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125. Hot Takes, Cold Hard Lies, Wellness Advice That Drives Us Bananas · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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  Hey girlies, just a quick reminder before we dive into
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  today's episode. The information shared on this
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  podcast is intended to be general sports nutrition advice
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  and education related. To period recovery for female
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  To anyone individual and it may or may not apply to your
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  Hypothalamic amenorrhea. The full.
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  Period Recovery Guide is finally out now and we will leave all of
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  the information for it in the podcast show notes.
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  This is the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  Hello and welcome back. This is the More Carbs podcast.
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  It's Jenna here with Riley. We are both dietitians and we
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  talk every Thursday about sports nutrition for the girlies.
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  Specifically, we talk about period recovery, especially if
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  you've lost it due to hypothalamic amenorrhea.
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  On today's episode though, we are doing our what drives us
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  bananas. So sharing a little bit about
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  the things that we saw online or offline this week that really
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  drove us bananas. These are some of my favorite
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  episodes to do. But before we get into that, we
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  are going to do our high and low.
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  So sharing just a little bit about our week, the good and the
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  part. We wish you gone a little bit
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  differently. Riley, as always, can you kick
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  us off? I love a what's drives us
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  bananas episode, so that could technically be my high, but I do
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  actually have something related to the podcast that is a high.
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  My mother-in-law robs moms who also listens to the podcast.
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  She taught Charlie the word podcast.
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  I have this like little sign here that says like eat your
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  carbs and she was like teaching Charlie.
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  She's like this. This is your mom's podcast.
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  Wait that's amazing. I love that shout out to her.
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  Yeah, no, I love it. I just thought it was like the
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  cutest thing. But Charles vocabulary is like
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  girls crazy. But yeah, her new Word is
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  podcast. That's incredible.
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  I love that she probably learns quite a few new words, like in a
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  day, right. Obviously I don't have kids, so
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  I don't. I'm not really sure, yeah.
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  I try not to like look too much at the developmental milestones,
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  like I have a rough idea of them, but I try not to get too
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  like caught up in them just because like it's so easy to get
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  caught up in all that stuff. Like I mean, just like period
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  recovery, right? The numbers and all that stuff.
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  I think that was something that we were really working on as her
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  speech and now she's I definitely think she's like
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  doing good. We're pushing her and it's it's
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  really cute because she goes to her nanny care during the day
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  and then she'll come home and like she'll randomly point at
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  something like say the word and I'm like, I've never said that
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  word to you. But like, you know, she learned
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  it from like one of the other little girls or something.
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  Like the other day she walked into the bathroom and pointed
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  out like we have a seashell. She goes shell and I was like
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  OK. Yeah, you're right.
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  Good job, girl. You go, girl.
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  So that was my high, my low. I'm like debating if I wanted to
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  run a marathon. I feel like it just depends on
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  which week you ask me. But this week I'm like, OK, I
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  literally just ran 12 miles and I'm not even halfway there.
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  Those weeks during training are hard, yeah.
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  It's just like so hot right now and so hilly.
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  Especially where you are and humid too, yeah.
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  I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to do this.
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  I just think about like, you know, I run somewhere and it's
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  like 12 miles. I'm like, I could run somewhere
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  12 miles and I have to run 12 miles back and I still would not
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  be done. The mental side of training for
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  a marathon and thinking about the mileage is like half of
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  training because you like can't start to do the mental math of
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  when you've run like 18 miles and you're like, Oh my gosh,
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  that part gets tricky. You know, it's it's ups and
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  downs, like next week it's probably gonna be my high.
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  So it just caught me on a bad week.
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  I'm excited for next week then. Fingers crossed.
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  How's your week going? My week.
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  'S going really good. My high is related to an
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  athlete. I shared this already on my
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  Instagram. But she has been working so hard
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  and so diligent about fueling appropriately.
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  She's getting ready to run collegiately and she's actually
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  put on a little bit of weight. And at first, she was really
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  nervous about what that meant for her running and times and
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  all that. And she had a huge breakthrough
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  where she was able to run in a steady state that felt so
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  comfortable. And she was like, I've never
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  been able to run that fast for that long and feel so good.
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  And she was like previously that pace would have felt more of
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  like a tempo run and now it felt like such an easy pace for her
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  to maintain. And so she's so excited about
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  that. And I am just so proud of her.
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  Like she has been working so hard and she has a great support
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  system behind her with her family.
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  But overall, just like huge shout out to her for kind of
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  like really just taking on all of the feeling changes to make
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  sure that she is adequately fueled and healthy and ready for
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  her season as a collegiate runner.
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  And just like want to give another shout out to her because
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  it's definitely been hard work and she's doing so amazing.
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  So that's my high is just celebrating that with her.
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  Milo, this is so ridiculous. I spent like a good amount of
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  time doing some yard work, doing some gardening, and it was like
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  on a Sunday morning and the next day I woke up and I was so sore.
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  Was it your back? It was my back and like my
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  hamstrings a lot. And I think that's because I was
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  like kind of been neglecting hamstring work because I've been
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  recovering from a hamstring kind of strain previously.
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  So I haven't been doing a lot of that like focused work on
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  hamstring. So I think that probably
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  contributed, but I definitely wasn't using proper form as far
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  as like bending down to pick up with like my legs versus bending
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  over and picking up like with my back.
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  Don't. Don't do what I did.
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  Do you regret buying a house at this point?
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  At this point, yeah, for sure. I'm like, we do this to
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  ourselves. I'm like yes I love having a
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  house but then I'm like I literally pulled weeds for 8
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  hours today. Yep, and I still am.
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  Like how are there more? How are there still more we?
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  Always grow back. So fast too.
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  On today's episode though, we are talking about what drives us
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  bananas. So sharing just a little bit
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  about the things that we saw online or maybe offline that
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  absolutely drove us bananas. We'd love to hear from you
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  though, in the comments section what you saw this week that
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  drove you bananas. Jenna I feel like since we
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  started doing these episodes, there's just more more things
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  that drive me bananas. It's just an ever growing list.
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  I could do this episode every single week if I wanted to.
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  I know, I know we talk all the time offline about a lot of
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  these things, but it's 2025 like why are we seeing some of the
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  stuff that we're seeing online? I.
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  Don't know, but my gosh it drives me bananas.
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  What? Of you bananas, what have you
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  been seeing this week? OK, I think that because we talk
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  quite a bit about like the what I eat in a day videos and things
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  like that, my phone that listens into the conversation has been
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  like showing me a lot more of that content on social media
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  recently and it's always driven us bananas.
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  We've talked multiple times about why those things are just
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  for us. But specifically something has
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  kind of changed with some of the ones that I have seen and maybe
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  this trend has been going on for longer.
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  But because typically I don't see these types of things or I
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  try not to see these types of things, I haven't been aware
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  that this change has occurred. But there's a trend for what I
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  eat in a day as a girly who eats high protein, no processed foods
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  or low processed foods, foods, gluten free, dairy free, refined
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  sugar free. And then the individual will be
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  like, I start every day with my colostrum and I am immediately
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  like, OK, well why is that not processed food?
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  Because that is a processed food.
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  And then that's dairy. And for some reason that's OK to
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  take. And you're going to have a ton
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  of supplements that come in little packages that look like
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  running goo that are supposedly going to help with some
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  arbitrary thing. And for some reason, you have
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  deemed those things appropriate for all of these rules that
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  you've set up for why you eat the weight that you do.
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  But those things are OK because you're getting a kickback from a
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  supplement company for showing them in your video or for when
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  people use your discount code. I'm not really sure.
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  But why are those things OK in your What I Eat in a Day video
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  at the very beginning when you just said you don't eat
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  processed foods, you don't eat dairy, and then you immediately
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  do those things. That's how you're starting your
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  day. And then once you get through
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  the bajillion intense supplements that you take that
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  are supposedly not processed foods, you eat less than what a
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  baby needs for the remainder of the day.
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  It's 3 extraordinarily small meals that I don't even know how
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  you could have the energy to function to make this video off
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  of. The absurdity that these videos
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  have become. Like I feel like they started
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  and it was already like showing off like very low intake,
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  showing ABS beforehand, things like that.
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  But the amount that we have reduced fueling to in these
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  videos is concerning to the point of like, are we doing it
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  as a little bit of a jump scare of like this is how little I can
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  actually function off of in a day?
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  It's bananas. And I hate the wording of I
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  don't eat any processed foods. I don't need any dairy.
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  And then immediately we're doing colostrum.
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  I know we've talked about colostrum before and that being
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  one thing that drives us bananas.
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  So I guess it's like the pairing together of the what I eat in
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  the day, all of these food rules I set for myself that I don't
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  actually follow, and then immediately doing colostrum like
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  This is why. People are so confused about
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  nutrition though, because what we've done is we just made it
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  complicated because we have rules, but then we like break
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  the rules for certain exceptions.
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  And then you're like, I'm confused because we're not
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  supposed to eat processed foods, but like, here's a supplement,
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  here's a protein powder. And then you're like, I'm I'm
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  confused on this. I also think too that these like
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  what I eat in a day videos, they're like humble bragging,
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  like look how much discipline I have.
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  This is how little I eat and therefore this is what I look
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  like. And like eating a little amount
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  or like eating as little as possible is like not a flex.
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  Like that's not something that I feel like we need to welcome or
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  celebrate, I guess you could say in our society.
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  And that's what we do. Like we never celebrate people
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  for like getting their period back.
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  I mean, we do, right? We're always jumping up and
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  down. Like we're not like we're not
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  celebrating like eating more or feeling our body properly.
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  We're celebrating like small meals.
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  Lack of intake. Yeah, how can we eat as little
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  as possible? Like, come on.
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  Guys, right. But really, it's so unusual that
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  that's something that we almost look at and like praise and
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  reward versus when you actually actually fuel your body
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  appropriately. Why aren't we talking about and
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  celebrating and encouraging females and female athletes to
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  fuel appropriately? Why instead are we continuously
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  showing and encouraging under fueling?
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  I think This is why a lot of athletes really struggle when
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  they compare their plates to others because a lot of the
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  times they need more energy, they need more fuel, they need
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  more food and society have glorified like minimal intake so
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  they feel self-conscious because they are feeling properly or
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  they have a plate full of food and those around them do not
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  have the same intake because they also have different needs.
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  They also might not have a great relationship with food and this
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  becomes like really overwhelming and can be very triggering for
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  an athlete, especially if you are on a period recovery
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  journey. Oh, there are so many things
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  that I think and feel about this for sure.
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  One of the biggest ones is definitely that when you are on
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  a period recovery journey, if you are comparing yourself or
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  looking at the What I Eat in a Day videos and it makes you feel
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  some type of way because you consume more energy than that
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  person. The biggest thing is that we
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  don't know what's going on in that person's life and we
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  definitely cannot believe them when they show the What I Eat in
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  a Day video as being truthful is that's the only things they ate
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  that day or that's actually what was all that day.
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  I mean, those could be 3 meals from three different days for
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  all we know. It's just not what we need to do
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  in order to promote our own recovery journey by watching
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  someone else under fuel. A lot of the times too, these
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  influencers and people who are sharing these videos, they
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  themselves might not have a period.
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  And I think that we often assume just by the way some looks how
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  healthy they are. That's just not true because
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  like, health doesn't have a look and we need to get over that.
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  We've talked about this before, but if you're listening to this
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  podcast, there's a chance that you don't have a period, you're
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  working through period recovery or you know someone who's
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  working through period recovery. And the unfortunate thing is
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  that the symptom of under fueling that you might be
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  experiencing is the loss of a period.
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  But other people might still be under fueling and they just have
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  other symptoms of under fueling. They just might not have the
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  symptom of loss of a period. And it feels unfair that your
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  symptom is losing your period, but that's a good way to look at
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  it and say OK, even though my teammate might still have a
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  period, they might still be under fueling, they just might
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  not have the same symptom. We talked about this a lot in
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  our episode about signs and symptoms that your period is
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  coming back and just like again sign the symptoms of low energy
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  availability. You just bring up such a good
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  point down up because a loss of a period is not the only sign or
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  symptom of under fueling. It is just one of the signs and
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  symptoms of under fueling. It is sometimes the most obvious
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  sign of under fueling. And we've talked about this in
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  that same episode where unfortunately, maybe
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  fortunately, it is a very obvious sign of under fueling.
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  So you know that something needs to change in order to address
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  under fueling. But for someone else who's still
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  having a period, they might not be even realizing that that's
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  impacting their bone health. And wouldn't you rather know
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  that something is going on that's going to impact the
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  health of your body for the long term and then be unaware of that
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  for the entire time? So yes, it is hard.
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  It is difficult for sure, but it's almost a sign that we can
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  use as a very easy way to tell whether or not we are under
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  fueling or not. Yeah, it's.
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  Kind of like a blessing in disguise because it's something
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  that shows us, like you said that we're under fueling and
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  other symptoms might not be as. Obvious, and we never know what
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  the other people might be experiencing for as far as
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  symptoms or the relationship with food or their own struggles
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  with food and food history. On the topic of kind of
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  promoting this like lifestyle, right, that we look at online
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  where we look at somebody else and we think, oh, if they're in
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  a certain, you know, body or if they're eating a certain way,
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  like they're happy. I think this is something that's
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  like a common misconception because a lot of people, I think
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  maybe it's not conscious. It could even be subconscious as
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  you look at people online and think like, oh, if I had a body
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  like her, then I would be happy. And I think it's really easy to
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  put ourselves in other people's shoes and be like, oh, if I just
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  did this like then I'd be happy. Then I'd be a better athlete,
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  then I would be healthier. But again, like, we just really
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  don't know what other people are going through.
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  Oh, I'm glad you brought this up.
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  I actually worked recently with an athlete and we've talked a
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  lot about this, how she reduced her intake, her body changed and
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  lost her period. Now she has regained a little
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  bit of that lost mass. She has gotten her period back.
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  She is feeling better. She is feeling better.
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  And we've had so many conversations about how even
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  though she received maybe more positive feedback or more
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  attention for the way that her body looked when it was smaller,
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  she wasn't any happier. In fact, she was way more
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  unhappy at that point in time because she was missing out on
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  social things, she was feeling underfueled all the time, she
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  was Moody, she was unhappy like all of these things that were
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  happening and she was like, it wasn't worth it.
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  There was number point in time in which I felt like having a
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  smaller body for that period of time made me happier, made me a
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  better friend, made me a better sister, made me a better
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  daughter or any of those things. I was just constantly unhappy
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  and constantly worried about the way that I looked.
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  And I think that all plays back into this kind of idea of it's
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  not going to impact your happiness or how you feel or
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  experience life. Isn't it crazy like how much
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  happier you are when you feel your body?
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  Like I've had some other conversations like this past
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  month as well. It's something that I don't
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  know, like if we advertised like if you get your period back,
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  like you'd be happier. Like I don't think anybody would
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  actually, like listen to us. But it really is crazy how like
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  healing your relationship with food, being in a positive or
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  maintenance energy balance can improve so many areas of your
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  life. Like not just athletic
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  performance. Right.
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  And that's not to say that if you experience body changes
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  during your period recovery journey that those aren't still
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  really difficult as far as navigating like body changes are
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  hard. Change is hard for sure.
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  So definitely not to say that. But the end result getting to
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  that other side of like feeling so much better, feeling like you
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  have fueled your body and then performance improvements and all
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  the things that come along with it.
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  It's kind of the other side of it.
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  So if you are in the middle or in the thick of period recovery
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  and you're like, I do not feel any happier right now.
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  It's valid to feel that way. We've seen it.
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  We've been there with people. You've got you.
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  Do got this. Oh, I love that.
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  What about you? What is driving you bananas this
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  week? I feel like we just ended on
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  such a happy and positive note. I want to bring it back down
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  with things that are driving me bananas because who, Jenna?
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  I am furious. There's this company called
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  Willow Health. I don't know if you've heard of
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  it. I'm calling them out like.
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  I actually think I've gotten maybe like a few ads on social
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  media for this. So tell us a little bit more
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  because I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm
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  not sure. OK.
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  I have not really clicked on the company because I've already
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  seen the ads and I continued to get more and more of them
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  because I commented on a couple of them because like.
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  Oh, she was mad. I was so spicy.
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  I was like, this is like the straw right now ago.
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  Like, I was so spicy. Like, I never really comment on
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  stuff. Like there's just like too many
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  things out there to like, you just gotta, you know, focus on
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  what you can't focus on, control what you can control.
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  But some of these ads that I'm seeing from this company called
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  Willow are not OK. They are not OK.
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  And I know that there's a lot of other people in the space.
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  There's a lot of other dietitians out there who are
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  commenting on some of these and kind of bringing them up.
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  The ads are these GOP one ads, which again, it goes back to the
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  Y with GOP ones, right? They are appropriate for certain
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  individuals. It's a discussion that you make
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  with your physician. But Willow is coming for the
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  girlies and I'm not OK with that.
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  We talked about sports nutrition for the girlies here.
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  You know, our stance on stuff. They aren't trying to go after
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  insecurities that the girlies have and it's not OK.
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  It is not OK. They're putting out ads.
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  Makes me so mad. They're like on little cakes,
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  like they're trying to be cute. And they're like, hey, girlies,
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  Like you don't have to be obese to like, get on a GOP one.
• 17:05
  And they go, hey, girlies, the reason you got ghosted dot dot
• 17:09
  dot sign up for a GOP one. Are you kidding me?
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  No, that's unreal. And the problem is, is now I
• 17:16
  keep getting all of them because I commented on them and it just
• 17:20
  makes me so mad. Like every time I go onto the
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  Internet because they're trying to go after weight and how we
• 17:27
  look as females and saying that it's not good enough and not the
• 17:31
  reason that we're not happy. Kind of like what we just talked
• 17:33
  about or like that's why we're saying.
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  That that's the reason why you would be desirable as a partner
• 17:38
  the way that you currently look that Oh, that.
• 17:40
  No, no, you're right. We did just go from a high high
• 17:43
  to a low low with that one. I cannot believe that that's the
• 17:45
  way that they would. I understand that it's a
• 17:47
  business at the same time, that is just so wrong in my opinion.
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  What makes me even more upset, I think is there's a group of
• 17:57
  people sitting around a table and we talk about this all the
• 17:59
  time, especially with like a business boot camp clients and
• 18:02
  dietitians. But like you have to market to a
• 18:04
  certain population. They are sitting around a table
• 18:08
  and being like what are. Girls. 25 to 35.
• 18:12
  What are they insecure about and how can we mark it off of this?
• 18:16
  I cannot. Riley, I have so many thoughts
• 18:18
  on this. Immediately though, I think
• 18:20
  about how many times I have said on this podcast with a client
• 18:23
  like the way that you look is the least interesting thing
• 18:25
  about you. And now this company is saying
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  the exact opposite thing, that the reason why someone would be
• 18:31
  interested in being your partner or being your friend or anything
• 18:34
  like that has everything to do with what your body looks like.
• 18:37
  And that if we just like look on it at a very, very like surface
• 18:41
  level is so false. And that's not just me saying
• 18:44
  that like no one is friends with you because of the way that you
• 18:46
  look. That is absolutely bananas.
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  It is so understandable that anybody would see that and feel
• 18:52
  like that would be the reason why, especially if you are in a
• 18:55
  struggling place with like food and body, yeah.
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  I know my daughter is only 18 month old and like she's not
• 19:01
  reading this stuff. I cannot imagine if she ever
• 19:03
  came across some of this content.
• 19:06
  Oh my gosh, Yeah. What have you commented back?
• 19:08
  Because now I'm curious. I think I.
• 19:09
  Just was like, this is completely inappropriate.
• 19:11
  I'm like, this is so inappropriate.
• 19:13
  Like we've seen thousands of athletes that have disordered
• 19:16
  eating because of comments like this.
• 19:18
  We have worked with athletes that have been told by coaches,
• 19:20
  male and female coaches that they aren't good enough because
• 19:23
  of the way that their body looks.
• 19:24
  I personally was told that I was not going to survive at the
• 19:27
  college locker level because of the way that I looked.
• 19:29
  Leave me alone. I'm going through puberty.
• 19:31
  Come on. I don't know if I've ever
• 19:32
  actually publicly shared this. I've definitely shared this with
• 19:35
  you off of line before, but when I first went to college, I
• 19:39
  didn't have the intention of studying nutrition through a lot
• 19:42
  of my own struggles that were going on through the time.
• 19:44
  Wanted to learn more about nutrition.
• 19:46
  But I think the tipping point for me for wanting to become a
• 19:49
  dietitian and learn specifically more about sports nutrition.
• 19:52
  I was working as a coach at the time with a field of other male
• 19:56
  coaches. I was one of the only many
• 19:58
  female coaches on the team and in front of everyone at
• 20:01
  practice, they were talking about the puberty changes that a
• 20:05
  female athlete was going through and how that was negatively
• 20:08
  impacting her performance in front of everyone.
• 20:11
  And I still to this day have a tremendous amount of guilt.
• 20:13
  But I didn't say anything at the time.
• 20:15
  Still weighs heavy on me that like I didn't speak up in that
• 20:17
  moment because I should have. That is why I do what I do.
• 20:20
  That is why we're so passionate about making sure that female
• 20:23
  athletes are fueled appropriately and we are not
• 20:25
  focusing on body image. And I feel like this just kind
• 20:27
  of. Into that and it just oh man,
• 20:29
  oh. Puberty is something that's
• 20:30
  going to happen. Like, see this all the time.
• 20:33
  It's like, oh, you know, when ghosts go through purity, they
• 20:35
  get slower. No.
• 20:36
  Why is this? A bad like why is puberty a bad
• 20:39
  thing? Why is it that when male
• 20:41
  athletes mature and they grow and they get taller, we're
• 20:44
  suddenly super excited, Running, swimming, where they're like,
• 20:46
  oh, you've got longer arms, you've got a longer reach now to
• 20:48
  hit the wall first. Same thing with a female
• 20:50
  athlete. When you go through puberty,
• 20:51
  you're going to grow, you're going to be taller.
• 20:53
  Why aren't we celebrating that? Why aren't we looking at it and
• 20:55
  being like this is great, Your body is progressing in a way
• 20:58
  that is notifying us that you're healthy.
• 21:01
  It's just got to stop. I'm thankful that there are
• 21:03
  people like you out in the world fighting the good fight and
• 21:05
  commenting on those things. And even if they delete your
• 21:07
  comment, maybe just one person saw it and realize that this is
• 21:10
  just marketing that's targeting the insecurities that we all
• 21:13
  have. It's not something that they
• 21:14
  need to listen to. So thanks for commenting and
• 21:17
  being vulnerable in that sense. Because a lot of times, like
• 21:19
  when, I don't know, I feel this way, but like commenting on
• 21:22
  things like you, you put a target on yourself sometimes
• 21:24
  when you comment on social media sometimes.
• 21:26
  So thanks for thanks for doing. I just couldn't let this one
• 21:29
  fly. It's not appropriate.
• 21:30
  None. It's not OK.
• 21:31
  I also don't like to call people out.
• 21:33
  I'm like y'all have got to stop. This is such a weird flashback
• 21:36
  moment, but when we were in the internship, there was a certain
• 21:39
  individual who still posts online misinformation about
• 21:44
  food. And it was something about Maple
• 21:46
  syrup. I can't remember the exact
• 21:48
  thing, but it was one of the only times that you commented
• 21:51
  back being like calling someone out online.
• 21:53
  And we were sitting in that little tiny closet at hospital
• 21:56
  and you're like, do I post it? Do I post this?
• 21:58
  And I was like, yes, you need to call them out.
• 22:00
  And we were like, so nervous about it.
• 22:02
  And this was years and years ago now.
• 22:03
  At this point in time, you were just sharing, like, a very kind
• 22:06
  opinion, but you were still, like, hesitant to even do that.
• 22:09
  So yeah, I can imagine that that's not something that felt
• 22:12
  like within your wheelhouse to call this company out.
• 22:15
  We're maturing, Denna, right, You're in PT.
• 22:17
  I tapered for my half. We're standing up for ourselves.
• 22:20
  Let's go. We're doing things.
• 22:22
  We have a lot of things that drive us bananas.
• 22:24
  So if there are things that drive you bananas that you have
• 22:26
  seen online, leave them in in the comments of this podcast.
• 22:29
  If you do have questions for Riley and I about period
• 22:31
  recovery, about fueling, about anything in general, please
• 22:34
  reach out to us. You can find us online.
• 22:36
  You can find Riley at easy dot sports dot nutrition and you can
• 22:38
  find me at Jenna dot Fisher dot nutrition.
• 22:40
  Thank you so much for listening to this episode.
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  And as always, remember to eat more carbs.