December 19, 2023 • 24 mins
Ever found yourself with a case of the post-Thanksgiving blues, feeling more stuffed than the turkey on your table? Join us, Renee the Tummy Whisperer, and my trusty sidekick Janine, as we tackle the holiday stressors head-on, sharing secrets to a serene and healthful Thanksgiving. We get up close and personal with strategies to glide through family squabbles and turn potential chaos into calm. Discover how swapping out the usual frenzy for mindfulness practices can lead to a delightful day of giving thanks, delicious eats, and most importantly, digestive peace.
We're serving up a second helping of wisdom, dishing out the must-try ingredients for a joyous holiday, sprinkled with gratitude and a side of "shit shield" to fend off negativity. Savor the heartwarming tale of my gluten-free pie adventure and learn how small acts of kindness can enrich not just your own festivities, but also those of others in need. Whether you're breaking bread or breaking out the gluten-free goodies, let's celebrate together and make this Thanksgiving not just another Thursday, but a day filled with laughter, love, and the best kind of fullness.
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Renee (00:08):
Hey everybody, welcome to the Tummy Whisperer.
We are on episode number 11.
Thanksgiving week here All thehustle and bustle has started
everywhere.
I was at the grocery store onSunday picking up stuff and tons
of cranberries, all the greenbeans.
I was shopping and gettingeverything ready to go.
(00:29):
So I thought I would talk abouthow to try to reduce some
stress around our Thanksgivingday holiday here.
Unfortunately, holiday time issupposed to be a time of
relaxation and peace andgratitude and family or friends
or loved ones.
So many times there's so muchstress because of family dynamic
(00:53):
or this or that the otherJanine we were talking about.
Oh yes, and that's a big dealbecause you really want to have.
For me it's just going to be Itold you it's going to be Mark,
myself, my dog, maybe my friend,her dog maybe not, and it's
going to be nice and small.
His kids are away and they'vegot their lives.
(01:13):
If you're invited somewhere oryou are hosting or you're going
to a restaurant or whatever itis, you can talk about things
that you can do physically withyour eating and with your diet
to try to make your digestionand your health better around
Thanksgiving, so you're notfeeling horrible after dinner.
(01:33):
But also, too, there's anemotional component too, and
everybody knows and I've talkedabout this numerous times our
cravings, what we crave, isusually driven by our mental
state or not being able to havenourishment in our body, not
digesting properly, and thenplays into the neurochemistry,
our brain chemistry, of what wewant to feel good right, with
(01:57):
that sugar or that fat or thatsalt or that crunch or that
sweet or that cream or whateverit is in that moment, because so
many things are happening,there's so many balls in the air
with health, with emotionalhealth, with digestive health,
and they're not separate.
They're not separate the firstthing I think I'd like to give
everybody an idea about is howto prepare yourself.
(02:19):
Pretend you're the turkey.
We gotta get you prepared foryour holiday right.
This takes some time and ittakes some care and it takes
some love so you can do somebreathing, some meditation.
Meditation I think everybody hasthis idea about meditation has
to be sitting in silence fordays and it is not bad at all.
(02:40):
Put on some music, somethingthat you like.
You can put on some.
I always have Alexa play naturesounds with birds and streams,
and we just go to town.
Mark will come meditate with me, rook will come by me.
It's so cute, is that?
With or without?
Janine (02:56):
alcohol.
Renee (02:57):
Yeah, that's good.
I don't care.
Whatever makes it easy for you,I'm talking about.
Janine (03:03):
I just find that when I'm cooking, I need to be
drinking something, whether it'swater or liquor or something,
because if I'm not, then I'lljust eat and pick everything.
Renee (03:12):
Yeah, me too, I'm a cutter slicer.
Yeah, again, my table is goingto be very easy this year.
I've got carrots, potatoes,green beans, the turkey salad.
Janine (03:24):
It's stressful holiday I've never done I've only cooked
an Easter dinner before and Ilove Easter because I'm not a
big turkey fan.
So I make a big tenderloin andsome really good.
But Thanksgiving, statistically, is the most stressful holiday
of the year for so many reasons.
Family sucks, you're mad atyour brother.
(03:45):
You haven't talked to yoursister in four years.
You're doing this, you're doingthat and that can cause you
stress and that can cause you toeat right.
Renee (03:54):
Because your digestion shuts down.
That stress automatically is anautomatic reset.
For, hey, we got a problem here.
Right, houston, we have aproblem.
We got a shut off digestionbecause we need to be able to
run from this proverbial stress,right, which is the family,
whatever it is, yada, yada.
And on top of that, digestionshuts off and the brain is not
(04:14):
satisfied.
So here comes the cravings,right to the tongue, right, go
get that sugar, go get that salt, go get whatever it is you need
.
So again this I talk a lot aboutself-care.
I think it's important.
It doesn't have to be 10 hoursa day, but if you can do
something one to two minutesthree times a week, that's
(04:34):
something that's better thannothing.
My husband and I have beendoing some meditation practice.
We started doing it.
Started doing it about a weekago and I missed this morning,
but we've been doing it and it'samazing how much nicer your day
can go.
So something that would be anautomatic when your body's
(04:54):
re-regulated and relaxed.
Some maybe that incoming hit isnot that big of a deal.
We're about your oh, I don'tlike that, but no big deal.
And then you keep moving on, sodoing something that you love.
If you are preparing your table.
Make something that you love toeat.
Nobody else has to like it, butif they do, fantastic.
Make it special for yourselfand make sure that you're taking
(05:16):
care of yourself.
So again, like for me, I'mhaving some healthy food.
It's going to feel good.
Digestion starts withpreparation.
I'm not much of a cook, but Iwas thrown down this year.
Normally, I order Thanksgivingfrom a chef who does everything
organic and gluten free for us.
That sounds amazing, soconvenient.
(05:36):
I warm everything up and likehello.
Janine (05:39):
Wow, and I bet it's delicious right.
Renee (05:42):
Yeah, but I wanted to do it this year and I'm excited to
do it.
And again, my days and mymorning is going to start out
with some breath work, somerelaxation time with my family,
the dog.
I'm cooking everything tomorrow, so I'm going to turkey's
almost defrosted needs likeanother day.
I'm going to throw it in theoven tomorrow.
(06:03):
We got a small.
The smallest bird I can get wasjust 12 pounds.
So we'll be eating turkey for aweek and I'm going to have
everything done.
So on Thursday, our plan is tohave a long walk in nature with
my doggy and my hubby and myfriend and her doggy too, and
we're just going to have arelaxing, very chill
(06:23):
Thanksgiving.
So I'm lucky because it's goingto be small, but again, I'm
taking time to have a naturewalk.
I'm taking time to take care ofmyself.
My husband, my partner, lovesto do that.
We enjoy watching so much.
So if you're hustle and bustleand you have to be somewhere,
you've got kids and you've gotso much on your plate, you may
not be working that day.
There's preparation, there'sshopping, there's all of it.
Try to prepare Today's, Tuesday.
(06:45):
So people, a lot of people,have most of their stuff already
.
If you're going to make a dish,make something that could be a
little bit healthier.
So we talked before we got onJeanine about how to not have
three scoops of stuffing andthree scoops of mashed potatoes,
right, but maybe having extrasquash, extra vegetables, extra
green garlic, green beans orwhatever sweet potatoes,
(07:07):
whatever it is, having extra ofthat.
If there's going to be saladwhich I am making salad, extra,
extra of that, and I didn't getmy act together.
I don't think we're going tohave any like gluten free
pumpkin pie and I'm actuallyokay with that.
I think I might.
I'll probably just make anapple crumble that's just cut up
apples with maple syrup, right.
And that's another thing, guyssweetening with maple syrup or
(07:29):
agave nectar or a little bit ofhoney, although you never want
to heat honey because it canbecome toxic.
Janine (07:35):
So using Queen få selle.
Renee (07:37):
Yeah, for those honey lovers out there never heat your
honey.
So when you're putting honey inyour tea, have your tea cool
down some, because honey can become toxic when it is heated.
So you never want to reallycook with honey.
But cooking with maple if youlike, maple is fine and using
that you know that.
Yes, and using fruit forsweeteners is wonderful too.
(08:00):
I made oatmeal bars yesterdaythat turned into like oatmeal
mash, but I used banana tosweeten it, it was good.
It was good.
The whole the pan is gone.
We ate them all.
We kept going right by thekitchen counter and taking a
piece and taking oh, look atthat, Take it, it's really good,
it was good.
(08:20):
So yeah, using fruit forsweeteners, using other types of
sweeteners, trying to get fullon the squashes and the
vegetables, having having goodprotein and trying to not eat
too much.
You can always take a plate, aplate, and load up a small plate
and go back for seconds, butmaybe take two minutes in
(08:42):
between getting up to go, maybetalk to Uncle Ralph or whoever
and check in with yourself Areyou really full?
And if you're pretty full andyou, I can wait.
Then you don't have to load upyour plate again.
Or, if you're going to go back,grab some extra salad, grab
some extra squash, grab a littlebit of turkey, hold the
stuffing not too much gravy, gofor the cranberry sauce and get
(09:02):
some vegetables in there.
Try to be mindful when you'reloading up your plate, just
cause Thanksgiving doesn't giveus the right to be completely
gluttonous.
Exactly, thank you.
Janine (09:13):
I was looking for the right, it's so true, and I think
of all the years ofThanksgiving's I've had with
family, and typically Turkeyobviously has the enzyme that
makes you tired, so people wantto sleep right.
They want to have somethingright, which is I'm super
sensitive to it because I don'treally eat turkey.
So a lot of your relatives endup like sleeping on the couch
(09:35):
right and they're like, oh,we're going to eat and then
we're going to watch football,we're going to pass out yeah,
that's great.
I see you twice a year and thisis great.
But we could take the crate.
I want to see you sleep right.
Renee (09:48):
I'm just, you know, I'm screwed completely.
Exactly it's so boring.
So take a walk.
I think I'm going to take awalk this year Doesn't it sound
nice.
We've had unseemly warm weatherhere.
We're like in the 40s 50s,which is warm this time of year
for us, but it's really warm,perfect walking weather.
Yeah, we've had near thesixties.
Last week almost it wasridiculous.
(10:09):
Yes, three years later.
Three months later, we got lost.
Don't ask.
Thank you, bubble warming, Iguess it's one good thing about
it.
Janine (10:15):
Wow, interesting, renee.
Renee (10:17):
It's supposed to be nice on Thursday, so again we'll hit
a walk.
Rook is an all-weather dog.
I just don't walk him in 90degree weather.
I don't walk you that, timAnything 78 below.
We're good to go and he lovesit.
So I want to try to get fivemiles in, five, six miles in on
Thanksgiving, so that I willfeel good about having extra
food, because I will eat toomuch because I'm preparing it.
Janine (10:40):
I drink a lot of water in the morning, like when you
wake up.
I'm going to pound waterbecause by the end of the
evening you're eating, you'rewith family.
It's better to just flushearlier, right?
Renee (10:51):
Yeah, or you can start, you can do hot lemon water and
you can add some vodka.
That's really going to be asoft say.
Here's my hot lemon water.
A little shot of a tea, teanose.
Janine (11:03):
That sounds good.
I'll do that with tequila,though, there you go.
Renee (11:06):
It's made with agave.
Janine (11:08):
Yeah, you know yeah.
Renee (11:11):
Other little tips that everybody knows.
I'm going to sound likeeverybody's mother, but chew
your damn food, guys.
People eat so fast and I do ittoo Sometimes.
I know I'm yelling and you guysdon't want to do it because
you're not thinking about it.
You're thinking about the nextemail, or like I got to get the
dish, I got the ba-ba-ba-ba.
Take a breath, just take abreath.
(11:33):
Putting the fork down inbetween bites.
Take a bite or two.
Put the fork down, starttalking to your cousin, start
talking to the waitress, starttalking to your husband, I don't
know.
Ease, having ease around it.
There's going to be plenty offood.
It's not going anywhere.
So, slowing down chewing,trying to chew your food you
(11:55):
don't have to count how manytimes you chew but making sure
that all the food is reallyalmost like a paste before you
swallow it.
It gets your mind connectedwith swallowing and it gets your
mind connected with yourdigestion and you'll separate
your mind from eating, becauseeating should be it really
should be ceremonious.
There are people that don't getto eat on Thanksgiving and
(12:17):
we're very lucky.
People that are watching thisare going to have a meal.
Janine (12:22):
For years.
I love that you mentioned that.
For years growing up, my dadand I I was used to volunteer at
the church and feed thehomeless Homelands.
It's the most rewarding feelingto spend.
If people have never done that,the gratitude and gratefulness
that they give.
It's not what you're giving,it's really what they're giving
(12:44):
you.
You're right.
Renee (12:46):
You're what you're receiving from how grateful they
are.
Janine (12:49):
It's just heartwarming.
Renee (12:51):
Yeah, I definitely want to do that.
I know I talk about doing itand I haven't.
And I, you know I could, like Isaid I'm cooking everything
tomorrow.
I truly could.
But you know, having gratitudefor having a meal and having.
You know, having gratitude forwhat you have and really having
Jenine.
You know me, I'm a glass halffull, part of being a Libra
right, I always look at thebright side of things.
(13:12):
I'm always trying to see thelight in everything.
I think that's really important.
I think when, if your attitudeis worry and negative and fear,
you're going to get worried,negative and fierce.
When you can start changingyour mindset and you're prepared
for some jerky family member tobe an asshole, and they will be
(13:33):
right.
If you're chill, it's okay.
They can't really come at youwith their vibration because
your vibration is different fromtheirs and you can choose to
walk away.
You can choose to do whatever.
You can choose to not let.
My husband has this famoussaying don't let, don't get any
of their shit on you, and mytherapist always says used to
(13:56):
say, I don't see your mouthanymore, but put up your shit
shield.
So when they're coming at youwith their emotional shit, bring
your garlic and know that youare in a good place.
And just because they are, doesit mean that if your light
annoys them, that's on them?
So back to the.
I don't want to get too intothe emotional part of it, but
(14:19):
it's all of it right.
So you're going choosinghealthier things to load on your
plate, not loading too much ofthe carbs and then also not
having that mindset of I'm goingto get through the holidays.
I'm going to really take careof my health after the first of
the year.
What, what?
You're going to a month.
You're going to eat like crapfor a month.
No, start doing something today, whether it is just drinking
(14:42):
more water.
If you just drink more water,if you just connect yourself
with something you're putting inyour mouth water, food,
whatever it is you startchanging your mind instead of
having things be completely cutoff and then you're acting on
having that emotion of notcaring.
So you're just going to eatwhatever anyway.
(15:05):
And again, you know me, thisisn't about like perfection and
like never eating gluten andnever having dairy and never
having dessert.
Oh, it is not that at all.
This is about being able to eatthings and feel good and enjoy
your life Period.
So I think those are good,helpful tips.
Just really taking care ofyourself.
I think it's critical, it'simportant.
We all need to do it.
(15:25):
If you're noticing that youhave, we're going to say
something, janine.
Janine (15:30):
No, yeah, I was just about to say to your audience
and people that are watching andlistening all over that I it's
one thing to hear someone saysomething, but I've actually
taken a lot of your advice andit works.
For example, if I eat, if Idon't stand up and I'm just
(15:50):
sitting there, the digestiveprocess doesn't get started.
So you'd recommend it stand up,breathe, do some movements.
It makes like people don'trealize that digestion starts
from the minute you putsomething in your mouth before
you can start chewing.
You have digestive enzymes andyou have all right they go in on
(16:11):
your system.
So there's ways to controleverything.
And I remember when I wasworking in weight loss years ago
, this woman said to me and shewas in her sixties and she had
lost like 40 something pounds,and I was taking her after
pictures, taking her testimonial, and I said what was your
motivation for doing this?
And she said and it stuck withme for 15 years she said there's
(16:37):
chaos all around us and theonly thing I can control is how
I look and what I put in mymouth.
And I thought yeah, I thoughtthat is so true.
So, no matter what's going onaround you, if you can feel
wellness, health mentally,physically, everything else just
doesn't matter.
(16:57):
Exactly.
Renee (16:58):
And that's so well put and that's so true.
There is so much chaos aroundus all the time and what can you
control?
What you eat, what you drink,what you say?
From me, the most part, unlessyou're really upset, which
happens.
But yeah, it's so true, it isso true.
And the other thing, too, tokeep in mind is not to have it
(17:19):
so much feel like it's like acontrol thing, but it's like an
invitation to yourself forbetter health.
It's just an invitation toyourself for better health.
With that being said, too, maybeI want to invite everybody too
to have some awareness tooaround when you're eating.
If you're noticing, I juststarted working with a client
just a couple of days ago.
(17:39):
She called me.
She said I know when I eatlegumes I get horrible acid
reflux and her bowel goes 90miles an hour.
So legumes are high in oxalateand histamine and there's other
things going on.
So she has this awarenessaround legumes.
You guys can start having someawareness around certain foods.
If you know you eat somethingthat every time you eat A, B or
(18:00):
C, I get acid reflux, I getheartburn, I get diarrhea or I
can't go to the bathroom.
I notice I'm so bloated or,again, bloating can be even on
an empty stomach because there'sbacteria and undigested food
particles and all of the otherstuff.
So starting to take a littlebit of awareness and check in
with yourself and know that ifthere is some issues or help out
(18:22):
there it means your digestivesystem is off kilter, out of
balance and you're not digestingwhat you're eating.
So again we look at maybeputting in changing something.
Maybe we can swap some of thoselegumes out for some other
vegetables or rice or corn orwhatever somebody tolerates, or
different kinds of legumes.
(18:43):
Some people tolerate garbanzobeans over black beans or navy
beans or whatever it is.
So black eyed peas are so manydifferent options to try.
In giving yourself that room andthat invitation to try and
having that awareness of, hey,something's not quite right, or
I don't feel good, or I'mgetting hives, I'm getting zits,
(19:04):
I'm having bloating, I'm havingbowel issues, my tummy is
hurting me.
You guys have a tummy whisperer, you know who to call.
But if you have that awarenessagain it means the body is not
in good health.
Your check engine light is on.
Digestion is what runs yourbody.
What you eat, how your bodyabsorbs, digests, absorbs and
(19:28):
gets rid of the waste is whathelp is.
Your mouth and your gut is yourengine and it feeds the rest of
your cells.
And if you're not breaking downyour food, your body is going
to show you symptoms and I canrun through them and I do every
episode.
The obvious digestive issuesacid reflux, heartburn, gas,
bloating, constipation, diarrheathose are your obvious
(19:48):
digestive symptoms.
The ones that are not soobvious to people are poor sleep
, skin conditions and let meback up poor sleep, not being
able to fall asleep, not beingable to stay asleep that's an
absolute mechanism of poordigestion or eating something
inflammatory.
Skin conditions hormonaldetoxification can look like
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chemical sensitivities orsensitivity to loud noises.
If somebody walks in the roomand is like hey, Janine, are you
like?
Oh, that's a sign of poordetoxification and it could be
also poor carbohydratemetabolism.
So again, the digestive systemis whole health.
Other things that you wouldn'tthink that are related to your
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digestion you mentioned hormone,skin, sleep, cravings,
allergies, hair falling out,nails not growing.
For women, If they're third oftheir eyebrow, certain come out.
They're looking at thyroidissues and they're looking at
gluten and dairy.
So if you need and I do I had aMahashi model person, so I lost
a little third of my eyebrowyears ago, so he's my eyebrow
(20:51):
pencil.
So if you need to extend youreyebrow pencil out, ladies, know
that maybe something thatyou're eating is affecting your
thyroid and affecting the restof your body.
Your body smart, and it willshow you.
And by the time your body showsyou symptoms, it's already time
to do something about it.
So what do you think, Janine?
Because this is some good stuffto start with, have for people
(21:15):
every day going forward.
It doesn't have to be justThanksgiving, right, I think
this is great.
Janine (21:19):
My takeaways are when I'm sitting breaking bread with
shitty people that I don'treally like.
I'm going to be in my own world, digest my food, drink drink
water, chew my food and then getup from the table and take a
walk.
Renee (21:36):
Bravo.
Janine (21:38):
Those are Jeanine's takeaways from the tummy
whisperer episode.
I love it.
Renee (21:42):
I love it.
If we can't get rid of theshitty people, then just have
another little piece ofgluten-free pumpkin pie.
Janine (21:48):
It's gone still.
Oh, that sounds good.
Renee (21:50):
I hope folks used to make gluten-free apple, cherry
and pumpkin.
I would get one of each.
What a pain, right?
I'm like, oh, but I like allthree and I don't see them
anymore and I'm glad I didn'tsee it when I was there and
you're like, yep, I didn't seeit, or I wasn't looking too hard
and I was like, yeah, I don'tsee it.
I'm going to check out.
Janine (22:10):
And it's pretty easy to make a gluten-free pot Like
almond flour.
You reuse almond flour.
Renee (22:15):
They even have.
A lot of grocery stores have agluten-free crust that you could
just make your pie filling,which again is like pumpkin
puree, the spices, the nutmeg,the cinnamon, like coconut milk
or something an egg-ish.
I've never made one.
I'm assuming that's how youwould make a pumpkin pie filling
.
But yeah, I'll have to have alittle pumpkin pie so I'll try
(22:36):
to figure it out.
But yeah, I hope everybody hasvery happy, happy, healthy,
wonderful Thanksgiving.
Find the gratitude for yourselffirst, so that you can share it
with others.
And if somebody is in yourspace and they're having a bad
time, maybe you can have enoughgratitude and self-love within
yourself to share so you canhelp somebody else and also
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paying it forward.
I think it's so important to dosomething kind for somebody,
anything.
Hold their door, send a nicetext message Just out of the
blue is thinking of you, Hopeyou guys are doing well, there's
anything you can do, anythingto pay it for.
It makes you feel good, likeyou mentioned when you were
serving to the homeless.
It's a feeling that you justcan't describe because you just
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feel so good helping somebody inneed.
So taking care of yourself guys, helping the people that need
it, and I hope everybody has awonderful, happy, healthy
Thanksgiving.
Lots of deep breaths and we'llsee you guys in a couple of
weeks.
And if you guys need to find me, of course you can find me at
thetummywhisperercom.
You can listen and download.
(23:42):
Janine, you do this part andnever do it credit.
Janine (23:44):
Yes, if you're looking to get in touch with Renee the
Tummy Whisperer, you can followher at the Tummy Whisperer on
Apple, Spotify or any of yourpreferred platforms.
All of her information for aconsultation and her contact
info is in the description ofthe episode, and we look forward
(24:04):
to having you on again.
Renee (24:08):
Absolutely.
See, we'll do that back andbetter than I do.
Janine (24:13):
That's what I've been told, oh dear, on that note,
thank you, nurse, love you.
Hey everybody, welcome to the Tummy Whisperer.
We are on episode number 11.
Thanksgiving week here All thehustle and bustle has started
everywhere.
I was at the grocery store onSunday picking up stuff and tons
of cranberries, all the greenbeans.
I was shopping and gettingeverything ready to go.
(00:29):
So I thought I would talk abouthow to try to reduce some
stress around our Thanksgivingday holiday here.
Unfortunately, holiday time issupposed to be a time of
relaxation and peace andgratitude and family or friends
or loved ones.
So many times there's so muchstress because of family dynamic
(00:53):
or this or that the otherJanine we were talking about.
Oh yes, and that's a big dealbecause you really want to have.
For me it's just going to be Itold you it's going to be Mark,
myself, my dog, maybe my friend,her dog maybe not, and it's
going to be nice and small.
His kids are away and they'vegot their lives.
(01:13):
If you're invited somewhere oryou are hosting or you're going
to a restaurant or whatever itis, you can talk about things
that you can do physically withyour eating and with your diet
to try to make your digestionand your health better around
Thanksgiving, so you're notfeeling horrible after dinner.
(01:33):
But also, too, there's anemotional component too, and
everybody knows and I've talkedabout this numerous times our
cravings, what we crave, isusually driven by our mental
state or not being able to havenourishment in our body, not
digesting properly, and thenplays into the neurochemistry,
our brain chemistry, of what wewant to feel good right, with
(01:57):
that sugar or that fat or thatsalt or that crunch or that
sweet or that cream or whateverit is in that moment, because so
many things are happening,there's so many balls in the air
with health, with emotionalhealth, with digestive health,
and they're not separate.
They're not separate the firstthing I think I'd like to give
everybody an idea about is howto prepare yourself.
(02:19):
Pretend you're the turkey.
We gotta get you prepared foryour holiday right.
This takes some time and ittakes some care and it takes
some love so you can do somebreathing, some meditation.
Meditation I think everybody hasthis idea about meditation has
to be sitting in silence fordays and it is not bad at all.
(02:40):
Put on some music, somethingthat you like.
You can put on some.
I always have Alexa play naturesounds with birds and streams,
and we just go to town.
Mark will come meditate with me, rook will come by me.
It's so cute, is that?
With or without?
Janine (02:56):
alcohol.
Renee (02:57):
Yeah, that's good.
I don't care.
Whatever makes it easy for you,I'm talking about.
Janine (03:03):
I just find that when I'm cooking, I need to be
drinking something, whether it'swater or liquor or something,
because if I'm not, then I'lljust eat and pick everything.
Renee (03:12):
Yeah, me too, I'm a cutter slicer.
Yeah, again, my table is goingto be very easy this year.
I've got carrots, potatoes,green beans, the turkey salad.
Janine (03:24):
It's stressful holiday I've never done I've only cooked
an Easter dinner before and Ilove Easter because I'm not a
big turkey fan.
So I make a big tenderloin andsome really good.
But Thanksgiving, statistically, is the most stressful holiday
of the year for so many reasons.
Family sucks, you're mad atyour brother.
(03:45):
You haven't talked to yoursister in four years.
You're doing this, you're doingthat and that can cause you
stress and that can cause you toeat right.
Renee (03:54):
Because your digestion shuts down.
That stress automatically is anautomatic reset.
For, hey, we got a problem here.
Right, houston, we have aproblem.
We got a shut off digestionbecause we need to be able to
run from this proverbial stress,right, which is the family,
whatever it is, yada, yada.
And on top of that, digestionshuts off and the brain is not
(04:14):
satisfied.
So here comes the cravings,right to the tongue, right, go
get that sugar, go get that salt, go get whatever it is you need
.
So again this I talk a lot aboutself-care.
I think it's important.
It doesn't have to be 10 hoursa day, but if you can do
something one to two minutesthree times a week, that's
(04:34):
something that's better thannothing.
My husband and I have beendoing some meditation practice.
We started doing it.
Started doing it about a weekago and I missed this morning,
but we've been doing it and it'samazing how much nicer your day
can go.
So something that would be anautomatic when your body's
(04:54):
re-regulated and relaxed.
Some maybe that incoming hit isnot that big of a deal.
We're about your oh, I don'tlike that, but no big deal.
And then you keep moving on, sodoing something that you love.
If you are preparing your table.
Make something that you love toeat.
Nobody else has to like it, butif they do, fantastic.
Make it special for yourselfand make sure that you're taking
(05:16):
care of yourself.
So again, like for me, I'mhaving some healthy food.
It's going to feel good.
Digestion starts withpreparation.
I'm not much of a cook, but Iwas thrown down this year.
Normally, I order Thanksgivingfrom a chef who does everything
organic and gluten free for us.
That sounds amazing, soconvenient.
(05:36):
I warm everything up and likehello.
Janine (05:39):
Wow, and I bet it's delicious right.
Renee (05:42):
Yeah, but I wanted to do it this year and I'm excited to
do it.
And again, my days and mymorning is going to start out
with some breath work, somerelaxation time with my family,
the dog.
I'm cooking everything tomorrow, so I'm going to turkey's
almost defrosted needs likeanother day.
I'm going to throw it in theoven tomorrow.
(06:03):
We got a small.
The smallest bird I can get wasjust 12 pounds.
So we'll be eating turkey for aweek and I'm going to have
everything done.
So on Thursday, our plan is tohave a long walk in nature with
my doggy and my hubby and myfriend and her doggy too, and
we're just going to have arelaxing, very chill
(06:23):
Thanksgiving.
So I'm lucky because it's goingto be small, but again, I'm
taking time to have a naturewalk.
I'm taking time to take care ofmyself.
My husband, my partner, lovesto do that.
We enjoy watching so much.
So if you're hustle and bustleand you have to be somewhere,
you've got kids and you've gotso much on your plate, you may
not be working that day.
There's preparation, there'sshopping, there's all of it.
Try to prepare Today's, Tuesday.
(06:45):
So people, a lot of people,have most of their stuff already
.
If you're going to make a dish,make something that could be a
little bit healthier.
So we talked before we got onJeanine about how to not have
three scoops of stuffing andthree scoops of mashed potatoes,
right, but maybe having extrasquash, extra vegetables, extra
green garlic, green beans orwhatever sweet potatoes,
(07:07):
whatever it is, having extra ofthat.
If there's going to be saladwhich I am making salad, extra,
extra of that, and I didn't getmy act together.
I don't think we're going tohave any like gluten free
pumpkin pie and I'm actuallyokay with that.
I think I might.
I'll probably just make anapple crumble that's just cut up
apples with maple syrup, right.
And that's another thing, guyssweetening with maple syrup or
(07:29):
agave nectar or a little bit ofhoney, although you never want
to heat honey because it canbecome toxic.
Janine (07:35):
So using Queen få selle.
Renee (07:37):
Yeah, for those honey lovers out there never heat your
honey.
So when you're putting honey inyour tea, have your tea cool
down some, because honey can become toxic when it is heated.
So you never want to reallycook with honey.
But cooking with maple if youlike, maple is fine and using
that you know that.
Yes, and using fruit forsweeteners is wonderful too.
(08:00):
I made oatmeal bars yesterdaythat turned into like oatmeal
mash, but I used banana tosweeten it, it was good.
It was good.
The whole the pan is gone.
We ate them all.
We kept going right by thekitchen counter and taking a
piece and taking oh, look atthat, Take it, it's really good,
it was good.
(08:20):
So yeah, using fruit forsweeteners, using other types of
sweeteners, trying to get fullon the squashes and the
vegetables, having having goodprotein and trying to not eat
too much.
You can always take a plate, aplate, and load up a small plate
and go back for seconds, butmaybe take two minutes in
(08:42):
between getting up to go, maybetalk to Uncle Ralph or whoever
and check in with yourself Areyou really full?
And if you're pretty full andyou, I can wait.
Then you don't have to load upyour plate again.
Or, if you're going to go back,grab some extra salad, grab
some extra squash, grab a littlebit of turkey, hold the
stuffing not too much gravy, gofor the cranberry sauce and get
(09:02):
some vegetables in there.
Try to be mindful when you'reloading up your plate, just
cause Thanksgiving doesn't giveus the right to be completely
gluttonous.
Exactly, thank you.
Janine (09:13):
I was looking for the right, it's so true, and I think
of all the years ofThanksgiving's I've had with
family, and typically Turkeyobviously has the enzyme that
makes you tired, so people wantto sleep right.
They want to have somethingright, which is I'm super
sensitive to it because I don'treally eat turkey.
So a lot of your relatives endup like sleeping on the couch
(09:35):
right and they're like, oh,we're going to eat and then
we're going to watch football,we're going to pass out yeah,
that's great.
I see you twice a year and thisis great.
But we could take the crate.
I want to see you sleep right.
Renee (09:48):
I'm just, you know, I'm screwed completely.
Exactly it's so boring.
So take a walk.
I think I'm going to take awalk this year Doesn't it sound
nice.
We've had unseemly warm weatherhere.
We're like in the 40s 50s,which is warm this time of year
for us, but it's really warm,perfect walking weather.
Yeah, we've had near thesixties.
Last week almost it wasridiculous.
(10:09):
Yes, three years later.
Three months later, we got lost.
Don't ask.
Thank you, bubble warming, Iguess it's one good thing about
it.
Janine (10:15):
Wow, interesting, renee.
Renee (10:17):
It's supposed to be nice on Thursday, so again we'll hit
a walk.
Rook is an all-weather dog.
I just don't walk him in 90degree weather.
I don't walk you that, timAnything 78 below.
We're good to go and he lovesit.
So I want to try to get fivemiles in, five, six miles in on
Thanksgiving, so that I willfeel good about having extra
food, because I will eat toomuch because I'm preparing it.
Janine (10:40):
I drink a lot of water in the morning, like when you
wake up.
I'm going to pound waterbecause by the end of the
evening you're eating, you'rewith family.
It's better to just flushearlier, right?
Renee (10:51):
Yeah, or you can start, you can do hot lemon water and
you can add some vodka.
That's really going to be asoft say.
Here's my hot lemon water.
A little shot of a tea, teanose.
Janine (11:03):
That sounds good.
I'll do that with tequila,though, there you go.
Renee (11:06):
It's made with agave.
Janine (11:08):
Yeah, you know yeah.
Renee (11:11):
Other little tips that everybody knows.
I'm going to sound likeeverybody's mother, but chew
your damn food, guys.
People eat so fast and I do ittoo Sometimes.
I know I'm yelling and you guysdon't want to do it because
you're not thinking about it.
You're thinking about the nextemail, or like I got to get the
dish, I got the ba-ba-ba-ba.
Take a breath, just take abreath.
(11:33):
Putting the fork down inbetween bites.
Take a bite or two.
Put the fork down, starttalking to your cousin, start
talking to the waitress, starttalking to your husband, I don't
know.
Ease, having ease around it.
There's going to be plenty offood.
It's not going anywhere.
So, slowing down chewing,trying to chew your food you
(11:55):
don't have to count how manytimes you chew but making sure
that all the food is reallyalmost like a paste before you
swallow it.
It gets your mind connectedwith swallowing and it gets your
mind connected with yourdigestion and you'll separate
your mind from eating, becauseeating should be it really
should be ceremonious.
There are people that don't getto eat on Thanksgiving and
(12:17):
we're very lucky.
People that are watching thisare going to have a meal.
Janine (12:22):
For years.
I love that you mentioned that.
For years growing up, my dadand I I was used to volunteer at
the church and feed thehomeless Homelands.
It's the most rewarding feelingto spend.
If people have never done that,the gratitude and gratefulness
that they give.
It's not what you're giving,it's really what they're giving
(12:44):
you.
You're right.
Renee (12:46):
You're what you're receiving from how grateful they
are.
Janine (12:49):
It's just heartwarming.
Renee (12:51):
Yeah, I definitely want to do that.
I know I talk about doing itand I haven't.
And I, you know I could, like Isaid I'm cooking everything
tomorrow.
I truly could.
But you know, having gratitudefor having a meal and having.
You know, having gratitude forwhat you have and really having
Jenine.
You know me, I'm a glass halffull, part of being a Libra
right, I always look at thebright side of things.
(13:12):
I'm always trying to see thelight in everything.
I think that's really important.
I think when, if your attitudeis worry and negative and fear,
you're going to get worried,negative and fierce.
When you can start changingyour mindset and you're prepared
for some jerky family member tobe an asshole, and they will be
(13:33):
right.
If you're chill, it's okay.
They can't really come at youwith their vibration because
your vibration is different fromtheirs and you can choose to
walk away.
You can choose to do whatever.
You can choose to not let.
My husband has this famoussaying don't let, don't get any
of their shit on you, and mytherapist always says used to
(13:56):
say, I don't see your mouthanymore, but put up your shit
shield.
So when they're coming at youwith their emotional shit, bring
your garlic and know that youare in a good place.
And just because they are, doesit mean that if your light
annoys them, that's on them?
So back to the.
I don't want to get too intothe emotional part of it, but
(14:19):
it's all of it right.
So you're going choosinghealthier things to load on your
plate, not loading too much ofthe carbs and then also not
having that mindset of I'm goingto get through the holidays.
I'm going to really take careof my health after the first of
the year.
What, what?
You're going to a month.
You're going to eat like crapfor a month.
No, start doing something today, whether it is just drinking
(14:42):
more water.
If you just drink more water,if you just connect yourself
with something you're putting inyour mouth water, food,
whatever it is you startchanging your mind instead of
having things be completely cutoff and then you're acting on
having that emotion of notcaring.
So you're just going to eatwhatever anyway.
(15:05):
And again, you know me, thisisn't about like perfection and
like never eating gluten andnever having dairy and never
having dessert.
Oh, it is not that at all.
This is about being able to eatthings and feel good and enjoy
your life Period.
So I think those are good,helpful tips.
Just really taking care ofyourself.
I think it's critical, it'simportant.
We all need to do it.
(15:25):
If you're noticing that youhave, we're going to say
something, janine.
Janine (15:30):
No, yeah, I was just about to say to your audience
and people that are watching andlistening all over that I it's
one thing to hear someone saysomething, but I've actually
taken a lot of your advice andit works.
For example, if I eat, if Idon't stand up and I'm just
(15:50):
sitting there, the digestiveprocess doesn't get started.
So you'd recommend it stand up,breathe, do some movements.
It makes like people don'trealize that digestion starts
from the minute you putsomething in your mouth before
you can start chewing.
You have digestive enzymes andyou have all right they go in on
(16:11):
your system.
So there's ways to controleverything.
And I remember when I wasworking in weight loss years ago
, this woman said to me and shewas in her sixties and she had
lost like 40 something pounds,and I was taking her after
pictures, taking her testimonial, and I said what was your
motivation for doing this?
And she said and it stuck withme for 15 years she said there's
(16:37):
chaos all around us and theonly thing I can control is how
I look and what I put in mymouth.
And I thought yeah, I thoughtthat is so true.
So, no matter what's going onaround you, if you can feel
wellness, health mentally,physically, everything else just
doesn't matter.
(16:57):
Exactly.
Renee (16:58):
And that's so well put and that's so true.
There is so much chaos aroundus all the time and what can you
control?
What you eat, what you drink,what you say?
From me, the most part, unlessyou're really upset, which
happens.
But yeah, it's so true, it isso true.
And the other thing, too, tokeep in mind is not to have it
(17:19):
so much feel like it's like acontrol thing, but it's like an
invitation to yourself forbetter health.
It's just an invitation toyourself for better health.
With that being said, too, maybeI want to invite everybody too
to have some awareness tooaround when you're eating.
If you're noticing, I juststarted working with a client
just a couple of days ago.
(17:39):
She called me.
She said I know when I eatlegumes I get horrible acid
reflux and her bowel goes 90miles an hour.
So legumes are high in oxalateand histamine and there's other
things going on.
So she has this awarenessaround legumes.
You guys can start having someawareness around certain foods.
If you know you eat somethingthat every time you eat A, B or
(18:00):
C, I get acid reflux, I getheartburn, I get diarrhea or I
can't go to the bathroom.
I notice I'm so bloated or,again, bloating can be even on
an empty stomach because there'sbacteria and undigested food
particles and all of the otherstuff.
So starting to take a littlebit of awareness and check in
with yourself and know that ifthere is some issues or help out
(18:22):
there it means your digestivesystem is off kilter, out of
balance and you're not digestingwhat you're eating.
So again we look at maybeputting in changing something.
Maybe we can swap some of thoselegumes out for some other
vegetables or rice or corn orwhatever somebody tolerates, or
different kinds of legumes.
(18:43):
Some people tolerate garbanzobeans over black beans or navy
beans or whatever it is.
So black eyed peas are so manydifferent options to try.
In giving yourself that room andthat invitation to try and
having that awareness of, hey,something's not quite right, or
I don't feel good, or I'mgetting hives, I'm getting zits,
(19:04):
I'm having bloating, I'm havingbowel issues, my tummy is
hurting me.
You guys have a tummy whisperer, you know who to call.
But if you have that awarenessagain it means the body is not
in good health.
Your check engine light is on.
Digestion is what runs yourbody.
What you eat, how your bodyabsorbs, digests, absorbs and
(19:28):
gets rid of the waste is whathelp is.
Your mouth and your gut is yourengine and it feeds the rest of
your cells.
And if you're not breaking downyour food, your body is going
to show you symptoms and I canrun through them and I do every
episode.
The obvious digestive issuesacid reflux, heartburn, gas,
bloating, constipation, diarrheathose are your obvious
(19:48):
digestive symptoms.
The ones that are not soobvious to people are poor sleep
, skin conditions and let meback up poor sleep, not being
able to fall asleep, not beingable to stay asleep that's an
absolute mechanism of poordigestion or eating something
inflammatory.
Skin conditions hormonaldetoxification can look like
(20:09):
chemical sensitivities orsensitivity to loud noises.
If somebody walks in the roomand is like hey, Janine, are you
like?
Oh, that's a sign of poordetoxification and it could be
also poor carbohydratemetabolism.
So again, the digestive systemis whole health.
Other things that you wouldn'tthink that are related to your
(20:29):
digestion you mentioned hormone,skin, sleep, cravings,
allergies, hair falling out,nails not growing.
For women, If they're third oftheir eyebrow, certain come out.
They're looking at thyroidissues and they're looking at
gluten and dairy.
So if you need and I do I had aMahashi model person, so I lost
a little third of my eyebrowyears ago, so he's my eyebrow
(20:51):
pencil.
So if you need to extend youreyebrow pencil out, ladies, know
that maybe something thatyou're eating is affecting your
thyroid and affecting the restof your body.
Your body smart, and it willshow you.
And by the time your body showsyou symptoms, it's already time
to do something about it.
So what do you think, Janine?
Because this is some good stuffto start with, have for people
(21:15):
every day going forward.
It doesn't have to be justThanksgiving, right, I think
this is great.
Janine (21:19):
My takeaways are when I'm sitting breaking bread with
shitty people that I don'treally like.
I'm going to be in my own world, digest my food, drink drink
water, chew my food and then getup from the table and take a
walk.
Renee (21:36):
Bravo.
Janine (21:38):
Those are Jeanine's takeaways from the tummy
whisperer episode.
I love it.
Renee (21:42):
I love it.
If we can't get rid of theshitty people, then just have
another little piece ofgluten-free pumpkin pie.
Janine (21:48):
It's gone still.
Oh, that sounds good.
Renee (21:50):
I hope folks used to make gluten-free apple, cherry
and pumpkin.
I would get one of each.
What a pain, right?
I'm like, oh, but I like allthree and I don't see them
anymore and I'm glad I didn'tsee it when I was there and
you're like, yep, I didn't seeit, or I wasn't looking too hard
and I was like, yeah, I don'tsee it.
I'm going to check out.
Janine (22:10):
And it's pretty easy to make a gluten-free pot Like
almond flour.
You reuse almond flour.
Renee (22:15):
They even have.
A lot of grocery stores have agluten-free crust that you could
just make your pie filling,which again is like pumpkin
puree, the spices, the nutmeg,the cinnamon, like coconut milk
or something an egg-ish.
I've never made one.
I'm assuming that's how youwould make a pumpkin pie filling
.
But yeah, I'll have to have alittle pumpkin pie so I'll try
(22:36):
to figure it out.
But yeah, I hope everybody hasvery happy, happy, healthy,
wonderful Thanksgiving.
Find the gratitude for yourselffirst, so that you can share it
with others.
And if somebody is in yourspace and they're having a bad
time, maybe you can have enoughgratitude and self-love within
yourself to share so you canhelp somebody else and also
(22:59):
paying it forward.
I think it's so important to dosomething kind for somebody,
anything.
Hold their door, send a nicetext message Just out of the
blue is thinking of you, Hopeyou guys are doing well, there's
anything you can do, anythingto pay it for.
It makes you feel good, likeyou mentioned when you were
serving to the homeless.
It's a feeling that you justcan't describe because you just
(23:21):
feel so good helping somebody inneed.
So taking care of yourself guys, helping the people that need
it, and I hope everybody has awonderful, happy, healthy
Thanksgiving.
Lots of deep breaths and we'llsee you guys in a couple of
weeks.
And if you guys need to find me, of course you can find me at
thetummywhisperercom.
You can listen and download.
(23:42):
Janine, you do this part andnever do it credit.
Janine (23:44):
Yes, if you're looking to get in touch with Renee the
Tummy Whisperer, you can followher at the Tummy Whisperer on
Apple, Spotify or any of yourpreferred platforms.
All of her information for aconsultation and her contact
info is in the description ofthe episode, and we look forward
(24:04):
to having you on again.
Renee (24:08):
Absolutely.
See, we'll do that back andbetter than I do.
Janine (24:13):
That's what I've been told, oh dear, on that note,
thank you, nurse, love you.
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