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>> Speaker A: I see you struggling to keep up with those drastic

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changes you picked up from the latest influencer.

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I mean, she had great success. So

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why on earth are you struggling so much?

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Why isn't it working for you? You're not getting

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anywhere. You're starving all the time.

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What's going on? What am I doing wrong?

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I know that's what you're thinking. Let's chat.

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Welcome to whole health made simple.

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>> Speaker B: Are you tired of chasing fad diets and endless

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workouts? Frustrated and confused by the conflicting

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advice on health and weight loss? Well, you're not alone. I'm

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Jolene, a nutritional therapy practitioner, and I'm here

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to guide you on a different path through holistic

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wellness. Together, we'll blend ancestral

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wisdom with scientific principles, making health

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and weight loss a reality. >> Speaker A: Say goodbye to yoyo dieting, and hello.

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>> Speaker B: To simple, individualized steps that will help

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you reach your goals. >> Speaker A: Let's explore the power of healing your.

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>> Speaker B: Gut, optimizing your metabolism, and embracing whole

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food. Ready to make that personalized wellness a

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reality? Let's get started on your journey to

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real health. >> Speaker A: Hey. Hey, there. Oh, my gosh. Friend,

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I see you. I see you struggling.

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I've been you. I've been there. You

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find the person, the latest

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influencer that has 100 million

1:20

followers, and she is telling you

1:22

exactly what to eat and exactly what

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exercises to do. You're struggling to

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eat what she eats, you're struggling with the

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exercises. You're not getting

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any results at all. If

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anything, you're starving all the time, your body's

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achy, your sleep's all messed up, and you just

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are frustrated. I've been there. I

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get it. I feel you.

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I was you. She had

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so much success, and you cannot figure

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out why you're not

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seeing the results. You saw it, like, the first couple of

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weeks, but after that, it has just been

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this roller coaster, of up and downs.

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Now, I know I always say weight

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loss and even your health journey is a

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roller coaster of sorts. It is not going to be

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a straight line, but

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we need to dive into this. This latest

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influencer, that you're following, that you expect

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the same results as she got.

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You're, what, 20

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years older than her, 30 years older than her? More than

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that. How on earth do you expect to get

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the same results as some young 20 something year old

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or early 30 something year old when you're

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in your late forty s, fifty s or sixty s? It

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doesn't work like that. Our bodies are not working. The

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same things need to be

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adapted as we age.

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And sometimes we need to be realistic.

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I know I said the r word, but

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it even took me a long time to realize

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that our bodies, each one of us,

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are built uniquely beautiful,

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but they're uniquely different. So

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stop fighting your

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body and start learning to work

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with it to reach those goals, to get

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smaller, to get healthier, to feel better,

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to have more energy, to enjoy

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life. That's the bottom line.

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We want to be able to feel good and

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enjoy life. So how do we do

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it if what we were being taught isn't

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working? I know there's lots of people out there that are going to

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come at me, but I am a

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realist. I think we all really need to

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be realistic. We need to be realistic

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with our current health, our

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current stress levels, our current

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lifestyles, our current working environment,

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and work with what we have

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in a way that

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is empowering and

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healthy and helps us improve our

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situation, rather than adding

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something that is so extreme and so

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out of touch with the body we're living in

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that it puts so much stress on it.

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Now, there's nothing wrong

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inherently with what this influencer is

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teaching you, except for the fact

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that you can do things and get

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away with things in your

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can't in your can do in

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your can't. In your can do, in

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your can't in your. See where I'm going with

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this? And the longer you

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have, maybe not taking care of yourself is

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the best way to phrase that. The

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harder it is to expect

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these dramatic changes in a

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few months. If you are being pitched that

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you can lose 20 pounds in a month,

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they can't guarantee that.

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And if they do and you do get there,

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what's going to happen the following month or the months

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after that? Living life in

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starvation isn't healthy.

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Eating enough food and

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nourishment is learning and taking a step back and saying, you

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know what? I want to do this the right way,

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the healthy way, and get

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there, where do you start to do it

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that way? First of all, drown out

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the quick fix noise.

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It took you however many years, maybe

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2030, 40 years, to be in the spot you're in today.

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You cannot expect it to go away in three months. It could

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take a year, it could take two years. It depends

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on your current health, your

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current physical health, as well as your

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internal health. And by physical health, I mean, if you

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haven't been exercising, what is your muscle

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health like? What kind of injuries have you had? Have you

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been in a car accident? Are there things you can and can't

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do that are going to prohibit

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you from doing what a 20 year old

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is telling you to do. Are you

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so morbidly obese that you can't get

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up and down from the floor? It's nothing

6:20

wrong. It doesn't mean that you're never going to reach your

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goals. What it means is you have to approach

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it gentlier. Is that a word?

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gentler. That's it. You've got to approach

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it slower. The main

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thing to start with is your

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brain. Believe in yourself

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that you are worth doing this and doing

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it in a way that makes you healthy.

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The size you are right now is

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meaningless. Your size, does not

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dictate your worth. You

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deserve to be healthy.

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You deserve love. But the only way you can

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get both of those is to love yourself enough

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to take those first steps. And those first steps

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aren't an extreme diet. Those first

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steps are being honest

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with yourself of, what position you are

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in today. So now I need you to

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get real honest. What are your current health

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issues besides weight?

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What are your current

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physical, limitations

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besides weight? Write them down. When you

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do any kind of searching for your

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journey, include these

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limitations. How do I improve

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insert health condition?

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How do I exercise with insert limitation of

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physical mobility? That's where we

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start. We start with what we're

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at and we find things we can do

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that are not going to set us

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back. I say these

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things for one reason and one

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reason only. I've lived them.

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I thought the only way was to do

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what society said I had to do

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to get here. I'd end up

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with autoimmune conditions because I wasn't eating

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right. I ended up with injuries because

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I did too much too fast in a body that

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wasn't used to moving. Those are

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the things we need to do. Be

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realistic. That doesn't make you

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less than anything. It will

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actually set you up for success.

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Start slow. Do you struggle getting up and down off

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the ground? So any kind of home workout

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that has you going up and down and up and down is

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not good for you. Then find a standing yoga

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routine or a chair yoga routine

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or something that just digs all the exercises on the ground.

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So you only have to get up and down once. Make

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sure you have a chair next to you so you can get up easily.

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Those are things I want you to consider.

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And size doesn't always matter on getting

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up and down from the ground. That's mobility.

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And small people have mobility issues just

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as much as large people, so it doesn't really

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matter. But take

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something or find something that is easy

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for you to do. That you can do in simple

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steps. Take a step back

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from these wazoo influencers

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that aren't doing you any good.

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They are giving you food and

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exercises that aren't meant and right for your

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body. Like I always say,

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start with the basics.

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Start by switching out to real foods.

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Focus in on adding fermented foods to work on your

10:02

gut because those two go hand in hand and will help

10:05

you start releasing some of that excess

10:07

weight and help alleviating some of the

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symptoms you're having from whatever health issues you

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have. And then start moving your body

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as you are capable of doing it.

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If that means you have to sit in a chair with

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216 ounce water bottles

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and kind of punch out and get your heart rate up, then that's what

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you do. If you can go on a five mile

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walk, and that's simple for you, then that's what

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you do. Meet your

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body where it's at today to make

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those steps forward before

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you start diving into hacks and quick

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fixes, or even

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working with me on something like finding food

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sensitivities. Unless you're well aware of it and you're

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already eating real foods,

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there's no reason to start there. You've got to start

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at the beginning. When I

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have people work with me, I make them start at the

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beginning. If you don't start at the basics,

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the very, very beginning. Eating

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real foods, eliminating processed foods,

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eliminating lots of excess sugar. If you

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can eliminate sugar altogether, even better for a

11:20

while, adding in fermented foods,

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drinking your water, moving your body.

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Those three things help balance out your body. Work on your

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gut all at the same time. Even exercise helps you

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work on your gut because it helps you improve your

11:37

sleep. Then we start working on eliminations.

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Then we start working on circadian rhythm.

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Then we start deep diving into gut

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health. But you need to be

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eating real foods, moving your

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body and being hydrated. I know I sound

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like a broken record, but this is the time of year

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that everybody is falling off of

12:03

their resolution.

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I don't know. I don't know what you call it, but they started out in

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January, gung ho. And they started

12:12

out too hard, too heavy, too fast,

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and they don't know what to do. I

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don't want you to give up. I believe in you.

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You can do this.

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But the time to follow a 20 something

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influencer at 40, 50

12:29

something, it's done. Find

12:32

someone your own age. Hey, I'm your own

12:35

age. But find someone your own age that

12:38

can help you through the changes your body

12:41

is going through now. That's

12:44

key. I have people I

12:46

follow that are helping me go through how

12:49

my body's changing right now. I

12:52

am a late menopause person. I'm

12:55

still in perimenopause, but I

12:58

need to support my body with where it's at

13:01

now. You need to

13:04

support your body where it is

13:06

at now. I cannot

13:09

stress this enough. That is why I keep making

13:12

episodes that sound very similar

13:15

over and over again. You need to be supporting your body where it's

13:21

at now. Next episode,

13:24

we are going to tackle that new

13:26

study that came out on protein. It's a

13:29

bunch of malarkey. I'm trying to keep

13:34

this a clean show so that anyone can listen to it. So we'll call

13:37

it a bunch of malarkey. So

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when I say eat real foods, eat your fruits and

13:43

vegetables, but make sure you're prioritizing

13:46

that protein. Get in those fermented

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foods, drink your water, start

13:52

some sort of movement. And I would like to invite you, if you

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are struggling, into my free

14:00

community where we can work and

14:03

support each other step by step along

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this journey. So we don't give up.

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Because the only time we fail is when

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we completely give up. You're going to have

14:14

setbacks. Those are not failures. Failure is not doing anything and giving up

14:19

completely as long as you keep getting back

14:22

on that horse and going forwards.

14:25

You, my friend, are a success

14:28

story. So if you would like to join me,

14:31

the link to the community is in the show notes. It

14:34

is off Facebook so that I could keep it

14:36

completely private. Because you know what? We share some

14:39

things, or I'd like you to share some things that may be

14:42

personal. So I'd love to see you

14:45

there. And I want you to be

14:47

successful. We all deserve health. We

14:50

deserve to enjoy the time

14:53

of our life where we're more free.

14:56

We're not tied down by work as much.

14:58

Our kids are out of the house. If you have kids, you

15:01

have grandkids you want to go run after and play

15:04

with. That's what I want for you. And

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if you're not quite there yet and you're in your want you to

15:11

start now so that you don't feel like you're up

15:14

against a race to get there. The earlier

15:17

you start taking your health seriously,

15:20

the easier it is. And we

15:22

all want life to

15:25

our years. I don't care how long you live,

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if you're bedridden, that's no fun. We want

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life in those years. On, that note, friends,

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I will see you next time. Bye.

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>> Speaker B: Thanks for listening in today. I hope you got some nuggets to take

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on your health journey. Remember, this podcast is for

15:43

educational and entertainment purposes. No medical advice

15:46

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