A little life update and a chat about weight loss and road trips.
Let’s Get Loud! with J&A
Let's get Loud with A - Road Trip Vibes
- Hello everyone, welcome to the Let's Get Out podcast. This is a solo podcast episode with A. I wanted to say that I'm so sorry. I missed last week. I just, I don't even know what happened. It was like Saturday and I was like, oh my God, I didn't record my solo podcast episode. And I love this time with you guys. So I apologize for that. You know what I think it was more than anything was just the change of the routine. So kids are, oh my. Which is something, trying to work and be fun and take care of myself and all the things. But it's a season and I am privileged to have the opportunity to have jobs that I can work, you know, more or less than I choose. And when I want, from where I want. So I said I wanted autonomy over my time and I got autonomy over my time. So anyways, this is not me complaining. It juts me sharing with you guys. It's a little bit of an adjustment. If you're watching on YouTube, I feel like I need to show you my hair. I've shocked my hair. Well, I mean, so I took my extensions out and I had two layers in my hair. So, you know, real deep hair journey here guys. But I had dyed my hair a couple years ago and my hair just couldn't take it. It was, I think because my hair is getting really gray. It's also really coarse and that combination with dyeing it and I went lighter. So there was bleach involved. It just destroyed my hair and what kept happening. So what my hair was really long and beautiful. I loved it and I loved the color in it. And I was doing it often. So I was adding heat often. So what happened was we started cutting it to like save it but I just couldn't save it. And I kept going shorter, shorter, shorter, shorter. By the end of it, I had like one big chunk of hair shorter and then the other one longer. And it just, it didn't sit right. Like it didn't look at straight. It didn't look at curly. So then I put my extensions in which I loved. I really enjoyed that. But I was ready for a change. So long story short, put the extensions out and we cut my hair to the shortest length. So at least now my hair is all in length and she's so healthy and ready to be grown out. And I am like on a, I am turning up the dial on the health journey right now everyone. I mean, I just finished my smoothie. What is healthier than the smoothies? I just took vitamins. I just caught back from a walk. Like I am just like, let's go, let's do this. So yeah, here, I feel like I needed to update you on that. Check, kids, check. We are on our way tomorrow. I'm recording this a couple of days early. I should have recorded it on a Friday but I'm recording it a couple of days early because we are heading tomorrow to Ontario. So we're going on a road trip. We're stopping Quebec City and we're staying three nights in Ottawa for liens actually. And then we're driving, I think all the way home which is like a 12 hour drive which I really want to do the whole way home. I know I'm just going to want to get home. Neil's like, maybe we'll drive, maybe we'll drive partway and stop. You know when sometimes it's a nice day and you're feeling good and you could drive forever, it's no big deal. And then you know sometimes other times it's just like hard and you're tired. So I think we're going to play it by year and just see how we're both feeling. Obviously we can share the driving, no big deal. So yeah, that's what we're doing tomorrow. So I'm recording a bit early. So we just kind of spent the day getting things together, packing snacks, get doing laundry, getting the kids packed. We're not packed yet. Okay, yeah, I need to finish this just to go back. We're not packed yet, but we will be. Yeah, we got this. And I was actually talking on the community group about what's the most important thing that I need to bring with me on my trip if I want to lose weight on this trip, okay? And do you know what it is? It's my mindset. It is literally my mindset. And this conversation started from someone reached out and they were like, oh my gosh, I'm going on this road trip and I don't know what I'm going to be eating or where we're going to be stopping and I can't bring anything 'cause I can't eat in the car because we're dogs with us. And like, you could tell that she was feeling really anxious about going on a road trip and weight loss. And, you know, when I have conversations like that with people, it makes me realize really how far my mindset has come and my relationship with food because that would have been me a couple of years ago. And I, it's just like deep breath. And do you know where this stems from? It stems from diets. And it stems from a diet not being able to coexist with a road trip. Like smushing your food in a container, founding calories, following a meal plan. None of that works with a road trip. But your weight loss works with a road trip because it's being mindful, it's being aware, it's making choices. It's knowing that every single day, no matter where you guys are, you have access to a calorie surplus, a calorie deficit, calorie maintenance. No matter where you are, do you know that? Do you believe that? And when you start to look at your world from that lens, you see the doors opening. And you no longer have anxiety about not being in your home with specific food at a specific time. And you realize that you have access. That's really the first step. And also realizing there's no bad food, there's no food you cannot eat and still lose weight, there's no food you have to eat to lose weight. So just really getting rid of the diet mentality and realizing that I don't, it doesn't have to look a certain way. And once you start to look at all situations from that lens, you're like, okay, door open, door open, door open, possibility, possibility, possibility. That's being mindful. That's being aware of your opportunities. If you are going on a road trip, you will be served with choice after choice after choice. Choice after choice after choice that you can make. I'm gonna be sharing, wow, I'm gonna be sharing all of my road trip journey with you guys and how I'm choosing to show up and the choices that I'm making. And you know, I do wanna come back to me saying that you have, you always have a calorie deficit available to you no matter where you are. It doesn't mean you should always choose it though. That's the piece that is so important. There will be days on this vacation. You know, maybe I were going my uncle's getting remarried. And so maybe on the day of his wedding, I will choose not to try to create a deficit. I don't know yet. I'm gonna take it one day at a time, but just knowing it's possible, but not, but knowing that at the end of the day, I don't have to. Because again, that diet mentality, that victim mentality is that like, I have to lose weight, I can't eat that. And it's like, you know what? It's taking your power away. And your weight loss is all about giving you your power back. There is nothing, I think that what upsets me most on the internet when people try and make like hard rules or tell you what to do or what you should do or what you shouldn't do. I think the hardest part for me about that situation is how disempowering it is. That's what I, that's what makes me like so upset. So everyone, going on this road trip with the goal of creating a deficit, I'm not gonna lie. So I'm at a point in my journey where I've lost about seven pounds, but I really haven't moved for a little while. And so we're turning things up a notch. Nobody deal, haven't failed. You know, I'm really happy with the seven pounds that it came out, but I'm really ready to turn the dial. And one thing that I've really realized is which I can feel so, and I've said this before on the podcast. So obviously I've had this realization before, but I haven't stayed connected to this realization before. Is I, when I am in a surplus, which I know not a massive surplus, the scale goes way up. And it takes a while to go down again. It's just, that's how my body is currently responding to a surplus. I'm assuming that my, I'm just having an overall, in general, less energy is going out of my body than it used to, my age, my activity level, my muscle tone, whatever, you know, all of those things combined together. And so less energy going out means that when I am in that scene, you know, if I consumed the same thing that I consumed on a night out, you know, five years ago, I'm in a bigger surplus. I think that's all that means. It doesn't need to be so dramatic. It doesn't mean need to be like, oh my God, I can't even do this anymore. Here's how I'm looking at it. When you are in a surplus, your body responds and you get to choose if it's worth it or not for you. So just for example, like I went out to Sophie and Spritz a couple, maybe last week with some girlfriends. I did have several alcoholic beverages, no regrets, dirty martini, two glasses of wine and a glass of lemon cello delish. Okay, I split two appetizers. So like I had an appetizer and I had a dessert. So I had, was I in a surplus? Yes, but was it like, mass of surplus? Absolutely not. But I was up like three pounds on the scale, which is like, if that's a lot. And not only that, it's like, it doesn't go down quickly. And so then if I have another event where I'm in a surplus, it's just like not, so basically that cycle is not getting me where I wanna be. And so we adjust. And so that's my next kind of bit of my journey and my adjustment is those like surplus days. And there's more of those in the summer I find because there's more vacation, there's more camping, there's more parties. And so really me managing my surplus, really asking myself what's worth it to me? So that dinner at Sophia, so worth it. If I'm gonna be really honest with myself though, I was satisfied with the dessert at halfway. So I could have had half the dessert. But besides that, I'm like, no changes there. Canada Day, I eat my weight in chips. If I'm gonna be honest with myself and I had a few alcoholic beverages and you know what? Not worth it to me. And so looking back on those experiences, two very different situations, I will remind myself the next time I'm in this situation where I know I'll be creating a surplus. And I just really need to ask myself, is it worth it to you? Is it worth it to you? So that is gonna be something I'm gonna be asking myself frequently during this road trip. I am on a mission, you guys. I don't know about you, but when I'm on my walk, I really feel like I can take over the world. And I don't know if it's because I'm finally physically feeling better, like my shoulder pain is like, none, hip pain, none. I can't even believe it. I don't know if it's from the magic of my chiropractor or it's like, you know, my collagen and my vitamins. Like I've been doing some different things. I don't care what it is. I'm gonna keep going to all the things. I'm gonna continue with my chiropractor at least once a month. If I have a flare book more often and I'm really feeling ready to dial up the health. So vitamins, you know, supplements, like collagen, higher protein, moving my body, getting back into weight training, all of those things, sleeping, less alcohol. I'm really feeling ready and excited to do that even in the summer. Anyway, so that's like my life update. That's my health update. I need to go pack. I need to go pack Phoebe, which is just really gonna be something, but that's what's next on my to-do list. So I just wanted to say thank you guys so much for tuning in. For those of you who decided to join the summer special with your very weight loss, we are so excited to spend the summer with you. It is not too late though to be, if you wanna spend summer, I'm obviously gonna be sharing in detail with our community about what I'm doing and how I'm doing it and my results. You can always join just send me a DM and I'll figure out which membership option is best for you. All right guys, have an amazing day. Thank you for tuning in. If you wanna watch my trip, make sure to follow me on Instagram. I'll be sharing all of it on Instagram. So my name is just Alicia_YWL. Why do I not see where to stop recording?