Food for Overwhelmed Brains: Simple Nutrition Tips for Better Focus with Dietitian Alisa Bloom

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at ChumbaCasino .com. Okay, welcome to another

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episode of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living

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Podcast. I have my friend Elisa Bloom, who's

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going to talk about, I don't know what we're

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going to talk about. Anything that goes today.

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That works. Anything that goes today. So welcome

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aboard, Elisa. Well, thank you for having me.

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I'm Elisa Bloom. I am technically, or by hat

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trade, I'm a dietician and health and wellness

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coach. And I work with food and mood to help

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you feel better, but using a behavior and lifestyle

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approach. So it means it's realistic. I work

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with what you got and work to try to help you

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feel better, bring up energy, lift up mood, enhance

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your focus. And especially getting a lot of requests

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as how to do that with the holiday and given

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the way the pandemic is going. So that's been

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my call to task as of late. Do you get tired

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of all the whole pandemic stuff too? Well, I

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think everybody has their thing, right? So I

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know personally. I think every, every couple

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of months now, cause this has gone on for a while,

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every couple of months, it seems that you need

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to regroup and I have to practice my own advice.

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So it's I confess, I don't always eat so stellarly

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and I am not a hundred percent plant -based.

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For example, if you think about a dietitian who's

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supposed to be vegan or a hundred percent plant

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-based, there are, it's. definitely better for

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you to include more plants. So anybody that I

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work with come in contact with or speak about,

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we want to try to get more plants when possible,

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but you don't need a hundred percent approach.

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So back to the pandemic frustration ish. I'll

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look at my diet. I will happy to talk, you know,

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things like tips, things that you can do. I will

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try to make my life easier as I try to do a lot

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with people. I talk to. So for example, the fresh

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or frozen fruit and vegetable dilemma. You don't

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have to find everything fresh, which gets harder,

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of course, in the winter seasons. I know I'm

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in the Chicago area. So we're losing daylight

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pretty much as I speak. And frozen is a good

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option. Just want to make sure that you don't

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have any additional additives or preservatives

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because that will affect brain function and focus,

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folks. And that's something you have to consider.

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So I will stock a freezer with a couple more

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bags of fresh fruits, fresh, excuse me, fresh

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frozen fruits and frozen vegetables. I'll add

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the frozen vegetables to omelets, for example,

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or I'll have a cup of frozen fruit for a snack,

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things like that. That's funny. I learned in

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my nutrition class in college. This was in one

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of my majors before I switched in total of five.

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I'm guilty. That's it? It was funny. I learned

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in the nutrition courses that frozen fruit holds

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their nutrients longer than fresh. Fresh doesn't

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always mean. the N -O and B -O. And just because

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it's fresh doesn't mean it's not going to lose

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its nutrients. Well, sure. If you think about

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going to a grocery store, you get an overripe

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banana. Well, if you froze that banana when it

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was more fresh, it would have more nutrients.

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So things like that. you know it's funny i actually

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thought i knew a lot about nutrition going into

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nutrition my nutrition class i failed the first

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test was it the chemistry my butt and i still

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and i still got out with an a minus in the class

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there you go that's saying something there's

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a turnaround exactly exactly a lot of times it's

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um people don't realize so yeah uh you want to

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be able to maximize what you're eating so i'm

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sure you like every american and just just especially

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with people who i think people underestimate

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how rotten poor food choices can make you feel

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and sometimes Yeah. And it's a subtle effect

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too. So, okay, you have the occasional something

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that you've chosen that you may have overindulged

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and boom, you're just out for the count for a

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while. But there's also the subtle effect of

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how mostly preservatives and additives affect

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the brain. And then you'll notice maybe two,

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three, four days in. What's going on? I don't

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feel as good as I used to. And that's a classic

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symptom of inflammation. What is inflammation?

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It's that white noise in your body. And it has

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so many, it manifests in so many different ways.

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And one of those ways is just don't feel good,

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kind of bloating, achy, tired, lethargic, can't.

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Premium Podcast link in the show notes. Now let's

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get back to the show. Focus, lots of food cravings.

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And that's what people are gravitating to right

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now, especially in the pandemic. Well, that's

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how I felt on Sunday. I noticed with myself,

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I've been tracking all my stuff I've been eating

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with MyFitnessPal. And over the years, I have

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over like 200 something days logged. And what's

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funny, I noticed that when I eat a lot of sodium,

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not intentionally, I mean, I had a big meal at

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lunch because I was... uh yeah i had a big meal

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at lunch or something like that uh i noticed

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that uh i i start getting headaches and uh it

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doesn't and my my stomach gets all bloated and

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i was like this sucks this might feel good and

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it interferes with your day don't you think yeah

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when i got home i was like i even said to my

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mom's like i'm in a grumpy mood i'm not sure

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why i'm grumpy but i'm grumpy And I don't know

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if you could think back to that meal, but if

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you specifically added salt to your meal to taste,

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or was it something in a box that probably had

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not just the sodium or salt, but if it has a

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paragraph list of ingredients, probably not your

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best first choice. This was at a restaurant,

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and so I never extra salt anything at all. I

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don't know how much salt they put in. the recipe

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or sandwich or whatever. I don't know how much

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I put in there, but I was like, yikes. I was

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like, I'm kind of, I think my head was just ready

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to explode and say, ow, ow, ow. I have news for

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you. It could be more than just the sodium in

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the food. So, you know, there's so many different

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angles of how food or nutrients or things that

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people put in or additives that really don't

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make us feel well. And it's hard to pick apart

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sometimes. what or decipher or pinpoint what

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exactly that one it thing is. Sodium is definitely

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one of them. It can make you feel bloated, can

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make you feel tired. Generally, if something

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has sodium in it per se in a restaurant, so say

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that it's a protein source dish, so a piece of

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salmon, turkey, chicken, something like that,

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they could be injecting flavorings into that.

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which has not just salt, but a lot of preservatives.

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And the one thing that those preservatives do

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is they go right to the brain and they affect

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focus, they affect mood. And those are the ones

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that I really, really try to hit, especially

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when I work with people, is just to try to eat

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outside of a box whenever possible. So what kind

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of foods would you recommend to people? um whose

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whose uh schedules are like really hectic and

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crazy and uh sort of like me um or who forget

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to eat sometimes that happens and then hunger

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just bam sneaks up on you so i'd like to call

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that to try and find structure within the non

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-structure it means that especially these days

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where maybe if you're working from home or your

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work schedule has definitely changed or your

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personal schedule has changed, there's still

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a day and a night, right? And there's still a

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weekday and a weekend. But during the day, things

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may get a little nuts. And what we don't want

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to do, well, what you can do is still try to

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have a looser structure to your day. So if you

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think about the day in terms of from when you

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wake up until midday or early afternoon, maybe

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that's a segment. Then there's a segment mid

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-afternoon to late afternoon or before dinner.

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And then there's a segment after dinner. And

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if you can at least structure those types of

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segments, you don't. People say all the time,

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well, how, when am I supposed to eat breakfast?

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I actually call that first meal because everybody's

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schedules vary and you don't know when somebody

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is going to get up. What you're trying to not

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happen though, is if you get up at seven o 'clock

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and you're not hungry, there's no law that states

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you need to eat breakfast. It's also, it depends

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a lot on what you had the night before, but if

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you find yourself in a pattern where you're really

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waiting too long to where you end up being so

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hungry. And what's so hungry on a scale of one

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to 10, that's two, three. If you envision a gas

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tank, that's pretty close to empty or at least

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quarter tank full. If you're getting that hungry

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and you're letting that range appear like that

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so many more times throughout your day, yeah

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you're not eating on a regular enough basis and

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by the time you get to that point what happens

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anything anything's game sure anything and you

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don't you don't care what it is no matter what

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you planned on on a calmer moment you just it

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doesn't it all breaks loose yeah i definitely

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know those days um well for me i don't think

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it's for me i don't think it's um uh I don't

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think it's – I don't really feel like I'm overeating.

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I just think I might be – for me, sometimes my

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bloating comes when I have too much yogurt. I

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like yogurt. I blame this one TV show called

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– I don't know if you ever heard of it. It's

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called Burn Notice. It's on the USA Today, the

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USA Network. And I always loved Michael Weston,

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who was like, how do you manage to stay alive?

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I eat a lot of yogurt. During this pandemic,

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I had a picture of 48 yogurt containers in my

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refrigerator. Oh, man. Everyone's stockpiling

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other food. I like yogurt. Well, everyone has

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their thing. That's OK. So, you know, even when

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you when you get to that over hungry scale, it

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doesn't mean that you'll necessarily overeat.

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But your choices can be definitely different.

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So you may have five containers of yogurt when

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you had planned on only having one or two with

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something else. So because it's easy, it's quick,

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it's easy. You don't have to think about it.

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So how did you get into all this nutrition? I

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own podcast. A father who was a pharmacist and

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my brothers were podiatrists. So I always had

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a fascination with how food, how it felt. when

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you ate food and what happens when it goes into

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the body and how it made you feel. And a lot

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of that is because I grew up with myself and

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a family full of food sensitivities and intolerances.

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I guess, thankfully, no major diagnoses. I acknowledge

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that. But there was so much suffering, so many

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things that I couldn't tolerate or were sensitive

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to. And that's how I got into finding about nutrition

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was to really first, I guess, first and foremost,

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help myself and those around me and then to go

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out and educate others because food affects people

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in many different ways and some people more than

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others. So I made it my life's work. In my opinion.

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If I could take another nutrition class or learn

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more about nutrition, I'm always for it because

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I'm interested in nutrition. I wouldn't say I'm

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more interested in like so much science, but

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I definitely like the nutrition part of it because

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that's kind of why I've been tracking my macros,

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my fitness pal, because it's just like. oh, okay,

00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:08.500
I did not get enough of this. I did not get enough

00:17:08.500 --> 00:17:12.779
of this today. And I know when I, I've been starting

00:17:12.779 --> 00:17:15.160
to notice a pattern with myself when I don't

00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:21.259
have enough of one nutrient. I'm like, I feel

00:17:21.259 --> 00:17:24.940
off slightly. And then I was like, huh. It was

00:17:24.940 --> 00:17:29.200
like, wow, amazing. One little nutrient I'm missing.

00:17:30.900 --> 00:17:33.890
I'm off. That's pretty good. How do I narrow

00:17:33.890 --> 00:17:36.789
that down? That's a pretty good one. I will say

00:17:36.789 --> 00:17:39.130
this, that a lot of times when people try to

00:17:39.130 --> 00:17:41.089
help themselves with nutrition, while there's

00:17:41.089 --> 00:17:44.789
a lot you can do, of course, it starts with healthy

00:17:44.789 --> 00:17:47.529
digestion, which a lot of times people overlook.

00:17:48.109 --> 00:17:51.490
If your digestion isn't healthy, not much else

00:17:51.490 --> 00:17:54.630
that you try is going to work as best as it could.

00:17:54.950 --> 00:17:58.309
So that's also something to consider. So let's

00:17:58.309 --> 00:18:02.660
consider as... Uh, healthy digestion. Oh, so

00:18:02.660 --> 00:18:05.839
we can talk stool and urine. That's fine. Well,

00:18:05.940 --> 00:18:08.839
let's say why not anything games? Um, it's well,

00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:11.539
definitely, uh, you want to, you want to track

00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:13.579
those patterns. So is it, are you straining?

00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.700
Are you going too often? Are you not going enough?

00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:19.259
Um, are you, are you getting enough fluid? And

00:18:19.259 --> 00:18:22.079
that relates to proper digestion and it's how

00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.380
your body is absorbing things. So how I would

00:18:26.380 --> 00:18:29.150
absorb. that yogurt might be different than how

00:18:29.150 --> 00:18:33.730
you would absorb it and what nutrients does my

00:18:33.730 --> 00:18:37.630
body need and i can you can when you get the

00:18:37.630 --> 00:18:40.789
nutrients that you need digestion works properly

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and when digestion works properly you you just

00:18:44.769 --> 00:18:46.809
have a better immune immune system functioning

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you have better every reaction in your body functions

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better and if there's gaps in that That's when

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things can just get worse. Who ever thought that

00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.240
there's so many things that could go wrong? Well,

00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:13.000
if you think about it, if you're trying to, let's

00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:18.099
say, okay, even maximize, well, let's take your

00:19:18.099 --> 00:19:20.920
yogurt example, if I may. So yogurt's a good

00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:24.490
source of probiotics, right? So that helps those

00:19:24.490 --> 00:19:27.750
good gut bacteria that we want because that helps

00:19:27.750 --> 00:19:32.470
the brain and gut -brain connection. But if there

00:19:32.470 --> 00:19:35.009
are gaps in your digestion with how you're absorbing

00:19:35.009 --> 00:19:42.950
those probiotics or how you're excreting them,

00:19:43.049 --> 00:19:45.769
so it's upsetting the balance even further or

00:19:45.769 --> 00:19:48.390
you're not able to get the benefits of those

00:19:48.390 --> 00:19:51.109
probiotics if your digestion isn't working as

00:19:51.109 --> 00:19:57.869
properly. So that's one example. So what would

00:19:57.869 --> 00:20:00.549
it take for someone to have a good digestion?

00:20:00.690 --> 00:20:06.069
What do they need to eat and drink? Well, that's

00:20:06.069 --> 00:20:09.509
definitely going to be different for unique to

00:20:09.509 --> 00:20:14.009
each person. But when I work with people, I start

00:20:14.009 --> 00:20:17.450
with digestion. I look at their hydration. I

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look at their diet. Absolutely easy candidate

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because I would just get your hundreds of entries

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in MyFitnessPal and that would help me look at

00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:31.380
it. So I look and see what they're eating. I

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definitely take into account any medications

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or supplements because those can interfere with

00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.000
each other. reasons why you're taking them. If

00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.079
you're taking certain supplements or certain

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vitamins, I want to make sure that you don't

00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.339
have what we call in my field, expensive urine.

00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.539
I want to make sure that it's just working for

00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:55.500
you or doing what you think you set out, wanting

00:20:55.500 --> 00:20:57.440
to see what it's going to do. Is it really going

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to do that? And so all those things I take into

00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:04.259
consideration and including, which is not less

00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:10.049
important, lifestyle. It's one of the reasons

00:21:10.049 --> 00:21:14.009
that I went and had a health and wellness coach

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onto this dietitian type degree is because a

00:21:18.710 --> 00:21:21.970
lot of information is great, but if you can't

00:21:21.970 --> 00:21:24.789
get that fit into your lifestyle, it's useless.

00:21:25.609 --> 00:21:28.049
So those are all the things that I look at when

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I want to help somebody with their wellness.

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That's kind of how I've, like for me. For me,

00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:45.099
I thought nutrition would be very, very hard.

00:21:45.299 --> 00:21:53.039
But I found some alternative ways to do nutrition.

00:21:54.349 --> 00:21:57.269
for practicing good nutrition. Like I like to,

00:21:57.309 --> 00:22:00.529
for my lunch every single day, I like to have

00:22:00.529 --> 00:22:04.309
Shakeology from Beachbody because it is quick

00:22:04.309 --> 00:22:06.710
and easy because I'm not one of those people

00:22:06.710 --> 00:22:10.470
who loves lunch. I loved lunch when I was in

00:22:10.470 --> 00:22:13.630
public school where I was like, oh, can you get

00:22:13.630 --> 00:22:17.410
me out of class for 45 minutes? Sweet. But now

00:22:17.410 --> 00:22:20.910
it's like now that I have my podcast, my blog

00:22:20.910 --> 00:22:24.490
on a weekly basis, and I'm in class virtually,

00:22:25.150 --> 00:22:29.809
I don't really like lunch. It's a chore. It became

00:22:29.809 --> 00:22:37.230
a chore. Yeah. And so, like Shakeology, and this

00:22:37.230 --> 00:22:42.609
is not a promotion for it. I just find it easy.

00:22:44.670 --> 00:22:47.569
cheaper than going out to get lunch every single

00:22:47.569 --> 00:22:53.410
day or or it takes me just a few extra minutes

00:22:53.410 --> 00:22:58.390
and time to uh like create a whole big mess in

00:22:58.390 --> 00:23:03.230
my kitchen well you know if that works for you

00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:05.849
but occasionally we like to mix it up add some

00:23:05.849 --> 00:23:08.390
you know every once in a while have some actual

00:23:08.390 --> 00:23:12.309
food or Or just, you know, make sure that even

00:23:12.309 --> 00:23:14.430
the types of flavors that you choose don't have

00:23:14.430 --> 00:23:17.789
too many other additives in them. And that's

00:23:17.789 --> 00:23:20.349
where people, you know, people with shakes and

00:23:20.349 --> 00:23:22.750
bars all the time. I'm not saying, you know,

00:23:22.789 --> 00:23:25.170
once in a while or, you know, relying on it heavily

00:23:25.170 --> 00:23:27.990
during the week, for example. They work for people.

00:23:28.089 --> 00:23:31.529
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of a piece of fruit, what's your favorite piece

00:25:19.529 --> 00:25:27.750
of fruit? I'd probably say bananas and blueberries.

00:25:28.250 --> 00:25:33.390
Okay, so let's take blueberries. So I could either,

00:25:33.529 --> 00:25:39.130
I could market a pill, a supplement that says

00:25:39.130 --> 00:25:44.690
this has 500 units of things that come from blueberries.

00:25:44.890 --> 00:25:49.450
Okay, that's good for you, right? What we don't

00:25:49.450 --> 00:25:53.630
know yet still in science is that if I gave you

00:25:53.630 --> 00:25:57.869
a half a cup or even a half a cup or a cup of

00:25:57.869 --> 00:26:02.150
blueberries, fresh blueberries or frozen, what

00:26:02.150 --> 00:26:06.009
if that 500 components that that pill touted

00:26:06.009 --> 00:26:10.769
really had a thousand, a hundred thousand, a

00:26:10.769 --> 00:26:14.230
million components by eating the blueberry in

00:26:14.230 --> 00:26:16.849
its fresh form? And that's what we don't know.

00:26:18.879 --> 00:26:21.319
If you're going to have things like shakes and

00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:24.380
bars, just, you know, mix it up with some food

00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:26.279
once in a while, some food that you can chew.

00:26:26.460 --> 00:26:30.240
Well, I also, I did put frozen fruit in. There

00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:33.579
you go. See, you boosted that nutrition. I'm

00:26:33.579 --> 00:26:36.000
just saying, I mean, like overall I had the shake,

00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:40.000
but I also put some frozen fruit in it and some,

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:43.960
a little bit of oats in it just to. For some

00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.519
staying power. Yeah, but I just, I like something

00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:50.480
quick. I don't like to eat, like, six million

00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:53.579
other dishes. I mean, for dinner and breakfast,

00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:55.839
I'm like, breakfast occasionally, I'll be like,

00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:59.859
yeah, okay. It's just, it's like, I like to start

00:26:59.859 --> 00:27:03.660
my day. I like to end my day. I don't mind, like,

00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:07.140
ending my day with dishes. It's just, I don't,

00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:09.839
I just don't want, like, at lunchtime, it's like,

00:27:10.019 --> 00:27:13.660
I want something so I can eat. take it on the

00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:16.759
go if i need to or have it in within like five

00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:22.220
minutes and i just tend to uh but i i and i just

00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:24.660
don't have to like just i don't know quickly

00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:27.779
make it or think of something because i used

00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:30.619
to have like a lot of lunch meat stuff and then

00:27:30.619 --> 00:27:33.539
i saw this like pink goo in one of my lunch reasons

00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:35.859
like oh we don't want that no no no poison or

00:27:35.859 --> 00:27:40.700
what well also it takes um It takes a teeny,

00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:42.599
teeny bit. It sounds like it's overwhelming,

00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.359
but it's not when it gets into play. If you could

00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.539
pick a day of the week, let's say Sunday, let's

00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:52.180
say Monday, that you make sure that what's in

00:27:52.180 --> 00:27:55.740
your house are these quick grabbing items. So

00:27:55.740 --> 00:28:00.079
if you want a quick meal and the items aren't

00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.740
there, it's even worse, right? So if you can

00:28:03.740 --> 00:28:07.920
take a moment, ideally we like. before the the

00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.259
work week or the Monday through Friday week starts

00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:14.519
and then take stock again like Thursday or Friday

00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:17.460
something for the weekend because weekdays still

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:20.460
have a different rhythm than weekends so if on

00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:23.839
for example a Sunday or the weekend You think,

00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:25.599
all right, what's going on this week? I need

00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:27.980
to make sure I have the lunches around, make

00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:30.380
sure I have the yogurt, make sure I have the

00:28:30.380 --> 00:28:34.180
frozen fruits, make sure I have supply of the

00:28:34.180 --> 00:28:35.559
shakes or bars, if that's what you're going to

00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:39.019
use. Or you can add it with some other types

00:28:39.019 --> 00:28:42.180
of foods to have around because you know lunch,

00:28:42.220 --> 00:28:45.700
for example, you want quicker. And then by Thursday.

00:28:46.349 --> 00:28:48.509
You see, what do I have left for the week or

00:28:48.509 --> 00:28:51.069
what's going on this weekend? And that kind of

00:28:51.069 --> 00:28:54.210
can balance out the grocery shopping or however

00:28:54.210 --> 00:28:58.990
you shop in the pandemic. But yeah, if you take

00:28:58.990 --> 00:29:02.009
that moment to plan, and it can take as little

00:29:02.009 --> 00:29:06.029
as five or 10 minutes, you at least avoid when

00:29:06.029 --> 00:29:09.109
you want to have something quick. If it's not

00:29:09.109 --> 00:29:12.569
there, that's a bigger problem. I definitely

00:29:12.569 --> 00:29:15.569
know what you mean by that. I have tried that

00:29:15.569 --> 00:29:19.450
for a while, but lately I've gotten off of it,

00:29:19.450 --> 00:29:23.869
of doing that, because I'm also in the middle

00:29:23.869 --> 00:29:29.890
of selling my house. And so people come look

00:29:29.890 --> 00:29:34.670
at my house, like, around different times. So

00:29:34.670 --> 00:29:38.349
I was like, oh, this really blows. And sometimes

00:29:38.349 --> 00:29:41.150
they do come around lunch, so it's like... Yep,

00:29:41.230 --> 00:29:45.509
shake it is. Yeah, but if that shake's not in

00:29:45.509 --> 00:29:47.670
the house, that's a problem too. The shake is

00:29:47.670 --> 00:29:54.230
always in the house. I got a nice big bag, 30

00:29:54.230 --> 00:29:57.730
scoops, last me all month. So there's place in

00:29:57.730 --> 00:30:00.009
your pantry for the shakes and there's place

00:30:00.009 --> 00:30:01.769
in the refrigerator for the yogurts. You are

00:30:01.769 --> 00:30:05.950
all set. Yeah, exactly. You're all set. It's

00:30:05.950 --> 00:30:10.220
all good. By no means. I'm not saying it's going

00:30:10.220 --> 00:30:12.240
to work for everyone, but I mean, just for me.

00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:19.079
That's okay. That's all good. So what do you

00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:25.380
eat on a daily basis? What do I eat? Ooh, there's

00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:30.740
a question. So let's see. Normally, this is interesting.

00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:33.680
I've never actually been. directly ask this so

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:37.500
i'm okay answering it but uh i tend to not eat

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:41.240
right when i get up i will have um i'll have

00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:43.319
a cup of coffee usually it's half a cup half

00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:45.559
caffeine it's not half a cup but it's half caffeine

00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:47.859
because i can't tolerate caffeine well let's

00:30:47.859 --> 00:30:49.740
just just add that to the list of sensitivities

00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:57.259
um and uh i use uh i'll have that with um i sometimes

00:30:57.259 --> 00:30:59.940
put almond milk in it sometimes regular milk

00:31:00.349 --> 00:31:04.349
Sometimes a soy milk. Sometimes I'll add little

00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:08.250
types of my latest are called they're called

00:31:08.250 --> 00:31:12.629
adaptogens. I won't veer too far, but they. They're

00:31:12.629 --> 00:31:15.609
herbal supplements that can help, for example,

00:31:15.789 --> 00:31:18.849
adapt to stress. So one of them is just, if you've

00:31:18.849 --> 00:31:21.589
heard of lion's mane, it's a mushroom type powder.

00:31:21.750 --> 00:31:24.670
It's a legal good mushroom. It's not a funky

00:31:24.670 --> 00:31:28.430
one. But that helps with like focus and energy,

00:31:28.569 --> 00:31:30.490
things like that. I can't have a lot of those

00:31:30.490 --> 00:31:32.289
things, but sometimes I like to play with that.

00:31:32.470 --> 00:31:34.849
So I'll start out with that kind of cup and I'll

00:31:34.849 --> 00:31:37.569
get hungry. This is all pandemic, by the way.

00:31:37.769 --> 00:31:41.690
I'll get hungry maybe around nine or 10. what

00:31:41.690 --> 00:31:44.910
did I have this morning? I made an egg white

00:31:44.910 --> 00:31:48.549
omelet and I did put in, this isn't planted.

00:31:48.670 --> 00:31:53.049
It's real, Jimmy. I put in some frozen, I had

00:31:53.049 --> 00:31:56.549
frozen artichoke hearts. So I put those in with

00:31:56.549 --> 00:31:59.970
sauteed onions. And that was the omelet -ish

00:31:59.970 --> 00:32:03.509
that I had right around, when was that? Maybe

00:32:03.509 --> 00:32:07.549
like 10, 10 .30. So then I'll probably eat something

00:32:07.549 --> 00:32:10.480
around three or four and then dinner. That's

00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:15.380
the highlight of it. Well, for me, I break my

00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:18.460
meals. I usually have like six more meals during

00:32:18.460 --> 00:32:24.980
the day because I also do karate on different

00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:30.539
days and nights at different weird times. Like

00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:35.099
on Mondays, the moment is at 12 noon. And then

00:32:35.099 --> 00:32:39.700
like Wednesdays at eight o 'clock. Fridays at

00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:42.960
7 .15. Are these still classes that are running?

00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.180
That's cool. Yeah, they're all on Zoom. But they

00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:49.960
do have in person, but right now I don't have

00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:56.240
a car. And that's a long story for another time.

00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:00.349
What belt are you? I know a little bit. uh well

00:33:00.349 --> 00:33:03.009
i actually just got to promote to my low green

00:33:03.009 --> 00:33:05.789
belt last night yesterday very nice congratulations

00:33:05.789 --> 00:33:09.130
congratulations that's a big deal thanks and

00:33:09.130 --> 00:33:15.569
uh so i got um so i uh well and then like so

00:33:15.569 --> 00:33:18.309
i have the six meals because uh the six small

00:33:18.309 --> 00:33:21.390
meals because i know i need to keep eating because

00:33:21.390 --> 00:33:25.579
if i don't i guess i know once i don't have enough

00:33:25.579 --> 00:33:28.819
energy or enough water in my body for karate

00:33:28.819 --> 00:33:31.740
class i've seen people like literally almost

00:33:31.740 --> 00:33:36.059
faint in karate class and i was like that's never

00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:39.500
gonna be me Or they get hurt because you're in

00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:40.880
the middle of a kata and you don't have energy

00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:49.500
and you just fall over. Right now, for me, it's

00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:52.640
all kickboxing class. We used to be able to spar

00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:54.859
with each other, but not during this pandemic.

00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.039
But when I was working with people, like, even

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:03.660
on the heavy bags, I seen this one person who

00:34:03.660 --> 00:34:08.480
had just to, like, sit down for, like, five minutes

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:11.239
because they were, it was like, oh, I did not

00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:17.500
eat enough. And my sensei might give him or her,

00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:23.179
like, a protein bar. gives them the rest of the

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:25.280
energy for the rest of the class. But I was like,

00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:29.739
that's never going to be me. Not because I'm

00:34:29.739 --> 00:34:34.219
cocky or anything, but there was one time where

00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:39.360
I ate too much for karate, and I was like, I'll

00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:41.880
never do that again. Oh, that's not good either.

00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:44.440
I kind of spread out my meals like, okay, small,

00:34:44.659 --> 00:34:47.960
small, small, small, small. Get enough for karate.

00:34:48.730 --> 00:34:51.349
And then after karate, a little bit more and

00:34:51.349 --> 00:34:53.889
right to bed. And I was like, I'm not going to,

00:34:53.969 --> 00:34:58.289
I learned my lesson. But that's the thing is

00:34:58.289 --> 00:35:01.630
you're using nutrition to fuel your day. And

00:35:01.630 --> 00:35:04.610
that's what more people need to pay attention

00:35:04.610 --> 00:35:08.130
to because you can fuel it constructively for

00:35:08.130 --> 00:35:10.929
yourself or it can really get in your way. And

00:35:10.929 --> 00:35:14.489
I think that's just the awareness is that nutrition

00:35:14.489 --> 00:35:17.250
has that power and you have the choice to make

00:35:17.250 --> 00:35:21.300
those choices. Plus, you can also think of it

00:35:21.300 --> 00:35:25.059
as a way if you feel it throughout the day. If

00:35:25.059 --> 00:35:29.440
you're like me who sits at their desk a lot because

00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.820
everything is on the computer and I don't have

00:35:31.820 --> 00:35:34.139
one of those standing desks, I can't afford one.

00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:41.440
I got enough stuff to afford. You can think of

00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:44.340
it as like, okay, I'm going to get up for an

00:35:44.340 --> 00:35:49.119
hour, go downstairs, get a snack. take a break

00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.320
for 15 minutes and come back upstairs and you're

00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.440
walking you're standing while you're having your

00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:58.059
snack and you're done and it's like so now you're

00:35:58.059 --> 00:36:00.940
not sitting all day long you're getting up walking

00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:03.780
around and you're also standing so you're getting

00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:06.739
your body enough time to it's like i was just

00:36:06.739 --> 00:36:08.940
in a sitting position for like an hour and it's

00:36:08.940 --> 00:36:10.739
like well now i'm giving you a freaking break

00:36:12.349 --> 00:36:14.610
Yeah, definitely. I will say this, that there's

00:36:14.610 --> 00:36:17.369
something that is called non -exercise activity

00:36:17.369 --> 00:36:21.449
time. So if you think about pre -pandemic, all

00:36:21.449 --> 00:36:24.309
the times that you were either in and out of

00:36:24.309 --> 00:36:28.269
your car or up and down a workplace or just getting

00:36:28.269 --> 00:36:31.489
the things that you normally did required your

00:36:31.489 --> 00:36:34.690
body to move in some way, whether or not it was,

00:36:34.710 --> 00:36:37.630
I'm not talking about formalized activities like

00:36:37.630 --> 00:36:40.650
karate or like going to work out, but all those

00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:43.559
other little things. they compromised your non

00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.960
-exercise activity time. And what's happened

00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:50.079
to a lot of people during the pandemic is they've

00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:53.059
essentially lost steps is really kind of what

00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:56.059
it is. So they've lost all that. And when we

00:36:56.059 --> 00:36:59.039
get that rhythmic movement and we get more non

00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.900
-exercise activity time, we actually help our

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:06.280
brains and it helps us feel better. So when you

00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:08.119
feel better, you make better nutrition choices.

00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:12.110
If you don't feel as well, the choices... aren't

00:37:12.110 --> 00:37:14.309
as well and this is how the vicious cycle can

00:37:14.309 --> 00:37:17.610
it takes effect too sorry a question for you

00:37:17.610 --> 00:37:23.590
uh would you consider reading a book on uh what

00:37:23.590 --> 00:37:26.750
was the word you use non -exercise activity time

00:37:26.750 --> 00:37:30.230
or non -exercise activity thermogenesis that's

00:37:30.230 --> 00:37:32.989
really the word but we say time well would you

00:37:32.989 --> 00:37:37.110
consider that as one of those what reading a

00:37:37.110 --> 00:37:41.360
book yeah well if you were well no because you're

00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:44.179
sitting but if you were listening to an audiobook

00:37:44.179 --> 00:37:48.599
while you're walking that works you know or you're

00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:51.880
it just you gotta be done that before yeah you

00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:55.019
see i also did that during uh podcasting too

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:58.619
well i mean not for my podcast i mean i was listening

00:37:58.619 --> 00:38:02.320
to other people's podcasts Well, I can say that

00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:06.940
everybody's pets, including mine, have benefited

00:38:06.940 --> 00:38:09.960
from the pandemic. So I get a few more walks

00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:14.099
with my dogs. I always feel bad for those commercials

00:38:14.099 --> 00:38:16.280
when you see dogs like, hey, you want to go for

00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:18.639
a walk? And then they're hanging on the table.

00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:24.539
It's like, hmm. Yeah, those are funny. I miss

00:38:24.539 --> 00:38:30.989
my dogs. I haven't had dogs since. My last dog

00:38:30.989 --> 00:38:39.210
passed away last year. And yeah, it's been tough

00:38:39.210 --> 00:38:41.969
during this pandemic without them because we

00:38:41.969 --> 00:38:45.889
had my pictures with them up and it's like, man,

00:38:46.030 --> 00:38:48.809
can we get some dogs now? And of course my dad

00:38:48.809 --> 00:38:51.170
looked at the price of dogs and was like, 3 ,000

00:38:51.170 --> 00:38:55.670
bucks, holy crap. And I was like, damn. No, go

00:38:55.670 --> 00:38:59.510
to a shelter. Both my dogs are rescue dogs. How

00:38:59.510 --> 00:39:02.630
much are shelter dogs? It depends. I mean, you

00:39:02.630 --> 00:39:04.789
know, some shelters, they include the shots,

00:39:04.969 --> 00:39:07.449
some don't, all that stuff. But you can put under

00:39:07.449 --> 00:39:14.110
maybe 150 to 300 total. The only thing I get

00:39:14.110 --> 00:39:20.329
scared about that is because my uncle, he has

00:39:20.329 --> 00:39:23.710
really great luck with dogs. They're crazy as

00:39:23.710 --> 00:39:30.239
heck. He had this one dog where that if you look

00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:35.039
at uh at her she she bites you i was like oh

00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.380
that's not good i was like screw this difficult

00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:41.159
dog yeah that doesn't make for a pet that makes

00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:44.159
for that's hard honestly i never did anything

00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:47.840
to that dog but i never liked that dog whatsoever

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:53.679
and then like and now he has this as a dog that

00:39:53.679 --> 00:40:27.130
uh she just keeps like uh And so much more. Become

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notes. Now let's get back to the show. He's barking

00:40:46.230 --> 00:40:48.969
every time he leaves the house or every time

00:40:48.969 --> 00:40:52.389
he visits and he brings her with him to our show

00:40:52.389 --> 00:40:57.010
house. Like when he goes down to the beach and

00:40:57.010 --> 00:40:59.610
I'm not ready to go down to the beach yet. I'm

00:40:59.610 --> 00:41:02.730
hearing her bark and everything. It's like, no,

00:41:02.929 --> 00:41:09.030
no, no. Yeah, no, that's not good. But no, the

00:41:09.030 --> 00:41:12.969
pets are fun. But if you... Definitely want to

00:41:12.969 --> 00:41:15.670
make an effort to pet or no pet or book or no

00:41:15.670 --> 00:41:18.829
pet to to get get that time in to kind of walk

00:41:18.829 --> 00:41:21.449
around. So if you say so that I'm from Chicago

00:41:21.449 --> 00:41:25.130
area. Remember, I grew up in Michigan. OK, so

00:41:25.130 --> 00:41:28.269
not that far. But the time zone was still the

00:41:28.269 --> 00:41:31.150
what is it the furthest west of the eastern time

00:41:31.150 --> 00:41:34.889
zone. So when I first came to Chicago, I was

00:41:34.889 --> 00:41:39.150
working in one of the hospitals. And it was December,

00:41:39.570 --> 00:41:42.429
so it was after daylight savings time ended.

00:41:42.570 --> 00:41:46.530
And about 3 .30, I'm running around the hospital

00:41:46.530 --> 00:41:49.570
saying, is anyone not noticing the storm? There's

00:41:49.570 --> 00:41:52.010
a storm coming. And they're like, Alisa, that's

00:41:52.010 --> 00:41:56.090
sunset. Like, you've got to be kidding me. Sunset

00:41:56.090 --> 00:42:01.889
at 3 .30 on a Friday? I was, oh, no. So I probably

00:42:01.889 --> 00:42:03.949
still haven't gotten really used to it, but I

00:42:03.949 --> 00:42:06.860
will definitely try and take it. There are some

00:42:06.860 --> 00:42:09.639
bright spots. Take advantage of this time during

00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:12.360
the pandemic where in between things, while it's

00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:14.920
still light out, I can take a quick walk where

00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.900
that probably definitely didn't happen as often

00:42:17.900 --> 00:42:25.159
before. For me, during the pandemic, I never

00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:29.800
really thought I would be able to start a podcast,

00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:35.449
but I started around April. for when crazy fitness

00:42:35.449 --> 00:42:39.070
guy turned three years old uh oh that's great

00:42:39.070 --> 00:42:43.909
and i've been never up and running since uh but

00:42:43.909 --> 00:42:47.889
yeah so there's pros and cons to the pandemic

00:42:47.889 --> 00:42:51.070
depending on how you look at and trust me there's

00:42:51.070 --> 00:42:53.409
some days where i really want to yell at some

00:42:53.409 --> 00:42:58.010
scientists and say make a freaking vaccine they're

00:42:58.010 --> 00:43:03.809
getting there yeah 2025, here we come. We'll

00:43:03.809 --> 00:43:07.690
see, we'll see. But do you have any other tips

00:43:07.690 --> 00:43:16.369
for people? For, let's see, so there's that one

00:43:16.369 --> 00:43:20.489
about meal planning. Definitely, I would say

00:43:20.489 --> 00:43:23.550
that if you could have, try to have one meal

00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:28.829
that includes all plants and isn't in a box or

00:43:28.829 --> 00:43:33.469
a shake package. Sorry, try to have one and see

00:43:33.469 --> 00:43:36.710
how that goes, because the more that we can do

00:43:36.710 --> 00:43:40.170
that for our bodies in with these with with how

00:43:40.170 --> 00:43:42.949
these times are stressful and with other things

00:43:42.949 --> 00:43:46.630
that we might grab and go because of the nature

00:43:46.630 --> 00:43:49.909
of being more cooped up, that if we can still

00:43:49.909 --> 00:43:53.530
remember to to have that to to nourish our bodies,

00:43:53.650 --> 00:43:56.230
it will definitely help with food and mood and

00:43:56.230 --> 00:44:04.639
just overall function. Well, trust me, I do have

00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:08.719
other food. It's just lunchtime and everything

00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:14.059
else. But I mean, I have stuff for breakfast.

00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:18.559
I have other stuff for breakfast and I have other

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:21.500
stuff for dinner, but just that lunch, middle

00:44:21.500 --> 00:44:26.139
of the day. Yeah, I got a plan for that too.

00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:33.519
I do. Yeah. No, no, no. Don't fall over. Um,

00:44:33.739 --> 00:44:37.340
I do, I do have a, um, a digestive evaluation,

00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.000
which is, which is on my website and that's,

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.920
uh, that that's complimentary. So if, if you

00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:47.000
ever want to just. just see get a quick snapshot

00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.679
of how your digestion is and a place where to

00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.159
start that that is definitely something that

00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.940
that is worth is worth doing before we kind of

00:44:54.940 --> 00:44:57.300
look into other any things with with whatever

00:44:57.300 --> 00:45:00.320
anybody wants to do to start with uh to start

00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:05.050
with healthy digestion is a good foundation And

00:45:05.050 --> 00:45:07.750
that's that one you can find directly on my website,

00:45:07.889 --> 00:45:11.429
which is liveyourbest365 .com. Or you can go

00:45:11.429 --> 00:45:14.590
and get it at liveyourbest365 .com slash quiz.

00:45:15.010 --> 00:45:20.050
But that's a good way to start to evaluate your

00:45:20.050 --> 00:45:21.809
own digestion and have some very interesting

00:45:21.809 --> 00:45:26.269
conversation over the holidays. Did you create

00:45:26.269 --> 00:45:30.909
the quiz? I did that with parts of parts of it.

00:45:30.969 --> 00:45:33.889
I do. I do that with a program. My goodness.

00:45:33.949 --> 00:45:36.489
I have just a bunch of colleagues with content

00:45:36.489 --> 00:45:40.449
programs with that. So how does it determine

00:45:40.449 --> 00:45:46.670
like if you have a healthy digestion? Well, really,

00:45:46.829 --> 00:45:48.889
it's just when I say it's a quiz and it's an

00:45:48.889 --> 00:45:53.880
evaluation, it just goes through where. Yeah,

00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:56.539
about how your stool patterns are, your urine

00:45:56.539 --> 00:45:59.360
patterns, your travel, your sleep, your hydration.

00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:04.400
And it gives you a snapshot of things to think

00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:08.599
about in terms of how healthy your digestion

00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:12.519
is. You definitely got to send me that link over

00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:15.800
because. I might just have to try this because.

00:46:16.500 --> 00:46:20.460
Excellent. It's, no, it's, well, it's on the

00:46:20.460 --> 00:46:21.980
website. I'll take a snapshot and show it on

00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:26.119
Instagram. Absolutely. People might say, what

00:46:26.119 --> 00:46:30.000
is this person doing? What is that? That is my

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.900
digestion system. It won't be compromising, I

00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:44.070
promise. Google can hear that. I know. Their

00:46:44.070 --> 00:46:48.849
data mining techniques. Actually, that's not

00:46:48.849 --> 00:46:52.070
what I'm doing for my research paper. There you

00:46:52.070 --> 00:46:55.449
go. They probably won't like me for it. No, maybe

00:46:55.449 --> 00:47:06.250
not. Oh, well, sue me. So before we finish up,

00:47:06.449 --> 00:47:11.909
where can people follow you? I am. I'm on Facebook

00:47:11.909 --> 00:47:14.429
primarily. I do do Facebook Lives, Live Your

00:47:14.429 --> 00:47:17.630
Best 365 with Elisa Bloom. And I'm Live Your

00:47:17.630 --> 00:47:25.409
Best 365 over on Instagram too. And yeah, just

00:47:25.409 --> 00:47:31.030
out of curiosity, perhaps if you do a Facebook

00:47:31.030 --> 00:47:37.789
Live, do you have any guests? Yeah. Definitely.

00:47:38.489 --> 00:47:41.989
But we'll need guests. Can I be one? There you

00:47:41.989 --> 00:47:45.670
go. And I'll thank you with some yogurt. Send

00:47:45.670 --> 00:47:49.230
that over to you. Michael Wesson might be proud

00:47:49.230 --> 00:47:54.510
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