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The battle between weight loss and enjoying your food · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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Music.
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Okay, y'all, I know that weight loss can feel like this massive battle between
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eating what you want versus becoming a healthier version of yourself, okay?
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And I want you to hear me say that you are not alone in this.
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This is one of the most common issues I see among ladies before they come to
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my program, and sometimes they even wrestle with it inside of my program, okay?
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But there is a way to have both, right? There's a way to enjoy your food while
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also feel like you're becoming a healthier person and see the physical changes you want to see.
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And so today we're going to talk about that.
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It's going to be a little bit different. You know, usually I've got like my
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points that I hammer out and, you know, all that.
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And so this today, I just really want it to be more like a conversation.
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Of course, we have a direction that we're headed in here. But I do just kind
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of want to talk about it in a relatable way,
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in a way that offers some understanding behind this concept of how to, you know,
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eat how you want to eat and still lose weight.
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But then also the concept of why maybe you feel some of that shame and some
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of that frustration in your weight loss, even though like even if you've adopted
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this mindset of like, OK, all foods fit and balance and everything in moderation.
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Like, sometimes, you know, we can still find ourselves in that frustration,
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you know, with ourselves and with our food choices. And so we're just going
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to kind of dive into it today.
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So the first thing I want to really, like, press on is that diet culture has made us this way.
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And so I know you'll hear me a lot on here kind of poking at maybe like TikToks
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or Reels or, you know, even, you know, just Reddit.
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Like any kind of information out there that you're overly consuming about weight
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loss because you're really consuming diet culture if you aren't careful.
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Like if the algorithm got you twisted, you know what I mean?
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Then you are consuming diet culture, right?
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And so a lot of diet culture has trained us to think is that we have to eat
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gross food if we want to feel good in our skin.
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I mean, that is why the cottage cheese trend came as quickly as it left,
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y'all, because people were out here talking about how good these cottage cheese, you know,
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ice cream is or whatever it was and like making it out like it sounds so good.
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And then what did y'all do? Y'all went out and bought up all the cottage cheese
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at the grocery store and made the ice cream and it was freaking gross, you know?
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And so you're looking at this skinny thing on your TikToks and saying like,
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well, she said it was delicious and, you know, she liked it.
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And that must be why she's skinny because it wasn't good.
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You know what I mean? And so diet culture has kind of.
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Like lose weight or to feel good in our
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skin or whatever the food we eat has to
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be gross and we could we could see that trend across all kinds of
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things like don't remember when people were like making black bean
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brownies and you know all like just anything
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you can think of and now I will say I think cottage cheese has its place it
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can be a really good substitute in like casseroles or things that like we use
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it in our mac and cheese and we blend it up real good and literally no one knows
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that it's there, you know, because that that's where it belongs.
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It belongs in more savory type things.
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But anyone who wants to try to believe that cottage cheese ice cream is going
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to be like Bluebell, well, baby, I mean, who are we kidding?
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You know what I mean? But either way, but this is what we're being fed all day
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in every shape, form, fashion, right?
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Or you'll just see a TikTok of like what I ate in a day.
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And she's got all kinds of like things you would never eat.
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So you immediately say to yourself, well, I can't eat that.
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Or I don't like that. So I can't be skinny, right?
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Like, I don't like those foods. So this is why she's skinny.
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And I'm not right. Like, these are the things that we just tell ourselves,
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you know, and like, even, you know, somewhere along the way, even in our childhood,
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you know, like all the way back, it's, it's wild how many, how many ladies I
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have that come into our program that just kind of reflect back on even,
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you know, when they were little,
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little girls and, you know, their mom or their grandma or somebody would say,
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you know, like, you can't eat that. It'll make you fat.
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You know what I mean? Or just imply that kind of thing around food.
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And so we learned even as far back as then, you know, that food that tastes good is bad.
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Like that, that is what, if you think about it, that is what we have learned.
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And so it's ingrained in us in a depth that we, none of us really probably even understand.
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And so while obviously, right, some food serves our bodies better,
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okay, like, you know, the fruit is definitely going to serve our body better
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than the donut, but placing the labels of good food or bad food or, you know.
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Food fat people eat or food, you know, skinny people sleep or,
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you know, that kind of stuff.
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Like there, there, we don't want to make room for that, but there is so much
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of that in, in our, you know, in our history, in our day to day,
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you know, amongst even just, even if our coworkers, like I can't eat that,
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you know, I'm trying to lose weight.
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Like that implies to you that, you know, oh, well I'm eating it.
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So I thought I was trying to lose weight too.
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But you know, like it just puts this implication on you.
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And so I really just want to like,
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Speak over that lie, you know, like that is a lie. It's a lie from the devil.
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It's a lie from everyone else around you and their insecurities.
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It's a lie from lack of knowledge, like lack of true application.
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You know, like next week I'm talking about how to be confident in your food.
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And this is a topic that I will cover a lot, or how to be confident in eating,
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you know, for weight loss.
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And so this is a topic that harp on a lot on that episode, just about a lot
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of people just follow rules that they've heard or that they've seen or that,
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you know, that some coach told them instead of really like knowing for themselves
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what they can and cannot eat in their weight loss journey.
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And then they project it outwards onto other people, you know,
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and it's just like so, oh, I want to cuss.
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Like it is just so frustrating because it can, especially when we're in our
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first stages of trying to lose weight and trying to lose weight in this way
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of all foods fit, you know, everything in moderation, it can really derail us.
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It can really kind of be a mindset, you know, mess up because you have people
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reinforcing this idea that's already ingrained in you from childhood, right?
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That you cannot lose weight if you eat the cookie or if you eat the donuts or if you eat the whatever.
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And so I just I really want to like, drive it home that like,
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you can, you know, you can like, it's it's what I've built my life on.
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It's what I've built my business on.
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You know, it's what we've had 1000s of successful clients, you know, doing.
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But it does take some well, first of all, like understanding and knowledge of how it all works.
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But also it takes some accepting that other people's voices may enter in your
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head and they may throw you off track every now and then,
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but you've got to keep coming back to this concept and keep coming back to what you know.
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And then when you start proving yourself right, well, then that confidence comes
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and then you feel like you're able to stand stronger on what you believe. Okay.
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And so the biggest kicker here is to allow yourself to accept that all foods fit.
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We can eat the donut and still lose weight, whatever, without.
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Allowing that shame, guilt, or self-sabotage to creep in and take over, okay?
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It may try to come, right? But we can't let it stay.
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And so from all the depths of the things that we've learned and the things that
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we've heard and whatever, like it's going to come, y'all, even still,
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sometimes, like I'll be like the dietitian, the weight loss queen up around
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here, you know, locally, like a lot of people know me as what I am,
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you know, but even still, like, they'll be like, oh,
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you know, I didn't, they don't know the depths of my program, right?
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And so they'll be like, oh, I didn't know that you ate things like that.
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And so then it'll, I'll like take a step back and I'll be like,
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wait, should I be eating things like this?
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Hell yeah, I should be eating things like this, you know, like,
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this is what I, what I've built this on, you know, but, but even still,
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just like that, that lie will try to creep in.
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And so we can't completely shut it out.
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But we can know that it's coming, stay aware of it, and then let it pass on
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by instead of sitting in it and dwelling on it and creating like some narrative
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that's not true about our weight loss.
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And so science says
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like science tells us right that I mean
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we're going to kind of dive off into a little bit of science stuff here
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lightly nothing heavy today but when we're
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looking at it you know based on daily calorie consumption y'all
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okay and so daily calorie consumption is the only proven scientific way to look
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at weight loss okay call me if you want to argue about it okay daily calorie
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consumption is how we lose,
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gain, or maintain weight.
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Depending on where your calorie consumption lands depends on what happens next.
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Okay, now can things like hormones or, you know, exercise or vitamin deficiency
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or not enough water intake, yes. Can all that play a part?
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100%. But if all that is in check.
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Then the way we lose weight is a calorie deficit, period, exclamation point, okay?
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And so there are so many programs out there that will twist it,
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you know, into, oh, points, or, oh, low carb, or, oh, high protein,
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or, oh, fasting, or whatever.
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But at the end of the day, none of this is proven to be,
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I guess the word would be like significant enough to trump just following a
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daily calorie consumption.
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Okay. So with that, as long as you're eating within your calorie needs for weight
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loss, you'll lose weight.
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Again, assuming all those other things we just talked about are shaken out well too.
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Now, food makeup obviously matters, you know, for staying full.
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And we've talked about that a million times over here, right?
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Like we need the protein to keep us full.
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We need the fiber to keep us full. If we ate sugar all day long, our sugar would crash.
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We would, you know, be hungry again
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in five minutes. We would overeat our calories, et cetera, et cetera.
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So the food makeup matters for
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staying full and giving our bodies the nutrients that it needs to thrive,
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meaning giving our body the nutrients that it wants to do the things that it's
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got to do to keep us alive and at our best each day.
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But if you decide to have a snack, like one day this week, you decide to have
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a small milkshake instead of your typical healthy banana and peanut butter snack,
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the weight loss gods will not come for you, okay?
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As long as you are still within your calorie range, okay?
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So if you tend to eat, you know, skinny pop every day for a snack,
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but today you decide to, you know, have a small fry.
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Sure, the skinny pop may offer a little more fiber, a little more nutrient density than the french fry.
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And the french fries may be fried and they may not serve your stomach very well.
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But weight loss wise, if the numbers shake out about the same,
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you're still going to lose weight.
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OK, and so this is where all foods fit, you know, is proven.
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And so, again, it's not about like eating French fries and milkshakes all day
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long, but it is about knowing that there's some you can easily trade out some
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things and still see the weight loss and enjoy the food that you love.
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Okay and so I do this often you know like in my in my day-to-day like if I know
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that we're having cake at a birthday party this afternoon or whatever I will
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forego you know maybe extra.
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Let's see what will I do so I will either do like so if I'm having a salad for
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lunch I'll like maybe keep the croutons off and the cheese off you know to give
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myself a little more room to make room for the cake,
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I may skip a two o'clock snack, or I may lighten up my breakfast somehow to
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just kind of make room for the cake that is coming, right?
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And so my ladies do this across the board. On Fridays, if they know that they're
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getting donuts, they still want to keep themselves full.
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So instead of having their normal like eggs with toast with a side of fruit,
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they'll just have eggs with maybe one slice of toast instead of two,
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and then they'll get one donut when they get to work, right
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and so it's just a balancing act and it's something that
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again we have which I talk about on this next episode a lot about just
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being aware and in tune with our food habits but it can happen okay so that
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is how we balance foods we enjoy with the weight loss now I want to talk about
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I want to move into restriction because a lot of times we feel like.
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We have to restrict ourselves from things for weight loss.
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And even as much as I just said that we don't, that science says we don't,
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I know some of you guys are like, well, that don't work for me, blah, blah, blah. Okay.
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I want to talk about why restriction is not ideal and it can actually work against
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you in your weight loss. Okay.
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Because it is not like a lot of times people feel like I'm just not strong enough.
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I just, I just don't have the willpower. I'm just not, you know,
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disciplined enough as she is to not eat the ice cream or not have,
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you know, the donut or whatever it is.
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And so it's really not about like person to person or I mean,
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sure, we all have our different like mental strength levels and that kind of thing.
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But what it's really about is like biology and psychology.
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Okay, and so this study, I've talked about it with my clients,
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and I'm going to kind of give the rundown with you guys here today.
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But this study truly just changed my life like so, so, so many years ago.
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And I think it just validates for a lot of women like what they experience when
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they do try to withhold or restrict certain foods.
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So it's called the cookie and radish study.
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And okay so they these scientists or I think they're psychologists took two
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groups of people nothing special about either group of people right and they
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split them off into two groups and they took one of the groups into no excuse
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me they took both of the groups into the same room,
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now one group they were the cookie group and they got told okay you can eat
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as many cookies as you want.
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The end, like sit here and eat as many cookies as you want, okay?
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And they were homemade, so you could like smell them. They had just come out of the oven.
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You know, y'all know what a homemade cookie room smells like. It smells delicious.
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So then they bring the other group in, and they are called the radish group.
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And so they tell the radish group, hey, y'all are going to sit in this room
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for a little while, and you can do whatever, but you cannot eat the cookies.
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You can eat as many of these radishes over here as you want,
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but you cannot eat the cookies, okay?
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So imagine this, sitting in this room, like salivating, like you are using all
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your senses, you know, to recognize the cookies in the room.
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So you're smelling them literally like your mouth is watering at the thought of eating one.
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You're visually watching the other people that are the cookie group eat the
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cookie you can they could even go there and touch them like they could pick
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them up right but they could not eat them.
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Okay, so this is like, this is what we try to, I want to pause here.
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Like, this is what we do to ourselves.
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Like, we throw ourselves into the world and we say, I'm trying to lose weight.
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So when all my co-workers are eating those cookies and donuts, I can't. I can't.
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When all my friends are going to Mexican, I can't. When my kids are eating candy, I can't.
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You know, like, you are doing this exact thing to yourself.
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Okay, whether it looks exactly like this or not.
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So then after a while, all these people left this room and they went into another
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room and they were given a test and it was like a perseverance test.
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So basically you had to do one step to get to the next step to get to the next step, right?
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And the goal was to see how far these people could go on the test.
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And so the results showed that the people of the radish group gave up way sooner
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than the people of the cookie group.
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Okay. And like, it was like, you know, they were done. They were out of here.
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They were like, I have exerted all my what all my willpower today.
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And I cannot for the life of me try to like, push through this perseverance
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test, like push through this test that requires me to keep building and keep exerting this,
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this energy because I have burned through all my willpower by not tackling somebody
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in the last room and stealing the cookie from them. Okay.
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And so this study, it was so, so impactful.
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Like it went on, like there have been, I think it's like over a thousand studies
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that came from this original study, because then it was like, oh my God,
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willpower is not something that like I have more of that you have less of,
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you know, or that, you know, people are wired with certain amounts of willpower.
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It's just like after a day
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of burning up your willpower by trying like like
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like not cussing out your boss right when he
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pisses you off holding your tongue when your kid
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asks you the same question for the 15th time you
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know dealing with the stress that comes through email or text or whatever you
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know getting a phone call that you really didn't want to get you know cleaning
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up the house even though you really just want to like lose your mind on everybody
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like all these things are wearing on what I call our willpower tank, you know,
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and so when we get to the bottom of the tank, what are we on? We're on E.
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We have no, we can't, the car can no longer go if we are on E,
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right? And so what do we do on E?
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We break down, we pull over, we give up, okay? And so this is where a lot of
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us will find ourselves with weight loss.
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We will exert willpower through the food, like I just talked about,
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right? With the Mexican, with the friends and the co-workers eating all the treats and all that.
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But you're still also exerting willpower, like I said, by trying not to cuss
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out your balls, dealing with all the stress, you know, whatever.
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And so then when we hit E.
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We binge. We overeat. We say, screw it.
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I am not trying to lose weight anymore. I cannot handle all this. This is too much.
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I want the chips and queso.
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You know what I mean? And so we wear down our willpower tank. Okay.
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And so this is why every restriction, mindset, strategy, whatever that you have
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ever tried to accomplish has failed because it is impossible.
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And so, and two, it's paired with, you know, the fact that the more we think
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about not having something, the more our brain is like trying to remind us to not have something.
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And so it's like, oh no, we're not eating cookies. We're not eating cookies.
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Oh, look, there's a cookie where you may have never, you know,
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seen a cookie prior, but like now you see cookies everywhere.
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There's the cookie store there. You know, like our brain is purposefully reminding
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us of the one thing that we want to stop doing.
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And it thinks it's protecting us, you know, it's, but, but it,
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but it's really just reminding us that, oh my God, we can't have cookies and
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gosh, I really, really, really want to have a cookie. Right.
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And so this is why, this is like, sure, the science says it, right?
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Like calorie wise, we can have the milkshake or we can have the banana and peanut
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butter and still shake out either way.
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Science says it but also like psychology says that and I'm I mean I just feel
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like psychology is truly the
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root of lasting weight loss psychology says that we cannot cut things out.
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Especially the foods that we love and that are tempting to us and expect to
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keep them cut out forever and so we go from either zero or 100 like we cannot
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we don't find a middle ground if that's the way we're approaching food.
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And that's the way we're approaching like life in general, right?
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And so, you know, that leads me to we've just got to change our mind.
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Like you've got to change your mind about how you think about eating,
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you have got to stop this restrictive, or even on the flip side of that over
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excessive, like exercising or eating the, you know, protein or whatever,
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like you've got to stop making it such a all or nothing thing,
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because you are wearing down your willpower, right?
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You have to be willing to make peace with the fact that it's not always going
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to look perfect, that you are going to have a hard day.
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And the hard day may not have anything to do with you trying to withhold certain foods.
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And you're still going to binge on food anyway, because you just burned through
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your willpower that day, right?
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But then you're gonna have to make peace with the fact that you can't run from that.
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You have to accept that, right?
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You have to accept it how it came, and then just say, okay, I'm going to get back to it later, right?
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And so then the more we do this, the more we start to prove to ourselves like,
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dang, okay, I'm making peace with food. I'm not really labeling any foods.
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I'm not shaming myself for having foods.
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But then I have stuck to this weight loss thing way longer than I ever have before.
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You know, and I'm still getting to eat food I love and I'm still seeing some results.
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Right? Because it doesn't feel so heavy. It doesn't feel like such a pressure,
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you know, as weight loss typically does.
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And then we see ourselves easing into this daily, like this is our new habit, right?
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To have peace with food, to say, you know what, we're going to Mexican with my co-workers today.
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And, you know, I know Constance on her Mexican podcast a few months ago said,
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you know, she gets the fajitas with no shell.
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And, you know, but I really, really want that burrito. And I also want the margarita
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and I also want the chips and queso. So and so, you know, I'm making peace with
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that, that like these are the foods I'm eating and I know it's not going to
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keep me in my calorie deficit, but I'm okay with that.
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And I'm just going to get back up and start back at it tomorrow because this
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is worth it for me, right?
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And then tomorrow will come and you will. You'll get back on your game.
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You'll eat your healthy breakfast. You'll bring your packed lunch.
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You'll cook a healthy dinner for your family. and you will see that the weight
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comes off and you are much happier while you're doing it.
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You don't feel like you're in a bootcamp while you're doing it.
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It feels like the flow of a natural, normal life while you're losing weight.
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But again, you have to lessen those expectations.
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You have to lessen this whole, like I can't eat this and I can't eat that and
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I've got to lose this amount of pounds by this time and I've got to do X, Y, Z.
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You know, like we've got to loosen our grip on that or else it will never be peaceful. sis ever.
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And I will tell you, this is going to be the hardest for you after,
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like after the milkshake.
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Okay, like, or after the Mexican night with your friends.
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Because your brain is going to want to tell you that you're a failure.
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You know, like you went out, you had the burrito, you had the chips and queso,
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you had the margarita, you had the best time.
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When you were sitting there with your friends, you were thinking,
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I am so happy I did this. And I have no regrets about this food.
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And you know, this is exactly what my soul needed. You know,
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you'll be sitting there thinking that.
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But then when you get home or the next day, your brain is going to say, why did you do that?
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You ruined it. You should have stuck to the fajitas, like Constance said.
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You shouldn't have had that second margarita. You shouldn't,
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shouldn't, should, should, whatever, right? Like, it will come,
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you will get a lot of judgment.
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From yourself, about yourself. And so again, this is normal. This is natural.
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This is what you have done since you were a child, right?
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Like when your mom said, no, maybe we shouldn't have that second bag of Doritos.
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And then you went back, you got that second bag of Doritos anyway,
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and then you got in trouble.
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Okay. Or you got to feeling guilty because you disobeyed or whatever it is, right?
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Mom said, last week, mom said, Doritos make you fat and I've had two bags,
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so I'm going to get fat, right?
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Like these are, these are things, these are pathways and habits and,
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you know, protection mechanisms, really, if you can believe that,
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because your brain doesn't like anything new. Your brain likes it to be the same. It's always been.
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And so it's, it's, it's a way of your brain trying to cope with,
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no, this is what we do When we overeat, when we eat, quote, bad foods, this is what we do.
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We shame ourselves so that we'll stop eating, quote, bad foods.
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Okay? And so you just have to be aware of it. Like your brain is going to go
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there. It's going to want to do that.
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And pep talk yourself for it before and after it.
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You know, find yourself some Bible verses to claim over yourself.
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Or even better, just give it to God. like, yes, Lord, I am shaming myself right
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now because I ate that extra,
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you know, or I drank that extra margarita or I had that burrito or I did,
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you know, XYZ and I am not feeling good about myself right now.
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But instead of dwelling in it, I'm going to give it to you and I'm going to
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choose to continue to walk in this way that I know is the way for me to walk
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right now with food. Okay.
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And so before it too is a really good, like,
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Thinking about it beforehand can
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be absolutely life-changing for a lot of people for two reasons, right?
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Like you're sitting down at the Mexican restaurant with your friends or you're
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walking in or you're, you know, you're driving there and you're thinking.
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Okay, how am I going to handle food today?
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Like I like, I like to do it like really close to the actual moment, right?
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Because you can start the day saying like, we've got girls night tonight and
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I'm going to, I'm going to eat right and I'm going to do my best.
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But again, it's the beginning of the day. You just woke up from a lot of rest.
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You haven't experienced, you know, customers calling and complaining or your
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kid being sick or your husband being in a bad mood or your co-workers,
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you know, not doing their job.
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So you're having to pick up their extra slack or, you know, like all these things
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haven't happened for you yet today.
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So just like we talked about a minute ago, your willpower tank isn't as low
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in the morning as it's going to be by the end of the day.
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So a lot of that's why a lot of times you'll say like, I'm going to do so good
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tonight when it's, you know, 8 a.m.
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But then 6 p.m. comes and you're like, screw it, you know, and you find yourself again in that regret.
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And so I like to say to check in with yourself about your choices,
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be like right before the moment.
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OK, so slowing down when you pull in the parking lot or whatever and just sitting
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there for a minute and going, okay, let me register what's about to happen.
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Like, I know I've had a hard day.
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I know my willpower tank is on E.
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Like, I know that I intended to like make wise choices today.
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But like, what do I really want to do at this dinner with my girlfriend?
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So I haven't seen in a month or whatever.
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And what will I be okay with afterwards?
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Right? Because a lot of times we can go from zero to like, it's all or nothing.
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So we can just pull in that parking lot and say, I've had a bad day.
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So baby, let's it's on like, let's get these margaritas. Let's eat this chips and queso.
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Let's, you know, get the burrito and let's even get the what is it?
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The sopapilla for dessert.
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Like you are you are all in because you because you were completely going off the rails from your day.
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But if you sit and you think like, what would truly make me feel better?
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Like, what do I really want in this moment?
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I know I'm not going to stick to my guns as much as I thought I was first thing this morning.
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But where's the middle ground? Like what could I be okay with both ways?
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Like be okay with to enjoy myself tonight and then also be okay with after I
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get home by myself without having that regret that comes.
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So maybe it's having the chips and dip and the margarita, but not the burrito.
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You know, maybe it's having the burrito, but not the margarita.
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Like, I don't know. I don't know. Or maybe it's all of it.
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And you just make peace with the fact that you're doing it. You know,
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however it works out, there's no wrong way, but just thinking about it beforehand,
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registering what's going to happen and what might be a consequence of it, right?
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Like if you eat all that stuff at Mexican, you may not see weight loss this
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week, you know, because calorie deficit is not going to be achieved most likely, okay?
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But is that okay? Are you going to be okay with that?
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Are you going to be okay to not shame yourself on the back end because of it.
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And just truly checking in with yourself and being aware in that moment can be a game changer.
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And for a lot of us, it will allow us to make a better choice.
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Not the best choice, right?
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We're still not going to go in there and like only eat the fajitas and not have
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the chips and queso, not have the mark. Like, no.
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But you will feel like you've done better than you would have. And that's the win.
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Okay? That's the win. It just, you get, you give yourself that time to consider
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whether it's worth it and to tell yourself that that like we accept.
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You know, the aftermath of it. So to wrap up today,
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I really, I want to challenge you to just like think back on the past few weeks
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and reflect on any occurrences where you may have felt bound up by food,
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like whether it was an overeat and regret afterwards or a splurge that you felt
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guilty about or a food that like you really wanted that you wouldn't allow yourself
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to have and think through these experiences and analyze how like they could
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be hurting your progress. stress in the long run.
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Like these are things that we are like suppressing and pushing down and like
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they're constantly still trying to come up in our weight loss.
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And so if we aren't looking at them in the eye, then they hold the power over us. Okay.
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And they give us proof to continue to speak negatively over ourselves about food.
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And then when we do that long enough, y'all, when we wear ourselves down long
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enough, what do we do? We give up, you know, and we accept the lies that we're telling ourselves.
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And so I think just taking some time to really examine, like,
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okay, ate five cookies yesterday and didn't even realize it.
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And then after that, I have felt so much shame about myself.
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I really didn't even want to try today because of the shame that was covering me.
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Right. But can you give yourself some like grace in that?
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Can you say like, well, dang, I really didn't even register that I was eating those five cookies.
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Or dang, I was having a stressful day and my willpower tank was on E.
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And I see that now after this podcast. And so I.
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I know now that I need to be making an effort to like fill up my willpower tank, right?
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With like rest or grace or, you know, quiet time or things that fill me up,
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that give me energy and give me joy.
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And so then maybe next time I won't turn to the cookies, you know,
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or I see that I really, really wanted that cake at that wedding I was at last weekend.
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And it just, it had a hold on me. Like I didn't end up having the cake and I
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thought I'd be more proud of myself than I was because of that.
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But really, I was just super frustrated because all I thought about during the
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wedding was the cake. I didn't really think much about the bride.
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I didn't really, you know, stay present, having fun with my husband or whatever,
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because the cake had so much control over me.
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And so maybe next time I should, you know, just let myself have the cake.
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Like maybe next time I should just be a little more like present with the fact
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that like it's okay to have all the foods, all foods fit, right?
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And so again, this is just individual for you. But again, I think things like
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this, experiences like this have a hold on us until we break the chains and
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until we say, no, I am choosing grace.
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I'm choosing forgiveness. I'm choosing love for myself. even still,
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even though I was disappointed, right? We all make mistakes.
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And I can see now that, you know, there was a disconnect there, whatever it was.
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I didn't know the information I know now, or I had a hard day or whatever.
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So anyway, yeah, this one was just one that's been on my heart.
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And I felt like I needed to like get it out there.
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So I hope you guys enjoyed it. And as always, of course, especially in this
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episode about navigating, you know, eating the good foods while still losing
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the weight, y'all remember to stay grace.
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Music.