The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
FGT 51: The Journey to Self-Compassion in a World of $15 Strawberries
Ready to ditch restrictive diets and discover what actually works for sustainable weight loss? This episode dives deep into the real-world strategies making a difference in our lives.
We're exploring the power of volume eating—a game-changing approach that's transformed how we think about meals. Instead of tiny portions that leave you unsatisfied, we're loading up plates with nutrient-dense vegetables alongside our favorite flavors. Chris shares how she transformed a small portion of leftover lamb korma into a filling meal by adding zucchini and mushrooms, keeping the satisfaction without the excessive calories.
The conversation takes an honest turn as we discuss the challenges of weekday discipline versus weekend temptations. How do you handle social events, pizza nights, and those moments when you just want ice cream? We're finding practical solutions, including strategic use of deep freezers to store occasional treats (while saving money on delivery fees) and adjusting medication timing to manage appetite during vulnerable periods.
You'll hear about our experiments with smaller utensils to slow down eating, setting personalized calorie targets with healthcare professionals, and the unexpected benefits of consistent water intake—including how an ice machine became a surprising catalyst for better hydration.
This episode offers refreshing candor about the struggles we face and the small victories keeping us motivated. Whether you're just starting your health journey or looking for new strategies to try, you'll walk away with actionable ideas that don't involve punishment or deprivation. Join us for this honest conversation about finding healthier relationships with food in a world of $15 strawberries and constant temptation.
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Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.
And, by the way, there's so many things I want to tell you on this podcast that I've seen just today. And then do you think I can remember any one of them? No, on that note. Hi Lisa, hi Chris, what are you eating? Breakfast? It is zucchini, mushrooms, one sausage patty and egg whites.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to jump right into it and say last week I did not read anything, which I said on here that I was going to do Whatever. That is what it is. But I changed what I wanted to do after I got off here. So all week I've been kind of doing that volume eating.
Speaker 1:So we did have Indian food one night, right. So we had lamb korma, butter chicken. There was a very small amount of the lamb korma left, like a little bit of sauce and three little pieces, and I was like, oh, I'm so hungry. So rather than having rice and naan and all that stuff, I went and got like zucchinis and mushroom and a little bit of potatoes out and then cooked it up and then put the sauce and the three bits of lamb on top of it and it was so good, but it was just like sounds good, mostly vegetables. So I'm really focused on that and it has been helping. And the thing that I'm cutting out of my life has not been 100% cut out, but, oh my god, has been drastically reduced and I'm noticing such a difference in my life and it's a lot happier, uh, so I am on my way to eventually cutting it completely out.
Speaker 2:So yay me, that's exciting. What percentage would you say?
Speaker 1:of of what I'm doing. Yeah, I went from. It's so hard to say when you're not like really talking about it, but I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. Let's just say I went from 10 times a day to one, one to two times a day.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow. That's like 80%, 80 to 90%.
Speaker 1:That's incredible, it really is and like there's just so much I've noticed of the benefits and it's funny. I'm so sorry to people out there with the fact that I'm putting food in my mouth right now, but I'm starving Because I know I would hate it.
Speaker 2:If it helps. I don't hear it on my side, so it's 50-50 on if they're going to hear it back, oh shit.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I came across a video and it was someone else doing the exact same thing as me and they said literally everything I'm saying, like it's just the difference, and they've been at it for 15 years and they were just like no, and they said you know, it's like really hard and whatnot, but they're like the benefits are outweighing how I felt before and it's just like it's so noticeable because it's like you start doing this thing because you just think it's like a way to chill, a way to relax and stuff, and then how easily it can get out of hand, especially when you're not working. So I'm just not the type of person that should do things like that because I'm constantly off work. I gotta stop. Oh, I love zucchini.
Speaker 2:I'm not big on zucchini, although chocolate zucchini cake.
Speaker 1:So good, I grabbed the smallest spoon ever, though, to do this.
Speaker 2:I guess I. That's so funny. I meant to talk about this last week and didn't. When I eat spaghetti, I have started using Harper's spoons and forks like the little ones, because when I eat spaghetti I use a normal size fork and I like the taste of it so much that I just plow through it and then I'm like, ooh, I want more of that because it's gone too quickly. So I started using Harper's fork, which is just like these little tiny ones, instead, uh, and it slowed me way down.
Speaker 1:I have a whole bunch of those like not, there would be an in between of a regular size fork and a kid's fork?
Speaker 1:I got a set of stuff from Ikea and they're like the perfectly sized fork in my opinion, because it's just not too big, not too small yeah um, but yeah, that whole thing not too much food in your mouth is such a struggle for me, especially when I'm watching tv, because you just plow the food in your mouth, which is something that the obesity clinic and my therapist have been telling me. Like, stop watching TV and stop being distracted while you're eating and be in the moment. I sat down yesterday I was like we're going to practice chewing your food today because I inhale it's like chew chew swallow, chew chew swallow. So for people that know all about gut health, you can just imagine what it's like in the morning for me.
Speaker 1:So just digesting whole food, the amount of times that my stuff Anyway, I was even talking to my acupuncturist yesterday and she's promoting stuff for doing acupuncture for just different things that have to do with my weight. I'm not going to say them out loud because I'm going to get it 100 percent wrong, but everything she said just sounded right to me. So, anyway, I was sitting down and I was like chew your food. And I kept chewing. I'm like no-transcript, it's already gone vegetables and chewing while I eat, which just I'm sorry. These are the types of things I cannot say on TikTok or Instagram, because I get eaten alive.
Speaker 1:I get what you mean yeah, oh, on a on a separate note, I think we should, cause we said we were going to do kitty cat. You said my mind through a massive ask. Lisa, I sent her a test what happened to her.
Speaker 2:I actually messaged her this morning because she sent she I don't even remember what it was. She reacted to one of my stories and it sent me a message. So I messaged back and I was like hey, we noticed your other car account stopped liking things and we were like, oh, I hope she's okay. And then I saw this one and I was like, oh, thank god.
Speaker 1:But I felt like when lisa sent me your new profile. I'm like she's been liking my stuff every day for months and I just didn't put two and two together because you know, kitty cat, like it was a k and there's a different letter and I was like I don't. I'm like what? Yeah, I just felt so lost and anyway, that was funny. Um, it's like when I notice people aren't around anymore, I actually get really worried, especially when they delete their accounts, because I just think, like, did something awful happen to that person? Like what's happening right now?
Speaker 2:Lisa has a text in like 48 hours.
Speaker 1:I'm like oh my god, she's dead.
Speaker 2:I thought that at um the start when I first started posting on TikTok. But then it was like honestly, especially in the community that we're in, like you're gonna have a lot of new people and then it just kind of trails off and then you get a lot more new people and then it kind of trails off and it's just you, the weight loss community, comes in waves.
Speaker 1:Totally like to be completely honest but when people are like super consistent, it like, it, like it's so noticeable, all of a sudden, like I don't have even like people, I don't have communication with you know, like I can see all the likes coming through. I'm not that viral, so when I notice that I haven't seen someone's name come up in a while, it just triggers and then I'm and and I I know people delete their profiles all the time. But when you've been consistent for years and then it's like whoa, no, I'm worried. Yeah, I get what you mean. Uh and uh, we did get an email yesterday I don't know if you saw from tess, right? Yeah, tess was suggesting I tried to email and it's just wrestlemania.
Speaker 2:I didn't have a chance to read it. I saw it come in, but I didn't read it yet yeah, she had a book suggestion about uh, that everyone's reading it's called the the let them theory oh, yes, that was the one that I missed. I mentioned last week, okay, when I said the let them, and then you said yes, yes, yes I agree with her, uh.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we should definitely look into that.
Speaker 2:That would be yeah yeah, tess and I uh keep keep up with each other in the way of we both post on heavy and we always. You saw that. Yes, I saw that. It's just you and me here. There's nothing else to look at.
Speaker 1:I'm not always looking at you, I look at me.
Speaker 2:I just dropped egg down me, if anyone was wondering it was an egg-cellent spill anyways, so I just dropped egg down me, if anyone was wondering.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, it was an egg-cellent spill, anyways.
Speaker 2:So Tess and I keep up with each other in the ways of we both post our workouts on Heavy. So in the mornings when I log on to do my workout, I go through my feed because it's I don't know about her side, but my side it's just me and her that are going. So it's like like, like, like, like, like. So if anybody else is working out out there and wants to follow Tess and I on heavy so that I can like other people and it's not just the two of us, I love it. Yeah, I, yeah yeah, and she's killing it out there.
Speaker 2:She's doing such a good job going for runs. There was a she we won't post this on here so I'll show you her picture but she went for a run the other day and I say the other day, but this was actually probably a couple weeks ago now and she is like it looks like she just ran through alaska. Like her, she's just covered, absolutely covered in snow, right like her eyebrows, her hat, everything. Oh, wow, that's commitment. I missed running, so going to start incorporating into my week again. And I saw that and I actually I commented on it and I was like rock star, like I it, I just I cannot go running like that. Oh, it's about running, fucking chris, let's talk about this.
Speaker 2:So on friday, chris and I are talking about like what kind of content we want to start posting onto the waiting room tiktok, right. And I said to her the other day I'm like if there's anything you want me to post on my tiktok because it's starting to get some traction, especially like almost at the 100 pounds lost thing, um, let me know. And she was like I think you should post that running video again, but with new clips. And I'm like, okay, well, I don't have any new running clips right now, but like I'll try and get some. And she's like well, if just the next time you're at the gym if you could just hop on and like get a video running, or like even go use your mom's treadmill upstairs. And I'm reading this and I'm like, is this bitch actually just telling me to like just go run, just to do it? Like I'm still fat, my knees are killing me. So I called her immediately. I'm like are you for real?
Speaker 1:like you're now like outing me, but I was asking you to stage it. I was like, just do five seconds, like you know, you run all the time but you don't film it.
Speaker 2:And it's like like obviously you're just outing me that I've just asked you to lie to everyone no, no, well, and I think, to be fair, I think, when Chris asked me to do it, I didn't. I don't think she realized how much I actually wasn't running, because at that point I hadn't, I hadn't been running for like probably three weeks at that point because, like, my last run was probably mid-February, uh, because it had been hurting my ankles and I need to get a brace, and so I just and I was doing it twice a week and I think it was just too much. So, um, I had just ran for the first time that previous Wednesday, uh, and I was like, okay, this is good, we're feeling good. And then she sent that and I was like, no, I, this is good, we're feeling good. And then she sent that and I was like, no, I am not going, I am not doing that right now.
Speaker 1:It's equivalent to you asking me the same thing. I'd be like bitch what?
Speaker 2:Can you just go for a quick run?
Speaker 1:and record it please. I don't remember the last time I ran. I haven't had anyone chasing me in a while. I haven't had anyone chasing me in a while.
Speaker 2:Oh man, uh, but I should be, cause I was doing that, uh, it's running day, uh and was keeping track of it. I think there's only one run, two runs now that I didn't track on it, um, and it's honestly just been because it's it's so rough on my joints. You know what I mean, and I think I always I forget how much was on my joints at one point and now it's like, oh, I could do this, because, like, I can do this, and then I go to do it and my knees are like, no, you can't. Like I went to do step ups the other day because those are apparently really good for your butt and it just killed my knees. I wasn't able to do it.
Speaker 2:It so, and that's one thing like I'm really struggling with is trying to find glute workouts that don't involve your knees. Like everything with glutes and quads really, I find, puts a lot of pressure onto your knees, whether it's um, uh, my brain went blank whether it's like doing some type of squats or the leg press machine or the extensions or leg curls, like it's all so much pressure on my knees and I need to find some glute workouts that it doesn't hurt my knees. I do use the abduction machine like the one that, like your legs are there and then there's, like, the pad on the outside of your leg and then you push the pad out and I can use that one because it's not bad on my knees but like so my physiotherapist because I have bad knees and I said I'd like squats he said wall squats and wall squats have been what I can do, so it's.
Speaker 1:but he's like do the? Wall squats yeah yeah, but then you're like you can put something on your back if you want to be able to just roll up easier. But he's like go down and then slowly come back up. He's like you can do the whole sitting thing if you want, but it's but that would hurt me, so it's just like going down for like a few seconds. Coming back up might, might help. That's a good idea.
Speaker 2:I'll look at that one Cause, like I know I can push, like it's like three 40. Yeah, I can do three, 48 on the leg press machine but it hurts my knees, like I can't do it because of my knees, so I have to drop it back down to two. I had to drop it back down to two 98 last week. But that's the frustrating thing is like I could do it if my knees weren't so fucked, but it's like I can't go back and I can't go back and fix the past. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:so it's just strengthened today to do it tomorrow oh my god, so you know, james, yeah, so I've been watching some of his videos recently, and one yesterday actually caused me to comment. Oh my god, it sounded like I was gonna cry sorry frog in my throat, um that was the frog, it was a fitness influencer who was about to eat an eclair and then it oh yes, I saw that video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so for people out there, this girl was gonna eat an eclair. And then it's goes to someone fat doing something and then she's like still holding the eclair, goes back to another fat person doing something and, like the fat person was doing something comedic where they were putting their stomach I thought it was so funny they put their stomach on the table with flour and they were using a roll Peak comedy and then it goes back to her and she puts the eclair down and then she starts doing vigorous exercise and james was calling it, which I've never heard of before but exercise bulimia um, yes, I have heard of that.
Speaker 2:That was actually something they taught us in high school. Oh okay, uh.
Speaker 1:So I commented immediately and I was like and yet she's just gonna stuff that eclair in her mouth right when that video is done. But you can't let the people know, can you? Yeah, that's so true. It just makes me so mad when I see stuff like that because it's just like you don't need to beat me or anyone else down for you to better yourself.
Speaker 2:Like that's why I like what's her name shay shayna.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, yes she's like one that always does it in her underwear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, she is like, and so many people don't like that because it's like you're just showing off like no, like I think she's comfortable and I don't see it as like. This is what I look like, so that you should like. That's not the vibe she gives off at all. It's. This is my house and I can walk around in my underwear if I want to yeah and I'm comfortable in my skin.
Speaker 1:And yeah yeah, I'm covered up the most I need to be covered up which?
Speaker 2:let's be honest, she should be, but anyways. So not covered. No, no, I got what you meant. So, but she will be like here's this taco bell dupe of that's like this one's way better, and then what this one is, but she still eats the taco bell. You see her eat the taco bell. So you know she's still having these things every once in a while, but it's like and it's it's funny.
Speaker 2:We're bringing this up because I was literally just thinking earlier today how I wanted to post a tiktok about how a lot of people are like how have you? You been consistent, how did you get started? And it's really a matter of how things started, of where I am now, not where I'm at now, like I've been all about the Taylor farms and just adding protein to Taylor farms, and like the dips that I have with my veggies is cottage cheese dip that I've put with every seasonings. If I was doing this shit five years ago or six years ago or however long it was that I started, I would not be where I am today. I would be giving up and still getting the takeout.
Speaker 2:I got where I am today because back then I was addicted to getting takeout 24 7 like every single meal I had and snacks were all takeout and I got to the point that I was like this is way unhealthy. Um so, but if I would have just completely switched to salads and everything, I wouldn't have enjoyed it. So I took the foods that I was eating for takeout and the foods that I already knew that I enjoyed when I made them, and only ate those foods, and that, right there, put me in a deficit because I was eating close to six thousand. Seven thousand calories a day was what I was eating like five or six years ago. So even just switching to making the foods at home and still being foods that I enjoy, and just controlling my portion to what I felt I wanted at that time, drastically cut out my calories, yeah, which is what she's doing.
Speaker 1:I love it, it's exactly what she's doing. She's who I found the pizza crust from like with the chicken.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm actually going to try and make like a like a pizza pop or to Americans, piece of pizza pocket, I don't know, or you just do it the same way round and then fold it in half and then I think they have pizza pops, because it's pillsbury and pillsbury is american.
Speaker 1:I feel like anytime we've ever talked about or not us but anytime a canadian talks about pizza pops, americans are like what the hell's a pizza pop? They have pizza pockets, the round one. We have pizza pockets. Yeah, we do, we have them.
Speaker 2:They're way better pizza pockets are way better. Oh yeah, because the pills, berries are both way. But pizza pockets, pizza pops are way better than yeah. The round ones are better than the half moons no, pizza pops are the half moons yes those are better pops no, you're an idiot. Pizza pockets, the mccain pizza pockets, the round ones, those are gross. They're so much better they are not you're.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, pizza pops are so gross. Take your 15 strawberry from ontario and get out of here, isn't that?
Speaker 2:insane, that's insane as soon as I was like, oh good, the prices are higher.
Speaker 1:I was a picture this weekend talking to someone on instagram uh, I believe they live in edmonton and uh, they were like oh, because I posted a photo from save on. I'm like are these prices normal or is this the tariffs, where it was raspberries and blackberries and stuff for 9.99 and they're the smaller clamshell ones. And then they were like, oh, these are the same prices, but like cost goes better. Um, and they're like these are the same prices. And I'm like I remember blackberries and raspberries and costco being like 7.99 and stuff, and these ones at the grocery store were always 5.99. And then I realized I'm like wait, you're not in vancouver, so it's probably the same. Like lisa, for everyone out there there Lisa bought or maybe you didn't buy them because they're ridiculous, but I did actually $15 for a clamshell, like a two pounder I guess, or something like that. And then I got it for under eight dollars.
Speaker 2:I know I saw your uh, your Costco haul showed up on Instagram today and I saw that it was $7.50 and I'm like that bitch, but mine were and mine were $14.99 and, honestly, the only reason I bought them was because I was gonna get them at the grocery store. But then I was like you know what? Um, costco's just lasts longer. Longo's and Costco are the only two places that I really trust for produce. We have the Loblaws here and the strawberries were on sale and they're on sale for like a dollar fifty and it was like, oh dang, I should have got them here. They will last two days. They will last two days and they just and these ones I had this morning I made a piece of sourdough toast with crunchy peanut butter and then cut up like three strawberries and put them on top. Oh delicious, it was such a good breakfast. So, overall, how was your week? This week? You said you shifted your goals. Did you accomplish the goals you shifted?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was really good, Like I mean, it wasn't like I have to eat this certain amount, like whatever it was. Just try and implement more veggies into it and see how it is, because I never liked the idea of volume eating, because I'm just like I don't want to eat salad all the time like mass quantities, but it's like it's not salad.
Speaker 1:just find the vegetables you like, and I mean I'm obsessed with zucchini so I mean I put it in my smoothie. So, um, I've been. I wonder if you can overdose because, like I eat a lot of zucchini and then I made like a big batch of cucumbers, not a Logan cucumber one, but like the kimchi one, but it's not kimchi because it's not fermented. Anyway, it's like that. And yeah, I just, by the way, having those cucumbers, so it's gochujang with some sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic, sesame seeds and rice wine vinegar, and then you slice up the cucumbers into it and I'm obsessed with having like a half a cup to a cup of cottage cheese and just putting the cucumbers with a little bit of that sauce on top.
Speaker 1:It's just amazing. Like I got eaten to death by some people when I did the cottage cheese kimchi thing. I mean then the support came out, which was great, but like behind the scenes, I haven't stopped. It is so good and so refreshing, like the really like I can't even explain, explain it. But if you like cottage cheese and you like kimchi, do it.
Speaker 2:I have a video that I have to edit later and send to you, because Harper has started to want to post videos, or make videos, because she sees me do it all the time. Right, and she's just obsessed with like. She wants to be like me, it is what it is. So she sees me make videos about stuff all the time, especially when I'm cooking, and she'll be like I want to do it, I want to make it all this stuff. So today she helped me make a um matcha strawberry green tea or um matcha strawberry latte, because I loved the one at Starbucks, the one that came with the.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it makes me so happy that you love matcha.
Speaker 2:Oh it was so good. So I um, I want to start making my own and I all that stuff. So I got sugar-free strawberry syrup and then I got the matcha and all that stuff. So I was making one today and Harperper's like I want to help, but I was going to record doing it. So I ended up recording it and she was with me and she's just obsessed with making videos with me. The other one that she made was a chocolate peanut butter smoothie. We did a video of that one as well. Uh, so I've been debating on, like, making her own yeah, making her own tiktok. That's just private, that's just like for friends and family to follow, kind of thing. Not public for the internet. Just yeah, um, oh, and call it yeah. So, because she loves it, she loves to do it and she likes watching herself doing it.
Speaker 1:Now that I said that you gotta go see if you can claim that username before I press it, I gotta, I gotta see if it's there um so that would be absolutely adorable.
Speaker 1:I really love that video that you posted with Harper and it had something over her face where you were cheersing like, oh so fucking cute. But also, my god time is flying by. Yes, like I said in the last week's podcast, my nephew is married with a kid and he has a kid on the way, and he was born like right after I graduated. So it's just what is time anymore?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it flies, dude, it flies yeah.
Speaker 1:But so like this like don't goals, like did you? I can't remember what we said. You were had goals this week, didn't you?
Speaker 2:um, I'm pretty sure I said that I was going to start tracking my calories again was that is that what I said? Was it was?
Speaker 1:either the last week or the week before, where we were talking about your water and like then we were talking about your water and like then we were talking about tracking, and then you said something about getting maybe back into that. I can't really remember now.
Speaker 2:I know right A week just ugh. I should really start listening to last week's episode.
Speaker 1:Maybe we should take notes at the end of this, like what were our goals for this week, so that we could?
Speaker 2:you know what?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:We should do that.
Speaker 1:After four years of this podcast, we're going to utilize Notepad.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure it was, um, I'm pretty sure it was tracking my calories. If it wasn't, that is what I was focusing on. Uh, because, um, I went to. Well, when was my doctor's appointment? That was that we have, you haven't?
Speaker 1:talked about that.
Speaker 2:My doctor's. I think you're right Cause my doctor's appointment was on the third.
Speaker 1:You've only.
Speaker 2:That's what it was because we recorded on Sunday and then I had my doctor's appointment on the third. So whatever my said, what my calories were on the Sunday or now, they were void because I had my appointment on the third. And one thing that we were talking about was my calorie intake and am I having too many calories and too little calories and all that stuff? And I we did the full body scan that day so it could actually give me a more pinpoint of what my calories should be based off of, like my BMR. So my BMR right now is sitting at 1,990 and I need to be in a deficit of that. So I need to eat under 1,990 calories and she suggested being 500 calories less. So I have my calories at 1500. It is so hard to it's hard for me to say it's no, it is hard. It's hard because it's an adjustment Like you went from not like.
Speaker 1:it's not that it's not doable, it's just that you're used to the other way.
Speaker 2:Right, and it was well no, no, I know I appreciated it because I couldn't find the words I wanted and if you use the apps, everything was telling me to eat 2500, so I was eating more than a thousand and it's like some days I was eating less and then some days I was eating more. So that's why I was still seeing my weight loss, but also makes sense why it's also been dropped, like why I'm not losing as much and the reason we did that. And I'm with a nurse like I don't want people to think this is a weight loss clinic, that's like some fad like Weight Watchers thing or keto or whatever Like it's an actual, like nurse and I trust it because they're not telling me to go on some kind of program and it's all about health and it's very much what I want and what my goals are. They're not setting goals for me. They are what do you want your goals to be and how can we help you get there? And the goal, as I shared on here, was I want to be a size 16 by the end of the year, and to be a size 16 by the end of the year. The way people say it is, it's about 20 pounds of size, which would put me at losing another 50 pounds 50 to 60 pounds. So I said that to her and we did the full body scan and she was like, okay, so from the last time you did the full body scan to now, which is two months, you've lost six pounds, which means you're losing three pounds a month. And she was like, which isn't bad, because, as we've said on here, half a pound to two pounds a week is what a healthy weight loss is. So she's like that isn't bad, but it's not following what you wanted to do. So do you want to adjust what your goals are or do you want to adjust your plan of action to still reach those goals? So when we had that conversation, I realized I need to be losing closer to six pounds a month, not that. So we needed to get to twice as much. So it's either add more activity or adjust your calories, or this.
Speaker 2:Adding more activity is difficult because I'm already a very busy person, but I did go for one walk last week when the temperature started going up a little bit. After dinner. We got Harper ready and we went out for a walk. Um, so brandon and I have said that we want to start walking after dinner, more especially this week, it's supposed to be over 10 degrees, like all week. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:Uh, we can all step outside and thaw um, but it does mean being in the calorie deficit of 1500 and I want to say, with this deficit as well, like I do go to the gym at three, in the calorie deficit of 1500.
Speaker 2:And I want to say, with this deficit as well, like I do go to the gym at three in the morning and I am aware and I'm also aware of how much energy I am burning at the gym. So if I feel it's halfway through the day and I need something to eat, I'm not going to ignore my body. I am going to, I am going to eat something. But the goal and so my goal is between 1500 and 1900 calories is where it's at and, honestly, like the weekends are kicking the shit out of me because it's, if you think about it, it's 500 calories per meal, right? Because it's it's the 15 divided by three. So you're looking at 500 calories per meal and and that's like your 1500 right there, which most days that's fine, when I'm busy and working, and everything, but like on the weekends where you're like brandon and I are like okay, let's have pizza and wings.
Speaker 2:That was 900 to a thousand calories right there in one meal, yeah, so that's where the volume eating comes into play. So it's.
Speaker 1:It's amazing how many calories are in certain things like okay, I'm going to talk about a certain calorie item from costco. If you don't want to hear this, fast forward 10 seconds. Um, costco hot dog is like 500 calories yeah hot dog I know I just had the.
Speaker 2:Uh, I just had a hot dog from new york fries today and it I I ate it and then tracked it and it was like 400 calories and I was like, well, should I even bother tracking the poutine that was with me?
Speaker 1:oh my god, I can't even imagine the poutine, and I love the poutine. Now, I'm not trying to demonize it, I'm still going to get myself a hot dog. My problem is is that normally I want two, I'm not satisfied with one. Um, and I was at costco whenever I did that shop, and I almost stopped because there was no one there and I was like, oh there's, there's always too many people in the food court true uh, and the only thing that stopped me was I was like well, technically, rams isn't even awake yet because he loves to sleep in on his weekends.
Speaker 1:Don't judge him um, like a lot, like.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's 12 and he's still not up uh, hey, if you don't have shit to do and you don't have kids, snooze we also he went to bed late and technically we're an hour ahead than normal.
Speaker 1:Like I woke up at 7 30 and I was like, wait a minute, did I just sleep more like Like what? And then I didn't. But anyway, yeah, I was just like nope, I'm not justifying starting my day off with a thousand calories right now of like food, that's, I'm going to be hungry in a couple hours again. So, yeah, yay for me for stopping that. But I plan when you just said about the weekends, I plan on changing my schedule for my Ozempic shot to go the day before my weekend starts, because my weekends are three days long and my schedule changed this year. Oh, and, by the way, everyone sorry I didn't tell everyone I'm back to work as the 17th of this month, so March. So I'm very, very excited. It's a gradual return and then I'm back for a full week and then I'm off to Vegas. I find that really funny. Um, anyway, I plan on changing my schedule so that when weekends hit, I'm not just wanting to dive into the entire fridge. Um, yeah, two things have also really helped me so far with changing some things in my life, which one we all know is my ice machine the amount of water I drink right now, like I'm every time I sit here, I'm not coming even with a coffee anymore, I'm literally just drink. This is my go-to. I don't drink my water out of anything else except this. This is why this one's always around me. I want to put stickers on it, though, to hide the Starbucks and my new deep freeze.
Speaker 1:The deep freeze has helped so much because Rams and I still want to be able to have ice cream without. Our problem is Uber Eats. Uber Eats skip the dishes, all those things that we are like. Well, we want ice cream. We can justify ordering a blizzard $30 later for two blizzards. Now I have the ice cream from Costco. I have the taquitos from Costco. I have all those things that are my sometimes food. It's in the deep freeze. I forget it's there. I made taquitos for Rams and I. We bought them about a week ago and I made them and he's like I forgot we even had these. I'm like I know it's the magic of a deep freeze. You forget that those items are there.
Speaker 2:It's the magic of a deep freeze.
Speaker 1:You forget that those items are there, it's so true Going to the other stuff. So those are my magical things. Now, any of your food, that sometimes food move it to the deep freeze.
Speaker 2:Awesome, yeah, totally great. Maybe I should go, maybe you should go. What I was just thinking, maybe I should go into back into the zigzag calorie counting. I don't want to zig, I don't want to go below 1500, because I feel like if I go below 1500 but on like Saturdays, fridays and Saturdays, I could go to 1700 and I'm still in a 200 calorie deficit. Or on the days that I go to the gym, I could go to 1700 and I'm still on that deficit. You know what I I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just think that, like personally me, if I was going to have to, what I feel like and people at home might be saying this too I feel that's very low in calories. But again, this is your conversations you've had with medical professionals, so it's like that's not for me to judge, because that's your body. I feel like it would be low for me and if I was doing that, I would have to meal prep my weekends Like that's just how, where my mind goes, and with the way that grocery prices are tariffs if they are aren't coming, who knows anymore. Let's just admit it's insider trading, but there's so many conspiracies out there. Don't hold me to that. I don't know. That's just my thought.
Speaker 1:I am going to be deep freezing a lot of stuff, meal prepping a lot of things, because I'm keeping my costs low. You have $15 strawberries. Those are definitely coming out this way 100% Like everything's gone up by a couple dollars here and there. I mean, honestly, those clamshells of raspberries for $9.99 blew my mind, so I don't even like raspberries really.
Speaker 2:Damn, damn.
Speaker 1:I just want a big bowl of berries now I love those oatmeal bowls I keep seeing everyone doing, but it's just. There's something I can't do oatmeal and also I'm gonna just admit it I don't understand smoothie bowls. Do you drink it? Preach it, like what are you doing? And like I don't want to order one. But then I'm like, what do I do?
Speaker 2:I totally agree, because I'm like parfaits, perfect, like a yogurt, parfait yogurt with a whole bunch of berries and then some, and then they just decide to blend it and then add more berries on top. I feel like is what's happening here? And I'm just like, call me old school, I'm gonna stick with like okay.
Speaker 2:So you know when you were a kid and you would have ice cream and you would let it melt before you would eat it. So now we can call those milkshake bowls like that's not a thing, that should be a thing milkshake bowls oh, I guess those are frosties with your kawawa, kawawa I can't even say it kawawa, listen.
Speaker 1:I can see your listen bitch in your hands because we are getting to that time of cutoff. But I want to know what are your goals for this week, because I am ready to write them down um, I think I.
Speaker 2:So I'm thinking out loud here for a second. My calories. I do want to do the zigzag thing. I need to figure out how I want to zigzag it Again. I'm not going under 1500 calories because I know my body and that just even on the medication it won't be good. So, fuck, honestly, water, water needs to be my goal. That is the only thing I am not accomplishing. I'm going to the gym. I'm eating my calories at the way I should be. I am eating my vegetables. I am eating a fuck ton of vegetables.
Speaker 2:I made soup for the family yesterday for my aunt's birthday and I made two different soups a bacon loaded baked potato soup, which is the soup that she requested and that everybody wanted. And then my brother was coming, so I made a, and he's vegetarian, so I made a vegetarian cheeseburger soup and I had the vegetarian soup. So, like I am like veggie focused lately, I'm doing all of the right things, except for drinking water. What's in here? Water, but I had like two sips of it and it was only this full and it's farm.
Speaker 2:Yesterday that was halfway, by the way, for those who weren't chris, looking at me. So I need to drink my water and I don't know what the fuck to do anymore. Honestly, because, like, I get my big gallon bottle because every time I drink drinks. Oh, chris cursed me because every time we got coffee when she was here, I drank maybe half the coffee. She's like you, always drink half your coffee. No matter what fucking size I get of any drink, I always only drink half of it, and I don't know why. I don't know what my problem is.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, honestly, I'm money focused and I'm like, no, I pay for this, but even when you made it.
Speaker 2:I'm'm like I'm not missing this. Like everyone out there Lisa makes great coffee, I do I was like I I'll use my four liter, one gallon jug bottle and then I'll actually drink the water that I need to drink, because at least if I drink half of it, that's still two liters and I will. I'll drink a liter of it or two liters of it. But then I'm like, oh, I'm carrying this whole thing around. But while I was sick I was carrying around that little like thermos thing and was totally fine, like I was filling it like two or three times a day because my throat was killing me, but like day to day, like I cannot drink water and I don't know why. So water, I am drinking water, I am drinking water hey, no, I, I wrote it down.
Speaker 1:I'm here for you and, honestly, like you just have to find that thing that's going to work for you, like like, if someone had been like it's going to be an ice machine for you, I'd be like, okay, that sounds stupid.
Speaker 2:It was the ice machine that did it for me, because I pass it every day it reminds me when it's low on water it reminds me when it's full of ice and then I like move it or whatever, and it's just like an indication all the time it's sitting right there. So it's like, oh, I should fill up my water constantly. I really should get an ice machine.
Speaker 1:The amount of ice that Brandon and I go through honestly and I'm addicted to diet pepsi and honestly I'm drinking a can, maybe a day at the most now. And for people that are like, wow, that's still a lot. Um, so, like I could drink minimum five a day, uh, before, not that like there's no sugar in it or anything, but if I'm drinking that, why not water? And now, every time I try and drink something I even tried to have a regular pop yesterday it tasted like iced tea to me. I drank I've been drinking diet pepsi. It does not taste the same to me, it just tastes like lightly flavored water.
Speaker 2:That's not that good.
Speaker 1:It's weird, like just from the amount of water I've been drinking, but I do every time, not every but 90 of the time I'm drinking the water out of here. There's a mio in it because, like it's really hard for me to just like just plain water, but it's like it's I'm still drinking water, like it's not, like it completely changes it, does it? Yeah, I get what you mean. Yeah, so cool, your goal is water.
Speaker 1:I think my goal is going to be just seeing if I continue the semi volume meeting with the vegetables. I'm running low on veg and I would really like to crack a book. So I think that maybe I was going too far by being like I'm going to finish half a book. I would just, at this point, like to finish one chapter. Yeah, read Fourth Wing. You know what I want to do, though. I really want to read the books that you and Sarah recommended before. Oh, a Court of Thorns and Roses, yeah, yeah, you think I'd like them right. Oh, a Court of Thorns and Roses, yeah, yeah, you think I'd like them right. Oh, yeah, okay, so I'm going to read.
Speaker 2:I'm going to show you.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to read a chapter of that. Okay, I have, that's my. I was going to do the Matthew Perry thing. I'm going to. Just I have it already on my Kindle. I'm going to read one chapter. Yes, All right, are we going to do a listen bitch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just doing the top one because I've been sitting here shuffling, so this is what we get. Listen, bitch, you will get to where you want to be. It's fucking inevitable, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, I think that, like these cards are made for the podcast, we should make our own cards, the waiting room cards.
Speaker 2:I do not have the time for that.
Speaker 1:We can blame.
Speaker 2:Harper yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1:When she's older. It's because of you All. Right, till next time, bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Yay.