190. Consistency Over Perfection

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Hey, what's going on, everybody.

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Welcome back.

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You're listening to the

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Designed to provide you with a

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ready to apply this knowledge to your

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This as always is your host, Evan Roberts.

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And on today's episode, we are

going to get real with health and.

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Making changes to our health and hopping

over that hurdle of getting into health.

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And, uh, do you have to go

all the way in on health?

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Do you have to completely drop all the

bad food and go straight in and just eat

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all these leafy greens and vegetables

and high quality grass fed beef.

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Well, we're going to dive into that

today and really break it down.

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I'm going to give you my honest answers on

what you should be doing with your health

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and as well, if you truly have to just

go all in, if this is a zero sum game,

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like you just have to put everything on,

uh, on, you know, whatever 21 or whatever

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it's called and just go all in or not.

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Now into today's episode with going all

in, on health or not at all, which tends

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to be how people seem to look at this.

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So.

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For me, I want to start off with

saying that I follow typically

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what I would call an 80 20 rule.

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Now, of course, it's not

always perfectly 80 20.

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It does shift from time to time.

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But 80 20 essentially means that 80%

of the time I am eating very clean

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and doing all the things right.

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And then 20% of the time, I'm

not, I'm eating the things I

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shouldn't be eating and I'm doing

the things I shouldn't be doing.

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Right.

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But that's because there

has to be a balance in life.

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Now, of course, there are some

people with some iron wheel.

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So with some iron will and

they're just able to truly

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live a super clean lifestyle.

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And I applaud them incredibly.

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So like the biggest applause possible,

because it can be a tough thing to do.

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And it's a, you know, it's

a great thing to strive for.

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But I think it's also very important to

understand that for most people going

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all in on eating a hundred percent

organic dark leafy greens, all the, all

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the things you should be doing, right.

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Going to bed at nine o'clock

every night, wearing your.

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You know, blue blocking glasses at night.

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Uh, You know, not having any screens

on, uh, waking up at the same time every

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single day, every single day, getting

outside, getting into sunlight on

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your skin, on your eyes, on your face.

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You know, going for that first, first

thing, morning, exercise waiting on

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your caffeine until, you know, 90

minutes into the day, making sure

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that, um, you know, your first meal has

adequate levels of protein, making sure

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that you're getting four servings of.

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Vegetables and fruit, you

guys get the idea, right?

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Like there's a lot of things that

we can do for our health, for sure.

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But it's just that it's a lot, and

it can be a lot for the average

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person, especially if you have a

lot on your plate as is, right.

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Especially if you have two, three, or

even just one kid at the house, right.

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And then you have a job to maintain and

you have other people to worry about.

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It's a difficult thing to

always prioritize health.

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And I understand that.

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And as well, I am not perfect

by any means necessary.

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Uh, so just to, you

know, put it out there.

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I do not always follow all of

the advice that I give on here.

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Right.

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Because I'll be honest, life happens

and, you know, friends visit from other

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countries and I want to show them around.

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I want to take them to a good

restaurant that honestly is probably

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going to be using seed oils.

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And I'm probably going to order a

dessert that has way more sugar than

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I would ever normally probably eat.

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Um, I'm going to take them to my favorite

brewery, uh, because they make the best

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hazy IPA's I have ever tasted, right?

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Like it's now don't get me wrong.

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It's not the every day, it's the occasion,

but nonetheless, I still do these things.

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And I think it's important

to highlight that because.

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You know, a lot of times we hear,

um, a lot of these really big

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names in health and wellness game.

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And it's just like, man, like, it

almost feels a little bit unattainable.

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And I think it's very important to

mention that, you know, while you

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should do the best that you can.

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It's also important to at least start

somewhere and be consistent with it,

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because if you're not consistent with

something, then honestly it's just better

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to not even start in the first place.

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Right.

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Because then it's like, you feel like

you failed out it and blah, blah, blah.

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Right.

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So.

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My number one thing is giving

people really bite-sized attainable

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practices that can work for them

and can be also altered to fit.

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Your or their lifestyle, right?

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Because seriously, at the end of the

day, um, I could tell you to do all

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these health hacks and practices, but

if it feels overwhelming and you end

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up just not doing any of them and you

allow great to be the enemy of good.

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Then really we didn't accomplish anything.

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I want to make it so that good.

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You know, at least doing something

good is attainable to you and you'd

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rather at least do that then, you

know, um, not do anything at all.

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So.

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You know, it's, it's like, As easy as, you

know, thinking of fast food, for example.

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If you eat fast food every single

day for at least one of your meals.

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And I tell you, Hey, eating

fast food is bad for you.

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Stop eating fast food.

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Well, if you go.

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You know, if you go to fast food every

single day, and then you try to move over

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to not eating it at all, it's going to be

very difficult for you to do that, right?

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Not only is it a habit of you to

maybe drive through that drive-through

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or visit that place and you know,

your taste buds are used to it.

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It's what you crave.

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Like there's all these different

factors that go into it.

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But if I were to tell you, Hey, instead

of eating fast food, every single

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day, Could you try eating fast food?

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You know, maybe every other day

or even just three times a week.

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That's a lot more obtainable

than not eating it at all.

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Right.

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So we have to find the steps that are

going to be something that we can stick

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to and still provide a lot of benefit.

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Because for example, if you eat fast

food every single day, and then you

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move to eating at least every other

day, you literally just cut the amount

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of fast food that you eat in half.

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And it still feels rather

attainable, obtainable, right?

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So that's what I really

want to highlight here.

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And.

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For me, you know, I mean, I

do have certain standards that

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like, I don't know, it just.

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It's easy for me to stick to certain

goals because I've been doing this

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for a long enough period of time

that I can kind of don't really

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have cravings for certain things.

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Like I can't really ever

remember the last time I was at

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a McDonald's, um, I don't know.

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It's probably like.

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Over 10 years ago.

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Uh, from now.

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Uh, but I have been at, in and out in

the last month, you know what I mean?

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And, um, for those of you who don't

know what in and out is, it's just

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a burger joint that started out here

in the west coast, in California.

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Um, and you know, it's super tasty.

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It's not something I eat all the time.

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Um, I do enjoy it, but, uh, for the most

part, fast food just doesn't really make

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it into my diet because it's just not

something I really crave all that much.

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And that's, what's awesome is when you

start with these small bite size steps and

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actionable steps, You're really just able

to start building on top of that because

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your taste buds do change over time.

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Like if you start cutting out

certain foods from your diet over

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time, you will no longer crave

those foods, your actual, like.

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Taste buds or desire for a certain

taste will change what time?

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So.

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Starting small building upon.

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It is probably the best thing to do.

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And then for me personally, finding

that 80 20 has been really just

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game changer for me because.

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Back in the day when I first started

on my health and wellness journey,

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which for those of you who are

new to the show, I dealt with a

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lot of gastrointestinal issues.

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You know, things like IBS.

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I was lactose intolerant told

I had a parasite or a tapeworm,

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like all these different things.

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And I kind of had to like figure

my way into healing myself because

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I didn't find any real answers.

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Uh, in the medical field.

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So a Spanish teacher gave me a lot

of books and films to watch and

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read, and he would teach me up on

all the different holistic practices.

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And that was pretty much how my holistic

health lifestyle change practice started.

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And I remember one of the books

that I got from my teacher was I

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think it was called the hundred

year lie or something like that.

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And I remember I read the first chapter,

which pretty much just broke down.

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All these different chemicals and.

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Oh goodness, like hormones and antibiotics

in our foods and the flame retardants

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in our couches and you know, all of

our furniture and just like really

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broke down, like how many toxins and

crazy, you know, foreign substances

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we're exposed to every single day.

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And it really kind of like freaked me out.

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And then, you know, I went like,

uh, two weeks is I've told this

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story before, but I went two weeks

with eating, just basically salads

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for those two weeks, I would.

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Throw a little protein, like a chicken or

something in there, but pretty much it was

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just like lettuce and then some avocado.

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And like olive oil and maybe

like balsamic or red wine

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vinegar or something like that.

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So super simple, but I would eat salads

every single day for like two weeks.

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And granted I felt the best

that I ever had in my life.

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I didn't have any flare ups in

my gut, which was incredible.

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But at the end of the day,

it wasn't sustainable.

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And once I kind of realized that I

kind of went through a regression

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where then it was like, oh,

well, maybe that's just too much.

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And so, you know, you kind of have that

pendulum swing where you go all in and

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then you go back to nothing at all.

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So, um, I really had to find

my balance point and 80 20.

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Once again, it's not a perfect rule.

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It's not always 80 20.

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It could be 90 10, and

then it can be 70 30.

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And you know, it can really vary depending

on the time of life that I'm in and

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kind of the events that are going on.

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But it's a great thing for me to stick to.

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And it helps me to understand that, Hey,

just because I have some friends visiting

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and we're going to go out and we're

going to have a couple beers and we're

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going to have a burger and I'm probably.

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You kind of have a pretty wrecked gut and

the next couple of days, Like it's okay.

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I'll be fine.

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I'll live.

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And then when, uh, you know,

things are back to normal, I'll

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just get back on my diet, right?

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Like I'll, I'll eat the normal

foods that I, that I enjoy.

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And as well, I actually, I.

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I want to write, like I've

I actually was out with some

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family, um, and I was eating.

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For like three days straight, just

basically like pizza and, and, you

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know, Like barbecue and just all these

like random foods, but there was really

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devoid of like vegetables and fruit.

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And I remember on the third day.

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I had to get some fruit and Metro.

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So I went to a target, grabbed like

apples, banana, just yogurt, like

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whatever I could get my hands on and

always just putting that food down

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because it felt so good to actually get

some like real nourishing foods that

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were going to sit nicely in my stomach.

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Um, so it's cool to see that your body

does adapt and, and you know, it's,

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it's, you can do this 80 20 rule where

that 20% of the time you can go out

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and have fun, but then you come back

to the 80% because you want to not

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because you feel like you have to.

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And that's the place I

want everybody to get to.

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So I really just want people to

understand that we don't need to

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make health a difficult thing, right?

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Like we don't have to go.

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All the way, you know, be Dave

Asprey with his biohacking and you

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know, you don't have to be the Ben

Greenfield and the Andrew Huberman

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and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Like whoever you want to throw in there.

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You don't have to be at that level.

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You can start where you're

at with very little, right.

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I mean, we're talking low cost or no

cost at all and having some really

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big effects and changes on our health.

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I talked recently on an episode about

doing a five minute walk and the

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benefits that it can have for your

blood glucose levels after eating food.

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And as well, just for like digestion

and a bunch of different other things.

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And that's just a five minute walk, right?

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Like that's so simple.

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It's so attainable.

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It's very doable for practically.

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Most people.

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And all we have to do is just find five

minutes after a meal to go do that.

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Right.

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So those are the things I

want us to really focus on.

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I want us to focus on maybe getting

to bed a little bit earlier.

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Maybe not watching TV all the way

up to the point of falling asleep.

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Maybe you give yourself 20 minutes before

bedtime where you just, Hey, you kind

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of like write some notes for tomorrow.

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Do what you need to brush your teeth.

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Get ready for bed.

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Um, you know, maybe it's waking up and

not going immediately to your phone.

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Right.

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Maybe you pull out a book and read

a book and wake up that way or do

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some breath work or meditation or an

exercise like a very short exercise.

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It's these little things.

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They don't have to be massive,

but they can make a really

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big difference in our lives.

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And then when it comes to food, I'm,

you know, I was being very honest.

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If you are a person that eats fast food

every single day, practically for lunch

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or whatever, it might be whatever meal.

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If you were to even just cut that in

half, you can still go out and have fast

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food, but at least if you were to cut

that down in half, it would be a massive,

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massive benefit for you and your health.

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Um, you know, trying to include some

more vegetables and fruit and higher

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quality meat would also probably be a

really great idea, uh, including a little

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bit more movement in your day, right?

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Like very simple things.

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You don't have to go overboard.

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You don't have to do an hour workout

or an hour and a half workout.

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Um, you don't have to.

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Uh, you know, completely throw away

everything in your fridge and in your

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cabinet and just go and buy nothing but

organic vegetables we'll block like.

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I mean, if you can sustain that great.

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But you can also just start by next

time you go to the grocery store,

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maybe you in, you know, include a few

more vegetables and fruit into your

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cart, what you normally wouldn't do.

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And maybe instead of making a pasta

one night, you decide to make a

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little bit of a healthier meal.

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Maybe you do an alternative noodle, like

a spaghetti squash or something like that.

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It's the little steps.

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It's the little things, but if

you can start doing those that can

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really add up and accumulate to

bigger things, and then you can just

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kind of have that snowball effect.

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Right.

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And then you'll eventually find what is

a happy medium for you, where you feel

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like you're not missing out on life.

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But you're also living

in a very healthy way.

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So.

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Today's episode is concluded with that.

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Just don't make health difficult.

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You can start anywhere.

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Um, anything is better than nothing.

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I don't allow great to

be the enemy of good.

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Doing something that is good.

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It's still going to be really good.

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Right.

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Like, and then if you can do more

than awesome, it's going to be

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even better, but you don't have to

go to the highest level possible.

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You can work your way up and take

small incremental steps to get there.

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You don't have to just dive head in.

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So anyways, I hope you all resonate with

this and found some benefit in it because

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I know for myself, this was something

that was, you know, I was really trying

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to figure it out as I was growing up

and kind of finding the balance between.

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You know, still enjoying life, but

then making sure that I'm really

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taking care of my health in the

every single day to day kind of deal.

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Um, and so hopefully this resonated with

you and you found some benefit in it.

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That's the goal is always to

just provide as much anecdotal

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information as I possibly can.

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The things that I've gone through.

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Tried and tested and then

provide that information to you.

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And hopefully it sticks and resonates

and you're able to apply some of

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these concepts to your life and

find some massive benefit in them.

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Well, that's going to do it.

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For today's episode.

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Thank you all for tuning in.

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I always appreciate you being

here and listening to me rant

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on the, these podcast episodes.

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So feel free to reach out.

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And, uh, what you would like

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All right, that's going to do it.

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Y'all I promise.

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Um, I'm going to leave you now.

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Have a good one.

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Have a beautiful rest of your day.

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Um, I'll see you next week.

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And.

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Yeah, do everything with good intentions.

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Connect your elements.

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Peace.