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39. "hot girl" summer prep... part 2 · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the Hawk Girl Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kaylee, and this is your weekly reminder that it's
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a new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day
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for you to become the Hawk Girl Energy you want to attract. Hello you
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guys, welcome back to another episode. Welcome to part two of the Hawk
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Girl Summer Prep episode series. I hope you guys enjoyed the last episode.
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I really enjoyed recording it. It just got me so excited for summer and
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the nice weather has finally started to come out here in Ottawa and it's just
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getting me so much more motivated. And I feel like last week I had
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such a good week with staying consistent with my routine and just finally getting back
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into some healthy habits and all that. I really feel like the winter like
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drained my soul, if that makes sense. Like I just felt like winter
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wasn't the greatest for me. And I had a lot of travel, which
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was great, and I always loved traveling, but I always find it's super
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hard to get back into routine sometimes. And that's okay, And know that
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summer is around the corner and it's going to be a good summer. I
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can just feel it for you, guys. I can feel it for myself.
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I can feel it for you, and I'm just excited to get back
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into my Hot Girls summer era. So in this week's episode, we're going
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to be highlighting some things that we didn't touch on last week. So if
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you guys didn't listen to the first episode of the Hawk Girl Summer Prep series,
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make sure to listen to the episode. First. We really go into
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just some like summer activities and just things to really look forward to for this
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summertime. But in this episode, we're going to be focusing more on some
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workouts, some motivations, some body confidence, healthy recipes, how to stay
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balanced your summer season, and my summer plans personally. So let's get into
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summer workouts. I feel like every time it's nice out, I'm always feeling
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motivated to be outside more. I just always want to enjoy the fresh air.
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I always want to just get out of the house more. I feel
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good when I leave the house. I feel good when I have like the
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sun on my skin, and I just feel like a thrive of more energy
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when I'm in the sunshine and when I'm breathing fresh air. So one thing
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that I always love to do in the summertime is I always love to go
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outside for a run. Now, some of you guys may not be runners,
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and that's okay. If you're not a runner, I just recommend doing
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long walks. I still do long walks as well, but usually once or
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twice a week in the summertime, I usually go for a run. Last
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year, I was pretty consistent with it. I moved into my new house
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in June of last year, so it's almost been a year since I've lived
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in this neighborhood, which is crazy, but I really created like a little
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running path for myself. There's this pond right by my place and I always
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just like run by that trail and I just find it's like a very like
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therapeutic way just to enjoy the neighborhood, look at you know, nice homes,
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and still get a good sweat in and again mental health. I always
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just find like running just feels so good for the soul. But like I
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said, if you're not a runner, I recommend like putting on a podcast
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and going on a long walk. I feel like I can't listen to podcasts
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when I'm running. I don't know if that's weird. I feel like I
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need motivational music to like get me through the long run because I have a
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love hate relationship with running. I feel like as a kid, my mom
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always put me in like cost country races and like marathons, five k races
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all that, and I would do it just because like I knew I was
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good at it, but I didn't like enjoy it. But I found a
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love for running by just like you know, not having any competition at all,
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just like doing it for my own health and wellbeing and just doing it
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to get a good sweat out and just also enjoy the fresh air outside.
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So I'm excited to get back into that this summer and just you know,
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listen to music and just run around the neighborhood and enjoy like time to myself
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as well. I always just like like to escape, you know, and
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just kind of be by myself for you know, twenty to thirty minutes and
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go on a run. Just kind of same thing with walking. You just
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like want that time to yourself just to like have your own thoughts, go
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for a walk, get a good workout in all that. So definitely gonna
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be doing that. And another thing I'm going to be doing is trying to
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be outside as much as I can. As I said, like probably taking
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my yoga mat outside, maybe doing some workouts in my backyard. We are
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finally getting our fence up I think this week or next week, which is
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exciting only on like part of our backyard though, so we will need to
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do the other sides of the fencing, like between our neighbors ourselves. But
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I'm excited to finally have like a fenced in backyard just for like some privacy
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and also for Freddie to have a space to run around and all that.
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But yeah, I definitely want to be able to have a flat ground area
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in our backyard that way I can set it up and do a workout.
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If you guys have been following me for a while, you guys know that
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I always enjoy doing workouts in my parents' backyard. I would always take out
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my yoga mat and just set up my iPad or my laptop, put on
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a workout video for twenty minutes, and just do it outside. I felt
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like it was just such a great way to again get a good sweat in,
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but also get some fresh air and so I want to get back into
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that this summer and hope to have a space to do that in my backyard
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once we get our fence up, and then I'm still going to be doing
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my spinning classes. Even with running, I find spinning is just such a
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fun workout and I just love going there because I love the team environment,
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I love the music, I love how motivating it is. I just I
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don't know how to explain it. If you've done a spin class, you
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know the adrenaline and you know like how it feels to be in the class.
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It just feels so good. And even if like you like to do
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pilates or yoga class or anything like that, again you're in a team environment
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and it just feels really good to get into workout classes and all that.
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So I'm definitely going to be keeping up with that this summer while teaming my
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other workouts throughout the week. But when it comes to motivation, this kind
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of ties into the workouts is I feel like I always get asked like,
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how do you say motivated all the time and all that, And don't get
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me wrong, there's weeks where I'm not motivated at all, Like I don't
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want to get out of bed and I don't want to do a workout,
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And there's some weeks where I wake up and it's, you know easy,
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it's easy to just you know, go throughout my routine and stay consistent and
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all that. But I think the one thing for me personally that I always
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hold myself accountable too is creating a workout schedule each week. And I feel
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like if I'm consistent with that schedule, I feel good. I feel like
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if the schedules in front of me and I know I'm supposed to do a
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workout that day and I don't do it, I almost feel like bad.
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I'm almost like, why didn't I do that? I shouldn't. I should
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have took that twenty to thirty minutes out of my morning to do it.
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Because it sounds like it's a lot, but it really isn't. It's literally
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twenty to thirty minutes out of your day, out of the twelve hours that
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you're awake or however long it is throughout the day, and it's literally twenty
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to thirty minutes. It doesn't have to be an hour workout. It could
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be forty, it could be thirty, it could be twenty. Like just
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taking that time aside to work on yourself and focus on yourself is so important
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and so for me, I find if I have a schedule laid out,
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I'm motivated to stay consistent with it because I feel like I'm almost like upset
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with myself if I'm not. Now if there's you know, times where you
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wake up and you really aren't feeling well, or you know you're on your
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period or whatever, like I'm not telling you you have to push yourself to
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get that workout in. I think it's best to rearrange your schedule for that
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week. And so, Okay, I couldn't work out today because I wasn't
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feeling one hundred percent. Okay, I'm going to work out on Saturday instead.
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So just like working around your own schedule and finding something that works for
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you, I find allows me to stay consistent and allows me to, you
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know, push myself to do those workouts each day because I know when I
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do a workout, I feel good, and I know that doing that and
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moving my body in some way each day it's going to help my mental health.
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And yeah, it's just those like little things. I don't know.
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I feel like some people are like, how do you do a workout every
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day and all that, but it's like I said, it's really only like
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thirty to forty minutes of your day that you're taking a side to work on
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yourself. So that's personally what I do is I really like to create a
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schedule, and I find that keeps me motivated and helps me stay consistent and
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like, for example, today is actually not a workout day for me,
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but after recording this podcast, I'm probably going to put a podcast on and
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go on a long walk and just move my body in some way, knowing
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that, Okay, I didn't get a good sweat in this morning, but
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I'm going to go for a long walk, and it's some type of way
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of me moving my body and I'm treating myself in that way, if that
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makes sense. So I find that's what really helps me out. So off
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days, I usually do long walks. Days where I work out, I
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set aside thirty to forty minutes of my morning to get a good sweat in.
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And I've mentioned it multiple times, but if you guys can't get workouts
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done in the morning, find another time that works for you, whether it's
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on your lunch break or your evenings or whatever. You know, there's some
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people that I know that do workouts at five am in the morning. That's
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not for me, but if it's for you, that's great. Like just
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finding some time to set time for yourself, I think is so important.
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And another thing that I'm getting back into this summer, which I'm really excited
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about, is I'm getting back into my sports. I played ring at this
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past winter, but I was only a part time player. But this summer,
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I'm actually getting back into soccer. I have not played soccer, guys
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in I want to say five years, probably five years last summer, if
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you guys were listening to the pod. I did actually attempt to play a
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tournament and I injured myself the first or second game or something like that.
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So I can't really count that as getting back into soccer because it was literally
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one tournament and I injured myself and ended up playing goalies, so that doesn't
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count in my opinion. I've actually joined a league where we play every Thursday,
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and I'm actually doing it with two of my girlfriends. So what's nice
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is that knowing that I'm getting back into a sport that I played for so
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long, Like I played competitively for like I want to say at least like
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seven or eight years of my life. I started when I was like seven,
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and I stopped when I was like eighteen, I think, so I
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guess almost ten years then. So I played for a really long time,
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and then once I got into college, I dropped all my sports. I
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was so focused on school, my career and all that. So I really
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wanted to get back into sports because I think it's fun to be able to
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be in a social setting with your friends, but also getting a fun workout
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in and getting back into a sport that you love. So again, if
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you're someone that has a hard time staying motivated to just do like a normal
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gym workout or a normal at home workout, maybe get back into sports.
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Join your favorite team and maybe you love volleyball, maybe you love basketball.
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Like, do something that you love and know that you're moving your body in
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some way and you're getting a good sweating at the same time, and you
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also get to be in a social setting with your friends. So it's a
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win win in my opinion. So when we talk about working out and we're
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talking about finding motivation and all that, there's definitely some times where I feel
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like this is even for myself as well, like how do you have the
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confidence in your own body? Like how do you feel confident? And you
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know what, there's times where you know, body image does bother me,
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and there's times where you know, I feel super confident. I feel good,
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like I've been really consistent with my workout. It's like I feel like
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my body's looking really good this week. All that. So I think it's
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important to say positive affirmations to yourself. You guys know, I always always
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talk about talking to yourself in a mirror and saying positive things about yourself.
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I feel like that always feels good. I know that's kind of weird to
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think about, but try it out and trust me, it actually works really
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really well. But I think one thing is don't compare yourself to others online.
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Like that's the worst thing you can do. I feel like in the
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summertime, obviously everybody's posting like bikini photos and all that. Do not compare
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yourself to those people online. At the end of the day, you are
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beautiful the way you are, and and I feel like I'm you know,
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in a reret when it comes to like body competence or if my body image
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is bothering me or all that. I always try and write down positive body
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affirmations in my journal. That's just like something that usually helps me, you
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know, boost my competence back up or just makes me feel better. Also,
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just like wearing things that makes you feel good, So like putting on
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an outfit that you feel competent in, like is definitely going to boost up
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your confidence and it's just going to make you feel so much better about yourself.
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I think, at the end of the day, what really matters,
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as I said, is you creating a workout schedule for yourself where you know
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you're moving your body to feel good, not to look good in a bikini.
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Like I went from a different mindset where I feel like I went from
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you know, working out to wanting to have the best bikini bod to working
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out to make me feel good. And honestly, I feel like my confidence
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has gone up in that way because I personally like the way my body looks
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now and that's because my mindset changed, right, Like, I feel like
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my mindset was so focused on just having the perfect body, when at the
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end of the day, I'm just loving the way I am and I love
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the way that I move my body every single day, and I love the
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way I feel, and to me, that's like the most important thing.
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Okay, so let's get into some healthy recipes. I'm really excited about this.
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Also, Guys, if I'm like talking kind of different on the mic
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today, it's because Zach is doing night shifts, so he's currently sleeping.
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So if you think I'm talking a little quiet, I'm not trying to talk
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quiet. Usually I feel like I'm always loud and bubbly, but I'm kind
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of trying to balance my voice so it's not projecting too loud in the house.
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So if that's why I'm sounding a little different, that's why I'm gonna
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have to listen to this episode obviously before editing it. But yeah, it's
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just if my voice sounds weird, that's why. Anyways, let's get into
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healthy recipes. I'm very excited for this part of this episode because you guys
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know how much I love food. I always love finding recipes on Pincher and
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just always like trying different dinner recipes, breakfast recipes, lunch recipes all at
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and I think one thing I love about summertime is that there's like seasonal foods
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that come out. I'm a huge, like watermelon obsessed freak. Like I
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love watermelon so much. It is so so good. So whenever summer comes
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around, I'm always buying so much watermelon. I also love peaches. I
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find peaches in the summertime just hit different. They're just always so much better.
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And then for dinners like this, I could have every single night if
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I could corn on the cob. Corn on the cob just hits so much
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different compared to like regular corn like that you can get from you know,
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frozen corn from the grocery store. It's not the same. Like corn on
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the cob on the barbecue is the best thing ever. So I'm excited to
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get back into yeah, barbecue season and all that. But we're going to
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talk about some healthy recipes here, so you guys know, my breakfasts are
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always I feel like out there, I feel like I usually make oatmeal.
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I'm a big oatmeal person, but I feel like in the summertime, I'm
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always like open to trying different fruits and like different things like yogurt bowls.
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I always like like seeing those papaya bowls. I don't know if you guys
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have seen that on Pinch est. But basically you cut the papaya halfway down
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and it's like a decently sized like fruit, and you scoop up the seeds
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and the inside and you actually make that the bowl. And then typically what
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the other half what I'll do is I'll chop it all up and prep it
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and keep it in the fridge, and then I'll put that as a topping
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as a yogurt bowl. So I'll put yogurt, I'll put granola, I'll
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put papaya. If there's other fruit like raspberries, blueberries or anything that that
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I want to put out top, cheese, seeds, honey, whatever it
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is, and I put it in the fruit and it looks esthetic, it
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tastes good. So I really like to do that around the summertime. I
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love mangoes as well in the summertime. I love adding that to yogurt bowls
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as well, or just also having a big fruit bowl. One thing that
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I became obsessed with in Los Angeles when I was there recently was we went
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to one of the vendors I think it was that Revolve festival or was that
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a gifting suite when we were in LA and they had like bowls of fruit
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and on top of the fruit, they had some spice. I think it
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was I want to say Tasian spice. I think it's the same thing as
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cayenne or no casion. Cajian spice is the one that would be similar to
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the Tasian spice in the States. I totally could be saying it wrong.
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If you're from the States and I'm saying it wrong, I'm so sorry.
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But we don't have that available in Canada, so we have Casian spice.
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So I have yet to try the Cajun spice on my fruit here yet,
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but it was so good. It sounds so weird, but it was like
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mango, different types of melons like cantelope, watermelon, and I think pineapple
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as well. So it was a huge fruit salad essentially, and they put
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that spice on top. So I'm going to try it. I will keep
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you guys posted if it's that or not. I really hope it tastes the
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same because it was so good, and if it doesn't, then I'm gonna
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have to find a way to order it through Amazon or something because it was
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so so good. It was the weirdest combo I've ever seen, but trust
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me, guys, the spice with the sweet fruit. It was so so
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good. So yeah, I really like to make like fruit salad sometimes for
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breakfast. I also love to make smoothie bowls. I love smoothie bowls so
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much, just you know, making a smoothie, putting in a bowl,
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adding my toppings like almond, butter, banana, strawberries, all that I
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can't think of like one on the top of my head right now that I've
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made in the past. But I really like like blueberry smoothie bowls. Typically
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anything with blueberry in it, or like sie bowls, anything like that are
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usually really really yummy, and I just always love to do that, especially
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in the summertime. Okay, going on to lunch. One thing you guys
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are gonna say, killy, we already know you're obsessed with this pasta salad.
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I love a good pasta salad in the summer. It is my go
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to thing to prep. That is honestly my favorite thing to meal prep.
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That is the one thing that I will literally eat every single day for lunch
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just because I find it's always so good. Usually I'll do a protein pasta
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like a chickpea based or a lentil base. That way, I don't have
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to add any like protein to it. But sometimes the pasta, depending on
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the brand Jubui, it gets like hard overtime, so it doesn't really like
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maintain throughout the week very well. I feel like cooking it fresh is always
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better, So sometimes if I have the time, I'll cook it fresh and
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just eat it that day, or if I'm going to prep it, usually
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I will only make enough for like a few days that way doesn't start to
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go hard. Or I'll use regular pasta and I'll add like another kind of
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protein like chicken or something like that to the pasta salad. But my go
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to recipe would be my Greek one, which is usually cucumbers, red onions,
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cherry tomatoes, feta che ease, and then I usually just get a
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like Mediterranean Greek dressing. The one I personally get is from farm Boy,
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So if you're from Canada, the farm Boy brand has a Mediterranean dressing that
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I put on top of the past a salad and it's so good, you
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guys, like, I'm so obsessed with it. I will make another video
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on it on my Instagram or included into a YouTube video or something like that.
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Because talking about it right now. It's literally making me want to make
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it right now. I don't even think I have any of the ingredients to
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make it, but I'll try and go to the grocery store later this week
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and pick some stuff up. But it's probably my favorite lunch to have in
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the summertime. Other things that I like to do in the summer is just
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honestly make a big like salad. One thing that I like to include in
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my salads sometimes in the summer is like adding some fruit like strawberries. I
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also love to add like walnuts in my salad. Yeah, so I'm like
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a big salad girl when it comes to the summertime, like caesar salads,
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like trying to make it in like a healthier way. I don't know,
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like balsamic salads, like even just putting like balsamic glaze on top of like
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chicken, strawberries, walnuts, cucumbers. Like I'm trying to think of like
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things that I typically add to a salad. But I just like love a
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big salad during the summertime. It just always hits so much different in the
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summertime. And then another salad that I tried this is more of like a
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side to have for like dinner. It's not really like a lunch. But
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tell me, if you guys have tried this, the watermelon salad, it
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is so good, you guys. I think there's slices of watermelon, feta,
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cheese, and mint, and I think you can add other stuff to
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it too. I don't know the dressing that's on it, but google it.
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It is called the watermelon salad and it will come up, and guys,
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it was probably one of the best salads I've ever had. It sounds
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so weird, but trust me, it is really really good. So imagine
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having that like a like as a side with like your chicken and like maybe
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some potatoes or something like that. It's just like a good like side to
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have for dinner. So that's another thing that I'm really excited to get into
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this summer. Okay, let's talk about dinners because I love cooking dinner so
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much, and I love cooking dinner on the barbecue, like barbecue season.
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Everything tastes better on a barbecue, like no matter what you say, like
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barbecues are like essential in your home. I feel like, if you want
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a well cooked burger, if you want a well cooked chicken, steak all
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that. And another thing that I really liked during the summertime is kebabs.
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If you guys don't know what kebabs are, it's like it's like those skewers
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where it comes with like chicken, usually onions, peppers. Sometimes you can
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add like pineapple to it all that, and they're so so good. Another
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thing that I tried last summer that I was really obsessed with was putting pizza
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on the barbecue. Trust me, hits different. It's so good. Like
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I'm telling you, anything on the barbecue will make everything taste so much better.
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Burgers. I always love making a good burger on the barbecue. Yeah,
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corn on the cob. The list could go on. I can like
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a large ass list about barbecue foods. But that's definitely one thing that I'm
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looking forward to this summer. Okay, another thing I think about when it
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comes to summertime and foods and all that. Wouldn't really consider this healthy,
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but I can. I'll consider it healthy as like my healthy version of cocktails.
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Because I feel like a lot of you guys always ask me, like
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what do I order when I go to a restaurant or what do I make?
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Because like as much as I love like having a few drinks, I
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also am very picky with my cocktails. I find because I don't like anything
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too sweet. And it's not even because it's like I'm maintaining my sugars and
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all that. It's more so my hangovers and how I feel the next day
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is literally awful if I have too much sugar, Like it's it's literally that
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as the reason. It's not because of like I'm China, you know,
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maintain my sugar levels. It's literally just because I feel like shit the next
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day. And I'm sure you guys know when you drink like a cooler that
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you used to have in high school, like you could not drink that now,
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Like it's just not it's just not. It can't. I can't do
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it. So what I personally typically do is I love to have vodka with
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any kind of flavored it's like sparkling soda, like one that you guys would
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probably know would be like poppy, like poppy in a vodka. I feel
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like that's a really good mix or any kind of like flavored sparkling soda.
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The one here that we have in Canada is called Salpanagreno. I get the
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low sugar version of that. There's usually a lot of sugar in like the
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normal can like I personally like, for reference, I don't drink soda like
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at all, Like I don't think I've had a sip of soda and like
23:30
I want to say, four years, like just a preference. I just
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don't like soda completely at all, So I try and think of low sugar
23:37
options like that, where it's kind of taste like soda the sparkling water,
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but it has a bit of flavor to it, and personally it's like the
23:45
perfect amount of sweetness for me. I also love Apparel sprits, Like that's
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probably my go to cocktail in the summer. If I'm making it myself,
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obviously I'll put a little bit less sweetener in it so it's not as sweet.
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But if I'm at a patio, I'm just going to order a regular
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Apprel sprits because I don't really put too much syrup in it. It's more
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so like the champagne and everything else that's in the drink. But yeah,
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if I'm making it myself, I just put a little bit less and I
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find it so so good. Another one that's my go to is skinny marks.
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Essentially, what that is is that they just don't add like the fancy
24:18
syrup in the drink because usually, like think about like when you go to
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a coffee shop, like typically there's like syrups and all that. Usually,
24:23
like when it comes to margaritas, they had like a simple syrup in it,
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so I just ask for a skinny one. They either don't put any
24:30
in at all, or they only put like a small amount of it.
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One of the two. But those are typically like my go to drinks when
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I'm going out, or I really like mohitos as well, but I feel
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the kind of person that doesn't drink at all. You can totally make these
24:42
drinks into mocktails. You don't have to obviously add alcohol to it. But
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if I was to mention some of the cocktails that I drink, like when
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I'm at a restaurant when I'm at home, those are typically the ones that
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I like to make. And then lastly, dessert. You guys know,
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I never skip out on dessert. My favorite dessert to have in the summertime
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is ice cream. Like that's I'm not even gonna say anything else because that
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is by far my favorite thing I love to have dinner and then usually like
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Zach and I or my sister and I will get in the car, will
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drive to her favorite ice cream shop, will pick up some ice cream and
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just devour, like, oh, I'm so excited for ice cream season.
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And sometimes what I typically do if I don't want to have too much sugar,
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I'll get like a kid's cup or a kid's cone, because I personally
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find it's enough. It's more so just to crave like my sweetness after dinner.
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If you guys know, if you're like a huge sweet tooth gal,
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you know that you just need that little bit of sweetness after dinner just to
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like end your night. And I'm good. So ice cream will definitely be
25:41
like a top priority every weekend, and I'm gonna enjoy every second of it
25:45
because that is literally the only time I have ice cream. I never have
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ice cream in the winter just because obviously it's cold. I mean sometimes people
25:52
do that, but I don't usually eat ice cream less of the summertime.
25:55
So I usually treat myself almost every weekend, I would say, to a
25:57
nice thing of ice cream. Okay, so we're talking about healthy recipes,
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We're talking about lunch we're talking about dinners, we're talking about cocktails, we're
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talking about ice cream. Like sounds like a lot of food is being consumed
26:10
in the summertime, which honestly it is. I feel like I'm always enjoying
26:12
good meals in the summertime. But I feel like a lot of people always
26:15
ask me about balance and how I maintain balance throughout the summertime, because obviously
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it's hard. I feel like you're going out a lot, Like you're going
26:22
out to restaurants a lot, you're going out for a lot of like hangouts
26:26
with your friends, a lot of barbecues all that, and I feel like,
26:29
you know, some people can be really hurt on themselves when it comes
26:32
to you know, being really busy in the summer and not you know,
26:34
staying on track and not staying on your you know, consistent schedule and all
26:38
that, and you're eating out way more than you usually do, and it's
26:42
you feel like overwhelmed that like it's like, oh my god, like I
26:45
shouldn't be eating all these food, Like it's going to ruin my progress all
26:48
that, blah blah blah. Remember to not beat yourself up for that.
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Enjoy the fun times with your friends. Summer is so short, and know
26:56
that you going for like a barbecue dinner at your friend's house where there's you
27:02
know, a burger involved in all that. Like, you're not going to
27:03
ruin your progress from the one meal. If you're eating like crap for probably
27:10
three to four weeks in a row, Okay, yeah, sure, maybe
27:12
you might lose a bit of progress, but having that one meal that one
27:15
weekend is not going to ruin anything. So just know that, don't beat
27:18
yourself up. Try to maintain balance throughout your summer. Personally, what I
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do to keep my balance maintained throughout the summer season is I always just try
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and balance out my home cooked meals first. My going out meals. I
27:30
try to just make sure, Okay, I don't want to be going out
27:33
every single night during the week, but hey, if I go out Saturday
27:36
night with my friends and maybe Friday night, I just try and make sure
27:37
that I eat majority of my meals home cooked throughout the week. That's just
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the reality. Like that's at least for me, how I try and balance
27:45
out my eating schedule when it comes to that. So I try and just
27:48
schedule more home cooked meals and less going out. Obviously, there's weekends where
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I'm you know, I'm going to a batcherette, and literally next weekend,
27:56
actually I'm going to a batcherette and there's going to be a lot of drinking
27:59
about, going to be a lot of you know, eating out and all
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that. But guys, it's one weekend and then coming back, I'm going
28:04
to reset, get back into the swing of things, get back into home
28:07
cooked meals all that. I don't do any kind of cleans or anything like
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that. I'm not into that. Like I don't do any types of juice
28:15
cleans. Like I know some people do that and that's fine, that's a
28:17
personal preference. But for me, I just go back to eating the normal
28:21
foods that I enjoy, and I get back into a workout routine. And
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yeah, that's literally it. Like I really don't try and do anything that,
28:30
you know, is anything intense, like I said, like a juice
28:32
cleanse or anything like that. Usually, Like, as you guys know,
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I always try and stick to the eighty twenty rule. I try and eat
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eighty percent of whole foods and twenty percent of indulging. So I eat whatever
28:45
I crave essentially, So that's how I kind of balance out my meals and
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my lifestyle. I feel like in the summertime, I just try to not
28:53
eat myself up for it. I just know that as long as I in
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my head like don't overdue like going out or anything like that, I feel
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like I'm fine. So I don't know that's how I balance out things.
29:06
I think that that's what works for me personally. And if you're that's kind
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of person where you feel like you have a hard time like balancing out your
29:14
going out and at home cooked meals, just try and again kind of create
29:18
a home cooked meal schedule, kind of like working out right, like creating
29:21
a workout schedule. Creating an at home cooked meal schedule, Like I always
29:23
love to write what we're going to be eating for dinner each week. I
29:27
already know ahead of time, and again, it just allows me to stay
29:30
consistent with eating at home versus going out. If I have everything, you
29:34
know, prepped ahead of time, like going to the grocery store picking up
29:37
all the ingredients, looking at okay, I'm cooking this for dinner tonight,
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it doesn't allow me to like, oh, I'm just going to order take
29:42
out because I'm lazy and I don't want to do anything. Well, no,
29:45
I have all the ingredients. There's no excuse for me to randomly order
29:48
takeout one night and just indulge. So that's kind of how like I balance
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out my meals and all that when it comes to like summertime craziness, if
29:57
that makes sense. Okay, So now we're going to talk about my personal
30:02
summer plans because some of you guys actually asked me when I made the Hawkirl
30:06
Summer Prep question box on our podcast, a lot of you guys actually asked
30:10
me what I was personally doing for my summer plans, And honestly, like,
30:15
I feel like there's some stuff going on right now, but I feel
30:17
like sometimes I am a bit of a last minute planner when it comes to
30:21
some things. But first off, the biggest thing that will be happening this
30:25
summer for me personally and for Zach is our engagement party. That is our
30:30
biggest priority right now. If you guys have been following along, you guys
30:33
know that I've been touring a bunch of venues this past week and I'm happy
30:37
to say that we finally selected our favorite one. We have been sending emails
30:44
securing dates and all that. We haven't officially put a deposit down yet,
30:47
but we have selected the date. We have a few more questions just to
30:51
go over with her, just like the chef's menu all that. So I'm
30:56
so excited to start, I don't know, just to start like filming everything
31:02
and just get you get guys excited for like the wedding series, because obviously
31:04
there's a lot of stuff that comes up before the wedding. So I'm just
31:08
so so excited to just like, yeah, film the whole process and be
31:11
able to look back at it. And that's one of the reasons why I
31:15
love my job so much, is that I'm able to, you know,
31:18
film experiences like this and be able to look back at it and like know
31:22
that I have that memory for life that I film those experiences and all that.
31:26
So I'm so grateful to be able to do that and also call that
31:30
my job. I'm definitely going to be more active on YouTube this month,
31:34
I think, and let me know what you guys think about that, because
31:38
I don't know why, but i feel like I've been loving YouTube more lately
31:42
than my TikTok and Instagram. Maybe not TikTok, but definitely more than Instagram
31:48
lately, Like I just feel like I feel so much more like confident and
31:52
more enjoyable when I film YouTube videos, and I feel like I enjoy like
31:56
just vlogging my day to day life, and I feel like you guys enjoy
32:00
it too, So let me know if you guys like that. I'm definitely
32:04
like I've already started to film wedding series stuff like train engagement venues and all
32:08
that on YouTube that will be going up later this week, so stay tuned
32:12
for that. But let me know if you guys like YouTube videos, because
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I personally love it, and if you're listening to you my podcast, I
32:19
hope you guys like to watch my YouTube videos as well, because I feel
32:22
like I try and provide very similar content when it comes to like healthy routine,
32:27
healthy lifestyle, but also show a bit of like behind the scenes of
32:30
like my daily life. So yeah, So the biggest things this summer for
32:34
sure is our engagement party, so stay tuned for that. I'm going to
32:37
be sharing more information on the venue we selected and all that. Another thing
32:42
we're doing is I'm pretty sure Zach and I are actually going to our wedding
32:45
destination in June we haven't booked the trip yet because we're trying to secure our
32:51
engagement venue, and then once it's secured, I'm going to be emailing the
32:54
places that the venues that we're looking at. I don't want to see the
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nation because I feel like I should be kind of a surprise, So I'm
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not going to share it now. You guys will obviously know when I'm there,
33:06
like why I'm there for that reason. So if you guys see me
33:07
go on vacation in the summer, you know why I'm there. But yeah,
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I'm gonna keep that a little secret just because I'm so excited too.
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Yeah, get to the destination. I've never been there before, so I'm
33:20
really excited. But yeah, So a lot of wedding planning this summer,
33:23
I think, just like finding a venue and all that, because we plan
33:27
to have our wedding late twenty twenty four or early twenty twenty five, so
33:32
I definitely have some time. But it's better to book a venue sooner rather
33:38
than later. So that's what we're doing for probably June slash July. And
33:44
then it's my best friend's wedding. I'm her maid of honor in that so
33:46
I'm standing beside her, and I'm so excited to watch, like my best
33:50
friend of like I want to say six or seven, So yeah, almost
33:55
twenty years actually twenty years of friendship, which is so crazy. So it
33:59
is going to be an emotional day to see her walk down and marry her
34:02
best friend. That's yeah, it's so crazy that that's happening this summer.
34:06
So I'm so excited for that. And then just other things. I just
34:08
always enjoy the little things in the summer, like going to watch a sunset
34:13
with my sister, Like we typically try and do that, like once a
34:15
week. We'll just go to a park or we'll go to a beach and
34:17
we'll just like literally sit and watch a sunset. Sometimes we'll get ice cream,
34:21
sometimes we'll have a drink, whatever, do picnics and all that.
34:24
Going to cottages, like I always love going to Zach's family's cottage in the
34:28
summer. It's always such a fun time. Or you know, now my
34:30
best friend has a cottage, so I'm looking forward to like cottage weekends with
34:34
my friends and all that. You know, Canada day weekend, long weekends,
34:38
all that. Just know that, you know, summers for only such
34:43
a short time and it always goes by so fast. So I'm just trying
34:45
to like take in like those little moments that I enjoy because every time,
34:51
like in the winter, I'm always like thinking about those like little things that
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I do with like my sister or Zach, just like going on those walks
34:57
at sunset or doing those picnics or anything like that. Like those are the
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moments that I honestly enjoy the most. And it's just those little things that
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just get me excited about summer. So those are just some of the workout,
35:08
some motivation, somebody confidence, some healthy recipes, talking about balance and
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summer plans that I have for this summer. I hope you guys enjoyed this
35:17
part two series of the Hawk Girl Summer Prep. I definitely want to do
35:22
more of these series type of episodes because I feel like you guys enjoy it.
35:27
But let me know if you guys want me to continue something like this,
35:30
or if you guys have any other episode ideas that you guys want me
35:31
to talk about or highlight or anything like that. Thank you guys again for
35:37
listening to another episode. I love you all so much. Definitely make sure
35:39
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35:52
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