Producer UNAPOLOGETICALLY DEBUNKS Body Positivity
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Summary
In this episode of Thick & Thin I have my good friend and fitness model friend of the show, talking all things body positivity, health and fitness. We talk about her weight loss journey and how she got to where she is today. We also talk about the dangers of being overweight and how to lose weight.
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You need to look at it. Well, and I was thinking I'm like, I mean, she's pretty big. She could have made a decent amount of money
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She said $5 per pound. That's like 50 bucks for 10 pounds. I mean like I think she's
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Terrible return on investment in terms of time spent no, but okay hear me out hear me out
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Okay, she looks like like late 20s. Maybe okay back then when you were a kid like
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That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money. I'm like that was a lot of money. Like I would have been excited
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If anything, it was an opportunity for you know, you could get like cash
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I was I was doing lemonade stands from a young age
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I think the biggest problem I have with this weight issue thing is
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We live in a society where people have kind of made it okay and I understand that you can be
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Do all of that, but the problem with that is that if you look at reality reality always tells the truth
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You can't escape reality. There's a reason why you don't see so many overweight old people
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There's a reason for that. That's because they die before they get to that age
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Most of most of the old people you see walking around are not overweight
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So if if you can look at reality and look at the truth that is waiting ahead of you that just means that you you're essentially saying
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That you don't care about your future you don't because I just find it weird like if I if I were to look out into the world and
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There's a reason why I don't do crime because I can look out into the world and see what happens to people that do crime
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So it should be the same ideology we should take when when people are telling you or it's okay to be this
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You can actually look out in the world and see the facts of reality because reality always told the truth
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So I just think that people need to get off this bandwagon of
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I think it's very destructive to people because reality doesn't agree with that
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I mean the irony of calling it like body positivity the irony there is you're actually you actually don't respect and love your body
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Your body at all because you're not giving it what it really needs and you're harming yourself
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You're not you're harming yourself and you're actually giving it the nutritious food and the exercise
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That it actually needs to be its best and performance first
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Did you know I applied to a body positive organization? I did a whole interview
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Yeah, and I I pitched in the interview that like the best way to be body positive
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Um, and it was like a social media intern. I'm like I'm great at social media
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And so I know I pitched it to him. I said the best way to be potty positive is to lose weight
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So so on the social media, I would really like to do some like running campaigns
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They did not they um, yeah, they they actually ended the interview right there. I was
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Yeah, to keep us fat, sick and easy to control. Yeah, well, and it's the government that's it
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And they go to believe you're positive. I agree. Well, and then they can just sell us more stuff
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When you're overweight, you're actually at a higher risk of all-cause mortality. So it's not it's not a good outcome
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Yeah, and you lost a bunch of weight, didn't you? I did I would like to say I actually was only that weight for a few years
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And it's because I got depressed and in a hole put on a bunch of weight and then lost it
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And that was like two years of my life the rest of my life have been in shape
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I grew up with a bodybuilder father that is very strict
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And if I kind of went out of the realms of weight, he would be like
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I mean, yeah, he would be saying no, you can't eat that you can't do that right here's some chicken breasts
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I mean bad advice, but back then everyone was like chicken breasts
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What is there something wrong with chicken breasts?
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Yeah, you don't want to eat chicken breasts. Where's the fat?
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You need the fat for your to support your hormones. You need the fat. Yep. Oh, bingo
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Wow, I didn't even know chicken. I didn't know chicken was bad
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It's not as cold as it's bad, but there's better choices
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Yeah, if you're gonna eat chicken breasts really you want anything with skin on it
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Okay, and I was keto for about six months and then I come across this doctor who I then became to you know
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He was on joe rogan and I was listening to him and he was saying yeah vegetables this that and I was thinking this guy is absolutely insane
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What it did is it planted a seed and when I was eating my asparagus because all I was eating is meat and veg because I was keto
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So there was no sugar. There was no junk. There was nothing
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I wasn't happy with my body composition things like that
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Um, and then I started thinking oh hang on. I just ate some asparagus and now I'm bloated now
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I feel this like I feel a bit lethargic, you know
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There's all these downsides to eating the plants
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I thought you know, I'm gonna try it. It's gonna go wrong. I'm gonna try it for two weeks
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So I tried it for two weeks and I was like wow rush of energy clarity
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You know all benefits and not only that first week, I lost seven pounds second week
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I lost seven pounds and then after that I stopped weighing myself because I could start seeing my abs
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I was feeling good about myself and this was from the what sorry, what was this from carnivore diet?
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It's not a starvation. So going back to that song majorly talented woman
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So her parents wanted to her to lose weight and her grandparents and you know
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Whoever else in our family because they wanted her to be healthy
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That advice doesn't leave you to be an overweight because you're restricting yourself
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I don't restrict myself. I eat about 5,000 calories a day
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You know, you don't have to restrict if you're eating the human appropriate diet
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When you when you went on to the keto diet initially, did you go through any kind of withdrawal?
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I didn't which is really funny because before that I was in my hole
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And I was addicted to coffee and cakes. I haven't drunk coffee in about five years. I don't really drink alcohol
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Occasionally for the first three years of the diet didn't drink any alcohol whatsoever
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And last couple of years every now and again, I'll drink a bit of alcohol
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But yeah, no, some people get keto flu and that's because they're not keeping up with their electrolytes
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When you go on to a diet that's low carb or zero carb
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Your body becomes really efficient at dropping the water
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And with that you drop electrolytes. So you have to keep replenishing those to keep those
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You know, and is that through just drinking water?
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So basically what I do what I advise people that are starting out new is to take magnesium glycinate
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And it's a lot of salt. Don't be scared of salt salt is like as important to us as oxygen
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If you if your salt if your electrolyte balances out, which is
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You know your sodium your potassium and your magnesium you will have a heart attack
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Right, so it's that important. You know all this scaremongering about salt is absolute rubbish
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So I think that yeah, okay, they had good intentions because they wanted their daughter granddaughter to get better
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They wanted us get healthy. They gave us some really bad advice. Yeah, and that bad advice leaves you to constantly thinking about food
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Replenished if you're if you're full of nutrients
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You you're full up you go you don't have to keep thinking about it
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I mean when I go out with people that are on high carb diets
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Can you walk a little bit and they're like maybe we need some crisps?
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Maybe we need that. I'm like, yeah, I've got my 10 eggs in my bag. I eat them. I'm good to go. I'm good for the day
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It should stop you from thinking about food. What do you eat in a day steak?
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Okay, on my favorite days, I'll be in a lot of steaks. So sometimes I have two steaks for breakfast. Okay, and then what do you do for lunch?
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Well, actually a lot of the time I start with 10 eggs for breakfast
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It depends what I fancy I think when you eat on your diet, you should be able to do it intuitively
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So I'll put some butter on there or I get their fattier types of meat