Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:07] Speaker B: Time starting. Paul's still counting down like he's on Wayne's World. And that's how we roll here on ABS at 50.
We're here for a quick update. Talk about my medical records, which would violate HIPAA if anybody else shared them, but I'm going to share them with you. That sounds fun, right?
[00:00:28] Speaker A: Protecting health information.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, it's not protected health information if I freely share it.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: In fact, my primary care physician said they don't think they would get up in front of any. The whole world and do shorts without their shirt on.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: So, yeah, most.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Well, my physician is quite fit. So let's.
Well, technically they are a physician's assistant, but well qualified to be my primary care provider.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: So, yeah, PAs tend to be in better shape than I come for you.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Pa. She. Yeah, they. I shouldn't give it away, but they are in better shape than most people. They were also an exercise science major in college and also unfortunately got injured in a bicycling accident a few months ago. So working, working way back in shape. And I think, you know, some of that's the impetus to do some of these things too. You know, I think there's lots of reasons we talked about why I do this. One is definitely aesthetics one. I think for me right now as we go through this journey and we're going to talk about the hitch in the road, so to speak, but not a real hitch in the road. I guess we didn't plan the hitch in the road, but we. You sanctioned the hitch in the road, so to speak. But I'll just say we took about. I took four days off of the diet. Four to five days off of the diet, like four and a half days. Is that a fair statement?
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And you haven't been tracking.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah, and I haven't been tracking as much, but that's okay. I think when we say tracking, I haven't been measuring in the app. I definitely have been tracking, if that makes sense.
Like I haven't been weighing tracking, but I've learned to eat and so that makes a difference. But just call it a week. I won't even call it like four and a half days, let's say a week of not tracking and just making sure I stayed around the 2,800-calorie threshold, which is the basal metabolic rate, as opposed to staying at the 2,200 calorie 18 to 2200 calorie weight loss threshold, which I'll be. Which I'm back to as of yesterday. So back and tracking and Eating to get to that 18 to 2200 calories. And the results of this change were I gained 1 pound, so I went up to 185.8 instead of 184.8. Right.
Right in there. So didn't gain or lose. And that should be expected if I was eating the calorie level right around my basal metabolic rate. Right, Paul?
[00:03:04] Speaker A: Yeah, Generally on Species eat that New Yorker for some sort relative to your general training regimen, it's not. You have to get crazy.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: No, I haven't changed the training regimen. If you look behind me in this video, there's way too many comic book things wandering around in the background which could distract from training. But training has been pretty standard in normal. Like I haven't, you know, dropped off per se. So I also had my annual physical, which I did much earlier this year.
I did the annual physical to start last year and or to start this whole project and now I'm doing it earlier this year. And good news, in my annual physical, Paul and I had both heard that it was a possibility that as your body is flushing fat out, your cholesterol might actually go up.
That didn't happen. My cholesterol was way down to the point that my PCP thought it was really good, pointed it out on my record and said, this is fantastic. And the bad cholesterol, that's the hdl. Right. I always mess them up.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Right. That is how it's like protein.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Is was a little bit high, but far lower than it was before. And the LDL was down in range and it wasn't before. So big change, I guess dropping 30 pounds probably could have a positive effect on your. Dropping almost 30 pounds probably would have a positive effect on your cholesterol in your body. So my blood is no longer pure steak and fats from ribeye steaks. It's now getting close to normal, even though I still eat a lot of ribeye steaks.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I think that, I think if you were consuming the same amount of calories or let's say you were and do crazy, being a vegan will work. So I think that's a special regular nearest start eating red meats and poultry. So that's excellent.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: And I'll be continuing to eating chicken and red meat because I had one other thing show up on my panel.
So we're going to get it tested later on. But my vitamin B12 may be low and the symptoms are that there are some symptoms that are like tingling in your extremities. And I actually have felt that. And I had talked to Paul about it. We thought it was due to. And it probably was partly due to this. Right. My right hand felt numb because a couple weeks ago I flew back from Phoenix from a trip and we were stuck on the tarmac for like two hours.
And being stuck on the tarmac for two hours with my arm sitting on the edge of the vibrating plane, Paul And I just assumed I'm old, I'm 50. And my elbow was shaken by that plane and was probably causing numbness in my hand. But it didn't go away.
So it wasn't a grip strength problem. There was no gripping a grip problem. It wasn't the typical numbness you think of with like nerve, nerve pain. So it was very weird. And that was one of the symptoms of the B12 deficiency. So we're thinking those things might be related.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure that plays a part to it. And also just travel, it takes us so long.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And I also, and, and one of the reasons we weren't tracking as much too, the last three weeks before this week, this week I was finally back at home so I could cook at home again and every day and do things. And so that's why we wrapped up kind of the not tracking piece. But I was traveling and then I had obligations outside of the house in Seattle and then I had another set of work meetings in Seattle. So a couple things I did do though. Paul and I did the travel eating episode before this. And I can kind of tell you how well I did on the trips. We mentioned the Phoenix already. But one strategy I have is I, when I go to Seattle for trips driving up from Tacoma, if I end up staying in Seattle, I found a hotel. I'll even say their name. It's called the Level in South Lake Union. And it's apartment style housing that's cheaper than a lot of the other hotels in the area, a little bit more expensive than some of the others. But in there I get a full kitchenette, a full kitchen. I get an oven stove and a bedroom. So there is. There happens to be a Whole Foods right down two blocks away from the level. And I, even if I was eating lunches with groups or eating dinners with groups, I could walk down the level and load up my refrigerator full of breakfast food. And that's exactly what I did. So unfortunately, as you might guess, the level are the. Paul, do you want to think what breakfast staple? What breakfast staple? The Whole Foods in downtown Seattle. Well, in sl South Lake Union in Seattle was out of what breakfast staple would they be out of right now? They were out of eggs, so I didn't get to get any eggs. But I was able to go in and get some chicken sausages and some potatoes, and I got a couple apples and some carrots. And I just made myself up a little sausage and carrot and potato, little stir fry in the morning and had that both mornings I was up there instead of eating out or going in. And it was tempting because, you know, every meeting I went to had piles of bread products sitting there, yummy donuts and croissants and all sorts of yummy things. But I knew that that was going to be a temptation. So I made sure to cook myself breakfast in the hotel room before I went out and did that. Also, the great thing about level is it has a completely full gym on the bottom floor, so I was able to get in full workouts at night even if I couldn't get them in the morning. Uh, and that's also, I think one of the things we were talking about with travel too, is just social drinking. You're a lot less prone to social drinking. You might have one, but if you know you're gonna go do a workout after you have dinner, you're much less prone to have. If you're going to have a drink, it's going to be one. Right? Like you're not going to have any more because you're going to go try to do a workout and workouts. Maybe some pe. I know there are some beasts that can go do workouts after several beers or several shots, but I am not one of them. So if I'm going to have a drink, it's going to be like one. And then a couple hours later I'm going to be back in the gym working out. So that was a. That was a nice piece too. And I think I held up the spirit of, you know, what we planned for the traveling, so just wanted to share that piece with folks too.
How are you feeling about the sidestep in the progress and then jumping back on the train?
[00:10:34] Speaker A: It's fun. Yeah. You haven't made any real regressions.
I think it's important to self identify when you're being more disciplined than others. For a long time I've said I would like to that like 800. And as you get older and as you get closer to a goal, you have to get more and more precise. But 8 out of my 10 choices are good choices, you know, in the main.
And so I think you're still.
You're still going to have, you know the framework that you're working in. I don't think you'd like outside of that at all.
But as we talked about when we first started this more that you mentioned, right.
So better results for more precision. It's really that simple.
You're going to hit plateaus and life happens.
You just gotta get right back into your rule of thing. Just gotta have short number one. You have to recognize when it's happened.
I know that there are psychological phenomena go go off the rails, see. Just go crazy, right. Eating everything and get damage or something. I think you have to see a kind of sociological guilt, personal guilt, seeing people burning drugs. It's our.
You just have to have self reassurance.
It's just really easy to get back on. It's really easy to get back out there. You got to start getting back to your routine. And the thing about it too is when you really commit to whatever it is. Let's see if there is to do some revert really commit and it really becomes a habit.
You'll start to feel off. You'll start to feel. It's the. It's like the opposite of eating junk food. If you're eating junk food a lot you can to it and you start eating other things. Like it feels different.
But when you give up junk food, I'd say oh, you got my heavy McDonald's a lot. McDonald's never. You know I got McDonald's I have, you know if I have it once a year, once every six months my eco terrible because my body's not processing. But if I ate McDonald's every single day I would not only get used to it, but I'd probably feel better than when I'm eating something else because of the response my body wherever it's to have anticipation to it, right. Like it's hitting grounds, you know, don't for being reward centers grow to like them. But you can EZ trained. Like if you're training insane out you're gonna get feedback where and sometimes it peaks just you're very out of shape. It's going to take some time for each to start learning getting the positive feedback which are getting a whole lot and you detour for a little man. I feel sluggish. I feel off like for me for specifically for Jiu jitsu I have to take two minutes off, right? It's literally.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Yes you do.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Like you would know like I take that much time off there.
But I for people who actually take time off from DJC or at home they Talk about that time. It's like it becomes that itch, right? So you feel like this innate desire to go and do the thing. And I think you can build that, but maybe not to the scene free.
There are a lot of benefits that you're getting. Doesn't necessarily come from all types of working out, but it's what you want. Especially if you're on a team sport or do something in basketball, you might play around.
It's a double effect. You have the community building, so you get that aspect of it that you have the actual.
Don't mean they just earn the extra staminas that's pink.
If we're doing anything as far as it came from, this podcast is to don't let it be in our end of the month of your list or just looking at five records where you didn't add a thousand.
The grades don't matter.
You're trying to do that as consistently and be as progressive as you can.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Well, let's extend on that point too. I don't think it was what we originally planned to talk about, but let's move on to that a little bit too. What I didn't disclose during that timeframe while I was traveling too, I had some incredibly stressful family situations hit, an incredibly stressful financial situation hit, and an incredibly stressful work situation hit, all at the same time. So one of my choices was to maybe slack off on the measuring a little bit as I was getting through those things, but just making sure that I was eating right properly and I didn't go down a crazy rabbit hole of bad eating. I wasn't measuring like you said, but I only had when we were talking about the four and a half days I had, like, the four days where I had desserts and a couple, you know, things I hadn't had in a long time, right? But like I had a giant donut, which I regretted immediately after eating because I to Paul's point, like, I couldn't go to sleep that night after that because I had all that sugar rushing through my system. So I think there are definitely some things like that where now I'm looking at that food going, why would I ever eat that? Which was good. I mean, that's a great feeling, right? You go on this journey and you want to start identifying if I'm gonna go have a treat, what are things I would never want? I just don't want donuts anymore. I know that sounds crazy to folks, but I at least the donut I had, I mean, it was a pretty crazy Donut.
It had like Oreo cookies on it.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: It's one of the voodoo donuts sort of like.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
But even with that said, I just don't. I'm looking at donuts right now and I'm like, nah, you know that, that's, that's cool. Now there's some other food now dark chocolate. I will grab by the handfuls happily. And I will say one of the things that I think over the last few weeks, maybe I wasn't monitoring as well. They did have a little bit of dark chocolate hanging out in the office or at home and ate a little bit more than I had been. Right. And maybe not weighing or paying attention to that as much as I should. So couple things like that. But I think the thing too, when you start getting comfortable with your body and the food, you're going to gravitate toward those things that make you feel good.
And if the dark chocolate, you know, in the big scheme of things is a lot less damaging than a donut.
[00:17:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Or a giant muffin.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: But in I think there is a fair amount of to be Brian Johnson There's a fair amount of literature that shows that really high volt dark limit is independent. Some sort of heavy metal source is going to have a net positive so multiple the high flavonol concentration of particular dark chocolate, especially where it's not sweet added sugar. And so I think that battles probably either neutral or positive effect as opposed to it's certainly not going to be chronic spike insulin that you're going to get direct tubes. Things are a future about you're entering into a phase of your life whether you're really young or burdens or fatigues or whatever age you're reducing on its spice and its surroundings. The best thing you do for yourself to lead you to start changing else it's just over conclusive that you're having water subsides all the time.
That's how we get through your body.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: The scripts you tell yourself too. Right. So I went to grab a I again, aspartame is not the greatest thing for you. Like we know that. But I was at work today and I wanted something, some water that had flavor. So I went and grabbed a Sprite zero from the ven. You know, from the vending refrigerator and bought it and walked it out. And one of my colleagues, they had a bunch of free soda out for employee appreciation Day which let's. Let's just laugh about that for two seconds. But yeah, it's employee Appreciation Day. We gave you a bunch of really unhealthy food. Thanks.
It's. That's way a great way to appreciate me. That whole pizza party joke is real. But with that said, you know, the person was just being kind like, hey, you could have one of these free sodas here. Well, they were all sugar sodas and I felt kind of like a jerk later. But my, I gave my normal statement back. Oh yeah, I don't, I haven't drank the sugary soda for a long time. And that's like, I forget who said this. You may remember, but somebody said this and it stuck with me years ago because we talked about it years ago. That's like drinking, that's like drinking candy. And I'm not going to drink candy. That's just a terrible way to get it into your system. So, you know, I just don't drink sugary soda. And, and I have a normal, I have a script in my brain. Like the immediate script is. That's drinking candy. You wouldn't do that.
And you know, the more kind of scripts you can build into your brain too, like if you're offered a donut or you're offered something like, it's like, oh, well, I don't eat donuts because they spike my insulin and I'm going to feel terrible later. Right. Like you can say those scripts to yourself, I don't eat this. Now there are a couple of things that I will always eat and probably. But we've been able to tamper down on them. You know, one thing that I really haven't, I'm not going to say I haven't wanted it. And we've supplemented with some like ice cream sandwiches or some little low calorie ice cream bars like kept. Kept the ice cream very small. Right. So when we were looking at, I'm a big ice cream eater and we looked at ice cream that had less than 200 calories in a wrapped serving. Right. So here's something we're not going to do while I'm on this journey. We are not going to give me a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Unless I'm just going to eat that for the entire day.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Also known as a single serving.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Yeah. That is not a single serving, but it is 1200 calories in a pint. Ish.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: It's a single serving for Dan.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: Oh, it is a single serving for Dan. It absolutely is. It's absolutely delicious. I love ice cream. And you know, you have to know those things too. So if you know you have a vice. Dark chocolate. I actually did A bad job with that the last couple weeks because I kept dark chocolate next to me in my office desk, which is a terrible thing for me to do. I know that the dark chocolate should be somewhere else. And I can only get myself a little bit because I will say, like when I was stressed a little bit at work, I just reach right into that desk drawer and grab that chomp, chomp, chomp, because it's right there and it's so easy and it gives you that little pump that Paul was talking about. So I know for me that's something I have to like, get back to remembering not to have those things there. Just full stop. No. And I bought it so innocently too. I went to like Walgreens in the middle of the day looking for some. I was looking for windshield wiper fluid for my car, walking around slu. And then of course I walked by and the dove little wrapped dark chocolate almond one. And regular ones were like, buy one, get one free on sale. And I was like, oh, harmless. I'll get some dark chocolate, put it my desk, share it with people. It'll be fine.
Don't trick yourself.
Just don't buy it right now.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: It's not beach room.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Yep. And I think that's one of the things too, is just that's. I think this is a good. I think we can kind of summarize this topic today as, hey, I take a side step for a couple weeks not measuring. And then I did have some treats, but I didn't gain weight and I kept my eating within the range we needed to, to be. To stay that way. And now I'm getting back on track. The other piece we shared today was like making sure that you're eating things that you know fit with what your goals are. And making sure that if you know something is a danger for you, don't put it next to you.
If your favorite thing is drinking Mexican Cokes, don't put a glass bottle Coca Cola in your refrigerator.
If your favorite thing is a caramel macchiato with whipped cream and sugar and coffee, don't go to Starbucks. Just full stop.
You have to change your messaging, right? Your messaging has to become something else.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: If you're prone to eating your entire cheesecake, get more. Consider cheesecake.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: Look, cheesecake is delicious and you should probably eat a cheesecake. It's high in protein ball.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: That's. That's all. It's high. It's protein. Yep.
[00:24:58] Speaker B: So yeah. And just know that. And then if you are going to have. And we plan, we. We Semi planned it out. Right. I told you I was doing it and you said, fine, we'll do that. But if you're gonna have a dessert too, the donut was the one part that wasn't planned. So that was the extra day. But you know, when we planned it out, we just said, okay, we're gonna have desserts for a couple days. And I did. I didn't go crazy. I had like one per day. Like, this wasn't like a. We didn't go. We didn't do. Go do a rock cheat meal. Right. Like, we didn't buy two pizzas, a pan of brownies. And we used to do that like 10 years ago. Like, we would have an epic cheat day. But that's just for both of us. With you, you just went through a horrendous weight cut. Right.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: It was not. It was less than enjoyment. That's for sure. It was a granddad. It's not like I came closer to.
It was not fun. Given that I had to actually try to weight record.
Really ever allowed myself since that work because of just how limited schedule work. Still working out and doing this. But I was not doing velocity that I ended up doing.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: And you weren't.
And you stopped measuring too. Right. During that work times, I took a slightly different approach.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: I was doing mostly like keto. So I wasn't. I did more the elimination diet than I was which was working out. I wasn't so was able to get out of my £5 just by CH where I was eating.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: But we do both know we should be doing both. Even if we're doing an elimination diet. Right. Like if we're tracking the cal, at least for me, like if I'm tracking the calories per day, it should definitely be a montre.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: Is the same. Like my results.
So she attract people. So I am not.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Yep.
But we've both. We. We're both consciously looking at it. And that's the piece that's important.
And so. And then last thing. If you are in a stressful time and you know, maybe something's gonna slip. I think the important thing one is to remember the journey that you're on. The one thing I feel really good about during the stressful time is I can't control family drama. I can't control most of the work drama. I can't control the financial systems of the world.
And so I can't control those things, but I can control this.
And that is a really good feeling. Right. And I know that if I'm controlling this, I've Seen the results on paper. Now we're going to go get the vitamin B12 thing checked out. But that probably has nothing to do with this weight loss journey.
And if it does, I'm gonna work with the provider, figure it out and figure out like what supplement or what diet change I need to make. But the other pieces of the health, the weight loss, the knee. Feeling better. Cause I'm not putting as much pressure on it. Also went through a period the last couple weeks where the knee kind of flexed out and didn't hurt. It didn't. It hurt a lot. Didn't feel great. But I was still able to get out and do things. Go walk the dogs, get in here and do small kettlebell workouts. Even on the days it hurt really bad. And just as a reminder to the listeners that may not know the whole history, I don't have an ACL in my left knee and have had many, many surgeries. So it is bound to just hurt from time to time. But the weight we've taken off allowed me to do things that I maybe wouldn't have done in the past when it was hurting that bad. So, yeah, it's gonna help your resiliency. Yep. So you know all of those things, knowing we're moving through, that's what's keeping me moving on the journey. So just summarizing that up and then just remember we're at 185.8 right now on the journey down to 174. And if I get to 174, then we'll start talking about changing the diet limitations. Do I want to go further? But for now, everything's on track and we'll keep moving in the right direction. Anything you want to end with on the summary.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: You have to figure out. Works for your own reason. Shakespeare's first year to write your own self being true. So know. Know what your triggers are, you know. Yeah. Especially when you get there. Right. You mean like if you're just like, you just saw me through. I didn't even focus.
When you focus, you'll know. Right. That's just a.
It's just a derived plea of ignorance. But when you focus, you know where your trigger areas are. And there's a couple of ways you can deal with it. Number one, you can find substitutes. So you have readily available substitutes or something that lows. That's significant less detrimental. And that might be like honey. All the different things we experiment.
Oh, man. You remember the eating brownies?
[00:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:23] Speaker A: There were so and so try to have things that you need to make some brownies that are. You're like man, I just can't live without brownies. Well try to find things that use stevia and applesauce and you know try, try to do it everything with something you can control the inputs that's still going to right like the quality of ingredients, how much sugar it's. There's. There's so much added sugar that if you're making it yourself then you're the one adding sugar. Right. You get to talking all that sugar go subhashins that are substitutes and as you know damn certain too is if you have to have abstinence from certain things in your age to sell that to yourself and to be able to sell it to other people. I think we should and in society should be much more I think maybe with cheese stuff but I yeah I did eat that a lot in the old days that I work at Versus like oh, you're not eating huh? I don't eat it. I'd still be with you guys.
Oh every Tuesday. Is Tuesday free? Thursdays don't have Thursday.
Someone's got a birthday every month sort of cake or some embrace they know I eat birthday cake every single month.
If I have birthday. If I eat birthday cake on my birthday once a year that's not you know that's not a big deal eating you know 2000 calories birthday cake one out of every four weeks that starts to add up. Most of those calories start to add up.
Abstaining from certain things is totally natural.
These type of avoid thirst groups like things that Brent are not going to be able to reach out for or number three you're talking about super achievements that you have before. If you're really putting them related to your old brain. Start about 800 what you can do. You know what psychologically you can stick to diet. You stick to successful just as the thriving in right you stick to starting to be on the successful.
But there is, there's a paradigm where people making notes throughout the week every single thing that you throughout the year.
I really want whatever it is. I really want cookies that ice cream and then pick up the day of rest.
Like if I punish you my simple ketogenic diets. Wait, wait a minute. I vision every couple of weeks or once a week if you go like go crazy or like I'm giving myself four hours forever by the time you get to the six.
I want this and I want that.
You're just not going to be that's the thing because if you broke if you break it up. You have one of those trades every single day. At the leap you had mixture of 20,000 captures. But if you try to sit down and eat 20,000 calories, we gotta make yourself sick. You're like, yeah, we're great every day. You are. That's.
You want to try to give yourself a cycle, a cheap day.
Don't make it the whole day. Just be like, I'm going to give myself a window here. And I get whatever pizza, burger and stuff that could be a weak doer. If that was I think here more likely it's a real buyers. I really don't want personal. Sorry. Seriously. I think you'll start to see how when you deny yourselves something needs to be covered. Understand that's not really a loss. Right. You have to eat ice cream.
You know, if you have obvious burger there. I know you want that burger. What's your sneeze? You really think that desirable? So you have to find a new way to satiate yourself. That's the idea. You're eating healthy, you're unsubscribed to your rescue. You're going to crave those other things less.
And if you are, your sleep patterns and things like that are also to get to you where your brain are. So if you're creating a lot of carbohydrates, it might not be that you actually carry carbohydrates. It might be a bunch of homemade worms and not the rest of your sinus health and won't be any organ. So I think that will show giving themselves a break if they're not giving the pain to Burgundy. So you should stay on it by just drug with all the Soviet. Right.
The consistency over time. Yeah. This is a journey that you've been on, working out, focusing on things being close two years ago.
Even what we're at, it'd be consistent. Lots of tag. You may respond to different variations. And so it's a continuing journey. The journey will continue.
It's. The whole thing is the journey has to continue and health and the constant rotation of their journey. Just like we talked about.
There's going to be a lot of things that you can't control. Right.
Always happens this way here. So it was true. This could continue to be that way. It's never going to change. Right. It's going to be different variations. Shooting some stress from working. Whether it's the world, politics, your neighbors, finances, relationships, is always. It's always. That's. That is how life happens. You're not worth just, you know, get ahead make the goal. Stick to that goal.
Keep working towards the end.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Yep. And, yeah, I couldn't summarize it better. And I'm gonna leave us on one funny note.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: We.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: I feel like we just promote Whole Foods too much on this podcast, but that's. That's fine. I'll leave us on a funny note. One of the things I've really found, too, in this whole thing is I used to go to, like, a place where if they weighed something like frozen yogurt or like the Whole Foods bar, and that would stress me out because I thought it was so limiting, and my whole brain has flipped on that.
Now when you go to the Whole Foods hot bar, I'm looking and saying, okay, this is awesome, because I get to weigh my food and I know exactly what I'm getting. So if I go there now, like, Paul was talking about substitutes, it's like, I know exactly how much I can eyeball that box and I know exactly how much. Rice and chicken tikka masala. Right? That's what's there. And then a little bit of those. We used to call them garbanzo beans because I'm too American white person. But we now call those chickpeas. Right. Because that's what they're called.
And I was trying to remember the name. That's how old I am. God, 50. See? But I know exactly how much of those three things go in the box to get exactly to that one pound to hit that $13. But it's not a cost saving thing. Cost saving things or limiting things. I'm looking at that going, that's going to be a very healthy, nutritious, nutritious lunch as a substitute. Like Paul was saying that I had the other day when I didn't have a meal prepped, and instead of going out and having something really greasy or something else, I went there and grabbed that and keep on it. Like Paul was saying, don't get off the journey. You know, the journey is there. So if you know those alternatives are there, utilize them.
There's a restaurant that weighs the salad out and gives your chicken on it. Use it.
It's an easy way to continue what you're doing.
And why not?
And before, I used to get so mad because I'm like, oh, I'm going to put all this food in here. It's going to charge me a billion dollars for weighing it. Now I'm like, no, that's a benefit. Now I'm looking at it going, and not only am I going to save money because I'm going to hit that $12 for lunch, which, let me tell you, in South Lake Union in Seattle, hitting a 12, $13 lunch is a bargain.
And then you're also going to restrict your calories intentionally and still have a good lunch. So you know everything Paul's saying about continuing the journey, do it, and you can actually get some fun benefits. And I guess that's our third commercial for whole Foods on the podcast. So in just this one. So sponsor us. Yeah, should sponsor us where you get stuff. All right, well, we'll wrap this up. I hope you enjoyed this update and talking about the journey, the different ways you stay on it, and that it's okay to take a break as long as you don't go crazy. Don't eat the 20,000 calories in one day like Paul said. And we'll see you next time. And I think by the time we see you next time, I should be what, sitting? Right. Let's just tell them right now I should be sitting around 180. 180 pounds. Right, Paul?
So I better be there next time, right?
[00:39:52] Speaker A: You're not to get after it.
[00:39:54] Speaker B: All right, we'll do it and we'll see you then. Bye, everyone.
