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91. the SUMMER glow... how to become a better version of you in 30 days · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello you guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Hawkerel Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kaylie, and this is your weekly reminder that it's a
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new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day if
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you'd become the howcrel energy you want to attract. Hello you guys, Happy
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July. I took a break last week by not recording an episode, and
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not even because of the craziness going on in my life right now, but
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also because it was such a weird week with Canada Day being a long weekend
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the following weekend, and then for a lot of you guys who are based
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in the States, it was July fourth, so everything just felt really out
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of sorts that week. I'm pretty sure I probably took last year the same
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break, Like I didn't post an episode just because I feel like it's such
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a weird week and I feel like a lot of my listeners are either based
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in Canada or the States, so I'm like, you know what, I'm
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gonna take a break. I'm not gonna do the podcast this week, but
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it was needed because we are officially thirty days away from the wedding. Guys.
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I cannot believe it cannot like I have been very stressed these past few
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weeks. Not gonna lie, I've been actually doing a really good job managing
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it. I have been really really proud of myself because, as you guys
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know, I've talked about a lot on the podcast, but I feel like
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it's been a really hard time for me to manage my stress. And you
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know, I always give you guys tips in terms of like how I manage
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it all that, but I have been so good, Like, yes,
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I've been stressed, but I've been finding ways to manage it in so many
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great ways, and I've been feeling so so good by managing it. So
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anyways, I'm going to be sharing some tips with you guys in this episode,
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so you guys will hear it. But yeah, I think it was
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a much needed break because I think last week I was really able to focus
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on everything I needed to get done for the wedding. I also wasn't posing
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that much on social media for obvious reasons, and I think these next few
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weeks it will be kind of, you know, posting to a minimal I'm
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going to try my best to do as many videos as I can. I
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think a lot of it is going to be essentially wedding content, like just
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beauty maintenance appointments, like getting my nails done, getting my facials. You
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know, I did a bit of botox just to touch up from my previous
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time for the wedding. So just a lot of like glow up videos for
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the wedding since we're getting so close to it. So that's essentially what the
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content's going to be, and then obviously wedding content once we get to the
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wedding days. So you might be sick of me, and I'm sorry,
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but I just want to, you know, capture as much as I can
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because obviously it is such an amazing moment in my life and I want to
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be able to capture as much content and memories as possible. And you only
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get married once, so I really want to just be able to capture everything
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and have all the memories and all that. So anyways, don't be sick
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of me. I promise eventually it will come to an end and I will
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be getting back into just you know, my normal content. But I hope
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you guys are enjoying this fun little era that I've had, and I've really
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enjoyed my bridal era and it's been great, but I'm excited obviously to get
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on to the next But yeah, so I hope everyone had a great week.
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Last week, I spent my Canada Day long weekend at a cottage my
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best friends. They own a cottage on a lake close by to our place,
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and we had the best time just kind of disconnecting from social media,
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really spending time with my friends. We were literally chatting about the wedding the
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entire time, and people are all just so excited about it all that.
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But it was really really nice just to yeah, be at a beach,
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go boating, just kind of, yeah, enjoy the cottage life. I
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love going to a cottage, eating good food all that. And I have
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a lot of things that I want to talk about in this episode because I
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decided right after Canada Day so it's only been like a week and a bit
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now, but I decided I wanted to challenge myself and really just take a
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deep dive in my healthy lifestyle, like go a bit more intense with my
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workouts, with my eating, with you know, no drinking for an example,
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Like just little things like that, like really just trying to really really
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focus on myself these next thirty days. And I think I've only been doing
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these things for the past ten days, and let me tell you, I
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have never felt better. I've been able to manage my stress. I literally
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feel like I've never been so fit in my life. Like I don't like
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to talk about body image or anything like that, but I truly feel like
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my best self. I don't feel too skinny, I don't feel, you
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know, my body's at a weight or anything like that. Like I personally
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just feel my best self, Like I have never felt healthier and I've never
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felt better. And I'm going to share with you guys everything I've been doing
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for the past ten days and I'm going to continue doing for the next twenty
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days prior to the wedding, and just how I've felt my absolute best,
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just mentally, physically all that. So we're going to get into it.
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Okay, the first thing I've been doing every single morning is I've been going
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on a walk. I know I talk about going on hawkerl walks all the
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time, but I don't know why this is different, Like this has just
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been hitting so much different lately. I have been walking for an hour instead
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of like thirty to forty minutes, so I've been upping it by twenty minutes,
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and I feel by making it an hour versus you know, thirty to
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forty minutes, it has really made a huge difference. So I've been doing
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that, whether it's two thirty minute walks a day or one hour walk a
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day, it has been my go to thing every single morning, and I
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just feel like it makes me want to have a productive start to my day
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as soon as I get that done. And I do this on top of
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a workout, usually during the day, So I'll walk in the morning and
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then I'll do a workout either later in the day or right after or the
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opposite. I'll do a workout and then i'll walk, or if I don't
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work out that day, I'll just you know, do the hour walk and
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that's it. But at least I feel like I'm getting some movement in I
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feel good. And I don't know, walking is obviously great for your mental
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health and all that, but I personally feel like walking has truly changed the
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game by upping it to an hour, Like walking an hour a day has
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made me so much better, and I feel like also going outside getting some
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sunlight, like I feel like I'm getting a bit of a tan at the
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same time, which has been kind of nice because I've been trying to get
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more color on my skin for the wedding. So just getting some daily sunlight,
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oh pretty, Just getting some daily sunlight, I think is key.
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Next is I've been working out five to six times per week. I know
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this seems like a lot, but it's really not that bad. I usually
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work out four times a week, but I've been upping it to five to
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six times per week, whether it's plates, running or spinning. I've been
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trying to do spinning three times a week, pilates two times a week,
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and then running once a week. So that's kind of my rotation currently.
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I really love to get some cardio in. That's probably my favorite form of
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workout. But pilates, let me tell you the burn you feel, Holy
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crap. I love pilates with the Reformer machine. Plattate's Matt is also good,
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but for the studio by my house, I just prefer the Reformer classes
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over the Matt classes and the Platate student that I always go to that some
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of you actually messaged me about, like where is this. It's called Soma
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Plates. The owner is the sweetest person ever, she is amazing. The
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workouts are great, her studio is stunning. It's literally a Pinterest plate studio,
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like it is gorgeous, and obviously working out in a beautiful space makes
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it ten times more motivating, let's be honest, girls. So yeah,
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I just love, love, love going there and the people that are so
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sweet. So I've been doing that twice a week. There's a lot of
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different instructors. I haven't really found like an instructor where I'm like, oh,
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this is my go to girl, Like for spinning, I have go
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to girls that I go to if you're in the Kannada area. The girls
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that I love to go to are Amanda, Alexis and who's the other one
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that I'm thinking of, Oh, Renee. Those are my favorite, I
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would say, oh, Nicole. Nicole's really good as well. So those
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are the instructors that I usually go to for spin co. I'll try and
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book around their like times for their classes because they're my favorite. But for
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the plot's one, I feel like because I've only been doing these pilate classes
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now for like I want to say a month and a half, I haven't
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really like found my go to person yet because I've tried so many different instructors
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that I feel like I need to do a few more times to figure out,
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Okay, I like this person the bus and I like this person the
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best, so anyways, but it's been a really really great burn. I
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feel like it's great for toning, so if you really need to tone,
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like my arms. I have never had strong arms in my life. I'm
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not even kidding, Like I suck at lifting weights, and I feel like
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pilates have made my arms so much more toned and I just feel stronger,
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Like I feel really really good. So yeah, that's what I've been doing
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as much as possible. And then I've been running in the trails with Freddy
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once a week. I kind of took a break from running for a bit
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because I injured my quads again. They were a little sore from the first
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time I ran, you know, and like you run for the first time
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this for the season, and it just things don't feel right. That's kind
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of what happened. So I started to walk a bit more again instead of
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running. But I have fully recovered from that. And I also think it
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was the shoes because I got new hookahs, which I'm obsessed with them.
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They're amazing, But I think breaking in the shoes also made a bit of
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an impact on how I felt that first time running because of my quads hurting,
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and then my feet were a little sore as well. So anyways,
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the shoes are officially broken in. I've gone on two runs since and it's
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been great, so we're going to keep that going for the next few weeks.
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But I feel like summer is so motivating to get more workouts done outside.
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So that's why I love running outside and I feel like you want to
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get out of the house right Like in the winter, I feel like I
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never want to leave, but in the summer, I always want to leave
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the house. I want to go to workout classes all that. So I
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feel like this is the time to up your workouts. It's so fun to
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be outdoors more and just go to workout classes with your friends or anything like
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that. I feel like, obviously, for my motivation right now has been
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the wedding prep, but find something to motivate yourself to work out, even
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if it's just for yourself, Like working out truly feels so good. I
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find it's, yeah, the best thing for your mental health and you guys
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know how much I love working out constantly. Another thing I've been doing and
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this is something new that's been into my routine. And this is what I
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think has been a huge game changer for my calmness and just distressing myself is
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I've been drinking green tea every single morning, whether it's green tea or dandelion
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tea. That's another one that's great for destressing. But this is so great
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for people who are dealing with stress, and I feel like having this consistently
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can actually make a really huge impact in just your stress levels. I feel
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like I've been very, very stressed. And something I actually forgot to tell
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you guys about was if you remember, a few weeks ago, I went
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to the dentist and I think I mentioned it on my Instagram storry. I
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don't know if I mentioned it here on the podcast, But long story short,
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I had a tooth infection because I still have a wisdom tooth in my
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mouth. Whatever they were saying that it's just infected. Take antibiotics, you'll
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be fine. I never told you guys this, but I took the antibiotics.
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Nothing was changing, like my mouth was still extremely sore. I was
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really concerned I was like, oh my goodness, I'm gonna have to get
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surgery before the wedding, which was obviously not what I wanted. I then
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went to my dentist and I said, listen, the medication didn't work,
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like I'm still in discomfort, I'm still in pain. We found out that
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it wasn't an infection. It was literally from stress, which is so crazy
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because I was clenching my teeth while sleeping, which was causing my entire cheek
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to pull, like the pulling feeling on one side of your cheek. And
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my teeth were sensitive because I was clenching so hard on them because I've been
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so stressed about the wedding. So he was basically saying, like, you
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need to find ways to de stress your body. So I think having a
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medical issue also made me realize like I need to do my research and figure
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out ways to calm my body down. And it was practicing deep breathing and
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drinking green tea, so I've been really focusing on my deep breaths. So
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I haven't been doing meditation. I would say it's some form of meditation,
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but I haven't really been following a class. I would just sit down on
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my couch in the morning, I close my eyes for five minutes and I
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just focus on my breathing, and that is it. Like I feel like
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the meditation classes just maybe wasn't something that was working for me, even though
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I know it's a great way to de stress. It just was something that
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I felt like it was really hard to add into my morning routine or night
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routine. But I feel like sitting on the couch doing a few you know,
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deep breathing exercises before your journaling or whatever, like that's kind of what
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I've been doing, and I feel like it's been really helpful, and then
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drinking green or dandelion tea. Literally it's been three weeks, guys, and
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my cheek is fine, Like my teeth are fine. Everything's fine. So
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I truly think actually managing my stress levels had made a huge impact in just
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how I felt, because now I've been feeling so much better. Also,
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I'm laughing because I forgot what Zach did for me. But when Zach found
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out that it was my teeth clenching that was causing the issue with my face,
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it was pretty bad, Like it was my whole face was not basically
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like it was really scary. He bought me mouthguards so I could sleep with
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them and it would stop the clenching of my teeth, like so sweet.
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I didn't even ask him for that. I guess he did his own research
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and you found out that you could wear mouthguards to help with like you clenching
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your teeth or whatever. I don't know. It was so sweet the fact
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you did that. I was like, so appreciated that. So anyways,
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I have not tried it yet, to be honest, the mouth guard thing,
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just because it was getting better. So I was like, you know,
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I'm gonna just listen to my own advice, do these things to help
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me distress, and just see if this works. But at least I have
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these mouthguards for a backup if this ever happens again. But yeah, no,
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So that's kind of ways of been managing my stress. Is drinking green
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or dandelion tea. Another great thing about having tea in the morning is that
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it's great for bloating. It's great for just your immune system, helps with
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digestion. I also love having a tea at night. I find having that
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after all your meals for the day, that's like the last thing you have
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before bed. I have the ninety ninety by traditional medicillines. I feel like
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that's a great way to help your digestive system, just to kind of,
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you know, digest everything that you ate throughout the day. All that.
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Another benefit to Dandelion Tea as well is I used to be a girl that
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got multiple UTIs to be fully transparent here, like I would get UTI's all
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the freaking time, and this actually helps with UTIs. So if you're someone
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that's prone to ugis highly highly recommend trying out Dandelion Tea. Not going to
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get into the whole UGI conversation, but it does help with it. So
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that's another reason why I try and drink this daily. And yeah, so
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those are some things that I've been doing for my morning and then no alcohol.
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I am doing mocktails the next thirty days no alcohol for me, and
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I already feel so good not having alcohol for ten days. Like I had
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some alcohol obviously on Canada Day weekend. But you guys know, I tell
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you guys all the time, I'm not a big drinker. I don't really
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drink them, which I don't ever get drunk anymore. Like I literally have
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two drinks and that's it. Like I'm a very like social drinker. I
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don't really zac and I we don't drink after dinner at all, Like it's
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very like rare that we have drinks if we go on a nice date,
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like we'll order a bottle of wine, but realistically, I don't really drink
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much. I'll have one glass and Zach will have, you know, majority
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of the bottle, or I'll have two glasses, whatever the case may be.
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I also feel like I get tipsy faster because I don't drink that much,
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so i will literally have two glasses of wine and I'll be tipsy.
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So not complaining, I'd rather be a lightweight than someone that has to drink
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too much. But the point being is that I don't really drink alcohol,
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Like it's not really my thing. But I've been trying to avoid it in
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social settings for the next few days because I'm like, you know what,
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I'm gonna obviously have a few glasses at the wedding, but I also,
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again, just because it's been such a stressful and very anxious month, I
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really wanted to manage it by not having any alcohol. No hangovers, and
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obviously not having alcohol will help with headaches and some aches and just physically you'll
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feel so much healthier. And as I said, I feel like drinking plays
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a huge role in anxiety and stress, so I've obviously been trying to cut
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that out. And yeah, just been trying to remove alcohol completely. So
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that's what I've been doing. No alcohol for the next thirty days. I
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want to try and make some mocktails because I feel like mocktails are becoming more
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and more popular, and I need to find a way to make an Aperrel
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spirts in a mocktail way, Like I need to find the alcohol free version
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of Apaol somewhere. It has to be somewhere. It has to exist because
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Apperall spirts are so popular now that it has to exist somewhere. So I'm
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gonna be in the hump for that to make a alcohol free apaol because that
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is my favorite drink ever, guys, like my guilty pleasure. Like every
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time Zach can I go out, if we don't order a bottle of wine,
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I'm ordering an Aperol spirits. That's it. I will bring many champagne
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bottles wherever we go, like we're just going to someone's house or if we're
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going, you know, to a cottage for example, like when I was
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in the cottage, I literally brought many sham pain bottles because I don't drink
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a whole bottle of champagne. I'll, you know, have a mini champagne
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bottle. I'll put my apparel liquor and then soda water. I'll have like
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two glasses out of that, and I'm good. But it's just so funny
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because someone make everyone just lost me and they're like, oh, there's Killy
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with her mini champagne bottles. Making your apparel sprits is so anyways, obviously
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it's a good thing I'm getting married in Italy because apperol sprits are obviously known
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there, so my wedding will be an entire sprits wedding, which is very
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exciting. Another thing I've been doing is taking thirty minutes to myself and doing
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a bit of self care. So whether that's journaling, you know, doing
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some facials, a sauna session, a meditation session, whatever works for you.
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I've been doing my journaling. I've been using my new face a lot
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for like facials on my face to really just like depuff or just any excess
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water in my face just so it's looking super lean and super nice for the
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wedding. I've been doing a lot of deep breathing exercises which I talked about
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just overall just really trying to focus on my mental health. As I said
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prior to the wedding, again, just a great way for me to de
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stress and also just kind of step away from the chaos that's happening right now,
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Like I need to sometimes take a step back and focus on myself and
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do things for myself, take care of myself, and then get back into
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it. I always talk to you guys about you know, if you're someone
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that's in school, or if you have a really really crazy job where you're
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constantly working all that. Like I'm telling you right now, you are going
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to be more productive if you take thirty minutes to yourself and then you go
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back to what you have to get done. So whether it's thirty minutes to
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yourself to go take a hot shower, do a bit of skincare almost like
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decompress, and then get your work done after that, you will be ten
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times more productive coming back versus like continuing to like drain your soul by like
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you know, continuing to do work or your school work or anything like that.
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Like, you need to take breaks. It's so so important. So
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taking that thirty minutes of self care, just step aside, focus on what
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you have to get done for yourself, and then get back into it.
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I feel like that makes a huge difference on your stress levels as well as
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just how productive you are. All that it just really really helps calm the
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mind. And then getting back into it just yeah, is the biggest game
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changer. I will not lie. I have been slacking on this and this
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is something I'm trying to be better at. But drinking two leaders of water
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daily, you guys know, the benefits to water is obviously amazing. I'm
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not going to get into that, but I have just been wanting to stay
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hydrated for many reasons, like obviously, if I don't drink water by the
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end of the day, I have a headache. And I'm like, hmm,
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I wonder why I have a headache. Maybe it's because I didn't drink
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enough water today, Like I feel like that's a common girl thing. But
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anyways, I find, you know, getting a cute water bottle, making
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sure that it's always filled up. I also love to have electrolytes because I
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don't know about you guys. But I get sick of the taste of water
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by like two PM, Like I actually do not like the taste of water
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like water to me. I don't know. It's a love hate relationship.
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I love having it. In the morning, I feel like I feel healthy,
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I feel good. I'm like I'm h myself. By two PM,
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I'm like, Okay, I'm sick of this shit, like i want something
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different, to be fully honest, So I've been having electrolytes. So electrolytes
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is something just to help with hydration. I have been using the brand Organica.
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I actually worked with them a few weeks ago, which was crazy because
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I've been using their electrolytes for years. So it was such an honor to
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work with them because I'm like, oh, well, I've been using this
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product for two years now, but I find they have the best electrolytes.
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The best flavors, in my opinion are pink Lemonade, Lemonade and Wild Raspberry
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guys. So good literally tasting juice. There's no added sugars or anything into
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it, but it's awesome for electrolytes. And Zach loves having these as well.
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Zach, someone who works outside for you know, eight to nine hours
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of the day and he's in direct sunlight, so he literally needs electrolytes all
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the time. So we make an electrolyte every single night with dinner, and
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Organica has just been the one that we've been using for you and it's amazing.
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So if you're someone that doesn't like the taste of water, highly recommend
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checking out that. All right. Next is eating ninety percent at home cooked
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meals. Okay, my girls that love uber eats, we're cutting that out.
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Okay, We're we're taking a step back, none of that. If
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you want to do it, you have to do it, maybe only three
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times this month, like, try and cut it out. I've been trying
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so hard to consistently eat at home. I'm obviously pretty good at eating at
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home. Like Zach and I we cook every single night, you know,
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the odd time on the weekend if we're you know, busy, or if
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we're lazy, like we'll just order takeout. But we're really trying to a
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save some money. I mean it's not a huge saving, but again still
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cutting costs and trying to do just easy at home cooked meals. So I've
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been really trying to keep the meals easy for dinners throughout the week. Also
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just because you know, we probably spend at least two three hours a night
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with wedding planning stuff lately, Like it's we eat dinner, we plan the
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wedding for two to three hours because it takes a lot of time for certain
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things. So I've been trying to make quick and easy meals. Like last
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night we did chicken wings with potatoes and broccoli, so it's pretty easy.
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Wasn't that big of a mess, which was nice. And yeah, so
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just like easy meals to cook at home. So yeah, I feel like
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just eating out less obviously you're saving money. You're you know, not wanting
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to eat out as much by like not feeling like shit, Like you don't
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want to be eating like in and out or McDonald's drinking like that. Like,
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if you're going to eat out, let's maybe resort to something a bit
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healthier, like a salad or something like that. Like my favorite place to
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eat out is mad Radish. It's this kind of like a salad bar slash
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grain bowl place. I don't know. They have the best bowls. So
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if you're going to get takeout, let's try to resort to something a bit
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healthier. I know it's hard in the summertime, but obviously, like if
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your friends are going up to a patio, don't restrict yourself. Go to
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that patio and eat what you want, drink what you want, Like,
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don't be restricted. We're not about restricting here. We are all about balance.
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But just you know, try and manage what you can and try and
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eat at homework. That's really it. I've just been trying to do that.
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Like if someone is gonna invite me to a patio, I'm obviously gonna
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go and I'm gonna have a good time, but I'm not gonna restrict myself
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and not do that. So it's all about balance. Just balance it all
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out. And yeah, all right, we already talked about this one.
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But daily sunlight, obviously sunlight is great for just relieving stress and just being
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outside is so great for your mental health and your overall mood. I know
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when I'm in the sun, my mood immediately spikes, like I feel so
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much happier, and obviously being in the sun getting a bit of a tan
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feels so nice. I've been trying to be outside for at least thirty minutes
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to an hour a day like on top of walking, just like laying out
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and doing work, like just to get a bit of a tan before the
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wedding, and I find it just feels so nice on my skin. I
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love, love, love laying out in the sun. But unfortunately today is
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a very gloomy day. It's literally gross out and not giving summer at all.
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But you know that's the reality. Not every day is going to be
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beautiful. But you know, I'm still going to go outside. I'm still
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gonna get a walk just because no matter what, I still love to get
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some fresh air and just be in the nature. So yeah, but trying
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to go outside as much as you can, I think is very therapeutic.
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It feels good. And yeah. Last thing that I feel like has been
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a huge game changer is my sleeping schedule. So my sleep routine, getting
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at least eight hours of sleep per night. Having a good sleep schedule,
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honestly is the biggest game changer. Going to bed at the same time,
24:33
waking up at the same time is truly the key thing for your mental health.
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I'm not even over exaggerating, Like having a good sleep really just plays
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a factor in terms of how good your day's going. To be like to
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be fully transparent, like, but I don't have enough sleep, it's going
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to be a shit day. I know it's going to be a shit day.
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Like I'm not mentally trying to put that in my head, but it's
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just the reality. It's like, I know when I have a good sleep,
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I am going to have a good day. So having a good sleep
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schedule is so so lately it's been a little bit later. So I've been
25:03
having like a ten thirty bedtime and waking up at seven versus like a ten
25:08
pm bedtime and a six thirty wake up. So it's been a little bit
25:11
later just because of wedding planning. I don't know why, but I think
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of the best ideas at nine pm at night. Is anyone else like that,
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Like I literally have the most creative things or I'm like, oh,
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I need to write all this down or I need to do this whatever at
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nine pm. So I don't know why it's like that, Or when I'm
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at spinning, when I'm working out, I think of the best ideas when
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I can't even write something down while I'm spinning. Obviously I usually remember it
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after the Spinko class, but while I'm spinning and then usually right before bed
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are my peak times of just thinking of creative thoughts or just things that I
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have to get done for the wedding planning, or just being productive in general.
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So I don't know. So lately I've had to push my sleeping schedule
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out a bit, but it's still been working. I've still been getting eight
25:52
hours of sleep, so I've been going about at ten thirty waking up at
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seven, and it's been very consistent, which has been really helping with my
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mental health. So if you're not getting eight hours of sleep, I would
26:04
probably reevaluate your sleep schedule and see, Okay, how can I get eight
26:08
hours of sleep? Do I need to go to bed earlier, do I
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need to wake up later, whatever the case may be, just try and
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figure out a good sleep routine, because I do think it plays a huge,
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huge impact in just how you feel your energy levels, like you're gonna
26:22
have no energy that day if you're not having good sleep, and just yeah,
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mentally, So that is everything I've been doing these past ten days and
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I plan to do for the next twenty days. And I truly feel like
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I have felt my healthiest self, and I know, I know It sounds
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dramatic that it's only been like just over a week, but I feel like
26:42
these things have truly helped me out completely, and I just feel like I
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have never felt healthier, I've never felt my best. I truly feel very,
26:51
very good going into the wedding already, and again there's still so much
26:56
that has to get done, but just from a health perspective and mental health
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perspective, I feel really really good, and I'm excited to see how much
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better i feel in twenty days. Like I think I'm gonna feel even better
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knowing that, you know, if I'm consistent with this for the next twenty
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days, I think it's even gonna be better. So this has been a
27:12
bit of a challenge for myself and I really wanted to share it with you
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guys here on the podcast, because if you're someone that's looking for a thirty
27:18
day challenge, or if you're just looking for some tips on how to become
27:21
the healthiest version of yourself, I feel like these are really really easy things
27:26
you can do to adjust into your current routine. And a lot of these
27:30
things might be things that you're already currently doing, and that's great, but
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if there's things in here that you aren't doing that you want to try out.
27:34
I highly highly recommend it. This has been again really really good for
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my mental health and I just really really felt like my best self lately.
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And yeah, I've just been feeling really really good. So anyways, I
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hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you guys are new, and definitely
27:51
make sure to follow me on Instagram. My Instagram and YouTube and TikTok handles
27:56
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28:04
episode up. There will be more Instagram content on there. Hopefully after the
28:08
wedding. I really want to try and focus on video content when I come
28:11
back for the podcast, so stay tuned for that. But I love you
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all so much. Thank you guys for listening to another episode. I will
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see you guys next week and I love you all.