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Welcome to the Lose Weight By Eating Podcast (Season 1 Episode 1)
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Jan 22, 2025
I'm so excited to share with you my weight loss journey, my goals for the future and a little bit of drama in this first Lose Weight By Eating podcast! You'll learn the cruel name kids called me in elementary school, a core memory being bullied by a family member, and about how I gained 20 pounds back after a surgery (I'll later share how I lost it again later!) I believe we can create a new message and way of life. We can bring the body positivity movement and healthy eating and weight loss together. We can eat in self care manner, be gentle with ourselves when we don't reach our goals, and most importantly stop basing our self worth by the way we look or a number on a scale. I'm excited to share my journey with you. My ups and downs, and hopefully find a way to love ourselves more.
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elcome to the lose weight by eating
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podcast I'm Audrey John's and I'm really
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excited to bring to you this new type of
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content very different from what I've
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done in the past but I really want to be
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a little bit more present with all of my
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readers and I figure this is just the
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next
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step um again my name is Audrey Johns I
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am 43 years old I'll be 44 on March 3rd
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so that's coming up pretty soon here I
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am a cookbook author for Harper Collins
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I have four cookbooks with them I've
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also done a ton of time on television I
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was a regular on the Rachel Ray Show
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I've done the Today show I got to cook
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with Kathy Lee before she left and I
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also did a run on ABC's the taste it was
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a television show uh that was very
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similar to The Voice and I can't wait to
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share with you all of my experiences
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from that wonderful show I'm also a
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social media foodie so you'll probably
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see some of my content on
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Instagram and you can see what I'm
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eating on a daily basis what I'm excited
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about the fun finds I might find at the
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store Etc so let's get into it like I
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said this is my very first time
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podcasting I uh I have a little little
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note here for myself that I'm reading
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through making sure I hit all the points
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I want to do
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but what I think the most exciting thing
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I want to share with you today is that
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it's the first day of the podcast and
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I'm actually going to drop two episodes
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for you today I want to bring you lots
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of fun free content and that's that's
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the goal so I first want to tell you
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where I um
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started I actually struggled with weight
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loss for years if I want to think back
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to when it started it really started
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started as a child I was bullied in
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school a lot uh I grew up in the 80s so
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kids would call me Audrey the giant
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instead of Andre the Giant I was bullied
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in high school a lot I funny enough I
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was a size six in high school and that
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was fat to the kids then and now I'm
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thinking wow uh we would all want to be
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a size six so I I really struggled for
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years I even had bullies within my
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family I um one person's still within
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the family and I don't want
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to cause too many issues but there is an
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aunt that uh left the family and one of
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my core memories one of my core traumas
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was at Christmas standing in the kitchen
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with her helping her cook something and
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she lifted up my t-shirt and poked me in
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the stomach and said wow you're getting
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a little chubby and it has taken me
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years to even be able to say that it's
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taken me lots of therapy to be able to
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say that to be able to bring that to you
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to be able to process what that was like
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not just being bullied from a very young
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age by my peers which happens right but
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also being bullied by family members my
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mother put me on a diet I I think she
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kind of tried to hide it I found
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cookbooks hidden in her bedroom that
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said you know how to help your teenage
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daughter lose
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weight I'm not saying that was the name
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of the book but something along those
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lines and it really messed me up for a
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long time I I know that when it came to
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my mom it was all it all came from a
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good place and I also know that a lot of
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women my age and older were all put on
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diets by their mothers
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and it came from a good place but I
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think it's time to to change that I
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think it's time for us to be better to
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our kids I think it's time for the body
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positivity movement to really flourish
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and I recently stumbled Upon A an
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Instagram gal that I follow and she's
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absolutely amazing and I've forgotten
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her name but I will definitely if I can
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figure out this whole podcasting thing
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I'm going to put it in the description
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or in the notes below she's very much
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into the body POS positivity movement
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and she posted something just recently
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showing a graph of the body positivity
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movement and how it was just ramping up
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in such a great way all through covid
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and now it's declining and the weight
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loss industry is you know taking its
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place and I
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think I think you can lose
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weight in a really healthy b body
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positivity way
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and that's what I want to explore here
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on the podcast that amongst many other
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things but I think it's time for us
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to make self-care happen in the kitchen
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you know if if we're going to love our
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bodies more we should be feeding our
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bodies what they need right so I think
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weight loss can happen in a way that is
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healthy and that is not about starving
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ourselves and definitely not about
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depriving ourselves if you're familiar
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with lose weight by eating you already
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know I have more pizza recipes than
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anyone would ever need they're all low
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calorie and healthy and delicious I love
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pasta I can't tell you how many keto
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people send me nasty messages on social
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media because oh there's carbs in that
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I'm not going to give up carbs I am an
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Italian woman I am proud I love my pasta
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and I'm not going to give it up now if
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you want to give it up I can definitely
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give you some great tips to find
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Alternatives uh bonsa pasta is my
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favorite favorite go-to protein pasta we
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can find ways to eat and lose weight we
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can find ways to love our bodies and get
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healthier and that's what I want to
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explore I want to take the body
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positivity movement and the weight
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loss I don't want to say industry I
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don't want to be part of the industry
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because most of it's BS most of it's
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just trying to sell you something I am
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all about bringing free content to you
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cuz I don't think weight loss should
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cost anything so off that tangent back
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too I want to bring the body positivity
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movement and weight loss together and
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make it something healthy and make it
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something exciting and make it something
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new um I I've recently started
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connecting more with my my readers on
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social media I I've gone through quite a
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lot in the last 10 years uh including
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dealing with a stalker so for quite a
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few years I removed myself from social
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media I I used a lot of we instead of i
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as if to make lose weight by eating seem
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like it wasn't always me it's always me
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I can't afford a staff you guys can see
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I'm I'm managing multiple things right
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here just trying to bring a podcast to
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you that's if you're watching the video
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which you can find the video on
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YouTube I I started just responding and
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commenting and asking people what they
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wanted and posting photos of me and my
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life and posting videos of me and my
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life and I started to heal it's it's
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really scary having a stalker
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and having them so close in your life
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that you can't ever remove them from
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your life and we'll get into all of that
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on another podcast when maybe I can have
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a therapist here with me so you guys
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don't witness a trigger on camera and on
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podcast
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but the therapy really has been helping
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and that's going to be a really big part
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of this podcast without the therapy I
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never would have been able to be present
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on social media I never would have been
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able to start a podcast to video I
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haven't done home cooking videos in so
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many years because I I don't feel
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comfortable working in my home I
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um I found that in connecting with my
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readers I was finding myself again I I
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feel like this is the next step in
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connecting with all of you with all of
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that said I have quite a lot to share
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it's not just going to be therapy and
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it's not just going to be weight loss I
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I'm going to tell you stories of my
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journey with lose weight by eating I the
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very next episode we're going to talk
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about when I broke up with my bathroom
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scale I literally threw it away I do not
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weigh myself in anymore and I I I'd like
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to say that my weight loss journey is
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over but I I feel like it will probably
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never be over it's always going to be
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something that I'm working on but I'm
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trying to make that in a healthy way and
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with that said I threw away my bathroom
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scale and we're going to talk about that
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in the very next podcast episode which
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I'm going to launch today as well so you
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can just keep listening once this one is
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over and find out the scoop but I'm also
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going to talk about some hard things I
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was um photoshopped without my consent
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and it was
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traumatizing I um I end up ended up
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having some body positivity issues
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because of it because when somebody
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changes a photo of you
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drastically then you think oh man how
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messed up were my teeth specifically uh
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copy of a national magazine removed my
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teeth and put somebody else's teeth te
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on mine and I know that seems really
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really small and
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shallow but I have enough body
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positivity issues with weight loss that
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I don't need somebody pointing out that
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my teeth aren't perfect and that's
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another big part of why I I don't want
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to be visible and and that's something
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I'm trying to work through so I was also
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this one's hard uh and I'm not going to
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do this episode without therapist
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present but I was gropes on television I
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have a me too story and I'm ready to
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share it uh I don't know if I'm going to
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share who did it but um there is that as
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well there's there's a lot I've
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struggled with and I feel like we can
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all resonate with different aspects of
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this sure maybe not everyone listening
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to this podcast has started a website or
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written a cookbook but my struggles are
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very common and I want to explore them
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them all with
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you I have definitely had some ups and
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downs I I lost over 150 lbs in just 11
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months and I have for the most part kept
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it off for the last 13 years but there
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have been ups and downs I had a
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hysterctomy a few years ago it was a a
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medical necessity and because of it I
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was shoved into early premenopause and
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my metabolism was all over the place I
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gained a ton of weight I had a really
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hard time losing it and I'm out there
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being this weight loss expert and I've
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put on a good 20 lbs and I can't get it
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off but I learned how to do that I also
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learned how to give myself a little bit
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of Grace because as we age everything
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gets a little bit harder including
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keeping the weight off and so like I
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said earlier I really want to bring the
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body positivity movement and weight loss
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together my work since my weight loss
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has been kind of all over the board as
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well well as I as I mentioned sorry
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glass of
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water as I mentioned I have written
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cookbooks and I've started a website I
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also appeared on The Taste which was a
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nationally it's actually a worldwide
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show so from time to time I'll get a
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message from somebody in a different
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country saying hey I just found your
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episode like what that was eight years
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ago but I I was on the taste with um
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Marcus Samson Anthony Bourdain and
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Nigella Lawson and I want to talk about
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my time on there I I think there's a lot
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to learn and a lot to grow from on that
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show as well I have spent over two years
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just creating tons and tons and tons of
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free content I wrote a 100 new recipes
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in one month on a challenge for myself
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and there's over 300 maybe 400 new
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recipes on the loose weight by eating
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blog or on the loose weight by eating
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website I should say I started creating
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free weekly meal plans so if you're
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struggling and if you don't know where
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to start visit the lose weight by eating
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website and the meal plan is always
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right there on the front just click on
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it and the most recent meal plan that
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will pop up is this week's or depending
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on you know today's Friday it might be
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next week's but I never delete any
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content from the weekly meal plans so if
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one doesn't work for you just scroll
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down a little bit more and there's
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another one I always share them on
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Facebook and
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Instagram and I I also always ask people
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what do you want so that can always be
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found and now here we are with the
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podcast so before I jump into the next
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episode where I'm very very very excited
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to share why I threw away my bathroom
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scale I want to explain to you what you
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can expect from this podcast I'm my goal
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is to make it very motivational and fun
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and uplifting there's definitely going
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to be a touch of drama like I already
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said I'm going to have a me too episode
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I'm going to talk about why I broke up
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with my bathroom scale I'm going to talk
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about being photoshopped without my
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consent we're going to talk about some
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drama stuff for sure but I'm also going
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to bring interviews with some of my um
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some of my castmates from the taste and
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a glimpse into my journey and where I am
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right now and how I continue to keep the
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weight off without the bathroom scale
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without adhering to
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some fad diet oh gosh guys I have so
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much to say about fat diets so you're
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going to want to definitely tune into to
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that one cuz it might be a little
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feisty I'm going to share as much as I
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can with all of you and hopefully we can
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all resonate we can all heal a little
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bit and we can maybe merge the self-care
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and the body positivity movement and
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healthy weight loss and healthy eating
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specifically together so please
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subscribe please download my podcasts so
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you can listen to them in the car or on
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an airplane or while you're walking the
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dog I would really love some five star
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reviews if you're loving the content it
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really does help and also please comment
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and tell tell me what you want to see
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here on the lose weight by eating
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podcast so stay tuned the very next
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podcast is up next and thank you so much
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for listening and are watching depending
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on where you're getting your podcast at
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again I'm Audrey Johns and happy
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cooking
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