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.
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The Dose with Paddy and Belinda
Body Image - seeing isn't always believing
This episode dives deep into the emotional complexities surrounding body image during a weight loss journey, examining how perceptions can often lag behind physical changes.
Paddy shares his experiences with body image over the years, while Belinda reflects on societal beauty standards and the influence of social media on self-esteem. Our conversation delves into the dynamics of relationships during weight loss journeys.
We also chat about the Drama Llama that sometimes comes with putting content out online, and how its so important to engage with social media accounts that make you feel good and help you on your journey as opposed to try to bring people down and body shame.
Combined Paddy & Belindas weight loss totals over 170lbs 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:
- Instagram: @adoseofpaddy
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mounjaropaddy
Find Belinda Here:
•Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/GLP1.Insights /
•TikTok: @bells.mj.insights
Belinda, what are you doing with the phone?
Speaker 1:Adding to my stories.
Speaker 2:What that you're recording the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll tag you.
Speaker 2:Oh, your weekly little bit of dance movement.
Speaker 1:Yep, love it. Has anybody. Have you had any issues with Instagram today? It's been a bit glitchy for me.
Speaker 2:Belinda, it's not like you to have issues with technology.
Speaker 1:I know it's so rare.
Speaker 2:No, I actually haven't been on Instagram that much today, because I've had a very busy, busy day, so there's some worries.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're always busy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, such is life. How are things, belinda, what's going on? Good now. Yeah, you're always busy. Yeah, such is life. How are things, belinda, what's going on?
Speaker 1:Good now. Good, good, good. There's been a lot going on this week. Paddy Hasn't there.
Speaker 2:Well, there has been a lot going on.
Speaker 1:There has been a lot, yeah, oh God, there's been a lot of trolling, has there? Yeah, there has. There's been a lot of trolling, has there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there has. Have you not noticed? No, no, I haven't at all.
Speaker 1:There's been a lot of partnerships going on. Big congratulations to our Paddy from.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I finally this week kicked off my partnership with my BMI which is www. Thank you, wwwmy-bmiie. Wwwmy-bmiie, who are now the first start-to-finish service that can support you with your weight loss treatment in the Republic of Ireland in terms of delivering it to your front door. So, from the moment that you do that initial step of doing consultation through to getting it through your door, they're looking after that full service for you, which is and, by the way, this is not a sponsored message or an ad- at all.
Speaker 1:Just let you know. We're just telling you what's going on in our life and just saying congratulations to Paddy and also congratulations to my BMI for choosing Paddy. Great choice, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much, but like that is a partnership aside, even like we alluded to this before Christmas that it's just brilliant to see another you know access route for people to the medication. You know, like with the service, you go online, you do your consultation online. Once you have your consultation and assuming you're approved, then the medication will literally be dispatched and delivered to you and that all happens within like two to three days from start to finish.
Speaker 1:You have to do your unboxing, Paddy, as well, yes, I will, so we can see the cold chain and what it's like in that that's saying it's delivered cold chain from their pharmacy partner in Armagh.
Speaker 2:It is just yeah brilliant, Brilliant, I'd say. I've had so many people message me saying that they're finally able to get on this journey in a safe way. And this was one of the things because, like I've had other, we've both had brands come to us about different things over the months and the years.
Speaker 1:A lot.
Speaker 2:And I know no more than myself. You know, one thing that we're both really passionate about is that patient safety and how ethical is a brand and stuff like that and are we comfortable with?
Speaker 1:things and being authentic? Yeah, and are we comfortable and does it align with our? You know, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:So like when like I had two other like prescribing type companies approach me during the second half of last year and first when I said no for various reasons. Second one I explored a little bit more, but then it wasn't the right fit either. So then when my bmi got in touch with me, um, I wrecked their heads with questions I was gonna say you put them through it, paddy.
Speaker 2:I grilled them absolutely grilled them about their patient safety, their start to finish process, their pricing, cold chain delivery. You know, verifying people are who they say they are when they're accessing the medication support like so many, your local doctor and everything. Yeah, so many things and like even this week I sent them all feedback and stuff and they've been so quick. Like honestly, they've just been kudos to them, but anyway as I say this. You know it's not an ad or anything, but just brilliant if you're looking for do you know what?
Speaker 1:I get a lot of Paddy. I get a lot of product people, and it's just not. I just have, don't want to have anything to do with it, nothing.
Speaker 2:I got one and I'm not going to talk about it too much, but I shared it with you. The product that approached me this week and my reply back to them literally was I'm blind enough. Can you show me the clinical trial supporting you know to evidence what it is you're saying. I haven't heard from them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but listen unless it was something that I have been using for years, or something that I've recently started using, or whatever, and I can actually speak of it and speak to it and its relevance and you know how it works or whatever. I don't yeah. And you know what, paddy? There are so many people out there that are literally just selling their souls. Oh, you know 100 percent yeah 100.
Speaker 1:And then there's people out there that are trying to be influencers or content creators yeah but you know, I was talking to um, a brand manager, and she was telling me that what's more sought after now is micro influencers, yeah, people that are under 25 000, that have, that are more authentic and have a better connection with their um followers and stuff like that, like myself and yourself, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100%. So like this one thing, like I was even amazed, so like the reel that I put up, the first paid partnership reel that I put up, or TikTok the other day.
Speaker 1:That gave you so much work. Like yeah, like I was going to think it was mind numbing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like it was phenomenal to see, I thought do you know what this is? I know my video is about Ireland specific and access within Ireland. Typically they do well, so I thought you know what. I might get 20 to 30,000 views on this, of which a high percentage will be from Ireland, and that would be phenomenal in terms of our goal of brand awareness for the brand that I'm working with, so like we are at. So what day is this? It's like.
Speaker 1:Wednesday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's just over three days, yeah, since I put that video live, and that video has been viewed now by 70,000 people.
Speaker 1:Lovely.
Speaker 2:Of which 85% of those are in Ireland.
Speaker 1:Wow. So where's the other 15 then?
Speaker 2:So the United Kingdom has taken up over 11%, and then other countries, small little bits, and that's kind of what I'd expect, that kind of breakdown.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But like, in terms of that like again, I only have on TikTok, what followers? I'll just check here. Like I have 8,600 followers on TikTok, which by TikTok standards isn't massive, is a lot? Well, no, it is, it is. Well, I mean like, maybe for the niche that I'm in? Yeah, maybe it is. But I think what it kind of shows is that even if you are a micro, I don't like the word influencer, creator.
Speaker 1:Yeah, creator kind of shows is that?
Speaker 2:even if you are a micro I don't like the word influence, creator, creator, yeah, um, and you're creating content that is relevant to people, you can still get a massive reach you know, really, really massive reach like my. My most viral tiktok over there is about um, don't make this mistake when you're starting manjaro, and that's at nearly half a million views, which is crazy mental, but then your reels as well. Like you know, you have way more followers than me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I'm not on TikTok. I have like 700 followers on TikTok.
Speaker 2:But that's only a new account. It's only open like a few weeks.
Speaker 1:I know, but I just TikTok just drives me wild and I think the feedback that I get from you about TikTok as well, it's like the Wild West over there. I think the feedback that I get from you about tiktok as well, it's like the wild west over there.
Speaker 2:I just feel that people are so much more mature over on instagram and then, like you, still have mental people on instagram as well. Yeah, what can you do? Yeah, it's um, I think yeah, interestingly enough, go on no, what I was going to say is what I find on tiktok. Is that as well? People might watch the first few seconds and get the headline and then ask you a question, and I'm like oh, I'm not but do you have, you have you have answered that all week
Speaker 2:yeah and I don't mean just this video in general. Um, so I do like I used to try and answer the people and now, in fairness, the last few days I have, i've've answered, I think, pretty much every single person that they commented on the video, just to make sure that you know they're getting a good experience as well, because that is important to me still. But on Instagram, I'm like just sending them a video. I'm like this is already covering the video here you go, it's already covering the video.
Speaker 2:Like for neither of us, belinda, this isn't.
Speaker 1:This isn't our job no, god, no, we're only here for the crack like like I have two jobs that I kind of do.
Speaker 2:I have one full time job, one kind of part time the radio. Then on the part time job is my radio. I have a full time job Monday to Friday and then I have my yeah, my weekend job or not my weekend, I can't get my words out. My part-time job is the radio, but then, like the gym, no more than yourself, we have our workout stuff. You know, january I'm doing the 5K day thing.
Speaker 1:As well. You're killing it with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, like social media can definitely be something that can be a take up a lot of time. It can be hugely rewarding and the biggest thing from that video for me is the amount of DMs I got and emails this week actually, which is rare from people saying, oh my God, this is such a relief, I can now more easily access the medication and like that's why we do what we do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:You know, to help people see that light.
Speaker 1:Not to help people that will look at a video for three and a half seconds and then ask you what, where is it? Where is this available in ireland? Just stop, can you just stop and leave paddy alone.
Speaker 2:Just watch the reel, all right, don't I don't mind, just watch the full reel wow, belinda's in full mum mode today, so she's because I've like given out all day long.
Speaker 1:Well, since I got home from school, I'm a bit nicer.
Speaker 2:I'll be like. I'll do my best to get back to you, but it's a good. But it's a good, but it's a good chance that the answer might be in one of my other videos, you know but if not, let me know, let me know. So, belinda, would we go to our topic or will we keep talking about social media?
Speaker 1:Because separate, did that? Yeah, go to our topic, go to our topic.
Speaker 2:So what are we talking about this week? Belinda?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Paddy, I've asked you three times and you won't tell me.
Speaker 2:This is where Paddy pulls up voice notes from.
Speaker 1:WhatsApp. Don't you fucking dare, Paddy, oh God. Paddy's told me three times what the subject is and I can't remember.
Speaker 2:Yeah, literally before we're hopping into it. No, no, no, I'm not finished.
Speaker 1:But in fairness, I know that I was told and I know that I spent time thinking about it. So as soon as you tell me, all my thoughts will come flooding back into my head.
Speaker 2:Brilliant, brilliant. So if I was to say the words, let's see body image.
Speaker 1:Nope, that's not. It Is that it.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, we literally have voice notes about this, belinda.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God, I love this. I love this. Oh my God, oh my god, I love this.
Speaker 1:I love this. Oh my god, oh my poor, my poor riddled perimenopausal mind is just.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fake it till you, make it brother, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Shall we restart this recording now from the start yeah, so on today's episode, myself and Paddy will be talking about body image, and I'm just going to get my notes out brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 2:Here's some I prepared earlier and I love we're recording this as well. So if you want to see the facial reactions to this, pop over to the YouTube, where this video will be uploaded as well. Fix your glasses there, belinda.
Speaker 1:I just did, yes.
Speaker 2:So where this I guess is stemming from is a couple of things. One of the things for me is I have lost like 91 and a half pounds now, and when I look in the mirror, as much as I know in my head I have lost that amount of weight, I still see the love handles, the fat tummy, the bingo wings, the fat legs.
Speaker 1:Is that all you see?
Speaker 2:Like I can rationalize it and know that, yes, my body is smaller. But I noticed it the other day because I was chatting to somebody in their house and I found myself pulling the t-shirt yeah reaching for the cushion like and I was like in that moment I was like why am I doing this?
Speaker 1:we do that, everybody does that. Every single person that has had weight or has weight will always sit and throw a cushion over them. Not every single person but most people that I know. I've always done it. I have. There's never been a point in my life where I haven't done what you did, like pulling and dragging out my clothes and oh just, it's awful, it's awful.
Speaker 1:Oh just, it's awful. It's awful, but like? Do you feel, even though your body image when you look in the mirror, do you think that your identity has shifted with the weight, that you've lost the way you feel inside? Do you feel like you're the same person, the same, not in a negative way, but the same old Paddy negative way, but the same old paddy.
Speaker 2:I, I feel more, I do feel more confident about things yeah but then as soon as somebody says oh jeez, you're looking great, I just like oh awkward.
Speaker 1:Oh, you should have seen me this morning, or? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah but that's a very, very irish thing as well. The inability to take a compliment is huge in our society, isn't it, you know?
Speaker 2:but like even this t-shirt I'm wearing this is a t-shirt from bigger paddy days like this t-shirt for people who can't say, like this is this t-shirt is massive yeah, again, you're just wearing that around the house though. No, I'd wear this because in my mind it's Grand Clothes I wear, even though, yeah, I think it ties in with this whole bit that Our heads not catching up sometimes with the journey that we've had and the progress that we've had.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but do you know that what that is at the core of all of it, it's body dysmorphia yeah, yeah, it really is, it really is and I think it because maybe it happened to you so quickly, paddy yeah um quicker than than the norm yeah like I've had two years to get used to the weight that I've lost yeah just nearly to.
Speaker 1:I'm closer to two and a half years. Yeah, to get used to that. And for me it happened slowly and I was working at it. I worked every inch, I worked every pound, not saying that you didn't, but yours was just bang. Yeah, you know, I suppose it would be um the same, uh, along the same lines as somebody who would have had weight loss surgery yeah I think that. I think that's the trajectory, yeah, of weight loss for them also, isn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, I like I mean I'd assume so like I know a few people that have had, like say, bariatric surgery and that, and again a tough journey as well and decision for people. I don't know what the info is on how quickly you lose weight after that. If it's comparable, I know the total amount that potentially can be lost is comparable to Munjarra specifically, but I don't know the speed. It'd actually be interesting to get somebody on. That'd be interesting, yeah, I know like obviously we had Rob on one of our podcasts Of course.
Speaker 1:yeah, rob, on one of our podcasts. Yeah, before Christmas.
Speaker 2:And if you haven't heard that podcast with myself and Rob, it's literally just myself and Rob, man to man, having a conversation about our lives with weight from a male perspective, and I'd really encourage you to go back and you know listen to that.
Speaker 1:It's brilliant. It's brilliant. It gave such an insight I've said it before on the podcast as well. It gave such an insight into've said it before on the podcast as well. It gave such an insight into the male perspective, which is something we do not hear we do not we have not heard it. That's the first time I've heard anybody ever talking about it.
Speaker 2:Males talking about it like that, you know, yeah, so like the other thing is I was up in belfast at the weekend and I was going to Penny's. When I'm up there, now that I can shop in Penny's, like now, that I can actually, you know, it's not just socks that fit me, I'm Penny's you know, must forever bind scarves and earrings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, literally. Yeah Well, not earrings, but yeah Well, you could. If you wanted to, could have Since the referendum.
Speaker 2:But if you wanted to cut it since the referendum, but like and it's mad, my go-to still is instantly back of the rail. Back of the rail, yes, 100%.
Speaker 1:Biggest size where the larger sizes are yeah, yeah now I'm able to shop in pennies as well. I've only been able to do it once in my life before, and that was when I lost my weight on keto. I've gone. I've gone lower, lower now than the weight that I lost on keto, thank god, and I'm loving being able to like I've never been able to buy. Even something like this is extra large yeah.
Speaker 1:I got this the other day and I have the black of it and gonna get the bubble gum pink of, but I've never been able to buy anything like that ever. And it's so trendy at the moment the fourth arc stuff that everybody's wearing them and I've never been able to wear clothes that everybody's wearing, and same as yourself probably, paddy as well you know, and it is, it does affect you, it really does affect you, you know.
Speaker 1:It's horrible it's. It really does affect you, you know. Yeah, it's horrible, it's, it's rotten and it makes you feel like an it just it makes you feel like an outsider yeah even more so than your weight itself makes you feel like you're an outsider. It just puts another goddamn layer on top of all the shit that comes with having weight on your body. Yeah, you know, you know, yeah, no definitely Like brand wise.
Speaker 2:For me, like, gymshark is one of like the biggest brands in the world and it's a brand that I love. Their backstory as well, ben Francis and stuff there Hugely inspirational story If you're into entrepreneurship or entrepreneur life and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's basically this young guy that set up making T-shirts himself in his own room, like essentially to this one off, if not the biggest at leisure wear brands in the world. Now it's just phenomenal story and he's a good guy. So now, like I used to try and order and I think I have here they did some things in like triple XL, like shorts and stuff.
Speaker 2:So I had some of those that were still a bit, you know, comfy around the thighs, but I would have bought them, and then I was able to get the double XL. And then I'm now able to get the.
Speaker 1:XL Do you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean.
Speaker 1:That's where I'm at as well. Yeah, I'm now able to get the XL.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I mean? That's where I'm at as well. Yeah, and like that's an XL from a brand that is aimed at predominantly fit gym going people, you know. So, as we know, XL in one brand can be quite different from another. So when I was over in London there a while ago, like to go into their store and to be able to walk around and know that.
Speaker 1:I can pretty much buy anything here. Yeah, and I got from.
Speaker 2:Belfast I went into Gym Plus Coffee and got actually like a really nice pair of shorts. That they, they, they fit right yeah and that might sound like such a simple thing, but I've lived in the majority of my the last 25 years, not worrying about something fitting right, but about something that can cover my body. Do you know? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you now, Paddy. I do not know what it's like to have a pair of comfortable jeans. Like to have a pair of comfortable jeans? Yeah, I've never had a pair of comfortable jeans in my life purely because I was buying them, because I thought that they covered the you know yeah me, yeah, 100, I get it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely get it I I recently bought um an under armor t-shirt and an under armor, pair of leggings, and when I tell you, these goddamn leggings felt like butter on my skin. I've never felt material like it on my body, because I've never been able to fit into anything like that.
Speaker 1:You know, and um, it's got and again. That's just another reason for me to keep going, because I want to be able to wear the nice things in the gym, because I'm enjoying the gym so much more now like I, paddy, I never I was talking about this with my friend mel today and like I have never in my life ever thought that the words would come out of my mouth that I just love going into that gym I can love it.
Speaker 1:You should be so proud, though like I am, I am, I am, I am like, imagine, I really am.
Speaker 2:No, I'm good because, like, imagine if I said to you six months ago uh sure, but you'll be in the gym in no time. Now you'll be lifting weight and doing this.
Speaker 1:We're like no not, no, no, I did a um hip thrust. Uh, hip thrusts yesterday yeah yeah, and what did I do? I think I went from maybe just having a barbell yeah of like 7 kg and I was able to do um 30 kg yesterday brilliant, like that's amazing yeah.
Speaker 1:I know it's really good and I've, and even I went to um aqua aerobics today after I went to the gym and I thought to myself, yeah, I'll get in here, but I I feel now that I've outgrown it. I feel that I need more yeah from it.
Speaker 2:I might, um, maybe swap the aqua aerobics for lengths, swimming lengths now, yeah yeah, like that is like I said last week, I'm back with my strength coach now, after after christmas um, so I'm back with him again tomorrow. Um, and I was doing a new move the other day when I was in the gym by myself and I thought, oh, that's that's, uh, that's challenging me, something really basic.
Speaker 2:But I was like, oh, that's challenging me, that feels good, you know, it feels good to get something that hits your body in a different way and I think, you know, if you're finding that from the gym um, versus, say, the aqua aerobics or that, then it, but you still enjoy being in the water, then that's where it's good to. Okay, how can I keep the water element off this? But mix it up a bit, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll never let go. I'll never let go of the water. I'll always want to do something in the water.
Speaker 2:I am missing at the moment. I don't have like I have. I have two gym memberships, so I do I pretty much always have In two different gyms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so one is my main gym. I've been in it for years. Really like, love the people that own the gym, love the gym. They've invested so much in it. It is phenomenal, like it's just, it's literally a world-class standard. The gym that they have, oh, which is ROM and Sligo, range of Motion and Sligo, it is just, honestly, it will give any gym in Ireland a run for its money with how much they've invested in it and the, the calibre and the amount of equipment that they've in there. So that's kind of the main one that I'm in and they've brilliant classes and the instructors and everything. And then I have a membership for the other I'll say more budget type gym. It's a 24 hour one.
Speaker 1:Is that where you go to have your PT sessions and stuff?
Speaker 2:No, that's in Rome, so it is, that's in the main gym.
Speaker 1:Oh right, Okay yeah.
Speaker 2:But sometimes what I'll do is I'll go. I like to just to change your scenery, sometimes as well. So sometimes I'll go in just to do either a spin class in the other one or just to go for a walk on the treadmill, because the TV's built in, you know, and that kind of stuff. So I'll go there sometimes to mix it up.
Speaker 1:It's green and stuff yeah.
Speaker 2:But like one thing I don't have at the moment is somewhere I can go for like jacuzzi, sauna, steam room. Now my main gym is actually putting in a sauna, so there, which will be cool. But I was thinking that I was like I had some notion, was like yesterday, I was like I'd really love, love to just go and go into the pool now.
Speaker 1:Do you not have a local pool where you are now?
Speaker 2:We do. I've not been in there since I was a child, so I might, I might try and suss it out.
Speaker 1:I don't even know how much it is. We might surprise you yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I, you, I love being in the water I love it yeah yeah, I just since I was a kid, I loved it yeah, I. I just I'm like ariel from the little mermaid. You know I'm oh patty I love how.
Speaker 1:I love that. That's how you see yourself without the seashells bra yeah, and the green eyeliner I can do that eyeshadow yeah um so paddy, let me just ask you like have you noticed, then lingering kind of insecurities, even though you have lost nearly 100 pounds now?
Speaker 2:oh, absolutely oh, yeah, yeah because it's still there that I still have a fatty chest. I have a fatty tummy, love handles, but I am aware it's smaller I am. But there is definitely still that thing of do you know? Yeah.
Speaker 1:But like your shape has changed though.
Speaker 2:so much you know that yeah, and my shape, my shape has changed as well, and it's changing even more now than since I've went into the gym.
Speaker 1:You know the the thing is if you say, lost another 30 pounds, I I still don't think that, those thoughts, those insecurities, I don't think they will ever leave us. I think that that's our, that's just what we'll be holding on for. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, like, yeah, it'll be interesting to see because, like when I lost the weight after the Biggest Loser, because I started regaining so quickly again after that, I didn't have a period of time really to sit with that new weight and see how did my mind catch up your thinner weight. Yeah.
Speaker 1:When you like, right, okay yeah.
Speaker 2:So like, yeah, and that's why this time, obviously, the hope and the expectation is that this will be maintained. The hope and the expectation is that this will be maintained. So I'm curious to see how does the brain catch up eventually, or what happens, or you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's all very new, isn't it?
Speaker 2:It is, it is.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing, and I've never maintained anything either no more so than you have. You know, and that's what's bringing more and more people to this medication is the fact that you don't relapse into, you know, binge eating or whatever it was that got you to the state of us yeah, yeah it's you know, yeah yeah it is interesting. Have you found?
Speaker 2:sorry, go on no, I was going to go on a different topic there. Go ahead though.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, just wondering like has your weight loss ever back then and now? Has it ever changed the dynamics of any relationship that you've had?
Speaker 2:Oh. So this is something that came up last week at an event when I was talking to somebody and they said to me it's amazing how people are nicer to you now when you've lost weight. And it made me think I would like Believe it or not. Whilst I know a lot of people through different walks of life and different things, I've done my, my circle of kind of friends is is pretty small. It's, it's, I'd say, very small. So I don't think I've seen a difference with those people. But one of the changes I've maybe seen a bit more in myself is that it's giving me more confidence to know my value a bit more, know my worth a bit more. And I don't mean financially, I mean like in terms of just general day to day. Yeah, being a human.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And like I will always say and have always said that, like your shape, weight and your size don't determine your value or worth as a as a person, but equally I know that's easy.
Speaker 1:Save that though absolutely.
Speaker 2:It is easier said but it is something I would reinforce with myself.
Speaker 1:But I'm starting to feel that I'm able to actually live that out as well now that I can actually feel confident day to day so the thing is, patty, listen, what I think about this is if we are walking around and we have all this weight on our body, I know from my experience that I've I have, in situations um drawn back from things I have in situations made myself smaller.
Speaker 1:I've not brought attention on myself due to the fact that I'm not secure. I wasn't secure in the way that I looked. Therefore, I don't think that I can expect anybody else to treat me any different than that, because that's what I'm giving out and what. I'm giving out is exactly what I'm going to get back. So when we say, you know, oh yeah, people definitely treat me different, I'm being different yeah, yes, you're being different very definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and that's the point of it really, and I know people say, oh, you know, uh, thinness is equated to, you know, um success or whatever, but it certainly does help.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unfortunately, particularly when you see some of the comments online on some of the articles that people put up and the way that people respond to each other and stuff like that, you can definitely see the bias that there is towards people who are living with, you know, obesity or overweight, which is shocking as there. So it's no no wonder we have developed that kind of no wonder, yeah, of course yeah, yeah, you know, let me which came first, though chicken or the egg?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean yeah, that's the hard thing, isn't it, you know?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, if you look at some social media, certainly didn't help?
Speaker 1:no, definitely not. But this if you look at some cultures Social media certainly didn't help.
Speaker 2:No, definitely not. But if you look at some cultures and some statuses over the years in history, being a bigger person was a status of success because it was deemed that you could buy more food, you could buy nice things you know this kind of thing and you were able to have a more lavish lifestyle.
Speaker 1:Paddy, I lived in Indonesia, in Bali, about three or four times right, and I am not joking you. I used to get on the bus over there, or a katuk as they were called. It cost you like 2p to get five miles and people, the locals, used to come up and feel my skin and they used to touch my arm and squeeze my arm and they used to equate that with wealth. And the whiter you were, the wealthier you were, the fatter you were. The more flesh you had on your body, the wealthier you were.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, it's mad, it is yeah but definitely I think, as you say, that's one of the things.
Speaker 2:We've touched on this a little bit before, but like social media and some of the negative effect of it, but I would hope, I would really hope that hopefully from some of the content that we individually put out and jointly put out, like on the podcast and that and similar accounts that share positivity and belonging and community, as opposed to try and bring people down. That hopefully through those types of accounts that people are finding places in their social media now that make them feel good about life as opposed to the opposite, you know.
Speaker 1:And also just FYI if there is shit on your feed that you do not like, just don't engage with it. If you engage with it. That's all you will see.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just click. Do not like like why am I? Seeing this blah, blah, blah just do everything you can to curate your feed to help what you want to see 100, 100, like I have unfollowed so many people.
Speaker 2:I have muted so many people as well. Um, just because it's like, no, you're not supportive of me on this journey, on this healthier mind, on this goal of what I'm trying to work towards, um so you do. You have to protect yourself yeah, you do, you do.
Speaker 1:There was the most, uh, uh, awful, most dreadful reel that I seen today, and I won't even say what it was about. It was about aP-1, but it was somebody degrading people for going on a GLP-1 medication and blah, blah, blah, all the rest of it. And one of the lovely girls in the States that I follow she had written this big piece about. You know how judgmental it is and I can't believe that you, as a coach, are putting out this content and there were so many people that said the same thing and I just kept looking at it going.
Speaker 2:Don't comment, belinda don't comment, but I had to.
Speaker 1:I just had to, and then I had to block her because I never want to see her again yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I will say I I thought it was going to be something different until you said block her because uh, there's oh yeah there's been similar, obviously in the uk, with a coach over there, and we alluded to this before in a previous podcast as well.
Speaker 1:But, um, yeah, yeah, I was going to say something just what we were talking about a moment ago as well that you know that relationships that you have sometimes change when you lose weight. Um, back in 2018, I had a friend a really. I've seen her every day. We worked together, we went to the slimming rooms together. I was her cheerleader while she lost 10 stone and I had lost, I think, 21 pounds while she was losing her 10 stone. But that was my life.
Speaker 1:That's what I was used to happening to me watching everybody else around me succeed, when I didn't know what was wrong with me and that was fine anyway. And she hurt her leg and she couldn't do all the things that she would have done to kind of maintain that weight loss and kind of started putting it back on again slowly, slowly, and then I went on keto and when you go on keto, it for for the first like month or so it just it's like you deflate you know, and that was happening to me, and without warning, without anything, she blocked me out of her life yeah and I have never laid eyes on her.
Speaker 1:And that was 2018, that is six years ago, and I've never laid eyes on her never it, just it's heartbreaking when that happens, though at times as well.
Speaker 2:I still I don't think I'm over it.
Speaker 1:I still don't think I'm over it, because it was so abrupt like nobody could believe. My family couldn't even believe it, you know. But look it says more about her than it does about me. I'm sure, but it's a tough leg.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had a thing recently. I'm not going to go into it too much because I don't want to make it too identifiable but oh I don't care, she knows exactly who she is Bitch. How dare you block my window? But yeah, I guess one of like I had so much happened last year that it could be a whole series of podcasts in its own right, the stuff that kind of just changes in life and stuff like that and I'm not going to say like it was a bad year at all, just stuff.
Speaker 1:That occurred.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a lot of noise last year throughout various months, but one of the things well, two of the things I think that really stuck with me as I was thinking about the end of the year and starting into this year, and that was one. That thing I was thinking about the end of the year and starting into this year and that was one that I mentioned earlier about. You know, be confident in your own value as a human. That's kind of stuck with me. And then another one was I just have a frog in my throat.
Speaker 2:The other thing was friends who are friends will make time for you. Yeah, of course, and that sounds so simple, but I just had some realizations whereby if you are somebody that has ended up doing you know, most of the chasing to try and maintain a friendship or stuff like that that there reaches a point where you're like, actually, I deserve to be treated better than this and I deserve for people to appreciate the fact that I'm trying to you know, whatever, make time for them. And if that's not reciprocated, we all have that.
Speaker 1:I know where you're coming from. With that's not reciprocated. We all have that.
Speaker 2:I know where you're coming from with that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't have to you shouldn't have to try that hard and that's not to say people can go through things in lives and, you know, sometimes might get a bit distant for a period of time or whatever. I do get that, but if it gets to the point where it's almost a chore, yeah, or I think for me it was a sense of, even though I've made this effort or done this thing or whatever, this person doesn't see me as a priority in their life in any capacity.
Speaker 1:But you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as a friend. Yeah, as I say, my friend circle is small, same Mine's tiny. A huge amount of acquaintances like a huge amount, but in terms of people who I would be in contact with very regularly or you know whatever chat about stuff like that, that'd be pretty small.
Speaker 1:That's as you get older, though, paddy, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I think maybe part of it is you learn the people that you know, as me and my little homies from Wicklow. You get to know your tribe, you get to know who your people you know, and like I have my friends from Wicklow in particular that are just like we're more than family almost, and that sounds really cheesy and cliche but it's the truth.
Speaker 2:And then I was over in England last year and there was one of my friends that I haven't seen since 2011 was the last time that I saw him and he's married now and has baby and all this kind of stuff. Uh, I know how busy his life is like. I know it is chock-a-block, how busy his life is. And when I sent him the message just saying, oh, because we'd said loads of times, oh, you know, it'd be lovely if you, you know, got good over to visit, and we said that loads of years I never did, but last year I and as soon as I pretty much said, oh, I'm going to be over in Reading, his response was literally do I need to book a day off? Like, let me know, make time, do something, you know, just unconditional.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter yeah.
Speaker 2:I am prioritising you. I'm going to make sure that we get to hang out and we did and it was just so, so lovely, like just uh. I guess reinforce that sense again of the people who you matter to will make sure that you matter to them like you know that will make.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'll make an effort. I have two of those friends. I have um melanie and I have louise, and they're both over in Cornwall and just if I was to land in that country they would just be there.
Speaker 2:You know absolutely, yeah, but anyway, that's a bit of a tangent, but I think tangents are good on the podcast sometimes because it just brings a bit more of a human side to things as well, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:We do have a life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1:Outside of podcasting and pissing around on Instagram all day and injecting ourselves with skinny jams. So, paddy tell me, is there anything else that happened this week of note?
Speaker 2:I think it kind of reinforced the idea as well that social media can be a force for good and support and encouragement and building people up, or it can be a tool.
Speaker 1:Oh, my dear God, paddy, don't spit it out, will ya, paddy? It can be a tool. Oh, my dear God, paddy, don't spit it out, will you, paddy?
Speaker 2:It can be a tool for bullying and nastiness and aggressiveness, and I think maybe you felt that a bit more this week than me, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:Mine didn't come until after yours, though because, like we we had spoken earlier about your um partnership going forward with my bmi and how excited every single person that knows you and the amount of um positivity you've gotten from people online that you don't even know, that you've never met everyone's delighted.
Speaker 2:But there was this, this presence online that was determined, absolutely determined to it almost felt tear down your win and the company that you are working for, and yeah, I think, with like working with yeah, I think, um, oh, it's an interesting one because, uh, I, I, I don't get why a creator, a small creator, would try and bring down another creator when they're lacking context on stuff they don't know the information, as opposed to actually just reaching out to be like hey, paddy, wasn't sure about this from the video that you put up, are you able to share this information with me? As opposed to going and creating content then trying to rip apart people or things or stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Um, I, I don't get that mindset. Well, I don't know. Part of it is that, as people are people just trying to aren't you lucky?
Speaker 1:you don't understand that mindset. Yeah, I know, aren't you lucky?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, I think, I think some people, as I said to you, some people, I think, just want to try to create drama. Lama Don't say that.
Speaker 1:What did I tell you the other day?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm saying it, it's my word. They want to create drama lama so that they can seem relevant and that they can seem knowledgeable, when in fact they're deeply not yeah, at all, at all, yeah, and again I'm not somebody that will usually speak bad about people, you know, because I'm like it's their world. You don't know what's going on in their life, but it is part of social media and it happened to both of us and it was a really negative experience.
Speaker 1:It certainly was for me, because I have never been spoken about R2 like that in my life and it was so aggressive, like, so aggressive to like put my lovely comment up there and just tear it to pieces and well look, what can you do?
Speaker 2:I think where there's a line for me is like uh, you know you had put up a comment saying oh, you know, such and such is reputable. Very nothing personal, this is the difference? Yeah, it was oh yeah, nothing personal.
Speaker 1:My BMI are an absolutely reputable company like which they absolutely are. Like it was a statement, that's all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I think when something goes from being a difference of opinion into a personal attack on a person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a personal attack that crosses the line. That crosses the line, you know, and I think it was upsetting as well.
Speaker 2:I can imagine. No, I can imagine. Yeah, it was rotten, I think you know the thing is, the main person that was let down there is. That person has let down themselves.
Speaker 1:Oh, I blocked them immediately I did not respond. I kept my mouth, kept my counsel. Yeah, yeah, that's what my mother told me.
Speaker 2:Higher higher ground, and look at if that person is listening to this podcast. No doubt we've just given them fuel for some more videos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, I know videos. Yeah, you know. Oh, yeah, I know, I hope she's not listening only because I don't want her to have any content be nice karma karma I know, I know you're definitely in a in a bold mood today.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I know that's because I have had to kill everybody in the house today. Well, obviously not kill them yeah, okay, but take that back retract that yeah give out to everybody, because I got my my lovely new desk today from my friend stacy and it's lovely and it fits perfectly out on the landing. And then I organized to do a podcast recording with paddy forgetting the house at four o'clock for half four was going to be mental.
Speaker 1:Three kids, sean, two dogs in and out the front door, in and out the back door screaming about um, roast, spuds and chips in the middle of doing homework, and, oh my God. So I don't know where we're going to put this desk, but it has to be moved.
Speaker 2:I would love some roast potatoes.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Sean does the best roast potatoes. Did you know that Sean does all the cooking in our house?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've told me that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all the cooking. He's such a good cook.
Speaker 2:I'm so lucky well, my new air fryer it's me, me, me me which we spoke about. Did we speak about it last week or whatever, but like, oh my god oh my god, that's amazing, paddy, isn't it? Like. So I got like. I had an old air fryer that I out for years and I got one of like the big double drawer ones now.
Speaker 1:That's what we have, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because like we had some vouchers to use and stuff, but like it's amazing, it is amazing.
Speaker 1:I tried Just everything's done like that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I tried. A few people had told me oh, you can do eggs in it, you can do boiled eggs in it. I was like what? Yeah, boiled eggs. And I was like what, yeah, boiled eggs, yeah. So I did boiled eggs, boiled eggs this morning, 7 minutes on 170 is what I was told. So I did it, and how?
Speaker 1:many did you put in.
Speaker 2:Three.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I prefer the normal way of boiling eggs.
Speaker 1:Keen four.
Speaker 2:They were. This is going to sound bizarre, but they tasted a bit dry, okay.
Speaker 1:Like when you took the shell off.
Speaker 2:When you took the shell off yeah, like your normal boiled eggs are like really shiny and you know these weren't so yeah, but everything else has been amazing.
Speaker 1:I suppose if you were making a salad out of them, like an egg salad or whatever, be grand like. I'm going to do my frozen veg in it tonight, my chopped up fresh frozen veg and my salmon as well. Sean's after doing some kind of pork steak roast dinner. I'm not eating that. Oh God, and whilst we're, talking about food.
Speaker 2:If you want to get a more in-depth conversation that might be useful for you in terms of nutrition and starting out in your journey, or restarting, refocusing whether you're on a medicated weight loss or not. Check out last week's podcast a huge response.
Speaker 1:It's really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's great actually huge response all about nutrition, food and insight from us talking about our foods and stuff like that, and so that is last week's podcast.
Speaker 1:Check it out if you haven't already I did my lunch today and I put my lunch up on instagram and I want to go back later and have a look at the reactions, because I'm sure it will have a lot of reactions. It was a sandwich and a packet of crisps.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see it there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doesn't it look lovely.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I can show this for people on YouTube. Oh it's lovely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's perfect Coming through perfect.
Speaker 2:Are they hula hoops?
Speaker 1:They're the smart right hula hoops for Mald or Lidl's or something smart right?
Speaker 2:is it smart? Have they got AI built into them or something?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Is that the name of them? Is that the name of them, the products that come from those shops? I don't know it is it is, yeah, I don't know and if you go forward, the calories and the ingredients are there and you're getting like 33 grams of protein in that meal and also maybe near nine grams of fiber, I think.
Speaker 2:Now it is 700 one have you coleslaw in your sandwich no, yeah, sorry I know I love coleslaw as well but.
Speaker 1:I if I was to like coleslaw. The stuff that you buy is very, very calorific, so I'd make my own. But the 770.
Speaker 2:Wait, wait, wait, you would make your own, but no Sean would make it for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, sorry, I know.
Speaker 2:I don't do manual labour.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't. I don't cook. Well, I do think, but the meal, well, the meal, the lunch was 770 calories. So I'm sure I'm going to get a horrendous backlash from that. But the thing that I want to say and I will say it later as well in response to that is I'm on a calories or something like that, with enough protein and fiber in it so I can pretty much eat food like that as long as I know that my macros are in it.
Speaker 1:you know, and I think people have that really need to step away from the diet mentality when where GLP-1 medications are concerned.
Speaker 2:I definitely graze throughout the day.
Speaker 1:So I do.
Speaker 2:Like this morning, I had my Simprove, which is still, religiously, the first thing I have every day. It has been a massive part of my journey.
Speaker 1:That's a shot of something, isn't it?
Speaker 2:I buy that that's not a massive part of my journey. That's a shot of something, isn't it? Yeah, and like I buy that it's not.
Speaker 1:That's not a free round.
Speaker 2:I buy that the first round of it was given to me for free by my friends in Melvin Pharmacy to support me on my journey when I was starting out back in June but I that's nice but like I found such benefit from it that I've been buying it myself since. Like I've kept it on because it is a game changer for me. But yeah, it's like a little shot of a water-based probiotic and it is expensive.
Speaker 1:For your gut health, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like very high quality, Very very high quality.
Speaker 1:The reviews are amazing on it. Actually, it's expensive though, Paddy, isn't it? Yeah, it is, but I mean everything is worth it if you were going to buy a coffee every day.
Speaker 2:I know how much like if you were to buy one coffee a day for a month, like you're looking, probably well over a hundred and something quid.
Speaker 1:Like you know, I spent a fortune on supplements a couple of weeks ago actually two weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I won't see the benefit for those for another month, like.
Speaker 2:I'm two weeks in.
Speaker 1:I have to go another four weeks probably.
Speaker 2:I'd say yeah but yeah, no, I definitely grazed her today, so I had one of me fake boiled eggs, because they're not boiled, they're air fried. But I had me air fried egg and then I had a couple of more eggs actually because I cooked three, so I was like I have to have another two.
Speaker 1:And what I had something else.
Speaker 2:Oh, I had a protein yogurt as well. Really nice Like. Is it like blueberry muffin or something like that?
Speaker 1:Oh, where did you get that?
Speaker 2:Dunn's. Oh right, okay nice. Yeah, they do a few different flavours. They do a banoffee one, there's a lemon one, there's this blueberry one. It's a brand brand just can't think of it at the moment. But yeah, a few different flavours, lovely, some kind of. And then what else do? I have a couple of cups of tea.
Speaker 1:You eat your proper dinner, though, do you?
Speaker 2:em. Yeah, like I'd have something bigger in the evening, like it might be, traditional meat and veg and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But I don't have that, I can't. I had a Chinese, the other night did you eat all of it? No, I did not. Knew it chance to be a funny thing, knew it not?
Speaker 2:at all.
Speaker 1:I'd be delighted to get a Chinese now I get two days out of it, yeah yeah, oh, I didn't think of that yeah no, I didn't think of that you grazed on it, didn't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, no. So, like, I wanted a Chinese literally for like the last week and a half. So those of you who were like, right, we're getting a Chinese this evening, that's it. We're going to get a Chinese and we're going to watch a film. So that's what we did got the Chinese and I went for something different. I always get the Cantonese style sweet and sour chicken, but this time I got the diced chicken like curry, and yeah again, usual, usual.
Speaker 2:I like had all the veg out of it and had all the chicken out of it, had a few prawn crackers, like with the rice and the sauce and that lovely and then I was like oh okay, I think I'm, I think I'm done, now I'm done, and I was comfortable with just saying no, I'm done grand that's it, mind your own.
Speaker 1:I'm done none of this kind of constantly going back to it or stuff so tell our listeners where you are on your journey now with the milligram of Manjaro that you're taking and how long you've been taking it.
Speaker 2:So I started my journey on the 15th of June, so it's about 30-ish weeks. I don't know something like that give or take. I am on 15 milligrams, I started on 15 milligrams. I started on 15 milligrams before Christmas sometime I think so, yeah, end of. November maybe, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think it might have been, Because I remember thinking about you on Christmas Day, thinking were you going to be able to eat?
Speaker 2:It's not patty under my tree. I know, yeah, what.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:But you did you actually overate, didn't you like christmas? Yeah, like christmas, like like I definitely. I was one of the first times I felt uncomfortable yeah, so I didn't be.
Speaker 1:I didn't by standard, normal standards, you didn't at all. Yeah by, but by GLP-1 standards you would have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because like I had the soup, I had the dinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I couldn't finish the dinner, but then I was like, oh, but the potatoes are lovely, I'd have one more. It's like I'd have one more and I'm like I can't.
Speaker 1:I can't so tell you know anyone on 15 milligrams.
Speaker 2:In Ireland. No, no same yeah.
Speaker 1:Now I'm like six months into my journey on Manjaro and I started a five milligram six months ago but I'm still only on 10 milligram.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think I'm going into my third month of 10 milligram, and the only reason for that is it's still working for me. Yeah, and if for one minute I start getting food and I was back. I start waking up hungry in the morning, like I used to Bang. I'm up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'll probably bypass yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I'll have to do 12.5 for a month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So bypass 12.5. I won't say that, no, I'll have to do 12.5 for a month.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah so it's just interesting, I suppose, to say where we are with it now, you know, yeah because that's like I'm tracking everything in the.
Speaker 2:We still have to do a podcast about the tech we use. We've been saying that for a while, but the app I use that help us on our journey yeah, yeah, yeah, the app I use is Shotzi again, not a paid collaboration.
Speaker 1:I started using that the other day. I love it. I love Shotzi Sunday night.
Speaker 2:I've used it since day one and again, if you're on there.
Speaker 1:Can you tell our listeners what Shotzi is and how it helps you?
Speaker 2:okay. So Shotzi is an app that it tracks your doses. That it tracks your doses so every time you put in a dose it will record that. It will record where you, what site you used, it will record if you had any side effects for it. It will then keep a graph from day one of you using it, showing you the level that is in your body and how you have titrated up. So for folks that are on YouTube or if you're listening and you want to see, I'm going to put this up here.
Speaker 1:It's like this is what my no, your green screen is taken over. No, you're okay there now, yeah, yeah, so you can see the graph. They're kind of going up so I don't have that graph. Is that, is that your seven day efficacy of the drug? Is that your graph?
Speaker 2:that is my all-time doses, that is okay so what is showing me is that, like, the dose will usually peak around 24 hours after injected, and so that's when a dose will be at its highest in my system and then it'll continue to show it dropping until you get to the half-life, which is about four days out, and continue going down.
Speaker 2:So basically just shows that constant uh, you inject, it's building up in your body and then usually after a day or two it starts dropping and then just showing it going back down until you inject the next week. Um, so it's showing me my total weight that I've lost. It's showing me my um, my current bmi, um, yeah, percentage of weight lost, all this kind of stuff. So I really like it. It's just something that I found was useful and it shows me actually as well. One of the other things is so normally we will track our weight, say a week or month or whatever thing it is. This shows you the weight you lost since your last dose, which sometimes can be different for various reasons, for different people and you know stuff like that's an interesting um thing to track, yeah yeah, so it shows you weight loss by dose as well.
Speaker 1:Um but yeah, so no, I just love it and if you, if I go, I'm in calendar now, paddy right, and I'm going into calendar. Today's date. It says shot and then on the right hand side, under the x, it says estimated level 7.47 milligrams in my body now decreasing that's amazing and this is a free app.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we need to get on to these people. Yeah, so they um sponsor a podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my.
Speaker 2:My dose at the moment is 11.03 milligrams.
Speaker 1:That's in my body right, so I took mine on Sunday and today mine is going down to 7.47 yeah and I've got Thursday, friday, saturday to go, and it's all day Sunday.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so tomorrow will probably be your half day yeah, yeah, but yeah, so it's interesting so that's, but yeah, love that, probably your half day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, so it's interesting. So that's, but yeah, love that shot, yeah, yeah. Well, that's what we have to talk about, is that it Maybe like so some of the episodes that we have coming up in the future? Folks, we're going to do one on maintenance, talking about our thoughts about maintenance, which is going to be an interesting one, because we've been talking about that lately, haven't we? Yeah, we have been talking ourselves over.
Speaker 1:How it's going to look for us. Yeah, and we're hoping to have somebody on as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'd be cool to get somebody that is, you know, maintaining at the moment whether that is with medication or without medication or maybe both, and to compare and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:What I would say is I'd like to get somebody that is maintaining with medication because I have no intention of coming off it myself personally.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I'd say, but, like 99.9% of the people I see online that have come off it to maintain without it do end up going back, you know, and it's a pity. Yeah, and that in itself, in itself, like, is an interesting insight, but we'll see. So we're going to do an episode about maintenance, but maybe next week or the week after we might also delve in and I'm going to say this and not talk huge more about it, but about me stopping and coming off Manjaro let's yeah, bum, bum bum which it's going to be so interesting it's going to be such an
Speaker 2:interesting journey, say nothing all I'll say is should we do that? Next week Paddy yeah, yeah, we can, because my yeah my no, no, don't no. I'll tease you with this. My final dose of Monjaro is next week, okay well, let, monjaro is next week, okay.
Speaker 1:well, let's do that then next week.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, grand Okay.
Speaker 2:So I'm yeah, I'm nervous.
Speaker 1:Tune in everybody. I'm nervous. I'm nervous to find out more. I'm nervous to see what's going to happen to you.
Speaker 2:I think we should. By the way, I think we should add some kind of little character skit at the end of this, or something like How's it going? It's Patricia here, I'm on the skinny jab.
Speaker 1:That hurts my soul when you do that.
Speaker 2:I put a pair of Spanx on on Saturday and I haven't been able to get them off since. Has anyone got a can opener? I think Patricia could become Don't Because I used to do skits of Patricia that was trying to lose weight, but I think she could become.
Speaker 1:I've seen them. I've seen them. Are they on your TikTok?
Speaker 2:No, they're on my Facebook page. Oh my God, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I can't knock Facebook.
Speaker 2:I'm doing well at Facebook at the moment, I'm loving it.
Speaker 1:Yeah for the first time in my life. Actually, I love it.
Speaker 2:Oh Jesus, now how are you doing? It's Patricia here, and I'm just here.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to mute you now, Paddy, Give it over Anyway right, you now, paddy, give it over anyway right so we've just hang on a minute now.
Speaker 2:So we've decided that's what we're going to speak about tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Next week is you coming? Yes, okay, so I'm just going to have to write that down somewhere, because I forget that four times.
Speaker 2:You are still going to be asking me a minute before we hop in next week. Paddy, what are we talking about? What are we talking about this week?
Speaker 1:what are we talking about this week?
Speaker 2:and I'll say I swear I've thought about it for at least five hours but then you'd have thought about the wrong topic yeah okay, I am off to do my 5k if anyone isn't aware, for the month this late, I have to get it done yeah, you should have done that this morning.
Speaker 1:Why you at?
Speaker 2:I didn't work, but I did at like 7 o'clock.
Speaker 1:I was in the gym, then I had to do the school run, then I went to aqua aerobics, then I had to come home and then I had to go and do a 4K. Come on, paddy, start your life out. Fuck that job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then, like you know, I had stuff to like reply to and all that kind of stuff I know. Emails. I'm surprised the amount of emails this week. Don't forget folks. If ever you want to email the podcast, you can do as well. It is just hello at the dose dot ie, I didn't know that you did. You have to log in for. Belinda, I like, I is there like a carer's allowance for like, for like podcast co-hosts, like mother of god, belinda.
Speaker 1:I'm turning into a full time job, aren't I? Yeah, you are, you are.
Speaker 2:I love that for you mother of god anyway, so you can email us if ever there's something you want us to talk about on the podcast, if you have any questions that you'd like us to answer on the podcast, no matter where you are in the world. Hello at thedoseie. I am going to try and get a WhatsApp number set up as well so that you might be able to WhatsApp us questions. We won't be replying on the WhatsApp, but it'll be, or feedback or anything like that as well. So, mike, I'll get that set up. I look after that, belinda.
Speaker 1:I'll do that, paddy, don't worry, I'll do it.
Speaker 2:Paddy, what was I meant to do? But anyway, belinda, thank you. As always, it's been a pleasure, yeah it's always a pleasure, never a chore never a chore.
Speaker 1:Sorry, my gym is just texting me telling me how great I am. Why aren't?
Speaker 2:you here. Why aren't you here, but, belinda, until we talk next week.
Speaker 1:Have a wonderful weekend, and yeah, you too, paddy, we'll chat to you, then I'll talk to you. Yeah, take care everybody. Take care everyone, bye.
