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My Exact Process For a Successful Challenge · Health, Life & What’s Next

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  you are listening.
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  Listening to the prepared patient podcast with Dr.
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  Jennifer GNC, where we discuss what it really takes to heal your body.
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  I am determined to show you the reality of navigating the medical space as a patient caregiver and loved ones.
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  So you can be empowered and take back the most precious and important asset of your life, which is your health.
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  Comfortable and get started Hello Warriors.
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  Hello healers.
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  Welcome back to the podcast.
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  I have a different podcast for you all today.
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  It's gonna be short and brief in something that I am doing.
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  I would love for you to support us and I wanna share with you, so I am.
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  About to embark on a 30 day move your body challenge.
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  My gut healers from the Gut Decluttering program and myself are going to do 30 days of movement.
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  Now, we all have different goals.
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  At the beginning of the program, gut Decluttering program, I asked them to write down five goals and.
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  To really look at them every day so that they can keep an eyes on the goals.
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  And many of them have weight loss listed.
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  Many of them have, um, developing healthy habits.
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  And for me, my goals are mostly to build muscle.
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  I've lost weight.
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  Weight loss is somewhat easier for me at this stage of my journey, and because I'm losing weight and it's easier, I'm also losing muscle mass in a way because I am not exercising, I am not turning up.
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  So I look skinny, I look um, sexy.
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  I look petite.
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  However, I would love to have my muscles.
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  I would love to age gracefully.
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  I don't want to have saggy skin, saggy body parts, saggy anything.
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  So I decided that we will do a 30 day move your body challenge movement I did something similar to this when I was running my weight loss and steroid.
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  Program a while back where we work for 30 days.
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  But this challenge is different.
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  It is more intense.
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  I will say.
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  It is more, how would I say this?
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  It is more pronounced in a way that we are not just walking, we're gonna be doing different activities, different exercises.
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  I am gonna be exercising a lot more.
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  Going to the gym not be working as much.
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  I'll be contracting my muscles.
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  I'll be working with personal trainers.
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  I'll be involved in, in small groups, boot camps at the gym to really get to my goals.
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  In 30 days, I would love to see some muscles popping.
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  I would love to really turn up, in every single part of my body.
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  But let's talk about what a challenge is.
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  Like what does it mean to go through a challenge?
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  To run a challenge for yourself?
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  It means that you are stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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  Cuz we so often love to stay exactly where we are.
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  We don't want to do anything d we don't wanna explore, we don't wanna experience, we don't want, some of us don't like changes.
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  But when you run a challenge, not only you keeping it exciting, you're keeping it new, you're keeping it something.
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  Different, but you also getting out of your comfort zone.
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  Growth happens when you are outside of, of your ordinary day-to-day life, okay?
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  And you are taking on a new task.
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  You are learning new skills, you're setting up new goals, and you ready to work harder to achieve them.
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  Cause a 30 day move your body challenge is not easy.
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  It is not easy.
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  Requires a lot of planning, mindset work requires emotional work and it requires for you to look at your life with a lens to see, Hey, can I do this?
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  Cuz at the end of the day it's just a decision and you just have to give yourself permission to do it.
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  But as life is happening for us, we tend to just put ourselves, our health, our desires, our needs.
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  On the back burner so that we can take care of everybody else so we can be present for other people so we can prioritize other things.
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  But when you do a challenge, it's really focusing on you.
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  It also leads to personal growth personal development and self-improvement.
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  This challenge that I'm about to embark on will test my resiliency, my great and determination, because it will be very challenging.
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  I already have somewhat the full life.
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  Busy in a sense where I'm running a practice, I'm taking care of my family, I'm taking care of my two children, and I'm also taking care of my patients.
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  So my day-to-day life is pretty full, if I'm being honest with you.
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  But as I mentioned, it is a decision if I really wanna do this, I just have to find a space in my calendar to schedule this challenge cuz I can come up with so many excuses.
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  I'm already at work.
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  The time that I'm recording this podcast, the challenge will start in a day but I'm already at work and I have a full schedule, and my job is very demanding in the sense that I am helping people heal the bodies.
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  I have to be present.
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  I structure my practice to be, I.
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  Not only present for my patients, but to support them to create a space of accountability for them, for them to know that they have access to us whenever they need help, whenever they need us to address certain things.
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  So therefore, I have to make sure that my calendar, my routine, is open for whatever my patient needs at the moment.
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  So imagine that, right?
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  Imagine that PA people can just send me a message and then they get an answer.
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  Imagine that the patient is going through something, whether it's a detox reaction, a new symptoms or a persistent symptoms and they need help.
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  So I have to literally be present for them.
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  And the fact that with functional medicine, it is not covered by insurance.
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  And I want to make sure that every single patient in my practice is getting results.
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  They are finishing strong at the end of our journey together.
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  So that requires a lot of work on my part, a lot of physical and mental work on my part to be there for them.
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  So running a challenge is not something that, I just wake up and decide to do it is something that I think is necessary, something that I, I found to be valuable, and it's something that's gonna really challenge me, challenge the person that I am, and I know every time I run a challenge, I become different.
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  At the end of it, I kind of dig into my strength, into my courage, and I'm always amazed of things that I can accomplish So a challenge is not supposed to be easy, right?
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  It requires a lot of effort, but the beauty of it is that it opens up to new experiences and puts you, in a way of improving yourself every single day.
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  We wanna be evolving as human being.
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  We wanna grow every single second.
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  We don't wanna stay stagnant and sedentary.
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  So Move Your Body Challenge has so many benefits.
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  It's not just.
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  For weight loss because when I talk to my patients or when I talk to people, they, they, they'll think that I'm doing this for weight loss.
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  For me, it's not for weight loss, but there are a few benefits when you move your body on a daily basis.
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  And when I say move your body, I'm not saying that you need to go to the gym every day, although I'll be going to the gym four days, five days out of the week.
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  But you don't have to.
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  You can literally.
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  Walk every day.
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  You can literally get in a treadmill if you have one every day.
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  You can literally get up and down the staircase every day.
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  You have to listen to your body and not do anything where you're gonna enjoy yourself.
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  So it's not exercising for 30 days.
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  As a matter of fact, exercising seven days out of the week is not ideal.
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  It's not safe.
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  Many people can get, inflammation.
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  Many people can get sick from exercising, exhaustion from exercising every day.
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  So you have to come.
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  Looking for ways to do this, not, not only for you to get the results, but you are not going to create more damage to yourself.
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  So moving your body.
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  Some of my patients will be walking, some my, some of my patients will be going to the gym four or three days.
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  For some of my patients that have like a lot of health issues that can't do a lot, they're just gonna get up and walk around the house.
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  Like work outside for at least 15 minutes, 30 minutes, like that's all that is required.
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  If you are in a state where you have a lot going on, you can't do more than you not going to the gym.
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  You just have to move your body.
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  You can dance, you can do Zumba, you can do Pilates.
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  There's so many options out there, but the benefits of moving your body is not only to maintain your weight or lose weight, but it's also to promote longevity and overall health.
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  When you move your body, you're increasing circulation.
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  You're improving your strength and flexibility and bone health, right?
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  You are also improving your sleep.
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  You're boosting your moods and you reducing stress.
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  You are improving your health of your brain.
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  Better cognitive function if you do it in a way where you're promoting, sweating, elimination, you're also gonna have a healthier looking skin.
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  So moving your body, has a lot involved with it.
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  For me, it's more about building muscle, throwing up, increasing my muscle mass for my patients is losing weight in your gut health.
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  Because remember when you move, You are creating contraction, you are increasing circulation.
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  So therefore you have blood flow going all over your body, not just your heart.
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  You have blood flow also going to your digestive system and a lot of people will see, improve bowel elimination because of the increased circulation.
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  You can Google.
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  The benefits of moving your body daily?
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  And you'll get tons of research studies on it.
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  And I think everybody specifically now, since we are moving into summer, it's nice outside.
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  I think everybody should go out and move your body specifically if you have a stressful job.
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  For me, walking is a.
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  Mental exercise.
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  It is a way of reducing my stress.
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  It's a way of tackling certain things that are happen in my life right now so I can practice it when I go on a walk.
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  That's what walking does for me.
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  Going to the gym.
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  It's a way of holding myself accountable.
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  Now, many of you guys know that I don't like to exercise.
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  I don't like to exercise.
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  I mean, I envy people that loves going to the gym.
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  That's not me.
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  But I know it's necessary because again, if I don't move, I lose.
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  If I don't contract my, muscles and put them to work, I'm gonna lose them.
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  What I've done to really make this challenge easier for me.
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  I've tested a few gyms.
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  And I find one that I really like.
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  They have group programs.
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  And what I love about group programs is that I can see that I am not the only one that is struggling.
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  I can see that we all have the same goals to improve our health.
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  I can see that we all trying to do our best when we do a group program in at the gym I can see that everybody's struggling.
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  And at the end, we all have a smile on our face when we finish that difficult task.
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  I have two gym memberships to keep things spicy, just to keep things excited because I can get bored very easily and when I get bored, I'll just give up.
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  So I've done a few things to make this very easy for me.
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  The first thing that I have done is to really.
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  Sit with the decision, right?
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  Have a goal in mind.
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  What is the purpose of this moving your body?
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  30 day challenge, right?
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  Why do I wanna do this?
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  I don't wanna do this for Hahas.
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  I don't wanna do this because I have nothing else to do.
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  I have a specific reason why I want to turn up.
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  I want to feel my best.
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  I want to look my best.
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  I want to be on this journey with my patients.
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  I wanna show them what is possible.
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  I wanna age gracefully.
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  I want to better improve my health.
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  Your health is an everyday process.
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  It's not like you just went on the journey.
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  You want, you know, embark on the program, you took some pills, you did the diet, and you're done.
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  It is an everyday consistent process, and I'm always finding ways to make it better.
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  Moving my body for 30 days will do exactly that.
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  Now, how am I gonna get this done, so I look at the benefits and there are tons of benefits on, I love all the benefits but how am I gonna get this done?
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  First, I have to look at my calendar.
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  I scheduled everything on my calendar.
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  My calendar is my boss.
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  My calendar runs my life.
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  So I look at the calendar, I look at my practice, I look at the patients that I have, what I need to do on a day to day basis.
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  As many of you guys know, we only have, currently two clinic days where you can come in the clinic to receive IVs for consultation I also have patients via telemedicine as well.
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  So I'm always working.
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  I work five days out of the week.
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  And I just take care of my patients through different avenues.
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  But I have to look to see, okay, how busy am I?
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  The next 30 days?
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  How many patients I am helping or serving or, creating an impact for.
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  So I have to look at all that.
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  So I look at my professional life.
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  My business, my practice, and I also look at my personal life.
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  I know my son is ending school now, so therefore I don't have to wake up in the morning, drop him off, pick him up, so it's gonna be easier for me.
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  So I look at my life, I look at the things that I have now and making sure that I am able to do this.
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  I'm not gonna fail at this, I'm not gonna give up midway, and then I put everything on my calendar.
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  If you look at my calendar, you'll see everything.
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  Even my lunch is, scheduled on my calendar, my lunch and my dinner, picking up my son, dropping off my son going to the gym.
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  So, and then the next thing I did, I look at the gyms that I'm gonna go to.
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  I look at the classes they have.
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  I know they have certain classes for weightlifting, certain classes to work on your glutes, on your tie, on your core.
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  And they have Zumba and they have Group fitness classes where we are pushing things around, where we are, hitting the bags and doing, different things.
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  So I look on a day-to-day basis and I just schedule according to what I have going on at the clinic in the calendar.
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  So mostly I love to get my exercise done in the morning.
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  So I will be going to the gym in the morning, except for Mondays.
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  I have Zumba, I have abs.
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  I'm working on ABS for 30 minutes.
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  And then I have Zumba for an hour, so I'll be going to the gym every Monday, working on those things.
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  And then Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, working on different part of my bodies, working on different muscle groups.
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  And then on Friday I'm just gonna walk.
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  On Saturday I have Zumba and abs, and then Sunday I'm just gonna walk.
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  You see how easy that schedule is.
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  I put it in my calendar, and then what I do is I look at my night with him.
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  So at night I will set my clothes.
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  On the bed, my gym clothes.
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  On Tuesdays, I have clinic days, so therefore I'm gonna go to the gym and then take a shower at the gym and get ready for work after I finish my exercise, class, and then come straight to work after that.
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  So I'm gonna have to not only prepare my gym clothes, but also prepare my work clothes.
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  And then when it comes to clothing for this challenge, I.
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  We're not on the journey of purchasing beautiful outfits, but beautiful gym clothes so that I can feel good in them, so that I will elevate my moods so that I can literally be empowered and motivated to get out and go to the gym.
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  Because again, I don't like to work out and this is something I, I'm gonna probably have to fight myself on every day, but I will get it done.
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  So I look at my attire, my undergarment, my exercise clothes, and I plan everything.
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  That's my night routine.
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  I have a morning routine that I wake up in the morning, spend some time with God, and then do the rest of my morning routine, and I also feed fit in.
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  My exercises as well, and then work.
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  And then I have to look at my meal prepping.
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  So if you know me, I love to prep.
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  I love to plan for success.
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  So now that I'm going to the gym, um, it's gonna require for me to increase my calic intake since I don't want to lose weight.
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  So therefore I'm gonna have to make sure that I have plenty of food, plenty of fruit and vegetables.
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  And plenty of protein, plenty of complex carbohydrates, good fat.
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  So I had to really look, go, um, to Whole Foods and say, okay, what do I need?
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  And then double that cuz I don't want to be exercising.
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  And then not feeding my body what it needs and losing muscle mass and losing weight and looks skinnier than I am.
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  That's not the point.
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  So I have to look at the meal prepping the food that I'm bringing to my clinic, the protein shakes that I'm drinking.
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  Um, and I plan everything and I take everything with me.
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  But the most difficult thing that I have to lose to work on my mindset, because again, it is not easy to go on a challenge like such, but I have to really work on my mindset.
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  I have to.
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  See how going on this challenge gonna help me stay focused, right?
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  I know it's, Dante is caring, it's, I'm fearful.
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  I have doubts.
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  I'm like, oh my God, is it, is it, am I gonna do this?
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  This is, do I really need to do this?
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  I don't need to do this.
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  Like so many excuses are coming up.
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  But I have to see how this is gonna lead to new opportunities and opportunities for me to not only improve my health, but loving.
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  The thing we call exercising, right?
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  Like meeting new people at the gym, maybe you know, community, but you know, cheering for my patients and let them see how if I can do it, they can do it too.
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  I'm building new skills and I'm building confidence, right?
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  I'm gonna really lead to lead myself in a place that I can accomplish anything and I can do anything.
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  So I had to work on that mindset.
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  I had to literally journal the reasons why I wanna do this, all the things that's gonna prevent me from doing this, all the mind trauma that's coming up, and how I'm gonna comfort all of that, and how I'm gonna tackle all of that stuff.
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  So that's the thing about the 30 day.
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  Move your body challenge.
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  I love challenges because it keeps us motivated, if you wake up every day, you always have to include little, little spurs of things to keep things excited and running.
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  Running a challenge helped me accomplish exactly that.
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  Keeping things excited in my life.
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  So it's not boring life, it's exciting.
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  I'm learning, I'm growing, I'm developing new habits.
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  I'm improving my health.
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  And I'm becoming a better me.
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  All right, so what challenges can you run that can make you.
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  A better, and improved human being.
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  So it doesn't have to be a 30 day move your body challenge.
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  It could be a 30 journaling challenge.
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  It could be a 30 day eating healthy challenge.
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  It could be a 30 day no sugar challenge.
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  It could be a 10 day liver detox challenge.
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  So there's so many things you can do that's gonna really put you out of your comfort zone.
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  And then at the end of it, it's so rewarding and you feel great about yourself, feel good about your body, and You'll be amazed again at what the bind can accomplish, what your body can accomplish, how we can push through fear and the discomfort and come out stronger on the other end.
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  So I wanted to invite you on this challenge if you wanna do that with us.
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  But to also let you know that I will be documenting this whole process and our social media platforms, wellness Conj and ig, and also Facebook on my personal page, Jennifer Genty.
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  I'm gonna be going live as well for 30 days as I'm doing this challenge again, I'm challenging myself very hard, so I would love for you to turn on your notification.
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  See me struggle, see me winning, see me having fun.
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  See me just crying, see all the things.
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  You're gonna see all the things in the videos.
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  So thank you so much for your support.
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  And at the end of this challenge, maybe I'll do another podcast to tell you my lessons.
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  What I learned from this, and if I will do it again.
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  thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for listening to this episode.
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  Do me a favor.
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  Stay tuned and I'll see you in the next episode.
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  Bye-bye.