40 Burst results for "Half"
The Dan Bongino Show
Tom Fitton: FBI Served Subpoena After Skin Cancer Surgery
"The process is punishment for them idea. I'd So like to welcome to show he's been here before Tom Fitton something happened to you Tom and I got to tell you I was freaked out this by I've warned my audience over and over that it's probably only a matter of time if you're a conservative activist before sadly you get an FBI knock on your door and you unfortunately did tell us what I did I had just gotten back I don't know almost at five o 'clock from skin cancer surgery at night but all day dealing with the procedures lying on the couch and you know an hour an hour and a half later uh it's at night it was November knock at the door was the FBI serving me with a subpoena or two nice FBI agents there male and female they hopefully pointed out that I had an Amazon package so delivered at the time but you know I'm opening the door with a giant bandage on my face and you know of course obviously they probably didn't know I had skin skin cancer surgery that day but when you use process and use a grand jury to go after someone you need to do it for good reasons because you interfere with their lives and you need to have a good reason for doing so so yeah I hold them accountable for messing with my messing with my life and my family's life for no good reason at a sense at a time because I didn't need to do it and of course you know our lawyer you know we had to go out that lawyers and such for me and you know and then of course Judicial Watch eventually got a subpoena document as well and you know said they I could come in and do a proffer and you know what a proffer is like yeah Dan you go in you have your lawyers there you're talking formally to you know to see what they need if I'm truly a witness what's the big deal you know what they did they they pulled the proffer author and
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Half" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Let me write up this half hour. Curious about the top cities offering the best quality of life? A look at the latest list from US News and World Report. I'm Melissa Howell. A dry weekend but wow it's going to be quite warm throughout the area. Temperatures this morning starting out in the 50s and then up to a high temperature in the mid 80s so a little toasty warm for us without the high humidity. 90 degrees on Sunday. Sunday is the day with southwesterly winds and chance ahead of the next weather system that we could have some rain in the mountains maybe even a few rumbles of thunder better chance of area -wide rain comes on Monday especially in the afternoon could get some strong storms. I'm 7News chief meteorologist Veronica Johnson in the first alert weather center. 52 degrees in Gaithersburg 64 in Arlington 60 this morning in Lanham. 55 we've dropped to now in our nation's capital brought to you in the 1 a .m. hour. Saturday morning June heading into the weekend by Lynn the plumber trusted same day service seven days
Nudge
You Don't Need a PhD to Master Card Counting
"Card counting isn't impossible to master. You don't need a PhD in statistics. In fact, one thing that makes card counting hard isn't the actual counting, it's something else. To dig into this, let me introduce my guest today. I think he's the world's most well -known card counter. With almost half a million subscribers on his YouTube channel and 45 million views in total, Stephen Bridges is probably the most recognisable card counter out there. Here he is introducing himself. Yeah, my name is Stephen Bridges and I'm a card counter, which basically means that I legally beat casinos at Blackjack. So I play high stakes and I film a hidden camera show about doing that. And I get into all sorts of trouble with the casinos whilst trying to beat the game. Now, some of you listening might be wondering what card counting actually is. Maybe you're like me. Maybe your perception was that card counting was a myriad of formulas and equations, incomprehensible to a layman like me. Well, it's not quite like that. So in essence, card counting involves keeping track of the cards that have been played in a game of Blackjack. And keeping track of them gives you an idea of what cards are remaining and what cards are likely to come. And then you can use that to gain an advantage over the house. So specifically in Blackjack, if there's a lot of tens and aces on the way and you're playing Blackjack perfectly, then you can gain an advantage. So in those situations, I'll bet loads of money. And when I don't have an advantage, I'll bet the smallest amount of money possible. So this really is playing the game in an unconventional way, although it wouldn't be considered cheating because you're just using the same information that all other players have access to at the table. And the thing I usually mention when anybody asks me if what I do is cheating is I'd say, can you name any game in the world where thinking too much or thinking in a particular way would be considered cheating? And usually the answer is no. And it's just imagine playing a game of chess and being told, oh, you can't think four moves ahead. Three moves ahead is fine, but not four moves
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "half" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Bloomberg Originals. You can catch it at 10 p .m. Eastern on Bloomberg TV and on the Bloomberg app and Bloomberg dot com and download The Circuit companion podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Live from the interactive broker studio broadcasting coast to coast, Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 1 Washington, Bloomberg 1061 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Costco, Sirius XM 119, the Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg dot com. This Business Week. Reports this week that U .S. regulators may look to force bigger banks to lift their capital requirements by an average of 20 percent to help shore up the system following this another American institution that was born out of a far different financial disaster is still around and more flush with cash than ever. The 90 year old federal home loan bank system which has ballooned to more than one and a half trillion dollars is a relic of the Great Depression that had a very specific mission and yet has grown into a backstop for banks taking all kinds of risks and a diminishing role
AP News Radio
CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take a typical worker two lifetimes to make their annual pay
"The typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies rose just .9% last year to a median of $14.8 million. That's according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by equilar. That means half the CEOs in the survey made more and half made less. It was the smallest increase since 2015, still the drop is unlikely to quell mounting criticism that CEO pay has become excessively high and the imbalance between company bosses and rank and file workers to wide, Julie Walker, New York
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "Half" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Or about one and a half percent of its workforce the puget sound business journal reports that virginia mason franciscan health and overlake medical center have also recently cut jobs as health systems look for ways to cut costs without reducing services alaska airlines today announced that it will add its first flight from painfield in everitt to honolulu starting in november it's alaska's first new route to honolulu in more than a decade and the longest flight it operates from painfield the dow gained 43 points close to at 33 876 nasdaq rose 20 in the snp 500 gained five this is rob smith with northwest news radio russian tactical nuclear weapons on course to be stationed in neighboring belarus next month these are your world headlines from abc news russian president putin meeting with his belarusian counterpart so she says everything is going according to plan in a month the housing facilities will be complete then immediately the process of moving the relevant types of short -range weapons on the belarusian soil will commence the pentagon has announced that it will provide an additional 2 .1 billion dollars in long term weapons aid to ukraine the new package will include funding for more patriot missile battery weapons and hawk air defense systems and turkish president erdogan has appointed a former us based bank executive to head the country's central bank sending a signal that the newly re leader -elected might pivot from current economic policies i'm tom rivers at the abc news foreign desk in london northwest traffic from the high performance homes traffic center got a couple of updates it'll take you twenty one minutes travel from one of bro the ultimate on east five twenty two there is some light traffic it looks like that crash in seattle on i -5 north cleared near columbian way very minimal traffic and runs in the one sixty seven to four oh five south on ram cleared of that crash there's no delays our next with us traffic at nine oh four the news radio one thousand and ninety seven seven forecast from the northwest crawlspace services weathers a rain is expected
Mark Levin
Kevin McCarthy: Dems Will Say There's Nothing in the Bill for Them
"First McCarthy cut to go Right because at this point you guys only Republicans only control one half of one branch of government So for you to get what you got was great For the most part because the Republicans did much better in this than the Democrats did obviously And to your point Joe Biden tends to negotiate Go ahead There are going to be You know a bunch of Republicans on the big vote are going to vote now You're going to need a bunch of Democrats to say you know what I can't believe I'm doing this I'm going to vote with Kevin McCarthy Well normally when you make when you come to an agreement with two different parties you have people on both parties vote for it But the difficulty that's different than any time before is the Democrats will tell you there's nothing in the bill for them Nothing The president numerous times He kept asking for tax increases new government programs and I just said no And he says well there's nothing in it for us to vote for That's debt ceiling I'm not sure people want to go past that deadline and interest rates go up in others I think this is a good first step but we can go much further And I have a plan for that coming forward where we can look at the entire budget and tackle our problems especially in a bipartisan way This is reasonable This is sensible but it's also responsible thing to do He's among the most popular Republicans in the country And there's at least one common cause he's talking about making a motion to remove him as speaker So I don't follow the kamikazes
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "Half" from News, Traffic and Weather
"On I -5 North will take half a hour and Auburn, a crash on westbound 272nd Way has the road fully blocked between Star Lake and Fenwick Road. Our next local is Traffic Connect at the news radio 1000 FM 97 7 forecast from the Northwest Crawl Space Services Weather Center. A rain is expected to continue overnight into our Saturday. We'll see on and off
AP News Radio
Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax
"Disgrace theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes enters prison to begin an 11 year sentence. Former theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has entered a federal women's prison camp in Brian Texas, a jury convicted Holmes in January 2022. On four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy for overseeing a blood testing hoax. Holmes promised theranos would revolutionize healthcare with a technology that could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with a few drops of blood taken from a finger prick. The hype surrounding the purported breakthrough helped theranos raise nearly $1 billion from investors and turned homes into a billionaire with a fortune valued at four and a half billion on paper in 2014. I'm Mike Hempen
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "Half" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Is about to lend a paw. The human unlocks the Give it a try. The officer opens the truck's door. Like a bolt of black lightning, our adolescent bear darts out and across the lawn and then it stops and looks back as if to say, so no more snacks? No driving lesson today? It was immediately clear the answer to both questions was no, as our game officer let out a And our bear rambles off into the woods. Brian Calvert, Northwest News Radio. Northwest traffic from the Holmes Traffic Center. Seattle, I -5 North, a crash as you approach Columbian Way is blocking off the two right lanes and lots of backups are starting to form. This means you drive from 405 to 520 on I -5 North will take half a hour and Auburn, a crash on westbound 272nd Way has the road fully blocked between Star Lake and Fenwick Road. Our next local is Traffic Connect
The Dan Bongino Show
The COVID Controlling Narrative Continues to Fall With New Research
"Was a lot of stuff that happened this weekend over the last three days when we weren't paying attention And one of them is the COVID narrative ladies and gentlemen about the vaccines are great Put your mask on shut your pie hole Take your soup cooler shut it up jam that vaccine in your arm put your mask on and shut the up right That narrative is slowly slowly collapsing And not only collapsing falling apart completely the research coming out now about the vaccine and all this other stuff are actually pointing in the opposite direction Now this means a lot to me It means a lot to me because I've told you my travails with the vaccine over and over again My battle with cancer and all this crap It's not a sob story Everybody's got worse problems than this isn't one of those don't cry for me Argentina movements or whatever right But this is a personal topic for me You know we've had a long fight We just resolved with the parent company here over a vaccine mandate that sucked up a year and a half of my life and you know led to a lot of bad blood and took a lot of time to you know resolve this is personal to me folks I was thrown off of YouTube for telling you masks are not effective I was absolutely accurate I mean my skin is in this game as much as anyone else's Trust in public health is just evaporated The science has failed us ladies and gentlemen these COVID narratives are falling apart I have insisted to you for the two now two years plus We have been on the radio That the COVID narrative about masks and vaccines They have one thing in common And that thing they have in common is once the communists the modern day communists IE the liberal breaks down the idea that you're in control of your own body They now own everything
AP News Radio
Trial for accused gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre slated to start
"The suspect in a 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is set to go on trial today in the nation's deadliest anti semitic attack. The federal trial of Robert Bowers comes four and a half years after the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers from three congregations meeting at the tree of life synagogue. Bowers could face the death penalty if convicted of some of the 63 counts he faces. These include 11 counts, each of hate crimes resulting in death. Prosecutors have said Bowers made anti semitic comments at the scene of the attack and online. The trial follows a monthlong jury selection process, Bowers a truck driver from a Pittsburgh suburb, offered to plead guilty in return for a life sentence, but prosecutors turned him down. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
The Lates in Sports
"AP sports and Mike Reeves, Josef Newgarden won his first Indianapolis 500 passing defending champ Marcus Ericsson in a two and a half mile sprint to the finish. Major League Baseball, the rays defeated the Dodgers 1110, while the rockies beat the bets by that same score, Cleveland got a four three, walk off win over St. Louis, the Orioles were three to two winners over the rangers, Detroit down the White Sox 6 to 5 in ten innings, the royals were three two winners over the nationals, Toronto shut out Minnesota three zero, the brewers won 7 to 5 over San Francisco Cincinnati is an 8 5 winner over the cubs, Miami at two zero winner over the angels, the Diamondbacks defeated the Red Sox four two, Seattle gets a 6 three win in ten innings over Pittsburgh. The Yankees beat the Padres 10.7 and Houston beat Oakland ten to one with the braves downing the Phillies 11 to four emiliano grillo won the PGA's Charles Schwab challenge. You don't play off over Adam schick and Steve stricker was victorious in a playoff over podrick heritage in the PGA scene your championship at Mike Reeves AP sports.
AP News Radio
The Latest in Sports
"AP's sports and Mike Reeves, it was a frantic finish at the Indianapolis 500, our Tom McKay reports. Josef Newgarden used a one lap shootout to grab the lead from 2022 champ Marcus Ericsson to win the Indy 500. You know, I wasn't looking to take anyone else out of the race, but I was going to put my car on the line to win. And I was either going to win the race or I was going to end up in the wall. Newgarden driving for team owner Roger Penske survived a chaotic final 40 miles, which saw the race stop three times for Rex. Major League Baseball the rays win a wild one over the Dodgers in Tampa Bay, correspondent Steve Carney provides the details. The Tampa Bay Rays used a 7th inning RBI ground out by wander Franco to break a ten ten tie and defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 11 to ten. Both starters got hit around as Gavin stone allowed 7 runs in two innings of work, while Josh Fleming allowed ten runs in 6 innings, including 5 home runs, Tampa Bay finishes at ten game home stands 7 and three, while the Dodgers complete their longest road trip of 2023 with a four and 6 Mark. The Yankees used a 7 run third inning to defeat the Padres ten to 7, Aaron judge and Harrison Bader hit home runs to support winning pitcher Garrett Cole, who is now 6 and zero. This was a good team win today for sure. I mean, being able to kind of subdue them through the middle innings and keep the momentum. I thought played in our favor, but it's just such a luxury to have the offense. Other winners on the diamond were the guardians Orioles tigers royals, Blue Jays, brewers, reds, rockies, Astros, Marlins, Diamondbacks, Mariners, and braves on the PGA Tour emiliano grillo wins the Charles Schwab challenge in a playoff against Adam chic. It was his first PGA Tour victory. It over 7 and a half years. So it was great. The way it was definitely worth it, it was long, but it was worth it. Steve stricker won the senior PGA Championship in a playoff over podrick Harrington, NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 was postponed due to wet weather. I'm Mike Reeves AP sports.
On The Rekord
Episode 110 - May 28th, 2023 - Boston Making History??? - Burst 12
"This is boss winning game 7, but I'm like they won by one by luck. So I'm like game 7 to me is like, if you're a boss and figure not comfortable. I don't know they're not comfortable. And if you're Miami fan, you're like, you're disappointed, but you're like, okay, we can do it again. But you have the legs for it. You got the breath, you conditioning for it. You have the mental stamina to endure this again. Exactly. I don't know, man. I really don't believe they do man. I'm sure Jimmy Butler does, but this is body can handle it because you know, like I said, Jimmy can he can run against the wall every now and then and burn himself out. And now we don't know. That wall you're talking about, I was looking to see it maybe game three or four of Denver. The wall is going to be tomorrow. That's the wall bro. I think you're right. Walls game 7, man. Whatever energy he could have. You could have had along with rest. That shit be sale, bro that ship is sale. Unless it plays out of his mind, has the best career. Bam is, to me, them is a key. 'cause they're giving you shots. But you gotta make it. Yeah? Yeah, you do. Four or 5 and 6, you gotta come bring it, bro listen. If I'm slow, you gotta put Kevin Love it on that front line, man. It's not right. Grab these rebounds. He's not right. Well, you need someone. You need someone. That's not right. That's a problem. He used to start and then they took on the rotation. I think he's hurt too. It's a damn shame. That's a problem with Miami is that they're basically limping into this playoffs. Damn. Tyler hero, Victor LL depot, Kyle Lowry, Kevin Love. For your players that were giving you quality, you know, minutes, they're hurt. Listen, the window that Pat Riley's got along with the way the east is. You got to get another great player for Jimmy. Now, so what do you predict for game 7? Honestly, if I'm a betting man, I could predict a ten point difference in favor of Boston. Maybe I'd say probably ten 13 point difference to your Boston. Most of my plus 13, I could see I could see an 87 one O one type situation. I got three and a half push. I can see either team pushing. And winning narrowly. I don't see a blowout. I can't see a ten point lead for Boston. What's up, man? I'm just, I'm looking at a team who had them dead to rights, I think that's going to be psychologically spent as they are physically spent. But more psychologically. Like, you know, like, you know, at this point, everybody's, you know, physically spend and stuff like that, but your body adjusts. Psychologically speaking, I think then boys is done, bro, I really do. You know, I don't think so. This is, this is the very worst case scenario for Miami. I think this is something they can salivate. Because if you think about their AC, no, they shouldn't be here, but they should be, but you are. So it's like, okay, if punch way above their way, but I think they've reached their, I think they reach their maximum, man. I really do. I got a three and a half. I think they have a Vegas guy at three and a half. Could usually when there's three and a half, that means you figure the home team. So usually when it comes to sports bets, if you see a plus negative three negative 7 or negative ten, they favor the home team. But I think they got a three and a half. So it was three and a half that means that it's a push. Listen, I'm looking at momentum. I mean, I don't see my ultimate Boston. Games four and 5. Yes. Game 6 to me, I look as a fluke. I think it's the same bet, bro. It was the hand of a guy that got that child 'cause they had less time, like if everybody was 2.1 on the clock, they're outta here. They're not, it's over. But this is the same thing. We said last year in that game 7, between these two teams. You know, there was one shot away from being eliminated. Yeah. It was Jimmy Butler, that made that shot, right? I think he shot a three coming up. He took you, buddy, but then go in. Yeah, he took it. He rimmed out. Yeah, man. So who's to say, but I can say it's a man fortune favors the bold man. We will find out. Boston's been hella bold in a situation that they put themselves in that they are like on the verge of turning around. Here's to me, who's a player, if Miami really wants to help Jimmy Butler out?
AP News Radio
Oath Keeper who stormed Capitol gets more than 8 years in prison in latest Jan. 6 sentencing
"Another oath keeper who stormed the capitol has been sentenced. Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, received an 8 and a half year sentence on a conviction of obstruction and conspiracy to impede Congress, the transgender army veteran was one of the oath keepers who stormed the U.S. capitol in a military style stacked formation on January 6th, communicating with other helmet clad members over a channel called stop the steel J 6 on the walkie talkie app zello. Watkins tearfully apologized for her actions and condemned the violence by rioters, calling herself just another idiot running around the capitol, the sentence comes a day after oath keepers founder Stewart Rhodes received an 18 year sentence in Florida chapter leader Kelly mag was sentenced to 12 years for seditious conspiracy. U.S. district judge Amit Mehta said that while Watkins was not a top leader, she was more than just a foot soldier, telling her that your role that day was more aggressive, and at least three others charged in the riot wouldn't have been there if she hadn't recruited them. Just over 500 January 6th defendants have been sentenced with more than half receiving prison time. Jennifer King, Washington
AP News Radio
Joe Pavelski scores in OT, Stars beat Golden Knights 3-2 to avoid West sweep
"The stars have forced a game 5 in the Western Conference Finals by rallying to beat the golden knights three two and overtime. Joe pavelski furnished the game winner on a power play three 18 into the extra session. Vegas was less than two and a half minutes from completing a four game sweep when Jason Robertson scored his second goal of the night and fourth of the series. Jake gottinger stopped 37 shots and bouncing back from a poor start in game three. William Carlson and Jonathan marsh is so scored for the knights who could wrap up the series at home on Saturday. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Navy SEALs training plagued by pervasive problems, according to investigation after death of sailor
"A report says a navy seal candidate's death might have been prevented if flaws in the medical program had been addressed. The report by the naval education and training command finds the program for navy seals is plagued by a poorly integrated medical program, a lack of oversight, and turning a blind eye to the use of performance enhancing drugs that increases the risk of injury and death to candidates seeking to join the elite commandos, the report was triggered by the death of a sailor Kyle mullin, who collapsed and died of acute pneumonia last year just hours after completing the training required during hell week, its a test so grueling that over half don't finish it. Rear admiral Keith davids said the navy will learn from the tragedy Mullen's mother a registered nurse says there needs to be serious accountability. The report suggests a long list of changes, including rigorous drug testing and education around the problem of steroids and other banned drugs, some candidates use to get through the rigorous program. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
FRENCH OPEN 2023: Alcaraz, Djokovic on same half of draw; Swiatek-Gauff could be in quarterfinals
"Carlos alcaraz and the man he just replaced atop the rankings 22 time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic were placed in the same half of the French Open field in Thursday's draw and could face each other in the semifinals. The 20 year old alcaraz is seated number one at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and was automatically placed in the top section of the bracket, Djokovic is seated number three. 14 time champion Rafael Nadal will be missing for the first time since he made his debut at the clay court major in 2005, play begin Sunday at Roland Garros. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: Finding a 'New Lane' in This Presidential Race
"You have kind of more of the libertarian lane which it's interesting Trump kind of takes some bites out of that too You now have a new lane he created which is the Magdalene which obviously he's going to dominate And then you have kind of the old school Buckley conservative lane I think with desantis It's kind of a simplistic question but do you see yourself in kind of this new appealing to young voters and the turning point kind of younger voter crowd lane that you're going to be kind of a new face for the crowd the outsider Almost the role Donald Trump had in 2016 That's exactly the way I said What Trump was in 2015 and 2016 That's the role I'm playing now I'm the outsider in this race I think about it as maga two America first two where we're drawing a lot of people from the America first movement but combining that with people who might have supported Ron Paul a number of years ago a decade and a half ago against the national security establishment against fighting pointless foreign wars against the Federal Reserve something that I've actually been a big opponent of for a very long time as you know Dan So I think combining kind of the Ron Paul crowd from 2008 But with maga in taking it to the next level with the America first agenda that's my lane is what I would say And yes reaching the next generation is an important part of this objective because what we've lost is our sense of national pride then If you ask most people my age really any age but especially people my age I'm the first millennial ever to run for U.S. president as a Republican by the way To ask people my generation what does it mean to be an American You get a blank stare in response And so unapologetic nationalist I believe in this country and being proud of it I believe in American exceptionalism I will not apologize for that but we're passing that pride on to the next generation That's why I'm in the race
AP News Radio
50 million people trapped in 'modern slavery' — report - DW (English)
"Account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in modern slavery. The reports by a rights group found that 6 members of the group of 20 richest nations have the largest number of people in modern slavery. The walk free foundation classifies modern slavery in its report as either false labor or forced marriage. In their report, India tops the list with 11 million people followed by China with 5.8 million. Russia, Indonesia, and turkey follow and in 6th place is the U.S., with 1.1 million people in modern slavery, last September, a UN report estimated that 50 million people were living in modern slavery. 28 million in forced labor and 22 million in forced marriage by the end of 2021,
AP News Radio
DeSantis launches GOP presidential campaign in Twitter announcement plagued by glitches
"Florida's Republican governors announced that he's officially a candidate for president, but the announcement didn't go exactly as planned. Republican governor Ron DeSantis launched his campaign in a special Twitter space's feed. Criticizing President Biden. He lacks vigor, flounders in the face of our nation's challenges, and he takes his cues from the woke mob. But there were technical problems that led to start and stops, audio glitches, and a delay of nearly half an hour. Desantis was asked why he chose Twitter instead of traditional media. He compared it to his COVID lockdown opposition, lamenting a lack of free expression. You had to put your money where your mouth is. Even that was marred by an audio glitch. This is rivals were rough. Donald Trump tweeted the desantis Twitter launch is a disaster. His whole campaign will be a disaster. And Nikki Haley's campaign also called it a failure. But still, desantis says they raised a $1 million in the first hour after the announcement. I'm Jackie Quinn
Mark Levin
The Constitution Does Not Allow Democrats to Destroy Our Economy
"I am sick and damn tired Of the Democrats and the media and these fraudulent phony academicians telling us that the constitution allows the Democrats to destroy our economy when it gives them no such right Now I will ask you because you've been listening to this program many of you for years some of you from months but most of you for years Do you think the framers of the constitution even more do you think those who adopted the Fourteenth Amendment Both super majorities of the House and the Senate and the state legislatures Would have agreed to give a president the power to not only submit a budget but to fund the budget if Congress didn't get along it didn't go along with them That was that not asinine That's never been done in American history They can't find a single syllable that was uttered at the time either in Congress certainly not by the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment or the state ratification conventions not one person not one sentence nothing That supports their claim They take completely out of context half of a sentence in the Fourteenth Amendment In section four that has absolutely nothing to do with today's budget with today's debt with today's spending But the Democrats do not want to negotiate a reduction in spending This is how presidents in the past have avoided this situation But the Democrats today are more Marxist more radical than ever before in our history And they're saying you do it our way or attacking the economy
Half Size Me
"half" Discussed on Half Size Me
"Listeners. We have a delightful guest on with us today. miss stephanie. she is a community member. She's one of the maintainers. I've had the privileges of talking with her on many aversion zoom meetings. And i'm gonna be bringing stephanie on say. Hello stephanie would you like to say hello to everybody. Hello podcast community. i'm definitely. I'm very excited to be here. So i've gotten to talk to you in real time about some of the things that you've kinda struggled with maybe a little bit in the maintenance part of your journey but i don't think i've ever really gotten to hear exactly all the tidbits about what led up to your weight loss journey so just like the audience is going to get to hear this. I might get here for the first time as well. So can you take us into your past and maybe share with us win. You remember your weight starting to become a concern or an issue for you. I feel like my way has always been a concern in my memory of it has never been a time when i was unquote skinny. You know i. I think i feel like i struggled against throat Certainly adolescence are worse with my ways. You know food. In terms of my household. My mother was an excellent quote. There was always food around. You know some members of my family rally. I guess considered to be bigger. So i think you know there was never any really issue in my family on me being the you know i think really when i was say less than ten i was probably elite. Big erlich chubby. And then i remember when i was in great sakes. I was probably what i would call. There wasn't a scale mocked in my house. So i remember my clothing sizes so i remember in grade six spying buying clothing from the sears kevin advising a fourteen sixteen girls and then i feel like my way Parachuted 'cause then. I remember being in junior high being a saas fourteen. Sixteen women's and certainly high school being more on the sixteen eight inside like some obviously the scale would have been over about five six five seven terms of and then university. I went of opt Size eighteen twenty. Certainly folks that i got larger. Where game so i always was overweight. Certainly most of my life. But i was in my my way gus more. I guess off as i kind of went into my twenties thirties. And certainly when i graduated university i would say which was two thousand into you know. I had a couple of attempts at weight loss through the weight watchers program were. I would probably start around. Probably to forty to fifty lose forty fifty pounds and then econo- flag regain.
Half Size Me
"half" Discussed on Half Size Me
"Pursue weight maintenance again. Thank you so much for your time and willingness to share your knowledge and experience. You are so welcome. I'm so grateful to hear you're using the resources that makes me happy so happy here that okay so you know it's funny i've never in. This is a good youtube video series for me to put together and after work on the incoming months. But i've never actually put together a specific phase one phase to phase three of maintenance but i have alluded to that there are different phases. And i see this not just for myself but did you know. In the half seismic we have over a hundred active maintainers. I am amazed by this. These are all people who have lost some amount of weight and they've been keeping it off in. They're no longer pursuing weight loss. They're just actively working maintenance. That's a huge amount of human beings that have walked this journey and are now keeping it off. I love this. This is one of the reasons i started. A half size mean to begin with. I wanted not only to get this message about losing weight with a maintenance mindset but also helping other maintainers keep their focus so the general gist of it is one it does get easier so let me just kinda. Give that to you first off. I think it's the roughest wayne. You are first coming out of it. So there isn't initial honeymoon phase. I see that for everybody. So there's a phase where they're super excited. They've achieved their alway- they feel like they're on cloud nine right there. They're just there in this new body feeling and excitement about it and that can last it depends on the person some people that can last three months some people six months some he was a full year but typically there is a timeframe because what starts to happen is the newness off. It's like when you get a new car. The car i smell is amazing. It's all clean. Need indi- beautiful. But then one day you get a scratch on it spill something on the upholstery and all the sudden it doesn't feel quite as new anymore. It's a little more broken in. And then of course you have to start making the payments on it so i. It's exciting because there's no payments and then on payments so there's a new newness factor to it and you're still getting the accolades people are still commenting on where you were where you are. Now you're still having people ask you what did you do. You look amazing. All that kind of stuff. So so you're getting it from an external source which is other people using commenting stole questioning you wanting advice and feedback and then there is the just excitement factor of maybe being somewhere. You've never been or it's been a really long time and all the new clothes and all that good stuff and so that lasts for period then what starts to happen is i see a wear off and it becomes more resentful. You start to feel a little irritated maybe with the process. It's not that it's not doable. But it's just now. There's no seeming feedback. You're not getting the feedback from other people as much. That's all fallen off. You have the car payment now. So you're getting that this doesn't stop right so the payments the payment comes in okay and then the second payment because this is going to go on for the next five years ten years in this case the rest of your life and you're starting to kind of get the feeling like okay. I don't really get to stop. I still have to wake up every day. I still have to journal my food. I still have to go do my meal planning and preparation. I still have to go for my walks and my body is still the same like there's nothing new. There's nothing exciting nothing. I'm not wearing any smaller clothing sizes. My body visibly doesn't look any different. I'm stepping on the scale and it saying the same thing like i'm not feeling like i'm getting anything out of this anymore. Other than just staying. Where i'm at and that can be found for me. That was probably more. The honeymoon phase lasted maybe three ish months and then i started to transition into that more resentful phase and i probably floundered in there for about one to one and a half years total and then it started to get better again because what it was is okay i worked on my mindset in there i worked on building a gratitude practice i worked on starting to appreciate my body for what it could do versus how it looked. I began to really start to think about things differently. I started taking in different philosophical points of view sir really working on my mindset more to where i would appreciate myself would achieved being learning to be grateful for it every day. Even if was changing. Why was doing the work it was. It was one of those. I had to change my thinking because my daily habits and external things. We're gonna have to stay the same so that was a big shift and so i would encourage people if you right now struggle with those things that would be good things to build in. Gratitude practices really a learning to be grateful for your own actions and your abilities being grateful for your body. All of those things were extremely helpful and so then it got a little bit easier and then there's kind of like that malays period so there might be the resentful period you feel kinda like a toddler. I'm really angry. I have to do this. I don't wanna do this. But yet i don't wanna lose what i've achieved and then you can kind of fall into this kind of and this is somewhere between year one in years. I'd say where you're kind of in the rut of doing it and you show up and you do do the work every day but you just don't really feel all that excited about it you know so there's like these general phases but i have never really thought to label them or put them in any specific timeframe now. I'm pushing ten years out. So i'd say really since you're five and after it's gotten progressively better because i've allowed myself to realize that i can try different things again like i could break out of the routines of some of the things i was doing because of fear on. That's the big one. I forgot to mention fear. A lot of the things you do in maintenance are usually pushed by fear. Fear of regaining weight. Fear of losing your progress. Fear fear fear fear. Fear i saying the last five to ten years shed a lot of that fear because i've begun to see that i am trustworthy in this area. I allowed myself to break away from calorie counting and counting points and doing more of an intuitive eating style. I've also allow myself a lot more grease with my workouts and not having to do certain things in a certain way and more flexibly. And so what i mean by this is there is a more of a growth part. That happens at some point as well where you feel like you can maybe break away from all the things you did and you felt like you had these legos stacked a certain way. And you couldn't shifted around because you didn't do all the things in the right order every single day. The whole thing card's to fall down or the whole building of legos is gonna fall over you start to maybe soften into it a little bit and realize okay. You know. i've been doing this now for over half a decade. I've seen i'm able to be super consistent. Maybe i can try some new things again. And sometimes i brings a breath of fresh air into it now. The unfortunate reality is when you look at statistics. Most people don't make it past the five year mark. That's typically the point which most people really have regained their weight that they have previously lost. And so maybe for me. That's why i saw a shift happened after that. Fifth year in little baby ways first and then more so as the years progressed is because i realized i made pass huge monumental marker.
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"With your evening treats or snacks go to dinner and then do lunch and breakfast and the reason for this is because i want you to be very cautious to put things in your treats that you're actually going to look forward to that you enjoy and you see them coming you know. They're on the radar. And i would encourage you to think about something. Maybe staggering your calories and not trying to aim for maintenance every day. I have a lot of clients that transfer with me from a deficit to maintenance and almost zero of them. Tried to eat it maintenance. Every single day they will have a couple of days that are higher and they'll have some lower days so for you what that might mean as say. We aimed for two thousand calories three or four days out of the week but then on the other days you could have twenty three or higher on purpose so if you want to go out to eat with some friends or a family member or if you to have a special treat that you may be. Don't normally have knowing that that's coming knowing that you have extra calories for it because you eight two thousand three or four days of the week. And you've banked some calories it would actually create a situation where you probably won't be self sabotaging as much does that make sense actually It does okay. Okay so you'll have three to four lower days and then you'll have have anywhere from two to three hired as but when you average it when you take all seven days automob- divide by seven. It'll come out right around two thousand three hundred okay. So two things. We've we've done. Immediately we reversed the order in which you track. We start with the end of the day in mind that you're most problematic areas. That's where you want to start you. Then track backwards and then we have three to four days that are lower and then knowing that you've got these higher days that are can exceed twenty three hundred calories because you're going to put in a few extra goodies that you're looking forward to and then the other thing i want you to start working on is there's two parts of your thinking. There's the higher level part of your brain which is that very logical goal oriented. It's the part of you that wakes up every day and you're like hey. I really want to lose that five to eight pounds. I have all these goals and ambitions. And and then you've got this low were part of your brain and for almost all of us the lower part of your brain that more primitive thinking it always kicks in the latter half of the day. It's the one that tells you. Well just have what you want. You can make up for tomorrow. You've been good all day. You should have this. It's always deriving you to eat something impulsively in the moment with the attitude you'll deal with it tomorrow or later. Does that make sense as i sound familiar. Yeah it's the impulsivity of it. That drives me crazy. 'cause you do you know better and yet you feel like you. Just you're you've already gone down the rabbit hole night so what we're gonna do is not only. Are we going to change. How you're tracking and the calorie lot through the week but then what we're gonna do is. We're going to start practicing at night talking about lower brain differently. Okay so because the treats are tracked. It won't be able to argue with you and say but we don't have anything that we're looking forward to. Where's our treat. Where's our reward. Did you can be like you know what sweetheart we have a treat plan for tonight. It's a bowl of ice cream or a cookie or candy bar. Whatever your thing is right ships and dip whatever we've got this delicious treat plan for tonight but i'll tell you what i hear tonight..
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"I gotta get this next five eight pounds off. Why can't i do this. Why do i keep self-sabotaging. Why am i doing all the things and nothing's happening and it's very mentally grading and your brain stinks. It's doing all the things it feels like. You're spinning your wheels. But when you switch the focus when you say okay nope not gonna worry about five. Eight pounds legitimately gonna let that go for a little bit. I'm going to eat it maintenance. I'm going to wake up every day to be thrilled to see that. I'm maintaining current weight. And then i am really gonna be focusing on getting my night time eating under control so if in say three to six months after doing this i actually am no longer binge eating. I'm eating consistently what i am pre tracking. I'm eating at maintenance. My weight has stayed stable year then actually might have a shot at losing that other five to eight pounds. But if you stay with what you've been doing. I don't see that happening. Does that make sense. Yeah it does. But here's something strange. I have on purpose several times because they do listen to your show regularly talked about that where i have hit the maintenance calories and my fitness pal and i literally there's again something happens to me where i see it. I think it's like twenty. Three hundred calories would be my maintenance for example. I would always eat over my maintenance calories. I couldn't even keep that in check. So i said you know what i'm going back to my loss that i want to lose and keep it at calorie count if i happen to go over. There's something mental about i. i like. It's so frustrating. Afraid if i even do that where. I have up maintenance calories. And i put it in my fitness pale. I'm gonna eat more than the twenty three hundred for example so. Let me ask this question. Are you taking each day and kind of writing out a plan for yourself where you're hitting the twenty three hundred but then you're exceeding it every night so every day i consistently track my food. I always put in my breakfast. My launch and then Before i go to work and then what happens is i never. I typically don't plan my might dinner or snacks. whatever. And i just. I added in during the day before meal or right after the meal and i do okay with that but you know i would say i can hit it probably out of seven days. Maybe three or four where i'm spot on. I'm rarely under. I may be slightly over but there is just something about when i use that maintenance number i i don't know if i felt like it was a free for all in all this and i was going way over that okay. So let's retool this a hair so what we often do. It's really interesting. Women tend to do the beginning of the day. Really well breakfast and lunch. That's uniformly what i see across the board. Everyone's good at tracking that when people fall off the radar. It's usually dinner impasse dinner. It's usually that last stretch of the day. So what i often do. I have people track from the ended the day to the front of the day. I go the opposite because when we think about. Where is your willpower. The weakest where is the place that you're probably going to have the least amount of mental fortitude. If you will it's going to be on the latter part of the day would you agree absolutely okay. So what you'll do is you'll go back through your food logs because you've been doing a good job of writing everything down in there and i want you to reverse the order. That's number one. I want you to reverse the order of how you're tracking. I once you start.
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"I know all about eating to comfort myself from deep pain. I love how your message continually helps me. Focus on the now and self empowerment. I sent you a letter earlier this year by the way. Thank you for reading it. On your podcast. I mentioned how. I had felt like a failure. Because i had just been maintaining my weight and not able to lose since then i've taken the focus off the scale and just try to focus on small sustainable habit changes that helped me feel good each day. I have lost a little weight now but that is not where i am focusing. Thank you for your message. Sustainable maintainable habits. I will never do a stupid crash diet ever again. I love you. how they're much love bree. By the way. I always telling my husband about things you say. And he'll say who's heather and my response is always you know heather my bff from the half size me. Podcast he just laughs at me. So i know you don't know me but i think of you as my virtual. Bff mentor and inspiration. Thank you briefer. Two things one thing for me as a friend and to thank you for sharing this message about the sustainable maintainable habits. It touches my heart to hear every single one of you. That comes writes me. And you say i'm doing this. I'm really gonna burn the boats. I'm only gonna make changes. I can sustain long-term. And i'm gonna see where that takes me with my weight but i'm not going to be making my end. Wait my focus. I'm gonna be focusing on the journey on the habits and the behaviors. Bree awesome job. And thank you so much for considering me to be your bff. That is awesome. The next question comes from angela. She says hi. Heather i just recently found your podcast and feel it is helping me mentally. Wrap my head around how to keep my weight off forever. I've never been extremely overweight. But for the past fifteen years. I've gained and lost the same twenty pounds. I weigh one.
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"I feel like if i could nail down my why and it would motivate me day over day than i would be like a dream. I would just float down to whatever my natural weight might be. I'm currently sitting around three hundred pounds. Which is not my natural weight or shouldn't be so my greatest struggle. I guess is that i have all of these things. That should be a fabulous motivating. Why i have an amazing husband. I have two kids. You know. I'm financially stable. And i have this fabulous life But i also have type two diabetes In that in itself even without having all of those fabulous things to want to live for should be a motivator because my logical part of my brain knows like over time. It causes problems. It's a you know. Slow diseases far as how it works. A just can't seem to get it to motivate me in the moment when i'm looking at chocolate or the cookie or whatever the I'm kind of sweet. Treat kind of a girl and those are the things that caused my blood sugar to go. Hi which causes long-term issues just really struggling to make that to come up with a y that will motivate me to say. No god okay. So you're you're basically hoping whatever your y is it's going to be so impactful that you don't do the actions that are causing you to continue to keep the weight word is yep exactly got it all right and so what if we try pivoting from that be. How long have you been trying to do that. How long have you been trying to use your wi to do that. Maybe a year I had some success. When i first started using the freestyle. Leib rates the sensor that goes on your arms. You can see what your blood sugar is. So i dropped about twenty five pounds Annan have kind of stat at the same level. Not really making a significant effort towards weight loss because they also not exactly sure if it's binge eating or significant emotional eating or habitual over eating whatever you'd like to call it but i know if i go down to like crazy low amount of calories than i rebel against it and i eat way more than i should so i've kind of been coasting around three hundred for the last probably since last november. And would you say. Let's let's just kind of actually think about the so you wake up every day. I'm sure you're fairly admitted. But she but you're in the mindset of you wanna make progress and then your day plays out and most people struggle more in the afternoons and into the evenings so if you were to tell me what's going on in your head when you reach for the extra piece of chocolate when you end up eating all the things like what is the dialogue. That's going on. It is usually in the evening. So it's after is survived the bed times of the kids. And it's just. I want some time for me. I want to be rewarded for having survived this day. You know i'm tired. I just want something and then sometimes it turns into like if i haven't chosen a specific quantity in the bag is just there. You just mindlessly. Keep eating so that i would say. Clients patter correct and are you tracking all of this food or are you deserve. Any kind of journaling. That's going on one hundred percent in my fitness pal. Sometimes i don't always know the quantities. Exactly but i do track it okay and so when you have these nights how many look what is what is it. You're trying to aim for for calories. And where does it kind of ended up going so my target. I i don't know if it's my maintenance that my target right now is about thirty..
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"That's gonna save you two hundred calories right there and adds up it adds where you britain egypt makes you real. So that's awesome so we've got. We've got enough stuff now to cover you for at least five weeks of actions. Does that sound good gloves. And you agree that you and i were not going to do anymore the dice because we don't want your weight to keep going up. Does that sound good firms are done with it. I've done paying. People could give me a plan. That just won't follow. He's like he's like setting your money on fire right like throwing it into the flames. Yeah and then on top of it slaps more weight on you. Then you were the first go round right so we don't wanna do that. Yeah we want you to look at what you do. Now look at your life now and say what am i willing to do differently with what i like to eat. That's the most important thing because if in the long run you get off coke zero you get off regular coke on coke zero if you slowly add vegetables reduce the rice the pasta and you and you kind of become aware of snacks not having too many snacks eating breakfast lunch and dinner like sitting down at the table eating audible of a plate right like actually eating those meals. You will start to correct a lot of these eating issues that you're struggling with sound doable. Oh yes louis is entrusting on exciting love it. So here's what. I'd love for you to do this at least five weeks worth of actions would i want you to do. Is i want you to email me or tag me. If you're in the half size me community. I want you to email me or tag me and tell me at the end of the five weeks. How you're doing with your meal plans. How you doing with your photos of your food. Your coke zero and coke issue and then you're slow migration with your dinners and lunches as far as as cutting back on portions. I'm cry at that. That's that's fantastic. So about awesome. Was this helpful for you today. My dear thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for taking the call. Thank you for making. It seem like something that can actually be done. Absolutely i look forward to get an update from you. Okay i will. I will eat they save. Thank you very much thank you. Yes ma'am take care of. I'll talk.
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"Notice a difference. It's like wait a minute. Something's different here. But if you take half of coke and half of a coke zero and you mix the two together. Usually you can sneak it past your taste. Buds without them noticing. And what that does is it also gives you a fifty percent less calories. So let's say a regular coke is two hundred calories right. If i only use half of the can and i use half of my coke zero. Can you just cut it down to a hundred calories and you shave one hundred right off. Do you see what i mean. Wow yeah good you something else. Would you be willing to give it a try at least a couple times and see what you think. Worse okay and the easy way to do it. If you don't wanna waste a can would be either. Get a two liter or to get a bottle with a screw on lid because then which you can do is poor half. Put the lid back on. Poor half port lubega and you could basically have enough for two days worth europe our feet in my mind dry right now. I love your eye. Let's keep rolling with it so this is so. This is five weeks of changes. Five weeks were up to now. Okay now it's up to you. You may wanna do the coke thing. I am not mess with the food. That's totally fine. Like if you want to reorganize these in a different order but let's go back over list. Okay so friday on your calendars now going to be what war crowning day on fighting meal planning day gives you go grocery shopping on saturday. And we're gonna write out what you're going to eat for breakfast lunch and dinner each day for the week and you can swap those out if you put dinner on. Monday is beef and rice. And you go. we'll wait. I'd rather have chicken and rice. You can always swap it with what you have on tuesday or wednesday doesn't have to be the day you write it so you can swap that out. Yeah but you just wanna have seven seven dinners seven breakfast seven lunches okay for two weeks. You're going to take photos of all your food. All of your drinks everything you eat after that two weeks is over. You're going to go back through it and you're gonna look for areas that you can improve. So can i make my rice less at lunch dinner. Maybe at breakfast. You're putting something in your eggs or on your eggs. That's a little bit heavier. Maybe you'd be willing to l. a less of that and then you've got your soda thing going on right so you've got all those different things so then week one we'd be one change week two or i'm sorry actually now we're at week three week. Four and week five. Those would all be different changes based on the photos that you take and you keep that going until you get the results you're looking for you. Keep making tweaks whether it's putting in more cauliflower rice taking out some pasta maybe eventually getting to where you're drinking less of the regular coke by the way just an f. Way i the fifty fifty. If you can enjoy that fifty percent regular fifty percent coke zero give it about four to six weeks then reduce the regular coke so go to maybe a third coke. Two-thirds coke zero change the percentages. Stay with that for four to six weeks do it again. It will take you for. Most people take almost four to six months. But if you do this your taste buds and your palate will adjust to the coke zero but you have to go very slow and then ideally if at the end of four months if you're drinking coke zero.
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"Of the half size me show. I am your host. Heather and i am so excited to be here with you today. And i just wanna take a moment and say thank you so much. We are on episode four ninety three and you are the reason. I show up here every week because i know from the emails i get from the reviews on itunes and the feedback that this show is really helping you to navigate. This is tricky frontier of honolulu's. Wait in a sustainable way in a maintainable way so as you lose the way it doesn't come back is total paradigm shift from just lose weight. Get it off as quick as you can. Let's get in our bathing suits by the summer to. How do i do this for the rest of my life. How do i keep the weight off year after year summer after summer. Now today we're going to be doing a coaching call with caitlin. She has lost eighty pounds over ten years ago. She went through fertility treatments and ultimately has gained back some of the weight she had lost prior and now has two very young kids. So she's trying to figure out how to navigate being a mom too young kids and getting her weight back in a range that she is comfortable with post having children. So those of you. That are maybe new to being a mom. Or maybe you're thinking about being a mom or you've struggled with us in the past regaining weight that you've previously lost definitely tune in and pay attention to kaitlin story and look for your similarities. Not your differences. How're you similar. Would you guys share in common in your stories and learn from her situation and the coaching she receives now before i get to the coaching call. I would like to answer a couple of your vip questions so just to remind you if you would like to get some help. Too big ways. One hit reply to the vip email mail. You get every thursday in your inbox. The second thing is if you think oh you know what. I'd love a coaching call. Like the one caitlyn got today. All you need to do is fill out the short form in the vip email and then we will look to see if we can work you into the schedule. So let's take a look at vip questions that were submitted the last few weeks so the first one comes from deedee she says i off. Thank you for everything. I'm so glad. I found you through a friend. I feel like we were kindred spirits. Thank you i do too. I two started getting chubby very young. I joke that snack. Time in kindergarten was the beginning of my downfall. I also eight others lunches if they were full. I a teacher. I have three boys i home school. And my maiden name is also begins with mac and i was called mack truck. I had high self esteem and tool brothers. Which helped me navigate. These taunts as i listened to your podcast and dive into brain over binge. I realized binging is my problem. But that makes me wonder two things. One why do we self sabotage. What an insane thing we do to ourselves and to. Why do some of us have to feel full. When i pack my been story. I noticed i have always had. This need to feel full. I know others have felt this way to with love to know your thoughts on these two questions. Have you covered the senator podcast. If so please. Let me know which one i will most likely joined the community. I am just at the beginning of my new journey. But for the first time this week i've had a mind shift and i now look at food as fuel not something to stuff in my mouth. It has been a crazy epiphany for me d. d. o. d. d. i love this question. So here's the cool thing. If you really read brain over bridge and i really wanna push people toward the brain over binge recovery guide. That came out later. I want to say like twenty sixteen or two thousand seventeen. It super helpful. It breaks down working on your binging recovery from two different perspectives but it's more of a tangible applicable guide. I really enjoyed this book. I purchased it. And i'm highly encouraging some of the community members to check it out so i would definitely in his again not the original brain over binge the brain over binge recovery guide so this particular book and this concept it really has to do with the higher and lower brain so to answer your first question. Why do we self sabotage. You have two different parts of your brain constantly. Working one is your higher level brain. It's you're thinking brain. It's it's the you that wrote me this email. It's the part of you that has goals has ambitions wants to go to college. Wants to teach your kids certain things. It's you're thinking brain you then have a lower primitive brain which is actually somewhere around the back of your head kind of close to your spinal cord. It's your it's your lower acting brain. It drives basically a few things hunger sex different basic primary functions and it works in interesting ways one. It wants to protect you from being hurt. So in this case you already listed out all your pain points right. You said you were taunted. You were teased. You'll struggled with your weight. That is a place of pain for you that your brain is trying to protect you from any does protect you but in ways that don't they don't make any logical sense so for example if you've always driven comfort from food even though food is the thing that's causing you to have this extra weight which is causing you to feel that sense of. I'm getting picked on teased all the pain that came with it. It's also probably the thing that's been hardwired when you feel discomfort anxiety stress. Whatever you eat food so every time you feel a sense of discomfort that lower brain drives you to eat. It doesn't care what your goals are. It's almost like because these two separate pieces are both able to be working at the same time. It seems like we're self sabotaging. It seems like my higher level brain wants me to lose weight. Wants me to get healthy. My lower brain says eat eat e. And there's a reason why it wants you to eat all the time or drink or smoke or do whatever is because it's there to say ono. She feels anxious ono. She feels board ono. She feels lonely. These are all uncomfortable. Things it doesn't want you to feel discomfort so it's pushing you towards the activity. That has been hard wired from your past to bring you a sense of relief. Even if it's detrimental to what your higher brain says it wants which in this case might be weight loss if in logically you don't wanna drink alcohol anymore because you don't like what happens when you're drunk but your brain lower brain is hardwired to know that a shot of alcohol makes you feel better. It's always gonna drive that urge for you drink even though you're logical your brain says that's not a good idea for me so what you have to become really good at is identifying that lower brain urge the repetitive voice. That it uses to get you to do. It will start tomorrow justice. One time you've had a rough day you feel really sad and lonely. You're emotionally drained. Go ahead have what you want. You deserve it will start tomorrow. That's all your lower brain. It's junk thoughts. It doesn't really mean anything but because it sounds good in the moment and it's actually made us feel moments of reprieve from discomfort. We ended up going into it so that would be number one. The need to feeling full is actually kind of again. Another biological thing right. We liked to feel a sense of society. A sense of fullness. I'm actually reading a book right now about a kid who becomes a country music star and he actually said that he had gotten beaten physically abused but the worst pain he experienced as a child was constantly being hungry. We have some biological drives that we don't like the feelings of for example hunger. It's a normal shuman thing. Our bodies don't like to fuel hunger. It wants to feel society so actually dieting. Losing weight is the counter to what would be normal. If if you stay with my logic here your body wants to eat. Appropriate amounts to maintain your weight. Maybe even store little for the winter. That's your normal. Mo to be in a calorie deficit feel that little sense of constant hunger. Nine is actually counter to what your body would want to be in all the time. So you're fighting you're swimming upstream. Okay and so. I want to encourage you to say what you want to start to learn how to do is feel fuller on lower calorie dense foods. Don't beat yourself up for wanting to feel full. Say okay. I get this. My body's drive is to feel physically satisfied to maybe even store a little bit of weight. Because that's what my body would prefer but my higher level brain wants to lose weight for whatever reason so i am going to learn how to volume is my food but make it lower calorie density so adding in a lot more vegetables adding a lot more fruit. Lean proteins things like that so that way. You're feeling more physically satisfied but on less calories. That's a good little trick to give your body kind of what it wants but also to be achieving a goal. You want so. I hope both of those ideas help for you. D- are in our next question comes from diane. She says i'm seventy two and went from two ninety six to two eleven point. Eight and a reasonable sustainable way with maintenance breaks at two seventy five to sixty five to twenty five to sixteen to eleven and then it to eleven point eight aside a wanting to take off. Wait till i got to my doctor..
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"Com slash vip. You get an email from me. Pretty much every thursday and i'm trying to be helpful. Give you some ideas and suggestions ways of thinking about this process to make it better for you and then you can just hit reply to those emails and submit a question so this week. I'm going to answer your questions. And before i do i also just want to remind you. It's so funny. I got another email this week from a listener. Who said hey. Heather how do i get. The i two hundred episodes. I think he was actually one ninety five she says how do i get the first one hundred ninety five episodes without having to go through your entire blog and i i was laughing about this because i mean and i have been talking about this behind the scenes like what can we do to make those first two hundred episodes easy for you guys to get your hands on. Go through them. And so what we're doing is we're feeling we're putting our feelers out there. We want to see how much interest there is. But we have a couple ideas on some concepts. That would make it to where you could get those first two hundred episodes and a way to help support the show. So if you are interested in that and you think yes i would that. I don't want to go through your whole blog to get them. That's a totally way. You could go about doing it. Just go to half size me dot com forward slash fan f. a. n. And let sign up there and what we're doing is seeing over the course of about a month. How much interest there seems to be with getting that and we will update you guys as soon as we have a solid plan in place based on the response. Now i'm gonna dive into your vip questions.
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"You can download it to your phone and you put your weight in it whenever you weigh in on the scale. You put it in there and what it's going to do is it's going to average your weight it's gonna take. Let's say you weigh in three times in the week. It's going to add all three and divide by three and it's going to let you know what your average weight is. The reason i was curious about that is because sometimes we can hit weights where it's going to be a little slower for us to lose and so maybe you were. How much were you losing before was like a half a pound about five pounds a month. That's quite a bit so you went from five pounds a month to nothing. Is that correct pretty much. I'm just up and down up and down up and down right. So that's where the happy skill app will help you because to you. It might look like it's going up and down up and down up and down but it might be just that your weight loss is going to slow a little bit. Maybe you're gonna come down to maybe point eight tenths of a pound per week and because you're not seeing it the way you saw it for the first twenty years thinking you're not making progress but really you are and it's just a different way of looking at your weight so that would be number one. I would start to focus on your average weight. Not your daily scale. Wait does that make sense. Okay now you said. You switched to counting calories and macro. When did you do this in the last three months. Oh i just started this week. That's what i did originally. That's why i've lost. Most of my weight is doing that. Not weight watchers. And i felt better about that right and so you probably don't have a whole lot of daddy yet. But what is it that your calories are coming in at using the the other app. Well it pretty much tells you that you have to stop a monaco and it gives you restless lunch and dinner but as long as you don't go over.
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"Then maybe before you go to bed. One pops up. Remember to double track. You're tracking for the day so you can kind ea use your phone as a support system in that way as well. To kind of help nudge to make good decisions. That way now wants four weeks is over. What you're gonna look at. Is that four week of weight. Averages did it stay the same. Like say that week one. It was one sixty nine point five and week. Four it's at one sixty nine point eight. Hypothetically only the averages are we comparing not the day to day numbers. Yeah okay so there's only four numbers that are important. It's the week one average week to average week three average week four average. What we're looking at is did your weight. Stay pretty consistent and that can be within a pound or two if it's one sixty nine point five and then on the end it's one seventy point. Five dots considered maintaining. You did very well okay. So what we could say that is. Eighteen hundred is maintenance and then that following week what could we do if we wanna start to bring on weight loss using what we've done so far grop calories two to four hundred calories yes and i'd start smaller and you can always go bigger so if eighteen hundred kept your weight stable then that fifth week we would try to take a calorie deficit. So what we would do is we might knock off two hundred calories and say okay. Let's focus on an average of sixteen hundred now if your weight went up a little bit more than that one to two pounds that maybe you're a little closer to seventeen hundred for maintenance so you may wanna bump it to like fifteen if you overshoot you may wanna sue. Maintenance is like seventeen hundred and use that as your maintenance number and then from there take a deficit. Yeah all right so week. Five is when we would take a deficit mccray so out of everything that i've said so far. Is there anything that you feel. You need more clarification on or is there anything that you're concerned about. My biggest concern would be the mindset of watching the way sort of if it goes up for you know That i deviate from the plan which i do not want to do so. I'm gonna have to override any thoughts. I get about. Oh i'm excited to take this deficit now. I just i want to stay on track with this and just kind of focus on where we're going with. Both bushes mindset stuff. Keep reminding yourself. This is four weeks of investing in knowledge. It's not about weight. It's about knowledge by knowing how to track a hundred percent by you knowing what your maintenance calories are. That's going to set your future self up for success because when you go to hawaii are you gonna be eating at a calorie deficit You know what if maintenance. I would like to be maintenance you will be. There's no way i'm going to be honest with you. I've seen tons of my coaching clients. Go to hawaii. You will not want to be in a calorie deficit in hawaii. You just don't wanna be. You're going to be maintenance so once we hit week five you might be on the deficit and when is the trip. Is june july somewhere in there. Yeah twentieth june. So i have two months so once you done with your maintenance phase. You're going to be in a deficit until you leave when you leave. Guess what you're going to switch back to maintenance whether that's eighteen hundred seventeen and what if you lost weight would if you eat at eighteen hundred calories and you lost weight over the month. What does that mean. That would be that on the days. That i haven't been tracking or watching. I sure eat a lot more calories than i realize. And you're eating over maintenance right and so let's just say that at the end of the month eighteen hundred. You lost a pound. What we would know is that your maintenance is probably pushing. Nineteen hundred or closer to a thousand nine hundred than it would be eighteen hundred so by spending this four weeks. You'll know kind of where you fall on there and then you're gonna take that that habit that you've already learned and that skill that you already have learned. You're gonna take that with you on your trip to hawaii when you go to hawaii. You're going to be working on eating it maintenance and you're gonna probably have some hired as you might have one of those nice lou. Al nights that they have where they served the roasted pig and all that delicious and you might make a higher calorie day or you may want to have a few alcoholic drinks or something like that so you wanna be able to have the freedom and you don't wanna go the the worst case scenario when you go to hawaii is to go kind of crazy with food. Eat all the food with reckless. Abandon and then come back heavier. And what i really want you to do is just work on maintaining the best you can while you're gone on that trip. Okay yeah all right so we got our plan. We're feeling good now and the mantra is investing in knowledge. Yes see that's what's interesting. People get very confused. You didn't knowledge you're learning from this process. No matter how old you are no matter what you way. No matter your activity level this system or process can be applied at any point in your journey if you told me. Hey heather. i'm i'm laid up with an injury..
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"Six months later slammed the paper in there. You mush few buttons. You hit it on the side you make it go right. You know all the shortcuts. Same thing with driving when you're first learning your hands are at ten and two. You're looking all the ways. You're making sure you check your rear view mirror. You're you've got it all going on complete. Stop at the stop. Sign ten twenty years later of driving. Sometimes you don't come to a complete stop. Sometimes you're not completely checking everything sometimes. You're actually may be distracted right. You're doing these different things. And i'm not saying one is right and one is wrong. I'm just saying that's how people change over time so the things you did the first few weeks of your deficit though longer that that rolls on the less effective. You're probably doing this just human nature. You don't need to beat yourself up for it. You don't want to say what's wrong with me. Why can't i do it. I should be doing it. No you shouldn't. That's just human nature. Your brain is constantly looking for ways to shortcut processes to save you time and energy. That's what your brain does whether it's driving whether it's cooking whether it's using the xerox machine whether it's dieting. It's always looking for ways to shore up your time to make it a more effective venture so these maintenance breaks are give your mental side of break. It's to take time away from this idea of. I should be losing weight. I should be doing these things the more that you can settle into that. Give your mind a full break from it when it then cycles back into it taking an active calorie deficit now. It's more vigilant. Oh okay now. We're back to this. Let's make sure we're doing all those. Things is a great mental shift for many many people. The other reason is is because if you constantly just state. Let's just use the number seventeen her colors. You're at seventeen hundred calories that stops working most people's natural tendencies than to go down. Now i'm going to eat it. Fifteen hundred dollars then that stops working then they go down now meeting at thirteen fifty then he goes down. And that will maybe get you to your goal but oftentimes what eventually see happen to people. In that situation they get down to that thirteen fifty twelve hundred nine hundred eight hundred. Whatever calorie allotment. They ended up at and whenever they tried to eat more. Their body wants to retain weight and because of that they never get out of that cycle. They stay there. I've met many people who are lifetime members of certain organizations. they've used calories. I'll say to them. What did you do when you got to your goal. Oh i'm just so eating at that same amount like a thing like they just think that's how it should be but the reality is it shouldn't be that way there should be a level you move up to whether it's to hundred extra four hundred extra five hundred extra calories a day to maintain your weight but if every time you attempt that process you see the scale bump up because you don't understand that two to four pounds of weight regain is kind of normal and it does stop then. You always keep yourself in that deficit calorie range but you're now maintaining on it. Your body actually does maintain on that new calorie. Your body is so adaptive whatever you give it with. Exercise and food will adapt. It will make it work. It's not going to stop you from breathing. Because you're not eating enough calories. It's gonna learn how to for you to breathe on less calories so it's going to adapt the systems so the maintenance breaks are hugely important to teach you. There's another place to go if you practice this while you're losing weight then when you get your ultimate goal you won't be one of those people who goes out and i gotta eat at twelve hundred calories to keep my weight in check because every time i tried to go up to these. You know these maintenance calories. My weight goes up a little. And they haven't watched the videos. I put on youtube. I say that's normal. Expected to four pound weight. Regain totally anticipated. You're not gonna stay at the lowest weight you're just not. It's not part of the process once you get that and you understand that going to maintenance is going to involve that but then you're going to settle out and now you get to eat more you're going to be in a place where you can sustain this much much longer. So this is why maintenance breaks are so important. Psychologically physically from a practice perspective and then as far as the on off time. That's something that. I would have chiseled on your calendar where i see. People get into a lot of trouble with this entire process. They don't share their information and something like the half seismic community or their community. They just you know kind of leave it very floating out there. It's like oh yeah. I'm kind of in maintenance right now. No like you need to have it. You're marked. i'm starting on this day and ending on this day. And i've shared this with my support partner of shared. This within the house seismic community. I know these are my dates and then on this day. I'm going to switch back into a deficit. you have to have. It will figured out. And it's not based on weight loss at shouldn't be well when i lose this next five pounds then. No because you can't always control that the thing you can control are the dates. So that's why. I would encourage you to have the mark off going if i'm gonna start my deficit on the first and i know that i'm going to go through the following month and get to the fifteenth. I've got that window of time marked out for a deficit and then on the sixteenth of the following month. Now i go back into another maintenance break. And i know exactly where that's gonna false. It should be well charted out all right guys. That's going to be a wrap for this week. I hope these questions helped. Remember all the different ways. I have to assist you. Please take advantage of those. I really really really want to help as many people as possible. You guys have a great week. Enjoy this coaching. Call with him. And i'll talk to you soon. All right ladies and gentlemen. I have a lovely guest on with us today. Miss kim is coming on to share what she's currently struggling with. And i'm gonna see how. I can help her today. So kim i'm gonna let you take the mic. Please say hello to everybody and then share with us how you could use some help today. Hello everyone my name. Is kim and the help i could use. Today is the confidence in knowing that i can do this quote unquote on my own without the backup of some kind of expensive program that i feel like if i'm not in some kind of expensive program i can't do this by myself and i the problem is i've been in. A couple of expensive programs. Lost some weight.
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"I'm gonna just stay here forever. I'm never going to get back into it. I'm afraid if i don't keep this momentum going i'm just going to be complacent. How did you push past that thought process or maybe it didn't happen for you but it seems to happen for almost everybody. How did you allow yourself the break without the fear that you weren't gonna make any more progress. I mean therapy kind of helped with that as well. You know what i talked about. If i don't food prep to this level if i don't exercise to level forget how to do i can't take a break. I can't take her bust and my therapist reminded me that my body and my mind like how this feels. I'm not gonna forget what that feels like into. Trust the process to give myself some space and to look back at it and ironically also cove it helped in some ways You know twenty twenty one a crazy year. But i wouldn't from being somebody who had a commute time of you know. Maybe two hours roundtrip and also they have like two hours of my life back. And i had all the time i had all the time to exercise but during the last year i've kept in mind this is not necessarily how the rest of my life will be so becauses. I win this you know. The covert is kind of behind us. And i am be commuting more or i don't have as much time i need to make make sure that i am comfortable with the fact that may be. The very lowest weight will not be settled like it might be ten pounds. Higher might be twenty pounds hire. So can i sit with this week. In june of twenty twenty and appreciate my body and dress my body for where it's at and love it and appreciate its fitness until like recognizing kind of those different skill adjustments and knowing that like anywhere from the very low point to denote determine number. That's twenty thirty pounds higher. I would be happy. Would be proud of myself. Awesome so you let yourself take advantage of an awesome opportunity in regards to what you could achieve right on a personal level but the mindset kind of in the back of your mind. Okay if i'm doing things now based on a lifestyle. I've never had before that maybe won't be here long term. Am i okay with my weight. Going up five ten. Maybe even twenty pounds. If i can't maintain this new lower weight and you sounded like you did some really good thought work on that and that's kind of where you fell on that Yeah and i know that. If that wade goes up it would be as a result of instead of disordered eating and you know losing my habit so just be more of a natural change in my body. You know like near. You don't have quite as much timing exercising quite the same way. Maybe there's more eating out but it's you know recognizing that i don't have to gain weight back in a kind of a unhealthy bay like an emotionally unhealthy way. It might just go with the flow. This is kind of like when. I tell people if i were to take you. Drop you in a jungle right now. Your body would look different in six months or a year. Because you'd have to you know you went from being comfortable living in a city environment or suburb. And you have your all your luxuries. And you have your grocery stores you get dropped in the wilderness in a jungle. You're fending food. You're probably going to look a lot different six months to a year. Why because your environment your schedule. Your responsibilities have shifted and so this is what we mean. When we say our weight is a byproduct of what our habits are and your habits are greatly determined by the world. You live in your job your family situation all of those factors but when they changed with kovin was all might shuffle but then they might shuffle back so you just kind of have to keep that in mind so i love olive. What you just said you took breaks. You asked great questions you reflected you had honest personal conversations with if this happens am i gonna be okay with it. Sounds like it was a much better and more well sought out experience. What are your thoughts. Yeah absolutely it's it's it's funny to like. I can even notice just differences in myself from photo sinoe here that similar to low wait ten years ago like i felt like my happiness is from within you know if i smile for photo like there's something different than happens like it's just a different piece and a cone and kind of the power of knowing that i have and we'll probably forever work on disordered eating but that i've been successful lot. I've worked hard. And that i've been a lot more gentle about their approach and as hard as it was for me to get to that low weight before it's been such a different experience doing it slowly and very gradually like a. It was not a race. It was just me no moving inch by inch towards a goal. And it wasn't i wasn't i don't feel like i was white. Knuckling because i was allowing time to get if you could go back in time and deliver one message to the u. Of ten years ago that lost the hundred and forty four pounds in the year and a half. What would you wanna tell her. Based on where you are now what your thoughts are now am. I think i'd want to go back. And let her know that ultimately at the end of the day my wi- needed to be for myself. I'm not in control of my biology or my artillery. The most that. I can do as be there for myself. And if i could go back in just be gentle with her and let her know that i love her and appreciate her.
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"Love it. Yeah absolutely so. We come out of this. Six year marriage hundred and sixty pounds heavier. So was this your highest weight that you've ever been to at this point. No i still Gained a little bit more. And interestingly enough it was when i got into a relationship with a person who's now my husband you know. And when i reflected back at you know the first year or so of our relationship together i noticed that even though i was now surrounded and something that was very safe and very loving and accepting that unresolved trauma was still very much so contributing to disordered eating the way going up so after the divorce i you know put on still probably ten to fifteen pounds after that and Then i got to the the all time high or at least the only one that i've ever seen miskelly. My skill topped out at three hundred pounds so possible that it was hired them not at some point in time. Got it okay. So you're at you're known highest about three hundred pounds and then at what point i guess did you feel and maybe i'm thinking of the wrong words here but is almost like imagine after six years of being in an emotionally abusive relationship. You probably had to start to see yourself as worthy of the journey of of weight loss and getting healthy. Because i know that when you come out of abuse often you don't think making time for yourself or self care sometimes is something that you should be doing. And a lot of women struggle with that right to take that self care and not seeing as being self absorbed or you know it being something in a negative way. So how did that process. Start for you after after the marriage ended So it's kind of twofold there. Was you know the fact that i was in a very happy relationship with you. Know a kind and loving and accepting person and knowing that we wanted to start a family. And so i definitely felt kind of biological response that you know. I wanted to be a mother. I knew that you know given so my Medical history with cycles and whatnot. That i needed to be able to give my self the best chance possible to conceive so that was one aspect of it but kind of more. The the one that forced my hand was one day that i went to A clothing store and being always popping out of all types of clothing and the sweet lady there said. I'm so sorry honey. This is the largest slice of this particular garment that we make. We know we will need to talk about altering or adding on fabric. And i just mike for such a long time. I had been no not willing to try to go up and sizes and closer falling apart and you know. I felt very shoveled very incumbent and then to go and find out like hey you're now kind of side out like professional options or undergarment options. It was like oh. My goodness i have to. I have to do something about this. And i felt lucky because i had a friend that was like a recent friend who is going to school for diet and nutrition. And she's gonna saw like that sadness behind my eyes and a little bit of the desperation through conversations and she offered like. Hey you know. If you're interested i would love to work with you. I'd like to hope. See if we can help you learn how to eat healthier and so it's kind of desperation met with like circumstances that i finally felt like i was. I had the help that i needed and also like the desperation was pushing me so just happened to have the right combination at the right time and definitely some deep reasons why one you wanted to feel good being just to wear regular size clothing. But to you're actually really concerned about this idea of conceiving and starting a family and so with the help of your friend and this new found desire to move yourself forward. Roughly like what did that process look like was a building one habit at a time. You know what were the things you were changing at the beginning. And how did that progress for you. Yeah so it was very much like all in you know we decided to do. It was way in the next day. You're waking up at this time doing these exercise eating this way tracking all your stuff and as a very Organized and habitual person. You know that did kind of speak to a part of me. I was like. I can be perfect at the i can check every box. I can log in everyday. I can get all these workouts done and there wasn't a lot of gentle approach to it was very quick and hard. You know And i know there's like different approaches of you know getting going on day one just you know going in and out but then recognizing that can be a burn out factor and reflecting back. Now i can see that the burn out happened. You know it was there. I would losing weight. But i was very obsessed with a scale. I was very obsessed with you. Know my body changing. And i had this like wait in mind of you know what i weighed in high school. What i wait before that marriage. And as i was losing the weight i i never. I never imagined that there is a that. I wouldn't get to that weight and that it was maybe not reasonable and not achievable. And so i. I managed to lose about one hundred and forty four pounds in about a year and a half and dino through diet and exercise through tracking my food through you know pretty extreme rigorous extra cise and as i got to my low weight that was still you know maybe twenty pounds off from what the bmi skill that i should be. I just kept trying harder and i know that my friend did kinda back and say like well you know. Maybe it's possible that there isn't anything lower for you. And i've heard you talk to so many people about you know like yes. Is there anything more that you're willing to do or is there anything that you're willing to get up to you know. Give up to get to that low number. And i was doing as much as i could. But i also had not approached or dealt with my disordered eating. I was doing all the exercise. I was doing the tracking. But i i wasn't doing is being completely true for with it so on paper and on the scale it looked okay..
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"Pre track your popcorn for when you sit at your desk and you say jelly beans to right. Yeah okay yeah. My son was so funny. He got jelly beans for easter. He goes mom. This is my favorite candy. He says is there any way. I can save my money to buy more jelly beans. This is hysterical of all the easter candy. Was the jelly beans right. So you and him bo. Sheer love of those suckers. I could leave them. I want chocolate and peanut butter concoctions personally but all right so jelly beans. What else is happening mid morning. Is there anything else. Besides the popcorn in the jelly beans anyone brings a treat into work Cookies or cupcakes. Anything like that and would you say that happens at least once a week. Yeah okay right so random cookies or pastries things like that and then do you normally pack your lunch when you go to work or do you guys go out to eat While i work in a hospital so probably half-and-half going to the cafeteria and half the time bringing my own leftovers so either way though if you know you don't have leftovers. You know you're hitting the cafeteria right okay. And typically at the cafeteria do they kind of rotate through the same meals. typically pretty much. Yeah so we can retract that and then when you come home from work do you make dinner at home or do you typically pick that up on your way home. Probably six nights a week. I cooked and one night. We usually go out our karen and you meal plan pretty well for the whole week right now. You have seven nights worth of. Dinner's meal planned. And figure it out and all that usually do about in plano leftover night all right so we got our meal plan so we have six hundred of eating at home and one of eating out and then the one that you're going to eat you know that ahead of time so again you could pri track that right okay and then every night you're having a tree correct Most nights yes okay. We're going to track every night. We're going to have a treat. You don't have to eat it but we want to track it and then when you go to bed at night. Whatever you don't eat you delete. Does that make sense. Okay okay so the way that this would look. Do you drink coffee every morning or or do anything out that note. What do you drink. what do you do every morning. What's your routine usually have big less water and then something for breakfast so eggs or cereal to win you have your water and breakfast wants you to open your lose it app and i want you to follow this protocol track. What you ate for breakfast track a bag your popcorn if the jelly beans are prepackaged which i would encourage you to make sure they're prepackaged meaning. Are they cut. You're getting like a big container and then you're just grabbing a handful or are you putting them in bags. They actually came in little bags with lake. Eight jelly beans bean a bag. And how many of those do you typically a couple two or three. So what i want you to do is pre trek three. Okay and then. I want you to every single day. I don't want you to break this. I want you to every single day. I want you to attract a cookie. Donut or pastry. I don't care which one it is. They're all going to be somewhere between two and four hundred calories but because we don't know what day it's going to happen at work. I want you to pre tracking okay. Now if that's the day nothing comes in. Would you do before you go to bed at night. Carita delete it then. What we wanna do is track lunch which you know at that point. I'm either packing my lunch. Or i'm going to get from the cafeteria and with the cafeteria. Don't stress about the details. If you know that some days they ever lasagna. Some they burgers sundays. They have you know soup and sandwich. You could just grab any one of those three and put it in. You can alter it later that night when you get ready to go to bed makes sense. Okay then you're going to retract the dinner that you planned unless you're eating out night and then we're going to have a treat p- retract all. That should be done first thing in the morning. Now how will that feel different from what you normally do. Well if i do it in the morning. I won't be able to forget to trek dinner evening treats and kind of get like a roadmap for the day. Yeah absolutely and will there be any nervousness about oh. I just ate that cookie. I wasn't supposed to eat that cookie. No i'm not going to track it. I'm not gonna track today. I'll just do it tomorrow. Does that happen if you've already pre tracked all of that. No i don't think it will no as a matter of fact what most people are. Is there more motivated to go back to their tracker. Because they've tracked all the things right. Track the popcorn the jelly beans the cookies all these things and if none of those things happen that day wouldn't you be motivated to go back in and delete them right. What this does this brings you up to what we would call a one hundred percent consistency. Because you're tracking everything very honestly on the front end and you have the ability to go back into league things on the back end. Your days will start becoming complete. Does that make sense. Okay so what you. I started out with me. You're like heather. I need something. I need to know what to focus on. This is number one. This is your foundation for your house. If you don't know how much you're spending caloric lee and what you're eating and you're eating over maintenance or rate at maintenance you will never lose weight. Long-term does that make sense. This is the key. Okay now once we get good with this once we get good with you. Hitting a calorie deficit then protein comes in. Does that make sense So does those levels feel like. That's helping you get clarity about this process. A little bit more..
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"Everyone. I've been a member of the community for about a year and a half now. I'm just really struggling with thinking something to stick with. I feel more of a sense of urgency because my why has become my health and really important to me so con- people have mentioned providers. And i've thought about weight loss surgery but i feel like if i can't do it without the tool of weight loss surgery. It's only gonna be temporary fix so i just looking for advice on where to go next. So for the last year and a half. What have you been toggle between. What's what's been the things you've been bouncing around with. Well it's probably different every day You know some days. I'm really working on getting my protein. In so i can decrease my snacking making sure. I'm getting my water okay. So like not jumping from program to program but just different habits that you're struggling with crack. Got it okay all right. So let's start from this point. I'm assuming the overarching goal for you. Is you wanna lose weight. Is that correct. Correct okay. so that's good because once. I know what our overarching goal is. Then i know exactly what path that we need to be on okay so when when weight loss's the goal. A calorie deficit is required. Now that doesn't mean you always have to count calories but had a deficit must occur so in this last year and a half. What have you been doing to focus on hitting that calorie deficit Occasionally tracking with the lose it app but not consistently all right so that would be our first thing to focus on okay. Because i'm all about protein. I love routine. I want people to make sure they're getting enough. Protein helps us a tidy. But if you are taking the diet you're already eating which let's just say it's at maintenance calories and then you're adding in protein without bringing your calorie level down. You actually can create a situation where you're gaining weight. Because you're overloading your calories. Does that make sense. Yes definitely all right. So what is the longest that you have focused on tracking your calories. What would you say. It's been just like a week or two and are you very consistent when you do it or is it like some days you fall off halfway through the day and then you know you're missing days or meals usually stick to it for a couple of weeks but i tend to track until mid afternoon and then get lazy. Okay and Not track dinner or dessert. So i like how you mentioned weight loss surgery and i've had people come to me twelve eighteen months post weight loss surgery when the weight loss has stalled out and it normally means that one of the things we have to do is start tracking food. What's great about the initial experience of the weight loss surgery. Is it shrinks your stomach so much that. You can't consume large amounts of calories right so it forces you into that calorie deficit. But i always see one of two things happen one. Somebody loses a good amount of weight but then they hit a plateau and then what has happened is over that year and a half or so. They have figured out ways to get an extra calories whether it's through beverages or things that are not very volumes to the stomach and so they're not in their calorie deficit anymore so we have to track calories in order to know that the other thing is i've talked to people even further out from the surgery meaning five plus years out over the course of time often the things that are done to reduce the size of your stomach eventually becomes undone the stomach can grow back. Okay if you will. And i've had clients. They're like hey i was doing this that and the other and i was losing weight. I'm five years out of surgery now. I can eat a few more chips at the restaurant. I can eat this. I can eat that. And eventually it always comes back to for most people whether they're at that plateau or whether time has allowed them to eat more we send have to figure out where their calories are for them to make weight loss happen. So what's great is no matter if you choose to go weight loss surgery or not. This habit of tracking your food is gonna give you help when you hit one of those two places later on down the road does that. Make sense okay. So right now. It sounds like we're sporadic. When we track and then at most would you thinking you do maybe a week or two and then it falls off for a while and then you pick it back up are so that is where we would start one hundred percent okay and and with tracking one of the things i love to see. People do is pre tracking the morning. They're quote unquote worst case scenario. And what i mean by that now. I personally think you should be tracking a treat every day. I think should happen when you have breakfast. I'd like to see you track your treat every day and like to. Is there a lot of like maybe mid afternoon snacking that's happening or after dinners or maybe grazing in the pantry. Things like that well different than most people. I after breakfast before lunch. They sit at my desk. And i just you know have some popcorn or some jelly beans or snacks that way and then in the afternoon for some reason it's easier for me to read the okay so a little bit different. That's great state. Rule would apply though so with the popcorn. You popping like a bag of popcorn and then taking it to your desk. Yeah perfect okay. So what. I'd like to see you do in the morning when you have your breakfast or have your coffee. I want you to retract your treat for the evening. I want you to.