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138. We’re Going Bananas Over Bad Fueling Advice · 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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  Our four month period recovery program is designed to help you
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  sustainably get your period back and keep it.
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  You can apply now to get started in our program and we'll leave
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  the link for the program below. This is the Eat more Carbs
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  podcast. Hello and welcome back.
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  This is the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  We're Riley Beatty Sports Nutrition, and we're a team of
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  dietitians and we talk every Thursday about sports nutrition
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  for the girlies. I'm Jenna and I'm the host.
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  Of this podcast and I'm Riley, I'm the founder of Riley Beatty
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  Sports Nutrition. We like to call it around here,
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  our BSN. We're super.
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  Excited to talk with y'all today.
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  Before we get into today's episode, we are going to do our
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  high and low. So sharing just a little bit
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  about our week, the good and the parts we wish had gone a little
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  bit differently. Riley, as always, can you kick
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  us off high and low? Yeah.
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  So my high this week is it's officially fall like in North
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  Carolina. If you've ever been to North
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  Carolina or you've lived in North Carolina, fall is the best
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  time of the year. And I feel like we've had a
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  couple of weeks of fall, but once it like hits November and
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  like we're past Halloween and it's like always cool and crisp
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  out and we have Thanksgiving in a couple of weeks, like I feel
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  like it's like really fall. And I don't know, I just really
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  missed fall when I lived in California.
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  Like we loved living in California.
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  Definitely sometimes side that we moved back to the East Coast,
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  but definitely happy that it's fall and it just makes my
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  little. Heart so happy.
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  Do you guys have all like the fall colors right now?
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  Most. Of the leaves, like because
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  we're a little like West and we're closer to the mountains,
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  like most of our leaves are like gone now, but there are some
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  like of the fall colors still left, but I just feel like it's
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  so cozy like it's so cozy. And then as we move into
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  November, like, I feel like we kind of get rid of pumpkin spice
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  things. And like, if you listen to our
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  last episode, you know, I'm not a big pumpkin spice girly.
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  So I'm kind of happy that we're like, out of that phase of,
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  like, beginning fall now. We're like ending fall, if that
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  makes sense. Yeah.
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  I love that it is like a very cozy time of year and I
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  definitely miss seasons now living in a place where we don't
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  get it fall. What's your low?
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  My low. Is for my husband, actually,
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  it's kind of like by proxy because I'm really into running
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  and like even though I just ran recently and I've been training,
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  like I'm ready to train for something else.
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  And I feel bad for him because he was like, you're going to be
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  done. Like, no, we're not.
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  Like, well, yeah, it's done with this one, but not done.
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  Yeah, but Jenna and I planned to get into Chicago.
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  Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh, so funny.
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  I was like, Nolan was getting ready for bed the other night
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  and I was like, oh, by the way, I signed up for the lottery for
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  Chicago. He was like, what?
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  I was like, yeah, with Riley. Yeah, our fingers crossed that
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  we. Get in, you know, I know all the
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  fingers, all the toes, cross them all.
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  How's your week going? Feel like my theme of my high
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  recently has been clients or past clients.
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  I have a client that I worked with for a good amount of time.
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  She got her period back and then we stopped working together.
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  It was a really hard one for me to say goodbye to because I
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  adore her. She listens to this podcast.
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  She doesn't have social media. Like that's how we kind of stay
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  connected. But every now and then she'll
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  like e-mail me with life updates.
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  And she sent me like 1 of the sweetest emails.
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  And she kind of like shared a big like life event that's
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  happening for her right now. And I just want to tell her that
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  I'm really proud of her and I'm really excited for her in this
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  like next chapter. I know she's gonna hear this so
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  she knows who she is. And I'm super proud of you.
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  Aren't you doing so good? I'm so lucky.
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  We work with the best people, the best people.
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  I know I feel like it was like really hard for me to kind of
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  come up with a low because like I feel just so lucky with
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  everything that's happening. Like especially at RBSN with our
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  clients. And I know it gets like
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  challenging for our clients. Like sometimes, like we always
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  joke like something's in retrograde because everybody
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  seems to be having like body image issues or like is super
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  close to their period and I don't know it yet.
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  And then there's like that one week of the month where like
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  everybody gets their period and it's just like a freaking party
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  over here. Yes, exactly.
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  It's like hard for sure, there are challenges, but the winds,
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  the winds are bigger. Yeah, it is.
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  What's your low this week? OK, this is such a funny story.
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  I've like waiting to share this one.
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  So this actually happened a little while ago, but it just
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  makes the most sense for me to share it today.
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  It was in Target and I was walking down like the deodorant
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  aisle and I was like, something down this aisle smells
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  unbelievable. Like it smelled so good.
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  And I was like, whatever that deodorant is, I am purchasing
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  that because it smells so clean, so fresh.
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  Like not like flowery. I'm not like a flowery smelly
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  type of person. Like I like a spa smell or like,
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  you know, like maybe cedar wood. Maybe that's the smell I'm
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  trying to describe, but like, I'm not a flowery smell.
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  I'm like more of like a fancy I mosquito 1, you know, like,
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  anyway, so anyway, I was like, what is the smell?
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  And this this girl, she's like opening all these deodorants and
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  I was like, Oh my gosh, that smells so good.
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  And she's like, yeah, I just like opened this one.
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  I was like, doesn't matter. I'm buying this.
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  Like this is my new deodorant smell.
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  No problem, buy it. I come home.
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  I'm like, I'm so excited to wear my deodorant.
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  And then I look at it a little bit more closely and it's a
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  natural deodorant. I have no problem with anyone
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  who wants to wear a natural deodorant.
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  I have tried myself in the past to wear a natural deodorant but
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  I am heavily allergic to something that they use in most
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  natural deodorants. I have like very sensitive skin.
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  This is like fun fact about me. No one really cares.
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  But like if I use a natural deodorant, if I use like a any
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  type of like self tanning body lotion, like does not react
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  well. We're not in a good place.
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  I have hives. I don't know what possesses me
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  sometimes where I'm like maybe it's not a problem anymore.
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  And I was so excited and this one smelled so good that I was
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  like maybe it's not a problem anymore.
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  So I used it and I had the itchiest armpits known to man.
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  So I won't come comfortable like sitting there in sessions with
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  clients, like trying to like move and like readjust without
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  like literally scratching in my armpits.
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  And then the worst part about it is my husband comes home from
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  work that day and he's like, I love you but you stink.
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  So I bought a $10 deodorant. I completely wasted money on it.
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  I. Struggle so hard with deodorant.
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  I remember when I was pregnant and for some freaking reason I
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  was like having all these like reactions to them.
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  I don't know if I Remember Me telling you this, but like.
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  I think it was offline, though. I don't know.
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  We share it on the podcast, but I remember, yeah, like
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  something's happening. And it's like my body chemistry
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  is different. Yeah, I don't know what the
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  hormones are crazy obviously like when you're pregnant are
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  crazy. I remember I was like having
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  sweating and so I was like trying all these different types
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  of deodorant. But then like I was so sick,
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  especially my first trimester, I couldn't even stand like certain
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  smells. I couldn't stand the smell
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  myself. And they were like mixing with
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  deodorant And it would be this like flowery like Bo.
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  And then I would try to do a natural 1 and I would just.
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  Did you ever have a bad reaction to the natural one other than
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  like maybe smell or just like? No it was just like I literally
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  would smell myself and throat like throw up like because like
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  I would get like a whiff of it. I was gonna say at least you
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  smelt nice though but no one called you out.
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  He did. He was like, yeah, doesn't you
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  can't do that. That's should be illegal.
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  Someone needs to give us deodorant.
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  Rex, please help us out. I don't need a flowery one, I
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  need one that smells good and I also need one that doesn't break
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  my armpits out and complete hives.
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  So if you have that. Let me know.
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  It is also not toxic and is not bad for us.
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  Yeah, yeah, if you could find everything.
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  We'll help you with fueling. You can help us with our
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  deodorant selection. Exactly.
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  Yeah. So anyway, natural deodorant
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  drive me bananas and that's perfect because today we are
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  talking about things that we saw online or things that we saw out
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  in in a while that throw us bananas.
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  Freaking do it. Is that?
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  Passion fruit and tangerine. Oh, I thought the bottle looks
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  really pretty and I was like, I don't know that I've had that
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  one. Is it good?
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  It's like Costco. Oh Dang OK interestingly enough
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  we were. I was talking to a client about
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  Costco yesterday and her Costco doesn't have fruit riot and she
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  and her mom are so upset because we talk about it all the time.
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  Well mine stopped. I'm upset.
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  It must be a seasonal thing. I haven't seen it in like 2
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  months. We're out.
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  Every time I go I like look at the same spot.
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  Yeah, come back. Ridiculous.
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  OK, well, on that bright note on the kombucha and frozen grapes
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  that we do or do not have at our Costco, this is a What Drives Us
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  Bananas episode of the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  Welcome back. We're so excited to have you
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  here. We have Riley, Lily and myself
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  today on this episode talking about the nutrition
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  misinformation or crazy things that we saw online this week
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  that drove us absolutely bananas.
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  I have to go first today, you guys, because I literally just
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  have been thinking about this since I saw it and I need to get
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  it like off my chest. Is that OK?
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  Yeah, OK. Someone needs to Get Me Out of
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  the Facebook running groups. That is where all of my bananas
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  come from. Like so many issues that stem
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  from that that I just need to, I need to do myself a favor.
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  But then I'd be losing out on a ton of content is what I'm
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  telling myself. So my, what drives me bananas is
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  that there was an individual who posted in that that was bragging
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  about running 18 miles on less than like 60 grams of
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  carbohydrate that was not consumed anything beforehand.
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  It was just during. I have so many issues with
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  people that have like turned fueling into a bragging game of
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  like how how little we can do and how efficient we can survive
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  off of so little. And I think about that and I
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  like we've talked about so many times, Riley, about this, you
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  know, offline or online during this podcast is Can you imagine
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  that person's potential if they actually fueled?
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  I don't understand why it's a flex to like not fuel.
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  Like why is it like wow I can be amazing at my sport on minimal
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  energy consumption why is that a good thing?
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  Like why are we bragging about that?
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  Everybody of course has different needs and different
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  amounts that they can tolerate of carbohydrate, but that
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  doesn't mean that you want to try and get to the lowest amount
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  possible that you can survive off of to accomplish your
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  athletic feet. Like we should want to find what
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  we can tolerate almost the most of in order to do that.
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  Like Riley, we talked just the other day about how you had an
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  818 mile trail race and because you fueled so efficiently, your
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  recovery was incredible. I can't imagine what this
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  person's 18 miles were that they barely had any fuel and then try
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  to recover afterwards. Like there are so many things
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  that I'm like, oof. I think it's so interesting that
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  as athletes, we are always trying to like pressure our
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  potential when it comes to sport, right?
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  So like if somebody gives us, you know, a workout and if a run
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  or maybe it's a lift, right, and you have to do 8 to 12 reps of
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  something, oftentimes athletes are pushing and trying to get to
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  that 12th Rep. But when we see a range for
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  nutrition, we're trying to go as close as possible to that lowest
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  number or even lower than that. I think it's just so interesting
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  how the mind works and how our society works, where we're
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  trying to push the potential in everything, but not with our
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  fueling and our intake. I think it totally goes back to
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  people see growth as doing things that are hard, and
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  sometimes they want to make it even harder on themselves by
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  purposely fasting. They think it's a flex because
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  they did it with no fuel. But realistically, nutrition is
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  a tool that is used to make you better.
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  It's not something that you should take away to make things.
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  Harder. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  Riley, you definitely hit a big thing there, especially when
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  we're thinking about like our athletes in the period recovery
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  program. A lot of times we'll set goals
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  that are like we're aiming for two to three servings of fat in
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  this meal and then they almost always come back with like 2,
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  like they're picking the smallest amount possible.
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  And yes, of course, sometimes that's because we are making
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  small sustainable changes that feel comfortable.
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  But it's almost always we're shooting for that low range.
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  And then on the opposite side of things, when it is something
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  that is sport related, we're shooting for that high range,
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  like when it is 8:00 to 12:00 reps or when it is 8 to 12
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  miles, you know, we're like always like, oh, can I push it a
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  little bit more? We're not using that same lens
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  to like view our fueling, which is really interesting.
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  Drives me freaking bananas. I had a client say to me the
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  other day that the population that is so afraid of eating more
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  carbohydrates is always the population that needs it the
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  most. And I think that really rings
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  true. And I was like, yes, 100%.
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  And she was like, I know that's me.
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  I know that 100% is me. And I was like kind of fits the
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  same group as like all of these running channels are the ones
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  that are so afraid to eat carbohydrates.
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  So they're looking for, you know, like we've talked about on
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  these bananas episodes, like the carnivore diet or the lion diet
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  or whatever it is that's popular right now.
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  We're not using any fuel when you're running and saying that
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  you fuel felt fantastic because your stomach didn't have any
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  issues. And it's all of those people are
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  the ones that would probably benefit the most.
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  I also think too often times we always associate negative
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  outcomes with nutrition, but when there's a positive outcome,
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  we don't often associate that with nutrition.
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  For example, I was having a conversation with one of our
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  period recovery athletes. She was talking about how on
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  Monday morning she had a lot more energy after a 2 day rest
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  period and a two day. Kind of like I would say
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  positive energy balance because a lot of the time as an athlete
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  you're not in a positive energy balance every single day.
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  She didn't associate her feeling better to like the extra rest
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  and the extra fueling. She just said, oh, I had a
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  really good day. But oftentimes she'll say, oh, I
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  felt bloated and that's why I didn't perform well.
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  Or I ate a carbohydrate and I didn't perform well, or I ate
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  this and I didn't perform well. But we never think about the
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  positive side of fueling our body properly.
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  Or we just, I guess, missed that association oftentimes.
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  Oh. That is such a good point.
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  I saw somebody who's a content creator online was talking about
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  how the way that they felt on their long runs was so heavily
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  impacted by what they did fuel with the day before.
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  And I was like, I wish so many more people would talk about
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  that because it does impact how you feel and how you feel does
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  impact that. More often than not, we're quick
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  to blame any type of issue on fuelling, but we're also quick
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  to ignore any type of success of fuelling, if that makes sense.
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  Well, anyway, I need to stay out of the running groups.
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  I think that's the conclusion of all of this.
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  Lily, what did you see this week that drove you bananas?
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  OK so just like Jenna's running groups on Facebook, I am the
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  TikTok Gurley of RBSN. I am a doom scroller every day.
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  It's it's bad, but I am currently planning a wedding
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  right now. And so I am on wedding TikTok
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  and the newest addition to those things has been how to glow up
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  before you get married. And I saw a TikTok yesterday.
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  I actually saw two but the first one had A at the beginning.
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  She owes this is a food and diet trigger warning.
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  And I was like, Oh no. And so of course I kept watching
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  and this is when she told everyone to go on not a juice
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  cleanse because juice cleanses are all sugar and you should
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  never do that. But it's broth cleanse for five
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  days prior to your wedding so you are not bloated.
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  And I don't even know what to say.
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  Yes. So that's what my Tik Tok's been
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  and it's been driving me bananas.
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  Thank you. For being our TikTok
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  correspondent and taking one for the team.
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  Question. How many likes and comments did
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  this video have? Because I don't even want to
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  know. I'm asking but I don't even want
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  to know it was. Insane like I think it was over
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  100,000 likes on it and so many comments.
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  I of course, ran into the comments right when I saw it and
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  the top comment was like, Oh my gosh, can I get a link to the
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  And I was like, no, stop, what are we doing?
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  The other one I saw, just to add fuel to the fire was a girl with
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  a box of cookies and she was spraying it with Lysol because
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  she said that the food noise was too much and she's five days
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  away from her wedding, that she needs to make sure she doesn't
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  eat them. It's really rough on the tech.
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  Talk right now, guys. Man, I thought that the Facebook
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  groups were bad by spraying down food with Lysol.
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  Oh my. Word, that one.
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  I set the phone down and went on a walk after that one.
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  It's just so sad. Like it's so sad that this is
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  like a very, like joyous occasion that people are
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  planning and they spent months planning and you know, all their
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  family will be there, all their friends will be there.
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  It's such a reason to celebrate. And then people feel like they
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  have to spray their food with Lysol so they don't eat it.
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  Also, what you eat three days before your wedding isn't going
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  to affect what you look like. Exactly.
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  I think it just kind of goes back, though, to this idea that
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  like, there's a fast result for like, nutritional changes,
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  right? Like, oh, you know, just go on
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  this broth cleanse 5 days before your wedding and you're gonna
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  look amazing. Go and Ozempic for two months
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  and you'll lose 20 lbs. Like there's all these quick,
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  fast result promising items out there now and that's can make it
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  just really challenging, I think for people who are on maybe a
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  little bit of a nutritional journey.
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  I mean, we see this all the time with period.
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  Recovery but like. The fact that, like you haven't
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  had your period for 10 years and you can get it back within two
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  to three months, like, yeah, that's two to three months.
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  And that sounds like a long period of time, but it's
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  actually a pretty short amount of time in the grand scheme of
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  things, yeah. For sure.
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  And I think it's also what's can be super click baby and what
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  people can get an affiliate link to that they can promote for
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  people to do and promise results.
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  When people are relying on these results, it's really just not a
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  great way to be marketing things like that, especially when you
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  have people who are relying on these results because you're
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  promising them. Don't get me wrong, I understand
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  that like a wedding is such an important milestone and
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  everybody wants to to feel good that day and wants to look their
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  best. Like I get that.
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  Like it always makes sense to me why these things like are so
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  popular online because that is such an important time.
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  But it's also like Riley said, it's so sad that we've reached a
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  point that like we want to alter what we look like for this one
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  special day in reality, Like, what are you going to look back
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  and remember, are you going to look back and be like, oh, so
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  glad I did that bone broth cleanse right before I got
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  married? Are you going to look back and
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  be like, I had so much fun with my significant other, my partner
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  for life that day and like we have so many wonderful memories
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  with friends and family? What are we doing?
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  Have we lost the plot? And I bet if people had eaten
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  properly the couple days before they would enjoy the day so much
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  more and not be hangry and exhausted and just all riled up
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  because only drank bra for a couple days before.
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  Weddings are stressful. We don't need to add stress to
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  that because we aren't fueled. What a really.
• 17:34
  Well, big shout out to you for being the TikTok correspondent
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  because I don't know that I could handle some of that
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  shenannery. That's wild.
• 17:41
  All right, Riley, what have you got?
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  Which drive giving you bananas? OK.
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  I stumbled upon this thing last night and I wasn't even doing
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  nutrition research. I wasn't even trying to do
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  anything related to work. Have you heard of Ozempic Bulba?
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  I'm sorry, what? How did this pop?
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  Up. OK.
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  OK so I follow like e-news on my private stuff.
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  Do not. Sorry.
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  I have to see what the girlies are saying.
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  Yeah. Anyways, everyone is judging me
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  so hard right now. Like 20 people just turn off the
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  podcast. There's a doctor in Orange
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  County that is very popular. He does like plastic surgery.
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  He's like his wife is like Real Housewives of OC.
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  You've probably see them. He does like Botched I think.
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  Yep, I know exactly who you're talking about.
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  They recently came out on their podcast talking about Ozempic
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  vulva. Basically, they've seen this
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  phenomenon where women who have gone on Ozempic are having
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  chronic dryness because their estrogen is dropping so low from
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  malnutrition. Well, wouldn't you know?
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  Yeah, who would have thought? Riley, can you take a moment and
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  explain why that happens? Well, everybody, when you're not
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  fueling your body crap properly and you don't have enough energy
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  and you are basically starving your body, your hormones are
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  going to drop, right? We have three kind of sex
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  hormones. We have testosterone,
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  progesterone and estrogen. When we see a drop in all three
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  of these specific, specifically estrogen, we're going to see a
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  down regulation of our reproductive system.
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  Therefore, we're going to see a loss of a period.
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  Basically every single thing that we talk about on this
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  podcast. And one of those things is going
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  to be like a decrease in cervical mucus, and that's what
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  they're calling Ozempic vulva. Wow.
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  But it's like a thing. It's like a phenomenon.
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  Why are we not? Doesn't even seem like a
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  phenomenon. It seems like common sense would
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  tell you that drastic weight loss of that measure would
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  definitely shut down the reproductive system because of
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  all the things that we talked about on this podcast, like
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  that's exactly what's happening. We can have body comp changes in
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  a Safeway that don't cause loss of a period, but it's usually
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  something that takes place over a long period of time.
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  Like those changes do not happen overnight.
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  And when we do see drastic weight loss changes, those are
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  the people who are applying to the program to help get their
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  period back because they've completely changed or reduced
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  their fueling to the point that their body cannot keep up with
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  the demands of everyday life, the demands of training and the
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  demands of the bodies. Quote, UN quote.
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  Non essential functions like reproduction, yes.
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  Wow, instead of addressing nutritional challenge and stuff,
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  they're like, well, we should like provide exogenous estrogen.
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  Like that's not the issue here, right?
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  Like this is a feeling we have to get to the root of the
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  problem. I think it just shows too, how
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  little education is given prior to people starting because the
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  fact that this is a phenomenon which to us, when we talk about
• 20:28
  period recovery every day, we're like, well, duh, that's gonna
• 20:30
  happen. You're cutting down your body
• 20:33
  and starving it in a sense that of course you're going to have a
• 20:37
  decrease in these hormones. I think there's so many things
• 20:40
  with these weight loss medications that people just
• 20:43
  don't know and are chasing the result like we talked about, and
• 20:48
  that's all they're focused. On I'm not saying anything
• 20:50
  against like the GOP's right, like I do think that they're
• 20:53
  appropriate for certain individuals and a lot of people
• 20:56
  have seen great health benefits from those.
• 20:59
  It's just it's not a one-size-fits-all.
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  There's a lot of improper education and ways that people
• 21:05
  are going about this. Again, like you have to think
• 21:07
  about the why behind a lot of the actions that you're doing.
• 21:10
  It's even with like a medication like this.
• 21:12
  The why? Behind it is so important.
• 21:14
  We've talked about that so many times, but I think especially in
• 21:17
  this case, it's really interesting to kind of think
• 21:20
  about the why behind it, see the result, but then also see the
• 21:23
  side effects that maybe we didn't even anticipate.
• 21:26
  And I think, Lily, that goes back to exactly what you said
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  with there's not a lot of education around like what are
• 21:31
  the side effects beyond just the ones that we think of as like
• 21:33
  the favorable quote UN quote outcome?
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  Yeah. And I mean, I think about it
• 21:37
  too, and I'm sure you guys both do as well.
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  We're like, I'm thinking like, OK, if estrogen's dropping, that
• 21:42
  means we're losing muscle mass. Like that means that we're
• 21:45
  losing bone density that shows up on the scale as a positive
• 21:49
  thing with Air Croats, right, Because of the scale is going
• 21:51
  down. But this is metabolic and very,
• 21:54
  very important tissue that you're losing.
• 21:56
  Especially as females, like we want to keep our bone health,
• 21:59
  like bone health is so important as we age.
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  It's like, I don't know about you guys, but like, I want to
• 22:04
  continue to stay active years into my adult and later adult
• 22:08
  life. And a lot of that has to do
• 22:10
  with, like, our ability to protect and maintain our bone
• 22:12
  health. Yeah.
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  So that's what was driving me bananas.
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  Sorry, neither of you were expecting that one, but I just
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  had to share because I actually did see it last night and I was
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  like freaking driving me bananas.
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  Well, that's a. Fun episode.
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  I feel like we were so upset today.
• 22:28
  We were like, usually we're like angry and like.
• 22:31
  Excited and we were just. We're a little depressed over
• 22:33
  here today. The world's a hard place right
• 22:36
  now. It is well, we want to know from
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  you. What did you hear from this week
• 22:40
  that drove you absolutely bananas?
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  Hopefully it's something a little bit more positive than
• 22:44
  what we shared today, but still let us know in the comments of
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  this podcast. If you do have questions for
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  Riley, Lily or myself, you can always find us online.
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  You can find us on Instagram. You can find Riley at easy dot
• 22:55
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  nutrition, and you can find me at Jenna dot Fisher dot
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