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Finding balance and overcoming comparison with PFN Plus client, Claire Bush · 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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  On today's episode of Say Grace, we have our graduated PFM Plus client, Claire Bush.
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  As a newly empty nester, Claire is in a season of life that seems a bit slower
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  than it has been in the past.
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  She chose this time to focus in on taking care of herself again.
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  Today, she's joining Stacey and I to talk about her weight loss journey to 25
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  pounds down and what she has learned throughout that process.
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  She offers some major wisdom as someone who has had many weight loss attempts
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  in the past, and I could not be more excited for you to get to know our sweet
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  and amazing client. So here we go.
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  Welcome, Claire, and welcome, Stacey. I'm so glad to have you both with us on
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  today's episode of Say Grace.
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  Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.
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  Okay so we have claire and
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  we have stacy with us today y'all because in rpfn plus program stacy and i both
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  have different people that we coach and so stacy works primarily with our ladies
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  in the inbox even though you are how many people in the in the messenger are you getting lately,
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  i think just a couple four okay she's mad at me y'all she.
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  Oh and i love them i love them dearly yeah right but to remember it it's it stresses my.
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  Myself yeah to have to have the messages in there yeah yeah but i do like the
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  fact that I could record something and send it.
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  And I haven't done that yet. So yeah, we're good.
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  So yeah, our ladies, like if our ladies prefer email or two,
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  if just like the season of life is the same, we kind of align Stacey with them.
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  And then for me, I just, if any of you have ever reached out to me on social,
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  you know, I just, I talk back, like I'll record messages back.
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  And so we've kind of kind of shook it
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  up that way and so we have Stacey here
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  because Claire was assigned to her as a PFN plush coach and I don't think we
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  could have gotten a better pair they are and you'll hear a little bit more about
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  this later on but they are in the same season of life ish but then also y'all
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  they have become like little besties like it's really it's really been cute.
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  It's been cute to watch them, you know, develop a friendship through all of this.
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  And so Claire has been, Claire, when did you start with BFM Plus? Like when we started it?
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  Probably right towards the beginning. I was April. Yeah. April of 2024,
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  when we started BFM Plus.
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  And she stayed with us for a whole year?
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  January-ish, February. I think it's when I,
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  decided to graduate. Okay. So a little less than a year. Yeah.
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  And I'm still salty about that, even though you were ready.
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  Yeah. Like in that, and we were just like, should I just keep paying just to me and Stacey?
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  No, she has my phone number. So yeah. Yeah.
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  We were just talking about it before we pressed record, just how,
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  you know, it was such that it was such a great group. And we just,
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  I don't know, we just really, really enjoyed our time with Claire.
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  And so, you know, it's been a wonderful experience.
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  Okay, Claire, give us the rundown. So tell us, kind of tell us who you are,
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  what your life is like, you know, where are, what season are you in,
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  you know, that you match up with Stacey with? Just give us the rundown.
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  Well, I am sort of, I guess, recently empty nester.
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  My youngest is a year out of college and has moved out and in his own home.
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  So it's really just me and my husband to worry about now as far as like meals
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  and timing and that kind of thing.
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  So it's in some ways it's easier. In some ways it's harder because sometimes
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  it's hard to cook for two and to plan for two.
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  But it's a it's a good season because now not as much as I enjoyed their high
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  school activities. You know, I still kind of have my day to plan it as I want
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  to now, which is a nice season to arrive.
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  Yeah, I don't know that life.
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  But you will miss it. Oh, well, you're right. You will miss it.
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  There are things about it that I miss so much that it hurts,
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  like the pep rallies and the game days.
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  And, you know, there are things that even though it's nice to sort of be on
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  your own, there are things that you miss so much about in being young.
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  And it's a blank.
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  Yeah, really, I believe that. Okay, so it's you and your husband,
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  but tell us a little bit about your husband and your schedule,
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  because I know y'all's schedule is a little different.
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  Right. Well, he farms, so he's out the door early, and sometimes he is home
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  late, unless it's like lately where it's rained all the time, and he's home.
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  But for the most part, he's kind of home late. I work part-time.
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  I used to have two part-time jobs. I was a kindergarten teacher part of the
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  day and then worked out in the farm office part of the day.
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  And as things evolved with his father getting older and needing a little bit
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  more help in the office, now I'm just in the office.
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  But I'm out there three days a week for part of the day. So I have pretty good
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  flexibility in my week, which is nice. Yes, yes. Yes.
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  Okay. So let's talk about when you came to us.
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  Like, what was going on? Or, you know, what had transpired? How did you even find us?
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  Well, I was just scrolling through Facebook one day, as we have learned to not do.
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  I was just scrolling through Facebook and I happened to notice that a friend
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  of mine had done one of just the regular challenges.
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  Okay. And so I can't remember which one, but one of them. And so I just asked her about it.
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  And she just said, you know, that it was really good helping her kind of get
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  back on track. And so I thought, well, you know, it can't hurt anything. I'll try it.
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  And then DM, I guess I was talking with you at that time.
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  And just said, you know, do you by any chance offer one-on-one?
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  Because I just feel like I need a little bit more than the big group setting.
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  I really just kind of need guidance.
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  And at that point, that's when you told me about the PFN Plus.
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  Yeah. And so that's sort of how I came into the PFN Plus group.
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  Yes. And it was the best thing ever. Yeah, it really was. It was. A little family.
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  A little family. That's right. That's right.
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  Okay. So when you came to us, what had your weight loss been like before then? Or what helped?
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  Well, I was pretty typical of the ones who like, I did not, you know, I didn't gorge myself.
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  I didn't eat pizza at midnight. I didn't, but I was that steady one or two pounds
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  here and there, one or two pounds here and there, cholesterol numbers climbing
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  here and there, here and there.
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  And I had a doctor's appointment, and my doctor, who was a friend of mine from college,
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  just really kind of had a heart-to-heart talk with me, and she said,
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  you know, if you don't make some changes, you're not going to like the path
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  that we have to go down with some medicine,
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  and so, you know, I got in the car, closed the door, cried, and then I was like,
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  okay, I can go one way or the other with this.
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  I can either keep going down this path, and probably not a very fun path,
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  or I can do something about it.
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  And then it was just a little bit after that when I was scrolling that day and
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  found, I was like, okay, maybe this is what I'm supposed to do.
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  That was a sign for sure. That's right. That's right.
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  Okay. So we were just talking about this a little bit before we press record, but Stacey,
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  I want you to kind of share a little bit of your experience with Claire,
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  like when she first came on with us, because y'all, we get a wide range,
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  right, of personalities and people.
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  And honestly, like sometimes people come to us and they don't even like they
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  don't feel confident enough in themselves to do it.
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  But I do feel like, Claire, you you are like you knew you could.
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  You just needed needed to know how. So Stacey, tell us a little bit about that.
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  So it's funny, I've been thinking about that. And when our first connection
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  and I knew from the get go that Claire, she knew her stuff.
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  Yeah. She, she was ready and she, she knew a lot more about nutrition than she
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  will give her credit for.
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  So at first, I mean, I was kind of nervous. I was like, oh my gosh,
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  you know, what if she knows more than me?
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  And like, how am I going to help her? just because she was so inquisitive,
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  which I love and made it so much easier for me to lead her.
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  But as we got to talking, and I had a busy time in my life. My oldest was graduating
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  high school, all the things.
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  And I guess we friended each other on Facebook and discovered that we had a very neat friend.
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  Look, Constance, do you remember way back in one of our Zooms when you were
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  saying how Stacey was at a baseball tournament and couldn't be there.
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  Yeah. My son was at the tournament.
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  Oh, oh my God. Her son is dating the sister of one of Carter's former teammates.
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  So yeah, they knew all about that. Yeah.
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  I think my son's there. Oh my gosh. How funny.
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  Okay, for the record, listeners, Claire and Stacey do not live near each other.
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  They're like what is it two or three hours two hours
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  apart yeah yeah yeah because that's how Mississippi is
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  but just making that
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  connection made me I guess personally more comfortable I'm like okay there's
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  something about this girl and I just knew that we were going to click and work
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  it out and she was just one of those that I could just be honest with her and say all right Claire
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  where you need to get out of your head or you need to put the scale down or whatever, but she.
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  She was ready to take anything I threw at her, any advice. If I told her to
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  hold back on something, she was okay with it because she was confident enough
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  in herself and knowing that she was going to get to that finish line that it just made it easy.
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  And, you know, hers, for a lot of ladies in our PFM Plus group and in our,
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  you know, just regular PFM group, you can tell when that light bulb goes off.
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  Flare's light bulb was always on and it just kept getting brighter week per week and i knew.
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  Within six months of us being together i was like she's gonna be gone before
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  i know it because she's ready i mean she was ready to fly before she flew but
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  right right yeah yeah i think she stayed she stayed back a little longer than
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  she probably needed to i didn't want to leave She didn't want to leave us.
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  And then, like, Stacey texts me when you're like, okay, I think it's time I graduate.
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  No, we were both like, oh, no. We had a breakup.
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  You know, we can't be more proud, right, because, gosh, like Stacey said,
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  I think that's one of the biggest struggles Stacey and I have as,
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  you know, PFN, right, is that a lot of people come to us like wanting the program
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  and wanting to lose weight.
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  But not all the people necessarily are ready for it.
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  You know what I'm saying? Like not all the people want to like sit
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  down and actually understand how the program works or sit down and actually
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  pay attention to their own habits and their own actions each week that may be
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  contributing to the inability to lose weight or change a few of those things. And then also, you know,
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  They may not be ready to accept the grace that has to come alongside that.
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  You know what I mean? Like you feel like you've either got to be all the way on or all the way off.
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  And Claire, I think we, Censie and I both would agree that we felt like you
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  were ready to put the work in, but also ready to say like, okay,
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  last week didn't go as I planned, you know, but that's okay.
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  You all, I feel like you always said that, but that's okay because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Well, and I feel like before I started this, I was much of a,
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  I said, like a go big or go home.
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  You know, it's like I'm either going to, I'm either going to have zero carbs
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  all week or I'm just completely off the rails or I'm going to walk,
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  you know, and it was learning through all of this that it's okay to have those
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  bad days because I think that's why it took me so long before y'all to get going.
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  Because when I would have those weeks where I just didn't do what I was supposed
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  to do, then I would get discouraged.
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  And I was like, oh, well, you know, whereas now I know how to.
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  Even if I have a week where I don't do so well, to come back the next week doing
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  what I know to do. That's right.
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  That's right. And I think that is because you were willing to plug in and actually
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  like trust the process, trust Stacey, trust yourself.
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  Right. And sometimes that's really hard to do. Like it sounds all,
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  you know, beautiful and rainbows as we talk about it.
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  But after so many failed attempts of weight loss, that can be really hard for people to do.
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  And so, I don't know, I just want to commend you for that because I know,
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  you know, it was a journey. Right.
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  Okay. And that food freedom that you got, Claire, really, it happened pretty early.
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  I mean, like I never get one email that you sent me, like,
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  I think y'all been out to eat or you had, Claire was always busy.
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  Like they were always going to Mississippi state games.
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  They were always going to weddings because she's got kids that are,
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  you know, around that age and getting married. And she was like,
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  it was just so freeing that like, I knew I could have that one piece of cake
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  and it's not going to send me spiraling. Right.
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  Well, and then like knowing that it was okay to eat it like before,
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  it's like, oh, I've got to eat three pieces of wedding cake because,
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  you know, next week I'm not eating any carbs.
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  And so it's knowing that you can still live a normal life. You just have to be mindful.
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  And now I have a piece of cake and, you know, I had my fix of it and I'm fine.
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  Yeah, I think I really saw like,
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  I mean, I know we watched your progress the whole time, but I remember the first
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  Zoom call after Thanksgiving and just kind of like we were really like zoned
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  in on that call to make sure everybody kind of got their spirits back up because, you know,
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  a lot of people on holidays overeat and then they feel like really down on themselves or whatever.
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  And I just remember you reflecting back on your Thanksgiving.
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  And you were just like, yeah, I mean, I had, you know, whatever I wanted to have.
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  And I think you may have gone back for seconds for a few things.
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  But then you were just like, I mean, and it was fine.
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  And that's when I thought, well, dang, she about to graduate.
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  You know, because you were just so whatever about it, you know,
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  even though I know you enjoyed your Thanksgiving, just like, you know, we all did.
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  Right. But you brought so much positivity to that little small group that we
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  started out with because you learned so early on.
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  How to have all those freedoms and feel okay. And, you know,
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  they looked up to you and still do.
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  We had a great group. We sure did.
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  Okay. So, though, you know, we are highlighting all the amazing things, right?
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  But I do, I know that there are struggles and there are things that you have to share.
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  So just give them to us. I would love to just hear from you just off the cuff
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  kind of what weight loss struggles you had before you found us,
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  what struggles you had when you were getting started with us,
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  like mentally, emotionally, whatever.
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  I know you guys went through a period of too much exercise, right?
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  Was that one of the things?
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  Yeah, that was me. Yeah. Just anything you want to share about that,
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  I'm sure our listeners would love to hear.
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  I think one of my biggest struggles, definitely before,
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  and then Stacey kind of helped me work through it at the beginning,
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  was comparing where I was to comparing the influencer on Instagram or the,
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  you know, Sally Sue who, you know, walked into the restaurant and she looks like a million bucks.
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  And why, you know, I'm walking and she's walking and why do I not look like
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  that? And to me, that just comparison to other people and their journeys was, and that was on me.
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  You know, that was me doing that to myself. That was not anybody saying,
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  oh, well, you know, your dress looks a little tight. Or that was me.
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  That was me in my own head.
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  And Stacey really helped me work through that. And in fact,
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  you know, I told her one day, I said, you know, I said, I sat down last night
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  on Instagram and unfollowed a bunch of the people that for me were sort of a stumbling block.
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  You know, somebody else might could have just scrolled right past them and it didn't impact them.
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  But I would stop and scroll through and go, oh, well, I don't understand how
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  she got there. And so just getting all that out of my head and realizing that.
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  This is my journey. You know, this is, this is my Monday last week versus my Monday this week.
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  And where am I in that, in that journey and not where am I compared to somebody else's journey?
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  And for me, that was a really, really hard mindset to shift.
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  Like the, the macros and all of that were easy, but it was the getting,
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  getting out of my own head.
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  That was the hardest thing. I'm sure, I'm sure on Monday mornings when Stacey
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  would open the email, she was like, oh, I can't wait to see what my question of the week is.
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  Yeah, I mean, like I literally, we usually sit down sometimes on Sunday nights
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  or Monday mornings and check in with all of our ladies.
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  And like, I just sit down and check in because Claire had it all there for me.
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  But I had to tell her, I said, you have to remember that there's filters people
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  can put on those posts. And that is what you see is not reality a lot of times.
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  And, you know, she also got to a point where during the program, she stalled for a while.
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  And she and I together decided she was not going to get in the group on Fridays
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  when we reported our weigh-in because she was getting back in her head about the comparison.
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  Yeah. It's okay. Right. And y'all, this is just such a, I want to,
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  I want to keep, pause this topic because it is like, you know,
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  when you sign up for a weight loss program, that's not what you're thinking
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  about initially, right?
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  You're, when you sign up for the weight loss program, you're thinking.
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  Yeah, I'm about to get like those people, you know what I mean?
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  Like that, that's your mentality or your hope or whatever.
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  But, but as you were talking, Claire, I was just thinking like.
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  It's like putting, and all of us have our own struggles, right?
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  I personally believe that all of us can be obsessive or overly consumed with
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  other people's circumstances, whether that's their weight, their money,
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  their, you know, lifestyle, their kids' sports.
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  Like, we can take the thing that we feel insecure about and then find the people
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  that seem to have what we lack, right? And fixate on that.
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  And it's truly the same. Like, how could we?
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  We know, like, if an addict, if an alcoholic had a problem with alcohol,
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  right? And they needed to stop drinking alcohol so much to stop ruining their life, right? Right.
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  We wouldn't send them to a bar. Right.
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  Right. Like they wouldn't post up in a bar multiple times a day.
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  But but right. Like that's common sense. But on the same flip of the coin,
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  we have a bar in our hands 24 seven.
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  We open up those social media apps 24 seven and our algorithm knows what we'd be looking at.
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  So it's going to show us the things that we are most sensitive to,
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  that we are most likely to fixate on.
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  And so I think that is so powerful that you, because you said,
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  you know, you had to unfollow people.
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  You had to stop getting on there so much. And it's not an overnight thing, right?
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  Like I'm sure even probably today, this week, whatever, you have done that where
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  you've looked at somebody and been like, oh, well, she's looking good,
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  you know what I mean? Or whatever.
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  But it's just that conscious effort of saying like, I'm not going to drive down to the bar today.
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  I'm not going to open the door. I'm not going to stay or at least I'm not going
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  to stay here. You know what I mean?
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  Well, and I also realized that.
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  Staying on track and getting where I wanted to be was my struggle.
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  Everybody has a struggle. I can keep my checkbook balance to the penny.
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  But for some people, balance in a budget, balance in their checkbook is their
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  struggle. That's me. That's me. I'm the struggle.
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  And I finally just got to a place with Stacey's help to realize that not always
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  knowing what to do as far as like, how to get to my weight goal,
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  like not knowing how to get there. It's not a character flaw.
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  And, you know, for, for the longest time, I kind of in my head was like,
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  what is wrong with me? Why can I not do this?
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  It seems so easy for everybody else, or maybe for somebody else,
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  keeping their checkbook balance is seems so hard for me. It's easy.
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  So that was kind of liberating to realizing that
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  we everybody struggles with something there is
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  nobody on God's green earth who doesn't
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  struggle about something whether it's a big something a little
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  something everybody has some something
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  that they wish they could do better right and that
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  just like kind of breaks the chains right so then
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  you can just move on and do you right and reminding
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  you too of like Claire how do you feel
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  you know you may not have lost weight in a month but how does Claire feel inside
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  and that told such the bigger story and you put all of that together with stopping
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  the comparison and realizing okay I'm not going to be like Susie but I feel great right.
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  Because the reality is is yeah Susie may look like she's dropped you know 50
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  pounds or I don't know, whatever, but like, how does she feel inside? Right. We don't know.
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  And she may not be doing something that she can sustain forever.
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  Like I can do this forever because it's gradual and it's wise and it's not,
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  I haven't done something so crazy to my body that, yeah, my body responds in the next two weeks.
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  But then after that, it doesn't respond anymore. Right.
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  Right. Because yeah because it's freaking out or whatever right
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  right okay so since starting
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  with us how much have you lost i'm probably about like kept off and lost and
• 24:46
  kept off probably about 25 ish yes yes and you didn't you didn't have a whole
• 24:53
  whole lot to lose and so 25 is It's incredible.
• 24:58
  Right. But the way she looks in her clothes, that was exciting for me because Claire would be like,
• 25:05
  I went shopping today and I got to, you know, I went down three sizes.
• 25:10
  And yeah, Claire had a pretty woman experience at a clothing store.
• 25:16
  Yeah. She was a pretty woman. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
• 25:20
  I would love to know just after your time with us and your time growing and
• 25:27
  changing and losing and all the amazing things,
• 25:29
  like what would be the one thing that was the most impactful for you after joining with us?
• 25:36
  I think really, and I guess this is a little, a little bit academic,
• 25:41
  but then again, it's not, you know, I had a lot of knowledge,
• 25:45
  like Stacey was saying, I had a lot of nutrition knowledge.
• 25:48
  Like I knew, I knew what my macros probably should be.
• 25:54
  And I knew that, you know, I had the knowledge, but until Stacey and I would
• 25:59
  work through all of my ups and downs and questions and things I need to tweak through the week,
• 26:06
  I really feel like I came out, you know, like I've always heard it said that
• 26:09
  knowledge is like knowing what to do and wisdom is being able to apply that knowledge.
• 26:15
  And I feel like I came out, I came into it with knowledge.
• 26:19
  And then I left PFN Plus with the wisdom of knowing what to do with all of the
• 26:25
  things that we talked about.
• 26:26
  And that, for me, that was like life-changing.
• 26:30
  Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that was awesome.
• 26:35
  That's just the application of it, right? The day, I mean, I think that is like,
• 26:40
  I think that is why we have so many PFM Plus ladies that stay for a while with
• 26:45
  PFM Plus because it's like,
• 26:47
  okay, I'm learning things, then I'm applying them, and then I'm able to talk
• 26:51
  with someone who knows what she's talking about to figure out like,
• 26:55
  okay, what should I do next week? Or maybe what went wrong?
• 26:57
  Or like, you know, it's just, it's all encompassing to be able to truly navigate
• 27:02
  your way while you're making your way, right?
• 27:07
  Right. Because it's not black and white. It's not cut and dry, you know?
• 27:10
  That's why prior to you coming to us and you're like, okay, I'm going to cut
• 27:14
  carbs next week because you thought it was black and white.
• 27:17
  If I just cut carbs, I'll lose the weight, right?
• 27:20
  Well, that sucks and nobody sticks to it. You know what I mean? Right.
• 27:25
  And so I think there's something really beautiful about just even the fact that
• 27:29
  you committed to that, committed to the, to the path, to the step,
• 27:34
  to checking in with Stacey before she had even logged in to check with you, right?
• 27:38
  Even though the weeks weren't always, it's not like you were always emailing her with exciting news.
• 27:45
  The accountability. I mean, just to know that in both ways, accountability both
• 27:53
  ways, like knowing that on my great weeks, Stacey was going to be,
• 27:57
  yes, ma'am, let's go. Here we go.
• 27:59
  And then on my not so great weeks, she was going, but it's okay.
• 28:02
  You know, it's okay. Let's, you know, we know what to do. It's okay.
• 28:06
  And if I did not have that person in my corner on those not so good weeks,
• 28:12
  it would have been real easy to just have a second, not so good week and a third, not so good week.
• 28:17
  And then all of a sudden, then you're just a train wreck. Right.
• 28:19
  You're back at square one.
• 28:21
  Well, and I think in some of those not good weeks,
• 28:25
  Well, I know. Like we had to look at the route, like, all right, what's really going on?
• 28:29
  And Claire, we've touched on this a little bit, but Claire is very active.
• 28:33
  Like she played high school sports and this girl, she can move and she likes to move.
• 28:39
  I'm not a good stay home person. She does not sit down.
• 28:43
  So I was like, OK, what are how are we balancing this with our exercise?
• 28:47
  Because it was nothing for Claire to go do.
• 28:50
  What is the dance? Bar. Yeah, do bar.
• 28:54
  Bar and then go walk six miles and
• 28:57
  i'm like hold up sis yeah yeah with
• 29:00
  the weighted vest on yeah mind you yeah so
• 29:03
  we had to work through that mentality too
• 29:06
  it's a long way right in that with her plateau didn't y'all just cut back some
• 29:10
  exercise and i made her cut back and it was probably hard because she's just
• 29:15
  not even sitting still it is i haven't read like 17 books in one week because
• 29:19
  I couldn't go home and clean down all the closets.
• 29:24
  Like, what were you even doing over there?
• 29:30
  And I think it was during the busy time where your husband and son were getting
• 29:34
  home until like nine o'clock.
• 29:35
  Yeah, I was here all day long by myself. And I was like, I might as well go
• 29:39
  for a walk. And Stacey's like, oh, you can't.
• 29:44
  What kind of weight loss program is this? but
• 29:48
  she succeeded because she did not go to
• 29:51
  the pantry and her pantry was not like what are
• 29:54
  you here for again right exactly yes Doritos
• 29:58
  is a great company I feel like that was a huge a huge thing for you too Claire
• 30:03
  you stopped that mindless eating like and yeah you still had like a few little
• 30:08
  snack things here or there but it was very calculated and you you know you were
• 30:12
  just very aware and conscious of your choices.
• 30:15
  Right. Even if it was a candy bar or whatever, you were just conscious of that
• 30:19
  instead of just kind of mindlessly headed there. So yeah, that was great.
• 30:23
  So I love, I love, though, the exercise thing because I have a newish PFM Plus client right now.
• 30:30
  And, Ceci, I don't know if I've even told you about this, but she was the same way.
• 30:34
  She doesn't, like, she lost, she's lost a good bit of weight with us already.
• 30:38
  And then she joined PFM Plus after she hit a stall. And so I've really been
• 30:42
  digging in with her, like, trying to figure out, okay, what is going on?
• 30:45
  You know, like, why? She has probably about 10 more pounds she wants to lose.
• 30:49
  And it hasn't budged in four or five months.
• 30:52
  And so I just recently realized how much exercise she is doing.
• 30:58
  She is exercising twice a day.
• 31:00
  It is like fast paced, like she's walking or doing like high knees or whatever,
• 31:05
  burning a ton of calories.
• 31:07
  And so I had to ask her, I said, I need you. I know this doesn't sound right,
• 31:11
  but I need you to cut out at least the second workout.
• 31:16
  Like I need you to just, which yes, that means, right? Because we eat back our
• 31:21
  exercise calories around here, right? So that means you eat less.
• 31:25
  You know, you don't get as many,
• 31:26
  you know, you don't get as much of a range of food to eat in the day.
• 31:31
  But really, I just want you to try this. Y'all, she has lost consistently for the past two weeks.
• 31:36
  And I could just not be more proud of her. But that is such a weird,
• 31:39
  you know, you never think that, right, Claire? You would have never thought that.
• 31:42
  You would have never thought that was the reason for your plateau, right?
• 31:45
  No, because you think if two miles is great, three miles is probably better. Yes. Yeah, exactly.
• 31:50
  Right. But sometimes, especially with women, like our hormones just don't respond
• 31:54
  the way we want them to. Right.
• 31:58
  And sometimes our bodies just want the rest so that they can shed the fat, you know. Right.
• 32:04
  Okay, so I would love to know if you could just give us, like, what's a day in the life?
• 32:12
  Like, when, you know, when you are, I know you stay busy during the weeks anyway,
• 32:18
  but when it's a pretty normal-ish week,
• 32:20
  like, what does a day or a week look like for you as far as,
• 32:23
  like, from the day, the time you wake up, what's your schedule, your habits like?
• 32:28
  Well, I'm an early riser. I was an early riser before I married a farmer,
• 32:32
  and I'm really an early riser now.
• 32:34
  But I like to get up and going. I started that when my kids were young because,
• 32:40
  you know, when you have small kids, even just 30 minutes or an hour when nobody's
• 32:46
  up but you, I could just kind of collect my thoughts for the day.
• 32:49
  And so even as they got older, I just always get up early.
• 32:53
  But I have a friend who I meet a couple
• 32:56
  of days before work and we just two
• 32:59
  quick miles on the treadmill and we're out and and
• 33:02
  then days that I don't work I have a bar class that I go to that absolutely
• 33:06
  love and other than that my days are you know working part-time three days a
• 33:14
  week and really just kind of my parents are hour and a half away I was you know
• 33:20
  slipping down and see them as I can.
• 33:22
  They're getting where, you know, it's just nice to, to be able to just go slip
• 33:25
  down and have lunch with them.
• 33:26
  And so my days, as far as just day to day, it's really pretty calm and pretty
• 33:33
  calm, just kind of doing the day to day things of laundry and cooking and that
• 33:38
  kind of thing that we all just love so dearly.
• 33:41
  But I really do have pretty calm days and I haven't always had those calm days
• 33:46
  because when my kids were home, you know, with, and it's not just, farming.
• 33:52
  You know, I have friends whose husbands are accountants and they have tax season
• 33:55
  and I have friends whose husbands are doctors and they are on call.
• 33:59
  So, you know, it's not unique to farming.
• 34:01
  But, you know, when your kids are little and you feel kind of like it's all
• 34:05
  mama all the time, at the end of the day, sometimes I didn't feel like there
• 34:10
  was any time for me. Yeah.
• 34:12
  And so it's nice to have that now. Yeah. To, you know, just to be able to,
• 34:17
  if I want to go do something, I go do it.
• 34:19
  And if I want to stay home, I stay home. And that's nice.
• 34:22
  Yeah. So when you get home from work, what is like dinner usually looking like?
• 34:29
  Because your husband is...
• 34:31
  Not home for dinner most of the nights, right?
• 34:34
  Well, not, not at dinner time. So I'll just kind of cook whatever I want to eat.
• 34:38
  And then when he comes home a little after that, you know, well,
• 34:41
  I'll just kind of heat back up for him and sit and eat, but you know,
• 34:44
  he'll eat and I'll just kind of sit with him and visit and catch up on the day while he's eating.
• 34:48
  But I love this time of year because he is a lot of times hot and tired when he comes in.
• 34:54
  Sometimes all he wants as a milkshake yes I love milkshake season yeah it's
• 35:02
  milkshake season oh my gosh I bet he loses weight that during this season just
• 35:08
  like naturally from the heat the movement oh my gosh yeah.
• 35:14
  But it's I mean you know it's it's it's a it's a good life it really is a good
• 35:19
  life love it Okay, Stacey, anything else?
• 35:21
  Do you still have your veggie supper once a week? I have to ask. I do.
• 35:26
  I've got Stacey hooked on my crockpot vegetable supper. Yes.
• 35:30
  What is it? Oh, well, our favorite supper is a couple of vegetables with a slice
• 35:35
  of bacon. In the crockpot?
• 35:38
  Well, I'll put my vegetables in the crockpot for about four or six hours,
• 35:42
  and they are so tender, but they don't get mushy.
• 35:45
  Oh. And I found at Walmart these little, they're like three-serving crockpots.
• 35:52
  And so I'll have them all on the counter. That is amazing.
• 35:56
  Oh, my God. Wait, you put each individual vegetable in its own crockpot? Yeah.
• 36:03
  Oh, I didn't know all that. Yeah, well, I have two different crockpots,
• 36:07
  so I can do two vegetables. I love it. It's so good.
• 36:11
  I love that. But, okay, Stacey, anything else before we wrap up with this part?
• 36:20
  I don't think so. I mean, it's just this.
• 36:23
  We have taught each other, like Claire taught me a lot, honestly,
• 36:27
  on how to help some other ladies, just because it was a different perspective
• 36:31
  with her because she just, she knew so much.
• 36:34
  And I'm just thankful that I gained a good friend out of it. Absolutely.
• 36:39
  I miss her. Yeah, I know. Please come back.
• 36:44
  Yeah, but she, she's just such a light and she's going to help.
• 36:48
  She's going to help other ladies because she has that
• 36:52
  heart and that mindset that she cares and wants to see other
• 36:54
  people succeed and you know she is she's honestly sent
• 36:58
  people our way which i'm so thankful for because they've seen claire isn't it
• 37:03
  true though that like towards the end especially not even towards the end i
• 37:07
  feel like almost the whole time like claire was getting on every zoom still
• 37:10
  because that's how she is she
• 37:11
  commits and she's there but like she was really like the third one of us.
• 37:16
  Like she was encouraging people and just like, you know, I don't know.
• 37:22
  It was just, it was really, it was awesome for our ladies to see,
• 37:26
  you know, the transformation of you and then for then you to turn into kind of like a,
• 37:30
  like you said, more of an encourager, more of a cheerleader for others while
• 37:34
  you're still succeeding, you know. Thank you.
• 37:38
  Okay. Before we move into our Q&A, I have one more question for you,
• 37:43
  and that is, what is your number one tip for somebody who's listening to this
• 37:47
  and kind of resonates with you, right?
• 37:49
  Like, what would be your number one tip for someone trying to lose weight?
• 37:56
  Well, let's see. If I just had to think, I probably had two or three,
• 37:59
  but one of them we already talked about, and that was just not comparing yourself to anybody else.
• 38:04
  Just let this be your journey. also you
• 38:08
  know give yourself grace not only in what you do but in your timing like it
• 38:14
  took me a little while to convince myself that I didn't gain the weight that
• 38:21
  I wanted to lose overnight and so to think that it's going to go away overnight,
• 38:27
  it was unrealistic. And so you're just giving yourself some grace on your timing.
• 38:33
  That helped me a lot also. And the biggest thing, and Stacey kind of touched
• 38:39
  on this a little bit, is to take your measurements.
• 38:43
  I mean, you know, when I was first watching all of the little videos that we
• 38:47
  have to watch, you know, when we first get started with the program,
• 38:49
  and one of them was, you know, where you were telling us about taking your measurements.
• 38:53
  And I thought, well, I mean, how much can that help?
• 38:56
  I mean, really, I mean, the scale is going to be what tells me if I'm doing this right or not.
• 38:59
  And there were several times when I would plateau and I would ask Stacey, like, what in the world?
• 39:04
  And I'm not, I did not do anything different last week than I did the two weeks before.
• 39:09
  And I do not understand why I didn't change. And she would say,
• 39:12
  well, have you taken your measurements?
• 39:14
  And I would say, no.
• 39:18
  Then I would go and I would measure. And almost Every time that I plateaued
• 39:23
  on the scale, my inches still changed.
• 39:28
  And so, you know, like Stacey said, she said, you know, what you're doing is still working.
• 39:32
  And really, I mean, at the end of the day, nobody is going to look at you and
• 39:36
  go, oh, it looks like she went from a, you know, this weight to that weight.
• 39:41
  But they will notice that your dress fits nicer or your pants fit nicer.
• 39:46
  And so just, you know, always take those measurements, even though it seems
• 39:51
  like such a, you know, a silly thing to do in our minds.
• 39:56
  You know, there are a lot of times that your body's still changing,
• 39:59
  even when your scale doesn't.
• 40:00
  And so just seeing those measurement changes was enough to kind of perk me back
• 40:07
  up where I was like, okay, I'm not crazy.
• 40:10
  You know, our body composition changes while we're losing, especially when you're
• 40:14
  going to bar and walking and stuff like that.
• 40:17
  I mean, your body is actually changing.
• 40:19
  And so sometimes the scale is just not enough.
• 40:22
  I feel like that's probably one of mine and Stacey's largest frustrations with
• 40:26
  our ladies is they don't take their measurements when they start,
• 40:30
  you know, like they really probably have made more progress than than they think, you know. Right.
• 40:37
  OK. Great. So let's get into our Q&A.
• 40:41
  Okay, Claire, did you get three different questions? Three for me and three for Stacey?
• 40:46
  Yes. Okay. Okay.
• 40:51
  All right. So you do Stacey's first. Okay. And then I'll do yours and then you can do mine.
• 40:58
  Okay. All right. Stacey.
• 41:00
  Yes. What are your favorite foods that surprised you that were just as good
• 41:07
  when you lightened them up?
• 41:09
  That Constance has done, I've seen.
• 41:13
  Does it have cheese in it? No, I'm over that.
• 41:19
  I tell you no on that. That's a hard no. Yeah, I just...
• 41:26
  The Fancy Me This Chicken Salad. Mm-hmm. I'd never had Alice Springs Chicken
• 41:33
  before and never even heard of it. Mm-hmm.
• 41:37
  But that's another one of my favorites that I would think seems pretty close to the real deal. Yeah.
• 41:44
  Yeah. Which I don't even, where do you get Alice Springs Chicken? Outback. Outback.
• 41:50
  Baby, me and Jess used to go on dates when we were 19 to Outback,
• 41:54
  and that is what I ordered, and it was so fine.
• 41:57
  I mean, and I, even after we got married, I like would just be salivating thinking about it.
• 42:03
  Well, it's very good, but I can't eat any other chicken salad besides our chicken salad, literally.
• 42:09
  I know. And you know, the girls were saying, last time I asked for recipe ideas,
• 42:13
  they were like, let's do another chicken salad.
• 42:16
  And like, I have been marinating on it, but I'm just not ready yet.
• 42:19
  I love our chicken salad.
• 42:23
  Well, we'll get there. Yeah. Maybe next, maybe, maybe next time we can,
• 42:28
  we can do that. Yeah. So those are my top two.
• 42:32
  All right. Question number two, what was your favorite college class and why did you like it?
• 42:37
  Did not have to be your major, just your, your favorite college class.
• 42:41
  Okay. I don't even know if they still have this class. I think it was called catering.
• 42:46
  I'm sure they do. But when I was in Mississippi State, they had this bully's
• 42:52
  diner, and it was open two days a week for lunch.
• 42:57
  And it was just so much fun taking that because, like, each person got assigned
• 43:05
  one time, one or two times during that semester to plan the meal and prepare it.
• 43:11
  And then everybody in class got assignments. And it's like you were to cook
• 43:14
  this or you were to be on the serving line or you were to be in the dishroom or whatever.
• 43:19
  And we had this crazy, funny teacher. Her name was Linda.
• 43:24
  I can't remember her last name. But, like, she just made it fun because she was just so, so wild.
• 43:30
  But it was actually in the building where they would slaughter animals.
• 43:37
  So every once in a while, you would feel the building shake.
• 43:42
  Oh, my God. I mean, like there was there was a ramp.
• 43:46
  And so like where the kitchen was, there was this ramp and you could literally look in the other side.
• 43:52
  And that was the ag and the ag building where, you know, they had the meat.
• 43:59
  I don't guess they still have it anymore. I didn't know.
• 44:02
  I didn't have it, but I did. And I think this is one of Claire's questions for
• 44:05
  me, but I'll go ahead and answer it.
• 44:07
  Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. I did have a class similar.
• 44:10
  I cannot remember what it was called, but I know we had a book that went, it was like.
• 44:16
  It was essentially a cookbook, but we also had a book that was called Food for 50.
• 44:23
  And literally, it taught you how to cook for 50 people at all these recipes. Oh, wow.
• 44:29
  I still have that book. You still have it? But who knew I would use that,
• 44:34
  you know, so much in my career.
• 44:37
  Yeah, I still have it too. It still is right out there.
• 44:39
  But anyway, we also just, this class was just cooking.
• 44:44
  Like every week we would go in and we would cook something. But I learned the
• 44:47
  most random things like how to make whipped cream or how to caramelize sugar.
• 44:53
  And so I think I do, I mean, not to like toot my own horn or whatever,
• 44:57
  but I do think our recipes are so good because I have a full understanding of the full fat stuff.
• 45:05
  You know what I mean? Like I fully understand how real recipes work and then
• 45:10
  how you lighten them up to try to keep that same flavor or that same texture or whatever.
• 45:16
  But who knew that, you know, that class was something that we really needed.
• 45:19
  Well, see, and I guess they had changed it because we used that book to plan and do it.
• 45:24
  Like, it was open to students. I mean, they could come in for lunch.
• 45:28
  It was open for like an hour and a half, two days a week.
• 45:30
  And, you know. So cool. I wish I could.
• 45:34
  It was so much fun. And it was always packed.
• 45:37
  It was, I mean, we all, like, we would get into groups of three or four.
• 45:42
  And, like, we all cooked the same thing every week. But it was almost like,
• 45:46
  you know, the Great British Baking Showers and then where the teacher would
• 45:49
  go around and try each of our things to see who had done it the best, you know.
• 45:55
  I mean, my mom came up the night before I had to have my day to cook.
• 45:59
  And like we went at night and she helped.
• 46:02
  It was just fun. Like it was fun. So fun. I love that.
• 46:08
  Okay. What's our last one, Clarence?
• 46:11
  All right, Stacey, you know, me particularly, you know, we often had to talk
• 46:15
  about rest and the importance of rest.
• 46:18
  If you had a day where you had no other obligations and you could do whatever
• 46:22
  you wanted to do in a restful way, what would you most like to do?
• 46:29
  I'm not very good at resting. I mean, I am, but I'm not anything.
• 46:35
  With nobody at my house, like no. No obligation. I would like an empty house
• 46:41
  with no real people or four-legged friends in my house.
• 46:47
  And I would go meet a good friend for lunch and then maybe shopping.
• 46:53
  And then I'd like to come home early, get in my pajamas and get in the bed and
• 46:59
  just veg TV series. That sounds wonderful.
• 47:05
  I would like the best of both worlds to be around somebody, but then have my own time. Right.
• 47:11
  Yeah. Yeah. Love it.
• 47:15
  All right. All right. Constant. I am. All right.
• 47:18
  We see your fun stories, your garden with your girls.
• 47:23
  What's your favorite thing that y'all grow in the garden and what do you like most about it?
• 47:28
  This one was a tough one for me. So I think, okay. Is that like choose your
• 47:32
  favorite child? Right, right.
• 47:35
  I love that we grow romaine just because I am a salad eater. I love a salad for lunch.
• 47:43
  And like there's no, y'all, the lettuce at the grocery store just does not compare.
• 47:49
  Like it is wildly different.
• 47:52
  But also I love broccoli because
• 47:56
  my kids love my kids eat broccoli regardless like
• 47:59
  they love broccoli in general and so to see them see
• 48:02
  the broccoli come through right is so
• 48:05
  fun and so exciting and but then also just like a normal summer vegetable is
• 48:11
  the sun gold tomatoes it's a certain kind of tomato they're they're small like
• 48:16
  cherry tomatoes but they're a little orangish They're not so red, but they are so sweet.
• 48:23
  Those are hands down like my favorite tomato. I planted way too many this year.
• 48:28
  But anyway, I think those are my favorites.
• 48:32
  We just really have tomatoes for our vegetables. We don't really have a garden.
• 48:36
  But one year we did grow broccoli.
• 48:39
  I don't really know how I thought that broccoli grew.
• 48:43
  I was fascinated by how it grows out of the top.
• 48:47
  I was just fascinated. Like, I would go out there every single day to see what it had done.
• 48:51
  Yeah. It's a fascinating one.
• 48:55
  And if it rains, you know, then, like, you have to check on it all the time
• 48:59
  because it'll just blossom.
• 49:01
  And then growing it in the fall is way better than growing it in the spring.
• 49:05
  In the spring, everything just bolts up way faster because it's so hot here.
• 49:10
  It gets so hot so quickly. but the fall it really I mean like I would cut a
• 49:15
  stalk or you know cut some off and then it would sprout out and grow another
• 49:19
  head you know what I mean like it was really good in the fall,
• 49:23
  Yeah, it's neat. Okay, I will say one more, one more.
• 49:28
  Potatoes. My kids have loved to dig for the potatoes. It's like a scavenger hunt.
• 49:33
  You know, we're due to dig them up any minute now. And they're just so excited
• 49:37
  about the potatoes. So anyway.
• 49:39
  That's funny. All right. If one of your daughters wants to go into nutrition at some point,
• 49:45
  what's something that you wish you would have known when you started studying
• 49:49
  nutrition that would have made it easier, like anything, classes that you took
• 49:55
  or an internship, anything,
• 49:57
  something that you wish you would
• 49:58
  have known when you got started that you would tell your girls? Yeah.
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  So when I was in school, and I know this is not the case, I don't know,
• 50:06
  it may still be the case now, but I don't think it is.
• 50:09
  The idea of owning your own nutrition business was like not a thing.
• 50:13
  You know what I mean? Like you were going to be a dietitian,
• 50:15
  you were going to go work in the hospital, you were going to go,
• 50:18
  you know, work in food service, you're going to work at WIC,
• 50:20
  whatever, dialysis center, right?
• 50:22
  Stacey, like there was no thought of you like running a business as a dietitian.
• 50:29
  And so looking back, I really feel like I would take more business classes.
• 50:35
  Now they had us take a few business classes, but it was really just in case
• 50:39
  we became more of a food service dietitian where we would have to like work
• 50:44
  with production in a large food service setting.
• 50:48
  And so that was the purpose of the business classes that I did take.
• 50:53
  But I think if I had had more...
• 50:56
  Business training, more marketing training, like what this, this whole operation
• 51:01
  that I've got going on now would be a lot, a lot easier.
• 51:06
  Well, don't let her fool you. She's, she's, she's pretty good for not having much training.
• 51:12
  That is so true because like Carter, who's my one at Ole Miss,
• 51:18
  he is pre-dental, but he has a
• 51:21
  minor in business because he wants to own his
• 51:23
  on practice so like just because you're good
• 51:26
  at something doesn't mean you can run the
• 51:29
  business for something right well and my
• 51:32
  son who just graduated at state he knew he was coming back to farm with us but
• 51:37
  we encouraged him and he did like he has a he's ag business management and he
• 51:42
  took my he took microeconomics he took two semesters of accounting because with
• 51:49
  any job now you have to know the business side.
• 51:52
  Like just knowing your subject is not enough anymore.
• 51:55
  You've got to know the business side of it too.
• 51:57
  Well, and if you want to see it, like if you want to see past just going to
• 52:02
  work, doing the job and coming home, right?
• 52:04
  Like if you want to grow something, if you want to, you know,
• 52:07
  you have to know it. You have to understand it.
• 52:10
  And I think the biggest blessing that I did have was like my dad was an entrepreneur
• 52:15
  and then my grandfather was also an entrepreneur.
• 52:18
  And so that was helpful for me to have, like, my dad to ask questions. Right.
• 52:24
  I don't know. What do I do? Do I get a bookkeeper dad? I mean,
• 52:27
  literally, like, I had no idea. You know what I mean? So that was helpful.
• 52:33
  Okay. Is that it? I think that's it. Yes, that's it. Okay.
• 52:38
  All right. Are you ready for yours? I think so. Okay. Right.
• 52:42
  What is one piece of wisdom you wish you had as a mother when your kids were younger?
• 52:49
  I would, if I could go back and change anything, I would tell young moms to get in the photographs.
• 52:57
  I just, you know, it's not so much that I didn't want to be,
• 53:00
  but mama was always the one with the camera.
• 53:03
  And, you know, like you can look through our pictures. I know my kids had a
• 53:07
  mom, but we don't know what she looked like. Like, I would, I would,
• 53:11
  that's, that's one thing that I would tell your moms is, you know,
• 53:14
  get somebody else to hold the camera every now and then and get in the photograph.
• 53:19
  I love that. Because that is so true.
• 53:22
  And, you know, we don't mean to do it. Right. It's just like, smile, you know. Yeah.
• 53:28
  Yeah. Okay. What are your top five grocery buys?
• 53:34
  One of them is one that Stacey turned me to. It's the, I think I'm saying it
• 53:38
  right, the Simply Elizabeth, the granola.
• 53:42
  Started out eating it in some yogurt, but I've got now where,
• 53:46
  you know, if I want sometimes, sometimes during the day, I just want a crunchy
• 53:49
  snack. I don't, I don't know why it's, I just want the crunchy and just a little
• 53:54
  handful of that granola sometimes makes a great snack.
• 53:57
  And they have so many different flavors now. I was going to ask you,
• 54:01
  what flavor are you eating?
• 54:02
  Mine, it's the one in the yellow bag. I think it's, I guess it's just the original.
• 54:06
  The original. The original, yeah.
• 54:08
  But I have tried the chocolate chip one before too, but I like the original. Mm-hmm.
• 54:13
  It's, so that's one of them. I love apple and peanut butter.
• 54:17
  Mm-hmm. That's always, that's almost always on my grocery list.
• 54:20
  Stacey also turned me to this one, those. You know, it's the pizza dough that
• 54:25
  they're already in the rounds.
• 54:26
  Or like two or three in the packages you use to
• 54:29
  add your topping and you add your cheese because if i
• 54:32
  am you know know i'm doing supper but i don't know what i'm doing for supper
• 54:37
  they make a great in a pinch it's a lot better than running to sonic when i
• 54:41
  don't it's a pizza pizza protein is it the protein pizza yes those protein ones what's the brand Yeah.
• 54:50
  Oh, has Stacey been holding out on you? Yeah.
• 54:53
  No, you just forgot. I did? I did?
• 54:57
  Yeah. Two or three in a package. You can get them wheat or white, small or medium.
• 55:04
  And like it's, they're in a little vacuum sealed bag.
• 55:08
  But you know what? I'm going to say for Claire to live in a small town,
• 55:13
  small Delta town. We have a good grocery store.
• 55:16
  They get a lot of stuff at Walmart that we don't get here. So maybe we just.
• 55:23
  And our little grocery store. Our little grocery store has got to go in.
• 55:26
  I mean, they really, they do. In fact, my mom lives in Madison.
• 55:30
  And sometimes she'll call me up here to get what she needs from the grocery store.
• 55:34
  Yeah, you are always coming with the good new snacks.
• 55:38
  Yeah. We have a good grocery store here. I'm trying my best not to drink Diet Coke.
• 55:45
  That's a whole other podcast.
• 55:49
  I'm trying. And I don't drink coffee. I've tried coffee a hundred different
• 55:54
  ways, and I just don't like it.
• 55:56
  So I try and keep tea on my list because it gives me that little boost.
• 56:01
  My little treat that I always have on my grocery list, I love orange. Jell-O.
• 56:08
  And so I get those little, yeah, I call them little lunchbox,
• 56:12
  those little lunchbox packs of orange Jell-O.
• 56:14
  And so if I'm craving something sweet, that's my little, and it's portion controlled.
• 56:19
  So, you know, I'm not going to eat a half of the Pyrex of it.
• 56:23
  I'm just going to eat that little tub of it. I have never heard anybody love orange Jell-O.
• 56:29
  I love orange Jell-O and I I love red Jell-O, but I don't like blue or green.
• 56:35
  I do think Jell-O's not supposed to be blue and it's not supposed to be green.
• 56:40
  Oh, my gosh. This is amazing.
• 56:44
  I love it. Did you just eat the orange Jell-O, like, by itself? Like, no. I did, yeah.
• 56:50
  And, yeah, just keep it in the refrigerator where it's cold. It's the best treat.
• 56:54
  Claire, you must like like a dreamsicle and like that. Yeah,
• 57:00
  I like a dreamsicle. I do not.
• 57:02
  I do. Sometimes even like if I'm making a milkshake at night,
• 57:05
  I'll get orange sherbet and I'll have orange sherbet and the milk,
• 57:09
  you know, to make my milkshake.
• 57:10
  Okay, we're not the same. We are not the same, Claire.
• 57:14
  Yeah. Okay, moving on from that one. It's got Oreos in it, baby.
• 57:18
  It don't have a milkshake.
• 57:20
  Yeah, I do like an Oreo. Any way you can fix it. I love it. I love that so much. Oh, Claire.
• 57:28
  Okay. All right. And then your last one. What is your favorite quote?
• 57:33
  My favorite quote, and it sounds a little bit cheesy, but it's something that
• 57:37
  I always, when my daughter was in high school and,
• 57:42
  you know, not going there, but, you know, when she was in high school and I
• 57:45
  would tell her all the time, don't put the keys to your happiness in somebody else's pocket.
• 57:50
  And now as an adult
• 57:53
  I find myself having to sometimes remind
• 57:57
  myself just like we talked about earlier about the influencers and the you know
• 58:02
  the the whatevers I can't let what somebody else is looking like determine whether
• 58:07
  or not I'm happy with where I am and so sometimes even though I started out
• 58:12
  using it with her a lot of times I have to remind myself of it you know as an adult.
• 58:17
  I love that so much. That's a good one.
• 58:22
  All right, ladies, I think we are wrapping it up here. Do we have anything else
• 58:26
  to share with the people?
• 58:28
  Well, Claire, I will speak for Stacey and myself and saying we are so proud of you.
• 58:33
  We could not be proud of you. And we're so glad to have you here with us today.
• 58:36
  And I know so many of our listeners are just going to love to like resignate with your story, right?
• 58:42
  And hear all the fun stuff you had to say.
• 58:45
  So, all right, guys, that's it for this episode. And as always,
• 58:50
  like Claire said, remember to say grace.
• 58:54
  Thank you for listening to today's episode.
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  Music.