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Season 5 - Episode 2 -The side effects you knew would happen · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good Morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day. To record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways.
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  Of thinking. And just bring some joy.
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  Into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning.
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  I wish you could all see what I look like right this minute.
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  I'm swollen, my hands are swollen, my face looks swollen,
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  my eyes are swollen. I'm stuffed up, as you can hear.
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  But I'm not sick. And you're saying to yourself,
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  what happened? How did this take place?
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  Well, I can tell you last night I chose to eat food that I knew
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  was going to be a problem. Why?
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  Why did I do this? This is always one of those
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  things that makes me ponder. I I'm very curious about it
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  because I know the rules with my body.
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  My body is very clear about certain things.
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  If you eat fried food, you will have a problem.
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  Yet I did it. Now, what is the reason that I
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  did it? This is what's so important.
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  What is the reason that I did it?
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  Well, in my head, I went in with the intent, total intent by the
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  way, to go in and just have a nice meal with my friends that
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  were in town. And I was very excited to go do
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  that. Had a wonderful, wonderful time.
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  Sat down, looked at the menu and saw that they had fried oysters.
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  And I was like, oh, I haven't had those in forever.
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  Have not had them in forever. There's a reason, Kim, you
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  haven't had them in forever. But I said, you know what, this
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  is my last couple of days to be like splurging for the holiday
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  because I gave myself again, I did not set the deadline for
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  January 1st for everything to change.
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  I said when I go back on Monday, everything is going to change.
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  And I was a little wishy washy on that.
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  In my head I was like, and I should really just stop now.
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  But you know what, it's OK, it's no big deal, whatever.
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  So I had the fried oysters and to top it all off, I had these
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  crispy wonton crackers that came out too.
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  And I had, let's see what else, French fries.
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  I had French fries and I didn't even think like, OK, the combo
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  of all of them is going to be horrible, but I knew it would
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  be. I knew it would be everything in
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  my head said, oh, get that, get that, get that.
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  But my gut was like, this is not going to be good.
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  And I can tell the difference between when my head is having
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  this conversation of like, oh, get that, do that.
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  And my body is like, and I debated right up until the
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  waitress came. I debated.
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  And here's where my final analysis came down to.
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  If I had gotten a salad, which I intended on getting, I would
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  have had salad dressing that I had no control over.
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  So in my head the salad dressing was going to be as bad.
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  Like this is what my head said. Oh, it'll be the same thing.
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  But my gut said no, it can't be as bad.
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  It just won't be as bad as what will happen if you go ahead and
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  have the fried food. So I went ahead and had the
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  fried food and this morning I woke up and the scale was up,
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  obviously, and it wasn't just up a little, it was up 2 lbs
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  because that's what happens when I do this now.
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  Will it go away? Yes.
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  Will it go away within 48 hours? Yes.
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  But I have to work at that today and tomorrow.
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  I have to make sure I'm drinking enough liquid.
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  I have to make sure I'm eating a lot of things that are very
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  satiated with water, fruits, vegetables, things like that.
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  I cannot tell you how much it will affect like my eyes all day
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  long. It's crazy how this works, but
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  I've noticed it over the years and it's as I've gotten older,
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  it's gotten more and more intense and I've noticed that
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  there are other things that do this.
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  Now, the point of this whole conversation today is why do we
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  do this to ourselves when we know the outcome?
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  Why do we do it? So I can't answer for everybody,
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  but what I can say for myself and my clients is that when
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  you're caught up in the moment, you put aside the things that
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  you know are right. And that's we know when our gut
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  talks to us, we put it aside and we're just like, it's OK, I'll
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  deal with it later. I'll deal with it later.
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  We push it off. For me, I knew was it?
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  Was it going to outweigh what I was doing with my clients?
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  No. I could have gotten anything.
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  Nobody cared. Nobody cared at all.
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  Nobody cared. But my friends and clients had
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  no clue. They did not care at all.
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  Was it going to do anything for me physically other than harm?
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  Not a lot, just harm. So the reason that I did it was
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  to because I had given myself that one little caveat and I
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  didn't make the commitment to myself.
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  That one little caveat was, oh, we're going to be good by
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  January 5th. January 5th is when it all
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  starts. And because I had that one
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  little tether in my head that I had given myself permission
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  months ago, knowing I was going to have this long break, knowing
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  I was going to do these things, that's what screwed it up.
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  I gave myself that. And people will often say I
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  don't think I've given myself that little, those little
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  things. I'm like, when you dig, you will
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  always find something where you've given yourself that
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  little break. So go look for your little
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  breaks. Watch out where those little
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  tethers are, those little spiny hooks that catch us.
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  Because that, my friends, is the reason I look like a swollen
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  puffer fish this morning. Because I had that little tiny
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  line and I didn't keep the promise to myself that I wasn't
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  going to do it when I went out. Because the other one was a
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  bigger promise that I was just going to relax all the way until
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  January 5th and I was going to eat what I wanted and do what I
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  wanted and I was going to have fun and da da da da da da da.
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  And I had made this whole thing up.
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  Well, guess what? That came back to punch me in
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  the face. So I hope you guys learn from
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  this and remember those things matter and I will see you all
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  tomorrow. Bye.