What if Hashimoto’s and type 2 diabetes didn’t mean fatigue, stubborn weight, and blood sugar chaos for the rest of your life?

In this episode of the Thyroid Strong Podcast, I sit down with my client MaryBeth, who shares her powerful transformation after decades of living with Hashimoto’s, type 2 diabetes, IBS symptoms, and constant exhaustion.

When I first met, Mary Beth was doing everything she thought she was supposed to do—working out, eating “healthy,” even using GLP-1 medications—yet her fasting blood sugars were still in the 180s, her A1C hovered above optimal, and weight loss felt impossible.

Fast forward to today:

1. Her A1C is 5.3
2. Her fasting blood sugar averages ~85
3. She’s lost 16+ pounds
4. She’s lifting heavy, eating more food, and feels better at 69 than she did in her 50s

This conversation offers an honest look at what actually changed—and why the work we did to address root causes, not just symptoms, made all the difference.

Video:

In this episode, we cover:

1. 02:15 – Life before we met, diagnoses, exhaustion, poor sleep
2. 03:50 – Waking up with blood sugars in the 180s and how that felt
3. 04:55 – “I barely ate… yogurt, salads, not enough protein”
4. 06:20 – Metformin, Jardiance, GLP-1s, and why A1C ≠ feeling good
5. 09:10 – Parasite exposure, gut work, die-off, and “the metal taste”
6. 12:05 – Deadlifting, muscle, form, and realizing how strong she was
7. 14:30 – Size changes, body recomposition, and redefining success
8. 16:40 – “You’re not too old. You need to lift more and eat more.”
9. 18:45 – “Exercise is first. Everything else fits around it.”
10. 22:05 – “I eat more now than I ever have—and I’m still losing weight”

If you’ve ever been told your labs are “fine,” your A1C is “good enough,” or weight gain is just part of aging with Hashimoto’s, this episode will change how you think about what’s possible.

Mary Beth’s story is proof that:

1. You are not too old
2. Your body isn’t broken
3. Eating more, lifting heavy, and stabilizing blood sugar can change everything

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Mary Beth, welcome to

Thyroid Strong Podcast.

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I'm so excited to have you on.

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You have such a tremendous transformation

that I just think more women need to

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hear and be inspired by, especially

by someone who, you give them a plan

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and they do the do, which is you.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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You have, you have to do the do.

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You're absolutely correct.

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You're a Capricorn.

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I'm a Capricorn.

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So I think it's In our

astrology, DNA Without a doubt.

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Without a doubt, can you

give us a little snapshot of.

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Life before we met, because there

was multiple things going on.

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can you paint a picture for us?

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Sure.

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68 years old, uh, probably for 20 years.

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I was diagnosed with type two diabetes.

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probably about a year or so after

that I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's.

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I have, some sort of IBS

gut issues that, that go on.

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I was feeling.

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Overwhelmed, tired.

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Just very, like lethargic.

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I felt like I wasn't

sleeping well at night.

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I, even though I felt like I slept

through the night, I'd wake up every

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morning and I'd still be very tired.

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just couldn't get I'd,

I'd still go work out.

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But you know, when I, sometimes when I was

there, it was so hard to work out because

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I was physically, I was just drained.

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Exhausted.

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Yeah.

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and then I saw something on, I

don't know whether, I think it was

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Instagram, I'm not really sure.

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and I looked to see, you had,

something about having a free

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masterclass on Hashimoto's,

and so I came into your class.

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Yeah, and listen to everything that you

had to say, and that's really what said.

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I kind of sat on it for a while and

said, well, should I, shouldn't I?

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Shouldn't I, should I?

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But I decided that the best investment

that I could make was in myself.

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And so that's what I did.

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I love that.

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And that's so important 'cause I think

as women, and you can give us a little

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background on the work that you did.

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You're retired now, but you have like

very intense work and family and I

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think as women sometimes we're like,

we're gonna give and give and give and

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then we forget to give to ourselves.

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Correct?

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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For sure.

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I mean, I was a, a kindergarten teacher

for 23 years and then I became an

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intervention person in the building.

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So I dealt with, uh, kind of as an

assistant principal, but because I didn't

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have that certification, I became this

intervention person dealt with behaviors

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and families when crisis in my building.

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Um, very, very, very exhausting.

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Yeah.

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Um, and on top of that.

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Yeah, not at all.

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And then on top of that, I was

divorced, uh, with three children.

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and fortunately, have met my

husband now who has made my

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life just a wonderful life.

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And so I was, I wished, as I said to

you many times, I wished I had met

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you 20 years ago because the days

that I used to wake up and have to

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go to work and my blood sugars would

be 185 and I would just feel beat up.

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I would feel beat up

all the time, exhausted.

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weak, and fat.

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I was fat.

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I was probably at that time, 190

pounds, 192 pounds, and I fought every

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day to maintain that weight because

my weight just wanted to go up.

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Yeah, can you just really quickly

tell us how much your weight is today?

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161 pounds.

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And you look amazing.

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Oh, thank you.

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Like radiant.

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Yeah.

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Um, and yeah, go ahead.

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And my A1C.

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You know, I, I wake up in the morning and

like my average blood sugar is like 85.

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I just had so that full body chill.

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Amazing.

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Yeah.

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So tell us, 'cause not a lot of women

think about Hashimoto's and blood sugar,

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but can you just give us an insight

into what your blood sugar was when you

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were waking up before we met and the 20

years before and what that felt like.

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'cause women might not know,

but have blood sugar issues.

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You feel awful.

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I mean, you just feel like

you're dragging all the time.

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and when you wake up and it's 185,

and that was maybe on the low, that's

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when I checked it because at that time

I wear a, continuous A CGM right now.

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because it became very important to

me to know what my blood sugar was

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and what I would feel like, compared.

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Right?

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So if I was waking up at a 185.

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I was prob I was not eating well.

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I was probably starving myself

more than I was eating, and I was

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not making protein a priority.

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I thought I was eating, you know, uh, a

vanilla yogurt in the morning or if I ate

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salad at lunchtime, but it was not enough.

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And so my weight, I battled,

battled, battled my weight, and yet

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I felt like I barely ate anything.

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So.

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When your blood sugar is high, when

you wake up, you just feel exhausted.

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Like you really didn't sleep the

night before and it makes you, mm,

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I guess a little grouchy, a little

irritable, maybe just a little.

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and then.

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as it's been coming now I wake

up in the morning and I just feel

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like a million dollars because

when I wake up in the morning, my,

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I know what my blood sugars are.

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I can tell all night, you know, I

can see and my line, it flat lines,

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which is what we want, right?

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It comes, I never go over 150

and that's, if I go over, if I

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go up to 150, it's because I've

eaten a little bit too much carb.

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But then I'll go out and walk

and it, it come, my blood

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sugar drops right back down.

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Not an issue.

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But the mornings I wake

up and I feel great.

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I mean, I just feel like I wanna get up, I

wanna go, I wanna go walk, I go work out.

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I mean, I have a regimen that I

stick to and that's what I do.

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Uh, it's for me, right?

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It makes me feel better.

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And I really wanna emphasize the point

that you weren't feeling good, but you

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were doing things to try and feel better.

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You weren't just like, I don't

feel good, I'm not gonna work.

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Like you were very proactive.

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Oh, very.

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But yeah.

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So you were working out,

Pilates, eldoa, right?

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Getting your steps.

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You were eating protein,

but it wasn't enough.

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So it's not like you

weren't doing anything.

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You just needed To be doing the

right things with the right dose,

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with the right strategy, because

I think with the right, important.

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With the right coach.

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With the right coach.

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I also want to also share that you were

using tools like GLP ones to try and

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help regulate that blood sugar, right?

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Oh, yes.

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Yeah.

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And they were effective

to a point, correct.

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We needed, we needed a little more.

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Yeah.

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Yes, because I was doing GLP ones,

but I was also doing, two other

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medications at the same time.

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I was doing, metformin, which was

terrible for my stomach for a person who

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has IBS and I was also doing Jardiance.

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it didn't matter.

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I mean, my A one Cs might come in at like.

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6.5,

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which for a type two diabetic,

anything under seven, your

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doctor says, oh, that's amazing.

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You know what?

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It doesn't feel amazing.

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So now when I have my A1C

done, my last one was a 5.3.

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So 5.3

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is like, you know, I still

take, I take still just one.

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I take a GLP one.

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and that's all I take and

it manages my diabetes.

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I, the, the Metformin is gone, the

Jardiance is gone and I am managing,

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and my A1C is coming in at 5.3,

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which is technically in the normal

range, but I take medication

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to get in that normal range.

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So I'm not in remission.

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It's not like diabetes is

gone into remission, but it's

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certainly really under control.

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And 5.3,

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so functional optimal range is 4.5

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to 5.5.

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So you're like in

functional optimal range.

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Yes, you have a tool to help

you, but you also are doing.

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The basics, which some

people may not know, right?

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So we're lifting weights, you're

getting steps, you're getting

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steps after you're eating.

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Absolutely.

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We up the protein tremendously.

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I still focus mostly on protein.

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I do eat obviously carbs and fats, but

protein is my main focus every day.

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And then I'll, I had vegetables,

we just went on a cruise.

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Ooh.

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And so.

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Every morning I was having avocado

and eggs and whatever meat they had.

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'cause you know, on cruises they'll

have different things, but for lunch

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every day they have grilled chicken and

grilled vegetables, and that's what I ate.

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Now, dinnertime, I would eat what

they would offer, but I would

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always say, no gravy on that.

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How much this, the guy

was like, oh my God.

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So every day he was like, I

can get you steamed broccoli.

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Bring me my steam broccoli.

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So you can do anything you wanna do.

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You just gotta tell people what you need.

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tell me.

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'cause we did deal with some

gut issues and we did do a

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very specific parasite test.

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We don't know where you picked it up,

but I know you had this one incident

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at a national park where you had you

drank, it was like the water out of this.

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Spigot?

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Well, the water, they have

water filling stations.

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Oh, water station.

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Where you put stations, where

you put your bottle, you know?

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Yeah.

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Because you drink a lot because

you're in a higher altitude.

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I know you live in a higher

altitude, but I don't.

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I live on sea level, so going into the

higher altitudes, because of my age,

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they said, you should really drink more.

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And so I was going through water and

I was at, everybody else is doing it.

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I'm like, okay, well, I

should be able to do this.

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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I think I picked up a bacteria.

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remind me what National Park you were at.

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it was Bryce.

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Oh, Bryce.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And so I think some of the things

that we like, yes, build the basics,

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string training steps, protein,

but then also let's dive deeper and

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peel away the layers of the onion of

okay, here's someone with gut issues.

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Because I remember when we

first talked, you're like.

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it's hard to get protein in and I think

you had worked with someone before

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that had recommended certain proteins

and you're like, I don't like fish.

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Like I don't wanna eat fish.

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And so I think part of being able to

get more protein in was addressing

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the gut stuff so that you could break

down the protein, you could absorb

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the pro, like you could absorb what

was all the nutrients and the vitamins

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from the protein that you were

eating and increasing your uptake.

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There were some parts of when

we were working together that

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was like uncomfortable, right?

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So taking anti-parasitic

meds kind of suck.

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sometimes women assume, okay, we

found the root cause, we're gonna

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address it and everything's gonna

be better and it will be better.

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But sometimes through the process.

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It kind of sucks.

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it was also some candida, right?

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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So for someone who I think has a very

strong growth mindset, which is you.

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Mm-hmm.

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How do you, when things get tough

or when things feel a little

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oh, I feel a little nauseous.

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I don't feel that great, but I know

I still have to get my workout in.

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Like, how do you navigate that?

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It's, it's really just a mindset and

I think you have to understand that

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everything is just for a short time.

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You know, time heals everything.

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I mean, that's truly what I believe.

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You know, you lose people in your life

and that those first two weeks are

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really difficult, but, you know, time

heals, so you have to just get through

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those time and then move on to the next.

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And, you know, even taking the,

I don't even know the name of the

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medication so I can't even tell

you, but man, they, they're brutal.

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The one is really brutal, but

you know, if you get past it.

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You know, you're going to be on the,

on the road to healing and not suffer

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with the taste of metal in your mouth.

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You know?

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I think that was the anti parasitic meds.

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Yes.

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Oh yes.

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talk to me about, because sometimes

people who bring in strength training

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or have never done it before and

are new to it, they're kind of

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like, uh, I'm like a little nervous.

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especially when I'm like, Mary Beth

let's up that deadlift, and you're

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like, all right, I have this bar.

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I'm like, perfect.

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Let's use that.

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from a mindset perspective, or

maybe it was just like, okay,

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I'm just gonna trust the process.

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Emily, was there anything that

went through your head or that

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you had to navigate as I'm

like, all right, up the weights.

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Well, I was trusting the fact

that you, you've done this before.

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I don't think that we

realize how strong we are.

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I'm deadlifting about 125 to one day

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It was hard.

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Went back 1 25 right now

is kind of my sweet point.

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And we'll see once, once I get

home, I'll progress further on that.

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I have to buy more plates, by the way.

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I think that I was trusting the fact that

you kept saying to me, you can do more.

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You can do more.

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And so I was listening to that

and just knowing my own strength.

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I do have back issues and I really

was worried, especially with dead

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lifts, that I thought, you know, but

when you learn how to lift correctly,

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you're realizing that you're really

not optimizing and hurting your back.

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You're really optimizing

other muscles in your body.

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So it's learning correct form.

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And that was one of the things

you were really great at.

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Yeah, I, I studied the

little things that you sent.

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Yeah, and we built in a process.

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So for example, if you had a question, I'd

be like, Mary Beth, record a video of you.

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Send it to me and we'll check your form.

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Correct.

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Like so we can get, you

know, a second set of eyes.

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And so yeah, definitely having a process

and being like, okay, I'm gonna trust the

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process and I know that if I need more.

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I can send a video, I can

get feedback on my own form.

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Kind of like you're held.

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Yeah.

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For, for sure.

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And you did that and that was great.

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And so that made me feel more comfortable,

you know, sending the deadlift and you

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saying to me, pack your shoulders more.

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Mm.

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Okay.

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And then you're in your head, okay,

what does packing my shoulders mean?

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And then I just kept doing

it and thinking about it.

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And really, and now I think

that's the only thing I know.

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I get into my stance and I know, pack

those shoulders, holding those little

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pieces of paper under your armpit.

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Right.

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And then, yeah.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And then, and then lifting from there,

because then you're not using your back.

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You know, you are using your

legs and you're using your abs.

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And so it's, it works.

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It just, it, it works.

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Yeah.

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Tell, tell me the story.

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Um, the listeners will love this

about like, one of your friends saw

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you and she was like, oh my God.

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Hey, what are you, what are you doing?

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And she says to, and it was great

because at the time, you know, my pants

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I was wearing is down to a size 12.

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Um, and I was wearing some, you

know, mostly large tops because

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I'm, I'm, I'm a bigger girl.

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I'm not a whatever.

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Um, and she was just like, oh my God.

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Like, what do you wear like a

size eight or a size 10 right now?

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And in my head I'm sort of

chuckling because I'm like,

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no, I didn't say that to her.

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I was like, no, I'm just, you

know, comfortable in where I am.

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Because I think what happens is when you

have more muscle, you are more toned.

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And when you're more

toned, you look thinner.

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Yeah.

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Do you know what I mean?

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Because even in my, in my head

at the time, I'm thinking, oh

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my God, I weigh 166 pounds.

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What is she talking about?

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Yeah.

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So compared to 190 something,

it's a huge difference.

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But you know, you have to

get my, my mind has to see my

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body differently than it does.

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Yeah.

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So like the number on the

scale is just a number.

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We also go by.

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How are your clothes fitting?

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Right?

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And we know that the more muscle

you have, the better things look,

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and we burn more calories at rest.

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And I think women get

really stuck on the number.

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And I'm like, if your clothes fit,

amazing, does the number really?

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Matter.

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That much number doesn't matter at all.

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It doesn't matter.

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It doesn't matter whether

I weigh 166 or 161.

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I still feel like when I put clothes

on, I'm like, oh my God, look at this.

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Like I'm, you know, I went

and bought a little dress.

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It was a size medium, and I was like, oh.

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I was like, oh, this will never fit me.

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I put it on, I was like,

oh, it looks so cute.

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So it has nothing to do with

that number on the scale.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think a lot of women, and I would

even say women in their forties are

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like, I'm too old to lose weight.

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Or I've hit an age where

I can't lose weight.

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And so like, what would

you tell that woman?

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'cause you are a living, breathing,

walking example of someone who.

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You're 69 now.

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I am, yes.

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Um, and you went from one 90 and

when we first met each other, I

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think you were around like 1 75 ish.

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Correct.

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And now you're 1 61 and you're

not doing it by crash dieting

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and by just cutting calories.

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'cause then you would lose muscle.

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You're doing it in a really

sustainable, smart way.

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So like what would you tell the

woman that's like, oh, like.

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I'm past the age of where I can, I'm

not in my twenties or thirties anymore.

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What would you tell that woman?

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Oh yeah.

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In your forties, I feel like

you're still in your prime and, uh,

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this, this is the time to do it.

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This is the time to do it.

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Yeah.

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Take control.

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Because when you hit that

perimenopause, menopause, your body

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changes, but you need to change.

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With your body and eat

more, lift more, walk more.

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You need to move.

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You have to do that for yourself.

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You know, it's, and I think

also, um, we also worked on

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supplements with each other, right?

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So you helped me from my blood

work saying, here are the areas

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that you need a little help.

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Here's what you should be doing.

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Certainly that makes me feel.

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Way better I feel, you know,

with liver issues, digestive

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enzymes, those kind of things.

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Absolutely.

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And they have to start, I, I

wished I had started in my forties.

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If I had started in my forties,

I'd be in a way different place,

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but I'm not giving up what I have.

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Yeah, I love that.

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Yeah.

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Had this like tremendous transformation.

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Right.

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And sometimes people have their

eye on like, okay, this is.

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What I wanted to get to.

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what's like the next,

goalpost for yourself?

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For me.

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Well, you changed my

mindset on the weight thing.

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So my goal was always to get to 1 53.

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Then the last time that we spoke, and

I think at the time I had gotten to

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maybe 1 63, 1 64, somewhere in there.

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You said to me, listen, look at your

body and say you might not ever get

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to 1 53, but that doesn't mean you're

not in your optimal position for you.

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You know what I mean?

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So that changed my mindset of not beating

myself up because I'm not at that weight.

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I'm at a good weight.

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Would I like to break that one 60?

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Yes.

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But that's just a mind game for me.

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It has nothing to do with my body.

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'cause those two pounds are not

gonna make a difference to my body.

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And, you know, it's, it's, and

that's the thing that you changed my

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mindset about is that I had to start

thinking that I don't need to get

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to that number to think I'm okay.

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I'm okay right where I am.

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you gotta work at it.

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You just have to work at it and,

and, and get into a routine.

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You know, I am here with my sister-in-law,

um, I got her to exercise with me one day.

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and I, and she says to me, I

don't know how you fit it in.

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I go, no.

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What you don't understand is

my exercise is first and I fit

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everything else in around it.

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And you have to do that.

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You have to be committed.

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You have to, and after you start

feeling better and you start doing

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it, it becomes your lifestyle.

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You know?

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It just, it just becomes my

lifestyle and you know, even my

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husband says, I know Wednesdays.

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Okay, we'll go out about 1130.

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Yep.

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Because he knows that that's, you know,

one of my days that I do my thing.

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Yeah.

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What do you think cultivated this mindset?

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Because not everyone has this

mindset, I wish everyone did.

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was there something from how you

were raised or like parent, or maybe

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you just came out this way, but were

there certain things that where you're

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just like, okay, this is a plan.

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I'm gonna execute on it.

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I'm feeling better, I

wanna keep feeling better.

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'cause I think.

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It is almost rare to have this kind

of mindset and I'm, I would love for

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more women to cultivate it, to be

like, I need to take care of myself.

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I am a non-negotiable, but I'm so

curious, is there anything that you

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see over your lifetime that's like,

oh, this is where this really robust,

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resilient growth mindset came from?

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I think that my parents raised

me to be pretty independent.

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You know, they were not people

that I could call them and tell

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them all the problems in the world.

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No.

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It was like you, if you did something,

you have to handle it yourself.

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Um, which that was just what they,

that was what they instilled in us.

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Um, to be independent.

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They had four daughters, so all

of us were to be independent, not

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having to rely on someone else.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, but I really think that

I've always wanted to be.

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Fit.

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Um.

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It was always important to me.

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I was a basketball player in

college, in high school and college.

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I played basketball all four years.

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Um, and then, you know, you get

married and you have children,

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and I think you lose it because as

you said in the beginning, you're

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giving everything to everybody else.

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You want your house to be

clean, your laundry to be done.

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La, la, la, la, la, la, la.

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And all I found myself.

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For me, uh, I was working full-time,

three children and all I found

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myself was getting lost in what I

needed to do for everybody else.

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Right.

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And then I got lost and I always

exercised, always, Emily, I always went

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and I did the workouts at, you know, I'd

follow a circuit training at the bops.

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I'd go, you know, I did Crunch Fitness.

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I mean, I did it all, you know,

and I always exercised, but I just.

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I just lost myself.

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And I think when I finally

realized at some point that this

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is me and this is my mortality.

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This is about me.

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This is my gift to myself.

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Because guess what?

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Bodies are amazing.

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It's amazing how your body

will take care of you.

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So now I need to take care of it.

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And I think that's what changed my mindset

is that I just kind of woke up one day

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and said, what the hell are you doing?

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Just do what you have to do, because.

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I don't, I wanna see some grandchildren.

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Yeah, I want, right?

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I wanna get on and off

the floor with them.

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I wanna run with them.

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So it's taking care, it's

just making that decision.

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Take care of yourself.

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'cause guess what?

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If you're not, well, no one else

around you is going to be well either.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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one of the first things is that I

eat more now than I have ever eaten.

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And I think that's really

important because I think

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we tend to starve ourselves.

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We tend to think that the way we're

gonna lose weight is not to eat.

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And now I eat, I'm telling you, I eat

more than I've ever eaten in my life.

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And I'm not afraid to eat.

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I'm not afraid if I, if I'm at

somebody's house to have a little pasta.

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I'm not afraid to have a slice of bread

if I want that, because I know that my

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body can handle it because of what I do.

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And I think that's, you know, as women.

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We tend to starve ourselves.

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I can't have that.

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Oh, no bread, no.

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Uh, I'm not eating bread.

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No carbs.

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You have to have carbs.

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My body has to have carbs.

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It makes me, it makes me feel better.

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I sleep better.

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Mm.

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Yeah, so I think that

was really important.

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That's one of, you know, I eat

more, but I still lost the weight.

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Yeah.

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And I think probably from some years

of maybe undereating and then also not

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eating enough protein, every calorie

that came in your body was like, I'm

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gonna hold onto this for dear life.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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And now that you're fueling yourself,

but you're also taking that fuel and

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putting it towards building muscle.

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Mm-hmm.

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Your body's like this, like

metabolic engine fat burning machine.

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It's amazing.

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Yeah, it's like a little energizer bunny.

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I think the other thing is that,

I track my food and then I don't

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track my food because listen, you

can't live by tracking your food.

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It's not a reality.

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True.

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However.

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Um, I will start tracking my food again.

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Hmm.

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I just wanna make sure, because I kind of

have an, a mind's eye of what the amount

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of protein that I need to eat, right?

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Yeah.

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I have that, but then I wanna

make sure that I do it so when

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I go home, when I have a scale

available to me, I'm away right now.

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I will start weighing and measuring

again to put myself back into that

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track of what it is that I need to

look for and look at to have what

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it is that I need for my body.

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So eating 150 grams of protein

in a day is easy to do.

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Um, I just wanna make sure that what

I've been doing and what I see is

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exactly matching what I'm doing.

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Yeah, I love that.

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And anytime there we go.

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And this is not your case, but

sometimes when women plateau.

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I'm like, let's just track for a week.

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let's just get it like

a thumb on the pulse.

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going back to 150 grams of

protein, we did not start there.

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I wasn't like, oh no, no.

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You had to work your way there, right?

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Yes.

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Can you share your process?

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'cause I think sometimes women.

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Feel overwhelmed, or they're like, how

am I gonna get this protein all in?

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And it's like titrating up.

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It's like little by little so

that your digestion can handle it.

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You can break it down.

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But I was wondering how you kind of

went through that process as a client.

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Well, it's, um, I don't remember where we

started out, maybe around 90 grams because

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I thought I was eating a lot of protein

and I was not eating a lot of protein.

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But what I found is that I needed

to look further and find other

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things besides just, um, animal meat

that can give you protein as well.

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And so I started, um, investigating.

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Different areas of where I would

find protein and other things

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like emami, those kind of things.

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Um, and incorporating

that into what I ate.

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And then, um, when you would bump

my protein up, um, there are plenty

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of times that I did not hit it.

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You know, because it was part

of, oh God, can I eat this?

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Oh God, do I need to eat this?

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You know, it's like, but it becomes

second nature when you start to really

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bring that food into your system

and that amount of protein, and I

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think I was really afraid of it.

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Um, to get up to 150 grams is a

lot of protein, but it's, it's not

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if you're divided it by easily.

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Three meals and then

two snacks in between.

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Um, you gave me like one of

like the protein mix bars, the

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Promix, I think it's called.

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Yeah.

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And I, and I, I like them.

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There are only certain flavors I like,

but you know, they're 15 grams of

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protein, so it's something that I can, I.

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Always carry with me because I

do not like to get hungry and

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I do not like to miss a meal.

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But sometimes you are out, you're

doing something and all of a sudden you

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realize, oh my God, like I'm starving.

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And that's something that I just grab

because I know it's 15 grams of protein.

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I know it's healthy.

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So I think that, um,

it's completely doable.

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I think that you just have to have

the decision that you're gonna do it.

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And listen, I read a

lot of nutrition labels.

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And that helps me, you know,

it's, and I watch a lot of stuff.

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I try to, you know, investigate.

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I read a lot of things and I think,

um, at my house, I just got delivered.

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You had recommended a book, and

I can't remember what the book is

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that you reme because it wasn't.

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Published at the time it was, you know,

do you know who I'm talking about?

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It was this book.

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It was my, it's my

functional medicine dog.

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It's the Forever Strong Playbook.

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Probably.

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That's the one.

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That's the one.

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So it, it just got delivered to my

house, but I'm not there to get it.

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So, you know, some more information

on just some, um, more, uh,

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things to cook, things to eat, the

quantity, those kind of things.

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And just general information on reading.

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So.

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Like I do a lot of that.

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I try to research a lot of that

and I spend my time reading it.

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That's what I like.

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Yeah.

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So, and I think some of my best

clients are, are have that quality,

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like they're curious, they're always

learning, they're researching.

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sometimes that researching

process can become overwhelming.

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But I think is if you move through

with like emotional neutrality,

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you're just like, okay, I'm

just getting information in.

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But I think for my clients who

are the most successful, that is

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a quality of their personality.

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let's say a woman, 'cause there's a lot of

women in my, in my ecosystem who are like,

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I wanna work with Emily, but I'm not sure.

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And we've shared so much of your

process, but is there anything that

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you would share because you have

worked Like I wasn't your first No.

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First person, no.

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Is there anything that you would

share for someone who's maybe like

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on the fence or hesitant or that

was maybe unique to your process?

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I think it was your, communication.

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That, which helped a lot.

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It was, learning how to use

your apps, which took me,

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you know, uh, listen, I'm 69.

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It's sometimes it takes me like a, a

day or two, you know, to figure it out.

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But learning how to use it and

how to utilize it to my strength,

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and certainly your personality,

that certainly helps a lot, right?

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Because you're not, you're

not like someone who's like

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putting the hammer down.

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It says, well, what do you mean you

didn't eat 150 grams of protein?

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You know, it's like, and you kind

of would just be like, listen.

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I know this is hard, but you know,

you got to 123 on this day, this day,

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and this day, this day was only 115.

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Where are we gonna fit in that 150?

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it's like you just move through the cycle.

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It was like, it wasn't like,

oh, you didn't do this.

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It wasn't like you were condemning me.

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Certainly this is my decision, my

body, but you were just helpful.

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And when I said to you, God, I

just don't know what to, sometimes

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you just don't know what to eat.

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Right?

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You just, and you would say.

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One of the things you said to me

was how at stake, and I said to you.

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I love steak.

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And you said, yeah, and you can eat it.

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And I was like, oh, little bells went off.

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And I said, oh my God.

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Like yes.

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And I probably eat beef at least twice

a week, if not more, because I love it.

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I don't like fish, although I

did eat, I like fish I don't

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like, but I did eat it yesterday.

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I did it because there was nothing,

we went out to lunch yesterday.

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There was nothing on that menu

that I could eat except for the

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mahi mahi, the grilled mahi mahi.

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And that's what I ate, and it was okay.

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It wasn't terrible.

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Yeah.

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I think there was one moment in one of

our calls where you're like, I cannot eat

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any more chicken sausage for breakfast.

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Yeah.

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Chicken sausage and eggs really

get you after a while, you know?

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Yeah.

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It's like, because it's repeat.

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And I'm, I'm a good person

at repeating my meals.

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But then after a while you're

like, okay, now I need to change.

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You know, it's so you have to, you have to

kind of bend and sway, but it's not like

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you ever came down and said, no, you know,

it was like, okay, well you ate that.

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And listen, if I was off planned for

a day because I went to a wedding or

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something, you know, this is life.

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Yeah, life happens.

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And we have to, we have to go with

what life has to do with us, but as

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soon as that would happen, or if we

went away for a weekend soon as I

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couldn't wait to get back on Monday

because I needed to get back on track.

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Yeah, you have had such a

tremendous transformation and

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you're such a go-getter, and you

just, like, I gave, I gave you the

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plan and walked you through it.

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Over the six months and you

executed on it, you just did it.

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And it, it's like the

plan works if you do it.

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Um, good point.

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Yeah.

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Um, is there anything, like, last

thoughts you wanna share with the

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listener, um, before we go listen.

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This is all about you, right?

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This is about me.

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This is about what I needed in my life

because this is what made me feel better.

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And if you feel better,

you live life better.

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And if you live your life

better, you're lifting better.

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If you're lifting better, you know,

it's like a, it's like this cycle.

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It's like the cycle that

just keeps going around.

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And that's the truth.

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So if you're gonna invest in anything,

you invest in yourself because when

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you feel good, all the people you love.

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Will feel better too.

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And they're all around you, right?

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So you just have to,

you have to feel good.

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You can't even, there's no monetary

anything that you can put on.

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Feeling good.

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Yeah, feeling good.

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Yeah.

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It's it That's like, that's it.

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Because you, if you have your

health, you have everything.

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And ask people who are not well, because

they'll say to you, if only I had my

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health, well, here's your opportunity.

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Get your health.

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I love it.

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Thank you so much for being a, an

amazing client, and then b, for

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just, um, for sharing your story.

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And, you know, you're so clear and you're

like, it's, your vision for yourself is

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like so clear, is like crystal clear.

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And so I'm just so grateful to like.

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To share your story with the

audience because navigating this

739

process can feel like a grind.

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It can feel hard, but like if you're

really clear on your why and your

741

vision, it, it cuts through all of

the things that feel hard and grindy.

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I, I agree.

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I agree.

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Yeah, and it, it's good.

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It's really good.

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So thank you.

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Thank you for having me.

748

Yeah, thanks.