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#019 - You'll NEVER Snack Again After Listening to This! 😲🍿 · Beyond Sovereignty

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  Why we snack at work and how to avoid it. When we were kids, we
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  were rewarded with food. Unconsciously, we're doing the exact same
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  things as adults. It's a bit fucked up. If you can make sure
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  that you are quenched of thirst throughout your day,
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  then you have a lot less chance of snacking constantly.
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  Chocolates, chips, even these protein bars, they've all got processed sugar in
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  them. What that is actually doing is we snack a lot at
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  work because we do not eat. consciously. It's
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  really important that you're able to be nourished, satiated,
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  energized, so that you can do the work that you fucking love.
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  Welcome Wisdom Keepers, Soul Tribe and
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  New Earth Leaders to Soul Temple, your haven for self-discovery
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  and growth. I'm Blythe Langford and I am your guide to
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  finding yourself and your true, true, true, true, true purpose. Together,
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  let's shift from feeling stuck and misaligned to
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  living a life of purpose and prosperity. Why
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  we snack at work and how to avoid it. Now
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  I don't know about you but when I
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  used to be at work and a lot of my clients struggle with this is
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  just snacking and snacking and snacking and like snacking chocolate,
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  sweets, fatty foods, chips, all of the things like oh
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  I just want to snack on the thing and and literally a
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  lot of the mind is focused on
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  food a lot of the time. Now if this is you, I've got some tips on
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  why we do this and we're going to go into them and
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  how we can break these habits and addictions as
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  well. One of the main things is because we don't even fucking like what we're
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  doing. Like what we're actually doing, we don't like it.
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  So we snack on things to give ourselves a reward so
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  that we can go in and do the task. Now this is from like unconscious
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  programming because our parents fed us with love, God bless them.
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  But we are doing that to ourselves. So if we can catch
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  ourselves in that moment and be like, babe, I will feed
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  you. Once we've done the task, then we start to
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  adult and parent ourselves. And that's what we really want to be doing.
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  So catching ourselves in those moments. So like
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  I said, it's an addiction. It's a habit. It's something that we've allowed
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  ourselves to do. And so just like any addiction or habit,
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  we've got to rewire ourselves and reprogram ourselves and be
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  in control of that little person within
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  us that just wants to have us self-sabotage or have us just
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  go and reach for the things. or have us avoiding the tasks that we find
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  really uncomfortable. Now, the first reason that we snack a lot
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  is because we're dehydrated. Nine times out of
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  10, we are dehydrated, right? Our body is
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  really dehydrated, but our mind is like, okay, let's go
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  and reach for that sugar or fat or chippy thing that is going to
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  satiate us and give us fuel. But we
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  keep on snacking because we're really dehydrated. So
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  if you can make sure that you are quenched of
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  thirst throughout your day, then you have
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  a lot less chance of snacking constantly. So
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  it's really important. So what I always do is
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  like when I have a busy day, the night before I'll prepare my drinks first.
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  So I have three liter bottles. Each one of them has a
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  different thing in it. I've got my lemon water with salt and honey in
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  there. I've got a tea that's going to give me energy with
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  honey. I'm a bit addicted in winter. It's freezing. And
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  then number three, I've got another tea that's going to be calming for the
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  day. So I know what I'm going to be doing during the day. And they're my
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  three things. That is my challenge for myself. Every single day, I
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  have to get through the water. And then once I've had the water, then I
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  can have food after later if I need it. But I will not
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  eat anything until I've drunk at least one
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  and a half liters of water. Generally, it's two. So if
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  you were to implement that habit, It will change your
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  life forever and you will feel so much better and you'll be
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  way more focused. Because also remember that water is a
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  calmer. It will calm you down. And
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  if you were to grab your water bottle, pop your hands over
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  it. Take a second before you drink it and just
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  put all your love and energy and good vibes into that water.
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  The water will absorb it because water is a living frequency. It's
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  a living element of this planet. So if you're
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  able to tune in and activate your water with your
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  vibes, your good vibes, then that water will
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  give you back all of those good vibes. And that's what we want. We want more yumminess. teachers
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  in Mexico would always say the most important thing is to pray over your water. Like
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  if you do nothing else in the day, do that because the
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  water is a part of God creation, right? So higher
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  source self, Buddha, Allah, whatever you believe in, but it will
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  help activate you and hydrate you in the best way possible. The number
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  two reason why we snack a lot at work is because we're eating out
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  of habit. Now, when we were kids, we were rewarded with food. And
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  so unconsciously we're doing the exact same things as adults. It's
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  a bit fucked up, hey? but we do it. So what
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  we do is we're constantly snacking because we're like, oh my gosh, I'm doing this thing that
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  I actually hate. I'm out of alignment in my life. I
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  don't like the job that I'm doing and I really want a snack. And so
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  if I'm going to do the work, it's like a little kid having a temper tantrum. If I'm going to
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  do the work, I'm going to feed myself and I'm going to rule myself with love because
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  I hate what I'm doing. So it's a
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  bit yuck, isn't it? I mean, I noticed I still catch
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  myself sometimes doing that as well. I'm like, I go to reach for the food. I'm like, Just
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  use a fuckin' work blight, like... front up, do the work.
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  Like, you don't need to have 20 snacks to
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  complete one task, you know? Like, so my
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  love, sister, I got you. We all have
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  been fed by love from our beautiful parents, our caretakers. And
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  so unfortunately it is indoctrinated into us. And at
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  times this little inner part of us will
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  just be like calling out to be like, Hey,
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  I'm here. feed me. And it's like, yes, sweetie, I
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  got you. It's not a higher self. It's just this little part of
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  us that doesn't want to do the job. So we
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  just need to say to her, sweetheart, I got you, honey, darling, my love.
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  We will do whatever it is that we're going to do first. And
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  then I will reward you with food if I'm hungry. And
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  Yeah. Once you realize that it's, it's not, once you realize
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  it's this little, little part of yourself, then it's a lot easier to
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  not go for the snack and you can just be like, well, caught myself. There she is again.
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  I love you. It's okay. We're going to do the task, do the
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  task, move on, get it done. Now
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  the number three reason why we snack at work is because it's a trauma response
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  in our body. Our body, is
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  in our nervous system in that moment. So what we want to do
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  is take a few long, slow, deep breaths so
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  that we don't act on that trauma response. Because remember, trauma
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  isn't just fight, fright, freeze, or fawn. It's
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  also feast and fucking. So we're feasting in that moment because
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  we're in a trauma response. Our body is activated. Our
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  nervous system is activated. I want you to try this really simple
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  five-second breathwork technique. You're going to breathe in five
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  short quick breaths and then one long breath in and
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  one long breath out. Oh my gosh, see how good you feel. You can literally get
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  high off this in five seconds. Ready? Do it with me. That
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  was yummy. Is that yummy for you? Do that. It's so
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  good. So if you do that before you
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  have reached for the snack or do that every time you want
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  to reach for the snack, nine times out of 10, you won't reach for the snack. You'll just be
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  able to get back onto the work, be focused and feel really fucking good.
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  Get high on your own supply. You know, the number four reason why
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  we snack at work is because we are so suppressing our
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  emotions. Yes, we want to avoid the tasks we
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  don't want to do. This is a really common ADHD thing.
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  If you're like me and you have ADHD, which most entrepreneurs and leaders do, you're
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  welcome. We're doing it to suppress our emotions. So what
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  we're actually feeling, we're just eating ourselves, eating
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  just to numb it and avoid it and not actually do the
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  task at hand or not actually say to
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  the person that has given us the task, Mate, do
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  the task yourself! This isn't what I want to do! I'm people-pleasing!
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  Again! Dammit! ADHD! All the things! Dammit!
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  Dammit! Am I doing that again? You know what? Thank you for
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  giving me this beautiful task to do and I am going to
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  lovingly give it back to you to do because it is not of
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  my highest value right now. It is not of my highest service. It's
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  not going to bring us to the place that we really need to be right now. Or
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  you're going to go get your VA to do it. So
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  either way, use suppressing your emotions and
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  figure out what's going to be the best solution to actually
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  get back to the work or get somebody else to do that task for you.
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  Now, our number five reason why we snack at
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  work is because we're not nourished with optimum nutrition.
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  What do I mean? You don't have enough glucose in your brain. Your
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  brain's freaking hungry. Hungry! Like, really hungry!
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  So... give it some organic, raw
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  sugar in some form, whether that be from fruit.
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  Yes, fruit. Dates, dried fruit that
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  have no oil and no sulfur in them, because most do. A medjool
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  date, have a honey tea, a raw honey tea,
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  or have a freshly squeezed juice, or have a smoothie, eat a banana. So
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  simple, but making sure that we have got optimum nourishment from
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  our food. Because nine times out of ten, We are, like
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  a lot of people when they are snacking, they're snacking on things that have
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  got zero nutrition, right? Chocolates, chips and
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  processed sugar. So like ice creams or bars
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  or even these protein bars, they've all got processed sugar in them. So
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  what that is actually doing is wiring up our nervous
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  system, getting us into a anxious state so
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  that we want to keep on eating and feasting because we're
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  in our nervous system again. So when we are eating optimally
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  through the day, so making sure that we've drunk enough water in the morning, then
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  we're going to have a high fruit breakfast, then we're going
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  to have fruit snacks during the day, we will
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  be of the best nutrition so we don't constantly snack.
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  Now people can be like, oh my gosh, I just had an orange and I'm still wanting to
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  eat food. Okay, cool. I want you to go and have 10 oranges. Because
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  then you'll be full. Don't eat too little. On
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  a high-carb diet, you can eat more. Go
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  and eat more. I'll always say to everybody, they're like, oh, you know, this is
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  what's happened. I'm like, you're undernourished. You don't have enough calories. Go and eat more
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  food. This is not a restrictive lifestyle. It's about having abundance.
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  And you should have abundance from your food. A lot of people have these
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  tiny little meals. I see them. I sit next to the boys when we're at, the
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  men, sorry, when we're at our events. And they have these tiny little meals.
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  And they're like pretty much white and tanned colored food. And
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  I'm just like there with my basket of colorful vibrations
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  of love food. I'm like. They're like, are you going to eat all that? I'm
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  like, are you just going to eat that? I'm like this tiny woman
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  and they're like this man, you know, it's like, yeah, everybody's
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  calorie deficient and they're nourished and their nutritional
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  content and their macro and their micronutrients is
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  insufficient. So making sure that we are having optimum
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  nutrition, not macro nutrition. I'm
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  going to go into macros and micros in another episode, but micro
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  nutrition, making sure that we're having enough calories, making sure we've got
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  all of the vitamins and minerals in our food. Fruit, veggies,
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  nuts, seeds, smoothies, juices, get it in your face.
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  Now the number six reason why we snack a
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  lot at work is because we do not eat
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  consciously. What I mean is we are on the computer, we're
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  on the TV, we're doing a thousand things and we're eating
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  at that time and our brain isn't actually conscious
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  that we are eating. So what I
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  would love you to do every time that you do eat is
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  eat without any devices on, without any work. I
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  know this is so hard when you're at work and you're an entrepreneur or a
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  leader, but you really need to take
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  that time for yourself or you're gonna keep on
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  snacking and binging for the rest of your life. So what I
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  mean is, yes, you have to take five minutes just to
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  slow down and eat, And before you eat, get
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  conscious because we can be just in our reactive
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  state and not even be present in our life. So like I said before,
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  doing those conscious breaths, get back in your body, feel
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  yourself, like legit feel yourself, honey, like
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  you feel good. You feel really good. So feel yourself,
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  get in your body. Do
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  the breath. Do the breath. If you want to,
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  like I do, I always just give great thanks, do an
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  intentional prayer before my food, not a religious prayer, an
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  intentional prayer of gratitude for the food, for
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  the farmers, for the sun, for the earth, for nourishing
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  this food so that it can nourish my body and my life and just Put
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  your good vibes into it because food is alive and living, especially if
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  it's raw. Put your good vibes in it and it will absorb that
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  and nourish you tenfold. And then you won't feel hungry afterwards.
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  You're like, nine times out of 10, I can't even get through my meals because I'm
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  like, oh, this food's so good. It tastes so good and
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  I just want to eat it and I'm so full. So that's how I would
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  like you to feel, satiated after every meal. Yes, satiated after
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  a salad or fruit because it is 100% possible and
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  it is 100% nourishment for your body. Now
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  there's a few misconceptions around snacking at work as well that I
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  just want to touch into as
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  well. because there's multiple ways of eating, right?
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  So if you're a grazer and you graze and have tiny little
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  meals all throughout the day, then snacking is
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  how you eat. Just make sure that you don't have all of these snacks
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  and then a massive, massive meal if
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  you're eating high-density foods that are, you know,
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  like meat and dairy and all of those things. It's
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  not going to be great for you. But if you like that style
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  of eating, then a raw vegan or a
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  vegan lifestyle would be perfect for you because you can snack all
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  day on fruit and then have your bigger meal in
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  the evening that's either like a big salad or veggies,
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  then that's totally fine because that is going to work perfectly for
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  you. So maybe that's okay for you. Other people
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  like to fast all day so that they just drink all day.
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  So rather than snacking on foods, you just snack
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  on drinks instead and then have your bigger meals towards the
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  end of the day. That's fine too. You just have to learn
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  what's going to be best for you. I personally know if I
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  snack all day, I'm tired as fuck and
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  I don't have energy. It does not give me energy.
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  That is not the optimum way that I function. And
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  I know a lot of people are like that. But a lot of
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  clients like to snack in the earlier parts of
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  the day and then they'll fast later on in the day. And that's
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  great too. So you've just got to figure out what is going
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  to work best for you. And the way that you figure it out is
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  not by just appeasing your desires
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  but actually tuning into what gives you the most energy because
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  energy is life force and what I want you to tune into is
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  the life force that's going to give you the ability to
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  do the work that you're here to do because it's really important
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  that you're able to be nourished satiated, energized, so
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  that you can do your life purpose, so that you can do the work
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  that you fucking love, so that you don't have to be obsessed
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  about food all the time. I know that when I used to
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  be working in a job that I didn't love, I was obsessed with thinking
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  over food all the time. I always wanted a snack. I always wanted a snack. I was always
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  thinking about my next snack, like what I was doing, because I was so out
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  of alignment with what I was really wanting to do. I really
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  wanted to exit my businesses. and I was a bit trapped in
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  them and I find a lot of people are like that too. They're
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  trapped in something that they don't absolutely love
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  for the money rather than actually realising that
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  it's causing them ill health, causing them to snack all the time on things that they
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  don't even like because they're actually subconsciously poisoning themselves
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  so that they can get sick regularly so they don't
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  have to come to work. So, just make sure that you're aware of
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  your snacking and what it means to you. And if it's okay and it's in
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  alignment with you having energy to fuel yourself and it's good
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  energy throughout the day, 10 thumbs up to you.
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  That's sweet. Go snack all through the day. That's totally
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  fine because I snack all through the afternoon. But if
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  this snacking is causing you to have low energy,
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  shit self-esteem, not getting your tasks done, really
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  avoiding your jobs and is making your
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  business suffer, then this snacking is something that you want to be
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  able to understand and create a
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  vision of how you want it to be, of who you need to
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  be and who you want to be and
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  why. So my love, I think the most important thing I would love you
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  to take away from this is just to look at your habits of
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  what you're doing. Are they detrimental or are they positive? Are
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  they getting you to where you need to be or where you want to be or
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  are they not? and just reassessing because
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  once you can look into what it is that you're doing and if you
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  are harming or being proactive then you'll actually see whether
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  you're in alignment or out of alignment because that's what it all comes back to. I
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  just want to help you get back into alignment so that you can feel fully
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  on fire in your life and in your business and so that these little
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  habits and addictions don't cause you harm because
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  at the end of the day, you know, it's just food And
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  you're doing your best. And once you can realise and
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  allow yourself to just give yourself a bit of grace, give yourself
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  a bit of space and use it as
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  a tool to see whether you actually like what you're doing or
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  not and whether this is a time to shift off and change and have
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  a bit of a transformation in your health and within
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  the work that you're doing. Maybe that's what you need to do. maybe
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  you're here to do greater things or maybe you're here to just make greater impact
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  in your business or in the leadership that you're doing. So
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  take this time to really consider am
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  I in alignment with the work that I'm doing or is this snacking a
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  sign that my body is trying to tell me that I'm out of alignment and I'm
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  need to make a change. And make the change. And that's why
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  coaches and mentors are there. And if you want some support, I would love
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  to get on a call and see if we're aligned to
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  work together. Because maybe we're not. Maybe there's somebody else out there that's better for you. But
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  maybe I have a program that could really help you. And I hope you got lots
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  out of this episode. And I can't wait to see you in the next episode. But
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  please let me know in the comments below, do you have this struggling
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  with snacking at work? Is food obsession a bit of a thing for you? Let
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  me know. and I look forward to seeing you in the next podcast. Much