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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the

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Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kaylee, and this is

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your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,

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a new mindset, and another day. If you become the

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hawt Girl energy you want to attract. I just want

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to start off this episode by saying, I feel like

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the weather has been so crazy. I don't know if

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anyone else is currently dealing with spring one day and

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then you know, summer another day, and then winter the next.

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Like it has been like really nice days where it

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feels like fifteen degrees out, which is nice for us

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here in Ontario, and we'll be outside, you know, no coats, whatever,

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and then the next day it will be like pouring rain,

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really cold, and it's like, okay, well whatever rains whatever.

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And then the following day it will be like snow,

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Like it will wake up to a bunch of snow

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with it, Like what is going on? Like is it spring?

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Is it winter? Like just a weird time of the year,

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but obviously it's still winter and spring doesn't officially start

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untill later this week. But it's just funny to me

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how the weather has been such an interesting day, Like

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I feel like you wake up and you never know

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what it's going to be. Like, I'm like, do I

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wear a coat? Do I not? It's just that time

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of the year where it's weird weather and yeah, you

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know what, at least the sun is shining today, and

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I can take that as a positive going into the day.

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I wanted to record an episode about my relationship with

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food because I feel like my eating habits have really

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evolved since I was in my early twenties to now,

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and I feel like I definitely have a very different

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relationship with food than I did when I was younger.

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And I feel like this might relate to a lot

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of girls who are currently going through either a healing

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journey or maybe someone that can relate to going through

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maybe a difficult time with a relationship with food and then,

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you know, finally coming to a realization of a happy

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spot with food. And I think food is such an

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interesting topic because I think a lot of people, you know,

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sometimes don't realize the relationship that they have with food

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and how it's impacting themselves on a day to day basis.

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And I'm not a nutritionist, you know, sometimes I think

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I'm like, should I you know, get some schooling done

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and become one, because I am so fascinated by how

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food is such an important part to our bodies and

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how like literally certain foods that we eat can really

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play a huge impact in our mood and how we feel.

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I don't know, I just feel like I've always been

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very interested in learning about the way that food is

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and like the magic behind it and all that. And

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then I also thought I would share some recipes that

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I've been loving because I've definitely been trying out a

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lot of new recipes trying to incorporate new food groups

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into my day to day life, and figured it would

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be a good opportunity to just to kind of share

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things that I'm loving currently. I love hearing recipes and

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hearing what people are eating and what they're you know,

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trying out. I also love watching YouTube around that. So yeah,

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just like love the whole idea of like hearing what

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people are eating and what they do for meals. It

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just kind of gives you some inspiration. It gives me

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some inspiration to try out new things. So yeah, I

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thought it would do the episode around that. Before we

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get into that, I thought we could do a little

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bit of a weekly recap. This past weekend, it was

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my sister's twenty sixth birthday, which is so crazy because

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I feel like when you're the older sister and you

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see your younger sister just like grow up and see

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your enter like a new chapter every single year, it's

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just truly, I don't know, such a shocking experience. I

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still see her as like my young little sister and

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not the woman that she is now, and like she

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has a career now, and like she just has her

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shit together, and I'm so proud of her. But I

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just feel like every year, like when we celebrate a

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new age for her, it's always just such a crazy

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thing to see. I don't know if anyone knows this,

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but me and my sister are actually four years apart,

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and I feel like I've gotten a few questions asking,

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like our relationship and like has it always been the

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way that it is, of like us being so close,

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and and did you guys ever have like difficult times?

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We have definitely had not the most perfect relationship in

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the world, I think, obviously, like as you grow up,

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it was always difficult, like when I was four and

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she was a baby, obviously, like that was never an issue,

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like very easy to like kind of you know, adapt

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with a toddler, but I think it was really like

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hard for both of us. When she was in elementary

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school and I was going to high school, I never

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had a very good relationship with her. I think I

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was very embarrassed of having a younger sister. I know

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that sounds crazy right now, but like back in the day,

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I just feel like I would be scared that she

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would embarrass me, and like I wanted to look cool

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in front of my friends, and you know, because she

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was so much younger, I just like never really got

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along with her, and like we had our differences, and

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I think it's always really tough when you guys are

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in two different phases in your life, and we fully

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were in two different phases, and I think that's when

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it was kind of hard to be in a close

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relationship with her. Of course, during that time, we were

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still sisters and like got along, but I wouldn't say

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like we were friends. We were sisters. We're family, Like

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we're obviously I love each other no matter what, But

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we didn't have a very close relationship. I wouldn't say

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we got close really until my sister went to university,

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and then I was graduating college or fully had a

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corporate job. That's when we started to get really close.

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And that kind of like flourished our friendship and we

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became even closer and closer, and I would say, like

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the last three years, we've been the closest we've ever been,

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and it's truly been the best thing ever. Like having

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a sister that's your best friend is like literally the

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best thing ever. Like if you have two girls right

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now or two young boys, and like you're wondering if

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your kids will ever be best friends in life, whether

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there's a large age gap or not. I personally think

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that regardless, eventually they will be friends. Even if it

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is tough for a little bit, they will find their

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way to each other. And I remember my mom telling

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me like years ago when me and my sister were

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fighting and I'm like, oh, I wish I never had

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a sister, blah blah blah. My Mom's like, one day,

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you are going to thank me for having a sister,

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Like I just remember her telling me that word for word,

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like you are going to thank me one day for

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having her, And here I am to this day literally

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thanking God and my mother for blessing me with a

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sister who is literally my twin the same personality, Like

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I couldn't have ass for about our sister. So anyways,

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I just kind of wanted to share that because I

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feel like a relationship with the sister is also something

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that I've never really talked about, but I think it's

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such a blessing to have a sibling, and I am

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very grateful that we have such a close relationship. And yeah,

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so we celebrated her this weekend. We went to the spa,

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we had a girl's dinner together, and then I think

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she's doing another thing with her friends this weekend that

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she also invited me to. So yeah, we're just celebrating her,

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which is super nice. We're like twenty five days apart,

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so my birthdays in two weeks from now, so I've

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been in the full on party planning mode these past

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two weeks. I feel like I've been trying to show

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up on social media, but also like behind the scenes,

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I'm like signing contracts, trying to figure out, you know,

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things that I need to hire for this birthday party.

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But I went all out, I really did. I was like,

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fuck it, I'm just gonna like, go full out. I

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posted something on Instagram saying like should I go full

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out or should I just be like, you know, do

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something chill, And everyone was like, just go full out.

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I'm like, you know what, You're right. It's my thirtieth

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this might be my last big party that I do.

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I went full out. I really did, and I'm so

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excited to share with you guys the theme and just

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like everything, It's going to be so fun. I did

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actually end up hiring a content creator, which is kind

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of crazy, but I'm like, you know what, I want

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to get as much content out as possible, and sometimes

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I feel like I need the help because obviously I

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want to be like living in the moment, but also

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like getting the stuff on tape. So one of my girlfriends,

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who literally does this for a living, she does content

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creation for businesses, she was like, I can I can

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help you out. I'll help you film stuff throughout the night,

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and I'm like, oh my god, you're amazing. So it's

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going to be great just to have someone help me

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behind the scenes to record some stuff and also keep

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you guys in the loop throughout the party, make it

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feel like you guys are there with me. And we're

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having a fun time together. So I'm very excited about that.

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I cannot believe I turn thirty in literally like twenty days,

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maybe less than twenty days now actually, and then it's

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my husband's thirtieth next week. So me and my husband

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were both aries. We're eleven days apart. I don't know

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if you guys knew that, but we're both yeah and aries,

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and we're very similar, which I kind of love. We're

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both like very fire personality and I don't know, we

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just like I love that we're both aries. I think

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it's really fun and it makes a relationship really enjoyable.

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But I'm surprising him with a trip and I'm so excited.

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We're going away next weekend. He has no idea that

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I booked a trip for him, and I think he's

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going to be very excited to have a little trip

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to look forward to. So not only have I been

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planning my birthday, but I've also been planning my husband's birthday.

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And if you have a husband or a boyfriend, you

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know that they don't really like their birthday celebrated. Zachly

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was like, I don't want anything, like, don't please, don't

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surprise me. With anything, and I'm like, okay, well, obviously

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I'm going to surprise you with something because I'm a

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birthday and I want to celebrate my husband and he

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deserves to be celebrated, especially on his thirtieth birthday. So

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of course I was like, no, I'm not listening to you,

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and I'm going to do something for you. And I

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still kept it like what he would want, and I

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think that's all that matters. Like he doesn't want the

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big party, he doesn't want that type of shit like

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I want that he doesn't, so I'm, you know, making

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sure that I do something more like private and intimate

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for him where it's more so just him and I

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versus like a big party. So I think he's gonna

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love the trip and I think it will be a

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great way to start his thirties. So that's kind of

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been a little A life update is really just kind

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of birthday party planning, really trying to coordinate all the

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things that I need to coordinate before these next few

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weeks and they're gonna get real hectic. But make sure

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to be following me on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Of

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course I'm going to be logging the entire experience through

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my camera. But let's get into today's episode. Okay, So

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let's talk about my relationship with food and kind of

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where it started versus where it is now. So the beginning,

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I want to say, back in twenty eighteen, maybe twenty seventeen,

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around there, I was very like overweight. I would say

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I was like pretty heavy. I was eating out literally

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every single weekend. I was buying chips, I was buying

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gummy bears every single weekend. Me and my husband when

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we were dating, we were like going through the phase

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of just like you're in a new relationship, you're going

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out for dinners constantly. You know, we spend our weekends together.

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We'd go you know, binge, eat and watch a movie together.

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We'd go to the movie theaters and again eating candy, chips, popcorn, whatever.

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Nothing wrong with that obviously, but like all about balance,

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you shouldn't be doing that like literally every single week

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and every single weekend, in my opinion, And so it

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was getting a little extreme. I wasn't working out, I

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wasn't having any type of healthy lifestyle whatsoever. And so

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in twenty seventeen, that's when I started to realize that

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I had to make a change and trying to figure

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out like new eating habits. It's a workout schedule for

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myself all that. And back in the day, Instagram was around,

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but the influencers that I followed were mainly on YouTube

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because obviously Instagram reels wasn't a thing, TikTok wasn't a thing.

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So I was following a lot of fitness influencers on YouTube,

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and those were the girls that really kind of helped

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me through my health and wellness journey of like figuring out,

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you know, healthy recipes, you know, my eating habits, what

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I should be avoiding, what I should be eating, you know,

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workout routines, whatever the case may be. Now, I will

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say that I don't want to say that these influencers

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that I watched forced me to eat the way that

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I ate, but I believed that the way these influencers

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were eating was the way that I had to also eat.

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Non dairy products were becoming a real big thing, so

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almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, all that. I feel like.

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and I, for some reason thought that I had to

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jump on the non dairy train, even though I had

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had no issues with drinking dairy at all. I felt

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like I needed to become a almond milk gurly or

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whatever the case. I'd be. Like it was a trend

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at that point where I felt like everybody was just

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jumping on it for no reason at all, thinking that

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dairy was bad for us. And so I feel like

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that's kind of like where my toxic relationship kind of

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became a thing of like following these influencers of like

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how they were eating. And again, you have to understand that,

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like I'm not saying what they promoted was toxic. It

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was more so like I was doing these things to

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myself thinking that it was the right thing, and when

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it really wasn't. Like I really should have been like

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listening to my own body, not following someone else's eating habits.

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And that's where I feel like everything went wrong. You know,

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the girls were weightlifting, so I started weightlifting. The girls

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were tracking their macros, so I decided to download you know,

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an app and use that to track my calories. I

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was eating protein bars for lunch instead of actually eating

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a lunch. Like it was so bad, guys. I literally

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was just like following these girls completely and not doing

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anything that my body actually needed. And that's when I

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started to get extremely underweight, to the point where like

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my mom I remember, was like really concerned. She was like,

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you need to be eating more food. I was avoiding

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every possible carb that you could imagine. Like I would

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never eat pasta, I would never eat potatoes strictly, just

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like lettuce, zoodles, you know, anything that didn't involve a carb.

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I would essentially eat besides carbs, Like I truly wanted

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to remove carbs out of my diet completely. I had

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this massive fear of anything that was high in fat,

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so like any type of nut butter, you know, avocados.

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Avocados I avoided for like almost a year or two.

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I think I literally saw it as such a bad food.

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I don't know why. I just thought it was like

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something that I was scared of, Like anything that was

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really high in calorie or high in fat. I literally

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completely avoided from my diet completely. And I think it

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was because of like using that app that I could

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see the calories and I could see the fat. It

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kind of almost like scared me away from those foods

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and made me have a really unhealthy relationship with food.

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But I want to just say something about those apps. Okay,

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I actually do not see those apps in that way

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at all anymore. I think the time of my life

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that I was using that app, it was a toxic

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time for me specifically. But if I were to use

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the app now, I actually think it would be very

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useful if you're doing it right, It's actually a very

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healthy tool to use, especially if you're looking to either

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gain weight or lose weight, whatever the case may be,

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like tracking your macros and actually understanding the protein you

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need for the day today or the calories that you need,

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like if you're using it for a specific reason of

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like measuring things out so so healthy and so so needed,

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if you're like wanting to go that direction. So the

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apps now I actually love and I don't think there's

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anything wrong with it. I think just at the time,

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I didn't really truly understand how to use it and

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what foods were actually good for you. So I was

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using it strictly just like oh, low calories, low fat,

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like eating protein, no carbs, Like I was in a

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completely different mindset back then versus what I'm in now.

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So I think back then it was toxic for me,

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but I think right now it would never be toxic.

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It would actually be a benefit for me. I just

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wanted to say that because if anyone does use the apps,

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I think they're great. I don't think there's anything wrong

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with it. I just think with my personal situation that

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happened years ago, I don't think it was healthy for

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me at that time in my life where I didn't

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really understand anything when it came to the health and

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wellness journey, right, Like I really didn't know what I

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was doing, and so I just remember being really skinny,

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and I remember having no energy at all. I was

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very tired. I was using caffeine as my source of

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energy because I didn't have enough energy because I wasn't

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eating enough food or actually properly fueling my body. And

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I remember doing like really heavy lifting, like five to

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six times a week, and again not eating enough food

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to actually see the results that I wanted to see

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for my body. Like, yeah, it was skinny, but I

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didn't have any muscle on me because I wasn't eating carbs.

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I wasn't eating you know, high protein meals. So it

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just was like a very interesting time in my life

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where I personally think it wasn't healthy at all, Like

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I was actually doing the complete opposite. It was not

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something that was considered a health and wellness journey in

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my opinion at all. It was just like a very

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unhealthy relationship with food and not really understanding what was

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best for myself. I just wanted the goal of following

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these fitness influencers, thinking that I was doing the right

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thing when I actually wasn't. And I know I've talked

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about this story in the past. When it came to

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the realization of my journey, which was when did I

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realize that I was under eating or what I was

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doing was wrong. And it was in the moment where

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my husband said something and my parents said something about

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how I should be eating more and that I shouldn't

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have to restrict myself and that you know, I was

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getting too skinny. And it was the first trip to

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Europe with my husband when we were twenty one. So

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I can't remember what year that was, but I think

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I was like, yeah, probably two years of like eating

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really strict and like thinking I had to follow this

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like really intense diet. So I think it was probably

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two years, which is kind of wild. We went to

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Europe and I remember telling my husband to make sure

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that I don't restrict myself from eating because Europe is

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known for the food, right, Like you want to go

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on a trip and you don't want to have to

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restrict yourself the entire time, Like you want to be

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able to enjoy the foods that you want. You want

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to be able to just enjoy the trip in general

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and not have to stress about like, oh my god,

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did I eat too much? Or you know, should I

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have had that gelato last night? Whatever the case me

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be like I remember telling my husband, please make sure

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that I eat everything that I want and that I

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don't restrict myself, and like he would literally like almost

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force me. I'd be like, oh, I don't know if

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I want the gelato, and he'd be like, no, we're

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getting the gelato. If you want it, we're getting it.

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Like he was like super supportive in that sense where

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he was kind of pushing me out of that comfort

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zone of like thinking that I shouldn't be doing it

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when it's o and he was kind of telling me,

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like it's okay to eat and treat yourself once in

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a while, like don't be upset with yourself if you

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know you're eating jill or eating a lot of pasta whatever. Right,

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So we were gone for four weeks. We were eating

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out every single night, we weren't working out. I was

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walking every day, but that was basically it like there

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was nothing that I really did kind of like maintain

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my fitness journey through that. But I think that's really

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where the healing journey started, was really being able to

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indulge what I wanted, not having to feel forced to

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like work out every single day. It kind of like

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made me step back and realize that I can still

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like maintain a healthy relationship with the workout routine and

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foods that I want to enjoy and still feel okay

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and good about myself. So I always like think of

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that trip and just how healing it was for me,

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because when I got back from that trip, I started

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working out less. I started working out like four to

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five times a week versus five to six. I was

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eating a lot more food. I was able to regain

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the confidence of eating pasta again and eating avocados again,

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and like treating myself to a sweet treat when I

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wanted to. Like, it was just kind of like a

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year of getting back into foods that I really enjoyed

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and really starting to understand the balance and how healthy

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it was to you know, indulge that past to when

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I wanted to or have that ice cream when I

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wanted to write. So that's kind of like where I

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kind of realized that I was actually being extremely unhealthy

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of you know, avoiding those foods, and I started to

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feel less tired, I started to regain more energy. I

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wasn't using you know, energy drinks or coffee as my

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source of energy anymore. It was really just like eating

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enough food throughout the day and you know, realizing that, oh,

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I actually feel better eating the right foods and like

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feeling good about it. Right, So when I think about

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my relationship today with food and how much it's changed,

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is just like understanding the meaning behind how important carbs

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are and how important protein is, and how important vegetables are.

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And now I like, I want all those things on

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my plate, if anything, I want literally everything and more.

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I want healthy fats, I want carbs, I want proteins,

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I want it all. I want want to fill my

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body so much where I feel so full that I

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can't eat anymore. I think also going into the mindset

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of kind of like prepping myself for conception has also

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been a huge thing for me. You know, I don't

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want to say I was under eating last year, like

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I was definitely eating enough food. I just think sometimes

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like lunch specifically for me was a big one. I

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feel like whenever I was, you know, here at the house,

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noon would come around and I would just like, oh,

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I'll just have a snack plate, or oh, I'll just

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you know, make a yogurt bowl, like I would just

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like eat a small lunch, which again nothing wrong with that,

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but I felt like in the afternoons I would get

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tired and I'd get snacky because I wasn't eating a

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big enough lunch. And so I think it was the

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end of last year I started to get back into

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meal prepping, or last summer, one of the two. I

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was talking about it with you guys in the podcast

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about how I wanted to get back into meal prepping

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because back in the day, I used to be really

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into it, but I would not like eating the same

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thing every single day. So what I do now is

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I don't do a whole meal for the entire I

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just cook the protein and then I try different meals

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out throughout my lunches. So one day I'll do like

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a taco bowl with like salsa, avocado, lettuce, and rice,

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and then the next day I'll do like burger bowls,

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so I'll do something with the ground beef again, but

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just like doing something a little different that doesn't taste

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the same as what I had the day before. So

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that's kind of how I like to do it now,

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is I just meal prep the protein and I'll try

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out different lunches throughout the week. That way, am not

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eating the same thing. But the point is that now

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I'm actually eating lunches that fill me up, and I'm

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not constantly snacking throughout the week because I didn't eat

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a big enough lunch. So it's all about just kind

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of like a learning curve. I think over time you'll

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kind of just like realize what works for you, what

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doesn't work for you. I think you'll always figure out

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what is best for yourself, and you just really need

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to kind of like see the signs, like if you're tired,

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if you have no energy, like maybe you aren't eating

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enough food. So then you need to realize, Okay, what

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foods should I be including to eat more of? Should

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I be doing a meal prep schedule where I'm you know,

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meal prepping line. That way, I have a big enough lunch,

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and I have a big breakfast and big dinner that

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I have as well. That way my body is fueled

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throughout the day. But anyways, the point that I was

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trying to make is that prepping for conception, I think

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is also just changed my perspective on food and my

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body and everything, because it's amazing what you can learn

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about food. I was reading the book Real Food for Fertility,

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and it was just kind of like explaining the benefits

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to everything that we would eat on like a daily basis,

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like common foods like eggs, broccoli, proteins like beef, chicken,

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all that, and just like understanding the knowledge behind those

480
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,680
proteins and the benefits to eating those things for our

481
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,279
bodies just made me see food in such a different way.

482
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,319
I don't know. I think it's really something that you

483
00:22:46,319 --> 00:22:48,759
should look into if you're a person that wants to

484
00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:52,759
get into their prepping for pregnancy journey or whatever the

485
00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:55,440
case may be. This book has made me learn so

486
00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:57,920
much about food in the best way possible. I think

487
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,880
it's been a really healing experience for me. I still

488
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,680
technically haven't finished the book. I think I have like

489
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,680
eighty pages left. It was a five hundred and fifty

490
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,880
page book. Okay, It's been a very long book to read,

491
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,880
and I only read it, I want to say, like

492
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,400
maybe twice a week, and I'll like read it for

493
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,960
like twenty to thirty minutes a day, So I'm not

494
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,400
like reading enough of it where I'm like locked in

495
00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:22,039
and like finishing it in a month. Like I've been

496
00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:26,000
reading it for the past three months and I'm almost

497
00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:28,720
done it. But I've learned a lot. It's been very

498
00:23:28,839 --> 00:23:33,119
educational and yeah, just something that I've really enjoyed learning

499
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,519
about and just learning the benefits around certain foods. And

500
00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:39,000
I think it just has made me appreciate eating so

501
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,799
much more in the best way possible. And I've just

502
00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:43,920
been feeling like my healthiest self lately. And I think

503
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,839
it's just because I feel like I finally have a

504
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,119
really healthy relationship with food and just like understanding the

505
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,880
benefits behind everything, like certain fruits that I eat in

506
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,000
the morning, you know. Now I've been including like chia seeds,

507
00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:58,680
flack seeds, hemp seeds or hemp hearts, whatever they call it.

508
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,079
Like I'm starting to include like more of those things

509
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,440
into my yogurt bowls and all that because I'm realizing

510
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,720
the importance around eating those things. You know, I am

511
00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:10,720
not a big salmon person or a big fish person,

512
00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:14,000
but you know, I've always wanted to increase my omega threes,

513
00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:18,519
So I'm trying to find ways to incorporate fish into

514
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,000
my dinners throughout the week. So Zach and I have

515
00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:23,359
been trying to have salmon once a week. Again, I

516
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,720
don't love salmon, but I'm finding different ways to cook

517
00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:30,240
it to make me enjoy it. So it's all about

518
00:24:30,279 --> 00:24:33,119
just like kind of like learning ways to incorporate things

519
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,000
into your day to day lifestyle. But that's kind of

520
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,680
what my journey has been, Like, I know everyone's journey

521
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,440
is different, but I just kind of wanted to share

522
00:24:40,519 --> 00:24:43,119
my kind of like my path of like how I

523
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,039
kind of found myself again and how I did start

524
00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:49,000
off in a rough situation where I didn't really understand

525
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,880
what healthy eating meant and now I feel like I'm

526
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,559
in a really good stage where I'm able to finally

527
00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:57,440
eat the foods that I used to be afraid of

528
00:24:57,519 --> 00:25:00,240
and like finally found a relationship where I want eat

529
00:25:00,279 --> 00:25:02,640
those foods, and I understand the benefits of eating those

530
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,720
foods now and I think it's so important to follow

531
00:25:05,759 --> 00:25:08,240
influencers like that nowadays as well. I feel like there's

532
00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:11,240
so many amazing people out there that promote such a

533
00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:15,079
healthy balance, you know, eating pattern. Like I know some

534
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,160
people have a love hate relationship for what I eat

535
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,799
in a day's I personally love it because I love

536
00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:23,160
gaining meal inspo and inspiration from people. But if you're

537
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,480
doing it in the right way, Like if you're promoting

538
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,119
what I eat in a day, but you had like

539
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:30,200
two meals and one snack, like, please don't post that.

540
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,880
That's embarrassing. Like I would like to see proper meals,

541
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,839
proper snacks, like something that someone would actually eat and

542
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,240
feel fueled throughout the day. So that's my journey on that.

543
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,000
But let's talk about some recipes that I've been loving.

544
00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:46,359
I have a few dinner recipes here, some lunch recipes,

545
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,519
some breakfast recipes, along with some desserts that I've recently tried.

546
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,079
So let's start off with dinner. One dinner that I've

547
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,119
recently included into our dinner rotation is oven salmon with

548
00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:01,079
rice and cucumbers and we talk off with a spicy

549
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,759
Mao sauce. I think this is a recipe that was

550
00:26:03,799 --> 00:26:06,480
famous on TikTok a few years ago. I have been

551
00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:09,720
trying to incorporate salmon into my day to day routine,

552
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,559
as I said, and just trying to get my Omega

553
00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:13,960
threes up. So this has kind of been a dinner

554
00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:17,799
that I have liked that includes salmon. I can't really

555
00:26:17,799 --> 00:26:20,319
eat salmon on its own unless there's like some type

556
00:26:20,319 --> 00:26:23,720
of sauce that is kind of like masking the taste,

557
00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:26,559
if that makes sense. If you have any good salmon recipes,

558
00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:28,519
please send them to me because I would love or

559
00:26:28,599 --> 00:26:31,480
comment down below here on the podcast. I would love

560
00:26:31,559 --> 00:26:34,279
to see any recipes. Also, if you recommend anything like

561
00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:36,680
it doesn't have to be salmon specific, any healthy recipe

562
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,200
that you love that I may have not tried, please

563
00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:41,680
send it my way or comments on below. I would

564
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,519
love to hear it, and maybe I'll try and film

565
00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:46,319
some recipes that you guys have sent in. That would

566
00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:50,799
be such a fun series to start on TikTok or Instagram.

567
00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:52,599
But that's a recipe that's new to us that we've

568
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,839
been trying to incorporate into our dinner rotation. Another one

569
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,440
we love is taco stuff peppers, where we stuff either

570
00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:03,079
ground beef or ground turkey and we use a taco seasoning.

571
00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:06,599
We add like cornhili pinots. You could also add onion,

572
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,079
sprinkle a little bit of cheese on top, and we

573
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,039
put it into a bell pepper. Literally one of our

574
00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:14,559
favorite dinners. It's so good, it's so filling. You can

575
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,880
also add rice. If you want to add more carbs,

576
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,480
you can also add beans. It's such a fun way

577
00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:22,680
to change up a typical taco, but doing it in

578
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,920
a stuff pepper is yeah, so so fun and it's

579
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,160
so good. So that's probably one of our favorite dinners.

580
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,279
We also love just like plain dinners when it's just

581
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,279
like steak, rice, avocado and that is it strictly just

582
00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:37,720
like a simple bowl. We also like to add like

583
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,880
oven roasted broccoli. Putting broccoli in the oven has changed

584
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,960
my life. I cannot explain how good this is. Guys,

585
00:27:46,039 --> 00:27:48,400
add a bit of avocado oil on top with salt

586
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,799
and pepper. Very simple, but very good. I've done, like

587
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,000
you know, boiled broccoli on the stove top for years. Okay,

588
00:27:56,079 --> 00:27:58,400
I strictly would just eat broccoli because it's good for you,

589
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,240
it's healthy. You know. Putting it on the stovetop is

590
00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:04,240
just easy, but putting it in the oven just tastes

591
00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:07,359
ten times better. And I actually really enjoy broccoli when

592
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,839
it's in the oven, especially Brussels sprouts as well. When

593
00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:12,200
it's cooked in the oven, trust me, if you've never

594
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,839
done it before, it kind of tastes just like a

595
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,759
little bit crispier and it's really really good. So we

596
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,000
love having oven broccoli with steak, rice and avocado. We

597
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,799
also love to make burger bowls. That's another one that

598
00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:27,200
we make pretty often, which is again just ground beef, lettuce,

599
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:32,400
cherry tomato. We'll make baby potatoes, spicy Mao sauce and

600
00:28:32,839 --> 00:28:35,599
that's it. It's pretty simple. A lot of these recipes too,

601
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,720
I've posted a lot on my TikTok and Instagram, so

602
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:39,559
if you ever want to see a visual or the

603
00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:42,559
full on recipe details, those are all on my social

604
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,759
media platforms, which I've linked in the podcast description down below.

605
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,440
We also make taco soup or white chicken chili. We

606
00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:52,960
also love beef chili and then marry me chicken as well.

607
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,680
Those are also really popular recipes that we found throughout

608
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,359
Pinterest and TikTok that you could probably search or again

609
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,319
you can find on my Instagram or TikTok page for

610
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,359
lunch ideas. I love doing Chaco bowls again, just doing

611
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:12,279
like ground beef salsa, avocado rice with corn sprinkle a

612
00:29:12,279 --> 00:29:14,519
little bit of cheese on top. I've been loving this

613
00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:17,559
pabrika sauce that I found from farm Boy. It's so good.

614
00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:20,960
It's like a taheen sauce that you can put on top.

615
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,160
It's one of my favorite lunches that I've been having

616
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,680
on rotation. It's just really really filling and just like

617
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,200
a really easy lunch to make. I also love to

618
00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:33,079
make either turkey meatballs or chicken Greek bowls. I love

619
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,720
just getting some taziki, making a bit of like a

620
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,440
Greek salad with like cucumber, red onion, and cherry tomatoes

621
00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:43,160
again doing like baby potatoes in the side with some

622
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,119
taziki sauce and then the chicken or turkey meatballs. That's

623
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,880
when recipe have been making on rotation. Also can make

624
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,119
a chicken stir fries sometimes with it's just like chicken peppers,

625
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,920
onions and rice. Super simple you could put a little

626
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,240
bit of seasoning on top. I love using like paprika

627
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,359
or chili powder, cayenne pepper. I like to try and

628
00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:02,240
make my seasonings at home as much as I can

629
00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:05,359
without buying like a prepackaged thing. If I do buy

630
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:08,079
a prepackaged like taco seasoning or some type of seasoning,

631
00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:10,440
I usually get it by the brands Siete, just because

632
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,279
it's like really clean ingredients and I really love the

633
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,119
ingredients that they use in their products. I also love

634
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,119
the Siete chips. That's something I snack on all the time. Again,

635
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,759
just really clean ingredients and just such a good snack.

636
00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:26,839
It's like my favorite healthy chip. Or I think they

637
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,519
have like other things too besides chips, like desserts and

638
00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:31,839
all that. Just a really good brand in general. I

639
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,960
also love to make the hot honey avocado bowls, which

640
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,279
is like avocados, sweet potato, grum, beef, cottage cheese or ricotta.

641
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,319
I'm not a big cottage cheese person. I don't like

642
00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:45,519
the texture. I prefer ricotta's texture, so I usually do

643
00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:48,559
ricotta instead and then I put red chlea flakes and

644
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:51,039
honey on top. That's something I make all the time,

645
00:30:51,079 --> 00:30:53,839
and you probably would see that in my videos, but yeah,

646
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,160
it's like one of my favorite bowls that I eat

647
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,839
all the time. And then usually in the summer, I

648
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,440
love to make protein pasta salad. I'll buy like protein pasta.

649
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,519
There's a lot of like protein pasta brands out there

650
00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:07,759
that you could buy, and I'll just make like like

651
00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:11,480
a Greek inspired pasta salad usually. And yeah, those are

652
00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:14,319
kind of like my favorite lunches that I would prep

653
00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:16,680
throughout the week. For breakfast, I've been kind of simple.

654
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,279
I feel like I'll do like eggs with sour dough bread,

655
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:21,519
and then I'll usually do some type of Greek yogurt

656
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:28,119
bowl with Kiwi blueberries, raspberries, honey, cinnamon, and then I'll

657
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,599
top it off with like chia seeds, black seeds and

658
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,079
all those different kind of seeds on top. I've also

659
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:36,279
been having my protein oats again. This is something that

660
00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:38,599
I like recently brought back into my routine. I used

661
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,440
to make these all the time, literally one of my

662
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,079
favorite breakfasts and so filling. But that's just like protein

663
00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:47,680
powder oats, milk. Put them on the stove, and then

664
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,720
I'll add like any tip of topping you want. I

665
00:31:49,759 --> 00:31:52,920
love adding like blueberries, bananas, chia seeds, almond butter. I

666
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,680
love almond butter on protein oats. I use a vanilla

667
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,200
protein powder and it almost tastes like cake batter. It's

668
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,119
literally it's crack. I'm obsessed. I don't have it every

669
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,960
single day. I usually like do a rotation of the eggs,

670
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,640
sour dough, and like Greek yogurt, and then I'll do

671
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,799
protein oats the other day. So that's kind of like

672
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,319
my breakfast rotation. I don't really have too much breakfast,

673
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,319
just because I'm a very routine person. I kind of

674
00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:18,079
just like to eat the same thing the odd time.

675
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,440
I would crave like a berry nut smoothie where it's

676
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,519
just kind of like bananas, strawberries, almond butter, protein powder,

677
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,880
almond milk, or oat regular milk. I've been drinking dairy.

678
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,599
I don't drink almond milk or oat milk anymore. I

679
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,799
used to, obviously, as I said, but I converted to

680
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:38,000
dairy last summer and it was literally the best decision ever.

681
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,880
But I don't know just in terms of like how

682
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,799
I feel like, I feel like it was kind of

683
00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:45,200
bloated with oat milk. Like, again, there's nothing wrong with

684
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,559
you know, the non dairy products out there. There's some

685
00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:52,240
that obviously are not the greatest, but yeah, no, I

686
00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:54,119
was buying a good oat milk back in the day

687
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,039
and then I just was like kind of noticing inflammation

688
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,960
for no reason. So that's kind of why I switched

689
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000
to dairy. And it's been great since I switched, and

690
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:04,240
I love the taste of dairy now. And then for dessert,

691
00:33:04,279 --> 00:33:06,799
I've been making a lot of banana chocolate desserts. You've

692
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:10,359
probably seen that I've been making ban and oat cookies.

693
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,359
I've been making banana chocolate sea salt bark. This is

694
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,640
something that I recently tried that I'm obsessed with. It's

695
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,920
so good, guys, you need to try it out. Super simple.

696
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,799
I actually just posted it on my TikTok this week,

697
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,119
so definitely check that out. I love the banana bread

698
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,200
cookie dough balls, and yeah, that's kind of it. I've

699
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,319
just kind of been like going on rotation for like

700
00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:36,160
making those healthy desserts, eating kind of like those same breakfasts,

701
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,480
shared my lunch ideas that I keep going back to

702
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,200
some of my favorite dinner recipes. But I would say

703
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,039
those are like typical recipes that I have on a

704
00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:46,640
pretty like frequent basis that I usually always go back to,

705
00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:49,160
like just something that I always try and buy at

706
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,640
the grocery store, all the ingredients for. It's just easy,

707
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,160
it's healthy, it's good, and I just love to eat

708
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,200
those recipes. Well, that is our episode for today. I

709
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,359
hope you guys enjoyed this episode. It's Zach's birthday next week,

710
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,720
and I think we're leaving on our trip the day after,

711
00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:05,960
so it just might be a little stressful trying to

712
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,000
get a podcast episode up. But the following week, I

713
00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:11,360
am going to be posting an episode in regards to

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just like my twenties in general. It's like what I've

715
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learned throughout my twenties before entering my thirties. I think

716
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that's going to be a huge episode to really really

717
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talk about, and I think that's something that you guys

718
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should all listen to, just things that I've learned throughout

719
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the past ten years of being in my twenties, things

720
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I'm looking forward to going into my thirties, entering a

721
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brand new decade. I think it'd be a really fun

722
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episode just to kind of really lean into just kind

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of like other mistakes I've made or lessons I've learned

724
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throughout the past ten years of being in my twenties,

725
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so I thought that'd be a really nice episode to

726
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do before entering my new decade of turning thirty. Anyways,

727
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I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Thank you guys

728
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so much for listening, and I will see you guys

729
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in the next episode. Four