Episode 13: From Snack Attacks to Greek Yogurt Hacks: Our Bariatric Food Survival Guide!

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Hey Steph. Hello. How's it going? It's going.

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How about you? Going well. Welcome to another

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edition of Bariatric Banter Podcast. What are

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we on? 13? 13. Ooh, lucky or unlucky? Lucky.

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It'll be lucky 13. I can't believe we're on 13.

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We're on 13 and we are over 800 streams just

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on Spotify, which is... That's amazing. Like

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this blows my mind, right? Like 100 streams a

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week is... Y 'all, I don't even know what to

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say to you guys. That's awesome. Yeah. And everybody

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else who listens on Apple and all those, like,

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we love you too. Don't, don't get us wrong. We

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love you too. Yeah. So we've hit 13 and wow.

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Like when we discussed starting this in January,

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I didn't think we'd still be here in April filming

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this, but here we are. Or I thought we'd be here

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and it would literally just be like. us doing

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this shit for a while. And like we said, our

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family's listening and being like, oh, I like

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your episode. Oh, it was so good. Do you ever

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see that meme on Instagram where it's like, what

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are you out here doing this for like one person

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for? And it's the little sheep who's like, like

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staring at people. That's it. We're here for

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you guys. I love it. No, I think we would have

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like, I hoped we would have a few people, but

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I didn't think we would be at this point. I hoped

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we'd have like a few friends and family who would

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like taper off. Guys, I get it. Yeah. Like when

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we I sell pottery at like some local markets

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and that was the like our first market ever.

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Me and the girls, all friends and family. Right.

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We were so overwhelmed by that in the best way.

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And then we said, you know, our goal is that

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eventually we sell enough. that friends and family

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don't have to make up our entire and we did by

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the way I should say we did but that was I think

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our goal for this too was like we knew our friends

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were going to come out and just be our biggest

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supporters and we love you all but I think our

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goal was like eventually it'd be really great

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if we could reach even one or two people outside

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of our circle and we did and we've gotten to

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talk to so many of you awesome messages Oh, my

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goodness. I had so many people give me like suggestions

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for stuff in Nashville and I didn't see them

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right away. And then I was like, oh, my God.

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So sorry. Thank you. And you've just left us

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like super kind comments. You're hyping stuff

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up on our exercises. You're reaching out because

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you want to share your stories. And we are definitely

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going to do a bariatric Q &A. We're going to

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do love letters from the fans. Stay tuned. We're

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going to post it on social, but we actually want

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all of your stories. Good, bad, funny, horror,

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suggestions, tips, tricks. We're going to do

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a whole edition just dedicated to all of you.

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Yeah, because you'd be shocked how many people

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are in the same boat. Like, it's been really

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cool to see. I think I talked about this in another

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episode, but just how people kind of come out

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of the woodwork and people that I know through.

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family or through friends or through cultural

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things that have reached out that I had no idea

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were contemplating about the surgery or had maybe

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there's a couple people who I know had said that

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they'd gone into the program and then got scared

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and backed out of the program and now they're

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rethinking it like there's so many people that

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are in the same boat or having the same struggles

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and even if it's not bariatric surgery it's just

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health journey or weight loss or health goals

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there's so many people that are on this journey

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with you. And just because maybe they're not

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openly speaking about it or they're not sharing

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it on social. So you may not know, but there's

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so many people out there who are in the same

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boat, struggling with the same things, looking

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for the same answers and that connection. Yeah.

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And that's, I think the best part about this

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podcast, we're connecting with non -bariatric

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people. And that's that, like, this is an open

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community for anybody. You don't have to be a

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bariatric patient or even want to be one. We've

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met people who are just like, Hey, I've lost

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weight. through whatever way. how did you get

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into running? Can you, and I've had a few people

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ask like, what shoes do you buy? How did you

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do this? What's, you know, I've helped a few

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people just kind of say, well, here's how I got

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started. We've had people with PCOS reach out

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who again, not bariatric at all, but we're curious,

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like what supplements are you guys taking? And

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did you have this happen with your PCOS? And

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Steph's had people want to reach out and talk

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about infertility after that episode that we

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did. And I've had people just ask about meal

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prepping. Like even my brother's like, Hey, is

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this a good recipe. Like I've become that person

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in the family. Is this good? And I was like,

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well, what am I looking at? Like, what do you

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mean by good? Like, well, look, should I eat

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this? And I was like, oh, I'm that sister now.

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I'm sister. Should I eat this? But it's just

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very funny because like, yeah, we we span not

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just bariatric. And I think that's a goal we

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didn't know we wanted, but we now absolutely

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want as our goal. Yeah. One of the one of my

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friends who I would say listens to us probably

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the most. She's shared about us on social a few

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times. She's been. Yeah, she's lovely. I know.

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Yeah, she's so wonderful. So she's been like

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a cheerleader for me since for years, since I

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started working with Beachbody and then Body,

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whatever. She's just always been such an awesome

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cheerleader. She's been one of our biggest cheerleaders

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for sure throughout this. And she's not a bariatric

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patient, but she's been on a health and wellness

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journey for a couple years. She's one of those

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people that also wants to help other people succeed.

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And, yeah, she has nothing to do with bariatric

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surgery. But she has even said, too, like there's

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so many things that are relatable when we talk

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about food tracking and calories and protein

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and movement and mindset and all that kind of

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stuff. So, like Hannah said, I think there's

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been even more. connection through this than

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we thought, which was not our goal, which was

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not even something we really thought about, but

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it's been so awesome. And it's been eyeopening

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for us too. Um, and I just think the more people

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we can connect with the better. Yeah. And I can't

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explain how happy you guys make us. Steph and

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I will be having like the most annoying day at

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work and like, oops, hope nobody I work with

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is listening. But like, we'll just be having

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a day. You know, we've all had days. And then

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I'll be like, oh, my God, did you see that message

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we just got? Or who wants to respond to that?

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Or holy crap, we just hit 750 streams. And like

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we actually like in real time, we'll check that

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and get every day. So excited. Something every

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day. Every day. And I'm sure there's people who

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are like, why are you celebrating 700 downloads?

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Because we love that. We love every one of it.

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Yeah. And if it stopped here, I wouldn't even

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care because I'm just so happy with who I've

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got to talk to and interact with. And I've had

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people, even people I work with be like, do you

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mind if I ask you questions? And I was like,

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I talk about this publicly on a podcast once

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a week. I don't give a shit. Go ahead. And I

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think selfishly, it's also helped. It's good

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for us. Like I remember saying to somebody, even

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if nobody listens, even if nobody listens, it's

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still like it's therapeutic. It's cathartic for

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us to just get this off our chest and to talk

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about it and to share things. Like I remember

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in the first, I think it was our first two part,

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like our first episode, which was two parts,

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I think. Yes. I remember people that I've known

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for years reaching out and being like, oh my

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God, I just listened to your podcast. I had no

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idea. This is how you felt while we were growing

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up. I had no idea you were experiencing this.

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So even selfishly, if we didn't have any listeners,

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it's been an awesome experience for us to get

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stuff off our chest, shoot the shit, put things

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out there, get vulnerable. Exactly. It's an excuse

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that Steph and I get to talk once a week because

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work and life can be very busy. And when we actually

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make the time to do this, we pause, we stop,

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we breathe a little. We get to just like, yeah.

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I'm not going to announce who, but I'm excited

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to say that we do have a guest coming on the

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podcast. And when I say we fangirled over this

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person, we fangirled hard. She's probably laughing

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at all the voice notes that we sent her, but

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she's just been pretty inspirational and we really,

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really enjoy her journey as well. So we're just

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working out the details and then we'll let you

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guys know when she's on so that you can send

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us questions you might want to ask or have us

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ask her. But that's our goal. We want to get

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a dietician to come on. We'd love to get a doctor

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to come on. We'd love to get other influencers

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to come on. We want to make sure that the info

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we bring you is not in an echo chamber. It's

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not just Hannah and Steph's opinion because we

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want to also challenge some things that we've

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seen in the surgery process. And I have a lot

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of questions for dieticians about some stuff

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that I'm just like. Tell me about it. Let's do

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a big debate on calorie counting. You know how

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I feel about needing to do it. But why don't

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we get an actual dietitian on and beat that up?

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Because a lot of people, it's a hot button issue.

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We've had a lot of people disagree with us on

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that. So as we get further into this, we've been

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reaching out to more and more people. So we're

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going to try our best to bring on some great.

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guests and get them on here. But we have no shortage

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of topics, y 'all. So we're going to talk about

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running and exercise and dating and relationships

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and raising children while going through this

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and the good, the bad, the ugly. But this week,

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we wanted to do something fun. We just felt in

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a really fun mood. We've talked about some heavy

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stuff that is important. But Steph and I kind

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of were like, what's something that just excites

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us that we could talk about that's a little bit

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more fun? Because this is an exciting life journey,

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right? something a little bit light we're going

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to talk about food food we're going to talk about

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food i'm so excited this whole journey yep we're

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going to talk about food glorious food um we're

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going to talk about our pantry staples The things

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that we love. We're going to touch on some of

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like our favorite recipes. Some things that we

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just don't do it. Like we can't do it. Not that

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you shouldn't do it. But we're going to talk

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about mainly the good. But yeah, the good, the

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bad, the ugly when it comes to how we make food.

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How do you try new things? Yeah. What are we

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dying to have again? What do we love? What did

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we find a waste of money? And then just like

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some of our go -to recipes and stuff. Because

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people continuously ask us about this. Okay,

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Hannah, what are the top five things that you

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always have in your shopping cart when you go

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grocery shopping? God damn it, Steph. Okay, all

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right, okay, all right. I don't mind, but what

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are your top five? Okay, so my top five that

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I always get every time I go grocery shopping

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because I literally can't get enough of it and

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fly through it. There will always be Greek yogurt.

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in my shopping cart. Finally, in Canada, can

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I say, we are getting the Oikos no sugar high

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protein. Now it's not American level high protein,

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which is like 25 grams, but it's 19 and I will

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take it. So I'm always buying the Oikos specifically

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high protein Greek yogurt. I get one plain and

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one flavored because trust me, people are going

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to be like, just eat the plain Greek yogurt.

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No, it's gross. Okay. It's gross. I use the plain

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Greek yogurt. We'll get into what I use it for

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later. Let's not get, yeah. So there's always

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Greek yogurt, the high protein. One flavor, one

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plane. There's always cottage cheese. Like multiple

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cottage cheeses. So I will get at least two containers

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of cottage cheese. And then I get the smooth

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cottage cheese, the lemon one. Okay. Because

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it's like cheesecake. Yeah. Oh, okay. I know

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I say I hate when people say it's cheesecake

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and it's not cheesecake. It's not cheesecake.

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It's like a cheesecake. It's not cheesecake.

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So there's always cottage cheese. There's always

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a, probably a protein bar. It was Bilt Bar for

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a time. I was always, when I would do groceries,

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buying a Bilt Bar. We can't get them in Canada

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anymore and this is crushing my soul, but I would

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consistently have Bilt Bars in my cart because

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that is my, I love them. So that's always there.

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Eggs, absolutely always getting a pack of eggs

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because I eat them as a snack. I eat them for

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breakfast. Eggs and egg whites are always in

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my cart. There will always be a carton of egg

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whites. and a carton of eggs because I use it

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in everything. And then the very last thing,

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it's usually always chicken. There's always going

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to be a pack of chicken and ground chicken because

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I consistently make most of my meals with that

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and I'm flying through it. So cottage cheese,

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Greek yogurt, protein bars, chicken. And the

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last thing that I said that I now can't remember

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what it. Eggs, egg whites and eggs. Those off

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the top of my head, Steph, those I think are

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the five things that every single time I grocery

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shop and I grocery shop every two weeks because

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I'm a single person. They're always, always in

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my cart. I'm flying through those things. I think

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those are what is in your cart. We're going to

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have some overlap. OK, so. I would say chicken

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for sure, whether it's lately been on like a

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deli meat chicken. Oh, yeah. So it's either rotisserie

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chicken or chicken breast or ground chicken or

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deli meat chicken. Okay. We've got to come back

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to that because rotisserie chicken is like a

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godsend. It's such a good staple. I love that.

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Yeah. Love that. Chicken in some form, for one.

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Eggs, for sure, because my kids are eggs. I love

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eggs. Hard -boiled eggs are my thing. Chicken,

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eggs, either Babybel or cheese string. Oh, that's

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good. I am living on baby bells like nobody's

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business right now. I could eat baby bells all

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day long. I just wish they were cheaper. I do

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too. Have you seen the baby bells that are the

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roll -ups now? Yeah, those are pretty cool too.

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Now, not worth the money because it's actually

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volume -wise way less, but I just, I kind of

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like unrolling it and eating it. It's kind of

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fun. Yeah. But it's like for a toddler. Okay.

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Now sometimes I have a toddler brain. Chicken,

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eggs. Baby bell or tea string. Berries. Some

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form of berries. Usually in our house it's blueberries

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or raspberries or strawberries. I have all three.

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Right? And then I probably have to go with cottage

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cheese. Yeah. I fly through cottage cheese. Or

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you know what? I'm going to take out the cottage

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cheese because I do go in spurts. Okay. I go

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in spurts. I'm going to go with yogurt. Yeah.

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And I have three of the Oikos high protein in

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my fridge right now. It'll either be the Oikos

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high protein or if I can't, if those are out

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for whatever reason, then it's usually, oh my

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gosh, it's another, I can't remember off the

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top of my head, but another, it's a 10 gram.

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So it's not as much as the 10 gram protein. But

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yeah, definitely yogurt, same thing. Plain, there

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will be a plain that we'll talk about what we

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use that for. There'll be a plain and then there'll

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be a flavored high protein. Low sugar, no sugar,

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Greek yogurt. Yeah. I mean, no sugar is my preference,

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but if I can't get no sugar, like low sugar is

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fine. So like I get the Siggy's, the like Icelandic

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skewer ice, whatever it is. I get that if I couldn't

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get Oikos. Now it's in no way like they don't

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pitch it as low sugar, but it's like 18, 19 grams

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of protein. But I can't eat the serving size

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anyway, which I believe is like three quarters

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of a cup or more. I can't. Yeah. Yeah. So I do

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like quarter cup, maybe half a cup if I'm like

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really craving it for a serving. So I'm never

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going to have the full sugar amount anyway. And

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having, it's not much. I think it's like 14 grams

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of sugar for the full serving. So like if you're

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not able to eat the full serving, which like

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most of us wouldn't be, you'll come in under

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your 10 grams of sugar rule. And one thing to

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be, just because I'm thinking of this now, we

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were talking about servings for the yogurt. If

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I buy. the 10 it starts with an is it yo it's

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not anyway anyway um if it's the 10 one it's

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not a greek yogurt so it's oh oh i know what

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you're talking about blue label i think it's

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yo play maybe maybe yeah um i know i know that

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one because the oikos was out it's not a greek

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yogurt it's a thin yogurt so you have to be careful

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because with that one I can eat a full serving

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because it's lighter. It's thinner. Now there's

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sugar on that one. It's still, it's still fine.

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Yes. But yes, if it's the orycos or the ziggies

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or a Greek yogurt, I can't have, I can't hit

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the thickness. Cause it's like, it's three quarter

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cup. It's 175 grams for a full serving. And I

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cannot, I cannot know. Cause it's thick, heavy,

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but if you play one, I can do a full serving

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cause it's, it's lighter and thinner. So you

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gotta keep in mind when you're looking at. That's

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smart. The sugar content, the fat content, the

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serving size. Some you will be able to hit and

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some you won't. Okay. So then here's a question.

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What don't you buy anymore that used to be a

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staple in your cart? A lot of processed food.

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A lot of processed food. We used to always have

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like frozen pizza. See, this is where it gets

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interesting because I have three people in my

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house who are eating what we'll call everyday.

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I don't want to say normal food, but non -bariatric

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specific. Non -bariatric, yeah. Let's call it

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NB food. Yeah. Eating some NB food. So they've

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cleaned up their food, but we used to buy a lot

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of chips. We don't have chips. We have tortilla

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chips in the house still because they love nachos

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every so often. Okay. But we don't have bags

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of chips in the house anymore. We used to always

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have frozen pizzas stocked in the freezer. We

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don't have those anymore. A lot of just like

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that. The processed stuff. A lot of our shopping

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now is, like they say, shop the outside of the

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grocery store. Yeah. A lot of like produce, protein

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heavy, cheeses. The yogurts have changed. Like

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we still buy certain yogurts for one of my daughters

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because she needs the high fat stuff. But just

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be more cautious about. Exactly. We don't buy

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as many salad dressings and dips anymore. We

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buy our breads from the local bakery here in

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town. We have like a Mennonite bakery. We make

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homemade pizza. Our takeout, not that we have

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takeout here because I live in a super small

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town, but we make pizza once a week. I cannot

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tell you the last time we got takeout pizza.

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We haven't had takeout pizza since I had surgery.

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So at least five months. Wow. We've made it from

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scratch from home. Yeah. So just just changing

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up the quality of what we're buying, being more

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cautious about the ingredients. I like this.

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And swapping stuff out. See, like nothing is

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off the table. You've just made alternative choices.

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Yeah. Like they still have nachos so often. We

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still have pizza. So do I. Right? They still

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have pasta. All of that kind of stuff. But we

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also have incorporated more vegetables, more

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salads, more fruit. Nice. Yeah. So they just

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swap boats, right? Like you said, nothing's off

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the table. There's nothing that they can't have

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or we can't have. It's just choices that we're

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making. Yeah. I would say pretty similar here.

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Yogurt was a big one. I didn't realize how much

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sugar is in traditional yogurt. And I was like,

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yeah. So for me, the biggest thing would be I

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look at things now. I'm very cautious of how

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much sugar is in things like I won't take anything

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that has high. I do 10 grams of sugar or less

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per like meal serving that I'm doing. And I minus

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fruit. Fruit, I do not, like I don't overindulge

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in fruit, but I do not count fruit towards that

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because then you'd never be able to have a fruit

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again. Do you count fruit towards your calories

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and your macros? I do. I do. I do. I've talked

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to my dietician about that and she thinks it's

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okay because as a runner, I will be having a

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lot of bananas. So I do kind of look at it that

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way because I need... I need to track the carbs

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and I actually need to track the sugar in that

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to make sure I'm fueling enough before I go.

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So it's less of a negative. Yeah, it's less of

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a negative and more of a are you hitting the

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carbs and the sugar that I need you to before

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I run or you're going to just crash out. Makes

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sense. But fruit, yeah, fruit sugars are naturally

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occurring sugars. Like obviously don't go ham

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and eat like eight pounds blueberries and call

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it a day. But no, I don't count that towards

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my sugar. So I will look at things and be like

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really meticulous. I don't buy granola anymore.

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I used to need to have that Harvest Crunch granola

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cereal and I'd eat a whole bowl of that. So I

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don't do that anymore because I didn't realize

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how high in sugar it was. I'm going to try to

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make my own. But yeah, I'd say the only things

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that don't come into my cart now are... what

00:21:05.019 --> 00:21:07.680
we'd consider junk food. So I don't buy ice cream.

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I don't buy ice cream bars. I don't buy, what

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I do get now is the super mini Greek yogurt,

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90 calorie bars, because in the summer, especially

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after a run or something, like I like to have

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something cold, but I won't keep anything else

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in there anymore. I won't buy chips. I won't

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buy like crackers. They're a big slider food

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for me in our house. So I will keep. Sorry, Bo's

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just chewing a sock back here. I will keep crackers.

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Crackers are hard. My family is a cracker family,

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and that's a hard one for me. Opening the pantry

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and having a box of different kind of Cheez -Its

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in the pantry and closing the pantry. That's

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a hard one. It's tough. So I will buy, this is

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going to be funny, I'll buy Triscuits now. I

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never really liked Triscuits before because they

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were like, they're not like a snacky cracker,

00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:02.119
like a crisper or a goldfish. They're like a

00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:06.140
fiber. Yeah. And you're kind of like. So I'll

00:22:06.140 --> 00:22:08.160
keep those because I do like to have my tuna

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salad, my chicken salad with crackers. Like,

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I don't really want to use bread for that. So

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I will buy those, but I won't buy crispers, goldfish,

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like things that I know I'm going to eat the

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whole fucking thing. So that's, I think, the

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only thing that I. I guess would restrict myself

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from getting would be chips, pretzels, things

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like that. Now I do have an air popper and I

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do make air popped popcorn every now and then

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when I'm craving it. So I've just made alternatives.

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There's no. I would say there's not a lot of

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frozen food. That's not my own homemade recipes

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as well. So there's none of these like lean cuisines

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or pizzas or pizza pops or anything like that,

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that gets stuck in the house anymore. There's

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no pop. There's no juice that isn't like sugar

00:22:51.059 --> 00:22:53.319
-free lemonade. Cause again, in the summer, love

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me a sugar -free lemonade. So I've just made

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like alternative choices. A big one. This is

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controversial. A big one that I don't keep is

00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.079
those. You must have seen them, the midday squares

00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:09.920
that are everywhere. Well, I've seen them everywhere.

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I was at Sobeys, whatever, on Thursday. And I

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saw them and I was like, oh, I've seen them before.

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I've never actually looked at them. And I picked

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them up and I looked at the macros and went,

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no, thank you. And I'll be right back. So I didn't

00:23:26.009 --> 00:23:28.089
look at the macros. So when I had first had bariatric

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surgery, I went to Pilates and it was right next

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to Goodness Me, which is like a health food store.

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And this is the, this is where I got a little

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in the weeds that I assumed because it was a

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health food store marketed as a health food store,

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that almost everything I was buying in there

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was probably very good for me. So they had these

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midday squares and this was before I like could

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get my hands on a filthy amount of Bilt Bars.

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And I was in a pinch one day and I bought one

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and it was the cookie dough one. And I was like,

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this is the best thing I've ever had. This is

00:23:55.180 --> 00:23:57.140
like legitimate cookie dough. I love this. And

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the sugar is really low. And then as I've been

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further out from bariatric surgery, I've been

00:24:01.309 --> 00:24:03.190
looking at the macros on those. And I'm like,

00:24:03.190 --> 00:24:07.109
there is no way in hell I can justify this itty

00:24:07.109 --> 00:24:09.849
bitty square having such low protein and such

00:24:09.849 --> 00:24:13.009
high calories and fat. 180 calories for one square.

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Some of them are 200 plus. The one I picked up

00:24:16.009 --> 00:24:20.329
was 175 or 180. And I remember the same thing.

00:24:20.390 --> 00:24:22.910
I was like, for this little square, that is my

00:24:22.910 --> 00:24:28.559
entire meal in macros. Yes. And it's not that

00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.480
it's like terrible. It's way better than getting

00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:35.019
a chocolate bar. Way better. But I think that's

00:24:35.019 --> 00:24:38.299
my problem is, well, why are you buying a chocolate

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bar right now? Like in the nicest non -judgmental

00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.119
way towards myself, why do you need a chocolate

00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:46.920
bar? This is not healthy. And that's where I

00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:48.660
would get stuck is like, well, it's healthy,

00:24:48.740 --> 00:24:50.720
so it's fine to eat it. when I want to eat it.

00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:54.960
No, this is considered a chocolate bar. So have

00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:57.160
you had one already this week? Like, are you

00:24:57.160 --> 00:24:59.940
now on your fifth chocolate bar this week? And

00:24:59.940 --> 00:25:02.539
I had to pump the brakes and go, oh God. And

00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:04.299
it's not that you can't eat things. And we're

00:25:04.299 --> 00:25:06.880
not saying 180 calories is like breaking the

00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:09.940
bank, but you only got six grams of protein.

00:25:10.019 --> 00:25:12.640
I get more in a hard boiled egg than I would

00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:15.420
in this 180 calorie. Not worth the calories.

00:25:15.819 --> 00:25:18.170
Chocolate bar. Not worth the calories. Depending

00:25:18.170 --> 00:25:21.829
on what your macros are, where you are in the

00:25:21.829 --> 00:25:23.410
journey, what you're looking at. Like I said,

00:25:23.430 --> 00:25:26.549
for me, that's a whole meal. And my protein is

00:25:26.549 --> 00:25:28.910
going to be off then, big time, because it's

00:25:28.910 --> 00:25:31.809
not enough protein for those 170, 80, whatever

00:25:31.809 --> 00:25:34.509
calories it is. I'm sure it's delicious and I've

00:25:34.509 --> 00:25:37.750
heard really good things about them. But for

00:25:37.750 --> 00:25:42.849
me, it's not worth calories. They're super good.

00:25:44.220 --> 00:25:46.720
And again, just kind of treat it as, but it's

00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.279
a chocolate bar. So just ask yourself like. okay,

00:25:49.339 --> 00:25:50.839
I'm buying a chocolate bar today. There's nothing

00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:52.599
wrong with that, especially like with Easter

00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:55.259
coming up or the holidays. Like it might be nice

00:25:55.259 --> 00:25:57.099
for you to have something that is your indulgent

00:25:57.099 --> 00:25:59.440
treat. But what got me into trouble was thinking

00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:01.339
that for some reason this was so healthy, I could

00:26:01.339 --> 00:26:03.420
be eating it. Like I would buy like six or seven

00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:05.720
at a time and like almost every day be having

00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:08.119
one of these. And I was like, this is not high

00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.099
protein. Like it's not high protein. A built

00:26:11.099 --> 00:26:13.259
bar tastes just as good and as high protein.

00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:15.799
I could make energy balls that, like I made these

00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:17.640
coconut peanut butter chocolate chip energy balls

00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.970
that had. Way more protein. So that's just one

00:26:20.970 --> 00:26:22.769
thing that I just don't keep in the house anymore.

00:26:23.250 --> 00:26:25.750
No, that's fair. And that I think is the hard

00:26:25.750 --> 00:26:28.329
thing, right? When it's not in the house, it's

00:26:28.329 --> 00:26:30.390
easy to forget about it, to not miss it. But

00:26:30.390 --> 00:26:34.130
when it's in the house, and that's the hard part

00:26:34.130 --> 00:26:36.670
for me. And I have to say, like, Devin and the

00:26:36.670 --> 00:26:38.950
girls have definitely cleaned up a lot of their

00:26:38.950 --> 00:26:43.009
eating. Nice. Because, well, and part of it is

00:26:43.009 --> 00:26:47.390
because either I'll make the grocery list or

00:26:47.390 --> 00:26:51.000
I'll. get the groceries. So we pull a lot of

00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.359
that stuff out. But Devin's done a really good

00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:55.220
job too. And like cleaning up a lot of his food

00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:57.920
and then part of this whole thing, which we'll

00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.559
talk about another episode, but about communicating

00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:02.779
this with the kids and the lifestyle changes

00:27:02.779 --> 00:27:05.400
and all that kind of stuff. So we have made changes,

00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:07.759
but at the end of the day, they're still kids.

00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:09.819
They're still lunch things that they want. They're

00:27:09.819 --> 00:27:12.380
still things Devin wants. And I don't expect

00:27:12.380 --> 00:27:16.109
them to 100 % change. They're eating because

00:27:16.109 --> 00:27:19.170
of a choice I made. So that's the hard part is

00:27:19.170 --> 00:27:21.190
when that stuff, the Cheez -Its are in the house,

00:27:21.230 --> 00:27:24.869
the goldfish are in the house, the box of Girl

00:27:24.869 --> 00:27:27.049
Guide cookies that they just bought are sitting

00:27:27.049 --> 00:27:30.210
in the house, right? Like those things or the

00:27:30.210 --> 00:27:33.980
pizza buns that they bought. Costco cheese buns.

00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:37.140
Right? I love them. Devin just bought yesterday.

00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:38.920
We stopped at one of the Mennonite bakeries on

00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:41.400
the way into Kitchener. And there was like a

00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:44.039
braided loaf of homemade cheese bread that has

00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:46.960
all this melted cheese on it. Like, right? And

00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:50.019
I bought muffins for the girls. Oh, man. So that's

00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:52.259
the hard part for me is when the stuff is in

00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:55.819
the house staring you in the face to still say,

00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:59.759
nope. Not worth it. Not worth it. Not worth it.

00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:01.940
And that's the thing. Because I have to pull

00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:05.180
up my app and remind myself, this is all you

00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:10.099
have. Not worth it. And it's not that you can't

00:28:10.099 --> 00:28:12.460
have it. You can always indulge and have these

00:28:12.460 --> 00:28:15.160
things. It's just remember how you got to this

00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:19.500
point, right? We can't pretend that we were morbidly

00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:24.009
obese simply from genetics. It's not going to

00:28:24.009 --> 00:28:26.170
serve you well to think that like, well, I'm

00:28:26.170 --> 00:28:28.029
just morbidly obese because I have this medical

00:28:28.029 --> 00:28:30.529
condition. Yeah, you're carrying extra weight

00:28:30.529 --> 00:28:32.410
and you're tired. And as we said this a million

00:28:32.410 --> 00:28:34.950
times, but that's not why you're morbidly obese.

00:28:35.349 --> 00:28:37.130
No, and for me, it's the how you feel after,

00:28:37.210 --> 00:28:39.289
right? Like if you want to have that indulgence

00:28:39.289 --> 00:28:42.410
and you're good with it, it fits into your day.

00:28:42.450 --> 00:28:44.730
You've worked it out. It's your one thing a week.

00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:47.890
Rock it. Go for it. Love it. And if you can do

00:28:47.890 --> 00:28:52.769
that and still feel good, amazing. If you know

00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:55.309
that you're going to do that and then either

00:28:55.309 --> 00:28:57.009
it's going to throw you off for the day, it's

00:28:57.009 --> 00:28:58.329
not going to fit your macros, or you're going

00:28:58.329 --> 00:29:00.849
to feel like shit after. Don't do it. Don't do

00:29:00.849 --> 00:29:03.410
it. And that's what I step back and I say, number

00:29:03.410 --> 00:29:05.009
one, is it worth it? Number two, can I fit in

00:29:05.009 --> 00:29:07.309
my day? And number three, I'm going to eat this

00:29:07.309 --> 00:29:10.150
and I know already I'm going to be mad at myself

00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:14.250
after. So it's not. Is it that I'm, what is that

00:29:14.250 --> 00:29:17.869
rule? Are you really hungry? Are you bored? Or

00:29:17.869 --> 00:29:20.609
are you bored or are you dehydrated or are you

00:29:20.609 --> 00:29:23.130
just craving? Because keep in mind, the first

00:29:23.130 --> 00:29:26.690
year is like a little bit of a gift. Your food

00:29:26.690 --> 00:29:29.029
noise comes back probably around month seven,

00:29:29.250 --> 00:29:32.049
eight, nine, and then really fucking kicks in.

00:29:32.329 --> 00:29:35.109
I have it. There's definitely days where my body's

00:29:35.109 --> 00:29:37.049
like, you could totally fucking eat this whole

00:29:37.049 --> 00:29:38.849
thing. And I'm like, shut the fuck up. I'm not

00:29:38.849 --> 00:29:40.269
going to be doing that. Thank you very much.

00:29:40.390 --> 00:29:42.809
But like, just remember, if you don't set yourself

00:29:42.809 --> 00:29:45.710
up for success and make those hard decisions.

00:29:46.569 --> 00:29:50.630
to really kind of be very structured, then when

00:29:50.630 --> 00:29:53.569
all of that comes back and you don't have a restriction

00:29:53.569 --> 00:29:56.509
and you're facing a pack of Costco cheese buns,

00:29:56.750 --> 00:29:59.670
you're going to slip into bad habits. Now, my

00:29:59.670 --> 00:30:01.690
parents buy the Costco cheese buns. God bless

00:30:01.690 --> 00:30:03.349
them because they're the best thing ever. And

00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:05.630
it's great because my mom will go, would you

00:30:05.630 --> 00:30:07.750
like to split one? And we're going to have soup

00:30:07.750 --> 00:30:09.990
for dinner. And I said, thank you. That's awesome.

00:30:10.109 --> 00:30:12.150
Thank you. Yep. And we'll split one because she

00:30:12.150 --> 00:30:13.609
goes, I know you probably can't have a whole

00:30:13.609 --> 00:30:15.700
one. And I was like. probably would blow me up.

00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:17.839
Like physically, I don't have the space for it.

00:30:17.859 --> 00:30:19.960
But yeah, there's definitely times where I have

00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:22.440
half a cheese bun and I'm okay with it because

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:24.339
I've made good choices throughout the day and

00:30:24.339 --> 00:30:27.359
it fits. You know your limit. Am I going to go

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.180
to Costco and buy my own pack of cheese buns?

00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:32.599
The fuck I will not because I know that come

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:35.430
9 p .m. I'm going to go. you know what? Why don't

00:30:35.430 --> 00:30:37.190
you just go get a cheese bun? That'd be so good

00:30:37.190 --> 00:30:38.930
right now. And the next thing you know, I'll

00:30:38.930 --> 00:30:40.690
have eaten all six of those cheese buns in a

00:30:40.690 --> 00:30:43.710
week versus I had a cheese bun last month when

00:30:43.710 --> 00:30:45.690
I was home to see my parents. Feel totally fine

00:30:45.690 --> 00:30:49.529
about that. So there's a reason we had this surgery.

00:30:49.950 --> 00:30:52.170
And a lot of people might not want to admit it,

00:30:52.210 --> 00:30:54.470
but it comes a hundred percent down to our eating.

00:30:54.589 --> 00:30:57.650
A hundred percent. Because if it didn't, they

00:30:57.650 --> 00:30:59.450
wouldn't be putting you through surgery. They'd

00:30:59.450 --> 00:31:01.410
be medically fixing whatever made you obese,

00:31:01.650 --> 00:31:05.710
right? I know that's tough love to hear. There's

00:31:05.710 --> 00:31:07.569
a great Instagrammer who's come out with this

00:31:07.569 --> 00:31:13.670
new thing called kind not nice, where instead

00:31:13.670 --> 00:31:16.170
of just like fluffing people up with niceties

00:31:16.170 --> 00:31:18.950
and make it he's kind in the fact that he will

00:31:18.950 --> 00:31:21.170
tell you, I know you don't want to go to the

00:31:21.170 --> 00:31:23.309
gym, but you probably do need to move today.

00:31:24.509 --> 00:31:27.170
Versus Oh, everybody needs rest. Go. It's okay.

00:31:27.210 --> 00:31:30.309
You go rest. So I know nobody kind of wants to

00:31:30.309 --> 00:31:33.069
hear what I'm saying, but it's your eating habits

00:31:33.069 --> 00:31:35.289
that got you to be morbidly obese. Sorry, not

00:31:35.289 --> 00:31:38.170
sorry. I've been morbidly obese. I 100 % know

00:31:38.170 --> 00:31:40.809
it's my eating habits that got me where I am.

00:31:40.890 --> 00:31:42.849
And you're going to battle those demons for your

00:31:42.849 --> 00:31:46.990
whole life. So just set yourself up for good

00:31:46.990 --> 00:31:49.170
decisions. Like don't keep stuff in the house

00:31:49.170 --> 00:31:51.710
that's going to be binge eating, that's going

00:31:51.710 --> 00:31:54.670
to tempt you and test you. Like it's easier to

00:31:54.670 --> 00:31:57.119
be yourself in that situation. It's easier to

00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:59.119
be good in the grocery store than to be good

00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.039
at home in the privacy of your own home and no

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.680
one's looking. So it might not seem fun, but

00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:06.359
that's why in the grocery store I make the decisions

00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:08.819
I make because I know when I'm home and I'm tired

00:32:08.819 --> 00:32:10.440
and I'm hungry and I've had a bad day at work,

00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:14.480
I would eat it. You made a good point, too, when

00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.460
you were like a comment you said about the bread

00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:18.480
and you know it's going to blow you up. I think

00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.759
that's an interesting thing, too, is paying attention

00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:24.660
as you're on this to how foods. how your body

00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:27.160
reacts to food, because that'll also help you

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.500
make the decisions of, is this worth it? Yeah,

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.160
it's going to taste good, but I know that X,

00:32:32.299 --> 00:32:34.619
Y, Z makes me feel crappy after. Like I know

00:32:34.619 --> 00:32:37.420
I haven't had, since surgery, I have not had

00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:39.359
a piece of bread. I have not had a full piece

00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:42.200
of bread. I've had the mission, like the mission

00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:46.200
carb tortillas. I've had a bite. literally a

00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.859
bite of bread, but I have not even had half a

00:32:49.859 --> 00:32:51.599
piece of bread. I have not really had bread.

00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.940
I've had a bite, but I'm not going to have bread

00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:57.279
because I already even know that just like the

00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:02.259
Mission Carb tortillas alone fill me up so much.

00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.500
If I have, because I've tried it, I've taken

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:07.759
like the chicken deli meat and I've made little

00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:09.380
roll -ups, right? So I take the chicken deli

00:33:09.380 --> 00:33:12.099
meat, I take a piece of cheese string or pickle,

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:15.160
some mustard, roll it up and eat it. And I can

00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.740
eat that and feel great, no problem. I get my

00:33:17.740 --> 00:33:20.019
50 grams of deli meat, I get my whatever in.

00:33:20.779 --> 00:33:23.940
Then I will take half of the smaller Mission

00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:27.000
Carb tortillas, put it in half, and I'll put

00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:31.000
that same 50 grams of deli meat in, fold it in

00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:32.640
half and make myself like a little mini sandwich.

00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:38.519
I get so ridiculously full from that little mini

00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:40.960
sandwich. But if I eat that amount of meat in

00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.809
a roll -up, I'm totally fine. And I made like

00:33:44.809 --> 00:33:46.970
little fajitas with those. So they're delicious,

00:33:47.109 --> 00:33:53.069
but I know bread of that form fills me up. So

00:33:53.069 --> 00:33:55.670
I can only imagine that we'll call it real bread,

00:33:55.890 --> 00:34:01.509
but just like... I find sourdough easier. Yes.

00:34:01.509 --> 00:34:04.509
When I have bread, that's what I can do. And

00:34:04.509 --> 00:34:07.210
I'll be honest, probably in the last two weeks,

00:34:07.250 --> 00:34:09.420
I've... all of a sudden started craving bread.

00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:12.880
I didn't miss it before. I didn't care. I was

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:14.940
totally cool. But I'd say in the last probably

00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:17.860
week or two in the mornings, I've really been

00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:21.699
craving bread. It's probably because your body

00:34:21.699 --> 00:34:25.059
needs carbs for like higher workout fuel. So

00:34:25.059 --> 00:34:26.739
there's nothing wrong with carbs either, by the

00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:29.860
way. You should not be on a keto diet after surgery.

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.659
We'll do an episode on that. Keto dieting is

00:34:32.659 --> 00:34:34.760
not what you should do after bariatric surgery.

00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:39.019
It's far too high in fat and too restrictive

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:41.119
that like you will not be set up for success.

00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:44.380
However, carbs just really hit us differently

00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:47.559
because we don't have the room. They're not going

00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:50.179
to make you like vomit profusely, but like you're

00:34:50.179 --> 00:34:52.280
going to have something with a bun or in bread

00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:54.719
and you won't be able to eat nearly as much as

00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:57.179
if you chose something else. So do I eat bread?

00:34:57.619 --> 00:35:01.320
I have crumpets because I need carbs in the morning

00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:03.480
because I usually run in the morning. So I'll

00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:05.239
have scrambled eggs and then a crumpet because

00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.460
the crumpets only 90 calories. An English muffin

00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:10.860
is like 140 calories and I can't eat the whole

00:35:10.860 --> 00:35:13.440
thing anyway. So a crumpet's like a good. So

00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:15.019
I'll have that because it's kind of full of holes

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:19.519
and airy, but. I can't do pasta and rice is very

00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:23.760
hard on my stomach. And I don't miss it. No,

00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:25.579
I had rice once. It filled me up way too much.

00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.400
Don't miss it either. I had one bite. I made

00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:31.659
pasta for the family the other night and I had

00:35:31.659 --> 00:35:35.539
like a tiny little bite of it. And it was okay,

00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:37.219
but I could tell right away, same thing. I would

00:35:37.219 --> 00:35:39.940
be so full if I ate this. I have a box of protein

00:35:39.940 --> 00:35:43.139
pasta that I bought months ago to have on hand.

00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:45.960
Haven't cracked it yet. Don't miss it. Right.

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:48.760
Again, don't miss pasta at all. But it's true.

00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:51.619
I think it's because like I've been doing the

00:35:51.619 --> 00:35:54.219
morning workouts at 5 a .m., which I wasn't doing

00:35:54.219 --> 00:35:57.340
before. That's new. I've been doing the two workouts

00:35:57.340 --> 00:36:00.800
a day. So I know now, like I used to not wake

00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:04.159
up hungry, but now I wake up a little bit hungry

00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:08.400
by the time I'm done my workout. starving by

00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:12.420
6 a .m starving um so I debated going down to

00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:14.519
the bakery in town and getting a sourdough and

00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:16.900
just having like a little even just a little

00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:19.639
piece but like I have been craving a tomato sandwich

00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:23.699
for like the last two weeks every single day

00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:25.579
so just yesterday I was like okay you know what

00:36:25.579 --> 00:36:28.300
I think like it's a sign like I have to listen

00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:31.900
to my body it wants it wants a little bread yeah

00:36:32.230 --> 00:36:35.170
I need the Mission Carp people to make me bread.

00:36:35.369 --> 00:36:39.429
That would be awesome. I have tried the like

00:36:39.429 --> 00:36:41.909
power bread that you can get at Costco and it's

00:36:41.909 --> 00:36:43.670
just, I don't want that either. It's too dense.

00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:46.119
But there's nothing wrong with bread. Like I

00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:47.659
am going to have I have sandwiches. There's a

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:50.059
great place in Kitchener called Ebby Street Bodega.

00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.440
And they are like my favorite sandwich shop.

00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:55.019
But I like their sandwiches are huge. So I'll

00:36:55.019 --> 00:36:57.219
take half of my sandwich and then cut that in

00:36:57.219 --> 00:36:59.699
half. And I'll literally eat it for lunch, dinner,

00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:02.659
lunch, dinner, like over two days. But worth

00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:05.179
it. But yeah, it's just little things that like

00:37:05.179 --> 00:37:08.550
your body. just as like, no, I don't like it.

00:37:08.590 --> 00:37:10.889
And I'm not depriving myself. I do not crave

00:37:10.889 --> 00:37:12.730
pasta at all. Like people are like, oh my God,

00:37:12.769 --> 00:37:14.230
pasta is life. And I was like, there's something

00:37:14.230 --> 00:37:16.769
really weird that happens because after, like

00:37:16.769 --> 00:37:20.389
I was massively into pasta, like multiple times

00:37:20.389 --> 00:37:24.409
a week, pasta. Us too. Do not miss it. Do not

00:37:24.409 --> 00:37:26.730
crave it. Do not. And that's so weird for me

00:37:26.730 --> 00:37:29.090
because I've craved almost everything else. And

00:37:29.090 --> 00:37:31.369
I've yet over the last two years to have any

00:37:31.369 --> 00:37:36.039
type of pasta craving at all. I have my one bite

00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:39.539
and I'm like, nope, it's good. But I know from

00:37:39.539 --> 00:37:41.119
that one bite, it's not going to go well. And

00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:45.380
that's a thing too, is your body reacts to things

00:37:45.380 --> 00:37:48.900
differently. Very differently. Like the salmon.

00:37:49.139 --> 00:37:50.719
I've never been a big fish person. That's so

00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:53.159
weird to me. I know, right? Because I loved it.

00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:58.440
I've never been a big fish person. But I've had

00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:01.760
salmon before. It's always sat fine. I was never

00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:06.269
a huge fan. Sushi. Cool. No problem. Cooked salmon.

00:38:06.750 --> 00:38:10.090
I've had it before. Not a huge fan of it, but

00:38:10.090 --> 00:38:12.389
it was fine. I never reacted to it. Whatever.

00:38:12.570 --> 00:38:15.050
Sure. Then I had that salmon the other week.

00:38:15.110 --> 00:38:18.130
What, like a week ago? Yeah. Now, the taste was

00:38:18.130 --> 00:38:20.969
okay. Again, didn't love it. Yeah. It was fine.

00:38:21.210 --> 00:38:25.519
It was okay. But two bites in. my stomach right

00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:29.559
away, like I could feel it turning right away.

00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:32.760
It was like, no, do not do. And I was so mad

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:35.780
because the macros were phenomenal. It would

00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:39.219
have been such a great protein addition to my

00:38:39.219 --> 00:38:41.920
day. But I went for that third bite and I said

00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:43.780
to them, I can't, I'm going to be sick. I can't,

00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:47.360
I cannot eat this. I can't do it. And I, nope.

00:38:49.009 --> 00:38:51.349
Same thing. Rice does not sit well with me anymore.

00:38:51.409 --> 00:38:53.070
And there's just things that won't. And that's

00:38:53.070 --> 00:38:55.989
totally cool. You'll discover that on your own.

00:38:56.070 --> 00:38:58.050
There is no way we can prepare you for it because

00:38:58.050 --> 00:39:00.510
what works for one doesn't work for others. I

00:39:00.510 --> 00:39:02.789
can't do ice cream. Makes me violently ill. Have

00:39:02.789 --> 00:39:05.550
I tried three times? Absolutely. Still not learning

00:39:05.550 --> 00:39:08.190
my lesson on that one, but I can't do it. I can't

00:39:08.190 --> 00:39:10.809
do pizza. I've tried thin crust wood. I've tried

00:39:10.809 --> 00:39:13.739
thin wood fired pizza and it was. absolutely

00:39:13.739 --> 00:39:17.320
horrible on my stomach um I have not oh I tried

00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:20.199
a microwaved one because I on my trip to Nashville

00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:23.559
we hit the worst tornadoes ever the worst storms

00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:25.500
so we didn't get to our hotel till midnight there

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:27.679
was nothing open and all they had was DiGiorno

00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.260
microwave pizza and I was like if I don't eat

00:39:30.260 --> 00:39:32.780
something I'm going to die so I was like I'll

00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:35.619
take it did not in fact sit well had a bite of

00:39:35.619 --> 00:39:36.980
it and was like all right I guess I'll just die

00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:40.079
like I just couldn't do it so I can't do pizza

00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:43.260
um This literally all this hotel had, it was

00:39:43.260 --> 00:39:47.739
just hilarious. So can't do that. And rice just

00:39:47.739 --> 00:39:50.639
kind of, I just don't bother anymore with rice.

00:39:50.739 --> 00:39:53.940
It's so, so heavy in my stomach. I just feel

00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:58.360
very. Yep. I was at, so I was in Nashville for

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.800
work and we were leaving and we were going to

00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:02.539
eat at the airport. And I was like, it's fine.

00:40:02.619 --> 00:40:04.119
I've been really, I've been actually really good

00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:06.320
for Nashville. So like, we're good. The only

00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:08.260
places in the airport were burger places. And

00:40:08.260 --> 00:40:10.500
I was like, you know what? kind of craving a

00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:13.360
burger like I've had I'm gonna do this so we

00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.579
went to the burger place and I got a smash burger

00:40:15.579 --> 00:40:17.860
because I was like well it's it's like thin and

00:40:17.860 --> 00:40:20.460
and not so big and I just had cheese and lettuce

00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:21.840
on it and I said I'm just gonna have probably

00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.219
about half of this it's not a big deal I got

00:40:24.219 --> 00:40:27.159
probably a quarter into that burger and I was

00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:29.869
like OK, I'm going to I'm going to leave my credit

00:40:29.869 --> 00:40:32.130
card on the table. Please pay for my meal. I

00:40:32.130 --> 00:40:35.610
have to leave. Like it was the worst feeling

00:40:35.610 --> 00:40:37.650
in my stomach. I didn't know if I was going to

00:40:37.650 --> 00:40:41.030
vomit all over myself or need to buy a new pair

00:40:41.030 --> 00:40:43.170
of pants at the airport. But like I was like,

00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:46.429
this is not good. So I just had to go and like

00:40:46.429 --> 00:40:48.449
lay in a chair. And the person I was traveling

00:40:48.449 --> 00:40:50.789
with was like, are you OK? And I was like, this

00:40:50.789 --> 00:40:54.559
is horrific. So like it wasn't. full -on dumping

00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:56.900
syndrome, which can be anything from sweating,

00:40:57.059 --> 00:40:59.460
feeling nauseous, throwing up. You can have obviously

00:40:59.460 --> 00:41:01.980
like bowel issues. You can feel like you're going

00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:03.840
to pass out, but you won't pass out, be jittery.

00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.119
The pain, like the pain and the instant bloating

00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:10.639
in my stomach. I was in so much discomfort. I

00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:13.599
hated it. And I was like, okay, I know instantly

00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:16.800
why. It's too fatty. The only beef I keep in

00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:19.460
this house is extra, extra lean ground beef,

00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:23.500
like 98 % extra, extra lean. From the cheese

00:41:23.500 --> 00:41:26.059
to the grill to the whatever. It was too fatty.

00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:29.079
And I was like, okay, I will never be doing this

00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.860
again. Like I, it's like. an electrical shock.

00:41:33.059 --> 00:41:36.260
You will not do it again. I know I say that and

00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:39.519
have tried ice cream three times, but I kind

00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:41.000
of convince myself each time I'm going to be

00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:43.639
okay. I am in fact never okay when I have ice

00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.460
cream. But yeah, it's just things like that.

00:41:46.739 --> 00:41:48.960
You learn, right? You'll learn. I can't wait

00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:50.780
to have it. But you won't miss it. So it's not

00:41:50.780 --> 00:41:53.579
like I'm sitting here going, I can't have pizza.

00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:56.639
I do what Steph does. I take my low carb tortillas

00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.389
and I've made pizza. I've made the cottage cheese

00:42:00.389 --> 00:42:02.710
pizza bowls. And I know people are going to be

00:42:02.710 --> 00:42:05.949
like, Hannah, cottage cheese pizza bowl is not

00:42:05.949 --> 00:42:10.289
pizza. It's not. But I don't miss pizza. I'm

00:42:10.289 --> 00:42:12.550
not sitting here mourning the loss of pizza.

00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:15.389
I'm not sitting here craving rice. Truthfully,

00:42:15.409 --> 00:42:17.070
people are like, well, there's a little bit of

00:42:17.070 --> 00:42:19.869
rice with it. And I'm like, no, I'm good. I don't

00:42:19.869 --> 00:42:21.849
want the rice. I don't want to eat it. Once you

00:42:21.849 --> 00:42:23.650
eliminate things for a certain amount of time,

00:42:23.789 --> 00:42:26.590
it's funny how you don't crave them or you don't

00:42:26.590 --> 00:42:30.300
miss them. Sure. I feel like a cheesy pizza would

00:42:30.300 --> 00:42:32.820
be fantastic. But like you said, I'm not sitting

00:42:32.820 --> 00:42:34.599
here every day going, oh, my God, I want pizza.

00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:36.260
Oh, my God, I want pizza. I haven't had pizza

00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:38.960
in almost six months. I haven't had pizza in

00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.219
a year and nine months. Right? Like, is a cheesy

00:42:42.219 --> 00:42:46.039
piece of pizza great? Yeah. But am I, like, losing

00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:48.280
sleep over it? No. The thing that I can't wait

00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:53.579
for is beef. Beef. 19 days and I can have beef.

00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:58.019
So beef. Really fucking upsets my stomach now.

00:42:58.139 --> 00:43:02.659
I'm very curious to see what happens when I try

00:43:02.659 --> 00:43:05.579
it. I think just go lean. I think the problem

00:43:05.579 --> 00:43:08.139
was that like you can't have red meat for six

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:09.820
months. So you're really eating chicken, like

00:43:09.820 --> 00:43:12.260
which I love chicken. Thank Christ. Chicken and

00:43:12.260 --> 00:43:15.619
turkey. But like beef in general is hard on people's

00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:18.480
digestive system. Like even before surgery. It's

00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:21.219
heavy for me. Always. It doesn't sit the best.

00:43:21.460 --> 00:43:25.489
Ground beef was okay. But like steaks. I was

00:43:25.489 --> 00:43:28.010
never a big steak eater because it always sat

00:43:28.010 --> 00:43:31.389
heavy with me. I always felt like just meat sweaty

00:43:31.389 --> 00:43:35.570
afterwards. I'm very curious to see. It's rough.

00:43:37.130 --> 00:43:39.710
It's good, but rough. Post -surgery, I was a

00:43:39.710 --> 00:43:42.489
hamburger girl. My favorite thing was barbecuing

00:43:42.489 --> 00:43:47.010
hamburgers at least once a week. So I'm very

00:43:47.010 --> 00:43:49.570
curious. I'm not going to get my hopes up, but

00:43:49.570 --> 00:43:53.860
I'm very curious. like burgers fresh yeah right

00:43:53.860 --> 00:43:56.760
and we buy fresh beef um we either buy a cow

00:43:56.760 --> 00:43:59.760
at a time from a local farm or we buy fresh ground

00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.679
beef from the farm kind of thing but yes i'm

00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:04.820
very curious um i have 19 days left until i can

00:44:04.820 --> 00:44:08.639
be good until i can have ham so i can pork and

00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:11.940
i love pork there is a so we have a local butcher

00:44:11.940 --> 00:44:15.630
shop in town that makes the Best. I've never

00:44:15.630 --> 00:44:18.329
been in a huge pork van. Okay. I like pork chops.

00:44:18.550 --> 00:44:20.530
Never bought them, but there is a butcher in

00:44:20.530 --> 00:44:23.050
town, a local little butcher that makes the most

00:44:23.050 --> 00:44:25.010
incredible. I will bring you some next time.

00:44:25.230 --> 00:44:28.969
Amazing smoked pork chops. Yep. Done. Sign me

00:44:28.969 --> 00:44:33.170
up. Phenomenal. And Devin and the girls have

00:44:33.170 --> 00:44:35.769
had them a few times since surgery. And that

00:44:35.769 --> 00:44:37.789
like, that is the one pork thing where I sit

00:44:37.789 --> 00:44:39.369
there and I'm like, Oh my God. I can't wait.

00:44:39.489 --> 00:44:41.889
I can't wait. So good. We all have that one thing.

00:44:41.989 --> 00:44:45.110
Right? I'm very curious. Or like when Debbie

00:44:45.110 --> 00:44:48.050
eats pulled pork and cooks it all day long and

00:44:48.050 --> 00:44:50.690
the whole house just smells so good of pulled

00:44:50.690 --> 00:44:53.570
pork and I sit there with my turkey and chicken

00:44:53.570 --> 00:44:57.110
roll up while they eat their pulled pork. Soon

00:44:57.110 --> 00:45:00.070
enough. You'll be having it soon enough. 19 days.

00:45:00.369 --> 00:45:02.449
19 days. We didn't talk about what we do with

00:45:02.449 --> 00:45:06.329
our plain Greek. Yogurt. Oh, yeah. So, okay.

00:45:06.389 --> 00:45:08.489
The reason I buy plain and flavored is when I

00:45:08.489 --> 00:45:11.030
want to have yogurt, you know, with like berries

00:45:11.030 --> 00:45:13.289
and I'm going to make homemade granola. I'll

00:45:13.289 --> 00:45:16.110
share the recipe when I get it right. I want

00:45:16.110 --> 00:45:18.489
flavor because plain Greek yogurt, she's tart

00:45:18.489 --> 00:45:21.010
and thick and she's like paste. I think it's

00:45:21.010 --> 00:45:24.849
gross. But I take my plain Greek yogurt and A,

00:45:25.090 --> 00:45:28.650
I use it when I'm baking. I have a good recipe

00:45:28.650 --> 00:45:32.360
I'll talk about after. I add it to soup. as if

00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:35.360
it's basically I use plain like sour cream. So

00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.239
if I'm making any type of soup, I put it in and

00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.340
now you have a really thick kind of creamy soup.

00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:42.659
I also make dip with it. So like I mentioned

00:45:42.659 --> 00:45:44.920
a few times, I still make nachos and I know people

00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.719
are going to be like, well, look, yeah, I can't

00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:50.989
eat a lot. So I make a small little amount and

00:45:50.989 --> 00:45:53.610
I put tons of chicken on it. Like I go and get

00:45:53.610 --> 00:45:55.849
shredded chicken. And it's basically a pound

00:45:55.849 --> 00:45:58.369
of shredded chicken, broccoli, green peppers,

00:45:58.550 --> 00:46:00.730
veggies, and just some chips under. And then

00:46:00.730 --> 00:46:03.989
I get the low fat cheese. I then dip it in Greek

00:46:03.989 --> 00:46:07.869
yogurt, plain, that I mix with Trader Joe's everything

00:46:07.869 --> 00:46:10.889
but the elote seasoning and a little bit of salsa.

00:46:11.110 --> 00:46:14.269
And now I have like a crazy high protein little

00:46:14.269 --> 00:46:17.699
dip. And again, I'm making, you know, my quarter

00:46:17.699 --> 00:46:20.679
cup serving. So it's not like before when I'd

00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:22.739
buy dips and then all of a sudden be like, I've

00:46:22.739 --> 00:46:24.840
eaten half this frigging container, which like

00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:27.000
next time you look at dips and I hate to ruin

00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.099
them for you. We're talking like hundreds of

00:46:30.099 --> 00:46:32.619
calories for two tablespoons, sometimes two teaspoons

00:46:32.619 --> 00:46:36.599
of dip. So I can eat this whole quarter cup and

00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:38.739
I'm like, woo, the protein I'm getting out of

00:46:38.739 --> 00:46:41.179
this. Plus the tons of chicken on top of it.

00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.219
And a little bit of the low fat cheese. Like

00:46:43.219 --> 00:46:46.119
my nachos are now like. I don't know, two something

00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:49.539
in calories like versus, you know, a thousand

00:46:49.539 --> 00:46:52.539
calories to have restaurant nachos. So I use

00:46:52.539 --> 00:46:56.480
it for baking. I use it to make dips. And basically

00:46:56.480 --> 00:46:58.760
anywhere that you do sour cream or even mayo,

00:46:58.860 --> 00:47:01.320
I just substitute plain Greek yogurt. Have you

00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:04.909
ever done the jello? Oh, yeah. So I've mixed.

00:47:04.909 --> 00:47:06.590
I make the jello with the Greek yogurt. Yeah.

00:47:06.630 --> 00:47:09.090
So you make your sugar -free jello. Yes. And

00:47:09.090 --> 00:47:10.750
then you put your hot water in like you normally

00:47:10.750 --> 00:47:12.710
would. You dissolve it. And then instead of cold

00:47:12.710 --> 00:47:17.090
water, you do plain Greek yogurt. It sounds so

00:47:17.090 --> 00:47:19.630
messed up. I was terrified to try it. I was mixing

00:47:19.630 --> 00:47:22.530
it because at first it gets like clumpy until

00:47:22.530 --> 00:47:24.829
it smooths out. And I remember sitting there

00:47:24.829 --> 00:47:29.070
mixing it being like, no, no, no, this is no.

00:47:29.869 --> 00:47:32.150
It's so good. Can I tell you? It's so phenomenal.

00:47:32.230 --> 00:47:35.389
You end up with a creamy jello. Not creamy. Like

00:47:35.389 --> 00:47:38.130
a cherry or strawberry. Smooth. It's like a smooth

00:47:38.130 --> 00:47:42.349
jello. It still gets jello -y, right? But it's

00:47:42.349 --> 00:47:46.030
like a creamy jello. It's so good. And sugar

00:47:46.030 --> 00:47:48.670
-free. Hits that sweet tooth. Hits that dessert

00:47:48.670 --> 00:47:51.849
craving. But there's another. I will pre -mix

00:47:51.849 --> 00:47:54.969
little baggies. I feel like I'm a. jello pusher

00:47:54.969 --> 00:47:57.250
over here, but I'll pre -mix little baggies of

00:47:57.250 --> 00:48:00.389
like the strawberry jello with the sugar -free

00:48:00.389 --> 00:48:03.110
cheesecake pudding mix. And every now and then

00:48:03.110 --> 00:48:05.329
I'll get the single serve Greek yogurts and I'll

00:48:05.329 --> 00:48:07.590
just put a tablespoon in and mix it really well

00:48:07.590 --> 00:48:10.170
so that it's not super grainy, but you mix and

00:48:10.170 --> 00:48:12.309
mix and mix and mix. And now you have this strawberry

00:48:12.309 --> 00:48:15.210
cheesecake like whip. And I can say that because

00:48:15.210 --> 00:48:18.309
it's a cheesecake flavor. So it actually tastes

00:48:18.309 --> 00:48:19.889
like cheesecake. I do like chocolate, sugar -free

00:48:19.889 --> 00:48:23.980
pudding or butterscotch. Yeah. And make like

00:48:23.980 --> 00:48:28.179
a Greek yogurt pudding. Yeah. But it's such a

00:48:28.179 --> 00:48:30.920
good staple. I put it in smoothies. Yeah, I put

00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.539
it in soups. Like I make, my family loves butternut

00:48:34.539 --> 00:48:36.599
squash soup. And so I'll use the Greek yogurt

00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:40.300
to thicken it. I put it in. I put it in mashed

00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:43.019
potatoes. Yeah, I do that too. I made like a.

00:48:44.699 --> 00:48:47.480
like a meat, like a bolognese sauce. The other

00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:49.840
day I put that in there to make it like a rosé

00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:53.340
sauce. I hide it in everything. Yeah, I make

00:48:53.340 --> 00:48:57.119
caramelized onion chicken. Like I make caramelized

00:48:57.119 --> 00:48:59.400
onions, my cube chicken, and then I use Greek

00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.599
yogurt to make it like thick and creamy. I made

00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:05.380
the shawarma chicken from Shred Happens. Love

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:07.079
him. That gets marinated in Greek yogurt with

00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.659
a bunch of spices. I make a lamb dip with it.

00:49:09.699 --> 00:49:11.860
Honestly, it is just one of those things that

00:49:11.860 --> 00:49:14.079
everybody should always have in their fridge.

00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:18.320
It's not a hard swap. Like honestly, start making

00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:21.920
the swap now. Yeah, it's less, way less calories,

00:49:22.019 --> 00:49:25.860
way better for you. A great dip alternative too

00:49:25.860 --> 00:49:28.119
is, because we're very big like appetizer fans

00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.039
in my family and anytime we gather, we want to

00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:33.500
have dips and things. One that I have found is

00:49:33.500 --> 00:49:37.099
you get PB2. And you mix PB2 with Greek yogurt

00:49:37.099 --> 00:49:39.719
and you get this like fluffy peanut butter dip

00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:43.239
and then serve it with like apples or whatever

00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:45.380
you want to dip in it. But like I'm obsessed

00:49:45.380 --> 00:49:49.739
with making the peanut butter fluff, like frigging

00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:52.800
delicious. It's so good. It's super delicious.

00:49:53.059 --> 00:49:55.800
If you have a Ninja Creamy, I mean, get out of

00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:58.099
town. You're going to be making the best frozen

00:49:58.099 --> 00:50:01.880
yogurt all winter. All winter. Jesus. All summer.

00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:05.940
Whatever season it is. Yeah. Okay. So as we wrap

00:50:05.940 --> 00:50:10.260
up here, two questions for us. What are our favorite

00:50:10.260 --> 00:50:14.320
products that we kind of are like, okay, let's

00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.019
say five. Five or less so that we're not here

00:50:17.019 --> 00:50:20.449
for another hour. Five or less favorite. food

00:50:20.449 --> 00:50:22.670
products. Yeah. It's not the like, we get this

00:50:22.670 --> 00:50:24.309
every time at the grocery store. This is like

00:50:24.309 --> 00:50:26.750
the, I go out of my way to buy these products

00:50:26.750 --> 00:50:31.550
when I can. And then what are the tools or appliances

00:50:31.550 --> 00:50:34.889
that you kind of swear by? I'll give you time

00:50:34.889 --> 00:50:36.909
to think. I'll start with appliances. That's

00:50:36.909 --> 00:50:38.590
a hard one. I got the products, but what are

00:50:38.590 --> 00:50:42.650
my, my dog is, dog is being a nuisance on this

00:50:42.650 --> 00:50:46.369
podcast. Yeah, Mr. Bo over in the corner. So

00:50:46.369 --> 00:50:49.250
my go -to appliance is for post -bariatric surgery.

00:50:49.469 --> 00:50:53.050
And I understand that some of these are not going

00:50:53.050 --> 00:50:56.469
to be inexpensive. So I recommend these. Save

00:50:56.469 --> 00:50:58.550
up for them. I do think they are worth investing

00:50:58.550 --> 00:51:01.309
in. The number one thing is a Ninja Creamy. We're

00:51:01.309 --> 00:51:04.750
not sponsored by anybody. We want to. I don't

00:51:04.750 --> 00:51:06.170
have one. That'd be great. I would love it. Ninja,

00:51:06.289 --> 00:51:08.869
sponsor us. I'd love to try your new one. Hi,

00:51:08.989 --> 00:51:12.090
Bo. The Ninja Creamy was a super big game changer

00:51:12.090 --> 00:51:14.090
because especially in the first year. Clearly,

00:51:14.090 --> 00:51:17.630
I have a crippling ice cream addiction. I just

00:51:17.630 --> 00:51:19.980
wanted. desserts and sweet treats and things

00:51:19.980 --> 00:51:21.940
because like i was kicking my sugar habit of

00:51:21.940 --> 00:51:24.960
like the last 30 plus years right i love it like

00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.679
i made the best protein ice cream and being able

00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.260
to eat that whole container for like under 200

00:51:31.260 --> 00:51:34.119
calories with the best and it's not i find the

00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:36.420
ones you buy in the grocery store that's super

00:51:36.420 --> 00:51:39.039
upset my stomach that they're keto and you shouldn't

00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:42.420
be on a keto diet it's um super high in fat pumped

00:51:42.420 --> 00:51:44.219
full of things that just did not sit well in

00:51:44.219 --> 00:51:48.269
my stomach so i would make tons of great recipes

00:51:48.269 --> 00:51:50.909
with my Ninja Creamy. I cannot recommend that

00:51:50.909 --> 00:51:54.389
enough. An immersion blender, because especially

00:51:54.389 --> 00:51:57.550
in the soft food and pureed stage, a blender

00:51:57.550 --> 00:52:00.030
in itself is fine, but like you just want a handheld

00:52:00.030 --> 00:52:04.170
stick to like make your soups super clear. I've

00:52:04.170 --> 00:52:07.309
used it for protein sometimes. So get an immersion

00:52:07.309 --> 00:52:10.019
blender, get a milk frother. Protein powder is

00:52:10.019 --> 00:52:12.340
the most notoriously hard thing to mix up. It

00:52:12.340 --> 00:52:15.199
does not mix well in cold. It clumps and clusters

00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:18.679
in hot. So like a milk frother is the only way

00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:20.880
I have found to blend these. You put them in

00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:22.760
a cup with a little water, you whip it, and then

00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:24.380
you put it into whatever you're trying to drink.

00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:28.079
So Ninja Creamy, immersion blender, milk frother.

00:52:28.380 --> 00:52:32.010
And then this one's going to be weird. an ice

00:52:32.010 --> 00:52:34.829
maker. I know that's called a freezer for most

00:52:34.829 --> 00:52:39.070
people, but I bought a tabletop ice maker and

00:52:39.070 --> 00:52:41.949
it amplified how much water I was drinking. I

00:52:41.949 --> 00:52:44.389
like cold water. Some people don't, but I was

00:52:44.389 --> 00:52:46.190
struggling to drink water, struggling to drink

00:52:46.190 --> 00:52:48.030
water. I wouldn't drink it if I didn't have ice.

00:52:48.150 --> 00:52:50.150
I continuously ran out of room in my freezer

00:52:50.150 --> 00:52:53.389
for trays. And so I just bit the bullet and bought

00:52:53.389 --> 00:52:57.130
it. And I fly through drinks now. It's way better

00:52:57.130 --> 00:52:59.929
for making protein coffee. boom, wicked, wicked

00:52:59.929 --> 00:53:03.929
quick. So I highly recommend a tabletop ice maker.

00:53:04.110 --> 00:53:06.469
It has just completely changed how much I drink

00:53:06.469 --> 00:53:09.070
in a good way. They are super handy. I agree.

00:53:09.190 --> 00:53:11.090
So I didn't have five. Those are my top four

00:53:11.090 --> 00:53:14.530
that I use consistently every single day. Well,

00:53:14.590 --> 00:53:16.429
with the exception of the Ninja Creamy in the

00:53:16.429 --> 00:53:18.710
summer, it's like once a week. Yeah. No, that's

00:53:18.710 --> 00:53:21.769
good. The immersion blender is a good one. For

00:53:21.769 --> 00:53:26.119
me, air fryer. Oh, shit. Yeah, that's my fifth.

00:53:26.559 --> 00:53:28.719
Yeah, I use my air fryer multiple days a week.

00:53:28.780 --> 00:53:31.179
It used to be up on like a top shelf in our kitchen

00:53:31.179 --> 00:53:34.940
and now it's been moved down to counter because

00:53:34.940 --> 00:53:37.599
it gets used so often. That's a good one. This

00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:39.480
is not an appliance, but I bought a blender,

00:53:39.699 --> 00:53:43.380
like a blender, not a blender cup. I think it's

00:53:43.380 --> 00:53:44.860
called blender ball or something, but it's one

00:53:44.860 --> 00:53:46.980
of those like shaker cups that has the little

00:53:46.980 --> 00:53:50.019
metal ball. The metal ball. Whatever that's called.

00:53:50.219 --> 00:53:53.150
Yeah. One of those. I use that every day. for

00:53:53.150 --> 00:53:55.309
my coffee except now I'm trying to I'm gonna

00:53:55.309 --> 00:53:57.489
I'm gonna do an experiment I posted on social

00:53:57.489 --> 00:54:00.690
today I'm cutting it out of my morning now I

00:54:00.690 --> 00:54:04.309
have I have premier protein in here yes because

00:54:04.309 --> 00:54:06.929
which is a good reminder it's 10 30 and I have

00:54:06.929 --> 00:54:11.349
not taken any of my vitamins yet um I find that

00:54:11.349 --> 00:54:14.809
I need the protein the premier protein or some

00:54:14.809 --> 00:54:16.449
sort of protein drink to take my vitamins or

00:54:16.449 --> 00:54:19.539
I get nauseous I don't know why. Anyway, so I

00:54:19.539 --> 00:54:22.280
use that for my protein coffee or anything with

00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:26.000
protein powder. So blender ball thing, whatever

00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:31.400
it's called, your fryer. Not an appliance either,

00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:38.559
but a large insulated travel water jug, mug,

00:54:38.699 --> 00:54:40.699
whatever. I have a Stanley, use whatever brand

00:54:40.699 --> 00:54:43.440
you want. And it's got to be one, like mine has

00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:45.860
a... Not a side handle. It's got a top handle

00:54:45.860 --> 00:54:47.739
like a carry one. But it's got to be something

00:54:47.739 --> 00:54:49.920
that I can carry with me around the house or

00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:52.500
room to room. Because if I don't have it in front

00:54:52.500 --> 00:54:55.179
of me, I will not drink it. 100%. I will not

00:54:55.179 --> 00:54:57.619
drink it. Another thing for me that I've used

00:54:57.619 --> 00:55:00.280
a lot lately is, I don't even know what you call

00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:03.739
it, but a teapot with a steeper in it. Oh, yeah.

00:55:04.219 --> 00:55:07.659
Okay. My tea consumption has skyrocketed since

00:55:07.659 --> 00:55:09.639
surgery. Nothing wrong with that? No. I don't

00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:12.400
like coffee anymore. I can't drink coffee anymore.

00:55:12.989 --> 00:55:14.630
I can drink a little bit of decaf. Like this

00:55:14.630 --> 00:55:16.449
is decaf, but it's also like a decent amount

00:55:16.449 --> 00:55:19.269
of premier protein. Like I think I put a quarter

00:55:19.269 --> 00:55:20.869
of a premier protein in there this morning because

00:55:20.869 --> 00:55:24.130
I knew I needed vitamins, but I can't drink coffee

00:55:24.130 --> 00:55:25.969
anymore. I think it's disgusting. I used to drink

00:55:25.969 --> 00:55:28.309
two or three a day. Again, your taste buds change.

00:55:28.449 --> 00:55:30.670
Now I think it's gross. I'm up to a two a day

00:55:30.670 --> 00:55:34.030
habit with coffee. I bought a nice big glass

00:55:34.030 --> 00:55:39.630
tea pot. Okay. With like a steeper thing in it

00:55:39.630 --> 00:55:42.570
and I buy loose leaf tea and I make like a full

00:55:42.570 --> 00:55:45.369
pot of tea. Okay. And even if it's cold, I let

00:55:45.369 --> 00:55:47.889
it sit on the counter and I drink that throughout

00:55:47.889 --> 00:55:51.050
the day. I like it. Yeah. So that has been something

00:55:51.050 --> 00:55:53.769
that has been new since surgery but gets a lot

00:55:53.769 --> 00:55:55.469
of use in our house. I don't know if that's why.

00:55:55.469 --> 00:55:58.690
I like it. It's good. Those are your staple like

00:55:58.690 --> 00:56:03.389
appliances. And my vitamin, my old baby vitamin

00:56:03.389 --> 00:56:07.739
containers. Mine are equally as old. Right? Yes.

00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:11.719
And you need a three pill container. Yeah. It's

00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:14.480
got morning, middle of the day and night. I have

00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:17.219
two of these. So I do two week rotations at a

00:56:17.219 --> 00:56:19.880
time. That's a must. Because there's some things

00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:21.639
that you just can't take together. Magnesium,

00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:24.460
calcium. No, that's a bad example. But there

00:56:24.460 --> 00:56:25.960
are two things. There's things that you just

00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:27.420
can't take together. Plus you don't want to be

00:56:27.420 --> 00:56:29.280
taking 15 pills. If I don't have this, I'll forget

00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.659
what I took. And I won't remember, did I take

00:56:32.659 --> 00:56:34.219
this this morning? I don't know. I have old lady

00:56:34.219 --> 00:56:37.130
brain. That is a must. Not an appliance. Be bad

00:56:37.130 --> 00:56:38.889
with your vitamins. We'll do a whole episode

00:56:38.889 --> 00:56:40.849
where I talk about how bad I've been with my

00:56:40.849 --> 00:56:42.670
vitamins and the side effects. Hannah, Hannah,

00:56:42.670 --> 00:56:46.130
Hannah. I know. I know. Okay. So we'll end with

00:56:46.130 --> 00:56:50.090
like the top five things that we are absolutely

00:56:50.090 --> 00:56:53.690
obsessed with. That they're not necessarily grocery

00:56:53.690 --> 00:56:55.409
staples because you don't go through them quickly.

00:56:55.469 --> 00:56:57.590
Or again, you'll see why maybe they're not a

00:56:57.590 --> 00:57:00.929
grocery staple. I'm going to be a good bariatric

00:57:00.929 --> 00:57:05.480
patient. Good. Take your vitamins. The five products

00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:08.420
that I absolutely cannot live without since having

00:57:08.420 --> 00:57:13.300
bariatric surgery, the low carb tortillas. from

00:57:13.300 --> 00:57:16.239
the United States. Very sorry, Canadians. Very,

00:57:16.340 --> 00:57:18.360
very sorry. Maybe one of you will creatively

00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:21.400
figure out how to make them here. They're called

00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:24.280
Mission Carb. They have two brands that are kind

00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:26.599
of the same, low carb tortillas. And they range

00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:29.420
from 20 calories to 50 calories per tortilla

00:57:29.420 --> 00:57:33.159
based on size. They are so soft, so fluffy, so

00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:36.380
frigging delicious. And you will not find the

00:57:36.380 --> 00:57:39.900
equivalent in Canada. By comparison, like an

00:57:39.900 --> 00:57:44.539
average tortilla is like 140 calories for a large

00:57:44.539 --> 00:57:46.480
tortilla. And they've made the same tortilla

00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:50.820
for 70. So. These have become a staple. They

00:57:50.820 --> 00:57:53.360
freeze well. They taste amazing. I'm obsessed

00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:55.980
with them. Bilt Bars, you've heard us say it

00:57:55.980 --> 00:57:58.039
before. I have yet to find a protein bar that

00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:00.659
is even remotely close to tasting as good as

00:58:00.659 --> 00:58:03.039
these Bilt Bars. They're like a marshmallow covered

00:58:03.039 --> 00:58:05.579
in chocolate. If you microwave them, you get

00:58:05.579 --> 00:58:09.519
a creamy, gooey dessert that literally is chocolate.

00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:12.800
It's got the best macros I've ever seen. That's

00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:14.519
my problem is some of these protein bars are

00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:17.980
300 calories. Bilt Bars are 150 for like 17 to

00:58:17.980 --> 00:58:21.039
20 grams. protein. You cannot tell me that there's

00:58:21.039 --> 00:58:22.559
a protein bar that tastes the same as that. I've

00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:24.960
tried them all. They're all horrible compared

00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:30.280
to built bars. Gatorade powder, Gatorade Zero

00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:33.159
individual serving powder electrolytes. I keep

00:58:33.159 --> 00:58:36.320
those with me and I drink them. Just like adamantly

00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:38.139
because you are going to hit a point where plain

00:58:38.139 --> 00:58:41.340
water you just can't do. But if I put the Gatorade

00:58:41.340 --> 00:58:43.699
powder in there, I get electrolytes and I pound

00:58:43.699 --> 00:58:45.579
it like you wouldn't believe. I drink the crap

00:58:45.579 --> 00:58:47.800
out of it. So I keep the blue raspberry, the

00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:50.619
orange and the white sugar free Gatorade zero

00:58:50.619 --> 00:58:54.679
electrolyte powders always in my house. Edamame

00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:58.300
Go. I think it's called Go Beans is the brand.

00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:01.619
You can get them on Amazon. They come in dill

00:59:01.619 --> 00:59:04.159
pickles, sriracha, sour cream and onion, salt

00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:06.659
and vinegar, nacho, which is the best, ranch.

00:59:07.019 --> 00:59:09.860
They are individual serving sizes of dry roasted

00:59:09.860 --> 00:59:13.400
edamame flavored so incredibly deliciously, 100

00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:16.940
calories, 11 grams of protein. I always have

00:59:16.940 --> 00:59:20.139
them in my kitchen as a quick grab and go. I

00:59:20.139 --> 00:59:22.000
don't fly through them as much. They're not on

00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.000
my grocery list, but I consistently have those

00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:28.800
and can't see a world where. I just don't have

00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:31.380
those. And then the very, very last thing that

00:59:31.380 --> 00:59:33.519
is just like, don't know how I'm going to make

00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:36.239
it if I don't have this is the barely, barely

00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:38.559
breaded chicken nuggets. There's something about

00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:40.699
bariatric surgery where we all just seem to love

00:59:40.699 --> 00:59:42.840
chicken nuggets all of a sudden, but these are

00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.289
barely breaded now. Good news, Canadians, you

00:59:46.289 --> 00:59:48.769
can get these in Canada. Costco makes their own

00:59:48.769 --> 00:59:51.610
brand. But it's basically chunks of pure white

00:59:51.610 --> 00:59:54.429
chicken breast that is barely breaded but still

00:59:54.429 --> 00:59:56.829
gives you that illusion of it being like a chicken

00:59:56.829 --> 01:00:00.369
nugget. The macros are insanely amazing on these.

01:00:00.429 --> 01:00:02.570
Like the protein is through the roof. The calories,

01:00:02.670 --> 01:00:05.150
I think it's like 70 calories for three. And

01:00:05.150 --> 01:00:07.570
these are chunks. They're not nuggies. They're

01:00:07.570 --> 01:00:11.690
chunks. And it's like 70, 80 calories for I think

01:00:11.690 --> 01:00:15.840
like 19 grams of protein. Those are my staples.

01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:19.239
Gatorade powder, built bars, the low carb mission

01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:24.480
tortillas, the chicken nuggets. Forgot what the

01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:26.260
other one was that I talked about, but like those

01:00:26.260 --> 01:00:29.000
are my staples. Oh, the edamame, the edamame.

01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:32.440
Those are what I absolutely would like travel

01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:34.880
hours because I used to. I would drive hours

01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.400
to the U .S. to get almost every single one of

01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:40.500
those things. Getting rid of the tortillas and

01:00:40.500 --> 01:00:42.760
bill bars has been an immense struggle in my

01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:45.019
life, given what's going on in the U .S. If we

01:00:45.019 --> 01:00:47.280
have any U .S. listeners who would like to send

01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:50.360
me a box of tortillas or bill bars, I will pay

01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:54.320
handsomely. I've not found an equivalent to those

01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:57.280
in Canada, and it's been very hard to meal prep

01:00:57.280 --> 01:00:59.559
without them. Agreed. Agreed. We're going to

01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:02.000
have some overlap. That's okay. The edamame,

01:01:02.179 --> 01:01:04.340
so I have four boxes of them in my kitchen right

01:01:04.340 --> 01:01:07.579
now. The crappy part is my family has now...

01:01:07.929 --> 01:01:12.110
discover them and enjoy them. I know. So we are

01:01:12.110 --> 01:01:14.969
flying through them now. So I do need to order

01:01:14.969 --> 01:01:17.769
more. Um, I have those every day. They are on

01:01:17.769 --> 01:01:20.409
my, like they're programmed into my fitness pal

01:01:20.409 --> 01:01:23.110
as a snack every day, every day. Um, then they're

01:01:23.110 --> 01:01:24.530
great for on the go. Like I always have them

01:01:24.530 --> 01:01:27.750
in the car. Um, edamame beans for sure. Baby

01:01:27.750 --> 01:01:31.789
bells, baby bells. That's a big one. Um, that's

01:01:31.789 --> 01:01:36.369
two, three is, um, summer fresh roasted red pepper

01:01:36.369 --> 01:01:39.420
dip. Oh, yeah. I talked about this on a podcast

01:01:39.420 --> 01:01:42.059
before. That is my salad dressing. That is my

01:01:42.059 --> 01:01:45.280
dip. That is my condiment. That is my everything.

01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:48.699
The calories on this are so low. It's like 30

01:01:48.699 --> 01:01:51.119
calories for two tablespoons, which is plenty.

01:01:51.739 --> 01:01:54.300
You can have the whole container for 200 calories.

01:01:55.099 --> 01:01:57.739
So that I will go out of my, like I will go to,

01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:00.099
I'll go grocery shopping on one side of town.

01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:02.159
And then I will drive to a grocery store on another

01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:03.940
side of town because the grocery shopping store

01:02:03.940 --> 01:02:06.159
doesn't have the dip. And I know this one does.

01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:10.500
So that's one. Oh my gosh. What's another one?

01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:12.800
I've got, what did I say? Edamame. The summer

01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:15.420
fresh, the edamame, the baby bells. Pickles.

01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:18.519
Pickles. If it's not pickles, it's pickled something.

01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:22.159
Pickled beans. Pickles. I love, or like sauerkraut.

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Something. Pickled. Devin thinks I'm crazy because

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I will eat sauerkraut with a fork out of the

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jar. I love sauerkraut though. Me too. It's so

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good. And then the nuggets. I am out. I'm out

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of the nuggets and it hurts my heart. I haven't

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tried the Costco ones. My next Costco trip, I

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will buy those, but I am now out of the other

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ones. And it is a sad thing to open the fridge

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and not see them because they were such a staple.

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I like you said, so low calorie, high protein.

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I would put them in mission carb tortillas. I

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would put them on them just by themselves. The

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tortillas. If there was one thing. Wraps with

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them. They were just so, so, so good. I could

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give up everything but those tortillas because

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I cannot. So I'm okay. I bought a bunch in Nashville.

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I'm a bad Canadian, but I packed my suitcase.

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20 bags of them. But like, I can't. I cannot

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meal prep. Like we said, we don't have bread.

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We don't really have any good low carb options

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that taste good here. These are so insanely easy

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to meal prep with. So if I had to take one thing

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only that I could, it's the tortillas. I could

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give up the rest. Bilt bars have been rough,

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but the tortillas are one of the biggest staples

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in my successful meal planning. And I'm struggling

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not being able to get them. Let us know, Canadians.

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Have you found some very good, soft, low -carb

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tortillas? Don't come here and tell me about

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the one from Costco. It's not good. If you get

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a chance to try the ones from the States, you'll

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know what I mean. These mission -carb, low -carb

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tortillas should not taste as good as they do.

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Like, I ate them plain. There was a point in

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time where I was like, I'm going to just have

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one of these. Really good. So let us know. Or,

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again, if we have a lovely American listener,

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we'll give you our P .O. box. Send them our way.

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But those are our staples. You'll notice that

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none of our staples are protein powder because

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we truly subscribe to whatever is cheap and available

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at your grocery store is what you should get.

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We've tried multiple brands. They all don't taste

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the way that they don't taste like what they

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show on the label. You're going to see everybody

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promoting clean, simple protein or good protein

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in Canada. They don't really taste as good as

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you think. They taste a lot like sweetener. They

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never really nail the flavor. So we've taste

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tested a bunch. And just trust us, just get whatever's

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easier at the grocery store, whether it's Premier

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or Fairlife. They all kind of taste the same.

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Go with what's affordable. There is no perfect

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protein powder. And that's why none of us throughout

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this entire podcast, neither of us spoke about

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the protein powder we have to have. Nope. Nope.

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There you go. There's our staples. So that's

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our food episode. We'll keep trying to share

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recipes and things that we make, but hit us up.

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What are your favorite staples? post -surgery,

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what are things that you're kind of excited to

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try? Have you found a protein powder that's just

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so good? Remember, if you're pre -surgery, what

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tastes good now will not taste the same post

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-surgery. So please do not go and buy what we

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just told you about and load your kitchen up

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because you will come out of surgery and literally

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not be able to eat and drink things that you

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loved or liked before surgery. So do not stock

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up. at all on things. Like we can't stress this

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enough because I did it and then threw 90 % of

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it out. So wait. Agreed. Cool. Well, we'll see

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you next week where I think we're going to do

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another fun episode about bucket lists. So we're

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going to talk about everything that we can't

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wait to do or that we've already done after surgery.

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But thank you to each and every single one of

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you. And we can't wait to see you next Monday.

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Awesome. See you next week. Thanks guys. Bye

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Steph. Bye.