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116. Why WIEIAD Videos 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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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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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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On today's episode we are doing our what drives us bananas.
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So the things that we saw online than the world of nutrition that
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drove Riley and I bananas. Of course, there are tons of
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things online that drive us bananas that are not nutrition
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related. Quick note though, I do have a
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short Charlie update that I'm so excited to share because it has
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to do with bananas and this is our Drives Us Bananas episode.
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Charlie is learning a lot of new words right now and recently she
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learned the word banana, which I am so proud of.
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She knows cheese juice and bananas.
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I don't even know where she got the banana word from because
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like we haven't really been like saying that word but she comes
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in every morning and like points out the bananas and is like Nana
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Nana, Nana Nana. We have a carb girly on our
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hands. I love it.
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What a fueling queen you. Go Queen.
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Definitely not something that's driving us bananas.
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Is Charlie learning new words and saying banana is fantastic.
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So I absolutely love that. Thank you for sharing a Charlie
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update. Before we get into what drives
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us bananas this week we're going to do our high and low.
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So sharing the good and maybe the parts of our week we wish it
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gone a little bit differently. And then at the very end of the
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episode, we will do our training update.
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So sharing just a little bit about the running we are doing
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and the progress we are making towards our running goals.
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So Riley high and low kick us off.
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My High is so silly. If you have been listening to
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other episodes of the More Carves podcast, you might have
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been following along with like toenail Gate because I am slowly
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losing toenails. Like we have adjusted the shoes,
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we have adjusted the socks, but like the mileage right now is
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just like not good for the toenails.
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On previous episodes I talked about how I do not know how to
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manage the toenails because they're again all falling off.
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And I decided to go get them done because I was like at least
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like make a couple of them look OK.
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The girl painted on fake toenails.
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Like my toenails look like actually like I have a full set
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of 10 and I am so impressed. If it wasn't like totally taboo
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to like post my toes online. Like I want to show you because
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like I am so impressed. I don't know, this is like the
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silliest tie ever, but like I can actually finally wear a
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sandal. No, that's a great high,
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especially when we were dealing with what were you at like
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toenail count was 3 last time. I had lost three last time in
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between like this episode and when I shared before I had lost
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another one. So like I was down to six
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toenails. I love that.
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OK, but I have to know, did they paint like?
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Did they paint like like how did they do this?
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I know I I wish I could show you because they literally look real
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but they like painted like where the toenail is supposed to be.
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Oh. My gosh.
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And it stays on your foot like. Yeah, I was like 30% tipped.
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Like you gave me fake toenails. Like here you go.
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And we're a sandal in the summer, so we're so excited.
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That is amazing. I love that for you and your
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toenails. Thank you.
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Totally a random high, but I just had to share because it's
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been something that's so exciting for me.
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I was trying to think about a low and I feel like honestly,
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there's so many lows that I cannot share on the podcast
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right now because I think being a business owner and like
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working in this space is like really challenging.
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And we talk about like the journey and how challenging it
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is to like reach your goals with period recovery.
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And we've also talked a lot about meeting our goals with
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running. And I just feel like there's so
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many parallels also like being a dietitian and like being a
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business owner. So there's just like lots of ups
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and downs. And I feel like we've been
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having so many great like UPS lately, but we also have.
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The Downs business side of it can sometimes be so mentally
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challenging and I know we talk a lot about it offline and that's
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why I'm so thankful to be a part of our BSN because we can talk
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about it and I'm not in a private practice setting where
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I'm completely alone. I have you and we have a team
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with us that we can kind of chat about the challenges.
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You're so right, so many highs. I feel like in private practice
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the highs are really high but the lows are sometimes really
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low. Yeah, but it's just like with
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everything, right? Like it's part of a journey, but
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then also like having a community and like like you
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mentioned, like being able to talk to each other or just being
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able to talk with other people that like know what you're going
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through. It just can really like help and
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it's just very supportive. I also just noticed your
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fingernails and they're that like a beautiful hot pink.
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So if your toenails look anything like that, 30% tip was
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definitely warranted. Yeah, my toenails are like, I
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usually do it myself, but I was like, you know what, I'm just
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gonna, I'm gonna go and just help me out somebody.
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Sometimes you need that, yeah. Because then I can wear all
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black and then I can have a pop of.
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Color. I love it.
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How? About you Jenna, How's your week
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going? I had a high and low that was
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kind of the same story, but kind of boring, to be thoroughly
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honest. This morning I got a message
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from a client that she started her period and I am so, so
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excited. This client in particular has
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been working so hard and has experienced a lot of highs and
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lows and a lot of ups and downs along this journey.
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Always just gets so excited when a client starts their period.
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So it's just the best way to start my day.
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And that's definitely my high is just like celebrating that win
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with her and knowing that like she, she did it and that's,
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that's the whole point. So very, very excited for her.
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I'm gonna still share like my full kind of high and low
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because I feel like if I share my low without sharing my high,
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it doesn't really make sense. But I shared a couple episodes
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ago, similarly to you, Riley, like that I was having some pain
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with my legs. I different muscles and stuff
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like that, which is why the marathon didn't really pan out
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maybe the way that I had wanted it to.
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And my hamstring is finally starting to feel better.
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So my low is just that like I have not been able to train or
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run as much or do the things that I'm used to doing.
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I needed to like take some time away from running as much,
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running at the same level that I had been running at and even
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lifting the same way so that way I could heal and low is that
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like that's just been really hard and not fun.
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But the high is like I'm finally starting to see that start to
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like pay off if that makes sense.
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So happy. I feel like that hamstring has
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been like with you for a little bit like that hamstring issue.
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Yeah, it feels like forever for me, but that's very dramatic and
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just like period recovery, like it feels like a really tough and
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long difficult journey for sure. And highs are high, lows are
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low. That's kind of the the theme I
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guess this morning. I think injuries can be so
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challenging because, like you said, there's so many parallels
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with period recovery. And one of those things is like,
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you feel like you're doing all the right things sometimes, but
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you can't speed up the process because you just need a little
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bit of time. Oh my gosh, that is so true.
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Time is just so important and such an important factor in
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recovering period, recovering from injury, all of that for
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sure. Today we are chatting a little
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bit about what drives us bananas.
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What are you seeing online that you absolutely cannot stand?
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Jenna so much like. Same.
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So much like I have such a love hate relationship with social
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media, social has allowed us to connect with you all been
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allowing us to, you know, start the period recovery program,
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start this podcast, help so many athletes get their periods back.
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But sometimes I'm like so blinded, I think to our like
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positive little corner of the Internet at RBSN.
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And when I like venture outside of that bubble, I'm just like
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not ready unfortunately for some of the information that I'm
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saying. I feel that so strongly.
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What did you see outside of our lovely corner of the Internet?
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I have been seeing this a lot lately and I know this is
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affecting a lot of our girlies in the period recovery program
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too, but I've been seeing a lot of almost like misinformation
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online coming from influencers who are claiming to eat healthy
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but they themselves do not have a period.
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Oh, I think that this is such a good point to bring up.
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We talk about this a lot, but like we never know what goes on
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behind closed doors. So when we see someone that's
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presenting in air quotes, as in air quotes again, healthy, we
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automatically assume that that person is having a regular
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cycle, is exercising at such a high level and is eating all of
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these foods that support them in a quote UN quote healthy way.
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But in reality, that person might be struggling with not
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having a regular menstrual cycle.
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It just makes it so confusing because if you are on the
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beginning of your nutritional journey and you're looking for
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advice online, you might be searching certain hashtags, you
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might be looking up certain accounts that are promoting
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healthy eating, right? And this is not a bad thing,
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right? We want people to be more
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optimized in their health. We want them to be more
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efficient. We want you to be fueling
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properly so that you can maximize your performance as an
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athlete. But we want you to do it the
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right way. And I think it's just so hard in
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the nutrition space because there's so many like conflicting
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opinions. There's so many, like, papers
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out there that contradict each other and it's just so hard to
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navigate. And I think what happens is it's
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really easy to try to, you know, follow people on social media
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because it's simplified. And the What I Eat in the Day
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videos make it really easy to kind of mimic somebody.
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And then what happens is people fall into these bats, like, not
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like bad habits, but they fall into like misinformation and
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they're following plans that are not right for them and not
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results in period loss. And then they're confused
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because they started eating healthy with air quotes.
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Right, exactly. I think this this is a good
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point to bring up because even though you might be following
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someone's like exercise plan and then following their what I eat
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in a day videos on top of that, because you want to achieve a
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similar look to what that person is showing online.
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There are so many things I want to go into here.
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One Instagram, social media is not real life, right?
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Like we are always choosing the best photo of ourselves editing
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and the photos of ourselves. So what you're seeing that
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person present as online isn't necessarily an accurate
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representation of what they physically look like in person.
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And then on top of that, if you're following their exercise
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plan and their what I eat in a day, that's not supporting what
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you need. Even if we're exercising the
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same, that does not mean that we need the same amount of fuel.
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Everybody needs a different amount of fuel based on who you
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are. And so many factors impact that
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way beyond the amount of exercise that we are doing.
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Like so, so many. So we can't just say you're
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exercising the same as me or I'm exercising the same as you.
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So therefore I should follow the what I eat in a day.
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My final point on this specifically is that the what I
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eat in a days are hardly ever the same day.
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There are so many times when I see some somebody post to what I
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eat in a day and there are small clues that show that that's not
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the same day. And once you start to see a
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couple of them, you can start to recognize the fact that like
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maybe this isn't the same day that they're showing.
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They're not giving an accurate representation of what I eat in
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a day. They've cherry picked and hand
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picked the best portions of their breakfast, the best snacks
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that they had, the best looking meals that they had pieced it
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together and then are then saying this is what I ate in a
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day. And it's not false, it's not a
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lie. They did eat that in a day, but
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it maybe wasn't the same day that they ate all of those
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things. And that drives me bananas.
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But we've talked about the what I eaten a day before.
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That is a lot of me rambling about what I eat in a day videos
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and why that drives me bananas, but I feel so strongly about
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this. I know and I, I feel the same
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way because it drives me. It drives me bananas, right?
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And that's why I brought it up today.
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And I think what even is more challenging about that is like
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when we think about this as dietitians, right?
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It's really easy to think about that sometimes.
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It's just like, so easy to fall into the trap.
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Even though we all know that there's like, negative side
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effects of social media, we're still all on it.
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And we're still kind of like sometimes falling into those
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traps. And sometimes we have to just
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like, take a step back and be like, OK, what's actually going
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on here? And what is the purpose of what
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they're sharing? Oh, it just irks me.
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It irks me too and I get so many requests and I know you do too,
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for posts for like meal ideas, recipe ideas.
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And I'm so hesitant to ever put those out because every single
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athlete has different needs. Even if you're the same height
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as somebody, maybe you play the same position or you're
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competing for the same like race or game or competition or in the
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same sport you have different genetic makeups, right?
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So you're going to have different needs than somebody
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who might be, on paper, the same exact proportions as you.
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Yes, Oh my gosh, I want to wear that on a T-shirt.
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Like I want people to know that even if you are exercising the
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same, even if you have a similar build to someone else, what you
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need is still different because you are different genetically
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and what you need to support your body is different from what
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that other person needs. Even if surface level it looks
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the same and you have the same goals, you're different and it's
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OK to fuel differently. It is, and I think that's
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something that's really hard about nutrition is it's not
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black and white like a lot of other areas like in our lives,
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right? And you know, we think about
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these workout classes and things like that where everybody does
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the same workout. But like nutrition doesn't
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necessarily fall into the same kind of guidelines as that.
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And I guess I know that the trainers are going to come from
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me, the strength and conditioning coaches are going
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to come from me and tell me that that all is individual too.
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And and it is, but nutrition is so individualized and we cannot
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reiterate that enough. 100%, even if you look at something
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like intra run fueling, right, there are general guidelines for
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the amount of carbohydrates that runners need based on the
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duration that you are running. But I have runners that I work
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with that take more than that or less than that because of what
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they need. And that's impacted by how long
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that they've been trying intra run fueling.
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Is it new to them? Is it something they've been
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practicing for a really long time?
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What do they need? What did they eat beforehand?
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When did they eat beforehand? Like all of those things are
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something that we're taking into account when we're building
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intra run fueling for a runner. So yes, there are general
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recommendations that we look at and maybe it's a good starting
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point if you're not used to intra run fueling.
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But everybody that I work with, even people who are running the
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same amount or running a similar time, it's different.
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It's so different. And then on top of that, they
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like different things. So one of them is using Nerds
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gummy clusters and the other is using VPN and the other is using
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goo. And one person likes to make her
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own infra run fuel. And like so many different
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things are impacting what we need and when we need it.
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And that even boils down to a run that looks really similar.
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Yes. And you might be breaking up
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your fueling into 20 grams every 20 minutes versus 30 grams every
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30 minutes, right? Like even if you're eating the
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same exact things, it goes even further.
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So it's just, it's so individualized.
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And I think people just get so overwhelmed and like confused
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and frustrated and disheartened because they're trying to follow
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generic advice, which, like you mentioned, Jenna, like such a
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great starting point. But to get the results that you
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want and be optimized and be as efficient as possible, you have
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to take it to the next level. Exactly.
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Yeah, that's why when we share recipes online for certain
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things, I'm not ever sharing serving sizes, never give
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exactly how much I'm going to consume of that because what I
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need when it changes on a day-to-day basis and it changes
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from meal to meal because it's going to change from me to you.
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And I never want to recommend that because it's a great recipe
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and a good starting point. But what you might need might be
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more than what I might need or less than what I might need.
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And that's OK. It's so individualized it.
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Is it just drives me bananas that there are people out there
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who are trying to do the right things and some of this
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misinformation out there is preventing them from getting to
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their goals? Yeah, or just making them feel
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bad about the work that they are doing.
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We talk about this a lot in period recovery especially, but
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like recovering your period is a really big goal.
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So we like to break it down into smaller goals that feel
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attainable. But the reason that we do that
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is because we want to celebrate the wins along the way.
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But when we see things like this online, it can make us feel like
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we're not making progress or we're making the wrong type of
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progress. And that can be really
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disheartening and really hard for someone that does have a big
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goal like period recovery. It is a big goal and it's
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something that's a very challenging journey.
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So it doesn't necessarily like create the best environment for
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someone who is working through something really, really tough.
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It is really tough and I think something that we hear from
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every single one of our clients is they get to a certain point
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and I think this happens to everybody on their journey where
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they're just sick of it. Like they're sick of it.
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They're like, why do I have to do this?
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Why do I have to keep trying this hard?
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And like other people just get to do whatever they want and
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they still have their period or I follow this influencer, she
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eats half as much as me and she still has her period.
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Can be really disheartening. I think when you feel like
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you're trying so hard and then like others aren't.
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But I think that kind of goes back to your point where like
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comparison in this journey is one of the hardest things. 1000%
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and it drives me bananas. For you if you're listening to
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this podcast and you're feeling that way, like I am right there
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with you. I know how annoying it is to go
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online and see these things and how that impacts how you're
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feeling because none of us are immune to it for sure.
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Like I wish we were, but it impacts us even if we don't
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really think it is. That is enough about what drives
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me bananas. Again, I could keep us here for
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three hours because obviously I'm very passionate about this,
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but what have you been saying this week?
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Like what's driving you bananas, Jenna?
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Everything 1st I want to give a shout out to all of the people
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that I work with. The amount of like kind things
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that people have said to me since I shared about like not
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meeting my marathon goal just reminds me that like there are
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good people in this world. So thank you to all of you.
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I just want to like say that again because like I have been
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surrounded by all the warm fuzzies online, which is
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wonderful, but I just kind of want to like bring that in
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before I start to jump into like all of what drives me bananas.
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This week I actually saw something that was posted.
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They took an article that had been done and the caption of
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their post announcing the article is what drove me
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bananas. They said every bite of ultra
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processed food increases chance of early death, major new study
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says. So that's the headline.
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I guess I should have said that the headline is what drove me
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bananas because I think that if you're like me, then you maybe
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don't always click on the article and read it yourself.
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You might read the headline. But if I was somebody who didn't
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have nutrition knowledge and I saw that, that would make me
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really fearful of every single bite of ultra processed foods
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that I was going to take from there on out.
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First of all, like who got to decide what was ultra processed
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and what was it? Why are these things considered
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ultra processed and these things not?
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But we just took something that's like super fearful and
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then we turned it into like a very attention grabbing headline
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and fear cells. We know this, we've talked about
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this before. I get so irritated around fear
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around food because the last thing that we need to do is
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create more fear around foods. And of course, like there are
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certain foods that we want to incorporate, operate for a
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well-rounded balanced performance plan that supports
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performance and supports longevity and supports health.
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But we never need to be fearful of food.
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We need to be knowledgeable about food, but we don't need to
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be fearful of it. Two weeks.
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Ago on our junk food episode, we talked about how food is not
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classified as good or bad and I think that's something that we
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really like to do in society because we think our brain
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thinks in black and white, right?
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It thinks this is good, this is bad, and food doesn't fall into
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those categories. With fear around food and with
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articles like this, it tries to classify food as good or bad and
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it becomes just, again, really confusing.
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And I'm, I'm with you. It's driving me bananas too.
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We can't classify food as good or bad because food doesn't have
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morality. We've talked about that so many
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times before nutrition. It's simple, but it's very
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complicated. We like to make things simple
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and easy to understand. So by classifying foods as good
19:17
or bad, we've taken something really complex and we've made it
19:20
simple and therefore made it harder, if that makes sense.
19:23
You have a really good way of saying this and I'm definitely
19:25
trying to paraphrase you, but it's not coming out right.
19:27
We've made this something that's harder for us.
19:29
Right. And we have to get back to the
19:31
basics and really simplify it again, because we've complicated
19:34
it by attempting to simplify it, I think too.
19:36
Yes, yes, that's what I'm trying to say.
19:38
Yes, thank you. We like things to be easy to
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understand. So by just saying this food is
19:42
bad or this is food that we shouldn't eat ever or like one
19:45
bite of this is going to cause something really drastic on the
19:48
other side of it. Like, that's a big claim.
19:50
It is a big claim not to go off on a tanger and a great
19:52
sidetrack. But I think that's why
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supplements are so big, because we treat supplements like
19:56
medication. And oftentimes, too, I think we
19:58
try to lump food into that as well, right?
20:00
We think, oh, OK, you take a painkiller, you're gonna see
20:03
less pain. You take creatine, you're gonna
20:05
gain muscle. Like, MMM, that's not how it
20:07
works. You eat this food, you're gonna
20:09
have an early death. Like, that's not how it works
20:11
either. Like we have to stop doing this.
20:13
Just like we talked about, there were so many components that
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impact the fueling that you need.
20:17
There are so many components of your fueling and of your
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day-to-day choices outside of fueling that are going to impact
20:24
your health. We can't boil it down to just
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one single thing. Your environment, where you
20:30
live, your access to food, your current habits are also going to
20:33
impact it. And like a whole list of other
20:35
things that I didn't mention, like we can't just say it's just
20:37
ultra processed foods, that's it.
20:39
That's the problem. Well.
20:40
Going back to your gel example earlier, a gel I don't know what
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is classified as an ultra processed food because I didn't
20:46
read the article, but I'm imagining a gel would be an
20:50
ultra processed food and I can't imagine in the endurance or
20:54
running community if the gels got taken away.
20:56
Oh, pitchforks would be picked up for sure.
20:58
Or like electrolyte products or you know, I just think about all
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the foods that we often utilize around like competition, games,
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training to get in more energy. They're often some of these
21:08
ultra processed products and a lot of athletes are not actually
21:12
consuming enough of these types of items and therefore they're
21:15
in a low energy availability. State it can be so hard to meet
21:18
your energy needs if you aren't incorporating these foods that
21:21
maybe someone has labeled as ultra processed or something
21:24
like that and still meet your energy needs because you are an
21:26
athlete and we're not saying that you need to eat goo every
21:29
single you know point in your day.
21:31
We're not incorporating goo at meals and snack time like no,
21:33
not at all. That's not what we're saying but
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like you're also probably not unless you're maybe an ultra
21:37
runner gonna eat a potato mid run.
21:39
I don't know it done. I've seen it done the.
21:41
Girlies might come for you because there's a lot of potato
21:44
eating out there especially and some of our endurance sports.
21:48
But you know what? It works for them and I get it.
21:50
I get it. I don't want to sometimes eat
21:51
anything sweet after some of my running activities either, so I
21:55
get it. But it's funny.
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Yes, it's still a carbohydrate. Yes, it still works to fuel you.
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So if that works for you, amazing.
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I love that just you probably won't find me with potatoes mid
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course. But that goes back to like your
22:05
earlier point where like it's so different for everybody, like
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everybody's different, like everybody has different
22:10
nutritional needs and therefore it needs a different feeling
22:13
plan look at. You and I and are running.
22:14
I can do a gel all day long and it's no problem.
22:17
You look at a gel and yeah, your face just said it all.
22:19
If you aren't watching the video screen, Riley's face didn't need
22:22
an explanation. But like Riley doesn't like a
22:24
gel, but she can do like a gummy bear or a fruit snack or
22:28
something like that. I will choke on a fruit snack
22:30
because I am not that coordinated and it will not go
22:32
well for me. But that's like it's still
22:34
accomplished what we need it to do.
22:36
It's just getting there in a different way and that's OK
22:39
that. Is OK.
22:41
I think that is the Ted Talk of this episode is everybody's
22:45
different and it's OK that we are different.
22:47
I also tell clients this all the time.
22:48
To you, I'm like, if everybody was the same, it would be so
22:50
boring. It would be so boring if we were
22:52
all the same. So we are different and we
22:54
should be proud of it. I want that on a T-shirt.
22:56
Speaking of T-shirts, Riley's T-shirt is amazing and I wish
22:59
everyone could see it. Right now it says periods and
23:02
PRS RBSN. One of our period recovery
23:04
clients made it. We love you, but we do not love
23:07
some of the things that we talked about on today's episode.
23:09
So thank you for everybody who's listening and kind of like
23:12
playing along with our Drives Us Bananas episodes because I know
23:14
we'd get heated and you get to see a little bit of a different
23:16
side of us. This has been so fun to chat
23:18
about some of the things online that drive us bananas, but we
23:21
are going to share a training update.
23:22
So sharing just a little bit about the training that we are
23:24
doing. Riley, you have 1/2 marathon
23:26
this month and then you are running a full marathon this
23:30
fall. So kind of using this as your
23:31
prep to establish a baseline for goal pace for your marathon.
23:35
How is training going right now? E -5 months until the marathon,
23:38
like almost to this day, which is insane.
23:40
I'm not mentally ready for this, but I got five months so I'm on
23:43
week, what is it? Week 9 of my 11 week plan.
23:46
And last week was my highest load week.
23:48
So I'm slowly starting to taper. I'm about 27 miles this week, so
23:52
I wouldn't really call that a taper, but slowly kind of
23:55
cutting things down. This week is kind of like to be
23:58
figured out. There's like a local 5K that I
24:01
actually might race on Saturday instead of doing a long run
24:04
because I want to to kind of practice maybe some like race
24:07
day stuff. I know you and I have talked a
24:08
lot about having to pee, managing feeling timelines and
24:12
stuff like that in the morning. And I'm obviously using my half
24:16
to prepare and prep and practice for my full.
24:19
But I was like, why don't I do something to prepare and
24:21
practice for my half to be determined.
24:23
But I think I am going to try to do a 5K this weekend and kind of
24:26
swap around maybe some speed work that I had earlier this
24:29
week into a longer run so I can do a 5K on Saturday.
24:32
I've like not done a 5K for like so long at least it's like race
24:35
to 5K. Hot take, I think racing a 5K is
24:39
one of the hardest things. I am not ready.
24:41
Like I don't, I don't know, like I'm not mentally prepared, I
24:44
don't think because people go so serious.
24:46
And like again, like the last time I ran a 5K was like when I
24:49
was in high school when I was running like a Race for the
24:50
Cure. And I was like, not this.
24:53
Racing is such a different environment and setup, and it's
24:56
such something that you can't necessarily replicate on your
24:58
own. No you can't.
24:59
I actually follow somebody online who exclusively does
25:02
speed workouts as races to help prepare for her bigger races
25:07
because she's like, I can't mimic that feeling unless it is
25:10
a race. So she seeks out smaller races
25:13
like 5 KS and 10 KS and maybe even halves to like help her
25:16
prepare for racing marathons. And I think that's really cool.
25:19
Yeah, but you and I have talked about like it's really, really
25:21
hilly where I live and I haven't been able to like really
25:25
practice a lot of like race day pacing just because it's not
25:28
going to be as hilly when I'm doing my races.
25:30
So I think it would just be good to practice that too.
25:32
We'll see though. I'm kind of intimidated by a 5K
25:34
too so we'll see. What about you though?
25:35
Your hamstrings feeling better? What is training looking like
25:37
for you? Everything is feeling better,
25:39
which is so great. I think the important thing also
25:42
back to the similar to period recovery is that I not jump into
25:44
things or like take it too fast just because I'm feeling better.
25:48
So slowly making my way back into running and like allowing
25:52
myself to go very slowly. Listen to my body as far as like
25:55
if I start to feel pain, I'm stopping.
25:57
And that's just kind of where I'm at with running.
25:59
So still doing a lot more of like cross training and trying
26:01
new things. I went to Pilates the other day
26:03
and was the first time I've ever done Pilates on a reformer.
26:06
So I'm like 6 years behind the trend.
26:07
I know. But it was a lot of fun and it
26:09
was great. Did some modifications that way.
26:11
I wasn't, you know, utilizing my hamstring nearly as much as
26:14
maybe I otherwise would be, but it was still a great challenge
26:16
and a fun thing to do. So that's where I'm at.
26:18
It's just like a lot of listening to what's going on,
26:20
not planning anything yet because I don't want to put
26:23
pressure on myself to feel like I need to quote UN quote like
26:25
heal by a certain time in order to race again.
26:27
So just taking things day by day.
26:29
How so were you after you went to Pilates?
26:31
I feel like I want to be able to walk for like a week.
26:33
I feel OK. I just like definitely had some
26:36
soreness in muscles that like it's that feeling of like I
26:39
didn't even know I had muscles there.
26:40
It's just using different types of muscle for sure, or in a
26:43
different way. I'm intimidated by a 5K and a
26:45
Pilates reformer. That's my list of things I'm
26:48
intimidated by. Oh my gosh.
26:49
Well, thank you so much for listening to this episode of the
26:51
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