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).
Weâll provide inspiration, motivation and information to help you on your way to a happier and healthier life with a few laughs along the way. Weâll 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
Time to say goodbye ð Paddys WOW moment this week & Belindas amazing transformation continues
We celebrate the end of this period of the The Dose, reflecting on our podcast's evolution, listener engagement, and significant learnings. The episode emphasizes the importance of professional guidance in health conversations and invites listeners to share their journeys for future episodes.
- Eli Lilly respond to our request for info on the release of Mounjaro in Ireland and other questions
- Paddy shares an update on his experience of two weeks since his last dose of treatment - include one massive learning thats pretty profound
- Belinda shares an amazing update on her success with her continuing journey into movement and exercise.
- Celebrating 20 episodes and 13,000 downloads, discussing listener engagement and community impact
- Our plans for whats next a little and an invite to our community to get in touch
Plus lots of other randomness, laughs and the bitta craic!
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 or promotion towards any specific treatment or medication - this is a sharing of a personal journey. 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 and is also an Assoc. member of the National Union of Journalists.
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Thank you and you are very welcome back, belinda. I got the proper music this week. So proud of you, I know, I know. So proud. Sometimes I like actually amaze myself that I remember to do things and I'm still in Studio 2. I actually moved everything in here like half an hour ago.
Speaker 1:Studio 2, I'm on my landing. That's my studio.
Speaker 2:Studio do oh Paddydy you're funny it's our end of season wrap party. Oh, we should have like party hats and sweets and stuff. Yeah, we should have no.
Speaker 1:Listen, I just put a post up on Instagram. It's fine, that'll do. Alright.
Speaker 2:Ok, I still have this frog in my throat. I have it like months now, it's just not going.
Speaker 1:I wonder what it's going. Maybe you should go and see your doctor. Always consult your doctor, paddy.
Speaker 2:I know, but like, maybe I'm just talking too much yeah that's almost a god damn possibility. I don't know how you don't have like a whole toad in your throat anyway, I heard that Belinda Belinda people some people mightn might realise this, but this is our final episode of the Dose with Paddy and Belinda for season one. Haha, haha, for season one. For season one, yeah, how many?
Speaker 1:how many is this? Is this our 20th?
Speaker 2:20, 20 something. Yeah, 20 something yeah 20ish.
Speaker 1:They're about yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is mad?
Speaker 1:9th of October was our first one that we released. And how long do you think that we were speaking to each other? I don't even remember ever or how we even got speaking to each other, Paddy.
Speaker 2:It wouldn't have been, like it wasn't a huge amount of time speaking to each other, patty, it wouldn't have been like it wasn't a huge amount of time. Like there is literally a, a voice note somewhere in our whatsapps whereby whereby you had said about maybe doing a podcast. I had been thinking at the exact same time about, oh, I wonder, you know, I had wanted to do a podcast and I had set up one but not launched. It called MJ and Me. Oh yeah, but I never did anything with it. I was going to, but then I never did. And then when you said it, and then when I said it and I was like, oh, my God, why not?
Speaker 1:But I don't.
Speaker 2:So here it is. So that was when we did our first one the excitement from you yeah, from like the 12th. Oh my God, we've got a podcast live. Yeah, like.
Speaker 1:From. When.
Speaker 2:That's like start of October, way back, it's mad.
Speaker 1:Is that on Instagram?
Speaker 2:No, no Way back. It's mad. Is that on Instagram? No, no on WhatsApp. And then us getting excited then because we were like oh my God, we're like top 100. Oh my God, we went top 70.
Speaker 1:We're top 50.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh my God, we're top 20 in Ireland for like health and fitness podcast.
Speaker 1:And then it just like it went crazy.
Speaker 2:After that it went to top three and everything, didn't it like I can't remember, like it's gotten to the stage now where I actually don't go in and really check the charts much anymore, because I know through other channels how much look at that amount of voice notes be careful what you're showing. Be careful what you're on some kind of fucking rant to get cancelled um if we haven't already been.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yeah, well but but um, like we never imagined imagine, like our first few podcasts back in october were instagram lives with horrific audio yeah, I sounded like I was in a crisp packet, talking out of a crisp packet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we were just kind of doing Q&As. We were talking a little bit about our journey, we were just trying to figure things out, and then, oh God, trying to get the audio from Instagram to edit it, to put it out and all this kind of stuff. So we have come on an awful long way since then. Like you didn't even have a microphone.
Speaker 1:Exactly yeah, I was using this tiny little thing that I'd bought off Amazon or something wasn't I to try, and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you got that set.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I still wouldn't know what to do with any of the background stuff that you do. I just wouldn't and I don't want to. I just wouldn't and I don't, I don't want to, I just don't have the bandwidth for it.
Speaker 2:I'll change all that. Whenever we meet up, I'll be like right Belinda, crash course. Audio podcast recording editing.
Speaker 1:Did you get the dates? That did I send you dates?
Speaker 2:I did that we can in true Belinda style. You sent me random numbers that I assumed were dates. So I've been asking Belinda for dates of like, oh, when are we meeting up? When are we meeting up? And I'm like we've been talking about this for months and literally the other day Belinda said oh, I'll be back to you in like an hour about something else.
Speaker 2:An hour give me an hour and give me an hour about recording the podcast or something. And then she came back and I just got this random list of numbers and I was like what is this list of numbers? And I was like, oh, this must be. This message is from the conversation three days ago.
Speaker 1:Paddy shut up now.
Speaker 2:And so last week, Belinda, you hung me out to dry on Instagram because I was a bit late to the podcast and how you were sitting in the studio.
Speaker 1:I was late, so to the podcast and how you were sitting in the studio For three fucking hours late, so let's talk about yesterday.
Speaker 2:So this is Tuesday, and we agreed last week then that we were going to record a podcast on the Monday anymore.
Speaker 1:yeah, Every Monday from now on, for the rest of our lives. The rest of our lives, and it was written in stone.
Speaker 2:Yes, now, today is Tuesday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and here we are recording on a Tuesday and what happened yesterday. It was a really busy day, really busy day. Paddy, Like I don't, know what took over. Yeah, I was up the side of a mountain as well, now remember. Well, that's.
Speaker 2:Is that a metaphor?
Speaker 1:No mate. For points and shots Don't mention shots to me.
Speaker 2:I'm too old for shots.
Speaker 1:Paddy, I'd like four points and it ruined my life yeah, my whole life, yeah my GLP-1 medication premenopause and alcohol. Do not never again like.
Speaker 2:I can. I can now see why you, in December, you wanted to reduce your alcohol intake, not because it was problematic, but more so because it impacts you so much. Yeah, it's horrendous, paddy. Yeah, it's horrendous.
Speaker 1:And it's not because of my GLP-1 medication. It's not because of that at all. It's the perimenopause, it's just the reaction that alcohol has on me now because of my age and stuff is just not good and it takes too much away from it's stealing time from me.
Speaker 2:But, belinda, you're not that old you're. What's his 60?
Speaker 1:I'll be 50 next year, paddy. Oh, 50 next year. I'll be 50 next year. And I tell you one thing though I think I had a breakdown when I turned 30. I nearly had a mental breakdown, and now I couldn't give a shit, you're only a young one.
Speaker 2:I only feel like a child. Well, your birth is a few days before mine. No, yeah, I'm the 14th yeah, I'm the 19th of April, yeah, so I'm going to be yeah, I'm going to be 43. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm only 49 now in April, like I'm not 50 to the following year, oh really yeah, I'm only 49, I'm only 48 now, I'm only childlike so six years between us yeah, yeah, you'd never think it though. Eight now when you're childlike. So six years between us. Yeah, yeah, you'd never think it, though You'd never think you were the younger one.
Speaker 2:At times these roles reverse an awful lot, I know Anyway. So the podcast Ending season one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this is the end of season one, which and again, I guess that's part of the reason why, like we're obviously thinking about, like the evolution of the podcast, like I think we're both a bit amazed at the engagement we get from it. Like I was saying to you just before we came on air that, and again, this is stuff I know you wouldn't see regularly because I kind of would look at the stats and stuff like that from time to time, but the podcast is at since October. We are at just under 13,000 downloads of our podcast 13,000 people downloaded an episode of our podcast.
Speaker 2:So no, so our podcast. Think of it this way our podcasts have been played 13 000 times. Somebody has gone and hit play on our podcast 13 000 times 13 000 times.
Speaker 1:That's amazing that's I never, ever, ever, thought for one minute it would be so well received and I don't know what those stats are, um compared to other podcasts, but we're a very, very niche um our situation is very niche.
Speaker 2:There's not a lot of people out there, um, even if you go looking for a podcast that are solely about you know yeah, health and wellness and glp1 medication thrown in there like yeah, and like I'm amazed, so one of the things that we've seen over time as well, but maybe I shouldn't be as amazed as I am, but in terms of where people are listening from right oh yeah so I think if we were to ask people, people would say oh, ireland oh, ireland.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was so surprised at this but it's not.
Speaker 2:Ireland was our top right, okay and we have very solid listenership in Ireland, but that has definitely been overtaken now, with the UK being the top country that listens to our podcast and I think that. I think that in itself is something for us to keep in mind as we think about future seasons and stuff like that, but then also when we think about it. The third top country and this bit I've had a few people reach out from this country is Australia.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like.
Speaker 1:I've spoken to for the past two and a half years. I've spoken to probably maybe 20 people from Australia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like even in the past week, I've had someone literally who said something along the lines of I love listening to your podcast, it's like a little bit of home for me. Yeah, do you know?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know what as well? I have had loads of people from south africa as well, and I've actually I remember sometime late last year I actually connected two people over in south africa that I was talking to separately and I said would you mind having a? Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic like yeah but um we, we had 2020 from south africa. That's mad.
Speaker 2:Look spain yeah, so like I think the the screenshot I sent you earlier I think is updated, but now so like our top, like five countries that we have now is uk, ireland, australia, united states and then sweden, like that just blows my mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sweden. Who's over there listening to us? Sweden, if there's anybody out there that's listening to this. Please do DM us and we'll give you a shout out.
Speaker 2:Would IKEA count? Is IKEA Swedish? Is that is IKEA from that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's Swedish yeah.
Speaker 2:Is it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Should we do a flat pack podcast that they have to put together themselves, give them? Give them the jingle and a few words.
Speaker 1:It's definitely not Dutch, so it's not no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Oh, now I need to know that in case I'm like totally miss, like oh god, everything. I need to know this now. Oh god, I know what I'm talking about anyway.
Speaker 1:So any, any standout moments for you so far with the podcast I just think the whole thing has been a standout moment really, and the surprise of it being so well received by so many people. And like, I don't get um emails or anything about how people like it. You get emails but I get quite a few dms. Yeah, and I don't, and I should, I should tell you when I get emails, but I get quite a few DMs and I don't.
Speaker 1:I should. I should tell you when I get them, but they go out of my head yeah like immediately really.
Speaker 2:But yeah, strange that and yeah, people just love it you know the listeners and yeah yeah, and IKEA is Sweden, so we were right there. I love their meat, I love their meatballs and their mashed potato where would you get that? And the dime cake. Have you had the dime cake? No, I think it's gluten free as well, if memory serves me, right oh my god, like, oh, like.
Speaker 1:You're talking about going to Ikea in Dublin, or?
Speaker 2:whatever, yeah, yeah, yeah, the meatballs I've never been to Ikea what.
Speaker 1:I know, I know that would give me hives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, wow. This is the marketplace in Ikea. There's Tupperware and more Tupperware and other little bits and pieces and there's more Tupperware and there's like You'll get like a 900 set of Tupperware for like five euro and then you can sit there trying to put the lids on it. Oh, I'm a big fan of Ikea. Ikea, if you're listening, could do some Tupperware for some meal prep.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:We have listeners in your country. Ikea, yeah, yeah, other shops are available to buy Tupperware from. I got a. So in the last podcast we were talking about how I found a new bone, belinda. What is that, sorry, oh, no phones in the studio, Belinda, but you know what it was. It was me to remind myself to check in.
Speaker 1:No, to check in to see if I got an earlier space in the gym.
Speaker 2:All right, ok. Anyway, last week in the podcast we were talking about how I found a new bone and, surprisingly, I've had some messages about this, so I got what bone. You were here when we recorded the podcast, belinda, yeah, but what are you talking about? We spoke about this in the podcast the sci-fi process here at the bottom of my chest, remember about? We spoke about this in the podcast the zyphoid process here at the bottom of my chest. Remember we had a whole conversation about this.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, oh, my god, yeah, I hear you, I was there, oh, sweet mother of god, oh yes, because you'd lost so much weight. Yeah, yeah, we get it. You're skinny, whatever.
Speaker 2:There has to be some allowance. I can apply for Carers Podcast carers allowance.
Speaker 2:Love it, I'll go down to the government with that. So anyway, I got a message earlier on. Oh my God, paddy, I was just listening to the podcast. I had the exact same thing this week with the Zyfide process. I was laying down and saw this lump and started pressing it, thinking is it a hernia or something? But it's rock hard, like a bone when the zyphoid process appears to be from anatomical drawings. It freaked me out so much I went down to Google rabbit hole worrying about it.
Speaker 1:So oh my god.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's mad. Yeah, you're not the only nutcase, sorry, hey. Don't you dare't talk about our listeners yeah, and I think we need to come up with a name for our listeners, oh, our followers. Yeah, because, like I've, like I've, I've thought about that before yeah, I was.
Speaker 2:I was um, I was listening to help by sex to my boss and like they have names for the people love that podcast love, love them.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, they're so funny.
Speaker 2:And then I think what could ours be? I?
Speaker 1:don't know what do they call.
Speaker 2:It's not G&T or.
Speaker 1:They have something really cool, I bet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't remember now, off the top of my head, but they do reference it quite a bit. And then I was thinking we could have like the P&Bers Put they do reference it quite a bit, and then I was thinking we could have, like the P&Bers, put in Belinda's, but I'm sure there's a better name out there.
Speaker 2:so if you're listening to the podcast and you have an idea for what we could call our listeners, an endearing name to show our appreciation and a bit of crack DM, any of us at ozempic underscore insights for Belinda, or at a dose of Paddy for myself, speaking of which, that is a different name for me that's right and I wanted to bring it up and remind everybody.
Speaker 1:And Paddy said no, belle, we've covered that. We did that last week.
Speaker 2:We did, we did.
Speaker 1:I think people need to be reminded though.
Speaker 2:Paddy, ok, ok Because.
Speaker 1:Majaro Paddy was there for so long it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it there for so long? You know it was yeah, so it was there for like well, it sounds from the start, seven months, so yeah, so for me, I put a post up on Instagram about this and maybe I'll. How long is it? Oh yeah, I can read it out maybe. Basically, what I said was a new chapter, a new name. I feel I should have, like, you know, sad, romantic music or something like that. I don't think I have that. All I have is the rain instead of this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I only have that music. What's this one? Oh it's too upbeat well, I can do it. I'll do it like a radio ad yeah yeah, do so for people that don't know, if you haven't heard Paddy advertising before.
Speaker 1:This is great go.
Speaker 2:one of my other jobs is I work in the radio, so I'll see if I can do this. Now. A new chapter, a new name. Over the past several months, I've been on an incredible journey of transformation, growth and rediscovery. I've shed almost 100 pounds, but more than that. I've gained so much A renewed sense of purpose, confidence and a deep passion for wellness and advocacy. As I continue this journey, I want my platform to reflect not only where I've been, but also where I'm going. That's why I'm excited to share my new name with you all A Dose of Paddy.
Speaker 2:This name isn't just about me. It's about what I hope to bring to you A regular dose of transformation, wellness and real talk. A space for inspiration, motivation and sharing the ups and downs of weight loss and wellness and advocacy for those navigating obesity, fighting stigma and striving for life to live their best life. While my focus began with my personal weight loss story, I want to go beyond that and shine a light on the broader topics of health and wellness being sorry, well-being, mental, emotional and physical From tips and experiences to open conversations about the realities of obesity and wellness. My content will continue to grow, just like I am hopefully not on the scale. So thank you to every single one of you who supports me, cheers me on and shares your own stories. This journey is better because of you. Here's to progress, positivity and showing up as our best selves every single day through compassion, advocacy and enhanced help. Welcome to A Dose of Paddy.
Speaker 1:Some dose. Alright, that was some fucking dose to this. You know, Jeez Fucking hell, Paddy.
Speaker 2:If you managed to listen to all that fair pitch. I like that bit actually.
Speaker 1:I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 1:I didn't read it. I read the first like seven chapters, and then I did that.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to cut your mic. Do you know that?
Speaker 1:I know, I know, I actually was laughing so much I had to mute myself.
Speaker 2:Mmm, whatever.
Speaker 1:What else are we going to talk about, Paddy? You fucking don't Stop the shit now.
Speaker 2:This is the problem, when I have to control this and you're like just got to put up and shut up, so anyway, yeah, so I've changed my name to a dose of Paddy Same on TikTok. So on TikTok, you have two names, you see. You have your profile and your username. My username keeps saying it's updated, but then it's not updated when I visually look at it. So I think there's some visual error with TikTok itself. I've raised a ticket did you?
Speaker 1:did you uninstall it and reinstall it again?
Speaker 2:yeah, and try it on different phones and everything, but anyway, so there's some issues there, but you'll still find me. If you search your dose pad, you'll still find me there. So that is yeah, just obviously a little play on the word dose and because Belinda keeps saying I'm some dose and whatnot, so yeah, but sorry, I was asking you, so you've no particular episode. Belinda that kind of stands out as your favourite or one you really enjoyed, or stuff like that. I think having Nikki on yeah, I really enjoyed that one.
Speaker 1:I think she's just so insightful as well. I was very sad that I missed Rob, because that was an epic epic, epic do you know what I think, though, as well? I was kind of half delighted when I when I heard it, because of your conversation as well and I I would have just been delighted when I heard it because of your conversation as well, and I would have just been trying to relate to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think it turned out as something special, kind of this one's about because you weren't there.
Speaker 2:But do you know what? Because that happens a lot. Yeah, those conversations, those conversations between two men, so publicly don't typically happen, you know, those conversations, those conversations between two men, so publicly don't typically happen, you know. And actually someone reached out to me during the week saying I actually got an email from actually it was Australia, believe it or not as well where I think it was. Somebody had said I'm trying to find the podcast about Rob. So if you go back, it is there, it's still up on the platforms now and you'll find it, the podcast about Rob.
Speaker 1:So if you go back, it is there.
Speaker 2:It's still up on the platforms now, yeah, and you'll find it talking about bariatric surgery and ozempic and stuff like that with Rob Comiskey. So I thoroughly enjoyed that. I think for me that was a great conversation also because just before I went in to record it, literally as I was about to join like our recording, I spilled an entire big, massive pint of drink all over my desk and I was like, oh my God, but that one and it turned out okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it did, and the one that I put up about stopping Monjaro, stopping your GLP-1. The week before yeah, two weeks ago that one I got a huge response from that one People wishing me well, asking questions, so that's been an interesting one as well.
Speaker 1:That was a really good one as well. I actually got text messages from my friends in other countries saying to me Belle, what's going on? Is Paddy actually coming off, and I haven't time to listen. Tell me what's going on. Yeah, and let's just talk about that for a minute, because your dose was due when? So today's Wednesday, tuesday the 4th.
Speaker 2:So tomorrow will be as we're recording this, so tomorrow will be Wednesday the 5th. It'll have been two weeks since I took my last dose then.
Speaker 1:So you're? You're overdue a week, then overdue, yes, yeah, and so talk to us about that, tell us what's going on with you.
Speaker 2:So I've had a realization over the weekend which was a bit profound for me and that sounds very uh well, but but honestly, that's what this journey is, yeah so I now realize that one of the sensations that I used to have before not food noise okay, because the food noise has not come back yet, okay, but the sensation of wanting food in my body okay, that sensation has come back. However, given that I leaned in so intentionally over the last seven months but wanting to understand intuitive eating and listen to my body and, like I haven't tracked during that seven months, so I regularly and I mentioned this before, but regularly would let my body get to that point of being physically hungry where, like I would get, say, tummy rumbles and stuff like that. So then I I'd know, oh, I'm hungry, you know, and there's nothing wrong with that. But what I've now realised is that the sensation that I've had all my life, that I interpreted as hunger, isn't necessarily hunger itself.
Speaker 2:It's simply a state of not being full yeah which is different, and it took me a while to sit with that.
Speaker 1:Not feeling full does not mean that you're hungry exactly and this blew my mind a bit over the weekend so, previous to your GLP-1 journey, would you have wanted to be full all the time or would you have been full all? The time and if you weren't full?
Speaker 2:I was never full.
Speaker 1:Okay, neither was I.
Speaker 2:And now I think I've had this realisation that this sensation of it's, like this sensation in my stomach, and I always thought this was hunger. But now I know, after that seven months, this sensation is not hunger, it's simply just a state of not feeling satisfied, full from the food that I've had. And a perfect example like the other day I had a big meal, finished the meal and I sat there and I literally was like I could eat that entire thing again. The fuck, paddy. Not because, again, I was necessarily, as I now know, not because I was physically hungry, but because I wasn't full. And now it has me questioning. For all this time in my life, for so many years, have I essentially been chasing fullness which I've never been able to achieve?
Speaker 2:is that is that kind of. I hope that's making sense for people 100% it's making sense and it's so relatable as well, because that's what people talk about 100%, and I say this is definitely separate from that idea of food noise and I don't mix it up. This is where I my my body is like. I'm not thinking about food all day, every day, like I was before not yet anyway because, bear in mind, I still have a level of medication on my body yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but this track that on your shot seat. Do you know what's in there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, but like this idea of like, once I'm on my medication, that I will have, say, half a salad and I'll be full, like I'll feel full. Over the past I would say since Thursday of last week so that's maybe past four or five days or so definitely I've not had that Anything. So that's maybe past four or five days or so, definitely I've not had that Anything. It's like I have this void in my stomach of not being full and no matter how much food I'm putting in there, it is not filling that void of lack of fullness. But then again, it's about me now understanding. But I don't need to feel full, I don't need to be full. If I know I have eaten a meal there that is a substantial meal, I now am rationalised in when my body has had enough energy in that meal. So I know my body's okay, it's not going to starve. But that sensation is still there. That sensation of not being full is still there and that's awkward, or whatever word I want to use.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you feel that you're educated more now about how your body works than you were previous?
Speaker 2:I definitely think I have had, through the work I have done myself in terms of sitting with, oh, I feel full from that meal or oh, I feel hungry, am I hungry? And then actually letting it get a little bit hungrier, like till I get that tummy rumbles, that's been extremely beneficial for me, that allowing myself to actually get physically hungry a bit more frequently so that I can identify what that signal is from my body, um, and how different it feels from this sensation I'm having now. So I definitely think that is something that has are you uncomfortable with that now?
Speaker 2:is that making?
Speaker 1:you uncomfortable? Are you nervous? Um, I'm, so I would say I'm eating more yeah I am eating more um but, paddy, what I'm trying to get at is I'm just trying to put myself in your situation. If I was in your situation right, because I have now I will hold my hand up and say that I have come to depend on this medication for clarity in my life yeah so much that it would it. It would fucking kill me to have to come off this.
Speaker 1:And I think that because you've had these great seven months of clarity, where the food noise has gone and the hunger has gone and you're able to focus on yourself, and listen to your body's proper hunger cues. That you must. Are you a little bit petrified now that now I know this isn't going to last forever? And obviously as well. This is. This is like a little kind of period in time where you get to see what the difference is between off and on like yeah, so what?
Speaker 1:what? How do you feel about that? Are you nervous? Are you petrified?
Speaker 2:can you just I think if I hadn't have had that kind of mental breakthrough over the weekend about being able to differentiate this sensation isn't hunger, it's just not full. Ok, I think if I hadn't have that, because Thursday, Friday into Saturday, I was definitely worried or like, oh my God, why is this feeling here? I've literally just had a big meal and like I couldn't, I couldn't figure it out those three days I was like I have just had a big meal and like I couldn't, I couldn't figure it out those three days. I was like I have just had a big meal and like I could eat that straight away again. Why is this? This doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1:Were you susceptible to binge eating then, previous to GLP?
Speaker 2:Years ago, right, but I went to therapy for that Therapy, cbt was it? Yeah, and that definitely helped with that. That definitely helped, so I would say, in terms of the episodes of binge eating.
Speaker 2:That was definitely a psychological response to situations yeah excuse me, but in terms of constantly going to the cupboard and picking and eating, that was because I I just wasn't feeling full. Yeah, do you know that kind of thing? So I think, yeah, so I think that breakthrough over the weekend of just, oh my God, this sensation yes, I'm not feeling full like I have done for the last seven months, but equally, I'm not hungry with tummy rumbling like I have been. So therefore, I'm okay, and that does just mean that I do have this constant, um, this constant sensation in your stomach of just not being full.
Speaker 2:It could be filled and I think, this is where the food noise. If it comes back for me I don't know if it will or not, but this is where, if that was buddied up with that, that constant thinking of food and that constant sensation of not being full, that's where I think the danger zone would be for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because then it's like not only am I having this sensation.
Speaker 2:I just cannot stop thinking about it. But like I have tried to rationalize myself, like I will go into, like the other day I was um thinking okay, what practical steps can I take to try and actually physically fill my stomach?
Speaker 2:and this is where, like in terms of bulk of food, and this is where I went and got my massive chopped salad that I love yeah and again because there's so much fiber and so much physical food density, in that it physically fills my stomach and that that's probably the nearest I've gotten out to a sensation of, oh, I don't need food immediately again after that, but quite soon but is that you trying to placate yourself? It's definitely me trying to quiet that sensation of my stomach. Yeah, yeah, I'm saying stomach, it might be something here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, yeah, but essentially you're trying to talk yourself around. Yeah, Because I think maybe that because you've had these seven months, that you're able now to kind of what's the word I'm looking at? Rationalise it. Yes, yeah, I'm definitely trying to control it yeah, but that's great like, yeah, rationalise control. Yeah, yeah, because you wouldn't have had that previous.
Speaker 2:But I would love if there's somebody listening to this and if it's a case that you're on a journey, whatever that looks like for you, and even just trying to understand the sensations that you're having because I now realise that there is definitely. I could not imagine living the rest of my life with this sensation in my stomach, because that would just wreck my head.
Speaker 1:But like as a short term. You're just managing it for a very short period of time at the moment, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but trying to figure out that difference between that physical hunger when your tummy rumbles and you're definitely like I will pass out well, not, I pass out, but you know what I mean. Like you're at that point where, like I'm physically really, really hungry versus I'm just not full, because I've never had that realisation before. I always knew I was never full because I'd never get a sensation, but I wasn't able to pinpoint that as being the constant sensation. I always interpreted that as I'm hungry, which I now know it's not.
Speaker 1:But, paddy, do you think, then, that that's where your food noise comes from? It's because you're constantly thinking that you're not full, and then you're constantly thinking about the food that is going to make you full, and, essentially, is that food noise? Well see, this is the thing, and it's different for everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like for me. I would say that this sensation I'm having definitely is more of a physical sensation, whereas I think the food noise is more of a psychological thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But then I think, obviously, I think there is probably some connection from it?
Speaker 1:There has to be, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like, as we know, one of the things that GLP-1 does in your body is kind of signal that you're full and that you're fuller for longer and all that kind of stuff, and that when you have food it signals that you're fuller for longer and all that kind of stuff, and that when you have food it signals that you're full, you know, for a longer period of time. And that's what these kind of treatments do, is they mimic that for longer. So I can understand how they could be all related, but I'm sure people that are a lot more educated than me can probably give us a scientific answer, but I'd say there's definitely a correlation?
Speaker 1:I don't think so, paddy. I don't think so. I think this is a very personal experience yeah, for everybody, and I think it differs for everybody, yeah and I just hope I'll never have to find out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so it's anyway, but like I'm feeling fine, I've got my surgeon this Thursday. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got your, my fitness pal, out got my my fitness pal out.
Speaker 2:yeah, I've been tracking stuff in that Tracking your weight Tracking my weight. Yeah, that's all as normal. Yeah, yeah. We'll be continuing to do that. I am like I said this on Instagram last night but like I am comfortable with if there is an increase in my weight, because I know, in the grand scheme of seven months, going up a few pounds for you know, medical reason and stuff like that do you know what I would say as well to that?
Speaker 1:do you know what I'd say to that as well, paddy, is that you'll go so hard when you come off, when you come back on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you'll be fine, like so I'm not worrying about that, because definitely that was something that people were asking me on TikTok live last night a big gain, a few pounds.
Speaker 1:If you do, I'm like no no, because you know where you're going.
Speaker 2:This is this is the long game and like yeah like I've lost 95. So even if I, even if I put like half a stone, like I don't, like, I'm only totally whatever this guy it's. It's irrelevant in the grand scheme of things do you know?
Speaker 2:yeah, um particularly during a period of time where my body will need that to help heal and recover, and you know stuff like that. I'm definitely being a lot more mindful of my protein intake though, because that was something on the back of my DEXA scan which I still have to do a video about, but that, I think, highlighted to me that I needed to up my protein as good as I was being with it. I think there's definitely room for more and that, so I've been trying to hit my protein and be more intentional with my protein intake as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I have yeah, yeah, good. And it fills you for longer then as well, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I'm still definitely leaning on like some protein foods and protein shakes and stuff like that, not as the main source, but definitely as they're intended, as a supplement to the others to my other food intake? Yeah, but.
Speaker 1:You're snacking on protein products rather than yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, more so, yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:I did a few rhubarb and custard sweets today because mum had some. They're gorgeous.
Speaker 1:That's okay, it's allowed, they're like hard-boiled, sweet type ones.
Speaker 2:You know the ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know what you're talking about, but yeah. That's good. That's good. It's good to hear that you're doing okay and you're having these realizations, and that you actually Still have the mind space To be able to think About things as well, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So continue on as you're going, paddy, we're all here Cheering you on, thank you, thank you, speaking of cheering you on and cheering people on, you had your check in With the gym oh, yeah, yeah, yeah today. Was that today or yesterday?
Speaker 2:today, today, this morning, yeah, my six week checkup so talk us through, uh, so, if there's someone out there that's listening. So first of all, I'm a huge advocate that resistance training, strength training, that that is the priority training that everybody should be doing when they're on any weight loss journey. Even if it's a weight loss journey just for health and longevity, you absolutely should have resistance-based training, weight-based training of some form in your in your life. Now.
Speaker 2:That does not mean that everybody has to be in a gym pumping iron and all that kind of stuff, if you can brilliant, but it absolutely does not mean that and that's not to say that cardio doesn't not place as well, but in terms of your muscles, your bones, your joints, all that kind of stuff longevity absolutely. This is where um the kind of resistance-based training is so important. So take us back to december, like six weeks ago when you started.
Speaker 1:I remember it was the monday december yeah, the week, the week before christmas, because I remember telling me yeah, the week before christmas week. Yeah, because I remember you saying me yeah the week before Christmas week?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I remember you saying it to me at the time and I was thinking she's brave starting this before Christmas. Yeah, but that's also a great time to start. Everyone thought it was mental. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Everyone thought it was mental. Yeah, so what? And I?
Speaker 1:stopped drinking like alcohol all the time.
Speaker 2:I know socially. Yeah, so talk us through. For somebody that is thinking, oh god, I'd feel a bit too intimidated walking through the doors of a gym. How did you, how did you feel going in that first day? Or where was your headache? Can you recall?
Speaker 1:sure, look, I don't ever feel nervous doing things like that. I never feel intimidated or anything like that going into those places. I'm always quite, you know you're not reserved. No, not reserved at all. If you were here and I'll be kicking you under the table like I'm pretty confident, even when. I was um like nearly six stone heavier.
Speaker 1:I was pretty confident as well, so I didn't mind going in there, I didn't mind chatting and I got a really good vibe from there, and the thing that drew me to TaylorMade Coaching was it was a group, it was a small group and their clientele they've got an awful lot of women and they've got an awful lot of women that are over the age of 40 as well, so that kind of drew me to it as well.
Speaker 2:Um, and and and next year they'll have more women over 50 50, they will paddy.
Speaker 1:Yes, they will paddy. And um, what was the question? Oh, what made me do it? Yeah, I had a really bad hangover and it lasted three days and I thought, fuck this shit. And you know what I want yeah, time for a change, and I wanted to invest not just my time. I wanted to invest financially into it so it would give me that push not to go out and drink as much as I could over the.
Speaker 1:Christmas and all the rest of it, and I thought, at least, if I invest financially I invest financially into it because it was expensive enough, like you know then I'd be less likely to fuck it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it worked, yeah, absolutely. And yeah, that's something people who say to me. Like when I was doing personal training in person with people or stuff like that, you'd have people that come like I want to book like 10 blocks or 10 sessions with you and I'm like, really Like you know we can do something.
Speaker 1:I'm like, no, no, I want to do it because it's paid, it's done, I'm committed and I have to see it through Yep. Do you know I get that?
Speaker 2:I would love to see some workout videos from you when you're in there like snippets of you doing your workouts and stuff. Yeah, I'd love for your followers to see the type of workouts you were doing.
Speaker 1:I think they'd be really inspired, I did hip thrusts today and I'm only starting and I've always had a bad back and all the rest of it and I've never done any kind of strength training like that, especially where my core is concerned.
Speaker 2:You were saying last week is when we were chatting that as you were touching there that you had a bad back, were you sitting on balls today as well.
Speaker 1:No, well, I was sitting on balls the last night when I was doing my weighted squat. You had to sit on the ball, you had to go down so far like patty shut up so you were squatting and going down on the balls, okay yeah sure, look, we've all been there waiting, so what? Anyway, my my hip thrusts were at uh 30 kg today, so it's the bar I know, I know, I know it's not to some people.
Speaker 2:No, no, never say that.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's so. It's a bar, I know, I know.
Speaker 2:I know it's not to some people, no never say that yeah, that's true, it's all relative to you, yeah, relative for some people, even body weight squats is a massive thing. I know people that cannot do body weight squats because they're lacking that trust in themselves that they get back up. They're afraid they'll fall. They lean forward so like never diminish your own achievement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now I tell you what though, paddy, I tell you what has stood to me oh. Jesus, now listen, we were doing, we swap over. You know you're working in a, you're having a twosome and you're swapping over and swapping over.
Speaker 2:And one of the. Is there like a bowl where you throw your car keys when you're going to?
Speaker 1:No mate.
Speaker 2:Whole new workout series.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. So there was this exercise that we had to do while the other person was lifting and you lift, and then, yeah, and it was a side plank, and I just did it. I did my side plank, I got up in my my palm and then I put my hand up as you would, and I was the only one that was able to do that amazing, yeah, because of my two and a half years in pilates yes, yes and all of that has stood to me like my using my core, strengthening up my gluteus maximus.
Speaker 2:Your backside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my arse.
Speaker 2:They are the biggest muscle groups. That's right, huge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, just to say shout out to my Pilates instructor, eimear, like she prepared me for it so much. We didn't know what she was preparing me for, but yeah, we were well prepared and my squats are awesome Like my squats.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good, well done. Yeah, I'm delighted with my life now.
Speaker 1:That's brilliant, that's really good, oh yeah, and we got some stats, didn't we?
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, you, oh yeah, and we got some stats, didn't we?
Speaker 1:oh, yes, you did. Yeah, I did, I got some stats did you have them?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, sorry this is, this is about you. This bit, this is your podcast. We're talking about you like. I can get them. I have them. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I know you have and I'm going into our chat so I can find them oh dear yeah, do we need some like interlude music while we're waiting, I don't know what any of this means. So my muscle mass went from 32.6 down to 31.3 no, that was your muscle mass no, it went up yeah, oh, did it go up? Oh shit, yeah, it went up the gym for six weeks and I lost muscle. Let me just start again. You can edit this out. No, I'm not.
Speaker 2:I'm not I am not editing this out, so my muscle mass went from 31.3 to 32.6. Exactly.
Speaker 1:So that's an increase of 1.3, which in Percentage terms. Percentage terms would be near on. 5% of my body has turned to muscle mass. Of my body has turned to muscle mass.
Speaker 2:So you've seen an increase in your muscle mass in your body of about 5% in the six weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Okay, and then my body fat percentage has gone down by 2.3 percent in terms of percentage points. Yeah, yeah so overall my body fat has gone down by 4.8, let's say five percent of. So I went what it was dropped five percent in body fat and I gained five percent in body muscle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like it's amazing yeah.
Speaker 1:Weight stayed absolutely the same nearly. And as I was saying to you though, it's not a statistic I'm worried about now, at this stage.
Speaker 2:But this is a great example of what we were seeing earlier true body recomposition, whereby people will freak out I'm going to the gym, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. But you've proven there that, yes, your weight. You know you had a small drop in your weight there. However, what you saw was quite a big difference in how that weight was mean, it was being made up, so your body's in a much healthier place because of the increase in both muscle mass and the reduction in fat that's actually in your body over those six weeks, which is amazing, which is fantastic yeah delighted, so we're going to do it again in four weeks time.
Speaker 1:We're going to do it again then in four weeks time, after that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And see how I'm going. I have absolutely no interest in the scales now. That's not what this is about. I was talking about it on my stories today and I just feel like there's after this, now there's going to be a little bit of a shift, like you've had a little bit of a shift as well. Obviously, my GLB1 content will always be at the forefront, but the scales are not mattering to me as much as they would have, and for me now, it's about building muscle mass, making my body stronger not having to need assistance when I turn 80 in a couple of years time.
Speaker 2:I'll still be waking up to voice, not Paddy, that bitch.
Speaker 1:When are we?
Speaker 2:recording. What are we talking about this week, paddy?
Speaker 1:paddy, we'll be fucking 90 and we'll still be injecting ourselves oh god yeah, but listen, we've had such a good run, haven't we, on season one. It's been brilliant. We have.
Speaker 2:It really has been amazing. One of the things before Christmas we had reached out to Eli Lilly looking for some comment from them in relation to some questions. So what I am going to do is to basically go through the information that we got from Eli Lilly and kind of share that here. So the so the first question was Munjarro has been available in the UK for almost a year and licensed EU eu wide for some time. The hpra advised that the delay in ireland was due to eli lilly's.
Speaker 2:A marketing strategy could confirm if the expected release in 2025 is set for january or is there a more detailed timeline to supply um to irish pharmacies? So the answer that we've got to me, like lily, is that mungaro and which is terzepatite and which is the kind of the, the non-brand name of it, the active ingredient, it's currently available in Northern Ireland and Lily is planning to make available in the Republic of Ireland for private prescriptions in Q1 2025. We've also submitted to the HSE for reimbursement for both type 2 diabetes and obesity and are working through that process. And and I then went on to ask can you share the expected pricing details for Munjarro in Ireland? So we will be putting the first maintenance level dose of five milligram. Bear in mind, the 2.5 is a step up, a starting one.
Speaker 1:Explain that the first maintenance dose.
Speaker 2:So the maintenance doses are essentially deemed to be 5, 10 and 15.
Speaker 1:All right, as apart from the starting dose. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So we will be putting the first maintenance dose of 5 milligram into the supply chain at a price in the region of â¬215 for a four dose pen, ie a month's supply. This will be the cost that Lily supplies the medicine to distributors at. Oh no. Then I asked why is the price considerably higher than the uk where private prescription costs approximately 140 pound for a five milligram pen? The answer is we believe terzepetide is competitively and appropriately priced based on the efficacy of the medicine and the value it can bring to individuals, health systems and society to reduce overall economic burden on type 2 diabetes and obesity. Different prices across countries are dependent on a variety of factors that differ across countries, including VAT and market dynamics, and that is something somebody else explained to me as well.
Speaker 2:Actually, when we were talking about this, that there can be, I said are there any details available regarding supply prices to the HSE? Be? Um, I said are there any details available regarding supply prices to the hse? And they've said we've again, we've submitted to the hse for reimbursement for both type 2 diabetes and obesity and are working through that process. Um, what is the current status of the negotiations with the hse regarding availability? Um of the treatment outside of private prescriptions. And again same answer. We've submitted to the hse for reimbursement for both type 2 diabetes and obesity and are working through that process.
Speaker 2:Um, I was then just curious about with um kind of the triseptide and where it's going to be currently manufactured, because we know that there is a new lily facility in ireland and I was just curious is that going to be, you know, one of the main sites? So they just confirmed that Lily manufacturing sites make a number of different medications. There isn't just one manufacturing site for this I wanted to confirm is it going to be the same quick pen like that we have seen in the UK, because obviously the USA has a different? They?
Speaker 1:have one pen a week, don't they? Yeah?
Speaker 2:it's one pen a week in the US. I had that Paddy when I different um.
Speaker 1:They have one pen a week, don't?
Speaker 2:they yeah, it's one pen a week in and the us when I was on trillicity I had that okay, yeah, um and um. What they said was yes, it's going to be the same quick pen device that has been that will be made available in ireland. Uh, then I was curious to know because are there any plans to release vials in Ireland?
Speaker 1:Like compound.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, I'll talk about this in a minute. So a vial, because I note the reference to solution for injectable, which was also received approval in addition to the quick pen format. So what this is is essentially so. At the moment the medication, like them all, come in a pen and you dispense via the pen. In America the medications also come in like the little glass bottles. That's a vial that you would essentially withdraw the amount that you need and you would inject it from that. So there is approval for those as well.
Speaker 2:There is a thought you know in some places that that could be a cheaper source to it. It could make it more easily available, because some of the restrictions or issues we've seen with some other medications isn't necessarily the supply of the medication itself, but more so the device that's used to dispense the medication. I asked them multiple GPs in Ireland we spoke with have reported low awareness of Manjaro and Ter's appetite. What does Eli Lilly's education campaign for healthcare professionals in Ireland entail? Could you share any educational materials beyond the patient information leaflet? So what they've said is in preparation for launching Lilly is engaging with healthcare professionals to educate and answer questions. Prescribing decisions should be made by healthcare professionals within the approved indication and that's fair enough. We get that.
Speaker 2:Now this was out. This was around the time where there was the RTE went undercover looking at the kind of black market trade in Ireland off medication. So I was curious then just to include like some questions about this, because one of the one of the medications that came up that was in Ireland is through the black market was retrotrutide, which is deeply concerning because this is a medication that is still in clinical trials.
Speaker 2:That is not it's nowhere near being released to the public in America even yeah, in America it's not. This medication is not available anywhere, globally, anywhere, and it's on like high lockdown as well. The In America even.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in America this medication is not available anywhere, globally, anywhere, and it's on like high lockdown as well. The trials.
Speaker 2:So this is what we asked about. The recent RT Investigates expose revealed that retrotrutide is being distributed in Ireland despite its unapproved status globally. What steps is Eli Lilly taking to investigate the source of this medication on the black market, whether internally or through clinical trial participants? So their answer was we are in contact with the HPRA on this topic. In general, lilly aims to take all necessary actions to safeguard public health. We continue to support international education efforts by joining forces with non-governmental organisations such as World Health Organisation, world Health Professional Association and World Customs Organisation to warn patients and healthcare professionals about the dangers of buying medications outside the legitimate supply chain. 100% Like this goes back to that whole idea of you should only ever any form of kind of medicine or treatment, prescribed, nomscript whatever, should only be coming from the legitimate sources doctors, pharmacies, etc.
Speaker 2:We asked is there any clinical trial participants for retrotruatide in Ireland? If so, how many? Because my train of thought was, oh, is there people in the trial in Ireland and maybe is it leaking that way? Oh yeah, but they answered no.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:There isn't. Then there is second last question I asked is are there any clinical trial participants for retrotrude in the UK? If so, how many? And they have said yes, we are not disclosing participant numbers at this time.
Speaker 1:And then the final question so it's in the UK.
Speaker 2:Well, it's in the UK. And again, yeah, these are just the answers I'm just going to give them and then we're just going to leave them.
Speaker 1:So yeah, people have the information.
Speaker 2:What does the supply process look like for Rheumatoid for the clinical trial participants Specifically, how is the medication delivered and tracked, and what data collection or monitoring processes are in place for participants? And the answer is this is not something that we can provide further details on at this time. So that is all the information that we have from Eli Lilly and I have to say. I really, really appreciate the team there with getting back to me and with providing us the answers.
Speaker 2:They have, like they've been, you know, even in terms of other things, in terms of giving me guidance on, and stuff like that. I really do appreciate them and I appreciate the fact that they're willing to engage with like a podcast that is in this sphere and to give us some answers.
Speaker 1:It's good for them as well, it's good for us and it's good for every single person that listens to us as well. You know, that's what we're here to do. We're here to try and educate people as much as we can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like, hopefully, you know, one of the things that's important is that we can get factual information out to people about, you know, the world of obesity and this out to people about you know the world of obesity, and this is a big part of things at the moment. So, yeah, thank you. Thank you, eli Lilly, for engaging with us on that and giving us those responses, because I did think initially I might just get one kind of blanket, kind of reply from them. But, in fairness, huge respect. They did kind of, I feel, do the best that they could Cool Anything else, bel. They did kind of, I feel, do the the best that they could, um cool, anything else blinder that we had on for today?
Speaker 1:I don't think so. Oh god, you're asking me if I can remember. I don't know what's going on, paddy I know, I know.
Speaker 2:So like we are in discussions about trying to meet up because we've never met.
Speaker 1:It's gonna happen soon, though it it's going to happen soon.
Speaker 2:Which is wild?
Speaker 1:You have numbers that are actually.
Speaker 2:I have numbers now I have random numbers. I thought are these like runes from a stone or something like that, but so that's one of the things that we're hoping to get done is to get to meet up in person.
Speaker 1:We're so excited as well to um when we meet up to make a plan and invite all of the guests that we want on. Oh my goodness, we have some good ones in mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the other thing as well. I would love we both would love to hear from people that have been on uh, I would say weight loss and maybe inspirational journeys, maybe off their health or fitness, even if it's not weight loss, and maybe inspirational journeys, maybe off their health or fitness, even if it's not weight loss. I think it would be really interesting to hear inspiring stories from people, but also from people that have had challenges on their weight loss journey. So, yeah, if you're somebody that is comfortable about maybe telling us a little bit about your journey and seeing if something that you know we could talk about on the podcast, drop us an email. It doesn't matter where in the world you are either.
Speaker 1:We're totally open to anyone and we just, we just want the community itself to be involved in this, as well, because you know it's all well and good, just the two of us sitting here but, we want everybody else to be involved as well, and and that's what it? That's what we're, why we're here, you know so um yeah, I'm here. Anyway, I don't know what you're doing here.
Speaker 2:I'm here for the paycheck to wait on it. Can I like invoice all the hours as like tax deductible at the end of the year?
Speaker 1:I'd say you could. I'd say you could, surely there's a form.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there must be a form, but hello at the dose dot I e. So hello at the dose dot iie. That will get through to us. If you're somebody that has a say, if the weight loss journey, if it's maybe just about maybe overcoming a challenge or hardship or whatever in your life, um, we'd love to hear about that because I think that's something as well that is inspiring for people is hearing other people that have overcome things. You know. Um, but yeah, so If you think you're of interest, let us know, we'll talk. We'll get our people, your people, you know, brilliant. But yeah, I feel kind of sad Saying goodbye, even though I know we're back in a few weeks.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:But we're coming back, or but it will be out on. It'll be on the the friday morning, I presume we'll we'll stick to the schedule that we've been keeping really, really well as well for the monday, oh god, okay well, I will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so belinda, we will talk again, probably in like 10 minutes, but like in terms of podcast wise, we we will be back here. Obviously, as we touched on there, there could be some exciting developments in Q1 in terms of there's different events happening in Ireland. There is different wellness events, there is different conversations that are happening in the world of obesity, even.
Speaker 1:I see some stuff from Huge conversations yeah, and we want all those covered. Yeah, like the Department of obesity even.
Speaker 2:I've seen some stuff huge conversations, yeah, and we want all those covered yeah, like the Department of Health the other day, so like it's a really exciting time of the year for many, many reasons.
Speaker 1:So we will want to try and plan something. I think change is coming into the UK as well yes, we didn't even talk about that.
Speaker 2:No, we didn't but we will.
Speaker 1:We'll hold on to that one, Paddy. Yeah, that's very welcome one.
Speaker 2:No, very, very, very welcome one. I really really like that proposal that's coming in this week. Yeah, Belinda, any final words before I turn your mic off?
Speaker 1:For the last time, not really Just want to say thank you to everybody, all those 13,000 people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 13,000 streams.
Speaker 1:Yeah, amazing everybody all those 13 000 people, yeah, that um streams, yeah, amazing amazing.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Thank you and thanks, paddy.
Speaker 1:Thanks for putting up with me, mate, yeah, um, and you? Any final thoughts?
Speaker 2:I would say just you know, look after yourselves, folks, be kind to yourselves and please, please, please anything to do with your health care, with starting or changing anything. Please get your information from your doctors and your health care team, not from tiktokers and instagrammers, and I'm very aware of the irony in in us saying that, but that is because we are hugely passionate about people accessing their wellness and their treatment and their support via legitimate, proper channels.
Speaker 2:So please, please we can't, we can't emphasize that in yeah engage with your medical team, as opposed to some random or down in a beauty salon that has random bags with them or whatever. Okay, um, but until a few weeks time. Adios, amigo, and we will chat soon.
Speaker 1:Laters.
