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122. Big Changes at RBSN · 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 if you're not quite ready for
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  that one-on-one approach. That's exactly why we created
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  the Period Recovery Guide. It's designed to support the
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  girlies working on period recovery, specifically if you've
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  lost it due to hypothalamic amenorrhea.
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  The full Period Recovery guide is finally out now, and we will
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  leave all of the information for it in the podcast show notes.
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  This is the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  Hello and welcome back. This is the More Carbs podcast.
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  It's Jenna here with Riley. We are both dietitians and we
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  talk every Thursday about sports nutrition for the girlies
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  specifically, we talk about how to get your period back if
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  you've lost it due to hypothalamic amenorrhea and low
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  energy availability. On today's episode, we have a
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  very exciting announcement. I know that I'm super excited
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  for everyone to kind of know this.
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  We've been teasing it for quite a bit of time.
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  But before we get into all of that, Riley, give us your update
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  on your week. How's it going high and low So
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  I'm start. With my low, it is a little bit
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  of like an older low. It happened a couple weeks ago,
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  but it's bothering me so I have to share.
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  A couple weeks ago for the 4th of July, we went to the
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  mountains for the holiday. It was actually really, really
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  fun. We got this like little cabin in
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  the woods. We had like a like river flowing
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  through. It was really, really fun.
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  But I got eaten alive at mosquitoes.
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  I am one of those people that like I will go outside for 5
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  minutes and I honestly will have 30 mosquito bites.
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  Jenna, it is crazy. Like I'm outside with Rob's and
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  Charlie. They don't have a single bite on
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  them. I am covered in mosquito bites
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  and it's just such a first world problem but they are so itchy I
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  cannot deal with it. No, I know that feeling that's
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  the worst when you get bug bites.
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  But have you seen from mosquitoes specifically?
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  They make those citronella wristbands that almost look like
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  hair ties that you can wear on your wrists.
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  No. Yes.
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  So I did this when we went on like a hike one time.
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  And they're like literally like little hair tie wristbands type
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  of things. And you can wear them on your
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  ankles or your wrists. And I feel like they helped.
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  Definitely not perfect, but it might help because I especially
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  feel like Miss Skitos always tend to get around like ankles
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  and stuff like that. Like, I don't know if that might
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  be something to look into to help in the future because I
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  know you guys are hoping to, you know, go back.
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  Yeah. I know it's so silly but like I
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  just have them and they're all over my body and I'm so itchy
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  and I just, I can't. And I guess I got spoiled
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  because we like spray for them at home just because I'm so
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  reactive to them. But it was literally I was a 5
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  minute period of time. I must have been like by a nest
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  or something and I just got attacked.
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  Are you still itchy from it all? Oh gosh no, that's way too long.
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  If I like. Lifted my shirt up, you would
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  see like 4 on my shoulder. Uh huh.
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  It's too much. It's too much, it's too much.
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  I know it's such a silly low but it's really affecting me. 0 out
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  of 10 stars. Highly would not recommend.
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  My high though, is actually a client story and I'm really
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  excited to share this because I was like really touched by her
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  sharing this with me and I thought that it would benefit so
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  many people from kind of sharing it on the podcast.
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  Remember our clients in our period recovery program, She's
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  working on getting her period back.
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  She has some puberty and she's getting her period a little bit
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  later, so it is taking a little bit longer.
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  And I'm really proud of her because she's really continuing
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  to, you know, push herself in our period recovery program.
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  Part of our kind of support that we have for athletes is having
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  them take pictures of their plates and they submit them to
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  us and we provide feedback and then also accountability and
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  support. On one of her plates that she
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  submitted, she was actually like missing a fat source, like some
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  potatoes, some green beans, some pork.
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  There was a little bit of butter on the potatoes, but it was low
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  on the fact I was actually like going to write a comment and I
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  was going to message her to kind of chat a little bit about it
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  because she's really good about like being on top of her fat
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  sources. She actually like sent me a
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  voice message because she was really proud about this current
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  situation actually related to this plate.
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  She had plated her food, which was a really big step for her.
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  And she noticed that she was low in fat.
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  So she decided that she was going to drink a glass of milk
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  to help meet her fat goal for that meal.
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  And she said that this was something that was really like,
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  nerve wracking for her because she was adding something in
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  addition to the meal. And when she looked around at
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  the people at the table with her, she noticed that her
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  portions were a little bit bigger because obviously,
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  everybody has different needs. And she was the only person with
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  a glass of milk. She said that she, you know,
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  started if you were really anxious about this, She actually
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  shared that with her family. And she said, hey, like, I'm
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  feeling a little anxious about this meal.
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  Like, I could use a little bit of additional support.
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  Every single person in her family got up and got a glass of
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  milk and drank it with her. I might cry.
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  I was like, I'm crying right now.
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  And I was like, we need this support.
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  Like this is the energy that we need for all of our athletes,
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  whether you have your period or not.
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  We need to be supporting each other.
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  And I just thought that was like such a heartwarming story
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  because like, I don't know. I just feel like so many times
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  that we, we look at what other people are doing at the table
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  and we feel like what we're doing is wrong and we compare
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  ourselves to others and we're getting negative comments.
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  And it was just so heartwarming to hear that everybody at the
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  table was supporting her and her goal.
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  I might cry. I'll probably think about this
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  for the rest of the day and tear up every single time I think
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  about it. That is wonderful.
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  I think one of the things that we underestimate is the power of
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  community and having people around you that can support the
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  goals that you have, especially when you're going through like
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  period recovery, which can be so challenging.
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  So to have somebody or have family in your corner that can
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  support you. And also huge shout out to her
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  for being open and honest with her family and sharing that she
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  was struggling in that moment because that was hard too.
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  So many wonderful things there. Oh my.
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  Gosh, I know I'm just, I'm so proud of like everybody in that
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  situation. I'm just, I make just.
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  This warms my heart. We can end the podcast now.
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  Nothing is going to talk bad. We do have a really exciting
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  announcement today though, so please keep listening.
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  You have to wait until we get to the big announcement for RBSN,
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  but wow, I love that. Nothing that I say for my high
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  and low is even going to come close to that because that's
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  amazing. I love that so.
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  No, I bet your high and low is great.
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  I want to hear it. OK, Riley, do you know what
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  happened recently? A lot of stuff, Yeah, a lot of
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  stuff, obviously, But Amazon Prime Day.
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  Tell me what you got. I had to be so diligent about
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  not just buying everything that showed me a good deal.
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  If you've listened to this podcast for a while, you are
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  aware that Riley and I love a deal on Amazon Prime Day always
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  gets me. I am aware of the fact that they
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  just mark up the product and then discount it and then show
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  it to you as a great deal, so that makes you more likely to
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  buy. I know that's happening, but it
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  works on me. It is a marketing tactic that
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  gets me every single time. I have been really hoping that
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  we would get like a new Ring doorbell to monitor things.
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  So I needed one of those. I wanted a fur bow for my dog.
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  Like things that I was trying to convince myself for practical
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  because I already needed them. So I was just using Amazon Prime
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  Day to actually purchase them. So I did a really good job.
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  Not like buying random things that were like flash sale 5
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  minutes left or anything like that.
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  Like I didn't buy 6 new water bottles or anything like that.
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  It was things that were on a list that I knew that I actually
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  did. I don't want to say need because
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  nothing is ever like needed, but I knew that I wanted already so
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  I'm using that as my excuse this year.
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  What like adult purchases by you though a ring doorbell and like
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  a fur bow? Like who is she?
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  What I know? Last time I think I bought like,
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  I don't know, a flip mask and eye patches like.
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  Also things that you need right? OK, that's what I was telling
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  myself. But I did a really good job of
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  not overspending on Amazon Prime Day, so I'm not sure if that's a
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  high or a low because it could be both.
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  Depends. I was wondering that I was like
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  is this your high or is this your low?
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  But I'm here for both of them. Amazon Prime Day.
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  It gets me every year. I'm going to leave Amazon Prime
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  Day as both my high and my low because I don't have a good
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  enough story to share for like either a high or a low.
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  So Amazon Prime Day is my high and my low.
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  Is that your low then? Yeah, Amazon Prime Day gets me
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  every year is my low. My high is that I got things
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  that I needed and I didn't overspend.
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  So look at me. Growing up.
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  Growing up so mature. Some people said it would never
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  happen, but here we are. There's always next year, don't
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  worry. Which it's terrible because
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  Amazon Prime Day also overlaps with the Nordstrom semi annual
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  sale. So like I'm just getting kit
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  with all the sale emails, you know what I mean?
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  Like it's one after another. I need them to space.
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  It out. Do you want to know a?
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  Secret. Yes, always.
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  Everything I'm wearing right now is from the Nordstrom pre
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  annual. Amazing.
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  Everything I'm wearing literally gore shirt shoes I got from the
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  pre sale for the whatever the Nordstrom.
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  Isn't it amazing that they do a pre sale to the?
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  Sale. Yeah, but only like 1 of the
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  things I'm wearing was actually on sale.
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  What shoes do you have on? Since I can't see you, can you
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  shut the screen? I can't see them are.
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  They OK, I can't show you because I'm wearing a score, but
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  I really just did try. If you are watching the video,
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  you will see that I'm not flexible and I obviously need to
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  do mobility work before the New York City Marathon.
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  Do these like Sambas, like the the Adidas shoes that
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  everybody's wearing? Oh, yeah.
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  Do you like them? Yeah.
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  But they are indoor soccer shoes.
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  And I used to wear them when I was like 8.
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  And I just cannot get over myself.
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  I love that. I just, like, looked down at my
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  feet. I'm like, I'm ready to go.
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  I'm ready to. Play.
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  Do you feel like you have to wear them?
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  Machine guards. I feel like I cannot wear them
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  in front of my husband because he would literally make that
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  comment every two minutes. That's.
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  So funny. I'm crying, this is so funny.
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  Well, we got really off topic today and today's Iowa.
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  Yeah, we were all over the place today.
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  But today we do have a very exciting announcement and thank
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  you for sticking with us through all of our high and low to get
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  to are very exciting are we as an announcement.
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  We are so excited to share with you.
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  We have been holding on to the Secret for the last couple of
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  months, but we have a new addition to the RBSN team.
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  Welcome officially to Lily. I am so excited to be here.
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  If you are one of our period recovery athletes right now, or
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  if you are familiar with RBSN, you have probably either already
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  started working with Lily or you have seen her working hard
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  behind the scenes. Lily was an intern with RBSN for
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  the last couple of years and now she is a official performance
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  dietitian with RBSN and I'm gonna let Lily share a little
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  bit about herself. Like Riley and Jenna said, I'm
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  Lily and I am currently based in Texas.
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  I'm in the DFW area. I just graduated from TCU.
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  I'm so excited to help girlies get their periods back.
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  I think that's really where my passion lies and I'm just
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  excited to get. Started Lily.
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  We are so excited to officially have you as part of the team.
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  I know that it was a long time coming as far as how you had
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  interned with Riley and I for such a long time, it feels like
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  and to officially say welcome to the team with such like a big
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  moment not only for RBSN but like to welcome you specifically
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  onto the team was just so exciting.
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  Can you share a little bit more about like the population that
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  you specifically work with, like the girlies that you help get
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  their period back? Yeah, so as a recent grad and a
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  post grad girlie myself, I know how difficult it is to move into
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  the real world and also navigate period recovery.
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  Fueling my primary population is going to be the college girlies
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  who are active but might not consider themselves athletes
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  even though they are consistently working out and
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  just trying to get them to get their period back.
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  Love that for anyone who's new to the More Carbs podcast and
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  isn't familiar maybe with who Riley and I work with, Riley
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  should we share just about like who we you see at our BSN to
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  help get their period back? Yes, I can start off based off
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  of kind of my background. Once Upon a time, you know, was
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  a college athlete myself. I do see a lot of our college
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  athletes, especially in the team sport.
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  So soccer, basketball, volleyball, lacrosse, field
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  hockey and I see a lot of those girlies in our period recovery
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  program. Additionally, I love working
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  with combat and weight class athletes.
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  I see our high rocks and CrossFit girlies.
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  I work with a lot of gymnasts and then I'm also going to see a
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  lot of our like, trying to conceive athletes and those
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  athletes going through that postpartum phase.
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  I just shared a little bit about who I work with in our period
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  recovery program and RBSN. When you apply to work with us,
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  you will be connected with the dietitian that works best with
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  you based off of your goals, sport, and location.
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  I just shared a little bit about who I work with and as you guys
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  know, Jenna is our running specialist at RBSN.
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  So Jenna, who else do you work with besides just runners?
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  I work with mostly endurance athletes, so yes, definitely
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  running is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of
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  endurance sport. That includes anybody training
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  for 1/2 marathon, marathon, high school and college age, cross
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  country and track. I also see swimmers,
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  triathletes, and then I see a lot of dancers as well.
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  So if you fall into one of those categories, there's a good
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  chance that we will be meeting during your initial discovery
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  call when you apply to RBSN. That's one of the coolest things
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  I think that we have seen over the last couple of months with,
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  you know, launching our period recovery program and working
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  with so many athletes is we just had the opportunity to work with
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  so many different types of athletes like all across the
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  United States and all across the world.
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  And as our team grows, it's been great to really start to
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  specialize and provide even more in depth care to specific sports
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  and specific athletes. Totally agree.
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  I think it's wonderful too that we can all lean into like our
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  own personal experiences and draw from that.
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  Riley having a background as a collegiate athlete and Lily
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  being in that post grad era herself.
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  All of us kind of taking like that own specialization based on
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  we understand the world that we're working with and then we
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  pair that together with the knowledge that our team has of
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  helping you get your period back.
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  So we're really, really excited to have Lily on board.
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  You are going to see her on a couple of podcast episodes that
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  Lily is going to be a repeat guest again.
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  We're just so excited to share like her with you.
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  You are going to love her as much as we do.
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  So even if you are a new listener to the Eat More Carbs
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  Podcast or you are a longtime fan of the Eat More Carbs
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  Podcast, again, thanks for being here and please join us in
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  welcoming Lily to the team. We're just super excited to have
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  Lily as part of the RBSN team officially.
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  Lily, do you have any final thoughts or final adds to being
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  here and being part of RBSN? I'm just so.
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  Thankful to be here and I can't wait to start working with
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  people and helping them get their period.
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  Back Lily, where can people find you?
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  Instagram is Lily Reimer Nutrition.
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  It'll be in the show notes and follow me along.
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  You'll get to see my puppy and all the things that I'm doing in
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  my life, along with some content as well.
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  Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the Eat More
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  Carbs podcast. We have been so excited to share
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  the news that Lily is officially joining the team.
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  If you do have questions for Riley, Lily or myself, you can
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  find us online. You can find Lily at Lily reimer
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  dot nutrition. You can find Riley at easy dot
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  sports dot nutrition, and you can find me at Jenna dot Fisher
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  dot nutrition. Thanks again for listening.
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  Please make sure you rate, subscribe and review.
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  And as always, remember to eat more carbs.