Latest / Two Broke Chicks / The No BS Guide To Energy, Nutrition & Protein in your 20s (or any age!)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This podcast was recorded on wrundry Land Always was, always
- 0:05Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land. In this episode, we will be
- 0:10Speaker 1: discussing bad diets and you know, other similar topics.
- 0:13Speaker 2: So if this.
- 0:14Speaker 1: May be triggering for you, please feel free to give
- 0:17Speaker 1: this one somths.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Yeah, be kind to yourself.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey chicks, I'm sal And and this is Two
- 0:30Speaker 1: Broke Chicks, the show that said that's the show.
- 0:33Speaker 2: That's it, you guys know it.
- 0:35Speaker 1: That shares life lessens and dill make you rich in life. Today,
- 0:39Speaker 1: we are joined by Sarah Pound, who you may know
- 0:42Speaker 1: as Wholesome by.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Sarah on Instagram.
- 0:45Speaker 1: With a background in food and nutrition, Sarah is the
- 0:48Speaker 1: co founder of the Simply Wholesome Pantry and author of.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Not one, but two cookbooks.
- 0:53Speaker 1: And we've got Sarah on today to talk tips on
- 0:55Speaker 1: how to fuel your body with nutritious meals and tips
- 0:58Speaker 1: to be more creative in the kitchen on a budget.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Hell, welcome, We're so excited to have you on.
- 1:06Speaker 3: I'm very excited to be here, very special.
- 1:08Speaker 4: This has been one of our most requested pressure on me.
- 1:13Speaker 2: No, you know your stuff.
- 1:15Speaker 4: But like people, there is just so much information about
- 1:18Speaker 4: nutrition and diet and all that stuff online that it
- 1:23Speaker 4: gets really confusing, and our show is all about just
- 1:26Speaker 4: like cutting through the bullshit and giving people the tips
- 1:28Speaker 4: and tricks to literally be rich in life and enjoy themselves.
- 1:32Speaker 4: So I think people are going to be very, very
- 1:35Speaker 4: happy with this episode, so I'm very excited. But before
- 1:37Speaker 4: we start, we discuss our life lessons of the week. So,
- 1:40Speaker 4: as our guest of honor, would you like to kick
- 1:42Speaker 4: us off small?
- 1:43Speaker 2: Whatever you want?
- 1:44Speaker 3: Okay? Mine is that I've been traveling a bit for
- 1:50Speaker 3: work lately, and I was up in Sydney last week actually,
- 1:53Speaker 3: and the two nights I was up there, I was like,
- 1:55Speaker 3: I could lay in my hotel room and you know,
- 1:58Speaker 3: have a quiet time, which is always really especially having
- 2:00Speaker 3: three young children. But I also could meet a one
- 2:06Speaker 3: on one, you know, have a one on one dinner
- 2:08Speaker 3: or someone with someone that I haven't seen in ages
- 2:11Speaker 3: or would like to and that would be really nice.
- 2:13Speaker 3: So did that both nights. First night was with my
- 2:16Speaker 3: brother in law, which they're based in Sydney works they're
- 2:19Speaker 3: living Northern Beaches, but he works in the city, so
- 2:22Speaker 3: it was just him and I and that was just
- 2:24Speaker 3: so lovely. And then the next night we were up
- 2:27Speaker 3: there for our simply wholesome pantry team and awards day,
- 2:31Speaker 3: and usually it's the five of us all together, three guys,
- 2:34Speaker 3: two girls, and it was just Cat and I the
- 2:37Speaker 3: other female in our team that stayed on for the
- 2:40Speaker 3: night and we went out to dinner and just both nights,
- 2:43Speaker 3: I kind of reflected on the last week and sort
- 2:45Speaker 3: of thought that was just really special. You don't often
- 2:48Speaker 3: get with both those people. With Cat, it's always in
- 2:51Speaker 3: a work environment, we're always hustling, We're always like, Okay,
- 2:54Speaker 3: what can we do next? Product develpment and all of
- 2:56Speaker 3: this sort of jazz. And then with sim and my
- 2:58Speaker 3: brother in law, it's always big family things where people
- 3:00Speaker 3: are around. So it was just lovely to spend some
- 3:03Speaker 3: quality time, have good human connection and in the night
- 3:06Speaker 3: being like that was just really special.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Yeah, and like taking advantage of that opportunity to have
- 3:12Speaker 1: one on one time with someone that you might not
- 3:14Speaker 1: otherwise necessarily.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. So my life lesson from that was not
- 3:19Speaker 3: all the time, because I feel like it can exhaust
- 3:21Speaker 3: you if you're doing it all the time. But just
- 3:23Speaker 3: when you're thinking, oh I should reach out to that person,
- 3:25Speaker 3: I'm just gonna do it.
- 3:26Speaker 2: I love that you what's yourself?
- 3:29Speaker 1: My life lesson of the week is that sometimes it's
- 3:32Speaker 1: best to listen to the smartest person in the room.
- 3:35Speaker 2: What did I say?
- 3:38Speaker 1: You don't always need to know the answer to every
- 3:41Speaker 1: single question, and sometimes it is better to leave it
- 3:44Speaker 1: up to the experts and lean on somebody else who
- 3:48Speaker 1: does have the expertise in something to guide you in
- 3:51Speaker 1: the right direction. And that's okay to like release the
- 3:54Speaker 1: reins on things a little bit and you don't have
- 3:56Speaker 1: to know everything. That's a great reminder, especially for women,
- 3:59Speaker 1: when other natural born fixes. I think it's just in
- 4:03Speaker 1: our genes and in our biology that we often feel
- 4:07Speaker 1: we need to fix problems for friends if they're sad,
- 4:10Speaker 1: or for our children, or for ourselves in workplaces where
- 4:14Speaker 1: the first people to step in and be like, let
- 4:16Speaker 1: me help, And when the problem is our own, we
- 4:20Speaker 1: very often don't end up asking for help and take
- 4:24Speaker 1: on those challenges and problems on our own. And so
- 4:26Speaker 1: I think that's a really good reminder for those listening
- 4:29Speaker 1: that for anyone listening, if you are trying to fix
- 4:31Speaker 1: something right now, maybe try look for someone else to
- 4:34Speaker 1: help you. Because problems share problems halved.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, well, my life.
- 4:40Speaker 4: Lesson of the week is actually a life lesson for you,
- 4:42Speaker 4: sou because after this episode we're going to go thrifting
- 4:47Speaker 4: and vintage shopping. And study suggests spending money on a
- 4:51Speaker 4: best friend may boost health and longevity. So one published
- 4:57Speaker 4: in Health Psychology found that older adults with high blood
- 5:00Speaker 4: pressure saw significant reductions when they spend money on others,
- 5:05Speaker 4: so affects similar to those of medication or exercise. So
- 5:09Speaker 4: I'm trying to help you live longer and enjoy your time.
- 5:14Speaker 4: So today I wanted to have that front of mine.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Feel free, chicks to send this to a friend. You
- 5:22Speaker 4: are you know, going shopping or going out really help
- 5:26Speaker 4: your friends live longer and help them spend money on you.
- 5:29Speaker 2: You're a good Samaritan. Thank you, Thank you do try.
- 5:34Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, well, let's get into the episode because we've
- 5:39Speaker 4: got a lot to get into. So, as we said
- 5:46Speaker 4: at the start of the episode, there is a lot
- 5:48Speaker 4: of nutrition information online in media, and unfortunately it's hard
- 5:53Speaker 4: to tell the difference between accurate or completeble. One thing
- 5:58Speaker 4: that we'd love to learn more about that we're seeing
- 6:01Speaker 4: so much, and I would say, is like the buzzword
- 6:04Speaker 4: of nutrition is protein, and this thirty gram rule, yeah,
- 6:09Speaker 4: can you talk.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Us through it?
- 6:11Speaker 3: Definitely, So it is very much a buzzword at the moment.
- 6:15Speaker 3: It's very much the health you know, item that everyone's
- 6:18Speaker 3: loving and jumping on at the moment. Protein's been around forever.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Just to give a little bit of context, protein is
- 6:24Speaker 3: one of our main energy sources that our body uses,
- 6:27Speaker 3: alongside carbohydrate and fat. All three are wonderful energy sources.
- 6:32Speaker 3: They're not bad, they're not demons. Carbohydrate aren't you know,
- 6:35Speaker 3: terrible things. Fat's not a terrible thing. It's our body
- 6:39Speaker 3: uses the energy from those macro nutrients in different ways.
- 6:43Speaker 3: The reason that protein's kind of having its moment at
- 6:47Speaker 3: the moment is because it is a more slow releasing energy.
- 6:51Speaker 3: So when we eat foods that contain protein, depending on
- 6:55Speaker 3: it's get we get really good results in terms of
- 6:57Speaker 3: our blood blood sugar levels after we eat the right protein.
- 7:02Speaker 3: And so therefore it plays into a whole lot of
- 7:04Speaker 3: different things our energy levels, our moods, our hormones. But
- 7:08Speaker 3: it's also responsible for lots of other things, like it's
- 7:11Speaker 3: directly linked with our immune systems. So eating good amounts
- 7:14Speaker 3: of protein in the right amounts alongside a lot of
- 7:17Speaker 3: other things, has a direct effect on our immune function.
- 7:22Speaker 3: So in terms of how much we should be eating
- 7:25Speaker 3: in a day, because there's so much information about that
- 7:28Speaker 3: out there as well, a really rough guide in this
- 7:31Speaker 3: plays into the thirty grams across your meals, but you
- 7:33Speaker 3: should be sort of saying about one gram of protein
- 7:38Speaker 3: per kilogram of your body weight. So that's kind of
- 7:41Speaker 3: a nice guide for people to go. So if I
- 7:43Speaker 3: weigh seventy kilos, I'm going for seventy grams of protein
- 7:46Speaker 3: throughout my day. Okay that is, And you'll probably hear
- 7:50Speaker 3: me say this a few times today, which is a
- 7:52Speaker 3: really annoying answer. There's no one right answer because with nutrition,
- 7:56Speaker 3: everyone is so different and depending on your health goal
- 8:00Speaker 3: and how much, how old you are, what gender you are,
- 8:02Speaker 3: how active you are, that will all play a part
- 8:06Speaker 3: in how much you should be having. But a rough
- 8:08Speaker 3: guide is one gram of protein per kilogram, So going
- 8:13Speaker 3: into the thirty grams that is, I mean, that's kind
- 8:15Speaker 3: of a new thing that's come out. Yeah, Usually they
- 8:18Speaker 3: say within a meal, aiming a good amount of protein
- 8:21Speaker 3: in a meal is twenty to thirty grams. So as
- 8:23Speaker 3: long as you're sort of going for that. You don't
- 8:25Speaker 3: have to be fixated on the thirty gram. It's not
- 8:27Speaker 3: going to mean that, you know, you get ticks of
- 8:29Speaker 3: approval for whatever. It's sort of like, if you're going
- 8:32Speaker 3: for your rough amount over the day seventy grams, breaking
- 8:35Speaker 3: that up across your meals is also more important to
- 8:38Speaker 3: do rather than aiming for exactly thirty grams in a meal.
- 8:41Speaker 4: I agree, and I'm really glad you also did say
- 8:44Speaker 4: that it's not specific, this is very general, and everyone
- 8:49Speaker 4: absolutely should be getting this customized to themselves and their
- 8:53Speaker 4: body and also what they're comfortable with, because, like what
- 8:56Speaker 4: you're saying, numbers and diet and nutrition can be a
- 9:00Speaker 4: very scary seeing and thinking that you're a failure.
- 9:04Speaker 2: And I've had this with all this.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Content of being like thirty grands eadyg and like, and
- 9:09Speaker 4: it can be very overwhelming and you feel because eating
- 9:12Speaker 4: and food, especially women, can be a very slippery slope
- 9:16Speaker 4: and as soon as you start being like if I
- 9:18Speaker 4: didn't do this, I failed with eating today, it's just
- 9:21Speaker 4: not good to go for that goal. So I'm very
- 9:23Speaker 4: very glad that you did say that as bit restrictive
- 9:27Speaker 4: as well, and I think you know in terms of
- 9:30Speaker 4: habits as women, I feel like, at least anecdotally, we
- 9:34Speaker 4: don't eat as much protein and it's just not something
- 9:38Speaker 4: that you know we do, and it is something that
- 9:40Speaker 4: I think a lot of people are realizing. Yeah, it
- 9:42Speaker 4: can be a great way to get energy and fuel
- 9:45Speaker 4: your body. So what ask some tricks and habits to
- 9:48Speaker 4: get more protein into our meals every day?
- 9:50Speaker 3: Sure, So I I'm not going to say that you know,
- 9:54Speaker 3: package protein bars and protein powders are shared, because they're not.
- 9:58Speaker 3: But I always say try and go for real food
- 10:00Speaker 3: as much as possible, and so all you need to
- 10:03Speaker 3: do as well. Again, because it's kind of hard to
- 10:05Speaker 3: be very specific, but Google or use chat GPT to
- 10:08Speaker 3: give you a list of protein rich foods that you
- 10:10Speaker 3: can include at breakfast, lunch, and dinner and it will
- 10:12Speaker 3: give you a hole. So at breakfast, you know, things
- 10:15Speaker 3: like cottage cheese, greek yogurt, seeds, nuts, cheese seeds, things
- 10:20Speaker 3: like that into smoothie. Is that kind of thing that's
- 10:23Speaker 3: a good way to get, you know, some added protein
- 10:26Speaker 3: in your breakfast. If you're getting to lunchtime, canned tuna,
- 10:30Speaker 3: canned salmon, any kind of canned beans, legumes, you know,
- 10:34Speaker 3: white beans, chickpeas, lentils, grains, any type of grains, lean meats,
- 10:39Speaker 3: all of that. They're all protein rich foods. And then
- 10:43Speaker 3: that's almost similar for dinner. You're probably looking more if
- 10:45Speaker 3: you're a meat eater, but you're lean meat. So your chicken,
- 10:48Speaker 3: you fish, your salmon, all very high in protein, really
- 10:51Speaker 3: great alongside again going for those sort of whole grains,
- 10:56Speaker 3: sort of lentils, pulses, beans, that kind of thing, or
- 11:00Speaker 3: you know, you can look at because I know how
- 11:01Speaker 3: much people love their pasta, how do I and we
- 11:05Speaker 3: might get into that. I'd imagine, yeah, but it's scared.
- 11:09Speaker 3: But I would say now they have sort of different
- 11:12Speaker 3: And I'm not saying every time you eat pasta you
- 11:14Speaker 3: have to have a lentil pasta, but there are different
- 11:17Speaker 3: options out there now that do have increased levels of
- 11:20Speaker 3: protein that you can go for.
- 11:21Speaker 4: I was going to ask your opinion on that, because
- 11:23Speaker 4: we're seeing more things like protein pasta and protein bread. Yes,
- 11:28Speaker 4: And I'm like, what are your thoughts on that?
- 11:30Speaker 3: The breads the pasta I quite like and I've studied,
- 11:33Speaker 3: like I've looked into their nutriper I always say as well,
- 11:35Speaker 3: which is often overwhelming, but try and turn it over
- 11:38Speaker 3: and look at the ingredients and sort of see what's
- 11:41Speaker 3: in there. A lot of the time bread is sort
- 11:44Speaker 3: of already so overprocessed when it gets on a supermarket
- 11:47Speaker 3: shelf than if it is adding protein at that stage. Yeah,
- 11:50Speaker 3: while you might be getting the increased protein, you're also
- 11:53Speaker 3: just getting the whole process that has happened to the
- 11:56Speaker 3: bread as opposed to just buying a beautiful sour dough
- 11:59Speaker 3: down at your local cafe kind of thing. So that's
- 12:02Speaker 3: what's really hard. It's sort of like, oh, cool, well
- 12:04Speaker 3: I need to eat meal protein, so I'll go for
- 12:06Speaker 3: the bread that's been fortified with protein, but it's been
- 12:08Speaker 3: through a million different processes to get there, yea. Or
- 12:11Speaker 3: do you just buy the beautiful whole grain sowdo down
- 12:14Speaker 3: at the local cafe that's going to fuel your body
- 12:16Speaker 3: in other great ways. So it is about what's important
- 12:19Speaker 3: to you and your health goals and what you're aiming.
- 12:21Speaker 2: And that's what I like about what you said before.
- 12:23Speaker 4: And just then as well is fat, cubs and protein
- 12:27Speaker 4: and none of those are demons, None of those are
- 12:29Speaker 4: evil that you can go and have the very romantic
- 12:33Speaker 4: morning stroll in the crisp egg, get your coffee, and
- 12:35Speaker 4: get that gorgeous, warm, sourdough bread, and that is still
- 12:40Speaker 4: going to fuel your body.
- 12:41Speaker 2: And it's not a bad habit that you're doing that and.
- 12:44Speaker 3: Packed with fiber. That's what you've got. A way up,
- 12:47Speaker 3: it's sort of we're moving to you know now people
- 12:49Speaker 3: are looking at bread and thinking that it's a terrible
- 12:52Speaker 3: thing and there's guilty involved with eating a beautiful piece
- 12:55Speaker 3: of bread that's been made by human hands and gone
- 12:57Speaker 3: through the traditional process of bread made that our grandmothers
- 13:01Speaker 3: used to do, which is the way of eating we
- 13:03Speaker 3: should be trying to get back to. So it is, yeah,
- 13:06Speaker 3: I think through diet culture and advertising and media and
- 13:09Speaker 3: the way that women should look and all that shit
- 13:11Speaker 3: that we've lost a bit of you know what's just
- 13:14Speaker 3: common sense and real and you know, so, yes, it's
- 13:18Speaker 3: it's a bit of a I wish we had more
- 13:20Speaker 3: than you know, half an hour to an hour today
- 13:22Speaker 3: because there's so much you could go through with our
- 13:24Speaker 3: screwed up our minds have become with the diet world
- 13:27Speaker 3: and eating and how we should just really strip it
- 13:32Speaker 3: back as simplify it rather than over complicating it.
- 13:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and you did mention fiber as well, which, speaking
- 13:39Speaker 1: of trends, fiber is also having her time in the
- 13:42Speaker 1: sun at the moment. Why is fiber so important?
- 13:45Speaker 3: Love fiber. So, fiber is a carbohydrate, so we get
- 13:49Speaker 3: fiber from carbohydrates. So again, carbohydrates shouldn't be demonized. They're
- 13:54Speaker 3: not a villain the thing within carbs. So this is
- 13:58Speaker 3: you know, and this goes through health trends of our past.
- 14:01Speaker 3: But the reason car carbs have their you know, negative
- 14:06Speaker 3: connotation to them is that within carbs, you've got simple
- 14:10Speaker 3: carbs and then you've got complex carbs. Underneath complex carves
- 14:13Speaker 3: is where your fiber comes in. And there's different sorts
- 14:16Speaker 3: of fiber and they react really well in our bodies,
- 14:19Speaker 3: so they still give you that slow releasing energy. You know,
- 14:22Speaker 3: your blood glucose after eating a meal won't be spiked
- 14:25Speaker 3: when you're eating the right you know a good amount
- 14:27Speaker 3: of fiber things alongside your other good things too, But
- 14:30Speaker 3: it's it definitely holds a place in your whole gut
- 14:34Speaker 3: and digestive tract and getting that really on track with
- 14:37Speaker 3: a whole lot of different things you can eat that
- 14:39Speaker 3: contain fiber. But then the other side of carbs is
- 14:42Speaker 3: your simple sugars, and this is where so you'll find
- 14:46Speaker 3: simple sugars in natural things like fruits, so you know,
- 14:49Speaker 3: like a plum and all of that. That very simple
- 14:52Speaker 3: yet exactly just saying dreaming of plums. But then there's
- 14:59Speaker 3: it's all so the sugar that's added to all our
- 15:01Speaker 3: process foods, so you fruked dose, your glucoset's just thrown
- 15:05Speaker 3: into package and process foods. And so we do need
- 15:08Speaker 3: simple sugars and they do hold a place, But that's
- 15:10Speaker 3: where the whole carbohydrates being demonized because usually when we
- 15:14Speaker 3: eat those types of carbs, those simple sugars will get
- 15:17Speaker 3: a really quick rise in our blood sugar levels after
- 15:21Speaker 3: we've eaten them, and you know, they don't really fill
- 15:24Speaker 3: you up for very long. You're usually hungry. Not too
- 15:26Speaker 3: long after. You might be choosing you know, shitty choices
- 15:29Speaker 3: because you're like, I'm just starving, I'm not feeling full.
- 15:32Speaker 3: So that's where that kind of whole era of like
- 15:34Speaker 3: oh my god, let's bam, the carbs they're terrible came in.
- 15:37Speaker 4: Yeah, right, so blood sugar, how do blood sugar spikes
- 15:41Speaker 4: affect our day to day energy and how can we
- 15:44Speaker 4: balance it without obsessing.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so blood sugar is very interesting and I
- 15:50Speaker 3: feel like that's sort of starting to have its well pla, yeah,
- 15:54Speaker 3: because really blood sugar has a big If you've heard
- 15:58Speaker 3: of diabetes, that's it's all relative to your blood sugar.
- 16:01Speaker 3: So what you eat and then what happens after in
- 16:04Speaker 3: your body response in terms of your blood glucose. I
- 16:07Speaker 3: actually had gestational diabetes with all three of my pregnancies,
- 16:11Speaker 3: and it couldn't be usually if that, So it's a
- 16:14Speaker 3: weird you get diabetes for literally your nine months and
- 16:17Speaker 3: then it just disappears when you have But yeah, blood
- 16:21Speaker 3: gluecos is it's all to do with what we eat
- 16:24Speaker 3: and then the reaction of our body afterwards to do
- 16:26Speaker 3: with our blood glucose and our insulin. So that's where
- 16:30Speaker 3: fiber and protein play a wonderful role because they are
- 16:34Speaker 3: less likely to spike. So I'll give you the perfect example,
- 16:37Speaker 3: which I feel like your group of people will understand. McDonald's. Right,
- 16:41Speaker 3: all love a cheeky bit of McDonald's. I'm not going
- 16:43Speaker 3: to stand here and say I'm a nutritionist and I
- 16:45Speaker 3: don't love it at times. I also can't stand when
- 16:48Speaker 3: nutritionists say, oh, don't eat that, don't touch it, Like
- 16:51Speaker 3: it's like reality is, if people are going to eat it,
- 16:53Speaker 3: you may as well just say have it in moderation
- 16:56Speaker 3: rather than you know, getting hooked on it and having
- 16:58Speaker 3: it all the time. But that's a perfec example of
- 17:01Speaker 3: so you'll you'll eat a full meal. And this doesn't
- 17:03Speaker 3: happen with everyone. Again, everyone is different, but I've seen
- 17:06Speaker 3: it time and time again that you'll eat it and
- 17:08Speaker 3: you know, you feel good for a second and there's
- 17:10Speaker 3: energy and whatever, and then about forty five minutes later,
- 17:12Speaker 3: an hour later, you just get this energy slump yeah,
- 17:16Speaker 3: where you totally just feel lethargic, if you're tired, you
- 17:20Speaker 3: feel foggy, you're hungry again, Like it's like, what.
- 17:23Speaker 2: The hell an hour meal?
- 17:25Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm starving again. And that's kind of your
- 17:29Speaker 3: perfect example of where your blood glucose is spiked really quickly,
- 17:33Speaker 3: insulin is released and then to bring it down and
- 17:35Speaker 3: then it's sort of moving through your body really quickly
- 17:39Speaker 3: because you're not it's not there's no protein or fiber
- 17:42Speaker 3: or anything to slow it down and to make you
- 17:44Speaker 3: feel full and to make you feel satisfied. So then
- 17:47Speaker 3: again you're going to eat, you know, an hour or
- 17:49Speaker 3: two later.
- 17:49Speaker 4: Do you ever get a lot of people asking you
- 17:51Speaker 4: about like gut health and bloating.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Yeah, so gut health is another big one at the minute.
- 17:56Speaker 3: The gut, it's quite amazing. It's a whole, like they say,
- 18:01Speaker 3: it's sort of like your brain, your second brain. Now
- 18:04Speaker 3: that's all this amazing research has come out over the
- 18:06Speaker 3: last decade or even beyond. But how you know, your
- 18:10Speaker 3: gut pretty much controls everything, including a connection to your mind.
- 18:14Speaker 3: So it's interesting. Bloating can happen for lots of different reasons.
- 18:18Speaker 3: So I see gut in itself as your whole. It's
- 18:20Speaker 3: your whole sort of digestive system, which affects so much.
- 18:24Speaker 3: You know, if you've got a good, pretty much a
- 18:27Speaker 3: good healthy gut, then you're going to generally be okay
- 18:30Speaker 3: everywhere else. But bloating can be a symptom of lots
- 18:35Speaker 3: of things, so it's not direct, it's not I don't
- 18:37Speaker 3: see them as kind of related or matched, because you know,
- 18:41Speaker 3: you can have bloating from depending where you are in
- 18:45Speaker 3: a menstrual cycle, which sort of doesn't necessarily have anything
- 18:48Speaker 3: to do with your gut. Kind of thing. So, and
- 18:51Speaker 3: bloating can be caused by Usually it's just a build
- 18:53Speaker 3: up of gas in your gut. But you know, maybe
- 18:57Speaker 3: you're not eating the right foods. Maybe you've built an
- 18:59Speaker 3: intolerance to and you don't know it, so you're eating
- 19:01Speaker 3: gluten or fruc dose and it's obviously affecting you. It
- 19:05Speaker 3: can be formed from eating too many, too much highly
- 19:09Speaker 3: processed foods, so a lot of shit basically all the time,
- 19:12Speaker 3: and not you know, bringing in that protein and fiber
- 19:14Speaker 3: and veggies and all of that sort of jazz. So
- 19:17Speaker 3: there's lots of different reasons for which makes it tricky.
- 19:20Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to go back to blood sugar because
- 19:23Speaker 4: I find this really interesting and I kind of want
- 19:26Speaker 4: to understand how we can develop a good process with this.
- 19:29Speaker 4: With our meals, and there's a lot we get told
- 19:32Speaker 4: a lot that breakfast is the most important meal of
- 19:35Speaker 4: the day.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Right, Yes, how why talk me through it?
- 19:39Speaker 3: So there's research to suggest that you know, you get up,
- 19:42Speaker 3: you have breky, it's going to sort of kickstart your body,
- 19:45Speaker 3: your metabolism, your mind, that kind of thing. But it
- 19:49Speaker 3: really again annoying answer. But I'll explain why it's so
- 19:54Speaker 3: different for everyone. So some people find, you know, and
- 19:57Speaker 3: even with intimatet fasting and things like that, people find
- 20:00Speaker 3: that they can miss breakfast or skip breakfast and it
- 20:03Speaker 3: doesn't that's the way that they roll best. And they're like, yep,
- 20:07Speaker 3: I'm happy. I jump out of bed, I go for
- 20:08Speaker 3: my run, I have my coffee, whatever else I'm functioning.
- 20:11Speaker 3: I'm working and I don't eat till twelve o'clock and
- 20:14Speaker 3: I have lunch. If that works for you, that's great,
- 20:16Speaker 3: And there's been positive research with inter minute fasting in
- 20:20Speaker 3: relation to that. But for me personally, I have to
- 20:24Speaker 3: have breakfast within the first hour, hour and a half
- 20:26Speaker 3: of getting up. I just find it. It starts me
- 20:29Speaker 3: up more mentally than anything. And then but also I
- 20:34Speaker 3: find the days that you know, having three kids and
- 20:36Speaker 3: trying to get them out the door and working full time, I'll,
- 20:38Speaker 3: you know, shove a half piece of bread in my
- 20:41Speaker 3: of toast in my mouth while I'm running out the door,
- 20:43Speaker 3: and then forty five minutes later, I am ravenous and
- 20:46Speaker 3: I just eat shit because I'm like, oh, I didn't
- 20:49Speaker 3: make anything healthy. I'm out and about now I'll buy
- 20:51Speaker 3: that wrap that you know, it's like and so it
- 20:54Speaker 3: does come down to if you argu and it, if
- 20:56Speaker 3: you think you work better on getting up and having
- 20:58Speaker 3: breakfast in the morning, then try and opt for a
- 21:02Speaker 3: kind of well balanced breakfast that does have a bit
- 21:04Speaker 3: of that protein, that fiber, something that's going to fill
- 21:07Speaker 3: you up. Don't be scared of having a piece of
- 21:09Speaker 3: toast or bread or whatever. Eggs are amazing to keep
- 21:13Speaker 3: you full of for longer, but make sure you're trying
- 21:15Speaker 3: to eat enough in the morning that then it's going
- 21:17Speaker 3: to have a positive effect. It was interesting. Actually, my
- 21:21Speaker 3: husband's done inter minute fasting four or five years now, yeah,
- 21:25Speaker 3: and loves it. He swears by it. But only in
- 21:27Speaker 3: the last two months has he sort of started to switch.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Where he finds now he'll not have brekky and then
- 21:34Speaker 3: he'll wait till midday and he'll eat, but then by
- 21:36Speaker 3: three o'clock he's like, I could eat the whole pantry,
- 21:39Speaker 3: just give me a snack. Like now, whereas he finds
- 21:42Speaker 3: if he eats brekky and it doesn't have to be
- 21:44Speaker 3: a huge breaky, but just something like porridge or or
- 21:47Speaker 3: musley or eggs or whatever, then he'll have lunch as
- 21:50Speaker 3: normal and he doesn't need to snack it all till
- 21:52Speaker 3: dinner time. So again, it's so different for every person
- 21:56Speaker 3: and it depends on what you're eating. So yeah, I
- 22:00Speaker 3: I love having brecky. Yeah.
- 22:02Speaker 1: I also think it's interesting that you did mention fasting
- 22:06Speaker 1: and how for example, for your husband that worked really
- 22:09Speaker 1: well for years and then now it's changed.
- 22:11Speaker 2: So it's even like with these trends.
- 22:13Speaker 1: They work for some people, but you know, even you, yourself,
- 22:17Speaker 1: can evolve and you will have different needs. What are
- 22:20Speaker 1: your thoughts on wellness trends like fasting or seed cycling
- 22:25Speaker 1: or green powders.
- 22:26Speaker 3: Oh, god load, I'll be polide about green powders.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Oh don't. You don't have to be.
- 22:34Speaker 3: They're not all total bullshit. But I just am like,
- 22:37Speaker 3: it is amazing what people will sell and what not
- 22:40Speaker 3: what people will buy actually, because I feel like they
- 22:42Speaker 3: sell it well. But you know that is so overprised
- 22:46Speaker 3: that's usually been really processed in a factory, that might
- 22:50Speaker 3: sit on a shelf for a long long time and
- 22:53Speaker 3: lose the actual nutritional value that 's within it, depending
- 22:57Speaker 3: on how it's stored, where it's stored, how long it's
- 22:59Speaker 3: stored for, and you know people are paying so much
- 23:04Speaker 3: money for these things when I always say you can
- 23:06Speaker 3: get it from real food, Like, just throw two handfuls
- 23:10Speaker 3: of spinach in your smoothie and there's essentially your greens
- 23:13Speaker 3: powder for the day. This morning, I even just threw
- 23:16Speaker 3: a whole bag of spinach in the fry pad, lemon juice, salt, pepper,
- 23:19Speaker 3: Just eat that green powder. I know, not everyone you
- 23:22Speaker 3: know it's easy to throw a scoop of something, but
- 23:25Speaker 3: it's I just with that sort of stuff. I'm like, again,
- 23:28Speaker 3: it's being over complicated for what it really is. And
- 23:32Speaker 3: real food is always if you can the better option.
- 23:35Speaker 4: What is the biggest nutrition myth that you wish more
- 23:38Speaker 4: women knew.
- 23:40Speaker 3: That you need to restrict or remove unless you have
- 23:44Speaker 3: a medical, you know, diagnosis of you know, celiac or
- 23:48Speaker 3: something like that, that you need to restrict or remove
- 23:51Speaker 3: certain groups or certain foods out of your diet to
- 23:54Speaker 3: be healthy is a big one. I think, you know,
- 23:56Speaker 3: going back to calves and different types of it's keto
- 24:00Speaker 3: data and did it like it's it's sort of none
- 24:03Speaker 3: of doing any of that is going to necessarily make
- 24:06Speaker 3: you healthy. And if you're including you know, your right
- 24:09Speaker 3: foods in a balanced way. Most of the time, then
- 24:13Speaker 3: you're on the best path to your overall kind of
- 24:16Speaker 3: best version of yourself health nutrition wise. And I always
- 24:20Speaker 3: say a nice little rule. This is some a bit
- 24:22Speaker 3: of a tip. This is different if you're cooking like
- 24:23Speaker 3: a one pot on the stove or like a soup
- 24:25Speaker 3: where everything's thrown together. But if you look at your plate,
- 24:29Speaker 3: usually we say about half of your plate should be
- 24:31Speaker 3: fruits or veggies, so packed full of any fruits or veggies,
- 24:35Speaker 3: raw or cook doesn't matter. And then a quarter of
- 24:37Speaker 3: your plate should be those complex carbs, so those rather
- 24:41Speaker 3: than the ones. And I know we love our pasta.
- 24:42Speaker 3: There's still a place for white pasta, but usually more
- 24:45Speaker 3: that brown rice, those whole grains, lentils, pulses, things like potato,
- 24:50Speaker 3: sweet potato, potato. And then you've got your complex carbs
- 24:54Speaker 3: and then your lean proteins in whatever form that is,
- 24:56Speaker 3: whether it's meat or plant based. But you know your eggs,
- 24:59Speaker 3: your fear, your toe for your tempe, any kind of lenk, poultry,
- 25:04Speaker 3: all of that sort of stuff. So that kind of
- 25:06Speaker 3: gives you a little bit of a when you're making
- 25:08Speaker 3: up a bowl for a complete meal. That's a way
- 25:12Speaker 3: that kind of can help you build it.
- 25:13Speaker 4: I have a question because this is something that I
- 25:15Speaker 4: personally get confused with when cooking, and all the information
- 25:19Speaker 4: about it is oil, and like I don't really understand anything,
- 25:25Speaker 4: Like I feel like I'm told to use different oils
- 25:28Speaker 4: for different reasons, and I kind of just want to
- 25:30Speaker 4: buy one fucking oil because it's like eighteen dollars bottles,
- 25:34Speaker 4: and then it's like use this much, Now use this spray,
- 25:36Speaker 4: Now use anah.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Huh yet, So I would say, go olive oil, and
- 25:40Speaker 3: it can be used for most things. So there were
- 25:42Speaker 3: there were myths to say that olive oil doesn't have
- 25:45Speaker 3: a smart high smoke point, so it burns when you
- 25:47Speaker 3: cook with it. That's actually not very true. So I
- 25:50Speaker 3: would say olive oil. If you can afford it, I'd
- 25:52Speaker 3: say extra virgin olive oil. Just the process in bottle,
- 25:56Speaker 3: in what goes into the bottle and how it's made
- 25:58Speaker 3: is slightly better because you're keeping, let's put it this way,
- 26:01Speaker 3: more nutrients in the actual oil. But then you know,
- 26:06Speaker 3: there's also a place for when I'm Asian cooking, I'll
- 26:08Speaker 3: use peanut oil and I'll use sesame oil and things
- 26:11Speaker 3: like that because for taste exactly. It's for taste, and
- 26:13Speaker 3: a tablespoon at the start of your dinner is not
- 26:15Speaker 3: a big problem. But in most of my day to
- 26:18Speaker 3: day cooking in my pan, frying, salad, dressing, things like that,
- 26:22Speaker 3: go for olive oil.
- 26:23Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, because it's been very overwhelming, like you
- 26:27Speaker 4: sunseeed oil and canola oil and and I'm like, which,
- 26:30Speaker 4: it's fucking oil.
- 26:32Speaker 3: And it's confusing. There's just the thing about canola and
- 26:35Speaker 3: sunflower and that's those sorts of oil is they contain
- 26:38Speaker 3: different fats that aren't great for our bodies. So extra
- 26:42Speaker 3: virgin olive oil is your best and also healthy fats
- 26:45Speaker 3: Omega three and six are in that kind of way.
- 26:48Speaker 4: I'm Italian, so we've always had like the jug and
- 26:53Speaker 4: the fact that that motherfucker would last. But when we
- 26:56Speaker 4: run out, it's like the second term you buy oil
- 26:59Speaker 4: in the year, like mom will be like can you
- 27:01Speaker 4: get the oil, and you're.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Like, I can't lift that shit.
- 27:04Speaker 1: Well. I also feel like every nanna and yah yah
- 27:06Speaker 1: like you know, says that their long life is due
- 27:10Speaker 1: to use of.
- 27:11Speaker 4: Olive oil and one glass of red wine.
- 27:13Speaker 3: Yeah, the medi training diet, and so that's where it
- 27:16Speaker 3: shouldn't actually be called a diet because technically it's not.
- 27:19Speaker 3: It's a lifestyle, which I've never advocated for diets. I
- 27:22Speaker 3: fucking hate them and I think they send women and
- 27:24Speaker 3: people crazy. But if you want to look up the
- 27:26Speaker 3: meta training diet, that is generally the way that I
- 27:29Speaker 3: like to eat most of my days. Yeah. But as
- 27:32Speaker 3: you say, the social aspect of it, whether it is
- 27:34Speaker 3: with family or close friends or relatives or whoever you
- 27:37Speaker 3: share a meal with, it's actually about human connection and
- 27:41Speaker 3: bringing people together. And that's what as intense and full
- 27:44Speaker 3: on as it sounds, that's what it is. So then
- 27:46Speaker 3: to put the whole negative side on it about you
- 27:50Speaker 3: should be this way and restrict this, and this is
- 27:52Speaker 3: not good for you, and I got these abs by
- 27:54Speaker 3: eating this. This is like, it just destroys it all.
- 27:57Speaker 3: So I wish there was an easy vibe.
- 28:02Speaker 4: Killer.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Yeah it is, So try and have that in your mind.
- 28:05Speaker 3: You know, when you're going to the table. It is
- 28:06Speaker 3: meant to be about enjoyment and love and bringing people together.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Sit down and say, what's am I bringing the vibes?
- 28:12Speaker 3: Yeah, Marina vibes. Yeah, I love that.
- 28:15Speaker 1: But we are two broke chicks, so of course we
- 28:17Speaker 1: love a money tip. Do you have any advice on
- 28:21Speaker 1: or tips on how to build a nutritional but affordable
- 28:26Speaker 1: grocery list?
- 28:28Speaker 3: Sure? So I think the first this is before your
- 28:32Speaker 3: actual grocery list. But as boring as it sounds, I
- 28:35Speaker 3: really sound like a middle aged mom of three kids here,
- 28:37Speaker 3: but meal planning is like real, I know you guys
- 28:40Speaker 3: are probably too young for meal planning. No, no, no, no,
- 28:45Speaker 3: I really like that because I feel like meal planning
- 28:47Speaker 3: is step one. Yeah, looking at like you look at
- 28:50Speaker 3: your weakerhead, You're like, maybe you know, I mean Melbourne
- 28:53Speaker 3: two nights doesn't matter, or I'm out for two nights
- 28:55Speaker 3: for work, they don't matter. I'm going to plan for
- 28:57Speaker 3: three or four meals. And so you kind of look
- 29:00Speaker 3: at wherever you look for recipes, whether it's on social media,
- 29:02Speaker 3: whether it's in books, whatever, and then you write out
- 29:05Speaker 3: your list. And the biggest thing I find is you
- 29:08Speaker 3: sort of you can kind of choose recipes to cross
- 29:11Speaker 3: over so you're not buying multiple different ingredients, but then
- 29:15Speaker 3: sticking to your list as much as possible. And think
- 29:18Speaker 3: meal planning is good because then you're done. It's like
- 29:21Speaker 3: all in your fridge and cupboard for the week. But
- 29:23Speaker 3: what I used to do in my twenties is I
- 29:25Speaker 3: would go to like pre kids and stuff. I'd go
- 29:27Speaker 3: to the supermarket like five times a week because I
- 29:30Speaker 3: just never planned it, and I'd finish work and i'd
- 29:32Speaker 3: roll into a supermarket, and especially sometimes i'd choose a
- 29:35Speaker 3: gourmet supermarket, which was I used to be a primary
- 29:37Speaker 3: school teacher and it was right near there, and I'd
- 29:40Speaker 3: go in and I'd spend one hundred dollars that I
- 29:42Speaker 3: did not have. And also, if you go in when
- 29:45Speaker 3: you're hungry, yes, more in my trolley. I'm hungry. I
- 29:51Speaker 3: always make sure i'm not, because otherwise I'll be like, oh,
- 29:53Speaker 3: those chips.
- 29:54Speaker 2: Are good, Like oh, yeah, what did I buy?
- 29:57Speaker 3: Did I buy that? So looking to your list, trying
- 30:01Speaker 3: to go once maybe twice a week, because otherwise you're
- 30:03Speaker 3: not impulse buying and throwing you know, four or five
- 30:06Speaker 3: extra things in your basket that you just don't need
- 30:08Speaker 3: or you think you feel like that night, but you know,
- 30:12Speaker 3: and then just get smart about actual groceries. So meat's
- 30:15Speaker 3: really expensive, so try and have more meat free nights.
- 30:19Speaker 3: If you really do need your meat, go for cheaper
- 30:21Speaker 3: cuts or cheaper options. So mince is a really good one.
- 30:24Speaker 3: It's usually Yeah, I love mince.
- 30:25Speaker 2: It gets a bad round getting into turkey mints.
- 30:28Speaker 3: Yeah, tyre. Yeah, it's more an American thing. Yeah, but
- 30:33Speaker 3: it's great.
- 30:33Speaker 4: It's just psychoaglic bowl with like sweet potato, turkey, mince
- 30:38Speaker 4: cheese and then tomato and onion with lime juice on
- 30:41Speaker 4: it and sour cream.
- 30:42Speaker 3: It is my favorite, and men the whole world, mince
- 30:45Speaker 3: in any type of roles is great like that, Yeah,
- 30:48Speaker 3: so go for mince. Mince is awesome. Frozen vege frozen berries,
- 30:53Speaker 3: So don't ever only buy berries if they're less than
- 30:56Speaker 3: four three.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Bucks aupun it, which never happened yes.
- 31:00Speaker 3: Summer, So I'm always frozen berries, any frozen vege. Often
- 31:03Speaker 3: they're better for you nutritionally because they're snap frozen at
- 31:05Speaker 3: the time that they're harvested. So don't think that frozen
- 31:09Speaker 3: veg ues are a shitty option. Or you know, look
- 31:11Speaker 3: what's in season. Canned, always go you canned beans, canned,
- 31:15Speaker 3: you know, canned tuna, can salmon. I have a full
- 31:17Speaker 3: chapter in my cookbook, my first cookbook, which is The
- 31:20Speaker 3: Humble Can of Tuna, because I'm like, why don't people
- 31:23Speaker 3: use tuna more in like meals like Tina pastas and.
- 31:27Speaker 4: Bemongering around that as well, and that is crazy, but
- 31:31Speaker 4: oh my gosh, thank that all of those tips are amazing,
- 31:34Speaker 4: and I think we're definitely.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Going to have to do a part two about like
- 31:37Speaker 2: grocery list.
- 31:38Speaker 4: Meal wrapping, and time poor.
- 31:41Speaker 2: We are also time poor. Thank you so much.
- 31:44Speaker 4: That has truly been This has been such an amazing episode.
- 31:47Speaker 4: And I really admire the way that you speak to
- 31:50Speaker 4: nutrition and food and women's health. So thank you for
- 31:52Speaker 4: also really pushing a messaging that is kind and helpful
- 31:57Speaker 4: and not damaging in any way. And we would love
- 32:00Speaker 4: to know we wrap all our episodes this way. What
- 32:01Speaker 4: has been your biggest life lesson on your journey?
- 32:04Speaker 3: This is a very basic one, but I do often
- 32:06Speaker 3: think I come back to it probably every second or
- 32:08Speaker 3: third day. Just don't be a dickhead.
- 32:13Speaker 2: I love that, But you can.
- 32:15Speaker 3: Just I just feel like I'm putting lots of Greek
- 32:21Speaker 3: group situations for work on sets and things like that,
- 32:24Speaker 3: and I find that as soon as you're friendly, as
- 32:28Speaker 3: soon as you're kind and open to meeting new people
- 32:31Speaker 3: and just saying a quick hello and having a chat.
- 32:34Speaker 3: It just settles people and it creates an environment really
- 32:38Speaker 3: quickly where there's no hierarchy, there's no oh, she seems
- 32:42Speaker 3: like a bit of a dick. It's just And that's
- 32:45Speaker 3: what I'm noticing in all the work I'm doing lately,
- 32:47Speaker 3: and that's what I try to teach my three girls
- 32:49Speaker 3: as well. Just be nice, be kind. I know you
- 32:52Speaker 3: might be having a shit day or whatever, but often
- 32:54Speaker 3: that makes you feel better. If you're having a shit
- 32:56Speaker 3: day and you are kind to someone, you have a
- 32:58Speaker 3: nice conversation and you smile and you have a little
- 32:59Speaker 3: gar and you walk away, it's it can improve your
- 33:03Speaker 3: day so much. So just you don't you don't, you
- 33:06Speaker 3: don't have to be better than anyone else. Just be
- 33:08Speaker 3: nice and kind and try and bring laughter to most
- 33:11Speaker 3: of the things you do in the day and it
- 33:13Speaker 3: will work out.
- 33:13Speaker 2: Okay, that was a great life lesson to finish on.
- 33:16Speaker 1: But for any of the chicks who don't follow you, yeah,
- 33:19Speaker 1: where can they learn more about you?
- 33:20Speaker 2: And yeah?
- 33:22Speaker 3: Sure, so my instant name is Wholesome by Sarah. Yeah,
- 33:27Speaker 3: or I've got a website with all my recipes on there,
- 33:30Speaker 3: so yeah, jump on and come and make some delicious food.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Oh my god, done that. Yes, I'm hungry. Yeah, actually
- 33:40Speaker 2: got me hungry.
- 33:40Speaker 1: But thank you so much for coming on, and thank
- 33:43Speaker 1: you to you chicks for having us in the ear holes.
- 33:45Speaker 2: We'd love to be here.
- 33:46Speaker 1: And thank you to m Ika that don't make it
- 33:48Speaker 1: today's episode.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Buzz all, Love you chicks.
- 33:50Speaker 3: Bye,