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142. Why the Internet’s Fueling Tips Drive Us Bananas · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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  Hey girlies, just a quick reminder before we dive into
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  today's episode. The information shared on this
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  podcast is intended to be general sports nutrition advice
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  and education related to period recovery for female athletes.
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  This is not specific to anyone individual and it may or may not
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  apply to your situation. If you are looking for
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  personalized guidance, be sure to apply to our RBSN Period
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  Recovery nutrition coaching program.
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  Our four month period recovery program is designed to help you
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  sustainably get your period back and keep it.
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  You can apply now to get started in our program and we'll leave
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  the link for the program below. This is the Eat more Carbs
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  podcast. Hello and welcome back.
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  This is the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  We're Riley Beatty Sports Nutrition and we're a team of
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  dietitians and we talk every Thursday about sports nutrition
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  for the girlies. I'm Jenna and I'm the host of
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  this podcast and. I'm Riley.
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  I'm the founder of Riley Beatty Sports Nutrition.
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  We like to call it around here our BSN.
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  We're super excited to talk with y'all today.
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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
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  about our week, the good, and the parts we wish had gone a
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  little bit differently. Riley is always can you kick?
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  Us off. I've been so excited to share
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  the story with you. I don't know if it's a high or a
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  low, so you're going to have to help me out.
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  Just to give some background. What have we been talking about
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  recently that like we are both not into at all.
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  What is like a fall thing that you and I are just like, not
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  into at all? Pumpkin spice, Yeah.
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  Yes, pumpkin spice, right? And you and I have been very
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  like outwardly kind of spoken about that.
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  We just like don't love pumpkin spice.
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  And I want to show you what one of my athletes sent me, OK?
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  Is that a pumpkin spice goo? I know who this is from.
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  I have been waiting to share this with you because this is so
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  funny to me. Somebody sent me a gift for my
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  birthday and in there she sent me a pumpkin spice gel because a
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  little background is like, I'm not just, I'm not a gel person,
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  especially Goo. And one of my clients thought
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  she was going to troll me and she sent me a pumpkin spice gel.
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  And I have been dying to share this with you, Jenna.
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  Hats off to her. This is 1 are the best gag gifts
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  I've ever thought of. Like that is such a thoughtful,
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  funny gift. Yep, and she listens to Emer
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  cars podcast a lot, so she knows that we like don't love a
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  pumpkin spice. But I've been just been dying
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  because I've been like waiting for your reaction.
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  I don't think I can do this. I don't think I can.
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  I was gonna ask like, are you going to try it?
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  No, I don't know. I don't know.
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  I just feel like I don't. I just don't know.
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  I don't know if I can do it. That's fair.
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  I don't know if I could do that. That's like.
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  AI know, but I'm going to need ideas from you all because I
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  have to get her back. I have to gag gift her back.
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  So I need ideas from everybody else.
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  But I just thought this was like so funny.
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  I also think that you all out there who are my athletes, you
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  all are getting too bold. You're getting too bold because
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  you keep trying to round me up. The amount of people who are
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  trolling me out on my like Monday and Wednesday stories.
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  I was like not OK, like they keep being like, oh, she's
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  spicy. Let's try to get her spicier.
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  Like they are coming for me in my stories right now because
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  they're just trying to like, make me mad.
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  They're trying to love that. They're like, what do you think
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  about the fruit diet? I'm like, OK guys, I was like,
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  what do you think about keto? I'm like, you know what I think
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  about keto? Like we talk about this all the
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  time. Like they're just trying to roll
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  me up so I'm coming for all of y'all.
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  Too funny. So is that your high or your
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  low? Because it could be both.
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  I think it might be both. Like I just feel like it's such
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  a funny and like thoughtful thing and also like it's a
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  thoughtful gag gift, right? Like yes, she was like, how can
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  I roll roll up as much as possible?
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  And then she did it. Like I can just imagine her
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  seeing that and being like, this is so perfect.
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  But like, I think that is the high because like that is such a
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  thoughtful thing, you know what I mean?
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  Like even though it's not something that you like, like
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  it's like the exact opposite, but it's still super thoughtful.
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  So like. I know I told her I'm gonna keep
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  it on my desk as a reminder to like never work with people from
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  her area again, like just as a joke.
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  But I was like, no, no, no, no, no.
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  There's like a little also like back story too, because like
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  intrafueling for her or something.
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  That was really like, really, really scary.
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  And so like, we have been kind of like sending videos back and
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  forth like the last couple of months of us like fuelling
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  during our, you know, our runs or our workouts.
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  And so she's been doing like gel reviews and stuff like that.
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  So she was like, it's your turn to do a gel review.
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  And I was like, I hate you. I I'm like, curious about like
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  how it tastes. Jenna like what if this is
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  actually the gel for me that. Would be so funny.
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  I mean, like I really have been enjoying Morton.
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  Like I'm not going to eat Morton on a regular basis.
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  Like I'm so excited to run for a couple of months with like out
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  eating anything during a run. And I know that's weird for me
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  saying that, but like I was just eating so much during my runs
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  and I did so many Morton gels on long runs and stuff.
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  But I'm wondering like, because these are two things that I like
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  dislike so much. Like do they counteract that's?
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  It's a good question. Like it's two things that you
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  don't like. So does it, you know, like
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  elementary school math? Do these people are positive?
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  Yeah. OK, well, maybe I have to try
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  it. Maybe we crack the code here.
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  Oh my gosh, it's so funny. All right, if you do, you have
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  to share with all of us. Like please put that on social
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  media because I want to know. Yeah, maybe I'll do it right now
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  because I'm sick and I don't have any flavor.
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  Like I can't. Taste anything, so that's
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  getting out of it. You can't add a variable.
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  OK fine, I should have not told anybody and then be like I did
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  it. No, because we're all going to
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  ask for the full review. Maybe I'll do it for science,
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  but. In the name of science, I think
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  that's a good one. Yes.
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  OK, So that's my high and my low.
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  I did have backups ready to go, but I think that's the high and
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  the low. I like it for me this week.
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  How about you? OK, before I share my high, I
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  just want to say like I work with the best people.
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  I love the people that I get to work with.
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  Like we work with the best people at RBSN.
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  Like we're so fortunate and I am so thankful.
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  Like we've talked about before, one of the hardest things is
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  like when somebody gets their period back, they reach their
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  goals, they leave the program. Like we don't talk to them
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  anymore and we've developed relationships over, you know,
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  several months. That makes it hard.
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  But I do have people that will like continually update me on
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  things that happen in their life, which I absolutely love
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  because I love to celebrate like the winds outside of period
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  recovery. Like life wins are really fun
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  too. And I had somebody that emailed
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  me to let me know that she got into her master's of Dietetic
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  program for after she graduates, which was like a big goal of
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  hers after she left period recovery after she got her
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  period back was to focus on that academic goal.
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  And I was just so excited for her.
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  Like she sent me the screenshot of the e-mail of her acceptance,
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  and I was like, Oh my gosh. So that was just such a fun
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  thing to get to celebrate with her.
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  And obviously, like, we love dietitians.
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  We love more people entering the field.
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  And I'm super, super excited for her.
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  So great, like for multiple reasons.
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  Do you remember how excited we were when we got into our
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  program? Like that's how she's feeling
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  right now and it's so cool that she shared it with you.
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  Yes, absolutely. It's also cool because I think
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  about like how that put me on the path to where I am right now
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  because we met during our Dietetic internship.
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  Like had no idea who you were, but I knew that we were matched
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  together at the same hospital and look where we are now.
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  So just the like idea of what she's about to start and like
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  what that means for her is just really exciting and.
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  For us, that was like almost eight years ago, or maybe it was
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  8 years ago. Let's not talk about it.
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  Let's not talk about my age. OK, I'm older than you, so yeah,
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  barely. I'm officially in the next
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  Boston bracket, so I am old. Not allowed to say that, Milo.
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  I shared on the podcast like probably well over a year plus
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  ago about how I purchased this perfume off of like a
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  recommendation condition from an influencer, which is very bold
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  because you can't smell perfume. And it worked out in my favor.
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  So I've tried that again. And I always buy like the travel
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  size of perfume because like in the event that it doesn't smell
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  great, I don't have a giant bottle of it.
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  I also purchased the travel size so that way I can travel with it
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  because like I don't want that big bottle of something that I
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  can't haul with me because of course I'm not checking a bag
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  because that takes way too long. Heck no, I'm gonna fit it all in
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  my carry on. That's the kind of person I am.
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  Do not find me a baggage claim. I will not be waiting that long
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  anyway. I have 2 bottles of what I would
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  consider like not the least expensive perfumes on the
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  market. I love them both.
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  They're both my travel size. They're both glass containers.
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  I picked one up the other day to use it and I don't know what
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  happened in my brain, but I just dropped it and it shattered and
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  it went everywhere, which meant that like the room smelled nice.
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  But then I had to like get all the glass picked up and I lost
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  all of it. Like it all went everywhere And
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  then I was like, well that's a huge bummer.
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  So I was like of course I was still on a small good.
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  So I pick up my other one. My other expensive 1 is.
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  He thought you were. We're gonna say you were on the
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  ground. And I tried to put it on like
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  sweeping packet. I was like, I know that she's
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  resourceful over there, but she was not on the ground.
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  No. Can you imagine?
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  No. There was way too much broken
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  glass that was so dangerous. Nolan, like, walks in with
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  George. I saw on the ground he's like
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  rolling around. He's like, what are you 2?
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  OK, Like, no one else is gonna find that as funny as I do.
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  But like, I'm sorry. That was just, I don't know.
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  I thought you were going and I couldn't get out of there.
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  I'm so sorry interrupted you. OK, no, that's fine.
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  I still wanted to smell good. I did not roll around in the
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  broken bottle of perfume. So I pull out my other travel
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  size 1 of like my favorite expensive perfume and it's
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  empty. This particular perfume, they're
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  smart instead of giving me just a glass bottle because I guess
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  I'm clumsy and I break things Sometimes it comes in like a
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  little leather pouch to keep the glass from breaking.
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  But because of that, I didn't know that the bottle was open
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  and leaking. It leaked into like the inside
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  of the little case. And so both of my perfumes are
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  gone, just completely ran through in a single day.
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  That's also. A very fancy one if it has a
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  container for the container. I know it's nice but again,
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  that's why I buy the travel one because girl math I'm like oh if
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  I only buy the travel one it's X amount of dollars instead of
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  like double X amount of dollars for the big container even
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  though it would probably last double the amount of time I
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  like. Our travel container perfume too
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  though, so I think like I like to get maybe like multiple
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  different ones and then you can do that.
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  Exactly. See, it all makes sense, but it
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  doesn't when you break the bottles and they accidentally
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  leak everywhere. And it probably happened like
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  the last time that I travelled with it.
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  I guess I just stink now. You and your natural deodorant,
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  and now you don't have any. Perfume.
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  No perfume. Yeah.
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  Which I did actually have people message me about, like what
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  deodorants they use. And I shout out to all of you
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  who gave me input on that. So thank you.
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  I was actually thinking about you because I bought new
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  deodorant the other day and I was like.
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  Did you accidentally buy a test? I told you after pregnancy I
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  can't even look at them and I know it's not good for me and
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  people can come for me, but I just it's my vice.
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  You know what? Good smelling deodorant.
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  It's my advice. I don't really drink, I don't do
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  a lot of other things. So you know what, you got to
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  pick your battles. Everything in moderation, right?
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  Yep. OK, on today's episode, we're
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  actually talking about the things that drive us bananas.
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  Outside of accidentally dropping our expensive perfume models and
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  pumpkin spice goo, we were talking about nutrition related
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  things that we saw this week or online that absolutely drove us
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  bananas. I'm so excited to share mine.
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  I have some from clients this week and I'm pumped.
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  Oh, OK, I'm ready. I'm excited.
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  They're trolling me, but then and they're also bringing me
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  what drives me bananas. So thank you everybody for just
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  continuing to bring me content so we can tell of it.
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  On the podcast you guys, I want to petition to change the name
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  of this podcast or not this podcast, but like this type of
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  episode from what drives us bananas to like what's not
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  driving me bananas because the list of things driving me
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  bananas is increasing. We only have.
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  Things that drive us bananas, apparently.
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  Now nothing's good anymore. Right.
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  Am I like just being negative Nancy or like is there a lot out
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  there? I don't know, we always talk
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  about this, but it's so easy to keep like such a positive
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  mindset with like fueling and nutrition on our side of the
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  Internet because we talk about it in such a positive light.
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  But then I think sometimes when I just like go out there and I'm
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  just, I'm so shocked by what other people are seeing.
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  Like I just, I feel like I'm just so shocked by what
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  everybody's saying out there. Maybe I agree with you.
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  Maybe we need to change this to what's not driving us bananas.
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  Right and share something positive, but it would be like
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  this post from RBSN does not drive me bananas.
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  If we're thinking about what's what's online, what drove me
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  banana is actually something that I saw in person.
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  It's December. I love Christmas time.
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  Like give me all the holiday things, set up the Christmas
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  tree as early as possible. But I feel like every year
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  things keep being like moved earlier and earlier.
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  Like we started Black Friday shopping in September and
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  Christmas decorations were out in October.
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  All that sort of stuff of was just like brushing us through to
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  the next chapter of life. And I was at the gym the other
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  day. This is early December and it
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  was like start your 2020 26 shred early.
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  I have a lot of thoughts, but I want to hear what you guys have
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  to say about that. We're speechless, everything.
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  I feel like every year I have hope that it's going to be
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  better, and every year it's not, it's worse.
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  It is. It's fine to have goals around
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  body comp changes. Just want to put that out there.
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  But the shaming around it or trying to convince you that you
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  should not enjoy your holiday or that you need to start something
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  immediately. But I just was like kind of
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  upset because I was like, why? Why are we pushing this?
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  Like what? What?
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  It's a gym and they want people to sign up for their programs
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  and whatnot, but she's gonna rub me the wrong way.
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  I think what I don't like about it is like you're already
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  telling people that they're going to fail, right?
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  Like you're like, oh, you are going to be bad and air quotes
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  this holiday season. So like you should just prepare
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  for it. And it's like OK, food isn't
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  good or bad. The holidays aren't good or bad.
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  Like why are we guilt tripping people?
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  Here, and even if you are working towards some type of
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  body comp goal, enjoying some of the holiday foods probably isn't
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  going to make that big of an impact on your goal. 100%.
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  We have to make small sustainable changes to get you
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  where you want to be for your goal.
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  So trying to be like be drastic in the month of December.
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  It's only going to get worse though, because I keep thinking
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  I'm like, it's 2025, like why are we still having this
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  conversation? But I do think it's going to get
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  worse, especially with people abusing, I would say a lot of
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  the weight loss medications and just there's such a
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  standardization or maybe normalization of fast and large
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  weight loss. And that's what I just feel like
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  we're going to see a lot of that going into the new year.
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  It's just so much hyper fixation on someone's body and I think
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  that's what bothers me. Yes, especially because the
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  majority of the GOP 1 users are women.
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  Right. Yeah, and.
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  You just cannot win. Nope.
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  Nope, you can't. There's always going to be
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  someone that's upset about how you did something, the way that
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  you look, the way that you dress, or all of those things
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  like you just can't win. And what if, hear me out, we
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  were more concerned about our character than we were about our
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  appearance? You can't sell character, that's
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  why. I know, but isn't that crazy?
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  I know, it's honestly so sad. Anyway, I hope everybody just
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  has a wonderful December and doesn't feel any of the pressure
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  from like gyms or marketing campaigns or influencers or
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  anything like that to do anything other than enjoy your
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  holiday season the way that you want to.
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  Just wait until you hear what my what drives us bananas because I
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  swear y'all we do not talk about these before we record.
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  Just wait until you see what mine is.
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  OK, what is it? OK, it is an Instagram post that
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  a client sent me. So I've said this before, but we
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  obviously we love our clients so much and a lot of them listen to
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  the podcast. And so a lot of them have been
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  sending me what drives them bananas.
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  And they're like, can you do it on the podcast?
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  And I'm like, OK, so this is a client, I guess.
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  So what drives us bananas? Like proxy from a client?
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  I'm going to set the scene here. A Instagram Reel by a gentleman
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  who is weightlifting at the gym, no shirt.
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  And it says 10 weird signs your body is actually shredding fat.
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  This post has 74,000 likes, almost 2000 comments.
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  We're going to go through the ten ways that you know your body
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  is shedding fat. Are we ready for this?
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  I mean, no, but let's hear them. OK, number one, you start peeing
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  more than usual. Like your body's literally
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  flushing out the old version of you.
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  Do we think this is a sign that you're shedding fat?
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  Done raising my hand. Have you ever been in a
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  situation in which you're very thirsty and you drink all of
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  your water at once instead of sipping on it throughout the
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  day? What then happens?
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  I also want to set the scene that there's almost 2000
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  comments on this post and most people are saying I have these
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  symptoms, it's happening to me. I want to set the scene also on
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  that piece, right? All right, it gets it gets
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  better. I can't believe that was the
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  first one. That's the first one.
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  Number two, you feel colder, especially in your hands and
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  feet. Not because something is wrong,
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  but because your insulation's finally leaving.
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  Maybe we have. Insulation for a reason.
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  Also, what is one of the number one symptoms that our athletes
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  have in low energy availability? Being cold all the time and
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  especially in places when you shouldn't be.
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  I'm calling someone out specifically.
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  She knows who she is. But if you are wearing a jacket
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  to walk to class and you live in Texas?
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  It's not Lily. It's not Lily, not Lily who does
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  happen to live in Texas, but. It's not her.
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  And the sad thing is, again, there are people who are in the
• 16:28
  comments saying be like, that's why I've started feeling colder
• 16:31
  lately because it's working #3 your sweat smells different.
• 16:35
  Not bad, just different because that's your body actually
• 16:38
  burning fat for fuel. Interesting.
• 16:41
  I think what he's trying to say here is that you're starting to
• 16:43
  burn ketones, right? So you have a distinct smell,
• 16:46
  but if you're burning ketones because you're in that much of a
• 16:49
  deficit. We got a problem.
• 16:51
  Smelling like nail Polish remover is not normal.
• 16:54
  You're here to hear it first, folks.
• 16:56
  That's not normal #4 you get random energy burst one minute,
• 17:02
  you're chill the next. Then you have enough energy so
• 17:05
  you feel like you're cleaning your whole apartment.
• 17:07
  This means that your metabolism is waking up.
• 17:10
  My eye is twitching. We've got.
• 17:12
  Six more to go, people. I don't know if I can do this,
• 17:14
  but if you're experiencing extreme lags of like prolonged
• 17:17
  fatigue, like that's a sign of underfueling, that's not a good
• 17:20
  thing. That's not something we should
• 17:21
  be excited about. Well, that's my whole thing is
• 17:24
  like somebody who is underfueling is seeing this post
• 17:28
  and that was being validated because they think what they're
• 17:30
  doing is right because someone said what they're doing is
• 17:33
  right. And then again, we have 2000
• 17:35
  comments on this of people saying this is happening to me.
• 17:38
  I just. Put this out there for a zoom
• 17:40
  outlook at this is like when you are under fueling.
• 17:44
  That doesn't mean that like you are exclusively losing fat.
• 17:47
  That doesn't just exclusively happen when you're under
• 17:50
  fueling. Like there are other things that
• 17:52
  are happening to it like we can lose muscle mass, we can lose
• 17:55
  performance, we can shut down non essential functions like
• 17:58
  reproduction. You can't just be like, oh, I'm
• 18:00
  going to under fuel. These signs mean that I'm just
• 18:03
  losing fat. #5 your face leans out first, your jawline starts
• 18:08
  showing, your cheekbones, your cheekbones pop and you're like,
• 18:11
  when did that happen? It's also where we feel for
• 18:14
  malnutrition, but that's OK. Number six, I'm messed up on my
• 18:18
  screenshot, but it's something about your clothes start fitting
• 18:21
  tighter in some areas and looser in some other areas.
• 18:24
  That one's weird. I don't know.
• 18:26
  That's number six. Number seven, you start sleeping
• 18:30
  like a baby, your hormones finally chill out and your
• 18:32
  body's repairing itself. For real?
• 18:35
  OK, I have a bone to pick with anybody who says you slept like
• 18:37
  a baby, because babies don't sleep good.
• 18:40
  Take it from someone who has a 2 year old.
• 18:42
  Right. I was like, I don't have a
• 18:43
  child, but I sometimes I get on morning calls with Riley and
• 18:46
  she's like, Charlie didn't sleep at all last night.
• 18:48
  So like, is he saying that you're waking up all through the
• 18:50
  night because another sign of underfuelling?
• 18:52
  I don't believe like I sometimes I'm like trying to understand,
• 18:55
  like I'm like, OK, where is this man coming from?
• 18:58
  I don't get this one at all. Like there's no way that you can
• 19:01
  start sleeping better if you're underfuelled like that.
• 19:03
  I don't get that one at all. Maybe you're sleeping longer
• 19:06
  because you physically can't get out of bed because you have no
• 19:08
  energy. Oh, OK, Yeah, there we go.
• 19:11
  There we go, there we go #8 you catch mood swings earlier on,
• 19:15
  then suddenly you just feel better.
• 19:18
  Fat loss balances way more than your weight.
• 19:20
  I also don't know what he's trying to say here, but yeah.
• 19:23
  I'm a little confused on that one.
• 19:25
  I mean, everybody sure gets a little bit hangry from time to
• 19:28
  time, but like, what's he saying?
• 19:29
  I think he's trying. To say that you don't have as
• 19:31
  many hormonal mood swings, which you're not going to have
• 19:33
  hormonal mood swings if you don't have hormones because
• 19:36
  you're under fueling. I mean, that's something that we
• 19:37
  talk about like every single day.
• 19:39
  I feel like with the period recovery program when people are
• 19:41
  having a bad body image where like your period is going in two
• 19:44
  days and it usually does. That's so true.
• 19:47
  That is such like a such a big sign is when they're like, I'm
• 19:49
  Moody, I'm not feeling good. And then it's like a couple days
• 19:52
  later they're like, oh. That's why #9 is you notice new
• 19:55
  veins or shape in the mirror, which I think that if you're
• 19:58
  losing fat, you're probably going to have more definition,
• 20:01
  but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.
• 20:03
  And #10. My favorite?
• 20:05
  Your appetite gets weird. Some days you're starving, other
• 20:08
  days food doesn't even cross your mind.
• 20:10
  That's your hunger hormones resetting.
• 20:11
  OK, no, your hunger hormones are not resetting.
• 20:14
  That's not how that works. You're suppressing, but not
• 20:17
  resetting. They're suppressing because
• 20:19
  you're not listening to them. Your body is adapting to the
• 20:22
  fact that you aren't fueling or attempting.
• 20:24
  Down regulating itself, it's going into starvation mode.
• 20:28
  Correct. Oh, what a bummer.
• 20:30
  I know, absolutely drove me bananas again. 74,000 people and
• 20:34
  he is selling his shredding fat guide or something like that.
• 20:37
  We hate to see it at RBSN. I do want to say something
• 20:40
  there, though. All of his things were like
• 20:42
  related to aesthetics. There was nothing in that list
• 20:45
  of like, your performance is getting better and you're
• 20:47
  getting healthier as a person. It was all you're shredding fat
• 20:50
  so you can look a certain way. Right.
• 20:52
  There was nothing about you're getting stronger, you're getting
• 20:53
  faster. This is a bummer of an episode,
• 20:55
  guys. We're like all down in the dumps
• 20:57
  because there's just so much cheating against out there.
• 20:59
  All right, Lily, cheer us up. OK, so my, what drives me
• 21:03
  bananas kind of goes off of Jenna's with the New Year thing,
• 21:06
  but I also just think it's a year round thing where it feels
• 21:10
  like on social media, perfectionism is the only
• 21:12
  answer. And especially around the New
• 21:15
  Year's. Like, the reason that so many
• 21:20
  New Year's resolutions fail is because, one, they were
• 21:22
  unsustainable to begin with, and two, if people don't do every
• 21:26
  single thing that they said they're going to do, they
• 21:28
  automatically give up because they don't feel like they're
• 21:31
  doing it right. Oh, the all or nothing mindset.
• 21:33
  100 percent, and I think that there has to be some grace given
• 21:37
  to people because you aren't going to be perfect or you need
• 21:41
  to make a goal that you can be perfect at, which isn't 100%.
• 21:44
  Of the time, smart and sustainable goals that include
• 21:47
  room for life and being human, yes.
• 21:50
  And even when it's something that you think you can do every
• 21:53
  day, you probably won't do it every single day.
• 21:55
  That's such an unrealistic expectation to set for doing
• 21:59
  something like, you know, perfectly.
• 22:01
  Like if you did 6 out of seven for drinking more water, that is
• 22:04
  still amazing, still good. Why do you think it is that we,
• 22:06
  like, glamorize these goals? Because I just think about like
• 22:09
  myself, right? Like every single year I'm like,
• 22:11
  I'm going to do more yoga. And I never do more yoga, but I
• 22:15
  don't ever want to set. I never like think about like, I
• 22:18
  want to do yoga once a week. I'm like, that's not good
• 22:20
  enough. But like, I'm like, OK, I need
• 22:21
  to do yoga three times a week. And it's like, Riley, you
• 22:23
  haven't done yoga three times in 2025.
• 22:25
  Like, why are you doing it three times a week?
• 22:26
  But like, why do we feel like you can't set a realistic goal?
• 22:29
  I think that happens for a lot of people because they feel like
• 22:32
  if they set smaller goals that are more sustainable that
• 22:35
  they've failed because it doesn't feel like they've
• 22:38
  reached the end goal. Like if you're picturing or your
• 22:41
  idea of more yoga in 2026 is 3 times a week and you set the
• 22:45
  goal of I'm going to do yoga once a month, which is still an
• 22:48
  increase from what it was. It still feels like a failure
• 22:51
  because you're like, I'm only doing it once a month.
• 22:54
  And like what I would like to be doing is 3 times a week.
• 22:57
  And in reality, what we should be doing is like, OK, I'm going
• 22:59
  to make this change. I'm going to make this increase
• 23:01
  of doing yoga one time per month.
• 23:03
  And then maybe next year you're like 2 * a month and then the
• 23:05
  next year you're like 3 * a month because that's hard to
• 23:08
  work into your schedule as a working mom.
• 23:10
  You run a business and we can't be happy with the in between of
• 23:14
  reaching a goal in a slower amount of time. 100% and I also
• 23:17
  think that we have people online like influencers where their job
• 23:21
  is to work out seven days a week and promote that and tell you
• 23:25
  you're lazy if you. Don't.
• 23:26
  Which is interesting because what their job truly is, is to
• 23:29
  keep you on the app for as long as possible.
• 23:31
  They like sell their fat burning guide or their.
• 23:34
  Special supplement. Crazy world.
• 23:36
  I also think too that like we've been talking a lot about the new
• 23:38
  year, but like we are not against like New Year's
• 23:41
  resolutions or New Year's goals. I think we're just against, you
• 23:43
  know, having things that are not realistic and not sustainable.
• 23:46
  And that's obviously something that we talk about all the time
• 23:48
  in the period recovery program is like we're trying to set like
• 23:50
  realistic and sustainable goals and like joke about the yoga
• 23:53
  thing, but like that's not really a sustainable goal.
• 23:55
  And I think sometimes like the sustainable goals and like the
• 23:57
  sustainable and realistic work, like isn't glamorous, right?
• 24:00
  Like it's so much easier for me to like pop on social and be
• 24:03
  like, I do yoga every single just kind of like what Lily was
• 24:05
  mentioning, but it's like not as glamorous to be like I do yoga
• 24:08
  once a month. Like that's people are like, OK,
• 24:10
  great, good job. But like you mentioned, Jenna,
• 24:12
  right, like setting a goal for once a month, I'm gonna do yoga
• 24:15
  12 times. If I hit that goal in 2026
• 24:18
  versus the two times I did in 2025, that's not as glamorous.
• 24:21
  And like a lot of the stuff that we're talking about oftentimes
• 24:24
  with period recovery and just with proper sportion nutrition
• 24:26
  is not glamorous. It's like almost the brag of
• 24:28
  like getting something perfect. I feel like.
• 24:30
  I also feel like this is a good thing to talk about from like
• 24:33
  the period recovery standpoint, because the period recovery
• 24:36
  process shouldn't be that we make like these huge drastic
• 24:39
  changes of stopping exercise, completely increasing total
• 24:43
  intake and doing that for two months and then seeing a period
• 24:46
  and then immediately starting up with previous habits.
• 24:49
  Again. Like we should make small
• 24:50
  sustainable changes like the ones that Briley mentioned for
• 24:53
  like, oh, we're doing this at one point in our day.
• 24:56
  We're increasing this, this meal, we're adding a snack here.
• 25:00
  We're making sure we're fueling at this point in time on
• 25:02
  Thursdays, like things like that, that we build on so that
• 25:05
  way we learn sustainable habits versus doing something that's
• 25:07
  like jumping in and not realizing that like none of that
• 25:10
  is sustainable. I think kind of going back to
• 25:12
  like Lily's point about like the glamorization of things or
• 25:15
  things aren't glamorous because things aren't like catchy or
• 25:17
  silly or like impressive. And I feel like a lot of the
• 25:20
  time, like, especially on social, like we're hearing about
• 25:22
  the outliers. We're hearing about the person
• 25:25
  that ran a marathon for the first time, just speaking about
• 25:28
  like the running community and they qualified for Boston or
• 25:31
  they ran a three hour marathon and they had never run a
• 25:33
  marathon before. And like that's an outlier.
• 25:35
  Like most people who run a marathon, like especially their
• 25:38
  first one, like aren't going to be close to those numbers.
• 25:40
  And if they unless they've had previous running experience or
• 25:43
  things like that. And a lot of the time we're
• 25:45
  constantly comparing ourselves to like other people's highlight
• 25:47
  reels or like the stories that go viral when like those again,
• 25:50
  are very small outliers in the space.
• 25:53
  Yeah, it's the 1% of the 1% of what we're seeing on social
• 25:56
  media. It's not an accurate
• 25:57
  representation of like everyone around you.
• 26:00
  It's just like the highlight reel but did go super viral and
• 26:04
  there's a reason why it went super viral.
• 26:06
  I just need to stay off of social media I guess.
• 26:09
  Oh, me too. There's so many negatives, but
• 26:11
  there are a lot of benefits of it too.
• 26:12
  And I think that's where like the struggle is, is it's like
• 26:14
  too much of anything as a bad thing.
• 26:16
  And then also, I think you just again have to go back to like
• 26:19
  understanding that it's somebody's highlight reel or
• 26:21
  then also filtering the information that you're seeing
• 26:23
  on your page. So maybe this is a good
• 26:25
  reminder, but everyone should do a quick social media cleanup.
• 26:28
  And we talk a lot about doing this like every so often, but
• 26:31
  like turning off even like the suggested posts you can and
• 26:34
  snooze those for 30 days, which does mean that you have to go in
• 26:37
  and continuously do that. Unfollowing accounts that don't
• 26:40
  provide value or encouragement to your life and maybe following
• 26:44
  a few more that do. And if you have a goal that's
• 26:46
  specific around like mindset following people who work on
• 26:49
  mindset related goals versus someone who's continuously
• 26:52
  showing off like their ABS at the beginning of what I eat in a
• 26:55
  day videos. What I eat in a day videos to
• 26:58
  be. Continued.
• 26:59
  Yeah, whole other topic. Do you guys have anything that
• 27:02
  you want to share for the beginning of December for maybe
• 27:06
  like encouragement? You're never going to keep your
• 27:08
  period by turning your life upside down.
• 27:10
  This always hashtag. That's her tagline.
• 27:11
  Yep. Thank you all so much for tuning
• 27:13
  in to this episode about what drives us bananas.
• 27:16
  In the comments, let us know what you've seen this week that
• 27:19
  drove you bananas because we want to know.
• 27:21
  We are going to do our training update.
• 27:23
  Riley and I are both in our running era, so we're sharing
• 27:25
  the training that we're doing currently for upcoming races and
• 27:28
  upcoming events. Riley, what is training like for
• 27:30
  you this week? This week I, I am kind of just
• 27:32
  like moving out of my recovery block.
• 27:36
  I have a 5K that I'm doing this weekend.
• 27:37
  I'm excited about just like a little local kind of race.
• 27:40
  I'm, I think I've shared this before, but I'm really just
• 27:42
  practicing on like racing right now and just trying to get my
• 27:44
  mileage up. Something that I really
• 27:46
  struggled with when I was training for the marathon was
• 27:49
  how many days I was running. I can only really run like four
• 27:52
  days a week. Once I went up to five, I
• 27:54
  started to get some like little pains and things like that.
• 27:56
  And so I'm really trying to work on like increasing my days of
• 28:00
  running right now. So that's what I'm doing right
• 28:02
  now in preparation for some like spring races and stuff, but then
• 28:05
  just doing some local stuff too. It's pretty boring of me right
• 28:09
  now. But like we talk about this all
• 28:10
  the time with like fueling, like the boring stuff works.
• 28:12
  So that's what I'm doing right now.
• 28:14
  I love it. There's nothing wrong with the
• 28:16
  boring stuff. And it's nice to just like run
• 28:18
  again because like when you're training for something and I was
• 28:21
  like training for the marathon, like everything had like our
• 28:23
  training purpose where it was like, OK, this is an easy run.
• 28:26
  This is a workout, this is a long run.
• 28:27
  And now I'm just like running. Yeah, just for enjoyment, yes.
• 28:30
  Karis told me it was frolicking and I really resonate with that.
• 28:34
  So that's what I'm doing. Catch me frolicking on the
• 28:36
  Greenway. That's me, sure.
• 28:37
  It's been the best part about like, coming back to running
• 28:39
  after the marathon. Nothing, I don't know, I think
• 28:43
  it's just like a different type of running, kind of like what I
• 28:45
  just shared where like I am really trying to like not look
• 28:48
  at my watch. So I think that's what I've
• 28:50
  done. I've done some runs with like
• 28:51
  Char and stuff like I've pushed her and I don't wear my watch
• 28:54
  for those. So kind of just like really
• 28:55
  getting back to like again, like running for fun and not putting
• 28:58
  as much pressure on it. I think especially when we're
• 29:01
  training for something, you just get so caught up in like
• 29:04
  numbers. I think something that I was so
• 29:05
  worried about for New York because I had been training for
• 29:08
  it for so long. It was such a big race was
• 29:10
  getting hurt and I was so worried about like not being
• 29:13
  able to get to the start line of New York.
• 29:15
  And then now I feel like I have a little bit more freedom.
• 29:18
  Not like I'm going like crazy and want to get hurt or doing
• 29:21
  anything like that, but I feel like I can run now and be a
• 29:25
  little bit more like I just, it's a little bit more freeing,
• 29:28
  right? Like because when I was
• 29:29
  training, if I felt a pain, I'd be like, is my load too high?
• 29:32
  Is my pace too fast? Is like this going on?
• 29:35
  And then now I can just kind of like run I guess, if that makes
• 29:38
  sense. Yeah, I get you.
• 29:40
  I think that's great. What about you?
• 29:42
  It's like really good running weather right now in Arizona.
• 29:44
  Yeah. So is there like season that I
• 29:46
  running outside is my preference and enjoying being outside?
• 29:50
  I think, gosh, the grass is always greener on the other
• 29:53
  side. Like when I lived in Cleveland,
• 29:54
  I was like, the winters are so long and horrible.
• 29:56
  And then now that I live here, I'm like, gosh, I miss the
• 29:58
  season. So like, you know, things like
• 30:00
  that, this, I'm just like enjoying this and being thankful
• 30:02
  for the opportunity to run outside.
• 30:05
  I have not signed up for the local half yet, but I probably
• 30:08
  will. I don't know why I'm like kind
• 30:10
  of hesitant to do that. I think it's probably my
• 30:12
  hamstring in the back of my mind and I don't want to put like too
• 30:14
  much pressure on my body. I will say that like a couple of
• 30:17
  weeks ago, I actually had the first like, running workout I've
• 30:20
  had in a while that like, I felt good and I like, finally reached
• 30:23
  some paces that I was like, OK, like it doesn't mean that I'm
• 30:27
  going to be, you know, running zone 2 for the rest of my life.
• 30:30
  Like I can still like have days where I feel good and can push
• 30:33
  pace. I just think I just have to take
• 30:35
  advantage of those and be smart about them.
• 30:37
  I make sure that I'm not like overdoing it and really listen
• 30:39
  to like if the day after I run like my hamstring feels spicy,
• 30:42
  like I take another, another recovery day.
• 30:44
  And I think having that like flexibility with knowing that
• 30:46
  like if I take another day off or I have another recovery day
• 30:49
  during the week, like that doesn't destroy my training, my
• 30:52
  progress or anything like that. Like is it exactly what I wanted
• 30:54
  to do? No.
• 30:55
  Is it what my body needed? Yes.
• 30:57
  And that's OK. Isn't it so crazy that like,
• 30:59
  it's so easy to like, not listen to our body because like our
• 31:02
  body's telling us like, hey, we need a recovery day and you're
• 31:04
  like, hey, body, you're like lying to me.
• 31:06
  Like I don't need another recovery day.
• 31:08
  Like I can push through when like in actuality, your body's
• 31:10
  trying to tell you something. Right, Like there's a pain there
• 31:13
  for, for a reason and I shouldn't be like, OK, well I'll
• 31:15
  just cross train then like no problem, I'll just do something
• 31:18
  else instead. Like no, like that is feedback
• 31:20
  from our body telling us don't do something today.
• 31:23
  And I think that's been working really well.
• 31:25
  And like, yeah it is a little frustrating, but I'd much rather
• 31:27
  do this in a smart way than like re injure myself to the point
• 31:30
  where I need to like completely stop running again.
• 31:32
  I'm so happy. I know that it's not 110%, but
• 31:36
  I'm so happy that your hamstring is feeling better.
• 31:37
  Me too, if you do have questions for Riley and I about what
• 31:41
  drives this bananas. Period recovery, nutrition,
• 31:44
  fueling or just our running journey.
• 31:46
  Please reach out to us. You can find us online.
• 31:48
  You can find Riley at easy sports nutrition and you can
• 31:50
  find me at Jenna dot Fisher dot nutrition.
• 31:52
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• 31:54
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• 31:56
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• 31:58
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