The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
FGT 52: A Conversation About Weight Loss Milestones and Mental Shifts
Reaching a 100-pound weight loss milestone is more than just a number—it's a transformative journey filled with unexpected emotions, challenges, and triumphs. Lisa opens up about hitting this significant achievement, revealing the complex feelings behind downsizing her wardrobe and embracing clothes that actually fit her changing body rather than simply hanging on it.
The conversation dives deep into developing what might seem contradictory: a healthy relationship with the scale. While diet culture often vilifies weighing yourself, Lisa shares how regular weigh-ins have become a tool for progress rather than punishment. She reflects on past attempts at weight loss, including a discouraging doctor's visit in 2018 that left her feeling like sustainable change might be impossible. Now, having proven herself wrong, she discusses setting new goals and the mental shift that's occurred where the number on the scale matters but isn't everything.
We explore practical strategies that have supported Lisa's journey, including adjusting calorie budgets, increasing daily steps, and establishing an evening walking routine that's improved both her fitness and her daughter's bedtime habits. Chris shares her own experiences returning to work after time away, managing injuries, and finding balance with nutrition while preparing for an exciting vacation. The episode weaves through serious health topics while maintaining the authentic friendship and humor that defines our podcast—from Harper's imaginative tea parties to wrestling fandom and the strange comfort of rubbing your face on a clean pillow.
Have you experienced similar emotional complexities during your health journey? We'd love to hear about your milestones, challenges, and the unexpected lessons you've learned along the way. Share your thoughts with us and join the conversation!
Do you have a story you would like to share? Send it to us at theweightingroompc@gmail.com
Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.
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Speaker 2:Okay, celebrate good times, come on, this is for you I got that because I wasn't in on what was happening at first.
Speaker 1:I figured it was for me I wanted to play the song, but for I don't know licensing and stuff, so I was like, yeah, I was singing. Uh, yay, lisa, actually more than that.
Speaker 2:Now I stepped on the scale on Saturday morning because I was like you know when it happens and you're just like I don't think that actually happened. So then I stepped on it again and it's at 304 on Saturday that's amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm so proud of you thank you.
Speaker 2:like I just like chaos behind my hand is covering it. I have chaos behind me right now of going through those are all my keep clothes but of going through all my clothes right now trying to and it was I was actually making a TikTok as I go. I don't know if I'm gonna post it or not, but it is so hard to do and I didn't realize how hard it was going to be because, like I'm giving, I am donating clothes that are like my favorite clothes that I know are too big for me, but it's just like this comfort thing. You know what I mean. Like so I haven't, I haven't talked about it, like I'm gonna talk about it on here, but, um, I haven't posted on TikTok, but my parents, as a celebration of what I've done and how proud they are of me Hi, dad, and mom too but mom never listens they are giving me a decent amount of money for basically a whole new wardrobe.
Speaker 2:So when mom and I went shopping and I actually tried on clothes that are like, actually my size of what I should be wearing, like I wore them to work and so many people notice because, like I've just again, I've been wearing stuff that's too big, right.
Speaker 2:So so many people had comments and I felt so exposed, closed, like I literally felt like I was on a pedestal or that, like I was standing there naked because I was now wearing these clothes that like were on my body instead of hanging on my body. You know what I mean. So it was, um, it's hard right now because I'm getting rid of the clothes that are bigger clothes and now it's like I'm I'm reaching out of that comfort zone, I'm getting into a new zone, and it's almost like it's now hitting me that like I am not that person who I was five years ago, like I already wasn't, but that was. I wasn't because I became a mom and because of COVID, not because I've hit this milestone. So, um, and I plan to do it all again, not a hundred pounds, but I want to get to go down to nothing.
Speaker 2:I want to get to a size 16.
Speaker 1:So for a size 16, that's a whole other well, I'm a, I'm a 22 right now, so and you don't really know how much weight that means that you have to take off, because you could lose it in any part of your body or whatnot.
Speaker 2:But and like it's like. As soon as I hit this, I was, I was kind of like do I want to keep weighing online? Like, is that something that I cause? I've hit the a hundred pounds.
Speaker 1:Do you feel like you always have to up yourself now?
Speaker 2:Or like no, because I already had, like I already knew in my head, with me wanting to get to a size 16, I was probably going to have to lose about 50 pounds. So, like in my head, I knew the next goal was going to be 250, but like well, two, two, 62.
Speaker 1:I think the thing for you is like ask yourself how would you feel if, in a month from now, it's staying the same or it went to where you? It says you've only lost 99 pounds. Do you feel that that would bother you? Do you feel that that would get to you mentally and you'd want to give up?
Speaker 2:I don't think so because I don't know. It's just. There's just been a huge shift where the number on the scale isn't even a thing. Yeah, like it's. It's a thing, obviously a thing, or I wouldn't be happy to be where I am right now. You know what I mean, but well, it's not the top priority.
Speaker 1:I guess it's a thing, but it's not the number one thing you could keep it's like, in my opinion, because you know we have the podcast. You want to like talk about your weigh-ins on here or something, rather than posting, and I could see you now being like all right, my postings are shift and we're going to do a weekly try on of jeans again. Remember when you used to do that?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. See, I think that one's harder though, because like, yeah, and it's like one day they'll fit, and then some days I feel like I would be forcing it like to do that weekly, I feel like is too much?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I feel, yeah, like I'm used to the number on the scale, I have a healthy relationship with the scale. At this point, I think if I was trying on the pants that often, I would just get frustrated, that it's like why am I not here yet?
Speaker 1:I love that you have a healthy relationship with the scale because, like I always think I do.
Speaker 2:It sounds like an oxymoron and I'm like, no, this is not healthy. Saying I have a healthy relationship with the scale really does sound like an oxymoron, because yeah, it's the scale and we've been told for so long that it's like oh, the scale is a bad thing. We hate the scale, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:I'm besties with the scale right now but this is where we talked about in the past, where it's like that toxic behavior where people think that because we're talking about that, it's associated for everyone. It's not, it's our own personal journey. Everyone that listens to this gets it now like we don't have to talk about that again. But it's the internal struggle that a lot of us feel, where it's just like no, this is my journey and I'm not telling you you have to hop on the scale. Watch me do it.
Speaker 2:I get those comments a lot, actually people saying like, like, like you're, you have such a great mindset with the scale, like I can't do that. And then some people tell me I should weigh every day. And then some people say only weigh once a month. Like everybody finds something that works for them and you just kind of have to stick with what works with you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're honestly like seeing you go. It's so motivating and, uh, you know the whole thing with your clothes that you're honestly like seeing you go. It's so motivating and, uh, you know the whole thing with your clothes that you're getting rid of. I think it's really amazing that you're doing that. Personally, me, like I held on to mine, which I'm so grateful I did, because I wasn't gonna afford that again um, but it's almost like I couldn't part with it and I feel like a part of me knew that, like I I don't know if if I'm doing the right thing and it turns out like I really don't feel that I was, because I thought I was working on my mental health without a therapist you all know that and now I have one. I'm like, oh, this is healing. I think that what you and I do- you should get that as a tattoo.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that would be such a great tattoo. It would actually.
Speaker 1:But you know, I just seeing what you've accomplished in the time that, like we've known each other, it is, it is super motivating and it just I feel like everyone should feel that because it's the, it's the what is that stupid? I'm just I'm stumbling on my words Cause I can't think of that damn children's story the tortoise and the hare. And you know it's like you do not need to race to it. You know you've lost a hundred fucking pounds.
Speaker 2:And had a baby in there. Yeah, and when you're side by sides.
Speaker 1:I'm just like you know. I see you like it's the same person, but like holy shit, it's a completely different person and it's. You don't see it as time's going on, though. Two years ago you weren't seeing it. You were so frustrated and like you're seeing it now and I, I love that for you. I just okay, I'll stop. I'll stop talking about how amazing you are, but I love this. I'm so, I'm just I'm so proud.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I'm really proud of myself too. I can't believe I did it. I can't believe I can say something like that. The amount of times through my life I feel like I'm I don't want to brag, you know what I mean Like I hope it's not coming off that way but the amount of times in my life that I've been like I need to lose a significant amount of weight, like I need to lose 50 pounds, I need to lose 80 pounds, I need to lose a hundred pounds, like I just I think back to 2018 where I went to my family doctor at that time and was like I need to lose weight. And he's like, oh, you need to do keto. And I just remember not being able to do it and feeling so deflated that I wasn't able to do this thing that my doctor is saying this is what I need to do. And it's like if I can't do this, that means I'm never gonna be able to do this. Like I just felt. So I don't want to cry talking about that. I didn't even realize how.
Speaker 1:I felt about that.
Speaker 2:No, it's okay. I felt so deflated at that time, like I would never be able to do something like this, and all the time everything is like flatter stomach in six weeks or you'll lose all of this weight by the summer. Like everything was like you needed it right now or you were going to fail. And it's just like after reaching it at this time, it's like the time didn't matter and what matters, and I'm so proud of myself and I'm so proud of myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, you can see how different I can just see it. I don't. I don't know how to explain it, but I'm again, I'm just so proud of you, everyone's so proud of you like I'm gonna start crying. Stop crying. I know that, like when, when you started crying and I was like do it, and I laughed. But I'm like I have weird reactions to this.
Speaker 2:I didn't want to see you cry, I just like let it out you're like, if I was with you, I'd just be punching you right now, cry, cry oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, so when are you in shopping for more clothes?
Speaker 2:so we went shopping last saturday, mom and I went into torrid and I got uh, what did I get? I got three new work shirts and a pair of work pants and a new sweater and a pant and bottom suit that I I'm wearing next week to a baby shower. So there will be posts about it later because it looks so much, I love it so much. Um, and then yesterday I was like I don't have any jeans. So I'm going to buy a pair of jeans, like all the jeans that I have right now are.
Speaker 2:I have the issue where my stomach is like a size 22, 24, but my legs are a size 20, 22. So like they go go on, okay, and they look great and my butt looks good and I can't do them up. So I told myself yesterday like I need to go buy a pair of jeans and just deal with that fact and I'll just try a few on, and if I don't like any of them, I'm not going to settle. It is what it is. So um went to Pennington's yesterday to try on some jeans and tried on a whole bunch of pairs and I did find a pair of Levi's that was like these were made for me, love them.
Speaker 2:Um, and I tried on like 15 different articles of other clothing and then I realized, like I'm about to to like get rid of a whole bunch of clothes, like I don't want to buy clothes just to buy clothes. Yeah, like I'd like to save part of that money as I go for like summer clothes and like not just right now. So, uh, did some of that shopping yesterday and I walked out with one pair of jeans and a like active wear sweater that I can wear to the gym, um, and then we got home and I got a text message saying old Navy's active wear is 50% off. So I got three pairs of leggings and a pair of biker shorts for the gym as well. So that's so exciting. Yeah, that's very exciting. I can't remember the last time I've done like shopping like this. Like usually it's like I need a top for this or pants for this, but actually shopping.
Speaker 1:On the note of being different sizes, like for the one article of clothing, that is so, uh, so real, because I have to go bathing suit shopping for my trip and because I'm just for other people like that might be listening that don't know what I look like.
Speaker 1:I say I have the Humpty, dumpty body because it's all really big in my stomach area and then my legs are a lot thinner. So having something that fits my body but then the leg holes are small enough for my legs is impossible because the leg holes just keep getting bigger. Maybe I should just sew it. Maybe I should just suck it up and just buy something and then just sew the legs. I right when I said it out loud. I'm like just put it into your own hands and stop trying to search for something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2:That's something I've heard a lot of people say where they're like, you can get alterations. Like if you have something that you like, you can get alterations.
Speaker 1:I remember when Sarah was on here a couple of years ago and she was like alter the jeans and you know what? I see comments about that all the time and I'm like who took you girls aside in school and taught you this? Because what? Yeah, I I've never thought of buying a pair of jeans and going getting them altered other than like getting them hemmed like yeah, never thought of it like getting it to custom fit your body yeah, I never thought of that either.
Speaker 2:People are like clothes are made to fit you who. They don't fit me. I tried on five pairs of jeans yesterday. On one fit.
Speaker 1:So I bought a WWE vest. Just, I don't know if I talked about this. I'm getting super into wrestling. Love the women, not the men, but the women. There's this one wrestler called Rhea Ripley. I bought a vest off the WWE shop, came. It was titled men's, by the way, men's vest. Thought that was a little bit weird. Since it's a women wrestler, normally the women will buy it. So it said it went up to 3X. I would normally be like a 2X in a vest like that, especially if it's a men's. So I bought a 3X, just in case I wear a sweater. It got here and it closes to here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like this is child's, this isn't even a woman's 3X. There's no freaking way. So I called and like honestly I'm very sorry for the Canadians listening I did. It did come from America, so the duties and everything paid that would be non-refundable. And I was just like you know what? I'm gonna just get this vest to fit me. So I brought it to a tailor, specifically lace and brace.
Speaker 1:The reason why I'm shouting them out, I believe they're either on 16th or 17th, just really close to main street. They sell corsets and whatnot. They don't necessarily like their corsets won't go up to my size. My friend, who is of like average weight, went and got her corset for her wedding there and so I remembered and I was like oh, I'll just ask them to tailor this. I go in there and they're like you know that, like we're expensive, right, like you could take this to a regular tailor. And I was like yeah, but I don't feel embarrassed to take my sweater off and just be in my tank top in this store. Like I don't think that you're going to judge me. She like hugged me to get the thing around. I'm like we were joking and I didn't feel awkward.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, I'm shouting them out because, like, if you need to get something tailored. They are expensive, it's still. They charge $75 an hour, which is a little bit outrageous. It might take up to three hours. Let's just put it into that perspective. It might take up to three hours for them to alter this. They're going to cut the sides open and I was like, do whatever you want, as long as it looks good, it doesn't need to close, um, but they're going to do like a corset kind of thing. So then if I do end up losing weight, I can just tie it and cinch it. That's such a good idea, yeah, so I'm very love that, like of the did the vest end up costing me double, uh-huh, but you know what I? I really wanted to do this. I'm trying to jump into the whole WWE experience for Rams, you know, just to make it more special.
Speaker 2:And she says it's for Rams, but she's messaged me like a hundred times saying how excited she is.
Speaker 1:I am pretty freaking excited and honestly, like, just like, like I said, um Ram said that the one wrestler, charlotte Flair, that she changed like the face of women's wrestling. I don't know if that's true, I'm just going off what ram said, because when you watch old wrestling they hyper sexualized women, they were abusive, they did really awful things and like, even in that documentary about that vince mcmahon guy, it was um awful, but now it just looks like they're on par with the men. Do you know? Yeah, I don't know what happens behind the scenes or anything, and honestly, a lot of the there's a lot of things I really don't like about it, but I'm, you know, I'm just, I'm in it for Rams. It's his childhood dream and I'm, I am excited, I'm so excited for you oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So, totally changing topics, I did tell you about this yesterday, but I'll tell everyone else. I swear I will die on this hill. Tazo chai concentrate that I got from Costco with a vanilla premier protein shake it doesn't have to be premier protein, fair Life will probably taste better. I miss I wish we had Fair Life here consistently better. I miss I wish we had Fairlife consistently. I've never actually had a Fairlife vanilla one, because I've never seen them, it's so good.
Speaker 2:Never witnessed them in person and you know I haven't seen in a year you know, like convenience store or grocery store milkshakes, like the ones that just come in the little bottle there's like crispy crunch or or coffee crisp or whatever. It tastes like the vanilla.
Speaker 1:One of those like exactly so good for that drink, though literally just those two things the chai concentrate and the vanilla protein, because it tastes sweet because of the vanilla in the premier protein. It is so fucking good like I love chai, and the fact that I had I drank that two hours before work wasn't even hungry I know that this is not what I'm about to say is not healthy. I wasn't eating very much yesterday. It was really hard for me too, and then I had to get something in me, so I drank that and it like kept me good for my whole shift. I am very aware that that's not good. I was just having one of those bad ozempic days. I get it.
Speaker 2:I've been like you know, whatever I'm biased, yeah oh man I. So that has been at my costco. I've debated getting it a couple times, but now because my calories with my nurse are so low it's not, they're not crazy low like I'm not unhealthy about it, you know what I mean. But I don't have the space to budget for it.
Speaker 1:Calorie wise, go ahead I actually totally forgot about that and we need to talk about that. How is that going, since we were talking about the lower calories?
Speaker 2:If you're listening for the first time, that's like you're sleeping or you're in a coma and this is just what your body needs to survive Like it's. Your body is going to use up this many calories. So for mine, after doing my body scan, it said I'm at 1990 calories, so a deficit is anything less than that. And I think I talked about this how I said to my nurse how I wanted to lose 50 pounds this year and she said if I wanted to do that at the rate I was going I can't remember if I said that to just you or if I said that here, so I'm just going to repeat it but at the rate that I was going at the start of March, I was losing three pounds a month.
Speaker 2:So my options were I needed to adjust my calorie budget or I needed to adjust my goal. Either I could keep doing what I was doing and I'll hit 30 pounds loss this year, or I need to drop my calories and reach that goal. So she said to drop. She said to drop it to 1500 calories, like drop 500 calories, and so I did that. I've been getting closer to like the 17 to 2000,. Honestly, like some days are at 17, some days are at 15. It's basically in that range. I haven't been able to stick to 15 consistently, but just because of your weekly average come out like do you are you?
Speaker 1:are you tracking through my fitness bell? Yes, I am. Do you look at your weekly average at the end of it? I don't. That's a good idea to do, because it doesn't always count about each day Like cause. You might have a higher day today, lower day and then it averages.
Speaker 2:That's a good point. I should look at that. So it's been okay. It's not like I'm not perfect at it, but I had been aiming. So before I said that I wanted to aim for 5,000 steps a day. And the other thing that she said was if I I hadn't quite been hitting that I've been getting close to like 3,500 to 4,000, unless I had like groceries going on or it was like a really busy weekend, I was not hitting that 5,000 steps. So she said the other thing too was walking more or increasing my steps while I'm at the gym if I have the time there. So I've done both.
Speaker 2:Instead of doing five minutes of the treadmill before going to the weights, I now do 10 to 15 minutes on the treadmill before going to do the weights. And the other thing she said was if you start walking after eating, it'll help your digestive system. I don't have the time to walk after breakfast and after lunch because I'm usually having it while I'm working. But dinner we have incorporated starting to walk after dinner and we have done it. The only days I haven't done it was Friday night, because I go grocery shopping on Friday night, and last Saturday because I was at a girl's night sleepover thing. But since going to the doctors and to now, we have gone for a walk every single evening. Not my husband hasn't gone every time, uh, and like the people who usually walk with me haven't gotten every single time, but me and Harper have gone every single time for these walks.
Speaker 2:I love that and, um, you're literally just teaching her amazing habits right from the get-go well, and it's been fantastic because, like she wasn't settling down at bedtime like I, I don't think she had much of a routine and some days we would be eating really late because of just what's happened with work and everything. But but now it's. We have dinner, we get ready, we go for our walk, we come home, she gets her PJs on, she says night night to Nana and Papa, she brushes her teeth, we snuggle on the chair, then she goes to sleep and she's asleep within five to 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:It was like she was up for, like well, you were visiting in November, like she did, she did not want to sleep, and now, since changing to this routine, like within five to 10 minutes she's out, and it's just. It's helped her so much. It's helped me, like I'm hitting my average steps, for the last week and a half have been 4,800 steps, so I haven't quite made it to the 5,000 steps. It's, it's, it's a desk job, you know what I mean. Like, but I'm getting to the gym and then I'm also going for these walks, like, and then I'm like, oh damn, I could do 75 hard, because that's two workouts in a day. I'm not doing 75 hard because that's I do not have the time or the pressure or anything for that. And I I hate that people do it as like a oh, I'm going to lose weight doing 75 hard. And then it's like what are you going to do after 75 hard is done? You know so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, even like I would love to do and I'll finish my sentence before anyone judges I would love to do 75 hard, but in my own way, and then you can't call it the, the, but in the. I want to do not 45 minute workouts, I would love to just do two 15 minute workouts, or something you know because I'm starting back from scratch, but it can be my own internal kind of thing.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, I just two 45 minute workouts. I get it, people do it, they have discipline. Uh, how do you have the time? How do you have the time like one has to be outside and make sure you read for 30 minutes or whatever it is like get out of here.
Speaker 2:No audiobooks, no, yeah, I would like. I would just like to say, for those who listen to audiobooks, because so many people are like you're on one side or the other. You either agree that audiobooks are reading or audiobooks are not reading. I am on the side that audiobooks are not reading. I am on the side that audiobooks are not reading Because to read is to read. You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:However, I think we should just call it like book consumption. I have consumed this book today because sometimes I'm listening to the audiobook and sometimes I am reading the book. Like we call call it reading, we don't call it listening to the audio book and looking at the pages. You know what I mean. I read these pages. I listened to the audio book. I have consumed fourth wing so many times over the last eight weeks. I restarted fourth wing for a third fucking time today. I like, I fucking love this series so much, man, and I have a theory and I'm not gonna get down it because, like you, haven't read them yet, but I just I believe we should consume books. I have consumed this book, I have absorbed this book. I'm still dealing with this book, hangover books.
Speaker 1:I mean, on that note, I did. I'm going to be very honest with everyone. I didn't read a sentence in a book.
Speaker 2:I did text you. I would like to point out I that I held myself accountable on to Chris's accountability and I texted her and said, hey, have you read?
Speaker 1:I'm not going down alone. We still haven't submitted our goals and wishes, and it is the end of March, so should we? Even we're through the first quarter. You know, I was thinking. I was thinking that if we didn't get the chance to do that, we should just congratulate ourselves at the end if we end up posting every single week this year it's not happening so far.
Speaker 2:No, but we're on a roll not to, not to just put us down, but no, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm positive, I'm I'm being. All of a sudden I start whipping out faq with chris again.
Speaker 2:Lisa ain't here you got me what an era that was oh my god it was so busy. That was like prime Harper time, not that Harper's not in her prime now, but Harper's always in her prime man, like she's just did. You see my TikTok story today. She no. So in cranium there's this game called sculptoroids, or sculpt raids, whichever, and you take play-doh and you make something. It's kind of like pictionary, but you're like I did.
Speaker 1:I did see that yeah, that's not a cat. Oh it was.
Speaker 2:I thought it was like an angry bird if you get to the end, she says what it is because she was like. She was like I made a kitty. There's whiskers, there's a nose, there's eyes, there's ears. I'm like, I'm the mom, so I have to be like oh yeah, that's a very good cat. Can I take a picture of it and not tell her that I'm posting it?
Speaker 1:I just like let's see everybody Instagram stories. I think that was yes.
Speaker 2:I had. I had it on both, yeah. Yeah, she loves Play-Doh, though like it's her favorite thing, but like we have to be careful with it, because sometimes she's like, yeah, play-doh, like let's play together and I'm really, I'm really excited about this, and then other times it's like, no, mom, I don't want a log.
Speaker 1:I want a ball, and then it's the end of the world.
Speaker 2:When I was there, that's the Harper I got, yeah, no yeah, no, you're making Like I didn't realize we could play with Play-Doh, wrong? I'm not telling you, your cat doesn't look like a cat. I can make a log.
Speaker 1:Anyways, that's my internal mom thoughts coming out now. Harper is also very bossy for tea time or getting water, and I did it wrong every time. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Last night I was like Harper, I need a coffee. No, yeah, last night I was like Harper, I need a coffee, no tea. I'm like I don't want a tea, I would like a coffee. No, no, you can't have coffee, mama, only tea. I'm like, listen, what kind of restaurant is this? I'm about to go all Karen up in here, like I need you to please get me a coffee oh my god, you should Karen out on her in the way of get me a manager and see what she says.
Speaker 2:I did, you know why? Well, I didn't say get me your manager, but she brought me a coffee. I drank it. Was it coffee? No, it was orange juice. Like I will never go back to that restaurant again, I say, but I'm gonna end up there tonight. I always end up back there in that silly place.
Speaker 1:I can't wait for her to like see these kinds of clips from her, like growing up and the stories along the way.
Speaker 2:I'm just full on sassing her. I should probably throw in here that I really do love my child and I have Please ask for her manager today.
Speaker 1:I just don't want to know what she says to that. Like what 100%.
Speaker 2:I gonna need to speak to your manager, please, child. Oh, that's. Sometimes she'll do something and we're just like, oh, my goodness, child of mine, and she just goes, child of mine. I'm like, yep, it's a lot of fun, though, like we do, we do love it. You know what I mean. Like it's, this isn't even real complaints.
Speaker 1:This is full-on fake caring and care rending god every time I have to tell myself I don't want kids, because like honestly, oh god, sometimes I, yeah, no, I I don't want kids. Nope, we're not talking going down a spiral.
Speaker 2:Now what did you accomplish this week, chris?
Speaker 1:um, I was about to just say, though you never know what the healing I'm doing by 50 I might be like, yeah, let's start a family, uh, if only I got healed sooner. So, uh, nothing, honestly, is that new with me? I am back to work, uh, it's going okay, but I've got severe like what feels like I'm guessing shin splints. But what he said is that I just all my muscles are just way too tight, and then he started doing this cupping thing on my shin today and it was so painful it feels a bit better now. I do have to put some heat on it, though.
Speaker 1:Um, of course, it's just. That's not a new injury or anything. It's just because I've been so inactive for months, and then I'm going straight back into a lot of walking, uh, but I'm on a gradual return, so at least they're not just jumping me right into it, right? And I think the only reason I survived last night was because for like two hours of my shift it was spent on computer training. So I'm like okay, I'm good, uh do you work tonight, not tonight.
Speaker 1:I do work tomorrow and then I'm off for four days and then I'm back to practically full-time shifts. But Saturday is now my Monday. I switched my shifts completely this year because we get a premium on Sundays and I decided that with the amount of time I have to take off work, sometimes having a day off here and there might help me to have longer weekends to spread it out.
Speaker 1:Off here and there might help me to have longer weekends to spread it out, and if I bank my Sundays for a few months, I essentially get two weeks off right and so, just like, that's why I'm doing it, and then, if I want to switch off those days or whatnot, normally people love the Friday, saturday, sunday, monday, but I don't, because then I'd have no time with Rams and at least now I have Friday night and Saturday with him. But yeah, it's a change. Whatever, I'm just excited that once I'm off my gradual return in two weeks, I work one full time week and then I'm off on vacation and I'm very, very excited. I've written out my itinerary and like in the itinerary I even wrote like tickets are in this email, tickets are in this app, because I just don't want something to go wrong.
Speaker 1:And for the first four days we're on like a tight schedule because I bought Rams like the superstar brunch and stuff and we're trying to try and run a WWE world that is on the opposite side of the strip to where wrestlemania is happening. It's like an hour over an hour walk alone. I'm not going to be able to do that, but the buses, the taxis, the ubers, everything's going to be jam-packed with, yeah, 70 000 people showing up for wrestlemania weekend, um, but you know, I'm really excited, uh, and like like eating-wise, honestly, like I am trying, I feel I'm making some good decisions, but my want to get fast food like I actually didn't mean fast food, I just mean getting food fast is like a really big priority. A lot of it has been fast food, though um, and I can't tell anyone about it, but, like Lisa knows, like something really great happened to me and then, like it's resulted in this whirlwind of happiness, and then I'm like I don't want to cook, I'm like let's just eat out or whatever and and last night we ended up.
Speaker 1:After I got off work, rams was like I didn't eat dinner and this is like midnight and I knew I was still going to be up for a bit. So I was like let's just get Subway. Like I could have just come home and made a sandwich. You know, that was just showing like I was fine with the protein shake. But then once I was off work, someone made chicken in the crew room and the smell of it I it was like I hadn't eaten in a year. My stomach started making noises and it was like this pain all over my body. I was like I did not know I was hungry until I smelled it. Anyway, I'm talking so much and so fast.
Speaker 2:I did so much talking at the start. You're good I'm keeping up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, but I'm trying to talk fast Cause I'm just like I don't want to like occupy too much time and I know Harper's waking up.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's fine. I already told Brandon that I'm here and he has to deal with anything that may arise.
Speaker 1:Love it. Uh, so I would like to work on my eating habits a bit more. I'm killing it with water. I will give myself that bone. I'm killing it with water. Um, why are we getting bones? I don't know what happened to that bones guy.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, never mind I know we don't talk about that we're not gonna get something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I I'm just trying to like, I was trying to give myself a bone, because I keep talking about all the things.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing Knickknack, paddywhack. There you go.
Speaker 1:You give a dog a bone not yourself.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah. So I know that there's a lot of room for improvement, but I'm taking it one day. Oh, you know what I know because I've mentioned it on the podcast. I'm just going to say this you know what I know because I've mentioned it on the podcast. I'm just gonna say this last night we open up our subs and I take my first bite and I was about to do chew, chew swallow because we're watching something, and then I went chew chew and I'm like chew chew your food. I actually said it out loud and rams gave me this look and I'm like I swear to god, I must have chewed that bite 20 times. It was a huge, huge bite. That's amazing. And so I did it throughout the whole thing and I put the other half away, like I could have, probably Paul actually, no, I knew I wasn't that hungry and I would have just eaten it because I was staring at the TV.
Speaker 1:So by chewing it I realized you're good, and then I put the other half in the fridge. So I'm very happy with myself. I am making these small improvements. I had therapy a few days ago. That was great.
Speaker 2:She was such a great week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really was. And being back to work and everything that's going on, and I mean I'm making other improvements in my life that we don't talk about on here. I opened my first, first home savings account.
Speaker 2:I opened up my first RR and my first tax-free savings account.
Speaker 1:Look at you being an adult. I know it only took 41 years. I wasn't saving when I was one. What am I talking about? Uh, so 40? Years actually that's a fucking lie. I did have a savings account when I was one because my mom put me in modeling from when I was less than a year until I was 13 and I had my own account with her. Yeah, I didn't know if you saw it, but I kept I saw the tail before yeah and like this leaf kept moving. I'm like what is that?
Speaker 2:and then it's just this tail I fully believe what she's doing right now with the claws and the and the pulling. I fully believe that would be a great feeling because like when you go get a manicure and they like clean under your nails, like I think that would just be such a great feeling. Another great feeling, that's like you know, when you just get the urge okay, wait, I don't know if other people have this. You know, when you just get the urge to like rub your face on your pillow.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, it feels so, so good, brandon thinks I'm crazy.
Speaker 2:no, oh yeah if I have too much pre-workout at the gym and then I take the towel and go like this, it's like, oh, I can't do this.
Speaker 1:It's such a good feeling, oh my god, yeah, I never even thought of that. Yeah, such a great feeling and then you don't know other people experience that. Until you say it out loud, that's like TikTok changed my life in that way. There's so many things I never talked about with friends, even.
Speaker 2:Because I'm like.
Speaker 1:I think this is an individual experience and then all of a sudden TikTok opens up your life.
Speaker 2:And you're like I'm not the only one. Have you seen the trend on TikTok right now where people are posting a picture every from like every year up until COVID? No, okay, so they're using like the electric love song that was really big during COVID when, like, everybody was like kissing their best friends you know what I'm talking about. So they. So it's like the first picture is wow, lockdown was five years ago, cause it's March, so wow, lockdown was five years ago. And then your next picture is the last year and it's like four years ago and the next year and the next year, all the way up until then, and I did the trend and I posted it.
Speaker 2:I have no pictures of me in March of 2020 because, a I was in lockdown, so I was like not looking nice, not anything, no pictures. And B I was playing Animal Crossing because that's when it first came out. So the only pictures I have of me in quotations are me as my Animal Crossing character that I've spammed Facebook with when Animal Crossing first came out because I was like, oh, covid's happening, this is the only way I'm actually gonna be able to talk to my friends, and whatnot is in Animal Crossing. So those are the only pictures I had for like the first quarter or first half of 2020.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Sorry.
Speaker 2:I interrupted you a while ago, no.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what I was talking about. It doesn't matter anymore. It made me think of something else. So wrestling again is on Netflix all the time. So Smackdown's on Fridays, raw's on Mondays and there's other stuff, but those are the ones we watch. John Cena turned heel, which means that he's become a bad guy. So for 20 years he was a good guy. Does all this charity work. Vince McMahon didn't really want him to be a bad guy because it made him more money being a good guy. It's all about money. So he turned heel with the other guy, cody Rhodes. The Rock is a bad guy. The Rock comes out and is like asking cody roads to like, you got to be on our side, whatever. Anyway, john cena goes to hug him and the rock like, gives him, like, do, like, kill him, kind of.
Speaker 2:I can't say that on here so yeah, we can, we're explicit.
Speaker 1:So because, like on tiktok, you have to say I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, anyway, uh. And then all of a sudden, john cena's face drops and then they beat the crap out of cody rhodes. It's like a good guy last week. There is a point to the story last week goes on and he makes this. This is why I'm so afraid of becoming a meme. This. He makes a speech and he's like everyone in here, including that kid over here, and it zooms into the kid who's like 10, who just finished screaming I love you. He's like everyone, including that kid over here is in, is part of a toxic relationship or something like that. It was something around that. And then it pans back to the kid. He's a meme now and you know that trend.
Speaker 2:I had no idea what.
Speaker 1:But like no one's used to John Cena being a bad guy, so it's like, what is he going to do? And the you know that trend where they're like little, does she know, in five minutes, blah, blah, blah is going to happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like little does she know, in five minutes.
Speaker 1:Blah, blah, blah is going to happen, yeah, yeah. So there's a new one from WWE that put it out and it's the kid's face and he's like I love you and just staring and it's like little does he know? In five minutes John Cena is going to come and this little kid I'm like he's going to be on TV and it's going to gonna be whatever in 25 years.
Speaker 2:Whatever happened to the john?
Speaker 1:cena. I don't know why that popped in my head but it's just so funny and, yeah, trends. That's why it popped in my head. Oh, and speaking of not a trend, but tiktok today, like or last night, I was trying to explain to rams he's never watched all buffy. Please tell me you have. Okay, I haven't seen any buffy what?
Speaker 1:oh my god. Okay, you know what. I shouldn't be surprised, since rams hasn't. Okay, yeah, you know what? I forgot that you're younger than rams, sorry, um no, no, it's just that rams was seven when it came out, so that means you were three when it came out. I was going into high school, uh. And so we started watching it and one of the main guys in there, zander I was like he has the same mouth as the guy from our lady peace. And then I think ram said who, and I went you know, I I started saying super Superman's dead, and I get in the car. The first song that's on today is Superman's dead. And I was like what the hell? I haven't heard RLB Peace since high school, what the hell? And so I posted about it and someone said what that's called. But I'm like how is it that that happens, you know, when you're talking about a movie that hasn't been on tv in years, and then all of a sudden right after talking about it's like and that's why I believe, but cable ain't listening to you.
Speaker 2:The radio isn't listening to me. I totally agree. That's why I totally believe like there's some, there's some kind of greater power in the universe, like I'm not saying it's god because like, but just in general we each have our own individual alien that's watching us and they're like, hey, let's fuck with her today.
Speaker 1:We're their tv show. I always I used to think like they're playing sims and they're like you know what that would be a good song right now I um, yeah, I used to, when I was younger, try and think of I was really into like aliens and stuff yeah it's like we're someone's petri dish, like they just like left us alone in their fridge and this is what happened, and they're gonna come back and go, oh god, and just trash it aliens 100 exist.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they're on earth, but aliens 100 for sure like to think that we're the only life form out here.
Speaker 1:Like get out of here yeah, totally agree.
Speaker 2:I feel like we've attacked a lot of people within the last five minutes.
Speaker 1:Now let's talk about flat earth. All right, on that note, I think we should wrap it up. We're we're thriving in our own ways right now. We're enjoying this and, um, honestly, I can't wait until our next update in a couple weeks.
Speaker 2:I have no idea with listen bitch, oh yeah, it's gonna be like listen bitch you guys are fit fully yourselves yeah, in fact I can't find them, so let's just say that is what it is like calm the fuck down you two.
Speaker 1:Listen, bitch, get off the conspiracy train and just live in the moment there you go.
Speaker 2:We are not a conspiracist, no podcast.
Speaker 1:However, when you get a couple intoxicating things inside me, I can come up with the craziest shit, but I also just want to see people's reactions to them. It's not necessarily things I believe. In talking to my therapist, I said something about how something happened to me and I was like, oh, you know, it's like karma. And she's like, oh, oh, you believe in karma. Okay, good to know. And she wrote it down and all I keep thinking this week is next time I talked to her, I have to actually bring that up and talk to her about karma. It's like it's not that I necessarily believe in karma because I don't do things in the hopes that I'll have good karma, right, I just think it's a neat idea to be like this happened to me, but also maybe it's a little bit toxic because it's like I didn't. I don't think like, oh, I deserved this. I go oh, karma, I guess yeah you know, I believe in karma.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100% I believe in karma.
Speaker 1:I just don't. I just try not to think about it because I don't. I feel it makes me think of that episode with Joey and Phoebe, when it's like there's no selfless good deed.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know, what you're laying down. Yeah, I've actually decided I was talking about this last week that I do want to rewatch friends, because I haven't watched friends since COVID. That's so weird.
Speaker 1:You said it because I asked Rams if he's ever watched every episode together and he said no. And I'm like could we and he ever watched every episode together? And he said no, and I'm like could we? And he isn't that into it, which I'm surprised, because I'm like the shows I've asked you to watch. Like you've actually ended up really liking like Grey's Anatomy. However, I did ask him would you be interested in watching some of my like what, what are they called? Like you know those shows that you're not like. Oh yeah, I'm a super fan. It's the ones you watch like god, when you're just like in that I don't know how to explain. Like how I watch twilight when it's raining.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's just a comfort thank you, comfort, yeah, that's the word I was looking for so I wanted it's like, yeah, gossip girl. So we watched the pilot and he was fine with it. But as I'm watching it I'm like I can tell he's not going to get through all these seasons. Like he didn't say anything, but I was just like this is so high school and it means something to me because I was. I wasn't in high school when it came out, but I was younger and, like I, was more into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, at our age, I'm like this is so stupid.
Speaker 2:That's like me and One Tree Hill Like. So. One Tree Hill was like my high school watching it as I grew up thing and like now as an adult, it was like I've watched the high school ones and I'm like, oh, these are just like, they're just kids and they're going through high school stuff I mean extreme high school stuff, but high school stuff and then they become adults and it's just like, oh my God, like what a problem to have you poor little rich person.
Speaker 1:I did ask Rams I really over gossip girl.
Speaker 2:I want him to watch dawson's creek with me, because that was I know of both those shows, but I also have not seen either of those shows I would love to watch dawson's creek with you.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, I wish we by the way okay, I know we I said I've got to sign off here. When I went to go get my coffee I actually had the thought of you should text Lisa to see what she wants, because in my head I was like we're recording the podcast and my brain didn't go we're on zoom, you don't live here. And I said I actually got a little bit sad. We're almost teary-eyed because I'm just so sad that we can't have those yeah experiences.
Speaker 1:You know anyway, dawson's Creek is not on any streaming service, and so we can't watch it on Amazon.
Speaker 2:No, it's on time you.
Speaker 1:We used to see it on like either Netflix or Crave or one of those, but now we can't, so we settled on him watching how I Met your Mother, so we're watching that right now. Also. Good, but it's good.
Speaker 2:But I would rather him watch like Friends or something yeah, I hated that they canceled how I met your father, because I got into it and then I really have no idea who the father is that?
Speaker 1:yeah, I really wish that friends existed on prime so that you can, you and I could watch. Do a prime watch party, that would be awesome. Did you ever watch vampire diaries? Yes, oh, I love that me and julia, who I met through tiktok. I don't. We don't talk anymore, which is so sad, but I spent so much of covid with her watching prime watch parties and I am obsessed with that show like I would love to were you like team steven, stefan or damon?
Speaker 2:what is, damy? Damian? Yeah, you're right, damon, I haven't seen in a little while. Yeah, no, I'm his team for sure, did you?
Speaker 1:watch true blood. No, oh my god that one is amazing. Oh my god, if that exists on prime, we should anyway we gotta sign, we gotta go this was a ride. This is what our voice techs sound like.
Speaker 2:It really does oh man, um, are you setting a goal for this week?
Speaker 1:oh, keep on keeping on, okay? No, I'm gonna keep the. Uh, I'm gonna keep the book thing until I do it. Okay, because it's it is important to me. I've just had a lot of crazy experiences the last two weeks that came off as an okay, like I was brushing off that was.
Speaker 2:that was a okay yeah. What about you? I don't know. Honestly, I can't say the water thing, because I've been doing better with the water, not great, but I have been improving with my water intake. But I do fall off on tracking my calories a lot Now that I'm thinking about it like I track it and then I know in my head but then I'm like, eh, I don't need to track it, it's fine, I'm going to track my calories every day.
Speaker 1:Awesome. I don't know what happened, but no, sorry, I don't know what happened, but oh no sorry, I don't know what happened, like judging my no, no, no. You went. You started freezing like your videos, jumping, and then your voice glitched a bit and I was like why is this happening? Right at the end, uh, but now you're.
Speaker 2:I will. I'll repeat it I'm tracking my calories every day perfect. Thank you, yay I'm proud of you. Oh my god, let's leave.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm gonna make that my next goal. I'm already thinking ahead of myself. But yeah, I do want to get back into tracking, and this week I also have been. What are you doing right after this? Um, probably playing a video game okay, read your book oh yeah, and then you're done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you leave here, you read your book and then you're done. I'm not reading that, but are you gonna read fourth wing?
Speaker 1:no, I want it. I still just really want to read those other books the crown, the akatar ones yeah, why do you say it?
Speaker 2:like that. You were so into it before. A court, a court of. Why do I say it like what?
Speaker 1:Oh, because I'm like the ACOTAR.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because everybody starts there and then they go to the next one, and then they go to the next one and it is good, they are good. I'm not going to say they're not good, I'm just I I'm in love with fourth wing now. So it's like, do you think?
Speaker 1:I should just skip that right now and go over to fourth wing no, I think you would. I honestly think you would love akatar okay so I think you should do it I, I always see tiktoks and it hashtags that and I'm like everyone is super into that a court of thorns and roses akatar I feel like if I just say court roses, people will get what I mean. Yeah, it's too much, too many words to remember that's why they say akatar akatar akatar, a court of thorns and roses.
Speaker 2:Akatar, okay, bye I did okay.