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New Year's Resolutions & Winning The Lotto
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Jan 22, 2025
What would your daily routine look like if you won the lottery, and how can that help you choose a good New Year's resolution? -5 Tips to New Years Resolutions -Free exercise to help you set goals -Tips to make sure you can keep your resolutions all year I'm back, and I have a lot to say about New Year's resolutions, and what NOT to do. Plus some fun exercises you can do at home to figure out how you can start living your dream life (lotto life) now. Weight Loss Secret Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2312717/episodes/14794686 Music from #Uppbeat License code: VGAZRTWC9AXKP9VB You can find FREE RECIPES here: https://loseweightbyeating.com/ Check out my Best Selling Cookbooks here: https://loseweightbyeating.com/cookbook/
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welcome back to the lose weight by
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eating podcast it has been a while
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everyone I took a long Hiatus I was a
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little bit burnt out but with that said
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I am coming back to all of you with new
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ideas New Perspective and some fun new
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stories because the new year is upon us
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I really wanted to talk about New Year's
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resolutions how to set them well and a
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new way to think about them and I've got
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my notes here with me I'm actually going
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to skip all the way to the bottom
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because I'm really excited about this
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new way to figure out the best New
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Year's resolution for you so what you'll
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want to do is take out a piece of paper
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and I want you to Envision you've won
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the lottery or gotten a huge inheritance
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either way a huge amount of money has
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been dumped in your lap you don't have
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to work anymore you can if you want to
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but you no longer have your schedule
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created around your work now you can
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create your own schedule so just
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Envision that I know these are pipe
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dreams go with it here so write down
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what your schedule would look like not
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when you're traveling but when you're at
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home what would your schedule look like
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if you had no work to worry about and
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you could just do whatever you wanted to
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do
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would you go to the gym more would you
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cook more at home would you read more or
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what would you do so I actually wrote
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out if I wion the lottery
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tomorrow uh what my day-to-day would
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look like when I'm at home and I would
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start out with a slow morning enjoying
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my coffee I would go to the gym for a
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couple of hours I'd make a healthy
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homemade lunch and I would read for fun
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or for knowledge and if you're watching
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on YouTube you can see I have quite a
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lot of books here um I would make a
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healthy family dinner I would unwind in
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lovely fancy lounging
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clothing I would do self-care every day
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before bed and then I would sleep well
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wake up and start all over again so take
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a moment and write down if you could do
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anything with your day-to-day what would
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that be
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then I want you to go back and take a
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pen and I want you to Circle what you
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can do right
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now don't worry about your schedule we
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can fit it in so the
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gym right homemade
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lunch you could do that now self-care
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before bed you could do that now make a
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healthy family dinner depending on your
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schedule and if you like to meal prep
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you can do that now I have just circled
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four four really great New Year's
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resolutions that you could do right now
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yeah of course if I had unlimited time I
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could go to the gym for a couple of
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hours but that doesn't mean I can't fit
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30 minutes in right
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now right I would do self-care every
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night but I could do that now why can't
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I do that now right I could do a face
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mask you can make your own homemade face
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masks um I could meditate that's free
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there's lots of things that you can do
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when you think about what would my ideal
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life look
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like and then take a step back and
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realize oh I can actually do that right
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now that would make a really great New
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Year's resolution so I actually did this
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last year and I realized what is holding
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me back from going to the gym every day
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I joined a gym my membership is I
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believe $35 per month and I can tell you
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most places right now are offering a
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free join like they don't charge you
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uh uh joining
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fee so that's what I did I named 2024 my
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year of health and I wanted to just jump
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into fitness all the way and since I
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joined I have gone on average I would
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say five times per
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week so let's start out by making this
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list figure out what is it that I would
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do if I had unlimited time pick one and
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that makes a really great New Year's
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resolution so let's dial that in a
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little bit more and talk about making
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New Year's resolutions
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reasonable saying I'm going to go to the
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gym seven days a week is not reasonable
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nope even for me somebody who goes to
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the gym five days a week I still would
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not set my New Year's resolution at go
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to the gym 5 days a week because
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something's going to happen right so
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make it reasonable I know no matter what
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I can get a workout in 4 days a week
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that's reasonable I can make that
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work you also want to make them
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measurable so that one already is
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measurable but say let's go back down to
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our list homemade lunches say homemade
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lunches are going to be your New Year's
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resolution I am going to bring homemade
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lunches to work x amount of days is five
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work days
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reasonable
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no let's say four days four days out of
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the week that makes it both reasonable
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and measurable do you see so you want to
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be able to measure your success and you
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also want to be able to get to that goal
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every single week you can always do more
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you can always beat your New Year's
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resolutions but I beg of you do not set
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yourself up for
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failure starting out with these huge
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lofty goals take them down a notch you
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can always 6 months in say well that was
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a little bit too easy I'm going to add
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an extra day of bringing lunches or I'm
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going to add an extra gym day or
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whatever it is that you want but start
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really slow so that you can hit that
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goal easily because when you can hit it
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every single
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week you're going to keep at
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it now that we've talked about
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reasonable and measurable I want to
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remind all of
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you
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about the weight loss secret now if
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you've been listening to this podcast
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for a while you are already very well
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aware of the weight loss secret I will
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link to it in the show notes as well
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it's another podcast I've done here uh
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on the loseweight by eating podcast and
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in that I talk about the weight loss
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secret that nobody wants to talk about
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but it's free it's easy and it works
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across the board for Fitness eating
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healthy all of that are you ready for
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it here's the weight loss secret you're
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going to screw up I don't every time I
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say it I laugh but it's the truth it's a
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human
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condition even I am going to screw up
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and eat something I'm not supposed to
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eat miss a gym day these things will
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happen so here's what you do with it you
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just get over it
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I'm human things happen I'm just going
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to keep going the worst thing you can do
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after you miss a workout or eat
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something you're not supposed to do is
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say well I'll start again on Monday that
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is the it's the end it's the end because
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how many times in your life have you
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said I'm just going to start again on
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Monday another really awful thing that
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you could be doing to yourself in this
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case is if you miss a gym work out doing
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twice as hard tomorrow at the gym or
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starving yourself on the next meal
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because you overate at lunch and not
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having dinner these will set you up for
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failure the weight loss secret is it's
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going to
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happen it's just going to happen you are
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not perfect nobody's perfect so you have
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to allow for
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mistakes and as a bonus if you can learn
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from them that's really great so say for
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instance you have a goal where you're
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going to bring lunch with you 4 days a
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week and Tuesday rolls around and it's
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somebody's birthday at work and pizza
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and Cake
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arrives and you have some of both I
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would now what are you gonna do are you
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going to quit are you gonna say I'm
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going to start again on Monday or you
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just going to keep rolling through the
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day you didn't eat your lunch that's
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okay you can bring at home you can have
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it for lunch tomorrow you could have it
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for dinner tonight you could heck you
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could just leave it at work and then
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Lunch is ready for you tomorrow don't
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give up this is what everybody does is
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they they give up when they mess
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up would you tell your
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kindergardener oh honey that was a
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really bad picture you shouldn't draw
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anymore but this is what we do to
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ourselves so again the weight loss
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secret is you will screw up just get
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over it do not punish yourself do not
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deprive
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yourself and do not give up if you can
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Master this one
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piece that's all you
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need and then my last New Year's
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resolution tip I want to give you is
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don't set too many so often people will
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set five or six New Year's resolutions
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now if you want to set some goals for
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the year that you want to work on that's
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one thing you have the whole year you
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know but if you want to start out
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January 1st I'm gonna go to the gym
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every day I'm gonna eat healthy every
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day I'm gonna walk the dog every day I'm
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gonna clean the house every day honestly
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guys this is just it's not possible so
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pick one maybe
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two and then the extras that you want to
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work on write them down and say okay
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maybe March or April when I feel like
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these resolutions are now healthy habits
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I'm working on every single day now I
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can pick up my list and I can start
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working on another
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one
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so your New Year's
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resolutions should be there to help you
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to uplift you to make you excited about
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the year they should not be daunting I
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wanted to tell you a story I feel like
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I've told this here on the podcast
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before but years and years and years ago
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when I first started lose weight by
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eating I was watching the New York ball
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drop and I don't know who it was
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interviewing the gal in my mind I feel
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like it was Anderson Cooper but somebody
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asked her what are your New Year's
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resolutions just this random woman and
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she said I'm going to do yoga 365 days
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and I remember yelling at the TV like oh
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my God what are you doing there's no way
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you can do that even if you are a yoga
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instructor you're going to get sick
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you're going to have an injury you're
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just not going to feel it one day so
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you've got to take a step back yeah you
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can want to do yoga 365 days in a
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year but it's not going to happen and so
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if you start your new year's
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resolution with something that's
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unachievable you're setting yourself up
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for failure
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so let's go back through these five
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tips and then I'll tell you what my New
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Year's resolutions have been throughout
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the years so tip one make them
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reasonable something you can actually do
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you can always always always beat your
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goals blow them out of the water heck
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yeah that would be amazing but you want
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to win every single week to make them
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measurable so just saying I'm going to
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eat healthy all year
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well that's great but how do you measure
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that what is
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healthy the next one is remember the
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weight loss
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secret and next don't set too many New
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Year's resolutions and the fifth one was
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the lotto ticket idea write out a list
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of everything you would do on a
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day-to-day basis what your just daily
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schedule would look like CU your
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schedule right now might look like get
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up at 5:00 a.m. feed the kids
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drive to work sit at work go home right
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that's what your daily schedule looks
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like right now if you won the lottery or
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just $20 million was dropped into your
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account
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tomorrow what would you do with your day
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pick out something on that list you
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actually can do right now you don't have
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to wait until all your dreams come true
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to have the life that you want you can
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start cherry-picking if few of those
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things right now and get started so let
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me tell you some of my New Year's
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resolutions actually I'm going to start
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with this year so this year I you know I
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already work out and I eat healthy but I
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am a picker and I don't mean a nose
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picker but I'm like a finger picker like
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I pick up my nails and I pick at my
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cuticles and I do this when I'm
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nervous and my partner and I have this
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thing where anytime we catch each other
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you know picking
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or and so this year I ordered my myself
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a a set from
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manicurist which is an
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allnatural vegan
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organic gel nail system and if you're
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watching you can
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see and so that's what I'm doing this
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year is I'm going to start taking better
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care of my nails because it will stop me
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from picking which I want to do right
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now so let's go back from there last
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year 2024 I made it my year of
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Fitness I was going to get a gym
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membership and I was going to start
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working
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out and I
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had a hiccup in the beginning of the
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year and I'm going to talk about that on
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another podcast episode I had a a bit of
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a cancer scare I'm fine but I wasn't
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allowed to work out from January through
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March last year so I started in March
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and I started really hard which was not
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smart and I should know better
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I started going to the gym six days a
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week and I started
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running and quickly hurt my ankle doing
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that and once I was well again I took a
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step back took my own advice and said
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all right let's let's do something
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reasonable and so my goal was I'm just
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going to get to the gym five days a week
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I'm going to get to the gym I don't care
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what I do if I get there and I go sit in
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the sauna then I got there
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half of the time on my way to the gym I
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would be dreading it and I would just
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tell myself you only have to do what you
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want to do today so if you want to go in
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and walk on the treadmill at a really
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light pace for 20 minutes that's fine
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you only have to do what you want to do
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fast forward to now the end of the
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year I am working out five to six days a
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week lifting weights doing easy cardio
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and feel better than I ever have
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so that was my year of
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Fitness a few of the other years of
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course I cannot remember more than a
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year ago but a few of the other years
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was I was going to give up all white
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flour and swap it out for wheat flour or
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oat flour obviously that was difficult
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but I had a goal that 75% of what I
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purchased for the home or what I made in
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the home was going to be whole wheat and
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that was a really good one for me my
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very first one was I'm going to give up
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diet diet sodas and if you know my
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weight loss story it was the start of
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everything I gave up diet sodas I did
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nothing else the first week and I lost
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over 10 pounds in one week that was all
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I did so little things like that you can
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do something small if you drink diet
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sodas right now and you want to stop
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that could be your whole new year's
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resolution of course you could do more
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you don't have to plan today what you're
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going to do all of next year that's
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silly
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pick something
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easy but you know maybe something like I
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know I need to do this I know I need to
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start working out or I know I need to
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give up the sodas or I know I need to
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give up red meat or I I want to eat more
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fish or whatever it is make it
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reasonable make it measurable and just
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get
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started so before I leave you today I
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want to share with you a little bit
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about why I've been on for a while um so
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I burnt out as we all do I dove into the
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website so hard at loseweight by
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eating.com and I shed so much fluff from
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the website that it's unrecognizable so
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if you have not looked at the lose
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weight by eating website for a year you
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really need to go check it out I took
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out all of the fluff all you were
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getting now when you go on the recipes
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on the website
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is how to make it ahead of time how to a
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meal prep every single recipe yes and
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had to store it and then the recipe and
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then the nutrition that's it you're
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getting no fluff I cut out over half of
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the ads but this was thousands of
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recipes so I had to go through every
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single one and strip it and recreate it
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the recipes are obviously the same but I
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was so sick of seeing those recipe sites
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where you have to read a whole book it
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feels like before you get to the recipe
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and sure many sites have got the jump to
18:31
recipe Button as does lose weight by
18:33
eating but I just thought this is not
18:37
helpful content this is not what people
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want and so I stripped it as I did say I
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added meal prep instructions to every
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single recipe so now lose weight by
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eating is the largest low calorie
18:54
website the largest weight loss recipe
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website and the largest meal prep
18:59
website on the internet so I did all of
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that while I was doing two podcasts my
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other podcast is called who reality
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cooking and yes that is coming back as
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well
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and I took a summer off and just burnt
19:15
myself out way too bad I took a break
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and then I was about to start I was
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going to come back to the podcasts
19:24
specifically The Who reality cooking
19:26
podcast and I was bringing on
19:29
a
19:30
co-host and my the co-host was my dear
19:34
wonderful friend Don who was on The
19:36
Taste with me and Don was also the very
19:40
first person I ever interviewed for the
19:42
who's reality cooking
19:44
podcast so I'm at the airport on my way
19:47
to Barcelona for my big trip I'm texting
19:50
with Don telling him you know this is
19:53
what I need and he's saying oh I I
19:55
haven't listened to all the podcast
19:56
episodes and we're you know doing notes
19:58
back and forth say okay I'm going to I
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I'm going to get on the plane now we'll
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chat when I come
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back and when I came back I texted him
20:08
and I I didn't hear anything and I
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thought all right
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well I I didn't want to come off pushy
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and I know he has his own life so I kind
20:16
of took a step back and a couple of
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weeks went by and I hadn't heard from
20:22
him and I had a phone call with another
20:24
friend that knew Dawn he U my friend
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Parker who is also on he worked on the
20:29
back end of the taste with
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us and that's when I found out that Dawn
20:34
had passed and um it shook me and it
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kind of took the wind out of my sails
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and yeah so that's why I've been gone
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and I know many of you are probably
20:49
thinking I don't even know who this
20:51
woman is I really don't care about her
20:53
story that's why I did at the
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end but for those of you who've been
20:57
wondering what's going going on with
20:59
this podcast why is it not happening
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where's
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Audrey that's what's happened
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so yeah it's an
21:07
excuse but I needed some time off and
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and I'm glad I did and I've had some
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experiences that I can bring to all of
21:16
you now for instance the next episode it
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I'm going to talk about a really big
21:22
screw up of mine I think you guys will
21:25
love it resonate with it but I I'm glad
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I took the time off and I'm really
21:32
grateful for all of you waiting so stay
21:37
tuned to the next episode of the lose
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weight by eating podcast and if you
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haven't listened yet check out the who's
21:44
reality cooking podcast we are coming
21:47
back with a new
21:48
format I do not have a co-host but I
21:51
will be interviewing people but we're
21:53
going to turn it into a little bit more
21:54
of a travel podcast so that should be
21:57
fun um for all of you who are just now
22:01
finding this podcast please check out
22:03
the older episodes there are so many
22:05
great resources in there for for you
22:08
including a weight loss manifestation
22:10
the weight loss secret I go into it way
22:13
more there's lots of great resources for
22:16
you so check out loseweight by
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eating.com and please comment like And
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subscribe it helps me to keep going I
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look forward to a new year with all of
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you and please be kind to yourself set
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resolutions that are kind to yourself
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don't overdo it all right I'll talk to
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you next week bye
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