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Speaker 1: that exploration. Hello and good morning, good morning. How are
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Speaker 1: you today? I'm oh, my god, you are taking on
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Speaker 1: a subject here that is on the minds of so
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Speaker 1: many people I could so relate with, with the hunger
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Speaker 1: crushing in so many different ways. And God, I gotta
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Speaker 1: tell you something. I'm the one that gives my wife
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Speaker 1: the ozimpic shot every single Monday, and I believe without
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Speaker 1: taking that shot, I'm the one that lost twenty plus
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Speaker 1: pounds because all of a sudden, just doing that woke
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Speaker 1: me up as to what I was doing wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh, I hear that. I hear that actually
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Speaker 2: quite a lot.
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Speaker 1: But it's amazing how you've got the courage and the
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Speaker 1: confidence to take on something because I've also done those
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Speaker 1: interviews where people say that that sugar is no different
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Speaker 1: than cocaine, and there's a business, there's a business world
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Speaker 1: out there that is making a lot of money based
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Speaker 1: on this thing that's legal sugar.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a very valid point. But you know,
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Speaker 3: when you actually look at the data, looking at the
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Speaker 3: research on you know, quote unquote sugar addiction or food addiction,
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Speaker 3: or it may show some similarities. The big thing is
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Speaker 3: that you know, we are not rats in the petri dish.
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Speaker 3: And also the main reason why rats respond in an
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Speaker 3: addictive way to sugar is because they are being deprived
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Speaker 3: of it. And so you pew, deprived them for long enough,
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Speaker 3: suddenly the gate float, the gates bloods that open, and
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Speaker 3: you go, hog wow, these these these these mice just
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Speaker 3: cannot help themselves. And that's exactly what is happening in
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Speaker 3: a lot of cases when it comes to people's relationship
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Speaker 3: with sugar. We have the society have decided, diet culture
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Speaker 3: has decided that sugar is the root of all evil
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Speaker 3: and we need to get rid of it at all costs.
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Speaker 3: But the reality is, you know, our bodies fight tooth
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Speaker 3: and nail against deprivation with all these different contenstory mechanisms
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Speaker 3: in the body and the brain to get us to
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Speaker 3: return back to status quo. And so when you say
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Speaker 3: I'm never eating sugar again, but then you go to
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Speaker 3: a birthday party and oh my god, they have the
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Speaker 3: best looking chocolate cake looking right in front of.
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Speaker 2: You, what happens.
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Speaker 3: We we basically spiral, We we over hyper fixate, the obsessed,
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Speaker 3: the food noise gets loud, the cravings come out, and
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Speaker 3: then essentially you just binge and and throw in the
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Speaker 3: towel and say, oh okay, whatever diet starts again tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: And this cycle repeats and repeats and repeats. So we
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Speaker 3: need to learn to have a normal, balanced, healthy relationship
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Speaker 3: with these types of foods like sugar. And that is
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Speaker 3: really where you know, the hunger rushing combon method comes
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Speaker 3: into play. Because we aren't getting rid of things. We're
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Speaker 3: not focusing on the elimination or the restriction piece that's
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Speaker 3: going to put you in that heightened state of scarcity mentality.
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Speaker 3: We are thinking about what we can add. And this
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Speaker 3: is the mindset shift because it's working with our biology
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Speaker 3: and our psychology, and we're adding fiber protein and healthy fats.
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Speaker 3: These are the hunger crushing compounds, fiber, protein, healthy fats.
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Speaker 3: Because when we are adding these compounds to let say,
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Speaker 3: something sweet, something sugary, what I call naked carbs. What
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Speaker 3: happens is that the cravings disappear. We naturally just edge
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Speaker 3: out some of the excess sugary foods in that original
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Speaker 3: meal that we were having. We effortlessly, spontaneously create a
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Speaker 3: three hundred of five from a calorie deffit. The data
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Speaker 3: supports that, and then of course, you know, weight loss
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Speaker 3: just becomes more intuitive. It doesn't feel like such a
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Speaker 3: slog because you aren't thinking, oh, I got to cut
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Speaker 3: this out, and I really miss that. You're not You're
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Speaker 3: just thinking about the adding. And this is such a
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Speaker 3: revolutionary mindset shift that makes a massive difference in people's
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Speaker 3: long term success.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, though, what's what seems to be
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Speaker 1: missing from this party. And my wife is going through
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Speaker 1: it too, because she when I say that she's doing Ozmpic,
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Speaker 1: we know why she's doing Ocempic, because that's what what
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Speaker 1: people with diabetes take. And the thing is is that
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Speaker 1: even with my own doctor, I went from from two
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Speaker 1: eleven to one seventy two and I was waiting for
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Speaker 1: the doctor to give me a celebration. They're not doing it.
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Speaker 1: They don't do it for her, they don't do it
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Speaker 1: for me. And I think, many many, many, many times,
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Speaker 1: what's the first thing we do when the doctor doesn't
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Speaker 1: give us a pat on the back? I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go get sugar, because because it's like with Hinda, if
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Speaker 1: they don't care about it, and why should.
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Speaker 3: I mm hmmmm hmm, that is unfortunate. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: can't speak for every doctor's bedside manner, but you know,
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Speaker 3: weight loss is hard, and whether you're doing it via
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Speaker 3: you know, a medication like a GLD one or a Dane,
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Speaker 3: or you are doing it the old fashioned way with
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Speaker 3: you know, just lifestyle exercise and dieting, it is very
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Speaker 3: hard to lose weight.
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Speaker 2: It is even harder to keep off the weight.
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Speaker 3: And so I do think that having that support system
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Speaker 3: is really really important. But it also has to come
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Speaker 3: from within. And so you know, yes, you're going to
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Speaker 3: get compliments, you're going to get comments, but eventually those
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Speaker 3: comments and compliments dry up and you are just going
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Speaker 3: to be in the body that you are and you
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Speaker 3: yourself have to have the internal motivation to push through
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Speaker 3: on those difficult times, because that's often where we see
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Speaker 3: weight plateaus happen, where you've got to just a lot
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Speaker 3: of weight coming out of the gates, Everyone's like, whoa,
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Speaker 3: what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: You look great?
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Speaker 3: You get all these compliments people are paying attention. Then
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Speaker 3: the compliments kind of slow and you people just kind
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Speaker 3: of like get used to looking at it like you're
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Speaker 3: in a smaller body and the weight maybe is not
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Speaker 3: coming off as fast as as it is. And it's
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Speaker 3: that point that a lot of people lose their motivation
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Speaker 3: and they're losing their motivation because that motivation is is
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Speaker 3: inextricable and it's stripically tied to others' perception of their body.
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Speaker 3: And that's that's it. And so you've got to get it.
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Speaker 3: You've got to have this from yourself. You have to
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Speaker 3: come up with.
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Speaker 2: Your why, what are your values?
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Speaker 3: What do you want to get out of this? And
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm not here to judge if someone's you know,
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Speaker 3: someone's values are valid or vein. So whether you want
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Speaker 3: to just like look good in the bikini in the
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Speaker 3: summer or a dress for your like, you know, your
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Speaker 3: your high school reunion, or you want to be able
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Speaker 3: to run after your grandkids or like get your you know,
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Speaker 3: blas sugar metric medications down. All of those are valid reasons.
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Speaker 3: And so just really knowing why your why is very
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Speaker 3: important before you even go into it, because if you're
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Speaker 3: just relying on other people's you know, constant feedback, that
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Speaker 3: that's gonna dry up and then.
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Speaker 1: What you know, it turned me into a liar and
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Speaker 1: he and here's the reason why is that people are going, oh,
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Speaker 1: you're losing weight. No, I've just got baggy clothes on
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Speaker 1: because I I've been kicked out of more fun people clubs.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why is because, oh, you don't drink anymore.
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Speaker 3: No, you don't.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go out and have ice cream today? No,
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Speaker 1: And and so you're you and that's and I can't
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Speaker 1: be the only one that goes through this. And that's
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Speaker 1: one of the things that I wanted to cover with
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Speaker 1: this and why your book is so so so important
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Speaker 1: because you don't have to leave the club in order
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Speaker 1: to finally get that body or that mindset that you're
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Speaker 1: looking for. You don't have to become the liar that
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Speaker 1: I have become. I don't wear baggy clothes. But I'm
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Speaker 1: telling people I do right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And that's the beautiful thing. Like I don't
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Speaker 3: want your di always say, your diet shouldn't be the
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Speaker 3: most interesting thing about you. It's not your whole personality.
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Speaker 3: Let's not let it be our whole personality. Life is
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Speaker 3: is so much greater than this. And I want people
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Speaker 3: to live their best life in their body, whatever that
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Speaker 3: body ends up looking like. And so yeah, that's going
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Speaker 3: to mean like, you know, celebrating with a little slice
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Speaker 3: of birthday cake for you know, that celebratory kind of experience.
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Speaker 2: It might mean having.
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Speaker 3: A drink, of course, like there are reasons, many reasons
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Speaker 3: not to drink and all of those things. But what
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Speaker 3: it comes down to is not setting any of these
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Speaker 3: these hard rules, because hard rules are always going to
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Speaker 3: be broken. If we know a teenager, you say you can't,
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Speaker 3: don't wear that top, They're going to wear that top.
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Speaker 3: And so I think that we have to think of
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Speaker 3: ourselves sometimes like like a little bit like children, in
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Speaker 3: the sense that we we need to kind of give
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Speaker 3: ourselves enough permission, non judgmentally, so that we don't take it,
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Speaker 3: we don't rebel and take it so far in the
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Speaker 3: opposite direction that it's really hard to rain ourselves back in.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. We'll be right back with Abby Sharp,
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Speaker 1: the name of the book, the Hunger Crushing Combo Method.
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Speaker 1: We are back with author and activist Abby Sharp. I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you where the big change, where I started feeling
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Speaker 1: it and I'm going to continue to grow within your book,
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Speaker 1: is that the size of the Granny Smith apple that
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Speaker 1: I was doing has changed. I don't do the big
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Speaker 1: one anymore. I do the eighty biddies because it's just enough.
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Speaker 1: And is that one of the things that we need
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Speaker 1: to convince each other is that it's just enough?
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Speaker 2: Right, No, I know, I exactly. And food change. Foods
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Speaker 2: have changed, and.
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Speaker 3: I think that's where kind of learning to listen a
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Speaker 3: bit more to your own internal body wisdom, which is
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Speaker 3: something we talk a lot about in the book, because,
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Speaker 3: believe it or not, the volume of food we consume
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Speaker 3: da to day actually is relatively consistent. What I mean
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Speaker 3: by that is that if you are used to eating
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Speaker 3: off of the whole dinner plate, is going to be
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Speaker 3: very hard to doope your brain into feeling full if
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Speaker 3: you're now just eating off a tiny, little stalid place.
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Speaker 3: Even if the calories are exactly the same, so volume
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Speaker 3: is important when it comes to weight loss. And really
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Speaker 3: just like paying attention to how these different kinds of
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Speaker 3: foods make you feel. If you have a piece of
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Speaker 3: toast with jam on it and you rushing out the door,
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Speaker 3: log that track, that as just you know, completely like unapologetic,
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Speaker 3: non judgmental data.
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Speaker 2: Ah, I didn't.
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Speaker 3: Feel so great an hour later because I was hungry
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Speaker 3: again and therefore looking for donuts in the in the
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Speaker 3: staff room Versus how did it feel when you also
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Speaker 3: had a Greek yogurt cup as as you rushed at
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Speaker 3: the door. Okay, this time I felt fuller, longer, it
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Speaker 3: got me to lunch.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't feeling so frantic, I wasn't.
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Speaker 3: Feeling you know, my digestion felt a little bit better.
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Speaker 3: This is all just data that I want people to
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Speaker 3: start to learn to collect for themselves. And so for you,
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Speaker 3: that data might be that massive Granny Smith apple is
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Speaker 3: actually more than my body needs right now, and I'm
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Speaker 3: fully satisfied with a smaller one, even though you were
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Speaker 3: in the habit of just assuming that you needed the
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Speaker 3: Gradysmith apple because you always have eaten the Granny Smith apple.
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Speaker 3: So again, This is really about bringing together biology, psychology,
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Speaker 3: and our own internal body wisdom, and that if you're
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Speaker 3: working with all three of those, you really cannot go
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Speaker 3: wrong when it comes to improving your health.
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Speaker 1: I love your language. How is it that you're able
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Speaker 1: to speak the street and not just go all gung ho.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a part of the medical world kind
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Speaker 1: of crazy with those big words we can't pronounce, but
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Speaker 1: yet you make everything seem so simple and you put
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Speaker 1: it in that language that we can all relate with.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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Speaker 3: I've been doing this a very long time, and I've
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Speaker 3: spoke to a lot of people, you know, thousands, hundreds
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Speaker 3: of thousands of people who feel very very let down
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Speaker 3: and confused by you know, the language, the lingo, the
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Speaker 3: medical advice that is like all over the web, and
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Speaker 3: just feel completely overwhelmed by the conflicting information that.
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Speaker 2: They're getting every single day.
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Speaker 3: And so I think it's very important to distill this
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Speaker 3: down to basics, nutrition, eating well, weight loss. Weight loss
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Speaker 3: is not easy, but it is simple, and if we
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Speaker 3: kind of simplify it back to our own body and
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Speaker 3: our own bodies' needs physiologically and psychologically, we are going
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Speaker 3: to get a good result.
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Speaker 1: People will come up to me all the time they go, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm craving this, I'm craving this, And the first thing
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Speaker 1: I tell them is go get some sour kraut. That'll
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Speaker 1: end that craving in a heartbeat. Man, sour krout and olives.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what is in the two of those,
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Speaker 1: but in almens, Oh my god, there is an alternate there.
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Speaker 1: When you've got the craving going on, bust the craving.
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Speaker 3: No exactly exactly, and that is that is the reality,
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Speaker 3: you know. I think, for one, people often have cravings
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Speaker 3: when they're just physically underfed.
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Speaker 2: They're not eating enough.
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Speaker 3: You know, you go all day because you're so busy
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Speaker 3: at work, you forget to eat, have lunch, you forget
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Speaker 3: to have breakfast, you get you know, you rush through dinner,
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Speaker 3: and then by nighttime, especially when your inhibitions have lowered
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Speaker 3: because you're more tired, you know, finally all the cravings arise.
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Speaker 2: And that's where you're going through the bed and Jerry's
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Speaker 2: and you're going through the chips, and you're going through.
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Speaker 3: The snacks and so that that's very common, and it's
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Speaker 3: also very common to have cravings for food that you
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Speaker 3: are constantly telling yourself you cannot have. It's like when
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Speaker 3: people say, don't think about the you know, the white
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Speaker 3: elephant or whatever, like you're gonna think about the elephant,
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Speaker 3: And the same thing goes for food. So allowing yourself
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Speaker 3: these these types of foods non judgmentally, in combination with
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Speaker 3: the hunger crushing combo five, approaching healthy fats, you're going
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Speaker 3: to eliminate. You're going to completely take that food off
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Speaker 3: of its pedestal so it has no more power over you.
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Speaker 3: It just becomes another food, no different than an apple
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Speaker 3: or a piece of cheese or a broccoli or yogurt.
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Speaker 3: And it is you're able to.
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Speaker 2: Actually get to work for you, not against you.
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Speaker 1: We got to see that. That's the one thing that
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Speaker 1: you and I love to do and everybody else. We've
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Speaker 1: got to have the evidence. Oh it's not working. Did
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Speaker 1: you look? Did you really look? Are you just being
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Speaker 1: the judger?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 3: No, no, I think that's uh yeah, that's exactly you.
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Speaker 3: You do have to do that, do the homework and
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Speaker 3: really put in put in the word too, and.
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Speaker 1: Keep a journey and keep a journey. Yes, ye oh
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Speaker 1: my god, me too. Oh my god, it's it's how
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Speaker 1: you measure man, And then you've got living proof. It's
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Speaker 1: not based on a true story. It's the real deal.
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Speaker 1: It's right there on that page.
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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 3: And especially because we're such busy people, these things all
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Speaker 3: blood together. You don't need to count every calorie, every macro,
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Speaker 3: but write down what you ate or snap a picture
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Speaker 3: and keep a quick note of how long did that
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Speaker 3: keep me full? How does that affect my energy? Was
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Speaker 3: I cranky after this? Was I able to like really
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Speaker 3: sustain my workflow for the next few hours? And that
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Speaker 3: is just going to non judgmentally inform the next meal.
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Speaker 3: And that's really what the hunger crushing comblem that that
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Speaker 3: helps you do.
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Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about
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Speaker 1: you and everything that you're associated with? Because they're going
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Speaker 1: to be in their offices or in their car. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna say, I gotta have more, I gotta have more,
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Speaker 1: I gotta have more.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, I have my own podcast it's called bite Back
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Speaker 3: with Abby Sharp, and then I do lots of mythbusting
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Speaker 3: deep dives into kind of controversial nutrition topics. On that,
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Speaker 3: I've got a YouTube channel, TikTok, Instagram.
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Speaker 2: At Abby's Kitchen and then.
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Speaker 3: My book is called The Hunger Crushing Combo, and you
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Speaker 3: can find that, of course online Barnes and Nobles all
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Speaker 3: across the nation. There's an audiobook version of me speaking
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Speaker 3: it out, there's a digital version, and then there's a
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Speaker 3: hard copy, so there's lots of options where you can
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Speaker 3: get that information.
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Speaker 1: Wow, you've got to come back to this show anytime
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Speaker 1: in the future. This is an everyday subject, not like
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Speaker 1: a springtime headed into summer kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. Oh yeah, but no.
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Speaker 3: And this is a great thing about the method is
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Speaker 3: that this can be applied to any person's school at
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Speaker 3: any point in the life cycle. This is not just
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Speaker 3: a one time fix. We've got chapters on weight loss,
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Speaker 3: blood circuit management, GCUS, GLP ones, muscle building, endurance, sports, feeding, kids,
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Speaker 3: paramenopause and menopause, and how we can specifically utilize this
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Speaker 3: framework to help you meet your goals.
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Speaker 1: I got one more question. I know I'm way over
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Speaker 1: the limit here, but I've got to ask this and
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Speaker 1: it's been in my heart since we first started talking.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Are we really add to alcohol or
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Speaker 1: are we addicted to sugar that's placed inside the alcohol.
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Speaker 3: That's a great question. Probably outside of my scope, but
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Speaker 3: I mean alcohol is a drug, is actual narcotic drug,
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Speaker 3: so I would say that there are more more, you know,
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Speaker 3: sort of addictive properties related to that piece. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: the whole sugar addiction is definitely up for debate, and
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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to seeing more research on this. But
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Speaker 3: I think right now what we can confidently say is
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Speaker 3: a lot of what we kind of see as a
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Speaker 3: quote unquote addiction for a lot of people, not all
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Speaker 3: for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Especially this kind of food noise we're talking.
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Speaker 3: About that can be eliminated or severely dampened when we
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Speaker 3: are a lot giving ourselves permission to eat enough.
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Speaker 1: See when we when we put that man and that
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Speaker 1: woman up there on the moon to live up there forever,
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Speaker 1: and then we start sending people to Mars. Trust me,
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Speaker 1: Sugar is going with them. I just know it in
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Speaker 1: my heart. Sugar will be there with them.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure too.
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Speaker 1: Wow, please come back to this show anytime in the future.
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Speaker 3: Abby.
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Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me.
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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you as well