September 18, 2025 • 48 mins
✨ Healthy Meal Prep & Reduce Stress! ✨ Join guest Ellen DiVietro, Healthy Lifestyle Coach, as she shares simple strategies to make nutritious meal prep part of your daily routine while reducing stress and boosting energy. Together with host Tina Huggins, Divorce & “Narcissist Conflict” Specialist, on The Awakening, they’ll explore practical ways to stay healthy, balanced, and resilient during life transitions.
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More About Tina: Tina Huggins, CTA Life Coach certified, CDC Divorce Coach, CDC Transitions Coach, CDC Recovery Coach, TKG Restorative Family Mediator Certified, TKG Family Circle Certified. I have coached for over 30 years coming from the background of law enforcement and self-defense instructor. Tina lived in an abusive relationship ending up with a broken hand, separated ribs, and a dislocated leg from fights during the relationship.
Contact Info:
Email: coachtinalynn@gmail.com
Website: www.DivorceCoachSpecialist.com
More about Ellen: My training started 25 years ago when I learned how to help my highly allergic son eat right so that he could be safe and be able to do the things his peers did. Then, when my daughter and I developed stomach issues, we healed them by eating better. Not only did our pain go away but so did the cravings and late afternoon crashes. We felt fantastic and I lost weight without even trying. After I learned that I had been living what Dr. Sears preaches, I became a health coach through his wellness institute. People come to me for advice on how to make small changes that bring big results - weight loss, feeling great, having more free time and money.
Contact Ellen:
845-893-7567
Email: divietro4@optonline.net
Website: https://www.tastefullysimple.com/?ref=ellendivietro31
Don’t miss this empowering episode on NEWStreamingNetwork.com!
More About Tina: Tina Huggins, CTA Life Coach certified, CDC Divorce Coach, CDC Transitions Coach, CDC Recovery Coach, TKG Restorative Family Mediator Certified, TKG Family Circle Certified. I have coached for over 30 years coming from the background of law enforcement and self-defense instructor. Tina lived in an abusive relationship ending up with a broken hand, separated ribs, and a dislocated leg from fights during the relationship.
Contact Info:
Email: coachtinalynn@gmail.com
Website: www.DivorceCoachSpecialist.com
More about Ellen: My training started 25 years ago when I learned how to help my highly allergic son eat right so that he could be safe and be able to do the things his peers did. Then, when my daughter and I developed stomach issues, we healed them by eating better. Not only did our pain go away but so did the cravings and late afternoon crashes. We felt fantastic and I lost weight without even trying. After I learned that I had been living what Dr. Sears preaches, I became a health coach through his wellness institute. People come to me for advice on how to make small changes that bring big results - weight loss, feeling great, having more free time and money.
Contact Ellen:
845-893-7567
Email: divietro4@optonline.net
Website: https://www.tastefullysimple.com/?ref=ellendivietro31
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to WGSNDB Go and Solo Network Singles talk
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
So hello and welcome to my show The Awakening here
on WGSNDB, the Going Bold and Going Solo Network. The
information and opinions expressed on the show are just that,
the opinions of the individual speaking based on their individual
personal experience. They are not intended to diagnose and do
(00:46):
not constitute professional advice or recommendations. So you know all
of the pain, stress and struggle that divorcing men and
women go through, well, there is a way to find
peace and sanity and assist the lawyer in their legal
process which can save you thousands of dollars. My name
(01:07):
is Tina Huggins. I'm your divorce coach specialist, divorce planning specialist,
restorative family mediator and conflictional co parenting coach. And today
where graced and I was just telling her how beautiful
she was dressed in blue. So we have Miss Ellen
here with us today and Ellen is a certified health coach,
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an independent and ambassador for the nation's original in home
food tasting company. As a result of her own health
issues and severe allergies in her family, Ellen learned the
importance of smart eating. She is passionate about helping busy
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families save money, save time, and find more easy in
or easy in their day and in their evenings. Ellen
is on a mission to power, guide, support and educate
busy women to be in control of their health with
a focus on simple, healthy cooking so that they can
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look better, feel better, and they eat better. Ellen is
celebrating her twenty sixth year with the food company. She
has consistently received a regional and national recognition, reaching a
major career milestone. Ellen recently collaborated with colleagues to create
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an ebook that is filled with recipes and healthy tips.
So thank you for joining me here today, Ellen.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Thanks for having me, Thanks for inviting me to be
here with you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, yes, I just love her, So that's part of
why she's here. She's just such a sweet person And
when I met her, it was just like I have
to have her. Just your energy here is super important.
That and the fact that you know as we go
through divorce aspect, because you know that's what I do.
(03:08):
The divorce process is so full of stress, lack of sleep,
and these people have to make decisions with that brain
that hasn't slept, hasn't eaten well, and is so full
of stress. So for me, that's super important for people
to understand just how important food is in our daily lives.
(03:31):
And so as I was going through some of the
stuff that you had said that we might get to
talk about, I read food prep and oh my god,
I myself because I have been in the weightlifting aspect
and I have tried food prep, and it's just that
that fact that of spending all day Sunday a day
I would love to be doing anything but cooking in
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a hot kitchen prepping food. So tell us a little
bit how what you do is definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Not that what I do is definitely not that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Okay? So about God, about fifteen years ago, I guess
I started doing meal prep with people and I use
my favorite spices from my favorite company that I've been
with for twenty six years, and we started doing things
in real life. So my friends would they get their
(04:32):
seasonings from me? I would send them a grocery list
and we would meet in real life at someone's house
or you know, a room and a church or a
room wherever, and we would prep ten entrees for the freezer.
So it would be like just imagine a cooler on
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wheels with about thirty pounds of raw meat in it
in bags that goes home, and it goes home with
everybody in their freezer, labeled with what it's going to
be when it comes out, gets defrosted and cooked. So
some people meal prep and they cook for a week, right,
and then they have all this food in their refrigerator
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that they end up throwing away on Friday because their
schedule changed and they didn't eat what they cooked and prepared.
So that in itself is a total waste of money.
So what I do is I empowered people to know
how to season up meats and proteins, how to season
them up, put them in bags in the freezer. So
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if your schedule changes, you just pull out, defrost and
cook whenever you want to. So like the night before
you go, oh, tomorrow night, we're going to have this
seasoned steak. So you take the steak out of the freezer,
put it in the refrigerator, so the next evening, all
you have to do is cook it, so you know,
so it takes that stress out of what am I
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going to make? What am I going to prepare? What
am I going to cook? And you also know that
part of that prep is done already. And I kind
of learned that bit of a lesson because there was
one time I went away for a conference and my
husband was with the kids when I was away, and
I had cooked and prepared things and put them in
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the refrigerator so they could have food the whole time
I was away. And when I came home, I opened
the refrigerator and I'm like, we decided to go here.
We decided to go there, so we didn't eat the
stuff that you made. And I'm like, well, that's pretty stupid.
So I learned my lesson, like, Okay, how do I
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prep these things by the freezer? So the next time
I went away on a business trip, I had seasoned
everything up, I put it in the freezer right with
labels with recipes how to pull this out to frost
it and cook it and prepare it. And when I
came home and all this stuff was still in the
freezer I was so happy because I didn't have to
cook for the whole next week because all these meals
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were done so so meal prepping with people it is something.
So I started doing it in real life all those
years ago, and then thanks to COVID, I figured out
and I had to figure out how to do it
on Zoom. One of my clients reached out to me
when COVID hit and she said, Hi, Ellen, this is Lorraine,
(07:25):
and I just need to let you know that COVID
or not, my family still needs to eat. My family
needs you, and we're going to figure out how to
do this on zoom. Or I should say, Ellen, you're
going to figure out how to do this on zoom, right,
And I wore that, Okay, figure it out. So I
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realized very quickly that people are not going to hang
out with me on zoom and prep ten entrees for
the freezer because that takes too long. When you're in
real life and you're having fun doing it, that's great,
but being on zoom. So now I do either three
or five entrees with people on Zoom and that's it,
in thirty minutes done. And the fun of it is
(08:10):
we get to make new friends, right, so whoever new
pops on with us is great. You know, they get
their spices ahead of time, they get their grocery list,
and they meet on Zoom with their meat in a
freezer bag with the spices and the ingredients they need,
and in thirty minutes they've got meals for the freezer.
So the stress that it takes away. There was God
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one of my friends. He's a gentleman, and he has
been religiously meal prepping with me for eighteen months. Okay,
so eighteen times on Zoom, and some of the meals
that we do, he ends up cooking for his family
that night, or he leaves it in the refrigerator to
cook the next night. So it's just the simplicity. It's
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saving tons of money because some of these people are
people that used to have like those meal kit delivery
services deliver to their house, but they're pretty costly, and
then if your schedule changes, you end up with like,
you know, meals of food that you need to cook
up all at once because you didn't get to cook
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up the three during the whole week that you got them.
So I just find that I help people save money,
save time, and save their sanity when it comes to
meal prep. But I got the long version of that answer.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Hey, that works. So I am one of those people
that have the meal prep things. And so my deal
was is that I was buying all the food just
like you said, and it was just going bad. I
wasn't cooking it. I wasn't cooking it, and so it
was going bad. So now I do order the meal
prep And as I was sitting here listening to you,
(09:56):
I'm like, this would this would help a ton if
I didn't. You know, it would save the money. Not
so much help as much as it would save the money.
And it wouldn't obviously be that long to set up
the three meals for a week or whatever. Doing it
with you would be a whole lot cheaper overall. Now
(10:17):
that said, it has been cheaper for me to do
the meal prep company things because it all came to me,
all pre done, all all ready to go, and I
just followed the instructions and because and this is what
I'm thinking about just doing what you're saying. I have
liked the cooking part of it. It has been something
(10:39):
that normally I like cooking, but I don't love it.
And so when I want to cook I want to cook,
and having the meals already ready, like you're saying, pull
them out of the freezer. That would be so much
easier for me to be able to pull out of
the freezer, which is kind of what I'm doing. And
I get the meat and I throw it in the
freezer and then as I go But just like you're saying,
(11:00):
that fresh stuff, it goes to waste if I don't
get it cooked in that week.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah. Absolutely. And you know it's funny because some people
say they love doing the three meals at a time,
some loved doing the five meals at a time. And
a cool thing is like these these recipes that I choose,
they either serve four or they serve six. And there's
a client of mine who had she had reached out
(11:30):
to me a while ago, lives by herself, and she said,
you know, basically in a message to me, I'm sick
of take out fast food, these extra pounds I'm carrying around.
Can you help me? So I said, I don't know,
let's talk. So we got on the phone, we talked,
(11:50):
and we ended up meeting up. I showed her what
the seasonings look like and recipes. We ended up preparing
entrees for her for the freezer, and since she was
living by herself, we kind of went with the mindset of,
you know, pack them as if you're cooking for dinner
and lunch, right, you're cooking for dinner tonight for lunch
(12:12):
the next day, because lunchtime was horrible for her because
that's where her biggest food bill was from the takeout
at lunches. So we did that and we ended up
with like a month's worth of meals in her freezer.
That's the entree, just basically the protein because the side
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dishes are really simple to pull together a salad or whatever.
And then at the end of that month, she ended
up inviting some friends over and we did it with
her friends. Then a couple of months later we did
it with her aunt, her sister, and we just had
this great time. And at the end of the year,
her Facebook anniversary picture showed up and all she said was,
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holy whatever, I don't even look like that anymore. I'm
down twenty four pounds, I've saved fifteen hundred dollars on
my lunch bills, and I am forever grateful. So, you know,
even thinking whether you're cooking for a family, right, or
whether you're cooking for yourself, you still deserve to be
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cooked for right, or cook for yourself, and just thinking
in terms of not cooking an entire serving for six
and then eating it the whole week, because then you'll
never want to eat these recipes again because it would
be so bored. But just thinking, I'll cook for dinner, lunch, right, dinner, tonight,
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lunch tomorrow, and you know, tonight it'll be hot, tomorrow
it'll be cold on a sandwich or on a salad,
so you can vary things up too, so you're not bored. So,
you know, just doing things for yourself. Some people, when
they're just one or two people at home, they say, well,
why should I even bother cooking? And that's all the
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more reason to cook because it helps you keep healthier.
It helps you know what you're eating instead of eating
out and not really knowing what's in your food.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right right, And that's I mean. I have a friend
that she talks about healthy eating as far as what's
not healthy and when people go out, what's in their
food and that type of stuff. So it's like you know,
going out to Taco bell or burger King or whatever
(14:29):
that meat is not not the same kind of meat
that you're prepping to cook. So the meat that you
are and like in my freezer, I actually have meat
that's from our own cow, you know, So we have
our own clean meat that we fed and raised and
so it's it's clean. And so often when we go
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to a restaurant or something, it's not We don't get
what we think we're getting.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Definitely, So you know, sometimes I hear too that you know,
somebody will want to eat healthy, but they're not sure
how to do it when they go out to eat.
Like you know, I'm looking at a menu and I
can't figure out what to eat. And you know, yes,
something says gluten free, but that doesn't mean it's healthy
just because it's free of gluten. And so a little
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tip I have for that you want to hear it, like, yes,
how you can eat healthy even when you go out
to eat. Okay I am. I am a highly allergic household. Okay,
so I knew. My son is twenty eight years old.
He was born with lots of allergies, and many times
we would bring his own food. I'm not telling you
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to bring your own food. But then we got to
the point where we would just tell the server, you know,
there's allergies here, and then he got to the point
he was just telling the servers, not me. I would
just shut up and let him talk. But for me,
I have a lot of foods that I cannot eat.
You know, Am I allergic to them? And will they
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kill me?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
But does my body react badly to them? Yes. So
I go out to eat and I just tell the server,
get your pad out. I've got some food allergies to
tell you about. And it's like okay. The pad comes
out with a long piece of paper and I just
go through it and I just say, I am allergic too.
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Whatever it is, I don't eat. And sometimes I get
to meet the chef. And there were times when I've
gone away on incentive trips that I've earned, and they're like,
you know, to Cancun, Riviera am I, et cetera, et cetera,
where Spanish is main language. So I type these allergy
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cards in Spanish. So when I go to restaurants, my
husband lasts at me because I get to meet the
restaurant manager, Matre d, the chef, I get to meet everybody,
and I end up eating so much better than many
other people because they take such care of what they
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feed me because I have my little allergy card. So
if you want to eat healthy and you want to
eat out and enjoy your meals, just just say, my
friend Ellen, no, don't please, don't blame on me. But
in all seriousness, you could say that this is an
allergy and they will prepare because it's an allergy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, and a lot of people don't understand. Like I know,
I kind of fit into this with tomatoes. It's not
so much how it fills in my mouth, but the
acid of a tomato by itself I can't have, so
I won't order it on like a hamburger or in
my salad. Now, if it's mixed in pico de gayo,
then then I'm okay with that because the lemon or
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whatever else is in their neutralizing that right. But my husband,
my husband, my son has a struggle with a feel
of mushrooms in his mouth. So I just tell him
when you go to restaurants. And he's a chef too,
so he gets it now. But I'm like, just tell
them that you're allergic to mushrooms. You don't have to
say you don't like that. Just tell him you're allergic
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to that, because then they won't put it in there.
So that's super important. Now for me, I don't have
like everyone because I have a thyride issue and everyone says, well,
you need to go gluten free because of it. Gluten
free didn't change anything, but in the process I did
realize that I cannot properly digest rice. Of all the
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things I can't, I can eat some of it. I'm
not okay with that, but if I eat too much,
then we have stomach and bowel issues for a whole day.
So I have learned in my case that if it's
on my plate, I don't eat very much of that.
So in that we I mean talking about allergies and stuff.
I know you and I talked just prior to coming
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on here about the foods that are helpful for us
when we're under stress and that can help us actually sleep.
So can you go over some of that for us?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Sure? Absolutely? Okay, let's start with stress. So when it
comes to reducing stress in a diet, incorporating like certain
healthy foods can be very, very beneficial. So let's start
with nuts and seeds. Okay, things like almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, right,
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they contain omega threes, fatty acids magnesium that are important
for brain health and stress reduction. So along the lines
of like the nuts and seeds, make your own trail mix.
And when you make your own trail mix, like, don't
just put almonds in it, put a variety of the
nuts and seeds in it, because they all have different
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benefits and supporting your body. So do the almonds, the walnuts,
the pumpkin seeds, the sunflower seeds. And if you need
something like a little sweet in there, like a little
bits of dark chocolate, like not really milk chocolate, because
that's throwing dairy in there. But the dark chocolate is good.
And I try and do things that are low and
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sugar or no sugar. But the little bits of dark
chocolate I find just adds that a nice little bit
of flavor. So making your own trail mix. Fatty fish, right,
Salmon is the number one fish, Salmon, sardines, hino, omega threes,
Avocado the healthiest fat on the face of the earth.
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I thing to have berries, blueberries especially, and strawberries, dark chocolate.
I did mention that in moderation, and don't do dark
chocolate too close to bedtime because you're gonna be able
to sleep. Whole grains based, so like oatmeal is good, quinoa,
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brown rice, and herbal teas especially before bed. Bananas and
yogurt and leafy greens like spinach and kale.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And so like bananas before bed. Is that the same
as the tea before bed?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, you know, when we talk about things that help
you sleep at night, bananas is on that same list
of helping you sleep. Thought. Yeah, And what's interesting is
we just talked about rice a little while ago. White rice.
This is interesting because it's the my little list here
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says consuming white rice a few hours before bed can
help you get to sleep. And the reason for that
is that white rice is high on the glycemic index,
so it spikes your blood sugar and then you crash.
So I'm not a fan of point right, They're where
(22:03):
we go. Yeah, yeah, like even throughout the day. I
don't like and I don't like telling people, you know, like, oh,
little spike your blood sugar and then crash and you'll
sleep fine at night. No, we don't want to do that.
But also things that are beneficial to sleep, promoting almonds.
There you go, with those nuts turkey. Right, how many
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times you hear people on Thanksgiving, right, they put themselves
in a turkey coma because they ate so much turkey
they fell asleep. So turkey does that to you. Cama
meal tea, passion flower tea, Kiwi may help you fall
faster and stay asleep longer. Part cherry juice and now
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you have that fatty fish again.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The sent.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Walnuts and the bananas that we talked about, and just
things like an evening routine. Right. You know some people
say they snack a lot late at night and they
want ideas on like how to not snack late at night.
Let's say you have your dinner and then like eight
(23:19):
o'clock at night, just get yourself into like a little routine.
Have a cup of that herbal tea, you know, a
cup of cama meal tea, and let that be you
telling your body, Okay, my evening is done. Well, your
evening may not be done, but I'm eating. My eating
is done for the night. Or some people after dinner,
(23:42):
right or maybe at eight o'clock, like having an eight
o'clock eating cut off or seven o'clock eating cut off.
Just go brush your teeth because when you brush your teeth, right,
that kind of signals like okay, I'm done, So that
could be your little queue of I'm done eating, you know,
and do that and that helps you wind down too.
And then you know, just for nighttime routine, how many times, Tina,
(24:07):
have you heard, you know, shut your electronics off an
hour before bedtime? How many times do you actually do that?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
No, people don't do that. But at least when it
comes to like not eating late at night, right, then
you can kind of like have that tea. I started
doing that too. I like, you know, seven thirty is
I'll have like a cup of either like decafed green
tea or cammon meal tea, and I find that I
don't want to eat after that because it's almost like
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I told myself, okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And you know, I don't do so much camm pio
tea and even sometimes I'll do black tea at night.
It's just that I don't know. The mental thing is,
just like you say, brushing your teeth, I will. I
will be to where I can drink the tea and
I drink it slow. So my thing is is that
the warmth and the tea cup and so all of
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that plays a part, and I can tell you it
doesn't really matter to me what tea it is that
I'm not hungry after that, that warmth in my stomach
just kind of makes me feel good. And then when
I'm actually not feeling good, like just feeling that I
need something, I will just pour me some like chicken
(25:27):
broth and heat it up, because that tea chicken broth
itself is something that takes that I get that little
bit of salt taste and everything inside, and it's the warmth,
and then I don't feel like I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Okay, then I can ask you a chicken broth question.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh okay, see if I'm smart enough to answer that one.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Do you make your own chicken broth or do you
buy the container.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
This I've been buying since since my husband passed, I've
been buying chicken broth and using it, liking the mashed
potatoes and stuff like that. So yes, it does better.
And we have made our own chicken and beef broth,
specifically beef broth.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay, yeah, because because when you cook up chicken, right,
one of the things I always say is, you know,
cook up like a bigger batch of chicken right, and
then save the chicken, whether for soup or sandwiches or salads.
You have a lot of uses for the chicken. And
then save that chicken broth, you know, and even freeze
(26:30):
it and ice cube trees or you know, small containers
or something. This way you could always have your chicken
broth and not the you know, containered and store.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Spot at the bottles. And most of the time in
that case, they're so high in sodium. Now, for me,
that's part of why I have done chicken broth in
the past is because I needed that sodium. That salt
taste my thyroide. We taught our thyroid back in berth
(26:59):
basically because I add iodine to to salt. That we've
taught our bodies to realize, oh I need iodine. So
iodine is salty, and so we crave that salt. So
I make sure in my case that I've got pink
salt versus just a regular table salt.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Okay, yes, tea salt, pink salt, mm hmm, all good.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And so I know this and just looking at your
beautiful face, eating healthy helps the complexion, so that that's
something that do you just off the top of your head.
Know of the foods that can help the complexion.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, I read you a bunch of them.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Some of them I know personally some of them, but
I couldn't tell you how many of them were the best.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No, definitely, some of these are the best. A big,
a big thing having to do with you know, with
what you eat. It's not just what you eat, it's
what you drink. Okay. So if I can talk about
hydration for a second. Oh, first of all, can I
say that I'm sixty six years old?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You can, I'm gonna call you a liar, but okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I'm sixty six. And I kind of go through this
every single time I'm talking with somebody and age comes
up and they look at me and they're going like, okay,
you're lying, Like no way, I'm like, I am sixty six.
My daughter's thirty three, my son is twenty eight, I'm
married thirty nine years to the same guy, and you
(28:38):
know I'm sixty six. Okay. So so talking about hydration,
you know, sometimes we think that drinking water is enough, right,
And it's been said drink half your body weight and
ounces and drinking plain water is not enough. And I
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am A great example of that there was It was
a July about twenty years ago. I had a booth
at a street there, and July in New York is
really hot, and I drank I don't know how much
water the entire day, but just water the entire day,
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and ended up in the hospital that night. And they
told me that I was dehydrated, and I said, how
can I be dehydrated? I drank like all that I
was to drink like a hundred ounces of water, if
not my total body weighed in water like and they
said that that there was nothing in your water. It
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was just water, So you're just flooding your body. And
so then I learned after that, you know, put a
little bit of coconut coconut water in your water, or
lemon juices or orange slices or just some thing. I
will say big time, just don't do the sugar drinks.
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I'm not going to bash any you know companies that
sell big bottles of orange colored stuff, right. Some of
those are great for you know, like sports drinks and whatever,
but they pump you full of sugar and then you
end up in those high low crashes because as you're crashing,
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you need more and then you end up, you know,
taking in like tons of sugar into your body. So
so I definitely learned my lesson the hard way. So
putting something in your water, even if it's a big
picture in your refrigerator with cucumber slices in it, you know,
or something, because cucumber slices can last in your refrigerator
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like four ds. Just keep refilling it with water and
you've can cucumber. You've got something more than just water.
There is a hydration drink that I really like, and
it's like little pockets that you add to water. But
it says to add this packet to like twenty ounces
of water, but I'll add that little packet to like
forty ounces of water because I'm not much for like
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big flavored stuff. But hydration is huge, and you know,
if you have questions, if anybody has questions, you know,
definitely reach out to me and we can talk more
about hydration because that is really big time important. And
when you wake up in the morning, your body is
as dehydrated as if you sat on a plane for
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five hours and drink a thing. And first thing in
the morning. I'm not telling you to drink a glass
this size of water. But start sipping at water because
if you drink too much too fast, you're just flooding
your organs. You don't want to do that. But just
sip at it, drink it. But the first thing in
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the morning should be getting water into your body. And
I think that that could be a part of the
complexion and looking decent. I'm gonna say healthy fats, you know,
Avocado is really important, you know, and just being mindful
of the fats that you're eating. I saw on a
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label somewhere like organic canola oil and some ingredients somewhere,
and I'm like, first of all, canola oil is so processed.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's one of my allergy things when I go to
a quality allergic to canola oil.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
But I don't know how or why anybody would think
that organic canola oil could possibly be healthy when it's
such a process fat to begin with. So watch your oils.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I canola oil. I come from a farm, and so
some of my family member used to grow canola oil,
so I got to learn a lot about that. And
then I did massage work and would blend my own
oil and I wouldn't even put canola oil on the
outside of somebody's body, no less on the inside of
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their body. So I not oils or some of the
oils that I would I had preferred to mix and
stuff with just because they're better, like peanut oil, although
it's not a great oil to do that with peanut
oil's consistency is good. Then I would hear people talk
about grape seed oil and I was like, grape seed
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oil is what we use on wood because it's so
what it does to the wood. You don't want that
doing that to your body. So understanding what kind of
oils is super important that I learned a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, and just being mindful of what you're eating. I
think that's a big thing with me. It's like I
ended up, you know, with with health challenges a while ago,
and I don't know how much when I ended up
talking about this, but it was about fifteen years ago
that I had gone to a doctor for chekhop and
the doctor said, you're pre diabetic and medication is the
(34:07):
only solution. And I said, no, I'll see you in weeks,
And I did go back to see him twelve weeks later.
I had made one change to my diet. One change.
I went back to see him. I was ten pounds
lighter and made that one change, and my blood sugar
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was totally fine. He told me, whatever I did, keep
doing it, and yet he did not want to know
what my secret was.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Of course he does it.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
So I told him to have a nice life because
I was never going back to see him again. That
one change. One know what that one change was, asked me?
And sugar sugar, that was that one change that long ago,
fifteen years ago. And then a couple of year years
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after that, I had i'll call it a line disease
scare where I had symptoms that sent me to the
emergency room and they doctors could not figure out what
was going on. They had no idea. I ended up,
instead of going the route to get confirmed that I
had lime disease, I went to a natural doctor, opted
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for a couple of supplements at that time, and made
some more dietary changes. So that's when I pulled out
the gluten, the soy, the rice, the whatever, the canola
oil and all these other things. And for the most part,
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those things have remained out of my diet for twelve years.
And you know, so when you talk about like how
you can look better. Right, It's like, okay, just pay
attention to you're eating, because I'll tell you straight out.
A vice that I had up until a few months
ago was a certain company's potato chips came in a
(36:10):
bright red bag. It was the ruffled kind made with
potatoes and canola oil. And I love them, and I
could eat like an entire family sized bag of them
at a time, and then I would feel horrible, like horrible.
(36:31):
And then I saw some video documentary something about this
guy that ended up in the hospital. He's lying in
the bed and they took blood samples from him and
they have the blood in vials and the blood was
really cloudy, and then on top of the blood, it
was almost like a white, foamy thing and that was
his blood. So the labtec is looking at this. I
(36:53):
couldnt figure out what it was. And he goes and
asks the guy, Okay, can you tell me what did
you eat these past cup days? And the guy was
like naming all these fast foods and fast foods and
all this junk stuff and drive throughs and everything that
he was eating. Then the laptack is like, okay, let
me explain this. And then when they went to do
(37:14):
the surgery. It was for blockages and his arteries, and
they showed this video of them pulling out almost like
with a tweezer, pulling out this white solid string, basically
the blockages from his arteries. And I looked at that
and I went, okay, I'm done with these potato chips.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, that would be enough to make you done with
the potato chips. Yeah. I did that with milk. I
did that with I don't. I haven't had milk, a
glass of milk for years and years, probably over thirty years,
just because I learned some stuff about milk, just like
you did. And it's like, okay, well I'm done with milk.
I'm done. But it was milk, you know. I haven't
(37:59):
let go of the cheese. So there's a minor issue there.
But we, you know, were you know, ted about cheese.
I lived in Europe, and Europe they don't have yellow cheese.
There's no yellow cheese. All their cheese is white, you know,
doesn't matter whether it's cheddar or any it's all white cheese.
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They don't add the yellow coloring to it.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And it's also raw dairy, right, it's not pasteurized.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
I'm sure, right, right, And so the only thing that
they did that I didn't understand is they had shelf milk,
and so was milk like we would put in our refrigerator,
but it's set on the shelf, and yes it would
go bad, but they didn't have to be refrigerated, So
that part I never did understand. But I wasn't drinking
(38:46):
milk back then either. So it's the deal, just the stuff,
and it's you know, here in the United States, they
don't they don't restrict things like they do in other
countries for instance. So we're eating stuff that's not really
healthy for us. And so the only way to really
know that is to to to either work with somebody
(39:11):
like you who knows that kind of information, or to
go and just do a deep dive in research. And
that takes a long time to do. And I like
the fact that.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
You know, people, they'll they'll come to me and ask
me a questions, to talk to me whatever. And I
like researching things and exploring things with them because I
will not sit there and say do not eat this
or do not eat that. It's like, hey, let's take
a look at this, you know, let's see or what
symptoms are you having and you know, to see what
(39:45):
makes sense, right, because it's not it's not my role
to you know, to pounce on somebody to say do
this or don't do that. It's like, well this has
worked for many people. Do you want to give it
a try?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Right? Right? Right? I just it's the learning, you know,
just being able to work with somebody like you who
knows those types of things. So we would come to
you for things like weight loss or you know, my
clients dealing with stress and sleepless night. So those are
really good reasons to work with somebody like you that
understands that, and in your case, you help them to
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prep these meals and to be able to do that
online with them. That's got to be amazing for the clients.
And we've come down to almost the end here. So
I want you talked about the e book. So I
want you to tell people how they can find you
and how they can get this ebook.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Okay, well how to find me? I'm sure that you're
going to have my information posted a bit, yes.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
But below the video.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I can be texted, I can be called, I can
be emailed, very very simple to reach me. Okay, my
phone number is eighty four or five eight nine three
seven five six seven in New York that's eight four
five eight nine three seven five six seven. I am
(41:11):
on the East Coast Eastern Standard Time, so if you
are in Hawaii, please keep in mind that you're six
hours earlier than I am. So if you're planning on
calling me, please don't you watch your time zones.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
And so as we said here, I actually did turn
my I put do not disturb on my phone, and
so when my phone actually beeps when it's in that
it's because it's either a family member or it's a
specific client that needs to have help. So I apologize
for all the sounds that was coming out today. So
you can find me. You know, I'm a I'm a
(41:49):
certified divorce coach, meaning that I have been taught the
complexities of divorce. I myself, my father, and my late
husband also dealt with abuse in our relationship. So I've
learned the aspects of divorce and I've been through the
aspects of divorce and abuse. So I understand that you
can contact me via my email at Coach Tina Lynn
(42:11):
at gmail dot com. That's co O A C H
T I N A L Y n N at gmail
dot com. My website is Divorcecoachspecialist dot com. And you
can find me on social media under Tina Lynn Huggins
on Facebook that's h U G g I N S
LinkedIn under Tina Huggins on Instagram under Divorce Coach Tina
(42:36):
Lynn TikTok under Divorce Tina. And so this is something
super important here at the end of this Ellen, if
you can give our viewers a last bit of advice,
what would you tell them?
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Call me? That's definitely, well, seriously, I mean, one one
thing that I that I do offer is please take
me up on that. People do schedule a twenty minute meal, time,
consultation or whatever else wants to be talked about in
those twenty minutes when it comes to you know, the stress,
(43:12):
the sleep, the eating schedule. That definitely. But I'm going
to say, just make the decision to take care of
you because you are worth it and people need you,
so you need to take care of yourself so you
can take care of others. So that is like one
(43:34):
big thing I'm going to say, add some stress reducing
foods into your day, like be certain that you know
you pay attention to things I said, even a trail mix, right,
the mixed nuts, raw mixed nuts. Don't do the salted
junkin canola oil or peanut oil. Just raw nuts. Add
(43:56):
your little dark chocolate chips. That could be even your
one stress reducing thing. And as I said, you know,
for the first thing, seriously reach out to me for
your complimentary meal time console. And I'm sure we'll have
that link in the chat too, in the in the link.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yes, yes, it's going to be down below the video,
so it'll all be there down there. Hit you down down.
So the one thing that the advice that I would
give you is that if you are dealing with any
kind of weirdness health wise that the doctors are kind
of complexed over, they don't exactly know what direction. There's
(44:37):
all kinds of things that the natural health field can
definitely help you with in that. And so for me,
you know, you had talked earlier Ellen about you took
one thing out of your diet, You took the sugar
out and everything changed for you. So I have done that.
And one of the things that I found I was
allergic to with stress. I actually have a stress allergy
(45:00):
to where certain type of stress affects me and it
causes eruptions on my skin. It can cause a rash,
or it can cause blisters, and so it just depends
and in some cases I end up with all of those.
And one of the things that really does help me
is then I go through a cleansing diet where I
can clean from the inside out. And working with Ellen,
(45:23):
you're going to not only learn about those types of foods,
You're going to be able to prep those foods in
an easy way, cheaper than what I've been doing and
going through and having them in the freezer, pull them
out and they're ready to go. Shoot, you could have
just anybody pop in and you can pull that out
(45:43):
and you're ready to go with a full meal. So
talk to Ellen. Talk to her and find out what
she has to offer and if it's going to work
for you. So, in the course of dealing with my work,
we're talking about abuse a lot of times. And I
will tell you early on in my divorced situation, I
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got to a suicidal point. And so if you are
in a point that suicide is something you're contemplating, then
I want you to reach out to the suicide Prevention hotline.
So that you have somebody right there, right now to
talk to you, to help you through this moment. That
number is simple, It's nine eight eight. It's the same
(46:27):
number in Canada as well. You can also call a
number a suicide prevention number in the Netherlands at one
one three. And so if you are dealing with domestic
violence or you know somebody that's dealing with domestic violence,
call it Domestic Violence Hotline and that number is is
(46:47):
no I lost tip. Domestic Violence Hotline is eight hundred
seven nine nine seven two three three. That number again
is eight hundred seven ninety nine seventy two thirty three.
If you are in the place where you need the
there right now here in the US, you call nine
one one and once you get the cops there, press charges.
Don't drop those charges because after the charges are dropped,
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many times the abuse that you dealt with before those
charges were put in place is much worse. That is
your key out. You can dial nine one one here
nine nine in the Netherlands and one one two in
the UK. I asked that you please like, comment and
share this information so it can help other people. So
(47:32):
I thank you so much Ellen for being with me today.
And sharing all of your knowledge and your beautiful smile
so that everybody gets to be grace with you. Thank
you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
For having me.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
So hello and welcome to my show The Awakening here
on WGSNDB, the Going Bold and Going Solo Network. The
information and opinions expressed on the show are just that,
the opinions of the individual speaking based on their individual
personal experience. They are not intended to diagnose and do
(00:46):
not constitute professional advice or recommendations. So you know all
of the pain, stress and struggle that divorcing men and
women go through, well, there is a way to find
peace and sanity and assist the lawyer in their legal
process which can save you thousands of dollars. My name
(01:07):
is Tina Huggins. I'm your divorce coach specialist, divorce planning specialist,
restorative family mediator and conflictional co parenting coach. And today
where graced and I was just telling her how beautiful
she was dressed in blue. So we have Miss Ellen
here with us today and Ellen is a certified health coach,
(01:28):
an independent and ambassador for the nation's original in home
food tasting company. As a result of her own health
issues and severe allergies in her family, Ellen learned the
importance of smart eating. She is passionate about helping busy
(01:49):
families save money, save time, and find more easy in
or easy in their day and in their evenings. Ellen
is on a mission to power, guide, support and educate
busy women to be in control of their health with
a focus on simple, healthy cooking so that they can
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look better, feel better, and they eat better. Ellen is
celebrating her twenty sixth year with the food company. She
has consistently received a regional and national recognition, reaching a
major career milestone. Ellen recently collaborated with colleagues to create
(02:34):
an ebook that is filled with recipes and healthy tips.
So thank you for joining me here today, Ellen.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Thanks for having me, Thanks for inviting me to be
here with you.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, yes, I just love her, So that's part of
why she's here. She's just such a sweet person And
when I met her, it was just like I have
to have her. Just your energy here is super important.
That and the fact that you know as we go
through divorce aspect, because you know that's what I do.
(03:08):
The divorce process is so full of stress, lack of sleep,
and these people have to make decisions with that brain
that hasn't slept, hasn't eaten well, and is so full
of stress. So for me, that's super important for people
to understand just how important food is in our daily lives.
(03:31):
And so as I was going through some of the
stuff that you had said that we might get to
talk about, I read food prep and oh my god,
I myself because I have been in the weightlifting aspect
and I have tried food prep, and it's just that
that fact that of spending all day Sunday a day
I would love to be doing anything but cooking in
(03:53):
a hot kitchen prepping food. So tell us a little
bit how what you do is definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Not that what I do is definitely not that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Okay? So about God, about fifteen years ago, I guess
I started doing meal prep with people and I use
my favorite spices from my favorite company that I've been
with for twenty six years, and we started doing things
in real life. So my friends would they get their
(04:32):
seasonings from me? I would send them a grocery list
and we would meet in real life at someone's house
or you know, a room and a church or a
room wherever, and we would prep ten entrees for the freezer.
So it would be like just imagine a cooler on
(04:53):
wheels with about thirty pounds of raw meat in it
in bags that goes home, and it goes home with
everybody in their freezer, labeled with what it's going to
be when it comes out, gets defrosted and cooked. So
some people meal prep and they cook for a week, right,
and then they have all this food in their refrigerator
(05:15):
that they end up throwing away on Friday because their
schedule changed and they didn't eat what they cooked and prepared.
So that in itself is a total waste of money.
So what I do is I empowered people to know
how to season up meats and proteins, how to season
them up, put them in bags in the freezer. So
(05:36):
if your schedule changes, you just pull out, defrost and
cook whenever you want to. So like the night before
you go, oh, tomorrow night, we're going to have this
seasoned steak. So you take the steak out of the freezer,
put it in the refrigerator, so the next evening, all
you have to do is cook it, so you know,
so it takes that stress out of what am I
(05:57):
going to make? What am I going to prepare? What
am I going to cook? And you also know that
part of that prep is done already. And I kind
of learned that bit of a lesson because there was
one time I went away for a conference and my
husband was with the kids when I was away, and
I had cooked and prepared things and put them in
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the refrigerator so they could have food the whole time
I was away. And when I came home, I opened
the refrigerator and I'm like, we decided to go here.
We decided to go there, so we didn't eat the
stuff that you made. And I'm like, well, that's pretty stupid.
So I learned my lesson, like, Okay, how do I
(06:41):
prep these things by the freezer? So the next time
I went away on a business trip, I had seasoned
everything up, I put it in the freezer right with
labels with recipes how to pull this out to frost
it and cook it and prepare it. And when I
came home and all this stuff was still in the
freezer I was so happy because I didn't have to
cook for the whole next week because all these meals
(07:03):
were done so so meal prepping with people it is something.
So I started doing it in real life all those
years ago, and then thanks to COVID, I figured out
and I had to figure out how to do it
on Zoom. One of my clients reached out to me
when COVID hit and she said, Hi, Ellen, this is Lorraine,
(07:25):
and I just need to let you know that COVID
or not, my family still needs to eat. My family
needs you, and we're going to figure out how to
do this on zoom. Or I should say, Ellen, you're
going to figure out how to do this on zoom, right,
And I wore that, Okay, figure it out. So I
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realized very quickly that people are not going to hang
out with me on zoom and prep ten entrees for
the freezer because that takes too long. When you're in
real life and you're having fun doing it, that's great,
but being on zoom. So now I do either three
or five entrees with people on Zoom and that's it,
in thirty minutes done. And the fun of it is
(08:10):
we get to make new friends, right, so whoever new
pops on with us is great. You know, they get
their spices ahead of time, they get their grocery list,
and they meet on Zoom with their meat in a
freezer bag with the spices and the ingredients they need,
and in thirty minutes they've got meals for the freezer.
So the stress that it takes away. There was God
(08:35):
one of my friends. He's a gentleman, and he has
been religiously meal prepping with me for eighteen months. Okay,
so eighteen times on Zoom, and some of the meals
that we do, he ends up cooking for his family
that night, or he leaves it in the refrigerator to
cook the next night. So it's just the simplicity. It's
(08:58):
saving tons of money because some of these people are
people that used to have like those meal kit delivery
services deliver to their house, but they're pretty costly, and
then if your schedule changes, you end up with like,
you know, meals of food that you need to cook
up all at once because you didn't get to cook
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up the three during the whole week that you got them.
So I just find that I help people save money,
save time, and save their sanity when it comes to
meal prep. But I got the long version of that answer.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Hey, that works. So I am one of those people
that have the meal prep things. And so my deal
was is that I was buying all the food just
like you said, and it was just going bad. I
wasn't cooking it. I wasn't cooking it, and so it
was going bad. So now I do order the meal
prep And as I was sitting here listening to you,
(09:56):
I'm like, this would this would help a ton if
I didn't. You know, it would save the money. Not
so much help as much as it would save the money.
And it wouldn't obviously be that long to set up
the three meals for a week or whatever. Doing it
with you would be a whole lot cheaper overall. Now
(10:17):
that said, it has been cheaper for me to do
the meal prep company things because it all came to me,
all pre done, all all ready to go, and I
just followed the instructions and because and this is what
I'm thinking about just doing what you're saying. I have
liked the cooking part of it. It has been something
(10:39):
that normally I like cooking, but I don't love it.
And so when I want to cook I want to cook,
and having the meals already ready, like you're saying, pull
them out of the freezer. That would be so much
easier for me to be able to pull out of
the freezer, which is kind of what I'm doing. And
I get the meat and I throw it in the
freezer and then as I go But just like you're saying,
(11:00):
that fresh stuff, it goes to waste if I don't
get it cooked in that week.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah. Absolutely. And you know it's funny because some people
say they love doing the three meals at a time,
some loved doing the five meals at a time. And
a cool thing is like these these recipes that I choose,
they either serve four or they serve six. And there's
a client of mine who had she had reached out
(11:30):
to me a while ago, lives by herself, and she said,
you know, basically in a message to me, I'm sick
of take out fast food, these extra pounds I'm carrying around.
Can you help me? So I said, I don't know,
let's talk. So we got on the phone, we talked,
(11:50):
and we ended up meeting up. I showed her what
the seasonings look like and recipes. We ended up preparing
entrees for her for the freezer, and since she was
living by herself, we kind of went with the mindset of,
you know, pack them as if you're cooking for dinner
and lunch, right, you're cooking for dinner tonight for lunch
(12:12):
the next day, because lunchtime was horrible for her because
that's where her biggest food bill was from the takeout
at lunches. So we did that and we ended up
with like a month's worth of meals in her freezer.
That's the entree, just basically the protein because the side
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dishes are really simple to pull together a salad or whatever.
And then at the end of that month, she ended
up inviting some friends over and we did it with
her friends. Then a couple of months later we did
it with her aunt, her sister, and we just had
this great time. And at the end of the year,
her Facebook anniversary picture showed up and all she said was,
(12:58):
holy whatever, I don't even look like that anymore. I'm
down twenty four pounds, I've saved fifteen hundred dollars on
my lunch bills, and I am forever grateful. So, you know,
even thinking whether you're cooking for a family, right, or
whether you're cooking for yourself, you still deserve to be
(13:18):
cooked for right, or cook for yourself, and just thinking
in terms of not cooking an entire serving for six
and then eating it the whole week, because then you'll
never want to eat these recipes again because it would
be so bored. But just thinking, I'll cook for dinner, lunch, right, dinner, tonight,
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lunch tomorrow, and you know, tonight it'll be hot, tomorrow
it'll be cold on a sandwich or on a salad,
so you can vary things up too, so you're not bored. So,
you know, just doing things for yourself. Some people, when
they're just one or two people at home, they say, well,
why should I even bother cooking? And that's all the
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more reason to cook because it helps you keep healthier.
It helps you know what you're eating instead of eating
out and not really knowing what's in your food.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right right, And that's I mean. I have a friend
that she talks about healthy eating as far as what's
not healthy and when people go out, what's in their
food and that type of stuff. So it's like you know,
going out to Taco bell or burger King or whatever
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that meat is not not the same kind of meat
that you're prepping to cook. So the meat that you
are and like in my freezer, I actually have meat
that's from our own cow, you know, So we have
our own clean meat that we fed and raised and
so it's it's clean. And so often when we go
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to a restaurant or something, it's not We don't get
what we think we're getting.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Definitely, So you know, sometimes I hear too that you know,
somebody will want to eat healthy, but they're not sure
how to do it when they go out to eat.
Like you know, I'm looking at a menu and I
can't figure out what to eat. And you know, yes,
something says gluten free, but that doesn't mean it's healthy
just because it's free of gluten. And so a little
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tip I have for that you want to hear it, like, yes,
how you can eat healthy even when you go out
to eat. Okay I am. I am a highly allergic household. Okay,
so I knew. My son is twenty eight years old.
He was born with lots of allergies, and many times
we would bring his own food. I'm not telling you
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to bring your own food. But then we got to
the point where we would just tell the server, you know,
there's allergies here, and then he got to the point
he was just telling the servers, not me. I would
just shut up and let him talk. But for me,
I have a lot of foods that I cannot eat.
You know, Am I allergic to them? And will they
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kill me?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
But does my body react badly to them? Yes. So
I go out to eat and I just tell the server,
get your pad out. I've got some food allergies to
tell you about. And it's like okay. The pad comes
out with a long piece of paper and I just
go through it and I just say, I am allergic too.
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Whatever it is, I don't eat. And sometimes I get
to meet the chef. And there were times when I've
gone away on incentive trips that I've earned, and they're like,
you know, to Cancun, Riviera am I, et cetera, et cetera,
where Spanish is main language. So I type these allergy
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cards in Spanish. So when I go to restaurants, my
husband lasts at me because I get to meet the
restaurant manager, Matre d, the chef, I get to meet everybody,
and I end up eating so much better than many
other people because they take such care of what they
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feed me because I have my little allergy card. So
if you want to eat healthy and you want to
eat out and enjoy your meals, just just say, my
friend Ellen, no, don't please, don't blame on me. But
in all seriousness, you could say that this is an
allergy and they will prepare because it's an allergy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, and a lot of people don't understand. Like I know,
I kind of fit into this with tomatoes. It's not
so much how it fills in my mouth, but the
acid of a tomato by itself I can't have, so
I won't order it on like a hamburger or in
my salad. Now, if it's mixed in pico de gayo,
then then I'm okay with that because the lemon or
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whatever else is in their neutralizing that right. But my husband,
my husband, my son has a struggle with a feel
of mushrooms in his mouth. So I just tell him
when you go to restaurants. And he's a chef too,
so he gets it now. But I'm like, just tell
them that you're allergic to mushrooms. You don't have to
say you don't like that. Just tell him you're allergic
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to that, because then they won't put it in there.
So that's super important. Now for me, I don't have
like everyone because I have a thyride issue and everyone says, well,
you need to go gluten free because of it. Gluten
free didn't change anything, but in the process I did
realize that I cannot properly digest rice. Of all the
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things I can't, I can eat some of it. I'm
not okay with that, but if I eat too much,
then we have stomach and bowel issues for a whole day.
So I have learned in my case that if it's
on my plate, I don't eat very much of that.
So in that we I mean talking about allergies and stuff.
I know you and I talked just prior to coming
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on here about the foods that are helpful for us
when we're under stress and that can help us actually sleep.
So can you go over some of that for us?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Sure? Absolutely? Okay, let's start with stress. So when it
comes to reducing stress in a diet, incorporating like certain
healthy foods can be very, very beneficial. So let's start
with nuts and seeds. Okay, things like almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, right,
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they contain omega threes, fatty acids magnesium that are important
for brain health and stress reduction. So along the lines
of like the nuts and seeds, make your own trail mix.
And when you make your own trail mix, like, don't
just put almonds in it, put a variety of the
nuts and seeds in it, because they all have different
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benefits and supporting your body. So do the almonds, the walnuts,
the pumpkin seeds, the sunflower seeds. And if you need
something like a little sweet in there, like a little
bits of dark chocolate, like not really milk chocolate, because
that's throwing dairy in there. But the dark chocolate is good.
And I try and do things that are low and
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sugar or no sugar. But the little bits of dark
chocolate I find just adds that a nice little bit
of flavor. So making your own trail mix. Fatty fish, right,
Salmon is the number one fish, Salmon, sardines, hino, omega threes,
Avocado the healthiest fat on the face of the earth.
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I thing to have berries, blueberries especially, and strawberries, dark chocolate.
I did mention that in moderation, and don't do dark
chocolate too close to bedtime because you're gonna be able
to sleep. Whole grains based, so like oatmeal is good, quinoa,
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brown rice, and herbal teas especially before bed. Bananas and
yogurt and leafy greens like spinach and kale.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And so like bananas before bed. Is that the same
as the tea before bed?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, you know, when we talk about things that help
you sleep at night, bananas is on that same list
of helping you sleep. Thought. Yeah, And what's interesting is
we just talked about rice a little while ago. White rice.
This is interesting because it's the my little list here
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says consuming white rice a few hours before bed can
help you get to sleep. And the reason for that
is that white rice is high on the glycemic index,
so it spikes your blood sugar and then you crash.
So I'm not a fan of point right, They're where
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we go. Yeah, yeah, like even throughout the day. I
don't like and I don't like telling people, you know, like, oh,
little spike your blood sugar and then crash and you'll
sleep fine at night. No, we don't want to do that.
But also things that are beneficial to sleep, promoting almonds.
There you go, with those nuts turkey. Right, how many
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times you hear people on Thanksgiving, right, they put themselves
in a turkey coma because they ate so much turkey
they fell asleep. So turkey does that to you. Cama
meal tea, passion flower tea, Kiwi may help you fall
faster and stay asleep longer. Part cherry juice and now
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you have that fatty fish again.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The sent.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Walnuts and the bananas that we talked about, and just
things like an evening routine. Right. You know some people
say they snack a lot late at night and they
want ideas on like how to not snack late at night.
Let's say you have your dinner and then like eight
(23:19):
o'clock at night, just get yourself into like a little routine.
Have a cup of that herbal tea, you know, a
cup of cama meal tea, and let that be you
telling your body, Okay, my evening is done. Well, your
evening may not be done, but I'm eating. My eating
is done for the night. Or some people after dinner,
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right or maybe at eight o'clock, like having an eight
o'clock eating cut off or seven o'clock eating cut off.
Just go brush your teeth because when you brush your teeth, right,
that kind of signals like okay, I'm done, So that
could be your little queue of I'm done eating, you know,
and do that and that helps you wind down too.
And then you know, just for nighttime routine, how many times, Tina,
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have you heard, you know, shut your electronics off an
hour before bedtime? How many times do you actually do that?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
No, people don't do that. But at least when it
comes to like not eating late at night, right, then
you can kind of like have that tea. I started
doing that too. I like, you know, seven thirty is
I'll have like a cup of either like decafed green
tea or cammon meal tea, and I find that I
don't want to eat after that because it's almost like
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I told myself, okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And you know, I don't do so much camm pio
tea and even sometimes I'll do black tea at night.
It's just that I don't know. The mental thing is,
just like you say, brushing your teeth, I will. I
will be to where I can drink the tea and
I drink it slow. So my thing is is that
the warmth and the tea cup and so all of
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that plays a part, and I can tell you it
doesn't really matter to me what tea it is that
I'm not hungry after that, that warmth in my stomach
just kind of makes me feel good. And then when
I'm actually not feeling good, like just feeling that I
need something, I will just pour me some like chicken
(25:27):
broth and heat it up, because that tea chicken broth
itself is something that takes that I get that little
bit of salt taste and everything inside, and it's the warmth,
and then I don't feel like I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Okay, then I can ask you a chicken broth question.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh okay, see if I'm smart enough to answer that one.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Do you make your own chicken broth or do you
buy the container.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
This I've been buying since since my husband passed, I've
been buying chicken broth and using it, liking the mashed
potatoes and stuff like that. So yes, it does better.
And we have made our own chicken and beef broth,
specifically beef broth.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay, yeah, because because when you cook up chicken, right,
one of the things I always say is, you know,
cook up like a bigger batch of chicken right, and
then save the chicken, whether for soup or sandwiches or salads.
You have a lot of uses for the chicken. And
then save that chicken broth, you know, and even freeze
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it and ice cube trees or you know, small containers
or something. This way you could always have your chicken
broth and not the you know, containered and store.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Spot at the bottles. And most of the time in
that case, they're so high in sodium. Now, for me,
that's part of why I have done chicken broth in
the past is because I needed that sodium. That salt
taste my thyroide. We taught our thyroid back in berth
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basically because I add iodine to to salt. That we've
taught our bodies to realize, oh I need iodine. So
iodine is salty, and so we crave that salt. So
I make sure in my case that I've got pink
salt versus just a regular table salt.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Okay, yes, tea salt, pink salt, mm hmm, all good.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And so I know this and just looking at your
beautiful face, eating healthy helps the complexion, so that that's
something that do you just off the top of your head.
Know of the foods that can help the complexion.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, I read you a bunch of them.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Some of them I know personally some of them, but
I couldn't tell you how many of them were the best.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
No, definitely, some of these are the best. A big,
a big thing having to do with you know, with
what you eat. It's not just what you eat, it's
what you drink. Okay. So if I can talk about
hydration for a second. Oh, first of all, can I
say that I'm sixty six years old?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You can, I'm gonna call you a liar, but okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I'm sixty six. And I kind of go through this
every single time I'm talking with somebody and age comes
up and they look at me and they're going like, okay,
you're lying, Like no way, I'm like, I am sixty six.
My daughter's thirty three, my son is twenty eight, I'm
married thirty nine years to the same guy, and you
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know I'm sixty six. Okay. So so talking about hydration,
you know, sometimes we think that drinking water is enough, right,
And it's been said drink half your body weight and
ounces and drinking plain water is not enough. And I
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am A great example of that there was It was
a July about twenty years ago. I had a booth
at a street there, and July in New York is
really hot, and I drank I don't know how much
water the entire day, but just water the entire day,
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and ended up in the hospital that night. And they
told me that I was dehydrated, and I said, how
can I be dehydrated? I drank like all that I
was to drink like a hundred ounces of water, if
not my total body weighed in water like and they
said that that there was nothing in your water. It
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was just water, So you're just flooding your body. And
so then I learned after that, you know, put a
little bit of coconut coconut water in your water, or
lemon juices or orange slices or just some thing. I
will say big time, just don't do the sugar drinks.
(30:06):
I'm not going to bash any you know companies that
sell big bottles of orange colored stuff, right. Some of
those are great for you know, like sports drinks and whatever,
but they pump you full of sugar and then you
end up in those high low crashes because as you're crashing,
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you need more and then you end up, you know,
taking in like tons of sugar into your body. So
so I definitely learned my lesson the hard way. So
putting something in your water, even if it's a big
picture in your refrigerator with cucumber slices in it, you know,
or something, because cucumber slices can last in your refrigerator
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like four ds. Just keep refilling it with water and
you've can cucumber. You've got something more than just water.
There is a hydration drink that I really like, and
it's like little pockets that you add to water. But
it says to add this packet to like twenty ounces
of water, but I'll add that little packet to like
forty ounces of water because I'm not much for like
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big flavored stuff. But hydration is huge, and you know,
if you have questions, if anybody has questions, you know,
definitely reach out to me and we can talk more
about hydration because that is really big time important. And
when you wake up in the morning, your body is
as dehydrated as if you sat on a plane for
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five hours and drink a thing. And first thing in
the morning. I'm not telling you to drink a glass
this size of water. But start sipping at water because
if you drink too much too fast, you're just flooding
your organs. You don't want to do that. But just
sip at it, drink it. But the first thing in
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the morning should be getting water into your body. And
I think that that could be a part of the
complexion and looking decent. I'm gonna say healthy fats, you know,
Avocado is really important, you know, and just being mindful
of the fats that you're eating. I saw on a
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label somewhere like organic canola oil and some ingredients somewhere,
and I'm like, first of all, canola oil is so processed.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's one of my allergy things when I go to
a quality allergic to canola oil.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
But I don't know how or why anybody would think
that organic canola oil could possibly be healthy when it's
such a process fat to begin with. So watch your oils.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I canola oil. I come from a farm, and so
some of my family member used to grow canola oil,
so I got to learn a lot about that. And
then I did massage work and would blend my own
oil and I wouldn't even put canola oil on the
outside of somebody's body, no less on the inside of
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their body. So I not oils or some of the
oils that I would I had preferred to mix and
stuff with just because they're better, like peanut oil, although
it's not a great oil to do that with peanut
oil's consistency is good. Then I would hear people talk
about grape seed oil and I was like, grape seed
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oil is what we use on wood because it's so
what it does to the wood. You don't want that
doing that to your body. So understanding what kind of
oils is super important that I learned a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, and just being mindful of what you're eating. I
think that's a big thing with me. It's like I
ended up, you know, with with health challenges a while ago,
and I don't know how much when I ended up
talking about this, but it was about fifteen years ago
that I had gone to a doctor for chekhop and
the doctor said, you're pre diabetic and medication is the
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only solution. And I said, no, I'll see you in weeks,
And I did go back to see him twelve weeks later.
I had made one change to my diet. One change.
I went back to see him. I was ten pounds
lighter and made that one change, and my blood sugar
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was totally fine. He told me, whatever I did, keep
doing it, and yet he did not want to know
what my secret was.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Of course he does it.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
So I told him to have a nice life because
I was never going back to see him again. That
one change. One know what that one change was, asked me?
And sugar sugar, that was that one change that long ago,
fifteen years ago. And then a couple of year years
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after that, I had i'll call it a line disease
scare where I had symptoms that sent me to the
emergency room and they doctors could not figure out what
was going on. They had no idea. I ended up,
instead of going the route to get confirmed that I
had lime disease, I went to a natural doctor, opted
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for a couple of supplements at that time, and made
some more dietary changes. So that's when I pulled out
the gluten, the soy, the rice, the whatever, the canola
oil and all these other things. And for the most part,
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those things have remained out of my diet for twelve years.
And you know, so when you talk about like how
you can look better. Right, It's like, okay, just pay
attention to you're eating, because I'll tell you straight out.
A vice that I had up until a few months
ago was a certain company's potato chips came in a
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bright red bag. It was the ruffled kind made with
potatoes and canola oil. And I love them, and I
could eat like an entire family sized bag of them
at a time, and then I would feel horrible, like horrible.
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And then I saw some video documentary something about this
guy that ended up in the hospital. He's lying in
the bed and they took blood samples from him and
they have the blood in vials and the blood was
really cloudy, and then on top of the blood, it
was almost like a white, foamy thing and that was
his blood. So the labtec is looking at this. I
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couldnt figure out what it was. And he goes and
asks the guy, Okay, can you tell me what did
you eat these past cup days? And the guy was
like naming all these fast foods and fast foods and
all this junk stuff and drive throughs and everything that
he was eating. Then the laptack is like, okay, let
me explain this. And then when they went to do
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the surgery. It was for blockages and his arteries, and
they showed this video of them pulling out almost like
with a tweezer, pulling out this white solid string, basically
the blockages from his arteries. And I looked at that
and I went, okay, I'm done with these potato chips.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah, that would be enough to make you done with
the potato chips. Yeah. I did that with milk. I
did that with I don't. I haven't had milk, a
glass of milk for years and years, probably over thirty years,
just because I learned some stuff about milk, just like
you did. And it's like, okay, well I'm done with milk.
I'm done. But it was milk, you know. I haven't
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let go of the cheese. So there's a minor issue there.
But we, you know, were you know, ted about cheese.
I lived in Europe, and Europe they don't have yellow cheese.
There's no yellow cheese. All their cheese is white, you know,
doesn't matter whether it's cheddar or any it's all white cheese.
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They don't add the yellow coloring to it.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And it's also raw dairy, right, it's not pasteurized.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
I'm sure, right, right, And so the only thing that
they did that I didn't understand is they had shelf milk,
and so was milk like we would put in our refrigerator,
but it's set on the shelf, and yes it would
go bad, but they didn't have to be refrigerated, So
that part I never did understand. But I wasn't drinking
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milk back then either. So it's the deal, just the stuff,
and it's you know, here in the United States, they
don't they don't restrict things like they do in other
countries for instance. So we're eating stuff that's not really
healthy for us. And so the only way to really
know that is to to to either work with somebody
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like you who knows that kind of information, or to
go and just do a deep dive in research. And
that takes a long time to do. And I like
the fact that.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
You know, people, they'll they'll come to me and ask
me a questions, to talk to me whatever. And I
like researching things and exploring things with them because I
will not sit there and say do not eat this
or do not eat that. It's like, hey, let's take
a look at this, you know, let's see or what
symptoms are you having and you know, to see what
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makes sense, right, because it's not it's not my role
to you know, to pounce on somebody to say do
this or don't do that. It's like, well this has
worked for many people. Do you want to give it
a try?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Right? Right? Right? I just it's the learning, you know,
just being able to work with somebody like you who
knows those types of things. So we would come to
you for things like weight loss or you know, my
clients dealing with stress and sleepless night. So those are
really good reasons to work with somebody like you that
understands that, and in your case, you help them to
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prep these meals and to be able to do that
online with them. That's got to be amazing for the clients.
And we've come down to almost the end here. So
I want you talked about the e book. So I
want you to tell people how they can find you
and how they can get this ebook.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Okay, well how to find me? I'm sure that you're
going to have my information posted a bit, yes.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
But below the video.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I can be texted, I can be called, I can
be emailed, very very simple to reach me. Okay, my
phone number is eighty four or five eight nine three
seven five six seven in New York that's eight four
five eight nine three seven five six seven. I am
(41:11):
on the East Coast Eastern Standard Time, so if you
are in Hawaii, please keep in mind that you're six
hours earlier than I am. So if you're planning on
calling me, please don't you watch your time zones.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
And so as we said here, I actually did turn
my I put do not disturb on my phone, and
so when my phone actually beeps when it's in that
it's because it's either a family member or it's a
specific client that needs to have help. So I apologize
for all the sounds that was coming out today. So
you can find me. You know, I'm a I'm a
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certified divorce coach, meaning that I have been taught the
complexities of divorce. I myself, my father, and my late
husband also dealt with abuse in our relationship. So I've
learned the aspects of divorce and I've been through the
aspects of divorce and abuse. So I understand that you
can contact me via my email at Coach Tina Lynn
(42:11):
at gmail dot com. That's co O A C H
T I N A L Y n N at gmail
dot com. My website is Divorcecoachspecialist dot com. And you
can find me on social media under Tina Lynn Huggins
on Facebook that's h U G g I N S
LinkedIn under Tina Huggins on Instagram under Divorce Coach Tina
(42:36):
Lynn TikTok under Divorce Tina. And so this is something
super important here at the end of this Ellen, if
you can give our viewers a last bit of advice,
what would you tell them?
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Call me? That's definitely, well, seriously, I mean, one one
thing that I that I do offer is please take
me up on that. People do schedule a twenty minute meal, time,
consultation or whatever else wants to be talked about in
those twenty minutes when it comes to you know, the stress,
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the sleep, the eating schedule. That definitely. But I'm going
to say, just make the decision to take care of
you because you are worth it and people need you,
so you need to take care of yourself so you
can take care of others. So that is like one
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big thing I'm going to say, add some stress reducing
foods into your day, like be certain that you know
you pay attention to things I said, even a trail mix, right,
the mixed nuts, raw mixed nuts. Don't do the salted
junkin canola oil or peanut oil. Just raw nuts. Add
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your little dark chocolate chips. That could be even your
one stress reducing thing. And as I said, you know,
for the first thing, seriously reach out to me for
your complimentary meal time console. And I'm sure we'll have
that link in the chat too, in the in the link.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yes, yes, it's going to be down below the video,
so it'll all be there down there. Hit you down down.
So the one thing that the advice that I would
give you is that if you are dealing with any
kind of weirdness health wise that the doctors are kind
of complexed over, they don't exactly know what direction. There's
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all kinds of things that the natural health field can
definitely help you with in that. And so for me,
you know, you had talked earlier Ellen about you took
one thing out of your diet, You took the sugar
out and everything changed for you. So I have done that.
And one of the things that I found I was
allergic to with stress. I actually have a stress allergy
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to where certain type of stress affects me and it
causes eruptions on my skin. It can cause a rash,
or it can cause blisters, and so it just depends
and in some cases I end up with all of those.
And one of the things that really does help me
is then I go through a cleansing diet where I
can clean from the inside out. And working with Ellen,
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you're going to not only learn about those types of foods,
You're going to be able to prep those foods in
an easy way, cheaper than what I've been doing and
going through and having them in the freezer, pull them
out and they're ready to go. Shoot, you could have
just anybody pop in and you can pull that out
(45:43):
and you're ready to go with a full meal. So
talk to Ellen. Talk to her and find out what
she has to offer and if it's going to work
for you. So, in the course of dealing with my work,
we're talking about abuse a lot of times. And I
will tell you early on in my divorced situation, I
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got to a suicidal point. And so if you are
in a point that suicide is something you're contemplating, then
I want you to reach out to the suicide Prevention hotline.
So that you have somebody right there, right now to
talk to you, to help you through this moment. That
number is simple, It's nine eight eight. It's the same
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number in Canada as well. You can also call a
number a suicide prevention number in the Netherlands at one
one three. And so if you are dealing with domestic
violence or you know somebody that's dealing with domestic violence,
call it Domestic Violence Hotline and that number is is
(46:47):
no I lost tip. Domestic Violence Hotline is eight hundred
seven nine nine seven two three three. That number again
is eight hundred seven ninety nine seventy two thirty three.
If you are in the place where you need the
there right now here in the US, you call nine
one one and once you get the cops there, press charges.
Don't drop those charges because after the charges are dropped,
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many times the abuse that you dealt with before those
charges were put in place is much worse. That is
your key out. You can dial nine one one here
nine nine in the Netherlands and one one two in
the UK. I asked that you please like, comment and
share this information so it can help other people. So
(47:32):
I thank you so much Ellen for being with me today.
And sharing all of your knowledge and your beautiful smile
so that everybody gets to be grace with you. Thank
you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
For having me.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
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