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Eating Mexican and losing weight · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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  Music.
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  Okay, y'all, eating at the Mexican restaurant is a non-negotiable in my family,
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  and there has never been a time that I have gone without eating chips and queso,
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  okay? So let me just say that right now.
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  I know so many of my listeners love Mexican too, and so today I'm sharing how
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  I eat out at the Mexican restaurant.
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  All right, so this episode, I'm just going to do a rundown of kind of how I
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  approach the Mexican restaurant, y'all, because like, it's just impossible to
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  not eat out Mexican, even if you are trying to lose weight.
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  Like I hate, oh my gosh, that is one thing I hate is when people are like.
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  Okay, I'm going to start trying to lose weight.
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  And I've told my friends, we can't go to our weekly Mexican or,
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  you know, I told my family, we can't eat out at Mexican anymore because I'm trying to lose weight.
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  Like, no, because that is a sign that eventually you're going to get sick of
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  not eating Mexican and you're going to go back to Mexican and you have then aligned the two.
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  You have aligned eating Mexican with not being able to lose weight,
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  and you have aligned not eating Mexican with being in a weight loss mindset.
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  And like, you cannot do that. We cannot cut foods,
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  food groups, or freaking cuisines out of our lives when we are,
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  quote, both trying to lose weight and then expect to keep the weight off,
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  right? You're going to go back to Mexican.
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  You're going to go back to the carbs, right? You're going to go back to the
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  alcohol or whatever it is that you, the sugar, the whatever that you feel like you need to cut out.
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  And so you have got to learn how to fit that back in or fit it in your life.
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  And so today I'm going to talk about just some ways to do that.
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  Again, no right or wrong.
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  These are my hacks, my things that I do.
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  You may have other ideas that you do, but this is just how I go to Mexican with
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  my family without saying, oh, I'm just going to blow it out of the water today, right?
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  Or, oh, I'm just, I'm not going to lose weight this week because I had Mexican,
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  or whatever it may be that sometimes we can tend to do when we walk in that Mexican restaurant.
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  Okay, so the first thing I really want to push here is to have a plan, okay? Like.
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  Do not walk blindly into the Mexican restaurant because next thing you know,
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  you're going to be ordering those, you know, burritos or whatever it is smothered
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  with queso and, you know, having all the chips.
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  Like if you go into the Mexican restaurant without a plan, that is you kind
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  of saying, well, I'm just not gonna worry about my weight loss today, right?
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  And then that gives you the excuse to overindulge and overeat, right?
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  You're going to choose the higher fat things and you're going to eat more of
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  them because you're just like, well, I'm going to Mexican today.
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  So there's no use in me trying to lose weight, right? Like if that's your mindset,
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  well, then yeah, you are.
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  But if you go into the Mexican restaurant thinking, I'm still trying to lose
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  weight this week, I'm still trying to lose weight today, right?
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  I'm in a calorie deficit today.
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  And so here's my plan, right?
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  And so part of having the plan is knowing what is going to be your main splurge.
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  Okay, I fully believe in this. You cannot, y'all, you cannot just go and plan
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  to like not eat the chips and to, you know, eat a salad and to not get the margarita
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  and like to avoid all the things you love, right?
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  You have to have some kind of plan that actually is enjoyable for you.
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  So what is your splurge at the Mexican restaurant? Like if I,
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  as I'm sitting here talking right now, what is your favorite thing about going to eat Mexican?
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  Okay, the one thing that you would pick,
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  Mine is the chips and cheese dip, okay? And so I'm going to talk about later how to navigate that.
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  But I think it's really important for you if it's the margarita.
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  Well, then you're going to have to think about how to navigate your food a little different, right?
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  If it's a specific dish, that's the reason you go to Mexican is to get that
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  burrito thing smothered in cheese or whatever it is. well, then yeah,
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  we'll have to figure out how to navigate your beverages and your chips and dip
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  intake a little bit better, right?
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  And so just thinking about, okay, what is your one splurge? And then how are you going to fit it in?
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  Okay. And then also with this plan, I really, this is especially for my clients that are listening.
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  I want to encourage you to decide, are you trying to stay in your calorie deficit today?
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  Or are you accepting that your maintenance number is okay too?
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  Okay, because remember, maintenance calories does not mean weight gain calories.
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  It simply means today I'm choosing to eat at this number of calories to maintain
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  the weight I am currently at.
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  Tomorrow I can pick back up and be in a calorie deficit again.
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  But today, because I want the chips and queso and the margarita, right?
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  I'm going to choose to be in a maintenance stage.
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  Okay. And that is perfectly fine as well. But again, you have to mentally make
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  up your mind for that because a lot of times you'll be like,
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  well, if I have the chips and queso and the margarita, then that's going to take me over.
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  And so I'm not going to be trying, I'm not going to be in my calorie deficit
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  now. So I may as well just order the cheese top burrito thing too,
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  because why not blow it out?
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  You know, like that's where your mindset goes. And that is so far from the truth
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  and you could have done so well,
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  so well at the Mexican restaurant that it wouldn't have even been noticed.
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  Like you wouldn't have even, the scale wouldn't have even told you that you
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  ate Mexican this week, right?
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  If you hadn't have had that mindset and ordered the cheese covered burrito thing
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  as well. Okay. So I hope that makes sense.
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  So just having that plan, like, where's your splurge going to be?
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  Like the one main attraction that you're there for.
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  And then also, are you choosing to stay in a calorie deficit or is maintenance
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  okay as well? Because that drives your actions, right?
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  Maintenance versus the calorie deficit is a huge, a huge difference.
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  That is the difference of a margarita and cheese dip for some of us.
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  And so it's just knowing. Again, it's that awareness and it's the knowing of
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  how you're going to walk in the door and handle it, okay?
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  And side note, if it's a girl's night, I highly recommend maintenance, okay?
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  If you weren't with your girlfriends at the Mexican restaurant,
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  we're just going to shoot for maintenance that day, y'all. I mean,
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  you want to live a little, right?
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  Unless you've been starving all day long to save up for Mexican and I don't
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  recommend that either, right?
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  Okay, so some things though, this is how I approach Mexican.
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  If I'm going to get a margarita, I choose, and I'm pretty strategic in this.
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  There are some restaurants near us that have really great skinny margaritas.
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  And you can ask them to make, like even if it's not on the menu,
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  you can ask them to make a skinny margarita.
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  I will tell you the ones that are more natural, like with the fresh agave and
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  the fresh squeezed lemon or lime or whatever, those are going to be lower calorie
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  than like the frozen ones that come out the machine, okay, that have tons of
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  sugar packed in there. Okay.
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  But even still, they, you know, restaurants will offer a skinny margarita.
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  So choosing the lighter version, whether it's the more naturally made margarita
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  or a specific skinny margarita can be very helpful here.
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  Okay. Because a margarita or two can pack on the calories if it is the ones
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  that are just full of the sugar, the pre-made kind of stuff.
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  And then rotating that with water, right? As always, we are getting our water
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  in alongside of our alcohol. So if I'm having a.
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  Trying to get at least the natural style or a skinny.
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  But again, I am making sure that it's going to taste good. Like I'm not trying
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  to drink a margarita that tastes like, you know, Mr. Clean. Okay.
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  And so again, that's trial and error depending on your favorite Mexican restaurant.
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  But I believe in you. You can do it, right?
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  If you want to, at some Mexican restaurants, you could start with a salad, right?
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  I always say this, especially with like pizza night, just getting a small salad
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  can just fill your belly up a little bit.
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  And you get some good fiber in there, some good nutrients.
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  What it does is it really helps you slow down. Because a lot of times we walk
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  into these restaurants and we're hungry, y'all.
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  Or we're like caught up and talking or whatever with our friends or our family.
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  And so by having a salad on the front end, it can really just help fill you
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  up and slow you down on all the
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  other higher fat things that may be coming on the back end of the meal.
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  I don't usually start with the salad at Mexican, but I I did feel the need to
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  just mention it here because I do think it's a great idea for some.
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  My signature move at the Mexican restaurant is I will get a napkin,
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  put it in front of me like a little plate, or if they put out the little plates,
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  I'll obviously use a plate.
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  But I take the big chips and I break them into smaller chips.
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  The big chips at the Mexican restaurant can be broken into like fourths,
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  okay, or even six if you're if you're that you know strategic and then I use
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  those as my chips for the dippers okay so so I take the smaller bite of the,
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  the smaller piece of the chip, and then dip that into the queso or the salsa.
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  And so what it does, because y'all know, I'm sure you've all seen the images
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  about one, you know, or four Mexican chips is equivalent to one,
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  you know, tortilla and all that. Like, I know you've seen that, right?
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  And how the calories add up fast. And it is true.
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  Like, the tortilla is dropped in oil and like, So it's fried and a tortilla
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  already has some calories in it.
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  And so the chips can add up really fast.
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  And so, but for me, I know that I want as many bites as possible.
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  The act of chewing, the act of constantly dipping and putting it in my mouth satisfies me. Okay.
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  Not only like, you know, just me sitting here saying it to you,
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  but mentally my brain is going, oh, she's eating more.
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  She's chewing more. like all
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  the things, because I've had these chips broken down into little bites.
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  So it's more dips, more trips to my mouth, more chewing, more swallowing, right?
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  And so that's telling my brain, oh, she's eating, she's getting full versus
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  like one whole chip shoved into my mouth, chewing and swallowing.
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  Okay. So we're telling our brains that we're eating more, right?
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  When we really aren't, but also it is time-consuming.
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  Like, it's taking up time, you know, and.
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  What happens, right? What happens? We sit there, we're talking,
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  we dive into the chips at first, and then we're thinking, okay,
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  we'll dial back in a minute.
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  But if the dinner doesn't come fast enough, we mindlessly sit there and eat more chips, right?
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  And so this is kind of breaking that where you've already got your little bites of chips.
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  So it slows the whole process down, right?
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  You've broken down one chip into four bites. Therefore, literally,
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  you could cut your chip intake in a fourth of what it usually would be, right?
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  If you took your time, dipped the chip, chewed slowly, put your hand down,
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  like didn't go right back for the next chip and the next dip.
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  You know what I mean? So I hope, that's hard for me to just use my words and not use my hands.
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  Y'all should see me over here just trying to show you when you can't see me.
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  But anyway, right, this is my signature. My signature move is I break these
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  chips down and eat little bites, but I eat a ton of them.
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  I eat a ton of little bites and it is so satisfying to me because I don't feel
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  deprived, but I also know I'm not over consuming chips like I would be if I
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  was eating the full chip at one time.
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  I also will portion again, because I told you I am going to eat the queso.
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  Okay. I mean, I will eat a little salsa, but I'm going to eat the queso.
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  Like if I'm about to eat these fried tortillas, you know, and get those calories that way.
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  I'm not going to waste it on salsa. Like I just, that's me though.
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  You may love the salsa. I love the cheese dip.
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  And so I will ask the waiter for extra salsa bowls so that I can portion out my own queso.
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  Okay. And so I will put queso in a little bowl just so I can kind of see it and know how much I have.
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  When I do that, and my kids and my husband do kind of make fun of me about this,
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  but whatever, I will use my little old chip in my little old bowl and kind of
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  slide the queso off the edge of it Okay,
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  because again, i've portioned myself all these little bitty portions and i'm
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  trying to get as many bites as possible That's the honest truth Like I want
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  as many bites as possible so that I can savor this chip and cheese dip Experience
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  for as long as possible And so I will Slide that cheese dip off like if there's any extra,
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  you know I'll just kind of slide it off on the edge of the bowl so that it's
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  there for me when I come back,
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  with my next chip, okay?
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  And it's just the mentality of like, yeah, I'm still tasting the cheese dip,
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  but did I need the extra, you know, half a table or half a teaspoon that I may
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  have eaten if I didn't slide it off?
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  No, you know what I mean? And so it just stretches it, and it helps it last
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  longer for less calorie intake, if that makes sense.
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  So usually with this, by the time dinner comes for me, I'm pretty full.
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  Because again, I've tricked my brain, but also my belly is satisfied because
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  I am getting, you know, a decent amount of chips without being overly stuffed.
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  So I usually know that I'm not going to be just starving by the time my food comes.
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  So I typically order the fajitas or two hard shell tacos. I love a taco. Okay.
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  And I just, two hard shell tacos don't break the bank for me.
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  Calorie wise or financially wise baby if you want to budget them two hard shell tacos.
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  That's where is it but but they fill me up especially after a bunch of chips
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  but I will usually order the fajitas sometimes I'll get one of my girls to split
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  with me or sometimes I will just bring the rest home and like use as a salad
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  topper for you know the week for lunch but with the fajitas now,
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  because I had all those chips, I will usually not use a shell.
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  So because, okay, we've talked about this here multiple times, right?
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  To get satisfied, we need to be balancing carbs, fat, and protein.
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  Like our meals need to have carbs, fat, and protein in them, right?
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  But like we can find excess in any of those macros, right?
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  And so I know that for carbs and fat, But I'm already kind of over or on the
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  higher end, at least, because I've had several chips and the cheese dip, right? Like I know that.
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  And so for me, I'm like, okay, I really need the protein.
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  Like that's where my focus needs to be on my meal to, again,
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  make sure I'm getting all my macros in, but also to just keep these calories tight, right?
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  And so I will typically just eat the fajitas out of the pan.
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  Sometimes I put a little guacamole on there or sour cream or the shredded cheese that it comes with.
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  Sometimes I'll have some of the beans that comes with it, but I usually leave
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  the shell off because my word, I've
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  had how many tortillas by now with the amount of chips that I just ate.
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  And so just kind of thinking of it that way as a balance. Now,
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  if you could care less about the chips, right?
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  Or you were one who said like, I come to the Mexican restaurant for the cheese
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  smothered burrito situation, then you may need to lay low on the chips, right?
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  You may need to just kind of push the chips over towards your husband's side
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  or whoever's side and just, you know, do your best to stay out of those chips
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  if your focus is gonna be on the main meal, right?
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  Because that's when you're gonna get full is when your cheese mother burrito
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  comes, right? And then you're going to eat it really slow. You're going to eat it really mindfully.
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  You're going to try to take some for leftovers, all the things we're always talking about here.
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  But for me on the flip side, I'm usually pretty full by the time the meal comes because of the starter.
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  And so I'm just trying to keep it tight on the back end, if that makes sense.
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  Thinking about other things to order, like if, you know, the fajitas or the
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  tacos don't just sound like the best to you.
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  Just spend some time in the menu, okay?
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  And making sure that you're not, you know, unless it's your one,
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  you know, splurge item we've already talked about here, making sure that you're
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  not ordering things that are smothered or fried.
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  If there is an option, like for us, if it comes with a sauce on it or something
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  like that, ask for the sauce on the side. As always, a red sauce is usually
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  going to be your best option as opposed to like a cheese sauce, right?
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  And then, you know, you can always put salsa on top of whatever it is that you
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  ordered if that sounds good to you, right?
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  So just spending some time in the menu and seeing like what your options are
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  as far as it's really the toppings, y'all.
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  It's really the toppings. A lot of the Mexican stuff is either going to be beef,
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  which is a little higher fat because of the quality of the beef, but.
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  Or chicken. So you have a ton of chicken options at a Mexican restaurant, right?
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  A ton of like pretty much grilled-ish chicken options, right?
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  So what it comes down to is the sauce, the toppings, okay?
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  So if there's something that doesn't sound that great, ask for it off or ask
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  for it on the side. If there's something that you feel like you could live without,
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  ask for it on the side and who knows how much that could save you, right?
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  And that goes with salads too. Like if you're going to get a main salad as your
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  meal, like a big salad as your meal, ask for the toppings on the side, okay?
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  Like, because sometimes, especially any of the like rice and beans plates or
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  things like that come on the side of the main meal, and then especially inside
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  the salads, it comes with so much sour cream,
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  avocado, and cheese, okay?
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  And all of those are like really high fat and can be high calorie too, right?
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  And so just making sure that if you get a salad, get that on the side so that you can control it.
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  Not saying you don't have any, but just so that you can control how much goes on there.
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  Because sometimes these Mexican salads can add up to be more calories than the
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  cheese smothered burrito or whatever it is, right?
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  Just because of the toppings, okay?
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  Another side note that I just wanted to mention is like a tortilla soup is a
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  great low calorie option.
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  Y'all in the winter, there is this one specific restaurant, not really close.
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  It's like a 30 minute drive, but it is close to my sister-in-law.
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  And so I'm always like, well, y'all want us to meet you at that Mexican restaurant
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  because they have the best chicken tortilla soup.
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  I love it so much. And they give you so much of it and it's low calorie and
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  it's very filling. And then I can take the rest for the next day.
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  And so if you're into soups and you know, if it's not 100 degrees outside like
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  it is right now, a soup is also a great option, right? Especially if you got that side salad before.
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  And then for me, I'm choosing the soup because I definitely had the chips and the queso, right?
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  So that's also, you know, a great option.
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  Okay. And so other than that, it's really just about like,
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  your mindset and mindfulness, right?
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  Okay, so sitting back and taking a beat, right? Like mid chips,
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  you know, put the chips down, sis, put your hands in your lap for a minute and
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  just breathe, okay, and let them digest, take a beat, right?
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  Before you move into the second burrito on your plate, put your hands in your lap, take a beat, right?
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  Take a sip of your water and just chill for a minute, okay?
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  Give your body time to tell you it's full, like give yourself,
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  because that's where it all goes wrong.
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  We just overeat because we don't take the time at a restaurant to let our fullness cues register.
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  It takes time, y'all. It takes like 20 minutes for our stomach to tell our brain that we're full.
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  Okay, so we've got to give it time before it's too late and we feel like somebody's
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  got to roll us out of there, right?
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  And so just, you know, making sure that you give yourself time throughout the
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  meal can really be helpful as well, taking that beat like we talked about a few weeks ago.
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  Also, I really, again, I'm going to say it again, because I just feel like it's
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  so important, but making sure that you acknowledge what you plan to do at the restaurant.
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  Okay, like if you walk again, again, if you walk into this Mexican restaurant,
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  you're like, nope, I'm trying to save my calorie deficit.
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  So I'm just going to eat right. I'm not going to do anything.
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  And I'm, you know, I'm going to stay on point, even though you don't really
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  have a plan. You're just trying to, you know, wheel yourself into making right choices, right?
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  It's going to go wrong, okay? The minute your stomach growls when those chips
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  are set on the table, it's over with, right?
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  And so go in acknowledging it, acknowledging I'm going to eat some chips,
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  or I'm going to order the margarita, or I'm going to order the cheese smothered burrito thing, okay?
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  Acknowledge it, and that in itself is so powerful so that you don't feel like
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  you have to look the other way on yourself while you're gorging yourself at
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  the Mexican table, okay?
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  Because you've already acknowledge, I'm going to eat these things.
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  So there is nothing to be ashamed about.
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  I have no reason to feel guilty here and no reason to like, shove all this food
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  in and say, I'm just going to start again tomorrow, right?
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  Because you acknowledged it on the front end, that that was your plan,
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  that you were going to eat the things, right?
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  And you were going to be mindful in these specific areas, okay?
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  And so show yourself that you can do it.
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  Show yourself you can do it. Show yourself that you can eat the chips.
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  But then also you can be mindful on, you know, whatever the cheese dipper.
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  You can be mindful on the fajitas or the tacos or whatever it is that you have next, right?
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  Like, and again, that goes back to like everything we talk about here, right?
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  It's like, you have to be realistic with the expectations you set for yourself.
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  Okay, so if the expectation was too high before you walked in the door,
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  then failure was going to be the outcome, right?
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  And so again, just kind of getting comfortable with what real expectations should
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  look like for you specifically at the Mexican restaurant.
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  And then lastly, this is something we just, oh Lord, if you're in my program, you know it, girl.
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  I'll be getting in there hollering at people who do this. But y'all,
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  we never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever weigh after a night at Mexican.
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  Like never. Okay. It is, it is, you people are so bad about it.
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  And I know, I know I've been there too.
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  Right. But like, we want to say, oh, okay, I ain't Mexican and I didn't do too
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  bad, but I didn't do great either. So let me just get on the scale this morning
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  and see what the damage is.
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  Like, you know, that's your mentality. Like, let me just see what the damage
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  is. Well, baby, it's going to show some damage.
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  You're going to see some damage on that scale. And it's not going to be an instant fat gain, right?
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  Like you may see the scale up two or three pounds.
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  And it's not going to be because that's how much fat you gained at the Mexican
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  restaurant last night. Like that is impossible, okay? Honestly.
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  But what it is from is your extra sodium intake because you did have the chips
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  and the salsa that's full, full, full of sodium, right?
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  Or the fajitas, my word, are so full of sodium. Like everything on that table
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  is pretty much full of sodium, okay?
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  And it causes bloat. It causes fluid retention, okay?
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  You probably really, really, really need to go to the bathroom after a night
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  at Mexican, you know, and you may not have had time to let it all process and
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  digest by first thing the next morning, right?
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  And so that's part of it. There's a ton of reasons that cause you to like bloat
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  or feel fuller, feel bigger, right? the next morning.
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  But let me tell you what the reason usually isn't that you actually gained weight.
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  Okay. Like the scale may say it, but that's not true weight gain.
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  And so we have got to learn how to distinguish and understand that and then
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  stay out of our heads because of it.
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  Okay. And so the worst thing you can do is get on the scale after having Mexican
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  and kind of feeling bad about like, oh, I overate and I didn't do great and whatever.
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  And then like the scale validates that feeling for you. It's like,
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  yeah, you didn't do great. And look, you gained two pounds because it's not real.
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  And so what does that do? It gets us in our head.
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  It causes us the next day to say, well, since I ate Mexican last night and I
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  gained two pounds this morning, what's the use?
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  I may as well go by the donut store on the way into work. And I may as well
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  order out with everybody at lunch.
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  And I may as well have XYZ at dinner. And y'all know it. Y'all.
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  Stop it before it starts and don't get on the scale.
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  Do not get on the scale for at least a couple days after Mexican.
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  And there are other handful of like salty out to eat situations that we recommend
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  not getting on the scale after. Okay.
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  Because the damage honestly isn't going to show up that fast anyway.
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  So all it is is false information.
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  And literally you cannot gain two pounds from one night of Mexican. Okay. Okay. Okay.
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  So just don't get on the scale. Can y'all tell I'm passionate about that one.
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  And it's because we have talked so many people off the ledge after Mexican,
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  and then they've gotten on the scale.
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  So I'm so proud of my ladies that have finally gotten it. And they're like,
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  okay, I had Mexican on Fridays. We do Friday weigh-in.
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  And it nearly every week, somebody will say, we had Mexican last night.
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  I'm waiting till Sunday to weigh. And I'm like, you go girl.
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  Like I'm so proud of you for, for knowing to do that.
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  So anyway, as always y'all, and especially up in that Mexican restaurant,
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  y'all remember to say grace.
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  Music.