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146. The Things We Hope Athletes Leave Behind This Year (Because They Drive Us Bananas) · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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  podcast. Hello and welcome back.
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  This is the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  We're Riley Beatty Sports Nutrition, and we're a team of
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  dietitians and we talk every Thursday about sports nutrition
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  for the girlies. I'm Jenna and I'm the host of
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  this podcast. And I'm Riley.
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  I'm the founder of Riley Beatty Sports Nutrition, we like to
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  call it around here RBSN. Happy 2026.
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  Before we get in today's episode, we are going to do our
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  high and low. So sharing just a little bit
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  about our week, the good and the parts we wish have gone a little
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  bit differently. Riley, as always, can you kick
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  us off? I cannot believe it's 2026.
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  That's not going to be my high or my low, but this is like
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  actually insane. You know what's even crazier is
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  that we're coming up on 10 years of knowing each other.
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  I love that for us because I love you, but I'm unwell.
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  You know, it seems almost impossible, right?
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  I'm like, there's no way. There's no way.
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  But yeah, wow. Look at us now.
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  I know, I know man. Timeshare does fly.
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  It does fly and that actually is related a little bit to my high
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  and my low. So if you are a new listener to
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  the Eat More Carves podcast, I have a daughter named Charlie
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  who is going to be two in a couple of weeks, which I'm
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  unwell also for that, but both my high and my low are kind of
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  the same story and they have to do with her.
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  So recently I've shared on the podcast a couple of times that
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  like Charlie is really developing her vocabulary.
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  We're chattering away all of the time and something that she
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  started to do recently and this is the high.
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  Part of the story. Is she started to walk around
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  and go. I'm strong.
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  Wait. And it's that.
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  It's like literally the cutest thing because she'll be like
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  it's heavy, but I strong and I'm like, heck yeah, you are strong
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  girly, like let's. Go.
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  Let's get it. I love that.
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  The low part of the story is she also likes to say strong.
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  And the way that it kind of developed is when she's like
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  almost fighting me on something. So like when I'm trying to
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  change her diaper and she like doesn't want her diaper to get
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  changed and she's like trying to kick me in a loving way.
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  We're OK, everybody. But she'll be like, I strong and
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  I'm like, I love this for you. Like, yeah, you're independent.
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  I love that you're strong but like can you not be strong
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  against me please? Can you let me change your
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  diaper? Oh my gosh.
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  I love like hearing her personality kind of like
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  developing. Is that the right way to say
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  that? Like, just like her developing
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  her personality, Obviously like I'm not there to see it, but
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  just hearing the updates from you about like what she's picked
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  up from, I don't know, it's just so cute.
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  Like, I love it. It's so crazy too, because like
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  I am like, I don't say, like, I don't walk around being like I'm
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  strong and but like she's like I'm strong and I'm like, yeah.
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  You are you're. Like you go, girl.
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  Update on the sloth. Does she still hate it or is she
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  OK with the sloth yet? The sloth is now her is now dad
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  does like that's Dada's sloth. So like, OK, we don't like it,
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  but it's not ours. OK, so it's fine because it's
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  Dad Sloth. Daddy sloth yeah.
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  So she went through something recently where she started doing
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  there's like different developmental milestones, which
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  before I had a child, I didn't know any of this.
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  But one of the things that she kind of just worked through is
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  the understanding of mine. She walks around and goes my dad
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  or like my Bunny, my mom, mom. And so like she walks around
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  like literally everything in the house is hers.
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  So my car, you can't drive like my oat.
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  I'm like, yeah, he Yep. And so she'll like she's
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  learning that. And then now she started to
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  understand like I or she'll say like Char Char's mom, mom.
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  I'm like, Yep, that's me. I'm Char Char's mom, mom.
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  So it's really cute to kind of see how her develop, but it's
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  just so wild because like one day something will like click
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  and you're like, how did you learn that?
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  Yeah, I feel like. It probably happened so fast.
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  Yes. And then she like picks up on
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  one thing and then like we are stuck with that and she's
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  actually a very particular baby. I don't know if other children
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  are like this because I don't have other children, but like,
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  she's very particular. And I always joke that she's
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  like, definitely Rob's child. Because like, if we do something
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  for the first time, the next time that we do it, we have to
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  do it the same way. So like if we, you know, eat new
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  food and like our spoon is on the right side of our plate,
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  then the next time we eat that food, the spoon has to.
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  Be on the right side of the plate.
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  Interesting. OK, Almost like patterns of like
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  familiarity with things. Yep.
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  Or like she puts her dirty clothes like when she's shower,
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  like after she, you know, like she's on shock, she goes back
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  and forth between shock showers and baths.
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  We're on the shower right now, but she has to put her dirty
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  clothes in the same spot. OK.
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  And I'm like, and this might be a little OCD but good job.
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  She's doing it her way and we love that.
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  Yep, she's on a Princess phase right now.
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  We're like, we have to wear a Princess dress at all times.
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  And like also, that's fine, that's fine.
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  So we're just going through phases right now.
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  Enough about me and Char though. How was your week going?
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  So good. My high is that my husband works
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  with this young girl and she's recently married.
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  She's super sweet. She follows me on Instagram and
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  she makes so many of the recipes that I share.
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  And then he always sends me a picture of like the lunches that
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  she brings to work because it's something that she's meal
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  prepped that I have shared online.
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  So today was another day that my husband sent me a picture of her
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  food at work and it just like makes me so happy.
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  Like she'll send me a message on like Instagram being like, I
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  loved this one. We made this one tonight.
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  But then he always sends me a picture of them at work and
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  she's having that for lunch. And it just makes my heart so
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  happy that she follows along, supports and makes the recipes.
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  And even if that's the only person in the world that makes
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  the recipes that I make like, it makes me really happy.
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  So that's my high. So cute.
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  That's so. Sweet.
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  She's such a sweet girl. Like she's so sweet.
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  I shouldn't call her a girl. She's a grown woman, but you
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  know, she's much younger than us.
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  So she's a very, very kind though.
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  We are 26. Yeah, that's right.
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  According to my clients, she and I are basically the same age.
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  She's probably like a solid 24. That's fine.
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  That's my high. What's your low?
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  My low is that usually in January I run a half marathon
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  and I was planning running that same half marathon that I've run
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  pretty much since we moved to Arizona.
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  I was planning on signing up to run it on Black Friday, which if
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  you're looking at a calendar, that was quite a bit of time
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  ago. And since then the prices have
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  increased so much. And I have not been as dedicated
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  with my running recently that I don't know that I'm going to do
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  it. And I'm kind of sad about that.
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  But I didn't like prioritize that and make sure that I got to
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  the starting line that day, even though it's a race that I would
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  run like party pace, like I wouldn't be planning for any
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  type of or anything like that. But I was really disappointed in
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  myself. I don't, I don't know.
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  I'm at a point where I'm like, I've waited too long because
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  it's this month. It's a rock'n'roll, right?
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  Yeah. Do you feel?
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  Like those are kind of pricey they.
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  Are like even on their Black Friday sale, I was like that's a
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  lot for 1/2 marathon And I get it like we have to shut down
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  public streets. There's a lot that goes into
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  planning a race that I'm sure I don't even understand.
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  But I was like that's a lot for 1/2 marathon.
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  I was like, I paid almost that much for a full marathon and so
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  I didn't do it. And now I regret that because
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  now it's even more expensive. Do.
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  They have a 5K. Actually they might.
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  I should check that. I know they don't have a full
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  marathon. Like the furthest they have is
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  1/2. Could do a fun party pace 5K.
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  That I could, yes, and it would be incredibly party pace.
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  Yeah, but sometimes 5 KS are well, no, but a 5K is fun
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  because I feel like people are more festive with a 5K that's.
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  True. Yeah.
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  You also typically don't have to be there as early to start
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  depending on if they send you in waves, which is nice.
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  But as of right now I am not running the race.
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  I usually race because I procrastinated.
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  Hello. On today's episode we have
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  myself, Riley, and Lily to talk about what drives us bananas.
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  First of all, happy 2026. Welcome back.
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  Even though we've only been gone for a week, I can't believe
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  we're in 2026. I don't know about y'all but I
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  will still be writing 2025 on everything for the next like 6
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  to 9 months. I'm writing like 2009.
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  I like that better. I wrote 2024 the other day.
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  We're getting there, yeah, a few months behind.
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  We're trying. Riley, what did you see this
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  week that drove you bananas? OK, this is from a friend.
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  He was another dietitian, is another sports dietitian in the
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  space and she, like my clients now send me what drives up
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  bananas because they listen to the podcast.
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  She had to share a story about one of the clients that she is
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  currently working with, one of the athletes that she's working
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  with who is a 16 year old soccer player who recently tore their
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  ACL. They're no longer playing
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  because they're rehabbing. They have gained 8 lbs and they
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  went to their checkup with their physician and their physician
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  recommended that they go on a GL P1 to lose the weight that they
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  had gained while rehabbing their ACLA. 16 year old with a history
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  of disordered eating. Holy.
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  Cow. Oh my gosh.
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  I am so concerned about the intervention there for one, but
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  I'm also so concerned about how that made that person feel
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  because 8 lbs is a normal fluctuation that happens when
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  we're rehabbing an injury. My goodness.
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  Like we see a couple pounds of fluctuation during different
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  points in our cycle. If we're views the bathroom, if
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  we have hydrated well, if we had a lot of salty food, like we can
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  see changes and weight just from that, that can be several
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  pounds. So 8 lbs.
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  It's not a, it's not a concerning amount of weight.
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  Change I'm just concerned because of what the conversation
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  that was had that that physician and that athlete felt because I
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  mean from our a lot of our understanding and a lot of our
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  training is like you never recommend weight loss under 18
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  And so now we're recommending weight loss, but we're not
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  recommending it from like a dietary standpoint.
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  And then also like you gained a little bit of weight because
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  you're injured. I actually would rather you gain
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  a couple pounds than lose weight because it shows that you're
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  feeling enough to heal the injury versus under feeling
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  yourself and prolonging your recovery.
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  Let alone the fact that they had surgery to repair this injury
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  that they could be experiencing some like inflammation that
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  could also be contributing to the number change.
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  And that wouldn't be something that we want to have an
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  intervention of any type of weight loss regardless of the
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  age of the patient. But this particular person, like
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  Riley mentioned, is underage and we should not be recommending
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  weight loss for pediatric patients.
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  Also like you mentioned too, like there's so much variation
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  here and like 8 lbs could easily be like some fluid shift and
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  like a different scale. Like is it the same scale?
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  Probably not. Like, there's no way.
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  Like it's the same scale. You know, you think about error.
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  That happens, too. Was this person, like, on
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  crutches? And they were still leaning on a
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  crutch when they were weighed previously and now you know what
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  I mean? Like, there's so much
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  variability. Yeah.
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  Yeah. A brace.
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  Like, my goodness. I mean, we don't know the whole
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  situation like, you know, and it's easy for us to kind of like
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  just hear facts and things about that.
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  But I just know that that's not the only situation like that
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  that's happening right now because there's there's just so
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  much conversation and I feel like so much misuse a lot with
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  these medications makes. Sense and like you said, we
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  don't know the full picture. We're not part of that person's
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  medical team. It's still concerning from the
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  outside perspective. Because those conversations are
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  happening, right? And like, even if like that
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  athlete doesn't go through with that, like that was a
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  conversation that was had. And I just remember like when I
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  was 16 and I went through puberty and I gained weight, I
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  was having a lot of those conversations to me and they
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  were very negative and they have a lasting impact on my life.
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  And if somebody had told me that, like I should use the GOP
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  when I was 16 because I had gained weight and now my coaches
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  were mad at me, I would have 120% taken that medication and I
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  would never. Alone in that I think it's.
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  Just a such a sensitive time period one.
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  It's different for everyone like we just said, but you are still
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  developing. So there are going to be shifts
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  and things like weight. Lots of people are already
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  self-conscious about those shifts.
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  And so to be offered what is a medication that is going to
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  induce weight loss, it breaks my heart a little.
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  I'm with you on that. I think that's so sad.
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  Of course, again, here I am speculating that this was a
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  female, but males and females both experience puberty and both
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  should experience shifts during that time.
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  But I think I always view things from the female perspective
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  because I am female. And so when I think about like
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  that time in life, just like Lily mentioned, being very like
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  delicate already, because there's a lot of things
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  happening for a lot of people that's around at the time that
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  we experience our first cycle. And we don't want to encourage
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  like drastic weight loss during that time for a number of
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  reasons, but one especially because we want normal growth
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  and development and we should be educating rather than
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  discouraging. Think when we think about it
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  from like a society standpoint, I just feel like female growth
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  and development during puberty is seen as like a negative,
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  right? And then with males, it's seen
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  as a positive. There's so much conversation
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  about, well, when you're, you know, you go through poverty,
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  you gain weight and like you're going to become a worst athlete.
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  There's so much like negative stress, I think on this period
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  of time and like personally speaking, right?
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  Like when I played club soccer and then I transitioned to
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  college soccer, it is a completely different sport.
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  Like it's the same sport. But I just remember like being a
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  little freshman and like the first time I went to practice or
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  whatever and like an upperclassman came at me, I was
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  like knocked on my butt. Because the speed and the power
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  and the strength that these athletes have when they're a
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  little bit older compared to where you are when you're 161718
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  is completely different. And we always think that like,
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  you have to be in a smaller body or you, you know, these changes
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  are a bad thing, but like you have to change and you have to
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  grow and you have to get stronger in order to continue to
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  be successful in sport. But like, I know I'm rambling
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  now. I'm just, I get so mad because
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  we, we focus so much on like how growth is a problem, especially
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  with female athletes. And it's not, I mean, that's.
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  Really well said. Major mic drop moment.
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  All right, I'm done with what drives me bananas because
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  obviously it drove me bananas. So what are you guys seeing this
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  week? I want to share a story that
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  actually happened. I think my last bananas had to
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  do with my gym, but this also happened in my gym.
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  I was on the Stairmaster and there was a young man who got on
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  the machine right next to me and he was on the phone.
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  I couldn't hear the the other end of the conversation because
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  he had on his earbuds, so I couldn't hear the other person,
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  but he was talking to someone and he said, what do you mean?
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  Why am I at the gym? You told me that I'm fat.
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  I'm here on the stairmaster. Obviously, it's really sad to
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  hear this for such a young person.
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  I think this kind of like plays into what Riley just mentioned
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  too, about like someone growing and developing and like hearing
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  really negative comments about shifts and changes and growing.
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  But especially coming off of the holiday season, we see a lot of
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  people that maybe we don't interact with on a day-to-day
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  basis. Like there's a chance that this
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  young man could have been talking to like a family member
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  that he saw over the Christmas break and now he's back at
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  school or something like that. And it just made me so sad that
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  that person had pushed him to a point to do something or create
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  a relationship with Exercise that wasn't 1 of enjoyment, it
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  was one that was driven off of somebody else's comment about
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  him. Made me so sad that his
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  interaction with Exercise was 1 driven by someone else's
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  comments about his body. I think it also just serves as a
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  good reminder in general for as we're coming off of the holiday
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  season, for everyone listening, but especially those that have
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  younger ears around, that any comments you make, even about
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  your own body, like kids, pick that up.
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  And just being aware of how you word things and things on your
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  own plate and how you view yourself is drastically going to
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  impact the younger ones around you and how they view.
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  Themselves. Oh my gosh, Lily, thank you for
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  saying that. It's insane now being a mom
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  because Charlie, she is so impressionable, so
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  impressionable. The other day she was doing
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  something and the people on the Internet are probably going to
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  cut for me. But like I don't think I'm a bad
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  moms carry me. Out Mom.
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  Just wait to hear the story. Charlie has an attitude, right?
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  And so she was doing something where like this is what she was
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  doing. Like she wasn't eating like her
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  food. She wanted to eat my food, which
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  is fine, right? We share every like, if you're
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  gonna eat my food, I'm gonna eat your food.
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  But like, I think she was eating something of mine.
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  And then like, instead of eating it, she was just giving it to
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  the dog, right? So like, I was like, stop being
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  a butt head. Like you're being a butt head
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  right now. And she goes butt head, butt
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  head, butt head, butt head. And then like starts walking
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  around like saying butt head. And I was like, but I can't say
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  stop saying butt head because when I'm saying the word,
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  because she's so impressed to like everything I say.
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  So like anytime I say one thing, she like repeats it and she
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  picks it up. And so I think even though we
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  think like maybe kids don't have recall or they're not paying
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  attention, like they're paying attention.
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  And talking about yourself in a negative way, even if you're not
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  talking about your child or a person in the room that is
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  younger, still impacts how they view themselves.
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  If you are talking negatively about yourself, that child
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  interprets that talking negatively about themselves as
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  something that we do and that there are things that we should
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  want to change. Or if they consider themselves
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  like you and you want to change, that also means they should
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  change. And it is so important, like
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  Lily said, to be cognizant about who is around when you are
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  saying things. Well, and I think to tie it back
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  into what drives you bananas, Jenna, is that clearly an
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  environment which we don't know that child situation, but
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  clearly an environment was made where comments like that are OK.
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  And so that likely does come from the person who said it to
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  them, like talking about bodies in a way that they feel like
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  they can make that comment to a child.
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  And it could even be a friend that had said it to him.
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  But it all goes. Kids learn something from
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  somewhere. Lily, I'm so glad that you said
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  all of that. I hope a lot of people hear
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  that. Me too, I think it needs to be
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  more out there. Of a sad world we live in when
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  we're so hyper fixated on our own bodies that we forget that
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  there's someone else that's impressionable in the room.
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  Lily, what's driving you bananas right now?
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  So good old TikTok it always supplies.
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  Me is our TikTok correspondent. Thank you for your good work,
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  your service. After the cleanse one that I had
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  a couple drives us bananas. I've limited my doom scrolling
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  so trying to be better about it, but I'll still be the
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  correspondent. This one came from just a
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  popular Wellness influencer who frequently pops up on my feed
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  and I actually have not had issues with her content before
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  and I do enjoy some of her content.
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  However, she posted something talking about how people don't
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  need rest days and that the majority of the population does
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  not exercise hard enough to need to recover.
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  And I think that where she's coming from in that I don't
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  agree with it at all, but I do see like where her line of logic
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  was going. However, her target market are
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  those girls who do need a rest day and do not need to be
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  hearing that they are not working hard enough to need a
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  rest day. So that drove me bananas.
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  I think this has like a lot of the same tones as what you said
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  about like knowing who's listening and understanding that
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  what you say to them is going to have an impact.
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  If your audience is primarily young women who are over
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  exercising, under fuelling, like maybe encouraging them to not
• 18:32
  take recovery days is not what we should be doing.
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  Even if you think that, you know, that's some advice that
• 18:38
  other people could follow, which I think is why blanket advice or
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  giving advice for everyone all at once can be kind of tricky.
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  A. 100%. We always talk about it because
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  like, this is the more carbs podcast and we are targeting
• 18:49
  people who are not eating enough carbohydrates, which is a lot of
• 18:52
  female athletes, right? And that's why they don't have
• 18:54
  their their period. That's why they don't have a
• 18:55
  regular menstrual cycle. But this information isn't
• 18:58
  applicable to everybody. Right.
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  We say at the beginning of every episode like it may or may not
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  apply to your situation. This isn't for every single
• 19:05
  person who we're talking to is we're encouraging to eat more
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  carbohydrates. So we're definitely not walking
• 19:09
  around being like, eat less carbohydrates, Don't take
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  recovery days, minimize your rest.
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  Like that's no, yes. Especially in the influencer
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  world, you do pick a target market like you do have specific
• 19:20
  people you are chasing after getting their content.
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  And so for this person to come didn't say that, it's just
• 19:27
  completely opposite of what all of her other content is.
• 19:30
  So you know it's going to reach the people who see the other
• 19:34
  content who probably shouldn't be listening to what she's
• 19:36
  saying. I don't say it's good that you
• 19:38
  saw it, but I think it's good for us to understand that.
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  Like that's the messaging that young women are seeing when they
• 19:42
  go online. And I also think it's wonderful
• 19:44
  that like you have the ability to sift through that and see
• 19:47
  that that's something that we shouldn't be actually following.
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  But not everybody has that guidance to know that like
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  that's not information that was intended.
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  For them, 100%, yeah. And I think that that's why we
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  have a lot of girlies who get stuck in habits and having a
• 20:03
  hard time changing is because the media they're consuming is
• 20:06
  constantly telling them one thing.
• 20:08
  And it's because they make their algorithm, they make their feed.
• 20:12
  And so if it's curated to not look like what they actually
• 20:15
  need, it's going to be really hard for them to break out of
• 20:17
  that because that's what everyone else is telling them to
• 20:19
  do. Especially with these big
• 20:21
  accounts too, because what happens is you have a big
• 20:23
  influencer almost at like the top of the pyramid, and then the
• 20:26
  other influencers, because they want to be like that influencer,
• 20:30
  start to then share the same messaging because that's what's
• 20:33
  trending, that's what's popular. So then it just spreads like
• 20:35
  wildfire and then people are confused because it's not
• 20:40
  working for them, even though these influencers and their feed
• 20:43
  is completely covered with that message.
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  That's why we do these bananas episodes.
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  We gotta get it out there. Happy 2026 everybody.
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  We're. So pumped and there are things
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  that you saw this week, the beginning of 2026.
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  It is January 1st, but if there is anything that you saw that
• 20:56
  absolutely drove you bananas to start off this new year, we'd
• 20:59
  love to hear from you. Leave it in the comments of this
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  podcast. If you do have questions for
• 21:03
  Riley, Lily or myself, you can always find us online can find
• 21:06
  Riley at easy sports Nutrition. You can find Lily at Lily Reimer
• 21:09
  dot nutrition and you can find me at Jenna dot Fisher dot
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  nutrition. Thank you so much for listening
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  to this episode. Please make sure you raise,
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  subscribe and review. And as always, remembered to eat
• 21:18
  more carbs.