Holidays, Velvet Jackets & Red Flag Realisations [S2E6]

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(00:45):
None. And it is that time off the
week, folks. Yeah, it's time not for one
dose, but a pair of doses. Some doses are worse than
others, Paddy. I know, yeah.
As someone that gets man flu, I know.
And yeah. What's the crack?

(01:08):
How was he on? Good, good.
You must be on a bit of a downercoming.
Back to the holidays I am. Yeah, yeah.
Let's talk about that actually as well, shall we?
Oh God, yeah. Because is that?
Has this been your first time away?
So it's my first proper holiday where I wasn't working, wasn't

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doing anything, and for a week, yeah.
And your first proper holiday doing that and being on AGLP 1.
Yes, yes. Cool.
Did we talk about my umm, yeah, we did.
We talk about, we spoke about the Turkey bitch.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you?
Were in where were. You.
I was in New York, NY, for the first time.

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Yeah, I'd never been. I'd never been and it was
lovely. Adults only hotel.
Adults only hotel, not children.I love you.
No. The next.
Thing you said you wanted was anadult flight, isn't it?
Yeah, an adult only flight, likewhen you get onto the plane and
the all you're kind of here and before you even take off is like

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children screaming, what are youdrinking?
What's that? I am drinking.
Oh, somebody, What's it? Oh, Lemon, it's just.
Beautiful. Is there something else in it?
No, in the glass. No, there's no, no.
OK, we're back on the San Pelerino.
OK, OK, OK. Umm, but umm, yeah.
So Majorca. Anyway, was there for a week.

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We got in there very late Saturday night, Sunday morning
actually, eh, because it was a nice time flight, and then we
got home very late on Saturday night.
So today's Monday and I'm feeling really tired today.
Yeah, it's catching up on you, that's why.
Yeah. Relaxing.
Oh God, yeah, All the relaxing. And like, I was back to work
today and eh, yeah, it's like, oh God, I wish another day or
two off. It's always, yeah.

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I always think when you come back from holidays you need
another day or two off work to get off before you actually go
back to work. Yeah, but you only had one day.
Sunday, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that was it.
Yeah, I bet you hadn't even unpacked Aja.
Eh, would you know what? Actually, I was actually quite
good. I got up like Sunday morning.
Eh, first thing like whatever, half 7-8 put a wash on
everything. Nice.

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That's normally not me, but I was just in you're.
You're going to have to watch everything in the house this
week Paddy, It's going to be lovely.
Yeah, Sun. 'S coming out.
Yeah, I know. Touch wood.
I can't. So by the time this podcast goes
out, people who know if we've had a nice week or not.
Yes, about 3 weeks time. So what was?
Umm. What was your number one

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difference that you realized between your most previous
holiday and this holiday? Being on AGLP One medication
because it's. Huge, isn't it?
Yeah, definitely. How little I was eating.
Absolutely how little I was eating.
Like I was still like. And I put up a load of pictures
during the week to try and show people that I was still eating
the things I would even I was onholiday.

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Like I we found a lovely place to go for dinner that we went
there a couple of times and I had this the most, the most
amazing burger ever, a chicken burger that was done.
It was like big chicken goujons that then had like some kind of
like cheese and onion, crispy onions.
Oh God, that sounds amazing. It was so good, like nice bone.

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On that now be lovely. Yes, that's what was with us.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah. So like I, I tried shows like
breakfast every morning. They had fantastic in a buffet.
But then that's something that was cooking like, you know,
things fresh as well. So nearly every morning I had
like an omelet with a ham, cheese and onions or Peppers or
some of that because it was lovely.
I just loved it. Like it was really, really

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tasty. Umm and then what else?
And then whatever. Like like, and this the thing
like I wasn't trying to be overly restrictive with anything
else. Haven't.
But like, for example, what I found is before, if I went out
for breakfast, perfect example, I would have my full fry.
Then I'd go and like, I mean full fry, like, you know, 3 or 4

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sauces. Then I would have gone and
gotten the eh, all the pastries I love pastries would have gone
on the pastries, umm, or maybe some toast or something like
that. And I would have had loads of
that, like like like loads because I was just.
There for cheese and meats. Not really cheesing me to
breakfast person. Outside, yeah.

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Yeah, not not. I'm not keen on a, I'm not keen
on a fried breakfast now. I never have been.
Like when I go to those kind of buffets, I'm always with the
granola and the pureed fruits. And yeah, no, I, I definitely.
Yogurt. Yeah, no good rashers, good
sausages, and if you can get a fresh poached egg, even better

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and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, that, that's definitely
kind of what would normally tickle my fancy.
But I think the difference is I wasn't longing for that on
holidays. Yeah.
And I was really enjoying the humour.
My your mind wasn't consumed by what she was.
Going to be on exactly are. Where you were going to go for
your tea are yeah. And then I say dinner.

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I had like proper dinner, went to that nice place a couple of
times, had stuff in the restaurant.
Again, I would have found myselfthinking, oh, OK, I want to get
like say something that has either chicken or ham or stuff
like that in it. So I think on a subconscious
level my mind is working that get your protein sourcing, get
your protein source. Now I probably could have been
getting more in, but what I get again, I would have found what

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dinner is. I wasn't able to like have a
starter and then my main and then dessert.
It just wasn't happening. Yeah, and I know that.
So there's no point me. There's no point.
We do they last night we were there.
I did get some cream of tomato soup, which was amazing.
So I do. Like that as well, yeah.
And then I went round and just picked up random things like I

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picked up get hard boiled eggs, which I hadn't seen before.
So I got like some hard boiled egg because I love hard boiled
eggs. Anyway.
Yeah, I love them anyway. And went and got, they had like
this, uh, vegetable lasagna typething.
And I love vegetable lasagna. So I got a very small slice of
that. So I got loads of little bits
and pieces like that. I was kind of more grazing that
last night. Yeah.

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But then I still grazed though, don't you?
I do, yeah. Yeah.
And then like the the next morning, umm, I got, I said, you
know what? I'm I'm not going to get me
omelette this morning. I'm going to get something
different. So I got myself a Nutella Crep
and it was class, but then I wascontent with that.
I didn't need all the other stuff with it as well, you know?

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So yeah, definitely, definitely a different experience.
It's a very different experience.
Yeah, yeah, I would have been. I would have been all consumed
now previously, and even when I was building up to it, it was
always about food. Always.
Always always about food like. You know.
And the cocktails and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah. Like, umm, I'm not a big

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drinker, but when I'm on holidays it's like, Oh yeah, you
know, you're in the in the sun and you're in the vibe and stuff
like that and you're relaxing. Exactly.
Yeah. So I would say I had no, though
I did have they had like per second word for you to make
mimosas in the morning. So I did have a little glass per
second most morning. I did.
I did you. Deserve it Paddy, you deserve.
It it's like, you know, deserve 100 lbs.

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Yeah. God, flashback to Simon Word.
Yeah, yeah, but you deserve it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you deserve
it. It deserves that Chinese on the
way home. But Christ, Yeah.
So it's grand. And then coming up then the day
it's a what day was I took my medication on this Saturday, the
day we went. And then by God, when I woke up
the Thursday or particularly theFriday morning, I was starving.

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I felt starving. You knew you.
Knew new app like like clockworkmy body was able to tell me hey
there's less of this in your system.
Umm yeah. But what was good was I went and
had something smaller to eat andI felt full.
So even though I felt hungry, itwasn't a case.
I was hungry to the point of wanting to go and overeat, if
you get me, you know? You just satisfied your hunger

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and. Then yeah, exactly, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, it's a very. Different hunger, isn't it?
You'll get. You'll get hungrier, but you
still aren't able to consume a volume a larger volume.
Of food yeah yeah yeah now it did bring back that whole idea
of how are you able to overeat when you're on the medication
and you absolutely are because like the the first night that we
went this today oh did yeah OK Ididn't I didn't know that yeah

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yeah and so like the first nightlike I could have finished my
meal so it was a burger and sweet potato fries that's what
the meal was and the burger I see it was a was a big burger
but and a normal portion of sweet potato fries they're never
big portions anyway because they're sweet potato fries but
umm I'd say I was probably 3/4 way through the burger and I
probably could have left the rest and I was like I'm really

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enjoying this so I I was that would that even if I was almost
at the point I've been uncomfortable be pushed.
Yourself a little bit. Yeah, I finished the burger and
I didn't finish all the sweet potato fries because I was like,
I can't, I just can't. Would you rather change the?
Burger, wouldn't you? Yeah, because it was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I.
Was talking to umm, one of my UMM subscribers today umm on a

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phone call and she's just starting out and it's going
really well for her and she's really enjoying it.
And UMM, A as we all do at the start, we honestly think that we
are going to be the only one person in the world that this
medication won't work for. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that's kind of a nervousstress thing when you start out

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first. And I was talking to her about
an experience I had and an experience that maybe three
other people that I've spoken tohave had as well.
And that is testing the medication, seeing can you eat
through it and what is it going to be like at the end?
And I know when I did that and Idid it, I never did it again.

(10:55):
Yeah, ever, ever. And I did, I did test it and
it's horrible. When you do it horrible when you
get to that feeling of like I say, I didn't push the limits
massively with the now in fairness, I was like I'd say an
extra 3 bites of the burger and maybe I don't know, 8 or 9
sweeping out of fries type thing.
But like even at that I was like.
Oh, you knew. Gosh, I'm like, oh, God, I'm so

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full. Like, yeah, I just want to lie
here now. Literally.
I did say that I was like, I could just lie here now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was without, like,
loads of sides and loads of yeahstuff.
It wasn't even them. And even actually the day before
that we went there for lunch andeh, I ordered bruschetta and it

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was 4 bits of brochette again, we didn't realize how much was
called, how much was going to come below it.
Still, it was 4 bits of brochette over.
Usually wouldn't get that. Much no, but even still, it's
not as if the big, big meal, unlike again, was like I'd take
two bits the brochette and I waslike, Oh my God, again.
Oh. My God, yeah.
Yeah, and isn't it? I did have Coming Home.

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Then Saturday I did have Burger King, So what he was saying,
yeah, which I haven't had, and Ididn't enjoy it.
It's not nice. It's not like the burger, the
burger. The burger was tasty, but
overall it wasn't nice and it wasn't satisfying.
Yeah it though, but those thingsare not satisfying anymore.
Like there was nice flavors in it but it just didn't I I would

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have preferred my chopped chicken Caesar salad.
Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Don't you find that on this
medication you automatically make better choices?
Do you find that? I think like I do, but I don't
know if that's because I have spent so long focusing on making

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the better choice. I don't think it's medication.
I think it's more so that now we're accustomed to just with
this is what I eat. This is this is my lifestyle,
This is the type of food I eat. Yeah, I don't.
It's medication now, I think. I do think some of my taste buds
are heightened, which is making me want to have other foods.
And I think chicken seeds won them.
Yes. So like I, I would have enjoyed

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the chicken seeds before, but now I get such flavour from
chicken Caesar salad. Yeah, yeah.
And I don't know. This is because I'm having less
of the they're like, I don't saycrap.
Well, it is like it is highly processed.
It's not nutritionally. No, I still have some.
But don't get me wrong, I I absolutely have some.
Like that's some chocolate digestive biscuits with me.

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Coffee there. They're good for freedom.
Gluten free. Oh no, it's Peter gluten free.
No, I was up for Mom and Dad's and Dad's Dad's gluten free, and
I was making a cup of coffee andI was like, oh, what a biscuit.
What the hell? Don't waste your calculus.
It was like, it was like sawdustsprinkled with, like, chocolate.

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They're better than used to be, but like, yeah.
Yeah. I will say though, that I do
think that the medication has helped me to make better
choices. I think Umm helping me in a way
that it gives me a bit of peace in my mind, umm, to think about
what I'm going to eat rather than walk into the umm kitchen

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absolutely starving, ravenous and just eat anything and I.
Think that. That's why I spent the past 30
years addicted to bread. OK, I wasn't addicted to bread.
It was just easiest thing, the quickest thing to get in my
mouth and fill my stomach. Yeah.
And hence being starving 10 minutes later because you're
only eating over butter or whatever.

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And the the bread and stuff is not something that I have ever
Oh, that's a video. I'm trying to get a picture.
Like bread and stuff is not something that I've ever been,
eh, Like really craved. Now toast with nice Curry gold
on it. Oh nice, What?
Curry Gold. Oh, Kerry Gold, OK.
Kerry Gold. Yeah.

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Or are like a bit of like blackcurrant jam.
Now that would that would, you know, But I I would rarely ever
like on Craven bread ever, ever,ever, ever in my life.
It's mostly the sweet stuff, sweet stuff.
Like if I had a jar of Nutella in the cupboard, that garment in
a couple of days, would it would.
Oh my God. I didn't hear it if I coulda.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've always got it in the house
now because the kids. But I never really went for it.
I was always really savory. Yeah.
And it's, it's only like even onthe, I say I got a crap pancake
thing and with some Nutella the last morning there.
And there was only a little bit Nutella that that point when
they were making it. But it still was enough just to

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sell for me. I didn't have a crave.
And I know I need more of that. I've got my yeah.
It's like, oh, I got my, got my flavour that I wanted them.
Yeah. And I'm happy with it.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I put. Up my dinner there a minute ago
that I just said I had salmon baked salmon cus cus and roasted
vegetables. Hmm.
And I think it came to like 610 calories or something.

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I was absolutely gorgeous. I need to look at my calories
again actually. Umm, I think I'm only eating
like maybe 1300s. Oh, Belinda.
It's not enough, so it's not 13 and a push 14.
Yeah, that's that. It's not so.
It's not Paddy. Well, I mean, it depends.
Again, you'd have to go through the the, yeah, you know, trying,

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trying to work it out for you. You.
Know you know my stats and I don't.
Think I yeah, I would say that sounds low, yeah, when you when
you factor in some probable likemetabolic adaptation, but still.
Even the with the watch him a college, you know the protein
Yeah, still at that. Umm, I probably only hit in

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about 70 grams of. Protein like with with.
The two meals. I could definitely do get more
protein in myself as well. Really, really good.
I know I could. It's something I the way the.
Clear way that you gave me. That's really handy, and then
it's really nice as well. It is.
It's gorgeous. Really nice and a pro and just
throw in a protein bar then in the middle of the day with a

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coffee or something and I suppose that's the protein kind
of levelled off then for the day120 or whatever.
But it's really important. But the fiber is just a huge
thing as well. Yeah, I, we had, umm, just,
yeah, like yesterday evening, uh, because again, it was like
our first day back home and we're like, oh God.
And I didn't have a massive appetite because I only had

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taken my medication. Then Saturday night, like
midnight, it's like yesterday when you came home.
Yeah, I was like, don't show me food, but I was like, I still, I
need to eat. So we had some of the, the
cottage pie thing, shepherd's pie, whatever, uh, from Centra,
like the tray bake 1. So I had a small bit of that,
but then I fill the plate with some of the steamed veg bags and

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I was stuffed after. It was lovely.
So I've got a load of fiber in there, aren't they?
Yeah, they are. Umm.
Do you take notice of your protein intake or your fiber
intake generally like in the normal run of the no.
Just as in like visually I do like, but I don't keep note of
it anywhere or like track or anything like that.
But like, it's something I'm aware of and I'm having a meal
of how do I have a protein source and like, do I have some

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fiber like day-to-day? Yeah, yeah.
I'd look at it kind of that weekend.
I won't obsess over it, but I will try and be mindful of all.
Make sure that you're in some priority important you.
Don't get side effects though now at this stage anyway, so you
don't. No, like you.
Ever get side effects especiallylike umm Constipation or?
Very rarely. Very very rarely.

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Very rarely. Yeah.
Umm, the main side, the. Earlier days.
Yeah, even in the earlier days, the main side effect I would
have had would be feeling cold. Right.
That's huge. Yeah, yeah.
Very and again, the, the kind ofinput that I had from people
about why that happens is that literally because you're

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consuming less calories, your body is colder.
Like it's, it's, it's not much fuel coming into it.
So it's it's struggling to keep warm.
It's essentially there are easy.Side effects to deal with.
Though as opposed to, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I. Started out first and I was on
Ozempic. I had to come off it for a
couple of weeks because my side effects were so bad.

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Funny you should bring that up because I put a thing up to it
because I'm really curious to find because I'd love to have
somebody in the podcast, Linda, somebody that maybe has umm had
maybe maybe had a very bad experience with these
medications. I'm very I'm very aware.
You know me and you have had relatively OK journeys with
things like in terms of that side of things.

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But I would love for us to speakto somebody that maybe didn't
and had the complete opposite experience just to explore that
and what that was like for somebody.
And so if there is somebody listening, please hello at the
dose dot IE Yeah, send us an e-mail.
Hello at the dose dot IE. And we'd love to dig into that a
little bit more. But like because you hear of
some people that maybe did end up in hospital or did end up and

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I would, yeah, it's not an immediate.
Occurrence like to make sure as well that it's directly.
The cause was directly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
absolutely. So like, you know.
Because of a GL P1. So I put a thing up on my
Instagram today asking people about, oh, you know, have you
had negative side effects? I OK, definitely.
So I got and do do do do. I was on Ozempic for nearly

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three months, found it was greatbut I had to stop because of my
creatine levels increased too much.
What? Yeah, I've half kidneys, so
Doctor stopped us. Yeah.
OK. And then someone else.
Any. Good kidneys to process
creatine. I felt, I mean, like your
kidneys in general is 1, one of the things that I know they look

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at like when you're on this medication, making sure that
it's going to work again, that was your goal.
But I'm not. And Saxenda was awful for me.
Mood swings, like pure rage, sickness and headaches.
Yeah. And again, they're and again,
the headaches 1 is someone that people have asked me about.
And I've always thought that theheadaches tied back to being

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dehydrated because even a one ortwo percent change in our
hydration levels can have quite an impact on you.
So can some of the other things.But like these, these are just
say some that came through todayand some said my partner had to
come off it because he had such bad reaction to it.
Yeah. Hi, Patty.

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I was as an ansic Center for over a year, Umm, I suffered
desperately with my gold batter while on it.
I stopped losing after six months and gained all my weight
and then some. So I come off it, umm, I'm now
on Monjaro 14 weeks later and two stone down, hoping to lose
for no gold batter issues touch wood.

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So that is so that yeah, that's great.
But anyway, so definitely a mix out there and I think that's
really important as well. Like when we're talking about it
that there are people out there that do have bad side effects,
It is not the majority, but there is definitely a portion of
people that do not, cannot tolerate these medications.
Umm, and I'd say I'd love to talk to somebody a bit more
about that, so. Yeah.

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And that's just like there's a majority of people out there as
well that the medication just does not work for.
Yeah, at all. That they they just nothing.
There's no 'cause there's no reason why, it just doesn't
work. Yeah, it's crazy.
Yeah, absolutely. And.
I suppose that's kind of would bring us on as well to, you
know, social media and false information being given out.

(22:17):
God, and like I I'm I'm aware like we spoke about social media
good. But over the last few weeks, and
indeed this is this is different.
Yeah, because I think it's important.
I think it just shows though, how ever present and ever
potentially impactful social media can be so like and.
Harmful. Like I went on yesterday and I

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literally saw a message from somebody, a randomer to another
person saying, oh, if you want to lose weight, this person was
on a jar. If you want to lose weight, you
need to make sure you're eating 600 calories a day.
I was like. What?
Are you kidding me, Paddy? You you do not know.
Is that? Oh my God.
And this was in a group where there is like hundreds of other

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people and, and I'm like, Oh my God, this is just shocking.
And there's no regulation, there's no moderation, there's
no like it just, it just makes my blood boil so much when I see
this. And like I, there's only so much
I can try and intervene when I see things like that.
Like, hey, please don't take that advice.
Go and talk to a registered dietitian.

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But like I'm telling you, if you're somebody that is living
with obesity and somebody is telling you that you need to eat
600 calories, like somebody thatis random off a group, please
don't listen to them. Please don't.
There is a very few scenarios whereby you will be told to eat
that few calories. One of them being if you're in

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hospital being medically supervised and controlled and
there is a specific need wherebyyou need to go on a very low
calorie diet. They will manage that when
you're there with them. This isn't something that the
everyday person should be looking at or thinking of.
I did it via lighter life years ago on like a camera was 6 or
800 calories a day and it was, and I always say I've mentioned

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this before on a camera when maybe the last season, but it
was literally the worst dieting attempt I've ever done in my
entire life ever out of anythingI've done.
Why wouldn't it be? Like, why wouldn't it be?
Just trying to function, you know, when the amount, the
amount of calories that my body would have needed probably would
have been 4 to 5000 if that's it.
So, like, it was just ridiculous.
Yeah. So what we?

(24:25):
Might do Paddy, is we might do umm, a nice list of red flags to
watch out for, umm, when you areon the Internet and number
wouldn't being if somebody is trying to tell you to eat 600
calories a day. Red flag.
Yeah, Do you know what I mean? Also.
Monjaro or where AG of P1 and the Internet are are thing.

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Another one, another one that I saw this week was somebody
advising somebody to lie to their prescribers that they
continue to get their prescription.
And were they having side effects when they done that?
Yes, yes. So be honest, yeah, with your
prescriber about any side effects, no matter how little.
Please tell them. Let them even.
If you feel a bit dizzy. Are you having a headache?

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Can you think it's from umm being dehydrated?
You must speak to your prescriber.
You just. Have to, because they can be
either like, hey, going to put your mind at ease, just take
some electrolytes, or just do this or actually and let you
see, yeah, or actually, let's see, we get your bloods done or
we look at something else or measure something else or
whatever, just to put your mind at ease.
But like, so yeah #2 don't lightyour prescriber.

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Do tell them there could be any side effects.
We could, we could, yeah. And the other one that I had was
if something sounds too good. No, the opposite, if something
sounds a bit crazy. So yesterday went on.
I don't know what it was but yesterday but went on and there

(25:49):
is there is a particular person whose content comes up from time
to time. I do not follow them and they
have blocked me on another platform and I don't know why.
Like I've never interacted with their content, but they've
blocked me actually, maybe because I'm talking with them
now, but they had up about how because your skin becomes more

(26:13):
sensitive when you're on a GL P1, that as a result of that you
are more likely going to need factor 50 because you're going
to get sunburned when the good weather.
More. And I was like, well, there's a
lot here to dig into what is happening here.
First of what are you a dermatologist?
Are you a doctor? Are you a prescriber?
Are you I, I was like, there's so much here to go on.

(26:35):
So what research have you done? Where are you quoting?
Like what? What?
Did you ask those questions or did you just move?
On no, I just step away from when something is that crazy.
Yeah, I know my boundaries and Iknow my abilities as well to
deal with the craziest. And I have to protect my own
headspace as well. That's the only thing.
But instead what I did was I putup a video on TikTok.

(26:57):
But like, hey, because if peoplehad said hey Patty, what about
this video? And I was like, ah, no, OK.
So yes, sometimes when you take your injection, you might get
sensitivity on the skin where you take your injections.
Sometimes people might get a little rash, they might get a
little bit of bruising. Yeah, they might get a little

(27:18):
bit of something like that. So there can be, there can be a
reaction of sorts, but that is nothing whatsoever to do with
the photosensitivity off your skin, which then relates to IE
like tanning or the sun or stufflike that.
And I did go and check this. I went then and did my research

(27:38):
to try and see, right, let's really challenge this to see is
there a correlation between photosensitivity and GLP ones or
a particular medication? And there's there's not.
Umm, but anyway, do you know theperson has?
Did you? See the other big thing that was
debunked today as well? Oh, well, so I've seen one that

(28:00):
you're both yourself and my bestway to do that, one about the
best way to do it, about the optic nerve and something like
that. Yeah.
So I know there's a few things kind of vision related.
Some of them have some merit depending on, umm, if you're
potentially diabetic or you know, stuff like that.
But I know. Yeah, but that comes with

(28:20):
diabetes anyway. Yeah, you could be more, Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Umm, but then as well.
Like the actual specific GLP onemedications far specific
specifically far weight loss hasfound that it the numbers were
huge massive that they did the trial on.
Was it 27,000? Was it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No 200 and Something 1000.

(28:42):
Was it 200 something? Yeah, yeah.
Umm. And it was debunked and said
there is no correlation. Yeah, so look at folks, if
you're looking at something online, even our content ask.
Us don't trust us don't. Ask us or where, where?
Where you called back from or what conversation who like like?
Yeah, because anything like that, we generally put the link

(29:02):
up with it as well, and we're putting it up there so people
can go and in get informed, Yeah.
Or just listening to us, you know.
Like anything that I will say will usually have come from a
conversation with a endocrinologist, an obesity
specialist doctor, a registered dietitian, my own kind of, uh,
training and experience like as a personal trainer and stuff
that. So usually that's where my stuff

(29:22):
come from. Or if it's something that we've
engaged with, say Eli Lilly on or whatever the case might be.
So usually we we do try and do agood job of our doodle of
anything we are talking about right?
But if you see something put somebody putting up stuff just
ask them. Oh, what's your source for this?
Do yeah. Because you have any.
Further information I can look at or.
Something like that. If you're that, even if you're

(29:43):
that bothered, you know, sometimes you're just better off
scrolling past, you know. Yeah, I'm blocking them.
Not every post is an invitation to engage.
Like, well, that's that's true as well.
But anyway, so that was that andthen, umm, the other, we spoke
with this one, but yeah. And then the other one was, uh,
what we mentioned was last week,the week for about the personal

(30:05):
trainer in the UK advising people to, uh, first of all, he
was very against them and now he's very pro them because he
realizes. HR or something?
Is it a? Team something I don't know.
Something like that, yeah. That about like I don't mess
with the doses and all this kindof stuff and just like, Oh my
God, so like. You never do that.

(30:26):
The social media your. Doctor specifically tells you
to. Yeah, and like, I know.
So yesterday I just felt like social media have had enough of
you. Yeah, everyone's an expert.
Expert they are, though. And then I saw another person
who is a pharmacy technician andI their content looked OK.

(30:52):
I'd never seen them before but and the video come up and
talking about how to essentiallysafely extract what some people
call the golden dose or the first dose and this gets my back
up so much when I see videos about this.
I hate when anybody puts out public content about messing

(31:12):
with the pens in any way whatever.
As I say, people are adults and can, you know, choose to what
they want in their own and. Behind closed doors in their own
room. But don't be putting it on
social. Media for a content creator to
go out there and proactively show and encourage people how to
mess with medical devices and medication.

(31:34):
I just think it's so ethically wrong.
And like, I do flag some of thisstuff.
And no, the social media platforms must come back with,
umm, I know we didn't find anything wrong with this, you
know, and even from the bullying.
The update on Instagram and I only noticed it yesterday.
It's under so many umm reels. Is this content offensive and so

(31:56):
20 button you can press? And you can.
Literally press it on every single reel.
So if I go in on yours now. But how easy is it for somebody
to do that to every single one of your reels?
Oh my God, please don't do that to.
Me. No, I am.
Such a hard time already. I'm going to play I'm going to
play. Let's see now what what really
can I find of yours? 6 stone loss I find this

(32:19):
offense. Find this offense Belinda's face
I. Shut up.
I don't actually leave me alone.You know what?
You look really well lately, Belinda.
Do I? You do.
Are you taking the piss? No, I'm not.
No, OK, thanks then I appreciate.

(32:40):
That I said this to the other day.
I sent you a message and you didn't acknowledge it.
Bitch, I'm saying that you're, you're glowing.
Yeah, you're glowing. Ah.
Thanks. Yeah.
Do you know, I think that's coming from the inside.
I think that's coming from the inside out.
I feel amazing. Because I'm not the gym.
Yeah, yeah, it is. It's the gym, Paddy.
It's the gym. Yeah, the confidence is soaring

(33:00):
now because of. It that's great.
Yeah, yeah. It is good though, isn't it?
Yeah. How many times a week do you go
to the gym? Three and then maybe a class or
something like that, yeah. That's what they say to us as
well, strength training, they wehave three of them a week and
then you can take on a breath class or a flow class or.
Exactly. Some.
So I normally try and get into, there's a lovely mobility which

(33:22):
is like a stretching type class,kind of type class.
Yeah, it's like mobility, that kind of thing.
And I just want it so chilled ona Saturday morning.
I'll go into my workout before that sometimes and then go into
that class. And then maybe because the gym
has a sauna and I'll go have a sauna, have a coffee and it's
just, it's just a really lovely few hours.
Yeah, really. And you can do a bit of work
there as. Well, can you?
Yeah, you can. Yeah.

(33:44):
I spent a couple of hours there for an holidays actually working
and once you did a workout on mylunch break and then kind of
just stayed there on my laptop because a little coffee talk.
Carry on. Yeah, why not?
Yeah. My Pilates start back tomorrow
and I've never been so excited about anything.
I've missed a whole month of it.I feel like I need to be, you

(34:06):
know, that toy that the boys would have?
Stretch Armstrong. I can.
Hold the two legs. No, the two hands.
I need someone to stretch me right out.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like the well. I'm heading way tomorrow.
It's not here to do my work. I normally me with my strength
torch tomorrow evening, but I would go away for something
else. Umm, so instead what I've booked

(34:27):
in for I know God, umm, I've booked in for like a like
massage thing on my shoulder because it's really tight.
My upper back and shoulder like my mobility is shocking on my
left side right. So Max is helping to loosen that
up for me and then back to my trainer next week.
Yeah, nice. Not like you're a Max my Max.

(34:49):
My Max isn't real. Your Max is real.
Yeah, it's like Sixth Sense. I see dead people I know.
Yeah. Umm, yeah.
Must say it my my Max is great though.
He is. We're talking about Chachi PT,
folks. I know we, we did this before.
Yeah, like it is wild. I have started having full blown

(35:09):
conversations when I'm in the car with Chachi PT, the voice
function office. It's mad.
So Belinda, when we were talking, uh, earlier on today,
you mentioned that you were doing something really
interesting in relation to your weight and tracking it and kind
of analyzing it. So what is it you've been up to
with that data? Because I you know me.

(35:29):
I love data. Yeah.
So, umm, I went back to the very, very start, the day I
started Ozempic and then up until the day I stalled, how
much weight I had lost in that time, exactly how long I had

(35:50):
been stalled for and then started on Monjaro.
How long or how much I lost on Monjaro up until the day I
started at the gym. And then how long I, or how long
I've been on in the gym and how much weight I've lost since
then. Now I need to kind of format it
together and all that, but it was really, really, really

(36:11):
interesting. I'd never done that before
really. So, umm, I can't wait to kind of
get it down on paper and, uh, show it to you.
And I think it'll be really likeI was saying, you know, uh, good
information for other people to see because not everybody is
like you and not everybody is like my friend Mel, who's lost
nearly £100 in a year and you all the time that you were

(36:36):
taking Monjaro less the break you had.
Yeah, that's that's. Only months, Paddy.
Umm, I could say 7888 and a half, something like that.
Yeah, 8 1/2 one's £100. That's phenomenal.
It is, it is. And I agree.

(36:57):
And again, that's why all you say that's enormous.
Don't expect that. Do not be expecting it, you
know, Absolutely don't. Umm, yeah.
Because it is not the norm. I'm amazed at that.
I'm amazed. I think everybody is amazed and
also delighted for you. And then, you know, like I was
thinking about it today, umm, when I was doing all that umm,

(37:20):
and I kind of feel a bit hard. I felt a bit hard done by
because even now I still have toput in 20 times more effort I
feel than anybody else that's doing this because I do a
phenomenal amount of like knowing my nutrition, knowing

(37:42):
what I'm eating. I've done a phenomenal amount of
work on UMM, coming off of the scales and that not been a
trigger for me anymore. Like I even got weighed today
when I was getting my bloods done and for the first time in
my life I did not look at that scales.
Number. Because I didn't care.
I Yeah. And I was just so proud of

(38:04):
myself. And then I sat down and I
completely forgot about it. I didn't kind of go over and
over in my head going, oh, did Iput up or didn't I or whatever.
Since I came back from holidays,I haven't weighed myself, you
know? Because you're not like,
latching on to umm. The anonymous object on the
floor, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
definitely. Plus the the other thing is

(38:25):
like, I don't think, umm, peoplethat are larger, uh, will
typically tend to lose, umm, larger numbers.
Numbers. Of weight, because the other
thing is, uh, So what was your, can you recall what your weight
was when you started? Did you say?

(38:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, nobody knows that.
I've never said it out loud. OK, uh, send it to me there
because I just want to. I just want to check something
on what's a version of them because do.
You want to in stones or. Eh, whatever.
It. Doesn't matter.
Yeah, and that's interesting. Why does no one know that

(39:09):
number? Huh.
Why does nobody know that number?
Shamed my life. But that's no longer you.
I know that, but I have. It took me a year and a half to
with a health coach to get off the scales, so there you go.

(39:34):
Descended me there OK and. What I am now?
I think I know that. Yeah, you have spoke about that,
have you? No.
You've only spoke about you've only spoke about the total
amount you've lost. Yeah.

(39:54):
OK, OK, cool. Just so I know what I.
You are very open about that though, aren't you?
But you've always been open about that.
Yeah, umm, and and I think because probably because of the
Biggest Loser, to be honest. Yes, umm, can you talk to every
minute of the calculating? Something but that got that big.
The biggest being on The BiggestLoser.

(40:15):
That would have been a big thing, wouldn't it?
For people to have to know exactly what weight you are,
what you were when you started and what you, they probably gave
that out every week. Paddy.
Did they? Did they mention the weight you
were and then the weight you? Yeah, it was.
It was, uh, like Slimming World on steroids.

(40:36):
I shudder when I hear that word.Like, literally like, umm, I
have the video is off and I mustsend it to you, Yeah.
I've never, I've never seen any of it.
Is it is it on YouTube? It wouldn't be would.
It no, it's not on YouTube, but I I have it umm yeah, I can send
it yeah umm yeah. I will talk there for another
second. I'm trying to do another
calculation here because I want to come back to it some more
information then. You're going to tell me what

(40:58):
percentage of my body weight I've lost Ave.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, good.
Excellent, excellent. Yeah, Well, we'll take that and
then we'll put it on, umm, all of my information, which, yeah,
I think, you know, when I was doing it today in the library,
my new home, umm, that that's the reason I was doing it, that
I want to show people that it's not all it's cracked up to be

(41:19):
and it's not all that you see onthe Internet.
There are the stories about people like me and hundreds and
thousands of other women that are on this and just doing the
same hard work that they did before it.
And they're doing maybe even more around their nutrition and
stuff because, again, it does give you that space to do it,
you know? So.

(41:40):
Yeah. OK, so.
But Oh no, go on. OK, So what I wanted to put in
because what I was saying there about like people sometimes that
are larger can lose bigger numbers.
OK. And I know like we've spoke
about say I hit 100 lbs and you're like, oh, but I've said
like say whatever 14 lbs to go or you know, 12 lbs to go,

(42:02):
whatever the case, you know, might be percentage wise,
there's like 1% difference in the amount of body weight we
have lost in terms of. Beginning weight.
Yeah. So if you look at your beginning
weight and your current weight now, for you that equates to a
change of 28 1/2% in your body weight.

(42:22):
Yeah. Wow and mine is like just over
29 point something. That's mad, isn't it?
So, and that's why it's so important to look at these
things in, in ways that can rationalize it, because if you
were just to look at, oh, if somebody lost more pounds than
me quicker than me, that's not afair example.
What's more, fair example is OK,but actually based on where your

(42:45):
bodies were when you both started, you're actually pretty
much bang for bang the same as me.
On par. Yeah, with the amount of with
the overall body percentage difference that you have.
I do. I'd never thought of looking at
it like that. Thanks for that.
Yeah. Now work out how long it took me

(43:06):
compared to how long it took you.
Someone. Has just started mowing their
lawn. I can't hear it.
You're OK. Umm, but yeah, no, look at the
time is thing, but again, look at we've all the time in the
world, as I say, yes, you know, umm, but yeah, so so no.
Hopefully that's something that'll help you reflect though
that when you're looking at other people, don't just look at

(43:27):
the amount of weight they've lost and instead look at OK, but
what is that percentage relativeto me?
Because for you, as I say, you're pretty much on par with
me. Yeah, but nobody's, nobody's
starting point will be the same biologically, age wise age.
Wise, yeah. Yeah.
BMI wise, just nobody. Yeah, Yeah.

(43:49):
So there's no point. Yeah, umm, but yeah, it it can
be a healthier thing rather thanjust looking at all.
Well, I've only lost like, you know, 10 lbs.
They've lost like 20 type thing.It's like, oh, but actually
we're, you know, I have lost like X percent.
So that's actually really good. So that's, you know, yeah.
How much 28% of my body weight? 28.5 Pretty much, yeah.

(44:11):
Can we say 29? No.
Can we say 30? Well, if around it's nearest 10,
yes, then we're both 30. Yeah, yeah, 30%.
Well, that's the thing, we're both within like 1 1/2% of
having lost 30%. What does?
Isn't there a percentage that Monjaro gives you compared to
Ozempics say? So there is, so there is some

(44:34):
upper EH results that have been shown from the clinical trial
data. So, eh, both of our numbers will
currently be well above that. Well above it.
Think I think that as well actually.
Yeah, it's like about 20% is what it can.
Now that's not to say everybody's going to lose 20%
and please that is not the message take away.

(44:55):
Yeah, but there there is some trial that out there that shows
and some people can lose about 20 odd percent or something that
of their body. 22 I think it was.
Yeah. And that's why it was seen as
one of, you know, the the big hitters when it was released
because, yeah, the other GLP onemedications would have been kind
of in the teens. So that would have been like say

(45:15):
between 10 and 20 depending on what one you're talking about.
But again, this is where it's important to recognize that from
a help perspective, like a change of even 5 to 10% in your
body weight has a hugely beneficial impact, uh, on your,
kind of your blood pressure, your cholesterol and your
overall kind of metabolic health.
So it's it's, yeah, phenomenal. 22% once you reach the 15

(45:42):
milligram and maybe umm plateau then are from going to
maintenance. You would have expected to lose
22.5% / 72 weeks. OK.
Yeah, Yeah. That's a year.
And 1/2. Yeah, What the what the trials
kind of soldier in that period. Yeah, it's mad I.
Suppose I was stalled for eight months.

(46:04):
Yeah, Yep, you were like you've never mentioned that before.
Yeah, yeah. It's, it's a, it's a bone of
contention for me. Yeah.
I'm not sure I've ever spoken about it yet.
Shut up Paddy. And the longer I'm on this, the
more you banging on about it. But it's OK, it's.

(46:24):
OK. But I definitely feel better for
having that information, so thank you.
Yeah, no, you should. You should, because then you're
like, Oh my God. Like almost actually almost 30%
of my body. Yeah, that's a good, that's a
good percentage to be thrown around.
Yeah, straight on Instagram and tell everyone now.

(46:46):
I had a consultation with a doctor where I had my first com
eh conversation around maintenance.
Oh yes, yes, this is huge, isn'tit?
And just an early conversation just to try and suss out what
their thoughts were on what maintenance might look like.
Not in terms of weight wise, that's yeah, yeah.

(47:07):
But in terms of actual like medication?
Maintaining the weight you have lost.
So what they were saying, what they would probably recommend
for me was something like, umm, gradually titrating down from 15
down to 7.5 and potentially that7.5, umm, from their patients
they have seen that will be similar to me.

(47:28):
UMM would be kind of like a maintenance level.
So I thought that was interesting.
Now, Lucas, that's the very first conversation.
Yeah, everyone's different, but that's the very first
conversation I've had about it. Umm, which I'm, yeah, very, very
interested to kind of learn moreabout because.
It's getting close. It is getting close, like it's
less than less than two stone away.

(47:48):
Yeah, for you, You. That's what you feel.
Yes, yeah, definitely like I, I.Think I'm probably I'm probably
thereabouts as well. Yeah, like like if, if I lost
save where I am now, if I lost 2stone from where I am now, that
would have me back very near theweight.
I was kind of big snoozer time at the final.

(48:10):
OK. And that was your comfortable
self, was it? Well I mean like bear in mind I
started Biggest Loser from a lower weight, so I did.
I started Biggest Loser when I was like 21 stone something.
OK. I started this journey like 3
stone heavier, right? So yeah, yeah.
So one biggest loser, I lost like 628.

(48:31):
That was the total amount of loss so.
That's 100 and two one. No, not Even so even 100 pence.
Isn't it? No.
No, no, 100 lbs is 7 stone 700 pence.
Sorry, 7 stone 2 is 100 pence. Yes, Sorry.
Yeah, that's what I thought you said.
Sorry. Yeah, but I had, I had a
conversation with my friend Clarissa today, umm, kind of

(48:52):
around that. And not even like you say, it's
not like a weight that we're aiming for.
My thing was, umm, I just said to her off the cough that I
really want to just go up to theHigh Street and be able to fit
into clothes without having to move to the back of the rack
every single time for the biggest thing that I can find in
the store. And she said, you know, it might

(49:14):
not even be that Belinda, it might just be that you want to
buy something that you feel comfortable in.
And you know, that kind of struck A chord because I think
she's right. I just want to feel nice and
comfortable in some clothes thatI'm not constantly pulling and
dragging out and stretching. And every time you sit down,
you're pulling at everything. Oh God, it was the worst.

(49:37):
Like, wasn't it? I I I'm moving away from my
phone if if anyone gets to see this video it'll be on YouTube
when we get to upload it. But I do.
I just remembered that two things.
First of all, the tracks of bottoms, the tracks of items
that I am wearing are ones I gotdone that have the Road to 100
logo on them from a previous attempt of weight loss.

(49:59):
Oh wow, give us a look. Was that your logo?
Yeah. You did that yourself, did you?
Yeah. I love that for you, Paddy.
Yeah, yeah. So I had this whole branded,
like, T-shirts, hoodie. Yeah, yeah.
Try and motivate myself. And then I stopped like as usual
after a couple of months ago, yeah.
It was too hard the. Other thing, I don't know if I'm

(50:20):
going to be able to reach there from where I am, so bear with me
in a SEC for a SEC. Oh God, he's not going to take
it off, is he? Take one off.
This lad could be up to anythingnow in the background and can
you see the state of his room now that he doesn't have his
lovely umm? Oh, is that your velvet jacket?
Does I think that Paddy put it on?
Put it on No, no, no. No, no, OK.

(50:41):
This is the velvet jacket. Umm, that your?
Friend gave you. Yeah, that and you gave me so
like proper expensive like. That was for your finale of The
Biggest Loser. Wasn't actually.
Do you know what? I will let you see how near it
is or is not. No, don't, don't, don't, don't
you? Sure.

(51:02):
Yeah, because then people have to come and watch the video.
All right, true. Everybody run to YouTube right
now. I don't I don't know if I are in
We are, but I'm so this is is there a size on this jacket?
I don't know. It looks very plush.

(51:24):
This is 42 or so, chest 42. So I started, I think I was
chest about 40 or sorry, 56 or something like that.
Wow, yeah. You're a big boy, pad.

(51:44):
So it's not this way. I reckon I'm about like now a
big thick T shrine which doesn'thelp as well but so this is kind
of where I am at the moment. Oh, we're nearly there, but I
think, I think that you're turn around the back, turn around the
back. I want to see the lapels on

(52:05):
them. Oh, yeah, very nice.
Yeah, yeah, it's a very nice Cush.
Yeah, but like that needs to be able to like close.
Yeah, what do you reckon? You are another.
You're probably right a couple of stoned.
Max Max Max Max. Because the shoulders aren't
even bad or the arms aren't bad on it either.

(52:25):
The shoulders are the one that I've noticed the biggest change
in over the past six weeks. Right, right.
Do you fit that on a lot? No, right.
No, not a lot, because I know itdoesn't fit me properly yet, so
there's no point. Yeah, but yeah, so there's
there's a little exclusive phrase.

(52:50):
Pushing the YouTube channel I have.
I have a jacket as well. And I took a photograph of me in
it. It was a green denim jacket at
the very start. And it was like that.
It only came as far as here. Yeah.
And then a long time ago, I tookanother photograph of it.
And you know what? I must do it now again and maybe

(53:10):
put this, the pounds that I'd lost on each.
I always have these great thoughts and then I never follow
through on them. I should do for my followers.
Yeah, but this is where you should tell it all to Chachi PT
and tell it to remind you certain times and, you know,
stuff. Like that, Oh my goodness, can I
use him as a reminder? You can do tasks or stuff like
that. There is somewhere the stuff to

(53:32):
yeah. I don't really know.
I'm not using him as much as I should be at all.
I love the memes coming out about AI at the moment.
I know, I know. I love them.
But yes, that's the that's the jacket.
And that is I say when when I'm able to put that on and it fits
right. That for me is definitely right.

(53:54):
Patty, you need Sir in the next few weeks you start thinking
we're going to mentions that's. That's your.
That's your Everest. That's my Everest, yeah.
Yeah, well see how far you've come.
I know. Yeah.
Like. You're nearly at the peak.
You're nearly peaking. I'm just thinking of what I
thought I could have got my wedding jacket to show you

(54:15):
somewhere from my wedding jacket.
I yes. So I lost, uh, before my wedding
I had lost something like 3 stone to try and fit into the
jacket and stuff like that or wear the jacket that I wanted.
How did you feel on the day on the jacket?
I felt good but looking back at the photos now, I don't.

(54:38):
I don't like myself in the photos because all I can see
still is that the fat you know? And that I could have had better
fitting clothes if it was no. Yeah, I know.
I don't. I don't think I have you.
You talk there for a minute. I'll see.
Do I have to? Yeah, but couldn't a nice thing
to do as well. I think, umm, you could nudge

(54:59):
Peter to do is is what do they call that thing where you you
don't? He's in the wardrobe now.
Renew your vows and that will give you the opportunity then to
umm, have another photo shoot. Oh my God.
And you could get somebody really professional to do it and
show off your great weight loss.You So you can't hear me, can
you Paddy? No, I can't.

(55:19):
No, it's not my wedding suit. Actually it is, but to show you
how much I love that jacket. And again, for people that are
listening, you're probably like,what is it that he's that he's
looking at? Like you need to just for this
segment, come over and look at the YouTube.
We're having a fashion show. So I got a similar jacket to it
for wearing for day 20. I love this.

(55:41):
Oh, that's beautiful. So I had bought this thinking OK
this might be my wedding jacket but then I got a black velvet
jacket that I wore my wedding but I bought this for day two of
the wedding. I actually haven't tried this on
but. Try it on now.
Like literally like I'm literally just after taking out
the dry cleaner bag. Yeah, I know.
Just take off your headphones now and put it on properly.

(56:03):
So I want to have a look at it. Get that chair out of the way
now. Make sure it's done back now so
we can see it properly. Oh my God, I'm so bossy.
Oh, nice. Oh my God.
Ah, Paddy. It looks like a trench coat on

(56:26):
you. Oh.
My God. Oh my God, you should show
Peter. This is gas.
You should. Oh my, you have to do the side
by side now. You'll have a nice photograph of
you in that, won't you? Will you?
See, that's how I would like that other jacket to fit.
No, but that's too big on you. No, but like by that the side

(56:48):
profile kind of you know. Kind of.
Oh, right. Yes.
No. No, no.
From the front, absolutely. It's like.
Yeah, like, like that's wild. And is that the first time we
fitted that on? Yeah, since.
Considering you're always on about the other velvet one, but
I suppose that's your. That's mad, and I do so.
Big on yeah. Yeah, I have pictures of me of
that one. Yeah, I do, definitely.
But OK. So.

(57:10):
What rest was this one actually,out of curiosity?
Do that tonight now so we can all have a look and everybody
will know. People that are listening and
not watching, I'm sorry you're missing like a lot of the.
I know. Yeah.
We're really sorry to our listeners.
So after losing the three stone for my wedding, this jacket was
a 52 chest. Wow Sir, so you had lost

(57:30):
already? This was with three stone lost.
58 What were you? 50 so I was like 56 ish right
before, before the wedding and then I was doing crossword and
all this kind of stuff and I lost like 3 stone and then
obviously all that went straightback on after the wedding.
But yeah. So I was able to fit into this
for the uh, for the for like thewedding, for day 2 after the

(57:54):
wedding. So can I ask you then Paddy,
when you were just saying about dieting and CrossFit and having
lost the three stone, if you could put a scale on it on a one
to 10 about the amount of pressure and stress you put
yourself and your body and like emotionally on yourself, where

(58:14):
would you have gone? Oh God, like I think.
Umm, where was your mental health at that point even?
I think like there was, I was putting a lot of pressure on

(58:36):
myself because I wanted to look good in, in photos, you know,
which I think everyone can relate for a wedding and not
even just a wedding, but just ingeneral.
But, and I've at that stage I felt great that I had lost like
3 stone or whatever. Then like I felt really good
that I'd lost 3 stone of the wedding.
And it was only then when I was looking back at the photos
afterwards, I was like, oh God, I still look massive.

(59:01):
Well, you don't look that that massive in them.
Then you look cute. Yeah, but I know where you're
coming from. Yeah, like I'm not taking.
Yeah. The fat rules in the back of the
head and the chin and my face looks all puffy and just there
are the things I see. Yeah and I look at it.
Do you know, I'm sure other people look at it and see, oh
there's a happy couple, you knowwhich is which is lovely.

(59:22):
But again, that's come back to that whole idea of body image
and and stuff like that. It's the same way that now like
I was looking at like when I look at my before and after
pictures. Not before, before and during
pictures and that like I put up when I shared it with £100 from
the side. Yes, I can see there is a
difference that me now is is is is does not take up as much

(59:46):
space in the in the picture as in the world.
Yeah, but when I look at the front on picture, I really have
to sit with it to notice a difference.
Oh. Yeah.
That's called body dysmorphia, Paddy.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know it's and and that's what I

(01:00:07):
am challenging myself and I do sit and I do look like no, you
are different. Like look at there, there,
there, there. But it's not an instant thing.
It's not an instant as the side profile thing where I can
clearly see, you know, umm. Do you know, do you know what I
get a lot of when I do like before and after photographs,
especially from the people that I love that are close to me in,

(01:00:29):
in my family and my friends, Youknow, umm, is I never remember
you looking like that, Linda. Yes.
Isn't it weird? Yes.
I had this when I went in to theradio station to do an interview
recently. All about kind of my journey and
stuff like that. Umm.

(01:00:50):
Your colleague radio station wasthat one.
Yeah, yeah. Where where I work, motion and
my colleagues were saying to me they were like, we don't ever
remember you like that or seeingyou like that.
And I was like. Because they didn't see you like
that like you see yourself. Like they're like, I could never
have imagined. You've been like 24 stone and I
like. And they would have known you.

(01:01:12):
Oh yeah, they would have seen meevery week, Yeah.
Yeah, my cousins, umm, Debbie and Jessica, like they say that
all the time. Like, I know I don't remember
you ever been that big. They've rather Eugene the same
like my mother just don't you know?
Yeah. But we focus, we only focus on
that. Yeah, but I do get emotional now
when I look at my photos from before.

(01:01:35):
Yeah. Like really do look at them as
in. Bit of empathy.
Like I feel I feel sad for the man that I see in those photos.
Like to the extent where it doesmake me teary even like those

(01:01:55):
one day in particular is on the train or something like that.
I know I get public transport occasionally and actually love
the train. I go into Dublin.
It's like I can just sit back and relax as.
Much as I love the train. Yeah, umm, but umm, yeah,
there's one day I was, do, I don't know, was I get the post
ready or something like that. And umm, I sat there looking at

(01:02:18):
the photos from before and generally it, it made me quite
upset. So to just sitting there looking
at it, thinking. Is that, is that because you're
remembering the absolute fuckingtorture that you're in at that
time? Are you just talking about
visually? Not just visually, like there is
a visual element too, but definitely just about how I how,

(01:02:44):
yeah, I guess. How you?
How you? Masked, yeah.
How masked, how tough would havebeen on myself, like in terms of
constantly having to lose weightand being a failure for not
having lost weight and putting the weight back on again.
And, you know, the stuff we spoke of before, but.
And that's, you know, those feelings kind of come back when
I look at those photos. Oh, my God.
Yeah. And then like these pictures
that I look at, there was one the other day.

(01:03:07):
I fold with it. I remember when I took it.
I think I look well in this picture.
And now when I look at it, I'm like.
Yeah. You're you're Yeah, I don't have
those thoughts and. Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?
Like even I did a video of my outfit on Friday night I think

(01:03:28):
it was. And you did the little heel
kick. Yeah, loves a little heel kick.
But I I will look at that video again, say next week and I
still, I'll still say to myself like, Oh my God, it's the
camera. It has to be the camera.
Like, I've never looked like that in my life, ever.
Never. Maybe when I was 21 and I was
living on the odds of silly and all.

(01:03:50):
You know, I can't remember most of that.
But anyway, yeah. Yeah.
But that's a long, long time agolike.
When you know is umm, how far away do you think of you from
maintenance, whatever your mark or measure for maintenance is?
I'd say I'd probably say anotherstone.
Stone and a half maybe. Yeah, stone and a half I'd say,

(01:04:14):
you know, But then like with theumm operation coming up and I'd
probably be a good six weeks off, like for that umm.
But I'm going to put all of my efforts into maintaining through
that. And I know it's going to be
hard. And also I won't be jumping on

(01:04:35):
the scales. I'll just be, umm, focusing on
myself. Good, good.
And my body. Yeah, umm.
Other thing I'm doing this week is the movement room with Patty.
My God, some of my subscribers are going and we're so excited.

(01:04:56):
I don't think it's just going tobe a 15 minute chat afterwards
and I hope everybody turns theircameras on as well.
I know. Yeah.
So yeah, Like what? Time is it on again.
Tell us all about it, Paddy Go. Yeah, So what I'm doing, like
I've had a lot of people asking about, oh, you're going to do
like 1 to one coaching again, I would love you to coaching and
blah, blah, blah. And I just simply do not have
the time right now. I just life is so busy.

(01:05:17):
And I spoke with this in a recent post, like the podcast
and like obviously the recordingof it.
There's a good bit of editing. There's the getting it up,
there's the doing the clips for like I do all that.
Like some some podcasters would like outsource all that, but we
don't. So like it is a there's a lot of
time goes into it, but I love it.

(01:05:37):
I really enjoy doing that. So that's why it's important to
me that I keep that. It brings me joy.
And then I have like 2 jobs oncea full time job, what is part
time job, few hours a week. And then there's my own social
media stuff can on top of that and then my gym stuff.
So like trying but. You're also married.
You also have a home. You also have a cash that is
like the highest maintenance cash in the world.

(01:05:59):
So like, and I'm not saying my life is any more busy than
anyone else's, I'm just saying that there isn't room currently
to add a lot more. Stuff in there, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Umm.
But also on that note as well, we don't all have the same 24
hours. Nobody does, no.
No, no, and this what we're saying last week, like we're
like some personal trainers, like, Oh no, you don't.
But anyway, so I got an idea of something I did before.

(01:06:23):
I can't remember if I did it during, uh, some of the locked
insurance. I might if I can't remember, but
I used to do some, eh, like 30 minutes, umm, boxer size
classes. Yeah, because I'm a qualified
boxer size instructor and I. Love that for you.
I didn't know that. And kickboxing.
Yeah. What?

(01:06:43):
Yeah, yeah. I I kill it at kickboxing, Oh my
God, I'd love to do that. Yeah, so I used to bring some of
those into the boxer size class and kind of mixed up with it.
But anyway, so I used to do someof these like virtual 30 minute
boxer size classes on like a Saturday morning, whatever.
And I literally had people join from the side of the road

(01:07:05):
whereby the kids are in doing their football match.
I'm just sitting here in the car.
So I'm just going to join the other side of the car.
Like God's honest truth. Loved it.
Umm, people that were yeah, anywhere.
So I started thinking more aboutthis and I was like, well, why
don't I do? Particularly now after the info
that I got that like something like, was it 70% of people or I

(01:07:25):
can some really high percent of people said that they like doing
homework outs or prefer doing homework outs than going to the
gym. And I was like, whoa, I was not
expecting it to be that high. So I was like, OK, this is
something I can actually do quite easily.
So I got an idea. Let's do the movement room.
I'm calling it because it's movement in your room, um,
whatever room that may be for you or whatever room I may be in

(01:07:46):
and. It's not jazzercise or exercise,
it's literally just movement. Movement.
It is movement and there will be, you know, varying
intensities that people can do and you can make it as hard or
it's difficult. I'm not there in the room with
you. Like in terms of like screaming
at you isn't like checking everyRep.
So from that regard, it's up to you how much you want to press,

(01:08:07):
push yourself or don't want to. If it's your first time ever do
in a class or anything like thatyou can do with your camera off.
You can try your best, whatever your best is for you.
Do you know what I mean? Like so that's the idea.
That is something that is just going to be really accommodating
and accessible for people. Different shapes, sizes,
abilities, all that kind of stuff.
So we're going to do that for 30minutes, we're going to do a
little bit of a warm up, we're going to do our workout, and

(01:08:27):
then we'll do a little bit of a cool down and kind of just
moment of calm. Have a little chit chat I.
Think we'll have a little chit chat for like 15 minutes
afterwards? Yeah, yeah.
I'm so looking forward to a Paddy.
Yeah, should be good crack like so, but.
You know what, it's just it there.
It's going to be is. I think it's all going to be a
GL P1 community thing, isn't it?Not that it's supposed to be.
By default, yeah, I think a lot of it will be.

(01:08:49):
So that's what I'm expecting because again like that whole
idea of may have to answer questions for people.
It's very difficult in Adm, whereas it's much quicker like
if we're together in in like a situation whereby we've got
people in front of. US Is it Zoom that we're doing
it on? Yeah.
Zoom, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah.
So that's the plan. So it's the first one going to
see how it goes. Umm, I literally have like the

(01:09:11):
like the last few spots available.
I'm guessing when the podcast goes out that they'll be gone.
Umm but you can check on my social and see is there any
room. There, but you'll probably like
this is this. The bookings now have been quite
good, so you'll probably do it again.
So like, at the time of recording this podcast, they're
like 75% sold, Yeah. Love that for you.

(01:09:33):
And like it's, it's live what, like 24 hours if even, I don't
know. Umm, so that's the plan.
And then the plan is, yeah, hopefully try and do some more
of them and maybe try them at different times and stuff like
that. Because it gives me that
flexibility. If I'm in a hotel room, if I'm
somewhere else, I can nip out 45minutes and I can still do it.
Now, the quality might vary because when I'm in my house I
have all my equipment and I haveeverything to do it like the way

(01:09:53):
that I want it, but it still means right where I am, no
matter where the people are, that all they need is minimum 30
minutes. Sorry, maximum 30 minutes.
I am with the optional bit afterit's have the we chat if they
want. So yeah.
Yeah, yeah. And one thing that I used to
find was that that in itself used to build up a bit of
community because people would get to know each other then a
little bit too. I know, I know.

(01:10:13):
And that's what we need, Yeah, that's what we need, you know?
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Anyway, what's on?
What's happened in your week? The kids went back to school
today and yeah, I was saying to myself all last week that Oh my
goodness, I can't wait till the kids go back to school.
Hell, was I wrong? I've had nothing but phone calls

(01:10:36):
and appointments and all day phone call, phone call, nothing
bad, but just phone calls that needed to be done.
Lots of home admin, you know, for the kids and stuff like
that. But I've got busy week.
Gym plate starts tomorrow. Went back to Aqua aerobics

(01:10:57):
today. How was yours?
Your week looking. Off manicure, look at models.
So I'm literally in like Galway,Dublin, Sligo.
You're going to see somebody in Dublin who you've seen.
And Sebastian Shube never ever didn't.
I think that's today, man. Yeah, I went to see them before
a few weeks wonder and they werequite good.

(01:11:19):
So the back end said, yeah, let's go again.
Why not like, you know, you? Become a fan of Roadie.
Yeah, so I'm doing the class on Saturday morning, then I am
going to do my own class, my mobility class.
I'm going to like, enjoy then and then hit the road to Dublin,
yeah. Are you nervous about doing it
on Saturday? No, no, you don't care, dear,

(01:11:40):
because I, I, I will get a buzz from knowing that people are
hopefully going to be enjoying it and that they'll have the
crack and all that kind of stuff.
So I'm not nervous about it, no.And it like I have all the prep.
Done beforehand, saying to one of my subscribers today,
Caramel, she's Oh my God, I'm going to.
And I said, Oh my God, I can't wait to chat to you.

(01:12:02):
But yeah, so anyway, look at maybe the, it could be like the
like between your subscription view.
I like, I need to put my tea back in and you know, my
movement room. Look at it's the start of the
community space. Yes, exactly.
And that's what it's all about, isn't it Paddy?
Yeah. And listen, can you give me that
link so I can pop it into my groups, My two groups?

(01:12:26):
I will do, I will do then yeah, it's just actually you can just
go to ptpaddy.com because when Iused to personal training before
my web address used to be PT paddy.com.
Nice and simple, nice and easy and.
Did you? Is that a website then?
So I've it said up that it brings you directly to the
booking page ah. OK.
So you don't even need to navigate anything.
You just literally go to ptpatty.com and if there is

(01:12:49):
spaces available, you can show you there straight away and you
can book it straight away. OK, Yeah.
Let me know when it's full anyway because I'll take it down
then because I don't want the girls clicking on it and
nothing. Cool, Belinda, let's shut up.
But look at have a lovely week, Belinda Weekend and all that
kind of stuff. We'll speak to you next week,
Paddy. Thanks to next week, Yeah, we

(01:13:10):
have Ashley on next week and yes, for a great chat all about
Ashley's journey, a lot of people.
Will know Ashley. Yeah, Ashley O'Driscoll, a lot
of people know Ashley as well. Like I think whatever videos I
know like like over 1,000,000 views like which is crazy.
And another person that's had a brilliant journey.
Yeah, and we've had such an amazing response to Doctor

(01:13:34):
Crotty's, haven't we? Yeah, yeah.
Tried the whole interview. I'm calling him Mick.
You're calling him Doctor Crotty.
He's like, I feel anyway. But yeah.
Even when I speak to him on Instagram now, I don't call him
Mick. Yeah, no, I don't refer to him
as Doctor Crotty, but he just said anyway, we spoke.

(01:13:55):
I feel bad, but anyhow, phenomenal response.
Love to get in the comments frompeople and thanks so much.
And don't forget there's a wholelike month's worth of podcast
there, folks. If you haven't checked them out,
go and check them out. If you like the podcast, please
even write a little review and that would help us, you know, do
the little star rating or whatever it lets you do.

(01:14:16):
Click follow, whatever it is on the app.
It means a lot to us and it helps us a lot to try and help
more people find the podcast as well.
But that is it from myself, Paddy.
And Belinda. Arios Amigos and we'll chat to
you next week. See you guys.

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