In this episode, I am excited to share the first of my weigh-in results and the many other positive results I am experiencing after only 2 weeks of the low-carb food plan I am on.

The Show Format

1. A story about being overweight

2. TSOK Podcast Update

3. Mindset

4. The Process

5. The Results

6. What I have learned

The people and businesses I recommended in this episode:

Dr Matt Sumner - My Dentist

Sheryl Takayama - Why Weight Nutrition and Academy

Absolarsethosho - Creator/Writer

Ben Carpenter - Fitness Trainer on TikTok

Welcome to the Shake of Cake.

I'm Kate Nankerve, your host.

And after so so many false starts, this is my journey of transformation from being unfit,

overweight and lacking in energy to creating a full, rich life, including high energy well

being and a strong, fit body.

You're awesome.

Thank you for listening.

I'm so excited to speak with you in episode

four of the Shape of Cake podcast.

In this episode, I had exciting news to share

with you.

The first of my weigh in results since I began

my new eating plan, also known as a diet on The Shape of Kate and other changes I'm

noticing, but more of that fun stuff.

Later this week, I've started my exercise

mission for The Shape of Cake.

I've gone back to the gym, I've started

walking, and I'm doing mini sessions of yoga.

What does that feel like?

Well, it feels like a whole bunch of things.

Some of the things I want to share with you

include that getting ready to exercise is a lot of hard work.

When you're significantly overweight, squeezing into your active wear is hard.

Notice I said active wear.

Active wear.

Tying my shoelaces is hard.

Summoning the courage to exercise in public is

hard.

And puffing hard from a place of lack of

fitness can frankly feel a bit embarrassing when I'm walking down the street or up the

street, or around the street.

It's great to be exercising and it's early

days.

It is neat to be back.

But I also strategically took myself to the gym on a Sunday so I could get over that hump

of going back because I knew it would be quiet and be easy to go and find a bike because in

the gym I'm going and doing cycling.

I'll talk more about the exercise in future

episodes.

It's great to be back there and taking action,

but it's also a bit scary because I know I'm fronting up to the gym, a place where I

historically have had time, where I was much fitter and slimmer.

And now I'm this shape and size and I'm dealing with that in the gym environment.

And I know that there are lots of really good people that work in that gym and that attend

that gym and that they will be supportive of me.

But I do need to do some work on my mindset in order to, I guess, manage my interferes that

pop up when I think about going to the gym feeling significantly overweight.

And also I'm looking forward to losing some weight so some of the stuff gets easier.

Like just the sheer physicality of getting yourself around when you're significantly

overweight like I am.

It's just ****** hard work.

So I want less of that work and more of the work to go into getting stronger and fitter.

So that's the exercise portion.

Now let's talk about the show and some

exciting news about the show.

I'm so pleased to share with you and I won't

do this forever, but I'm doing it now because it's a new show and this is a new thing.

And if you've had a dream that you wanted to make real, I think you'll get a bit of this,

right? So, first, episode 107 download so far.

Thank you so much.

You awesome human.

You listening to this episode, 290 downloads.

You're also awesome for listening to that one.

Episode three, the last one I've done, 44 downloads, not so many.

A lot of really cool stuff as well as the numbers is what I've found out on Charitable.

I mentioned that in a previous episode, chartable is like the chart of podcasts and

specifically gives you data on things like Apple podcasts in New Zealand and around the

world.

I'm really excited to share that.

On the Apple New Zealand Fitness category, where I still am, I'm ranking at number three.

Pretty excited about that.

And on the Apple New Zealand Health and

Fitness, I actually got to number 32 this week.

It's dropped to number 75.

That's all cool.

There is a little bit of movement that happens during the week, but what's really freaking

awesome is that I am now on the Apple Australia fitness charts at number 106.

How awesome is that? Woo.

It popped up when I logged into Charterball tonight and I was like, yay.

So how cool is that? So thank you.

Thank you.

Who's listening?

You.

And I've got listeners in New Zealand,

Australia, the US, the UK, Indonesian, Appall, India, Ghana and the Philippines.

How cool is that? I love how global podcasting is that's?

So great.

And I want to give a shout out to Matt Sumner

for review of the week on Apple podcasts.

Matt had this to say about the show.

Good on you, Kate.

Step by step, day by day.

I'm sure you'll get there.

Love the openhearted approach you bring to

this podcast.

I hope you can learn to love the

transformational journey you're on so your inner critic or coach becomes a new natural

and nurturing voice for you going forward.

What a beautiful review.

Thank you, Matt.

Matt and I happened to be in a networking

group together, a business networking group, and he is also my awesome dentist.

So I'm going to add a link to his dental practice.

It's called accent.

Your dentist.

His practice is in Ponzobi in Auckland, and I'll put that in the show notes.

If you need a dentist and you live in Auckland, give me a call.

He's such a great dentist and an awesome human.

I'd love it too.

If you would like to write a review for my

podcast, it's easiest to do on Apple podcasts so far.

I've got to learn more about the other players it's on and how to do that.

But I know it's super easy.

On Apple, you can just basically click and

give a racing and then enter some text.

The lucky review of the Week will get a shout

out on the show.

So I just want to let you know that that's the

information about the show at the moment.

Let's talk some more about Alignment.

I found a quote I really liked, but I couldn't find the original source.

There seems to be many people are using versions of this, so let me just read it to

you and then talk a little bit about it and talk into it.

You can eat the kale, drink the alkaline water, take the supplements, do the yoga

fasting and be vegan and hit the gym.

But if you don't deal with the **** going on

in your heart and your head, you're still unhealthy.

So I really like this because my thoughts for some time are that there are many ways to be

unhealthy and healthy.

It's really easy to spot overweight or fat.

Like, it's really easy to see someone like me looking round out there and going, judgy Judy

McJudgey pants.

But it's not so easy to spot the inner issues.

And I think that people have been a bit casual about the pointing the finger at those of us

who are overweight without necessarily dealing with their own stuff.

We've all got stuff.

I think my wise old Nana used to say, we all

go to the devil in our own way.

She was pretty wise by Nana.

And to me, this means that we all find our own path in life and the good stuff and the tough

and bad stuff really is in front of us and we are in control of that.

I believe.

I think this is my belief.

Dealing with the **** is everyone's job.

Or at least it's a possibility for everyone to

deal with the ****.

We get to choose if we deal with it or allow

it to fester.

And I say that with respect because I know

some people have much more complex dynamics that I might have in my life and sometimes

things just too much and you're not going to be dealing with it.

I want to be very respectful of different situations and circumstances here.

Guess what I'm saying? There is the potential.

I'm saying this because there are probably plenty of people walking around who have some

of that inner stuff.

They may not be dealing with it.

I might sound a bit biased here, do I? What I'm doing is I'm dealing with my physical

****.

I'm dealing with my overweight, my lack of

fitness, my lack of flexibility and my lack of strength.

I'm saying, right, I'm putting that stake in the ground and I'm going for it.

I feel pretty stirred up about it now, too.

Two and a half weeks in and I fell on fire

with this.

But I'm going for it with my physical ****.

I'm going to tackle those things and I'm going to remove them as obstacles from living the

life I want to lead.

It's a little bit about alignment and what's

going on in your heart and head and mine.

Something else I found kind of carried on from

here was by a beautiful creator who I really like the thinking and work of this person.

And I'm going to have a go at saying their name.

I've got a link to their WordPress site, which I will put in the show notes.

The name goes something like this AB soola Sothoso.

And this is what they had to say.

Like I say, I'm putting the link to their

WordPress site because that name was like, Whoa, this is interesting.

What that person had to say is, your diet is not only what you eat, it is what you watch,

what you listen to, what you read, the people you hang around, being mindful of the things

you put into your body emotionally, spiritually and physically.

I like that.

So that, for me, ties in and thinking that we

have this obsession in the Western world with being thin or slim, and that pertains most

often to what we eat.

But if we think of diet as what we consume and

what we put into ourselves, then so many of these other things are so important, right?

Our emotional health, what we put in and what we choose to think, which creates feelings,

all those sorts of things, our spirituality and what that means to us and the practices we

have, and again, our physicality or physical health.

So there's all these different aspects to us that are blending.

And if we think about the total picture of the diet being all of these things, then what is

the quality of my diet? I ask myself.

You might ask yourself that too.

What is the quality of my diet and what am I

going to do to create balance and put the good stuff in so that I get the good stuff out?

I really like this creator.

I'm going to look at more of their work, but

it was cool.

I really want to honor that person's thinking.

So again, I will provide that link.

Another wonderful creator, this time on

TikTok.

I'm on TikTok now for my business, and I'm

seeing more stuff on TikTok.

I kind of avoided it for a long time, but

actually really liking it while kind of loving it now.

The stuff on there is amazing.

And I found this wonderful human.

His name is Ben Carpenter.

He's a fitness trainer on TikTok.

And the man is making some immense good sense.

Go check him out.

His handlers at BDC carpenter, that's on TikTok.

And I'm going to put the link in the show notes.

He asked the question in a recent TikTok.

He asked the question, Is obesity a choice?

He put that out there as a question and really went on to talk about a range of things

associated with that.

Why is being thin harder for some of us?

A simple choice, as Ben says, is choosing which color socks to wear.

So it's really easy, right? We're going to choose the black socks or the

pink socks or the Red Sox.

Really simple, easy choice.

Let's think about that question.

Is obesity a choice?

Is that a simple or a complex or even hard choice to make?

If you're slim or find it easy to stay slim, it's not a hard choice to make.

But if you're overweight and like me, I'm that person.

There are people like me who must work so much ******* harder to lose weight that it's not a

simple or easy choice to make.

So back to the question is obesity a choice

for yes.

But I think the question that's important and

this is what being raised is, is it a simple or a hard question?

Carrying on that train of thought? I'd ask my slim listeners and friends to think

about a goal that you have had to work for and work at for easily two or more hours a day,

every day for potentially years, that you've set yourself and done the work and

accomplished the goal.

You imagine something like that.

Not sure what that might be.

That is the kind of hard and consistent work

we're talking about here.

And also, look, it's not just 2 hours a day,

it's really 24/7 because you can't let go of the frame that you need to set.

I mean, we can create new habits and that can happen over time, but there's a lot of work

that goes on, a lot of thinking, just constantly making choices.

Because food is something we all keep doing, right?

Very different from other, what I say, addictions like alcohol or cigarettes, where

you either can choose to have that substance that you're addicted to or not, whereas food,

we can't give up.

We got to do it.

I thought that was a great point to make and made me feel a lot more assured about the

level of work that I'm putting in to make substantial change to myself and to my body

and to my fitness and my size and my weight.

I'd like now to give a shout out to Cheryl

from Why Weight Nutrition for her fabulous process.

That's working for me.

It is working.

It's a style of low carb eating where I focus my meals on a blend of protein, healthy fat,

vegetables, and noticeably less carbs than I had been eating.

I was, like many people, typically load more carbs and probably, I think, less protein to

be honest.

And the healthy fat, hard to say.

But the shape of what's on my plate has definitely changed.

Definitely more the emphasis on the protein and the healthy fats and then with the

vegetables as well.

If you want to know more, because I'm not the

expert here, check out Cheryl's website for information about her academy and her onetime

options and I'll leave that link in the show.

Notes I would like to put a drum roll in here

and I don't even know how to do that.

But I want to talk about the results now.

I'm pretty excited about the results.

When I began a little over two weeks ago now,

I weighed in at the we're going to call it the high score of 162 and a half kilos.

I'm excited to share that I have lost 375 kilograms and I'm now down to 158 75 kg.

Woohoo.

How exciting is that?

I'm just totally stoked to be making progress after trying things and having a bit of loss

and not really knowing how I did it and actually feeling a sense of pride that I have

made all my meals and that I've got a way of working that's working for me, that gives me a

sense of control in this dynamic and a space where I felt out of control and I feel a

confidence in my ability to continue.

Down that path, going in the direction that I

want, getting to the place where I weigh less and can be more active and can grow my

strength.

So that's awesome.

Other changes that I'm noticing, there's been a loosening of my clothes already.

Go figure it's a few, I guess.

You think about what fat looks like and how

much it is. 375 kilograms of weight having gone, that's a chunk of stuff moved off around

my core.

It's easier to move already.

My skin has improved.

Look on my face, people are commenting that I

have a glow and I'm feeling so much more excited about life and full of new energy all

day, real energy.

That is awesome.

And something that I have learned and it's been reinforced by what's happened in the past

fortnight and going into this week as well, is that setting my dreams free and allowing

myself to live them is a pretty exciting ride.

There are many things that are happening as my

energy changes and I'll do some thinking about that so I can share more effectively in

another episode and find someone I can have a conversation with about that.

That's probably a good idea for now.

Setting my dreams free is an exciting ride and

I'm really enjoying it.

And reflecting on the lovely review and

languaging that Matt Sumner used earlier in this episode that I shared with you, I feel so

much more positive.

The inner critic is already listening and I

feel just yet entirely more the cape that I want to be.

I call this The Shape of Kate to describe the change in myself.

But one of the other things, one of the other names I get called is force of Nature Kate.

And I can feel my force of nature returning and I'm feeling much more powerful and

empowered.

I'm feeling much more powerful and empowered.

That's where I'm at from the shape of Kate.

Thank you for listening and thank you for