October 22, 2019 • 34 mins
This is Amy’s ‘5th Thing’ (a bonus episode) where she answers your questions every Tuesday! ‘4 Things With Amy Brown’ comes out every Thursday, but on Tuesdays Amy answers questions you’ve emailed in. On today's episode Amy addresses: how to not let the weekend sabotage your healthy eating, oil pulling for oral health, tips for traveling with just a carry-on, prepping your smoothies to save time, supplements to help you get a good nights sleep, Amy’s approach to her daily eating routine and her dating advice to a male listener.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Y'all hear that is it getting you in the Christmas spirit?
Because it is for me? And you know what starts
this weekend? Chases here with me. We're going to do
the Q and A. But before we get to that,
he probably doesn't even know one. Guess what starts this weekend.
I'm gonna guess Hallmark movies. Christmas Hallmark movies. Yes they do,
(00:22):
and I cannot wait. I mean, I am so pumped.
But also if I have to cough mid podcast, I
don't know. I went to Austin this last weekend for
my twenty year high school reunion, and when I got there,
I started sneezing and coughing, and I don't know if
those allergies, and then all of a sudden, I had
this horrible cough. And my doctor I was hanging out
(00:45):
with him. He's my husband's best friend and Stashia went
to a wedding with them while I went to my reunion.
We were all staying at the same hotel and he
listen to my cough and said it was an asthma,
like an allergy induced asthma cough, So it was the allergies,
but it caused a cough. So that's what's happening. Like
I feel fine, but like everyone, so I have to cough,
(01:05):
and then my back is in like tons of pain.
So every time I cough, my back like spasms, and
I'm like, oh, like it's not I know. Like when
walked into that twenty year high school reunion about eighty
years old, so that felt amazing. Um, but it was
a lot of fun to go back and like see
people so pretty solid weekend. And then I think after
(01:28):
the twenty year they do their next one is like
a twenty five year. Like it starts it used to
be ten year, twenty year, and then it gets smaller.
I don't know why. Then it goes maybe thirty five.
I mean I could see. I mean I could see
like the five year thing, like maybe after thirty or
forty because people get older, like you're still young. So
(01:54):
it's we're recording at my house and here I don't
have a cough button, but like at the studio, I
have a cough button, and today on the Bobby Bone Show,
I kept having to press it and cough and then
Bobby was like so scared I was gonna get him sick,
and I'm like no, no, no, I'm not sick, it's
um allergy induced asthma or something. So if I hadn't inhaler,
(02:14):
like if someone I could use an inhaler and it
would help me. He said he went to see if
his son had his inhaler with him at the hotel
and he didn't because I was gonna borrow that because
he said it would help me. But any hoosy, I
guess I'm just gonna ride this one out. But anyway,
back to where I carry and this is a fun
little ditty that helps get us in the mood for Christmas. UM,
(02:36):
I am playing it for y'all because UM four Things
Christmas pullovers are officially available and we're seeing all's orders
come in and they're so cute and awesome and amazing.
But we really haven't promoted it that much, like I
mentioned it on the podcast last week that it has
come out the same day as The Pimp and Joy
(02:56):
Tied Eye, which shout out to everybody that bought that
new line on Friday, because we raised so much money
that will go towards so much good, like we love
having UM a general fund, like sometimes we have specific
causes that were fundraising for, like our last one this
summer was for Army specialist Scottie West, where we were
partnering with building homes for heroes and building him a home,
(03:18):
and we've done that before. And or sometimes there's you know,
a tornado or something that has come through like floods
and we can respond to the tragedy so we have
something specific there, or you know St. Jude. I mean,
the list goes on of different groups that we've worked
with um but we recently there was a little boy
(03:39):
that is diagnosed with cancer and we recently got down
to like pretty much almost nothing in our general fund,
making a donation to help with some of his treatment.
I mean, brain cancer at such a young age. I mean,
can you even I just can't even his parents, I
can't imagine anyway. It's not something we're always able to do,
but sometimes we had that general and if there's different
(04:01):
things that pop up and there's a need like Boom,
we can try to respond and help. And I think
that's the coolest part. And we're also gonna be doing
something cool with the Nashville Homeless Home Street Home, which
if you live in Nashville, you should check that out.
And it's a way where you can volunteer and go
help and really go out and and be with the homeless.
(04:24):
You go to them. Stephen, the man that founded it,
is a former homeless man, and so he knows what
it's like and it's different from like the shelters that
you may work with, Like he really is going out
to the people that are living in certain areas where yeah,
they're not out of shelter, they don't they don't even
they don't go they need someone to come to them.
(04:45):
And it's just it's an interesting group if you live
in Nashville to definitely um check out and yeah, so
the General Fund pimp Enjoy tied. I went, well, so
y'all are amazing. I wish I could hug each and
every person. UM. So that was awesome. And then to
see the Christmas four things pull over orders come in
because you were probably maybe already online shopping, but I'm
(05:05):
speaking to those of you that are like struggling with
what four things to come up with. We do have
stock ones already ready to go. We added a kids
one which is pre made and it says joy Santa
Presents and cookies and it's so cute. My kids will
be wearing that I've got my customized one which says
baby Jesus Mariah Carey shout out, probably because of that
(05:26):
song right there. Uh, family time and cookies. And then
my husband's is Eggnog, mistletoe, red writer and baby Jesus.
And so we'll all be in our red four Things
pullovers with our flannel pajama bottoms and it's going to
be a super cute family picture. And I can't wait
for that. And I don't want you all to miss
out on that. So not trying to like get you
in the Christmas spear early, but even with the customized
(05:49):
totes if you want them for gifts, the only reason
why we're bringing it up is, I mean, you gotta
get the worders in and these pullovers. You like, the
tot's fine, you haven't told like the Simber to get
those in the mail. I would go ahead and order
them whenever you think of them. But like the shirts,
after Thanksgiving, you can start wearing that shirt like a
S A P. So we've got to get all made,
(06:11):
and believe it or not, it's almost November. Guys. You're
welcome for telling what I would get on a four
Things I think I would do like Mary Joseph, Baby
Jesus and like Donkey. Oh nice. Wasn't that like the
four I mean we made like um, just as an example,
(06:32):
but people loved it so much, so I think we're
making a stock one and I think we're going to
call it and we have the Star, the Manger, the Birth,
and Christmas to those are the four things, and we're
calling this one the reason for the season. That's a
good one. So cute. Um. So yeah, just make sure
you you know, these could be like one of those
things where you snooze, you lose. So put on that
(06:55):
Mariah Carey, get in the spirit light, a pine tree,
sent candle, put some cookies in the oven, and I
just tried to but just tried to play Mariah carry
music off YouTube. But now a Peloton commercial has come up,
So doing a real official at four Things with Amy Brown,
which I do love Peloton treadmill. How creepy is that?
(07:17):
This is like a d D with Amy No no,
But I mean I have a Peloton treadmill. And that's
the ad that came up probably because my phone here's
me talk it does about Peloton. I wish Peloton would
sponsor my podcast. Okay, let's get into the questions. Y'all
(07:37):
are awesome. You've probably been waiting. You want to hear
what if your question maybe got answered? Y'all can send
emails to four Things with Amy Brown at gmail dot
com and let's get into him all right. This one's
from Samantha. Hey, Amy, I have been feeling so motivated
by your podcast to focus on the quality of what
I'm putting in my body. I do go at home
(07:59):
and during the week but I seem to go a
little off base on the weekends and when I'm eating
out with friends. Could you share what you usually order
when you're out eating and how you don't let the
weekends completely sabotage you. Well, I don't really see weekends
as a sabotage anymore, and I think that that's um
at the well necessities. Lisa has been a big influence
on me for that. And then you know, she doesn't
(08:19):
really like the word balance, but Aaron Opriya, my trainer,
she loves the word balance. But Aaron also has taught
me like why why do you go Monday through Friday
trying to eat so perfect and then ruin everything on
the weekend? Like find that balance? Whatever that flow looks
like for you throughout the week, Like it doesn't have
to be a weekend thing, like if you're craving or
(08:41):
you want something like that, maybe you wouldn't normally eat
on a Tuesday, like have it on a Tuesday, like
who cares? Um. But I guess maybe the going out
part is the weekend part of the equation that messes
with people because a lot of times you don't go
out during the week and you go out on the weekend.
So I would say that's when you just have to
listen to yourself, like do you still want a salad
(09:06):
with some lean protein, great, get it? Do you want
the bowl apasta? Well, great, get it? But I just
am not. I think I used to live in that
vicious cycle of like healthy all week like sabotage on
the weekends, and I try to just not. I try
to just as cliche as it sounds, like, listen to
(09:28):
what I'm craving and making sure that I'm looking at
feod food as fuel for my body and um, so yeah,
when ordering out to eat, I would say there are
tricks to stay on course, um, and mine would be,
you know, if you're trying to be healthy and you
never know what restaurants are putting on h on the food.
(09:50):
I just try to keep it pretty simple, like if
they have a salad with some salmon, or a salad
with veggie sides, but you also might want salmon with
some sweet potato fries on the side. I don't know.
Just just find that balance of what works best for
you and don't look at the weekend as you know,
just the time to be out with friends and do
(10:11):
whatever you want to do. Um or don't look at
the week is trying to be perfect either, maybe there's
that Tuesday Wednesday where you're like, oh, and then obviously
here Lisa in my brain when I say trying to
be perfect, because she would try to knock off that
mentality her whole fork. The noise is try to knock
what is perfection, Like, yes, food should be fuel and
nourishment to your body, so look at it as that,
(10:33):
but don't look at if you crave or eat something
else that isn't on your quote unquote good list, Like
don't don't beat yourself up about it. That's why she
doesn't even like a good or a bad list. Nothing
should be good or bad. But I mean, there has
to be guidelines to something, you know, but check out her.
She's such a great follow for me, especially with anybody
(10:53):
that has had issues with food, um at the well necessities.
I just really and if you haven't had issues with
you may read some of her stuff and be like,
what I did not get this look okay? But if
you have, I think a lot of it will resonate
with you and hopefully give you. And I would say
in my in the last year, I've had the healthiest
(11:14):
relationship with food that I've ever had. And it has
been not even just because of Lisa. It's been because
of a couple of other things. Taking on that mentality
of of not caring so much about a specific regimen
and looking at more of like, my body needs food,
my body needs calories, and I know that I want
(11:35):
to function at a higher rate. I don't want to
feel drained and tired and you know, just hot limon
water and you know some lettuce wasn't gonna cut it
for me. And I lived off of that for a
very very very long time. And you know, you just
kind of gotta you gotta find what works for you,
(11:58):
which I know is oh hard. Which I think we
may have a question. I don't remember if I took
it out or not. I think there's one there is, Okay,
so I left it in. But it is a question.
We'll address it when we get there. How about we
just go to the next question. Okay, this one's from Nicole. Hey, Amy,
have you ever heard of oil polling? Can you please
make it a thing or tell us about it in
the benefits of it? Okay, I have heard of it,
and I did it a long long time ago, and
(12:21):
I learned about it from multiple people. But the first
person that comes to mind is Kimberly Smid Snyder. Um,
I just remember her posting about it, and now I
have to cough, so I don't have cough buttons. So Chase,
have you ever tried oil blow? No? I haven't. I'm
actually kind of like sitting here and trigued to see
what you say about it, because, okay, well I know
(12:41):
that is that it's an Arivedic practice, because Kimberly Snyder
she's like an Arivedic doctor now or she was, like
she went to the school to like get all the
training for that, and basically it's more of like a
holistic type doctor. In case you don't know but what
you do is you put a tablespoon of oil in
(13:01):
your mouth on an empty stomach. So ideally right when
you wake up, you like throw in a tablespoon of
coconut oil and you swish it around in your mouth
for like twenty minutes. It's hard. Twenty minutes is a
long time. Yeah, but it just coconut oil, Just coconut oil. Yeah.
And supposedly what it's supposed to do is draw toxins
(13:21):
in your body and from it like improve like oral health,
like your overall health in general. Two. But I don't
know if I just didn't do it long enough to
like see the benefits. But for me personally, I didn't
really have twenty minutes in the morning to swish oil
around in my mouth. So and that's probably because I
wake up like super early for work and I have
to be really efficient with my time or I'm gonna
wake up even earlier. And that's just getting ridiculous. So
(13:45):
is there is there a benefit with teeth whitening from
the oil? No? I think so it's an ancient practice.
But listen, I'm just going to tell you that I
have tried it, and I didn't really see any benefits,
but I'm sure that's because I did not do it
long enough. You can't just try something once and be like, oh,
(14:07):
this is amazing unless you just really There have been
things where, yes, I've tried it once and I think
it's amazing and I'll let you know. But oil pulling
was not one of those things for me. Okay, all right,
onto the next one. This one's from Amanda. Hey, Amy,
I was wondering if you could talk about how you
managed to not check a bag and always take a
carry on. Heard you mention that when you travel with
Bobby you don't check a bag. Would love any tips
(14:29):
you have for that. Yeah, I mean it's not even
just with Bobby, Like checking a bag can just be
such a pain sometimes. So I have one of those
away luggage bags, which I love, the one whatever the
sizes that fits in the overhead been it's like the
smaller one, but they make an even even smaller one
than that to make sure it's not that one. It's
like just the one before where you'd have to check.
(14:49):
But I love it, and I roll things to make
more room. I try to like think, okay, what I
try to take outfits that I can wear the same shoes.
And if I only want to take like two pairs
of shoes, and I'll throw one pair in my luggage
and where the other pair that I need to take,
So that way I'm not trying to pack way too
many shoes. Also, just think of items you can rewear together.
(15:15):
That's depending on how long your trip is. That's something
that I do. UM, I try to get travel size
obviously everything if you're checking, but that's something you have
to do. You've got to get start collecting travel sized
of all of your favorite products, or get those little
things from Target that are um, you know, empty and
fill them up with your big you know, if they
don't make travel size and what you like, then fill
(15:36):
it into a little travel container. UM. That even works
with like, if you want to take a pre made
Macha lat, you can mix it up and throw it
in a travel container. If like you want a twelve
ounce drink, well then you get like three or four
of those little three or four ounces little containers and
(15:57):
fill them up boom, and then you put it in
your carry on. And then you can go to Starbucks
and just say I would like one cup of ice please,
and then you pour it over and boom, you have
a drink and you got to make it at home
with your own ingredients and you didn't have to spend
money at the airport. You're welcome. That's awesome. Um. I'm
trying to think of other like travel hacks. I don't
really other than and honestly, I keep my travel stuff
(16:19):
ready to go because I travel so much that I
kind of have like a go bag of all my
toilet trees and I just keep it packed because it's
all travel size so I only need it and then
I refill it as need be. But yeah, and then
I just throw that in my way back with my outfits.
Hair stuff. I probably never travel with the hair dryer,
(16:39):
So if I know I'm gonna be gone for a while,
I'll make sure my hair is like clean so I
can make it the three or four days, um, and
then I'll take a hair straighter. Wand the hotels a
lot of times have a blow dryer, which is not
a great one, it's horrible, but at least take my
blow dryer brush in case I need to like freshen
up something a little bit. Oh, and dry shampoo. Always
(17:01):
travel with dry shampoo. Number one role go to alright.
This next one's from Katie My questions about Kelly leave
X Green Smoothie. I got her book and I'm planning
on starting the smoothies this week. Can I make them
ahead of time? How long will they last in the fridge? Oh? Yeah,
you can make them ahead of time. That's what I
always do. So just know a couple of days, like
(17:23):
I would make it the night before, I wouldn't be
trying to make smoothies like crazy. Now Kimberly Snyder's Glowing
Green smoothie, which doesn't have milk or protein in it,
she said, those last three days. But that's got like
spinach and fruit. But if you want to get the
most out of that before it goes bad, and the
longer it's like blended in in the fridge, like it's
(17:43):
losing nutrients. So that's why you want to be careful
about that. So I would make it as fresh as possible,
so the night before should be fine. Um. But then
also I know people that will just kind of get
it all ready to go and then you just PLoP
everything in the blender, like have your protein powder pre measured,
your milk already pre measured, your spinache already divvied out,
(18:06):
but none of it's blended yet, so you haven't like
started to crush up all the And I'm so, no
nutrients really is getting lost because you know, like the
minute you slice into this just showing an example of
what happens like when you blend something. While we're saying
the nutrients. But again, I'm not a doctor. There's just
stuff I've read and I think this probably came from
Kimberly Cyder. But like the minute you cut open to
a piece of fruit, like you've opened it up, so
(18:27):
it starts to lose nutrients. So she always recommends, like
if you, um, I want to eat an apple, to
save it till right when you want to eat it,
to cut it open, not to slice it open and
keep slices in the fridge. I've heard that because sometimes
when I say it out loud, I'm like, is this crazy?
I've always heard that. Okay, good, it's good. It all right.
(18:58):
This is from Coordinate. As a full time mom and employee,
I've been having trouble over the last six months going
to sleep. I wanted to check out the vital proteins
sleep collagen shots, but Amazon has always sold out where
else can you get them? And are there any other
bedtime routines you have to help you shut your mind off? Gosh,
I feel like Vital Proteins their website may have some
(19:19):
but Amazon. Amazon is just like the best way. But
I have seen them at Whole Foods if you have
one in your town. I don't know a lot of
people don't, um, but they have women like like my
we have a Whole Foods, but we also have a
whole body It's separate from in Nashville, but like in Austin,
it's all together. So maybe in the whole body section. Um,
(19:40):
they may have the sleep shots. Target has started to
carry a lot of Vital proteins, but I haven't noticed
to see if they have the sleep shots. But they
do have like the collagen. So if Amazon is sold out,
I mean, you may just have to go direct to
the source, which I think you can buy from Vital Proteins.
I'm assuming dot Com. I never have, but um, I'm
sure that's a way. And then also I texted Bobo,
(20:04):
which we're about to record something later this week, so
we'll have a Bobo segment coming up soon. If y'all
are not familiar, maybe you're new to the podcast. He's
someone that comes on from time to time. He's kind
of our help, one of our health experts that joins us.
And he said that something good to take, and he
shared with us this before is magnesium glycinate or theronate
(20:29):
so g L y c I N A T or
th h r e O n A T and magnesium
is the first word. And so then I sent him
a picture of one that I've been taking called magnesium
side rate citrate c I T R A T. I
tell anybody's writing this down as I'm trying to spell it,
(20:50):
but maybe you will. Um. And he said that one's okay,
but too much of it will give you loose tools.
So what's up? I mean, I haven't had that sleep. Um. Yes,
I've been taking it. Mary had told me about this one.
She bought it actually and left it here. So I've
been taking it, thanks Mary. Um. And it's uh, but
(21:11):
if you doesn't bother you or anybody else, then it's
fine you should take it. But the ones that Bobo
recommended that I told you a minute ago where I
spelled it off for you conveniently. Um. He said, those
are much less likely to give you any g I issues,
which would be gastro intestinal boom. But again Bobo coming
in with a segment. But there's something that's really calming,
(21:34):
apparently about magnesium to help prepare your body for sleep,
because Kimberly Snyder also has like a a DETOXI that
you take before bed. It actually does get your bowels moving,
heads up, um, but it has magnesium in it, and
I have that on my Amazon page. Um, I think
it's called DETOXI maybe yeah, um, Radio me dot com
(21:58):
if you want to look at that X question alright,
this one's from Samantha. I'm super curious if you could
share with us an eating plan of what a normal
day looks like for you trying to come up with
a good routine, and would love any examples that you have. Oh,
I did. So this is a question where I didn't
know if I left it in here, but I did,
and Haye, Samantha, I wouldn't have taken it out because
if you like, love the question, but I don't really.
(22:20):
I get this question a lot, and I don't like
because I kind of play around with how I feel
in different things, like I don't really have a very
specific meal plan except for as of late, I've definitely
been trying to get protein today a day, excuse me.
And that's based on my weight and my activity level.
(22:41):
And I had a friend that helped me figure that
out because as my body is changing, I never have
focused on protein and now that I'm eating meat again,
that's a lot easier for me to achieve than back
when I was just eating predominantly like plant based. But
you still can get adequate protein that way. I'm not
saying that you can't, but for me, I just felt
like I wanted the meat back into my into my life, um,
(23:04):
and now it's easier for me to get But I
had been working out pretty hardcore with Aaron for a
year and a half, but I wasn't noticing certain changes
in my body that I wanted to, and I was
so confused why. And I was also really hungry all
the time but didn't really know how to properly fuel
and because I again things I had done in the
past were really starving my body, even though I didn't
(23:27):
know it, like I kind of just thought I was.
I was just pretty simple and minimal with food, and
I would say there was a time five years ago
or so where I was very I would not even
it would like freak me out to like have to
eat out because I'd be like I had no control.
So I would just pack a bag of lettuce, which
(23:48):
I still do that because I want to get the
nutrients from spinach. So if that's my way to consume it,
if I know I'm not going to get it anywhere else,
like a vegetable throughout the day. Yes, I will put
veggies in a zip bloc bag, including just straight up salad,
and I will eat it with my fingers. And that
does not bother me because I used to do it
all the time. However, that's like basically all I was eating,
like that was it, and it boggles my mind, like no,
(24:12):
but no, wonder I didn't have as much energy. But
also I was younger than like my body also has changed,
like there is something that happens. I will say, as
you get closer to forty, like things just start to
change and I'm like, okay, I need to tighten up.
I want to if I'm lifting these weights, like I
want to feel the muscle. And so that's when Aaron
(24:34):
was like, you have got to eat more. So my
friend Mackenzie like helped me figure out that plan of
eating more. And I'm really not on a plan. The
only goal is to make sure that I eat a
ton of calories, and by ton, I mean I'm still
not I'm not accounting, but I need adequate calories and
that my body is not in starvation mode and that
(24:55):
I hit my protein goal. And I will say with this,
I have no wist muscles that I have never noticed before,
and it's really cool. So don't be scared of food.
And Aaron has always told me that, and I swear
to you all. I'm eating more than I've ever eaten,
and I feel like more in shape than I have
felt in a long time. So don't be scared of food. Now,
(25:20):
that's not me just giving a provision, like, eat whatever
the heck you want and you're gonna feel great, Because
that's not true. I still try to I try to
give my body quality proteins, a lot of fruits and
veggies UM, probably higher on the veggie side than the
fruit side. The fruits I like to consumer like raspberries, blueberries, UM,
and apples, and I try to eat those earlier in
(25:41):
the day, not like at night. And you know, y'all
know the people that I love if you listen to
this podcast. I love Kimberly Snyder, I love Kelly, lovek Uh,
I love at the Well Necessities. I mentioned her earlier.
She doesn't really necessarily have a meal plan like the
other girls. But I don't follow anything. I find little
(26:01):
things from each program that I like or recipes that
I like and that work for me, and that is
what I do on the daily. And some days, like
I am so on the go, like I'm grabbing a
quest bar and that's not really what I would recommend
for people at all, but I know that I've got
to get some calories in or some protein in, and
I'll do that, but that's not the ideal thing. But
(26:25):
if if you're on the go, make sure you're still
trying to put something in your body, is it. I
feel like I just rambled for like a couple of
minutes and people are like, well, that was zero help.
But but my thing with food is so because I
know I've because a lot of the feedback I get
from me sharing my issues with food in the past
is that a lot of people are struggling with that,
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and I don't want to share with anybody what I
do verbatim because it may not work for you, and
I would hate to set you off course, or I
don't want to suggest, like, hey, you should start eating
this way exactly because that might throw somebody off and
may get them obsessing about it. And my thing is
I want to pull you away from that obsession of
food and maybe even sharing what I've shared might be
(27:10):
confusing for somebody that would be like, well, great, you
just made it more complicated for me, And that's the
last thing I want to do. And some Kale Junkie
she's another good person that I followed and she's come
on the podcast that kind of just you know, took
on a mindset of like whenever she personally. Now she's
got it down to where she can kind of eat
(27:32):
healthy and know what her body needs, but she also
can eat other things and she just knows that she
might feel like crap if she eats it, but it's fine.
It's life. You live it. You don't stress out about it.
Where she used to maybe would stress out about it,
and that was me. And so what I want to
get is to where people who have been in a
similar places me when I think the biggest takeaway that
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you have and you mentioned it is when you remind
herself that food is fuel. Everyone's body and everyone's daily
routine is different. So if you're taking on, you know,
a more aggressive workout routine, you're going to eat differently
than what you look at food just fuel. And then
I also want you to have food freedom, like don't
deprive yourself, because the minute you maybe put yourself on
(28:15):
some weird plan or strict plan or you're depriving yourself,
you may go into some mode where it may lead
to binging or or not binging the opposite, and then
you're starving yourself and then you end up eating too
much later or it could end up in a vicious cycle.
So that's why I really I'm not doing the best
job at it because I just know it's such a
(28:37):
such a sensitive topic. But I guess I can just
be transparent with you all of what's going on in
my brain and what I'm what I want to share
with you, and that in the last year I've found
so much freedom and letting plans go, like letting it
go and trying to just fuel my body instead of
eating minimal to be skinny or whatever that is, because
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that's just no way to live period. I think that's
great advice. Thank you. All right, this one's from Justin.
I'm twenty seven years old and I've only been on
about eight dates. My sister tells me I should ask
girls out and go on dates even if I'm not interested.
Is it okay to ask girls out if I'm not
interested in order to get better at dates? I've never
(29:20):
been on a second date because I'm so bad on dates.
Any advice couldn't hurt. Oh man, I think I'm gonna
have to take this question to the Bobby Bone show. UM.
And that's like a good one for maybe Bobby to
address and maybe some other people on the show. But justin,
thank you first of all for being a guy that
listens to the podcast Whoop and that emailed in. Um,
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and then I mean chase your single. I don't really know.
I mean it sounds to me like, yeah, if you're
you're just trying to like get practice, which seems weird
because that could be leading a girl on if you
ask her out and you know she's not interested, But
you're just trying to get some dates under your belt
so that you get better at it. I don't really
know how I feel about that. I don't know, I mean,
but you never know. She might surprise you and you
(30:01):
might end up liking what I was going to say.
I mean, if if it for you, like getting more
comfortable just going out and like meeting and opening up
to people is something that's going to help you date, like,
then I would maybe go on some dates and you
could be surprised. I mean, I'm kind of like I'm
either interested or I'm not interested. So I don't like
date just today. There are some people that date just
(30:24):
to date, just to date, yeah, but only being out
on eight dates. Yeah, Like maybe you know, just for yourself,
should go out and meet some folks and and take
some of those dates, kind of just going into it
with the mindset that it's kind of a blind date,
even though maybe it wasn't set up that way, where
you're just going into it open minded, like well when
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you practice like asking questions about them, getting to know them.
I think it's weird too, but I don't want her to.
I think it is weird if she what if she's
like you could be leading them on you if you're
if you like straight up blade, like you know this
is ever going anywhere. I wouldn't do that because that's
not fair to the female. But if you're just unsure
and you're like, I don't think this will work. I mean,
(31:06):
if you don't know, go into it and just go on,
but don't like keep asking, like definitely, if you definitely
don't like ask the person out again. Yeah, if you
know it's not going anywhere. But it's a different world,
like the whole online thing. We were joking this past weekend,
like I did the bumble thing for like a month
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and it was so weird. I'll never do it again,
which I know for some people, like I have friends
that are like in relationships and one that's even getting married.
They met on bumble, well ray and they met on Tinder. Yeah,
and that's a that's the thing, Like it works for
some people and that, but I think that's a whole
different etiquette than right. Yeah. No, um, my friend Kara, well,
(31:52):
I guess I don't know I should say. And now
now I've said her name, so I don't want to say.
But she she met somebody, um online and it really
worked out. And then I'm trying to get my other
friend to sign up for this one called the league.
The league, so I don't know, have you heard of
that one? No, it sounds hardcore. Yeah, the league, I mean,
(32:13):
then there's match dot Com, then there's I mean there's
all kinds of different places. Yeah, that you can just
and maybe if you haven't explored that, explore that because
I think there's some people that do really well, like
with the whole online communication, and there's some people that don't,
like it's better in person, like for me, like I
can't do the online thing. I think it's I don't
want to say weird, Like it's not for me, it's
(32:34):
just odd. Well, how do you meet? I mean you
go out to I guess, go out with friends, go
to a bar, like I have no fear like approaching anyone, Okay,
but like, what's the worst thing they're gonna do is
like shoot you down? Right? Oh? Which speaking of, um,
what's the worst thing someone can do? They know? Uh,
(32:57):
Bob Goff is going to be on my podcast this Thursday,
and he's someone that kind of has that mentality of
like go for it, Like what what's the worst someone
can say? No? And there's a fun little story about
that even with Chase and one of Bob's books, So, um,
(33:18):
Bob Goff is on for all four Things. If you
know of him, then you're probably already excited to listen.
If you don't know who Bob Goff is, get excited
because he is so good. It's yeah, I definitely think
it's one of your one of your top interviews. They've
all been great. Luckily I recorded it with him before
I got allergy induced ASNA, because man, this is brutal.
(33:44):
So we're gonna go and sign off. Now we're gonna
end with that one and um, but make sure that
y'all are subscribed to the podcast Four Things with Amy
Brown because then on Thursday, boom, that Bob Goff episode
will just show up and hopefully you will listen to
it and just be inspired. Like that. Man is so special.
(34:06):
I can't even He's so special, right, he might be
one of the most special people ever. That's that's the
right word. Special, like special in a good way, not
like special like me. Some people sometimes chase Amy You're special,
Yes I am. But yeah, Bob, yeah so amazing. So
definitely listen and thanks for checking out the Q and
A and we'll see y'all their say
Y'all hear that is it getting you in the Christmas spirit?
Because it is for me? And you know what starts
this weekend? Chases here with me. We're going to do
the Q and A. But before we get to that,
he probably doesn't even know one. Guess what starts this weekend.
I'm gonna guess Hallmark movies. Christmas Hallmark movies. Yes they do,
(00:22):
and I cannot wait. I mean, I am so pumped.
But also if I have to cough mid podcast, I
don't know. I went to Austin this last weekend for
my twenty year high school reunion, and when I got there,
I started sneezing and coughing, and I don't know if
those allergies, and then all of a sudden, I had
this horrible cough. And my doctor I was hanging out
(00:45):
with him. He's my husband's best friend and Stashia went
to a wedding with them while I went to my reunion.
We were all staying at the same hotel and he
listen to my cough and said it was an asthma,
like an allergy induced asthma cough, So it was the allergies,
but it caused a cough. So that's what's happening. Like
I feel fine, but like everyone, so I have to cough,
(01:05):
and then my back is in like tons of pain.
So every time I cough, my back like spasms, and
I'm like, oh, like it's not I know. Like when
walked into that twenty year high school reunion about eighty
years old, so that felt amazing. Um, but it was
a lot of fun to go back and like see
people so pretty solid weekend. And then I think after
(01:28):
the twenty year they do their next one is like
a twenty five year. Like it starts it used to
be ten year, twenty year, and then it gets smaller.
I don't know why. Then it goes maybe thirty five.
I mean I could see. I mean I could see
like the five year thing, like maybe after thirty or
forty because people get older, like you're still young. So
(01:54):
it's we're recording at my house and here I don't
have a cough button, but like at the studio, I
have a cough button, and today on the Bobby Bone Show,
I kept having to press it and cough and then
Bobby was like so scared I was gonna get him sick,
and I'm like no, no, no, I'm not sick, it's
um allergy induced asthma or something. So if I hadn't inhaler,
(02:14):
like if someone I could use an inhaler and it
would help me. He said he went to see if
his son had his inhaler with him at the hotel
and he didn't because I was gonna borrow that because
he said it would help me. But any hoosy, I
guess I'm just gonna ride this one out. But anyway,
back to where I carry and this is a fun
little ditty that helps get us in the mood for Christmas. UM,
(02:36):
I am playing it for y'all because UM four Things
Christmas pullovers are officially available and we're seeing all's orders
come in and they're so cute and awesome and amazing.
But we really haven't promoted it that much, like I
mentioned it on the podcast last week that it has
come out the same day as The Pimp and Joy
(02:56):
Tied Eye, which shout out to everybody that bought that
new line on Friday, because we raised so much money
that will go towards so much good, like we love
having UM a general fund, like sometimes we have specific
causes that were fundraising for, like our last one this
summer was for Army specialist Scottie West, where we were
partnering with building homes for heroes and building him a home,
(03:18):
and we've done that before. And or sometimes there's you know,
a tornado or something that has come through like floods
and we can respond to the tragedy so we have
something specific there, or you know St. Jude. I mean,
the list goes on of different groups that we've worked
with um but we recently there was a little boy
(03:39):
that is diagnosed with cancer and we recently got down
to like pretty much almost nothing in our general fund,
making a donation to help with some of his treatment.
I mean, brain cancer at such a young age. I mean,
can you even I just can't even his parents, I
can't imagine anyway. It's not something we're always able to do,
but sometimes we had that general and if there's different
(04:01):
things that pop up and there's a need like Boom,
we can try to respond and help. And I think
that's the coolest part. And we're also gonna be doing
something cool with the Nashville Homeless Home Street Home, which
if you live in Nashville, you should check that out.
And it's a way where you can volunteer and go
help and really go out and and be with the homeless.
(04:24):
You go to them. Stephen, the man that founded it,
is a former homeless man, and so he knows what
it's like and it's different from like the shelters that
you may work with, Like he really is going out
to the people that are living in certain areas where yeah,
they're not out of shelter, they don't they don't even
they don't go they need someone to come to them.
(04:45):
And it's just it's an interesting group if you live
in Nashville to definitely um check out and yeah, so
the General Fund pimp Enjoy tied. I went, well, so
y'all are amazing. I wish I could hug each and
every person. UM. So that was awesome. And then to
see the Christmas four things pull over orders come in
because you were probably maybe already online shopping, but I'm
(05:05):
speaking to those of you that are like struggling with
what four things to come up with. We do have
stock ones already ready to go. We added a kids
one which is pre made and it says joy Santa
Presents and cookies and it's so cute. My kids will
be wearing that I've got my customized one which says
baby Jesus Mariah Carey shout out, probably because of that
(05:26):
song right there. Uh, family time and cookies. And then
my husband's is Eggnog, mistletoe, red writer and baby Jesus.
And so we'll all be in our red four Things
pullovers with our flannel pajama bottoms and it's going to
be a super cute family picture. And I can't wait
for that. And I don't want you all to miss
out on that. So not trying to like get you
in the Christmas spear early, but even with the customized
(05:49):
totes if you want them for gifts, the only reason
why we're bringing it up is, I mean, you gotta
get the worders in and these pullovers. You like, the
tot's fine, you haven't told like the Simber to get
those in the mail. I would go ahead and order
them whenever you think of them. But like the shirts,
after Thanksgiving, you can start wearing that shirt like a
S A P. So we've got to get all made,
(06:11):
and believe it or not, it's almost November. Guys. You're
welcome for telling what I would get on a four
Things I think I would do like Mary Joseph, Baby
Jesus and like Donkey. Oh nice. Wasn't that like the
four I mean we made like um, just as an example,
(06:32):
but people loved it so much, so I think we're
making a stock one and I think we're going to
call it and we have the Star, the Manger, the Birth,
and Christmas to those are the four things, and we're
calling this one the reason for the season. That's a
good one. So cute. Um. So yeah, just make sure
you you know, these could be like one of those
things where you snooze, you lose. So put on that
(06:55):
Mariah Carey, get in the spirit light, a pine tree,
sent candle, put some cookies in the oven, and I
just tried to but just tried to play Mariah carry
music off YouTube. But now a Peloton commercial has come up,
So doing a real official at four Things with Amy Brown,
which I do love Peloton treadmill. How creepy is that?
(07:17):
This is like a d D with Amy No no,
But I mean I have a Peloton treadmill. And that's
the ad that came up probably because my phone here's
me talk it does about Peloton. I wish Peloton would
sponsor my podcast. Okay, let's get into the questions. Y'all
(07:37):
are awesome. You've probably been waiting. You want to hear
what if your question maybe got answered? Y'all can send
emails to four Things with Amy Brown at gmail dot
com and let's get into him all right. This one's
from Samantha. Hey, Amy, I have been feeling so motivated
by your podcast to focus on the quality of what
I'm putting in my body. I do go at home
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and during the week but I seem to go a
little off base on the weekends and when I'm eating
out with friends. Could you share what you usually order
when you're out eating and how you don't let the
weekends completely sabotage you. Well, I don't really see weekends
as a sabotage anymore, and I think that that's um
at the well necessities. Lisa has been a big influence
on me for that. And then you know, she doesn't
(08:19):
really like the word balance, but Aaron Opriya, my trainer,
she loves the word balance. But Aaron also has taught
me like why why do you go Monday through Friday
trying to eat so perfect and then ruin everything on
the weekend? Like find that balance? Whatever that flow looks
like for you throughout the week, Like it doesn't have
to be a weekend thing, like if you're craving or
(08:41):
you want something like that, maybe you wouldn't normally eat
on a Tuesday, like have it on a Tuesday, like
who cares? Um. But I guess maybe the going out
part is the weekend part of the equation that messes
with people because a lot of times you don't go
out during the week and you go out on the weekend.
So I would say that's when you just have to
listen to yourself, like do you still want a salad
(09:06):
with some lean protein, great, get it? Do you want
the bowl apasta? Well, great, get it? But I just
am not. I think I used to live in that
vicious cycle of like healthy all week like sabotage on
the weekends, and I try to just not. I try
to just as cliche as it sounds, like, listen to
(09:28):
what I'm craving and making sure that I'm looking at
feod food as fuel for my body and um, so yeah,
when ordering out to eat, I would say there are
tricks to stay on course, um, and mine would be,
you know, if you're trying to be healthy and you
never know what restaurants are putting on h on the food.
(09:50):
I just try to keep it pretty simple, like if
they have a salad with some salmon, or a salad
with veggie sides, but you also might want salmon with
some sweet potato fries on the side. I don't know.
Just just find that balance of what works best for
you and don't look at the weekend as you know,
just the time to be out with friends and do
(10:11):
whatever you want to do. Um or don't look at
the week is trying to be perfect either, maybe there's
that Tuesday Wednesday where you're like, oh, and then obviously
here Lisa in my brain when I say trying to
be perfect, because she would try to knock off that
mentality her whole fork. The noise is try to knock
what is perfection, Like, yes, food should be fuel and
nourishment to your body, so look at it as that,
(10:33):
but don't look at if you crave or eat something
else that isn't on your quote unquote good list, Like
don't don't beat yourself up about it. That's why she
doesn't even like a good or a bad list. Nothing
should be good or bad. But I mean, there has
to be guidelines to something, you know, but check out her.
She's such a great follow for me, especially with anybody
(10:53):
that has had issues with food, um at the well necessities.
I just really and if you haven't had issues with
you may read some of her stuff and be like,
what I did not get this look okay? But if
you have, I think a lot of it will resonate
with you and hopefully give you. And I would say
in my in the last year, I've had the healthiest
(11:14):
relationship with food that I've ever had. And it has
been not even just because of Lisa. It's been because
of a couple of other things. Taking on that mentality
of of not caring so much about a specific regimen
and looking at more of like, my body needs food,
my body needs calories, and I know that I want
(11:35):
to function at a higher rate. I don't want to
feel drained and tired and you know, just hot limon
water and you know some lettuce wasn't gonna cut it
for me. And I lived off of that for a
very very very long time. And you know, you just
kind of gotta you gotta find what works for you,
(11:58):
which I know is oh hard. Which I think we
may have a question. I don't remember if I took
it out or not. I think there's one there is, Okay,
so I left it in. But it is a question.
We'll address it when we get there. How about we
just go to the next question. Okay, this one's from Nicole. Hey, Amy,
have you ever heard of oil polling? Can you please
make it a thing or tell us about it in
the benefits of it? Okay, I have heard of it,
and I did it a long long time ago, and
(12:21):
I learned about it from multiple people. But the first
person that comes to mind is Kimberly Smid Snyder. Um,
I just remember her posting about it, and now I
have to cough, so I don't have cough buttons. So Chase,
have you ever tried oil blow? No? I haven't. I'm
actually kind of like sitting here and trigued to see
what you say about it, because, okay, well I know
(12:41):
that is that it's an Arivedic practice, because Kimberly Snyder
she's like an Arivedic doctor now or she was, like
she went to the school to like get all the
training for that, and basically it's more of like a
holistic type doctor. In case you don't know but what
you do is you put a tablespoon of oil in
(13:01):
your mouth on an empty stomach. So ideally right when
you wake up, you like throw in a tablespoon of
coconut oil and you swish it around in your mouth
for like twenty minutes. It's hard. Twenty minutes is a
long time. Yeah, but it just coconut oil, Just coconut oil. Yeah.
And supposedly what it's supposed to do is draw toxins
(13:21):
in your body and from it like improve like oral health,
like your overall health in general. Two. But I don't
know if I just didn't do it long enough to
like see the benefits. But for me personally, I didn't
really have twenty minutes in the morning to swish oil
around in my mouth. So and that's probably because I
wake up like super early for work and I have
to be really efficient with my time or I'm gonna
wake up even earlier. And that's just getting ridiculous. So
(13:45):
is there is there a benefit with teeth whitening from
the oil? No? I think so it's an ancient practice.
But listen, I'm just going to tell you that I
have tried it, and I didn't really see any benefits,
but I'm sure that's because I did not do it
long enough. You can't just try something once and be like, oh,
(14:07):
this is amazing unless you just really There have been
things where, yes, I've tried it once and I think
it's amazing and I'll let you know. But oil pulling
was not one of those things for me. Okay, all right,
onto the next one. This one's from Amanda. Hey, Amy,
I was wondering if you could talk about how you
managed to not check a bag and always take a
carry on. Heard you mention that when you travel with
Bobby you don't check a bag. Would love any tips
(14:29):
you have for that. Yeah, I mean it's not even
just with Bobby, Like checking a bag can just be
such a pain sometimes. So I have one of those
away luggage bags, which I love, the one whatever the
sizes that fits in the overhead been it's like the
smaller one, but they make an even even smaller one
than that to make sure it's not that one. It's
like just the one before where you'd have to check.
(14:49):
But I love it, and I roll things to make
more room. I try to like think, okay, what I
try to take outfits that I can wear the same shoes.
And if I only want to take like two pairs
of shoes, and I'll throw one pair in my luggage
and where the other pair that I need to take,
So that way I'm not trying to pack way too
many shoes. Also, just think of items you can rewear together.
(15:15):
That's depending on how long your trip is. That's something
that I do. UM, I try to get travel size
obviously everything if you're checking, but that's something you have
to do. You've got to get start collecting travel sized
of all of your favorite products, or get those little
things from Target that are um, you know, empty and
fill them up with your big you know, if they
don't make travel size and what you like, then fill
(15:36):
it into a little travel container. UM. That even works
with like, if you want to take a pre made
Macha lat, you can mix it up and throw it
in a travel container. If like you want a twelve
ounce drink, well then you get like three or four
of those little three or four ounces little containers and
(15:57):
fill them up boom, and then you put it in
your carry on. And then you can go to Starbucks
and just say I would like one cup of ice please,
and then you pour it over and boom, you have
a drink and you got to make it at home
with your own ingredients and you didn't have to spend
money at the airport. You're welcome. That's awesome. Um. I'm
trying to think of other like travel hacks. I don't
really other than and honestly, I keep my travel stuff
(16:19):
ready to go because I travel so much that I
kind of have like a go bag of all my
toilet trees and I just keep it packed because it's
all travel size so I only need it and then
I refill it as need be. But yeah, and then
I just throw that in my way back with my outfits.
Hair stuff. I probably never travel with the hair dryer,
(16:39):
So if I know I'm gonna be gone for a while,
I'll make sure my hair is like clean so I
can make it the three or four days, um, and
then I'll take a hair straighter. Wand the hotels a
lot of times have a blow dryer, which is not
a great one, it's horrible, but at least take my
blow dryer brush in case I need to like freshen
up something a little bit. Oh, and dry shampoo. Always
(17:01):
travel with dry shampoo. Number one role go to alright.
This next one's from Katie My questions about Kelly leave
X Green Smoothie. I got her book and I'm planning
on starting the smoothies this week. Can I make them
ahead of time? How long will they last in the fridge? Oh? Yeah,
you can make them ahead of time. That's what I
always do. So just know a couple of days, like
(17:23):
I would make it the night before, I wouldn't be
trying to make smoothies like crazy. Now Kimberly Snyder's Glowing
Green smoothie, which doesn't have milk or protein in it,
she said, those last three days. But that's got like
spinach and fruit. But if you want to get the
most out of that before it goes bad, and the
longer it's like blended in in the fridge, like it's
(17:43):
losing nutrients. So that's why you want to be careful
about that. So I would make it as fresh as possible,
so the night before should be fine. Um. But then
also I know people that will just kind of get
it all ready to go and then you just PLoP
everything in the blender, like have your protein powder pre measured,
your milk already pre measured, your spinache already divvied out,
(18:06):
but none of it's blended yet, so you haven't like
started to crush up all the And I'm so, no
nutrients really is getting lost because you know, like the
minute you slice into this just showing an example of
what happens like when you blend something. While we're saying
the nutrients. But again, I'm not a doctor. There's just
stuff I've read and I think this probably came from
Kimberly Cyder. But like the minute you cut open to
a piece of fruit, like you've opened it up, so
(18:27):
it starts to lose nutrients. So she always recommends, like
if you, um, I want to eat an apple, to
save it till right when you want to eat it,
to cut it open, not to slice it open and
keep slices in the fridge. I've heard that because sometimes
when I say it out loud, I'm like, is this crazy?
I've always heard that. Okay, good, it's good. It all right.
(18:58):
This is from Coordinate. As a full time mom and employee,
I've been having trouble over the last six months going
to sleep. I wanted to check out the vital proteins
sleep collagen shots, but Amazon has always sold out where
else can you get them? And are there any other
bedtime routines you have to help you shut your mind off? Gosh,
I feel like Vital Proteins their website may have some
(19:19):
but Amazon. Amazon is just like the best way. But
I have seen them at Whole Foods if you have
one in your town. I don't know a lot of
people don't, um, but they have women like like my
we have a Whole Foods, but we also have a
whole body It's separate from in Nashville, but like in Austin,
it's all together. So maybe in the whole body section. Um,
(19:40):
they may have the sleep shots. Target has started to
carry a lot of Vital proteins, but I haven't noticed
to see if they have the sleep shots. But they
do have like the collagen. So if Amazon is sold out,
I mean, you may just have to go direct to
the source, which I think you can buy from Vital Proteins.
I'm assuming dot Com. I never have, but um, I'm
sure that's a way. And then also I texted Bobo,
(20:04):
which we're about to record something later this week, so
we'll have a Bobo segment coming up soon. If y'all
are not familiar, maybe you're new to the podcast. He's
someone that comes on from time to time. He's kind
of our help, one of our health experts that joins us.
And he said that something good to take, and he
shared with us this before is magnesium glycinate or theronate
(20:29):
so g L y c I N A T or
th h r e O n A T and magnesium
is the first word. And so then I sent him
a picture of one that I've been taking called magnesium
side rate citrate c I T R A T. I
tell anybody's writing this down as I'm trying to spell it,
(20:50):
but maybe you will. Um. And he said that one's okay,
but too much of it will give you loose tools.
So what's up? I mean, I haven't had that sleep. Um. Yes,
I've been taking it. Mary had told me about this one.
She bought it actually and left it here. So I've
been taking it, thanks Mary. Um. And it's uh, but
(21:11):
if you doesn't bother you or anybody else, then it's
fine you should take it. But the ones that Bobo
recommended that I told you a minute ago where I
spelled it off for you conveniently. Um. He said, those
are much less likely to give you any g I issues,
which would be gastro intestinal boom. But again Bobo coming
in with a segment. But there's something that's really calming,
(21:34):
apparently about magnesium to help prepare your body for sleep,
because Kimberly Snyder also has like a a DETOXI that
you take before bed. It actually does get your bowels moving,
heads up, um, but it has magnesium in it, and
I have that on my Amazon page. Um, I think
it's called DETOXI maybe yeah, um, Radio me dot com
(21:58):
if you want to look at that X question alright,
this one's from Samantha. I'm super curious if you could
share with us an eating plan of what a normal
day looks like for you trying to come up with
a good routine, and would love any examples that you have. Oh,
I did. So this is a question where I didn't
know if I left it in here, but I did,
and Haye, Samantha, I wouldn't have taken it out because
if you like, love the question, but I don't really.
(22:20):
I get this question a lot, and I don't like
because I kind of play around with how I feel
in different things, like I don't really have a very
specific meal plan except for as of late, I've definitely
been trying to get protein today a day, excuse me.
And that's based on my weight and my activity level.
(22:41):
And I had a friend that helped me figure that
out because as my body is changing, I never have
focused on protein and now that I'm eating meat again,
that's a lot easier for me to achieve than back
when I was just eating predominantly like plant based. But
you still can get adequate protein that way. I'm not
saying that you can't, but for me, I just felt
like I wanted the meat back into my into my life, um,
(23:04):
and now it's easier for me to get But I
had been working out pretty hardcore with Aaron for a
year and a half, but I wasn't noticing certain changes
in my body that I wanted to, and I was
so confused why. And I was also really hungry all
the time but didn't really know how to properly fuel
and because I again things I had done in the
past were really starving my body, even though I didn't
(23:27):
know it, like I kind of just thought I was.
I was just pretty simple and minimal with food, and
I would say there was a time five years ago
or so where I was very I would not even
it would like freak me out to like have to
eat out because I'd be like I had no control.
So I would just pack a bag of lettuce, which
(23:48):
I still do that because I want to get the
nutrients from spinach. So if that's my way to consume it,
if I know I'm not going to get it anywhere else,
like a vegetable throughout the day. Yes, I will put
veggies in a zip bloc bag, including just straight up salad,
and I will eat it with my fingers. And that
does not bother me because I used to do it
all the time. However, that's like basically all I was eating,
like that was it, and it boggles my mind, like no,
(24:12):
but no, wonder I didn't have as much energy. But
also I was younger than like my body also has changed,
like there is something that happens. I will say, as
you get closer to forty, like things just start to
change and I'm like, okay, I need to tighten up.
I want to if I'm lifting these weights, like I
want to feel the muscle. And so that's when Aaron
(24:34):
was like, you have got to eat more. So my
friend Mackenzie like helped me figure out that plan of
eating more. And I'm really not on a plan. The
only goal is to make sure that I eat a
ton of calories, and by ton, I mean I'm still
not I'm not accounting, but I need adequate calories and
that my body is not in starvation mode and that
(24:55):
I hit my protein goal. And I will say with this,
I have no wist muscles that I have never noticed before,
and it's really cool. So don't be scared of food.
And Aaron has always told me that, and I swear
to you all. I'm eating more than I've ever eaten,
and I feel like more in shape than I have
felt in a long time. So don't be scared of food. Now,
(25:20):
that's not me just giving a provision, like, eat whatever
the heck you want and you're gonna feel great, Because
that's not true. I still try to I try to
give my body quality proteins, a lot of fruits and
veggies UM, probably higher on the veggie side than the
fruit side. The fruits I like to consumer like raspberries, blueberries, UM,
and apples, and I try to eat those earlier in
(25:41):
the day, not like at night. And you know, y'all
know the people that I love if you listen to
this podcast. I love Kimberly Snyder, I love Kelly, lovek Uh,
I love at the Well Necessities. I mentioned her earlier.
She doesn't really necessarily have a meal plan like the
other girls. But I don't follow anything. I find little
(26:01):
things from each program that I like or recipes that
I like and that work for me, and that is
what I do on the daily. And some days, like
I am so on the go, like I'm grabbing a
quest bar and that's not really what I would recommend
for people at all, but I know that I've got
to get some calories in or some protein in, and
I'll do that, but that's not the ideal thing. But
(26:25):
if if you're on the go, make sure you're still
trying to put something in your body, is it. I
feel like I just rambled for like a couple of
minutes and people are like, well, that was zero help.
But but my thing with food is so because I
know I've because a lot of the feedback I get
from me sharing my issues with food in the past
is that a lot of people are struggling with that,
(26:47):
and I don't want to share with anybody what I
do verbatim because it may not work for you, and
I would hate to set you off course, or I
don't want to suggest, like, hey, you should start eating
this way exactly because that might throw somebody off and
may get them obsessing about it. And my thing is
I want to pull you away from that obsession of
food and maybe even sharing what I've shared might be
(27:10):
confusing for somebody that would be like, well, great, you
just made it more complicated for me, And that's the
last thing I want to do. And some Kale Junkie
she's another good person that I followed and she's come
on the podcast that kind of just you know, took
on a mindset of like whenever she personally. Now she's
got it down to where she can kind of eat
(27:32):
healthy and know what her body needs, but she also
can eat other things and she just knows that she
might feel like crap if she eats it, but it's fine.
It's life. You live it. You don't stress out about it.
Where she used to maybe would stress out about it,
and that was me. And so what I want to
get is to where people who have been in a
similar places me when I think the biggest takeaway that
(27:54):
you have and you mentioned it is when you remind
herself that food is fuel. Everyone's body and everyone's daily
routine is different. So if you're taking on, you know,
a more aggressive workout routine, you're going to eat differently
than what you look at food just fuel. And then
I also want you to have food freedom, like don't
deprive yourself, because the minute you maybe put yourself on
(28:15):
some weird plan or strict plan or you're depriving yourself,
you may go into some mode where it may lead
to binging or or not binging the opposite, and then
you're starving yourself and then you end up eating too
much later or it could end up in a vicious cycle.
So that's why I really I'm not doing the best
job at it because I just know it's such a
(28:37):
such a sensitive topic. But I guess I can just
be transparent with you all of what's going on in
my brain and what I'm what I want to share
with you, and that in the last year I've found
so much freedom and letting plans go, like letting it
go and trying to just fuel my body instead of
eating minimal to be skinny or whatever that is, because
(29:00):
that's just no way to live period. I think that's
great advice. Thank you. All right, this one's from Justin.
I'm twenty seven years old and I've only been on
about eight dates. My sister tells me I should ask
girls out and go on dates even if I'm not interested.
Is it okay to ask girls out if I'm not
interested in order to get better at dates? I've never
(29:20):
been on a second date because I'm so bad on dates.
Any advice couldn't hurt. Oh man, I think I'm gonna
have to take this question to the Bobby Bone show. UM.
And that's like a good one for maybe Bobby to
address and maybe some other people on the show. But justin,
thank you first of all for being a guy that
listens to the podcast Whoop and that emailed in. Um,
(29:41):
and then I mean chase your single. I don't really know.
I mean it sounds to me like, yeah, if you're
you're just trying to like get practice, which seems weird
because that could be leading a girl on if you
ask her out and you know she's not interested, But
you're just trying to get some dates under your belt
so that you get better at it. I don't really
know how I feel about that. I don't know, I mean,
but you never know. She might surprise you and you
(30:01):
might end up liking what I was going to say.
I mean, if if it for you, like getting more
comfortable just going out and like meeting and opening up
to people is something that's going to help you date, like,
then I would maybe go on some dates and you
could be surprised. I mean, I'm kind of like I'm
either interested or I'm not interested. So I don't like
date just today. There are some people that date just
(30:24):
to date, just to date, yeah, but only being out
on eight dates. Yeah, Like maybe you know, just for yourself,
should go out and meet some folks and and take
some of those dates, kind of just going into it
with the mindset that it's kind of a blind date,
even though maybe it wasn't set up that way, where
you're just going into it open minded, like well when
(30:45):
you practice like asking questions about them, getting to know them.
I think it's weird too, but I don't want her to.
I think it is weird if she what if she's
like you could be leading them on you if you're
if you like straight up blade, like you know this
is ever going anywhere. I wouldn't do that because that's
not fair to the female. But if you're just unsure
and you're like, I don't think this will work. I mean,
(31:06):
if you don't know, go into it and just go on,
but don't like keep asking, like definitely, if you definitely
don't like ask the person out again. Yeah, if you
know it's not going anywhere. But it's a different world,
like the whole online thing. We were joking this past weekend,
like I did the bumble thing for like a month
(31:26):
and it was so weird. I'll never do it again,
which I know for some people, like I have friends
that are like in relationships and one that's even getting married.
They met on bumble, well ray and they met on Tinder. Yeah,
and that's a that's the thing, Like it works for
some people and that, but I think that's a whole
different etiquette than right. Yeah. No, um, my friend Kara, well,
(31:52):
I guess I don't know I should say. And now
now I've said her name, so I don't want to say.
But she she met somebody, um online and it really
worked out. And then I'm trying to get my other
friend to sign up for this one called the league.
The league, so I don't know, have you heard of
that one? No, it sounds hardcore. Yeah, the league, I mean,
(32:13):
then there's match dot Com, then there's I mean there's
all kinds of different places. Yeah, that you can just
and maybe if you haven't explored that, explore that because
I think there's some people that do really well, like
with the whole online communication, and there's some people that don't,
like it's better in person, like for me, like I
can't do the online thing. I think it's I don't
want to say weird, Like it's not for me, it's
(32:34):
just odd. Well, how do you meet? I mean you
go out to I guess, go out with friends, go
to a bar, like I have no fear like approaching anyone, Okay,
but like, what's the worst thing they're gonna do is
like shoot you down? Right? Oh? Which speaking of, um,
what's the worst thing someone can do? They know? Uh,
(32:57):
Bob Goff is going to be on my podcast this Thursday,
and he's someone that kind of has that mentality of
like go for it, Like what what's the worst someone
can say? No? And there's a fun little story about
that even with Chase and one of Bob's books, So, um,
(33:18):
Bob Goff is on for all four Things. If you
know of him, then you're probably already excited to listen.
If you don't know who Bob Goff is, get excited
because he is so good. It's yeah, I definitely think
it's one of your one of your top interviews. They've
all been great. Luckily I recorded it with him before
I got allergy induced ASNA, because man, this is brutal.
(33:44):
So we're gonna go and sign off. Now we're gonna
end with that one and um, but make sure that
y'all are subscribed to the podcast Four Things with Amy
Brown because then on Thursday, boom, that Bob Goff episode
will just show up and hopefully you will listen to
it and just be inspired. Like that. Man is so special.
(34:06):
I can't even He's so special, right, he might be
one of the most special people ever. That's that's the
right word. Special, like special in a good way, not
like special like me. Some people sometimes chase Amy You're special,
Yes I am. But yeah, Bob, yeah so amazing. So
definitely listen and thanks for checking out the Q and
A and we'll see y'all their say
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