Clean Your F*cking House B*tch
Our minds are like houses. When they're new, they're empty. As we live our lives we acquire treasures that eventually turn into shit that creates clutter. Some of this stuff is useful, while some of it is simply junk which just creates obstacles for us. What if we could eliminate the nonsense we don't need, and create more room for useful things? Join us on this podcast where we discuss removing what we don't need, implementing beneficial changes to our minds, bodies and souls, to create a life of abundance and fulfillment.
Clean Your F*cking House B*tch
Ep. 118 - From Food Pyramid To Personal Fuel Plan
The headline says the food pyramid flipped. We go further: we flip the script on how to eat without guilt, hype, or one-size-fits-all rules. Together, we pull apart old ideas like “three square meals,” the clean-plate command, and the myth that breakfast matters more than what you eat. The goal isn’t to follow a chart; it’s to build a personal fuel plan that helps you think clearer, move better, and feel more satisfied.
We dig into protein as the anchor for appetite control, performance, and aging well, plus why spreading it across the day beats loading it all at once. Healthy fats return to the plate for brain health and steady energy, while whole-food carbs—beans, fruit, and veggies—deliver fiber and micronutrients without the refined-carb crash. We talk intermittent fasting as a flexible window that gives your body time to digest, hydration that actually supports cognition, and the simple power of seconds from the main course instead of a sugar detour.
Real life gets a seat at the table: the late-night snack ritual, eating out when portions are huge, and a food system that profits when you overeat. We offer practical tools—shop the perimeter, batch-cook proteins, keep high-protein snacks handy, and pause 20 minutes to let fullness catch up. Along the way, we connect nutrition to what you truly want: stable mood, better sleep, sharper focus, and a body that can do the work you care about.
If this conversation helps you rethink your plate, share it with a friend who’s ready to feel better without the food drama. Subscribe for more real talk on mindset, health, and motivation, and leave a review to tell us what shift you’re making this week.
Hello and welcome to Clean Your Fucking House, bitch, with Nancy, Kevin, and Lou. In our program, we get real about the challenges of life and living. Your mind is the most powerful tool you have to ensure you are on your desired path for success and satisfaction. Yet, from the day you are born, you gradually and subconsciously fill it with tons of useless shit that gets in your way. Why is that? How can you clean that mess up? We'll show you how. Get ready to clean your fucking house.
SPEAKER_01:So we're always, we we do this every time. We need to not tell you, but we're always chatting, and then boom, we decide to drop in on a subject. So here we are. And today, which will be different for the rest of you, but it was just dropped in the news. I'm sure many of you have heard it, that the food pyramid needs to be turned upside down. And there are a lot of new um thoughts about what we need to have and should have. And also there was a topic surfaced between the three of us recently about um three meals a day. So maybe we combine all of this because three meals a day was presented to us back at the time of the original food pyramid, right? And the idea that you need these three square meals, you need these amounts of certain foods, and it was manipulative. It was guided for purposes of supporting not just individuals' healths, but like I'm not going to get into that aspect of it, I guess, but but um political purposes, industrial purposes, money-making things that weren't always ideal for the human. So today control. Right. Right. And today there's some realizations that we're not physically performing in the way that we should. And there's knowledge that our mind is um impacted by what we eat, and we need to be smarter, act smarter, feel better. And so the food pyramid has been turned upside down.
SPEAKER_02:You you know what else I had thought about when this topic was brought up is that whole myth about you need to clean off your plate. You know, you're given a certain amount of food. I'm like, yeah, oh boy, that was the biggest piece of bad advice.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I think that sticks with a person, right? Like we talked before, the three of us, and my sister and I talk about this all the time because I think that came from a different purpose. I think that was our parents and budgets and money in tough times raising families, you know, and it was you're not gonna waste this food. But it took a long time to undo the mindset that you should stop eating when your body tells you you're full and you don't need to clean your plate. Um so yeah, that sticks with the person.
SPEAKER_02:I gotta ask both of you, though, in all honesty, how ever since we've all become what I'll I'll phrase as more aware of things, this being one of the things about say healthier living in general? How often have you even followed other people's, whether it's the government or anyone else's advice in terms of food type stuff? Knowing one, like you shared, it's about money, it's about power, it's about control, whatever. And two, where's it coming from? There's a bit of a hidden agenda there, old traditions, all that stuff. Bottom line is how about just eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're full, no matter when that is, how many times, whatever. Like uh it seems like the the most easiest and simple.
SPEAKER_01:I like the idea behind where you're going with that. But I'm also gonna add, I was in a workshop today, and they were part of what they were talking about was food. And we do need more protein, which is part of the shift of the food pyramid. We humans at all ages need more protein, particularly um, you know, 65 and above. But but the idea as well is that you can't just it it's not optimal. You can, but it's not optimal to just eat it all in one sitting. You should have protein at the multiple times you eat in the day. It might be twice, it might be three, it might be four. It depends on your lifestyle and what's going on. But that for your body, it's better to have smaller amounts and process it than to dump it all in at once.
SPEAKER_02:Mm-hmm. That rings a bell too. I mean, which kind of gets back to the three meals a day thing. Why not five? Why not two? Why not like just whatever kind of works for you?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And I think I think that has surfaced with the whole idea of intermittent fasting. And so there is this idea that um we need to give our cell, our body, the amount of time it needs to digest and do all the processing that it needs to do before we're layering more food back in there. So it is good to stop eating it sometime at night and give it about 10, 12, or 14 hours, you know, without food, keep the liquids going for sure. But um I think what's cool, so so for those who haven't heard or read yet, I'll highlight at a high, high level because I'm I'm not, you know, but the the key things that are different in this new food pyramid, but really better good awareness guidelines. And I like kind of tied to what you're saying, Lou, it's better to look at this a guideline and do what's right for you. But protein and that there is a realization that our that we need more protein. Fats, we need healthy fats. And I understand from another workshop, I do all these crazy things. Um, literally, your math formula won't work. It's three factors. And if you don't add the right amount of the small healthy fats into the formula, it will never compute. You won't reach 100% because you don't have a key component. So trying to pull your math in. Uh dairy. Full fat is not bad for everybody. It's it's you know, it's okay to have dairy, but we need to be mindful. Carbohydrates aren't bad. There are plenty of good carbohydrates that come from plant-based foods that offer protein. So we need to reduce the refined carbs, but we need carbs. We need people to be more clear of that. Processed foods, we've heard a lot about um hydration. Water, water, water, water, water. The brain, I heard today, is 70% fat. So if you're not eating healthy fats, you're not having good brain health. And all of our organs need water to process. So if we're not drinking liquids other than those that dehydrate us, soda dehydrates you, coffee dehydrates you. You know, if we're if we're not drinking water, then we're not feeding our organs. We're lucky they're holding us up. I compare that to my like I could be better. Now I'm stepping this comparison out to the yard. I could be better about giving plant food to the flowers and plants in my yard, and they would look healthier and bloom brighter and have longer um blooms and whatnot. I'm not good about it. My neighbor goes out daily in waters and regularly does um plant food. Her yard is beautiful, lots of color, the grass is thick. So you can survive without, but we don't want to survive, we want to thrive. So I guess it's about finding where your mind and body can thrive.
SPEAKER_00:So many people are not operating nearly at an optimal level. And I think diet is a huge part. And diet to me is probably one of the hardest addictions that you can have because it's everywhere, it's widely accepted culturally, you celebrate with it, and then the convenience of unhealthy food versus creating a diet of healthy food. It takes intention, a uh uh dramatic amount of change in one's life to shift over into that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah, just like not cleaning the plate to exchange brown rice for something else or white rice for brown rice, or you know, making those food shifts, not feeling like you have to eat. I don't know, I don't want to name foods because I don't really want I don't it won't have enough breadth to it, and I don't want to out any nationalities.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I think one one one tip that I remember is in like a grocery store, stick into the perimeter. Right? Because that's where the the more of the whole foods will be. Yeah. And not to mention, like a lot of the processed stuff, I don't even know how deep the rabbit hole goes with what's actually in them. We're we're all familiar with the fact that a lot of foods that we can get here in America you can't get elsewhere. I see videos of that all the time on my algorithms.
SPEAKER_02:And you mean in a bad way? Is that what we have 80 ingredients added to certain foods, whereas Europe bans those 80 ingredients.
SPEAKER_00:Right, like even ketchup is super complicated. Yeah. And then you have to go for like the more expensive option. But I think that's kind of like that's getting pretty granular, right? Like talking about condiments or whatever. At the highest level, I think what we're talking about is just incorporating more whole foods. I think one of the challenges with with the new pyramid, like it's still about consumption to me, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's not mentioned. How much, even of a good thing, too much of a good thing is not good. Moderation.
SPEAKER_00:Right. And I think from a balanced standpoint, at least, I know I feel better, and I've seen and read studies about fasting or in intermittent fasting and the benefits of that too. Like I think if it was an all-encompassing, a holistic view of eating a balanced diet, that should be factored in also. But just switching to incorporating more whole foods, I think is a step in the right direction. I was actually talking with one of my buddies about that. He's he's very healthy, he's very fit, and he was like, you know, he's like, I just started trying to incorporate more healthier foods. Like not really started. Huh?
SPEAKER_02:You said he's very healthy and fit, and he just started incorporating.
SPEAKER_00:No, like I asked him about his like lifestyle. Oh, gotcha. Okay. At a certain point, just right, not just now, but at some at some point in time. Ah uh, he didn't focus on removing things, he focused more on adding things.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so true. You know, weirdly enough, I started realizing that if I still feel hungry, I should have seconds of whatever the main course is. You know, sometimes you think, oh, I shouldn't have more of that. But why not? That's the protein, that's the vegetables. Have more of that, feel satisfied and get the satiety from the healthier foods. Then if you want a sweet treat, you're not gonna have the capacity for as much because you've satisfied yourself with the other choices.
SPEAKER_02:Um, well, getting back to an earlier statement you made, thank you for including math in your analysis. I appreciate that. Um, you mentioned the whole thing, it sounded like at one point you were talking about healthy fats and all that. And the it sounded I'm thinking 2% milk, no, back to whole milk good is what kind of, and I'm like, yay, my god. Like, even though I'm not much of a cereal person anymore, when I have I'm like, oh my god, that damn 2%'s like water. That shit's thanks. So that's kind of good. Like, hey, I maybe bring my frosted flakes out again. Who knows?
SPEAKER_00:But cereal, you're worried about the milk, and we're talking about fucking, thank you, Kevin.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I was just gonna say and I segue because I remember reading not too long ago about breakfast itself, and it it may have been a lead-in to this we're gonna get this new food pyramid thing, and then all of a sudden there's all these articles on the food industry and the damn whole thing around breakfast, the most important meal of the day, and how that all got sold to you know, us who knows, decades ago, certainly when I was a kid, and wanting mom to buy all those breakfast cereals, and I'm like, oh my god, same, you know, same thing.
SPEAKER_01:So, for anybody who's familiar with fasting in any way, breakfast is just when you break your fast. That's the term. And so if you don't eat till 11 a.m. and you have an early lunch, or you don't eat till 1 a.m. and you know, you have a late lunch or PM, if that's your first meal of the day, the thing about that is you're breaking your fast, whatever food you eat doesn't matter. It needs to fit the formula. You need to have the protein, you need some sort of uh healthy carbon, you need some healthy fats, you need some greens, right? And so it's about what it is when you eat, not what time you eat.
SPEAKER_02:Well, and and that's the thing. I actually, at some point, I think because of my own workout program, like I was up at five, and and by the way, Mike, I have uh over the past week since I was on vacation the last few weeks of December, able to reset my whole schedule and everything. And now I am finally myself getting back to a what I desire for like a schedule in my life and things like that. But it's not five is one of them.
SPEAKER_00:A resolution by any means.
SPEAKER_02:No, it is not a resolution because it it was always about start whenever and start, and it was just a good break in my own schedule that even though I'm back to work, I have maintained it. And even though I will be traveling soon, I feel I will be able to maintain it in some way. I think like like we always say, it's about getting the ball rolling, and once you get it rolling, it can keep rolling. But I didn't necessarily like what you said, Nancy. Even though I was doing that, I I'm like, wow, you know, I don't feel hungry when I finally got to sitting in front of the laptop and going. I'm like, it's breakfast time. I didn't feel hungry. And I'm like, well, why should I eat? Doesn't make sense.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you don't need to.
SPEAKER_02:No, I didn't. Yeah, I don't.
SPEAKER_01:But don't need cereal as your first food, and then tell your body that your first food after fasting is gonna be shit, if you will.
SPEAKER_02:Although I can have it in moderation, right? Like maybe once a month or something. Okay, thank you.
SPEAKER_01:After something else. Have something else.
SPEAKER_02:I can't have Cheerios. Well, Cheryl just sorry, Cheerios, people. If you just oh my god. I know what I found interesting about the whole visual that was prevent presented with that, though. I mean, he, you know, I guess it was a part of the marketing, is let's turn this pyramid upside down. And he literally did.
SPEAKER_01:That's literally all that was done.
SPEAKER_02:It's an inverted, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:What what are your guys' thoughts on the nuance of listening to oneself, right? Like Nancy, earlier you mentioned stopping eating when you're full. I can put down a shitload of food before I feel full. And obviously, I shouldn't eat beyond that, but sometimes I do to finish.
SPEAKER_02:Do you feel like shit after you do? Like, do you literally go, oh man, I ate too much. Is it one of those?
SPEAKER_00:Or I do this like self-destructive habit of eating right before bed. So, yes, I feel full and tired and lethargic, and then I fall asleep.
SPEAKER_02:And you don't wake up in the middle of the night like with acid reflux or something.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, if I eat like shit for like really eat shitty, yes.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:But I have to like eat pretty shitty because I take like probiotics and all that stuff. You know what I mean? I drink a lot of water, so like I get some healthy things, but I definitely have some bad habits. I struggle with that still, and like I'm in much better shape than I was years ago. I eat way better now. I cook at home, like, definitely a huge shift for me. But I want to land the gas still, you know. I want to see how far I can take it. And so for me, and I'm sure some of our listeners, it's like the idea of listening to yourself or even deciding what to eat. Like, if you're waiting until you're hungry, you're gonna go back to whatever it is that you know is gonna be satisfying, right? Versus intention and planning it out.
SPEAKER_01:Totally. An analogy we've shared before, or I've I've shared before, but I think there's truth to it is a comparison to your car. You wouldn't wait for the gas tank to be empty to put gas in. You're gonna run out somewhere and it's not gonna be good. Like you're going to put gas in. You have a spot somewhere, a sweet spot down there that you know. And when you get to that spot, you know you're gonna give it some get some more fuel. Like you're just not gonna run out. And we should give ourselves the same respect and recognize whatever our schedule is and what we know our hunger patterns are, and know when we feel hungry. And and am I hungry or do I just want that thing? Um, but on the other end of it, start to learn when you feel full and not pump the gas until it releases over the top because you're just spilling and wasting it, and it's more than you need and it can't be used, right? And so recognize fullness and stop at like eight or push yourself on a day you feel like eating more and go to nine or ten if if you want, but recognize fullness and and stop. That's the guidance that that is given on that. So know your your level of lowness and be prepared to do something about it, and then stop at some point. They also say, and this is evidence-based, but I've experimented with it and found it to work. It takes 20 minutes for the mind to catch up with the stomach and recognizing fullness because all the digestive juices have to be doing their thing. And once it's gotten to a certain level, the signals go to the mind and acknowledge I've I've got all I need. So give yourself if you're thinking, God, I want more, but I'm full, give yourself 20 minutes and then ask yourself again.
SPEAKER_00:You know, it is interesting because like if I'm in the middle of doing something, but I'm hungry and I have like a a small snack, like I will not be hungry like I won't be hungry afterwards. Like after a little while, like I'll eat I like these meat sticks from Costco. They're fucking addictive.
SPEAKER_02:They're probably not the healthiest, but like jerky beef jerky kind of thing.
SPEAKER_00:No, they're you gotta keep them refrigerated. They're oh they're phenomenal. Um, but like I'll have a couple of those and they're not big by any means, but then like I intentionally will eat light, knowing I'll have I have other shit to do. I can't just sit around afterwards. I don't want to feel like shit and have to push through that tiredness, right? And I'll be fine. Or even like on the holidays, they're high like snacks before dinner. Yeah, and by the time dinner's ready, you're like, I'm not really hungry. I'm gonna eat a shitload of food because that's what we do, but I'm not really hungry. So that that is a good call out, I feel like you know, try to find your capacity.
SPEAKER_02:And even if you eat a little bit, and how much of it's mental and emotional, yeah, yeah, or habitual, like you mentioned, the eating before bed that most likely is driven by habit and maybe substitute water. 100%.
SPEAKER_00:Like I look forward to it after a long day of stressful day. It's like I'm gonna make some good ass food. I'm gonna keep it a little jam.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sitting down for something to watch and something to snack on and drink.
SPEAKER_00:I'm gonna do it right after this, guys. I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not trying to change anything tonight.
SPEAKER_01:No worries, your your meat stick is high protein and healthy fat. So it's giving you the satiety. That's why that works for you. It's not about quantity.
SPEAKER_02:Get your mind out of the gutter, bro. If you would have said the meat stick instead of your meat stick, maybe I would have had a different reaction. I'm sorry. By the way, that's happened to me before, getting back to an earlier thing about the gas tank running low. I actually went all the way there. No, not anything meat stick related. Um, no, but that and that is not fun. I had to walk to the gas station and get gas. Uh, but uh yeah, I I have been in that situation too with eating before bed, and that's been my thing, is it's just then I don't get a good night's sleep. You know, maybe your body some I imagine if you do it for a while regularly, maybe you might get used to it in a way. Like, it sounds like you're able to sleep through the night.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I don't have issues with sleep. Um I probably haven't gotten used to it, but I get up real early and I go work out, you know. Like I do feel different if I don't get to the gym before I start my day. You know, I'm kind of slower. I don't know. You're supposed to eat, I think, a couple hours before you go to bed. Otherwise, your digestive system is like still processing, they say, or something. You're also supposed not supposed to drink a lot of water while you're eating. I don't know how people eat meals without eating a shitload of water. Like I get so thirsty when I'm eating, but that's that's what they say.
SPEAKER_02:They well, you know, it's funny is that whole about what they say thing, you know. As I'm sure you've seen, the opinions or the research may change from whatever here and there. And sometimes like eggs good, eggs bad. Eggs good, eggs bad. Eggs are great. Well, I think eggs are great, especially the protein thing you brought up. That's a good source right there.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. The controversy around water is that there was a period of time where for people to eat less, they were guided to drink all this water. Yeah. So they felt full. But the thing is, then whatever they ate, the digestive juices were so diluted that it impacted the whole digestion and what they thought or didn't get from the food. So then you're just that's a waste of eating because you're not getting anything from it. The nutrients washed up. And that supposedly, and the digestive process is slowed down. And that makes sense to me. I feel like there's probably truth in that.
SPEAKER_00:I guess ideally we make eating something that we do for sustenance that we do with intention to operate at a higher level. We always I I feel like we always correlate eating healthy to weight loss in a lot of our conversations, but I think it goes so much be so far beyond just weight loss. Like you sleep better, you're emote, you're more emotionally stable, you're less reactive, you're more in tune with yourself, you might connect more with nature, like you're more well feeling forgiving and passive, you're vibrating higher. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And I've always been curious about the differences in cultural norms across countries when it comes to, say, food and stuff, because in our country, this is one of the biggest say industries with the food itself. Um, eat more because it profits the food makers. Go out to restaurants, it profits the restaurant. And like there's a lot of a lot of activity and and um marketing around food. And it it's a business. And yet, like Kevin said, it should really just be about sustenance, about getting us to the next uh to a point where we can resume our activity and have some energy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Easier said than done. True. For sure. Like it's everywhere, it's hard to, you know, with addiction, I've learned that environment is one of the key factors, right? Like if you're an alcoholic and you're trying not to drink, you do not want to go to places that you associate with drinking or that will make you feel like drinking, that could be everywhere. Who knows? But with food, how do you like you can't really what are you gonna lock yourself up in the house? That idea, I think, is more like change your relationship. You have to eat, right? Like you have to eat, change your relationship with food, you know, grow a garden, put the labor in to create something that then you consume, and it's like, I made this, like you know what I mean? Like you earn it, you build a relationship with it. It's not something potentially you continue to abuse in a way that harms you, but something that you connect with that you can really align with.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And not everybody can do that, but you can like eating out is a hard mindset to connect to because you feel like because all these things are on the menu, you want to lean into those choices, but you can choose from the menu the things that would be better to fuel your body or your mind, or that's so hard. It makes sense.
SPEAKER_00:Like you go out to eat and it's like sometimes it's a celebration or or a reward, right? You don't have to cook. It's like I want the fucking burger. You know, I don't want it on lettuce.
SPEAKER_01:Here's the thing good for you, because a burger patty has 25 grams of protein. And if you're having some avocado on it or some lettuce and tomato, like whatever else you like on the veggies and cheese on there.
SPEAKER_00:But I like cheese sticks on my burger.
SPEAKER_01:Bacon. Oh my, you guys live in the Midwest. Put a cheese stick on fried curves.
SPEAKER_00:It's such a Midwest ingredient to put on a burger.
SPEAKER_01:I'm just kidding. But anyway, it's not bad. I don't know where the idea that burgers are bad for us came from because there's a lot of protein in there. It's like salad. But if you throw bad dressing on salad, you're wasting your time.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I think it's more who makes that burger, because certainly certain fast food establishment made burgers are most likely way worse for you than a really good one at you know, one of these. I'm trying not to name brands and stuff like that unless we get I don't know, fair enough.
SPEAKER_00:Don't name them unless they sponsor their sponsored little.
SPEAKER_02:True, good point. Uh, you know what though, and that's something I wanted to mention too. Earlier, Nance, you made a bit of a kind of a joke, but it we're like you didn't want to mention nationalities as you're talking about certain food things. And I'm thinking that also made me think of but aren't a lot of the foreign uh kind of um marketed foods that are done here kind of Americanized in a way or fast food eyes, if that's the way to put it. Like I I thought it was always the case that you know what people in that country don't eat the way we think they eat here based on what the hell they're serving here. Sure, truth.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know if that's always true because there's truth in that, but also portion size is totally different, too.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Like when I went to Europe, it was like, where's the rest?
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah, we have a problem with that.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, yes, we do. And the bathrooms are small. It's like, did they not have 250 pounds, six foot two people in this country when they were building these bathrooms? We just we we consume like we're programmed to do it, and it just like anything else, it takes intention to really change it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, which makes me wonder why like the whole thing getting back to like all of these unhealthy ingredients that we add to the mix here. I I figured most of it or the major reason is around preservatives so that it could be shelved longer and then sold and not have to necessarily be thrown out and all that. But I'm like, but if we consume so damn much, there's I would think the farmers aren't keeping up with producing food.
SPEAKER_00:Well, it's all it a lot of it, Lou, not to go down the rabbit hole, but a lot of it's just for profit. How can we maximize revenue and cut?
SPEAKER_01:And can we pay more?
SPEAKER_00:Even the what was it like a few oh shit, I don't even know. A couple months ago now, like the CEO of Campbell's like came out and was talking shit about their uh really like what is it?
SPEAKER_02:Uh genetically the chicken, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's like it's fake, it's not there's no real meat in it.
SPEAKER_02:The chicken I assume he's a former CEO. Is that not true?
SPEAKER_00:I don't know if he stepped down or what ended up happening with that, but if you there's this um this other guy who like does deep dives into who owns stuff and all the shit on the shelves is all owned. I mean, pretty much anything we buy is all owned by the same like a handful of yeah, it's all about profit. So like if you are able to have a garden, go that route.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah, probably a uh topic for another discussion, but that's where some of my problems come in is you know, our whole society based on the economic structure we have on place just is such an incentive for the money, the people who want to make money to make money, like it it fuels that kind of thing, and it's just sad.
SPEAKER_01:I will say I think you're right. And I think this intention of this shift right now is to undo some of that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And so I believe it comes with positive intention and I hope some greater awareness. Because as we're talking, the same words come out make different choices, have well, you have more awareness, then you can make different choices, and with those intentions, you can build routine.
SPEAKER_00:And I think a big piece too. Um, which is ironic. I feel like coming out of my mouth because I'm all like go do shit myself type of guy, right? But like community, like surround yourself with like-minded people, seek them out, seek out Facebook groups or whatever. Um, try to surround yourself with some people that are on the same path as you, because that's a place where I think you can change the environment. If you can connect with people who are also trying, you know, you might choose a different place to eat based on what's on the menu together. Like maybe you'll go out for walks more. I this the one food pyramid that I pulled up, Nancy, is I was looking for them to see if like any type of uh fasting or whatever was mentioned, or how much you should like how often eat. But the one at the very bottom um has daily exercise. Oh, which I thought was pretty interesting, you know, just just moving around, whatever that means to you. You can do a workout at home, you can go for a walk, you know, just just moving around.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, move. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:That's why I when you said daily exercise, I'm like, what year was that made? Because they kind of dropped the word exercise from that kind of marketing and just a daily movement, daily activity, anything that's non-sedentary. So yeah, I it's kind of just weird how these little like word, you know, things that we've changed in our society in terms of word usage over time, sometimes we'll like I'll I'm like, oh, I haven't, yeah. Anyway, I guess too.
SPEAKER_01:It's good it's important to know what does that mean, right? And and somebody else today wanted to differentiate what's weight-bearing exercise versus strength training exercise. And they are different, and you need we need to do both, and so understand we gotta break it down. Thanks guys for entertaining today's news as a conversation for us to chat about.
SPEAKER_00:Well, no, it's awesome. Like it's it's something that we will always be doing, eating, right? And so a huge part of our life is around food. And so if you can something I'm definitely working on myself, like develop a good relationship, learn what works for you, pay attention, know when you're full if you can, identify your habits, and it will influence so many other areas of life for sure. Like you know, you guys know I've gone through times of of eating really healthy, or I'll stop drinking for three months or whatever, and you do you do reap the benefits and the reward of it for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Now I'm hungry, I want a pizza. I love pizza, dude. Go for it, Lou. Thanks everyone. Hope you all enjoyed this episode. See you in the next one. Bye for now.