mentioning obesity in an ad. Yeah, talk to your doctor.
Talk to your doctor specificallyabout obesity.
Have a chat with. It's amazing, you know, and
whatever that route might be, I say some people absolutely the
right route will be that it's not medicated, that you, you
know, there's other options, that it could be psychological
support that somebody needs. But you know, but definitely
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those conversations. All of the above.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
So that's why that's why it can be very difficult when people
ask you about this or that because constantly and even
yesterday, the Q&A and it so many times comes back to I can't
answer that because it's so individual to you, your journey,
your biology, your medical history, all this kind of stuff.
This way you know that first conversation have what your
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doctor and. But I remember when I started
out Paddy umm comparing every single person that was the same.
Time. Journey, Oh my God.
And I, I was obsessed with it, you know, and the only advice I
give to everybody at the moment that I can say to them is
especially my subscribers is this is a really, really long
journey. Yeah, you know a really.
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Long journey. I didn't wake up overnight. 21st
don't. Yes, you know you know what I
mean like so and and that's why I don't expect to wake up
overnight and be like I don't know, 15 stone or whatever I end
up being but big Ding there, buton my side, my headphones are
just got big Ding you. Didn't.
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Say Dong Belinda, no innuendos. I'm going to get weird emails.
But and then my #5 then was health, just overall health.
So like I know that my overall health wasn't in the worst of
places before I started this in terms of accident, my blood
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results and that kind of stuff. However, even with that, they
have improved. And I'm also including in this
like my mental health, just justgeneral day-to-day Wellness.
And you know, as we've said so many times, that is the ultimate
goal here is improved health, you know, and longevity.
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Yeah. And that does not necessarily
equate to a particular number ona scales, you know, because I
would have been that stereotypical, I think
overweight person who actually was relatively healthy based on
when you look at my markers, because I would have been quite
active. I was in doing CrossFit, I was
in doing the gym, all that kind of stuff.
And but even with all that, I know my body is in a better
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place than it was like, yeah, you know, it's nearly a year
since I started on eh Majora like in June, June, 14th, 14th
June was that I started. Yeah, probably three years in
September. Yeah, it's mad Anna.
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That's a quick. Year for you this year is flown
by Paddy. Flown, flown, I don't how I
don't know how it's like tippingtowards a week 3 of May.
Like it is crazy, crazy. But but yeah, so there are some
of our, I guess our, you know, 5positives to come from kind of
weight loss or related kind of things in our or over our
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journey and stuff, which is which is pretty cool.
Because we've both lost nearly 30% of our body weight.
Yep. Yep, yeah.
But I think. Also as well, what's fair to say
is that you know people that arestarting out this journey and
they're not into movement or they're not into anything like
that. Sometimes you'll surprise
yourself because when you when pounds do start to shift and you
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do start feeling a bit more confident in yourself and you do
start wanting to or feeling likeyou can do a bit more than that
itself will just be a natural progression anyway.
Yeah, to inspire you. Like in fairness, you in the
gym, you know, Like, I know you'd been doing some classes,
but you hadn't been in the gym lifting weights and all that
kind of stuff. And now look at you.
I know. I know I've taken a week off
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Paddy and I swear to God I'm going to.
I'm no, I'm going to be opening my app tonight while I'm lying
in bed seeing if there's a classavailable in the morning.
I have to do a 5K yesterday, 5K today.
I just spam half a kilometer andI was supposed to be doing
nothing. But that's why like with the the
my movement room that I did a couple of weeks ago, like one of
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the emails I got afterwards was so nice from somebody saying
that that was the first bit of movement they had done in so
long and like it just gave. And I like that.
That's exactly why I wanted to try doing something like that.
Umm, so that it's an opportunity.
Let's let's just talk about yourmovement room for just a minute
in case the people are listening, OK?
Don't know what it is. So the movement room is my idea.
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It's essentially a home workout that you do live with me in the
moment. So you can do in your room or
wherever you want. Doesn't have to be in our room,
could be in the garage, could beoutside, wherever you want to
do. But it is a 30 minute movement
session and I'm intentionally calling it movement, not
exercise. And that's really important to
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me because exercise can be very scary for people and some people
might think they cannot do exercise, but the majority of
people can do some element of movement.
So with that in mind, the movement room, it is 30 minutes
where we do a gentle warm up, then we move into movement.
With the movements, there is scaled options.
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So if you can't do a particular thing just yet, we scale it.
We show you a different option. If you can't do that, we come up
with something else. So like it is something that the
majority of people can do no matter where you're starting
from. And you do not have to put your
camera on. You do not have to put, yeah,
you don't have to put your camera on.
You don't have to put your mic on, none of that.
So I do not have to see you. It is about you feeling
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comfortable in your own thing. So like, imagine saying that
there's a gym you could go to and do a workout and other
people don't have to see you. Like, Oh my gosh.
Yeah, like, yeah. So that's something that's I
want is to give people the flexibility.
Now there was a couple of the ladies did put their cameras on
and their mics on and watch the chit chats or you know, stuff
that beforehand. Oh yeah.
Because. You do you have a chit chat
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before and after or? Did I hear?
Somebody say you did meditation or something.
Oh yeah. So what we did, yes, what we did
was at the end of the 30 minutesto kind of cool down, umm, I did
a short few minute kind of mindfulness breathing piece and
I'm going to focus a bit more onthe breathing.
On the next two ones as well andjust for a few moments, just to
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bring people to a place of calm and kind of some positive
affirmations in that space as well.
So just by getting people to close their eyes as we're
cooling down and just reinforcing some positive
messaging about ourselves. And then after that we had like
it was meant to be 15 minutes. It was nearly half an hour of
like chatting or asking some answer answering questions for.
People And is there any equipment needed, Paddy?
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No, no equipment. No equipment, just.
Yourself and there's no level ofexpertise needed.
No, it needs nothing. I, I demonstrate everything.
I am literally just here in my old bedroom myself and shown
them all just me and my body. And the only thing we used last
week was a chair for people say they couldn't do squats yet we
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adapt that and like, hey, just sit down on the chair and stand
back up again. So that's that's actually a good
example of something that could be adapted.
Or even use the back of the chair.
So you've got, yeah, exactly. Balance Swift.
Yeah, yeah. Or for the people that couldn't
do the press UPS, we did press UPS off the wall.
So you're just standing and stuff.
So there's loads there and that that's where it's for me to
worry about showing you the thing.
So, so yeah, you. Do you always, umm, put that up
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on Instagram and Facebook then when you're going to have the
movement room on? And where can the people find
the link to join us? Yeah, I'm not great at
promoting, promoting things, umm, but uh, yes.
So literally if you go to ptpaddy.com, that will take you
straight to the book and insightso well.
So if you go to ptpaddy.com, that will always show you when
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the next one is. So you'll always be able to see
there when the next bookable 1 is.
So there is one this Saturday, which is the 17th of May I
believe it is. And then there is 1/2 Saturdays
after that as well. So and look at, I don't know how
frequently they're going to be or you know, I do want to play
around with days and times and stuff like that.
But it is €6. And I'd say it's just a chance
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for people to lean in, do some movement in a very safe space.
So you don't even have to put your cameras on.
Or if the case that you want to keep your camera off, mic on,
off, mic on, or just put your mic on for the chitchat
afterwards, whatever the case might be, you can do all that.
Lovely, that's brilliant. And The thing is as well, Paddy,
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uh, some of our listeners here at the dose, they might not
necessarily be on Instagram. Yeah, so we have to remember
that as well. So give out your Instagram
handle because you haven't got it up on your on your thing here
either. I think, you know, I think you
should be my manager. Yeah.
I'm just not good. I'd.
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Love to, I'd love to. I love it.
Yeah, so bossy. Go on.
Yeah, so my Instagram handle is at a dose of Paddy.
You can also find me on TikTok at the same.
Although TikTok has been a bit odd because I changed my name
and it's not reflecting the namechange.
But yet if you go to what the new name should be, IE TikTok
(43:06):
forward slash dose, but it stilltakes you to what it should be.
So I know there's something weird going on with TikTok.
But anyway, if you're on Instagram or TikTok and you look
up a dose of Paddy, you will find me excellent and political
wise, we're talking about mine. What about you?
Because you also have your subscribers group and you've
recently reached a changed your name as well on Instagram and
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stuff like that. So.
So I used to be Ozempic Insights, but I changed to GLP
One Insights because Ozempic is a brand.
Yeah, it's so I kind of. And also you're, you're not on
Ozempic anymore. Not either.
Exactly. It's a bit more of a broader,
yeah. GLP one yeah, yeah.
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And my e-mail address is glponeandglponepointoinsightsglponepointoinsights@gmail.com.
I had to change that as well because.
You know. But you can find me on Instagram
with GLP 1 Insights and on Facebook you can't find me
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because I have a private secret subscribers group.
I have I think nearly 100 ladiesin there now.
And it's a monthly subscription,It's €5 a month.
I answer questions on there every single morning and every
single evening. And umm, I supposed to start
lives last week, but I didn't. I did a few videos instead, but
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yeah, I honestly, I don't think the girls, my subscriber is
girls. They don't realize how much I
get out of that as well. It's like my little my little
cocoon, my little safe space. And I love being in there.
And I loved, I mean, just the messages that I get from girls
and I've, I honestly think, Paddy, that we need to do
something like a really, really good meet up.
(44:53):
How many times have we spoke about?
I know, we really do. Linda, I'm just after thinking
of something go. On.
That we didn't. Do you know people if you e-mail
us, we are shit at getting back to emails.
We never checked the dose. E-mail is there.
Emails there. So it's not that, but we did
have a reach out from the folks at the Bariatric Bash.
(45:18):
So stay tuned. We will follow up on that.
And if you're listening folks that we will be in touch.
So I forgot talking about meetups, Umm, but yes, in
relation to uh, like the dose kind of meet up or whatever.
Absolutely, there's something that we would love to do,
whatever that might look like. It'd be interesting, like to
find way or be interested. Yeah, and if they're interested,
yeah, umm, but yeah, that'll be should we throw?
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That up on our Instagrams, Paddyand see if people would actually
be interested. I'll certainly put it into my,
umm, subscriber. Girls.
Yeah, yeah, I think it'd be cool, like if we got a weak
group of people to. I definitely have ideas for what
we could do for a day, but then it comes down to trying to find
a venue and. And all this kind of
availability for everyone. Yeah, like you never get people.
Yeah, but you give people enough.
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Umm. Yeah, if you build it, they
will. Come notice.
Yeah, yeah. If you build it, they will come.
Yeah, just give me a lot of notice.
Exactly. But yes, we will.
We will. We will definitely get a meet
up. And so we will.
Umm, what was I going to say there actually?
Oh yes, I saw something on Instagram that caught my eye
that I think you saw as well because you liked it whether you
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know you liked it or not. But I'm going to play it OK, and
hopefully this will play it through for us to hear again.
Confirmed weight loss jabs also seem to have an effect on
alcohol intake. Researchers in Ireland found
that Ozempic and other similar jabs reduced alcohol consumption
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in obese people by around 2/3. An earlier American study saw
the amount people drank in one day reduced by almost half.
That is amazing. Yeah.
Like isn't that mad that like sobetween.
For two years, Paddy. Oh, totally, no, I know.
And like I'd be the same. Like I'd say I would never be a
drinker. No, I'm not a big drinker, but
(47:06):
even still, I can see an impact even at the stand.
Like for example, up in Belfast to the weekend, like I had four
drinks for the entire day in like 12 hours is.
That your norm though. No, I definitely would have had
more before. I would have, yeah, I would have
had more before, particularly when we look at like cocktails
and shots and stuff like that. But I just had zero interest, 0
(47:28):
interest. And I would have been just as
happy with like a, you know, dilute and orange as I would
have been like with a cocktail or something like that, you
know? My my Max now is probably about
four drinks. Yeah, absolutely cannot drink
wine. Yeah, that's cannot drink wine
anymore. Yeah.
And I was the queen of red wine,Paddy.
I knew exactly where wines came from.
(47:50):
I knew what notes they had. I knew what food to put with
them. And now I cannot fucking
tolerate it. Kills me.
It's gas and yeah, but yeah, so I thought just that was an
interesting that's. Brilliant.
It's brilliant, yeah. Yeah, no, it is something that I
know Johann Harry pronounce thatright, Yeah.
And touched on in his book as well in relation to.
(48:12):
And even since like some of the anecdotal stuff that's quite is
that they're looking to see likecould this medication be used
for things to help with addictions for things like
drinking drugs and stuff like that.
It's interesting. It's really, really interesting
to see. And you know, I'm curious to see
what that kind of ongoing yeah, trial and influence offer bring.
But that would be, that'd be brilliant.
(48:33):
Like in America and GOP ones areapproved for sleep apnea
specifically. So aside from obesity for sleep
apnea. And I think is it that they were
also going to the FDA in Americato look for approval for back
pain specifically as well causedby obesity?
(48:53):
Well, you know what's going on with me at the moment.
Yeah. Yeah.
My back. I like, I'm hoping that I'm
going to go in, They're going togive me my last MRI and they're
going to say, bell, you've lost nearly 6 1/2 stone.
Your disc has gone back in again.
That's amazing. I'll be living proof.
So if anybody is listening and they have any rosary beads,
could you please do it? Do an LM link around the rosary
(49:16):
bead for me? Yeah, what for people that are
listening from outside Ireland don't know what rosary beads
are? Oh, what are they?
So how do you tell them? They're bit of string with some
holy be holy beads on them. Holy beads, Holy beads on them.
And you say 10? Is it 10 fathers?
I hear you're asking the wrong person there.
(49:36):
I don't know. If my mother-in-law heard me
talking like that, I. Sure, hear.
Oh my. God, did I ever tell you about
the time I was at just my uncle's funeral and we were
sitting in the room, the morningoffice burial and it was me and
my cousins and all this. This is such an Irish story.
And two decades. Of the rosary before.
(49:58):
Literally, literally, the rosarystarted in the room, right?
I thought the priest was going to say the rosary, right?
No, no, they bounced down that room from like cousin to cousin
or whoever was there to say a decade of the rosary and I was
trying to count. On in.
That situation, I didn't say it no, no.
(50:19):
I was trying to count how many people is there till it gets to
me because I do not know the words and then my sit my sister
so says this to me that she started breaking her whole
laughing because I started hyperventilating or whatever you
call it because I was like Oh myGod, Oh my God they're going to
come to me. I don't know the words.
I literally was sitting there thinking can I Google the words
(50:40):
to the rosary whilst I'm sittingin the room waiting for it to
come to me. I am.
A dead man. I am not even joking, I am
serious. It stopped at the person before
me. Your uncle?
Was it your uncle's? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, he was looking down on you.
Yeah, and he would have found that funny.
He definitely would have found that funny.
But I was like, so my lesson learned is at an Irish funeral.
(51:02):
I am never going to never send the rosary.
By the door, sit by the door. I'm not sure the last one.
I was at umm, the Lord of mercy on him.
Now Sean's uncle Paddy, Umm, he passed away in America.
They brought him home. They brought him into the
sitting room in Sean's mom's house.
And like that Paddy, everybody was saying the rosary and I was
looking at my sister-in-law Alice going.
(51:23):
Yeah. Ask me.
Do not ask me, I know nothing. Yeah, I can mumble.
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so that was lesson
learned. Lesson learned, Yeah.
Umm, so a Belinda, where are we at the moment?
So are you still on 15 milligram?
You're on 15 milligram. Yeah, about 3 weeks ago I
(51:44):
dabbled win 15 milligram. Umm, I got horrendous side
effects of flatulence burping. Do the sound effects.
I can't do a sound effect for a burp.
Umm, I was running away from myself.
The egg. Smell.
Oh yeah, smell. Always horrendous.
My mouth was so dry, I was getting an icky stomach.
(52:07):
And then I thought to myself, that's it, I'm going down to
12.5. I've been on 12.5 for two weeks.
And then of course the other dayI thought, yeah, that's great,
I'll go back up now to 15. Sure, see what the crack is.
No, sure. I've had diarrhea with days
like. OK, OK, yeah.
And my. Suppression is.
We spoke about this as well, Patty.
My suppression is way too. Too high for you?
(52:27):
OK, Yeah. OK, I'm not feeling like I can
get enough nutrients, calories into me to sustain sustainable.
Yeah, health. And This is why, again, when
people do ask me like I did AQ and A yesterday, the day before
and I've got loads of questions on Instagram, actually loads of
questions. Yeah, yeah.
(52:47):
And through announced them all. But again, a lot of them were
about all this or that. And like it's so important that
if you're feeling that actually I can't eat enough, go and talk
to prescriber, tell them this and work with them to see is
this the right dose or what is the right approach for me.
Please don't be going to like random places like, yeah, go
talk to prescriber. They should always be your go
(53:08):
to. But that is definitely a cue.
If you're like, I'm struggling to actually get food in and not
just like, say a few days, but actually for a prolonged period
of time. You absolutely need to make sure
that you're nourishing your bodythe right way.
You know, you have to, umm, but yeah.
And funnily enough, Belinda likeI've been on 15 for quite a
while. No, you have.
I was just going. To ask you what's your crack
(53:28):
now? Like I've been on 15 a good
while and I am finding over the last, I'd say 3:00-ish weeks, 3
to 4 weeks that my appetite feels very suppressed as well.
Like very suppressed as well. So I'm kind of thinking I might
review, but I can actually, you know, what might move them back
down to 12.5 or something. Be a right call there to see how
(53:51):
that works for me. But again, with we'll see which
advice is not going. 100% gone down to 12.5.
I'm ordering my new prescriptionanyway tomorrow so I'll have a
chat to him about. That as well, yeah.
But yeah, yeah, it is. It is.
It's an interesting one and that's why it's it's it's such a
hard thing when people ask you, first of all, you can't give me
the advice, but when people do ask you, oh, what's your
thoughts? And this wasn't that It's like
(54:12):
my journey is going to be different.
Yours, your body could react differently to this.
And again, there's a huge amountof people that don't even get
near 15 because they don't need to, you know, like this huge
amount of people. I don't think I'll.
Ever need to? Yeah, like I saw recently people
that just were on the the starting doors or the second
doors and I've been on it for months and it's working hard for
them. It's, you know, and this way
it's so important that it's unique, it's individual.
(54:35):
That's why you work. Yeah, Yeah.
And that's why you work with your kind of prescriber as
opposed to be comparing yourselfto other people and kind of
online. So one of the things that come
up interesting though, umm, I had spoke about umm, causing the
medication before my surgery andsomebody had asked why did I
(54:55):
need to come off my why do I need to come off my Jaro before
I went under general anesthetic?And I was saying, oh give a bit
of the reasons about it and how like, you know, I had
conversations with the Aneta test and stuff like that, that
they could gauge how soon do they need to come off beforehand
yadda yadda. And someone replied back to me
saying I wish I knew this Last June I was put asleep for a
(55:16):
procedure. When I went to go home, blood
pressure completely dropped and was very sick.
Vomiting. Ended up in A and E the
following week. Isn't that mad?
Yeah. And This is why like it's so
important to keep your medical team on any kind of thing that's
happening or stuff like that because even something
anecdotally now I wouldn't zero medical evidence for this, but
(55:38):
we're talking about was I had a bit of a stomach bug or
something like a week ago, week and a half ago.
And now this is. Medical advice.
This is just. Oh yeah, I know.
I'm saying is like that. I had on a Friday event, so it
was like the day before he's dueto take my, my next dose.
Umm, I had a sandwich before I went to bed and I'm convinced
this was the standard. And I woke up that Saturday
(56:01):
morning with such horrible cramps and everything and, you
know, all kind of stuff. And that stayed with me for a
week. And then that got me thinking,
my God, I wondered, does the slow down digestive emptying,
Does that slow down then maybe that potential bad food that I
ate from emptying my stomach? No, I know that it won't impact
(56:22):
my immune system and the response of my immune system try
and fight back. And I don't have an answer to
this. It's purely just a thought.
And so the doctors listening, hello, let us know the dough
study and we'd love to know is that is that a possibility that
if you have something like something that is caused by say,
a bad food or something like that, could the effects of that
last longer? Yeah.
Could it take longer to get out of your system because you're on
(56:43):
a GLP 1? I don't.
Know well you would presume wouldn't Yeah like you can.
You, yeah. The conclusion that it would and
I and I would go in that direction as well.
Definitely, definitely. Yeah, actually it's something I
might ask. I might ask actually the doctor
the next time. Umm, I might ask him.
Because it'll be. Interesting.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, make it tell you.
(57:04):
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Sorry, Doctor Crotty. Doctor Crotty Umm, we love
Doctor Crotty. Umm, we do.
But yeah, my best wait. Umm, yeah, we have no
affiliation again. We need to, I know because like,
we're not patients of them ending like that at all.
Nothing. No, it's just we love the work
that's doing advocacy and stuff like that.
And we say again. Yeah, and that's, I think that's
(57:25):
why we love them. Yeah, exactly.
But I was speaking to um, somebody from my um operation
team. Thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Transfer, yeah.
And, umm, they were saying that the anaesthetist thinks maybe a
week, maybe 2 weeks. And then she mentioned something
because essentially I'll be on, I'll be lying on my front when I
(57:46):
have my operation because they're operating on my back,
that my stomach will have to be completely and utterly empty.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
So I don't know. I can't have 24 hours before,
yeah. But it would that be enough time
for it to be empty? I'll have to stop the medication
sooner I think. That's interesting.
Isn't. It.
(58:06):
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I never even thought about
that the last time I went in forthat SIM.
That. Exact operation.
In fact, I had no thoughts at all.
At all. Yeah.
Going into that operation and I was just, I was so happy in my
ignorance and it was just this. But now it's all I think about
(58:27):
because I know what's going on. So that's why we're saying a
prayer and decorative the rosaryso.
For Belinda with the Holy Rosary, Yeah.
Holy Holy Rosary, Yeah. Anyway, Belinda, is there
anything? Else now, Paddy, I don't think
there's anything else and I'm just looking outside to seize
the sun out. You want to get out and so.
Yeah, it's still out. I can't wait to get out to my
(58:48):
backpack. All right, OK, well Belinda,
look at have a wonderful next week actually, we will have an
interview with Carl O'Rourke theuneducated PT Yes, we'll be
having the chats finding out a bit about Carl, his thoughts as
a personal trainer on weight loss medications and a bit few
(59:09):
other a few other bits and pieces as well such.
An interesting chap. Yeah, and I think you know,
personal trainers are a funny a bag.
Some can be very again, some canvery pro, some can be very use
it to their own financial benefit and don't.
Get me? Started as we've seen in our
favorite person in in England yeah on on their team once
(59:31):
anymore. But yeah, and, and folks, again,
actually I do, I am going to saythis, right?
If you're seeing a personal trainer online telling you to
mess with doses, to mess with pens to that you're being
tricked by a doctor or trick, please, for the love of God, do
not listen. Don't be listening to them.
(59:52):
Like, they're not a doctor, they're not a qualified
professional that should be talking about this medication
and yeah, anyone. If any of those personal
trainers on online are telling you to mess with your
medication, that is a massive red flag and you should run in
the other direction immediately.Particularly when they're then
(01:00:13):
tagging it with, oh, by the way,I have an app that has a GL P1
track on it. If you want to buy it or get it
or whatever, like download it. So like, you know, there's.
A lot of work to do, Paddy. There's ulterior motives there.
Yeah. Oh God.
I Anyway, I go on hold around there, but I won't.
But anyway, look at Belinda. Have a lovely, wonderful week
ahead. I hope that your back garden
(01:00:35):
gets loads loads of fun. It will.
I have to go, Patty. The sunset and I have to go,
Patty. Have a brilliant week.
I'll speak to you soon. Alrighty.
Bye bye. None of this conversation should
be taken as medical advice for you.
Before starting or changing any medical or Wellness treatment,
(01:00:57):
always consult your GP and medical care team.
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