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151. Sports Dietitians React: Runners WIEIAD Viral Videos · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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This is the Eat more Carbs podcast.
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Hello. And welcome back.
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This is the More Carbs podcast. We are a.
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Team of dietitians. And we talk every Thursday about
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sports. Nutrition for the girlies.
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My name is Jenna and I host this.
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Podcast and my name is Riley. You're also see me on this
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podcast. I am the owner and founder of
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Steady State Performance Nutrition.
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We specialize in helping. Female athletes recover from.
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Low energy availability and together along with.
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Lily Rhymer we. Are team steady state?
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Before we get into today's episode, we are going to do our
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high and low, so sharing just a little bit about our week, the
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good and the parts we wish have gone a little bit differently.
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As always, Riley. Can you kick?
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Us off Jenna. I officially live in Narnia and
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I cannot deal with it. Please expand.
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All right, so if y'all are new to the.
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Podcast. I live in North Carolina and I.
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Grew up here I. Lived in LA for 9 to 10 years
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and then I moved to Charleston, SC and now I'm back completing
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the circle in North Carolina. If you're not familiar with
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North Carolina, it is a very like moderate climate.
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And ever since I moved back for these like last two years, we
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have had more snow than I ever had in my entire childhood.
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And specifically like the last week, our last two weeks, we had
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over like a foot and a half of snow.
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And we're supposed to get more snow tonight.
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And I cannot deal with it. It just, I feel like snow hits
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so much differently as an adult than it did when you were a kid.
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And like now as a parent, I'm just over it.
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And I know I sound so spoiled right now.
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But the problem is, is with North Carolina, we're not set up
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for snow. We don't have the clothing, we
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don't have the snow plows in them.
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We just don't have the equipment.
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So like, school has been out for almost 2 weeks.
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It's just we're over it. Oh.
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My gosh. Growing up in Colorado, I don't
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think that I was ever out of school for a snowstorm for that
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long. And we?
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Have a lot. Of snow there but again,
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Colorado is used to that they're anticipating that and I remember
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like driving to school and being like I can't believe that
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there's this much snow and school isn't canceled but that
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again, that's. Because like we had Rd. plows,
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they salt the roads like all of. Those things that Colorado set
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up for that North Carolina just isn't.
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So I can't believe that kids have been out of.
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School for two weeks. Has Charlie been home a lot more
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because of that? We have been doing what we call
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Nanny, so us and the other family that are doing like a
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nanny share, we have been going and picking up the nanny.
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We've kind of been splitting transportation because both
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families have like 4 wheel drive vehicles.
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The issue is, is not the main roads.
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So our main roads are mainly cleared at the roads to get out
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of the neighborhood like and some of our roads because
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they're not like they're not plowing all the little roads in
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the neighborhood. We'll have like 2 inches of ice.
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This week is actually a lot better because we've had snow so
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that's easier to clear off the roads.
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But last week we had very thick ice and that is just that's
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different. And I just didn't drive at all
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last week. Like I feel like I'm a pretty
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brave person, but like, I made Rob's drive last week because
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just the ice. Ice is different and I don't
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think that any amount of brave would.
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Get me to drive on ice. I also.
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Lived in Minnesota. I just want to give myself a
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little bit of credit because everybody right now, like I know
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all my northern clients right now are just so over me because
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they're like, you know what, it's finally 20° here.
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It's been -40 But I did grow up. I spent some time in Minnesota,
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so I am used to winter weather kind of, but I don't know.
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I think it just because we're not set up for it.
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It's just an abnormality. Well, hopefully things start to
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warm up because I know that's probably impacting a lot more
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than just driving for you guys. So.
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I hope so. My high though is I have been
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debating about getting a treadmill for like 2 to three
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months and this week has just been the last straw and I have
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officially ordered a treadmill and it's coming tomorrow on
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Friday. So I am so, so excited and I
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never thought I'd be that excited to see a treadmill.
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Congratulations on the new. Treadmill.
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I'm very excited. I'm probably going to hate it
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and like week, but I'm very excited for it right now.
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What? Type.
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Did you decide on? OK, I went back and forth like a
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million times, but I decided just to get like a basic Nordic
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track. It's like AT series, it's like
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their lowest kind of basic level.
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I decided like I don't need anything super fancy.
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And if I decide that I want to pursue running greatly and I
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want to run many, many miles on the treadmill, maybe I'll
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upgrade in like a year or so if it's if it's for me.
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But I didn't need to buy a super fancy one right now.
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I love that. I'm sure I'll have many things
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to say about it. So I am very excited about my
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terminal. So that's my high.
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How about you? I'm going to share the same
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story for my high and my low. Because it's a lot.
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Of emotions for sure. I shared a long time ago that
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I've been dealing or maybe even over a year ago now, have been
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dealing with like a hamstring issue.
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And I tried to take some time off of running.
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I still ran a marathon on it and then I was trying to rehab it,
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but I was only maybe like half. Heartedly rehabbing.
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It and taking like. A couple days off.
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And in reality? What I think my body needed was
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like a full. Stop from running.
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So between November and descent, well between really December and
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January, I did not run a single time, which was really.
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Really hard especially. As someone who like runs a
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decent amount and talks about running all the time to just
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stop running all of a sudden, it was not super fun but.
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Yesterday for the first. Time I ran and I did not have
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any hamstring pain. Granted it was more of a, you
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know, return to running situation with running and
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walking. We did not go fast.
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We did not go far, but I didn't have any pain.
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And that was like the first time that I've run and I don't know
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how long that I haven't had pain.
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And it was. Like a huge relief so.
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Low being that like, what a humbling experience and what a
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hard two months I've had. High being that I finally ran
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and I'm just so excited. To.
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Continue to run and hopefully only feel better and better and
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better from here on out. Literally like love when you
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run. Like I get more happy when you
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get to run than when I get to run.
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So I'm so excited. Oh my gosh, that's so sweet.
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I feel the same way about you. I'm like, oh, she's out there.
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Killing it outside. Even when it's snowing.
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So I feel the same way. But thank you.
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I'm so happy, you know, sometimes when you take some
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time off of some something that you love, you kind of.
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Expect it to be like you get back.
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Out there and you ride in a bike and it's no problem and it does
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not feel that way. That's running though.
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I feel like you just got to do it for like 2 weeks.
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Yeah, I'll be back. Once I get to that point, I'm
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sure it'll feel like I never stopped, but right now it feels.
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Very different to run. And that's.
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OK, if you're somebody. Who's going through injury?
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Or if you are somebody. Who had to take a break from the
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training that you love? I feel you on that.
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It's hard, but there. Is an end, I promise.
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Yeah. And it does.
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Just because you're not running as much doesn't mean you're not
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an athlete. There's so, so many other things
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that you can be doing to benefit your performance, especially,
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again, right, with the period recovery process or an entry.
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And those two weeks off of running and the grand scheme of
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things didn't change my life, so I'm OK.
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I'm not going to lie though, the two weeks that I have not been
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able to, it's actually been like a week and a half.
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I need to stop being dramatic. And I've also been able to run
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outside. I, I'm feel, I feel it like I
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feel it right now. So I think it's really
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interesting because you have kind of just maybe ended that
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and I feel like I'm in it right now, which again, in the grand
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scheme of things like me not being able to run the last week
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and a half because of I know is not that big of a deal even
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though it stresses me out. It doesn't matter if it's five
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days or five months, it all feels unfamiliar.
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And I think that unfamiliarity is what's hard because it's
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you're. Taking a break from.
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Something that you love to do. I also think that there's so
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many parallels with running and like getting back into running
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or just like the running journey and like the period recovery
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journey because it can feel like the days are so long, but the
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time is actually short. And we talk about this all the
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time in the program where people feel like they've done something
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for a week, which that's amazing.
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Good. Job.
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But in the grand scheme of things, that's really not that
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long of a time period. Yep.
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Your period didn't go away overnight.
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It's not going to come back overnight.
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We have to work at this for a long time.
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And sometimes, like in my case with my hamstring, that required
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a little bit more time and attention than maybe I
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originally wanted to give it. Did we just give?
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Ourselves a therapy session. Yeah, I think so.
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Which is perfect going into today's episode.
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Which is all about things that drive us bananas.
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So. We're entering today.
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In a really great. Place to talk about things that
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maybe. Made us a little bit mad.
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On today's episode we are going to be talking about the things
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that we saw online or out in the world that absolutely drove us
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bananas. Do you guys want me?
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To go first today. Yeah, go first.
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OK, I actually had a client send me something which I'm super
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excited about. Riley's had clients in the past
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that has sent her stuff where our bananas episode and I've
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always been a little bit jealous.
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So my client sent me something and she was just like, I saw
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something that drove me bananas and I was like, yes, I'm so
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excited. So if you're a client of mine
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and you're listening to this, if you see things that drive you
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bananas, like please send them to me because I'm going to use
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them on podcast. My client sent me that she had
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seen an Instagram post of an influencer that was doing what
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and I eaten a day while marathon training which I've had beef
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with what I eat in a day videos. Like I have talked about this
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before. This is not new news.
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Everybody knows that this drives me bananas.
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But this particular individual went on a 14 mile run that day.
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So we're not talking low mileage. 14 miles is a lot of
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miles and they fueled with a piece of toast, oatmeal, a salad
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with chicken and their dessert with some yogurt with fruit.
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I think this. Brings up a bigger conversation
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because I do not understand why there seems to be a in the
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running community and just maybe athletic and even like the
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normal society community where let's see how little we can fuel
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with and like that makes it a flex.
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I just don't understand it. Like why do we think that
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that's? Cool, it's not it's not a good
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thing to be under fueled. Imagine if this individual
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fueled appropriately. She could probably run better.
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She probably could avoid injury during marathon training.
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I think it's so concerning because one, if you go to those
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Instagram influencers page or who's ever page, you can go
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through their what I eat in a day videos and you start to see
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like, oh, it's the same yogurt bowl, like it's the same video.
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So it's not accurate either way, but it still becomes problematic
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because people think that that's adequate to fuel a 14 mile run.
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My client also said because of it, she was so heated.
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I love her so much. She said I think I could eat all
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of that before noon and possibly still be hungry.
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So like shout out to her because absolutely yes, so proud of her
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for saying that. But she was like, I ran to the
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comments because I was hoping people would be like, Oh my
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gosh, this is not enough fuel to sustain marathon training.
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And of course, all of the comments instead were like,
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you're so disciplined. I wish I had this type of
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discipline while training. I wish I could run like that and
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fuel like that and things like that.
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So it was just like comments about how they wished they could
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emulate that type of behavior, which I think is even more
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concerning because if you do go to the comments on those, you're
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like, oh, this is something that I should be attempting to
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replicate. It is a desirable outcome to
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have when you're thinking about fueling or clearly under fueling
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in this case, and people think that's a good thing.
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Kind of going where your client went.
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I actually when you first started your list, before you
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got to salad, I thought you were describing one meal.
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Literally. No.
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I was like, actually, Jenna, that's not that bad.
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And then I was like, oh, we're doing the whole day right now.
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Like, not just one meal. Right.
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Yeah, Toast, oatmeal, we're two separate things.
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If you're an athlete and you're running 14 miles, toast and
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oatmeal could totally belong in the same meal together to get
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you adequate amounts of carbohydrate to fuel a 14 mile
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run. I have athletes that will eat
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that before that you go running. I think it's really cool when we
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see a lot of athletes who work with us within our programs.
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They're kind of like mindset shift from something is too much
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to now it's not enough. And I think about all the
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athletes that I've worked with. Who are?
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Always like it's too much to eat before training.
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And then now we have swapped and changed our mindset.
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So now we're focused on like, that's not enough.
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So like 60 grams of carbs is not enough.
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Like how can I get more? Like how am I adding in the
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nutrients that my body needs? How am I adding more
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carbohydrates? And that like mindset shift is
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so important for obviously health and getting your period
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back, but we see performance benefits from that as well.
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And I'm sure they just feel better, like I'm sure they just
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feel better on their runs. Like that girl probably like
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wasn't able to walk for the rest of the day.
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Like there's no way her recovery was good enough that it's
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sustainable for her marathon training.
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And even if she acts like it is and keeps posting these videos
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of what she's eating a day during marathon training, I
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highly doubt she feels very good while she's doing it.
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Yeah, and she's not going to post about that.
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Like, nobody posts about their losses.
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No one's like, I could not walk for three days because I didn't
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eat enough and I couldn't recover.
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Everyone's like, oh, I only eat this much food.
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Like again, not a flex. Or they don't even make the
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correlation that they're under fueling or their lack of fueling
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is what led to them being sore for so long.
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They're like, oh, it's just because I ran a marathon.
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And yes, like Riley talked about on her New York City Marathon
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recap, like there was some mechanical soreness post
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marathon. You've run 26.2 miles, but you
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shouldn't be feeling like dead and that you need to be in bed
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recovering for the next week. Like that's a problem.
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I also feel bad for her because now what has happened is she
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posted what I eat in a day videos and everybody commented
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how disciplined she was and like positive reinforce the behavior.
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So now if she eats more than that or she's hungry.
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She's going to feel. Like she's doing something wrong
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or that she's not disciplined. 100% yeah.
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So what I. Eat in a day.
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Videos are still driving me bananas.
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I still don't like them. Nothing has changed.
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We've talked about this before, we've posted examples of
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performance plates or things like that, but we don't show
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every single thing that we all eat in a day because it's very.
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Unique and individualized. To us, our training and our
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goals, all of our fueling is going to look very different,
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despite the fact that right now we're all in a running era.
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Riley is training for 1/2, Lily is training for 1/2.
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I'm running again, all of those things are amazing, but that's
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going to look different for every single one of us based on
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where we're at in training, what our goals are, and what our
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needs are. So we're never going to post a
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What I Eat in a Day video trying to encourage people to fuel with
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more, because what I need is different from what you need,
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which is different from what Riley needs, which is different
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from what Lily needs. I actually stopped posting
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pictures of my plates like now I will share what char is eating
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because I don't want people trying to eat like I eat.
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Because. You get a tiny snapshot with
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like a a picture of my plate. I mean both of y'all know, like
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I feel like I'm eating every single time I'm on a call with
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y'all. Like I eat differently than most
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people, right? So if I took a picture of my
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plate, the portions are just going to look different than
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what you need. Exactly.
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Which I think goes back to like, that's what works for you is
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maybe more frequent fueling opportunities throughout the
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day, but you don't always push that for the athletes that you
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work with. You're not that they also have
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to do that. You're finding ways that work
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for them. And I think that's super
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important to kind of loop into the conversation is that we're
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never trying to make you feel like we fuel.
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We're trying to find what works best to fuel you, so that way
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you can be the. Best version of yourself.
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And I think that's what's really overwhelming and frustrating for
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a lot of athletes on their period recovery journey is
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because they're looking on Reddit, they're looking at all
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these places, they're talking to their friends who have overcome
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hypothomic amenorrhea or have, you know, recovered from Reds.
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And they're trying to do what other people have done.
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But we have to figure out what works for you.
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Like this is so individualized. And of course, if you're trying
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to mimic what somebody else is doing, whether that's a what I
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eat in a day video or whether that's a period recovery
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journey, it might not work for you.
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It's just going to be frustrating because you're not
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going to achieve the goal that you want.
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Also, with these what I eat in a day videos, I think that a lot
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of girls who see it or people who are on this period recovery
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journey, it could be really easy to fall into the trap of like
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the body checking and things like that that these videos
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usually have of being like, well, they seem like they're OK.
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They have a six pack, they probably have their period and
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they're only eating this. But you don't know, like,
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there's so much going on behind the scenes that they aren't
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going to post that this influencer fully could be
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experiencing a lot of issues that you don't see behind the
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scenes, like poor recovery, like maybe even a missing period that
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you have to kind of check yourself and be like, I don't
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know, everything that's going on just because they're eating a
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salad and having a yogurt bowl for dessert.
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Willie, I am so glad you said that.
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All right, let's go next. I can go this isn't necessarily
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something SO social related or a post that I saw but I am really
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sick and tired of athletes getting the wrong information
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when it comes to period recovery and I'm so.
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Excited that we have. Doctor Catherine Hill on later
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this month to kind of clear some of these myths and
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misconceptions up. But I feel so bad for people
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because athletes are trying to do the right thing oftentimes,
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right? Like most people lose their
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period because it intentionally starts off from a good place.
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People are maybe trying to eat healthy or change the way that
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they're doing things in order to improve their health, become a
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better athlete, and then again, it results in a lost period.
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Then they go to the doctor or they seek help and they're
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getting the wrong information. Like if I had a dollar, maybe
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even a a penny for how many? People reach out.
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About how they were put on a oral contraceptive to get their
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period back. I would be a very rich woman,
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unfortunately. I think it was standard for so
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long, which it never should have been the standard like there
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always should have been some searching into why we're missing
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a period, but I think it became a habit for a lot of physicians
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and OB gens and things like that, that it's sad that it's
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the case. A lot of our athletes come to us
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feeling disheartened because they were just told and kind of
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written off by their doctors to just get on the birth control
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pill. Similarly to you.
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Riley, I'm excited that we're having Doctor Hill on later this
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month to kind of go through the importance of meeting with the
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physician that understands a little bit more about like the
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Reds recovery process and what being on hormonal contraceptive
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actually means for that recovery process as well.
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But I think that there's a potential that a lot of people
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going to a physician are looking for something that just solves
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the missing period. And in a way, if you were
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looking at it from a purely aerial view, if you start taking
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oral contraceptive when you don't have a period, there's a
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chance that you will start to experience some type of a bleed.
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That doesn't mean it's a true period.
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And Doctor Hill's going to talk more about that when we have
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that conversation. But that can be incredibly
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confusing because all of a sudden the athlete, OK, now I
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have a period like I did get, I did get a bleed and so I must be
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OK now. And that's not necessarily the
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case. And I think it's just really
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confusing for athletes. Because.
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They go to a trusted provider and then we're like, actually
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that's wrong. That's just confusing.
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Like everybody in the space is, is saying different things, even
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guidelines for getting your period back, like we take a very
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different approach within our period recovery program.
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It's different than what's been commonly taught or talked about
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in the space. We work with athletes.
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Like we work with athletes who want to keep training or can't
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stop training because scholarships or jobs or even
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like mental health, like relies on their their training.
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I think it's just really confusing because we're saying a
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lot of different things than what's been, I guess, commonly
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shared. Confusion pieces so hard for
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athletes. And I think even the athletes
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who do choose to get on, like the oral contraceptive, they
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sometimes see it as a fix and then don't make the further
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changes to their feeling and things like that.
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Because there are a lot of women who might go to their doctor and
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get this opinion from them that don't know that there is a
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fueling aspect. And that also isn't good either.
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There's so many factors that go into it.
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And it is a decision that is individual to an athlete on how
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they want to proceed with their treatment of a missing period.
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But there's more to it than just getting on the birth control
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pill, all right? That's enough for of my ranting.
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Lily, what's driving you bananas this week?
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OK so mine is from TikTok. Are we shocked?
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So Riley actually reposted this on Instagram because the creator
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had posted it on Instagram as well.
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I had seen it on TikTok when it like first came out and it was a
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clinical dietitian who had posted about how she
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consistently experiences older women, people, anyone talking
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about how they want to be smaller.
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And the comments were so sad. Although our target audience,
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the people who are listening probably don't fall in this like
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older age range. I think it's really important to
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talk about because we're setting the standard as we get older on
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how we're talking about our bodies.
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And also if your grandparents are talking about your bodies
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like they are in this video, we need to work on correcting it.
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And just for a little bit more context, these comments were all
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about how these people had their grandparents who wouldn't eat
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like. Eat very small portions, things
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like that and would constantly be talking about their bodies
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and how they wish it was smaller or if they lost weight, which is
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common in the older population. They were happy that they lost
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weight, which realistically it's found that the more weight we
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have on our bodies as we get older is actually protective for
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when we get sick and things like that.
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You don't want to be frail, you don't want to be teeny tiny, you
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don't want to be in the smallest body possible.
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And that's what a lot of these women and men are told to be
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chasing after. And so that's what was driving
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me bananas is just reading those comments, 'cause I read it when
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it originally came out and a little sad.
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I am a very emotional person. I felt like I was going to cry
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when I read some of those things that people were saying because
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it's so incredibly sad. There were so many comments
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about women who were going through cancer treatment or
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towards the end of their life and they were still celebrating
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or attempting to alter how their body looks.
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And I just think that it is so sad that it has been ingrained
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in our mind that that is what will create happiness.
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That is what will create a life worth living.
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And in reality, none of those things, being in a small body,
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existing in a smaller body, is not going to all of a sudden
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create happiness in your life. It's not going to all of a
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sudden change the outcome of certain things.
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And it's just so sad that we've been led to believe that that's
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the truth. And I completely agree with you,
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Lily, on that. Like, it drove me bananas seeing
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that. Like, that's still how we're
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viewing and talking about people's bodies.
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And it made me so sad that so many people towards the end of
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their life still wanted to be. Smaller.
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Yeah. And I have some clinical
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experience. And so I was one of these
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clinical dietitians that was asking these older women about
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their weight. And a very common question that
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we ask is if they have unintentionally lost any weight.
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The amount of people who would respond to that I wish or Yeah,
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but it's a good thing. And things like that.
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It was super disheartening to hear, and I just drives me
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bananas. So if your grandma's talking
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like this, please tell her that she's safer without losing a
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bunch of weight. She might not be ready to hear
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it though. That's the only issue.
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I think that's why when Riley talks about raising a daughter,
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how she is talking about fueling and body and body changes that
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like we have an opportunity to change that.
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And I think that's incredibly important, especially right now
22:37
with like skinny talk and how Hollywood is presenting
22:40
themselves right now that we try to be the change.
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Because I know that we've talked about trying to be the change in
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the past or other, you know, past meeting, you know, years
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ago when talking about people's bodies, like I remember like TV
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shows that would call somebody out and say that they were
22:54
overweight or something like that.
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Now looking back and seeing that, I can't believe that those
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people were labeled in that way or talked about in that way or
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that was even talked about in general.
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But I do think that we have an opportunity to like change that
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standard or change that rhetoric.
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I love that Riley is so open about like how she talks about
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those things in front of her daughter.
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So it's different. For her trying, but to be
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completely honest, like there's so many outside forces like.
23:17
That are at play, like she'll be.
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Out in public and, you know, people, maybe servers like
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providing food at restaurants or just people at the grocery.
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Store or just there's. So many comments and I think
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that is something that I'm hyper aware of and like I've always at
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least noticed we get a lot of eyes on us as dietitians, like
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people always looking at what we're eating and things like
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that. And it always cracks me up
23:38
because you would be like. You eat like normal.
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And I'm like, OK, like, how am I supposed to eat?
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Like, what do you want from me? What is normal?
23:44
But like, I just think that. There's continual conversation
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and like, it's going to take all of us.
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It's just going to take all of us to make a big impact.
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Didn't change. It's crazy how much like food
23:55
talk is embedded and just day-to-day conversations like
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you're right, like at the grocery store, servers at
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restaurants, things like that. Even outside of like grocery
24:04
stores and restaurants where food is directly in front of
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you, like just day-to-day people make comments about their
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bodies, about food, about all these things that I had talked
24:14
about it. I think our last What drives us
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bananas about that? Young ears pick up on all that.
24:18
Stuff. I was just about to say that I
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think that you specifically had shared some really wise words
24:23
when it came to the fact that like when you're talking about
24:26
yourself, there might be someone else listening and that young
24:29
person or maybe not young person is impressionable.
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And if you're talking negatively about your body, they're going
24:34
to think that there is maybe something that they should be
24:37
changing or thinking about too. It is honestly wild, like how
24:40
impressionable young kids are. Like it's just.
24:43
Crazy. Like I will say one thing or
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like put something in one place, like this document right here,
24:48
right? I'm going to put it on this one
24:49
spot on my desk, and that's the first time Charlie's going to
24:52
see that document on my desk and she's going to think it goes
24:54
there every single time. Or like a word.
24:56
This is a PG podcast, so I'm not going to cuss on it, but Rob's
25:00
might have tripped and might have said something that kind of
25:03
rhymes with or similar to the word ship.
25:05
Then every time Charlie falls, we have to divert language.
25:10
So that's what we're dealing with over here, people.
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Yeah. So I just think people like,
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kids are so impressionable and like, I know this is different
25:17
than what we're supposed to be talking about today.
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But I do think, like figuring out my personal issue with food,
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having a good relationship with my body.
25:23
Like I share a lot about my journey on a previous podcast
25:26
episode. But like, that was one of the
25:27
best things I ever did, like in preparation for becoming a mom.
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Any closing thoughts? Things that drive us bananas.
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Stop comparing yourself to other people.
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And if you're seeing what I eat in a day videos on your
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Instagram, TikTok or something like that, time to do a social
25:40
media clean out. Yep.
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Well, I love these episodes. They get me heated.
25:43
They get me ready for the day. So thank you guys for bringing
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it to my attention that we still have things out there that drive
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us all bananas. We would love to hear from all
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of you about the things that you saw this week online that drove
25:52
you bananas. So leave those in the comments
25:54
of this podcast. If you do have questions for
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Riley, Lily or myself, you can find us online.
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You can find Lily at. Lily dot rymer dot.
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