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91. Going Bananas Over Holiday Sports Nutrition Trends · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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  Com this is the eat more carbs podcast.
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  Hello, this is the eat more carbs podcast.
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  I'm Jenna and I'm here with Riley.
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  Today we're going to be talking all about kind of like holiday
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  fueling a couple things that maybe like get under our skin a
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  little bit. So I'm excited to kind of chat
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  with you a little bit about that Riley, because I know you and I
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  always have like very unhinged conversations offline.
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  So today we're bringing those conversations online to share
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  with all of you. But before we kind of get into
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  that drives new bananas holiday talk, Riley, update me on your
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  week high and low. What's going on starting off
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  with? My high this week, if you're a
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  new listener to the Emor Carbs podcast, I have been in the
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  middle of a move over the last like 3 months.
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  Ever since September we have been on the move.
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  We have been in temporary housing and as of this week we
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  are officially in our home. So freaking excited.
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  If you are watching this from the video perspective, if you
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  have any of the video up right now, you can see that my office
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  is in a little bit of a disarray, but we are just so
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  excited to be finally in our home.
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  It is a mess right now, but you know what, I'm just I'm taking
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  my wins when I can get them and this week, such a big high.
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  We are finally moved in. I know that this has been such a
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  long time coming, so I'm so excited for you and your family
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  because like right before the holidays, that's that's when you
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  want to be in like a permanent place, hey, for new homes.
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  So excited. Everyone keeps being like, what
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  are you doing for the holidays? And I'm like literally not
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  leaving my house. Like if you want to see Charlie,
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  if you want to see my baby girl, like you are coming to our
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  house. Like I'm not leaving.
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  I'm even door dashing my groceries.
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  Like I'm not stepping out the door.
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  No, no, no, no. I love that though.
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  I think that's exactly what you should to do, so that's great.
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  Tell me about your low though. What's been the downside of your
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  week? If you are a new listener, I am
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  currently first time mom. I have a little girl who is
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  almost 11 months old, which is wild.
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  I don't know where time is like going.
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  It makes me feel so old. Charlie is our daughter and kind
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  of related to the move. We had to establish a new
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  pediatrician because we had a pediatrician from where we moved
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  from. We really liked him.
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  But now that we're here, we have to make sure that we have good
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  medical care for Charlie. I have shared this as a low
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  before, but Charlie has a really small head, which she doesn't
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  look like she has a small, but she has like a head that's in
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  like the 3rd or 4th percentile, which is very concerning.
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  Like we're that dietitian, like we like numbers and like I was a
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  big baby, like I was always in like the 99th percentile.
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  And so Charlie's trending on being really small and also her
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  head is like less than 5%, which I've been a little stressed out
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  by the physicians never seem to be really worried about it
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  because she's, you know, tracking on her normal growth
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  curve. We established care with this
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  new pediatrician in town, Doctor Brown.
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  She's amazing. She's super nice.
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  She just concierge medicine, which is, you know, kind of
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  similar to what we do at RV assignment.
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  The concierge nutrition really liked her approach and her care
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  overall. At our first appointment, we
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  were talking about Charlie's like head size and she looks at
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  me and is like, can I measure your head?
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  And I was like, OK, she's like, I want to see if it's like
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  genetics because we don't think it is related to my husband
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  Rob's at all because love him, but he's a little bit of a
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  bigger head. So she's like, come here, sit on
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  the bench. So just me, you know, with my
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  eleven month old daughter and I'm sitting on the bed at the
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  pediatrician's office and she's measuring my head.
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  Lo and behold, I also have a small head.
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  I'm also in the third 4th percentile for head size which I
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  never even realized. I'm such a hot person and I'm
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  always wearing hats and I always fit a little weird but because I
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  have a small head. So you're ever having a bad day?
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  At least you were not sitting at the pediatricians office as a 33
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  year old woman getting your head measured.
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  I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.
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  I promise. Yes, so I mean, every time these
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  things happen to me, at least I'm like so excited to come and
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  share with you and all the listeners on the Eat More Cars
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  podcast because at least you can, you know, laugh with me,
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  not at me. Does it clear up any of your
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  stress around, like, Charlie's head size, knowing that it's
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  like, probably a genetic thing? Yeah.
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  And she's like hitting all of her mouth.
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  And so we haven't been super worried about it, but like now
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  it like all makes sense. We love it when everything just
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  comes together and then we understand.
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  We know the why. Yes, as we like to say it RBS
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  and it is a full circle. So that was a full circle moment
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  for my love. A little bit of a funny story.
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  So hopefully your high and low is a little bit better than
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  mine. I don't.
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  Think they could get any better than getting into a new home,
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  But I think I've got a close second in that I have a visitor
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  in my home. My brother is here, he's
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  visiting from Colorado. I'm very, very close with my
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  siblings. If you don't know, I have an
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  older sister and a younger brother.
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  So my younger brother is here for a couple of days.
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  We're going to the Cardinals game, which is going to be super
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  fun. I've actually never been to an
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  NFL game, so this is my first time going to see a Pro Football
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  game. I've been to a lot of other pro
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  sporting events, but never NFL. So I'm excited.
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  We're excited. I'm happy that he's here.
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  So shout out to him for coming to visit us.
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  Milo, this is so ridiculous. This is a me being ridiculous
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  thing. And when you hear this, you're
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  gonna be like, what is wrong with you?
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  I went to go get my hair cut the other day.
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  It looks great. By the way, looks so good,
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  thank. You so much.
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  I appreciate that. If you're in Arizona and you
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  need a somebody to do your hair like I have got you, DM me.
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  I will send you her information. She's wonderful and fantastic
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  and I absolutely adore her, but I go to her and I was like,
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  look, here's the deal. I understand that like, I'm
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  gonna need a little bit more of a haircut than what I'm used to.
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  So we had to cut like several inches off my hair.
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  And even though no one looking at me would realize that I have
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  had a significant haircut because I do have very long
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  hair. To me, I like run my hands
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  through my hair and I'm like, where's my hair?
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  Where's the rest of my hair? And I feel like a different
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  person. And it's to the point where like
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  to me, it's super noticeable. But like Nolan didn't even
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  notice I got a haircut. So like my husband came home and
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  was just like, you'd look different.
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  So it's like, it's not a thing that like needs to be a thing.
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  But I don't know if anybody's else like that.
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  I'm very happy with the haircut. Like it looks good.
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  It looks healthy. I'm but at the same time, like I
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  just, I'm so weird about haircuts because I'm like, I
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  just like, it's my hair. I don't know.
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  Are you like that? Your hair like always looks so
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  good though. It's one of those things though,
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  that you can like really tell on yourself, but like not many
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  other people can notice. Like for you, I mean, I talk to
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  you every single day. I like look at you every single
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  day. But like, I, I just thought your
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  hair looks really good because your hair is always longer than
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  the video feed. So I can never like tell if it
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  changed length, but it does look really good.
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  So even if it's shorter and you feel weird, you look great.
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  Thank you. I appreciate that it looks
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  healthy and at the end of the day, like we want healthy
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  looking hair. So I said said to my
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  hairstylist, do what you need to do to make it look nice and
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  presentable. If there was some damage, you
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  know, after being outside and in the sun and in the pool in the
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  summer, sometimes you got to got to change it up a little bit.
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  But Speaking of being outside, things that are changing in our
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  lives every week, we're updating you guys on our training.
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  Riley and I are both running half marathons.
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  I'm running one in January. Riley is running one in early
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  spring. So, Riley, what does training
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  look like for you this week? So my training update this week
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  looks a little bit different because now that we've moved
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  back into a house, I finally have my home gym back, which I'm
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  so freaking excited about South. My training update for this week
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  incorporates a lot more strength training.
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  I'm finally have my spot rack rack.
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  I'm finally going to be able to do some of that strength
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  training. So I'll be doing strength
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  training about three times per week and then because I've
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  incorporated that this week, I'm cutting back on my mileage a
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  little bit just because I've, you know, increased another area
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  of fitness. So I'll be doing, you know, two
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  runs that are about four miles and then I'll have a longer like
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  six to eight mile run for this upcoming weekend that.
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  Sounds great, and yay for your home gym being back too.
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  I know that that's one of the big things.
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  I mean, I'm sure you missed a lot when you were not in your
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  home, but one of those being your home gym.
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  Yeah, I was actually joking with Robbie.
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  We kept being like, what are the three things that you're most
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  excited to utilize or what are the biggest three things that
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  you've missed while you've been out of the house?
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  And I was like my Nespresso, my bed and my gym.
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  Like give me my coffee, my sleep and my workout.
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  What about you? Your race is like less than a
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  month away. Yeah, we're officially like six
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  weeks out today. So that's a little bit like
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  exciting, but also those nerves start to come where you're like,
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  am I ready for this? But we're ready for this.
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  We're good. I'm gonna hang around that 25
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  miles per week with some shorter runs and a few longer runs as
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  well. And then I always incorporate
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  strength training and my training for all of my races,
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  about two to three times of strength training this week.
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  And then most of the time I'll be running.
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  So that's my week for my training update.
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  Riley, I don't know about you, but a lot of times when we get
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  on social media, especially this time of year, there are so many
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  things that people are talking about as far as like holiday
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  trends. The world of nutrition may be
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  adjacent to the world of nutrition.
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  And a lot of times it is things that drive me nuts.
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  So what have you been seeing online, offline, around the
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  world of nutrition or in kind of like the space of health, we'll
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  say that is driving you bananas about the holidays?
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  This week, right now, the biggest thing that seems to be
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  driving me bananas is the fact that I'm already getting ads and
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  I'm getting emails for people who want to have brand
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  partnerships for GLP ones because they are already wanting
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  to go after the individuals who might feel guilty after holiday
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  eating. And I'm just not ready for it.
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  Like it's not even Christmas yet and we're already getting ready
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  for that. Like beginning of the year, that
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  diet trend that we unfortunately see every single year.
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  And that's what's driving me bananas.
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  I get probably probably 3 emails a week for these new products
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  and it's like help people overcome their holiday eating
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  with a GLP 1 and I'm just freaking over it.
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  And I know that's not necessarily related to the
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  holidays, but it just makes me mad that we're overlooking the
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  holidays. We're not even focused about
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  like the joy that food brings or the like the joy that the
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  holidays bring. We're already trying to figure
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  out how we can market and put diet culture on the holidays,
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  and we're not even there yet. I agree with you.
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  I think that just in general, when we look at things and how
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  quickly we want to jump from one like section to the next, like
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  when you go into the store and there's already like, I don't
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  know, Valentine's decorations up and it's like what is going on?
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  Like nowadays you start seeing like Thanksgiving things that
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  are in September and Christmas things in October.
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  And it just seems like we're just jumping right from like one
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  stage to the next without like stopping, pausing and enjoying.
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  So hearing you say that just kind of reminds me of like all
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  of that conversation that goes along with like New Year's
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  resolutions. And more often than not, people
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  set some type of a New Year's resolution that has to do with a
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  body weight modification. And if that's like you're goal
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  and if that's what you want to work in, OK, But like at the
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  same time, like why aren't we looking at other things that
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  like happen in between now and New Year's?
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  Like it seems like, like you said, there's just like this
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  whole jump over like the joy that comes along with the
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  holiday season, so many holidays and fun things to celebrate
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  getting together with family, enjoying food that happens in
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  December. And we're just like, no, no,
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  let's let's just jump ahead kind of missing out on some of those
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  things that we might want to pause, slow down and enjoy.
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  I think it. Is such a good reminder because
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  we are so like food forward and positive nutritional RBSN.
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  And you and I talk about this all the time.
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  And we also are talking about our clients with this approach
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  every single day. And when we go on social media,
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  you know, we're in our little space where it's a positive
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  nutrition, food forward. Let's eat more carbohydrates.
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  Like if you're listening to this podcast for the first time, it's
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  literally called eat more carbs. Like we are food positive here.
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  We love to fuel and like a good reminder, even though it is
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  really frustrating that there is so much of that like shenanigans
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  out there. Shenanigans.
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  Such a great word for it. Like all the stuff that I'm
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  seeing right now that's like nature's ozone and then just
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  inserting some ridiculous solve for that.
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  I'm not even gonna get into like the ridiculousness that I have
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  seen online with what that could potentially be.
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  But there is just so much out there that we're just forgetting
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  that there is so much more to life, so much more complexity
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  around like holidays and fueling and fun and food then we're
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  giving credit to. It's just like, oh, here's just
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  the one one thing that you can change.
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  And all of a sudden this like is going to be this magic turn
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  around for you. And like we maybe aren't
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  addressing like the why behind it, which we talk about South
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  much with our clients and with you guys at RBSN and why that's
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  so important to address versus just being like, here's a
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  Band-Aid, let's move. Forward on the topic of
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  shenanigans and Nature's Olympic, have you seen Kourtney
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  Kardashian's product? The gummy like vitamin
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  situation, Yeah, I can't for you all.
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  Listening, it doesn't work. It's a marketing gimmick.
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  Please do not buy it. Drive me freaking bananas.
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  I know we're off topic because we're not necessarily talking
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  about the holidays now, but I feel like this stuff is all
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  intertwined. Like, just like you said, we're
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  seemed to always just be like jumping to the next thing and
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  we're always so focused on what supplement can we take to, you
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  know, improve our body or what can we do this and this and
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  this. And we never really, like, take
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  time to appreciate all of the things that our body has done
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  for us. You're bringing this full circle
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  because today we had a conversation about how far RBSN
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  has come in the past year because it's really easy to get
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  into like the comparison game, whether you are an athlete
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  comparing yourself to a teammate or you're a small business
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  comparing yourself to another small business.
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  But we've made incredible strides and sometimes it's
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  really easy to like look over the small things that we're
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  changing on a day-to-day basis or the gains that we're making
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  on a day-to-day basis. But if you can take a pause and
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  like look back and reflect on the past year that you have,
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  then it becomes more apparent like all of the wonderful things
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  that you have achieved, all of the things that have changed.
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  And like looking back this past year on RBSN, like we have done
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  so much and I'm so proud of like our team for what we've been
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  able to accomplish. So I think that like there's so
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  much more that we're like missing when we're like jumping
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  into the next season of life. There's so much that we can like
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  appreciate and enjoy, like this season that's happening right
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  now. And like this is nothing to do
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  with nutrition. Maybe I'm just on my soapbox and
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  I should probably jump off now, but there's just so much that we
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  can be so appreciative of and look back and say like, OK,
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  yeah, we did that, so I'm so glad.
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  That you brought that up because you and I were talking about it
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  from a business perspective, but then I also was talking about it
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  with one of our period recovery clients this morning because she
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  started to have period symptoms. She started working with us, you
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  know, at the end of August and she's really put in some work
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  over the last couple of months. One of the things that we were
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  doing today was reflecting on how far she had come.
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  Sometimes, especially with period recovery.
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  And just like you said, when you're, you know, constantly
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  working on things, you have a goal that you're after, you
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  sometimes forget the little wins that come up during the journey.
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  It was so crazy for her to kind of look back at her plates and
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  to, you know, look at her mindset with fueling because
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  where she was like, you know, four months ago or even at the
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  end of July is so different from where she is today.
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  But it wasn't until she really looked back at that time that
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  has accumulated, that she was like, wow, I've actually come so
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  far. Yeah.
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  And it's really easy to kind of overlook that.
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  So if you're listening to this podcast right now, like take a
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  couple minutes, reflect on all the things that maybe you have
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  accomplished in this past year. Focus on what you have done
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  because you can be proud of that.
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  And it's OK to acknowledge that and feel proud for all of the
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  things that you've maybe changed or all of the accomplishments or
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  positive things that have happened in the past.
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  Year So you mentioned earlier that you were scrolling and
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  there's couple things that came up.
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  So what are some things that like are driving your bananas
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  right now that you you saw this week?
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  I don't know if it's anything that I necessarily saw this week
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  online, but it's something that I've noticed as a trend for
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  holiday meals and holiday conversation in the past.
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  And that is people that comment on changes that they maybe see
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  in your physical appearance at a holiday meal.
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  It is never appropriate to comment on how somebody's body
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  has maybe changed. We don't know what's going on in
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  their life. They might be preparing to have
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  a baby, they might be just struggling with something, they
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  might have something underlying going on.
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  It's just never appropriate. But I feel like when you're with
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  family and friends who feel very comfortable, it becomes really
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  easy for them to feel like they should say something.
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  And even if we're kind of assuming positive intent, that
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  they're hoping what they're saying is a compliment or what
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  they're saying expresses concern or something like that, it's
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  just never OK. And I don't know why it comes up
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  at holiday meals, but that drives me bananas so.
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  How do you navigate that? As a dietitian and somebody who
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  has shared about your relationship with food and how
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  you have succeeded so much with your positive relationship, how
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  do you navigate? That I think you kind of have to
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  like recognize that it like if it happens, you need to have a
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  plan of action because there are certain situations in which it
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  might be OK to respond and you might have a good relationship
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  with that friend or family member.
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  To say, there are so many other things that have happened
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  positively in my life and none of them have to do with what I
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  look like. I love to say that like what I
• 15:39
  look like on the outside is the least interesting thing about
• 15:41
  me. And I know that that's something
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  that we kind of like throw around behind the scenes here a
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  lot. But then there aren't other
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  situations in which like it might not be in your best
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  interest to respond to that friend or family member.
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  And so just taking a moment for yourself and saying, OK, I'm
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  choosing to just move this conversation in a different
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  direction without even really acknowledging or engaging in
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  that conversation just because it might not prove to be
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  anything positive for you or the other person involved.
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  So it's really up to the person. Oh my gosh, it all depends.
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  It really does all depend on whether or not that's a
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  situation in which you feel comfortable talking with someone
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  about it. Because there might be
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  situations where it's a good learning moment for someone, but
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  then there might be situations where it also is just not worth
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  your time, your energy, and your like, mental peace to engage in
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  a conversation that has to do with, you know, how your body
• 16:22
  may have changed in the past year.
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  I agree with you. I am taking like a very, very
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  similar approach where most of the time actually, I have found
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  that, and this is this might be selfish of me, but most of the
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  time I'm like, I'm not even going to fight you on this
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  because I know that you're not ready to hear what I have to
• 16:36
  say, especially if it's like something, you know, a comment
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  on me. And that's something that my
• 16:40
  eyes were really open to over the last, you know, two years as
• 16:44
  somebody who got pregnant and then was in that postpartum
• 16:47
  period. My body has looked very, very
• 16:49
  different over the last 18 months.
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  And there's so many comments that come my way, and I don't
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  even have the energy or the care to respond to those.
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  But if you say something about my body or somebody else's body
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  in front of my daughter, yes, she's only 11 months old.
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  But like I'm correcting that behavior.
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  And I think that's like, we should start that from a young
• 17:07
  age because we don't want, you know, the next generation to
• 17:09
  have to grow up with the kind of things that, you know, you and I
• 17:11
  have had to navigate or we're hopefully, you know, diminishing
• 17:14
  that or lessening that that, you know, daughter and your
• 17:16
  daughter's friends and peers will go through.
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  So I like that that's the approach that you're taking.
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  If you have like questions about how Riley specifically navigated
• 17:25
  a lot of those body changes, we're going to go ahead and link
• 17:27
  all of Riley's pregnancy episodes.
• 17:29
  Riley talked a lot on the Emor Carbs podcast about how she
• 17:32
  navigated that time, all of the positive work that she did
• 17:34
  before, during and after. So we'll link all of that.
• 17:37
  It's a whole series. And we're really thankful that
• 17:39
  she shares that experience because we don't always have
• 17:41
  that to like lean back on and like hear how someone else
• 17:44
  navigated that time. So we're going to link all that
• 17:46
  in the show notes. So that way if you're curious
• 17:47
  about how Riley did navigate that from a positive nutrition
• 17:51
  standpoint, you can look into all of that.
• 17:52
  And even if you're not pregnant, it's also a great lesson just to
• 17:55
  talk about like body changes and that navigation.
• 17:57
  So we talked about. Some things that drive us
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  bananas, but not everything about the holidays is all bad.
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  So before we kind of sign off, what is like one of your
• 18:05
  favorite like holiday traditions or things that you're looking
• 18:07
  forward to with the holidays? Oh man, I could say so many
• 18:10
  things about holiday traditions and things I love.
• 18:13
  This is one that has nothing to do with, but every year for as
• 18:17
  long as I can remember, we open one present on Christmas Eve and
• 18:20
  it is always matching pajamas that my full family has.
• 18:23
  My mom still buys everyone, including my dog, like a
• 18:26
  matching bandana for all of our matching PJ's.
• 18:28
  And then we take a family photo in front of the Christmas tree.
• 18:32
  And then it's tradition that on Christmas morning, we wake up
• 18:35
  and we put the pajamas back on and we have brunch together in
• 18:37
  our matching PJ's. My husband's like, what do I do
• 18:39
  with all of these extra PJ's? And I'm like, I don't know.
• 18:41
  But you can't get rid of them. Like they're, they're family
• 18:43
  heirlooms. So you have to hold on to.
• 18:46
  I love that seeing them in your closet, like probably all lined
• 18:49
  up, that's amazing. That's what we do.
• 18:50
  What about you guys? Do you have a special tradition
• 18:53
  that you do? Something that we've always
• 18:54
  done, like ever since we were kids.
• 18:56
  We're Christmas crackers. They're a British tradition.
• 18:59
  Do you know what? A Christmas cracker.
• 19:00
  Is. No, I don't.
• 19:01
  So it's this like British or English tradition where
• 19:04
  basically they're these things called Christmas crackers, and
• 19:07
  it almost looks like a big Tootsie roll.
• 19:08
  Do you know what a Tootsie roll looks like?
• 19:10
  Yeah, it's like circular. And then it's like wrapped at
• 19:12
  the ends. And traditionally they have
• 19:14
  gunpowder in them, so they like pop when you pull them.
• 19:17
  Oh, and they have like a little toy in them.
• 19:19
  They'll have like a crown and like maybe another like a little
• 19:23
  trinket or like a fortune. That's what it is.
• 19:25
  It's like a fortune, a crown, and then like a little toy or
• 19:28
  like a little game or something. And that's kind of like our
• 19:31
  Christmas Eve tradition. As a kids.
• 19:33
  We used to make them with like old toilet paper rolls.
• 19:35
  Every time my mom goes to England to visit my grandma,
• 19:38
  she'll come back and she'll like bring like the, the real ones
• 19:40
  with like the gunpowder. So we always do like those
• 19:42
  Christmas crackers on Christmas Eve.
• 19:44
  When you first said Christmas crackers, I thought you like
• 19:47
  cracker like you eat crackers. I was like, like hummus and
• 19:50
  crackers. Is that you work?
• 19:53
  Hard, but my mind was immediately like a recipe.
• 19:56
  Great, I'm going to learn something new.
• 19:58
  They'll see it on Monday on Jenna's Instagram.
• 20:01
  Oh my gosh, I love that though. Such a fun tradition and it it
• 20:04
  also doesn't have to do with. Food, that's the wonderful thing
• 20:06
  about like holidays, is that you can have traditions that do have
• 20:09
  more involvement with food, but then there are also traditions
• 20:12
  that don't have anything to do with nutrition and they're all
• 20:14
  fun. We're going to be doing a whole
• 20:15
  kind of like a series, I guess, on holiday things the month of
• 20:18
  December, just because there's so much going on.
• 20:20
  And we really realized that for a lot of people, sometimes
• 20:23
  navigating the holidays, especially from a nutrition
• 20:25
  standpoint, can be a little bit more challenging.
• 20:26
  So you can TuneIn next week for another kind of fun festive
• 20:30
  fueling episode that we're going to do.
• 20:31
  But just as a big announcement to everyone who's listened to
• 20:34
  the Eat More Carbs podcast, first of all, thank you so much
• 20:36
  for joining along and listening to this past year.
• 20:38
  We are so incredibly thankful we wouldn't be here without the
• 20:40
  support of all of the listeners liking, subscribing, reviewing
• 20:43
  and sharing with friends and family.
• 20:44
  Like it is just such a great thing that Riley and I get to do
• 20:47
  as part of RBSN is this podcast on a weekly basis.
• 20:50
  With that being said, big change coming up is that episodes will
• 20:53
  no longer be going out on Tuesdays.
• 20:56
  They will be going out on Thursdays from now on.
• 20:58
  So if you don't see an episode next Tuesday from us, it's going
• 21:01
  to be coming out on Thursday and we're going to be trying that
• 21:03
  out to see how that works for the Mark Carps podcast.
• 21:06
  So just a little heads up there, if you are used to listening to
• 21:08
  the episodes on Tuesdays, it'll now be on Thursdays.
• 21:12
  Thank you so much for listening. If you have questions for Riley
• 21:14
  and I, you can find us on Instagram.
• 21:16
  You can find Riley at Easy Sports nutrition and you can
• 21:19
  find me at Jenna dot Fisher dot nutrition.
• 21:22
  Make sure you rate, subscribe and review.
• 21:24
  And as always, remember to eat more carbs.