The Dose with Paddy and Belinda
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The Dose with Paddy and Belinda
Tips when starting Mounjaro, New Years Resolutions (BS?) and post Christmas checkin
Welcome to our final episode of 2024! We discuss navigating New Year resolutions and the pressure put on us by social media around this time of year, we reflect on how Christmas week went (Paddys first Christmas on Mounjaro), we also check in to see how is Belinda getting on having recently joined the gym - and Paddy shares some learnings form a recent retesting of his bloodwork.
All this plus lots more chats, laughs and randomness as you would expect!
Sit back, relax and enjoy the conversation
None of the content in this episode is to be treated as medical advice. Always seek out personal support from your GP / Medical Care team before beginning or changing any aspect of your healthcare.
We are not medically qualified - simply sharing our insights based on our journeys so far. Paddy is a Qualified Personal Trainer & Nutritional Coach.
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Belinda, what's that you were saying a second ago, before the music played?
Speaker 2:Nothing, paddy. I think my show would agree with me, though.
Speaker 1:We're at the start of the podcast.
Speaker 2:Say nothing. My mother will be watching.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're at the start of the podcast and it feels like we're about two hours in, because what people don't know is we have literally done an hour of tech support for belinda I was. I want to say I wasn't going to enjoy, you know um just to get it going.
Speaker 1:So it's it's, it's fine, it's fine, we're here we're here, we're on video late're on video for a first time yeah, now, I don't know which of the platforms that you're listening on, folks, but some of the ones that support video. You may have a video version of us if you don't, oh it will certainly be on our YouTube channel yeah, oh dear, but anyway. So, belinda, it is the week of New Year's Eve, new Year's Day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How was I hate this question though? Okay, how was Christmas? How did you get over the Christmas? And then the answer everyone always gives is quiet.
Speaker 2:Quiet, yeah, just so peaceful. Mine wasn't peaceful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how did you get over the Christmas? Mine was nice, I was working every day bar one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you big eejit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was working every single day except Christmas Eve. Now that was through my own doing. I will say yeah. It was through my own choice Look.
Speaker 2:Christmas was grand. It went off exactly how it should have done, but we did have a big chat. Well, actually, that's a fucking lie. I told everybody that we are never staying in ireland again. Next christmas we're going to lanzarote or tenerife at least I am, and whoever wants to come with me can follow me love it it's too much.
Speaker 1:It's too much work, it's too much stress for one meal yeah, it is and it's it's like never again in my life, never there's so much pressure for like one day, for like a meal, like, imagine if there's not much pressure like every time you're having dinner or that you're going for dinner or something like that, you'd be like what? What pressure like every time you're having dinner or that you're going for dinner or something like that.
Speaker 2:You'd be like what, what? No, no, we're going to go to a hotel somewhere nice, it's going to be all-inclusive and nobody's going to have to wash a plate yeah, do you know what it's now that I feel I need a few days off? Yeah yeah, cruel, into it's too much pressure paddy yeah, it is, it is um it was too much for my mother and father as well. You know, because we all kind of ganged into my mom's house so it was chaotic.
Speaker 1:Anyway, lesson learned um, speaking of pressure, obviously that was one thing that we spoke about in the last episode of the podcast. Was that idea of, for me, my first, I guess, christmas on the medication and on this journey? Um, so that was fascinating for christmas day and stevens's day dinner with a contrast like I. So, like christmas day was, went to my sister's. Uh, we had started with soup, a big bowl of soup. That was lovely. First mistake, having a big bowl of soup.
Speaker 1:I started nothing I was out the gate too strong from the get-go with a big bowl of soup because I was hungry, because I was like, yeah, I'm not going to like eat much during the day, you know small portion and kind of save some appetite for christmas day dinner, and uh, had the soup and it's like I'm kind of feeling that fullness level is fairly high now after the soup and then you were on.
Speaker 2:You were on 15 milligrams, though yeah, as well I'm on 15 now.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, and then like the dinner came, but like in friends, like my sister was asking me like you, you know what do you, you know what do you want. So she's very good with understanding my journey, and so it was a case of oh, just give me a couple of sprouts, you know, load up on the turkey and ham, and just maybe one or two roasties and a little potato, and if I want more I'll go back Like what I was saying, if I want more, I'll go back.
Speaker 1:So my usual approach started off had the turkey Turkey was lovely, it was so good. Had my sprouts I love sprouts.
Speaker 2:Same. I had sprouts today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, had my, had one of the roasties I think I can't remember, and I had a roastie, had some of the mash and then I was like, oh God, I'm stuffed.
Speaker 2:You must have been up to here, were you I?
Speaker 1:was stuffed. You must have been up to here, were you? I was stuffed. Now, bear in mind, this wasn't like a massive dinner. Also, other people had finished before me, which is also interesting, because that's one of the things I've definitely noticed in general is like just slower yeah and then dessert time, I was just like I can't leave it, just leave it. And then everyone else was having dessert later on the evening I was like I'd have one slice off off the thing we were having.
Speaker 1:I was like I'll have one slice up, but like I was, I'd say it was one of the first times in a long time that I felt truly beyond full through what I would call not not an overly excessive dinner, or probably was a normal dinner before yeah, well, yeah, yeah, you wouldn't have taken the marg out of you this time last year, you, you would have probably eaten two of them and then.
Speaker 1:Stephen's day still had stuff left and so I was like that I'll do it. The next day did a similar approach and I was like, okay, I've learned from yesterday, you know don't have the soup so you think, and I was like OK, I've learned from yesterday. You know, don't have the soup. You think I had the soup, didn't have as much. And then the dinner, and I plated it up, this time and literally I would say four mouthfuls in, and I was like I am actually.
Speaker 2:Done.
Speaker 1:I'm done.
Speaker 2:The thing is, though, what we have to learn from. That is because our digestion is so slow now. You would have been still full from the day before.
Speaker 1:100%, 100%, full because I took my medication the night after Christmas Day night, after the big meal if you get me, I think I'm still full from it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know when we're gone, so that was interesting after the big meal oh right, I think I'm still full from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know where are we going. So that was interesting. So, yeah, stephen's Day was more an epic fail, so it was, you know. Yeah, do you ever feel and I know you spoke about like grieving for food or stuff like that when you're not able to say Christmas dinner? If you're not able to say Christmas dinner, if you're not able to eat your full meal? You've played it up for that.
Speaker 2:Do you ever feel sad about that, Belinda, or what's your thoughts on it? So I spoke about this before on a reel.
Speaker 2:I used to. I think everybody has to go through a period of mourning from the life that they lived, because if they were eating, um, due to stress, if there was stretchy stress eaters I spoke to one of my subscribers about this this evening, actually or if you were an emotional eater and then all of a sudden you can't eat and you can't fix those emotions with food, then there is a kind of a period where you go what the hell do I do now?
Speaker 2:You know, and also not having the desserts and not having all of the lovely things that I used to love, like I used to just adore dark chocolate and red wine and all of the foods that go with red wine. I used to really, really miss all that. But I don't now because my, my life is very different. I have other things on my mind now, like going to aqua, going to pilates, going to the gym, getting out and about bringing the dog out, all that kind of stuff, bringing the boys off, you know, yeah, so I don't, I don't think about it now.
Speaker 2:It's not part of my life now yeah but like you're still only six, seven, six, six and a half months in so it's all really new for you, isn't it still?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like I kind of sat with this to see, ok, how do I feel about this? Do I feel I've missed out any at all? And where I kind of landed was, I don't feel I've missed out, because I've still got to enjoy good food. I've got to enjoy different stuff as well that I would normally have every day. I did still get to have some dessert, I had some of the sweets, you know, stuff like that, so I don't think there was anything that I felt I couldn't have. I think it was more so a case for me, though, to re-emphasize the importance of portion size.
Speaker 2:Hmm, yeah.
Speaker 1:I do remember you saying previously, though, Paddy, that you seem to enjoy your food more now. Oh, definitely the flavors of it.
Speaker 1:Like and I think that comes down to again that idea of I'm eating slower because I'm enjoying that flavors more Bar sweets they're that one thing that I'm like if you were to put them there, I could delete them, not because I'm enjoying them at all, but because I'm not feeling full from them because they're just there. Yeah, absolutely. So. I think that's definitely been a thing. This um over the past few weeks has been that kind of learning of do you know what I actually don't feel like. I get a great sense of satisfaction and enjoyment from sweets, just having them, and then it made me think did I ever I got comfort from them before? But, given how sweet they are, I don't know if I'm enjoying them.
Speaker 2:They're not even nice, Paddy.
Speaker 1:No, they're not like.
Speaker 2:You're talking about chocolate sweets, like roses and heroes and celebrations and stuff like that. They're not even nice anymore, you know, but again you'd still eat them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this thing. There was one that I liked, actually, that I hadn't had before. It was kind of like this oh, it had like dried or dehydrated, like raspberry and chocolate thing, and it was a new sensation. I was like, oh, that's nice. Now I'd like more of them because I'm enjoying this flavour. But these just generic sugar. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like no, None of them are the same anymore. Everyone says it Didn't do it for me, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So that was Christmas, I did enjoy it.
Speaker 2:We're done now. Thank God, it's over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know what do you do for celebrating New Year's nothing yeah same absolutely nothing, never have never, have.
Speaker 2:Now. There is, I think, 15 of us going out on New Year's Day for our dinner at 2 o'clock and I think I'm going gonna have some red wine then. I haven't had any, really uh, over the christmas at all I gave it up yeah, easy, okay, easy.
Speaker 2:And you know what? I'm finding it really easy because the longer that I am not drinking, the less likely I am to drink again. You know what? And I said to said to Sean yesterday. I said I think I'm going to have a glass of wine now when I have my dinner, but I don't know if I will, I don't Because the mental like I'm not talking as if I was drinking two bottles of wine every night or anything.
Speaker 2:But the mental clarity that I have when I wake up from not having any alcohol and not having any alcohol for two weeks there's there's a huge difference. I can literally do anything now. I can do anything, and I find my patience is a lot better as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah as evidence before we went live here, as you were trying to fix your laptop.
Speaker 2:At least I tried this time. Generally I don't oh, so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, new Year's, yeah, same. I don't know if I've ever maybe when I lived in London, maybe I went out on New Year's Eve once or twice, but like I wouldn't typically go out New Year's Eve at all, it's not something that appeals to me one iota yeah like myself and Peter, just stay at home. Same we One iota.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like myself and Peter just stay at home.
Speaker 1:Same we will have a glass of bubbly just at midnight.
Speaker 2:For the sake of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, just literally as a toast. Probably won't even finish it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And just watch RT or BBC, whoever is showing.
Speaker 2:New Year's counting, whatever it is, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of it.
Speaker 2:I tell you to be honest, I am so looking forward to getting back into the routine of the kids going to school, you know, and everything that I do and everything around the house so you're big on routine as well, like me.
Speaker 1:I like. I like scheduling and planning things out and knowing what way things are, and I don't like when things disrupt that. Things out of my control disrupt it, I don't like that.
Speaker 2:Do you know? My whole wall in my kitchen is everybody's got a board. Everyone's got a board in my kitchen and we have to know where everybody is at any given time. There's so much going on, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just live by my Google calendar, like live Everything on you know. Yeah, I just live by my google calendar like live in there. So it has to be like you know, same um.
Speaker 2:So you touched on there, the gym, gym, yes, yes, so you're going to gym.
Speaker 1:For anyone that missed that, tell us a bit about it. How's it going a weekend week and a half?
Speaker 2:I think I'm a week and a half in. I started um was it christmas week, I started the monday. Yeah, yeah, christmas week and a half. I think I'm a week and a half in. I started, um, was it christmas week I started?
Speaker 2:the monday yeah yeah, christmas week, and it is um tailor-made coaching. So it's small group training and it's in like groups of eight people and it's there's a pt there for um to just guide you absolutely all the way. Like you know, it's almost like having a personal trainer, but there's just other people around you. It's phenomenal. And you know what, paddy, if I had joined a gym, like I used to do, and put my headphones in on and went into the gym and just started pumping away, I wouldn't, I would have walked out of it and left it.
Speaker 2:But this is very, very different very different. You get to pump away with other people yes, but what I will say as well is like pilates and aqua aerobics, there are every size, every color, every creed, everybody is at different ages and nobody gives a shit what anyone else is doing.
Speaker 1:And the majority of people don't, in a gym Like they don't.
Speaker 2:You're so into yourself and how you're doing and you're so out of breath anyway.
Speaker 1:You're like the majority of people, even those people that are like ripped or look a particular way or whatever. You're too caught up in yourself, like then to be looking at other people so yeah, or worried about the other people to yeah nobody cares no, they don't.
Speaker 1:and what I always say to people is like If everybody in the gym thought that they were already perfect the way they were and didn't need to work on themselves, they wouldn't be in the gym. Exactly so everybody is in the gym because they're trying to improve For the same reason. Some aspect of their health or fitness or physique or aesthetics, or whatever the case might be. Everybody is there for a particular thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, something else that I how is your gym going actually?
Speaker 1:Yeah, going good, you must have.
Speaker 2:You must have personal bests outdone and everything now do you? See, I'm not great at keeping on top of that stuff, because I kind of just do it you know, yeah, like we have a thing where we're supposed to write it down and then do better the next week.
Speaker 1:It is written down, it is written down and then do better the next week. It is written down, it is written down and, like my coach Max will say to me, oh, paddy Fairplay, like that's, you know more than this, and I'm like, oh cool.
Speaker 2:I was asked today what are your wins for this week?
Speaker 1:well, I'm here me being in the gym.
Speaker 2:That's a win.
Speaker 1:That's literally what I said yeah, but no, the gym's going good. Like I'm not training with Max this weekend Last week would have been Christmas, but I did get in and do work out myself. I did my squats and deadlifts and that there the other day. And then I have decided that for the month of January I am doing five kilometres every day for the month of January as a fundraiser in aid of Women's Aid. So the idea is I'm not worried about the time for that, but the idea is that I'll walk, jog, crawl whatever.
Speaker 1:Five kilometers um every day, um for the month of january and we can find that on your socials yeah, so if you just look up um at munjarro paddy on instagram, you'll'll find the details there of what I'm doing. So it kind of set out to try and raise 500 euro for women's aid. They kind of work with supporting women and children that have been subjected to domestic violence and that, and it's something I've been thinking about for a long time and I thought you know what I feel like this. It just felt like the time was right and the whole idea like I've been thinking about doing park runs and stuff like that. I hate running and jogging. It's not running, it's jogging.
Speaker 2:You hate the gym as well, remember.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, jogging is on another level of hate, though it really is. I get some sense of enjoyment when the social aspect and talking to people in the gym and kind of, if I do get something like a PB or something like that, that's great, whereas jogging, I find nothing about that enjoyable at all, other than getting home in the door again. Um so, but this is also part of the reason why I've chosen it, because I want to do something that pushes me outside of my comfort zone, because I'm a big believer that it's only by intentionally pushing yourself into these spaces that you continue to grow as a person.
Speaker 1:So you know, makes you more resilient and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Can I share your link to that on my socials as well? Yeah, of course. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah. So I said the goal was going to be 500 euro. I think I'm already at nearly 250 and only launched like yesterday. So like I'm delighted, you know, really, really happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, keep going though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I will, Absolutely no. I'll keep going, you know, and if I go over 500, that'll be amazing, but I have never like as much as I've been on social media and various platforms and you know whatever, I have never done any type of fundraising event ever over the years like this.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, why is that?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I guess, like I just, I don't know, it just never happened, is it?
Speaker 2:something that has never occurred to you or has it occurred to you, and then you've stood back from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it has occurred to me, but I've always stood back from it. I have supported things by taking part in fun in events where people are fundraising for things, or I've donated to them, or you know stuff like that, but not independently taking it on yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of work, though, paddy as well.
Speaker 1:It is, yeah and then like trying to pick the right I know this might sound wrong, but the one charity that you feel you can make- much more of a difference to it's hard, isn't it, I suppose?
Speaker 1:resonate with you and I think over the past few weeks in particular in the news there has been a lot of really really sad stories in Ireland and in the UK and further afield about domestic violence, particularly children, and stuff like that, and it was one that just really feels emotional for me when I read those type of things. And then the other thing I had always thought through the years that if I did do any kind of fundraising, that supporting some aspect of a like female orientated charity was important to me, because the majority of the demographic that supports me on social media and have done since like 2011 is female.
Speaker 2:so that's kind of behind it as well, you know and put into it yeah, yeah, so we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1:but um, and then the other thing, before we get talking about the like, I guess one of the main things we want to talk about today was so, back when I started my journey in June, I got my blood test done and they were predominantly okay. There was nothing too scary in them.
Speaker 2:So this is when you started your journey with Monjaro.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, went and got my bloods done and I said I'll get them done again in the future and see is there a difference? Ok, is there a difference in them? Given the medication, given the exercise, nutrition, all that, what kind of thing would we see? Because, again, I've always said that this journey for me and more than for you, belinda as well, it's a health first journey as opposed to like an aesthetic thing or you know anything like that. So it's, it's another data point for me to see how everything's going. So got my full results back today again, like the doctor gave me a summary off everything's fine.
Speaker 2:I was like, yeah, that's what I got, as well a text message around yeah because you got.
Speaker 1:You got blood tests back today too. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I have. I don't have my comparisons yet.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah but yeah still, though, actually do you know what we'll do some point, not on the podcast we'll compare her blood tests can we Paddy now, given that I am like five years older than you, I think five or six years older than? You, I think, five or six years older than you Go on anyway.
Speaker 2:How are they? What do they say?
Speaker 1:So I went to chat GPT to ask it because I'm not going to understand all the things. Okay, yeah. So I went through like when I was looking at. So it goes through like liver.
Speaker 2:Functionality.
Speaker 1:Renal lipid, all this kind of stuff. Ok, and there was some of them that I could see a big difference in the numbers, even though the previous numbers weren't too bad. I was like, oh, that's still quite different though. I'd love to know what does the difference mean? I went through my liver profile results, my renal profile results, my HbA1c's which is a really important one, I know, for prediabetes and stuff like that my vitamin D, my vitamin B12, my thyroid function, and then FBC it's called on here as well, like bloods and stuff so went through an amylase, yeah. So I went through all of these, put them all into chat GPT and was like give me the summary on these numbers that have changed and literally said like, for example, my ALT, which I didn't even know what it was, has reduced from 33 to 14. What does this indicate, even though I know 33 is still OK, do still okay, do you know? I mean 33 isn't bad for this particular result, but I was like that seems like quite a difference. I wonder what does that mean? And basically it came back saying a reduction in alt levels from 33 to 14 is generally a positive sign. It suggests that there may be less stress or damage on your liver.
Speaker 1:Alt levels can fluctuate due to various factors, including lifestyle, improved diet, reduced alcohol or effective treatment of an underlying condition. That's awesome. Then asked it about a thyroid tsh level had reduced as well. Um, it said to do that this was a positive result as well and that your thyroid is working better. I asked it about the slight reduction in my hb a1c's um, and it said that this is to do with your glucose control within your body, essentially, and uh that the lowering of this level is associated with reduced risk of complications from diabetes. Um asked about creatinine pronounce that wrong urea, sodium and chloride, egfrs, and all of these came back with um. Overall, these changes reflect improvements in your kidney function, hydration status and overall health brilliant, so, like everything that's amazing, every marker came back as being improved that's phenomenal.
Speaker 2:Like, like. Is that's exactly what, what you wanted, what you would have hoped?
Speaker 1:for, yeah, I didn't expect to be that positive though yeah, yeah, I just can't believe that actually actually yeah, Like yeah. Brilliant and they weren't bad to start with, but given that, even within the range because it's all this range that they're improved, it shows, hopefully, that my actual health of my body has improved as well, other than just.
Speaker 2:Which, in turn, gives you longevity. How many years have you added on to your bloody life now, paddy, by going on this medication?
Speaker 1:yeah, and advocating for yourself and getting it yeah, and then making it work for you, yeah, and other kind of lifestyle you know changes as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think you can. I don't think you can be on manjaro um without making positive changes to your life, because I think, once, even if you don't set out to make those changes, I think they will happen organically. Because of your weight loss, you will become more confident. Because of your confidence, you will go out more or walk more, or maybe you'll go and take a swimming class or something like that. So it does all happen organically and it all leads to longevity.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:Paddy, congratulations, maybe another seven or six years you have now.
Speaker 1:That's great news.
Speaker 2:Be delighted with yourself.
Speaker 1:We'll be here like at like 99, like doing a podcast. My inflammation has gone down.
Speaker 2:God only knows what we'll be on by then, but we'll still be on it, god, people hate when I say that online they hate it oh they're like, why would you have the medication for life? Yeah, honestly like yeah, and I still get it like a video that I made a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1:People are still fucking commenting on it you're taking the medication from the diabetics, right oh?
Speaker 2:my god, that is so 2022, I know the world has moved on, moving on.
Speaker 1:I was listening to a podcast today and they were talking about how in their area there is now um aesthetic type places and I know there's some aesthetic place in the north um that have community nurses that prescribe this there as well as part of a weight loss clinic. So I'm not talking about that. But there are some places in the United States that are now advertising or promoting compounded medication, glp-1 medications for aesthetic fat loss, so not for like obesity.
Speaker 2:Oh Well, that was bound to come.
Speaker 1:As as in like want to drop 10 pounds.
Speaker 2:You mightn't be okay, but hey yeah, yeah, and it's the compound that they'll get for it, isn't it, you know? But something big is going to happen in the uk soon. I feel, paddy, I think it's something's coming down the line for them definitely yeah, yeah it's's a big huge thing with their advertising now, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, like like, even in Ireland we have very tight kind of requirements about not advertising medications and how information is presented about weight loss products and services and stuff like that, which includes even things like personal trainers and all this kind of stuff. But it's I don't know. I know we've touched on this an awful lot but, like some of there seems to be some prescribers still engaging in some very elusive and worrying practices, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it is worrying, it's really worrying.
Speaker 1:It is Like we haven't. I haven't spoke about this fully, but like over the past kind of month or so, I've been in conversation with a potential prescriber about a potential collaboration with them and like I have grilled them about what is their approach to patient safety, to prescribing, to all this kind of stuff, because it means so much to me, um, do you know? So it, but it just seems that there are some prescribers out there. Just yeah, it worries me. So I think you're right.
Speaker 2:Things are going to change, though. They're going to change, I think so, yeah, yeah, and unfortunately, because of those few um companies that are doing that, it'll, it'll, it'll change for everybody now unfortunately, yeah, um so, belinda, talk to me about obviously you recently joined the gym.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is that?
Speaker 2:because it's new year, new me well, um, it wasn't actually no good because I am absolutely sick to the back teeth of hearing the new year new me. I just Paddy, I just hate it because it just sets you up for failure immediately Out the gate you put so much pressure on yourself, don't you?
Speaker 1:What about you need to come up with, like all these five New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 2:and hey, you can lose 10 pounds in two weeks with our fat shred burn hyper class yeah, please, please, please, give yourself a bit of grace and stay the hell away from all of that bullshit yeah anyone that's thinking about it, anyone that's looking into the new year now and thinking do you know what I'm going to give um, slimming world, our weight watchers, another try for the maybe third, the fifth or the tenth time? The first sign of madness is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. If those things have not worked for you previously, they are not going to work for you now if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2:And there's this amazing lady. Her name is Sinead and she does. She runs the intuitive eating Ireland and she is phenomenal. If anyone wants to follow her, you really should, um, and she is absolutely just gung ho to let people know how much misinformation is out there when you join those kind of clubs and that. But there is so much, so many more things that you can do rather than just out the gate, make these resolutions, join this club. You could just literally give yourself a little bit of grace yeah be kinder to yourself.
Speaker 2:Um, maybe just think of you know we're not going to say that we're going to be a new year, new me, maybe it's just a new year. We'll evolve a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you know, just do a little bit better than you did last week and like the sad thing is, I remember looking at this um last year, um for when the radio shows was doing that like it's. It's the main new year's resolution that is set by people is to lose weight yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 2:You know what it is resolution yeah, god and like and and the pressure that comes with it with that new year and it just feels so idiotic just because we take a new calendar out of a packet.
Speaker 1:We feel that we have to be a new you yeah, new me, and I don't, I've never understood it yeah, like some people might find it as a you know, compartmentalising a project or a thing they want to do, fair enough, but in terms of if this is making you feel under pressure to have to do something because of social media or stuff like that, that in itself is a signal that maybe, wherever that pressure is coming from, unfollow them.
Speaker 1:Unfollow them. Wherever that pressure come from, unfollow them. But if you're sitting there thinking, do you know what? This isn't like a New Year's resolution of all I need to this, this, this and this. But in general, I'd like to focus maybe on my health and improve my health for longevity, not restricted to just, you know, january or 12 months of 2025. Then you know, maybe look at, ok, what are the positive steps that I can plan out maybe for the year, like in terms of maybe meeting with my doctor or meeting with a specialist, or meeting with a dietitian, or you know, you know or getting a consultation or talking to my doctor about a GFP1 journey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or getting a consultation to see what comes back from it about the medications or that, so that. But don't, don't, I guess, look at it or feel like under pressure to look at it in case of the New Year's resolution, because again, the majority of resolutions fail come the end of February.
Speaker 2:You know, and you know, when I look back, paddy, of all the years I made all of those resolutions myself, because I bought into all of that I just look back and I think every single time I set myself up for failure. Yeah, bar none.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Bar none, and I disliked myself a little bit more after every single failure. And I just, you know, I just I couldn't do it, and I'm just trying to let people know that that doesn't have to be the way. You don't have to do that, you know.
Speaker 1:Like I think it would be great if, rather than think about, oh, I have to come up with new resolutions, oh I have to come up with these, I have to come up with these Maybe just take some time out to think about what would I like to be different about life in 2025 in terms of me, my health, that kind of stuff and maybe just mull over that for a while and that's not something you're going to have an answer for in a week or two, you know but then, like it could be a case that, you know, maybe come February, March, you're like do you know what I have a clearer picture of in general, the areas of my life I'd like to maybe enhance or improve, like for me, as I say, for me, when I kind of reached a point of now, I did try again last January and, as we spoke on the last podcast, that was not a good experience, but it was and actually a few of the attempts I've done have been May.
Speaker 1:Now that I think about it, I don't know why May, but anyway, like it was May for me when I kind of thought, okay, I want to improve my longevity here, and I want to focus on my actual health, not within a particular time frame of of a thing, but I need to improve the quality of my life in general.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and I think it's. It's about not making those massive, massive decisions about joining those clubs just on a whim or like even.
Speaker 1:Like you know, some people can go all in as well, even on things like I'm going to go to the gym five days a week. You know that's my new year's resolution.
Speaker 1:No, if you haven't been going to the gym for five days a week, like for the past month, for failure start percent, you know what I'm going to try and get to the gym once a week, and I'll go and get to the gym once a week and I'll go out for maybe a walk once a week, if you want to start off with something.
Speaker 2:But, like.
Speaker 1:Don't be setting goals for yourself for things that are going to be unrealistic, and I think, even that idea of something having to be a goal I know we talk about goal weights Inherently, a goal is something that you then achieve and that's done, whereas your health isn't something that's done. Your health is something that you're, it's an ever evolving thing that you have to keep chasing yeah.
Speaker 2:And chasing, and chase until the day you die.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I don't know, paddy. I just I don't think I can actually even articulate what my hope would be for people to not make those those irrational decisions to think, oh my God, I better go back to Slim World, I better go back to Weight Watchers, I better join the gym. It's just like you just said, paddy. Just say to yourself you know what. I'm going to give myself a little bit of grace now and I'm going to go out for a walk two nights a week. I'm going to maybe join a gym in February or March, see how I feel after my walking, I've built up.
Speaker 2:It took me two years to get into the gym, Paddy. After I started my journey, you know I was afraid of my life to go to the gym. So it's a big thing to kind of say, yep, I'm going to do that, and it bloody costs money and it costs time and it costs energy and all of that, the resources that's been put into that one thing.
Speaker 2:99% of the time you know it falls by the wayside and I'm sure everybody that's making those decisions will know where I'm coming from when I say that. Making those those decisions will know where I'm coming from when I say that.
Speaker 1:But like, even like, it's mad some of the things, like the ads that I'm getting now on my Instagram, for example. Right Like, there is an ad that keeps coming up and it's along the lines of we're looking for 10 flabby men over 200 pounds that want to lose fat.
Speaker 2:I get that on Instagram. We're looking for eight women from Carrick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like I get the marketing, but it's the negative talk that's part of the marketing. Why not change that to hey, we're looking for 10 men that want to enrich their life and feel more confident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, health hey, we're looking for 10 men that want to enrich their life and feel more confident yeah, health, wealth, longevity yeah, and it's you know that's the thing that I really dislike and I know where it comes from, because there is there's a few key that are seen as key gurus in the world of fitness that do all these courses about how to attract leads and how to get this. You know, I get it, I get it. You get that in every business, but it's very similar approaches that they advise in terms of the language to use to entice people and to hook people and to try and get an emotional response from somebody for them to sign up.
Speaker 2:They're all hooks, aren't they?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and a lot. But it response from somebody to for them to sign up with the hooks, aren't they?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah and a lot, but it's just a shame that a lot of it's done through negative body talk or self-image talk or stuff like that, and I don't like that like, if somebody is offering that to you, what do you think they're going to be like when you walk into their club or whatever?
Speaker 1:yeah, you know and even this idea of oh, lose seven pounds in two weeks yeah, it's just not progressive and again I'm surprised somebody hasn't been pulled up Again. We were talking about advertising standards before, because you cannot guarantee that. Also and this is where sometimes personal trainers hate me, because I will just say it as it is like, as opposed to their marketing, anyway that, like we know, if somebody's going to lose seven pounds over two weeks, the majority of that's probably going to be water.
Speaker 2:It's not going to be water, but the thing is, they could nearly guarantee that you're definitely going to lose water. Yeah, in two weeks, yeah, and that's all you're going to lose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if somebody goes on like a very restrictive diet or nutritional intake for two weeks, it's very likely they're going to lose.
Speaker 2:And you're walking for, and you're walking for one solid hour a day, every day, like there's just.
Speaker 1:There's just so many different things anyway yeah, so anyway in relation to new year, new me and resolutions. Belinda and patty are saying feck the resolutions yeah focus on your health and just maybe look at a longer term plan for if there's aspects of your health or life that you think could do with focus. But don't feel to compartmentalise those into a like yeah, into a general.
Speaker 2:A knee-jerk reaction.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We're going to try and cut down on that. Yeah, especially when we're thinking about joining slimming rooms, slimming whatever, and gyms and stuff. Just stop and think. It's a massive, massive thing to do, isn't it? With time, finances, energy, you know. So make sure that you're up for it, if you are deciding to do it.
Speaker 1:Is this decision I'm about to make to commit to this thing? Is this going to make me feel good about myself from day one? Or not because a lot of them, we know, don't like again that anxiety of going, potentially standing on the scales or that anxiety off really intense. Oh my god. I've signed up to this 14 day program. I have to go to the gym like 10 times and yeah, you end up hating it then, don't you? Yeah, it's not sustainable. Not sustainable. I actually seen a big TikTok fitness influencer.
Speaker 1:Influencer. I was trying to think can I combine those two words Fitfluencer, fitfluencer?
Speaker 2:Oh no, they combine those two words influencer, fitfluencer.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I think that's already out there, patty, anyway. Um, that had been out essentially bitching about a glp1 medications before and they've done a complete u-turn on it because they themselves have said and I I see there's like essentially a commercial aspect to this that, um, I can support people and grow my business at the same time yeah, yeah yeah, I admire there being so much transparent about it, but it still felt a little bit kind of grabby yeah, yeah, it did, but that's kind of what we're up against.
Speaker 2:We know that Munjarro is soon going to be available in Ireland, belinda and I'd love holding my breath one lady one of my girls was told the other day by her doctor that it will 100% be here in February yeah but what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1:yeah, I had a, a um undisclosed source um who said that they that the efforts were being made to have it in available from january at some point. So I do think it's going to be quarter one like that, as in the springtime, based on things I'm hearing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's going to upturn a lot, isn't it? A lot of things for people it will Like a lot.
Speaker 1:I think there's still going to be issues about doctors wanting to prescribe it, about cost, about, yeah, a few different things.
Speaker 1:I think it will never be as costly as it is in the States, though, but it will possibly be more costly than it is in the UK, yeah, and Northern Ireland, for sure yeah we're never on the better side of any of those things yeah, I did follow up with Eli Lilly because obviously we had sent them queries and I chased them last week just for Christmas and I'm back and saying we will come back to you, I think, next week. So they're kind of.
Speaker 2:But, paddy, are they the ones that will set the price?
Speaker 1:They're not are they and I've said that to well, I mean they're going to be the ones setting the cost to the distributor?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So that'll be some of the things. So I have asked them. You know, on cost, but equally that could be a thing that is for the distributor. Yeah, so we'll see where that comes. But anyway, there's a good few questions, so we'll know a bit more about that. But the early indications yeah, the early indications would indicate, yeah, that it is going to be more expensive than.
Speaker 2:And you know it's funny, because this medication that's so globally known and so globally famous and you just cannot turn on the TV, the news, social media, media. You can't open any app without it been, without you being confronted with it. How is it that we can still walk into our own local doctor and they not know anything about it? And I mean effing nothing how is that? Possible, or are they? Are they of the opinion? Well, I'm not talking to this person about that, because it's not. It's not available here, so why?
Speaker 1:would I even engage in a conversation, you know yeah, I think some of it is that, um, there is, like I've heard, of two or three doctors locally that have been the exception where they have gone and got the information, they've got the leaflets, they've printed them out, they've read them, they've given it to the patient and so that which is so refreshing to hear that there was a genuine effort made to kind of to kind of hear it. But that's one of the things I've asked Eli Lilly is there seems to be a very low level of awareness about teres epithet, ie Mun Jarrow in particular, knowledge in knowledge, education, like yeah so what's their um approach to creating that awareness within the medical world in ireland?
Speaker 2:so we'll see what they say when I when I um went to ask my doctor about manjaro and if he would press write a prescription for me um way before I started manjaro, um, I was on ozempik, obviously, but I was trying to kind of feel around, see what was going to happen. Could I get it off my doctor? Would he write the prescription for me? Anyway, he said, oh, I don't know. And he slid around his computer, he tapped in a few words, letters, whatever, and he said no, I won't know. Thyroid cancer, yep.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ almighty. It's such a lazy response really is the most laziest thing I've ever heard in my life it's a considering troll type response, yeah, which there's been a lot of out over the past week. People have definitely been off work or something because, by God, my social media, I've this. It seems to come every so often. So the video that went viral there maybe about five weeks ago, and I got a heap of comments for that one, which I wasn't surprised which one was that now which?
Speaker 1:that was one about actually the announcement of Munjar becoming available in Ireland, and then over the past week I've had more comments because, again, your videos stay there, so new people find them, and even the fire runs, yeah, and it's shown again in people's feeds, yeah. Exactly so. There's definitely been an increase over the past Christmas week in terms of people wanting to share very strong opinions about how, how me and people like me are nothing but fat, lazy sods.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you shared, yeah, and I'm just like and people like me are nothing but fat lazy sods.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you shared, yeah, and I'm just like, and even when I said, even when I said that I was going to do the 5K a day in aid of charity.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Yes, someone replied to me on Facebook.
Speaker 1:I was like oh what? Because I said this is pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone.
Speaker 2:Aren't you supposed?
Speaker 1:to be a PT and I was like don't be an ass. Firstly, I'm doing good with this.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I never said there's an issue of walking 6,000 steps. I'll walk all day. That doesn't cost me. However, I'm jogging these, or that's the goal is trying to jog as much as I can. That's where the discomfort is from. And then I said, in relation to being a personal trainer I'm going to let you go and do your research on me there and figure out my journey, so you'll understand the significance there.
Speaker 2:But some people are just, paddy, I don't know how you have the tolerance to reply to these people in the way you do. Never mind, just reply to them, but to reply to them in the way you do, like I, when I see those kind of comments, I literally have to close my phone because I watch f and blind and oh, my usual. Um retort is just first day on the internet question mark yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I kind of see it as a way to challenge whatever thought system they've come from, but also just to try and highlight how ridiculous they are, yeah, and how ignorant, they are.
Speaker 2:How misinformed, but you know what I find as well, and something that's been really annoying me lately, is that when I go to reply to it, they say this person does not allow you to reply. You message them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So they can write up anything they like and have no replies on it and the one where somebody called me a like a fat runt, we'll say, but with a different letter Right Nice, wow, yeah, like I reported on TikTok and they come back with saying that they didn't find any breach of their community guidelines with that abusive message. Got it.
Speaker 1:And that's a whole other discussion about how poor community standards are being enforced. And then we have the likes of Meta that went the other way at times and shut down a load of people that were creating community spaces like what we do and shut down all their of people that were creating community spaces like what we do and shut down all their profiles because they thought they were trying to sell drugs, and it's like no. Yeah, but you look at the picture of my breakfast.
Speaker 2:It was reported for porn. God damn, god damn porn. Saucy, saucy eggs, yeah, Scrambled or boiled. Oh my god, like that's just pure hate, isn't it coming from?
Speaker 1:what can you do? So, belinda, what would your if somebody is? Okay, I have put the wheels in motion. I am starting on a munjaro or a zempic journey or whatever the care similar journey in january, not as new year's resolution but just as new health kind of journey that I'm starting on um, and we've talked about hints and tips and stuff like that before, I know on a previous podcast, um, but like what would your top one or two kind of tips be again for somebody that might be starting out day one on this journey?
Speaker 2:on this journey. Well, I think maybe I'll go back to thinking about doing this journey. The first and second thing you should do is you should talk to a reliable, reliable source, ie your doctor. Don't take any, any information from anybody on the Internet. Go and see your doctor and talk to him and tell him how you feel and stand up and advocate for yourself and tell the doctor how, exactly how you're feeling and exactly how situations make you feel and exactly how food makes you feel and cry.
Speaker 2:If you have to cry because if you don't explain to him, it's not even. You don't even have to explain to him, because sometimes it's hard to explain those emotions and the way you feel, about the way you are. You just need to let him know how much this is impacting you, and I think that's the first step in advocating for yourself. And if you find that you know you made a mess of it or you didn't explain yourself properly, Make another appointment, go back and see the doctor. But you have to go and see your doctor. There's no point, paddy, doing anything. Is there online?
Speaker 1:This is the thing Like even if you do go to a reputable prescriber that isn't your doctor, they should be informing your doctor anyway. So, like your doctor is going to, even if you go under he's going to find out. So even if your doctor might not be as informed or something, currently, you still should have that discussion with them so they're at least aware heaven forbid if anything happens in the future that they're aware of what medication you're on like.
Speaker 2:And God forbid if anything happened and you did go into hospital for some reason, this medication needs to be on your and God forbid if anything happened and you did go into hospital for some reason.
Speaker 1:This medication needs to be on your file.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I know there are ladies out there that haven't even told their doctor, haven't even told their husbands.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But they're, you know, you should, and men, and men, well, yeah, Because I had that on TikTok.
Speaker 1:There one man in particular that has been messaging me for the few weeks and he is engaging with a prescriber as well. He's kind of asked me some general questions, but, as always, if there's stuff that's, you know, out of my realm, like nope, you need to go and talk this or talk to that, but he's like literally nobody knows, patty, else, that I'm on this. Nobody knows.
Speaker 2:You know what's your, what's your biggest tip for somebody starting out or thinking about starting out?
Speaker 1:um, you need to be realistic with your expectations, like if you're going in there again, like thinking week one, week two, I'm going to drop a stone. That is not what this medication for, particularly month one of this medication. Um, as we have said time and time and time again on various reels, on both our profiles and on episodes of the podcast, you know that first month, maybe two months maybe even three months maybe even longer for some people.
Speaker 1:Your body is getting used to the medication. The the level is increasing in your body as you titrate up the different doses. For some people they might be a quick responder, like I was. Fortunate I was.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that is not the norm. But for other people like I have one of my videos where I actually talk about this topic and I was blown away by the amount of people that said to me that they were in month three or month four of their journey before things really kicked in for them. And I was amazed and I'm like in this environment every day and I wasn't aware that it was going to be that high the amount of people that said no, it was only really say when I got to 10 milligram the thing really kicked in, yeah or, for some people, seven by five or whatever the case might be.
Speaker 1:So be realistic. And that's always when someone, even this week someone messaged me like, oh you know what? What advice would you give? I'd like go watch that video that we have you know because, or the previous podcast, because that is for me the most important thing, you know so many expectations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so many people getting disappointed and deflated. They're like a week, two weeks in and like, oh, my hunger is still there and I haven't lost any weight. Or I've put weight on and I'm still hungry, and it's like, yeah, because this isn't a diet.
Speaker 2:A miracle drug that it's made out to be on social media by the stars in the. States and all around.
Speaker 1:It's just not. It's a medical treatment that takes up to six months to be assessed in terms of efficacy on you, specifically on your biology. So you know we need to understand that going into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's the real life of it. Like, that's real life, that's how it is you know, and unfortunately nobody's going to want to hear that, nobody's going to want to listen to that, nobody because it's not the sexy sales pitch off.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, you know, yeah, oh my god, like patty, you could honestly be the sexy sale pitch for manjaro, because you were a super responder and you lost six stone in six months, like that's. That's unheard of it is, isn't it? You know so. And then there's the the normal, regular people like myself that were on it for two years and lost 80 pounds, got another 20 to go. You know, it's a it's a lot. The long game it really is. It is a long game and like.
Speaker 1:Again, even looking at the clinical trial data, I know that say the difference um in say 12.5 to 15 or 10 to 15, is a tiny percentage amount typically for people in terms of the weight that they lose, like if you've lost the majority of your weight by that point yeah, like me yeah, like by 10 milligram or 12.5 milligram, so like by going to 15.
Speaker 1:What the clinical trial showed was that there was for some people a small percent extra. So this is again kind of thing not everybody's going to get to 15 milligrams because you don't need to. You know, some people lose all of their weight and hit their kind of healthy BMI weight by sitting on like five milligram or 10 milligram or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm going to. That's what I'm going to try and do with the 10 patty.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think with the like the initial six weeks in the gym. I weighed myself when I went into the gym the other day and I'm going to weigh myself at the end of the six week introduction thing and I think if I have lost the weight that maybe I think I want to have lost by then, I'll still stick with what I'm doing with the 10.
Speaker 1:Is there any aspect of your this? We had not spoke about this. This is just something that came to my head. Is there any aspect of your nutrition that you think you need to tweak further, or are you happy with where your nutrition is at the moment?
Speaker 2:I'm happy with my nutrition when it's not christmas okay, and when my? And when my brother isn't home and he's a chef and he won't stop bloody, making us go out to lunch and cooking stuff at home, you know. But other than that, yeah, I think I've got it.
Speaker 2:I think I've got it and it's taken me. It took me a year and a half with a dietitian in Beyond BMI and also a health coach and going, and you know doing all the work that I could do on my own as well. I know exactly what I should be doing, like yourself, paddy you know exactly what it should look like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, because there's something I've been thinking about a lot and I think for myself. I'm very aware of my protein intake, but I don't know if my protein intake is high enough correct. Right, okay, so that's what I am looking at.
Speaker 1:Okay, like I know, there's a big, huge math thing that you can do on that and like I'm aware of where it should be and I will know that, like I will typically default to multiple protein sources throughout the day, but equally, with me doing like quick, quick maths in my head, I'm like I don't think that's kind of near, I don't think that's where I would like it to be, um. So, and this is where sometimes the idea of like, um supplementation and stuff like that can be handy. So I have ordered myself some new flavors of um, some clear whey proteins, yeah. So again, this is not in. This is in no way in place of normal food at all.
Speaker 2:This is literally to supplement the normal food I'm having, the day-to-day food and can I just ask you then um, at your height and your weight now, what are you looking at as a good number on the, on the um of grams of protein per meal? What are you looking at?
Speaker 1:So like as a ballpark.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, a really loose ballpark.
Speaker 1:Like there is again like a lot of things, there is a range of things, but like if I was to do a very quick thing of, ok, if I work on the base of, like you know, one gram of protein per, say, say, kilo of weight or whatever it is that I am, um, that would mean that I should be give or take a bit um in and around. If I was hitting like 115 to 120 grams of protein, that would be I would be happy with that I'd be comfortable with that.
Speaker 1:Some people again would say well, patty, if you're hitting somewhere between, say, 90 grams to 140 grams, you know. So this is where there's ranges and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:That's what I kind of hit for 30 grams of protein per meal, 10 grams of fiber per meal, and that's what I'm kind of going at at the minute yeah, and then anything else is just a bonus. I don't know anything else?
Speaker 1:I can't concentrate on christmas day I definitely got a lot of protein in. I was thinking, when I was eating the turkey I was like protein. This is all good but no, I've ordered myself some um I haven't tried the clear way yet.
Speaker 2:Have you tried? Yeah?
Speaker 1:yes, and the clear way. Now, some of the flavours can taste very, very artificial. Oh, I hate that. I've got two different flavours downstairs and they taste very strong and very, very artificial, so I'm not that keen on them. So I've got ordered two flavours One is Mojito and the other one is Mojito, and I've had the mojito one before, so I know what it's like Slimy, is it? Yeah, it is very like. And again the idea is you'd have that ice cold like really refreshing yeah.
Speaker 1:Then the other one is a strawberry and kiwi one which I've not had before but I'm hoping will be nice. Had good reviews online and then I've ordered um, these aren't this isn't a clear way, but a flavor of traditional whey protein that I've had before. That I was my favorite ever, which was chocolate orange so I've ordered chocolate orange. Well, it's not clear way, it's just a normal normal protein powder.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be nice so those are the three that I've ordered to see. Okay, would I be more likely to have those as, like you know, a drink once a day, or whatever the case might be, to help get some of that protein?
Speaker 2:Do you take protein powder much?
Speaker 1:No, I have loads downstairs. I do have a selection.
Speaker 2:Of course you do, Paddy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I have a selection, but I love it. Yeah, like I have chocolate, I have cinnamon Danish nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I only ever have vanilla because of what I add into it and see vanilla would be one now that I don't think I'd ever buy yeah, no vanilla ice cream, that's what I have okay, okay, yeah and I put my chia seeds, I put my um, what's the other chia seeds and what are the other seeds I use, can't remember and I fill it up with protein and I fill it up with fiber as well and it becomes quite high in calories because naturally I only eat twice a day anyway. So if I'm taking a shake in the morning and it's got like, I don't know, 40 grams of protein and 17 grams of fiber in it and I'm drinking it and it might take me an hour to drink it, but, I'm set, then I'm set for the day I don't.
Speaker 2:I can get on with my day and not think about anything until I'm supposed to eat my dinner yeah, and that's. That's what I want from food. Now I just want to get it into my body. I want to make sure it's nourishing my body and I'm getting exactly what I need, and then I want to move on from it yeah, yeah, no, and totally that's what it should be.
Speaker 2:It should be about nourishment I'm enjoying it as well, um, but it does taste like like ice cream as well, so yeah, but there's so much in them like I know that you'd have it up like oh, I'm treating myself to new air fryer. Paddy, I'm surprised you're saying that now of treating yourself. You don't treat yourself very often, do you? You stop spending in about two weeks.
Speaker 1:These have been investments in quality of life. It's been like one present for the person, five for me, just to give a balance. You know, but no, like the air fryer, like I would use the air fryer like nearly every day we use ours twice a day, without fail yeah, like, and so I'm getting one of the jewel ones that has the two baskets oh no, biggest mistake we ever made why, because they're tiny Pad.
Speaker 2:Because they're tiny Paddy.
Speaker 1:They're tiny and I do have the ninja.
Speaker 2:They're really small, but there is one you can get that looks like it's a jewel Right and you open it and there's a thing in the middle of it where you can take it out and it's one big, massive piece, but bear in mind there's only two of us. Oh yeah, true, that's true.
Speaker 1:Okay, you'll be fine. The cat doesn't need a bear fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's five of us and two dogs.
Speaker 1:You see, yeah, okay. Yeah, so I guess that's the difference.
Speaker 2:No, you'll be fine, I just love them. Everybody loves them. Now, so excited so excited.
Speaker 1:Everybody loves them now so excited so excited. We need to do a podcast sometime as well about actually the tech that we use oh, yes, we spoke about that before, so we must do that.
Speaker 2:I can't talk about anything like that. I can sit and listen, I can learn the tech I helped Belinda use. Yeah, that's do you know we came on here at half six and we didn't start till half seven because, lads? Do you know we came on here at half six and we didn't start till half seven because I couldn't figure out how to get the echo out of my headphones.
Speaker 1:How did we fix it?
Speaker 2:when in doubt, plug it out turn it off, switch it on fucking idiots I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it um. So I did a trial 5k yesterday to see how it went on.
Speaker 2:How did that go? I don't want today now.
Speaker 1:So the only time I have ever done now I started it I haven't done 5K in. I honestly couldn't tell you when.
Speaker 2:Right, do you know? I'm walking, paddy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, walking, no problem, but I'm not about trying to jog as much as I can, yeah, so I started out and I didn't realise I had my watch set to miles, so it was showing me three point something miles as opposed to five kilometre and it's just like, oh shit. But then it's like, oh, actually, I can break this up into three segments then. So this so this is my little psychological thing I'm doing for myself is that it's only three segments of activity and this is the way my brain works.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly this is the way my brain works. So, for the first time ever in my life, I jogged the first mile completely without stopping.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:I couldn't You'll feel that tomorrow. I could fucking feel it. When I got home yesterday on my left knee, I thought I. God I've injured myself. Well, it was just being in your 40s and trying to do something.
Speaker 2:It's fine Mid 40s Early Sorry.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll be 43 in April, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll be 49. 50?, 49.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah you're pre-middle age.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pre-middle age. Thanks, paddy. Pre-middle age. Do you know what? I couldn't care less. I've never cared less about my age, actually in my life.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't, no, I have to Particularly with the lights and I'm like, and like I can see on the camera, I'm like, oh, there's a gray, there's a gray, but then I'm like I don't really care, do you know?
Speaker 2:what? Um? Do you not think that I'm overshadowing you just slightly, because if anyone ever thinks that my hair is blonde, it's not.
Speaker 1:This is my natural, like gray heart, gray hair and uh yeah, I'm seeing more and more grays, but I think it's just when you see like a random one and you're like oh, yeah, but the thing is, with men and grey hair, it's always this gorgeous salt and pepper, george Clooney crack, you know. Are you saying I am?
Speaker 2:the George.
Speaker 1:Clooney of like the Sligo Leach from area.
Speaker 2:Yes, absolutely, I'll even write it down for you.
Speaker 1:still got it um but um yeah, but I think, uh, that's the crack from me, for now for me as well I think I'm just looking at the listings.
Speaker 2:I'd written down. I think that's everything and this is coming out. When is this coming out, patty?
Speaker 1:it's coming out on new year's day this is coming out on new year's eve eve right okay yeah, yeah, and just just be very mindful just be mindful out there guys. Yeah, very quick turnaround on this one, belinda, that's tomorrow. Yeah well, patty, you better get to work immediately sorry, yeah, yeah, cracking that whip, um, but anyway, oh god, um, my little button didn't work there. There we go, there's my little button. Oh, the dance music is back thanks for listening in, guys but into what are you doing? New year's day absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I'm going out for dinner with 15 people, my family and you. What are you doing?
Speaker 1:em my first official 5k for my fundraiser, oh yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 2:We're gonna be sharing that all week, aren't we?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be sharing it all month. Yeah, let's do it, let's get.
Speaker 2:Paddy let's get Paddy up to a grand before he knows it.
Speaker 1:Oh god, like that would be just amazing.
Speaker 2:Oh don't worry, we'll do it.
Speaker 1:We'll do it so amazing, and then I might need to treat myself for as a reward for doing it.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow, though I we're getting I'm going to have to get Peter's phone number. Does he know that you're at this crack all the time, constantly?
Speaker 1:it's a joy to work, don't worry, the half, it's like from Timu, it's like, or Klarna, yeah, it's like. Oh yeah, that cost a fiver, like you know it's like it's gonna be worth it absolutely actually I got. I got runners. No, I wouldn't wear them for running, but I got like things that go on my feet from Timu and I was like these are going to be, these are going to be shit. They're actually, they're decent. I always think they wouldn't fit me, they're actually fine my favourite tracks.
Speaker 1:Bottoms are really stretchy ones from Timu that are like nine quid.
Speaker 2:I love Timu. Yeah, there we go, love it, absolutely sorry, I know we're going to, we're going to get, we're come on, let's get out of here. These people have more things to be doing now than listening to us how long are we going there?
Speaker 1:just over the hour, just over the hour right. Belinda, I will talk to you soon. Thank you, as always, it's a pleasure. We're going to have a little bop to the music as it plays out. Until next time, happy new year from us both whoop, whoop and thanks for, like the literally thousands of streams, our podcast has got since. October 24 when we started. I think we're at like. Is it nearly like 7,000 streams or something?
Speaker 2:Yeah, moving up to eight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're doing okay. We're doing okay. Thank you so much to everyone for listening. We're going to have a little dance. Okay, that's enough.
