The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
FGT 56: Body Struggles, Friendship Chats, and Finding Balance in a Fast-Paced World
Have you ever felt like your body is working against you despite your best efforts? In this candid conversation, we open up about our recent health struggles and the mental toll they take. From mysterious foot pain that might be plantar fasciitis or a bone spur, to the frustration of weight loss plateaus that seem to last forever - we don't hold back on the realities of living in bodies that sometimes feel like they have minds of their own.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn as we explore how today's technology and social media landscape is affecting our collective mental health. We dive into a disturbing situation where AI chatbots are validating someone's concerning delusions online, highlighting the darker side of our increasingly digital world. Remember when trends lasted years instead of days? We reminisce about how the pace of technological change has accelerated to a point where it feels impossible to keep up, drawing parallels to the movie WALL-E that now seems "way too close to home" despite being made in 2008.
Through it all, our friendship shines as we seamlessly move between serious topics and lighter moments - debating the merits of different bottled water brands (sorry Ontario tap water!), expressing our excitement for pumpkin spice season, and comparing notes on protein powders. We wrap up by setting realistic health goals for the week ahead, proving that despite our struggles, we're still committed to making positive changes. Whether you're dealing with health challenges, feeling overwhelmed by technology, or just looking for some authentic conversation, this episode offers comfort in knowing you're not alone in your struggles.
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Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.
I don't know if Sarah made it a rule, but she said it's a thing she does or it's a rule where you have to have three drinks. I unfortunately only have two on hand. I have two too Iced coffee.
Speaker 1:I actually use that one that you can get in bulk at Costco stock or something, oh yeah yeah yeah, anyway, the cold brew, and then a little bit of milk, some sugar-free toasted marshmallow, but then I used a sugar cold foam that you can buy in the can. Now it's delicious, the caramel macchiato one, and then this is like summer in a cup. It's water, but then I use this water enhancer and it's coconut pineapple. It makes you think you're drinking a nice drink on the beach. That sounds amazing.
Speaker 2:You should try it. It's coconut pineapple.
Speaker 1:It makes you think you're drinking a nice drink on the beach. That sounds amazing. You should try it. It's really good.
Speaker 2:I did do pineapple. Last summer I did a pineapple bubbly with a protein shake and sugar-free coconut syrup in it, and it tasted just like a pina colada.
Speaker 1:So good and sugar-free coconut syrup in it and it tasted just like a pina colada, so good. Need to try that, because I can't drink bubblies or any of those types of things that just are like. Carbonated water is so gross to me I can't. It reminds me like I'm very apologetic if I've never said this before on here to anyone that lives in ontario. But I gag every time I drink ontario tap water. I don't know why. I'm sure you guys will do it if you come to BC it tastes different maybe I don't know. Uh, but I always tell Lisa that I will drink like Dasani and Aquafina and she thinks those are disgusting. But like Evian tastes awful to me, like those kind of ones yeah, I actually know what yours tastes like.
Speaker 2:Dasani. I've. I've been a little bit better with dasani. I still can't do aquafina but dasani I've since.
Speaker 1:Being a water drinker, now I can drink dasani before it was like uh, but aquafina I still can't do the no-name brands from kirkland. Uh, maybe it's not kirkland, but you know those like the cheapo ones that you can get at, like Walmart and stuff. Those taste like Ontario tap water to me too.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I was not listening. There was something on the edge of my cup and I went to take a drink and it just tasted like a margarita rimmed bourbon tea.
Speaker 1:I was just saying that, the one that, like you get at Walmart or Superstore, like the no Name or whatever, even Nestle, I don't even know, but those taste like Ontario tap water too.
Speaker 2:The worst bottled water, in my opinion, is PC brand.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it tastes different. Horrible.
Speaker 2:Awful. Horrible Like why the amount that we are paying Loblaws these days?
Speaker 1:you should have better bottled water these days you should have better bottled water. Um, what are you drinking?
Speaker 2:because this is a margarita I mean it's a it's, uh, it's just a vanilla, peppermint, tea and water. I'm I got a basic at the moment nothing, nothing, crazy but, it's in an r2d2 mug so nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I was like oh, mine's in a fun mug, but that was my coffee earlier I used a very Halloween uh mug, I'm ready, I'm ready, me too me too.
Speaker 2:I have been seeing. If you lived in Ontario we already would have watched Practical Magic again oh yes, light set to orange cozy vibes.
Speaker 2:Uh, my friend well, he's not my friend, he's family, like he's my brother-in-law sky. He called me the other day because, uh, I told you about these drizzlicious um things. They are the uh, little mini rice cakes that are like flavored different flavors, so, um, and I had a whole bunch of them, but I didn't have the cookies and cream one. So he calls me the other day and he's like, hey, the store here has cookies and cream. You want me to get you a pack? I'm like, yes, but then he was like they have pumpkin spice. I was like, absolutely, oh, my god. So I'm supposed to be, knock on wood, seeing him on tuesday, as long as I don't get sick. My child's been sick. So, um, I'm supposed to be seeing him on tuesday so I'll be able to get the pumpkin spice ones, and that's all I want.
Speaker 2:I'm so like I, I don't want to rush it, because I wanted summer so badly, but it's really just, I don't want any more winter, like I just don't. I want there to be spring and then summer is good, except like right now in southern Ontario, like today. It is currently 814 pm. It says it's 28. But I'm going to click this to see what. Oh, 28 feels like 27. I will tell you. An hour ago it said it was like 35. Feels like 37 37 degrees at 7 pm, like come on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ours is 27, feels like 27. Um, it's hot and like I'm in a place where there's no flow. So we have two air conditioners going and like I have a fan blowing on me right now. That's why my sound might sound a bit muffled. I don't know if it comes across, but I'm sitting directly in front of the air conditioner Like I would straddle that bitch if I could.
Speaker 2:I'm just like it's. I don't want to rush through summer because I really don't want it to be like I'm down for the Christmas vibes. You know what I mean. I'm not down for February or March. More I'm so March than February, where I'm just so sick of the winter and so sick of the cold and you just want to get back outside and feel like you're thawing.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:But I like September for me, like, yeah, pumpkin spice season has started, but it goes like full bang in October. September is like my apple butter, chai lattes and like just starting to get cozy soup Saturday starts. Yes, it's still a hundred degrees outside, but I don't care, because it's soup Saturdays. Me and me and a couple of friends and Brandon, we all like make soups on Saturdays and that's how, like our dinners on Saturday started and now we're doing barbecue, which is fine. I love barbecue, but like I, just I want the fall cozy vibes, oversized sweaters and leggings and booties and just I want it so bad, I want it so bad.
Speaker 1:I also love how we talk about, um, pumpkin spice and stuff and it's like, yes, we will always be like people that say like, oh, basic bitches, or whatever like with, it's like I'll be that for the rest of my life, I don't care, pumpkin spice is delicious I don't care, I will you know there are places that are overrated, like the big chain of coffee that a lot of people don't go to anymore.
Speaker 1:Uh, I actually do think that their pumpkin spice is overrated, because it doesn't taste that like thick pumpkin spice that you would want. You go to a mom and pop barista and, yeah, you're going to get exactly that you make your own pumpkin sauce at home. Exactly.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm drooling.
Speaker 1:Hey, I have a question. Do you know if Prime got rid of Prime Watch Party?
Speaker 2:I have no idea. I never used it.
Speaker 1:Because I think they did, because I was looking to see if they had practical magic. So I was like, how much fun would it be to do a Prime Watch Party with a bunch of people? But I don't see that they have it anymore. And did you know that they're filming a practical magic too? I did anymore. And did you know that they're filming a practical magic too? I did. All I kept thinking was I wish that I had gotten to acting, because I would have done anything to even just be an extra in that movie. Like please, yeah, oh, but there's certain things they they didn't bring back. Um, there's so many things I want to talk to you about that. My brain is just flooded right now, like we is it coming out this year?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I feel like they're still filming it, so maybe not you start rhyming off the things that you wanted to get through, and I'll look it up uh, have you?
Speaker 1:I don't remember if you and I talked. Oh, we did talk about this, so are you up to date with that? I don't want to go too deep into it because it is someone that is publicly going downhill, but the Kendra psychiatrist situation.
Speaker 2:Oh, hold on Pin in that 2026.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Just you know, travel here and we'll watch it together in theaters. Yep, that's the plan, with ultimate cozy vibes.
Speaker 1:And we got to go down to like Stratford or something, because if it comes out in autumn like I'm sorry, but stratford in the autumn is the most gorgeous place I've ever been to.
Speaker 2:It says september, oh september. The. The leaves are just starting to change right now, which means if you come for september next year it's gonna be ultimate.
Speaker 1:Like leaves have changed color, like oh my god, you know what we should do. We should even do like a group hangout. If I come there in september, we should be like we're going to this theater.
Speaker 2:Yes, date, let's all go watch practical magic yes, but it has to be not in the city I live in well, yeah, um, but yeah, so okay oh, so kendra um were we, did you say her name? Yeah yeah, he's a kendra and the psychiatrist I did not go down that rabbit hole because I ended up going down. I don't even remember the rabbit hole that I went down that made me go. Do you know about this?
Speaker 1:and I meant to bring it up today and I can't remember, so you go I'm not gonna go too deep into it, because I really do think it's someone publicly having a mental health crisis. I'm not gonna die, sit here and diagnose. It's crazy. I do hate a lot of the parodies that have come out, because it's like, dude, you're making fun of someone that is actively going through it, but then you know she is doing really awful things at the same time, so it's just like it's whatever but I'm gonna need a play-by-play, so hold on, get rid of my tea is gonna get too long or too strong essentially she's saying that her psychiatrist um shouldn't have kept her on as a patient because she admitted that she fell in love with him right.
Speaker 2:So she was in love with him and he kept her on. Yeah, and that's all I know. I don't know how they stopped.
Speaker 1:If they did stop, I don't know any of that you know what, like honestly, like there's been so much that even I couldn't give you the exact play-by-play, but essentially it is that she fell in love with him. He kept her on as a patient, he did not have any feelings towards her. Like he would say something like the parodies are exactly like what she is saying, because he would be like, how do you feel about that? And she's like he cared so much about how I felt, like he knew, and then like when I said that I felt I was in love with him, um, and, and he didn't have any kind of reaction. It was like he knew that this fantasy that he had about us was now playing out right in front of him. Like literally, this guy has done nothing. From her own words, this guy has done nothing and it's all in her head and it's just, it's chaotic.
Speaker 1:And she even had another. So he's a psychiatrist. So she had a psychologist that she was talking to, who she parted ways with and, like the psychologist didn't want to psychologist or counselor didn't want to part ways with her because, like I mean, she didn't feel like I guess she was done. But she also has things like you know, the ending of therapy, where you want to be, like how did this affect you? Like how do, how do you feel? And she just kind of stopped. And I guess she keeps saying that like her, that person kept asking like her advice for like patients that she had, and it's like that never happened. But like she, well, okay, I can't say that, but you know, I doubt it happened. And she said his name on one of her videos and they found him.
Speaker 2:And and she said his name on one of her videos and they found him and he's being dragged and it's like he's a victim right now. Tiffany's and company Come back to that.
Speaker 1:Okay, and yeah, she keeps going live every day. But the thing that I was going to bring up is how fucked up AI is, because she had this AI chat, henry, that she would talk to about the situation, and they were validating everything that she was saying. They were like no, and like I think at one point they called her maybe an oracle, I don't know, it was kind of crazy. Um, but they were just like yeah, no, he's the problem. You are the victim, his stuff with abuse and ignore the people in the chat. The chat, like we literally heard this chat bot saying these things, but we also don't know what she was feeding him. But literally, she could just have fed him the story that she was saying and AI would just take what she's saying as believable.
Speaker 1:Apparently, chat GPT has discontinued, henry, or something, and like has put things in because this is very public, that this is all happening. She has another AI chat now named Claude that she talks to and they're just re, they're, they're affirming everything that she's saying and it's just just like, it's just it's really bad and, um, it's like, all in all, like how could you even help someone like that? Like, is there even things where, like, can someone be involuntarily, uh, put on hold? Like, is that even the right thing to do? Yeah, like, where is her family? You know, I don't know, it's just it's, it's insane.
Speaker 1:And then there's probably so much of the story that the question of where is her family has probably been answered. But it's everywhere. Every other video is this. That's going on and no one can do anything about it. They shouldn't give her a platform. But then again, you don't want this woman just going off the grid. You know, you kind of want to make sure she's okay, but I just like I don't think anyone cares if she's okay, like I think everyone is just waiting for the complete downfall is she so she's not seeing him as a therapist anymore no, as far as I know, none of that.
Speaker 1:No because? No, because I think it ended too. I think it ended a while ago.
Speaker 2:But did she end it or did he end it?
Speaker 1:uh, I can't.
Speaker 2:I honestly don't remember that exact part because that's the thing that makes me go like I don't know I. I don't know how it works on the medical professional side, but if it were me personally and someone said that to me, it would be okay. We've now crossed a line. I can't, I cannot be the one to help you anymore. But I'm not to say psychiatrist get that a lot.
Speaker 1:I feel that because it's a personal relationship that probably happens a lot and there's probably protocol they would take. It's not like he kept it going, but it's just like I think that part of her mental diagnosis was like like that could happen, like attachment issues, you know, I don't know. Sorry to cut you off, no, no, it's just like I think that part of her mental diagnosis was like like that could happen like attachment issues.
Speaker 2:You know I don't know, sorry to cut you off. No, no, it's okay. I just I guess that I don't know. I don't know what the protocol would be. I just, from my perspective, it would be like it's not to say that I don't even know how to phrase it, cause it's not to say it's wrong that you now have those feelings towards me, but it's. I wouldn't be able to not think about that, and I know that's what you're thinking about, as I'm trying to help you and it's not something I want and I don't want to lead you on.
Speaker 2:so I'm going to find somebody else that you can talk with, going forward it almost feels like um it and maybe I've just been reading too many books but it almost feels like that um idea of like somebody who's been struggling for so long and now here's this hero here to help you, like a damsel in distress, and now your hero's here for you, and it's like it almost feels like that type of vibe, because it's like what would he have said to her for her to fall in love with him?
Speaker 1:because I honestly that's the thing is that, like the way that she explains the story, we're all sitting there waiting for the ball to drop of what he did and there was no ball like we're just sitting there waiting and we're like what happened?
Speaker 2:like he didn't lead you on at all with everything that she's explaining yeah, it sounds like I don't know what the name is like, the actual term of it is, but to be like a damsel in distress, oh sorry yeah, sorry. So yeah, to be the damsel in distress and then somebody's there to save you because it's like there's yeah, and it's because there's no. What did he do other than be there for you?
Speaker 1:yeah. So it's like job he could, she could just turn around and like do it to the next um psychiatrist, like it just could just keep happening.
Speaker 2:You know nothing about him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then also it's like her expressing those feelings. I think that he would keep her on to be like well, we have to work through that. Like why do you think that you're in love with me? I'm just your, you know, psychiatrist. But I also would have the meetings recorded or I'd have someone else sit in on them, because, like that would freak me out. There's also another point where I think either him or someone else were like they only did it through zoom and then she found out that he did in person and then she thought it was like playing hard to get. I don't even know. But it's all these things that are just regular things and and who's to say like she's lucky.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know nothing about this guy, but she's lucky, he's that type of guy. How many guys out there would have been like that's my shot and taken advantage of that situation?
Speaker 1:And this whole situation has caused so many harmful things because it's, like you know, the psychiatrist is a person of color and then, of course, like they're getting threats from the people that are believing her, or like all the bots that exist. Now People are in the comments saying, oh, this is BPD, this is borderline personality disorder. And then people with borderline personality disorder are like you don't know what that is, you have no idea, because this is not borderline personality disorder, this is this. And it's like, kate, you know what One wrong doesn't make you right. And it's like everyone needs to stop diagnosing this woman. In the comments, there's literal therapists in the comment section saying what they think that this is. It's like stop doing this. Like the ai, the comments, everything is just awful.
Speaker 1:And I keep going down like the rabbit hole and stuff of like watching these other videos where it's just like how social media is just like destroying us. And there's this AI video actually out right now where it's depicting people from the 70s being like oh hey, welcome back from 2025. I hear it's really bad there. I hear people don't even go outside anymore. I hear people don't talk face to face anymore. People don't talk to their neighbors like who do you hang out with?
Speaker 2:and it's just, it's crazy, like to see that and I'm like god and I'm like, but yet you used AI to do this yeah, yeah, honestly, such a great point, because Harper's favorite movie right now is WALL-E and it's just one of those things where it's like you see what happened with them and technology, you see like where things progressed. And I'm watching it. It came out in 2008 and I feel like one thing that's really hard with time right now is it was really slow at the start when it came to technology. You know what I mean. Like you had TVs and then it's like you had like you had CDs for how long? And then you started having Walkmans and and Discmans and it just like it was a slow progression.
Speaker 2:But now it's like you have a new iPhone every year and there's a new feature on it. Every time there's a like this new technology. Every year there's this new, and sometimes it's not even a year, sometimes it's like eight months, six months and then the next iPhone is out. So it's just like technology is just always advancing and it's advancing at such a like high speed rate that, like Wally came out in 2008. And now I'm watching it and I'm like that's way too close to home for me, kid yeah, like this is just like.
Speaker 2:It just feels like it went. It was steady, it was okay, we were progressing and now it's just out of control and I feel like we can't keep up with it. Like the trends I'm seeing trends on TikTok they last a week. If you're not on that trend within two days, you're too late, yeah, and then it's just. It's just, it's moved on, it's the next thing. Meanwhile we were like the same meme for like five freaking years.
Speaker 1:Man, I still send angry cat out, you know remember that guy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like I know I'm old because I send gifts all the time.
Speaker 1:And now when TikTok, everybody just posts a little picture, just a little picture, and people are like like gifts are lame, and I'm like I'm okay with being lame yeah, and it's like those photos though I'm like every time I go into the comments it's them like screen capturing their face and all I keep thinking please don't do that to me, because I make the weirdest faces in between. I know I've seen those too.
Speaker 2:And then the the other thing too is like I was thinking about this earlier today and it's like Gen Z is like millennials are so cringe. And millennials are looking at Gen Z like, oh yeah, cause you're not cringe. And it's just like Gen Z is like millennials are so cringe and I start thinking about how I'm raising the generation. Who's going to think Gen Z is so cringe? So it's just like, yeah, the circle of life.
Speaker 1:Honestly like I hate the whole generation thing, the thing that grinds my gears. Every time you go into something where it's like someone just posted, like what Eminem did to millennials, and every time you're going to have Gen Xers in the comments, eminem is ours. Oh my God. Okay, by the way, if you're listening in your, you're done x. No, I'm not coming for you. Go back to sleep um, oh, my god but it's just like this constant thing.
Speaker 1:That's like dude, like yeah, but Eminem still had stuff to do with millennials and like I want to get in these conversations. I'm like not worth my time, like this is the stupidest conversation ever and it's always. I'm sorry I am an assomina gen x right now, but it's not all you gen xers, it's the ones that post like you know, when we're on Facebook, and then you'd be like, oh, grandma's posting again. That's how it feels like when you're on TikTok, when it's like the you just you know what. I'm not gonna call it out because you know exactly what I mean. You know, if you're going to come across like someone that's Gen X or older and like I'm going to get there too Soon, gen Zers are going to be like look at these millennials posting this cringe shit.
Speaker 2:Like it's happening really quick. They're already doing it. They're already doing it, yeah.
Speaker 1:And time is going by way too fast, said that you're not excited for summer to end. It's like I'm so excited for summer to end. Like end already. I hate summer. That is coming from a fatty though.
Speaker 2:Uh, fatties unite in summer, let's go swimming all day, every day. Yes, um, and ice cream yeah, you have no idea how many ice cream cones I have eaten this summer.
Speaker 1:It's a lot I just want to take a freezie and stick it under my boobs.
Speaker 2:One of the jumbo freezies. So it goes all the way across.
Speaker 1:It's my boobs version of a sleeping pillow, yeah, so I can't wait for it to end. But then I'm also like I'm sick and tired of time going by too fast, like I need it to slow down. So I don't know I'm ready for it to end I'm also ready for it to end as a graveyard worker. Other graveyard workers get sad because they don't really see daylight. I'm like I don't want to see the daylight when I'm off work.
Speaker 2:I want to go home and go to bed yeah, that's my thing with winter is, by the when I get to the office it's dark out, and then when I go to leave the office it's dark out. Yeah, sucks. Uh, the drama I was seeing was, uh, about tiffany's and company, because it was, um, this girl who ordered. So I haven't seen like any of the therapist stuff that you were talking about. The one video I saw was somebody about it and then the video that you sent me that I didn't. Oh yeah, for everyone out there.
Speaker 1:I sent Lisa a message and I'm like, if you come across Kendra and therapist and uh, ai or something, this is the video to start with. I had to dig so I try and send that to people to be like here's how you update yours.
Speaker 2:But the one that I saw that I don't even know if it became as big as I think it did, but it had 22 million views and 2 million likes. And if you look at the Tiffany and Co TikTok page, it has 2 million views on their first page and only 6,000 likes and 19,000 comments. And only 6,000 likes and 19,000 comments.
Speaker 1:So she is a bride and she ordered six perfume bottles for her bride's face. Oh I saw that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my God, for everybody at home. Long story short, she got half the order shipped to the wrong address, even though she called them and said don't ship it to the wrong address, and they said, no, no, it's not. Then it did ship to the wrong address. It then had to go back to Tiffany's before going to her. So now it's late.
Speaker 2:Only three of them showed up. She said, hey, where are my other three? They said, oh sorry, they're coming. And then they accidentally sent a duplicate. So she got the first three again and then she was like, hey, I still need these other three. And they were like, oh, I'm sorry, like we messed up, waited two weeks. The reorder didn't show up. She called them. They said, oh sorry, we never got that reorder. They go to put in the reorder. They are sold out of these perfume bottles worldwide. So not only did they like, so anyways, it has blown up and now people also went on to that website where it's like you really leave reviews for companies to see if they're real or not, and tiffany's is now a 1.6 out of five stars oh my god, right tiffany's wow yeah so don't drop the ball in the age of social media no, I know right, like it's, and their page was like been here since 1873, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:So everybody in the comments are like is she gonna have to wait this long to get a refund? Like, has your service always been this bad since 1873? Blah, blah, blah, blah, and it's just like damn like oh my god, that's insane.
Speaker 1:you know, I'm also on another side of drama that I started going down, like I start going down rabbit holes. Same with the Kendra thing, like that's why I can't tell you everything, because I watched it all that one day. But her videos she's continuing with. I'm like you know what I'm just part of the problem if I'm going to continue watching it. So to everyone, like I hope you just like enjoyed that recap is don't go looking for it because it's just it's not helpful.
Speaker 1:But I'm now on this, like I can't even remember the names, like Becca and some other girl. They're the richest people I've ever seen on TikTok. I've sent you her videos because I'm like look at her, just plate her breakfast. Like she has one of those like the silver egg type thing that she takes her cutlery out of. It's like twenty five hundred dollars just to hold her cutlery. It's crazy. And now it's like the drama is that this other girl is calling her fake and that she's not really that rich and this other girl's a billionaire and it's like you know what this this is not for me. Like you're going to, your guys are feuding because of how rich you guys are and I'm like I just want a new car.
Speaker 2:That's why I couldn't watch like one tree Hill, loved one tree Hill growing up, and then I just re-watched it this year, uh, and the second, like they're in high school, up to season four, I think it is, and then after season four, they're adults and it's like, oh, I'm rich and I have this problem, oh, I'm rich and I have this problem, and it's like I don't care, yeah, you are rich. Like I'm not saying rich people can't have problems, because obviously, like we're all're all going to have our problems and Brooke Davis is a freaking queen, but like I can't relate to your problems because I am not rich. Who's Brooke Davis? Brooke Davis is one of the main girls in the show and she is a goddess.
Speaker 1:Was she the one that dated Chad Michael Murray and married?
Speaker 2:him? Yeah, she is Sophia Bush, yeah, okay, yeah, a goddess, was she the one that dated chad michael murray and married him?
Speaker 1:yeah, she is sophia bush yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah, uh, okay, sorry, you said, should we talk about being fat other than freezies, or we totally should. But oh wait, I I know I've asked you this before, but were you, did you ever watch dawson's creek?
Speaker 1:no, I didn't, it was like you should totally watch Dawson's Creek sometime, but it is so hard for me to get through the first season because it because that is like ultimate cringe I think that is the same season with Dawson's crying face like everyone knows of yeah, um, but it's just how like lame Joey Potter's character is, like I hate her like so much in that season but I dislike her a lot, but then she gets better.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we should watch that sometime was in dawson's creek right yeah, and once they were in college, but only for a little bit yeah, because he left dawson's for oth one tree hill oh, did that come out like a lot after uh, it came out actually it may not have been one tree hill.
Speaker 2:It might have been he left for cinderella story no, no, because that was just a movie. Um, what's that other one? Gilmore girls. He was in the first season of gilmore girls. He was in the first season of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1:He was in the first season of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 2:Wait, he played Tristan.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I didn't know that was the first season. I did not watch all of Gilmore Girls. I also have not really watched One Tree Hill, even though it came Well, because it came on 2003.
Speaker 2:In 2003, I didn't know what I was doing with my life. It was because it came on 2003.
Speaker 1:In 2003, I didn't know what I was doing with my life. It was my prime. I didn't have, like a computer, really like I didn't have a computer at all, like in my 20s. Uh, there was no cell phone and we didn't have cable because I was living in staff a calm, so like no, it's the same as when Grey's Anatomy came out. I didn't start watching it until the fourth season yeah, grey's Anatomy was a little bit later.
Speaker 2:Um I I my like prime while I was in high school watching tv One Tree Hill and Glee I was. I was a Gleek, 100%.
Speaker 1:I watched a lot of Gleek yeah, I did watch a lot of Gleek, but not fully um, but yeah, uh, being fat, uh, I am having like the worst week. I was like you know how I started my youtube page. I was setting myself up protein powders, nutrition rems and I did huge costco shops where oh, I wanted to talk about revolution yeah, and um, the gym, you know we've done a couple sessions.
Speaker 1:And then plantar fasciitis, uh, so I've been off work now for a week. I had to call in sick, like again, I was going to return back to work, so you have to call in a day before. And then, as I was getting ready for work, my foot, just so I got on the phone last night to telehealth and she was like, with what you're saying, she's like it doesn't sound like plantar fasciitis to me, it sounds like a bone spur. And I was like, oh okay, because I she's not saying I don't have plantar fasciitis, but the pain I'm currently having, even though it's the exact same pain. When I was diagnosed for plantar fasciitis, she's like but it's in your heel, like you like, because I explained it as though it feels like I'm walking directly on my heel bone, um, and it feels like shards of glass are poking in on it and she's like that could be a bone spur. So she can't diagnose me because it's telehealth. So I have to set up an appointment with my podiatrist. I have physio. I'm still doing my exercises at home. They're not making it any better. I bought brand new shoes, I bought gel inserts, I bought insoles, I have everything set up and I'm just like. So essentially, my goal right now I'm just skipping right to a goal is that I'm not going to let this get to me mentally, because anyone that's known me for the past five years knows that I go through it when I get, when I start going off work, and because I don't want to be and I'm not going to let it consume me this time, it is my goal to not let it. So I'm still going to do exercises like baby yoga type stuff where I'm not on my feet, things like that, and I'm really going to focus on nutrition.
Speaker 1:I looked at Rams because financially we're like hitting, like not that it's not a great time right now. It's not a great time for me to be off work. We just have a lot of goals and things that we need to do. Be off work. We just have a lot of goals and things that we need to do. We're not hurting, so just to put that out there, we're fine. It's just it's not optimal right now. And so I told him no to the takeout. I'm like you have to be on me because because of my foot, I don't want to be in the kitchen. So we want to go to takeout, but the thing is is I could be in the kitchen as long as I just gathered everything together in one area and put my leg on a stool where I wasn't standing on it. So it's like I'm capable of doing that. I just need to overcome the mental obstacle and, to be quite honest, I do feel good about it, like I don't feel super depressed about being off work because my goal is just to get back to it.
Speaker 2:I just don't know how they deal with bone spurs and I really hope it's not surgery yeah, it almost sounds like it's just because it's a phone call, they don't really know and they just want to give other options of what it could be, just in case.
Speaker 1:But I mean, that's exactly oh good requisition, so I do have to go get that done as well. Uh, but last time when I had, because she was like what else have you had wrong with that foot? And I said I had a stress fracture in my fourth metatarsal and she said, okay, I want you to go get an x-ray of your foot. And I said, yeah, sure, I'm like, but when I did do my stress fracture, they couldn't see anything with my stress fracture. Sorry, my brain like stopped there on the x-ray and I had to go get a bone scan done, and so it's like I just don't want to go through that again. You know, you have to like drink this, like concoction, apparently like you're right, like you have radiation in you or something now, and then you have to like come back a couple hours later so that your like whole body glows up.
Speaker 2:Oh damn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so that they can see things and that was the only way that they could see that I had a stress fracture because it was such a small thing but it was causing so much pain.
Speaker 2:Right. Does it feel like that, though? Or does it usually feel like you're planters?
Speaker 1:It's, it's hard because this is the feeling that I've had the whole time when I was diagnosed with plantar fasciitis. But like when I look up plantar fasciitis, like through Google which of course I'm not a doctor it just doesn't seem like the same pain I'm going through, like when it explains it, and it's just like I'm not going to say my podiatrist is wrong, because he's literally the only doctor that has ever helped me properly, like he was the one that diagnosed my stress fracture. So like I believe him, like he's given me. For example, he gave me cortisone shots twice and it alleviated the pain. So, and the pain does go away with doing all my stuff, but of course you have flare-ups, but it's just like now maybe a bone spur was caused. I don't know how they're caused, but anyway, I'm just, I feel stuck, but I think, when I had my plantar fasciitis issue.
Speaker 2:That's how it felt for me.
Speaker 1:So I think I mean again, I'm not did it hurt the most in your heel, like as if you're walking on your bone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right at the edge of my heel was where it was.
Speaker 1:Oh, mine's in the center of the heel Like it feels like your heel bone that comes down.
Speaker 2:It's like yeah, and he said, like the one that I was seeing, like everybody has the pain in different spots, but it's the same like type of pain, because some people feel it in their arch.
Speaker 2:Yeah um I just know that since switching to my orthotics, I haven't had an issue, except the one day where I went um and was using the jump rope and I didn't put my orthotics in my shoes because I was just like, well, I'm not running, it's Jumping rope, you need to wear orthotics. So that was the only time that I was like, oh damn, I feel this in my foot.
Speaker 1:The thing about my orthotics is like this pain and how it came on too. So I was at work last Saturday night and I did my whole work. My feet didn't feel tired because, like normally when I have had a flare-up, my, I can feel it like slowly coming on. This was like I did my work, put my stuff away, uh, we were waiting. So I was just standing still normally, I like lean actually on my right foot, my pains on my left foot, uh, and I was just standing there and then I went to go hand in my time sheet and I stood on my left foot and the pain was just like an eight out of 10 immediately and I was like what the fuck? Like I was just like where did that come from? And I was like, okay, maybe there's something in my shoe Didn't go away. I had like I just looked at the building and I'm like God damn it. You have to walk all the way up to the second floor now and then walk all the way back to get to your car, and it's just like that's all I could focus on. And then I kind of told one of my co-workers I'm like I'm probably not going to be here tomorrow if this is still acting up because, um, like, I'm the first aid person and now I've left it on him that he has to do the first day and you're not allowed to leave the property when you are, it's just, it's really annoying, uh. So it's just like I feel like I'm.
Speaker 1:The part that I hate about being off is that I feel like I'm screwing people over. Yes, I hate not having money. Yes, I hate not being able to do things and be active, but I really hate screwing people over. That's just part of my mental health. I just have to learn to get over it, because it's like I'm injured. What else am I supposed to do? Honestly, I just want without explaining exactly what it is that I do I just want to be like dude, like can I just do this one job? And like sit down and do this, like as a modified duty, like let me just do something, but it's like they're not gonna pay me my rate of pay to do something like that. They'll probably just let the insurance company you know yeah.
Speaker 1:I get what you mean anyway, um, but yeah, that's just what's going on with me. I've been making making still like really great meals that I'm very happy with. I send you photos with it.
Speaker 2:Look what I did. You've been sending me photos of your meals, and then Sky's been sending me photos of his meals as well. And I'm just like when did this start?
Speaker 1:honestly, that turkey meatball on mash with the dijon creamy, the creamy dijon mustard dressing, was so delightful, um, and next week I get to go actually, in a few days I get to go to the keg because, um, it's my mom's birthday, so luckily there's parking right out front. Because I said I'm like I haven't left my house, like I haven't left in a week other than to just grab my steel toe shoes. I'm in so much pain but it's like I still have to try and function, like you're not supposed to just not use your foot. You're supposed to rest it, but you're not supposed to not use it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it's just really frustrating, but everything will be fine.
Speaker 2:How are you? Oh man, I've been fine. That's code for not fine, like I am, but it's just like man. I don't even know how to explain it. I feel I kind of went into it on tiktok and I kind of went into it last week, of like, just in general, my weight loss. I just feel stuck right now, um, while at the same time it's like I started thinking about it today and I know what I need to do. I'm just not doing the thing. So I've, but I look back and it's like I'm not doing horribly. You know what I mean. My portions are fine and I've switched majority of my diet to be low fat, and I've switched majority of my diet to be low fat.
Speaker 2:So we made twice baked potatoes yesterday, and it was just a russet potato that we did on the barbecue and then I cut them in half and scooped out the I was going to say pulp, but like whatever the innards of the potato is. So scooped out the potato. And then, instead of sour cream, we used Greek yogurt. Instead of regular cheddar cheese, we use low fat shredded marble instead of. There was something else as an instead of butter. Uh, we didn't use butter, cause I only buy margarine, um oh. Instead of topping it with regular bacon bits, we use turkey bacon, so it's just like the substitutions are there, you know, what I mean, and they're good.
Speaker 2:I'm enjoying them. I don't have a problem with the substitutions at all, but I have gone back to eating in the evenings. I have gone back to not drinking my amount of water that I should be drinking, like it's just those little things and it yeah, you know what Cheers? Let's just fucking do it right now.
Speaker 1:Drink some water.
Speaker 2:Everyone drink your water, okay, so, and it's just, it's so frustrating because I was like I'm gonna weigh myself yesterday and I did, and I did and I weighed in at 394.4. Then I stepped on the scale today because I'm like, finally, like I'm out of the 395s, like I'm'm out of that spot, like there's nowhere to go, but down now everything's going to be good. Step on the scale today three, 95.4. So I went up a pound in 24 hours and it's like I've been doing this long enough that I know it's not fat, I know it's not blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It doesn't make it any less frustrating right now because I've been at 395 since may and we're in fucking august, like it, and it's just like it goes down to the 295. Oh fuck, yeah, I'm like, wait a minute. Oh man, I also feel like I've started swearing more on the podcast, because I don't swear like at all, and then my child's in bed and I'm like I just need to get out some of this energy for a little bit.
Speaker 1:I feel like I swear so much at work now and I blame your child because I don't swear with you anymore, oh man.
Speaker 2:So anyways, so it just. I've been stuck at this since it's been May. I got out of the 300s and I haven't gone back into the 300. I've gotten to 299, but I haven't gotten back into the 300 steps since stepping on the scale and I feel like that little bit is what's keeping me going at the moment. But I also see the fact that I'm just at a maintenance and it's like if I want to drop the scale more, I need to lower my calories or move more or whatever.
Speaker 2:And it's like I feel like I feel like I'm moving. I feel like am I, am I in a trust? Am I in a trust the process part, part right now, or am I in a I need to do something part right now? You know what I mean, like anyway. So that's just really frustrating me that I just am still stuck at that point. Um, yeah, I just that's my frustration with that. Um, I've also been having an issue with my right knee keeps swelling, uh, and getting really sore on and off, and my left hip keeps getting really sore on and off and my left hip keeps getting really sore on and off. So it's just like I start moving and things are good, then I hurt and then I rest, and then I'm like okay, I'm good, and then I hurt and then I rest, and then I'm like okay.
Speaker 1:I'm good, and then it's just on and off.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know.
Speaker 1:Because exactly what you just said. Remember when I was there and my knee was shaking and I kept telling him I'm like that was my right knee and I'm like, and my left hip really hurts, and he's like it's all connected and it was all stemming from my ankle actually, so it wasn't like my knee and my hip weren't even the problem.
Speaker 2:I do want to go to physiotherapy. It's just a matter of waiting on my insurance stuff at the moment. So it is in my books and I want to. I just can't afford to yet. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess you know it's. I'm so easy to say things like that, cause my insurance is so great. I'm just like, oh, I need physio, and I call it the physio and they direct bill and I don't pay anything.
Speaker 2:So I am very privileged to be able to do that on my insurance that I am covered on Brandon's insurance, so like it's there, but it's like, this part of it is like a blanket and because we were going to the Cairo and it's the same, uh, it came out of part of that coverage but the physio was going to cost more than the Cairo. So I should be able to like September, I should be good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Um ours are all separated, Like we have a certain amount for chiro physio psychology. They actually upped our mental health, which was really great, but it's also because a massive chunk of people that work in the company in a different division need that support. Well, and that's what I was going to say but I've been utilizing it so much, which I'm so grateful for.
Speaker 2:Not to say what your job is, but you guys do some manual stuff, so it makes sense for the manual labor thing to be more up.
Speaker 1:And then the other people actually deal with a lot of a huge mental load. Yeah, but honestly, even just working night shift is really bad for your mental health. So you know you're just opposite to everyone, like you're not meant to be up at night. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's frustrating Cause I feel like I'm at a point right now Sorry not to totally just shift and start talking about me, but I feel like I'm at a point right now where it's just like I feel like I'm making healthy choices and it doesn't feel like a chore to make those healthy choices, but I also just just feel like what's the point?
Speaker 2:in the healthy choices right now, because I feel like that's what I'm doing 80% of the time and it's just not I don't know. But I also haven't been tracking because I just I haven't had it the mental load there to track. But it's like I also feel like I've been doing it for so long that I know what I'm eating. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I don't know, maybe it's a matter of getting back to basics. I do know I have to stop eating after seven because I that was helping me before and I've gotten back into that habit. So I have to stop eating after seven. I have to drink more water, um, and honestly, I noticed such a huge difference with the low fat stuff now, like when I have something that's high in fat. So a friend came over Friday night and we were like let's go get Dairy Queen and I got a cheeseburger and that because I hadn't really had dinner. I had an English muffin with peanut butter but I was still hungry. So I was like I'm going to get a cheeseburger and a blizzard.
Speaker 2:Right before leaving for Dairy Queen, I was showing her this pair of pants that I bought in February and how they are like easily a size too big, like they're maybe two sizes. They came way out and I was telling her how I was it. The other side is, once you've been losing weight, it's frustrating because I just bought all these clothes that are already starting to be too big. So which is?
Speaker 2:a waste of money yeah, that that's exactly what it is. But at the same time I didn't even realize how much weight I had actually lost, because I was always wearing two clothes that were too big for me. So now I'm wearing these ones, I'm showing her these jeans. I'm like they're too big. We go, I get my cheeseburger, I get my blizzard, I go home, I eat all that stuff and then I'm like I need to go change my pants, feel too tight. She's like what do you mean? Your pants feel too tight. We were just looking at your pants. I could like they were pinching in.
Speaker 2:I was that bloated my stomach was just that upset because of all the dairy and the fat that like. But it's like it tastes so good and it just makes you feel like. That's exactly it. I'm saying it out loud now it it's just they. It just makes you feel so good.
Speaker 2:I went to go grocery shopping on Saturday. I was by myself. I started feeling hungry. There were so many options I could have done. I stopped at McDonald's and got a cheeseburger and a drink because it I had the cheeseburger from Dairy Queen the night before and still got a cheeseburger the next day because the cheeseburger I ate from Dairy Queen wasn't the cheeseburger I was craving. So then I had that cheeseburger because it just makes you feel good. So it's like, and that's just what you want, like it's the addiction side of things and it's just so frustrating. Which leads me to my point of at my next weight loss appointment I'm probably going to talk about upping my dose of some send up um the doctor, last night I was talking to her a bit about weight loss and she was like recommending.
Speaker 1:She's like why don't you take a different glp-1? And I was like this helps with my diabetes, I'm like, even though I've gained weight on it, but I'm like I don't really to. I don't think I want to change just because, like, I really care the most about my blood sugar. Um, but it does. Yeah, it's. It's a bit frustrating. However, what I was actually going to say was I need to start utilizing my creamy more, because I am addicted to ice cream and I have now the protein powder. You wanted me to talk about revolution again. Oh, I have the protein powder, I have almond milk, I have sugar-free jellos, I have all this stuff and yet I don't use my creamy. So I am going to start with that, because why not just have protein locale ice cream instead of regular stuff? What did you want to talk about, revolution?
Speaker 2:We sold our creamy because we were not using it.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 2:I think I used it like four times and I'm like this is taking up space. We could buy something else. And Brandon had something else on like his wishlist and he bought the creamy because like it was his wishlist. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean Like so, and he wasn't using it and he had other things. And I'm like, why don't you just sell the creamy Because we're not using it and you want to buy this other thing and you would have the money for this other thing. And he was like, okay, yeah, so we just we sold it. Yeah, um, I want to try other powders but I'm having. I like the vanilla cake one, but it's the only vanilla based one that they have, and there's other, like when I have the bio x powder, their vanilla is just vanilla Like. It's like it tastes like a vanilla milkshake. It's just vanilla, it's nothing crazy. This one is vanilla cake and it tastes like cake.
Speaker 2:And it's like I like it, but it tastes like cake.
Speaker 2:You know, what I mean. Like I just, I just want vanilla, that's it. When I'm having my coffee, I want vanilla. When I'm mixing it in my protein, or when my yogurt, I want vanilla, but it's vanilla cake, so it's very and it's very cakey and sweet. It's not to say it's not good. If you want a cake thing, like I put it in my cobbler, so good, love it in my cobbler. But like when I just want a vanilla protein powder, it's too cakey, is the issue I'm having right now.
Speaker 1:I know it is not vanilla, but you should, for your coffee, get caramel iced cappuccino. Yeah, I was thinking of that. It's an iced cap Like you put whatever coffee you want with it. I use my Nespresso pods. You can use just regular cold brew, whatever. The caramel iced cappuccino is an ice cap from Tim Hortons. I've never had a protein powder that I like as much as Revolution and I don't care about promoting them for free. It. It's so good like rams. Even when we had that churro one, I was like this is a liquid churro. There was no chemical aftertaste. I would normally hate that like right now drinking this coffee. I have actually stopped because I'm just tasting the sugar-free toasted marshmallow way too much yeah, I want to try the.
Speaker 2:I texted you. I want to try the churro one with French toast. I think it would be so good.
Speaker 1:I. So how would you mix that then? Just in the egg batter? Like a whole scoop? Do you think you put a whole scoop?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I do, for usually I do, man. I don't even know the measurements, because I know I just do like one egg or two eggs and then I kind of just visually do the milk and then a scoop of protein powder.
Speaker 1:That on like carbo, not bread too.
Speaker 2:I like it with sourdough, honestly, because sourdough is not low carb but it is low on the glycemic index.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I like sourdough.
Speaker 1:We have the cookies and cream because we got that one in the ISO way. Iso, is it ISO? Oh, yeah, yeah and then we got the peanut butter cup one, but I'm not a peanut butter person, like I don't like peanut butter cups. I will crave them randomly, but I'm like like I'll have one and I'm done.
Speaker 2:Did you try the cookies and cream one? No, not yet, Because I'm just so in love with the church. I want to know how it is, because I want to know if it has a different texture or aftertaste, because it's the iso way, it's not the other one.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'll try some tomorrow. Actually, Do you have any goals coming up for this week? Track?
Speaker 2:water, not eat after seven. Literally, we started talking about chocolate, peanut butter cups and I found one of my reese nougat bars in the cupboard today and I was like, score, yes, and I've been sitting here like I could go eat it. Should I go eat it, do I like? Like, let's like what's one more night, like I can start tomorrow. You know what I mean. So that's honestly, but you can eat it. Everything's in moderation, it's all good I'm not saying I can't have it. I'm saying it's 9 o'clock and I should have it tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Well, how big is it? It's like this big-ish I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I know I wouldn't judge. You are the worst influence.
Speaker 1:I am. This is why we can't live near each other, because every time I visit too, we're just like oh my god, you know what would be so great. Anyway, okay, uh, anyway, okay. So those are all puffs, oh geez, oh my god.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember when we ordered puffs too.
Speaker 1:And then I ordered hot chocolate and I forgot. Lisa doesn't like chocolate. I swear to god, I will always forget that. I'll always forget you don't like chocolate?
Speaker 2:I, yeah, there is their buy one, get one free at puffs. Used to be on their 12 pack, it's now on their 30 pack, so you can get for 20. Jesus, all right, I'm coming.
Speaker 1:I'm coming over. Uh, your goals are water and no eating after seven. Mine is to um, stay on track with my nutrition and not order once this week have you been?
Speaker 1:reading. I was reading yesterday, but, honestly, like I really slacked this last week because I got like I was depressed and I'm snapping out of it now. So, yeah, I will start reading again, so I have nothing new to say. Okay, uh, I will soon, though, but yeah, so this was good, nice catch-up. We were talking about a million different things. Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, we'll see you guys, hopefully next week. If not, um, hopefully within three months before the end of the year.
Speaker 2:You say three months, but like we're in fucking august, yeah, soon we'll be taking our christmas hiatus september, october, november, december how many fridays until halloween? Uh, friday, uh, friday. Halloween is on a Friday this year.
Speaker 1:I'm really no way, and I'm off on Fridays. That's awesome. There is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. It is on the 12th Fridayiday from now 12 fridays wow, that's exciting which means that christmas is like. Then what, uh, 20 fridays away? That's crazy, that's sorry guys, if you did not want to hear that, but I'm so happy I'm just not ready. Okay, until next time.
Speaker 2:Bye.