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Paulette Szalay - Second Chances at Life, Health, Beauty & Empowerment · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 3: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 3: of footing. And now here's Jen.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to this episode of Kats
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  Speaker 1: and Pudding. And today I have a wonderful guest and
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  Speaker 1: my friends and a person that I just met recently
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  Speaker 1: and we just clicked and hit it off, Miss Paul
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  Speaker 1: at Sally, And I say, I just said your last
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  Speaker 1: name the wrong way again. I was calling her. I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling a Sally. It's Sally Sally. Yes, I just said
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  Speaker 1: it right, it's and I've been saying telling everybody name
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  Speaker 1: is Paul at Zela. So I finally said the right
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  Speaker 1: way down that you corrected me. So welcome to my show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jen, thank you for having me here, finally out here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited here and in my office, and she's also
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  Speaker 1: my client. Can I say that absolutely, that's I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to they'll get in trouble hip hop.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, absolutely. I love Jen and I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you over you too. Yes, so tell us about
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  Speaker 1: your journey. We know that we well, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: know that you have. You were I had an issue
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  Speaker 1: what issue with wait and lost a significant amount and
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  Speaker 1: now you've been in magazines and have been talking about
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  Speaker 1: your journey. So tell me about it.
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  Speaker 3: So the journey actually began two years ago Tomorrow, twelfth
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  Speaker 3: of two thousand and twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Two before text day before tex Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I did so. My family and I traveled to Florida
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  Speaker 2: and East.
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  Speaker 3: It was Easter Sunday at that time, and we decided
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  Speaker 3: that we were going.
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  Speaker 2: To go to a beach, Juno Beach to be exact.
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  Speaker 3: And I automatically got nervous because I'm like, I am
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  Speaker 3: not putting a bathing suit on. How I'm fifty nine now,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be sixteen in July. Thank you very good, so
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  Speaker 3: I said, okay, we'll go. And I was completely clothed,
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  Speaker 3: like from head to toe, and you know, sitting on
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  Speaker 3: the beach, and I'm looking around and it's a beautiful day,
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  Speaker 3: and there's young kids, there's older women, older men.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, why am I sitting.
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  Speaker 3: On this beach fully clothed like this, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: in shame because at that point, I weigh two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty two pounds, being only five four inches, I
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  Speaker 3: lost one hundred and five pounds.
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  Speaker 1: And how did you do? How did you do? The way? Long?
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  Speaker 2: So I did it naturally?
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  Speaker 3: Well, originally I was going to have the gastric bypass.
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  Speaker 2: You did it right. So I had seen the surgeon
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  Speaker 2: and she said, so look, she says, you obesely overweight.
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  Speaker 3: She says, I need you to lose at least twenty
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  Speaker 3: pounds to help the surgery.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't go into that surgery if you're too oldwaight,
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  Speaker 1: because of you know, if they have to intibate you
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  Speaker 1: and it can affect you your respiratory, you might not
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  Speaker 1: be able to exactly exactly that's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: So I said, okay, the reason I'm here is because
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  Speaker 3: I don't I can't lose the weight.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like a catch twenty it's a catch
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  Speaker 1: twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: So I said, okay, let me let me think about this,
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  Speaker 2: let me see what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: But going back to, you know, the day that I
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  Speaker 3: had decided that this was going to be the first
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  Speaker 3: day of the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 2: That was that April twelfth of.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty two, sitting on the beach because I saw
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  Speaker 3: all these people enjoying themselves in bikinis, in one piece
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  Speaker 3: bathing suits.
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  Speaker 1: But let's be honest, not everybody looked good in their
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  Speaker 1: bikinis and their babies. So you're just thinking that you
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, you're you're the one who looks horrible.
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  Speaker 1: And it's great exactly because I see plenty of people
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  Speaker 1: on the beach and I'm going, if they could stand
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  Speaker 1: there and being a baby in a bikini, then I
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  Speaker 1: should never be embarrassed at wall exactly because they're walking
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  Speaker 1: around like who they are, and that's what I'm good
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  Speaker 1: for them. And they're very good.
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  Speaker 3: They were very confident in their skin, and I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be confident in my skin, but I just didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what do you think that made you? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you feel that way. Why I feel like, what are
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  Speaker 1: some women or some certain people feel that way and
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  Speaker 1: others don't don't care.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that, because it's how people perceive you.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I've had people say to me, oh, you can't wear that,
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  Speaker 3: you're too heavy, you're too too fat, you know, do
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  Speaker 3: something with your face.
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  Speaker 1: Who did that too? Did your mother or grandmother do that?
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  Speaker 3: I had family members who did that. I have to
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  Speaker 3: work good friends who did that to.
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  Speaker 1: Me as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I believed it.
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  Speaker 3: I believed in what they were saying. You're fat and
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  Speaker 3: you're ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. And it's said that it comes from sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: family member. My grandmother used to do that with us,
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  Speaker 1: like she would pick our flaw and if we if
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  Speaker 1: something like just say my sister Mary, she always had
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  Speaker 1: a bat with with with weight. Like my grandmother would
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  Speaker 1: be like, well, you know, Mary, you are gaining some weight.
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  Speaker 1: Or with me, oh Jen, you know you you to
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  Speaker 1: me too, you know you are gaining some weight. You
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  Speaker 1: know because I was we I guess I was always
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  Speaker 1: skinny and she would always point that out to us
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  Speaker 1: all the time. And that's like coming from your grandmother, right,
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  Speaker 1: that would be your grandma usually the one of us
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  Speaker 1: to feed you, like, well, she did feed on pa,
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  Speaker 1: but but she would tell us and she would be
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that I think made my sister gain
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  Speaker 1: more weight because she was always talked told about it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's kind of like what's instilled on
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  Speaker 1: you exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So that was my mindset all these years until that
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  Speaker 3: day I said, Nope, this is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: first day of the rest of my life. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to make a change. I'm going to lose this weight
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  Speaker 3: no matter what. And I want to be able to
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  Speaker 3: fit into jeans. That was my goal, is to fit
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  Speaker 3: into jeans.
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  Speaker 1: And how did you feel the first day you put
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  Speaker 1: them on? So back on?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm going to say the first day I put
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  Speaker 3: them back on, I was like, Wow, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: myself in the mirror and I'm like, I.
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  Speaker 1: Have a shape.
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  Speaker 2: I have you know, I have hips, I have waists.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I look great. I mean, and you're not
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  Speaker 1: where you're losing too much weight. You're not going I did.
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  Speaker 2: It very plea.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still on my journey. But it's two years.
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  Speaker 1: In and you still want to lose weight or you're
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  Speaker 1: happy a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, just a few more pounds here
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  Speaker 3: and there.
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  Speaker 1: The room for a while. Yeah, so if you eat
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  Speaker 1: a little bit too much, yeah, but that's but that's
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  Speaker 1: good that you're not putting this this on unattainable you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh goal on yourself because you know, yeah, I want
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  Speaker 1: to weigh one hundred and ten pounds like I did
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  Speaker 1: when I was in high school. But it's not attainable
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  Speaker 1: because I'm going to look on my First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I amazing sated, right, and we did not have the
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  Speaker 1: body that we have now with the hormones. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about hormones. It's all about age, metopause. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many things that so many factors that
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  Speaker 1: cause exactly gain right, And it's very hard for women. Men.
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  Speaker 1: It's so annoying that they could lose weight like this
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  Speaker 1: a month they lose twenty pounds. I want to punch
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  Speaker 1: them at a face like that. So true, right, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't then they cod eat differently than the way
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  Speaker 1: we do exactly. So you never did ozempic No, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Never done any of the injections. I am insulin resistant,
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  Speaker 3: so I know at some point I'm gonna plateau. So
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  Speaker 3: it's something that maybe I'll be looking into because it
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  Speaker 3: may help on the duel end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you might not be a candidate because that's
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  Speaker 1: what it is. It's it's it blocks insulin. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you have to see if if you
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  Speaker 1: are a candidate it because of that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I have to look. I've
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  Speaker 1: done it. I lost forty three pounds. I know you
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  Speaker 1: look great, amazing, and I'm gonna say that it I
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  Speaker 1: have my blood pressure lowered. I'm not shouting out. It was.
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  Speaker 1: They should they should, definitely, they should definitely spot up pick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm shouting you out. My blood pressure went down and
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  Speaker 1: my cholesterol went down. And that's all lifestyle change. Just
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  Speaker 1: because my diet changed.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Same with me.
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  Speaker 3: My blood pressure medication was decreased, my thyroid medication was decreased.
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  Speaker 3: I'm off acid reflux medications.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's I.
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  Speaker 2: Had like maybe ten different medications.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have to but it all and it's lifestyle,
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle big And you know what, doctors don't push that
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle change. No, they don't because they want you to
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  Speaker 1: be on the medication, because they want you to come back.
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  Speaker 1: They want to get the code page they want to put.
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  Speaker 1: They want to The drug companies need to make money,
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  Speaker 1: so they want to Most people that are on medications
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  Speaker 1: don't need to be on them, right, they really don't.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need to be on it.
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  Speaker 3: Totally agree with you, and so just you know, swinging
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  Speaker 3: back to the surgeon.
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  Speaker 2: So I decided, okay, this is what I need to do.
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  Speaker 3: I need to I was working with a nutritionist because
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  Speaker 3: in order for you to have that surgery, you have
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  Speaker 3: to work.
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  Speaker 2: With a nutritionist.
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  Speaker 3: So with a nutritionist, I went on a protein shake
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  Speaker 3: in the morning replacement meal. I started to eat healthier
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  Speaker 3: and everything steamed, grilled, nothing fried. I cut out a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the complex carbs, pasta, as being Italian is
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  Speaker 3: like the hardest.
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  Speaker 1: Things, like to take it away. Italian bread is like
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  Speaker 1: taking away life.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly, Italian bread, your sauce, in your apasta life right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to live anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to live in right.
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  Speaker 3: So the pasta left, the rice left, potatoes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I cut out a lot of that stuff and I
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  Speaker 3: started eating very clean and so I by the time
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  Speaker 3: I went back to the surgeon, She's like, paul Ette,
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  Speaker 3: you lost forty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do the surgery because she says, I just can't,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not a candidate now for the surgery. Says
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  Speaker 2: I lost all the weight. So I'm like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: So it just says keep going, And so I kept
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  Speaker 3: the nutritionist and we worked together, and I just kept going.
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  Speaker 3: How I got into modeling and acting. I'm a science teacher,
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  Speaker 3: so I teach chemistry and physics. That's my full time
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  Speaker 3: job for one her eighth grade, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, age.
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  Speaker 3: So I one day one of my students came up
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  Speaker 3: to me and she said, Sally, actually I saw her
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  Speaker 3: uh sweater that she was wearing, and I complimented her
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  Speaker 3: sweater and I said, Sophia, I said, where did you
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  Speaker 3: get that sweater?
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love it. She says, well, you can't buy
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  Speaker 2: it in the stores. And I said, why not?
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  Speaker 3: Did you buy in the store? She says, no designer
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  Speaker 3: gave it to me because I model. And She's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, Misselle, you lost so much weight. You
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  Speaker 3: know you look really nice. Why don't you get in
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  Speaker 3: contact with my agent and do like modeling?
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  Speaker 2: This is something I've.
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  Speaker 3: Always wanted to do forever and ever and ever, and
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  Speaker 3: because my mom was a model for Chanel so back
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  Speaker 3: in the day, in the sixties, and I always wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do what my mom was doing, you know, at
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  Speaker 3: least print and so, long.
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  Speaker 2: Story short, I met with her, I met.
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  Speaker 3: With the team, and they signed me and I went
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  Speaker 3: into I went into school with them. I learned how
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  Speaker 3: to walk, you know, runway. And my first break was
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  Speaker 3: the New Jersey Fashion Week. It was a fundraiser for
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  Speaker 3: you know, for cancer patients and amazing. It was amazing,
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  Speaker 3: and the North Jersey newspapers did a huge article, two
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  Speaker 3: page article on me in the lifestyle section. And from
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  Speaker 3: there I received an email from Lisa max Bauer from
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  Speaker 3: First for Women magazine. I'm so proud of So I'm
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  Speaker 3: not on the cover on that one, but I'm on
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  Speaker 3: the cover of the next one.
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  Speaker 1: So you're sharing the magazine with one of my favorites,
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  Speaker 1: Mary Osby, my favorite shows.
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  Speaker 2: So but I'm in the middle section. And they did this.
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  Speaker 1: They had the.
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  Speaker 2: Makeup artists come, they flew in the photographer. Uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was just an amazing thing. And they did it at
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  Speaker 2: my house and from there everything just started to snowball.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I have been on a TV series American UH Gladiators
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  Speaker 3: American sports story Gladiator. So I had a special scene
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  Speaker 3: with Patrick's uh Schwarzenegger and it's just it's just amazing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm learning so much in this industry because
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  Speaker 3: teaching is very different from this industry. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I have an upcoming movie that I'm going to be in.
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  Speaker 3: It's called King three Alonso.
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  Speaker 1: Where is that gonna? Where is that? Where was that filmed?
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  Speaker 3: And so it's going to be filmed in the Newark area.
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  Speaker 3: It's about a man who was a detective improvement. He
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  Speaker 3: became a mayor of Newark, and it talks about like
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  Speaker 3: all of the the baggage that came with him and
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  Speaker 3: what happens you know, through the movie. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: to not only be in front of the camera, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm also behind the camera. So I'm part of his
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  Speaker 3: line production.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, that's amazing. I do. I'm also I also
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  Speaker 1: stought on my own production coup, and I think I
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  Speaker 1: told you that. So we just put out a new
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  Speaker 1: show called Great Kills on On and now Netflix is
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  Speaker 1: very interested in it. And I made my official acting
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  Speaker 1: debut on on the on the series. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: and we worked with Eric Roberts, we worked with Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Moriarty and yeah, so's yeah, it's exciting. So that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what that's my has always been my dream in my life,
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  Speaker 1: in my second life career is to do production and
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  Speaker 1: do that that's always wanted to do. So, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: an exciting time.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It is, and you know, at a message for us
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  Speaker 3: and at the age I was just going to say, so.
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  Speaker 1: It's aver fifty guys, it's not over, not over.
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  Speaker 2: At all, as a matter of fact, just beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Second life career, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a mindset.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to tell people listen, at fifty or
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  Speaker 3: over fifty, it's not over, like you can change your
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  Speaker 3: life now. You can right here and then you can
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  Speaker 3: change your life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can.
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  Speaker 2: See the before picture of what I was looked.
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  Speaker 3: Like before, you know, and when I am now it's
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  Speaker 3: like two different people and my mindset, my whole outlook
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  Speaker 3: of life. I thought life was over, Like at two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty two pounds, life was over for me, and.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're sitting on your life has just begune. Now
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  Speaker 1: you're on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: This is amazing. Thank you, I appreciate it. So tell
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  Speaker 1: how about your family? How was it? How would they
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  Speaker 1: involved in the journey?
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  Speaker 3: And yes, I had a big support system. So the
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  Speaker 3: one thing you've really made So I have one daughter,
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  Speaker 3: she's forty, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't believe you have a forty year old. That's not crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You have a granddaughter she's ten.
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  Speaker 1: You do not look like it should be a grandma
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  Speaker 1: or a non No, I'm a nonny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they called me.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cute. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, but they were super supportive, and even my colleagues
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  Speaker 3: were super supportive.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I would do my way in every single week and
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  Speaker 3: I would text everybody in this group chat and I
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  Speaker 3: lost four pounds, I lost ten pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I lost You know, they would be like, yay, they're
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  Speaker 2: my cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 1: You know that's a big deal to have people who
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  Speaker 1: are behind Joe supporting you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you have to have that support.
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  Speaker 3: And the interesting thing is how how did I announce
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  Speaker 3: it to my family that I was starting this journey.
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  Speaker 2: Was that Easter Sunday we went to a restaurant, Italian restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and we uh, that's rough's.
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  Speaker 3: Right, because you know we're ordering pasta. Everybody's ordering pasta.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, do you I'm sure,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: do you give yourself at least one day that you
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: can absolutely have to Yes, yes, because honestly, eating this
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: way is not you know what that's not going to be.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: It's the same exactly.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And this is what I tell patients too, even the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: patients that I put on the semi glutide, which is
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: a form of a zempic. It's portion control and that's
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: really why it works, you know. And and and I
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: feel like you can't be uncertain, dy's you can It's
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: not sustainable, right exactly, just not like so you see
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: yourself like now moving into.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Absolutely so I introduced reintroduced it the pasta and the
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: rice and the potatoes.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: But important like it's portioned.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Because you really shouldn't eat I know with me, as
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I'm older, I cannot eat a lot of cobs anymore.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I'm sick, I get I get nauseous from eating too
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: many cobs. I don't feel good. It makes me feel lousy, lousy, right,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: because really our bodies are not meant to digest them,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: you know, really go into the if you really go
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: into like the physics of the whole thing, the physiology
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: of the whole thing. We as as human beings cobs,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: we can't digest them properly. That's why we feel so
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: bad with the cobs and the sugars exactly.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: But on a Sunday when I went to my grandmother's house,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: right when I went to Nonea's house.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Fday, we don't care if you don't.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Have two bowls of pasta with the regatta, with the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: grated cheese, with the you.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Know, it's like insulting them if you don't.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I get Yes, she got insulted. Are you full of
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: time of sicilians? Und I understand it all. So the
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: funny thing is I understood everything. My grandmother would would
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: speak to.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Me and.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I would speak English so she would understand. So she's
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: a crazy thing. But so yeah, so now I don't
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: have two bowls of pasta. Now I'll have a side
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: dish of pasta.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Which you probably couldn't even eat that big bull of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: it if you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Wanted to, not at all.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way I feel now too. I now
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: that now that when I was I've been doing since
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I've lost the weak if I if I eat too much.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I don't right, it makes me feel bloated, and I
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: don't want to feel like that. You know, you don't
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: realize how much it does affect you. Exactly. Stop eating
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: it exactly. You know, it's so it's so true. So
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: you now you're making better choices.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Now, exactly.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And the other component is I'm in the gym three
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: at least three times.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wish I had the time to go.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I got it, n I got it. And I could
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: never do it at night because I'm so exhausted by
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the end of the day. I have to start going
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: in the morning. But now that the weather is nice,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: so I'm going to start doing outside activities like I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like to roll a blade, I like to bike ry.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I like to roll the skate. So those are things
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that I like to do on the outside. You know.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I used to be really big into sports when I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: was younger, but I have too many sports injuries. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: can't even begin to play play like sports anymore.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: And it's funny because I do feel tired at night myself,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: but once I get in the car and I go
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: to the gym, you feel I feel.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So much better coming out. Yeah, well, like I got
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: to push.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I wish, you know, I should try it and see
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: if I could do it at nighttime because it probably
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: but I just I'm like so sluggish at night.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I just want to, I know, just go to sleep.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I watch Netflix, you know, I watch my watch watch
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: your documentaries.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: What do you do for fun? Be So it's you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: are you are you? Are you? You're miss still married? Yes?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I am, Yes, I am beautiful.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: So forty almost forty one years.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, that's a long timing.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: It's a long time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And he's very supportive.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Of the weight loss journey, yes, very supportive.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: About the other No, no, he does no, rather not.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: No, he's modeling. Well, he's very old school like modeling.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: No, Stevie, No, No, I'm like, yes, you know what
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I've become since this whole weight loss journey, I have
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: become very into which is something that I've always wanted
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: to do. You know, I've known him since sixteen, you know,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: got married at eighteen, had my daughter at nineteen, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: so you know, it's very codependent for a very long time.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And so part of that mindset changed once I made
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the decision and so now I've become a lot more independent.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You know, when I find that, it's so funny because
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: especially women are Italian women, I know, it's it's it's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: so funny that no matter what how successful we become,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: we always seem to be with the same that with
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: what we know, right, we always still have those core
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that expectations or core values that we have that we
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: still like. Even with me, I'm like, but I have
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I have, i have four businesses, I'm opening up another one,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I'm doing all these things, i have a cop podcast,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and I still have to be held to the same Uh,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: what's the word, I'm looking for, the same rules, the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: same standard. Thank you. Maybe standards are expectations right of
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: what it what it is to be a wife or
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a mother, you know, and sometimes feel shamed about it
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: if you're not doing as much right as you su
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, my kids are all grown, and I'm like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna cook them dinner. I'm like, no, I'm not. No,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: they should be cooking me dinner.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: They should be cooking you dinner exactly.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Taking care of me now, you know, and helping me out.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So I think it's funny like how it is and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it's it's I think it's still like that for Italian women.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's still just a culture.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It's a culture. It's definitely a culture.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: You know, men see the women see Italian women in
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: a certain place, and that's such old school minded that
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: you know, when there's change, they start to kind of rebel,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: you know, and lash out. And so you know, kind
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: of going through that for the last couple of years.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: But you know, as far as the weight loss, super supportive,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: you know, just for health, health reasons. Anything else but that,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: but health reasons. You know, he's just like, you're off medications.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: This is great, that is amazing. So he's just really
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: happy for me, you know, for that. But you know,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: like I said, I'm an independent woman now, so.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And you keep being that an independent woman. Girl. You're amazing.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: You're such a light. You're such a pleasure. Thank you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You have such a great energy. I love talking to you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm saying, it's it's so nice how people just
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: come into your life and you know, I know, you
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: get you connect with them and.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: They come into your life for a reason.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I believe that. I believe that too, people come in
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to your life for some kind of journey, whether they're
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: there for a long time for a short time, there's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: always a reason why somebody comes in and out. Yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And so through the magazines, I've gained a lot
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: of Instagram followers, yes, and they've been asking me, you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: all these questions like you know, what did you do?
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: You know, how did you do it? What foods did
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you cook?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: How did you cook you know certain foods. So I'm
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: thinking of maybe possibility of doing something with a cooking show,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: maybe on Instagram, like you sure, Yeah.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: That would be because people, especially for women our age,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: they would love to you know, because those are the people.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And I'm not every age would connect, but those women
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: our age who think that they that's done for them,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: right and they can't do it, And here you are,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You're sitting here saying that you can do it. You know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that would be inspirational living watch. So I would totally
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: watch that with you. And I bet you have some
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: great recipes from you, and I do.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I have great Italian recipes that I've modified, the Sicilian recipes, Yes,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: the Bishop Mile Creek.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, that is like a Staples did your does your
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: does your grandma? Grandpa? That they pigs for pickled peaks.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, yes, and every August and the turk
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: and the next the turkey necks, the.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Gizards like what are you eating? You know what when
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: they didn't have anything, they didn't have anything right when
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: they came over here, and they will pour.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: In and every August, the bold can the bone arrow.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: What do you want? Freaking carnivore?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: You can't.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: But the tomato canning, you know, every every August would
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: be and it was It's like a chipmunk, right, you
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: just gathered the nuts for the whole winter, you know.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: The squirrel. It is such a big you can't. First
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of all, it's like gold, right, it's gold. It's gold.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Did you So there's a there's a Brooklyn locket they
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: have they have the best. I got the best electric
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: uh tomato mill that you could ever bought. Really, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: we I'll tell you a funny story quick before we're done.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Me and my ex husband used to grow the tomatoes
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in our garden and we didn't always have enough. So
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you want them getting more from you know whatever, your
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: other friends or whatever. So we would it would take
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a few days, right days, And this is a d
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and when you it's like the jaws were gold because
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you'd have to you have to put them a pot
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to seal the to seal the lins on the Mason
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: jaws because you can't get.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: The air otherwise it's spoils. Its spoil things.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So it's a whole process. So I gave my neighbor
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a jaw. When I tell you, he came home from
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: work and he was like, and I'm I'm making I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: making dinnerman of making our sauce or whatever. And he's like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: my neighbor wants to say, oh, and tom, thank you
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: so much for the jar resauce. Your wife gave it
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to us. He comes in the door, How do you
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: give us that jar sauce away? Because literally it takes days,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Like you don't know how much work.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Right that goes behind a.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Job, behind this this jar, this this mason jar of tomatoes.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: He literally took the pot with the ladle off the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: stove and walked out of the house. And I had
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: nothing to put on my boss. He drove away with it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I literally drop me and my kids were
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: sto the laugh and we're like, are you kidding me?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He literally took it at us and drove away, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: we were crying. We were crying. It was so funny.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: He was that mad that I gave my name about
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: jar sauce.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: It's a thing that is in the Italian culture. It's
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a thing like I went but my grandmother.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And she here, bullet take take a jar sauce.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You know, Okay, if they give it to you, he
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: would I gave if I took it, forget it. No,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I took it. And he was very angry because he
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: was the one turning the tomatoes like he was doing,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: because it's a big job. So that's funny. But but see,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that's something that that people would like to hear. I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: think yes, and you can talk about your recipes and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: talk about maybe a little tidbit with your grandma, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: if she taught you how to make something, they would like.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: They would like the billion recipes, you know, the noodle cake.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Did you have you make pizza?
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: No, I've never made it, but my grant she's made it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. That's the we make that for EA.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: The pizza game. It's with the it's the pizzasta is
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: like a little and it has it has it has
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a super tar.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Like well the sounds familiar.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with the with the pepercorns.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what we call me pizza gain.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's uh, it's it's a different yeah.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And then also the macaroni pie. Yes, so that's the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I think that little cake, yeah, the little cake.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: So do you hear how many calories are in this that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You eat a piece this big? There's about six thousand galleries? Right,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: so goddamn good. How good is it?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: It's like with them when it's like when it gets cold,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: looks so disgusting.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Look, we're actually ingesting this, all right, No wonder why
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: we will have that. But you know what's funny, my
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: grandparents never had problems with high cholesterol.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Or it's crazy genetics, some genetics.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Well you know what, I think it's because they just
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: ate three square meals a day. They drank the drink. Yeah,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and they never over ate. They always ate. Just just
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that's it. They never ate in between they that that
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: was one thing about my grandma. But my grandmother and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: grandfather they were a little bit more modern, you know.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: My girl, my father's mother was the typical Ellis Island
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: black dress, the bun on her head, like, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: didn't speak a word of English. But my grandmother was
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a fashion designer. She was very progressive for her. She
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: worked for Henry Bendal, So yeah, awesome. I think I
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: kind of emulate her. And it's funny when my mother
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: was more of a stay at home mom, and you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: she wanted to be that Italian mother stay at home.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: But my grandmother was was out.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: She was entrepreneurs.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: She was entrepreneur. She had her own she worked, she
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: had a stores, she had two clothing stores on Fifth Avenue.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You know, she was pretty pretty savvy. So that's probably
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: why we get it from getting from your mom. Yeah,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I see what my grandmother she was pretty before her time.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So and that's that's Italian women. Oh yeah, cookies, because
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: we'll beat you up. We'll beat you up with that.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: We we'll cook you. We'll cook you with the best.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: We'll cook it exactly, and what's tough exactly.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I want you to tell everybody where they can find
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you and hopefully well the way out to see you cooking.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, absolutely so. My instagram is p zally zero one.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: So it's p s z a l a y zero one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: That's my instagram. Please find me. I love to converse
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: with you too, you know, send me messages. I'm open
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: to that, you know. I hope to see you there.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Well. I'm so happy that you came in today. It
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: was a great episode and I hope you come back.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear your next your next, jow
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: do you have anything special that's on the rights? And
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: besides the movie, is there anything else that it's coming out?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: So I'm also competing for summer cover Heart of Hollywood Magazine,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: So I'm competing for that as well. The contest ends
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: next week. So far I'm in first place, but we
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: will see.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Vote for you. And we actually went for we went
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: for the same cover and.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, the fab but that was good.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I actually got nominated for that, which I didn't even
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. But yeah, listen, it's awesome. It
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: was where I want somebody, there's a somebody. I thought,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: somebody else besides me deserved it more than I would
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: even to even push to try to to try to win.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And it's it's fun.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, it's a healthy competition. Women are
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: helping women, so I think it's a great thing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And it's good that women some women help women because
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: some some women do not want to help each other.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: That is true. We need to stick together.
• 30:34
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• 30:35
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