The Dose with Paddy and Belinda
Join Paddy Cunningham (@adoseofpaddy on TikTok / Instagram & Qualified Personal Trainer) and Belinda Hogan (@GLP1.Insights on Instagram) for your regular dose of all things GLP1 (Ozempic / Mounjaro etc).
We’ll provide inspiration, motivation and information to help you on your way to a happier and healthier life with a few laughs along the way. We’ll chat about our own journey which is currently supported by the GLP1 Obesity medication, Mounjaro - sharing highs and lows, answering your questions along with some expert guests.
This content is NOT medical advice nor promotional content about prescribed medications - always consult your GP before starting / changing medical treatments and to discuss all available options for your healthcare, wether medicated or not.
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The Dose with Paddy and Belinda
Nutrition & Food for your weight loss journey
The podcast episode focuses on resetting nutrition for individuals using GLP-1 medications like Mounjaro, Ozempic, Saxenda etc. We discuss strategies to manage food intake, the importance of hydration, and how to create a balanced approach while being gentle with yourself.
Paddy is a qualified Personal Trainer & Nutritional Coach and its through this lens, along with both Paddy & Belinda's personal experiences on their journey that this conversation is happening.
None of this information should be taken as prescribed nutritional therapy for you in place of that available from a Registered Dietician.
• Understanding weight loss medications and general nutritional priorities
• Importance of protein and fiber in the diet
• Addressing common questions about eating habits
• The role of registered dieticians in a weight loss journey
• Emphasis on mindfulness and listening to hunger cues
• Encouraging gradual changes for lasting success
Combined Paddy & Belindas weight loss totals over 160lbs supported by GLP1 Medications Ozempic & Mounjaro.
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.
Find Paddy Here:
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•TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mounjaropaddy
Find Belinda Here:
•Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/GLP1.Insights /
•TikTok: @bells.mj.insights
And you are very welcome along to another episode of the Dose with myself, paddy and.
Speaker 1:Belinda.
Speaker 2:Hi Belinda, how's, things?
Speaker 1:Good, how are you, paddy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm good, thanks, all I was going to say what people can't see if they're not watching the video of this, which will only be, I think, at the moment on YouTube, which, interestingly, a lot of people are watching.
Speaker 1:so there is a video on YouTube. Did we put up the video content of last week's one, paddy?
Speaker 2:on YouTube. Yeah, I did oh yeah, I must have a look yeah, but all I can say is Belinda, I don't like. What do you do? What teabagging are you doing?
Speaker 1:Paddy, I'm just going to watch this.
Speaker 2:Like if people watch the video, it is going to make sense.
Speaker 1:It is a honey, lemon and chamomile tea. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you're making tea Grant.
Speaker 1:And then, on this one, I have my protein drink that I've been banging on about all week.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, your protein lemonade.
Speaker 1:Peach tea flavoured Peach tea flavour.
Speaker 2:Peach tea. I like peach tea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just very strong. I don't know what it is. I don't even know what the product is actually, because there's so much stuff written on the package. Is it like what you're drinking there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so. So the one that, because I was in Lidl today, is that where you got that yeah. I was in Lidl and I looked at that one. I think it's like peach tea. Yeah, the dose. Yeah, I don't know why not well, that's because you've got a nice background. Yeah, because this is all messy and you can't yeah, it's been messy for weeks. What we're talking about is drink that Belinda got. I really like peach tea actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's only a tenner, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw it in Lidl today and I did read it. It's like a clear whey, I think, type drink or whatever Clear protein type drink. Yeah, so the one I am drinking here is a strawberry kiwi flavour and it is gorgeous because I've seen You've got a little shaker in there, a little. A little ball to the shake, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there little um, a little balls of the shake, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do with them I don't have one of those that could make a difference in the flavor yeah, could it yeah yeah because sometimes it won't properly dissolve and, as you're drinking it, you might get, you might get a little lump and then you get a full go with the flavor, yeah, do you have uh like a put it or a little blender?
Speaker 1:thing? Yes, I do. Yeah, use that use that problem solved.
Speaker 2:Problem 725 solved by Paddy so, belinda, the last time we spoke was before New Year's Day, because our last spoke was before New Year's Day, because our last podcast was about New Year's.
Speaker 1:How was?
Speaker 2:New Year's for you.
Speaker 1:It was good, it was quiet.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:New Year's Day we went out for dinner with the whole family and, yeah, it was good. It was good there was like 14 of us there or so.
Speaker 2:Wow and.
Speaker 1:I did actually have a drink that day okay, and how's that?
Speaker 2:grand I know your first in a while that was my first in a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and to be honest with you, while I was drinking it, I could have left it there yeah, yeah, yeah yeah actually, just while I'm on that subject, I'm reading a really good book at the moment and it's called uh, quit like a woman and it's by holly whitaker, and the only reason I have it in book form is because it's not on audible um, but it's really good, it's really informative, so it is yeah yeah um, I was thinking about it yeah, so what did you?
Speaker 1:do for new year, did you? You didn't, didn't go out, did you know?
Speaker 2:So no, new Year's I was. No, I don't go out. Oh no, like I'm in my 40s, I don't go out.
Speaker 1:I know, mate, I know I'm heading up against 50.
Speaker 2:Like when it starts getting to like 8 o'clock. I'd be like, oh God no, I could do an old heated blanket now or, you know, a little hot water bottle or something like that, but anyway, however, so no, no, we normally stay in and ring in the new year watching, like Jules Holland or one of those, but we watched Sophie. Alice Baxter was on in the new year, so we watch yeah, we're going to see her later this year in concert in the Olympia. Nice, nice so go see her.
Speaker 1:Do you know who I'm going to see? I'm going to see Paul Smith the comedian. Ah, cool, okay yeah yeah, I think that's in the second half of the year. Okay, I also got a night with Adele just her. Not the real one, but this girl that travels around and does what are they called? I?
Speaker 2:was thinking can Adele travel that far to South Tip?
Speaker 1:I know right, Maybe North Tip you can't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even North Tip's, way too far for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's. What are they called those bands that take off other?
Speaker 2:bands Like a tribute.
Speaker 1:Tribute, yeah, yeah, it's what? What do they call those bands that take off other bands? Tribute, tribute? Yeah, it's a tribute. Yeah, down in Waterford. So I'm not really looking forward to that as well, okay and what else did I get? Oh yeah, I got a. Well, I'm saying what I got, but I got Sean yeah, a ticket to this um show, but the audience is the jury at a murder scene at a murder court thing. It's like my favourite thing in the world. I love that kind of shit so I bought it for Sean for Christmas lovely.
Speaker 2:When I was at Electric Picnic I went to Laura Whitmore and Ian Sterling's live podcast of their True Crime one they they did it at EP in a tent a live recording like a live podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, we're gonna get there, paddy yeah, we're gonna do that someday we will I know we have no doubt we will god, we may have already you're, you're you're already scheming, I am scheming, I am scheming, I absolutely I'm visualising if you can just write something down for me and give me a time and date and a place and I'll just turn up. Is that alright?
Speaker 2:yeah, perfect this is where it'll be like. Okay, belinda, you know how like techie stuff might be my thing, organising might be more yours, so I like this is where it'll we'll be good.
Speaker 1:We'll be good. No, we'll be fine. What did you get for Christmas off Santa then?
Speaker 2:So got some vouchers for flights for hotels.
Speaker 1:Lovely.
Speaker 2:Aftershaves, got some nice ritual stuff, some voyeur stuff. Yeah, got some really nice stuff Nice Excellent. But yeah, got some really nice stuff, nice Excellent. But yeah, we were talking about food Actually. So, over New Year's, how has your food, how's your food this week versus the past week or two?
Speaker 1:Oh, there's a big difference.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:There's a big difference and I've been talking about this on my stories as well that my stomach had gotten so bad because of just not overeating. I didn't overeat at any stage at all, but just because we had spoken about the different foods that's in our house at the moment, um, and the little things that are around and the little things that are, like there were sweets in my goddamn gym. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, you can have a tub around yeah and um, my stomach got really bad, like really really bad. My ibs started kicking up as well, um, but that was purely because my tummy, my digestive system, has not been used to that kind of stuff. So what I did to reset my gut, literally to reset my stomach was I did a fast. I did a 23 and a half hour fast.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I used to do it a lot when I was on keto paddy like a lot, and it didn't really phase me. And then I had a very small window to have something really good and nutritious to eat and then I went into another fast and after I did that for maybe three days, I'm exactly back to where I should be okay, cool yeah and I feel, I feel fantastic yeah, and it didn't just reset my gut. It reset my mind.
Speaker 1:It made me more focused yeah and it just kind of pushed me on. You know, gave me a little brush that I needed yeah, so that was great. And what about you? How did you kind of?
Speaker 2:yeah. So, like I, um, I said there's still sweets around and I've still. Even earlier I picked like two or three of them. I went down to make tea. Didn't make the tea, but I got the sweets. And this week, I'd say, is. So the last couple of weeks were definitely not dire, but there definitely was an increase in foods I wouldn't normally have day to day, and that seems to be it. Consents with some other people I've been chatting to as well is that it's a different time of year, there's different foods around. We're eating, eating out, you're doing this, you're doing that and similarly, even today I was chatting to all my friends and they were saying similar thing that they had some of the digestive kind of discomfort, um, during the christmas period. And I was like, oh, did you happen to have like, say, much fatty stuff or rich foods or stuff? And they're like, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And I was like and sugar yeah, and they're like yeah, it did so, there is like it. There is definitely that kind of correlation, which we know is is no surprise and again that's part of the conversation that always comes up when we talk with side effects is what are you eating? You know what's what?
Speaker 1:yeah, how are you trying to nourish? Literally is what are you eating?
Speaker 2:yeah, um, and that's why we want to do this podcast episode today, because we both were getting such a huge amount of questions about what should I be eating? Or I'm feeling crap after Christmas. How do I get back on track what I'm meant to be eating? And you know, I'm just starting Manjaro.
Speaker 1:And I think also as well. I've just started Manjaro, I've just started Ozempic and I don't know what to do and all the rest of it. Now I will say, just on another note, that I got this quite a lot during the week as well from my ladies in my subscribers group, where a few of them were starting out and came back to me and said like a few days later, my god, I don't know what I'm doing with, um, my food and the food scales and the calories, and it's like stop, yeah, just stop. If you're just starting out, stop, yeah.
Speaker 1:The only advice I can give you is take your medication, put it back in the fridge and forget you've taken it. Yeah, your body will naturally tell you what you want and what you need, and you need to be on the medication for at least two, three weeks maybe, before you get into all of that thing even longer of counting calories, counting protein, counting fiber, when that's something you've probably never done before. So you're trying to do all that and you're like you're anxious about this medication that you've just taken as well, and then it just becomes a shit show, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:you know, a perfect storm.
Speaker 2:So the I think the most important thing to do is take the medication, give yourself a bit of grace, give yourself a bit of time and just ease into it yeah, like think about, like lego, you know they're each building blocks onto a previous thing that you have done and I think, like if you're someone that's sitting there, you're like, oh, you know, I typically get, maybe you know, a takeaway, maybe multiple times a week, and you know I don't really get much uh, natural foods. Maybe you're thinking, you know, maybe in those early days you might be like do you know what? Maybe we reduce maybe just the amount to take with us this week as a start, but we won't get too into it or whatever the case might be. But I think Will is definitely right there in terms of the more so in everything to do with this time of year or in general when people try to lose weight, you just go like full steam ahead things and it's just not sustainable at that pace you know, and that's why those little changes are so important.
Speaker 1:So so important little changes, one step at a time it has to be slow and steady for anything to last or have longevity. Those changes that you're going to incorporate into your life and into your diet have to be slow and have to be steady.
Speaker 2:It's the only way you're going to get longevity out of anything and that also ties in with the other question that I've been getting a good bit of, two questions. One I'm four days in on my munjaro and I'm not feeling any effect yet. I'm worried it's not going to work for me. So thankfully we've got videos on this so I can just send that to people. But again, we've said this so many times in previous podcasts but in case you haven't heard it, that's perfectly normal, perfectly normal.
Speaker 2:Yes, that initial dose that you take typically of any of these medications, on that starting dose, is just that. It's a starting dose. Like, hey, buddy, I'm a new medication, I'm going to be floating around here for a wee while. I'm going to be floating around here for a wee while I'm going to get stronger over the next wee while. So just let me do my thing and you do your thing and I'll catch up with you soon. And that's literally what that dose is for For, like the first, maybe it could be four, eight, twelve, it could even be like three, four months. I say there is one of the videos I did on TikTok about this. There is one of the videos I did on TikTok about this. I said this in the last podcast as well. I was blown away by how many people said I was on 10 milligram before I felt it working for me.
Speaker 1:Same.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize the amount of people that were at that level. I thought, oh, maybe five, you know, maybe 7.5. But I think your experience is it was so different, yeah, and I absolutely different.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely because so for, for people that that don't know, paddy would have been, um, what we call a super responder, where you responded immediately to the medication, and also that, um, the medication worked for you every single step of the way, like literally within 24 hours, I was like, oh, oh, my God, I can barely eat.
Speaker 2:And that is not the norm, nor should that be something you're looking Aspiring to. Desirable to yeah, it's not desirable to have that every day because you sleep late. You know, fundamentally the medication is you know the wording Belinda uses so frequently and really well is that the medication is a tool so that it can allow you to focus on the other things. But part of that is making sure that you're still nourishing your body.
Speaker 1:It's so important not starving it, because if you don't nourish your body, your body will not work for you. It will not do the things that you wanted to do. Yeah, and the medication will work for you.
Speaker 2:It's meant do the things that you wanted to do, yeah, and the medication will work for you. It's meant to. The medication won't work for you the way it's meant to, because absolutely not. It won't. No, if you think that's, that's proven.
Speaker 1:I've proven that myself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah like one of the key things the medication does is to slow down the digestive empty, as it's called. So basically how quickly the the, the food moves through your body. But if you're not getting enough food in your body for that to be effective for you, then it's a waste of money, you know, and a waste of effort.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're literally throwing your money down the drain, and this is not a cheap journey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the other thing to keep in mind this isn't a diet, it's a medical treatment.
Speaker 1:For a disease.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's a medical treatment and an awful lot of people, I think, still need to let that be Come out of that mindset. Yeah, sit that this is a medical treatment. This isn't a diet. Yes, I need to focus on nutrition along the way, but this isn't a diet. Yes, I need to focus on nutrition along the way, but this isn't a diet that I'm entering into um, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:It's such a huge subject, isn't it? Because on the back of that, then you could have 27 other conversations about the people, maybe, that are going on it to lose 10 pounds and all the rest of it. You, you know, and that's like. These people are all adults, they can do whatever they want, but it is a medical treatment and that's what it's, what it's meant to be. I think that's why myself and Paddy I use and do this now, but I know you do quite a lot. Paddy is your first port of call when someone asks you a question is um, what did your doctor say? Or what's the other one, what's your prescriber say?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, because most of the time, yeah because not because if, first of all, if you, if you have a query about the medication that it's not working right or there's a side effect or something, your prescriber or your doctor, depending on what country you're in, because in some places it'll be a pharmacist or a nurse or a doctor so that's why I do sometimes say, doctor, prescriber um, that should be your first port of call, like absolutely even every time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, that's what they're there for. But the reason why I'll ask that is what I've learned more than often, because I might I said this before. We kind of went on air, as I'll say, but there's sometimes when my tingly senses start to go that and this isn't any shame on the person, I've said this before whereby it can. It can become very apparent very quickly where somebody has sourced something illegitimately and it just highlights you.
Speaker 2:Okay, have you gone to your doctor, have you gone to prescriber? And some people like no, I didn't go that route, I'm getting it for you whatever. And I'm like okay, just let you know. You know, that's not the best route. For this exact reason, you need medical professionals. You can lean in on this journey you know, and as much of myself and you have to have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you really do. You know, it's like with my girls in the subscribers group there's nobody in there that is not under the guys of their medical doctor or their prescriber. There's nobody in there that is not under the guise of their medical doctor or their prescriber. There's nobody, because I just I I wouldn't feel comfortable bringing someone in there that has no idea yeah, of what yeah? You know like we were talking before, the podcast here, like this week has been just treacherous for people messaging yeah actually asking where do I get it?
Speaker 1:do you sell it? What were yours?
Speaker 2:so I am. I would say in the past, over the weekend, so it's in the last three days I've had maybe 30 plus messages from people asking where can I get manjaro, or what should I be eating, how do I take it?
Speaker 1:that's what I yeah how do I take this? What do I do with it? Yeah, you know, and this is why it's so important to be going the legitimate route with yeah, like I suppose really yeah, yeah, but I suppose really we're not saying that we're not going to help people, the but I think the only help we could give them is to go to a doctor.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We can you know?
Speaker 2:Like we can give general information on where?
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you can go to anyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here's whatever, here's this resource, or here's what Eli Lilly say, or here's what you know, whatever. But in terms of that personal medical advice that you need, the only person who can do that is your medical team, the only person you know. Yeah, need. The only person who can do that is your medical team, the only person you know. And you know, I know I've a disclaimer on all of my social media pages. The very first thing you'll see is that I'm not medically qualified. None of the things we say are prescribed medical advice for you on your journey, because we can't do that. But we can share our insights and our learnings and things that other people have told us and stuff like that, but sometimes that won't be applicable to you and that's why you need to be able to go to yeah, a prescriber, you know whoever, just to lean on.
Speaker 1:You have to be so, you have to be so aware, though, don't you as well, with your disclaimer like I have I? I literally give it out to every single person, every single person you know that this isn't what we're about, you know.
Speaker 2:So it's also one of the things that worries me so much, like particularly on TikTok, TikTok as much as I love TikTok. Actually, TikTok have started tightening up a bit on things like random.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Come here and I tell you now. There was a huge, massive content creator that I follow on TikTok and I only usually go over there for a couple of people. She's now on Instagram because she's afraid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's wild because, if we think, two months ago not even we were seeing how meta ie Instagram and Facebook were clamping down. But I got a what you call a strike on TikTok the other day and it said, because I was like, because, like I am, I'm the good boy like I don't do bold things on TikTok because I'm so mindful of what I do there. But basically, what it said was a comment you posted was removed for violating our community guidelines. Do you want to know what the comment was?
Speaker 1:What yeah?
Speaker 2:Someone was asking about prescriptions and this kind of stuff, so my reply was if it's from an online pharmacy, these won't be accepted in Ireland or in Northern Ireland. Also, munjarra is not yet available in Irish chemists full stop full stop. That was the comment and that got me a strike on TikTok do you think that somebody reported it?
Speaker 2:I don't know for what, yeah, like there's nothing there. So I went to, I appealed it, and then they come back. We're like, oh, okay, yeah, we'll overturn it. Um, yeah, your appeal stands. But then I was like okay, but can you tell me what was the word?
Speaker 1:or what trigger.
Speaker 2:What was the thing so that I don't do it again like, even though you're saying I'm right, it's still showing me as a strike in my in my account yeah, oh, you can't just that petty they won't reply.
Speaker 1:No, no they won't, they won't tell you.
Speaker 2:No, the thing is, though, because if you hit I think it's like three strikes or something like that you start losing some of your access to things like that and they can close your account.
Speaker 1:So that's wild, wild west over there. That's the only way I can ever explain that. Yeah, yeah, but anyway, we're going to the time.
Speaker 2:But anyway, but yeah, yeah, so it's wild.
Speaker 1:Nutrition food.
Speaker 2:Food. So, belinda, when you were starting out, what was your food like? Or how did you navigate? So when you were on Ozempic, was that nearly two years ago now? Would it have been so when you?
Speaker 1:were on Ozempic. Was that nearly two years ago now? Oh, it's over two years. Two years and going into my third month as well.
Speaker 2:Okay, so if you can remember back that month one, where was your head? At in relation to food.
Speaker 1:So if you could show a picture here now, you would know exactly where my head was at when I started olympic um, because, uh, I didn't. Uh, to be honest with you, I I don't even know how to explain it yeah, I was in the depths of despair with nutrition, with food.
Speaker 1:I had completely given up on myself. I thought that there was absolutely no way that this was going to ever happen for me, so I just stopped trying. And then I took Ozempic, and now it worked for me pretty quick as well. I started feeling the changes in that, and then what happened to me was I didn't change my diet very much, um, but I think the catalyst for change for me was one day I was running in the door, um, coming home from work or wherever I was coming from, and usually running in the door at that time I would have this insatiable hunger and I would just put anything in my mouth, like the millions of other people out there, like getting into the bread bring, getting into the fridge, the cupboards, whatever eating while you're cooking, um, and one day I walked in the door and that was gone okay, so that in turn gave me the space in my brain to make a better decision in that moment, and that is what changed for me.
Speaker 2:That was the big catalyst that changed for me, yeah, and what about you, paddy? Um, you see, any time I have tried to lose weight before, I have normally been pretty good with changing my nutrition from day one. So that that is something. I think that's one of the things, maybe because and again for folks that might know, um, I don't mention before, but I'm a qualified personal trainer and as part of that as well, you do become a qualified nutritional coach or nutritionist, whatever word you want not a dietitian. That's why personal trainers personal trainers, not dietitians, unless, of course, they've gone and got a registered dietitian qualification as well, which very few have. That is not to say that there are some personal trainers out there who don't have excellent knowledge. They absolutely do, I'd like.
Speaker 2:I'd like to think my knowledge is is pretty strong in terms of nutrition yeah, no, it's great yeah the difference is is that a registered dietitian has gone and spent years studying, like literally, the science of nutrition within humans, like they've spent years dedicated to it and they're qualified, but more so they're insured, to do bespoke nutritional protocols for people, ie, if you have a medical condition on an individual basis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:If you have a medical condition, you can go to a dietitian and they can prescribe you an eating approach. And nutritionists a anyone that is not a registered dietitian. Okay, essentially that is using nutritional coach nutrition, whatever they are not insured to do nutritional, bespoke nutritional, say, eating plans and stuff like that for you.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So, like I couldn't go to you, belinda, like here is a bespoke seven day eating plan just for you, belinda, based on your metabolism. That's not to say that there's an awful lot of personal trainers that don't do that, ok, and look, that's their call. However, what I could do is hey Belinda, hey belinda. So, okay, you're looking to try and lose weight, you are okay. Where are you on this medication? That would mean that you know. Here's the food kind of groups that I would like you to focus on here is the, maybe the, the amounts of food, um, or macronutrients, whatever that could be useful for you to aim towards on like a day-to-day basis or stuff like that, um. So it's more so a yeah, more so a general kind of nudge and kind of coaching approach.
Speaker 1:So it is about nutrition and opening up a new line of maybe foods for you, I suppose as well, yeah, yeah, yeah, so there is some nuance there um what was the question, patty?
Speaker 2:I asked you how you found it um, not like us to go off on a tangent? Yeah, no, you were saying yeah no, you were saying that.
Speaker 1:Um, usually you changed your nutrition quite quickly when you were starting to diet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because of your knowledge yeah, so I had already changed. I was already focusing on kind of higher protein foods. Um, I will say I probably wasn't focusing as much as I should have, though, on fiber, so that was definitely something that I did kind of tweak. It's huge now when you're on a glp1 medication huge 30 grams a day and the other thing is I would have been a little bit in the mindset of this old school way of thinking called if it fits your macros.
Speaker 2:So if it fits your macros is pretty much and it works brilliant for some people and and it can be effective, but not when you have a poor relationship with food.
Speaker 2:It's not the right approach because it basically says you can eat anything once you hit your macro nutrients and so it can be effective. I'm not going to knock out, it absolutely can eat anything once you hit your macro nutrients and so it can be effective. I'm not going to knock out, it absolutely can be effective if you're on a. But for folks that have a poor relationship with food, it's not probably going to be the the healthiest approach. Starting out, because I?
Speaker 1:I only came across that, if it fits your macro, this is some kind of acronym for it, isn't it?
Speaker 2:when I was doing keto.
Speaker 1:Yes when I was doing keto, there was an awful lot of people that were up in arms about keto, that were going and changing to if it's your, my macros or whatever um, but I I wouldn't recommend that for anybody, because the calories that are in a mars bar say what I don't know, I don't know 400 calories in a Mars bar. That's not the same as 400 calories worth of mixed veg and mixed fruit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean. So if you fit your macros, it kind of delves in a little bit more, as opposed to just calories, in terms of yes, and sugars and fibres and everything here's the specific proteins, the specific fat and the specific carbohydrates you need to eat.
Speaker 2:But absolutely like if you're looking at, say you have a goal of I don't know just stop my head, so I don't know 150 grams of carbohydrates and you're looking at that from, say, your mars bar versus like a big, massive dinner that has a load of edge and you know all that kind of stuff in it. Whilst calorie wise they might be the same and whilst macronutrient wise they may look the same, number wise, the impact of those on your body and how supportive they are of your weight loss journey are drastically different yeah, very different, yeah, and we know that that's just.
Speaker 1:That's just common sense in itself, though, isn't it?
Speaker 2:It is If you have it. Not everyone has it. And this is the thing like some people will think, and I can understand why they might be like oh, but if I'm aiming for, say, 1,800 calories a day, sure, 1,800 calories a day is 1,800 calories a day, and in the mathematics of weight loss it is, but in the science of health and nutrition it's not.
Speaker 1:Very different.
Speaker 2:Very different.
Speaker 1:It's not just calories in, calories out. It really isn't.
Speaker 2:If you're focusing on overall optimum health for your body. It's not. It's not no. No, and this is where you can get into a lot of kind of oh god, oh, I won't say arguments, but like there is a lot of two, conversations patty conversations, depending on where personal trainers heads are, in relation to nutrition and this kind of stuff, um.
Speaker 1:But I think me and you are both lined in terms of that, um, health first and trying trying to, you know, look after your body as much as you can, you know now, the other thing I was going to say, on that as well, was that I know we spoke about this as well, but the slimming rooms that we I would have sat in, um, I would have eaten a lot of trash food in there because I would have been eating my sins and I would have been getting like having all of the. I would try and get in as much junk food as I could crisps and chocolate and all that kind of stuff within my sin or whatever points or whatever. It was, um, but I don't know. It's a very, very different story now, you know yeah, and I think it's.
Speaker 1:It is predominantly as well. Pardon me, I don't want to make myself sick, I don't want to have a sore stomach, I don't want to have gastric issues and all that kind of stuff. But again it's about being able, this medication being able to give me and you and everybody else the space to make better nutritional decisions, because it stops that mad, mad hunger and that was the difference for me in terms of every time I try and lose weight.
Speaker 2:I could do the healthy eating, but the food noise was there, belinda, yeah, and that ultimately, ultimately everything single time is what caused me to relapse.
Speaker 1:So this is where I would have done the effort of tracking every single minuscule thing I would have eaten and a hundred times better than everybody else around you, absolutely, and been more active than everybody else around you. I killed myself. I murdered myself for years, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's why, when I learned of this idea of food noise, I was like wait a minute, what Fucking?
Speaker 1:crazy, what, what a fucking concept. Excuse my language.
Speaker 2:You're telling me not everybody lives with this. What?
Speaker 1:What Is that not? What goes on in everybody's head minute by minute, every day? No, belle, no.
Speaker 2:No, Paddy.
Speaker 1:Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:That blew my mind. Blew my mind Because I used to look at people.
Speaker 1:Paddy and I used to think to myself how are they pushing their plate away? How are they stopping that chocolate in the fridge? And that bottle of wine? What yeah?
Speaker 2:So that was the difference. So, yes, and as we've said before, people that have tried to lose weight, you know, multiple times, over many years, typically their knowledge of nutrition is going to be head and shoulders above the average person who hasn't have to.
Speaker 1:But you know what I don't understand, paddy, right, when you look at the grand scheme of things, the amount of diets you've been on, the amount of clubs you've been on, the amount of things that you've tried and myself and millions and billions of people out there why in the name of God have we just realised what the fuck was wrong with people? Why is this concept only come about now? It's 2025. Yeah, what the hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Our lives would have been so much different.
Speaker 1:It is it is fascinating, like it's. Yeah, and I was watching a documentary the other day. I can't remember what I was.
Speaker 1:No, that's a lie, I was reading a book and stop lying I know it's chronic and they were talking about um GLP-1 medications to adolescents that have this disease of obesity and that have this food noise in their brain, and I literally and I know I might get like slaughtered for this, but I don't give a shit, it's my opinion is that, yes, if there is a child that had the same goddamn life as I did and you did stick it in his eye yeah, it's 100% yeah, it's like it's one, because I was.
Speaker 2:I was asked this as part of the, the TV show that's coming out sometime over the coming weeks oh yeah, that's really soon yeah, I don't have an air date yet for it, but um, but we can start advertising it.
Speaker 1:Can't we push in it once there is an air date out?
Speaker 2:or we have to wait till it's publicized uh, once rte or the presenter share something on their social media, then yeah you can do it, and then I'll do it. Okay, I'm so excited yeah, but um, there was a discussion there um about children, adolescents and stuff like that, and it's part of the opera documentary as well actually, of course, yeah and like.
Speaker 2:for me, like and I know I think we touched on this in one of the previous ones where my head is at is that I don't know enough about adolescents and hormones and any potential impact and stuff like that to be just like, yeah, just give it to them, but equally and this is the way I worded it in the show what's the alternative.
Speaker 2:I know that, but again, this is where I'm saying I don't have enough knowledge to say. But if you were to ask 12 year old Paddy, hey, there's this thing that could stop you being bullied for the next whatever x number of years in school and that could support you maybe doing pe and not feeling shamed, and they could help you wear some of the clothes that the other boys are not get bullied, exactly yeah like you know, 12 year old paddy probably would have jumped at that.
Speaker 2:Yeah 12 year old Belle would have stuck it in her arm? Yeah, definitely so like that's my kind of answer, I guess for that is that.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But that's only on a personal level, like you don't have to know everything about everything to have a personal kind of thing on it, I would have taken it. Have a personal kind of thing on it, I would have taken it and I you know, and I think if my mother had known what was what my life was going to be like and what, what? Now I'm not saying my life is fucking horrendous right time but it could have been that little bit better.
Speaker 1:Better without the disease of obesity. I think my mother probably would have made that choice for me as well, you know, because she would have struggled as well there is trials ongoing, are starting soon or whatever um about pediatric use of this medication as well so that'll be interesting to see what kind of happens
Speaker 2:with that, so with the knowledge that we have now, and if someone because I'm just looking for some questions, yeah, some of the questions that I kind of got as well, like on this one, I put up, by the way, the person on Instagram is. So context here. Folks, somebody replied to something on Instagram publicly and I replied back because the question just triggered me a little bit. I was like, oh, that's an odd thing that they've said, and I was like, oh my, oh, my usual, oh, what's your doctor say? And like they just like add into me and I was like, yeah, I'm not trying to, I'm literally not trying to shame you, I'm just trying to make sure that you're getting right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're like your response was so genuine as well, because I do want to help people, but literally I don't know what.
Speaker 2:There seems to be two totally different conversations happening, because anyway, social media is a wild place. All I'm saying We'll come back with two more replies or something. Some of the questions were doopie, doopie, doopie doo. How to stop protein powder tasting disgusting. I'm trite hurting up on Monjaro, currently on 5mg to calorie count, or not finding it all overwhelming, especially after Christmas. Just starting out on Monjaro, not too sure what I should be eating. Any guidance so we can probably easily cover some of that stuff. You'll hear us talking a lot about protein and fibre, protein and fibre, protein and fibre it's really important being like the foundation yeah
Speaker 1:and the reason, the reason that we try and push the whole fibre thing well, I bang on about it incessantly is because if you're on a GLP-1 medication and you get constipated, I like until I started on a GLP-1, I didn't even you get constipated. I like until I started on a GLP1, I didn't even know what constipation was. I had no fucking clue and I didn't realize that it could get so bad. But literally has this happened to you, paddy?
Speaker 2:Well, you'd be shitting if you get constipated.
Speaker 1:Huh. You'd be shitting if you get constipated.
Speaker 2:But it can be debilitating, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, totally, but this again. This is why the fiber so important, along with the hydration, do you know?
Speaker 1:so like oh, the hydration is super, super important, along with the fiber. Yeah, you have to have them, they go hand in hand do and yeah, and the normal intake for an adult is 30 grams. That's what people are. That's what dieticians would say is 30 grams, 10 grams per meal, but if you're not eating three meals a day, then you try and do your best, like kiwis pears. Green veggies Chai seeds flax seeds.
Speaker 2:The like if someone was like in relation to the person that's. You know, I'm starting out day one. What should I be doing? Again, keeping in mind what Belinda said at the start in terms of don't overwhelm yourself, from like week one, If you have the headspace to focus on nutrition, brilliant, okay, or whenever you get to that space. So what you want to be focusing on, what we kind of say is okay, definitely, look at your protein, look at your fibre and look at your hydration as a starting point, because they're pre kind of foundational things that will really help you long term and that really need to be sustainable for you. So they are.
Speaker 2:Like in terms of the carbohydrates, and that I kind of would work on the basis of portion size kind of, on basically a handful or a fifth size or stuff like that for different kind of things. But when I worked with my dietitian at the start we kind of went through OK, how much protein do you think I should be having? How many servings of carbohydrates, how many servings of dairy, how many servings of fruit, how many servings of carbohydrates, how many servings of dairy, how many servings of fruit, how many servings of colorful veggies? Um, and that's important um, and then other kind of bits and pieces that could be could be kind of helpful.
Speaker 2:So and that's that's exactly what your dietitian will help you with yeah, they are like it's really worth the money to have a dietitian absolutely even that one appointment just to kind of go through this stuff with them get a starting thing. And the other thing to keep in mind is, if you have health insurance, a lot of the health insurance providers will give you a free like a dietitian access via like virtual appointments and stuff like that. So absolutely check that out and they're brilliant, yeah I had my dietitian in beyond.
Speaker 1:Bmi was word and she was yeah, she was absolutely brilliant. I remember being on my bed writing down everything she said because I was so interested in like getting knowledge on what I was supposed to be doing, correctly, you know. But but she's, she was very good yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, so like your your protein and again, you can go and look online and like how much protein should I be eating, if you're looking for a ballpark kind of figure, like so. Again, if I relate it to myself, okay, I'm currently about I don't see a lot of this stuff is done in kilos and kilos is the one that I will go to last when people are asking about my weight?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's stones pounds, then kilos yeah, I'm pounds, then stones.
Speaker 2:Oh right, right, right, the doctor, and the doctor was asking about my weight and I said, oh, pounds or stones is a kilo. And I was like, oh, so I did a quick math and I think about this and I think it was like half a kilo out.
Speaker 1:So I was like oh, well done. But so is it.
Speaker 2:Two and a half pounds per kilo, 2.5 and roughly in and in and around the 2.2 ish. I think it is in and around the 2.2-ish. I think it is. Hang on, oh, it's all right, 2.2.
Speaker 1:Yeah so one kilo, oh 2.2, is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, one kilo is 2.2 pounds.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to apply this to me just to give you an idea of like okay, paddy, how much protein would you be aiming for If I was on the assumption of 115 kilograms in weight? Okay, for protein paddy would be aiming for, uh, if I was in the region of, say, 90 to 125 grams. Okay, if I was in that region. Um, and that would be split over three meals whatever amount of meals, whatever, I don't worry about the number of meals at all, it's.
Speaker 1:It's the number of meals, something I worry about because I only eat twice a day yeah, no, the the number of meals, the timing and that kind of stuff is really I would not get into the, into the kind of grass because the nutrients are still going into your body, yeah, but also, paddy, people do worry about it, because I worried about it where I was supposed to be getting 110 grams of protein, but I was only eating twice a day, so this and that's.
Speaker 2:That's fair enough and I can understand that. But what I'm saying is, sometimes people will be like oh, do I need to have protein within like half an hour of doing my workout? Oh yeah, can I not have a carbohydrate after six o'clock? That's what I mean. Don't worry about any of that. Oh yeah yeah yeah, over a day or a couple of days can averages out that sound. That's grand.
Speaker 1:Don't get too caught up in it, but so I've been what's a what's a really really, really easy way to get your protein into you okay, so the best source, again thinking optimum health, is going to be your um, your kind of your lean meats.
Speaker 2:Uh, those are kind of like your, your go-to really, um with whole foods, not yeah.
Speaker 2:So protein specifically would be, typically, if it's going to come from natural source, it will be because it's your turkey, your chicken, your fish, uh, your eggs, um, some of your um, like nuts and seeds and stuff like that as well, um can be a good source of protein, obviously. If somebody is a vegan, that's where you look at that. Your tofu, like your um, cottage cheeses, your cork, all that kind of stuff, yeah, your beans, so, so there's, there is a big selection of food out there that can be your natural source of protein. Now, if I was to try and eat 115 grams of protein from those sources, I could probably do it, but I'd probably get bored and probably struggle some days to get that. Like when I started, I should have been aiming for in and around 150 grams of protein. I was struggling with that.
Speaker 1:There's no way I'm going to hit that.
Speaker 2:So this is where then people will look at okay, well, how can I supplement this? Somehow and, by the way, I'm not saying you have to. If you're hitting, you know, a healthy amount of protein, that's fantastic, you don't need supplements okay. But if that's, that's fantastic, don't you don't? You don't need supplements okay. But if you're somebody you're like, do you know what I keep hitting? Like maybe like 50, 60 grams of protein. I just, I just can't get the food into me. This is where the likes of like what I have here that I'm drinking at the moment is. It's a clear protein drink, so it's not one that needs milk. It's not a really heavy digestive one. It tastes just like a squash, you, you know, like a diluted drink, yeah, literally a squash.
Speaker 1:Which one have you got there? You've got what? Strawberry kiwi and I have peach tea and my one's got I think is it 26 grams of protein?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I got my two-litre container, I put in the stuff in it and just shook it up and it's like drinking peach tea. Now, it's not supposed to be drank with two litres of water. It's supposed to be drank with a small I couldn't yeah, but it's just another way. It's very strong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah um, but yeah, so you'd have your protein powders again like one of the traditional protein powders. So again that one we were talking about there.
Speaker 2:These are clear protein powders that are um for water yeah, that you don't make on milk, so they're not that kind of milky kind of one. But if you're looking kind of milky kind of one, but if you're looking for that milky kind of one, because again you'll get your calcium, which will be great for your bones, and you'll also get some protein from the milk as well, or you can even mix it with some protein milk and you can lash a load of fibre into it as well you could yeah, you could Add a scoop in if you want to make up like a smoothie or something like that as well.
Speaker 2:Like usually, you make up a beast of a smoothie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, should I just say what I put into it yeah, go ahead. So I have half milk, half water and I have the protein powder, I have peanut butter powder from my protein, I have chai seeds, milled chai seeds, milled flax seeds, and a frozen banana and I put a bit of mango in it the other day. So that is coming up to about 17 or 18 grams of fiber with about 45 grams of protein in it yeah and it's about this size it lasts you a period of time oh my god, if I drank it at two, I barely would eat my dinner yeah, yeah, yeah yeah and it would take me about an hour to drink it as well.
Speaker 1:So yeah, but it like I use ice cream flavoured vanilla, whey protein powder and it. Oh my God, I just love it, love it.
Speaker 2:yeah, I got a chocolate orange flavoured protein powder, normal protein powder that you take with the milk or whatever, and it's, oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. Is it so good? I love protein powders.
Speaker 2:The other ways that you can focus on it as well will be things like there is so many protein foods out there now, like even in Aldi or Lidl. Like you have protein pizzas, you have yogurts. You have other drinks, you have bars. You have yogurts, you have other drinks, you have bars. You have biscuits, you have protein popcorns protein crisps like all this.
Speaker 2:Anything you can imagine is slapped the word protein on it, so also be careful yeah, well, that's the thing, because you still want to be mindful of the, the sugar content and the fat content somewhat in it. Um, but um, there are so many options out there in terms of the protein and again, once, they are the supplementary sources, as opposed to your full go-to, because you do want to think overall nutrients.
Speaker 1:Um, it's kind of, yeah, it's, it's brilliant, then let's let's just say at this point as well, for anyone who's listened to this and has just started out none of this needs to be done right now.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:None of it, because I can feel how people would feel if they're listening to me and you. We've got so much knowledge between us and there's somebody at home sitting there going oh my God, am I supposed to be doing all this? No, you're not. No, relax.
Speaker 2:Get comfortable with the journey that you're on and when, when the time, you know. If it's like a week, two weeks, a month where you're like, okay, that protein thing I want, I want to try and make sure I'm getting enough now.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, actually we should talk about why protein is so important and why you do that, and so, with protein, one of its key things it does is to help look after your muscle health. Ok, so that's one thing, and when you're on any weight loss journey, you will inevitably lose some muscle mass, along with fat, whilst you're losing weight. Losing weight, what the trials have shown, specifically for manjaro, is that about 25 percent of the weight that you lose will come from muscle mass. So this is why we talk about strength training being so important, because it will help to protect your muscle and also, um, the protein, then, will help to look after the muscle health as well. So this is one of the reasons.
Speaker 1:The other one, as well After when you do strength training. The protein will help you, your muscles to regenerate, won't? It, it will help them to not regenerate. What's the word? I'm looking for Repair.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So when you work out and your muscles are sore and all this kind of stuff, the protein is kind of like the hey, we're here, we're going to look after you, we're going to mind this muscle and bring it back, and you know, yeah. So the protein is really important for that. From a nutritional and digestive perspective, the reason why protein is so important is that it is one of the key foods to help you at that level of fullness which the medication helps with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a huge part for it, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Really important. Yeah, so like and that's not even on this medication but any kind of weight loss journey protein is so important because it just helps you feel fuller for longer. You know, it's just one of its natural things, so you know and, it's natural benefits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is. It's brilliant, and often you'll hear people talking about you know being scared of hair loss in this type of journey. I had somebody ask me about that during the week and I said, well, usually if you're looking at that, this is where I'm looking at Well, are you getting enough food and enough protein in? Actually, you know, because that can be a source for again on any weight loss journey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I was just going to say, because somebody reached out to me about that last week and I put up a um carousel about it. And it's just because you're on a glp1 journey and you've lost five or six stone, it's not the fault of the glp1 medication, it's because you're, but you've lost six stone or five stone and that will happen to anybody in any um weight loss journey.
Speaker 2:You know it's about the weight loss and not the medication yeah, and the hair loss can come specifically if you're not getting enough nutrients in on that journey.
Speaker 2:So that's why you know we say time and time again this isn't a diet you want to nourish your body yeah, you want to nourish your body so that your you know these things don't happen, these side effects that you hear people kind of talking about. Um, then we talk about fiber. Look at fiber, as we know, in terms of digestive health, gut health, it's it's just like a building block that helps your digestive system and your gut stay healthy, can help you stay regular, which is so important as well, because you know your bowel movements might not be as frequent when you're on this journey, so that's why, when they are, you want to just make sure that they're not uncomfortable, you know, and that you're kind of doing what you can't look after yourself there. Um, so some of the other things now that might be interesting.
Speaker 2:So, fruit we know fruit is really really healthy and really important to eat. Equally, it's one of the ones you need to be somewhat mindful of how much fruit you're getting in. So and this is and I want to be really careful how I say this I'm not suddenly going to say, well, if you mash a banana, it's bad for you, okay, that's not where this is going trauma yeah, the reason why I'm saying just be mindful of the fruit.
Speaker 2:So like, if you're aiming for your, say, five or six portions of fruit or vegetables, they should not be all from fruit. And the reason is the majority of fruit will cause spikes in your blood sugar. This medication works to control your blood sugar, so if you're constantly spiking your blood sugar with a lot of fruit in it, again it can kind of make it a little bit more challenging for how effective the medication can be at times. If you have a high fruit diet and again that was something that I would have been aware of before. But even in the discussions with the dietician they're like Paddy, out of this kind of five or six, I only want you to have two, maybe three portions of fruit. The rest needs to come from your veg. Get as much colourful veg as you want.
Speaker 1:That's what I was told.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's just.
Speaker 1:And they were right. It's a very, very different type of sugar, isn't it, to the processed sugar that you would eat?
Speaker 2:So the way it reacts in your, so the sugar in the fruit on its own will react in a similar way. But where the nuance is is that, say, the sugar from a Mars bar versus the sugar from, say, a banana and a peach and a bowl of strawberries. The difference is you're getting a good amount of fibre in that helps with that that you're not going to get from a Mars bar. So that's where there is the difference and that's why we're like look at absolutely, fruit is healthy for you, catch your fruit in.
Speaker 1:But equally, if you're there like having 10 portions of actually every day might not be the healthiest thing for you and for anyone, even in terms of your teeth, like it's still a lot of sugar and the thing that that, like I know, I keep banging on about. But that just brings me back to the slimming rooms. As well, like it was just a free-for-all on the yeah, first yeah all the time fruit, fruit, fruit, and nobody knew why they weren't losing weight but yeah.
Speaker 2:So I say absolutely I love fruit, I love it, I love it, I love it. Do you?
Speaker 1:know a funny thing we were down in Tramore in Waterford when my brother did yeah we went to Splash World, my brother and the family and their boys and I had such we were coming off the back of days of eating and nice food, I had an uncontrollable urge to have fruit and I had to leave the boys there and I just went into Aldi and bought a load of ready-made, chopped up fruit and stuff and it was just so lovely, just so lovely.
Speaker 2:One of my favourite foods to have, and there's only one supermarket that I like it from. Ok, because none of the others, whatever way they prepare it, does not come close. But Asda, do the chopped up mango, and every time I get it for the last few years, it is bang on ripe, it is. It's not firm, well, it's.
Speaker 1:Fleshy. Oh it's so I bought two bags of mango the other day, frozen.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I took them out about an hour before to put them in my smoothie and I just I ate them without putting them in my smoothie, and I just I ate them without putting them in my smoothie.
Speaker 2:it's so nice and mango is one that will help with keeping you will it? You're digestive oh my god, if you're in need of a little bit of a SOS to get to the bathroom yeah, yeah, yeah, like mango.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So like the same way, if you have those, the sugar free foam sweets from I don't know Little Orality oh lactulose? Yeah, they're working because they're so full of sweetener, and sweetener is a natural laxative, but the mango is. You'll know if you've eaten too much mango.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah those jellies. They remind me of no, I won't say it, but they're just, they're just.
Speaker 2:So no good because when people ask me about constipation, I'd be like, well, look, obviously you can go and you can get the chemist, you can get something from there, yeah absolutely. You know, bear in mind, if you're doing that, most laxatives like that you will need again because the way they work. Or try, if you're getting a treat for yourself, go and have a few of the sugar-free foam sweets and they're like what I'm like.
Speaker 1:Paddy, did you know that on the back of the full fuel, is it full fuel bars?
Speaker 2:Yeah, full fill, yeah.
Speaker 1:Full fill. There's a warning saying that this may cause a laxative effect. So any food that is high, full of sugar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sweetener, sweetener. Any food that is high in sweetener or that has sweetener in it, sorry, will usually have that warning on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Because, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and again it usually be those types of fat free or sugar free foods because in place of the fat and in place of the sugar. They replace the taste with sweetener, and that's why they can be seen as lactobacillus. Yeah, but obviously you want your digestive health coming from your natural foods to help keep you regular as well.
Speaker 1:And that's your safest bet, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So again, that's like ideally those colourful kind of veggies, like if you're sitting down and you're just seeing kind of pale coloured veg and that's it.
Speaker 1:Like carrots and broccoli with cauliflower and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you want a colourful selection of vegetables, as much as you can, as much as you can Get in.
Speaker 1:You know your get in you know your, your peppers and your five are your fruit and your vegetables. Yeah, yeah, it's all.
Speaker 2:It's all common sense, and I know that not everyone's born with that, so sometimes it's hard and then, obviously, of your dairy, which is going to be really important, as we touched on as well, before, making sure they're in a few portions that in throughout the day.
Speaker 2:Your your milks, your protein drinks, as we touched on your yogurts. Your even your cheeses in there and stuff like that as a little treat can be used. And actually is it? Aldi, aldi and Little. Both do a high protein cheese, but one of them has one that is like is it like 10 grams protein per slice of cheese?
Speaker 1:or something like that Super Value, do Super Value have it yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like what's this? And I got it and it tasted exactly like my favourite white cheddar vintage cheese that I used to get. I love cheese patty so much, oh so good.
Speaker 1:I love cheese. It's stuffed with wine.
Speaker 2:So good, I had some cheese and wine for Christmas.
Speaker 1:Wednesday day With the cranberries in it, and I had what do you call it? Chutney? With that. The last time I ate it onion marmalade, like you know, nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I love a bit of brie yeah anyway, yeah, so like there's the main kind of food groups, obviously you need to be thinking of over your journey when you're comfortable. The other kind of things, yeah, I'd love to what. What is there other things that a dietitian has ever told you to take?
Speaker 1:like, there's a lot of talk about electrolytes, collagen, all these other things yeah, no, I will say I did get collagen, um from aldi, no from littles the other day and I got some pre-workout from littles and I got my creatine from littles, um, I the collagen, I put into my coffee because that's what people do.
Speaker 2:I didn't like it yeah, I've never taken collagen never.
Speaker 1:And the only time I've seen it predominantly the hype, but it has been people on tiktok, and as soon as I see everyone, every second video on tiktok, people pushing collagen, I'm like um yeah, I kind of got the collagen and the creatine off the back of the um kind of research I was doing on brain fog, perimenopause, all that kind of stuff, um, so that's why I got that, that's why I got the creatine anyway, and the collagen um won't harm you no, no, no.
Speaker 2:and and that's when, if someone is worried about the health of their nails or their hair, collagen is the go-to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, At least you know, and your skin yeah, especially at our age.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you mean by that? Especially at our?
Speaker 1:age? Well, we're only 42, paddy Wow, only 42.
Speaker 2:You're rude I know my birthday's.
Speaker 1:our birthdays are soon.
Speaker 2:You're only going to be turning 43, I'll be turning 49.
Speaker 1:I'll be 50 soon. God don't be grand.
Speaker 2:I don't feel like turning 50, but anyway so the only thing extra that I've been told to take or guided to take by a dietitian was a good multivitamin right, the only thing a dietitian advised me to take or guided to take by a dietitian was a good multivitamin.
Speaker 2:That's the only thing a dietitian advised me to take was a good multivitamin. They said you don't have to spend a fortune on it. Um, and I asked two different dietitians this. Um one said well, if you're confident that you're getting the nutrients in from your food, don't worry too much about the multivitamin. If you're like there's some days you're struggling to get your food in, yeah, a multivitamin definitely would be a good shout. So a good A to Z multivitamin doesn't have to be a mad, expensive one. Yeah, that's kind of the only other thing.
Speaker 1:I wasn't given any advice now from my dietician to go and do that. Maybe I should have asked, actually, but have you seen my stories today, paddy?
Speaker 2:uh, about you've. You've stories up about some the bits and pieces you've bought in the costume in the break.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've um invested in some really good um supplements to help with my um cognitive ability and my brain fog and all of that. And I the lady in the store was in and I suppose she said you're buying these for to help you with, and I went, yeah, brain fog, and she goes right. I was just saying to her like back in 2020, paddy, I was working and I was running three departments and.
Speaker 1:I was so fucking switched on I could have been thinking about 1700 things at one time and I would have managed all of it, and I couldn't think of the word grass the other day when I was fucking looking at grass. That's the deterioration, even though I'm on HRT and I thought, well, the HRT is definitely going to fix this, but did it? No, it's fixing everything else, but not this.
Speaker 2:So when you say that you were looking at grass, we're not talking, martha.
Speaker 1:Stewart In the field.
Speaker 2:Okay, in the field, in the field, yeah.
Speaker 1:Martha Stewart, doesn't she bloody?
Speaker 2:do magic lessons for big lighters now. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, snoop.
Speaker 2:Dogg. Yeah, yeah, there's also a lot of people talk about electrolytes. I asked a dietitian about electrolytes. They're like if you're getting enough water in and you're getting, like you know something, a bit of salt in your food and stuff like that from time to time, or just through the type of foods you're having or whatever, don't worry too much about it, but definitely don't swear by electrolytes. There's no harm in having them, to be honest. So you know, if it's the case that you're struggling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lovely one in Super Value Connecticut oh yeah, Connecticut. And it's like, yeah, connecticut is it, yeah, yeah, and it's down where the health stuff is and it's by the protein powder and it's seven euros, I think. You get like 10 or 12 in them and they're really nice in your water.
Speaker 2:I've stopped buying them now because I was using them as just a drink. Drink actually with a drink, yeah, yeah, no, totally now, when I was doing crossfit, and I was doing crossfit like three or four times a week and I was drinking a lot of water during those like really intense work and I was doing this blendinda like 23, 24 stone.
Speaker 2:So that's a whole other story oh my god, yeah, a lot to carry, mate yeah, um, so during them, because of how much I was kind of sweating during those workouts and how much hydration I needed to replace, I definitely was taking my electrolytes during that, during that period of time yeah absolutely, and sometimes I still would.
Speaker 1:If I know I'm going to do a workout or stuff, I would, but it's not something that I would be overly obsessed about or worried about yeah, I did for a little while but I'm over it now because the price of them but, um, when I was on uh, keto it was there was so much buzz around electrolytes yeah, getting it in that I used to make my own electrolyte. I used to fizzy water, um, with lemon juice, apple cider, vinegar salt two different types of salt oh, no, no, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't like salt. I rarely add salt to my food, so I rarely, really not rarely god, my cousin's a chef and she absolutely murders me for using salt. She knows who she is if it is, um, maybe, maybe potato, maybe chicken and maybe chips, but even then not always. So they're probably the only kind of foods I'd ever think about putting salt on why you just don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like salty stuff.
Speaker 1:I absolutely love it no and I know I shouldn't, but I do no, no, it doesn't.
Speaker 2:Doesn't appeal to me at all, isn't it?
Speaker 1:yeah, it is, it is, but yeah, I'm trying to think I think we've covered most of the questions that yeah, I think we have, yeah, yeah, and I think we just want to be a little bit mindful as well of everyone out there that's listening to us and are just starting out their journey, um, just to kind of take it easy on yourself, um, but do do come back and listen to this when you're ready as well yeah, the one question this day actually that we didn't touch on is counting calories.
Speaker 2:Have you ever counted calories at any stage during your journey?
Speaker 1:glp what? Yeah, you have okay yeah, I dip in and dip out of it. Um, sometimes I do it to refocus myself, if I'm just a bit kind of not even eating bad but not remembering what I've eaten.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I do that, then, and to be honest with you, paddy, for the first time in my life calories don't really. They're not the top of my list.
Speaker 2:When.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at my app and I'm inputting all my food for the day. It's the last thing I look at. Yeah, um, because, like that shake I was talking about earlier, that could be upwards of 600 calories, but I I can't care about that because it's giving me so much more, yeah, than you know 100 and I won't eat like. I won't eat another seven 800, 900 calories in my dinner, but if you're not eating enough, I think you definitely need to start looking at that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think yeah, like it's interesting because every this is going to sound mad. Every single other weight loss attempt I've done even probably when I was on Simming World and anything else, I would have tracked my food religiously in my fitness pal. I mean religiously this that was torture.
Speaker 1:Did you find it torture or did you think you were having a great time enjoying it?
Speaker 2:it became a behavior.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I was weighing things to the ground yeah, yeah, um.
Speaker 2:This is so the the first week of this journey I tracked it. Nothing to do calorie wise, though, it was purely just to see how much protein was I getting in. That was the only reason that I did. Since then I haven't really tracked at all, because I don't want to be taking that approach. I am much more interested in that kind of intuitive eating, in terms of listening to my body when it's physically full. So when I get that hunger pang or that kind of oh yeah, that's my signal, okay, I'm going to eat, um, and then equally the same when I'm full, like once I get that oh, oh, paddy, you're getting full, or, paddy, you're going to be uncomfortable now if you keep eating this. That's my cues and it hasn't set me wrong over the last nearly seven months.
Speaker 1:And did you look into intuitive eating? Did you know what? It was before you started doing it.
Speaker 2:I mean, like I You're obviously aware of Sinead.
Speaker 1:aren't you from Intuitive Eating Ireland? I am, yeah, am yeah, I don't follow.
Speaker 2:I am aware of the account. Yeah, the like intuitive eating in itself is not a new thing. It's what. It's the way people who have not struggled.
Speaker 1:I understand, yeah, but it's trying to get back to it.
Speaker 2:I would never be able to practice that. I tried.
Speaker 1:I bought a to say I would never be able to practice that I tried. I bought a book, yeah, but I couldn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I think it's. Listening to that cue from your body of am I hungry, am I full? Is one of the most powerful things long term that you can do.
Speaker 1:But, patty, I can only do that now because of the medication.
Speaker 2:Yeah 100, that's.
Speaker 1:I mean, oh like 100, yeah, yeah, yeah no, I know you're saying it in the context of I don't count calories anymore. I I just listen to my body and I think as well, because you know enough about nutrition. You don't need to do and again.
Speaker 2:If I wasn't on this medication and if I was listening to my body, I'd be eating all day because of the food. What I'm saying is in the context of me being on this medication. It allows me the space to listen to my body. Are you hungry, are you full? And, as a result of that, I don't need to now which we've touched on calorie count exactly, yeah, yeah so I would say, if you find that it is going to not be something you obsess about and that will genuinely help you give it a go.
Speaker 2:However, it's not something that's going to be sustainable long term for you just keep that, that thing in your mind as well, like you don't want to be a year down the line yeah, exactly, and it's.
Speaker 1:It is something that you need to be wary of, that if you have that kind of personality that you may very well gotta get obsessed with it. But you know what, paddy, I think, if I think about it hard enough? Um, because I was in the slimming room for so long I never knew what I should have been doing what I should have been eating.
Speaker 1:Nobody ever taught me about exactly what a calorie was, how many I should be taking in a day. So when I started on the GLP-1 and I did have a bit of space and I did have a bit of grace around food and hunger, I started to get more interested in the food that I was putting into my body, because I was able to do that for the first time in my life. You know, um, and I use the calorie counting on my app as a tool for me to know what's in the food I'm putting in my mouth and.
Speaker 1:I would never track that food again yeah because I now know the.
Speaker 2:The other risk, and something you touched on there just reminded me of this the other risk is if you think of, say, somebody like say, if I think of myself, I was 24 odd stone or something like that, you know, and if I was to do my calculator for how many calories I kind of needed, or stuff like that, most people won't believe the answer because Is this a deficit?
Speaker 2:No, well, no in terms of what's needed to maintain it. So I probably would have got an amount at 24 stone based on, like, my activity and all that kind of stuff. I would have guessed that my maintenance calories would have been something like maybe four, and all that kind of stuff. I would have guessed that my maintenance calories would have been something like maybe four and a half thousand. Okay, roughly, yeah, roughly, that's just something off my head.
Speaker 2:That could be way out of the ballpark with four and a half thousand. That means for me to be in a calorie deficit. Even anything like three and a half thousand would have been a decent deficit. But if somebody had came to him like Paddy, you can eat three and a half thousand calories through his weight. I'm like no, no that can't be right. That can't be right. I need to be eating a thousand, I need to be eating 500.
Speaker 1:But people that's the mentality.
Speaker 2:Yes, and this is where sometimes, when people are like yoloing it, kind of looking at these things, like I don't know, you know, feck, that I'm not going with that, that looks too high, no-transcript, or sorry, they were like I'm always tired. And I all say or sorry, they were like I'm always tired, da, da, da. And I was like how much are you eating? And they were like, oh, I think probably, like you know, about 800, 900 calories. I was like, first of all, I can tell you now, that's way too little, way too little. So I and I don't do this normally because it's Okay, tell me your liberty level, Tell me your weight, tell me your. So I got a bit of info from them and I went back and I said something like okay, there it is. I was like okay, I want it. Like I think you'd be comfortable if you were aiming for like 2,500, 2,700 calories. And they were like I don't believe that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely not, yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's body and to make your body work for you. But this I was like I don't. I I'm not overly bothered. If you believe it, I'm telling you. This is the answer you asked me and this is the answer yeah, and they come back to me about a week later and they were like, oh my god, the difference in my energy levels, my enjoyment of food, my mood, everything, because I've upped it and it's actually not having an overly detrimental effect on my, on my weight loss now, she probably wasn't losing any weight either.
Speaker 1:Well she's, yeah do you know.
Speaker 2:So you know it's um, it's, it's yeah, like there's so much nutrition, but this is again what we're saying. As much as we're talking about things here, you know, the only person who can really give you your bespoke insight into what you specifically should be doing for your nutrition and your journey and your medical kind of would be a registered dietitian, a kuru id, you know, registered dietitian, or somebody that is, you know, registered with the dietitian bodies.
Speaker 1:And you know, if you had given her that advice and a dietitian had given her that person that advice, then she would have believed that dietitian. Do you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but they are.
Speaker 1:I always say it. They're worth it. Health coaches are worth it as well, big time.
Speaker 2:They're definitely worth that kind of investment in yourself, and so they're not the type of thing every week or every month or anything whatsoever. It could be like you said earlier patty as well.
Speaker 1:You can get it off your insurance as well.
Speaker 2:Um, even if they're not going to pay for it fully, they will give you something and this is where, if you're getting a medication like, say, ozempic or sexenda, or you know one of the similar type ones from your doctor at the moment, I would always say ask your doctor for a referral to a dietitian as well, please ask your doctor for a referral to a dietitian as well because, again doctors aren't dietitians so they're not.
Speaker 1:No, oh my god. So yeah, they're not a lot of things a lot of doctors.
Speaker 2:There'll be some brilliant ones out there and again they'll have.
Speaker 1:Majority of what I've seen and heard is here's a leaflet, you know look it, that's the same with the GLP-1 medication, the manjaro, everything that's coming on board. No, if they're not getting any education about it, unless they're turning their computer around tapping it into google or wherever they get their information from at the time while you're sitting there. That was my experience. When I asked my doctor first, he just pulled around his screen to do Manjaro cancer in rats. No, can't have it. Yeah, oh, ok, well, thanks, yeah, walked out of there. It's not.
Speaker 2:And I guess just maybe think about the other side of things Then, that there can be foods that if you have these, these not to say you can't and not everyone will, but that some people might find that they feel a bit icky afterwards and this one we were chatting about, I think, before we came on air as well.
Speaker 1:So things like high fat yeah high sugar refined carbohydrates the worst thing is we'll say high fat and high sugar, but if you eat a food that's high fat and high sugar, boom, you're dead disclaimer you're not dead and again, you won't die.
Speaker 2:There are some people that would be fine with this, but when you're looking at what's going to, what has the greater likelihood of giving you some discomfort? It's probably going to be these types of foods and I think yeah, both both myself and belinda can probably link back to if we've had days where, like, our tummy's been a bit like oh, we can probably like and we know immediately I had this yesterday or I had that yesterday or whatever the case might be, you know Now I will say the whole thing about alcohol as well is the only way alcohol affected me is because I was eating so little food when I started out and I was drinking.
Speaker 1:You obviously know what happens everybody knows what happens when you've no food in your stomach and things don't end up well yeah, so that's a really, really important thing to remember. If you're starting out, you have to eat enough, like if you are going to take on alcohol and like.
Speaker 2:The thing is, as far as I'm aware, there isn't any proven like clinical results to say how alcohol causes this. However, if you're somebody, in general alcohol, if you've a lot of it, can make you feel a bit shitty. And if, again, if you think that this medication slows down digestion of food and stuff that you have, in that typically alcohol can be high in sugars and, as a result, high in calories.
Speaker 2:So that's why, again, it's a lot of calories as well you can be like, unless you're going for things that are like naturally lower calories. Like your spirits they're usually they're usually the best of a bag, eat whiskey.
Speaker 1:It's always a good one whiskey, vodka, gin, tequila.
Speaker 2:They'd be kind of some of the ones that would typically be the clear ones are the yeah and again, drink responsibly, oh yeah, drink responsibly everybody Drink responsibly. I don't drink a huge amount myself. No, you don't. No, I don't.
Speaker 1:You inspired me. Actually, paddy, you were the one that inspired me. I think I told you that already, didn't I? Yeah, that's nice. So when did I stop? When did I give that over? Then, I think around the 14th of December like that yeah yeah, I stopped drinking um the 14th to 15th of December and I joined the gym the same time I know, yeah, and I thought to myself look, just fucking, if you're gonna do it, just do it, dive in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I've got um, I paid up for a six week kind of introduction thing and they did my what the body thing? You were talking about?
Speaker 2:What is it your body composite, your in body? It's called In body, it's called yeah, your body composition thing.
Speaker 1:So I won't do that again now, till the six weeks is over. Yeah, yeah so that'd be good, and I haven't gotten my bloods from my doctor either, yet I keep forgetting to do that.
Speaker 2:Probably the snow. So this week in Ireland, well, oh, no, yeah, this week in the bottom.
Speaker 1:Well, not for Paddy, for Belinda absolutely.
Speaker 2:So, depending on when you're listening to this podcast, there's been snow in Ireland this week, in the bottom half of Ireland. I love snow and I'm gutted that we didn't get any up here.
Speaker 1:Royalive right of. Yeah, you're up north, yeah, but the kids are, uh, the kids are off school. Kids were supposed to go back to school on monday and we got snowed in. No school today and there's. We thought they'd go back tomorrow, but no, they're snowed in again tomorrow and the gym, the pilates, the swimming pool, they're all closed. There's no bread to be got, there's no milk to be got there's no toilet roll to be got.
Speaker 1:It's chronic and, lads, if you have ever lived in any other country that suffers from snow storms, there's like three inches of snow on our ground yeah, yeah, it's gas, it's wild, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then there's all this drama on facebook of the different weather channels bitching about oh, you shouldn't be saying this and you shouldn't be saying that, you shouldn't be other about, oh, you shouldn't be saying this and you shouldn't be saying that you shouldn't be doing this one, you shouldn't be doing this. And I was like, oh my god, get me popcorn there's only one man, though.
Speaker 1:There's only one man, and that's the Carlo Weatherman.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's yeah, isn't Alan. Is Alan from Carlo Weatherman? Yeah, it's yeah. So I couldn't believe reading this drama like on one of the posts, but anyway, so that's what's been going on this week in Ireland, kind of weather-wise and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Now I will say that everybody's electricity bill and oil bill and gas bill is going to be up in the moon. Paddy, it's not been off. No same here, I keep screaming at the kids to put on your snooty, put on fluffy socks.
Speaker 2:You see, I put on fluffy socks. You see, I am and I've said this before I live 99.9% of my time in shorts and t-shirt do you? Yeah oh my god oh god, yeah, no matter what, you're such a weirdo, paddy. Yeah, no, 100%, like it's rare my brother-in-law does that yeah, it's rare I'm not in shorts, but then that means even in this weather I'm like, oh, it's cold, I better put the heating on.
Speaker 1:Turn on the heating.
Speaker 2:So the heating has been on. I boxed the head off you.
Speaker 1:They're sneaking around my house turning on the heating. I'm not even aware of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all day, like I wouldn't be, like I'll go and put on like a pair of like thermal tracks of bottoms and a hoodie.
Speaker 1:Oh, just no, no, no, no Are.
Speaker 2:Just no, no, no no.
Speaker 1:Are you gas or oil?
Speaker 2:All gas. All gas, we're gas Gas fire gas cooking, yeah, gas heating.
Speaker 1:Yeah, same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is handy when the electricity goes though.
Speaker 1:Yes, true, the cooker defo. Yes, yeah, yeah, because you can still cook, still have heat, and the thing is as well, I think, because you're not actually calling to come out and put a ton of oil into your tank. Yes, yeah, you get a little bit kind of blasé about it, don't?
Speaker 2:you yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so nice having like instant fire.
Speaker 1:I think the government is helping us out. This month is it in January? Getting some fuel allowance? Every house in the country or something Is that this month again, is it?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I hope it is.
Speaker 2:I could do it a few more so I'm back with my strength coach Max this week on Thursday. Excellent, lovely. We've had like a two. Actually it'll be calendar wise. I think it'll nearly be three. It's two weeks on the calendar, but I think from day to day it's actually nearly three weeks since I've last seen him. So I'm a bit nervous about that. Just get excited you'll be great.
Speaker 1:You've missed it.
Speaker 2:I'd say though I have, yeah, I have, like I mean there's also things, oh, my strength and whatever. But anyway, the other thing that I've been doing since the 1st of January is I have been walking jogging you have, you have every day, yeah so every day, yeah, so every day during january I am walking or jogging five kilometers, which is 3.9 miles, in aid of women's aid.
Speaker 2:So women's aid is a charity that helps to support, uh, women and children that are victims of domestic violence. And this, like I've thinking it's the first fundraiser I've kind of done in any year, really, and I always wanted to do one that was in some way female kind of related.
Speaker 2:And, as I think I said to you before, belinda, the reason for that is because, like 90% of your demographic and the audience on all of my pages is female and so that means the majority of the support I've had since biggest loser days has always been female. So I felt a very strong affinity to want to do something for that type of charity and you put your go fund me link up every day, don't you?
Speaker 1:when you're, when you're finished your run? So if anybody does want to do that, um help out. That'd be really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I set the initial goal of like 500 euro. I've broken through that 500 euro, so I am putting up to 750. Now. Obviously, be great if I hit the thousand ultimately.
Speaker 1:Thousand. Wouldn't it be amazing. I must share it again this evening for you. Actually, It'd be amazing.
Speaker 2:I was looking at.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something random happened earlier where the page wasn't loading earlier, where the page wasn't loading, but it seemed well, it happened to me the other day as well it wouldn't twice now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know why, so I just yeah, thanks, love, revolut love my brother and his wife. No revolut don't get people they don't revolut yeah, I'm just checking. Here is the yes, it's still, it's, it's working it, it's working, but anyway, Belinda.
Speaker 1:Final thoughts. Paddy, what are your final thoughts?
Speaker 2:My final thoughts are don't overcomplicate your nutrition. The foundation for success is really about keeping it simple and absolutely. You can still enjoy some of those nice things you know yeah, and focus on the small things.
Speaker 1:Focus on what you can add in as opposed to what you can take out, okay, and you know, just kind of celebrate the little small goals that you're smashing as well, like the non-scale victories NSV, isn't that what they call them.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You know, what is go on? This is the last thing I'll ask you.
Speaker 1:Go on.
Speaker 2:What is your current favourite meal to have?
Speaker 1:Yes, my score is so boring, paddy.
Speaker 2:No, it's okay go.
Speaker 1:I have this thing where I do a big, massive basin of vegetables I chop up like the table's full of vegetables. I chop them all up, I put them in a basin, put some um oil on them and some uh herbs and I portion them out and I freeze them and peg about that size. I just put them in the air fryer from frozen with salmon. I just love it. I just love it. Salmon or chicken, a bit of chilli sauce or something Like a bucket of it and that kind of keeps me going.
Speaker 1:Then what's your favourite?
Speaker 2:Again, it's not something that's going to be really exciting, Like I'd love to say, oh nice, big juicy steak and like garlic.
Speaker 1:But I don't, yeah no.
Speaker 2:It is. There is a shop in town that does a diced up salad. So I do Salad, yeah, so I do a little slant on it. They do this kind of turkey, turkey, power turkey, something it has like turkey in it. It has like al dente, almost raw, actually, like tender, thin broccoli. It has peppers, it has a hard boiled egg, so all this kind of stuff a few nuts and seeds in there and it'll be lovely all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:So it has that in it. And then I do get it's meant to come with sweet chilli sauce. But I do get it's meant to come with sweet chilli sauce, but I always get them to swap the sweet chilli for my chicken Caesar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we love that, don't we?
Speaker 2:Dice it all up and oh my.
Speaker 1:God, savage it into you. Get it into you, cynthia, so like a.
Speaker 2:Caesar salad, chicken Caesar, turkey Caesar Like. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:What are you having for your tea, Paddy?
Speaker 2:So I had a large lunch. It's what are you having for your tea, paddy em? So I had a large lunch is it 10 to 8?
Speaker 1:I haven't eaten my dinner yet yeah, I had em.
Speaker 2:I had three poached eggs on sourdough bread, em with some crispy bacon love that for you, yeah. I'm having a roast beef dinner.
Speaker 1:I know it's very late now, but I'll try and get it into me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we went out for some food and that's what I got and it was gorgeous. But if I was, oh, I have one of the kind of fit meals like a chicken katsu curry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fit meals, love katsu curry.
Speaker 2:Love katsu curry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, love it Off curry for the minute though, but yeah, okay, why are you off curry? Because it was the last thing I ate before I got digestive issues over the new year.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, was it a turkey curry?
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't. It was from Marks and Spencer's actually. And yeah, but I'm sure it wasn't that, it was just the culmination of everything we don't have Marks and Spencers up here not a lot of people do yeah we're very lucky, we have one in Clonmel yeah, unless I go to just over the border, inniskillen. I was going to say you'd have one in Inniskillen, wouldn't you? Yeah, you're so lucky you live up there.
Speaker 2:Belinda. As always, paddy, it's been a pleasure it's been an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 1:Mate couldn't have done it without you yeah, it's been thanks for all your hard work it's been a tasty pleasure yeah how's that tea bag? Oh, it's frowned. Would you drink your tea with milk with the tea bag in it country folk do that. No, you're a country folk.
Speaker 2:Would you drink your tea with milk with the tea bag in it? Country folk do that. No, you're a country folk. Yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1:Are you country folk? Yeah, Sean does it. It's awful. I am country folk. Sean runs country. Very different. No.
Speaker 2:I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't no, with one of these ones, you would.
Speaker 2:With peppermint tea, I would.
Speaker 1:Pepperm. Oh, this is the poca tea bags. It's chamomile honey and something else it's really nice. It's in the purple box they do a lovely.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's a poca, but there's one that's like fennel and licorice or something like that no, thank you.
Speaker 1:Oh my good god, oh my lord. Okay, time to say goodbye. Now dance us out. Paddy, you got this go.
Speaker 2:Oh fuck we'll talk to you next week, love it.
