The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
Fat Girl Therapy 41: Running, Recipes, and Resilience
What if changing your hairstyle could accentuate your weight loss journey? Join us as we kick off this episode with Lisa's stunning new haircut and how it highlights her impressive transformation. From there, we lace up and head into the world of running, sharing our adventures at the running store and the importance of finding the perfect shoe, especially for those dealing with plantar fasciitis. You'll learn about our experiences with brands like New Balance and Skechers, and how a burst of energy from pre-workout supplements sparked a newfound love for running.
Cardio enthusiasts and skeptics alike will appreciate our deep dive into fitness goals and mental health. Hear about the struggle and triumph of turning cardio from a dreaded activity into a joy, driven by the need to keep up with energetic kids. We discuss dealing with physical weaknesses, depression, and finding hope in swimming as a viable exercise. This conversation doesn't shy away from the hard parts—jealousy, self-accountability, and the journey toward personal satisfaction over external validation are all on the table.
And it’s not all serious! We sprinkle in some fun chats about cottage cheese recipes, our favorite Ninja kitchen gadgets, and even celebrate a milestone of going one year without pizza. Hear practical tips for managing food cravings and the challenges of food addiction, all while maintaining a sense of humor and light-hearted banter. We wrap up touching on the importance of sticking to our podcast schedule amidst personal highs and lows, ensuring we continue to support each other and our listeners. Tune in for a heartfelt and comprehensive exploration of life's multifaceted journey!
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hello, hello. Sorry I was having technical difficulties getting on here I forgot that you cut your hair I did. Oh my god who are you? I'm lisa. How's it going?
Speaker 2:I'm new here you look so different and also like I I don't know how problematic it is to say something like but like your weight loss is so much more apparent with your haircut. Like I don't know how problematic it is to say something like that, but like your weight loss is so much more apparent with your haircut. Like I don't know, like I don't want to say like oh, your haircut makes you look thinner, cause, like I don't even feel like that's a thing, but like uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I notice it because, like when I the last time my hair was this short, hold on, I'll pull it up.
Speaker 2:The last time, uh, my hair was this short was like when I was getting married, so which was like my highest weight right so and yeah, when I think about that photo, it's like you're a come, like you're so different than you were in that this.
Speaker 1:This isn't the one that I was looking for, but but this is just from the video now. So, like this is yeah.
Speaker 2:Right and that's like that's not even you I know it's a very different time.
Speaker 1:There is one that I think is like it's more drastic, like you can tell more. Okay, this one. But I think it's more apparent because, like I've've, because I've lost so much, like in my neck and at my chin right. So when my hair was short then it was like you, it was cut off. There, pointed it out you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:That's the photo I was thinking of of you and you when, when I was thinking of your short hair.
Speaker 1:I woke up this morning, got up, went to the gym, came home, we got our child ready, like we went to. I went to the running store to get new shoes today because everybody was like you need good shoes and I was like, okay, fine. So, uh, my mom bought me new shoes because I'm broke from the running room uh, the running works.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, I was like shit because, like the running room to me, I'm like it's such an expensive freaking place I and honestly, yeah, we went to the running works and, um, it still wasn't cheap, like they weren't my usual for me.
Speaker 2:I get wal Walmart runners honestly like, hey, 30 bucks, hell yeah. But I spent, oh my god, like their new balance.
Speaker 2:And when I was like new balance, those are like dad shoes yeah, um, but they were close to 200 or they might have come up to 200, and they're the greatest things that have ever touched my feet. So I'm actually having a foot problem currently, where I think it might be plantar fasciitis, but it's because I haven't seen anyone about it. It just keeps increasing the pain, like so much to the point where, like, just getting through my work week like that's all I was able to do, and then I now was like it's just, it's not. My quality of life has gone so downhill and so I'm booked off right now. Anyway, the point that I was trying to make is that when I put those shoes on, the pain is so much less than that than it was it's still there, but like I love those shoes.
Speaker 2:That was the whole point of that. Sometimes it's really good spending money on a really good pair of runners yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1:This is the first time that like I really I bought Skechers. Sorry, I'm trying to decide what I want to do with my light here. Um, I usually buy Skechers. Um, when I go to buy shoes before I was like I'm just going with cheap shoes, like I just need cheap shoes, whatever like it, what it was. And then I bought Skechers and I was like I never want to buy anything else for my feet, like this is just great and like I've been on a huge Skechers kick. And then everybody was like you need to go to a running store and get real shoes. And I'm like, okay, I'll do that. So I did that today and that's how I ended up with the new balance that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I really want to get a second pair just so that I can have like just gym shoes that I can like keep at work. But then also I'm like I don't want to spend $200 on shoes that I'm just gonna leave at work all the time. That sounds awful. Yeah, uh, how is that going? By the way, do you want to talk about your newfound love there?
Speaker 1:for crap, sorry, I'm trying not to like give it away like it's your story, so well, I mean, I've been talking about it on TikTok and Instagram because it's kind of a big like what the fuck moment, because like what the fuck I've been saying I'm here for how long that I'm like no, fuck cardio. Yeah, fuck cardio.
Speaker 2:I hate cardio.
Speaker 1:But then it was literally like just out of nowhere, like not last week, but the week before, I don't know, somewhere in there. Um, my pre-workout just kicked in and my body was like and because I was like on the warm-up of the treadmill, my body was like you should, you should, just go. And I was like I don't, I don't think that's a good idea. And then I was like no, no, no, like just just pump it up, let's see what you can do. I'm like fuck, okay. And I was sending voice notes to chris while this was happening, like I was. It wasn't even in my plan that I was going to do this. I was just like you know what, fuck it, I'm just gonna do this. So I pushed the treadmill up to four and did like a slow run for two minutes straight and then stopped and I was like, holy fuck, I can't believe I just did that. Um, first of all, two minutes straight is it's a long time.
Speaker 2:That's insane, especially when you're watching the clock like.
Speaker 1:I think that's what helped, too, is you and I were sending voice notes to each other, right? So I wasn't really thinking about the time or anything, but like I spent my entire workout basically on the treadmill that day, um, and then a couple days later I was like I bet you could do it again. Like you just got this running app that I'm not going to say the name of, because I have said the name on my um, instagram and TikTok, but I've decided to no longer use it, so I'm not going to say it on here as, I mean, I guess I can say it. I'm like I'm it's none to run and, quite honestly, the only reason I'm not using it is because you have to pay to use it. Yeah, like I'm all about, I'm okay to pay to use things, but you gave me one workout and one yeah, like whereas you trial you know what I mean pay for heavy.
Speaker 2:Like they offered a really good discount where I even paid for it. I'm not even using it, um, which is so stupid.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh, I'll buy it but the thing was heavy, heavy actually, like after I did 25 workouts, they were like, hey, could you do a review for us? And I'm like, yeah, I'll do a review, like just on the Apple thing, like just the prompt that automatically happens. But I was like, yeah, I'll do a review on this because it's an app that I'm actually enjoying. And the thing that I liked about heavy and for anybody wants to know it's H E V Y for the app heavy, um, it's it's built to be used for free. You know what I mean. Like, you can use it for free, the features are there to use it for free and it's functional for free.
Speaker 1:There's not a bunch of advertisements in the way. There's not you. You only get X amount of time and then you have to continue paying for the app. It's just there. And to get all this bonus, extra stuff on top of it, like making more than three workouts or making more than three routines or whatever that's what costs money. So, unless you're going to start investing in that kind of stuff, or like making your own workouts, not just like, instead of just a bench press, if you do a bench press with a uh resistant band and that's not there you could make your own workout to say that that's a feature, like you can only add three at a time or something like that, um, but it's, it's usable, like everything else that you're. When you pay for it, it's a bonus thing. You know what I mean. Versus none to run. It was like this app. You have to pay to use this app. Yeah, yeah, are you okay?
Speaker 2:no, sorry, I just I didn't know this was on my face or not, but it just like I scratched it. So it's white, but it's not like a. I'm sorry, I was still listening, I just didn't want to.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry no, that's no, no it's. I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I need to moisturize.
Speaker 1:That's okay, do what you got to do, but the thing with none to run for everybody else who isn't playing with their face right now, it's literally you did one.
Speaker 1:I did the first workout and I'm like, oh my God, this is fantastic. And then I went to do the second one. It was like, oh, you have to pay and you have to pay for the entire program. And I'm totally like, I get it. People have to make money. It is a great program. Honestly, if you can afford it, like I recommend the app. The app is good, but I'm already paying for heavy and I don't want to do that. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:There's so many running apps, though there was when I. This is before ram, so I don't even know if the app still exists, but uh, it was interval training, um, and I had started that when I was actually in Australia. So you know, like running for two minutes, walking, whatever, and it tells you so, like while you're playing music.
Speaker 2:It even like intertwined with that, where it was like walk for one minute now, and so you just stop and then start walk whatever, and it was really great and it was free and I was using it all the time and then just I stopped running yeah, I think what I liked about this one is like they specifically said slow run and walk.
Speaker 1:There was no like book it. You know what I mean. And every time, like when I thought of running before, it was like if you're gonna run, you have to go like you're giving it it all every time and at that point, like I was running for maybe five seconds you know what I mean like it's like you're not going, you're not going fast, uh.
Speaker 1:But that's when it was like slow run and walk in intervals and I really liked that, and it was like slow run for 30 seconds and walk for two minutes, I was like that's something I could do. You know what I mean. So honestly, yeah it's. If you could afford it, I recommend it. If you can't afford it, like it's, yeah.
Speaker 2:So like you, you like. What I was trying to say is that, like you found your newfound love for this day, like it's just it's just weird like uh. So to everyone out there is because Lisa sent me a note and she's like I think I like running and I think I'm gonna do a 5k and I'm like who the fuck are you? I don't know, but you know what the?
Speaker 1:only the only reason I think I could do the 5k thing is because when I did the first workout of the none to run, it ended up being 1.27 kilometers or something like that, and I was like 1.27 kilometers in 20 minutes, and this is just the beginning, like. And then I started thinking about it and I'm like okay, so a 5k is only an hour, like you know what I mean, and I was like I could do that, but then my brain was like stop, this is not our goal right now. Like, let's just ease into this a little bit. Yeah, and honestly, like one of the I'm going to stop saying it honestly, because I don't know where that's coming from lately but I my biggest thing, though, is, goal wise, not really a 5k, but the whole reason I started incorporating cardio in my workouts.
Speaker 1:I remembered, like a month ago, I was like I'm gonna put cardio on my workouts and I'm gonna fucking hate it. A month ago, um, it's because of harper you know what I mean. Like it's I need to be able to keep up with her, and me five years ago would not be able to keep up with her. Today, like that's just not something that would happen. Yeah, so that's kind of just my goal at this point is to just keep up yeah, at least my wife.
Speaker 1:Or cardio, yeah, I don't know. It changed when I did that little jog thing. My body was like, oh, I like this. And now here we are.
Speaker 2:I mean honestly. I've told you forever that I hate strength training and even though I still haven't necessarily applied them all, I did do uh. So Lisa and I I don't know why I incorporated me Lisa made this workout routine, uh, of booty buddies. I just said me because I'm gonna be part of it.
Speaker 2:But I didn't do shit, all to create it and anyway it's like without the weights. It's just an at home, like you know, where you can do strength training, and I just realized during it that I have no core, I have no strength at all, like I had lost strength in my legs actually after having that boot on my foot and I have no upper body strength like ever in my life, um and uh, no core strength at all.
Speaker 2:And so I'm watching a lot of these bodybuilders right now and stuff online and I it's like I can feel it. Like I can feel what they're doing and it's making me want to go do it more. Right now I can't do much, but okay, sorry to like go into myself right now, but no do what you super quick.
Speaker 2:Um, I'm so deep into a depression right now. Uh, being back off work. Everyone knows how I feel about that. I'm really not going to go into that all again. If you don't know how I feel about it, just think I'm depressed, okay, um. And when I think about not being able to do all those exercises now, however, some of them are not standing, like the squats yeah, you're standing and stuff, but there is a lot of floor ones that I could still incorporate.
Speaker 2:But talking about going to the gym and doing strength exercising, I'm getting depressed because I'm off work. I can't necessarily stand as much right now, but I can go do the swimming thing that I have been talking about for so long. My swimsuit is still on the back of my door and I think I'm just gonna do that because the only person that can flip the script here is me. It's just that I'm not really wanting to take accountability right now because I'm just so angry and mad and frustrated and I'm turning 40 and then, like I'm thinking about everything that can be awful in my life and I'm not thinking about anything that's good. I literally and and you know what switched it Ha is you? I was sitting there right before the podcast and I was talking to Rems and I was like what is the one thing that could make me happy right now? And I'm like I wish Lisa was here.
Speaker 1:Like I really do. I'm like.
Speaker 2:I just really wish that Lisa was here now.
Speaker 1:Hi, I'm Lisa. I'm new here.
Speaker 2:And I was like, okay're gonna record the podcast with her, so you're, even though you're not physically here, which fucking sucks. You know, like I kind of manifested this, I created this like what would make me happy right now, lisa? Okay, so what would make my body feel better swimming, you know? So it's like I'm trying to switch flip the script and just think about positive things.
Speaker 2:It's just so hard when you think of one positive thing and then immediately you'll think of like five negative things, yeah, and I'm just like like, seriously, what did I think about just right then? Thinking about going swimming. Well, you still have to walk up to it, like you're going to have to get there with your feet. It's like, why do I have to think badly about that? You know, it's just like I'm going to have to walk on my foot. I have to walk on it to go to the bathroom, yeah, anyway. So I'm trying very hard to just flip it. I know I can't do strength now, but there's other strength things like fricking. Swimming is a strength exercise, it's cardio, but like against the water, like it's know you need strength for that. It's not moving anyway. So, um, thank you for that. Lisa, lisa's like on, lisa's just like living life right now. Now it's figured out, she loves cardio. I swear to god, one day you're gonna be like I'm coming to vancouver to run the sun run and I'll be like who are you?
Speaker 1:you know what uh drives me crazy though it doesn't drive me crazy I don't know if it's jealousy, I don't know what the feeling is but like when I go on to heavy and I go on to like the like, uh, what's the spot called like motivation or whatever, the spot where you it's not like your friends page, but it's just like a you could see random people page, yeah, and it's like I go through it and I see people like lifting weights and like how many hours they're putting into it and how much they're lifting, and it's like, man, I want to be able to do that.
Speaker 1:Like I see it, I'm like, oh, man, I'm going to be able to do that. And then I have to like remind myself that it's like you are not somebody who's in your early 20s and only affording stuff for yourself, like you know what I mean. And it's just like I. I just had to have that uh brought down to earth this morning when I was slipping through it, because I saw somebody and they were like yeah, I'm aiming to lift a hundred thousand. I'm like, oh, man, I want to lift a hundred thousand. But then I'm like I don't have the fucking time, yeah, to do something like that.
Speaker 2:Right, so yeah, like jealousy is fucking the, it's in the middle of all. That is evil, but it goes in circles.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Like I'm looking at this person and I'm like I want that, but then other people look at me and they're just like I want that. Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like it's which perfect example I mean I'll I don't mind telling people on here I've been I sent Lisa a voice note. I was crying, I was upset. I'm jealous of Lisa right now because I think that it was even back when Ken was on this podcast how that was. When I came to the reality that I was like I want to run a 5k. It was something Ken said and I'm like I'm gonna start doing that.
Speaker 2:And then I was talking to Sarah and then Sarah was like going to like help me out and whatnot, and then it was just like always something happening. So when Lisa said that she wanted to run a 5k, and I'm like the person that hates cardio, likes running now, and I'm like and I'm incapable of doing anything and jealousy definitely took over my brain and I think that that is not it's all me over my brain and I think that that is not it's all me, uh. But I think that's part of what even started like my depressive episode was because I was letting my jealousy completely take over when it was like and it was so hard because by like, I know, you know this, but I'm so happy for you and I think it's freaking amazing that, like you like cardio.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, but it's so freaking crazy to me. Like I love that. Like all of a sudden you just were like I'm gonna do it. Fuck, hey, this is an advertisement for pre-workout, I think. Um, but like when Lisa and I started, god like restarted whatever you want to call it when we were doing it again this year, we were starting at the same weight and he said we can't compare, we can't be jealous of each other, and it's going, it's. It still stings.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna freaking lie it's no, but it's because my body is not capable of it. Now I also have to remember that we're definitely 100, two different people, and also two different people, obviously and um, very different lives, 10 years difference as well, and, like you know, as someone that just hasn't taken care of their body for almost a decade longer than you it's just like I just have to be realistic about it and it's like stop focusing on this 5k thing, because five years ago you didn't want to do that and like now you can't right now. So it's like refocus, why can't you do swimming? Why can't you become really good at that?
Speaker 2:My goal actually was supposed to be for swimming, to be able to do the somersault at the I used to do that, I used to be on a swim team is to do the somersault at the end and push off so you could keep going continuously. I can't do that anymore, but I'm like that's my goal and it's like I'm just trying to refocus on that. You know what it is. I think it's like a like a showboating kind of thing. Okay, I don't know how I'm trying to explain this, if I become good at doing the somersault in the water, the only person that knows that I've done that or that I'm getting good at, that is me.
Speaker 2:But then if I run a 5k, there's several witnesses to that right, you know what I mean, and it's almost like I need to refocus that who I'm doing this for I'm not doing, and I think that social media has had a little bit of that to like switch my brain, but it's like I'm not doing this for anybody else, I'm not losing weight for Rams or for you or for my mom or for society. I'm doing that for me and also like, well, when I was doing the whole weight loss thing, now it's like who am I building strength for? Steve on the corner or me Like why does Steve matter?
Speaker 2:You know, and it's, yeah, I have to shift my focus and it just takes a lot of work and it's hard, and anyway, now everyone knows that I am a jealous person.
Speaker 1:The other thing about the jealousy part, though, is like you can't. You can't control how you feel. You know what I mean. Like if something makes you feel a certain can't, you can't control how you feel. You know what I mean. Like if something makes you feel a certain way, you can't control that. It's just how you feel, but you can control how, like, you handle the situation, or you like you know what I mean. So like you could have gone total bitch and be like you know what. I don't want to talk to you anymore because, like you said, you hated cardio and now you're fucking running and like you're just a two-faced bitch and blah, blah, blah. Like you could have totally gone off on that, but instead, like we talked about it, but instead we talked about it. You know what I mean. Like I think that's that's the difference of the jealousy of what we were talking about at the start of the year versus the jealousy that we're talking about now and if it, helps.
Speaker 1:The scale is totally still at the 330 same, probably more.
Speaker 2:I haven't. I haven't gone on it. Uh, I'm too afraid. Um, I'm not afraid. That was silly to say anyway. Uh, the thing is is I didn't want to talk to you about it. That was. The problem is, I really was trying to stay silent because I was like I don't want to take this away from you just because I'm jealous. And so it actually got to the point where Lisa was like I don't want to take this away from you just because I'm jealous. And so it actually got to the point where Lisa was like are you okay the next day? Because I wasn't responding, I hadn't posted on TikTok in a few days, and then that's when I was like I gotta tell her that.
Speaker 2:I'm just like not doing good. And then that's when we talked and it was great. But I, yeah, my whole thing of when I'm upset about something is complete avoidance. Yeah, like my friend Allie, who I went to the wedding of last year it's literally been just over one year since that wedding and we haven't seen each other since and like she was going through her own thing which I'm not going to talk about, but now she wants to hang out and I'm like I'm definitely going through something similar now and anyway, it's just I'm shutting everyone out and it just kind of sucks. I don't want to leave my house. I haven't left my house in a week. Oh, my God, it's actually been exactly a week. Yeah, I need to see daylight. No wonder I'm vitamin D deficient. Tell me about it. And I'm a graveyard worker.
Speaker 1:when I work, I've lived in a basement for like 10 years, so that's where I always live too.
Speaker 2:No wonder I'm vitamin d deficient. I live in canada, I always lived in basement suites, and now I'm a graveyard worker yeah, I forget my light.
Speaker 1:What's suddenly? Yeah especially in canada, you mean when we turn on that lamp why do you think my plants are in one area? They're all like behind them oh, oh man.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I am. I love your goals and I love everything that you're doing and, like you're in haircut, it's just like lisa's just oh god, don't take the haircut as anything.
Speaker 1:You know what it was. This is not a thrive, this is a fuck. This heat my hair is down to my boobs. I'm like brushing it is a pain in the ass. Just cut it off, I'm done. That's what this was. This was not a hey, let's restart.
Speaker 2:No, my brother came over okay, I was like jeez, you're really good at doing I would have messed that up.
Speaker 1:I? I have been cutting it myself over the past couple years, but because I wanted to go shorter and I didn't want to fuck it up, I asked have been cutting it myself over the past couple years, but because I wanted to go shorter and I didn't want to fuck it up, I asked my brother to come over that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, uh sorry there has been so much that has gone on in the last like oh, yeah, well we haven't recorded in forever.
Speaker 1:Cory was here yesterday and I was like oh yeah, chris and I recorded tomorrow. And he's like oh yay love that.
Speaker 2:Um, but I know a lot of people were like uh, we took a hiatus mostly because I was going on that cruise and we couldn't record before it, and like two weeks before it, I think. And then once we came back, that's when I started going depressing, uh.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we had the opportunity to record last weekend and Chris was like I'm not feeling it. I'm like, yeah, okay, Like I wasn't going to push it. I knew there was shit going on, you know.
Speaker 2:So yeah, but yeah, like the cruise was great. I was actually starting to experience most of my foot pain during that time and I couldn't do as much as I wanted to, but cruise was still great. It was a big enough ship for me and my foot definitely. Um, would I go with Holland America again? Yes, uh, but I would do all the booking on my own because I feel like those people over there are like crazy, their customer service like.
Speaker 2:But I you know what, these days I feel like all customer service is pretty crazy. It's that post-covid um. We don't give a shit anymore, um. But yeah, like the cruise was really great, things are going good. I'm just in my feels and I'm trying to push my way out of it. Also, another thing did you know remember the dip king, the guy that was like making all those cottage cheese dips?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, yeah, I saw that he's gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah and I, yeah, yeah, hey, the hoser I want to see, I want to have someone from minnesota on this oh my god I think that'd be great. So I was trying to find his cottage cheese recipe for, uh, what was it?
Speaker 2:the dip, the devil egg yeah and anyway, and I made it and I was like it's missing something. It turned out it was a pickle, because thank god, I actually made the recipe and then put it in a cottage cheese folder like, yes, I found it. There is so many more new amazing recipes. I don't know if I sent it to you. I know I sent it to my cousin.
Speaker 2:It's like a tortilla wrap in like a low cake pan and then you put in some um eggs and then you sent this to me half a cup of cottage cheese or something, and oh god, I can't remember everything that was in it, but then it was just like meat and cheese and then you bake it. But all I keep thinking in it is anytime you're gonna bake with cottage cheese, you need to put that cottage cheese into like a paper towel or a cheesecloth or something and wring out that excess moisture or else it's just gonna make that um tortilla wrap super soggy, I feel like there's a lot of people online that do these recipes and then just show you like the good part, and it's like can you show me what the bottom side looks like please?
Speaker 2:yes whereas, like when I've done cottage cheese recipes, I show people and I'm like, yeah, you need to let like these dips that you like air fry and stuff chill for like five minutes so that like it solids right back up, right um, side note, I need a new air fryer. Mine stopped working and I only figured that out because Rams and I went to eat chicken burgers and I'm like, is your chicken burger still cold on the inside? And they were pre-cooked they're the pre-cooked ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got that from. Usually the chicken burgers are are pre-cooked, yeah yeah, but uh, yeah, I'm really that's I've had it for three years and I use it so much, though.
Speaker 2:So like, yeah, definitely got its money's worth, but I just bought a ninja creamy that I'm not even using and, I'm gonna be honest, I'm not fucking using it right now, uh, and I don't have to buy any other air fryer, right rams yeah, I love my air fryer.
Speaker 1:Um, honestly, I'm a ninja household. I have a ninja blender that I love. I have. I just got the ninja creamy one a couple weeks ago also.
Speaker 2:Um, really like that there is an air fryer on sale at costco too.
Speaker 1:I the dual one oh, the dual one is the one I told brandon. I want to upgrade to the dual one, but I like the one I have and I don't need a new air fryer right now um. I love my air fryer.
Speaker 1:I love my, I love my um blender. I love my ninja creamy I have there's something. Oh, and I, my slow cooker is Ninja brand too. I love Ninja I also. Brandon also got me the Ninja blast, which is the little portable Ninja smoothie maker, mostly because Harper is afraid of the blender and I've been on my smoothie journey over the last couple of weeks now and smoothie journey I don't know if you want to fucking calling it that, but I, I, I've been drinking more smoothies and I go to blend, and Harper is terrified of the blender. So he got me a portable blender so that I can blend it in the car. After I dropped Harper off at daycare.
Speaker 1:Um, so that's what I was going to talk about. Does it work good? Yes, as long as you go liquid to frozen, don't put. Yes, as long as you go liquid to frozen, don't put the frozen in first. Go liquid to frozen, uh, and then blend it. Um, the other thing too.
Speaker 2:So then technically, when you're putting it in, put the frozen first in. No, the other way it's upside down.
Speaker 1:No no, the other way. The blade is here, and then the cup is here, and then it's open and you put it in. It blends from the bottom of the cup. Yeah, whoa. Yeah, I'll show it to you later, but it uh blown away right now. I I do really like it, the literally the only downside to it. The only thing I don't like is that the battery on it only lasts for like two minutes so each time you turn it on, it's 30.
Speaker 1:It's a 30 second blend. There's no pulse, it's just you turn it on and it's a 30 second blend, and I can only get four to six blends and then the battery dies. So that's the only thing I don't like about it. So I have to charge it like every day yeah, yeah, creamy.
Speaker 2:Uh, can you okay? So what? Listen? I bought the ninja creamy. I made a pint with a premier protein, two tablespoons of the sugar-free pudding mixture. I went to go blend it, but, to be fair, it had been sitting in my freezer for a week so it came out like crumbly right it came out so crumbly. Yeah, that's, and also the blade got trapped halfway down oh, that's not normal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when I yeah, it comes out crumbly. I usually add a little bit of milk and then re-spin it. Um, some people have said you just have to do the re-spin and then it'll be fine, but I usually add a little bit of milk to mine.
Speaker 2:I couldn't re-spin it, so I didn't know if like. I was the problem, but it says if you're gonna put a mix-in in, don't re-spin it, does it yeah, I do it. I read the instructions and it said somewhere like no, if you're doing a mix-in, for that, like don't re-spin.
Speaker 1:And then that just didn't make any sense to me yeah, I add a little bit of milk re-spin and then I put in my mix-ins.
Speaker 2:I was thinking it might be nice to add in of that like heavy cream, because it says, like to make like a regular base you need like cream cheese and yeah, I don't know stuff, but that was a lot of sugar in there, but I just thought like if you had the premier protein and then added um the whipping cream, like heavy 35 cream, just like not too much, it might just add.
Speaker 1:Add that little bit of extra creaminess yeah, I did a strawberry one the other day with the strawberry alani new shake and chopped up like super small and mashed up a bit strawberry have them in there, or did you mix them in after?
Speaker 1:like freezing it. Yeah, I had it in there, but I mushed them up so it wasn't like full strawberries that the blender had to go through, because you're not supposed to use like whole fruits with it. I really want to try the what was it Frose, I think, is what it was called where you use rose wine and strawberries and make like a sorbet. I want to try that.
Speaker 2:That'd be nice, Did you? When you're using your Alani ones, are you using ice cream button or using the light ice cream button?
Speaker 1:I use light, add a little bit of milk, and then I use ice cream.
Speaker 2:Okay, these are good questions, also, if anyone out there has good recipes oh, yeah, hit us up. Let us know, send us an email. We would love to know if I'm going to try probably be updating.
Speaker 1:I actually want to try making my smoothie recipe in one of them and seeing how it turns out, because there's a spot for smoothie bowl and I'm obsessed with this one smoothie right now, it's so freaking good obsessed with this one smoothie right now.
Speaker 2:It's so freaking good. Oh, do you know what we did, though? Um, in the one that we made, rams really liked it. It was an alani shake, I think it was the munchies one, with just fat free. Well, we call it fat free here, but it's the sugar free pudding. Um, two tablespoons, and then I added in a tablespoon of that nespresso not Nespresso, nescafe, espresso, the powdered kind and it was like coffee, it was so good.
Speaker 1:We tried making that one too, and I found it was too much coffee.
Speaker 2:I think I may have added too much coffee though you know what might be good, then, if you find it too coffee, is that cafe latte premier protein Cause that has caffeine in it and it kind of tastes like mocha.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I want to. I have a whole bunch of ones that I want to try. The other thing I started doing is I just started doing half pints. I don't fill it all the way up. I like the strawberry one. I put it into two separate pints because it's too much. Like I'm a nice, I like ice cream, but I'm not a eat an entire pint by myself.
Speaker 2:But like do you, would you fill it all the way up, because even in the lani shake it only goes like halfway yours only goes halfway.
Speaker 2:Mine goes all the way to the top no with a full shake yeah, no, it's to be a different size cups I don't know, I don't think, so yeah weird. Are you talking about, like the edge, or is there actually a max fill line? The max fill line? I don't know where that is, so maybe I should. Maybe that's what I messed up and all of a sudden, everything makes sense uh, yeah, actually it's probably during that time too that it defrosted, and then I refrosted it because my freezer door was wide open one day and I lost all of our groceries and it was packed full and I'm really upset about that.
Speaker 2:This has just been a really stop focusing on the bad, christine. I'm gonna get new groceries.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars today. Speaking about spending a hundred dollars, I was at Costco today and the woman that was checking us out was like throwing our groceries into the cart, like chucking them in, didn't care about like the damage or anything she was doing. And it's like I understand that you're in a rush, but like with the amount of money that I am spending on groceries now, like dude. Avocados at costco used to be seven bucks, they're 12, now 12.99 here. Yeah, that's oh, it's 11.99 here all through instacart I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:So oh, yeah, so 12.99.
Speaker 1:That checks out. Yeah, no pun intended, it's insane yeah. I couldn't believe it. Even the chicken that I used to buy, like that's gone up too. Everything's gone up.
Speaker 2:It's so expensive yeah, but I'm actually leaving avocados off the menu this week because I'm like, no, we'll have them every once in a while yeah, we just got the holy guacamole packets that I have been putting on my avocado toast.
Speaker 1:We're just gonna put that in our salads because, like avocados, it's just like okay, I'm ready, and it's like I don't have time to eat three avocados today like I.
Speaker 2:So I have an instacart. Um, I'm done with instacart on June 3rd and I'm actually not renewing with them because I was like no, I need to stop ordering. But like, look, we're getting a 1 liter of the heavy whipping cream. Chicken breasts my chicken breasts are so expensive at Costco. A pack of diet Pepsi bananas, zucchini, the frozen meat, lasagnas for Rams, the individual ones they're only $15.99 for six of them. That's pretty great.
Speaker 2:But then the rest is like, oh yeah, bread, cheese and then a chicken pot pie. We got toilet paper, the Dawn power wash dish soap and then hand soap refills. It comes to, before taxes, before tip or anything, $165. Like $50 of that is just like you know, the soap, the dish soap and the toilet paper. But like that's not even a lot of groceries. Like bread and cheese Okay, we have it for grilled cheese. Rams has his lunches with the frozen stuff, and then I have eight chicken breasts and zucchini for dinners and then I have broccoli in there right now. But it's like I know I'm gonna go to the fridge and go, I want a snack and I don't want any of this. And it's just so frustrating because then that's when we end up over at 7-eleven and then we're getting crap snacks. You know it's just so freaking expensive, it's just, it's.
Speaker 2:I just. Yeah, it'll be cheaper if I go in person. I know that, but right now I can't go in person and I'm not sending Ramson to do the Costco shop on his own. For one, he would hate it.
Speaker 1:For two, he would hate it because he can't find anything like never mind, just hating it by himself today we were on our way to Costco and I said to Brandon I'm like we are on a tight budget, like we stick to the list and that's it. And he's just like then why am I even here? Oh, what?
Speaker 2:what is a good snack that you like? That's not gonna like raise my cholesterol? Um, because, by the way, my popcorn, when we have that, then we already have that I love popcorn.
Speaker 1:It's like my favorite snack right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got blood work done and I do have my cholesterol has gone higher and I know it's because of the crap that I've been eating Like. When he said it, I'm like I know, I'm like I've been eating like crap and I know. And he's just like, hey, well, we should put you on pills. I'm like, honestly, I would rather try and get through it on my own, Like I'm mad that my numbers are going up and I know I'm doing it to myself, I know what I'm doing, but it's like I and I'm anyway I'm trying to do like a reset tomorrow, Like you can do it today, but it's just like it's our Sunday. I told Rams, as of tomorrow, like shit's got to change because right now I can't control my exercise as much, but I can control my food.
Speaker 1:So as much as I can can anyway, that's what I'm focused on.
Speaker 2:I feel like I've really talked enough about myself today.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry out there if you're bored by that um, we weren't here when this happened and I was excited to talk about it, so I've been waiting to talk about this. Um, I was one year without pizza on May 11th. Holy shit, it's been a year. Yep, I know everybody else is surprised because they can't believe it's been a year, but I'm like, holy fuck, it's a year.
Speaker 2:Finally, believe that also you didn't text me.
Speaker 1:You were dealing with your crew stuff, so I, yeah, I didn't yeah.
Speaker 2:I am so proud of you, dude.
Speaker 1:That is freaking amazing, isn't that insane? Like? And when I say no pizza, like, I mean I didn't have any pizza. Like thing. No, like pizza rolls, pizza pops, pizza pockets, actual pizza.
Speaker 1:uh, like flat bakes, like anything close to pizza, nothing can I just tell you don't ever go on a cruise well and, honestly, the biggest achievement in that is because, like it's been around me, like it's not, like I've told everybody else around me, no, don't have pizza around me. You know what I mean. Like people, like they have pizza parties at work, I don't have it. My family orders pizza. I order the pasta. Like it's. It's been around me the entire year and I haven't had it for over a year now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one year and 25 days.
Speaker 2:That's so crazy, but who's counting? I think it's freaking awesome. Who's counting? What I meant by that cruise comment, by the way, is like I forgot to mention. If you are someone that is a binge eater, a cruise is your worst place to be. Um, I ate so much food. I think I went back for seconds and thirds of steak dinners.
Speaker 2:Um, damn, but they have a pizza bar and it's like you can just go grab as much pizza as you want and just keep eating it. And I actually didn't. I didn't have one slice oh good for you which I was really proud of. But also because I knew like there's been times where I'll eat pizza at home and I'm like, okay, well, there's no plans for tomorrow so I can be close to the bathroom. Uh, because I just can't deal with that pain and everything but, um, normally like, but if I'm at home, it's like I can justify it. I really can't because it's awful, but anyway, I didn't want to justify that while I was on a cruise, for only seven days Fair.
Speaker 1:The thing with the pizza, though, made me realize like it made. It made me shoot back to basics, where I had to realize. For me, it's not just about the calorie deficit, it's about treating food like an addiction.
Speaker 1:And that's the one thing that has always helped me through everything is realizing that food is there to fuel my body. It's not there to it sucks to say, but it's like, yeah, you should enjoy your food and you should like your food and all that stuff, but it's like I enjoy food too much, right? So it's like I had to come back to that basics. I had Taco Bell twice last week, bell twice last week, and taco bell is not triggering like pizza is to me. Oh, but I did talk on our one group chat about how I found a donut last weekend that is triggering like pizza to me, and I had that conversation with Brandon. I'm like we cannot buy those donuts anymore, like it's just, I only had it twice. So it's a lot easier for me to say like I can't buy that anymore versus pizza, where it's something I've had my entire's, something I've had my entire life, something I've loved my entire life.
Speaker 1:If you've listened to the early episodes of the podcast Kristen, I talked about pizza all the time, like we love pizza, yeah, and so to give up something like that that I had such an emotional attachment to was really hard, and as soon as I started to feel that way with the donut. I'm like I have to cut that off. But I didn't really have that feeling with Taco Bell. Taco Bell is just something that I do enjoy, but last week it was just like we hadn't gone to the grocery store. Everything was so busy. We just didn't have the chance to cook dinner and make dinners and when I, if I have the opportunity, where Brandon and I aren are eating together and we're doing something separate, I'm having Taco Bell because he doesn't like Taco Bell.
Speaker 1:But before this week, the last week, I had it like the day that I had it the first time. It's been months and months and months and months and months Like I want to say December, maybe November, like it's been a long time since I'd had it. But then I had it two days later and that's when I had the realization of okay, this is a slippery slope, not pizza slippery slope, but just a slippery slope in general of this is food addiction kicking in. Now you could have made food at home.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean Like it's. So I've kind of had to have that heart to heart with myself of realization with food and bring that in. Had a conversation with mom not in this depth, but we are going back to our salads during the week, which I'm excited about, cause we haven't done that in a couple of months, cause we A got sick of salad and so we were buying the stuff but then not eating the stuff and it was just food waste. And it's like we just we needed a break, buying the stuff but then not eating the stuff and it was just food waste. And it's like we just we needed a break, we needed a reset.
Speaker 1:But now that we've slipped down that taco or taco bell take out thing, um, both of us were just like we need to go back to salads we have because, like, we don't want to eat the junk that we did before, and then we go home or we go to work and all we have is leftover of and when I say junk, I mean like the cliche junk food and, in quotations, like the fried chicken or the pizza or the talk about whatever you take leftovers for lunch the next day and now you feel gross because now you've had it two days in a row and it's not in the moderation that you wanted and versus. Okay, let's buy salad stuff. So then if I do eat that burger later, I'm not gonna feel like I'm still in that moderation mindset you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:yeah, I feel like I rambled a bit there, but no, not as much as me um so, anyways, I am one year and I wish there was like a little um chip. Like you know how, like when you hit like one year without drinking, it's like you get that little like token that's like you've made it one year.
Speaker 1:I want like a one year without pizza token, because that it would just make me feel like I've actually accomplished this. You know what I mean? Like yes, I'm proud of myself and yes, it's been hard and I can't believe I did it, and yada, yada, yada. But like I just wish I had that little thing that I could be like look what I did like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:No, I, I totally know what you mean.
Speaker 1:Like it's like the 5k thing that you were talking about earlier. Yeah, no.
Speaker 2:I yeah, oh, I think, um, this has been good. Honestly, it's been nice to smile and enjoy talking to someone, not, okay, that sounded really awful so when were you gonna tell us rams is an alien? Oh man, but you know what I mean, man. Why can't you live here or I live there? I will never live in ontario. You gotta come here, man, you gotta come here there's a lot happening here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, somebody messaged me on Instagram today. They were like hey, I saw you at the gym and I'm like well, next time say hi. I was like I know I have major resting bitch face, but I swear I will never be interrupted if somebody like interrupts my workouts. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2:Actually, I, for totally didn't think. I told you I'm on the cruise ship and I think it was day one or two. We went down to the casino it was me, my brother and Cam and I went to go sit in a chair and this girl just looks up at me and she's like is your name Chris? And immediately I went what did I do wrong? Why would someone know my name on this cruise ship? And I'm like yeah, and she's like oh, I follow you on TikTok. And I'm like what the fuck are the odds of that?
Speaker 2:I was so like oh my god, totally thrown off, um, but that was really cool, like to actually like I don't know, I don't know why I have such a guilty conscience. It's ever since I, even when I was in high school, like you get called to the principal's office. It's like who did I kill?
Speaker 1:who did I murder? I know, or like I'm the same way, like I'll be working away and then, like my boss, comes out of their office and they're like, can I talk to you for a second?
Speaker 2:oh, don't say that. Oh awesome where it's like oh well, when you have time later we need to talk, or anything like that just fucking say it.
Speaker 1:so I have said to like I've been open with my boss. I was like, yeah, like you know, when somebody does this like that, just like huge panic attack, and he's like we're like the same age, you know what I mean. So it's like he gets it. And the one time like him and my boss's boss sent me a meeting request, and I was like oh, and then five seconds later he sent me a meeting request and I was like ooh, and then five seconds later he sends me a Teams message and he's like, just FYI, we're just talking about this, everything's good.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Yeah, no, my brother always used to send a text, Not always it was very random, so it's like you know, if it was something that he constantly did, it wouldn't be a red flag. But he would send me a message saying can I call you why? Who died?
Speaker 1:What do you?
Speaker 2:have to say in person Every time I'd be like, yeah sure, what's going on, what's wrong? And then he's like nothing's wrong. I just want to know if I can call you.
Speaker 1:Just try and call me like if I don't answer.
Speaker 2:I don't answer. I always call people. I'm a caller. However, with you, normally I like I do call, but I will sometimes say send a text saying are you free to chat, and that's normally if I'm like really upset about something I was gonna say.
Speaker 1:If I go back in my chat or in my calls versus my texts right now, I think you've only sent me that like twice, but honestly there was a time there for like the first year of our friendship or something.
Speaker 2:I never called you because I was just like I don't know, like I don't know what your life's like, like sometimes you don't respond to texts for a while. Like I don't know, maybe you don't want to talk on the phone. I'm a horrible texter and I've gotten worse. Like I was bad then, I'm so bad now and I don't even have anything to blame it on, and I'm awful like I think I have many unread messages in my phone, or no, they've been read, but not. Let's take a look.
Speaker 2:Actually let's not go down, because when you look, at my email.
Speaker 1:I have over 300 email notifications on my phone right now.
Speaker 2:I have actually way too many. I think it's 118 I know exactly, and it's because of that stupid red dot and it makes me so anxious, but I'm like I don't want to go through them all and delete them. Like where did all these spam emails start all my notification? It's not even.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no I don't know there we go, there's too many red dots three, four, five, six red dots with the total screen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, I won't flip because there's too many red dots.
Speaker 1:I have one, two, three, four, five, six red dots with the total screen. Yeah, oh yeah, I won't flip because there's more on another screen, but just on the one screen. We've got five, six red dots with a total of what? Three hundred and how?
Speaker 2:have you already been standing for nine out of ten?
Speaker 1:oh wait, never mind I've been hours ahead, yeah, and I also went to the harper, put peanut butter in my hair. Oh no, it's sticky. Anyways, I'll deal with that. After, um, I'm gonna read an affirmation and then I think we shouldn't have, uh, goals for this week, except, well, I was gonna say no like goals. But maybe we should just write down one positive thing that happens this week for next week. Cool, okay, I'll read our affirmation and then we'll call it a day, because I gotta wake up my child from her nap this week I have to renew my driver's license.
Speaker 2:I have to go get fasting blood work because I'm part of that medical weight management program.
Speaker 1:Again, I haven't oh yeah, I meant to ask if you wanted to talk about on here, but we can talk about that.
Speaker 2:We'll probably talk about that next time because, like I don't even really know, I'm just in my thoughts. Bariatric surgery is back on the table. People are probably rolling their eyes at me saying that, but nobody's rolling their eyes.
Speaker 1:If somebody's rolling their eyes, they can just go ahead and not listen to us anymore. Like it's like. That just means you're not into what we talk about and that's fine. We're not offended, just leave all right, here we go listen, bitch. Oh shit. No, you're allowed to fail.
Speaker 1:Learn from it, dust yourself off and fuck shit up nice I like it I and y'all don't see it, but I literally just sat here and just shuffled it and then picked one and that is what the universe thought that we, chris, needed to hear, and, uh, shut up oh man, all right, I appreciate you listening to me and everyone else out there listening to me.
Speaker 2:I say me because, honestly, I think I was the one bitching this whole time like I don't know. Yeah, let's just everyone give a round of applause elisa for her accomplishments, because I feel like I'm such a fucking downer it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Oh there's, there is nothing.
Speaker 2:I really get that way I really do hope you know how sincere I am about, how proud I am of you. I think you're doing fucking amazing. You're killing it and you're fuck. How do you have the time?
Speaker 1:I don't I get up at three in the fucking morning. Yeah, I don't know, but I'm like my sleep is taking a toll, and that is one thing that I've said that I want to work on is my sleep issue. But you know, something's got to give, unfortunately, and it's usually either my house or my sleep yeah, no, I hear you definitely my video games. I only play video games on Fridays now.
Speaker 2:I love having people over in my house. There's no way I would let any point point my mom needed help with because she's got a continuous monitor now for her diabetes. Hers disconnected so she needed me to change it. And because of my foot I'm like mom, I can't come up to you. But if you come down here and then she's like, hey, what's your bus, your number, so I can come, oh, I'm like, oh, no, we'll be meeting in your car. And I sat in her car and helped her change her monitor. I brought down wipes and everything I needed with me. I'm like you're not allowed in my apartment and I'm not normally embarrassed by anything, but I'm like no one is stepping foot in here.
Speaker 1:That's fair. Our place is pretty bad right now too, but that's just as I said, it's like something's got to give. You know, you're sitting here like oh my God. You're like like these are such great accomplishments. My husband's been tackling the house fantastically.
Speaker 1:Me, like it's been pulling tooth and nail, because I all of my efforts have been going in like other functions of the house and like budgeting and groceries and all that stuff, and then I'm trying to take care of myself physically and mentally, plus take care of Harper, plus take care of family. Like it's just something's got to give, you know, and then that means your house falls apart and that means sometimes your health falls apart. Sometimes that means like and then you pick up that and then something else falls apart because, like you, just you only. I know a lot of people use the spoons analogy, but like I like to think of it more as, like every day you start with as a big jug of water and there's different cups that you have to fill. But these different cups are different sizes and sometimes more water is going to go in the bigger cup and sometimes more water is going to go in the smaller cup, but you can only put the water in so many cups until you're out of water.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean and sometimes the big jugs.
Speaker 1:You just have to fill up little bits at a time until it's done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm going to play Sims.
Speaker 1:I've logged in for 2,000 hours. Oh fuck, that's a lot of hours. I am not kidding if I open it right now.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's gone. Oh yeah, it doesn't use Orion anymore. Eh, it's the EA app. That's not new. Well, I don't mean new, but I mean, like I didn't play it like last year. I don't think so. Literally only since I've been off, so about since 2020 um, I have logged, oh, 1901 hours and 42 minutes that is still more than me.
Speaker 2:I I can't get onto it, but I'm pretty sure I'm at 1400 and well, I downloaded this in 2018, but I didn't use it as much back then. It literally was mostly since coped. So I've, yeah, that's, but I was off work for how long?
Speaker 1:yeah, I was still working through covid. I was an essential service, so I didn't have time for that. So, yeah, anyways, I gotta leave. Yeah, enjoy the affirmation. Have a good day life. Meet whenever you hear from us again yeah, if you don't hear from us next week, just know, it's because chris is still depressed yeah, and also like we're not doing our double recordings right now.
Speaker 2:So that too. Yeah, you know, even if I'm depressed, we're gonna meet next weekend. Yes, okay, do it yeah all right if I'm depressed we're going to meet next weekend. Yes, okay, do it.
Speaker 1:Yep, all right If I'm also depressed. Are we still going to meet?
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm going to force you.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I'm like that's fine, you take care of yourself.
Speaker 2:But Chris is like no bitch, yes, of course, if you don't feel like recording, we won't record, but then everyone should be here. It's Lisa's problem.