The Results I Was Looking For Revealed

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Welcome to the Shake of Cake.

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I'm Kate Nankerve, your host.

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And after so so many false starts, this is my journey of transformation from being unfit,

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overweight and lacking in energy to creating a full, rich life, including high energy well

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being and a strong, fit body.

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You're awesome.

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Thank you for listening.

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I'm so excited to speak with you in episode

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four of the Shape of Cake podcast.

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In this episode, I had exciting news to share

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with you.

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The first of my weigh in results since I began

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my new eating plan, also known as a diet on The Shape of Kate and other changes I'm

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noticing, but more of that fun stuff.

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Later this week, I've started my exercise

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mission for The Shape of Cake.

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I've gone back to the gym, I've started

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walking, and I'm doing mini sessions of yoga.

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What does that feel like?

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Well, it feels like a whole bunch of things.

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Some of the things I want to share with you

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include that getting ready to exercise is a lot of hard work.

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When you're significantly overweight, squeezing into your active wear is hard.

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Notice I said active wear.

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Active wear.

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Tying my shoelaces is hard.

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Summoning the courage to exercise in public is

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hard.

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And puffing hard from a place of lack of

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fitness can frankly feel a bit embarrassing when I'm walking down the street or up the

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street, or around the street.

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It's great to be exercising and it's early

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days.

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It is neat to be back.

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But I also strategically took myself to the gym on a Sunday so I could get over that hump

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of going back because I knew it would be quiet and be easy to go and find a bike because in

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the gym I'm going and doing cycling.

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I'll talk more about the exercise in future

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episodes.

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It's great to be back there and taking action,

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but it's also a bit scary because I know I'm fronting up to the gym, a place where I

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historically have had time, where I was much fitter and slimmer.

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And now I'm this shape and size and I'm dealing with that in the gym environment.

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And I know that there are lots of really good people that work in that gym and that attend

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that gym and that they will be supportive of me.

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But I do need to do some work on my mindset in order to, I guess, manage my interferes that

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pop up when I think about going to the gym feeling significantly overweight.

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And also I'm looking forward to losing some weight so some of the stuff gets easier.

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Like just the sheer physicality of getting yourself around when you're significantly

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overweight like I am.

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It's just ****** hard work.

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So I want less of that work and more of the work to go into getting stronger and fitter.

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So that's the exercise portion.

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Now let's talk about the show and some

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exciting news about the show.

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I'm so pleased to share with you and I won't

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do this forever, but I'm doing it now because it's a new show and this is a new thing.

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And if you've had a dream that you wanted to make real, I think you'll get a bit of this,

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right? So, first, episode 107 download so far.

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Thank you so much.

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You awesome human.

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You listening to this episode, 290 downloads.

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You're also awesome for listening to that one.

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Episode three, the last one I've done, 44 downloads, not so many.

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A lot of really cool stuff as well as the numbers is what I've found out on Charitable.

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I mentioned that in a previous episode, chartable is like the chart of podcasts and

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specifically gives you data on things like Apple podcasts in New Zealand and around the

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world.

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I'm really excited to share that.

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On the Apple New Zealand Fitness category, where I still am, I'm ranking at number three.

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Pretty excited about that.

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And on the Apple New Zealand Health and

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Fitness, I actually got to number 32 this week.

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It's dropped to number 75.

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That's all cool.

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There is a little bit of movement that happens during the week, but what's really freaking

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awesome is that I am now on the Apple Australia fitness charts at number 106.

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How awesome is that? Woo.

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It popped up when I logged into Charterball tonight and I was like, yay.

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So how cool is that? So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Who's listening?

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You.

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And I've got listeners in New Zealand,

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Australia, the US, the UK, Indonesian, Appall, India, Ghana and the Philippines.

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How cool is that? I love how global podcasting is that's?

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So great.

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And I want to give a shout out to Matt Sumner

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for review of the week on Apple podcasts.

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Matt had this to say about the show.

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Good on you, Kate.

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Step by step, day by day.

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I'm sure you'll get there.

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Love the openhearted approach you bring to

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this podcast.

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I hope you can learn to love the

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transformational journey you're on so your inner critic or coach becomes a new natural

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and nurturing voice for you going forward.

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What a beautiful review.

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Thank you, Matt.

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Matt and I happened to be in a networking

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group together, a business networking group, and he is also my awesome dentist.

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So I'm going to add a link to his dental practice.

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It's called accent.

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Your dentist.

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His practice is in Ponzobi in Auckland, and I'll put that in the show notes.

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If you need a dentist and you live in Auckland, give me a call.

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He's such a great dentist and an awesome human.

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I'd love it too.

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If you would like to write a review for my

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podcast, it's easiest to do on Apple podcasts so far.

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I've got to learn more about the other players it's on and how to do that.

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But I know it's super easy.

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On Apple, you can just basically click and

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give a racing and then enter some text.

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The lucky review of the Week will get a shout

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out on the show.

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So I just want to let you know that that's the

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information about the show at the moment.

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Let's talk some more about Alignment.

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I found a quote I really liked, but I couldn't find the original source.

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There seems to be many people are using versions of this, so let me just read it to

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you and then talk a little bit about it and talk into it.

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You can eat the kale, drink the alkaline water, take the supplements, do the yoga

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fasting and be vegan and hit the gym.

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But if you don't deal with the **** going on

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in your heart and your head, you're still unhealthy.

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So I really like this because my thoughts for some time are that there are many ways to be

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unhealthy and healthy.

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It's really easy to spot overweight or fat.

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Like, it's really easy to see someone like me looking round out there and going, judgy Judy

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McJudgey pants.

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But it's not so easy to spot the inner issues.

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And I think that people have been a bit casual about the pointing the finger at those of us

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who are overweight without necessarily dealing with their own stuff.

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We've all got stuff.

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I think my wise old Nana used to say, we all

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go to the devil in our own way.

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She was pretty wise by Nana.

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And to me, this means that we all find our own path in life and the good stuff and the tough

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and bad stuff really is in front of us and we are in control of that.

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I believe.

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I think this is my belief.

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Dealing with the **** is everyone's job.

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Or at least it's a possibility for everyone to

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deal with the ****.

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We get to choose if we deal with it or allow

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it to fester.

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And I say that with respect because I know

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some people have much more complex dynamics that I might have in my life and sometimes

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things just too much and you're not going to be dealing with it.

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I want to be very respectful of different situations and circumstances here.

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Guess what I'm saying? There is the potential.

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I'm saying this because there are probably plenty of people walking around who have some

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of that inner stuff.

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They may not be dealing with it.

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I might sound a bit biased here, do I? What I'm doing is I'm dealing with my physical

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****.

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I'm dealing with my overweight, my lack of

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fitness, my lack of flexibility and my lack of strength.

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I'm saying, right, I'm putting that stake in the ground and I'm going for it.

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I feel pretty stirred up about it now, too.

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Two and a half weeks in and I fell on fire

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with this.

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But I'm going for it with my physical ****.

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I'm going to tackle those things and I'm going to remove them as obstacles from living the

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life I want to lead.

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It's a little bit about alignment and what's

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going on in your heart and head and mine.

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Something else I found kind of carried on from

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here was by a beautiful creator who I really like the thinking and work of this person.

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And I'm going to have a go at saying their name.

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I've got a link to their WordPress site, which I will put in the show notes.

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The name goes something like this AB soola Sothoso.

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And this is what they had to say.

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Like I say, I'm putting the link to their

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WordPress site because that name was like, Whoa, this is interesting.

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What that person had to say is, your diet is not only what you eat, it is what you watch,

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what you listen to, what you read, the people you hang around, being mindful of the things

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you put into your body emotionally, spiritually and physically.

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I like that.

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So that, for me, ties in and thinking that we

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have this obsession in the Western world with being thin or slim, and that pertains most

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often to what we eat.

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But if we think of diet as what we consume and

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what we put into ourselves, then so many of these other things are so important, right?

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Our emotional health, what we put in and what we choose to think, which creates feelings,

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all those sorts of things, our spirituality and what that means to us and the practices we

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have, and again, our physicality or physical health.

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So there's all these different aspects to us that are blending.

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And if we think about the total picture of the diet being all of these things, then what is

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the quality of my diet? I ask myself.

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You might ask yourself that too.

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What is the quality of my diet and what am I

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going to do to create balance and put the good stuff in so that I get the good stuff out?

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I really like this creator.

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I'm going to look at more of their work, but

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it was cool.

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I really want to honor that person's thinking.

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So again, I will provide that link.

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Another wonderful creator, this time on

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TikTok.

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I'm on TikTok now for my business, and I'm

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seeing more stuff on TikTok.

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I kind of avoided it for a long time, but

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actually really liking it while kind of loving it now.

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The stuff on there is amazing.

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And I found this wonderful human.

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His name is Ben Carpenter.

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He's a fitness trainer on TikTok.

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And the man is making some immense good sense.

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Go check him out.

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His handlers at BDC carpenter, that's on TikTok.

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And I'm going to put the link in the show notes.

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He asked the question in a recent TikTok.

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He asked the question, Is obesity a choice?

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He put that out there as a question and really went on to talk about a range of things

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associated with that.

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Why is being thin harder for some of us?

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A simple choice, as Ben says, is choosing which color socks to wear.

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So it's really easy, right? We're going to choose the black socks or the

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pink socks or the Red Sox.

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Really simple, easy choice.

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Let's think about that question.

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Is obesity a choice?

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Is that a simple or a complex or even hard choice to make?

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If you're slim or find it easy to stay slim, it's not a hard choice to make.

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But if you're overweight and like me, I'm that person.

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There are people like me who must work so much ******* harder to lose weight that it's not a

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simple or easy choice to make.

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So back to the question is obesity a choice

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for yes.

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But I think the question that's important and

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this is what being raised is, is it a simple or a hard question?

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Carrying on that train of thought? I'd ask my slim listeners and friends to think

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about a goal that you have had to work for and work at for easily two or more hours a day,

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every day for potentially years, that you've set yourself and done the work and

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accomplished the goal.

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You imagine something like that.

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Not sure what that might be.

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That is the kind of hard and consistent work

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we're talking about here.

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And also, look, it's not just 2 hours a day,

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it's really 24/7 because you can't let go of the frame that you need to set.

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I mean, we can create new habits and that can happen over time, but there's a lot of work

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that goes on, a lot of thinking, just constantly making choices.

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Because food is something we all keep doing, right?

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Very different from other, what I say, addictions like alcohol or cigarettes, where

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you either can choose to have that substance that you're addicted to or not, whereas food,

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we can't give up.

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We got to do it.

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I thought that was a great point to make and made me feel a lot more assured about the

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level of work that I'm putting in to make substantial change to myself and to my body

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and to my fitness and my size and my weight.

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I'd like now to give a shout out to Cheryl

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from Why Weight Nutrition for her fabulous process.

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That's working for me.

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It is working.

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It's a style of low carb eating where I focus my meals on a blend of protein, healthy fat,

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vegetables, and noticeably less carbs than I had been eating.

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I was, like many people, typically load more carbs and probably, I think, less protein to

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be honest.

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And the healthy fat, hard to say.

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But the shape of what's on my plate has definitely changed.

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Definitely more the emphasis on the protein and the healthy fats and then with the

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vegetables as well.

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If you want to know more, because I'm not the

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expert here, check out Cheryl's website for information about her academy and her onetime

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options and I'll leave that link in the show.

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Notes I would like to put a drum roll in here

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and I don't even know how to do that.

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But I want to talk about the results now.

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I'm pretty excited about the results.

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When I began a little over two weeks ago now,

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I weighed in at the we're going to call it the high score of 162 and a half kilos.

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I'm excited to share that I have lost 375 kilograms and I'm now down to 158 75 kg.

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Woohoo.

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How exciting is that?

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I'm just totally stoked to be making progress after trying things and having a bit of loss

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and not really knowing how I did it and actually feeling a sense of pride that I have

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made all my meals and that I've got a way of working that's working for me, that gives me a

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sense of control in this dynamic and a space where I felt out of control and I feel a

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confidence in my ability to continue.

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Down that path, going in the direction that I

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want, getting to the place where I weigh less and can be more active and can grow my

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strength.

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So that's awesome.

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Other changes that I'm noticing, there's been a loosening of my clothes already.

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Go figure it's a few, I guess.

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You think about what fat looks like and how

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much it is. 375 kilograms of weight having gone, that's a chunk of stuff moved off around

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my core.

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It's easier to move already.

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My skin has improved.

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Look on my face, people are commenting that I

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have a glow and I'm feeling so much more excited about life and full of new energy all

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day, real energy.

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That is awesome.

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And something that I have learned and it's been reinforced by what's happened in the past

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fortnight and going into this week as well, is that setting my dreams free and allowing

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myself to live them is a pretty exciting ride.

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There are many things that are happening as my

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energy changes and I'll do some thinking about that so I can share more effectively in

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another episode and find someone I can have a conversation with about that.

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That's probably a good idea for now.

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Setting my dreams free is an exciting ride and

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I'm really enjoying it.

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And reflecting on the lovely review and

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languaging that Matt Sumner used earlier in this episode that I shared with you, I feel so

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much more positive.

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The inner critic is already listening and I

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feel just yet entirely more the cape that I want to be.

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I call this The Shape of Kate to describe the change in myself.

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But one of the other things, one of the other names I get called is force of Nature Kate.

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And I can feel my force of nature returning and I'm feeling much more powerful and

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empowered.

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I'm feeling much more powerful and empowered.

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That's where I'm at from the shape of Kate.

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Thank you for listening and thank you for