The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
FGT 48: Laughter, Growth, and Grey Hair Revelations
Have you ever tried matcha tea and found yourself in the midst of a taste bud war? That's exactly how our recent recording session kicked off, sparking laughter and debate over our wildly different preferences. Journey with us as we introduce our lively podcast segments, "Fat Girl Therapy" and "My Big Fat Mouth," where we tackle the highs and lows of weight loss journeys, and revel in those unforgettable "Am I the Asshole?" moments. As we juggle the constraints of our limited recording hours, we ponder how time seems to sprint past us, sharing anecdotes that promise a chuckle or two.
Social media's whirlwind can be a tricky dance, especially when navigating body positivity and fitness. We unravel the complexities of setting personal health goals amid the noise, like focusing on knee strength, and the transformative shift within the body positivity community towards embracing wellness. Our conversation is a heartfelt reminder to prioritize self-love without capitulating to outside pressures and judgments. With platforms like TikTok influencing our perceptions, we explore the delicate balance between staying true to oneself and the pressures that social media can impose on mental health.
Embracing the quirks of aging has never been this much fun! From gray hair revelations to the evolution of personal style, we share personal anecdotes that highlight the beauty of growing older, including the playful ways partners sometimes point out those silver strands. We also laugh about the charm and individuality that natural white streaks can bring. As we close out this episode, authenticity is the star, underscoring the importance of loving who we are and embracing life's personal growth journeys, complete with the occasional family joke and the joy of being unapologetically ourselves. Tune in for a candid, insightful, and humor-filled exploration of our shared experiences.
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Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.
Okay, can you hear me? I can. I can't see you, yeah. I'm working on that.
Speaker 2:When I got over here because I was like, oh yeah, sure, let's just record, because normally I'm so used to just coming over here and plopping down I was like my mic isn't here.
Speaker 1:My thing is here.
Speaker 2:Before we get like into anything I was gonna say are you ready to like record the waiting room, like us fat girl therapy, or do you to do an? Am I the asshole because I do want to launch once? We do have a couple in the bag because of us like I don't want to launch and then it just be like like last year was so bad? Last year was probably the worst year we had I uh don't have any found, but I'm down.
Speaker 1:Oh, I have.
Speaker 2:I have the monster one. That's what I was like the one that's three updates and they are huge, like one episode. Huge, oh gosh.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, we can do that. What do we want to call that? Like, if we're just going to start doing, am I the Assholes? Like we can only find so many fat people? Am I the Assholes? Things, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Or like diet, or blah, blah, blah so I think we should just be like occasionally we read am I the assholes that are jaw-dropping? Um, because sometimes we need to focus away from weight loss. We can't just consume ourselves with weight loss, weight bias, fat phobia, all that stuff, all the time that it's like, hey, listen to this fucked up story.
Speaker 1:I think we should with these ones. We're just saying stuff and speaking our opinion.
Speaker 2:We should call it like my big fat mouth oh my god, yes, okay, right, my big fat mouth I love it. Okay, I love it. So is this like the beginning then?
Speaker 1:this is like we've got fat girl therapy because we need therapy and we don't want to pay for it, and we've got my big fat mouth because sometimes we just need to speak about other people I love it okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Do you want to do fat girl therapy? Do you want to do that? My asshole first.
Speaker 1:I don't care, I'm down either way, I'm just happy to be here.
Speaker 2:Let's just vibe for for first, for first for pop girl therapy. Let's set a time limit yeah, we do actually have to set a time limit because I downgraded our package. Yay, because I'm like I can't, I can't keep paying for this damn podcast when we're not even recording and so how many hours do we have now three, three, perfect, okay.
Speaker 1:So what we'll do? Because even with three, even if we do like half hour episodes, 45 minute episodes, then we'll be good. So we're at 1 11 my time right now. So when I start saying Collie Wobbles at 2.30, not 2.30, that's way past what I was talking about quarter to two there's no one else behind the scenes, guys.
Speaker 2:Here, it is Lisa and I there's no production team. Could you imagine a production team with us?
Speaker 1:we tried that, and then they went and did bite size. I have the biggest question of 2025 oh wow, considering that we're only a month in and the crazy shit that's already been going, that's what I'm about to say how the hell is it?
Speaker 2:february of 2025? Already we haven't even launched an episode yet and I haven't done a damn thing. Actually, that's a lie, but still, my god, how is it? February? Yeah, is this just life going forward? I'm gonna blink and I'm 60, don't? I don't want to talk about that if you're 60, I'm 50.
Speaker 1:That's just a rabbit hole I'm not willing to talk about right now.
Speaker 2:There's this clip going around right now.
Speaker 2:It's some movie that, like you know, yes, my, I saw this yeah, where she's like about the whole 50 speech and I was like, uh, that hit me in the fields. Literally I'm getting on tiktok every season. I'm crying. Lisa messaged me hey, do you want to jump on the podcast in 30 minutes? I'm like I'm just sitting here bawling my eyes out so sure I don't even remember what it was, but it's just all these sad, sad videos all the time. Oh man, either that or Trump. So I mean, come on now.
Speaker 1:I really hope I you know we're not a political thing, so no that's not even. Yeah, I'm not gonna go down that and you know if people don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I wanted to know, like, how are things going with you? But also, how was your matcha the other day? I'm guessing you didn't like it if you got one, because I didn't get a message from you no, you know what happened.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I got the matcha on whatever day that was Thursday night. I got it. I did like it. It was one of those things. So I'm really big on like I'm a texture eater, right, like, if it's not a good texture, I don't like it. It is what it is. So I had a while back now, like probably two years ago, my friend got like these jelly banana things. I don't even know. It was kind of like mochi but not, and I had a bite of it and I hated the texture but I loved the flavor and I refused to eat them again because he was like do you like them? I'm like I have no idea. I have no idea because I loved the flavor and I hated the texture and that was the same thing that I got with matcha. I was like this I like the taste, but it was like the initial taste was like Ooh, but then, like the aftertaste was like Ooh.
Speaker 2:So try to get the vanilla thing, then it's just a flavor thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause it was like the drinking it texture, the aftertaste I don't know how, that's okay, I don't know either. It's just the way my brain works. But so it was just like a thing, um. But then I was like you know what, maybe I would like this more with strawberry instead of just vanilla. So then I tried it again the next day and I had it with strawberry and vanilla together and it was good. I did like it. It wasn't like, oh my god, I could drink this all the time, but it was good.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure Starbucks had an iced strawberry matcha drink at one point.
Speaker 1:They did. I think they still have it there yeah.
Speaker 2:I am currently drinking an iced matcha, but the matcha is toasted marshmallow matcha, and then I also sugar free toasted marshmallow syrup. So I I also sugar-free um toasted marshmallow uh syrup, so I put that in there. It's so good. I don't. I just like regular matcha, though, but a company I really don't like, and I think I've talked sorry, I think I've talked about them on here, but I don't like them because they fired me for no damn good reason. So it's like it's a personal issue, not a product issue, and I went onto their website randomly and they were having a sale of like 60 or 70% off. I'm like, okay, I'll buy your product, but I won't buy it at full price. So, yeah, I'm very happy for that, but I'm really glad that you liked it.
Speaker 1:I did yeah.
Speaker 2:It wasn't like a I need to go out and buy more scenario, but like it was good. Yeah, when I worked at that tea place I made my friend come in because I'm like you should try matcha, and she was like the thought of drinking a green drink. What made her want to vomit?
Speaker 1:because it looks it's very green you know, like when you don't have anything mixed in with it.
Speaker 2:So it's like I'll make you a matcha latte. Come down and I put it in a cup. Can't see it? You were like, yeah, yeah, and she loved it.
Speaker 1:So it's almost like it is for everyone.
Speaker 2:They just have to get over that. I don't even know.
Speaker 1:There's a fear of it it's similar vibes to um, like green smoothies.
Speaker 2:It's the same idea as that where, because it's so green, people are like green is greens an off-putting color yeah, and I don't know if it's true or if it was just bs that the tea store was educating us on, but matcha can absorb the taste of metal, so you don't use a metal spoon to stir it, you use a bamboo whisk. So I do have one of those, and the is is some people will make it and not stir it properly, so then they'll still have chunks in it and it's like you have to, like you know, do it a certain way and then just really whisk it to get it frothy. So you know, if you're not like researching it, I guess, and like putting in the time to know what to do, then yeah, yeah, and my thing is like that's a whole other hobby, like let's be honest, like that's.
Speaker 2:I have a station now, though I'm trying to get away from coffee.
Speaker 1:I just cleaned my coffee station and got it all cleaned up and all fixed. My camera keeps refocusing and I can't get it to stop. I'm sorry but, um, yeah, I just got my coffee station all cleaned up and decluttered and all that stuff and nice, yeah. Um, I went to my coffee shop today and they had ago waffle k-pods like keurig pods, yeah, so I got one of each flavor to try. Um, they have cinnamon toast, chocolate chip, vanilla and maple syrup. Wow, this is the cinnamon.
Speaker 2:It's delicious. Oh, I saw you making something the other day. I was like I really want that, but I can't remember what it was. Now Listen.
Speaker 1:Was it my strawberry lemonade? Yeah, I want to try that Refresher knockoff that is zero calories and all the fun.
Speaker 2:I want to hear about your plans like what's 20 for 2020? What's 2025 been looking like for you? What are your plans? Also, congratulations on all of the accomplishments that you've had because, like I know, a lot of stuff has happened without being on the podcast. So, like, just talk about all that for people that don't follow you on TikTok oh man, I don't know man, I should have.
Speaker 1:I should have been making notes. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I did listen to the last episode that we posted for 2024 and it was us talking about, like, what our goals were for 2024 and did we accomplish them? I will say we are currently on February 9th and we I don't think Chris has, but so we neither of us has emailed our goals for 2025.
Speaker 1:But that's because, like I really I was talking to Chris about this um and I kind of touched base on it in uh, but it's really hard to open up about TikTok, on TikTok about my weight. I find it used to be really easy to do, like five years ago, when I first started losing weight and I was like, oh, I'm going to post here so I don't feel alone, and it was like I felt like I could just be open and talk about whatever I want to talk about. But now it's like I I feel like I have this guard up to not do that, because um and you and I kind of talked a little bit about this yesterday. How, like, because I was a part of the body positive community, it's like I don't want to say anything that's going to offend them.
Speaker 1:You know, what I mean, because I was a part of that community and I know a lot of my followers came from that side. But I don't know if you've seen this or not, but there's a lot of people this year who were a part of the body positive community who have now switched into the fitness and weight loss community. I don't know if you've seen that, but I have seen maybe like 10% of the people that I used to follow for body positivity now promoting going to the gym and eating healthy.
Speaker 2:Can I interrupt you?
Speaker 2:It's just because like go for it Exactly what I thought was going to happen from day one, when all these young generation people were like body positive. But I'm not talking about just body positive people. I'm not talking about people in the body's positive community that started it and that actually know what it's about. I'm talking about the people that trail off and think they know what it's about and then start preaching to you that you're fat phobic and this and that. I'm talking about those people and they're now realizing that, hey, it doesn't have to be that way because you know what. You can love yourself and lose weight.
Speaker 2:And the people that say, well, if you're intentionally trying to lose weight, then you don't love yourself. That doesn't mean a goddamn thing. Me personally, I really love my knees. What can I do to help love my knees? Take the goddamn weight off, if I can. You know what I mean. And the clinic that I'm part of it actually says your healthiest weight is whatever weight that you end up on that you can sustain in a healthy way. It's actually a lot shorter than that. I forgot what exactly it was, but it's like that.
Speaker 1:And you know Sorry, I'm still Out of everything you could have said. You're like I love my knees, and instantly my brain went oh yeah, chris, they're the bees knees. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it now.
Speaker 2:I wasn't expecting you to say your knees. No no no, but like you know, that's the problem that I've been having the last five years is with my knees, and it's just what does Christine like? Oh my God, I just full named myself. What does?
Speaker 1:Chris like to do? You are lecturing yourself right now.
Speaker 2:I am. I love to go on walks and hikes. Can I do that with the way my knees are? No, I can't. So there are things that I have to do, and what I'm focusing on is strength training, but again, this wasn't about me. I went on a tangent because of something Lisa said, and let's get back to.
Speaker 1:Lisa. Hey, no, you know what? That's our podcast. It's literally about you and me. It's totally fine.
Speaker 2:It's just when I hear about that, like it's because you know, I talked to shannon about that too, with the body positive community, and she doesn't, because I what we do sometimes is that we do it as a whole the body positive community will say that like the body positive people. And I said that to shannon and I said you know, I just don't get along with people in the body positive community because I have all the hate and she's like I don't feel that way at all because you know she's plus size too and but she's over before. X was the way it was when twitter was around, and like she was part of these communities and it was so supportive and like she was even doing keto for a while and like there was no hatred and I'm like, okay, but if you came over to tiktok, my experience with it. And I'm like, okay, but if you came over to TikTok, my experience with it, and I'm having a totally different experience with it. That's why I use this kind of language. But she kind of made me think about it differently, where she's like we can't just use it as a whole statement about the whole people and it's just like the people that have affected you could even be bots for all. We freaking know that's the problem. So it's just like do you and I have to start thinking that way because my mental health has gone downhill the last four years and I know a lot of it actually is because of social media and because I'm listening to other people or I'm trying to navigate and I'm getting this information, that information.
Speaker 2:My whole thing was to come on social media and not give a shit about what other people think, and it was I'm showing up for myself. This is me documenting myself, not other people. I'm not losing weight for you. I'm not going to the gym for you. I'm doing this for me and I'm just showing you I'm doing it. That actually sounds ridiculous when you say that out loud, but I'm just it's and back then it was leading by example. People were like I'm inspired to go now because I saw you doing it and if you have to see another fat person to get inspired to get up, whatever way you have to think about it, I'm so happy about that and I'm not apologizing about it anymore. If you have a problem with the fact that I'm losing weight, regardless of what my reasons are are, fuck off, actually fuck off, because I just got diagnosed with two fucking mental health diagnoses and one is coming out right now and the other one's about to go eat their feelings.
Speaker 2:So listen, I am battling with binge eating disorder and that is fucking enough. And the other thing, now that I'm realizing all these things, that is fucking enough. And the other thing, now that I'm realizing all these things that have fucking triggered me, I'm now swearing because I'm actually ramped up. You can tell the language has changed. I really took over this.
Speaker 1:No, it's fine, I love it. It's such a vibe. It's exactly how I was feeling. We've been afraid to say it. We really have. That's exactly it. That's exactly it, and it's because you don't want I. Well, you were there when it happened. When I switched to, I got fed up. I got to the point where I was just like, if me losing weight is fat phobic, then call me fat phobic, because I'm going to start losing weight and it's just like the people in the body positive community who were my friends started posting about me and saying how I'm a traitor and I'm not actually body positive and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Like and that was how many years ago now?
Speaker 2:Like two, three years ago, Like I think that those people are actually fat phobic. Because you're saying that, just because I want to change things for myself, I'm not telling you to fucking change. I'm not telling you to fucking change. I'm not saying goddamn shit about any one of you, but because I just want to change certain things, I don't love myself anymore.
Speaker 1:Listen, let's like, let's even put this on a bigger scale Because, like I have like I at the time when I came out doing this, like I had like 180,000, 170,000 followers or something like that I've dropped by the thousand since. I've gone back to wanting to lose weight and, at the same time, the algorithm and everything how tiktok was when we first started is totally different than what it used to be like I haven't hit over a million and I couldn't even tell you.
Speaker 2:But even after the american ban it got even worse, like it's totally oh and oh. Sorry, just side note for everyone. Don't believe any ads Like ads were already sketch on social media anyway, but they're worse now since the ban. There's a casting call right now for Scream 7 to be an extra.
Speaker 2:That is not real. It's actually a look it up, it is not an actual company. But like it's not real and they're getting your information and I've I've filled out things like that before and and then I, and then I realized you're an idiot because you didn't research this and so it's like just heads up.
Speaker 2:No personal information was given, but still um I have no idea what I was gonna say oh, I'm sorry we uh how different social media is now than what it was and is, and forever will be yeah, but I don't know why I was saying that I'm so sorry I've no, no, that's okay, I'm thinking about assholes.
Speaker 2:But also I am really tired of I'm sure everyone has experienced that on this podcast how I don't want to say we've been flippy floppy but we've semi been flippy floppy. But it's the I am really tired of. I'm sure everyone has experienced that on this podcast how I don't want to say we've been flippy floppy but we've semi been flippy floppy, but it's the different things that we're going through at the time or the different information we're getting on the outside, and I think you and I have kind of been flip-flopping at the same time together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I don't think I don't think it's flip-flop as much as it is like things that were what I needed in my life at that time is completely different than what I needed in my life now. You know what I mean. Like four years ago, when we first started on the body pause community, like I did not think I would ever be on something like that. Like I started TikTok because I was plus size and I was trying to lose weight and I didn't want to feel alone because I had so much weight I wanted to lose Like everybody around me was like oh, I want to lose 20 pounds, oh, I want to lose like 30 pounds, oh, I want to lose 50 pounds. I had to lose over a hundred pounds, like, and it was like I didn't have anybody else around me who was trying to accomplish that type of goal. So I went to TikTok so that I didn't feel alone and it helped. I met other people you and I like crazy how far we've come now. So it it. It was what was needed at that time.
Speaker 1:But then when I found the body positive community, it was one of those things where it was like didn't love myself, I was losing weight because I didn't like myself. And then I found the body positive community and I didn't love myself. I was losing weight because I didn't like myself. And then I found the body positive community and I learned to love myself and I learned that it was okay with who I was and everything. But then I realized I'm still not healthy. Like sure, I love myself, but I'm not healthy. So if I love myself, why am I not taking care of myself? Why am I fighting myself to stay plus size and to stay the way I am when I'm not healthy this way? Like it just it didn't.
Speaker 1:It was very contradicting. Those two things were fighting each other really hard and it was a little while later that I realized no, I do love myself, I want to take care of myself. It has nothing to do with how I at that time. It had nothing to do with how I looked or anything. I just wanted to focus on my health. So that's how it became a flip and I think it wasn't really a flippy floppy thing as much as it was. Like you know, in high school when you're like I'm going through this and everybody's like oh, it's just a phase and they're like it's not a phase.
Speaker 1:That was my I needed to learn how to love myself phase, and without it I wouldn't be where I am today, Because I would have just ended up hating myself all this time and whenever I reached that goal. I probably would have reached it faster, but when I reached that goal, I would have just gained the weight back and then more because I hated myself. So I still I'm still thankful that I went through the body positive phase in that journey, but I'm in a very different place of where I am now. You know what I mean. I'm a mom now. I've got new goals, I've got new ambitions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the way body positive has turned and how it's become the exact opposite of what they've been. I don't know how to phrase this. It's like when you had, when you were in the body positive community and somebody would comment and they're just like oh, you should lose weight, like I just care about your health. Now the body positive community is like you need to stay the way, like just the way you are, like you don't need to change, blah, blah, blah. And it's like both.
Speaker 2:Everybody everywhere just needs to stop commenting on other people's bodies, for sure, and I actually want to ask those people that say, like you know, just stay the way you are. I want to be like how old are you? That's my question now, because you know what, if you're 20 and saying that great, wait 20 years at that same weight, maybe gain 50 more. Tell me how your knees feel, tell me how your ankles feel. Are you, are you stable? How's your cholesterol? And I know that that is a question where fat phobic gym bro fucks start saying is oh, you're cholesterol, you're that? Here's the thing, my cholesterol. I've been plus size since I was born. I don't know how my mom had me. Naturally, everyone thought I was three months old. I've been fat my whole life. Wait, where was I going with this?
Speaker 1:The fat bros, the frat bros.
Speaker 2:So you know my cholesterol has been fine my whole life. My whole life and my clinic I'm part of now, before I turned 40, said once you turn 40, we're going to start talking to you about certain pills and stuff you might need to take after 40, which are cholesterol pills and stuff. Hey, you want to know what's really messed up. I went and got my blood work done. My cholesterol has gone up more, not to a scary level or anything but it has gone up and I might need to take those.
Speaker 2:And had I have been maybe been living a healthier life, I could still be plus size. But living a healthier life where I go on a walk every day or I eat the right not the right food, but I stay within my calories that I need to sustain that day, see, it's just like oh my God. There's so many things like it is. Words are powerful, so it is important to be careful of what you are saying, because it's like there is no right or wrong food. You saying like if I had been a bit healthier or taking care of myself, if I do actually love myself, that doesn't mean that you're not going to be able to go get a cheeseburger. That doesn't mean that you can't have a side of fries with whatever you're having that day. It's just about moderation. It's not binging that food. This is something I'm trying to learn. That food is going to be there tomorrow. I have a problem with hoarding food. Rams has realized this because it's like I need to, like our shopping bills are so crazy. Because it's like I need to make sure that the food is there, and so I'm going through that right now.
Speaker 2:I made those strawberry yogurt chocolate bites two weeks ago. I still have two in the freezer. I am doing good. I'm trying to like focus on those things. So it's just about the whole. I was afraid I was going to eat all like 12 of those in one sitting. I didn't, and I feel really good about myself. And it's also focusing on those like small little accomplishments. And that doesn't mean like I'm a. I feel like I'm accomplished because I didn't eat. I feel like I'm accomplished because I didn't feed into my binge eating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway everyone's story is different and I just really wish that people wouldn't fucking judge you over a 30 second, one minute, I don't even care if it's 10 minutes. I really wish people wouldn't judge other people on these short little videos. Yeah, you don't know what's going on in my life. Just because my knees hurt doesn't mean your knees hurt.
Speaker 1:I had a lot of arthritis before you did.
Speaker 1:But my knee hurts because I was just outside shoveling snow. We got like a foot and a half of snow last night, so we were shoveling the driveway and I twisted my knee while I was shoveling the driveway. So I'm sure if I'll be going to the gym tomorrow because of that. But but like it's stuff like this too, like I literally was just saying to my husband, I've gone outside and shoveled the driveway by myself like three times this winter. No problem, I'm not huffing and puffing out of breath while I'm out there. Like, yeah, it's tiring, but like I'm not, like I'm not huffing and puffing out of breath while I'm out there, like, yeah, it's tiring, but like I'm not, like I'm not struggling to breathe while I'm out there and I'm not.
Speaker 1:And I know I go into when I think about this stuff, when I say I want to lose weight so that it's easier to live my life, and people are just like, oh well, you can go to the gym and build muscle, and it's like, yeah, I can do that, but at the same time, I'm still not carrying around with me all day, every day, an additional 95 pounds. Like all day, every day, I can go on the stairs now and I'm not out of breath. That's not just because of going to the gym and whatnot. That is because I'm not carrying around that much weight. And it's one of those things where it's like I say it but you don't want to hurt people by saying it, because you don't want people to have that feeling of, oh well, you're telling me that I need to lose my weight because I shouldn't be feeling that way and it's like no, I don't care.
Speaker 1:Like, look how you want to look, have the weight on that. You want to have the weight, have the weight off. You want to have the weight, have the weight off. You want to have the weight off. I don't care, that's your body, that's your life, it's what you want to do. This is what I want personally, and that doesn't mean I don't like you or don't like what you have. No, and you know what they're different lives great way of looking at it.
Speaker 2:Like Lisa, you're 95 pounds, okay. Hey, do you think you could lighter? I am not 95 pounds no, no, you lost the 95. Did I say, hey, do you think?
Speaker 1:you could Lighter. I am not 95 pounds, no, no, no, you lost the 95.
Speaker 2:Did I say I'm sorry. You said you're 95 pounds, so I was like hold up People who don't see me are like I'm sorry, you've lost, I've lost 95 pounds. Do you think you could pick me up, like, lift me like through, like a door, like all of me?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I do think if you, if I had the door on my legs and you laid on the door, I could probably leg press you okay. So you can't lift me.
Speaker 2:So no, you took more than I weigh off of your knees the pounds of pressure. You took 380 pounds of pressure off your knees since you started losing weight, because whatever you lost times four. That's what I learned from my kinesiologist when I was.
Speaker 1:I've been through a lot of knee pain yeah, I am totally believing what you're saying, but I, how does this?
Speaker 2:work times four. But that's like, I guess, because of how much you weigh and how small your knees are maybe trying to hold it all up. I don't know the science behind it, I just always that's always what I calculate You've lost 10 pounds. Wow, that's 40 pounds of pressures off your knees. If you haven't noticed, I care about my knees, yes, because they're the things I like to do. I like to walk too, so I would like to be able to walk and for a while, yeah, um, it sucks.
Speaker 1:Like you can't, like there's no way to like strengthen your knees. You know what I mean. Like you got to strengthen the muscles around your knees because it's a, it's a joint, so it's like you gotta, you gotta, strengthen the muscles around your knees in order to strengthen and quote your knees, and that's not easy to do because when you have knees it hurts to strengthen your feet like I would love.
Speaker 2:Actually, I would love to go to the gym right now and do a leg press. Can I know so?
Speaker 1:right now.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry he is asking me to just even go to a pool. And I was like, okay, like what kind of swimming? He's like don't do breaststroke kicks. And I'm like okay. And then I was like what if I just like tread water? And he's like no, because sometimes you have to go like this, like with your legs, to tread water. And he's like I just want you to put a board in front of you and kick. He's like that's all I want you to do. I'm trying to do all these different things and I'm like okay, I'm I still haven't, um, because I'm doing the other exercises. He's just like this is just an extra and my problem is trying to put that bathing suit back on. But I'm trying to do it before my appointment and my next appointments on Tuesday and it's Sunday, so I have tomorrow.
Speaker 1:So you're busy tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to try and get there tomorrow, cause I just want to. I just want to say I did it, cause then, once I did it, once I do it normally, I'll be. Let's rephrase what did you just? Say I'm going to the pool tomorrow. Yes, you are, listen, I think, chris is now like why are we here?
Speaker 2:No, actually I really liked this episode. I feel like I wanted to talk about what our goals and stuff are, but I did throw a lot of questions at you and you're like maybe I should have written this down. So I think maybe next episode we should bring to the table, like what we plan to do, like think about this week, like what is it that you want to do? How are you going to accomplish it? What can you add to your life that's going to be beneficial? And this was the episode where we told all the haters to go fuck themselves and pretty much what we're doing now, and if you don't like it, you don't have to stay.
Speaker 2:And if you don't like it, you don't have to tell us about it, but if you do like us, send us an email at the waiting room let's just say you would love to hear it if you, if you don't like fat people, period.
Speaker 1:No, because it's like I don't know what your goals are. You know what I mean. So I want to say, like, if you don't like fat people trying to lose weight, this is your place but that's what you know, what I mean. The thing is that, but it's like I don't know what your goal is.
Speaker 2:Any goals I don't know mean you could be strangers. And just because my goal is to lose weight doesn't mean it's your goal. I had a backwards comment yesterday. I had a backwards comment yesterday and I'm trying not to focus on them anymore because again could be a bot and it was about me just being like hey, guess what, everyone in Canada there's a low-carb grocery where you could get these sugar-free puddings at, and this person comes back going what you're promoting is not healthy or something I I don't know. But they're like I'm sugar-free, low carb, and you need carbs in your life, or something I don't know. And I'm like I don't understand what you're saying. Dude, what am I suggesting? I just told people about a grocery store and they said something else. They followed up with it and I just went block. And that's how I'm just dealing with people. Now. I shouldn't even have responded in the the first place. I see something that's sideways or saying I'm doing something, I'm not block yeah people are always people are always going to have comments.
Speaker 1:They're gonna be sorry, I couldn't remember what it was. People are gonna be like you shouldn't be doing this because of this, you shouldn't be doing this because of this, you shouldn't be doing this because of this. It is just like everybody has different perspectives. Everybody has different lives. Like somebody could come up to you and be like oh yeah, I don't eat bread, and automatically people are gonna be like oh no, you need to eat bread. Like you can't be low carb, like you need to have carbs and grains and whole grains. And it's like that person's allergic to grain yeah but you don't know that.
Speaker 2:You don't know that I'm trying to take away bread, pasta and rice again, not rice fully, but like bread and pasta, because I'm better with rice than I used to be.
Speaker 1:I can't, and that is just because of how it affects my gut.
Speaker 2:But then literally I've been like, why do you think I'm so, never mind just gaining the weight, but I'm bloated, like I'm puffy everywhere and it's because I don't react well to bread. But I just love the smell and everything about it, but sourdough is better for me anyway that's my sourdough so good I haven't, god. I made a sourdough and forgot my oven was broken oh yes, I did see that.
Speaker 1:That was all the angle of the sun, oh beautiful I did buy three new plants as well.
Speaker 2:They're hoyasas, because I'm only going towards plants now Sorry, I just like saw them in my background but towards plants for what? That are not toxic to cats, because every plant I own is toxic to cats.
Speaker 1:Oh well, that's not well, I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so spider plants are not and they love spider plants. So I do have those. That was my first gift. But I have monstera's, um different varieties, like I have the swiss cheese and I have a bigger one and then a pothos. But here's the thing, my pothos it's so out of the way. I've had my cat for four years and never touched it because it's so out of the way. She's touched the monstera and the other day she actually ate two leaves off the swiss cheese and, dude, I went into panic mode. I was monitoring that cat because I was like there's no way. Like the one time I took it down to bottom water it and she got it and I was like there's, she was fine. She actually is totally fine. These plants have not bugged her. She ate so many leaves off my monastera, um, uh, before and no effect, and I'm like okay, but like I'd rather still not take the chance.
Speaker 2:So, the monsteras are down here. They're fine with it. They don't. They haven't touched them in like a year now, but the only plants I'm getting are ones that are good for cats at this point.
Speaker 1:Fair. I bought a whole bunch of plants from the dollar store to grow. Uh, this summer I got a tomato plant, a strawberry plant, and then brandon picked a bunch of herbs, because he's really picked up on wanting to do on like most of the cooking um. So he picked parsley, oregano and um basil oh nice yeah so he can start growing his own herbs.
Speaker 2:My brother got me a cut of a Hoya from his work, so there's over 500 varieties of Hoyas. Yeah, could you hear me? Yeah, oh, sorry, oh, and then uh, to everyone else. Just one more thing. Um, I want to announce because I'm pretty sure I told a story on here about how my brother borrowed the craft vhs from me when I was a teenager and it broke my heart and it bothered me for two years and then it just became a running joke. Thereafter he gave it to me as a present. Yesterday he actually went and bought a vhs copy of the craft. I can't watch this. He didn't even get a DVD, not that I even have a DVD player. But the point is his partner was even like what is she going to do with that? It is now in my glass cabinet. It is on display for the rest of my life that I can never bring it up to him ever again. But I feel awful because, like I thought it was a running joke.
Speaker 2:And then I found out that he has felt bad about it like 20 years of feeling bad and you just bought it for me now right, why did?
Speaker 1:he? Why does he hate himself like that sounds like I'm gonna keep this for my own torture scenario.
Speaker 2:Oh, anyway, I think that this was a great episode. We should probably wrap up.
Speaker 1:We got time you want to listen now.
Speaker 2:Oh, I would love to listen bitch Now. Oh, I would love a listen bitch man. We're going to have to mark this as explicit. I'm very sorry if any of you took offense to me swearing at you, but I'm also not sorry. I thought we weren't apologizing for shit anymore, but, okay, I'm noticing dude like the skin here, like the aging process is hitting me at this point Because you can see how like thin it's getting.
Speaker 1:Let's not talk about it. I think I was going to say I think you're just seeing it. No, look, I don't see it.
Speaker 2:Dude, look at my eyelid.
Speaker 1:Okay, tell me when to stop Stop. Is there two here? These two are are stuck together. I feel like they belong together, so we'll read this one first. Listen bitch uh, if it's a showerless day, stay in bed all day type of day, that's okay I literally ran into the shower when you were like do you want to record?
Speaker 2:not that I'm even seeing you in person.
Speaker 1:I just felt like a scrub the other one that was stuck to. It was no one else is dwelling on your mistakes. Move the fuck on.
Speaker 2:That's good that's really good. You should take a photo of that that one's hurting a little bit. That goes for this episode. That's hurting a lot actually. That's why I was like well, you pick this card, but we're throwing this one at you too, because, honestly, last week like fuck, more than last week.
Speaker 1:Over the past like three weeks I have been dwelling on so much shit of oh my god, I fucked up on this, I fucked up on this. I feel like I'm fucking up on everything and that just like like a huge wave of just move the fuck on because no one else is thinking of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no one's sitting at like you're sitting at home going well, why did I make that mistake? And this and that and that person's not thinking about you Right? On a side note, do you see how like like I just I look like myself from the side right? Look how much white hair I have.
Speaker 1:Okay, sad that I did notice I need to go to the salon I wasn't, I wasn't gonna say anything other, because you were talking about your eyes. I'm like, oh, I didn't notice that. And then I was like, do I tell her? I can notice her gray hair, though. You know what?
Speaker 2:though, now Now that I see how.
Speaker 1:Cause I have it on. I don't know if you can see it online, Cause I don't have the light on, but like I have, I have some in here too, and my husband the other day it was like you have a lot of grays. I'm like, yeah, I fucking live with you, Like here's the that I have, so many more it makes me want to grow out my hair, because if I have like streaks of white and gray in my hair.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't do that. Witch vibes oh my god, those people that get that one streak of white hair. I'm like I love you. It's like that is natural Anyway.
Speaker 1:Anyways, this was fun. Bye, yay, bye.