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All right , so welcome back to the show . We are talking

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today about weight

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loss . We're talking about diet culture

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and we're talking about how , you

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know , certain diets could actually

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be impeding your weight

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loss goals . So what kind

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of triggered me to have a chat about

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this today on the show was I was talking with a friend

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last week and she

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was saying how she's gone

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gluten-free . She started eating gluten-free

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and she's put on

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a lot of weight since she had her baby

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and she thought it would be

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the other way around , that she's breastfeeding and

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that she thought the weight would drop off . And

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you know she was doing really well before she had

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her baby and we were talking about

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different diets and things that she's tried

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. And she was saying how she used

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to do keto and she did really well with that and

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then , when she felt pregnant , she had to stop doing that

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. And it was just

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an interesting conversation because she was asking

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about gluten-free . She was asking about what

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I do and it's

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so interesting because there's

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so many diets and I know I've talked

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about this in the past , but there's

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so many different diets and when

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I studied to become a health coach , we

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were encouraged to try a heap

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of these different diets . Obviously , every diet

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that I had to try all still had to be gluten-free

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, but there's so many different diets

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. There's so many different ways of eating . You know

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, you might have heard of the keto diet

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, you might have heard of the vegan diet , the high

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protein diet , the low protein diet

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, the high carb , low carb , like . There's

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all these different ways that we can eat

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, but at the end of the day

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, the best way to eat is just

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to eat real food . And

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it's so funny because I'm

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on instagram a fair bit and

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I post on there and I look at what other people

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are posting and sharing , and

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so many people post this quote that

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goes something along the lines

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of people don't bat an eyelid when you

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eat McDonald's or you buy

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bakery food or you're eating

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all this junk , but as soon as you start

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eating healthy food , people

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ask if you are on a diet

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. Isn't that interesting

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? Why do people question when

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you eat healthy , but no one questions

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when you're shoveling junk into

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your mouth ? It's a

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really funny concept that

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we've now got to this point where people

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don't think it's normal to

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eat well and to eat healthy . So

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what I love to do is

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just eat well

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majority of the time . And when we talk

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about eating well , what are we talking about

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? It's basically eating

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real food , and people

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think it's hard , but it's really not

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that hard . And when we look at a

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gluten-free diet , it's actually

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easier to eat a

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healthy , gluten-free diet . When

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we focus on these

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real foods and when I

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say real foods , I'm talking about low

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process , so hardly any processing

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involved in your food is

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the best way to eat . And

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another thing that I find is

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people discover how much money

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they can save when they

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eat less processed food . And you know

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you've probably heard this all the time oh , it's so expensive

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to buy , you know , fresh food

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and healthy food , but

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it's actually cheaper . So if you start

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buying more real

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food and less packaged food

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, you will find that your

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grocery bill is less

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and you'll be feeling better

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. You'll probably lose weight because you

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aren't eating processed junk , which is generally

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full of , you know , sugars

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and like bad

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fats , things that aren't going to do

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your body any good . You know , most

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of these processed foods that people buy are not

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full of any nutrition . They're not good for us . They

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. They're just there to make us feel

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good because , you know

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, we get that endorphin , we get that release

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of that feel-good hormone

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, that we eat something and

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we feel good . But

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when we stop eating that way , we

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start to feel better all the time

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, rather than when we just eat these

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types of foods . Isn't that interesting

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? So you know , so

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many people reach out to me and say , like

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I just feel like everything

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is just about eat this processed

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food and eat that processed food . I'm like , yeah

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, that's what we've been taught , that's what

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we've been told by society

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, by different celiac organizations

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are pushing these unhealthy

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products because they're endorsed

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, they've got the gluten-free label on them , but

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they're not good for us , there's no benefit

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to them . So what

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I love to teach my clients is focusing

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on adding in food

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that is actually valuable

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to your body . Think of what

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you do as an investment in

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your health and your future self , because

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it's all about the

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way you feel now and the way you

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feel in the future . If you keep fueling

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yourself with healthy , nourishing

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food , you are going to live such a

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different life to if you continue

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to constantly eat packaged foods

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. And I'm not talking about cut them

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out completely , I'm talking about a balance

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. And you know I've talked about the

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80-20 rule before , where 80%

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of the time you focus on eating really really well

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and eating really healthy , and 20%

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of the time you know you have these things

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that you know might be deemed as treats

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or that you eat and enjoy

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without feeling guilt , because it

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can become obsessive not to eat some

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of those things . So I love

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to have balance in my life . You know it was

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Mother's Day yesterday

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and we went out and we enjoyed a bottle

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of wine , and you know that's balance

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. It's not like I drink a bottle of wine every single

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day , it's every now and again . And it wasn't just me

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drinking , it was my husband and I . We shared a bottle

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of wine . So you know it's not

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about all or nothing , it's about having

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that balance and enjoying life

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. But if you're finding

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that you're trying different diets

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, what happens is people go on

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diets and and you go

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off the diet Okay . So

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if you've ever seen

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anyone that's a yo-yo dieter

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, they go through this stage

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where they try different things . So they'll try this diet

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and they'll lose all this weight and then they

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go back to how they used to eat before and

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they put the weight back on . This

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is not healthy . This is actually really

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bad for not only your hormones but also

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your metabolism and your mindset

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. It can drive you crazy . So

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what I love to do is I love to

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help people get to a point where they're never

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diet . They're never on a diet , ever

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again . They're just eating

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well and focused on adding

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in good , healthy food

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. It's such an enjoyable

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way to live . I find it so

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interesting when people ask me about diet

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culture and ask me about what the best

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diet is , because I never

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, ever give my clients diets . The

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only thing that I get people to do every

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now and again is a detox or a cleanse or

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an elimination program . These

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are for a result

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. These are for a reason

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. These are not to just quickly lose weight and

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put it all back on . Okay , these are

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very , very different to going on

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a diet . So a diet is

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something that I would never

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recommend to anybody . And

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when I see people get that

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gastric sleeve put on , so

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they go and get a gastric sleeve and

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this is like

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a last resort for a lot of people , right , so

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they get the gastric sleeve and then they

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lose weight because they cannot eat

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as much food as they used to

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. But what happens is these people

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generally get so used

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to eating the foods that

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they've always eaten and they still

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eat that way . So what

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happens in time is they put the

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weight back on slowly . I know

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of multiple people that have done this and

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it's heartbreaking to see because they've gone

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through some major surgery to

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achieve a goal . But

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it means nothing if they haven't dealt

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with the mindset , because living

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a healthy lifestyle starts

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in the mind . So if you

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can make that shift in your mindset

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to eating well and looking after

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yourself is very different

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to restriction and missing

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out and feeling left out . It's such

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a different way to live

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and I honestly

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see true health

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freedom in people

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and people that you know

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take themselves so far

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away from this diet culture that

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it is life-changing . It is absolutely

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life-changing . If you are stuck

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in that rut of constantly

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dieting or constantly trying the

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next new thing , this

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is such a different way

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to live and , like

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I said , you never feel like you're on a diet and

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you never feel like you're

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going to stop something . So there's not like

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, oh , I've got to eat this food

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for this period of time and once I've lost this

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10 kilos or you know however

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many pounds , then you can go back

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to living your life how you lived it before

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. That's

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not healthy . That's not a good way to think

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. So it's adding

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in more of the good stuff . It's adding

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in more healthy , nutrient-dense

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food that fuels you and makes

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you feel amazing and pushing

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out those inflammatory foods that make

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us feel rubbish . You know people that complain

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that they've got sore knees , sore joints

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, their wrists hurt . You know they've got

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no energy . They feel like

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rubbish . You can look

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at their diet and you can see a huge

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correspondence in their food

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to the way that they are feeling . So

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if you've gone gluten-free and you

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still feel this way and you still

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feel that you know you've

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got these pains in your knees it might

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not be anything to do with gluten . You might

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be struggling with a lack of collagen

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. You might be feeling a lack of energy because

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you're not getting enough nutrients . You might be eating

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a lot of calories but it's not nutrient-dense

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food that gives you that energy . Now

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I've done a three-part series on

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macronutrients so fats , carbs and

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proteins and I talk about the balance

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of eating those . So you can go back and have

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a listen to those episodes . I'll link

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those below for you to check out

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and that might just give you some idea

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of how to get started and what to focus

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on , because even if you don't

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want to lose weight , you just want to eat well

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and focus on your health . This is a really

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great start . And then , of course , if you

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want my support , you can reach out to me as

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well . If you want to work with me with

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coaching , I'm more than happy to have a chat with you

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about what that looks like . But

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it is a

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new way of living . That shouldn't

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be new , it should be normal and

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this is how people used

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to live and you think about it like my husband and I

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talk about it all the time . Growing

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up as kids , you know meals were very

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simple . We had , you know

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, as children it was like meat and three veg

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. He was the same . He grew up in a household

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where they ate a lot of fresh

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food . You know his dad was a cray fisherman

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. They lived on seafood . They

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ate homegrown vegetables . You

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know there was the opportunity for them to go hunting . They ate a

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lot of kangaroo and you know there were so

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many opportunities for them to eat fresh

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food and they didn't live

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anywhere near fast food restaurants

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. So it was not an easy option for

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them and for me . Growing up , we

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didn't have much money . My mom was

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a solo parent and

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she didn't have a lot of money , so we

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didn't eat junk . It was not

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an opportunity for us to go and buy takeaway

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. It was like a very , very rare treat

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, whereas people are doing this constantly

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. They eat takeaway all the time . They're

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eating processed food because they're time

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poor and they think it's easier . But

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there are meals that you can make that are quicker

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to make than buying takeaway

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. I'm serious when I say that and

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I know you're probably going yeah sure

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, belinda , like I've got to go shop , I've got to

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prep for the food and shop for the food . You can

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do home deliveries if you don't have time

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. You can get food delivered directly

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to your door . You can cook

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meals in under 20 minutes . I

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promise you that . So start

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with super basic meals . You know some

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sort of meat if you're a meat eater , and some

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vegetables or a salad . It doesn't have

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to be , you know , fancy and

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gourmet , it can be simple to

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get you started . So you know

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I do have a complete meal plan program

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that's available . Meal plans made easy , completely

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100% gluten free . I'll also link that

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below . You can check out that's got super

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easy meals in it and I teach people

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how to cook once and

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eat twice , which basically means when

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you are cooking , cook extra , cook

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more so that you have leftovers

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. Leftovers are amazing for

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time . Poor families , I know . For

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me we are so busy but

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I cook as much as possible

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. There are nights where we still get takeaway

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every now and again . It's not very often but

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it is nice to still do it . But majority

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of our meals are home cooked meals

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. You know my daughter . She very

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sporty . We're always in and out the car . I'm

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dropping her off at work , picking her up from work

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. We have to make life easy for

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ourselves and those nights where we are in

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and out the car , we do have simple meals . You

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know , sometimes I do a lunchbox for my kids

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where it's leftover meat chopped up with

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some salad and some veggies and

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you know , it's just . It's

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just simple , easy meal

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that we can grab and go and they can eat

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it on the go , because sometimes that is the

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only thing that they can do . So for

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you it might be the same , but you can do

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something really simple that doesn't

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have to be cooked it can be leftovers that

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doesn't even need to be heating up , heated up

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. So there's options , there's

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ways to make your

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lifestyle easier and

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your diet work for you , because

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it's not about , you know

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, living on processed junk and

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living on food that doesn't make you

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feel good . So start to

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incorporate some healthy food into

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your diet , if you're not already , and

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just notice what it does to the way that

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you feel , whether your energy levels change , whether

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you sleep better at night . And

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then from there you'll start to notice this

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flow-on effect and I've done an

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entire episode on this before how

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your body will naturally

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want to exercise more

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or go out and be more active when

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you have more energy , when you have eaten

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well , and then , because you've slept

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well , you will have that energy

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as well . So it's just this beautiful flow and effect

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that one thing affects the next thing , that

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affects the next thing and , as

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far as lifestyle goes , it just

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becomes a way of life , it

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just becomes who you are

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and what you're known for , and

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it becomes easier to

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say yes to good food . When

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you eat this way normally and

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it doesn't , it doesn't feel

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like a diet . So you know , reach

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out to me if you want support in this area

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, or go ahead and see if meal

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plans made easy is maybe an

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option for you just to get started down

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this track . But yeah

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, if you've got any questions or you want to have a chat

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to me about what my coaching might look for you look

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like for you rather , just send me a DM

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over on Instagram . That's probably the

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easiest place to have a quick , easy

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conversation with me . So my

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handle there is the healthy celiac

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and , yeah , we can see what that might look like

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for you moving forward . But I hope

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this episode has helped . You see

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that diet culture is over

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. Skinny is out

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and healthy is in . So

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if you look at marketing these days , if

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you look at what's being pushed in

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our faces , we're not seeing

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way thin models anymore

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. We're seeing healthy women who

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have a healthy body

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standard , and that is what I want for you . I

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want you to feel healthy and I want you to feel great

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within your body . You've got this

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one amazing life to live , so you may as

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well live it to its fullest . So thank you

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so much for tuning into today's episode

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and I look forward to talking with you again on

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the show next week . Have a great week . Talk to you then . Take

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care .