Latest / The You Project / #1798 Kate's P*ssed Off - Kate Save
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- 0:00Speaker 1: O good a team, your bloody champions, Craig Anthony harpert'z
- 0:03Speaker 1: you project Kate Save? What's your middle name?
- 0:06Speaker 2: Patricia?
- 0:07Speaker 1: Kate? Patricia Save is joining us. Tiffany and Cook is
- 0:10Speaker 1: not here. But it's just us, two bloody champions, just
- 0:14Speaker 1: doing what we can on a Saturday afternoon at two
- 0:16Speaker 1: o four? Where are you at two four on a Saturday?
- 0:18Speaker 2: I am in the office by myself. I love the piece.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Are you at befit food HQ?
- 0:25Speaker 2: I am yes?
- 0:27Speaker 1: How's it going? And you're still raking in the money?
- 0:30Speaker 1: Do you need me to bring a wheelbarrow down and
- 0:32Speaker 1: fill it up with cash and help you get it
- 0:34Speaker 1: into the safe?
- 0:36Speaker 2: Do you know what that always could do with a
- 0:39Speaker 2: wheelbarrow full of money? Couldn't hurt?
- 0:43Speaker 1: What do you reckon? Like? Because you've got a pretty
- 0:45Speaker 1: big organization now and you just tell quickly people who
- 0:50Speaker 1: don't know you. So, hey, everyone, this is Kate. She's
- 0:53Speaker 1: got two degrees. She's got I'm going to read your
- 0:55Speaker 1: buyer because it never looked at it. Credited practicing dietitian.
- 1:00Speaker 1: How did exercise physiologists diabetes educator double the green nutrition?
- 1:04Speaker 1: Diabetics and exercise science advanced DIP in diabetes education, Masters
- 1:09Speaker 1: in clinical exercise, Masters in Business admin. Done. You're not underqualified,
- 1:15Speaker 1: let's say that.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you're qualified nothing when you've done lots
- 1:19Speaker 2: and lots of different things. Because I think all it
- 1:21Speaker 2: does is open your mind to be more curious and
- 1:23Speaker 2: realize what you don't know.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Tell people about befit food, just so people who don't
- 1:30Speaker 1: know you can get or just give that whatever bio
- 1:33Speaker 1: of you you want. Who are you, Kate?
- 1:36Speaker 2: Who am I? I'm someone who's passionate about health. And
- 1:40Speaker 2: I think because I've seen over ten thousand patients in
- 1:44Speaker 2: my clinical sort of practice, what I'm recognized is the
- 1:48Speaker 2: majority of people actually knew what to do, very much
- 1:52Speaker 2: like the people that you coach. They know what to do,
- 1:54Speaker 2: they just can't bloody do it. It's too hard. They
- 1:56Speaker 2: need someone to coach them, to guide them, to make
- 2:00Speaker 2: them more curious and to have some confidence. And I
- 2:02Speaker 2: think beefit Food I developed it. It's ten years this
- 2:06Speaker 2: month actually, so ten years ago and well that's when
- 2:09Speaker 2: we launched it, and the idea of it was really
- 2:12Speaker 2: to actually give people the missing piece so they knew
- 2:16Speaker 2: what they needed to eat. They were just too time
- 2:18Speaker 2: for So everything that I'd talked to them about I
- 2:21Speaker 2: put into the food, the four to twelve veggies, high protein,
- 2:24Speaker 2: low CAUP, no added sugar, no artificial sweetness, no added
- 2:30Speaker 2: you know, colors and flavors and those sorts of things.
- 2:33Speaker 2: So just whole food, super super simple and small portions
- 2:38Speaker 2: because I think at the end of the day people
- 2:41Speaker 2: probably eat too much, and having a small portion often
- 2:45Speaker 2: people go, it's a pretty low calorie one. I'm like, yeah,
- 2:48Speaker 2: but that allows you to have your couple of pieces
- 2:50Speaker 2: a dark chocolate, your glass of wine, you're whatever it
- 2:53Speaker 2: is you feel like having without that impacting your health,
- 2:57Speaker 2: your weight, not having to sort of compensate and do
- 3:01Speaker 2: all these other things. So they're pretty small portion meals,
- 3:04Speaker 2: but they've got everything jam packed in them that you need.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I reckon like, for a lot of my life, a
- 3:11Speaker 1: lot of my life, I just well, how much, Craig,
- 3:14Speaker 1: how much of your life? At least at least a third,
- 3:17Speaker 1: maybe nearly a half of my life. I just ate
- 3:20Speaker 1: too much food. I just I literally just you know,
- 3:24Speaker 1: if I if my body needed X most days, I
- 3:28Speaker 1: would give my body X plus twenty percent. And I mean,
- 3:33Speaker 1: you know, you don't need to be a bloody. You
- 3:35Speaker 1: don't need a PhD or a master's or anything to
- 3:37Speaker 1: kind of go, oh, well, if you put more energy
- 3:40Speaker 1: in the and yeah, it's a bit more nuanced than this.
- 3:42Speaker 1: And there's a few other variables. But at the end
- 3:44Speaker 1: of the day, Craig, if you're expending on average twenty
- 3:46Speaker 1: five hundred calories and you're putting in three thousand, there's
- 3:49Speaker 1: a five hundred kind of calorie difference or surplus that
- 3:53Speaker 1: something's got to happen with that. And apart from a
- 3:56Speaker 1: few other variables, you know your body's going to store
- 3:59Speaker 1: at least some of that fat. And I think that
- 4:04Speaker 1: like being able to just because there's so much emotion
- 4:07Speaker 1: around food cake. And I feel like you give I
- 4:10Speaker 1: reckon you're kinder than I am, because you go people
- 4:14Speaker 1: don't eat well because they're time poor. I reckon bullshit.
- 4:18Speaker 1: I reckon people don't eat well because they love fucking
- 4:22Speaker 1: high fat, high salt, high taste food. It's not I
- 4:26Speaker 1: agree with you. Time is an issue, But I think
- 4:28Speaker 1: over like, I didn't eat shit because I was time poor.
- 4:32Speaker 1: I ate shit because I love the taste of shit.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Back in the day.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Now it's the ultra process food market. It hijacks your brain.
- 4:40Speaker 2: So your brain was literally hijacked by the top three,
- 4:44Speaker 2: you know, global food groups in the world that have
- 4:47Speaker 2: spent gazillions of dollars on tricking your brain into thinking
- 4:51Speaker 2: that the whole purpose of life is that next mouthful.
- 4:54Speaker 2: And that's the sad reality of it is that you
- 4:58Speaker 2: can walk into a supermarket when you really hungry and
- 5:00Speaker 2: buy some baby cucumbers, but you're not going to because
- 5:04Speaker 2: they're not at the cashro just stuff. They're not wrapped
- 5:08Speaker 2: up in pretty packaging, and they don't hijack your brain
- 5:11Speaker 2: and make you feel like you're taking drugs or alcohol
- 5:14Speaker 2: or whatever it is that lights up your brain pressing
- 5:17Speaker 2: the Pokey's button. And that's what these foods do so well.
- 5:19Speaker 2: And I think the sad reality of it is that
- 5:23Speaker 2: now it's really hitting the children. What sorts of chance
- 5:29Speaker 2: do they have as adults? If we've seen this over
- 5:32Speaker 2: decades and decades slowly occurring, and I get it, once
- 5:36Speaker 2: you get to fifty sixty seventy, maybe you just give up,
- 5:39Speaker 2: you don't care, and you eatat you want to eat,
- 5:41Speaker 2: and that's just that's what you've chosen. But when children
- 5:45Speaker 2: are developing obesity at an alarming rate. So it's tripled
- 5:50Speaker 2: since the nineteen seventies. And I think the kids now
- 5:53Speaker 2: it's they think it'll be a quarter of children by
- 5:56Speaker 2: twenty thirty. They already know from the sign and said
- 6:00Speaker 2: they stand no chance as adults really of having a
- 6:03Speaker 2: healthy weight. You are far more likely to be overweight
- 6:07Speaker 2: as an adult if you're overweight as a child. And
- 6:10Speaker 2: I actually interviewed Professor Felice Jacka, who I believe you've
- 6:13Speaker 2: chatted to as well, haven't you the smiles trial Deacon, No,
- 6:19Speaker 2: you'd love her as you need a chat, Deacon, Distinguished
- 6:24Speaker 2: Professor Felice Jacka. Oh, I am just a few things,
- 6:27Speaker 2: but she's the number zero point zero one percent of
- 6:31Speaker 2: the most cited professors in the world for food and
- 6:35Speaker 2: mood and the gut, microbiome and nutritional psychiatry. If that's
- 6:41Speaker 2: the word, I might have got it wrong, but it's
- 6:43Speaker 2: something like that. And basically they just know now that
- 6:48Speaker 2: the gut and brain are connected the hippocampus, so the
- 6:51Speaker 2: memory centering the brain, the learning center in the brain
- 6:54Speaker 2: is directly linked to the gut. If you eat the
- 6:56Speaker 2: wrong food, you can't fix your brain. And she published
- 6:59Speaker 2: the Smile trial and smiles as an acronym, but everyone
- 7:02Speaker 2: knows that as a smiles trial. She couldn't actually remember
- 7:05Speaker 2: what the acronym stood for on the interview, so I
- 7:08Speaker 2: didn't have to remember either. And it literally had people
- 7:12Speaker 2: either having counseling with major depression anxiety or seeing a
- 7:19Speaker 2: dietitian and getting dietary advice. The people that got counseling
- 7:22Speaker 2: got an eight percent remission in their major depression anxiety.
- 7:27Speaker 2: The people that saw a dietitian got an over thirty
- 7:30Speaker 2: percent remission in anxiety and depression. And I've been gazillions
- 7:35Speaker 2: of studies since that all support this notion, and it's
- 7:39Speaker 2: not actually directly linked. Well, it's not linked to weight,
- 7:43Speaker 2: is what she sets like there studies, even when weight
- 7:46Speaker 2: does not change at all. It is the quality of
- 7:48Speaker 2: food that we eat. And the biggest nuance in all
- 7:52Speaker 2: of this is the ultra process food, which is foods
- 7:56Speaker 2: that are classified by the NOVA systems or it's a
- 7:59Speaker 2: class safcation system that basically just means they don't have
- 8:03Speaker 2: any whole food ingredients in them. It's food drive from
- 8:06Speaker 2: what was food a long long time ago. So it's
- 8:08Speaker 2: just not food anymore. Wowah the supermarket.
- 8:14Speaker 1: So just just for your interest in mine and our listeners,
- 8:17Speaker 1: and you'll forget it and I'll forget it. So the
- 8:20Speaker 1: Smiles trial, the Smiles acronym is supporting the modification of
- 8:24Speaker 1: lifestyle in lowered emotional states. But it is, I mean
- 8:30Speaker 1: everything's intertwined, isn't it, Like like marketing is intertwined with psychology.
- 8:35Speaker 1: I mean marketing is essentially psychology, right.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Try it well, it is. I mean marketing, you know
- 8:42Speaker 1: much and all as I don't like them sometimes, but
- 8:46Speaker 1: by god, they're smart. I mean the job of a marketer,
- 8:49Speaker 1: let's be honest, is to manipulate, coerce, trick people to
- 8:54Speaker 1: buy stuff like we're trying, yeah, and to get them
- 8:58Speaker 1: to buy whatever it is that you're selling. Right, even a.
- 9:02Speaker 2: There's nothing exciting about a tic tac, Yet people buy
- 9:05Speaker 2: tic TACs. Like look at this little white what looks
- 9:08Speaker 2: like a pill? How is that exciting? Why does that? People?
- 9:11Speaker 2: Like people up? You know, white people buy them?
- 9:14Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, why do people buy a three hundred thousand
- 9:18Speaker 1: dollar car, of course, not everybody when they can buy
- 9:21Speaker 1: a fifty thousand dollar car with a longer warranty that's
- 9:24Speaker 1: cheap at to run, cheap at a service probably more reliable,
- 9:28Speaker 1: will lose less money in terms of percentage because people
- 9:31Speaker 1: want people to see them in the six times deerer car.
- 9:36Speaker 1: And you know, and I understand that too. That's so
- 9:39Speaker 1: whiteer people buy a fucking eight thousand dollars handbag. White
- 9:43Speaker 1: blokes like I live in Hampton. Every second bloke's got
- 9:46Speaker 1: a twelve thousand dollar fucking graphite pushbike that weighs one down,
- 9:52Speaker 1: Like I mean, this is you. Come on, bro, you're
- 9:55Speaker 1: fifty five years old. You're not going to the Olympics,
- 9:57Speaker 1: and it's good that you're training, but you you don't
- 10:00Speaker 1: need a bike that's worth more than the average car.
- 10:03Speaker 1: But we do it.
- 10:05Speaker 2: I've got another bug bear with all of this. Now,
- 10:07Speaker 2: you're a non drinker? Is that right?
- 10:10Speaker 1: Correct?
- 10:10Speaker 2: Okay? So I decided to give up alcohol for a year.
- 10:13Speaker 2: I started on the second of December twenty twenty four,
- 10:16Speaker 2: and I'm going to go to the third of December
- 10:19Speaker 2: this year or whatever that is a year. And my
- 10:22Speaker 2: reason for doing it was not because I drink a lot.
- 10:25Speaker 2: I probably I'm lucky to get a drink once a fortnite.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Maybe two glasses of wine a fortnite. So it's not
- 10:31Speaker 2: that drinking is a problem for me why I gave up,
- 10:35Speaker 2: but I wanted to understand the psychology behind it, the
- 10:39Speaker 2: marketing behind it, because when I ask people why they drink,
- 10:42Speaker 2: they always see they feel more relaxed, or if they're
- 10:45Speaker 2: going out, they have more fun, or they dance more.
- 10:48Speaker 2: They do this, they do that, and they think it's
- 10:50Speaker 2: all tied to alcohol, and I think it's a load
- 10:54Speaker 2: of bs because I went to a music festival girlfriends,
- 11:00Speaker 2: and I thought, I'm not going to be able to
- 11:01Speaker 2: dance and not drinking. How embarrassing I danced. I had
- 11:05Speaker 2: no issues. I get home after work and I pull
- 11:08Speaker 2: myself a soda water or a mineral water or whatever,
- 11:11Speaker 2: and I relax. I actually go out to all my
- 11:14Speaker 2: favorite wine bars. I have like four wine bars that
- 11:16Speaker 2: i'd go and visit after work, and I do that
- 11:19Speaker 2: because it's just a spot for me to stop and
- 11:22Speaker 2: relax before I go home or pick up kids. So
- 11:25Speaker 2: I now go and have they all know I'm not
- 11:26Speaker 2: drinking alcohol, and they've got some non alcoholic something for me,
- 11:31Speaker 2: and they know I like, they're no added sugar ones.
- 11:33Speaker 2: So it's not the buzz or the relax from the
- 11:35Speaker 2: alcohol or the sugar. So what is it? Is it
- 11:39Speaker 2: just marketing? Have we been told that alcohol makes us
- 11:42Speaker 2: feel this way or more likely to pick up or
- 11:45Speaker 2: we can be an idiot when we're on alcohol, because
- 11:48Speaker 2: my husband still thought I was an idiot at the
- 11:50Speaker 2: dance festival and I'm like, and I'm not even drinking,
- 11:53Speaker 2: Still an idiot?
- 11:54Speaker 1: Yeah, look, that's really like the psychology of selling food
- 11:58Speaker 1: and booze. And I mean there's good food that's sold,
- 12:01Speaker 1: there's bad food that's sold. But like you said that,
- 12:04Speaker 1: nobody's putting broccoli or fucking Brussels sprouts or carrots at
- 12:08Speaker 1: the checkout in supermarkets, right, We're not getting any of that.
- 12:11Speaker 1: There's not a fresh fruit produce section near the till.
- 12:15Speaker 1: But I think, oh, if you.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Are hind you put it on the packet and then
- 12:19Speaker 2: you get fined three million dollars per pretending that it
- 12:22Speaker 2: had something in it that it doesn't, So they must
- 12:25Speaker 2: have tried.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I reckon. It's interesting because I've never been
- 12:29Speaker 1: a drinker, so I've never had to give up and
- 12:32Speaker 1: people like, over the years, people would say to me,
- 12:35Speaker 1: I mean everything from like what the fuck is wrong
- 12:37Speaker 1: with you? Through to oh, you're amazing, how disciplined you
- 12:41Speaker 1: I go it takes zero discipline because I've never It's
- 12:44Speaker 1: like saying to a non smoker, fuck, how do you
- 12:47Speaker 1: not smoke? It's so good of you. Like I think
- 12:50Speaker 1: about drinking alcohol and yeah, well I don't really, but
- 12:53Speaker 1: if I did, I'm like, it's like, there's just there's
- 12:57Speaker 1: no there's no sense to me missing out of deprivation
- 13:02Speaker 1: of poor me. And over the years, like one thing,
- 13:05Speaker 1: I've had a version of this many times. People will
- 13:08Speaker 1: say because of how I live and by the way,
- 13:11Speaker 1: I never recommend anyone live like me. In fact, the opposite,
- 13:15Speaker 1: I say, just figure out what works for you and
- 13:17Speaker 1: do that because everything from my job, the way I work,
- 13:22Speaker 1: the way I eat, the way that I socialize. I
- 13:24Speaker 1: don't think the way that I do life would suit
- 13:27Speaker 1: most people or be optimal for most people. But people
- 13:31Speaker 1: almost feel sorry for me, like I am missing out.
- 13:35Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't like. At the risk of sounding
- 13:38Speaker 1: a little bit aeric, I'm like, I'm sixty one. I
- 13:42Speaker 1: take no medical well, I take one tablet which is
- 13:45Speaker 1: for genetic blood pressure, but that's other than that and
- 13:48Speaker 1: that's not lifestyle, that's genetics. But I take no medication
- 13:51Speaker 1: other than that. I don't drink, I don't smoke. I
- 13:54Speaker 1: at two meals a day. I lift weights every day,
- 13:56Speaker 1: I walk ten k's every day. I'm strong, I'm leaning
- 13:59Speaker 1: on functional. My brain works good. I mean, I could
- 14:02Speaker 1: die next week. I hope not. But you know, all
- 14:05Speaker 1: things being equal, like, there's not a lot of reason
- 14:09Speaker 1: to feel sorry for me. And some people are like, oh,
- 14:13Speaker 1: you're missing out. I'm like, have you do you? I mean,
- 14:17Speaker 1: other than the fact that you're drinking booze. Like you know,
- 14:21Speaker 1: it's going to sound judge, but some of the people
- 14:23Speaker 1: that are telling me this, they're not the high watermark
- 14:25Speaker 1: for health, if you know what I mean. And I'm like, hey, bro,
- 14:29Speaker 1: you can't get another body. That's the only one you've got.
- 14:32Speaker 1: And you're having a dig at me because I don't
- 14:34Speaker 1: drink booze like you, and you're gonna I mean like, yeah,
- 14:40Speaker 1: it's it's difficult because you don't want to be arrogant,
- 14:42Speaker 1: but you care about and look this whole thing as
- 14:45Speaker 1: you you know, you were talking about kids, right, and
- 14:47Speaker 1: let's open that door a bit because I was I
- 14:50Speaker 1: was a morbidly obese kid. And you know, people get
- 14:54Speaker 1: a bit hysterical when I say I was a fat kid,
- 14:57Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, firstly, I'm talking about me, not
- 15:01Speaker 1: any other human. Yes, what I was fat, two, I
- 15:05Speaker 1: was a kid.
- 15:06Speaker 2: Yes.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Now, I'm not saying I was a bad human. I'm
- 15:09Speaker 1: not saying I'm shit. I'm just saying I was morbidly obese.
- 15:15Speaker 1: That was the practical physiological reality of my childhood. Now
- 15:19Speaker 1: that might bother you. But the other truth is that
- 15:24Speaker 1: childhood obesity is on the rise in Australia. But when
- 15:27Speaker 1: you say that, people take that as some kind of
- 15:31Speaker 1: moral judgment. No, like it or not like it. There
- 15:36Speaker 1: are negative physiological consequences to obesity. You might not want
- 15:40Speaker 1: to And we're not saying that that you can't be
- 15:45Speaker 1: relatively healthy. We're not saying that you're a bad human.
- 15:48Speaker 1: We're not saying you're weak, We're not saying none of that.
- 15:51Speaker 1: I'm just saying I know that lots of disease correlates
- 15:56Speaker 1: pretty positively with obesity. That's not an opinion or an idea.
- 16:00Speaker 1: That's fucking science. Now, if the science upsets you, Okay,
- 16:05Speaker 1: I didn't make this shit up.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:07Speaker 1: I have friends who are out of shape, and I
- 16:10Speaker 1: love them, and they know they're out of shape because
- 16:12Speaker 1: they talk to me. I don't love them any less.
- 16:15Speaker 1: In fact, I care about them and worry about them.
- 16:17Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck what they look like. I
- 16:19Speaker 1: don't give a fuck what they weigh. I don't give
- 16:22Speaker 1: a fuck what anyone else thinks of them, or whether
- 16:25Speaker 1: or not they can fit into this or that. But
- 16:27Speaker 1: I want them to live a long, healthy, happy life.
- 16:30Speaker 1: That's my motivation. And it's just like, Wow, there's so
- 16:35Speaker 1: much shit you can't and it seems like, and I've
- 16:38Speaker 1: said this too many times, we're more interested in protecting
- 16:41Speaker 1: someone's feelings for three minutes than their physical health for
- 16:45Speaker 1: three decades.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Absolutely. And so that's stat around childhood obesity. It's eighty
- 16:51Speaker 2: percent of overweight children become overweight adults. Eighty percent. Would
- 16:57Speaker 2: you intentionally, as a pair of and if there's something
- 17:02Speaker 2: you could do about only giving them a twenty percent
- 17:05Speaker 2: chance of being a healthy weight, Like, wouldn't you do
- 17:10Speaker 2: something about that? Like those odds are pretty high. And
- 17:14Speaker 2: I feel like it's not publicized enough. It's not talked
- 17:17Speaker 2: about on the television, the media, whatever we're looking at
- 17:20Speaker 2: because we're trying to be very gentle about people's feelings,
- 17:23Speaker 2: which is fine, but what about their health and what
- 17:26Speaker 2: about the fact that they'll have a lower life expectancy
- 17:29Speaker 2: than their parents. I can tell you right now, if
- 17:31Speaker 2: my kids didn't live, I don't know how I could
- 17:33Speaker 2: keep living. Like, once you're a parent, you can't imagine
- 17:37Speaker 2: life without your kids. Now, imagine that the majority of
- 17:40Speaker 2: parents that are giving birth today are going to have
- 17:43Speaker 2: to bury their children because their children's life expectancy is
- 17:46Speaker 2: going to be less than their own. So that's a
- 17:49Speaker 2: pretty scary thought and it's a horrible thing to say,
- 17:53Speaker 2: but it is a reality of where the health of
- 17:55Speaker 2: Australia is heading. And it's not just Australia, it's the
- 17:57Speaker 2: entire world. It is the fact that the manufacturers are
- 18:01Speaker 2: the ultra process food. They fund the governments, they fund
- 18:06Speaker 2: the science, they fund everything. They fund the supermarket. So
- 18:11Speaker 2: we think we're getting a choice when we go to
- 18:13Speaker 2: the supermarket. We stand back and we look at the shelves,
- 18:16Speaker 2: or we look in the fridge, or we look at
- 18:17Speaker 2: the freezer, and we think I'm going to pick the
- 18:20Speaker 2: healthiest thing here. Well, guess what the healthy shit did
- 18:23Speaker 2: not get into the supermarket. They cut it. Beefit. Food
- 18:27Speaker 2: is being cut because the supermarkets don't get enough margin
- 18:31Speaker 2: out of it, they don't get enough sales. They say,
- 18:33Speaker 2: that's not what people want. Okay, So if people want cocaine,
- 18:36Speaker 2: you're going to get them cocaine. If people just want
- 18:39Speaker 2: a well, we do. We have a whole aisle of
- 18:42Speaker 2: ice cream now, so that's what you get. And that
- 18:45Speaker 2: is a problem that we are not acting as adults
- 18:48Speaker 2: and making decisions that are better for our futures and
- 18:51Speaker 2: better for our health. We are literally listening to the
- 18:55Speaker 2: little thing in our head that tells us just ice cream.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Just give me two aisles of ice cream. All Like
- 19:00Speaker 2: in the States, when you walk into a supermarket and
- 19:03Speaker 2: it's pretty much all ultra process food, Like you could
- 19:06Speaker 2: stand there for hours just trying to pick a loaf
- 19:09Speaker 2: of bread because they come in so many different colors,
- 19:12Speaker 2: with so many different flavors and so many different additives,
- 19:16Speaker 2: and all of them are ultra processed. So people do
- 19:19Speaker 2: not have a choice when they walk in. The choice
- 19:21Speaker 2: has already been made for us, and that's the people
- 19:25Speaker 2: aren't recognizing.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Okay, good now, I'm going to play the devil's advocate.
- 19:29Speaker 1: I agree with you, by the way, but I'm just
- 19:31Speaker 1: going to take another look at it. Right, So I
- 19:36Speaker 1: think part of the I think so I'm a businessman,
- 19:40Speaker 1: you're a businessman, you're a business woman. Sorry woman, yep,
- 19:44Speaker 1: last time I checked. So here's my thing. Though I
- 19:50Speaker 1: agree with you and I wish there are way better
- 19:52Speaker 1: food options in supermarkets, but the job of a supermarket
- 19:56Speaker 1: is not to care about people's health. It's to make money,
- 20:00Speaker 1: so they are always going to go. So we've got
- 20:03Speaker 1: beefit food or we've got fucking Bob Smith's ice creams.
- 20:08Speaker 1: What's the bigger margin? What are people you know, what
- 20:12Speaker 1: are Australians addicted to? Well, of course fuck beefit food.
- 20:16Speaker 1: See you. Yes, it's a better product, but it doesn't
- 20:19Speaker 1: make us more money. So I think, while I agree
- 20:24Speaker 1: with you, I think our hope or expectation that they
- 20:29Speaker 1: will be ethically driven, not financially driven, like that they
- 20:35Speaker 1: will make the best decision, not for the bottom line
- 20:38Speaker 1: of the organization, but the best decision for the health
- 20:41Speaker 1: of the nation. I don't think we can expect that.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I wish we could just could help.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Like the government, so do you know there's a four
- 20:51Speaker 2: hundred tax on cigarettes. Guess what the tax is that
- 20:55Speaker 2: we're trying to get through on sugar beverages like soft
- 20:58Speaker 2: drinks ten percent, and they taxed it fo one hundred
- 21:02Speaker 2: percent like they did smoking. Because it's actually the second
- 21:06Speaker 2: leading cause of death is ultra process foods and obesely
- 21:11Speaker 2: related illness. Then why are we not you know, more
- 21:15Speaker 2: people are dying of that than anything else. Why is
- 21:18Speaker 2: that not being at the same rate of cigarette smoking? Like,
- 21:22Speaker 2: let people know, put a warning side. This will cause
- 21:25Speaker 2: an amputation later on in life. You may go blind,
- 21:28Speaker 2: your kidneys will fail, and you may lose a leg
- 21:31Speaker 2: if you drink this every day for the next forty years,
- 21:34Speaker 2: which people have been doing without the warning. But God
- 21:37Speaker 2: forbid you say something's healthy. I don't think you're allowed
- 21:40Speaker 2: to say that. The guidelines are pretty strict about not
- 21:42Speaker 2: being able to call that healthy because is it really healthy? Well,
- 21:45Speaker 2: where's the call out to say this will kill you
- 21:48Speaker 2: at some point in time?
- 21:50Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, oh I love it. I'm never having you
- 21:53Speaker 1: so fired up. Hey, okay, a couple of things. You
- 21:57Speaker 1: make a really good point, some really good points. I
- 22:00Speaker 1: just want to backtrack on one thing, four hundred percent
- 22:04Speaker 1: tax on cigarettes. Now that goes to the government, right yep. Well,
- 22:10Speaker 1: how fucking amazingly profitable are cigarettes for the government?
- 22:14Speaker 2: Yes, right yep? Can they completely because where's that money
- 22:19Speaker 2: going to come from?
- 22:21Speaker 1: How ironic is that the thing that we absolutely, like,
- 22:25Speaker 1: I mean, talk about the extreme case. We unequivocally absolutely
- 22:29Speaker 1: know that cigarettes cause cancer. Nonetheless, despite the government's alleged
- 22:38Speaker 1: kind of concern, they're still making a fuck load of
- 22:43Speaker 1: money through that particular thing that kills people, hand over fist, right,
- 22:49Speaker 1: And so one we know that this causes cancer. Two
- 22:53Speaker 1: we still sell it. It's still legal. Three we make
- 22:56Speaker 1: lots of money from it. What why is this not
- 23:01Speaker 1: being you know, why is this not the biggest you know?
- 23:05Speaker 1: But by the yeah, but by the way, you know,
- 23:09Speaker 1: if you want to have.
- 23:10Speaker 2: I'm a soft drink in the supermarket, there's no age
- 23:13Speaker 2: limit on that, at least with cigarettes. If you're andre
- 23:16Speaker 2: d and you're not allowed to buy them, but you
- 23:18Speaker 2: can go the soft drink. I'll fill up your trolley
- 23:21Speaker 2: full of soft drink and down three laters a day,
- 23:24Speaker 2: and that's that's okay, that's unsupervised.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Can I say a pursuant to your comments about sugar,
- 23:30Speaker 1: your honor, one of my friends is about two inches
- 23:34Speaker 1: away from fucking dialysis because his kidneys are fucked right. Yeah,
- 23:41Speaker 1: because he has just drunk sugar for forty years.
- 23:44Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. I lost a friend on dialysis too from sugar,
- 23:48Speaker 2: and he had amputated toe and it should have been feet,
- 23:51Speaker 2: should have been more, but he died before the extra amputations.
- 23:55Speaker 2: But five hours, three times a week on dialysis. I
- 23:57Speaker 2: used to sit with him and chat to him, and
- 23:59Speaker 2: he goes, God, I wish him to wish I listened
- 24:02Speaker 2: to my doctor when I was forty and I was
- 24:03Speaker 2: a pilot. He told me, if I don't stop eating
- 24:06Speaker 2: like this, I'm going to die of a heart attack.
- 24:09Speaker 2: By the time I'm sixty, I'm going to lose my legs.
- 24:11Speaker 2: He told him everything, and you'll be blind. And he goes,
- 24:13Speaker 2: I'm sitting here now, and every single thing my doctor
- 24:16Speaker 2: told me he was right about. He goes, except outlive
- 24:19Speaker 2: the doctor.
- 24:20Speaker 1: So isn't it interesting how we It's almost like we
- 24:27Speaker 1: have to have some tragedy personally happen. Not everyone, of course,
- 24:33Speaker 1: but how many people get told a version of that?
- 24:36Speaker 1: If you don't do this, then this is probably a
- 24:39Speaker 1: likely outcome. And I'm not trying to judge our listeners
- 24:43Speaker 1: or anyone here, but I'm thinking, how many times did
- 24:48Speaker 1: you know, even myself, Like, there's stuff I'm going to
- 24:52Speaker 1: throw me under the bus. There's stuff that I've done
- 24:54Speaker 1: over the years, not necessarily around for just shit, you know,
- 24:57Speaker 1: habits and patterns and behaviors that were somewhat counter intuitive
- 25:01Speaker 1: and counterproductive and borderline toxic. But it's like, oh, I
- 25:07Speaker 1: kept doing avert. You know, for me, part of it
- 25:10Speaker 1: was food. I mean, I kept I've told you this,
- 25:12Speaker 1: but you know I was. I was a fat kid,
- 25:15Speaker 1: and then I got in shape, but I still didn't
- 25:16Speaker 1: really sort out my relationship with food. I was just
- 25:21Speaker 1: white knuckling it for years because I hadn't really created
- 25:25Speaker 1: massive internal shift where I had really created a new normal.
- 25:30Speaker 1: It took me until I was about thirty five. But
- 25:32Speaker 1: I remember, even in my late twenties and early thirties, Kate,
- 25:35Speaker 1: I got I got out of shape again, but I
- 25:39Speaker 1: had lots of muscle, and I always wore the right
- 25:41Speaker 1: clothes and all that shit. But I was so I'm
- 25:43Speaker 1: made five kilos now, I was one hundred and seventeen kilos,
- 25:47Speaker 1: so thirty two kilos heavier at one stage. At stage,
- 25:51Speaker 1: I owned three gyms, and I was basically giving people
- 25:55Speaker 1: advice that I wasn't following like you know I was,
- 26:00Speaker 1: and it I I can't remember exactly what happened, but
- 26:05Speaker 1: I had an epiphany. I can't remember if anything triggered it,
- 26:09Speaker 1: or I remember thinking part of it was. I remember
- 26:14Speaker 1: seeing myself in a photo that was not all of it,
- 26:16Speaker 1: but part of it, and I went, I look fucking
- 26:21Speaker 1: I was humiliated and embarrassed because I had Now I'm
- 26:25Speaker 1: only talking about me, everyone, don't get angry. I had
- 26:28Speaker 1: deluded myself to what I looked like. And I went, oh,
- 26:31Speaker 1: my god, you are You are a morbidly obese bloke
- 26:35Speaker 1: who owns a gym and multiple gyms and tells people
- 26:39Speaker 1: how to eat and train and optimize their life, and
- 26:43Speaker 1: you're not fucking doing it. You're a fraud. And I
- 26:47Speaker 1: just went right, I'm you know, I have to put
- 26:51Speaker 1: up my hand and go, I'm the problem. I am, literally,
- 26:54Speaker 1: And I can tell myself all the stories, Oh you've
- 26:56Speaker 1: got lots of muscle and you but yet all that
- 26:58Speaker 1: bullshit it's going yea, yeah, but I'm literally fucking up
- 27:02Speaker 1: my own health and that I would say. It took
- 27:05Speaker 1: me until I was about forty before I think I
- 27:08Speaker 1: really kind of where I had created a normal operating
- 27:11Speaker 1: system that actually worked. And it wasn't. It wasn't discipline
- 27:16Speaker 1: and self control and will power right, but it just
- 27:20Speaker 1: like getting your food right or your booze right, or
- 27:22Speaker 1: your body right, because there's so much We have so
- 27:25Speaker 1: much emotion around our eating and our socializing and our
- 27:30Speaker 1: appearance and our weight. So I understand all the pain
- 27:33Speaker 1: that people have.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Yeah, but also you.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Can't get another body. It's fucking look up for that one.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Yes, And I think too to really remove the actual
- 27:44Speaker 2: kilo's weight scales part, I don't weigh myself, not for
- 27:48Speaker 2: any other reason than we've got really bloody, annoying scales
- 27:52Speaker 2: and they're digital and you've got to touch the buttons
- 27:54Speaker 2: and bend down and touch them, and I don't. I'm
- 27:56Speaker 2: just too lazy too, So I just don't weigh myself.
- 27:58Speaker 2: But I know that my weight doesn't really change by much.
- 28:03Speaker 2: I think it always stays within a five KI low window.
- 28:06Speaker 2: But that's because I do mostly the same things, and
- 28:09Speaker 2: I think it's only if I would I changed or
- 28:14Speaker 2: stopped exercising completely. And I'm not someone who's obsessed with exercise.
- 28:20Speaker 2: I do pilates twice a week, and I just make
- 28:22Speaker 2: sure I go for a couple of runs or walks
- 28:24Speaker 2: or a bit of strength training. But the weight isn't
- 28:28Speaker 2: the trigger. It's how you feel in terms of your energy,
- 28:32Speaker 2: your emotions. For me, if I'm not looking after myself,
- 28:36Speaker 2: my glands go up. So it's not weight, it's what
- 28:41Speaker 2: should your body feel like. And if you're used to
- 28:43Speaker 2: feeling one hundred percent, then you know when you're at ninety.
- 28:47Speaker 2: If you're used to feeling ninety percent, you know when
- 28:50Speaker 2: you're at seventy. And if you're only used to feeling
- 28:52Speaker 2: fifty percent but you're waking up at twenty percent, there's
- 28:55Speaker 2: something wrong and everybody should be able to feel one
- 28:59Speaker 2: hundred perc. I believe that because I've seen people go
- 29:03Speaker 2: I just didn't know that I could wake up with energy.
- 29:07Speaker 2: I didn't know that I could get out of bed
- 29:09Speaker 2: in the morning and feel good. And that's if you
- 29:12Speaker 2: haven't felt like that, it's possible. But if people don't
- 29:15Speaker 2: tell people it's possible to feel like that. They can't
- 29:20Speaker 2: make an effort to feel better. So it's not the weight,
- 29:24Speaker 2: it's the health of the total body. And you know
- 29:27Speaker 2: in your own brain what that feels like and if
- 29:31Speaker 2: your body feels healthy. So I think, yes, being overweight
- 29:36Speaker 2: and carrying lots of body fat is really hazardous for help. However,
- 29:42Speaker 2: there is no perfect number, There is no perfect weight.
- 29:45Speaker 2: It is when do you feel supercharged? When do you
- 29:49Speaker 2: feel amazing? When are your joints not sore or not inflamed,
- 29:53Speaker 2: or your energy levels or your brain working clear and
- 29:57Speaker 2: those sorts of things.
- 30:00Speaker 1: Yeah, and you said a good thing. Oh, you said
- 30:03Speaker 1: lots of good things. But one thing. I think a
- 30:05Speaker 1: lot of people who haven't really kind of really really
- 30:10Speaker 1: tried to optimize their body and their genetics and you know,
- 30:13Speaker 1: nutrition and lifestyle. I think sometimes they get they're shocked at.
- 30:20Speaker 1: I want to tell you a quick story. So when
- 30:21Speaker 1: I opened my first studio, which was nine ninety, Australia's
- 30:25Speaker 1: first PT studio, i'd literally been open for a couple
- 30:28Speaker 1: of months and on the door downstairs this was pre
- 30:32Speaker 1: I mean it was Harper's, but it wasn't called that.
- 30:35Speaker 1: So my gyms were called Harper's, but my first studio,
- 30:38Speaker 1: it just had Craig Harper Fitness Consultants, which was very
- 30:41Speaker 1: fancy in ninet ninety, Like, all fuck is a consultant?
- 30:46Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was just a fucking bodybuilder trying to
- 30:48Speaker 1: be fancy, right, But anyway, this lady came up the
- 30:52Speaker 1: stairs and she was seventy one years old. I won't
- 30:56Speaker 1: say her name. She was carrying a basket, you know,
- 30:59Speaker 1: the cane basket with the handle, sir, and she wanted
- 31:04Speaker 1: to lose some weights and she had no idea. She'd
- 31:06Speaker 1: never been to a gym, she'd never really been an exerciser,
- 31:10Speaker 1: and she was overweight and unfits and unhealthy, but seventy
- 31:14Speaker 1: one years old and walked up because it said fitness consultant.
- 31:17Speaker 1: Then she walked up and she basically just walks into
- 31:20Speaker 1: this pet studio where there's this big fucking buffhead in
- 31:24Speaker 1: the singlet training himself in the middle of the day
- 31:27Speaker 1: called Craig Harper. And then she opens the door, comes
- 31:31Speaker 1: into the gym because she walks up some stairs and
- 31:35Speaker 1: then sees me and absolutely just shits herself, herns around
- 31:41Speaker 1: and starts to walk out. So I quickly kind of
- 31:44Speaker 1: go saialo and I somehow talk her into doing a
- 31:50Speaker 1: session and she's terrified. So I said just come in
- 31:56Speaker 1: later or come in. Maybe it was the next day,
- 31:58Speaker 1: and I said, let's just do thirty minutes something. I'm
- 32:00Speaker 1: not going to charge you. Come in and if you
- 32:02Speaker 1: don't like it, don't come back. And if you like it,
- 32:04Speaker 1: we'll maybe do a few more. No pressure, no, you know,
- 32:08Speaker 1: zero zero costs, zero risk. And so I didn't even
- 32:11Speaker 1: know she turned up. She came back next day. The
- 32:13Speaker 1: quick version is this, so I started working out with her.
- 32:17Speaker 1: She literally couldn't run thirty meters like she was, you know,
- 32:22Speaker 1: very overweight, very unhealthy. Everything that you shouldn't do apart
- 32:26Speaker 1: from cigarettes, she did.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Yep.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Fast forward about eight months and what age was she
- 32:34Speaker 1: seventy one?
- 32:36Speaker 2: Right? Okay?
- 32:37Speaker 1: Her and I did a five k fun run. She ran, ran,
- 32:42Speaker 1: She did not walk one step. She ran the five
- 32:45Speaker 1: k's I remember her. I shouldn't say this, but it
- 32:48Speaker 1: was just funny. She was a cack. She was quite
- 32:50Speaker 1: big and quite busty, and she used to hold her
- 32:54Speaker 1: boobs when she ran, and she'd be like, you'll be
- 32:57Speaker 1: the death of me, you know. In order we got on.
- 33:00Speaker 1: I was kind of almost like her grum's grandson, because
- 33:03Speaker 1: I was a kid then. But anyway, this beautiful woman,
- 33:07Speaker 1: and oh she lost forty k's. She went from like
- 33:11Speaker 1: ninety five to like fifty five. She was little, she
- 33:14Speaker 1: was short, and she started running and started strength training
- 33:19Speaker 1: and she would dead lift, she would squat, she would
- 33:22Speaker 1: do and her family, her daughter rang me and asked
- 33:27Speaker 1: to come and see me, and she said, I'm on
- 33:30Speaker 1: behalf of my family. Thank you. And when we did that,
- 33:34Speaker 1: and I mean I was just coaching it. I didn't
- 33:37Speaker 1: do any of the work. She did one hundred percent
- 33:39Speaker 1: of the work. And I said that to the daughter,
- 33:41Speaker 1: I go, your mom is fucking awesome. But you know
- 33:44Speaker 1: what I loved because she didn't have any idea of
- 33:48Speaker 1: her capacity, and so when I said we're going to
- 33:51Speaker 1: do this, she didn't have a reference point to say, oh,
- 33:54Speaker 1: that's too much, or that's too heavy, or that's too far.
- 33:57Speaker 1: She would just say can I do that? And I'd go, yes,
- 33:59Speaker 1: you can, and so she would just do.
- 34:01Speaker 2: It no way.
- 34:04Speaker 1: My long point is we've got a lot of potential
- 34:07Speaker 1: at any age.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Absolutely well. I got the biggest shock I was filming
- 34:11Speaker 2: on Thursday. I've got a message from my dad saying
- 34:15Speaker 2: I've just joined the gym. We can talk about it
- 34:17Speaker 2: at dinner tonight. And he's eighty two. He turned eighty
- 34:22Speaker 2: two in January. We lost Mom two years ago. So
- 34:26Speaker 2: Mum was seventy, Dad was eighty mm went to aerobics
- 34:29Speaker 2: five days a week, she ate all the right things,
- 34:33Speaker 2: she was fifty five kilos and she died of no
- 34:35Speaker 2: known cause. And Dad had funeral insurance for himself because
- 34:41Speaker 2: he ate McDonald's. He worked a you know, sedentary jobby's
- 34:45Speaker 2: whole life. He was not particularly healthy. Mom was supposed
- 34:48Speaker 2: to live forever. Dad was meant to die. He even
- 34:51Speaker 2: had his funeral insurance. So when Mom died, Dad's like whoa,
- 34:55Speaker 2: Like that was supposed to me? Me, how did this happen?
- 34:58Speaker 2: And you know, none of us know, but that's the world.
- 35:00Speaker 2: It's a weird place. So then Dad, ever since Mom
- 35:04Speaker 2: has died, has started all these really really healthy behavior.
- 35:11Speaker 2: So I went over there the other day and like
- 35:13Speaker 2: he's sitting in his couch and I go, like, there's
- 35:15Speaker 2: no glass of wine there. Usually every afternoon of his
- 35:18Speaker 2: life he'd drink a couple of glasses of wine and
- 35:20Speaker 2: I go, what are you eating? And he goes, oh,
- 35:22Speaker 2: I've just got some yogan and berries. Not that sweet
- 35:26Speaker 2: and stuff though, just you know, the plain, great yogat
- 35:28Speaker 2: and berries, and I go. Mommy's literally turning in her
- 35:32Speaker 2: grave to think that eighty two year old dad would
- 35:35Speaker 2: touch yogurt and fruit like he was the macas guy.
- 35:40Speaker 2: He would. He's a very good cook, so he could
- 35:42Speaker 2: cook everything, cook very healthy, bring us up. We never
- 35:45Speaker 2: had crap in the house, but he would sneak out
- 35:47Speaker 2: every day and get Chinese takeaway or macas and then
- 35:50Speaker 2: he'd cook a healthy dinner for everyone, but he'd never
- 35:52Speaker 2: eat it because he wasn't hungry. And I just can't
- 35:56Speaker 2: believe that he's decided to join the gym. He goes,
- 35:58Speaker 2: have you seen the facility. It's amazing. Yeah, I'm gonna
- 36:01Speaker 2: I'm joining the gym. He's never done a day of
- 36:04Speaker 2: exercise in his life. Mum used to beg him on
- 36:06Speaker 2: holidays to come sight seeing with us, but he didn't
- 36:09Speaker 2: want to walk, so he barely he would barely go sightseeing.
- 36:13Speaker 2: And it's just unbelievable what he's discovered now that it's
- 36:18Speaker 2: his health and he wants to be there for the grandkids,
- 36:21Speaker 2: so he walks twice a day from his new little
- 36:24Speaker 2: unit down to the shops and back, and it's half
- 36:27Speaker 2: an hour each way. He's walking over an hour a day.
- 36:30Speaker 2: And he said to me when he first started doing it, oh,
- 36:32Speaker 2: my hip was a bit sore and this and that,
- 36:34Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, oh, yeah, you've probably got lots of
- 36:36Speaker 2: join issues, lots of information. He goes, oh, but it's
- 36:39Speaker 2: all better now that I've been walking. It's gone. All
- 36:41Speaker 2: this pain at eighty two is gone, and he's a
- 36:44Speaker 2: completely different human. I'm out own away.
- 36:47Speaker 1: That is amazing. But I don't know if you should
- 36:49Speaker 1: tell that story. The reason I don't know is you're
- 36:52Speaker 1: kind of fucking undermining your earlier message.
- 36:55Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well there you go. No, but you can
- 36:58Speaker 2: change with any stage. And I think that's a you think.
- 37:00Speaker 2: And so I'm powering and how people feel is everything.
- 37:05Speaker 2: And Dad is so freaking smart. He's like an owl
- 37:09Speaker 2: if you see him, he's like a wise out. He
- 37:11Speaker 2: knows everything there is to know about the process bood
- 37:14Speaker 2: and he tells me about it all the time. So
- 37:16Speaker 2: he's decided now he's not going to put that stuff
- 37:19Speaker 2: in his body. He's done it his whole life. But
- 37:21Speaker 2: now he's decided no, I'm not going to do it,
- 37:25Speaker 2: and I don't well, I do know what the switch was.
- 37:28Speaker 2: The switch was mum dying, but that I don't know
- 37:30Speaker 2: how he took that message. We thought he'd wallowing, you know,
- 37:34Speaker 2: he's pitying his sadness and just curl up and die,
- 37:37Speaker 2: which often happens when people are being together that long
- 37:40Speaker 2: and or you know, loneliness and all that sort of thing.
- 37:43Speaker 2: But he didn't. He's gone the complete opposite.
- 37:46Speaker 1: Oh, good for dad, Good for dad, And also, isn't
- 37:48Speaker 1: it good? I love it when people start to educate
- 37:52Speaker 1: themselves about like what does this do to my body?
- 37:55Speaker 2: Yeah? What is that?
- 37:56Speaker 1: If? I? Oh, what's you know? Like I've been teaching
- 38:00Speaker 1: my mum and dad you know about Okay, so here's
- 38:03Speaker 1: what happens if you have great sleep. Here's what happens
- 38:05Speaker 1: if you have shit sleep, right, and you know where
- 38:08Speaker 1: Obviously everyone knows sleep's important. But when you start to understand, oh, well,
- 38:14Speaker 1: maybe I need a sleep strategy, maybe I need some
- 38:18Speaker 1: kind of protocol because everything else in my life is
- 38:21Speaker 1: pretty good except my sleep. Well, guess what if you
- 38:24Speaker 1: eat well and you exercise well, and you've got pretty
- 38:27Speaker 1: good genetics, and your lifestyle is healthy, but you're chronically underslept,
- 38:31Speaker 1: You're not going to be healthy despite all the other stuff.
- 38:35Speaker 2: Absolutely, So it's my first.
- 38:38Speaker 1: Ye one hundred percent, and we need and it's not Look,
- 38:41Speaker 1: we don't need to be extreme, but just like you
- 38:44Speaker 1: want to plan with your food, you want to plan
- 38:46Speaker 1: with your exercise some of us and like, probably the
- 38:50Speaker 1: biggest challenge is it the big I would think collectively
- 38:55Speaker 1: the biggest challenge that people have that I talk to is, Yes,
- 38:58Speaker 1: food is an issue, exercises issue, motivation is an issue.
- 39:02Speaker 1: I reckon. Nearly fifty percent of people I talk to though,
- 39:05Speaker 1: say I don't sleep.
- 39:06Speaker 2: Great, absolutely, and I hear that every day. And I know,
- 39:10Speaker 2: you know, particularly for brain health, and I think the
- 39:14Speaker 2: damage that can happen at any age by not sleeping.
- 39:18Speaker 2: But if you've got kids that are not sleeping because
- 39:21Speaker 2: they're on devices and the blue light and kids now
- 39:24Speaker 2: having anxiety and depression and apparently fifty percent of depression
- 39:30Speaker 2: is diagnosed under the age of fourteen. So this was
- 39:35Speaker 2: Professor Police Jaka telling me this the other day, and
- 39:38Speaker 2: I was like, fifty percent. So if you're going to
- 39:40Speaker 2: get depression, fifty percent of people get it at such
- 39:43Speaker 2: a young age. I was so surprised by that. But
- 39:45Speaker 2: sleep plays a role in that as well, so food, exercise, sleep.
- 39:51Speaker 2: And then on the other end of the spectrum with
- 39:52Speaker 2: the older people, like dementia and memory loss and all
- 39:56Speaker 2: of that excelerated by not having enough sleep. So god
- 40:00Speaker 2: knows what happens in the middle. We're probably too busy
- 40:02Speaker 2: to notice, but it's going to get us at some stage.
- 40:05Speaker 1: And also you know, digestion and in crime system and
- 40:11Speaker 1: you know, yeah, everything like brain health everything. I mean,
- 40:15Speaker 1: there's such a myriad of variables and outcomes from that.
- 40:19Speaker 1: But also back to kids and teenagers. You think, what
- 40:24Speaker 1: is and I know we're not inventing the wheel here,
- 40:26Speaker 1: this is not a new conversation, but the relationship between well,
- 40:31Speaker 1: how long are your kids on their devices and what
- 40:33Speaker 1: time do they go to bed in relation or what
- 40:36Speaker 1: time do they try to go to sleep. Well, if
- 40:38Speaker 1: you were playing with your your phone or your iPad
- 40:42Speaker 1: or your computer or whatever until ten and then at
- 40:46Speaker 1: ten oh two you're trying to sleep, good luck, because
- 40:49Speaker 1: your brain is lit up like a fucking Christmas tree.
- 40:52Speaker 1: You're not going to sleep. Yeah, your brain's in this
- 40:55Speaker 1: hyper vigilant state that is, you know, and then the
- 41:00Speaker 1: idea of all right, so you're going to go to
- 41:02Speaker 1: bed at nine point thirty, no screens for worst an
- 41:07Speaker 1: hour and a half, yeah, before bed, like and then
- 41:12Speaker 1: they're like, but what would I do? Oh, I don't know,
- 41:14Speaker 1: something other than look at a screen.
- 41:16Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And I've noticed my ten year old she'll say, Mum,
- 41:20Speaker 2: can we read a book before bed? Now hated reading?
- 41:23Speaker 2: You know, maybe he's a little little kid loved having
- 41:25Speaker 2: a book read to her. She still doesn't like reading.
- 41:28Speaker 2: But for some reason, I don't know whether it's come
- 41:31Speaker 2: from school or it's come from YouTube or something else.
- 41:34Speaker 2: She knows that her brain's not going to shut down,
- 41:36Speaker 2: she's not going to sleep if she's on her device
- 41:38Speaker 2: before bed. And I noticed this week she's actually started journaling.
- 41:42Speaker 2: And I said, what are you doing? She's like, oh,
- 41:45Speaker 2: I got one of your notebooks. Can I use this
- 41:47Speaker 2: someone to write a diary? And she started writing a diary,
- 41:50Speaker 2: and I'm all, at a peek, I'm so curious what
- 41:53Speaker 2: she's putting in there. And I'm like, even though that's
- 41:55Speaker 2: a you know, a dear diary, that's journaling. And I'm like,
- 41:59Speaker 2: there's so much young kids can teach us that we
- 42:02Speaker 2: should be doing. So she reads a book and she journals,
- 42:05Speaker 2: so she doesn't die at ten. And yeah, I don't
- 42:08Speaker 2: know if that's intuitive. It's certainly not something that we've
- 42:14Speaker 2: role modeled or told her or made her do, so
- 42:18Speaker 2: maybe it is intuitive. If I don't know, I'm very
- 42:21Speaker 2: surprised at the behavior because it's not something that we've
- 42:24Speaker 2: directly intervened with.
- 42:26Speaker 1: I love journaling. I love, you know, even with back
- 42:29Speaker 1: in the day when I used to train a lot
- 42:31Speaker 1: of people a different kind of journaling, but I got
- 42:34Speaker 1: them to journal everything from sleep to food to exercise, sets, reps, mood, energy, drinks, coffee, tea, booze, micros, macros,
- 42:45Speaker 1: And I know we have trackers for that now, but
- 42:47Speaker 1: I love the manual, physical, tactile process of writing shit
- 42:53Speaker 1: with my hand and a pen in a book. And
- 42:55Speaker 1: then I can open the book and go what do
- 42:58Speaker 1: I eat last Wednesday? What time do I go to bed,
- 43:00Speaker 1: What time did I get up? How much water did
- 43:02Speaker 1: I drink? How much coffee did I have? How much
- 43:04Speaker 1: tea did I have? What time did I eat dinner?
- 43:07Speaker 1: How was I feeling? Because when you get all this
- 43:10Speaker 1: data down, all of a sudden patterns emerge and you go, ohhh.
- 43:15Speaker 1: When I do this, it produces that outcome. I feel
- 43:18Speaker 1: like this when I in like thirteen minutes before bed,
- 43:22Speaker 1: I sleep like shit. My sleep quality is a four
- 43:26Speaker 1: and ah right, and I just think and with that,
- 43:30Speaker 1: you know, you can also put down you know, how
- 43:33Speaker 1: do you feel? You motivated today? You demotivated today? I mean,
- 43:36Speaker 1: even even me, like I'm fucking special, how arrogance? What
- 43:40Speaker 1: I was about? Say husband, say even me, Puck and
- 43:43Speaker 1: even Craig Harper who knew, but even me, I have
- 43:48Speaker 1: shit days And I don't even know why I'm having
- 43:50Speaker 1: a shit day now, Not like I want to, you know,
- 43:53Speaker 1: fucking crack the sads to the world, but days where
- 43:57Speaker 1: I feel flat or a little bit of low level
- 43:59Speaker 1: anxiety or a little bit sad or.
- 44:02Speaker 2: Human just a little bit here.
- 44:03Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm like, ah, what, there's no fucking now.
- 44:07Speaker 1: Of course there's a reason, but it's not apparent to
- 44:10Speaker 1: me in the moment. But you know, to anyone who's
- 44:12Speaker 1: listening who thinks, you know, I would really like to
- 44:15Speaker 1: know how I work, as in you, how you work better?
- 44:19Speaker 1: How about this? How about you commit to one hundred
- 44:22Speaker 1: days of journaling, and not not seven days, not ten days,
- 44:27Speaker 1: one hundred days of writing down all of those things
- 44:30Speaker 1: that are going to impact you know, like mind stuff,
- 44:34Speaker 1: brain stuff, energy stuff, physical stuff, productivity, efficiency outlook, you know,
- 44:41Speaker 1: problem solving, resilience, all of those things, everything from sleep
- 44:46Speaker 1: and food and exercise to you know, how many stimulants
- 44:50Speaker 1: you're having, and how much like I just think it's
- 44:52Speaker 1: a good project and process to learn about ourselves.
- 44:56Speaker 2: You know, I couldn't agree more. I've kept a food
- 45:00Speaker 2: record since I decided to be a dietitian or maybe
- 45:03Speaker 2: a personal trainer, so many many decades actually, so I
- 45:07Speaker 2: actually have never gone back and looked at them, but
- 45:09Speaker 2: I have a whole box of them in the bottom
- 45:12Speaker 2: of the cupboard in the office at home, and I
- 45:14Speaker 2: literally just scribble down at the end of each day.
- 45:17Speaker 2: So maybe that's what my kids think I'm journaling or
- 45:20Speaker 2: something that they've role modeled. But I literally write down
- 45:23Speaker 2: my food, my exercise, if I've taken any supplements, or
- 45:26Speaker 2: i I've had alcohol, or what I've drunk, or where
- 45:29Speaker 2: I've been in every country the world that I've ever
- 45:33Speaker 2: traveled to. I've never ever missed a day, And why
- 45:37Speaker 2: do I do it? I feel like I have an
- 45:39Speaker 2: obligation to my clients because I used to make them
- 45:42Speaker 2: do it every single day. Yeah, and if I was
- 45:45Speaker 2: hands on practicing every day, I would do it with
- 45:47Speaker 2: one hundred percent of people. I make my husband do
- 45:49Speaker 2: it when he goes on a challenge. I'm like, write
- 45:51Speaker 2: down your food. If you want to control what you eat,
- 45:55Speaker 2: you need to hold it. It will change your behavior.
- 45:58Speaker 2: You need to write it down because if you don't
- 46:00Speaker 2: reflect on it, you can't change it. It's only in
- 46:02Speaker 2: the reflexion that the mirrors held back up at you
- 46:06Speaker 2: when you can see what you're doing. Like, the patterns
- 46:09Speaker 2: are behaviors. So the act of just writing it down
- 46:13Speaker 2: actually helps people change behaviors. We did a small clinical
- 46:16Speaker 2: trial and the placebo was writing down your food. They
- 46:20Speaker 2: lost point eight of a kilo in a week, and
- 46:22Speaker 2: versus the other arm we put them on beef it food,
- 46:24Speaker 2: they lost three point two kilos in a week. But
- 46:28Speaker 2: the act of writing it down they have better behavior.
- 46:32Speaker 2: Doesn't matter what they point they write it down three.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Point two that's a fucking lot of weight.
- 46:38Speaker 2: Yeah, But do you know the big thing is it
- 46:40Speaker 2: was their blood sugar levels reduced by ninety percent below
- 46:45Speaker 2: the line, which means that the people that they are
- 46:50Speaker 2: all type two, they all had type two diabetes. And
- 46:53Speaker 2: when they lost point eight of a kilo in week
- 46:55Speaker 2: one by just eating their normal food, their blood sugar
- 46:59Speaker 2: level stayed saying, which is all over the place. So
- 47:01Speaker 2: we monitor them two hundred and eighty eight times a day,
- 47:04Speaker 2: so every five minutes for seven days, and we charted
- 47:07Speaker 2: it and their sugar levels changed a little bit, but
- 47:10Speaker 2: ninety percent of theirs sugar levels were in the diabetic range,
- 47:13Speaker 2: which is what you'd expect for a diabetic. When they
- 47:15Speaker 2: went on beefit food for seven days, ninety percent of
- 47:19Speaker 2: their blood sugar levels came back into the healthy, non
- 47:22Speaker 2: diabetic range, which shows that if you eat well for
- 47:25Speaker 2: seven days, you can put your diabetes into emission if
- 47:28Speaker 2: you can find a way to sustain it. And that
- 47:31Speaker 2: is my goal for beefit food is to be in prevention.
- 47:34Speaker 2: I don't want to be in treatment. But the problem
- 47:36Speaker 2: is sixty seven percent of people need treatment and are
- 47:39Speaker 2: seeking treatment and a googling weight loss. They're not googling
- 47:43Speaker 2: health prevention. They're not googling. I just want to be healthy.
- 47:46Speaker 2: They're googling things, and you've got to feed that Google monster,
- 47:49Speaker 2: that metaur Facebook, Instagram monster. You've got to be where
- 47:53Speaker 2: they're looking. But for me, it's about health improvement, feeling good,
- 47:58Speaker 2: role modeling, healther behavior. My kids eat the meals because
- 48:02Speaker 2: they're no different to my lazagnia. If I give them
- 48:04Speaker 2: the lazagna, it's whole meal lasagna. It's nothing special about it.
- 48:07Speaker 2: It just has heaps of hidden veggies. You grade it
- 48:09Speaker 2: in like it's like their babies, and they don't know
- 48:12Speaker 2: it's there. It's lasagna.
- 48:15Speaker 1: Yeah, it's You know what is amazing how many people
- 48:17Speaker 1: don't realize that you can go from being a type
- 48:22Speaker 1: two diabetic, like with all the physiological issues that go
- 48:27Speaker 1: with that too, as you said to kind of not
- 48:30Speaker 1: being a dimission yeah, like well inter remission where yeah,
- 48:35Speaker 1: and wow, that's interesting. That's your what.
- 48:37Speaker 2: Bubbles up in your bloodstream over about twenty years. So
- 48:42Speaker 2: people say, my blood sugar levels are fine. I don't
- 48:46Speaker 2: think I'm I'm going to develop diabetes. Even though they
- 48:49Speaker 2: may have been gaining weight every year for the last
- 48:51Speaker 2: one to two decades. They don't feel themselves. They've got
- 48:54Speaker 2: no energy, they've got triglys ride levels, fat levels in
- 48:57Speaker 2: the blood going up, all these other things. But they
- 48:59Speaker 2: go into a glucose or a HPA one C and
- 49:02Speaker 2: the doctor says, oh, your glucose is normal. Well, guess
- 49:05Speaker 2: what your insulin, your fat storage hormone is going through
- 49:08Speaker 2: the roof to make it normal. So it's all a
- 49:10Speaker 2: cover up. Your body is covering it up. And then
- 49:13Speaker 2: one day you're going to go to the doctor and
- 49:14Speaker 2: they go, guess what, You've got diabetes. You go, You've
- 49:17Speaker 2: never even told me I was at risk. You've told
- 49:18Speaker 2: me it's been perfect the last twenty years, even though
- 49:21Speaker 2: I've eaten a you know, all the things I sort
- 49:23Speaker 2: of know I haven't, and I know I've gained at
- 49:25Speaker 2: least one kilo a year or half a kilo a year.
- 49:29Speaker 2: But when you do that over twenty five years, it's
- 49:32Speaker 2: not good for your body. You need to have these
- 49:36Speaker 2: signs and symptoms to actually you know, have a rain
- 49:40Speaker 2: check and you know, look at your behaviors. So insulin
- 49:44Speaker 2: resistance is completely completely hidden. People are not looking for
- 49:50Speaker 2: insulin resistance because they don't know how to do, because
- 49:52Speaker 2: the doctors don't test for it. You've got to do
- 49:54Speaker 2: a Homer index, and doctors will not do that. It's
- 49:57Speaker 2: too hard, too expensive, takes too much time. So how
- 50:00Speaker 2: do you know, Well, if you're slowly gaining weight over time,
- 50:03Speaker 2: there's a very good chance you've got inchulin resistance. Forty
- 50:05Speaker 2: percent of the population have it, and ninety percent of
- 50:08Speaker 2: people that have insulin resistance will have what we call
- 50:12Speaker 2: metabolic inflexibility, or where they're fuel that they eat, instead
- 50:16Speaker 2: of going into their bloodstream for energy, goes straight into
- 50:19Speaker 2: their fat stores, So they keep gaining weight every time
- 50:22Speaker 2: they eat, even though they're not doing anything particularly wrong
- 50:25Speaker 2: or eating particularly bad. They have insulin resistance, and the
- 50:28Speaker 2: only way to correct it is to reverse things back
- 50:31Speaker 2: the other way with all the healthy behaviors that we
- 50:33Speaker 2: talk about consistently.
- 50:35Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not much fun though, it's.
- 50:38Speaker 2: Not unless you, Yeah, what part of it's fun doing
- 50:45Speaker 2: it with friends, working out with friends? You know what's
- 50:48Speaker 2: fun without the cake? I don't know what's.
- 50:50Speaker 1: Fun as the result the results.
- 50:53Speaker 2: Yeah, it's how you feel. The energy that you wake
- 50:55Speaker 2: up with, the energy you go to bed with, the positivity,
- 50:58Speaker 2: the mood during the day, and we know it's connected
- 51:01Speaker 2: to moods, so yeah.
- 51:03Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. How do people find you? Follow you, connect
- 51:06Speaker 1: with you? And where can they actually get some beefit food?
- 51:10Speaker 2: Go to the website for beefit Food or Chemists Warehouse
- 51:13Speaker 2: there are biggest supporter at the moment, they are going
- 51:16Speaker 2: to roll it out in all stores. We're in thirty
- 51:19Speaker 2: Ish stores. They've got over five hundred and fifty in Australia,
- 51:23Speaker 2: plus with their merger the other day with Sigma, we'll
- 51:26Speaker 2: go into all their other stores and everything as well
- 51:28Speaker 2: over time. But online, Chemists Warehouse and then all the
- 51:31Speaker 2: little riches and IDAs are very supportive. You'll find a
- 51:34Speaker 2: handful of meals in Woolies. Up until sort of mid
- 51:38Speaker 2: this year, we were fighting the battle. But we were
- 51:41Speaker 2: told the other day even the gluten free section said,
- 51:45Speaker 2: even though it's gluten free, people aren't looking for healthy
- 51:47Speaker 2: gluten free, they're just looking for you know, what's already there.
- 51:51Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, the old process crap in the
- 51:53Speaker 2: healthy gluten free section, right, Okay, Well we don't fit
- 51:56Speaker 2: there because we're too healthy, so.
- 52:00Speaker 1: There be less healthy. That's the take home.
- 52:04Speaker 2: Yeah Instagram Kate save yeah.
- 52:09Speaker 1: Perfect, Sorry if it's up, always good to chat to you.
- 52:13Speaker 1: So informative, so inspirational and so authentic and I love
- 52:16Speaker 1: that about you and today getting a little bit fired up,
- 52:19Speaker 1: which I love to see.
- 52:21Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you bring it out in me, Craig. You
- 52:23Speaker 2: find the little spot and it's like, you know, you
- 52:27Speaker 2: just poke it and then it erupts.
- 52:29Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my job. That's my job to poke the
- 52:32Speaker 1: metaphoric bear. All right, say goodbye affair. But as always,
- 52:35Speaker 1: Kate saved befit food. I eat beefit food. I'm not
- 52:40Speaker 1: going to say all the time, but I've eaten a
- 52:42Speaker 1: bunch of them. Everybody, really good, give it a go,
- 52:45Speaker 1: Give it a go. And if you are struggling and
- 52:47Speaker 1: they go, this is not a sales pitch. This is
- 52:48Speaker 1: just truly what I think. You know that I don't
- 52:51Speaker 1: promote anything that I don't believe in. In fact, I've
- 52:54Speaker 1: turned back lots of money because people wanted me to
- 52:57Speaker 1: promote shit that I thought was rubbish.
- 53:00Speaker 2: Won't.
- 53:00Speaker 1: But I genuinely think this is a great product. So
- 53:02Speaker 1: at the very least, if you need to maybe think
- 53:05Speaker 1: about trying to reverse a few things that need to
- 53:09Speaker 1: be reversed, or change some habits and behaviors, or you
- 53:12Speaker 1: need some structure and you need some kind of plan
- 53:15Speaker 1: to move forward with your reading in a healthy way.
- 53:17Speaker 1: Go check them out.
- 53:20Speaker 2: Thanks Kate, thank you, and look forward to tuning in again.
- 53:26Speaker 1: Perfect