Full Transcript for Fuel, Ignite & Thrive: Nutritionist Tania Gustafson on Midlife Hormones, Blood Sugar & Honouring God With Your Body

of water, uh, adjust, and then come back in six months. 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:43.680 That's scary. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:44.800 That was very scary. 00:03:45.039 --> 00:04:00.800 So that's kind of where I had to become the nutritionist because I noticed some things with food that would really affect her that would make a noticeable difference with her disrupting of sleep or having accidents or just being grumpy and just not, you know, complaining that she was hurting, you know? 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.680 And so I was like, all right, we're we're gonna figure this out. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.719 And so we barely had a computer in the house at the time. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.520 I don't even I think it was we I don't think we had one yet. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:13.360 And so there was a lot of observation and trial and error and things like that. 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.199 And so it was out of necessity. 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:16.959 It was out of necessity, really. 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:21.759 And then right as I kept working through that, and she'd get better and better and better and better. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.040 And anyway, she's fine now, she's 30, and she's an elite athlete. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:25.920 She made it. 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:26.879 She made it. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:28.319 The youngest one is 30. 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:29.519 I can't believe I said that. 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.600 And right, how does that happen? 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:32.560 Crazy. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:38.800 But um, so I just felt I was always called to do something about health because I kept seeing how people could change. 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:50.800 And and then for my own self, I had had these injuries in my legs from when I was a teenager, teaching fitness, um, uh, cheerleading, dance, gymnastics, like the whole gamut, you know, the 80s. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:55.680 They weren't really concerned with our and our shoes and all the things, right? 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.000 And so I became a weather vein. 00:04:58.160 --> 00:04:59.360 Like I had arthritis. 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.319 Oh my gosh, so you could tell when it's gonna snow. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.480 Oh, snow, rain, all the bad things. 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.800 As I got older and I was feeling this like arthritis for all the time. 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:15.199 I was started learning, I learned about blood sugar balance and um and reducing inflammation. 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:21.040 And it, but it took me 22 years being in the health and fitness industry before I heard any of that. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.759 Well, because it was all about being thin. 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:25.199 It was being skinny. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.000 Yeah, it was about necessarily being healthy, right? 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:35.360 Counting your calories and working out harder and you know, all the things that made you skinnier, smaller, less, right? 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:36.959 And cardio queens. 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:38.399 Oh my gosh, right? 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.480 How much were we doing so much? 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.240 I love it now that they say focus on lifting weights. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:45.279 I love the weights. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:46.160 I love the weights. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.920 Well, we're gonna talk about perimetopause and midlife and and where that's low. 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:54.800 But but did you ever struggle with your own image of your body? 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:55.759 Well, you know what? 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:01.920 I didn't even think I was doing dieting behaviors until probably about maybe eight years ago or so. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.360 I never would have thought that they were even called dieting behaviors. 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:12.800 Like, but I would step on the scale every day and check to see what damage I did yesterday if I went out for dinner or something, right? 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.120 Like, okay, is that number the number I want to be? 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:16.800 Now, do I have to work out harder today? 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.360 I think there are still a lot of women who do that. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:24.959 I will admit, there's some mornings I wake up and the first thing I think is, what did I eat last night? 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.000 Did I eat well? 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.879 Did I it's it's just so ingrained in so many women's brains. 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:31.360 Yeah. 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.519 And we really got to get out of that because that's the worst time to step on the scale, actually. 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:41.199 Because your body's holding on to bloat because if you went out to a restaurant, they're gonna use more salt, sugar, sauces, whatever than you would have. 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:42.240 That's why it tastes so good. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:43.519 It's why it tastes so good, right? 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:43.839 Yeah. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:50.079 But we should have those as your celebrations, not as a, oh my gosh, it's a guilt fest now because I enjoyed that. 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:57.680 Like memories are made around the table and life has celebrations, and so we need to work that in, which is what I do with my clients now. 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:08.079 But um, so yeah, I didn't really, but I noticed that when I learned about blood sugar stabilization, so 22 years in, I finally go to a conference because I was attending all the conferences, never heard it. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.399 And finally they had a speaker who talked about it. 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.639 I was like, this is the missing piece. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:14.160 Like, what is going on? 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:15.759 Because I knew I wasn't having enough protein. 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.560 I knew that much, but I just didn't know how to work it in. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.360 And so when I heard about that, I made the

shift. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:23.600 And so now I'm in my early 40s. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.279 You know, you're hitting that perimenopause where everyone says, well, the weight's gonna come on, you know. 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.959 I was able to change my body composition and lose body fat. 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.879 As women are typically complaining about. 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:43.360 Well, I mean, that's where I want to go with this, is that you hear so many women in our age range saying, I just don't feel like myself anymore. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.879 My body, I look in the mirror, I don't, I don't understand what's going on. 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:47.279 Yep. 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:51.519 And so you've turned this now into coaching. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:51.839 Yep. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.439 And I think you hit on it when you said it's mostly nutrition. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:56.720 Isn't that the truth? 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:57.600 Totally. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:59.120 Food is your foundation. 00:07:59.199 --> 00:07:59.600 Yeah. 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:06.000 You know, like you can shine up your car and make it look all pretty and vacuum it all out and buff the paint and everything. 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.399 But if you're not putting fuel in it, it's not going anywhere. 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:08.959 Right. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:10.879 Okay, well, you touched on protein. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.360 Just let's just get this out there right now. 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.920 So, how much protein do we need? 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.600 Because we feel a lot of pressure in this department. 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:25.439 And I don't know that eating a turkey pepperoni stick is with the kind of protein we're talking about. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.920 So just just sidetrack for a second. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:28.079 Yeah. 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.399 How much protein is for a woman in a day? 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:31.519 Is it on your weight? 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:32.720 Kind, yeah, kind of. 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:33.519 You can base it on that. 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.360 And then also, like, how active are you? 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:43.039 And you want to kind of start start small a little bit because if you're the kind of person who's right now eating one or two meals a day, because there's a lot of people out there doing that. 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:43.200 Yeah. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:44.159 They skip breakfast. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:51.120 Oh, now I'm busy, I work through lunch, I'm grabbing a snack on my way home, and then I'm I'm just eating dinner and I'm consuming all my food then, right? 00:08:51.360 --> 00:09:00.080 And so if you're doing that, and now I tell you, well, you probably should be eating four, five, six times a day and adding protein to that, they're gonna be like, ooh, overwhelming. 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:09.360 So just start thinking having protein first thing in the morning, but you know, within that first hour, you when you get up, yeah, that sets your blood sugar to be stable. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:17.600 And when your blood sugar is stable, then your body will naturally turn your metabolism on and it lets your body release soared fat. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:23.120 But if you don't, then you you drop your blood sugar and your brain never shuts off. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:27.519 So it needs um a dense protein source to turn to glucose to feed it. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.639 And the only dense protein source it's gonna get is your muscle. 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.360 And muscle is our currency and menopause, right? 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.679 Like we need it for our bone structure, uh, for our cognitive health, for our immune function, for our stability, our strength, all these things. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.200 It also helps regulate your metabolism, it helps control your hormones. 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:47.519 If we don't have it, we are we are you know short on all of these things. 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:47.840 Yeah. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:53.759 So if you want a number, and I try to not really do too many numbers with people because sometimes people get a little obsessed. 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.159 Okay, so then would you just say it every time you eat? 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:57.519 Every time you eat, yeah. 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:01.200 So I mean, so for myself, I'm like, you know, I weigh about 125 pounds. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.440 So I would have about 120 grams of protein. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:04.720 So around your weight. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:06.240 Around your weight ish. 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.320 You know, a little either side of it. 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.639 You gave me that tip to have protein first thing in the morning, especially if you're a coffee drinker. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:14.240 Like make sure you have some protein. 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:20.000 And I will say it does, it does change your whole probably gut biome, first of all. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:27.200 But you don't get that ravenous, like, I know that if I have my protein and I have it in cold brew coffee. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:27.919 There you go. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.159 And it just holds me. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:30.559 Yeah. 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:35.759 Well, and that's a great way to do that because people are they women, especially they want to, oh my gosh, I need my coffee. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:36.320 Don't talk to me. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:37.120 I need my energy. 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:37.519 Yeah. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:37.919 Okay. 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:44.320 Well, if you're doing that on the empty stomach, you're spiking your insulin and your cortisol, setting yourself up to store fat. 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:49.840 But if you put the protein in with it or you have it with your breakfast. 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:54.320 So if you're having eggs and toast or something, get the eggs in first before

you start sipping on the coffee. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:00.879 You're gonna do some great things for your body as opposed to you know, you're gonna start getting benefits rather than deficits. 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:01.519 That's right. 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:02.000 That's right. 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:11.840 Okay, now we're getting into the nitty-gritty because this is like this we have way more power over how we feel than maybe you know, right? 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:13.279 Not you. 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:14.320 Thank you. 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:22.960 Because you really, you it really does come down to how you feel yourself, how you supplement yourself, and how you move. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:23.440 Yeah. 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:24.240 How you sleep. 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:29.039 Okay, let's start with hormones because I think that is probably what we're trying to control, right? 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:29.600 Yeah. 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:32.960 Um, and so when your blood sugar is stable, that's the only place your hormones can balance. 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:33.519 There you go. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:42.159 So you really want to do that, and then looking even farther down the pipe, um, Alzheimer's has been called type 3 diabetes for over a decade. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:42.799 Wow. 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:54.559 So all those things with dementia, Alzheimer's, the brain things, if your body is not in balance, if you're not stabilizing your blood sugar, it's put it's taxing your brain. 00:11:54.799 --> 00:12:01.279 Because when I said about, you know, your brain never shuts off and it needs that protein source, if you're not fueling it, it has to go find it in your body. 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:01.519 Yeah. 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:01.919 Right? 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.399 So it has to find that source, take it from your muscle. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:06.159 Eventually, you get pretty depleted. 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:11.120 So it's kind of like when you're sucking out of the straw and you get to the bottom of the milkshake and it's like really, really hard, you know? 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:15.360 And so your brain's being taxed and strained in a way that it doesn't have to. 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:20.000 Is that why people on GLPs, is that why they lose their muscle? 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.159 Because they're not, is it is it just uh like an enhanced version of what you're describing? 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.240 You're not giving your body enough, so now it's yeah, rapidly going after. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.600 It's well, the the traditional the GLP ones, like the you know, the all-in-ones, right? 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.799 The Limovi, the Ozempic, all those kinds of things, right? 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:41.679 Those are they're probably about four to five times more than you what you need. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.840 Your body will make its own GLP one. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:44.399 Yeah. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.159 If you balance

your blood sugar. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:53.600 So what what's happening is those medications will shut down your digestive and slow down your your elimination. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:54.080 Yeah. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:59.919 So it tells you that you're full and it slows down all the literally all the crap from eliminating from your body. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:00.799 Not very good. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.039 Um, and so you feel full. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:08.559 It's like after turkey dinner at at Christmas or Thanksgiving, and you feel like, oh, I don't really want to eat very much today. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:10.399 So you don't eat very much. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:15.039 So now you're missing nutrients because you're not giving your body enough of what it needs. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:19.200 And so there we go back to the well, the brain doesn't shut off, so where is it getting it from? 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:20.960 Has to get it from your muscle. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:28.159 So the idea when when you're losing weight, you will always lose a little bit of muscle, even when you're doing it well. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:35.759 But the ratio is like, you know, 90%, 95% fat, and then you know, the little teeny bit of muscle. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.320 Whereas it's the other way around with that almost. 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:39.200 It's like it's huge. 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:44.639 The ratio is very big of the amount of muscle that you're losing, and once you've lost it, it's really hard to get it back. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:45.120 Yeah. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.360 Especially, especially when you're in midlife. 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:54.159 Yeah, you know, and so um, and then all of those things are not they're not solving your problem either. 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:03.919 The weight, the menopausal symptoms, like the hot flashes, the bloating, the brain fog, not sleeping, the fatigue, those are all symptoms like in your car, the check engine light. 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:07.360 So having that medication will mask it. 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:15.679 But without the foundation of what should I be doing to help roll this back, you are literally a customer of the pharmaceutical industry for life. 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:35.279 When you are doing the right things or if everything's functioning normally, let's say, like you're you're a balanced eater, you work out moderately, you take care of yourself, but you still there's still moments where, especially, you know, the hot flashes, the getting upset about things irrational. 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.480 What like what is normal for a woman to expect? 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:42.480 Well, I mean, every woman is different. 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:42.799 Yeah. 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:43.279 Right. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:49.360 And so the result where you are is the result of what you've been doing for years. 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:54.720 So it's not necessarily about your age, length of time you've been doing something that serves or doesn't serve your body. 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.159 So if you're younger, listen to this too, because you're setting the stage. 00:14:58.399 --> 00:14:58.639 Right. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.600 So that's what I didn't understand in a good way when I first learned about balancing my blood sugar. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.879 Balancing my blood sugar helps to bring down internal inflammation. 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:10.799 Inflammation is firing up all of those menopause and perimenopause symptoms. 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.159 It's like pouring gas on a fire. 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:19.919 So if we can bring down our internal inflammation and then balance our blood sugar where our hormones can balance, then we've got a really nice double whammy. 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:31.120 And then if you focus on healing your gut, you can also target all of those anxieties, the moods, and things like that, the autoimmune, the skin issues, the acne, all that kind of stuff that comes with comes with. 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:33.519 So it's a little bit of a trifecta there. 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:39.919 So because I was doing these, you know, proactively, when I hit menopause, I haven't had a hot flash. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:41.519 I don't have any of those kinds of things. 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:42.559 So please don't hate me. 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.000 Don't send, don't send me hate mail. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:45.679 But I just get them at night. 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:46.639 I never get them in the day. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:47.039 Yeah. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:55.600 And so there's, you know, the longer or the or the better you can dive in to your balance, you're gonna see them, you're gonna see them turn back. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:02.240 You know, I was I was talking with a woman the other day, um, one of my clients, and she, when she first came to me, like sleep was her big thing, right? 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.919 And she was not sleeping, she was sleeping an hour and a half to two hours a night. 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:07.600 Like waking up for two hours ago. 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:08.639 That makes you crazy. 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:10.000 Yes. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.759 And then she takes two hours to go back to sleep and then maybe get another hour and a half or two hours. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.519 And she was doing that for years. 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:17.759 And uh I have friends like that. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:18.720 Yeah, it's crazy. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.960 Within five weeks, she um now sleeps from 10 p.m. 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:23.600 to 7 a.m. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:25.039 and doesn't even wake up to go to the bathroom. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:26.240 Okay, so what does she do? 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.120 What do you have her doing? 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:28.480 She's balancing her blood sugar. 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:35.039 Yeah, we remove the inflammatory foods so that we can um

empty your toxic load bucket, is what I call it, right? 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.399 We have this like bucket of stuff that fills up and we need to like pull the plug. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.559 It's like it's like doing an oil change on your car. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.200 You gotta take the filter out and put a new one in it every once in a while. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:44.000 Right to clean it. 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.559 So that'll help to clean your filters kind of thing. 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:51.440 And um, and then adding it when you you're like, well, I like that food and I took it out for a bit. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.639 Okay, see if when you add it back, is that a red light, yellow light, or green light signal for you? 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:58.320 Like, how are you feeling when you do that? 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.559 Because we eat a lot of foods and combinations. 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:05.680 So if we can now determine what's working for us, is that triggering a hot flash for you? 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:07.599 Is that triggering bloating for you? 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:09.279 You know, it's like, oh, not so great. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:10.559 Okay, let's roll it back. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.920 And it could be that it's just that your gut hasn't healed yet, right? 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.960 And you have to do some more work there and then try it again, or it could be that that's really something that your body doesn't like. 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:27.759 And we work through those things, but it was just so incredible that she went from sleeping only an hour and a half to two hours at a time to like a full nine hours. 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:28.799 That's amazing. 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:29.680 That's amazing. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.519 And she's like, Oh my gosh, it's so much. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:33.119 I am so have so much energy now. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:33.839 Well, no kidding. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.079 Because you're sleeping, because you're sleeping how God intended it. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:37.039 Yeah, exactly. 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:37.359 Right? 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:42.880 You can't function if your body isn't doing the cleaning out and the restoring and the repairing, and that's what it does when we're sleeping. 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:43.359 Yeah. 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:49.359 Okay, you've mentioned inflammation a couple of times, and I think people get confused about what inflammation is. 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:51.279 Just explain what inflammation is. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:52.319 Okay, good question. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.000 Because there's there's two types of inflammation there's the acute and there's the chronic. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:56.319 Okay. 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.640 We need inflammation to survive. 00:17:58.880 --> 00:17:59.200 Okay. 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:00.160 So there's a good inflammation. 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:00.960 It's like a protection. 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:01.759 Yeah, it's a protection. 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:05.119 So if you cut yourself, it's red, it's hot, it hurts. 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.359 That's your body sending stem cells to heal that. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:08.559 That's the acute inflammation. 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:09.279 We need that, right? 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:10.160 Survival. 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:15.279 Now, if I, you know, it gets a scab on it and I'm just distracted, but it's itchy. 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.160 So I scratch it, and it's like, oh shoot, it's bleeding again. 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:19.359 Now I have to wait. 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.680 And then now because I've made a mess of it, it's really itchy, so I keep forgetting and I keep scratching. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:25.119 We all know what's gonna happen, right? 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.759 It gets swollen, infected, pussy. 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:31.519 I might need an antibiotic even because that's chronic inflammation. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.759 It keepicking, picking, picking, picking, right? 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:36.079 So that's what's going on inside. 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:42.160 If you have anything that has an itis after it, yeah, that's that's literally the Latin for inflammation, right? 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:43.200 It's part of that word. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:50.880 Um, any pain, redness, swelling, discomfort, can't sleep, lack of energy, the they're all everything is based in inflammation. 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.480 I think a lot of people might be saying, uh, I'm all those things. 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:57.039 And that's so does that mean I have inflammation? 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:02.559 Yeah, it means every we all have it, we can't get rid of all of it because it also comes on from stress. 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.720 It also comes on from, you know, things that we breathe in the air or stuff that's on our food. 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.240 Like we can't eliminate it all. 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:09.119 It's okay. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.960 Just understand that you'll have some. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:11.359 Okay. 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:19.759 But all the things that we can do to bring that down, to bring our toxic load bucket down so that we have room, right? 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:21.039 So that doesn't overflow. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.440 Because all of these symptoms are happening because your body is unable to handle them all. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.480 Remember, like science 10, the saturated solution? 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.960 You put too many things in it, it won't absorb the water anymore. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:31.359 Yeah. 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:32.079 Okay, it's like that. 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:38.240 So if you have this bucket, it's all of a sudden saturated and it starts to overflow because there's too much in there. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:40.079 Okay, now there's your symptoms. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:40.480 Right. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.039 So

if we can make sense, that makes perfect sense, right? 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:47.440 And let more room in there because we know that there's always going to be a stressful situation. 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:51.279 We're always gonna there's gonna be an event or an occasion or something we eat or whatever happens. 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:53.759 Not an after this week, everything will calm down. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:54.799 No, there'll be something else. 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:56.160 Life, right? 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.680 Life is happening at a rapid rate and it's just and it should. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.200 And so we should expect that. 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:06.559 But if we can have a buffer to control that, then our body can now handle that. 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:14.000 So if someone's listening, watching, and they say, Okay, sold. 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:17.119 What do I do today? 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.119 What is the first thing I do? 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:24.400 The first thing that they should, well, they could reach out and they could get started with my fit menopause method. 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:26.400 Uh so that's at fuelignite thrive.com. 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.640 You can reach out there, I'll do a free call with you. 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:35.039 Um, but for like in the immediate thing today, yeah, think about your protein. 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:35.440 Yeah. 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:47.759 Think about your water, think about intentional movement, and think about instead of thinking about what do I need to take out or how do I need to punish myself, what what should I be gaining? 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:52.480 So instead of like, because usually weight loss is one of the things in perimenopause and menopause, right? 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:58.720 Women are just like, oh, that's one of the things that prompts them to do something because they just they feel awful, yeah, things don't fit, whatever, right? 00:20:58.799 --> 00:20:58.960 Yeah. 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:05.039 So instead of thinking, I need to lose weight, it's like, what can I gain from doing some good things to my body? 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:05.839 I like that. 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:06.319 Right? 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:09.519 What can I gain by nourishing myself properly? 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:12.000 You know, what can I gain by drinking more water? 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:17.279 What can I gain by giving myself 10 minutes of quiet time in the morning before I hit the ground running? 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:20.240 It's not about deprivation in any respect. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:22.480 No, I mean nothing thrives in a deficit. 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:23.519 What does no, it's true. 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:23.920 It's true. 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:24.960 Nothing, ever. 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:27.200 So be good to yourself. 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:28.400 Yeah, be good to yourself. 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:35.359 So when we talk about uh the body, you've heard the saying, the body is your temple. 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:36.240 It is. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.480 And I know that you are a woman of faith. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:38.880 Yep. 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:41.759 You post about your faith, your morning devotionals. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.359 I see, I see it often. 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:48.720 Do you think it is like a form of worship to take care of your body, that the body that God gave us? 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:50.559 Well, we only have one, yeah. 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:51.039 Right. 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:55.759 And so we worship him, but we need to take care of the things he's given us. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:56.240 Yeah. 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:56.720 Right. 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.359 And and this is my one and only body. 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:03.200 And And if I don't take care of this, I'm not honoring him. 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:07.599 I'm not honoring my family because my choices don't just affect me, right? 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:09.440 They're going to affect my family. 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:16.319 What happens if I am, you know, because of my own choices, I am now not able to care for myself in 10 or 20 years. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:16.640 Right. 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:18.079 Who does that fall on then? 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:19.359 You know, my kids. 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:24.480 Do I want them bound to be, you know, a caregiver for the next 30 years? 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:25.200 Probably not. 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:25.599 No. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:29.279 You know, I mean, sometimes there's accidents that happen and that's entirely different. 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:36.240 But the way we take care of ourselves should reflect how we care for others, is like how we think about others too, you know? 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:37.680 Well, and it's modeling too. 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:38.240 You're showing that. 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:39.440 Yeah. 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:42.799 And if you, you know, we're being our best selves so we can serve them. 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:55.839 And women are so um, they put everyone else first, you know, like the the husband, the kids, the neighbor, the the church group, the Bible says, the parents, the the dog, like right? 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:57.200 Everybody goes first. 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:58.799 Newman is part of this podcast. 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:00.319 He is, and it's his job. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:01.039 That's his job. 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:02.240 And he's doing it well. 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:03.039 I love it. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:09.839 But our, you know, everything goes before, and then we are like at the back of the line somewhere, and we always say, Yes, I'm gonna get to that later. 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:11.519 I'm doing that later today. 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:17.920 When does later ever show up on the watch or the daytime or it's not a time, it's not a time slot. 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:19.599 Everyone else has a time slot.

00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:21.119 You gotta give yourself a time slot. 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:32.640 And and not just pencil yourself in, put yourself in so that you can show up for your best self, show up for you every day and know that you're worth it, worth showing up for. 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:36.240 That's another thing that we do a whole mindset thing in my program as well. 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:36.559 Too. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:44.160 Well, I think that's important because I mean, we know the physicality of it is important, and that that is the predominantly your business. 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:47.440 But I like how you take sort of midlife, especially. 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:48.960 I'm just using midlife as an example. 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:51.440 It's anybody and it's not just women, it's men as well. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:55.279 But it's physical, it's mental, and it's spiritual. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:57.519 It's got to be rounded, don't you think? 00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:58.960 Absolutely, for sure. 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:01.440 Because I can I can hand you a food list. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:08.319 But if you're not understanding number one, why you're doing it, what's you're doing it for, what is your why that you're doing this for? 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:14.240 And if you're not realizing your worth in showing up to do this, you won't do it. 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:16.079 You'll do it for a short period of time. 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:18.880 And then you'll say, Well, it sort of worked. 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:19.680 Yeah. 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:20.160 Right. 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:23.119 But we have to, we have to recruit that mindset in there. 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:24.960 And and there's many women out there. 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:26.400 I spoke to one yesterday. 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:33.440 Um, uh, she's struggling with grief and things like that, and she is having a hard time believing that she's worth it. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:36.960 She says, I keep telling myself, I'll start on Monday. 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:38.400 I'll start on Monday. 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:46.400 And then that Monday went, and then that Monday went, and now it's like I was doing really good, and her family wasn't very supportive. 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:51.519 Um, they weren't specifically trying to sabotage her, but they weren't really trying to help her either, you know. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:57.680 So people get afraid of how much somebody's going to change because it ultimately changes you when you're healthier. 00:24:57.759 --> 00:24:57.920 Yeah. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:58.640 Absolutely. 00:24:58.720 --> 00:24:59.680 That's a very good point. 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:02.160 And so, um, so there's that, right? 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:18.000 You have to work through all of that and realize that, you know, your worth is not tied to the scale, it's not tied to um your pant size, it's not tied to how many cardio sessions you can do this week, you know, or

how many things you didn't eat yesterday and how many calories you could cut. 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:20.400 You know, it's tied to who you are. 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:23.839 And just because you were created to be here and God doesn't make any mistakes. 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:24.400 No. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:37.440 Well, and I think there's some people who would think, okay, you two are talking a lot about body, and I mean, God doesn't you worship God, you don't worship like a body or an idol, but it really I'm just trying to break the point that it's all tied together. 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:39.680 Like we are a full being. 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:47.279 And so does when you're talking to people, and there's probably intimate conversations because you're delving into their lives. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:47.519 Yeah. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.960 Does faith come up ever? 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:50.960 It sometimes does, depending on the person. 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:51.359 Yeah. 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:56.559 You know, I I don't specifically like exclusively coach faith-based women, right? 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:11.440 But uh, regardless of who they are, what their faith is, if I feel they need prayer, I will I will send them a prayer or or I'll say something relevant in that in that moment for them, you know, because I don't know if I felt if I feel need to led to do that, I do that. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:11.920 Right. 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:13.440 And that's that's the thing, right? 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:15.119 You just you just follow what you were. 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:23.519 So when it comes to stress, and I mean, because I know, I mean, you never come across like you're stressed, but obviously you're a human and and there's stressful moments. 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:23.920 Right. 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:25.599 So where do you turn? 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:29.680 I make sure that I do not hit the ground running in the morning. 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:30.960 That's my biggest thing. 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:32.880 Uh, I call it the morning pause. 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:36.079 I do a live every day about the morning pause. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:37.039 Well, I talk about it. 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:38.160 I see I see it come up. 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:42.240 Sometimes I'm doing the news on the radio, but I'll be like, oh, there she is. 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:43.279 I know it's 6.15. 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:47.519 I'm in my car before I hit the gym, but before that, I don't look at my phone. 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:49.119 That's the first time my phone comes up. 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:49.680 Okay. 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:51.680 I don't sleep with my phone in my room. 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:55.519 I I don't pick up my phone, I put it in my pocket so I don't leave the house without it. 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:55.839 Yeah. 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:58.640 But I don't look at my phone, I don't do any of that. 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:03.920 I um turn the kettle

on, I make my protein hot chocolate, protein before anything else, right? 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:09.839 And then I get out my Bible, I do my reading, I do my prayers, I do my journaling, then I go to the gym. 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:11.279 And then I sit in my car. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:12.799 Lovely morning. 00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:13.200 Right? 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:14.799 Because it's like it's quiet. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:16.720 I like to get up before everyone else is up. 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:25.680 Even when I have a house full of company, I will get up on purpose to have my quiet time because it just my day just goes so much better. 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:27.599 Not to say that stuff's not gonna happen later. 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:27.839 No. 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:30.480 But if I wake up, you'll be in a better space, for yeah. 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.559 We've all had that day where you know the power went off and your alarm clock didn't go off, right? 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:45.920 And then you wake up maybe like 20 minutes later, or how and it's like you're just like the whole day, yeah, you feel like you're not you're you're behind, you know, and you finally at the end of the day, you're just like, oh my gosh, I'm glad it's over. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.160 You know, you just never catch up. 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:48.480 Yeah. 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:52.000 And so, but a lot of people are doing that on repeat every single day. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:52.960 That's so hard. 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:55.119 It's so hard on your nervous system. 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:59.279 Uh, your your insulin is spiking, you're living in a state of fight or flight. 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:04.000 Your cortisol is just pumping and it's putting you at risk for metabolic disease. 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:04.720 Seriously. 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:08.720 So, what I hear you saying is rest and intentional. 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:09.759 Yeah. 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:10.640 Intentional rest. 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:11.519 Make some time. 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:11.759 Yeah. 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:15.279 You know, like I have probably about a full hour before I leave the house. 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.880 You don't have to start with an hour, but give yourself 10 minutes. 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:24.079 You know, don't if you're a parent with children, that might be the only time you have. 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:24.480 Right. 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:25.839 Get up before they get up. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:39.200 I know that you want your sleep, but getting up when they're already, when you hear them rustling around in the kitchen or playing, you are hitting the ground running because you have to be on now because they have demands and you need to get stuff done, and then you have to go to work or you have to, whatever it is. 00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:40.400 It just keeps getting pushed. 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:41.200 It just keeps getting pushed. 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:42.720 That happened to me one day this week. 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:46.640 So I intentionally I get up half an hour before I need to. 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.960 And I I sit down and do my devotionals, like I do it all. 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:54.480 So I give myself that half an hour, but oddly it stretches to 40 minutes. 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:56.160 It's the I tell you, it just goes. 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:56.559 It does. 00:28:57.039 --> 00:28:59.680 When your head is in it, it's it just goes. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.519 But there was a day where I don't know, something else was happening. 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:05.039 I was like, okay, I'll do it, I'll do it. 00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:07.279 And then the next thing I knew, it was night. 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:08.079 Yeah. 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:14.240 And I hadn't sat down with my daily devotional or my Bible. 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:16.319 And it does throw you. 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:19.039 It's like, okay, this isn't no, this isn't what I want. 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:19.519 No. 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:24.079 So I think it just it just forces you to sort of take stock of who you are. 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:24.400 Yeah. 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:30.640 And ultimately that figures back to how you treat yourself, how you feed yourself, how you move yourself. 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:31.279 Yep. 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:31.839 Yep. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.680 You are what you intentionally do on a daily basis. 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:36.480 Right? 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:44.000 We can be consistent, which is something I I just um from a mentor just recently, actually the light bulb went on. 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:45.599 I was always saying, be consistent. 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.039 Well, you can be consistent daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:54.079 How much consistency, like, where are you on the consistency spectrum, right? 00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.960 Like if I only take care of myself once a year, that's not so great. 00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:58.880 No, but I'm consistently once a year. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:29:59.759 All right, do this, yeah. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.079 Right. 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:00.480 Yeah. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.000 Consistently once a year. 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:03.599 I hire someone to clean my windows. 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:05.839 Okay, but it's not a daily thing, right? 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:06.319 No. 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.839 So going back, let's be daily, intentionally, daily to be consistent, right? 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.319 So what are you going to do every day for you? 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:17.359 And so there's a lot of different areas we've talked about here. 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:19.680 So just pick one and start there. 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:21.599 You know, so maybe set yourself up. 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:25.759 And I morning time is the best time to do this. 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.599 So I would suggest you

create your own morning pause for like at least 10 minutes. 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:30.240 Start with 10. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.960 It does, like I say, when the alarm goes off, it's 3:30. 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:34.400 Yeah, for you, it's super early. 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:35.440 It's super early. 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:39.759 But in my mind, I'm like, there's not a huge difference between 3:30 and 4, really. 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:47.759 But when you do use that half an hour for something, it it actually is a huge difference, but in a good way. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:48.240 Right. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:49.200 It's a benefit to you. 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:49.519 Yes. 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:53.119 It's not like I'm dragging myself out of bed because I have to do something stupid. 00:30:53.359 --> 00:31:00.079 It's intentional and it's beneficial for you, and it sets you up to be calmer and more focused and more intentional for the rest of the day. 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:01.359 And something to take with you through the day. 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:02.720 And something to take with you through the day. 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:03.279 Yes, absolutely. 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:04.799 That's what that's what I like about it. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:06.720 Something you can just kind of follow along. 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:07.440 For sure. 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:12.400 So with this theme of kind of renewal in midlife, we're not done yet. 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:13.599 No, no, no, no. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.039 We're just getting started now. 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:16.240 This is like the relaunch. 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:20.640 So speak to somebody who's thinking, oh, I'm, you know, I say I'm 58. 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:20.880 Yeah. 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:22.000 It's too late for me. 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.359 It's it's it's too late. 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.480 We're like, you know. 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.160 No, it's never too late. 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:28.960 And I love what Gary V always talks about that, right? 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:30.640 He's like, no, it's never too late. 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:37.599 This is just, it doesn't matter when you start or what age you are, you can always make improvements. 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.319 I've had clients all the way up to 86 years old. 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:41.759 Oh my gosh, I love that. 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.000 You know, and she's oh beautiful lady. 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:52.880 And uh surprisingly, one of the few, I think there's only ever been twice, where a doctor has told someone to, before I give you medication, please try food. 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:55.200 I was stunned. 00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:06.319 And for her, it was her blood sugar, and she was um so anyway, long story short, within three weeks, she went from a nine, she was just over nine with her blood sugar, which is very high, very high. 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:07.359 Okay, not good. 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.119 Dia like diabetic, yeah. 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:11.599 And we got her down to 5.6 in three weeks only. 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:12.640 Just with food. 00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:16.160 Yeah, it's medicine, it's medicine. 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.200 The doctor's very happy now, and she's not on a prescription. 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:20.640 So, you know, she's been a little bit more. 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:23.119 But I also love that the doctor said that. 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:23.680 I do. 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:28.079 I I was just reading a study where they were using the blueberries, was what they used. 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:34.079 They had they had older people just take out all the other fruit except blueberries, just to see what it did. 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:34.799 What it did. 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.640 Yeah, and because I think a lot of older people, like juices and things like that, right? 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:40.400 Juices are horrible. 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.640 Words that get a nutritionist worked up. 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.200 Juice. 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:52.240 Juice, juice and and things like and things like insure and stuff like that are just like, oh, they're death in a bottle. 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.720 I'm just saying terrible. 00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:02.400 I want to turn here uh a little bit to your faith because you and I have had this conversation where you did you grow up with faith? 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:04.480 Yeah, kind of, sort of. 00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:05.279 Okay, right? 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:10.720 So my mom always told us how she went to church when she was little and she took us when we were really little. 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.640 My dad unfortunately had a really bad experience with church when he was not uncommon. 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:14.960 Yeah. 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:18.160 You know, when he was little, they they didn't come from a lot, right? 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.960 They didn't have they're pretty poor when they were little. 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:25.279 And um, they were told that they couldn't come back to Sunday school unless they brought money. 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:26.799 It was terrible. 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.960 And so, of course, my grandfather got really upset about that and they never went back. 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:34.640 And so, so that was my dad's unfortunate experience at church. 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:55.200 And so my mom did not have an unfortunate experience, and so she had very good experiences, and and um so she she took us when we were little, and then the Sunday school closed at the church we went to, and so um one of the uh parents in the neighborhood was actually they from their church, she ran the Sunday school in her house, so we went there. 00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:04.000 Um, and then as I was growing up, uh my best friend uh I went to I ended up going to church with her because when I stayed overnight at her house, her whole family went to church the

next day. 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:04.960 So I went with her. 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:10.800 And then fast forward, um, I ended up working it funny, funny enough, God has an interesting plan, right? 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:18.079 Because I didn't, I could not get a job in the public school system, even though as a as an education assistant, I was working in special needs, right? 00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:26.800 And I could not get a position there, even though I had worked with special needs um in the new hour capacity, like already in the system. 00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:27.840 Very weird. 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.800 But I was able to be hired at a private school. 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.800 Well, I guess that's where you were meant to be. 00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:33.920 That's where I was meant to be. 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:34.079 Yeah. 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:35.039 Christian school, right? 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:39.440 So I so I worked there for many years and um great experience, lovely people. 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:42.960 Um, but I so I have that background in behavior specialty. 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:50.800 I'm a behavior specialist, and so bringing that into with my coaching is where that that's the difference of where it sticks. 00:34:50.880 --> 00:35:00.000 Because anybody can give you just a meal plan and say, eat that, you know, okay, there's your macros, there's your numbers, there's your we don't do any of that either. 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.000 So I'm not counting calories, you don't have to weigh your food, you don't have to weigh yourself either. 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:05.440 Because that's a good point. 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:06.400 It's yeah, right. 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:14.000 If you're tied to that scale, just quickly though, does it give you just an idea of where you're at, or would you say throw it the scale altogether? 00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:15.199 It depends on the person. 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:22.880 If this person has been a daily wear or like an obsessive person, I'm gonna tell you you can weigh once now, so you have a baseline, and then you're gonna put it away. 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.599 You're gonna take the batteries out and you're gonna put it away for a couple months. 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.719 So you really do look at the whole person like and decide. 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:32.159 How are that's good? 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:33.119 The NSVs. 00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:37.760 Look at the way your clothes fit, I feel like that's the ultimate victory and the way you feel, obviously. 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:39.360 How much energy you have? 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:42.159 You know, did you reduce any of your menopause symptoms? 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:49.519 I used to do some groups at the rec center um several years ago, and I remember just after four weeks, we would have like in four-week blocks, right? 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:50.639 And they could continue on. 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:56.079 So sometimes we would have people from the first group into the second one, but we'd have newbies, right? 00:35:56.239 --> 00:36:06.960 Yeah, and so I remember um women coming in and just complaining about the hot flashes and the things, and the women from the first group would say, just wait, give it four weeks, they're gonna all be gone. 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.239 So it was perfect. 00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:09.119 It was perfect. 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:09.840 I was like, awesome. 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:11.519 I don't need to advertise. 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:12.800 Yeah, well, yeah. 00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:13.920 And it that but that was great. 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.239 That was wonderful for me to see that. 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:20.480 Um, see women succeeding that way and just feeling so much better. 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:22.639 And that's that's one of the metrics, you know. 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:24.000 Like, how much energy do I have? 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:25.679 Is my digestion improving? 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:27.199 Do I have less brain fog? 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:31.199 Like, are you not walking into the kitchen anymore and wondering what am I doing here? 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:32.159 Yeah, yeah. 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:35.920 You know, or you go into the grocery store and go, shoot, I left the list at home. 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:37.119 What was on it? 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:41.679 Yeah, you know, like you get your brain back, there's another thing, you know. 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.440 So did maybe the skin cleared up. 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:45.760 Adult acne is not a thing that you should be having. 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:46.800 That's a sign. 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:47.599 It's a sign. 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:50.480 All of these things are like the check engine light in your car. 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:50.880 Yeah. 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:58.239 If they come on, you know that you could unplug the light because it's annoying, but you're not fixing what's under the hood. 00:36:58.320 --> 00:36:58.480 Right. 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:00.800 You know that if you keep driving like that, you're gonna wreck it. 00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:01.920 You gotta take it in. 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:03.039 I like that analogy. 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.199 I know make you flip it to faith now. 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:12.400 So, what would you say, you know, it has been uh kind of the best part of believing in God and Jesus? 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.760 Oh, just the comfort and how it takes you through business and life. 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:24.400 Yeah, no, comfort, you know, that it's that he's there, that um that all the places that I've been is he's brought me there. 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:29.280 You know, like I can see a clearer path because he's brought me there. 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:33.519 And I can I can look back and go, Oh yeah, okay. 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:36.159 I screwed up, but you helped me go this way, you know. 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:40.559 I wanted to go

this way, or maybe I did go this way, and now you helped bring me back to where I should be. 00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:46.719 That was a big realization, I think, just over this past year, um, as well. 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.960 Another, another little redirection in my business. 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.280 Um, so that was really good too. 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.360 I have a segment called The Living Word, and I forgot to prep you on this. 00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:57.679 Okay. 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:02.000 But it's it's it's sharing a Bible verse that resonates with you. 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:03.599 I have a Bible if you need one. 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:12.400 No, but is there one that is there one that you kind of come back to, or is there one that maybe symbolizes this kind of midlife renewal we're talking about? 00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:16.719 Philippians 4 13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:20.000 Has always been that one always comes back. 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.880 And then the other one is uh Jeremiah 11, I believe. 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:28.400 It's um, I know the plans that I have for you to prosper and not to fail, you know. 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:36.719 So those are very comforting and uplifting because some the world's telling you, nope, you're not, and it's like, yeah, but okay, but I know. 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:48.320 Well, and it's I just had this conversation with Pastor Don Richmond last week, is that it's like the world is sort of the opposite of heaven or the eternal, right? 00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:53.840 Like it's sort of all the things we value here, yes, it's gonna be flipped. 00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:58.320 So why not get on board with valuing the other things? 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:06.159 You know, we were given this body, we were given these minds, and we have to make the absolute best of of what we've got. 00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:07.920 So why not why not take care of it? 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:09.039 Absolutely, we should. 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:10.000 No, for sure. 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:17.920 Because, you know, it will honor God, it will honor you, it will honor your family, and um you'll just enjoy life more. 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:23.280 And we weren't put on this earth to to suffer and not enjoy it, you know? 00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:36.239 Like I think that well, you know, there is some things that we go through for sure, but as people even just practically, people have worked so hard to get to a point where they want to retire and enjoy life. 00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:37.199 Right, yeah. 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:44.320 And if you're spending them all in doctors' appointments, I mean just recently a family member who is like I'm 58 and she's quite a bit younger than me. 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:45.119 She's 51. 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:46.800 Sorry, you 58. 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:48.159 That that's surprising to me. 00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:50.079 I used I use that as the example. 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.320 I thought that you did that because you knew. 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.159 Oh my goodness, so funny. 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:56.239 I was like, I'll pick a number that's older than Tadia. 00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:56.960 Oh, sorry. 00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:57.920 Well, thank you. 00:39:58.239 --> 00:39:58.960 Good job, Daddy. 00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.239 There you go. 00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:02.239 Makeup was good this morning. 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:03.280 It worked. 00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:09.119 Um, but yeah, and she's, you know, she's 51 and thinking that maybe she might have to have a stent put in. 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:12.159 So have you got her? 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.320 She's a family member, so we're waiting for test results and things to come back. 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.960 Family is very hard to we've talked about health and things before with her. 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:26.960 And so, but yeah, it's um, but her husband just retired and so wanting to do traveling and all those things. 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:34.159 So let's just, you know, I I said I'm gonna send you sending you prayers and everything for all of this because you you need to be healthy. 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:38.159 Well, I like that you are showing women that they can be in the driver's seat. 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:39.039 Women and men. 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:39.920 I keep saying women. 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:41.920 I I guess well, mostly I coach women. 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:46.480 Well, we're the ones who are more proactive and talking about and talk about it more. 00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:49.679 And we're the example, you know, like the woman sets the tone in the house. 00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:50.719 For sure. 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:51.119 Right? 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:54.960 There's there's a few men that are out there that are doing the cooking and whatever, and that's great. 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.440 But most of the time we're setting the tone. 00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:04.559 We're buying the groceries, we're we're doing the stuff and how we're we're showing what needs to be done, and everyone else is kind of following along, right? 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:11.679 So if you're setting that example, then then hopefully they're gonna follow you on some of the good stuff. 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:12.800 Yeah, absolutely. 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:17.760 Well, thanks for being a shiny example physically, mentally, spiritually. 00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:23.280 And if somebody has more questions for you or is interested in all the things you've had to say, how do they reach out? 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:29.119 Uh, they can find me on Instagram, Facebook, uh, with my name, Tanya Gustafson, or you can find me T-A-N-I-A. 00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:29.599 I A. 00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:30.559 That's right, thank you. 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:33.679 And uh, you can find me on fuelignite thrive.com. 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:34.239 That's my website. 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:36.159 Fuel Ignite and Thrive. 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:37.440 Thank you for coming here today. 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:39.280 I know you have your own podcast. 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:40.159 Yes, I do. 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:40.960 What's it called? 00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:42.159 The Fit Woman Podcast. 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:43.360 The Fit Woman Podcast. 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:43.679 Yes. 00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:45.679 Anywhere where you watch your podcast, it's there. 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:46.880 All right, excellent. 00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:48.079 Okay, well, thank you so much. 00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:48.639 Well, thank you. 00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:49.360 It's been fun. 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.119 Thank you for joining me on Talk with Toby Real Life, Real Faith. 00:41:53.280 --> 00:42:00.079 Until next time, keep walking in faith, keep trusting God in the everyday, and may his peace meet you right where you're at.