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Season 2 - Episode 334 - Recovery week! How you eat matters · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the noisy chicken coop.
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  OK, so today we are talking about recovery week part three
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  and we are looking at how you eat.
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  Not just what you eat, but how you eat there.
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  It has been said that we are so mindless that we just stuff
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  things in our face as we walk around.
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  We don't think about it, especially at holiday parties.
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  So if you are someone who works in an office and there's always
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  cake being served, and there's. Always fun things being done in
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  office. This is something you have to
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  look at. For those of you who ever seen
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  Seinfeld fans and have ever seen the episode, when Elaine gets
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  completely annoyed by the fact that they're constantly having
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  birthday parties there and she's like doesn't want to partake
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  anymore because it's the constant sugar, I feel that I I
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  completely understand that because it is hard.
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  It is really, really, really hard to have.
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  The constant things put in front of you and you are like having
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  to say no, but you feel empowered when you do say no if
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  you're in the right headspace. So first of all, how you eat
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  matters. So getting yourself in the
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  headspace of saying no, this is how I'm going to handle myself
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  the next week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, whatever you're going to do up
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  until Christmas. For me personally, this is
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  happening up until Christmas. I'm going to put myself in the
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  food vault and I'm going to be eating super, super clean up
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  until Christmas because I typically know how many people
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  end up getting sick between now and Christmas.
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  And my belief it is has a ton to do with the amount of food and
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  alcohol, sugar that goes into our bodies.
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  So I'm going to wildly limit it, and I do know that.
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  Just my own observation of myself, and I'm sure any of you
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  listening have had the same thing.
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  There's certain times you'll go and you'll get food and you'll
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  come home and you'll feel fine. And the next morning you wake up
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  and you look like you got punched in the face.
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  You look in the mirror and you go, Oh my God, look at my face.
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  It's all wrinkled. It looks old.
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  It looks terrible. And that's based on the food
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  that you've just eaten. It's based on the fact that you
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  have not enough hydration. It's based on the fact that you
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  you actually didn't. Understand what was going to
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  happen when it went into your body and metabolized.
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  Or you didn't care. Maybe you did understand, but
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  you didn't care because it seemed like it was OK in the
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  moment, which is fine to do sometimes, as long as you handle
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  your recovery time. And the recovery time is
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  incredibly important. So it's, you know, gives your
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  body a break, lets you do this, and you recognize, how am I
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  eating? Am I just doing it out of habit?
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  Am I just walking by the bowl? So I have a client.
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  And that has talked to me about how in her office there's always
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  somebody who has a desk that has M and Ms. in a glass bowl and
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  the M and Ms. are always there. And every time she walks by, she
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  sees them. So it used to be every time she
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  walked by and she would see them, she would say, Oh my gosh,
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  I just want to go grab a handful of those M and Ms. And we had to
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  work on the fact of mindful and eating, which is OK.
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  If you're going to do it, you have to do it and be present
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  with it and acknowledge that you're going to take that sugar
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  into your body. Acknowledge that you're going to
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  put it in there and you're going to eat it.
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  Don't make yourself wrong for it if you really want it, but
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  understand I'm choosing the sugar right now so you won't be
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  mad at yourself later. Well, that little activity of
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  choosing the sugar. As soon as she would say I'm
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  choosing the sugar, she would say why, What am I doing?
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  This isn't even what I want. And it would make her course
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  correct and it was such a great thing.
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  But it can't. It comes down to one simple fact
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  it's all about. Awareness and choosing it.
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  It's all about stopping and saying, OK, I'm going to pay
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  attention to how I'm eating. Am I eating mindfully or am I
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  eating mindlessly? Because that makes the big
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  difference. So when you sit down to actually
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  have a plate of food, make sure you're very present in that
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  thought process. Make sure you're sitting down
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  and everything that you go to the stove and you scoop out and
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  put on your plate, think about it and say, OK, is this really
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  how much I want? Do do I really need this much of
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  this? And you'll be surprised at how
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  you start to shift it. You'll start to pay attention
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  to, OK, I'm full. I don't need to be stuffed
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  because there is a difference between being full and being
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  stuffed. And I know you get it because I
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  know the difference in my own body And unless you have some
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  physical. Impediment that causes you to
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  not recognize that we all have it.
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  So it's something to be very, very conscious of.
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  Am I full? Do I really need that extra
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  piece? Because most if we listen to
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  most of us, we go, Oh no, I'm stuffed, I am stuffed.
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  And that is an important piece. And to recognize, OK, my
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  friends, go out there, start paying attention to how you are
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  eating, take care of yourself. And no mindless eating, mindful
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  eating, not mindless eating. OK my friends, I will see you
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  tomorrow and I hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.