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Weight loss in seasons with PFN client, Kristin Wesson · 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 Podcast, I'm chatting with PFN client, Kristen Wesson.
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Kristen has lost nearly 40 pounds with Perfect Fit Nutrition.
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While we know this is amazing and are so proud of her progress,
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I'm talking with her today about weight loss during the seasons.
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The actions that we take for weight loss or general health can differ widely
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during different seasons of our lives.
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And the simple act of accepting that truth can be the game changer regarding
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whether you lose weight or whether you regain the weight when the seasons change.
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Tune in today to hear how Kristen has not only lost the weight,
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but used the tools she has from her time with us to help her best face each season.
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Welcome, Kristen. We are so glad to have you on the Say Grace podcast today.
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It is so great to be here. I'm so excited. Okay, so Kristen has been with us for a while.
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How long has it been, Kristen, since you started with us? I started originally
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in 2020, so right in the heart of the pandemic.
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I was around for probably like eight or nine months, and I dropped off at that
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point, and I came back in October of 2023.
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Okay. And I've been with you since the end this time. Okay.
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So October of 2023. So you came back right when we were kind of converting the program over.
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Bless your heart. You've been with us through all the app highs and lows and
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everything. Right. Figure it out.
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Okay. So Kristen, tell our readers, I know a little bit about you,
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but tell our readers just kind of who you are.
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Okay. Give us your day-to-day, your family life, your work life,
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your routine, any specifics to your day that makes you, you.
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Well, my day-to-day, I work from home.
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I work for an insurance company, so it is very sedentary as far as my job goes,
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but I have freedom to get up, walk around, stretch, do things, take a walk if I want to.
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I'm a very we're not
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very busy we try not to be very busy but most
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of the time we end up being very busy I have a six-year-old
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son who is very hyper very active and a lot of things and which I know I appreciate
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kind of our downtime now because it's only going to get worse as he gets older
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so I'm a wife I'm a mother we're active in our church and,
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We take care of our parents, so we're constantly doing stuff for other people as well.
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So, yeah, I'm just your typical, you know, mom, wife. Yeah.
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Try to keep my house up, try to keep my sanity up.
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And so something kind of my forte that I like to touch on is I'm a big exercise person.
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And it's more about the mental health benefits to me more than the,
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well, I mean, of course, it's the physical.
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It helps me sleep and things like that.
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But also a counselor by trade. And so I was telling clients for years to exercise
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to help their depression, to help their anxiety.
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And so I finally started doing it for myself. And so I get up at five o'clock before my child gets up.
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And everybody does. I get, I get my workout in.
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So that's something that, you know, just kind of, I have to do every day or
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my day just does not, you know, go well.
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I feel like this is such a thing.
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So first of all, I have a PFM plus client who I was actually talking to today
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and she's like really just trying to flesh out her action steps for the year.
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You know, they've changed since last year. And so she's like,
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Constance, I go to the gym every day.
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Like I walk on the treadmill every day, but I don't feel that release that people talk about.
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Like, I don't feel, you know, the, the whole, every, everybody loves exercise.
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Like I don't feel the relief that I feel like I should mentally be feeling when I leave the gym.
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And I said, okay, exercise is great for your body.
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Right. But if you are still on the treadmill on your phone, trying to work,
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trying to, you know, do like manage your life instead of just letting it be
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what it is, which is that exercise and kind of being present there,
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then yeah, it's not going to be that mental relief.
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And so I love that, that you said that, that like you're yes, yes.
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Movement is great for our weight loss, right. For our body health, everything. Right. But,
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Doing it for your mental health means really showing up and being present in
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the fact that you were doing it for your mental health. You know what I mean? Absolutely.
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And also, this was just something that caught me because you and I are similar
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in the fact that we work at home.
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And I know a lot of people listening do not work from home.
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And a lot of people, I have found that a lot of people think,
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and this may have been the case for you if you haven't always worked from home.
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But I found that a lot of people think that working from home would allow them
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to exercise more or be healthier, eat healthier. Right.
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Right. Y'all, she's laughing. She's shaking her head. It's actually harder. I agree. 100% agree.
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Because I mean, you're so close to your pantry.
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So you can, you know, it's so tempting to go there and grab a handful of goldfish
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or, you know, M&M's or whatever's in there and eat it.
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I mean, when you get stressed and when you're not at home, you know,
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you don't necessarily have that temptation.
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Right. And like I always thought, like when I was at home more,
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I thought, OK, I'll cook my lunches. Like I'll prepare lunch.
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And like, that is a lie. I am running downstairs, shoving food in my mouth so
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I can get back up here to this desk before these kids get home, you know.
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So I love that you have realized that. And you stated, like,
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I have to get up and exercise before the day starts, even though you are at
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home and you do have a little more flexibility in those things.
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Right. So that's awesome.
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Okay, let's talk about just some of your past weight loss struggles.
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I would love to know, like,
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So you left us in 2020, and then you came back in 2023. Was there any weight
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loss attempts between there?
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Yes and no. When I left in 2021, my father died, I think, about four or five months before I left.
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And so I was very much lost in my grief, and I had to grieve.
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And food was part of that. My family, every event is centered around food, pretty much.
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We, you know, we love having big meals together. And I think that was just the
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journey I had to go on as, you know.
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Getting, getting myself, you know, to, to where I needed to be in my grief involved.
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Yeah. It's a season of life.
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We talk about seasons of life a lot. Right. And my dad was a big baker and that
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was just kind of my way of,
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you know, paying tribute to him was through my cooking and through my baking,
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because he actually would cook breakfast for us every Saturday or Sunday,
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depending on what was going.
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I mean, he was like the pancake maker, the waffle maker, the biscuit maker.
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And so that's just kind of what I got lost in those years. And there was an attempt...
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To lose weight, my husband actually had astronomical triglycerides,
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I think the year after that.
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And so we attempted Mediterranean diet. Okay.
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To me, that's very hard to stick to where I live.
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I'm in the northeast corner of Mississippi. So, I mean, we don't have a lot,
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like we don't have a Whole Foods, you know, we just don't have a lot in the
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way of grocery stores. Like everybody in Tupelo is praying for a Target,
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but I'm praying for a Costco.
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I would rather have a Costco than a Target.
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So, I mean, we tried it. He lost major weight on Mediterranean,
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just, you know, changing his eating habits a little bit.
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I lost a few pounds, but not anything significant.
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And then once I stopped it, of course, like I started gaining weight.
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I had a stressful job at the time.
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And so it just got really hard. And I got to my heaviest weights when I joined
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in October of 2023 outside of pregnancy, of course.
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But yeah, I just, I left the program, but I never stopped following you on social media.
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And so when I saw you were taking, you know, people for a challenge,
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I jumped right in. I love it.
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I love it. So I feel like I just, I have to speak to this because as I told
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you before we started, I just got back from this like marketing thing.
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And so I'm really into like, just understanding my clients more right now,
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you know, because of, because of all the training I just got.
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But one thing that I said about like who we are at Perfect Fit when I was there at this.
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It's not, it's not, I mean, that's the slogan of the dang podcast, right?
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It's, it's more than just the food, right? Like you knew when you were baking
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pancakes and biscuits and all the things on the weekends, like you knew that
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those things were probably not ideal for your attempts at weight loss, right?
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But it didn't flipping matter, did it? Like it didn't. Right, no, not at the time.
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No, because it's, it is, it's an emotion.
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It's grief. It's how you are coping. it's how
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you are honoring his memories like and you
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are soaking in that that love and
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and also the grief that comes along with with that but
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you know it so to say like Kristen I
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know you know I know your daddy died and I know these are your memories you
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have but just don't have those pancakes would be not only insensitive but literally
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just a waste of breath right and so It's just one of the reasons that we just
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do not exclude things because then on top of the grief you would have been feeling in that moment,
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the memories you would have been reflecting on, you also would have had the
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guilt that came with eating the dang pancake or biscuit if you thought that
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was a rule you shouldn't have had. You know what I mean? Right.
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So anyway, I'm proud of you.
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I don't know how you feel about that time. I'm sure it's really...
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Oh, what's the word? I'm sure it's kind of hard to reflect on,
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but also kind of bittersweet to reflect on, you know.
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It is, and it was what I needed. Right. At the time.
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And so, I'm proud of you for letting yourself have what you needed. You know what I mean?
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Okay, so transitioning in, what made you come back to us and give us the rundown
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of kind of getting back started? Well, and just basically what you said,
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just knowing, you know, I love, I love chocolate.
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I love ice cream and I'm a sourdough bread baker now.
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So, I mean, I've just, I've always known like I could never exclude a food group to lose weight.
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And that's just something I don't believe in because you can't go your entire
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life without eating that particular food group.
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And so I just, I knew I had results before. I knew I could do it.
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I knew that, you know, you would give me all the tools. And then I even joined
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before I knew there was an app.
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But then, you know, you give us the paperwork sheets.
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So, you know, I have my binder in the kitchen in there that I put together my
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first day. And I worked the worksheets and I wrote things down.
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And so, I mean, and I knew I was successful before I knew I could do it again. I love it. I love it.
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So, two, when you came back, somebody else came back with you, right?
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Mm-hmm. So, like several months passed by, I was losing weight.
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My husband decided he would join me. And so we got him his IAR and he he lost,
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I want to say 20 pounds, but it seemed like it was more than that.
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Of course, you know, men can give up coffee creamer and lose five pounds.
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Yes. If a man just pays attention to his food, he's going to lose some weight.
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And so, yeah, he came along and, you know, it's not only I had a support before,
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but the fact that we were able to do it together and basically,
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you know, get on the same page health wise was really special for us.
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Yeah. And I feel like, too, there's even if, you know, I feel like he's probably
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not as plugged in as you are, obviously, because here you are still,
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you know, plugged in with us a year and some change later.
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Right. But for him to have gone through it with you and lost his quick weight
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or whatever, at least, and then he understood, right, the process that you were
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kind of going through. He understood.
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I feel like a lot of women, and this is kind of an unsaid thing,
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but I feel like a lot of women will come into our program and they fully believe
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in the concepts and the things that we preach and we practice,
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but then their husband's.
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You know, have this idea about weight loss as like, you know,
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because all the times in the past, right, they're probably like,
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husband, keep me accountable.
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Don't let me eat dessert tonight. Don't let me do, you know.
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And so, so then the husbands see them kind of, you know, having the ice cream,
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you know, doing the things that they're eating, the things that they want.
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And they're like, are you, aren't you trying to lose weight?
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You know what I mean? And so I think it's a really great thing for him to have
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come in with you and just kind of understood how it works.
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And this, this new forever lifestyle that you're, you're living,
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right. And he understands that now. Yes.
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And I mean, he, he gets, you know, why I don't make like the old school chicken
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poppy seed anymore, because he knows, you know.
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The cream of chicken soup is chock full
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of sodium and fat and you know nothing's good
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about it and so he doesn't even you
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know he it's not that he ever said anything
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but he definitely like understands why we need to make stuff lighter Mediterranean
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when we did the Mediterranean we just kind of opened our eyes to food labels
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ingredients and just paying attention to things like that so it's it's definitely
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been an evolution the last few years.
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Love it. With our eating habits.
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So you joined us in October of 2023 and then let us know how much weight did you lose?
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Holding at 30. I was probably closer to the 40 pound mark before the holidays
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hit, but I kind of had some health issues in the fall.
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And so, you know, I agreed that, you know, I probably did need to take a step
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back and enjoy my holidays and kind of heal,
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let my mindset, you know, get back to the place where I could be locked in and losing again.
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And so when this most recent challenge started up, that's when,
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you know, I started, you know, tracking everything and getting back into this. Getting back in. Yeah.
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Yeah. And so, yeah, over the holidays, you had a season.
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Right. And I think it was more than just the holidays. Right.
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Like we we all kind of stuck around whatever weight, maybe a pound or two over the holidays. Right.
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Because it's just so it is just not the focus.
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And honestly, most of us don't have the bandwidth for it to for to be worrying about, you know.
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Weight loss as much because there's so many other things going on.
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Right. But you had some other health issues that really probably just forced
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you to, again, like realize that, okay, a couple pounds is not the stressor
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here. Like there are other things that are more important.
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Right. And that's, I did gain, but then I keep telling myself,
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like, I'm still at a 30 pound weight loss. That is still awesome.
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Nobody can take that from me.
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And, you know, that's what I'm going with. And you're still plugged in, you know what I mean?
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I feel like if you had not agreed to do this podcast episode with me, then we'd worry, right?
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But you just, and that, I feel like that can be one of the biggest frustrations
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or struggles for women is like seasons of life are gonna come along.
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Could be at the beginning of your weight loss journey. We've had some women
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that have had like, they've been one weekend and something crazy has happened,
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you know, could be in the middle of your weight loss journey,
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could be after your weight loss journey, which, you know, I think is kind of what it was for you.
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And so then you saw a little, a little digression or whatever backwards,
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but it doesn't matter because now you have the tools.
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And so again, we put our focus where the priority is.
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And so for you, it had to be these health issues for a little while, right?
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And then once those leveled out, you still had the tools to pretty much maintain.
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And then once those leveled out,
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you're back at it. And it's nothing but a thing. You know what I mean?
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It's not this, let's completely hit reset because I've regained all my weight.
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Right. You know? Absolutely.
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So yeah, there's, there's like, I think that is, people struggle so terribly
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with that when something in life comes along to knock them off the path,
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when in reality, the focus just needs to change and we need to be okay with that, you know? Right.
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Okay. So now I would love, I know a lot of people, especially people who are
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not current PFN members, because you did say you were back at it,
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you're backtracking, you're you're on top of it right now. So give us,
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What a general day looks like for you, like when you are working your perfect fit plan.
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And again, it does not have to be what every day looks like.
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But if you were just going to kind of summarize, this is what most days would
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look like for me during, you know, when I'm focusing on my weight loss. Right. Okay.
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My biggest focus right now is getting my water in. Okay.
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I still keep my goal at 90-ish ounces.
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Most of the time I do go over.
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Just because water is basically all I drink. I do drink coffee in the morning
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and then the rest of the day is water.
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My breakfast I eat the
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same thing I eat either yogurt I
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put some protein powder in it to get some extra protein and
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then I eat berries right now I'm doing frozen blueberries because
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nothing is in season yeah you
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don't have all them grocery stores girl exactly that's that's what I do for
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breakfast or I do sourdough toast and eggs and then I add a little bit about
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a tablespoon-ish full of cottage cheese to my eggs to get, again, get extra protein.
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So those are my breakfasts. I generally do not deviate from those right now.
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I've been doing it probably a year and a half and I'm not tired of it yet.
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So we'll see how long that lasts.
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Lunches, I do rotate my lunches probably every week.
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I try to keep them at around 300 calories.
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So it's like last week was the sausage sheet pan and veggies. That was the PFN recipe.
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I did that this week. I'm doing like turkey pepperoni wraps with string cheese
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and a little bit of pizza sauce.
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Yeah, it's really good. And so it just like next week, I think I'm going to
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do SM's crockpot soup. Girl, she's been asking me all week if I'm going to make that soup.
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Well, I have extra turkey sausage, so I'm going to use it next week.
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So, I mean, it just, like, it takes some planning to do that.
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And, like, lunch usually varies from week to week most of the time.
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In the winter, I have been big on soups just because they're easy.
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And, you know, you make them. They usually get better as the week goes on, too. Exactly.
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And dinners, even when we're not in a challenge Thursday, you're going to find
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me meal planning. Like I've already got mine done.
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In the challenge, we meal plan on Thursdays for the following week,
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for those of you that don't know.
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And, you know, we really distinguish between planning and prepping.
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Like, I feel like a lot of what you just mentioned is minimal prep, right?
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Like you're going to fix your lunch one time, but it's going to be ready for
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the week. But we, but so prepping is not required, but planning,
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I mean, I feel like we have to have a plan like, you know, or else it's just
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flying by the seat of our pants is only going to work for so long.
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You know what I mean? Before we decide, you know what, today I'm going to just
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have the burger and fries and the milkshake, you know.
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Well, and 75% of it to me is planning because, you know, if you don't have a
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plan, you're not going to go to the store to get the ingredients.
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If you have to go back to the store multiple times that
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just adds to the busyness of everything so you
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know I go to the grocery store once a week and I don't go back that's just how
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we do things so dinner I generally only cook maybe two nights a week and we
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eat leftovers just because most like we're good with leftovers in our house
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now my son would eat you know happy meals and,
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junk food all the time if I would let him.
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That's kind of our challenge right now is with him.
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So, I mean, I just, I keep it simple. I try to do as many fresh vegetables as I can.
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Like I said, you know, my grocery stores are limited.
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So it's, you know, just buying whatever looks good, whatever's in season, not too expensive.
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I mean, yeah, it's just, you know, the simpler, the better.
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And the more you can plan, the better. Does your son like our recipes?
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Some of them. Some of them. Yeah. Don't love them. Okay.
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We're working on that. Yeah. I mean, it's, yeah.
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Kids are kids, right? They're going to. I feel like at that age,
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so Glory's five and you said your son is six.
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And like, I feel like I could make something this week and she loves it and make it again next week.
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And she's like, you know, it's partly just that, like just the total,
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you know, they are just going to fight back regardless.
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. So my next question for you is,
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what is your after, you know, after being here a while and to I think being
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here, you know, before we kind of change the program format and then being here after,
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what is your favorite part about Perfect Fit?
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My favorite part is just the
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community and all the women you know
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posting in the facebook group and then
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just the encouragement i mean you can you can make a post that you need prayers
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or you need a lunch suggestion and all the other women are going to come through
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for you and whatever you need girl i don't know how i created such an awesome
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community but they are it is awesome in there.
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Yeah, it really is. It really is. I mean, I can't, I can't verbally explain it.
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And I, but I feel so blessed to have that, you know what I mean?
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And just the fact that, you know, I don't know most of these women. Oh yeah.
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You know, you know, because you've been in this group with them for so long,
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but I mean, just, you know, the support that you have, that you know,
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you can, you know, ask them if you need anything.
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I will say it's one of Stacey and my favorite things is
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to like go out in public and people
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come up to us and say we're in the program and you know okay you
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got to tell us your name you know what I mean but then when we see the names
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we're like oh my gosh you know so I'll and so you know I feel like if you're
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a new member listening or if you're considering joining y'all the best thing
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you can do and it feels so uncomfortable but the best thing you can do is like,
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put yourself out there, like make a comment,
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make a post, because then you feel,
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so much more a part of the community and a part of the group, you know?
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So yeah, anyway. Okay, so last question, and then we're going to get to our Q&A.
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So we're going to, so I've got one more question for Kristen,
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and then we're going to move into just like our rapid fire.
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I brought three questions for her. She brought three quick questions for me.
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We don't know each other's questions. And so it's just going to be a real quick back and forth.
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But before then, Kristen, I would love to know, what if, if there is somebody
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listening that is considering trying to lose weight, right,
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again, maybe for the hundredth time, right, what would your number one tip be
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for them, like, to get started?
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To just know that it is possible. I'm 43 years old and in full disclosure,
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I was thrust into menopause about this time last year.
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And I was really scared of it because you hear all these horror stories of, you know,
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people blowing up and gaining all this weight and it's hard to lose and it's,
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you know, impossible, but it's not.
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You lost 30 pounds, 40-ish pounds afterwards. Right, right. So,
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I mean, you know, yeah, I had to tweak things.
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I had to, you know, kind of reinvent the wheel, so to speak, when that happened.
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But, you know, I had support in you and in Stacey.
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And, I mean, the only thing you have to lose is, you know, pounds.
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All you got to do is try and just, you know.
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Find your motivation for it. My motivation has changed more so where it's about
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my health and my longevity more than it is about the aesthetics of everything.
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So just, you know, really dig deep and, you know, find some motivation to do it.
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If I remember correctly, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like I remember
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you had some seasons of like straight up plateau, right?
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Yes. Yes, like weeks and weeks of like no weight loss and like frustration,
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you know, that comes with that.
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And so that is unfortunately part of, you know, hormones and the menopause,
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you know, struggle and all of that.
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But if it was totally, if like your why had been totally on,
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you know, how you looked physically or on that number that was staying the same
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every week on the scale, you would have been less likely to continue, right? Right.
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It would have been way easier to give up. Right. Because it's it's so easy to get impatient.
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And you see so many people, you know, taking shots and, you know,
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the weight's just melting off of them.
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But, you know, it's just something you got to stick with it.
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But, you know, you and Stacey are there if, you know, you truly are at a plateau
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and let's look and see what you're eating, what your habits are.
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And, you know, y'all can get to the bottom of it and support people through that.
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So it's just, it's just, you know, you got to do it. Right.
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And, you know, my stance, I have talked on my social media platforms about my
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stance on just like the shots and all the things.
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Right. And so, again, I feel like they can be beneficial for some,
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but like most people aren't utilizing the tools alongside the shot.
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So, you know, you are, you utilize the tools so that then you were able to continue the process.
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Number one, when you had your health issues at the end of last year,
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so that you didn't completely regain all the weight out of like stress and overwhelm and whatever.
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Right. But also through the plateaus so that, again, it wasn't just about,
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oh, I'm getting skinnier.
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It was about, oh, but look at all these healthy habits. I have added more protein
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to my lifestyle to help support my hormones and this menopause, right?
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I am moving my body every day to help my mental health so that I don't go eat
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my feelings this afternoon.
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Like all of these things that have played a part.
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In making it a forever, a forever lifestyle, right? And not just a quick fix.
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Anything can be used as a quick fix, you know?
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It's, it's about what are you going to adopt along the way that becomes like true habits, you know?
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And I think you've done a beautiful, a beautiful job of adopting realistic habits
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for your current lifestyle, right? Thank you.
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All right, you have anything else to say before we hit these questions? No.
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Fire away. All right. What is a show you're binging right now? Oh my gosh.
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Okay. This is so funny that you asked.
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Jess is going to be mortified to hear this.
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So I told you, I just went to Austin, right? And so when I got there,
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I'm like, what am I going to watch?
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Because Jess and I kind of watch the same show together, or I read a book.
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And so I'm like, what is something that he wouldn't want to watch with me?
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And so I binged on Netflix, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
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That's hilarious. It was so good.
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Okay, yours. Your first one is, what creamer do you take in your coffee?
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I noted in your account that like, because in your assessment,
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we ask what is one food you refuse to give up or whatever.
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And so many people are like, cheese, wine, carbs. And you said real coffee creamer.
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Yes, I rotate. I love the white chocolate Chobani.
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And if I can't find that, remember my limited grocery stores,
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we buy the Dunkin' Extra Extra.
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Okay. Okay, so I will say we do not have limited grocery stores,
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but Chobani is still a hit or miss on ourselves.
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Like, I don't know what the deal is. I think when Kroger puts it on sale,
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like, it's just impossible.
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Yes, I love the sweet cream flavor. And, like, I bought the vanilla out of,
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like, desperation, and I was just still sitting in the fridge. Yeah. Okay.
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All right, your last impulse buy. Yeah.
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Oh man, that's a good one. Okay.
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So it is January. So I've been really good on a budget, but I will say last
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night I have follow a boutique who is also a former customer.
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She was a client forever and ever and ever. And now she's just in maintenance.
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She has an online boutique and I bought the cutest light blue romper.
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And it was like, I saw it and I'm like, Oh, I have to have that and I commented
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and I, I usually don't do that because that's what gets me in trouble.
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Like I get it in and I'm like, what did I order? But I sure did. Okay.
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What is your current favorite form of movement at 5am or whenever?
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I'm a weightlifter. Okay. I do.
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I like YouTube trainers that I follow. And so that's, that's what they're focusing
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on right now is the strengths. Love it.
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That's great for you too. all right
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my last one all right the most overhyped food franchise or restaurant for you
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now overhyped food franchise or restaurant these are good ones kristen.
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Let me think about this for just a minute I am struggling I know what money is,
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Yeah, what is yours? Crumble cookie. Oh, that's a good one. I mean, I love some flavors.
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Like some flavors are just phenomenal and, you know, worth it. Yeah.
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But some are just not at all.
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I'm going to have to agree with you on that. Yeah. It was fun when they first got here.
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Yeah. Like to go try. But then every time we had one, I had a stomach ache afterwards.
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And I like I do not want a
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cinnamon roll flavored cookie I just want the cinnamon roll you
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know what I mean I'm gonna okay okay but I will give another one I will give
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another one because that you that made me think of this one it's not the same
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it's different but smoothie king now I love a smoothie okay I'm not against
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a smoothie but a lot of smoothie king smoothies you may as Well,
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go on down the road and get a milkshake, okay, with the level of sugar,
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added sugar in there.
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Some of them don't have a whole lot of protein, you know, and so they're not
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very filling in that way, but you've still consumed a lot of calories.
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Now, you may be getting some vitamins in there, but, I mean,
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you could just take yourself a multivitamin.
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Save that 600 calories. Yep. Okay.
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And then your last one is, do you have a word or a focus for 2025?
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So like everybody kind of reflects at the beginning of the year.
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Did you do that? And do you have something there? Yes. My word is present.
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To be present and just fully in each moment.
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Oh, I love that. I'm right there with you this year. I love that.
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And that takes some discipline, doesn't it we can't we can't
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just force ourself present can we and oh it's
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a struggle it is a struggle oh girl it is a struggle okay well as we wrap up
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any final thoughts comments no i just i enjoyed this this was very much this
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was wonderful and thank you so much for coming on You're welcome.
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