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Summer Body Challenge : Low Carb : Type 2 Diabetes : Weight Loss Over 50
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May 13, 2024
10 Week Summer Body Challenge for Women over 50 in collaboration with The Transatlantic Housewives of Youtube: @Maria_crocker @tinastalktime @BusyBeeMaree Broccoli & Stilton Soup: https://divaliciousrecipes.com/keto-broccoli-and-stilton-soup/ The Joy Club: https://thejoyclub.com/ UK Low Carb Podcast: https://www.uklowcarb.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeordieg... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeordiegr... Blog: https://www.thegeordiegrandma.co.uk Email me: karen@thegeordiegrandma.co.uk Disclaimer: All products were purchased by me unless otherwise stated. These are my honest opinions. This video may contain affiliate links, which means when you click on one of the product links, I will receive a small commission.
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grandmour, welcome back to my channel
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This is week four of the summer body challenge, which is in collaboration with the transatlantic housewives of YouTube, as we call ourselves
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and that includes at Maria Crocker, at Tina's Talk Time and at Busy Being Marie
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And we got together to create a 10-week summer body challenge, basically to motivate each other
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and hopefully motivate anybody that's watching. So we can try and lose weight, get fit, healthy and happier
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And for me personally, to help get my type 2 diabetes under control
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We're all doing different healthy eating plans, lifestyles. Mine is low carb
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Busy B. Marie is doing the 16-8 fasting. Maria Crocker is doing Slimenworld and Tina is doing a bit of everything, I think
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I think she was trying meal replacement shakes and things like that
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So when you've watched my video, if you want to go over and watch theirs, to see how they're getting
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on that would be great. Let's help support each other. I'll put the links to their channels
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in the description box below. So as always, I'll talk a bit a little bit about how my week's
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gone, what's been good, what's been bad. The focus this week is on socialising. So each
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week we try and focus a little bit of our video on a different topic and this week is socialising
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so I'll talk a little bit about that. We'll do the way in towards the end
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and then I'll talk about what I've learned and what I'm going to do going forward
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because I want this to be a change of lifestyle rather than a diet
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How is this week gone for me? Well it was Eurovision at the weekend
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I don't know if anybody watched it. Finland was robbed but we had my son Simon and his wife Haley over to watch the show
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and we usually do that, you know, we go to theirs or they come here and we'll have food and drink
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And I was a bit worried because I thought, how am I going to do this
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I suppose that this is, I'm starting with socialising here. So we usually have like a buffet thing, but I thought this, this year we'll do, we've had this before
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Simon and Haley loved something called curry worst. If you don't know what that is, it's kind of a hot dog with a kind of curry sauce on it
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in a big bun with little onions and things on the top
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Now none of what eat meat apart from Warren, so obviously vegetarians, hot dogs or sausages
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And we used, this year we used Richmond meat-free sausages and I think it's Mayfield
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I want to say Mayflower, is it Mayflower? It may be Mayflower or it may be Mayfield curry sauce
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we used to put on it. I think proper curry worst has tomato sauce mixed in with the curry but we actually forgot to do that
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So we had the curry worst. I'll put a picture of mine here. It doesn't look very appetising but it's actually really tasty
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And they all had the pot baked buns with theirs and lots of crispy onions on the top
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I had two of the low cob buns that I talked about last week which are a little bit chewy
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but I did heat them up in the oven and they did taste a lot nicer
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So I had the low carb buns and I didn't put the crispy onions on the top of mine
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I just put some of the curry sauce and it was actually really nice and I didn't eat all of the second bun
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I maybe only ate a quarter of it. I ate the sausage and the curry sauce out of it but I didn't eat all the bun
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So that was good. Now Haley brought profiteroles over and I'm afraid I couldn't resist
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having some of those so I'd only had two you know the the pit proffiterole tower I only had two of
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those so I was really good I didn't drink any alcohol either I don't really drink so it wasn't
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much of a challenge for us that so I was quite happy with that on Sunday Warren went metal
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detecting um so I was on the own all day and we had some fudges that we'd bought for the grandkids
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and it was calling to us I could hear it come on eat me So I did. I had a fudge which had 17 grams of carbs in it. So it wasn't a bad week
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Let's put it that way. I'll tell you later whether I lost weight or I put weight on. So it hasn't been a bad week
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I did eat some things that were healthy and low carb and were actually very tasty
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The first thing I wanted to show you was one of the breakfast I had this week. I actually had it a couple of times this week
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I had some Richmond meat-free bacon. I had some scrambled eggs and I had half an avocado with it and that was actually very nice
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And that kept me full until dinner time. I didn't. I don't think I had my dinner until about 1 o'clock or lunch, whatever you want to call it, until about 1 o'clock those days
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I definitely felt fuller for longer and I think that may have been because I had mostly protein and the good fat, the avocado
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So that was really nice. We also had a stir fry for tea one night, so it's got, it had bean sprouts in, red cabbage
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onion, peppers, a bit of a little bit of terriacchi sauce and I had some prawns on mine
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I think Warren had his with chicken and that was really tasty It was very low carb There was what I actually made I was inspired by Marie and Tina last week who both made soup So I was inspired this week to make my own soup and I made a broccoli and Stilton soup
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Well actually Warren made it for us because he was off work one day and I said
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well he made that soup for us and he did. And it was really, really tasty again. I'll put a picture here
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It doesn't look very nice, but it was really tasty. I think I've got some in the freezer and I think I might liquidise it a little bit
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more because I'm not keen on chunky soups so I may liquidise that a little bit more but
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it was really tasty the stilton in it made it you know a little bit salty um Warren did say
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oh that would go lovely with a crusty bun but there was no crusty bun it was just the soup
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I also had a nice salad this week so you know just lettuce tomatoes cucumber some peppers
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I put some feta cheese on there just a little tip if you buy feta cheese and you're the only
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person in your house that eats it by the tub that's the feta cheese is in the brain rather than a
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block of feta cheese because once you've opened it unless you're going to eat it all within a
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couple of days the block of cheese it's going to go off whereas if it's in the brain it'll keep in
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the fridge for i think it's more than a week so that's much much better if you're the only person in
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the house eating that so those were some of the nice things i had that helped keep me on track this
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week. So to go on to the focus of the week, which is socialising
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Socialising is a good thing to do because even if you live with people, you can still feel
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lonely. You know, everybody's doing their own thing. You still need to, you know, get out and
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have some time with your friends. It helps make you feel happy. It helps helps energise you. It helps you
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keep more motivated if you are trying to stick to a healthy eating plan. Not everybody has lots of
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friends that can go out socialising with. You may have one or two, you know, that you can go and
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have a walk with or go to cinema with, something like that. But you may also want to think
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about joining a club of some sort, a group of some sort. Those are always a good way to socialise
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Join a book club. You know, if you can't find a book, a book club that's being run
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offline than join an online book club. That's always a good way of socialising and
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talking to like-minded people. There's something online that I took part in that I was a
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member of briefly because they asked me to join and review it from my blog. It was called
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the Joy Club and it's basically an online club for people over, I'd say over 60, people who are
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more towards retirement age because a lot of the events they have online are through the day
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and they're all live events which is really good because you can go on and it can interact with
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the other people who are in the group as well you know there's a chat thing you can actually
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speak live so it's a bit like a zoom call where everybody can join live and you can see each other
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and you can talk to each other and that's a good way of making friends that you can maybe take
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offline but they had some really good classes in their events I did a few of their creative writing classes, which I thought was really fun
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And, you know, you get to hear each other as pieces of writing and chat with each other
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That was really interesting. I did a couple of their exercise classes, which was really good
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They more geared towards older people. But they have lots of kinds of events on
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They used to have like a coffee and chat morning where everybody would just, you know, get on the event on the call live
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and chat to each other and have a cup and their own home. And that was a good way of socialising
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So you don't need to feel like you're on your own. There's always somewhere you can go to either offline or online
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where you can talk to other people and you don't have to feel demotivated
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You can have fun and socialise anywhere these days really. One of the things I found really good for socialising
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and I think this was really good for people who maybe want to go to something on their own
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offline was the sipping paint class that I talked about in my favourites video this month
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This is like a watercolour art class and there's quite a few people there go on their own
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and you get talking to the other people on your table because you know you don't have to go
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with somebody to do that. You can go and do it on your own but there's lots of people to talk to and it's a monthly thing
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so you're making friends and you never know that might lead to offline
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offline that might need to meet up outside of the class as well so that is a good
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way of socialising but all of these things are a good way of one keeping your mind off food
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they help you feel energized sometimes when I know when I was in on my own on Sunday
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you can sit and you know you can watch the TV and you just think I feel a bit not down
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really but not not energized and I always found that when I do this
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the sipping pain class or when I did these online joy club events I always felt really energized
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afterwards I felt motivated and happy so it's definitely a good idea to socialize particularly if you're
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trying to lose weight and get fit it's always good to mix with other people who have the same kind
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of interests as you but the other thing about social situations and possibly the downside of social
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situations if you're trying to lose weight is when you're out and about in this food and drink
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involved so like on Eurovision night when you know the kids came over I adapted what everybody
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was eating to something I could eat by using the low carb buns and I didn't feel deprived at
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all so you can adapt and I actually went to buffet king this week which is I don know buffet king is a national chain or it just in Gateshead but it is a Chinese all in the metro centre in Gateshead
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And I've always enjoyed going to buffet king. You know, you pile your plate with lots of different kinds of Chinese dishes
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But since I've been doing low-carb, I've been thinking, can I really go to buffet king
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because Chinese is usually noodles and rice and chips and things in butter and I thought can I do it but this week we did go to buffet king and I'll put some pictures on here of what I did eat I had some of the vegetarian hot and sour soup now I'm not sure what the nutritional values of any of these meals are but I just chose things that for me were not as high carb is some of the other things so a delivery
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I separately didn't have rice, I didn't have chips, I didn't have noodles. So what I did choose was the hot and sour soup, which is very, very tasty
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You know, you could have two or three balls of that if you wanted. It's really spicy for me because I'm not that keen on spicy foods, but I do like the hot and sour soup
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I didn't have the prawn crackers. I had some of the Fou Young, the egg Foo Young, which has got vegetables in it
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I had some of the, it was like a stir fry, cauliflower and packed cheese
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I think so I had that I had some of the the crispy seaweed which is basically just fried
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cabbage yes it's in oil and I'm not sure what kind of oil they do it in but I thought it was
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the better choice rather than having a prone toast or something like that as I've said
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before I don't eat meat so it does make it a little bit more difficult especially for
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choice in some somewhere like that because they don't have an awful lot of you know
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fish of vegetarian options I had the mushrooms and peppers and onions in an oyster sauce again I don't know what
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carbs are in these but for me they looked like the better options I also had a
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plate of mussels in cream sauce which were really nice now I know muscles are
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lone carbs and the cream is is good so that was nice and I actually enjoyed the
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evening of buffet king I didn't feel deprived at all I used
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usually have a pineapple fritter and syrup when I'm there, and I didn't have it. And I didn't
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actually miss it. It wasn't like a struggle not to get up and get it. I just, I didn't want it
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So I was quite happy with that. I had a diet of Pepsi and a glass of water. It's like I say
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I don't really drink. So it was, I was quite happy. So you can adapt. You know, you can't go to
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a restaurant and choose the lower carb things. Sometimes it might be difficult, depending on what
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restaurants you go to. For instance, if you went to an Italian restaurant, if pizzas, pastas
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that's going to be difficult. You can't ask for the, you know, the pasta without the pasta
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really, or the pizza without the crust. A lot of Italian restaurants will do a salad
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maybe a chicken Caesar salad. It'll have dressing and things on it. Maybe it's got croutons in
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but it's probably the, you know, the more lower carb choice if you wanted to go to Italian
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Chinese does have a little bit more options because Ful-Yung is quite low and
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low-quate-law and cobb so that's always a good choice a burger places you know like TGI Friday's something like that even somewhere like
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jikitos a Mexican place you could get the burger in the salads but don't maybe don't
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have the bun, you know, ask for it to come without the bun, you'll still pay the same, but
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you can, you know, make good choices when you go to restaurants. And actually, about 15 years
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ago, I had gallstones and every time I ate something fatty, I was in excruciating pain
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so it was just easier not to eat anything fat. You stopped eating crisps, stopped eating
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chocolate. I actually lost about five stone, and then I had my gallbladder out and everything
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just went here by you after that but the point is it I still went out for meals when I had
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goldstones but in most restaurants you could ask have you got a lower fat
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alternative and a lot of the restaurants were happy to you know to help you out so
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you know maybe if you're doing whatever diet you're doing you know whatever healthy
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eating plan you do and you could go when you go at the restaurant you could ask for
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have you got something you know that doesn't have pasta or chips
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or something with it what you know what what alternatives could have you could do
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that for you know most restaurants and they'd be happy to help you what I thought
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was quite interesting was like I've said I'm type 2 diabetic and it's not it hasn't
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been under control at all if you've been watching regularly I've said before that
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you know it's it's supposed to be between four and seven when you haven't eaten
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and it's supposed to be between seven and ten just after a meal and mine has gone up to the highest it went up to was about 20 you know and
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it's usually hovered around 12 13 mark which is really high and the longer your blood
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sugar's high the more you have problems you know you have developed in neuropathy I
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have really bad pain in my feet it can you know affect your eyesight it can affect your
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kidneys it's really not good to have your blood sugar that high all the time well it's not
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I'm not good to have your blood sugar that at all. So what I did was I took my blood sugar
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I've got a little pin prick thing, finger prick thing. I took my blood sugars before I went out, took me to Buffet King
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And they were 6 which is really good I very happy with that I managed to to hover around that number from you know the last four weeks I really happy with that
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so I took my blood sugar again when I came home so this was probably an hour
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after I'd eaten and it was actually 6.3 so my blood sugar had come down after I'd
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eaten which was quite surprising so I obviously did make good choices I'd be
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interested to know what it would have been if I'd ate the pineapple fritter and maple syrup but I
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didn't so I was really happy with that so if you make good choices it is good now for the
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way in I just put the video in here of me getting on the scales so you can see there I'm
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14 stone seven and three quarters so I've lost I think it was a pound in a quarter
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since last week and altogether in the last four weeks I've lost four and a half pounds
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four and a half pounds which is roughly a pound a week which I'm really happy with
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because the main aim of me doing the summer body challenge was to get the type two diabetes under
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control which it seems to be working and the weight loss is just an extra because you know
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if you're type two by diabetic they tell you to lose weight so I'm happy with the pound a week
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guess it would be nice to lose six pound every week but that's not going to happen so i'm quite happy
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with the pound a week it means i can sustain it hopefully fingers crossed the other thing i wanted
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to say about socializing that i should have said before the way in but i forgot uh was i was listening
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to a podcast it's called the the uk low carb podcast i'll put a link to it below because i think
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it's really interesting and if you're interested in doing a low carb lifestyle or keto lifestyle
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and this is a really useful podcast. I listen to it on my walk to work on a morning
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In the episode I was listening to this week was a one on socialising
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and it was really interesting and he was saying, I think he's called Dan Kreef
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he was saying that if he eats, he's downfall, I think he was talking about
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cheese and crackers, and if he eats a couple of crackers, then he wants more carbs the next day
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and then even more carbs that you have to enter, and it's a slippery slope. So he says he's the kind of person who it's best just not to have any
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and then he won't get on that slippery slope. But there are, you know, there are people out there who can
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they can go to a restaurant and have a blowout, and then the next day get straight back on it
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It won't affect them, but if you're that type of person, then that's great
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If you're a bit like me, where you have one, you want more
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then just don't have the first one. It's much easier. But I highly recommend that podcast if you want to go and have a listen to it
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The other thing I wanted to say about socialising was there's lots of different online groups you can join
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that have got the same healthy lifestyle interests as you might have
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So there'll be groups out there that are talking about Slim and World things
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I'm in a Facebook group that talks about low carb. you get lots of good tips from there
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You know, if you're having a bad day, you can go on and say you're having a bad day and you get lots of comments that will try and help you
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So that is a good way of socialising. It's one of the reasons that Slim and groups like Slim and World or Weight Watchers
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actually have a group you can go to because it's good to interact with, you know
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people who are on the same journey as you and it helps motivate you
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So if you don't particularly want to go to a class or there's no, as far as I know there's no low cob classes around then joining an online group you might not want to be on
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Facebook you don't have to you know interact with it any other way other than joining groups that
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interest you and that's a really good way of using Facebook so what did I learn this week well I learned
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that I can go to buffet King and stay on track so that was good but I'm in the future I'm going to
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come up against restaurants again so I'm going to when I go and you know
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any other time I'm going to think to myself I can't choose better options so that's what I learned
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this week that I can't do it next week the focus is on what I ate which I talk about every week so I thought
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I'd ask you if there's anything you particularly want me to talk about if you want me to talk about more
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breakfasts or more lunches or more dinners or more snack foods maybe how to put a three-course meal
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together, you know, if you want a romantic evening in there, or if you just want a three-course meal
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for yourself, I'm happy to answer any questions you've got. So if you've got anything that you want
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me to talk about next week, leave them in the comments below, and I'll try and do that. I hope you're
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joining in with the Summer Body Challenge, if you are, let me know how you're getting on. Oh, I've
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forgotten to mention as well, the challenge I set, I keep forgetting quite a lot of things this
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week. The challenge I set last week was for the other transatlantic housewives to take
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a picture every day of something that brings them joy because I think looking at pictures
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that make you feel happy help you feel more motivated. So I'm going to put a couple of pictures
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in here that the other ladies took and you can see what made them feel happy this week
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I hope you took some pictures of what brought you joy or what brings you joy so you can look back back at them when you're just feeling a little bit
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and hopefully it'll make you feel happier. That last five minutes was a little bit jumbled but I hope you followed along
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So thanks so much for watching. That's all I've got for you this week. I'll see you again
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soon so bye for now
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