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107. Why Seed Oils Are Driving 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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  This is the Eat more Carbs podcast.
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  Hello and welcome back. This is the Work Harps podcast.
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  It's Jenna here with Riley. We're both dietitians and we are
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  talking every Thursday about sports nutrition for the
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  girlies. Today we're going to be talking
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  about what drives us bananas as dietitians, things that we saw
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  online that really don't sit well with us.
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  Before we do that though, we're going to do our high and low.
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  So chatting just a little bit about our week, the good and
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  maybe the part we wish it gone a little bit differently.
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  We've already been a little bit unhinged before we started even
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  recording this this morning. So I'm really excited to talk
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  through all of these things with you, Riley, but kick us off high
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  and low we. Always love our unhinged
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  episodes. We love our drive us bananas.
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  We always look forward to chatting with y'all every single
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  beginning of the month about some of the crazy nutrition
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  advice that we see on the Internet.
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  So really excited to jump in. My low is I did get sick.
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  If you listened to last week's episode, Jenna was sick and I
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  seem to have got it unfortunately.
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  And this past week I have gotten COVID.
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  The baby household did get hit with COVID.
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  I'm kind of just powering through it right now and I just
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  never loved to be sick. But like you mentioned last
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  week, Jenna, sometimes we like need to not need to be sick, but
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  it's a really great way to like listen to our body and sometimes
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  are forced to rest. One of my big goals of this year
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  is to run the New York Marathon. I am really trying to not get
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  hurt. Actually, last week I picked up
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  Charlie and I threw out my back a little bit.
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  I had a strain in my back. I was freaking out like I was
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  freaking out because I was like, the motto for 2025 is do not get
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  hurt. And now I have this like back
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  strain when I was really going back and forth.
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  I'm like, should I just rest for a week?
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  Should I stop training? I actually went for a run before
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  I got COVID with kind of my back strain.
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  And it was kind of like ironic that the only time that my back
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  didn't hurt was when I was running.
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  It was really weird. So I was like almost trying to
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  convince myself like, no, I didn't need to stop running.
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  And then I got sick and I had to stop running and my back
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  actually feels better. So maybe it's a little bit of a
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  low and a high that I got sick. I'm glad you guys are all
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  feeling better and that everybody is on the mend and
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  road to recovery for sure. And also like definitely a good
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  thing that you had the opportunity to rest and now your
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  back feels better, even though it wasn't maybe the way that we
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  would have hoped that you started to take a rest.
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  Yeah, it's just like sometimes universe is trying to tell us
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  something and sometimes it just needs to give us like a little
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  bit of a stronger push for us to actually listen to it.
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  Oh yeah, I feel that in my bones for sure.
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  So that was my low and kind of turned into a high, but I did
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  actually have a client high that I wanted to share, and I
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  promised that I would share it on the podcast as a high because
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  she does listen to the Emar Carves podcast.
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  So I told her I'd definitely give her a shout out.
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  But one of my clients in our period recovery program loves
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  ice cream. It's her favorite food.
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  And this past month, she went out for ice cream and got ice
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  cream with her friends for the first time in four years.
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  Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Yay.
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  Yay for ice cream. Yay for doing things with
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  friends. I love that.
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  Yay, I know. So sorry.
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  I kind of just had two highs. I kind of just hog the high and
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  low, but I just had to kind of share that one and I promised I
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  would. Congrats to her.
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  That's so exciting. Yeah.
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  How are? You though, how are you feeling?
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  Are you feeling better this week?
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  Yes, I'm feeling a lot better. My sickness has cleared up and
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  we're good to go. I don't know how we somehow like
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  transmitted sickness between, you know, all the miles that are
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  between us from the East Coast to the West Coast, but somehow
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  we did. I'm feeling a lot better.
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  Thank you for asking my high and low this week.
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  My low is I'm kind of at the point of marathon training where
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  I'm like, wow, this is a lot of running and I'm relying a lot
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  more on dedication than I am motivation, which is always
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  something that's kind of an interesting point in marathon
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  training. I'm also like experiencing a few
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  more like aches and pains and I'm hoping that that's not
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  anything serious, but just really listening to my body and
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  making sure that I'm taking care of everything.
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  My high is just that like I've just been having like the best
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  week. Like things have just been
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  really good this past week. And I'm so thankful for all of
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  the people that I get to talk to on a day-to-day basis, the
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  people that I get to meet through my job.
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  I just really love my job, so I know that's kind of silly, but
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  I've just been having, like the best week and I'm so just like,
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  appreciative and thankful for everything.
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  Oh yeah. Well, we're glad that you're
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  happy. Yeah, I know.
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  It's like the great thing. And I hope everybody gets this
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  much, like love and fulfillment out of their job.
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  I feel so fortunate. Anyway, that's kind of like a
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  really big high. And today we're talking about
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  the things that drive us bananas.
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  So the things that we see online that are just like, stop you in
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  your tracks and you're like, how is this still a thing that we're
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  talking about in 2025 from a nutritional standpoint?
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  So, Riley, tell me what you saw this week that drives you
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  bananas. I do not know if you're ready
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  for this one. I'm scared.
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  No, it's something that you and I talk about all the time
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  offline, and we have this conversation with all of our
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  clients, like I feel like on a daily basis.
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  But the hot topic right now is something that I feel like we
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  can't avoid talking about, and that's seed oils.
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  Like just seed oils in general. They're driving me bananas.
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  It's definitely the buzzword right now for sure.
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  I keep telling my clients like seed oils are the new gluing.
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  I like that comparison. There I just.
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  Feel like, you know, it is, it is the new thing right now that
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  we are really demonizing in our society and it's just driving me
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  bananas. I think it's so.
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  Hard because we take such a small thing, or we take a very
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  specific thing and we blame all of the nutritional complications
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  that anyone could have on that one thing.
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  And it's like, oh, this is your nutritional complication.
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  It's that that's your nutritional complication, which
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  is so vastly different from person A's.
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  That person B is like, oh, it's also that.
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  It's like, how do we just look at that one?
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  And we're like, you're the issue, you're the problem, and
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  you're the problem for everybody.
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  And in reality, like we're all so unique and we're all so
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  complicated and complex that like for some people, we might
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  be really actually sensitive to gluten, for example.
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  But like for other people, there might be other things going on,
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  like you're not eating vegetables and like that's a
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  bigger problem. I think that's just what's
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  happened with nutrition and that's why it becomes so
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  confusing as a consumer and just as somebody who's eating right,
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  because what's happened is we've oversimplified it and we're
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  treating everybody the same. Everybody has different needs
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  and needs an individualized approach to nutrition.
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  This podcast is called the Eat More Carbs Podcast.
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  It is for athletes, specifically female athletes, and a lot of
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  our conversations revolve around athletes who have like
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  hypothalamic amenorrhea and are trying to get their period back.
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  The advice that we're saying on this podcast might not apply to
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  you if you are outside of that population.
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  And therefore it's just really confusing because people are
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  trying to do the right thing, and the right thing is different
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  for everybody, OK? I have one to read you.
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  This is not my own words, but I saw this and I had to screenshot
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  it because I had to share it. And this kind of ties in
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  perfectly. This creator put a post out
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  there. She said, can we all just admit
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  that 2025 fitness is just 2016 fitness in a different font?
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  Stanley is the new swell. Cold plunging is the new
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  cryotherapy. Colostrum is the new collagen.
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  Carnivore diet is the new paleo. You can't tell me any different.
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  And I read that and I was like, Oh my gosh, that's so true.
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  We've just replaced one thing with another thing.
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  The next fad has come along, but for some reason we've all
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  convinced ourselves that those things are going to make these
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  massive changes for us. And I feel like that's the same
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  thing that you just mentioned as far as seed oil as being the new
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  gluten. Yeah, exactly.
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  What's going to happen is we're just going to, again, in a
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  couple of years, replace this with something else because it's
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  not prompting sustainable change and it's not prompting like
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  overall lifestyle behaviors that are going to promote Wellness
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  and health, which is so frustrating and so frustrating.
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  Something that I have been seeing kind of floating around.
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  I know this was big news a couple of weeks ago.
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  Steak 'n Shake actually is promoting and advertising and
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  they've been actually getting a lot of attention because they
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  are no longer frying their fries in seed oil.
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  They are frying their fries in beef tallow as a healthier
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  alternative. Let me be very blunt on this
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  one. If you are consuming that many
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  fried foods that that makes that big of an impact for you, we you
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  got a bigger problem with how many times you're going to steak
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  and shake. Like that's a bigger problem.
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  If that's really making that big of a difference, We've replaced
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  one cooking fat with another. And if you're still consuming
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  that on like a regular or consistent basis, like there's
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  something else we need to be talking about.
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  I couldn't. Have said it better, you and I
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  have talked about this before, but a restaurant that I used to
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  actually recommend a lot of the time to athletes on the go was
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  McDonald's. And before you come from me, all
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  of you who are listening, I want you to hear me out because I do
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  not recommend McDonald's anymore, but I did as a sports
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  dietitian like six or seven years ago because McDonald's
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  used to have a Greek yogurt fruit parfait.
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  They used to have a smoothie that was made with Chobani
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  yogurt. They used to have like a grilled
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  snack wrap. Do you remember those?
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  Yeah, they used to have a grilled chicken sandwich.
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  They took all of that away. Instead of focusing on trying to
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  incorporate a variety of menu items to these restaurants,
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  promoting more fruits and vegetables on these menus,
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  promoting health, promoting options, we're focused on the
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  oil that the fries are fried in. And there's still fries.
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  And there's nothing wrong with a fry, right?
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  Like we're an E more carbs podcast.
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  A fry is a carbohydrate. We like this, but what's
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  happening is we are like demonizing and we're scaring
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  people and we're using fear marketing instead of a positive
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  approach to nutrition. And I'm just gonna throw it out
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  there. It's Steak and Shake, right?
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  I've said this restaurant 6 Times Now and I still get the
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  name wrong. But like, they're not doing that
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  because they believe that it's healthier.
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  They're doing that because they know right now that's what
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  people are interested in and therefore that might increase
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  their profits. Like they're a business.
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  They're not doing it because they care about your health,
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  they're doing it because they care about how much money they
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  can make off of you. That's a business move, not a
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  health conscious move for consumers.
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  Also here, here's the best part about the story.
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  I'm so excited. They are.
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  French fries are pre fried before they get to the store.
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  Pre fried what? Do we know?
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  Canola oil. Huh.
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  Get out. Which is a seed oil.
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  So it is a purely marketing tactic because there's still
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  seed oils. And I know that we're taking an
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  unhinged approach to this, but the issue is we just see so much
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  of this fear mongering in our food supply and we're so focused
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  on the wrong things, it's making people even more confused.
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  Yep exactly. This is very similar to like our
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  red dye episode where we're like if it doesn't have a purpose,
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  why is it in the food in the 1st place?
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  But like, we kind of are focusing on the wrong thing
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  here. I feel very similarly about
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  this. Like if you want to avoid seed
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  oils, that's great. If you choose to not consume
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  them, also great. Like if you don't feel good when
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  you eat them, don't eat them and all those types of things.
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  But again, it's such a small portion of our food system to be
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  focused on, to blame all of the problems on when there are, for
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  lack of a better way to say it, so many other fish to fry.
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  So many other fish to fry. I think also I'm going to take
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  an even more unhinged approach to this.
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  But I think when we like fear monger, when we pick certain
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  foods to demonize, it's a very privileged perspective because a
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  lot of people rely on a lot of these like big companies and
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  these fast food restaurants for a majority of their food.
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  And they might be those individuals that are consuming
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  these seed oils and high amounts on a consistent basis.
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  But is swapping out the seed oil with beef tallow going to help
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  solve that problem? No, they need more readily
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  available healthier food options like fruits and vegetables, like
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  an option that's not fried as a side or even an option that is
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  an entree that's not fried. But we're not focused on that.
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  We're focused on the marketing, right, Because nobody wants to
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  market as. Instead, we're just we're
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  hitting the buzzwords. We're hitting the buzzwords.
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  And that is what is driving Riley bananas.
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  She is very upset, if you cannot tell.
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  I feel like we just have this conversation all the time where
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  people are, you know, really trying to work through some of
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  these, like, food beliefs. And they feel guilty around
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  eating. And then they enjoy a French fry
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  for the first time in a couple of years.
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  They have ice cream for the first time in a couple of years.
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  And then they feel guilty because they go on social media
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  and they see an ingredient in a food that they love demonized
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  when we have again, such bigger fish to fry it.
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  Is true and it's hard for those people to feel like everything
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  that they're doing as far as taking like progressive steps
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  towards like overcoming a food fear has just been undone
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  because then there's more fear around that all of a sudden.
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  Yeah. So that's enough about what's
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  driving me bananas because obviously seed oils are going to
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  continue to drive me bananas. What's going on with you?
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  Anything that's driving you bananas this week?
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  Everything is driving me bananas all the time.
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  Like, let's just just be clear about that.
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  I get annoyed when someone in the grocery store gets
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  unsolicited nutrition advice that's completely wrong and I
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  have to stand there and go do not engage with no one asked for
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  your help. And I have to remind myself of
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  that. One of the things that like
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  really got me this week. I was doomed scrolling on
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  Instagram when I wasn't feeling well.
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  Probably not my best use of time and I came across a page of
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  someone who considers themself a skinny coach that is a
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  self-titled approach to her business and it's geared for
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  women. Whole approach is that that's
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  really what all girls want. I debated whether or not I would
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  bring this up on the podcast, but at the end of the day, that
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  is what drove me bananas. Like I saw that and I had such a
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  big reaction because I was like, I can't believe that this person
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  would directly attack body size and potentially someone who has
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  worked so hard to get to the place that they are now as far
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  as from a recovery standpoint, it just, oh, it got to me.
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  I don't have words that are appropriate for this podcast
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  because this is A rated what? PG Yeah, I only have R rated
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  words for this. It's this heart name.
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  Because it's not the only one, right?
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  Like it's not the only account out there like this.
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  We have so many conversations with our clients who are doing
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  so well with their period recovery and their body image
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  and their mindset, and then something like this pops up.
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  And I think I am so fortunate that most of the time that I am
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  online, like it's golden retriever videos, it's food
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  videos or something like that that really fits into like what
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  RBSN believes in. It really fits into the things
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  that I believe in. But every now and then I'm going
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  to come across to post that like doesn't fit with maybe what the
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  algorithm knows that I enjoy looking at online.
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  And it's something like that. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, these
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  things exist out there. And I'm kind of reminded that
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  there's a whole nother section of the Internet that like exists
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  outside of the corner that I live in, which is very food
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  positive and carbon positive and all of those things.
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  And I know that like clients and people that are working through
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  recovery are seeing those things too.
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  And that's a hard thing to see and be told that this is really
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  what you do want. I would have probably been like
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  really sucked in to something like this, like when I was
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  really struggling, especially like when I was coming out of
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  like being a college athlete into like this retired athlete
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  space where I had been, you know, so ashamed of my athletic
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  body. And like, even told as an
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  athlete, like, you should, you know, try to get recruited at
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  this school because they recruit bigger players.
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  And I'm like, I don't even know what that means.
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  I'm 54. Like, is that big?
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  Like, I'm confused. There were so much of my like,
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  at least in my brain, right in my mindset, like my athletic
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  performance tied with my body. And I remember being like, I
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  can't wait until I, you know, stop playing soccer because then
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  I can get skinny. I just would have been really
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  sucked into something like this thinking back about it.
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  And how sad is that? That like something that you
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  loved, like soccer, you were excited to stop playing because
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  of this potential of what your body would change or suddenly
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  morph into because you weren't playing soccer anymore.
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  And like, that's so sad. And that's so sad that like
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  people out there are telling people that, like, that is such
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  an important component. We talk about this all the time.
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  But like, what I look like on the outside is the least
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  interesting thing about me. The fact that this person was
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  saying to people like this should be one of the most
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  important things to you is just so sad.
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  That's no way to like, live life or anticipate changes in your
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  body to be like something that's going to bring you joy.
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  I actually have an interesting story that relates to this about
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  one of our clients that kind of graduated from our period
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  recovery program because she saw an account like this on TikTok.
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  And there was a lady on there who was, I don't know if she was
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  calling herself like a skinny coach, but she was talking about
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  how being in a smaller body and being quote, UN quote, skinny
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  was the most important thing for her.
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  And these are the things that she did in order to be this way.
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  And these are things that you should do as well if you wanted
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  to look like her. My client actually said because
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  she had been struggling right with mindset, not looking like
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  the athlete that she thought she was going to be.
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  And she actually realized through watching her video how
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  much she like valued outside of that and how she much she didn't
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  want to sacrifice to be quote UN quote skinny because she was
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  like, I saw what she was doing. It sounded miserable.
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  That is such like a positive, like end note for that, what
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  drives me bananas because like, I think it's so refreshing to
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  hear that somebody who has gone through the recovery process and
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  gone through all of our BSN was able to look at that and like
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  kind of utilize the tools that you helped her learn to look at
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  that and be like, that's not something that's important to
• 17:44
  me. That's not something that I want
• 17:45
  to implement in my life. Like I'm so much happier with
• 17:48
  where I am right now and I'm so much healthier with where I am
• 17:51
  right now. That's such a great way to kind
• 17:53
  of approach that scenario. And I'm really happy that we
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  have like that example of like a positive coming from something
• 17:59
  like that because those types of accounts can be so triggering
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  for so many people. Because she could easily like,
• 18:05
  OK, I actually need to do like these four things.
• 18:07
  But instead she was able to be like, I don't want to do any of
• 18:10
  that. Like I did some of that before
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  and I was so miserable. And I'm so much better now.
• 18:14
  The way that I'm, I'm doing it now.
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  I'm so. Happy to hear that.
• 18:17
  That brings so much, like light to that situation for me.
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  So that helps with my interpretation of that, that we
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  can have athletes that look at that and go, that's not
• 18:25
  something that I really want to associate myself with or consume
• 18:28
  from a content standpoint either.
• 18:30
  So that makes me happy, yeah. Maybe that kind of like ends our
• 18:32
  what's drives us bananas. On a positive note, maybe
• 18:35
  because I feel like we were like really heated in today's
• 18:37
  episode. Yeah, I think we definitely
• 18:39
  were. That kind of wraps up our What
• 18:41
  Drives Us Bananas segment of today's episode.
• 18:43
  We're also going to provide our training update.
• 18:44
  If you didn't know, I am running a marathon in just a couple of
• 18:48
  weeks and Riley is beginning her kind of phases of running the
• 18:52
  New York City Marathon. She's got a half marathon
• 18:54
  potentially that she's running. So we're just giving a little
• 18:56
  bit of updates on what we're doing for our training and our
• 18:58
  journey towards our running error and all the things that
• 19:01
  we're doing. So Riley, what does this week
• 19:02
  look like for you as far as training goes?
• 19:04
  So last week. I didn't train at all because I
• 19:06
  had COVID and even though I was feeling better at the end of the
• 19:09
  week, I did decide that I was not going to train.
• 19:12
  I should have actually done this probably from the beginning.
• 19:14
  But because I didn't finish my half marathon, I was like, I
• 19:17
  don't need to take any time off. And my again, like we talked
• 19:21
  about the beginning of the episode, the universe had other
• 19:23
  plans for me. So as I'm coming back into
• 19:25
  training this week, we are in Sedona on a family vacation and
• 19:30
  I'm going to be doing a couple runs.
• 19:32
  But I have kind of taken a pause on running as kind of extended
• 19:35
  my break. So just doing a lot of like
• 19:37
  hiking this week, still being active, doing a couple like
• 19:40
  maybe lighter runs just to kind of like almost check my lung
• 19:43
  capacity after COVID, but nothing too structured this
• 19:47
  week. Once I get back to the East
• 19:49
  Coast after my vacation, I'm going to restart my plan.
• 19:52
  So not as much structure this week, but I just like always
• 19:54
  love running in new places so I'm excited to explore.
• 19:57
  So fun, I love that. What about you?
• 19:59
  A marathon is like in a month. Yeah, I know.
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  Which is wild. I cannot believe it.
• 20:04
  It feels like training went by so fast this time.
• 20:06
  I'm really looking forward to running the race.
• 20:09
  Like I mentioned kind of at the beginning, I am at the point of
• 20:12
  marathon training where I'm like, wow, this is a lot of
• 20:14
  running, which it is. I've had a little bit of
• 20:16
  hamstring pain these past couple of days.
• 20:18
  So I'm going to listen to my body before it does kind of give
• 20:21
  me anymore signs and I'm going to take it easy.
• 20:23
  So I haven't done nearly as many long runs this week.
• 20:25
  I've just done shorter, a little bit lower on the intensity as
• 20:28
  far as the type of running that I'm doing.
• 20:30
  And then on Saturday, I'm just going to kind of play it by ear
• 20:33
  with how my leg is feeling, which will determine how long my
• 20:36
  long run is on Saturday. So really making sure I'm
• 20:38
  listening to my body and making sure that I don't hurt myself so
• 20:40
  that way I can still run on the day of the race.
• 20:43
  I think with marathon training, the thing you kind of have to
• 20:45
  realize is that there are going to be aches and pains along the
• 20:47
  way no matter what. But it's still important to
• 20:49
  listen to your body and let it rest when it needs to.
• 20:51
  So that way you don't actually injure yourself because of
• 20:53
  course you're going to feel something running 1820 miles on
• 20:56
  the weekend. So just making sure that you're
• 20:57
  taking care of yourself kind of in between that and listening to
• 21:00
  what your body does need and remembering that at the end of
• 21:02
  the day, if you miss a PR or something like that, but you
• 21:04
  still got to run the race because you were healthy, that's
• 21:07
  definitely the better option to go versus not being able to run
• 21:10
  the race because you pushed yourself too hard in training.
• 21:12
  Something that I also noticed last week was I was like, Oh my
• 21:16
  gosh, I'm going to miss an entire week of training.
• 21:18
  Like it's over. It's over.
• 21:20
  Like I'm not going to get a PR. And then I like looked at my
• 21:23
  like, training app and it was like I missed three runs.
• 21:26
  Yeah, you're fine. Rightly, you're fine.
• 21:28
  It's going to be OK. And so sometimes I think like we
• 21:31
  just put a lot of pressure on ourselves and we like expect
• 21:33
  like our training to go perfect. And it's just like there's ups
• 21:36
  and downs with it. And that's totally OK.
• 21:38
  And you're still gonna PR, and you're still gonna do great.
• 21:40
  And we cannot wait to cheer you on.
• 21:42
  Thank you so much. I appreciate that.
• 21:44
  I'm excited to be able to share everything once I do run with
• 21:47
  everyone. But in the meantime, we'll still
• 21:49
  continue to provide our training update.
• 21:51
  We will still continue to share what drives us bananas, and we
• 21:53
  will still continue to provide sports nutrition advice for the
• 21:56
  girlies. Thank you so much for listening
• 21:58
  to this episode of the Eat More Carbs podcast.
• 22:00
  If you do have questions for Riley and I can always leave
• 22:02
  them below in the comments of this podcast or you can find us
• 22:04
  online. You can find Riley on Instagram
• 22:06
  at easy dot sports dot nutrition and you can find me at Jenna dot
• 22:09
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• 22:11
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