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In today's episode I'm giving an update on my hiatus from this podcast and YouTube channel, my modified media fast, the projects I completed since we last spoke, and a look at what I'm thinking about for 2024. (:  Links to the various and sundry things mentioned in this episode: My Newsletter Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way on Amazon The Laid Back Guide to Weight Loss Maintenance Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles The Swamps of Dorscha (Book II in the Forgotten Portal series) Intermittent Fasting Workbook Slow and Steady Success Academy Become an Insider on Youtube Discord Server Subscription Video: Intermittent Fasting During the Holidays Interivew on Justin Dorff's Channel   AI Generated Transcript of this Podcast Episode Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over £80 with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. On this episode, we're going to talk about all the things I've been up to since I've been on hiatus from this podcast.   First of all, I would like to say I'm sorry, I forgot to update you and let you know that I was on hiatus from this podcast. I realized today as I was going through the last podcast that I recorded, I really listened to it because I thought, surely I said, you know, I'm going on hiatus, but I didn't do that.   So if you are not subscribed to my newsletter and you don't watch my YouTube, you might have been wondering where I was. And by the way, if you'd like to subscribe to my newsletter or if you're interested in any of the things that I'm going to be talking about, you can find the links in the show notes for this episode.   The newsletter is really the best way to kind of keep up with what I'm doing because there are so many different places where I'm active that is easy for me to forget to update one. So in mid-September, I started looking around at my life and looking at, you know, how things went this past year and kind of thinking about what kind of direction I wanted to head in 2024.   And I realized I had all these projects that were sitting there, unfinished things I had been working on but had never really, you know, got them to the finish line. And so I thought, you know, I really want to finish these things by the end of the year. I knew that I couldn't continue doing the same schedule I had been doing and still try to finish these things.   I had already tried that and it had not worked. And that's the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So I decided to go on a modified media fast. So if you've never read the excellent book by Julia Cameron called The Artist Way, you may not know what a media fest is, but a media farce is basically taking a break from consuming other people's creativity.   Now she recommends a seven day strict media fest, meaning for seven days straight, you don't read anything written by anyone else. You don't listen to music. You don't consume anybody else's creativity. And and it's a very great exercise. I highly recommend it to anybody. But I knew that that kind of strict fasting wasn't going to be sustainable for the amount of time that I guessed that this was going to take.   Now, I was a little bit wrong in how long I thought this media fest would go on. I thought really I would be done. Maybe, you know, after a month and then after I kind of got into it, I thought, well, maybe it'll be more like Halloween. As it turned out, it was mid-November before I was finished. And quite frankly, I'm still trying to get caught up and really restarted back on those things that I wanted to do.   For example, this is the first podcast episode I've created since the Media Fest was over. So what was I doing on the media Fest? How did I do it and why did I do it? So the way I decided to modify it fast, which is very much like how I modify regular fasting for weight loss purposes. You know, for me I was thinking about long term, okay, you know, I think this is going to happen for at least a month, maybe longer.   So what can I really stick with? Because sticking with it was a lot more important to me than, you know, having super strict rules and trying to be a perfectionist. So I decided for myself that Monday through Saturday, I was not going to consume other people's creativity just in general. That meant no reading except for the Bible and the Phillip Clear.   I didn't allow myself to listen to any podcast or watch any YouTube videos or watch any kind of TV or anything like that. The only exceptions to that were on date night and on Sleep on the Couch Night, which is the family movie night we have on Saturday nights. At that point, I would, you know, watch a movie with them.   And then on Sunday, I would just I wouldn't seek out creativity from other people. But if it happened to be on, I would watch it. So, for example, if my husband flipped on the TV on Sunday, I would sit there and watch it with him because it was important to me to spend time with him and not to just like leave the room because he wanted to watch TV.   And I also went on hiatus from creating new topical videos for YouTube and for creating podcasts for this podcast. So I did continue to do my weekly lives for my YouTube members on Wednesdays at noon, and I do one also just for the general YouTube public on Fridays at noon. And so I did those. I continued to those and I continued to do the vlog for members.   Also, but I didn't create other types of topical videos because, you know, the vlogs are unedited and so are the lives like alive. I just sit down, do the thing and then I'm done. Same with the vlog, just record it. I don't edit and then I just, you know, pop it on YouTube. But when I do a topical video that that's like a lot more work, you know, like I have to rehearse it, I have to outline it.   I have to be, you know, I have to go through it a lot and then I record it and then I edited it and then, you know, it's just this whole big long process. So I knew that I could continue to do those things, but that if I tried to do the topical videos and things like that, I would just not get done with these other projects so that those were my rules.   So I did this because I knew that if I did not create this kind of set of rules for myself, I would just never finish these projects. And these projects were important to me for various reasons. So let's talk about the projects I did and what that looked like. So the first project was finishing the laid back guide to Weight Loss Maintenance.   This is a book that I actually started in May of 2019, so four and a half years ago. So I had just written The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting and a very kind reader reached out and they had really enjoyed the book and they said, You know, the next book you should write is a book on maintenance because nobody writes books about maintenance, you know, And so I think that's what you should write next.   And I thought that's yeah, that's a really great idea. But I was totally intimidated by the idea of writing a book about maintenance. And also I felt like I needed more experience with maintenance. I felt very confident about weight loss itself with intermittent fasting, but I felt like, you know, I need to experience more of the maintenance because maintenance is where I always have failed.   Now, at that point I had maintained my initial £65 loss. I had done that for a year before I lost more weight. But then, you know, there was that year where I was losing more weight and I kind of felt like that didn't quite count as maintenance because when you're actively trying to lose weight, that's a different process than just trying to maintain your weight loss.   So I thought, you know, I really want to I want to maintain for a while longer before I really work on this book. So instead, I wrote another book called Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles. And then I thought, I'll just put the maintenance book on the backburner. And so then I went back to it. After a while, I finally thought, you know, I feel like I could start writing this book again.   But I just kept working on it and working on it. And then I got it earlier this year in to kind of draft format, you know, like I felt like the the format was basically where I wanted it to be. But the way I write a book is basically I sometimes I outline, but then I kind of write the first draft and then I'll let it sit for a while and then I'll reread it and then I'll do a second draft.   And then more and more and more drafts until I finally get it to where I want it to be. And then at that point, I will read it out loud over and over and over and over again until I feel like it's exactly what I want to say. Or at least it said in the best way I know how to say it.   And then then I'll do all the other parts of publishing it, which is, you know, for me, because it's self-published, I, I then need to do the cover art and then put the thing out on KDP and which is Amazon's publishing platform. And so and also it is currently available on Amazon. And then later on I'm going to have it on other platforms as well.   After I finished the maintenance book, I went on to my next project, which was to redo the Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles book cover. When I first put it out, it was just a text based cover and it was just what I could do at the time. You know, I really wanted to get the book out there. And so I, I sent it out there with a text based cover.   But over time, I just had this idea of something that I wanted to put on the cover. And it was kind of intimidating because I knew I wanted to draw it and I wanted to relay the message, and I had the idea that I would make it look like Sisyphus, you know, pushing the boulder up the hill. And so I started sketching it out and I had been working on this, you know, just in my head for a long time, but it never could quite make myself sit down and actually do the work.   So that was the next task I did, was I sat down and I worked on that and I had no excuse because it wasn't like, Well, I need to make another video or I need to make another podcast. I just need to focus on this. So I did. I and I'm happy with the final result. So I updated the cover and so the updated cover is now on Amazon and so if you're interested in looking at it, you can see it on there.   Since the Office is a character in Greek mythology and he had this punishment of pushing a boulder up a hill and just when he would get it to the top of the hill, it would roll back down. And so this has come to describe, you know, basically any kind of task where it feels like you accomplish it and then it just kind of falls apart and you have to do it over again, which is what weight loss felt like to me until I found intermittent fasting.   So I thought, Oh, that's kind of a, you know, like these obstacles, it feels sometimes like a Sisyphean task. And so that's why I did the cover the way I did it, except for the weight loss journey, Unlike Surfaces story can have a happy ending. You can get that boulder to the top of the hill and it doesn't have to roll back down.   The next project was to finish book two in my forgotten portal Young Adult series. And so I had written a book called Escape from All Shakes Castle several years ago, and I actually started writing Book two right away, even before book one was out. But I just worked on it and worked on it. And then, you know, several things kind of happened in my life that kind of interrupted my progress on it.   But I finally got back to it. And but again, it was one of those things that it was just sitting there, you know, kind of in this state of it just needed more attention. I needed to just put all of my attention on that thing. So that's what I did. I worked on it and worked on it and worked on it.   Same kind of process as I use for my nonfiction books, you know, reading it over and over and over again, having other people read it, tell me what they think, especially my kids. And once I got the manuscript finished, then it was a process of, you know, doing the cover and then putting it out there for the world.   And so then when I was finished with that, I went on to work on the intermittent fasting workbook. Now this is one of those projects I thought, Oh, this is going to take like a day. And, and it taught me again that I'm really terrible estimating the amount of work that needs to go into something because so I had had this workbook as a companion to the intermittent fasting for weight loss course that I have on Teachable.   So the workbook, as it was on the course, was basically just a compilation of all the worksheets that went along with the course. So, you know, you watch a video and then I would tell you, okay, now fill out this worksheet and then you would, you know, fill out the worksheet. And so my thought was, well, you know, that general process would be really helpful for people.   Not everybody maybe wants to buy the course, but some people maybe just want the workbook. So my thought was, well, oh, I can just take that workbook and kind of just, you know, create a little bit of explanation and then and then just put the workbook out there. But then as I got into the project, I realized, Well, no, you really need to give context and it needs to kind of stand on its own.   And so after a while of working on it, I realized like this is just a really big project. So the further I got into the project, the more I realized that it was a really good thing because it helped me to see that I needed to tweak the course a little bit. Now, when I look at the course as it is right now, I really like it.   I think it's helpful. I know that it's helpful because people have told me, you know, that they've gone through it and that it has helped them. But through the process of making this workbook and tweaking it, I, I, I broke down the process of weight loss even further into five distinct phases. And I did this because I wanted to base it on what I have learned in my own journey and also what I see other people kind of getting stuck on.   And so before I had like three phases. Basically the first phase was write your plan and start testing things out. Phase two is like going through just the process of losing weight and phase three was maintenance. So I ended up breaking it down a little bit further. So the first phase is preparation. It's about getting your mindset in the right place, about doing a little bit of work on the front end about, you know, getting your motivations in place so that when you do kind of struggle in the later parts of the journey, you won't quit.   And the second phase is about learning how to fast. The third phase is figuring out your plan, experimenting with things, getting that plan in place. Fourth phase is the actual process of losing weight, and the fifth phase is maintenance. So the work takes you through that process and if you'd like to buy the work, but you can do so in the link in the show notes.   But if you have ever purchased a course from me in the past or you are a past coaching client, then you can get the workbook for free. The way to get it is to log into the course that you purchased. So and it doesn't matter. It can be any of the courses that I've made. Just log into the course and you should be able to just download the workbook from the Intermittent Fasting workbook module.   If you are a past coaching client, please just email me and I will email you the PDF. So there is a challenge that comes up with something like a workbook. For some people what happens is, you know, you hear about a word like, Yes, that's going to, that's going to be a great thing to do and you'll buy the workbook and then maybe you'll read the entire workbook, but then you never actually do the work in the workbook.   That just happens to so many of us. You know, there are so many books that I've picked up. And in the past, what I would do is I wouldn't do the exercises. You know, I'd read this self-help book and I would just, you know, I'd read the questions, but I wouldn't actually journal them out like they said to do.   But what I learned on the weight loss journey was that if I actually did the exercises, that's when the change started to happen. It wasn't just from reading the book, it was from doing these, you know, journal exercises, writing things out, really thinking these things through. So with that in mind, I'm going to try to solve that problem using the Discord server.   This leads me to another announcement for all current or future or past students or coaching clients. I'm giving you permanent access to the Discord server that I've set up now. I originally set this up because the insiders on my YouTube channel, those are people who are just paying a monthly subscription. They were asking for a place to get together and hold each other accountable and so that's how the Discord server was born.   And as I've started to use the Discord server, I've really liked the different features it has. And what I've seen in there. So and the Discord server is going to figure heavily into what I'm going to do in 2024 in order to get access to the Discord server. All you need to do is log into the course and then you'll see the instructions how to get access.   Just be aware that it is a private server. So I need to manually approve everything, so just be aware of that. So just follow the instructions that I've given you in there and then you should be able to get access. So for those of you who don't know what discord is, discord is basically just a place where you can chat with other people.   And basically, if you can use Facebook, then you can use discord like it doesn't require a bunch of skills or anything. It's going to look a little different than Facebook, of course. But but the basics are the same, so don't be intimidated by that. So on the Discord server, right now we have an accountability channel. We also have places for people to share what they're doing during the fasting window to keep themselves busy.   It's called filling the void. Also, the Discord server is where I hold office hours now. So if you have questions on the weight loss journey about, you know, anything that you've dealt with in the course or, you know, just like if you're tracking and you're kind of like what in a second opinion on what's going on, or if you're just kind of having trouble, you can drop into the office hours that I hold and we can chat about it.   You can be on just in the chat, but so you don't have to be on camera, You don't have to be on a microphone, or you can share your screen with me or you can have your microphone on, or you can have your camera on. It's really up to you and I'll post my availability within the Discord server.   Also on the Discord server, we are going to be doing a book club. So the first book that we're doing is Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and we're starting that now here in December. So if you're interested in participating in that, go ahead and join the Discord server. Now, like I mentioned, you can get access to the discord server either by being an insider on YouTube or being a student inside Sloan say Success Academy, or you can purchase a server subscription directly on Discord. And the Discord server is also a place where I'm going to be experimenting with some different types of offerings. For example, with this workbook in mind, I'm thinking, you know, I know one of the things that's really hard to do is to carve out time for the weight loss journey, meaning it's hard to get yourself to sit down and, you know, do a worksheet, but it's very helpful to do so.   So I'm planning on doing what I call the work of weight loss blocks. The idea is based off of a thing I've seen other people doing called sprints. So basically, you know, people do this with writing sprints or reading sprints. They'll basically get together. You know, some YouTubers do this where they'll that like actually just sit there with their microphone off in and they'll like.   Right. So the idea is you kind of start out maybe the first 10 minutes or so I would be, I would be hosting it and I would take, you know, questions or maybe we would discuss a topic for about 10 minutes and then for the next, say, you know, 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how what works best for the group, we would do, you know, a sprint, quote unquote.   But really all it would mean is to do the work of weight loss. So for some people that might be doing a worksheet for other people that might be sitting down with their weight tracking spreadsheet and looking at the trends and, you know, updating it with notes and things like that or, you know, sitting down with your your plan and looking at is it working?   And should teenagers be made or it might be something else. But the idea is to carve out that time. And so I'm thinking about, you know, offering these on a weekly basis. It's going to be experimental because I don't really know it. It may not be something that people are interested in or it may need to be tweaked or something else might work better.   But I have plenty of administrative tasks that I also need to make myself sit down and do. So My plan is to be doing that kind of work while other people are doing the other kind of work. And then after the sprint is over, after that 30 minutes is up, then we'll have about another 10 minutes to kind of talk about, you know, anything that came up for us during that sprint and and then then it's done.   So that's kind of my idea. So just be on the lookout for that as well. So once I finished the workbook, then it was time for my last project, which was a painting for my daughter. Apparently I had promised my daughter a painting and it's really important to me to keep promises. It was a big lesson I learned on the weight loss journey that it is important to keep promises to yourself is important also to keep promises to other people.   And on the weight loss journey, I realized, you know, I'm pretty good about keeping promises to other people, but I'm really not good at keeping promises to myself, you know, promises that I'm going to lose weight, promises that I'm going to stick to a plan, that kind of thing. And I've really learned the importance of doing that, of, you know, when you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it, you know, and which also if you start to do that, you start to become more careful of about what you promise to do.   And so my daughter brought this up to me that I had promised her a painting. She said, you know, one day she just kind of randomly came up to me and she said, When are you going to do that painting that you promised? And I thought, I don't what what painting? I had completely forgotten that I had promised.   So she showed me the picture of this church that I had promised to paint for her. And and so I got myself to sit down and actually do the work and to do the painting. And it took a while to do this. But and I mean, it took many, many hours because I was not familiar at all really with the medium that I was using.   I was using acrylic paint. I had done like a couple of oil paintings before, just small little things. And this was a bigger canvas and it was very intimidating. But I learned a lot. I loved the process. I highly recommend doing art, you know, just creating things just, just for fun, you know, just just to do it. It's very relaxing.   Is far superior to watching a movie or anything like that. And so I finished the project and then with that project finished, I was finished with my media fast, and then I tried to get back into doing all those things that I had kind of got behind on. And so I've been slowly working my way back in. So as you can see, today is December 6th and I am, you know, finally putting out a podcast episode.   So, you know, doing a little quick math, that means it basically took me three weeks to kind of get back into the groove of of publishing things. I've been doing things I've been I did put up a topical video on YouTube about intermittent fasting during the holidays, and I've also been continuing to do the vlog for insider. I've been on the Discord server and I've also just been, you know, trying to get caught up on various things. I was interviewed by Justin Dorff for his YouTube channel and so so I've been busy creating things. It's just that this podcast has been kind of like the last thing for me to get back into. So going forward, my plan is to try to to create consistently for the YouTube channel and for this podcast, but also I really enjoy, you know, helping people on a more personal basis, you know, getting to know the people.   And, you know, on the Discord server, that's been really neat to be able to actually interact with people. It's been a difficult thing to do on YouTube itself because the comment section in the public comment section, I just can't do it. I can't go in it and keep my mental health in the right place. But this Discord server has been good so far, I think because it is private and it's not just open to anyone who wants to come in and and come.   It is just for people who really want to be there. So thank you guys for listening to this very long update, but I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you next one. Do you want to lose the weight without getting rid of the foods you love and that you know you'll go back to eating again? Anyway, my book, The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting, teaches you how to practice intermittent fasting so that you lose the weight sustainably and keep it off for good. You can get the audiobook read by me for free when you sign up for your 30 day trial of Audible, the link is in the show notes, and if you've gotten value from this podcast and you'd like to let other people know about it, it'd be great if you could leave a review on either iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. Thanks.

In our latest episode, episode 85, titled "Living Six Miles From Lebanon," we were graced by the unexpected but deeply enriching presence of Efraim Goldstein, a missionary with Chosen People Ministries. What started as a prayer night in our community turned into an eye-opening conversation when Efraim walked in and we decided to hit the record button. Efraim has been in ministry with his wife, Jeannie, since 1975. They've spent the last few decades in Israel, serving communities and sharing the love of Yeshua. Currently, Efraim pastors the Light of Galilee Congregation in Nahariyya, a city that lies just six miles from the Lebanese border. His congregation is unique as it consists of both Jews and Arabs, and he even co-pastors with a Lebanese Christian. His early years in a Conservative Jewish home in the Bronx instilled in him a deep love for his Jewish heritage. However, it was in college, amidst the turbulence of the 1960s counter-culture, where he discovered Yeshua as the promised Messiah. Ever since, he's carried a burden to share this life-changing message, especially within Israel. According to Efraim, "Israel is one of the most open places to share the message of Yeshua with other Jewish people. All you need is some courage, and the willingness to share your faith." As if the night couldn't get any more remarkable, a Jordanian Christian friend of ours joined us toward the end. We seized the opportunity to capture her perspective on how the current events in Israel and Gaza are affecting the Jordanian Arab community. Right now, Efraim is heading back to Israel, to a community on edge as tensions with Hezbollah escalate. We invite you to keep him, his family, and his congregation in your prayers. This episode provides firsthand insights into what life really is like so close to conflict and how faith plays a pivotal role in navigating these uncertain times. 

In this episode I talk about the importance of autonomy when practicing intermittent fasting for weight loss.  An AI generated transcript is below.   Links: Private Coaching With Kayla Sign up for my weekly newsletter My Books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon: The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles: How To Keep Going When Things Get Difficult  Get the audiobook for free with a 30 day FREE TRIAL from Audible My young adult fiction novel: Escape From Olshek's Castle  ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM. Begin AI Generated Transcript Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over 80 pounds with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. In today's episode, we're going to talk about the importance of autonomy with intermittent fasting. I recently read a really good book on motivation called Drive by Daniel Pink. And in that book, he talks about motivation and what are the ingredients that need to be present in order for motivation to occur. And he says it comes basically down to three elements autonomy, mastery and purpose. And in today's episode, we're going to just focus on the idea of autonomy. Autonomy comes from two Greek words Otto's meaning self and numerous meaning law. When you put that together, all it really means is when you have autonomy, you are governing yourself, you're giving yourself rules, and then you are following them. And if you don't feel like you have autonomy, then you lose motivation. In other words, when you start to feel like other people are in control of your weight loss journey or they're in control of your fasting, you're going to feel less in control. You're going to feel like you don't have autonomy and then you're going to lose motivation. So it's important to listen to how you are feeling on the weight loss journey and to, you know, like if you ever start to feel like you're not in control, that's a red flag. And so I'm going to go through a few areas where I feel like a lot of us can start to feel like we don't have autonomy. But really, this is an illusion. Ultimately, you are in control of every single aspect of the weight loss journey. So let's talk about the fasting window itself, because that's where a lot of people have trouble. Ultimately, you are in control of what you allow yourself in the fasting window. But too often it can be, you know, a thing where maybe you've heard like, oh, well, you can't have anything at all, or you're not allowed to have a mint, or you can't have gum or you can't have cream in your coffee. And then you can think that that rule is forcing you to do something you don't really want to do. But the truth is, it is your choice whether to adopt that rule for yourself or not. It's a trap to adopt that rule for yourself and then to feel resentful of the person who you got the rule from. The truth is, there is no intermittent fasting police. So if you want to have cream in your coffee or you want to have a piece of gum or you want to have a spoonful of peanut butter in the fasting window, because that's what gets you through it. That's okay. You also have autonomy in the eating window. You get to decide what to eat and what not to eat and how much to eat. If you want to eat higher calorie kind of foods or things, you know, have a lot of sugar, a lot of salt or a lot of fat, you can do that. You're in control of every bite that goes into your body. And yet sometimes you can start to forget that, you know, you might think the other people are forcing you to eat a certain way, but that's simply not true. If you want to be low carb, be low carb, but understand that that's your choice. It's not anybody else's. Also, you are in control of how often you eat. If you want to eat three or four different times, and that still makes it so that you have the appropriate amount of food going into your body. Then you'll still lose weight. You're in control also of what time you fast and for how long you fast. You know, like if you want to do a second eat, great. If you want to do a 15 nine, you can do that. You can, you know, put all your eating in the morning or you can do all your eating late at night. It doesn't really matter. You're in control of that. It's also up to you how many days a week you're practicing fasting. You know, some people do it seven days a week. Other people do it five days a week. Some people do it three days a week. It's all about what you can stick with and what works in your life. It's also in your control. How often you take the day off. For whatever reason, you get to decide what an acceptable reason is. The thing is, people can get into your head, you know, like if you listen to one fasting person and they're all about clean fasting and they tell you absolutely, you can't have even a single bite of anything and can never have any kind of calories at all. And if you ever, ever, ever do it any differently, then you're doing it wrong. They can get in your head. And I mean, right now I'm in your head and I hope that you remember that just because something worked for me, just because, you know, I like Matt and I like I like dirty fasting. That isn't necessarily mean that that's the right path for you. You have to decide what will work in your life If you ever find yourself thinking like, Oh, other people are in control, other people are making you eat this certain way. Just understand that that can lead to some, you know, really interesting kind of behavior that will make you gain weight, you know, because you may start to eat out of a sense of rebellion. I know I certainly did this on various diets. I would start to really be resentful that, you know, some doctor in some book was telling me that I couldn't eat bread and that kind of a thing. And and so I would rebellion step. And ultimately, that did not serve me. And the real change happened for me when I realized that I'm in control of every bite I take. I get to make the rules for myself. And that will eventually get the weight off my body. So I hope that you'll take a minute and think about all the different parts of your plan. And if you see an area where you feel like you don't have autonomy, I would encourage you to remind yourself that you do that. You get to control that. And if you need to make a change, you should. Thank you for listening to this episode and I'll see you in the next one. Do you want to lose the weight without getting rid of the foods you love and that you know you'll go back to eating again anyway? My book, The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting, teaches you how to practice intermittent fasting so that you lose the weight sustainably and keep it off for good. You can get the audiobook read by me for free when you sign up for your 30 day trial of Audible. The link is in the show notes, and if you've gotten value from this podcast and you'd like to let other people know about it, it'd be great if you could leave a review on either iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.   Thanks.

In this episode of the Intermittent Fasting Foodie Podcast, host Jackie interviews fasting enthusiast and author, Kayla Cox. Kayla shares her journey of using intermittent fasting to lose 80 pounds and talks about her flexible fasting schedule in maintenance. She also discusses her YouTube channel, Six Miles to Supper, and how fasting has impacted her spiritual practice during Lent. Tune in to learn more about Kayla's fasting journey and find inspiration for your own intermittent fasting routine. Each person approaches fasting and their eating window's different.  Let's hear from Kayla on her unique experience. Kayla's website is: https://www.sixmilestosupper.com Kayla's YouTube channel page: https://www.youtube.com/@SixMilesToSupper/featured Amazon link for Kayla's book, The Laid Back Guide To Intermittent Fasting: https://www.amazon.com/dp/172913890X  If you want to be a guest on a future Episode, please email me here!!  Please put “podcast guest” in the subject!   PARTNERS ON THIS EPISODE (these affiliates help to support my career):  LMNT Electrolytes; get free 8 pack sampler with any order - https://drinklmnt.com/fastingfoodie   NutriSense: https://bit.ly/3TFHzjE and coupon code: Foodie25   Pepper Bras: https://bit.ly/3TFMX7t  and coupon code: JACKIEM   Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/intermittentfastingfoodie   FOLLOW ME HERE: Sign-Up for my weekly email: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/631766cee7f6956350b43197 Intermittent Fasting Foodie - YouTube Grocery Addict - YouTube Instagram Facebook  

In today's episode, I'm talking about bad days on the weight loss journey. Here's the link I mentioned to Jocko Willink's Good speech. An AI generated transcript is below.   Other links: All Access Pass  Become a YouTube Insider Private Coaching With Kayla Sign up for my weekly newsletter My Books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon: The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles: How To Keep Going When Things Get Difficult  Get the audiobook for free with a 30 day FREE TRIAL from Audible My young adult fiction novel: Escape From Olshek's Castle  ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM. Begin AI Generated Transcript I. Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over £80 with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. Before we get into today's episode, I just want to let you know that I am offering the all access pass for my academy. So what this means is that you can pay a monthly subscription for access to all the courses inside my academy. That also gets you access to office hours with me and to a weekly group meeting that will do on Zoom. This meeting will have a topical component based on the group's needs, and I'll also be taking questions and I will answer them in depth inside the meeting. In order to get access. All you need to do is log in to the course and then go to the weekly group meeting module, which should be located in the course introduction for whichever course you're in and if you'd like to get your all access pass subscription, you can click the link in the show notes. Thanks. In today's episode, we're going to talk about bad days on the weight loss journey. Now, the thing about bad days is that when you're going through it, they're not fun. They're actually quite bad. That's why we call them a bad day. And I know that it sounds trite, you know, when when someone says, oh, well, there's always a silver lining in every, you know, bad thing. If you just look on the positive side, some good can come of it. But I have found that this is so true on the weight loss journey. I thought it might be helpful to take you through several different specific examples of my own weight loss journey to show you how you know, some of the roughest times that I had were actually the things that ended up being the best for me. And I'm just going to go in chronological order. So the first bad day I had was my I've had enough moment. Now, for those of you who have not heard this story. I got tagged in some Facebook photos back in March of 2014. And as I sat there in the bathroom, you know, I remember logging in to Facebook and I and I saw these notifications and it said, Oh, you've been tagged in some photos. And I remember thinking, oh, I wonder, well, you know, when would was that from? And that I thought, well, it's probably just, you know, just my kids because I always avoided the camera. So when I clicked on the notification, I started seeing all these pictures. I was like swiping through and I didn't recognize myself. And I remember in that moment I was so humiliated. I was embarrassed. I was really angry at the person who had posted the pictures. I was angry at Facebook for having the stupid tagging feature. I remember being very upset, just, you know, crying. And I remember thinking, you know, maybe my family would be better off without me. And in that moment, I called out to God. I was like, I, I need help. You know, I can't do this alone. So even though that was my low point, it was also this turning point that happened to me because it was in that moment that very, very low time when things started to change. As soon as I said that little prayer, I remember just having some clarity, just, you know, like just sitting there, things that I really had not realized until that moment I started to realize. And one thing was I realized that all this anger that I was feeling and I mean, I was blaming everybody. I was really mad at everybody else. You know, I was mad at the person who had posted the photos. I was mad at Facebook. I was mad at all the fast food companies. I was mad at all the food companies in general. I was mad at my kids because I thought, well, it was the pregnancy's that really put on this weight of the minute. My husband, because he never had to worry about his weight. You know, I was just mad at everybody. And then as I sat there, I realized I have no one else to blame. This all falls on me because I am the one who took every bite of food. I am the one who, you know, decided every day, you know, should I sit here or should I go for a walk or should I, you know, this bag of chips or should I just not? And from that day forward, even though it was by no means an overnight transformation, because you'll you'll hear, you know, how long this whole process took. But but it was the start out of doing just a little bit better with my eating doing just a little bit better with my relationships, communicating just a little bit better, taking a little bit of time for myself, you know, trying not to be resentful of things, trying to say no to people so that I wouldn't be resentful. But it all started because of one really bad day. So, you know, time rocked on and almost a whole year passed with no real progress being made, even though I knew, like, okay, I want to lose weight. I was trying to figure things out, but I wasn't really taking any action, not consistently and not the appropriate kind of action that would actually help me lose weight. I was in the gym. I had I was there like on a free seven day trial thing, and I was working out really hard. And and I realized, like, I really need to go weigh myself. And this was a very difficult thing for me to do because I had not weighed in years. I mean, I had had my third child and had not weighed. And I knew that, you know, I wasn't going to like the number, but I was pretty sure I was pretty sure the number would be like 185. I thought know, probably like 175, but maybe it's 185, maybe it's gotten that bad. And so I got up the nerve. I was like, okay, I just I need to look at that number. I've got to know. So I went to the locker room and I climbed up on the scale. And then I looked at the number and I saw £222 staring back at me. And I felt like I had just gotten socked in the gut. You know, I was I was just so embarrassed yet again about like, how far off I was in my self-perception. And so I felt really bad in that moment. It was a really bad day when that happened. But I learned something really important in that day, which was I had the power to make it so that I was never in that place again, that I was never blindsided by what I weighed, because that was the day that I'd decided, okay, daily weighing, that's for me. I just, you know, I'm going away for the rest of my life so that I always just know where I'm at with my weight. And I think that has been a huge reason why I was able to not only lose the weight, but more importantly, keep it off, because it has kept me accountable in maintenance, which is where I always struggled. About four months after I weighed myself for the first time, I had another really bad day and that was the day that I injured my back doing a deadlift. Now I had lost about £17 by that point and so I was making pretty good progress. Now, I didn't think at the time I really kind of thought, I'm not losing weight nearly fast enough. I don't really hurry up, which is one big reason why I injured my back because I was pushing myself too hard. But I remember, you know, I went to do this deadlift and I knew that it was really heavy. And you know, there was a thing in the back of my mind that said, this is probably a bit too heavy. I should wait until I can do this. Lower weight was really good form and, and then, you know, move up. But I was in a rush and I remember when I picked up the weight, it was like I saw like a snap of a white light go off, like in my vision. And so I set the weight back down and I had injured my back. And I don't know to this day, like what was the technical injury? I just knew my back hurts really bad and and I was in a lot of pain. I could not work out for several days at all. I mean, and I just kept, you know, taking Tylenol and Advil and stuff like that. I didn't go to the doctor. We were tied on money at the time, and I was just like, well, I mean, all they're going to tell me is, you know, basically just take these painkillers or whatever. And I was like, I'm not going to take really strong painkillers. And so I just decided to tough it out and so for the weeks following, I was in pain. So this is like a whole period of time, or I was just in pain. And the pain, you know, it lessened over the course of time. And then what happened was I kept trying to start working out again. And what ended up happening was I kept injuring myself because I was not ready to go back into those workouts, or at least maybe I was trying to lift too heavy still because I was still in a hurry. And eventually I got to the point where I said, okay, I really need to heal. I can't do this anymore. And at the time that felt like defeat. Not only was I in like physical pain, but I was just devastated because I thought, well, now I'm definitely going to gain weight because I can't lose weight without really hard, intense exercise. I just I had this in my mind, but this was actually one of the best things in hindsight that could have happened to me, because once I couldn't focus on the working out, I had to focus on my eating. And this was really the root of all my weight problems. It wasn't that I was inactive, although that did not help things. What was really my problem was that I was an emotional eater. I was a chronic kind of overeater, and I didn't know that about myself until I could only focus on that. How this looked in reality was, you know, I decided all I could do for exercise was walk. And so I had a set goal for myself. And so what started happening was on those days where normally I would have just been inconsistent with my intermittent fasting, you know, broken the fast, early or whatever, just because like, well, I'm hungry, I wouldn't do that. I'd be like, Well, I can't afford to do that because all I'm doing is walking. So I've got to be really, really careful here. So I would just not break the fast and instead I would go for a walk about, Oh, well, I've got steps again, so let's go for a walk. And as I started to do that consistently, I started to learn about myself that, oh, you know, so many times when I am eating, it's for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm actually hungry, it's because I'm stressed or it's because I'm bored or I'm procrastinating and learning. Those root causes of my weight gain has been so helpful, both, you know, to get it off, but also to be very watchful of myself in maintenance because those, you know, bad habits can creep back in. Another silver lining from that deadlift injury has been I have been better, although certainly not perfect about listening to myself when I kind of get that intuition that I'm pushing myself a little too hard, that I'm expecting too much out of myself. And so that has been, you know, just a lesson that I've learned. And I'm just now starting to get back into powerlifting after being away from it for about eight years now as of this recording. And and so I'm trying to be very careful that when I am lifting weights, I'm not going to re injure myself, that I really, you know, listen to that voice that says, okay, you know, it's good to push, but not too hard. Now, the last bad day, really bad day that I had, it was in 2015, and that was when I almost quit the weight loss journey completely. I was just really feeling like it's time for me to throw in the towel. Now, remember, by this point, it had been almost two years since my I've had enough moment, and at that point I was sitting around, you know, like maybe 208 or so. After two years, basically, I lost £14, which, you know, in hindsight I think that's good. But at the time I felt like that's complete and total failure. Like, what am I even doing? This is this is ridiculous. I was feeling really down because in my mind, you know, I should have had this weight loss thing over and done with within a few months. I mean, that's just how it was in my head. But fortunately, in 2015, I had really been listening to a lot of self-help like audiotapes and CDs and just motivational material on YouTube and reading self-help books. And, you know, I thought, okay, you know, I need to I need to try to learn from this. There was a quote from Henry Ford that I liked to repeat to myself, which was, you know, failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. So I thought to myself, okay, instead of quitting, I'm going to see if I can just learn from this. So, yes, I'm not satisfied with my results. So how can I try to learn and then begin again more intelligently? I looked at my spreadsheet where I had, you know, logged my weight and I looked at my notes because I had made, you know, notes in the margins of like, okay, you know, this is what I've been doing this week, this is what I've been doing this week. And that was when I saw, you know, how often I had been quitting on my plan and how often I've been, you know, changing things up and how inconsistent I had been. And so in this Google doc that I had, it was my notes for 2015. I wrote this. I have learned that whatever I do needs to be sustainable throughout my life. Not I can do this for two months. I need to be able to modify for life. And I look back on that statement and it makes me smile because that was my aha moment, you know, where I really finally, finally out of, you know, years of hearing people say, oh, you know, weight loss is really about permanent lifestyle changes, all about lifestyle change. I had heard that a million times in my lifetime, but I finally got it. I finally realized my problem is I'm not sticking with anything. I'm trying to be unsustainable in everything I do. So instead I am going to move forward with sustainability as my is my top goal. So I'm not going to do anything that I can't foresee myself doing for the rest of my life. And that is what directly led to my decision to practice intermittent fasting six days a week and taking the day off every Sunday. And, you know, just walking, having that be my movement because I knew I could stick with that, you know, as long as I didn't become disabled, I could walk every day. And it led to, you know, the decision to let myself have coffee in the fasting window. Those things were things I could see myself doing forever. That was like, yeah, that's easy. I can do that. And it was that plan that got the weight off my body and, you know, and has helped me throughout maintenance, which has been going on for years now. But that only happened because I had some really bad days. So right now, if you are, you know, just going through a hard time, you're just having a rough go of it. Try your best. And I know it's hard. I know it's hard when things are not going well. It's hard to to really tell yourself and believe it that something good can come from this. But it can. You may not see it right off the bat, but I have found that if you really are intentional with saying something good will come from this and you really start looking for it, you'll see it sooner rather than later. And I also want to highly recommend Jocko, which links speech is just called Good. It's just this short video where he talks about why when bad things happen, you should say good. It has helped me many a time when I am going through a rough time. I hope that this episode has helped you. Thank you for joining me and I'll see you in the next one. Do you want to lose the weight without getting rid of the foods you love and that you know you'll go back to eating again? Anyway, my book, The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting, teaches you how to practice intermittent fasting so that you lose the weight sustainably and keep it off for good. You can get the audiobook read by me for free when you sign up for your 30 day trial of Audible. The link is in the show notes, and if you've gotten value from this podcast and you'd like to let other people know about it, it'd be great if you could leave a review on either iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. Thanks.

In today's episode, I'm talking about overthinking and how to avoid it on the weight loss journey. An AI generated transcript is below. (:  Other links: IF for Weight Loss Course Become an Insider Private Coaching With Kayla Sign up for my weekly newsletter My Books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon: The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles: How To Keep Going When Things Get Difficult  Get the audiobook for free with a 30 day FREE TRIAL from Audible My young adult fiction novel: Escape From Olshek's Castle  ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM. Begin AI Generated Transcript: Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over £80 with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. Before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to remind you that I do have courses and coaching available. If you are interested in that, you can use the link in the description to go to my slow and Steady Success Academy. All students inside my courses have access to office hours where you can get your questions answered inside a Zoom call. And if you enroll, you can get 25% off by using the coupon code pod at checkout. In today's episode, we're going to talk about overthinking and why it's not a good thing to do on the weight loss journey and how you can stop it. Overthinking is one of those things that I think some people are just more prone to do, and I happen to be one of those people. I tend to overthink just about everything. There are good things about thinking deeply about a thing, but it really can derail your progress when it comes to weight loss. So the first place that this can creep in is when you set up your goal weight. Back in March of 2014, that was when I had my I've had enough moment. I was so ready to get the weight off and I was just determined. But it took me almost an entire year to get on the scale and finally come up with the number that I was shooting for. I didn't really know what a good thing to shoot for was. I, you know, like, I had always had trouble with my weight. I never was able to keep it off. So I kind of thought, well, I don't know. Like, is the problem that I am getting down to, you know, to overweight and then that's causing me to not be able to maintain it. Like, should I be shooting for something higher? You know, and so I would just debate these things in my mind constantly. But once I finally got on the scale and I saw the number, I thought, okay, I just need to pick a number and try to get down to it and I need to stop overthinking it and just, you know, write down a number, pick a number, write it down, and then just go about the business of trying to lose the weight. And that was the right thing to do in hindsight. The key here is that you just pick a number because once you pick something, you know, even if it's arbitrary, even if you're not really sure that that's going to be the right number. And look, any goal weight that you pick is going to be arbitrary, too. To some extent and you may not know until you get there whether it's going to be a good goal or not. It's just an educated guess. So because of that, it's better to just go ahead and pick something. Once you've picked it, then you can start moving towards it When you're not really sure where you want to end up. It's going to be really hard to motivate yourself to stop overthinking your goal weight, to sit down. You know, if you want to sit down with the BMI chart, I think that's a great place for people to start. And then just look at what a normal weight range is for you. I would pick something on the high end of normal or the low end of overweight. From what I've talked with other people and through my own experience, I'll say that's when weight loss seems to be, you know, fairly easy. It's not it doesn't take like super good consistency or a lot of restriction. On the other hand, you know, once once you get or at least in my experience, once you get down into the normal BMI, like right there at that cusp between overweight and normal BMI, that's when the weight loss really slowed down for me. Up until that point, it was about a pound a week. Once I got down to that point, it was a third of a pound a week, and that was even with really good consistency. So just some food for thought. So pick a number and go ahead and make a deal with yourself there. If you feel comfortable stopping earlier because maybe you just shot too low that okay, you can you can stop at a higher number. Or conversely, if you get down to that number and you decide I still want to lose, you know, five or ten more pounds or whatever number, then then you can move on from there. But it's important to just pick something and start moving towards it. Think of it as the good enough goal, which brings you to the next step in the weight loss journey, which is to pick out your plan. And this is the place where so many people get stuck because of overthinking. They research and research and research, and there's all this conflicting information out there. You know, if you go on YouTube or just, you know, do a Google search, you'll be able to see that there are a million experts out there with a million different opinions about which plan is best. And it can be overwhelming. It can get you stuck in inaction for years. And, you know, this is a big reason in 2014 that I stayed stuck because I was researching everything and I was so confused about everything. I was just like, you know, like I would read stuff about kiddo. I would read stuff about veganism. I would read stuff about Carnivore. I would read stuff about, you know, like don't eat sugar or, you know, other people would say, Oh, that's fine. You know, like and counting calories is the way or you've got to cycle your carbs or, you know, and there's so much information out there. The way to stop overthinking this is to break it down into a really simple equation, which is you need to burn more calories than you're consuming. Now, most people do this through a combination of eating less and moving more. And my own opinion on this is that the most important part is eating less. The moving part, I think, is very helpful for staying encouraged, having your your mental state, you know, in a positive place. But as far as just from a perspective of can you lose weight without exercise, Yes, you can. So if you're right now, if the big thing that's messing with you is like you don't like to exercise and you don't know how to get yourself to exercise, then focus 100% on the eating and just don't worry about it, because you can certainly still lose weight. When I look back, you know, I remember I spent days, weeks of just researching all this stuff, just researching, especially exercise. I was, you know, spending hours and hours at the computer thinking about these things, trying to figure out, you know, like, should it be high intensity exercise or is it better to do low state cardio or is it better to lift heavyweights or is it better to do, you know, more volume of reps but with with less weight or, you know, like there is so much stuff that I just filled my head with. Meanwhile, and sitting there not exercising and I did this for so long. I mean, I look back and I laugh at myself and I think, what on earth were you thinking? You know, like and the same with the plan, the eating plan. I would research and research and research. Meanwhile, you know, I would just be overeating constantly. So by 2015, I was I was doing more towards trying to, you know, practice intermittent fasting and things like that. I really didn't have a plan yet, though. I was doing a lot of stuff, but no clear plan again, because I was just overthinking it. I was constantly reading contradictory evidence and then changing my plan accordingly and then not really having results and getting frustrated and then changing the plan, you know, And just in truth, not really having a plan, just trying lots of stuff. One thing that kind of shifted my paradigm a little bit, it kind of helped me to call myself out on what I was doing. I remember I was reading a book and I think it was starting strength, My Mark crypto. But in it this author said that the way to lose weight, like if you're just going to lose weight, he said, eat nothing but chicken breasts for a month and let you lose £40. I can't remember the exact quote, but that was that was the the thrust of it. And in that moment I realized, you know, that's the thing. I'm not trying to like, just lose weight, Like, that's not what I'm going for. And so I was looking for the wrong thing. When I was looking, I was always, you know, looking for the fastest way to lose weight or the best way to lose weight. But that's not really what I was wanting to do. I realized when I saw that in black and white, like, Oh, this is the way that I could lose weight really fast. I knew, like if I do that plan, I will gain it. All right. That because there is no way for the rest of my life I can just eat nothing but, you know, chicken breasts. And I think it was that moment where I really said to myself, okay, so what? I'm actually trying to figure out here is how do I eat the right amount of food? Like, I'm not really interested in cutting out, you know, you know, different whole food groups and stuff like that. I just want to figure out how to eat. My plan is to help me learn how to eat the right amount of food. So January of 2016, that's when I finally wrote down an actual plan. And I remember I was just like, okay, is January is is time to, like, really knock this thing out? I've got to figure out a plan. And so I did. I sat down and I said, intermittent fasting six days a week, cheat day on Sunday, walk six miles a day. So I had everything, you know, down on paper. I knew what I was doing, I knew what I was committed to doing. And that was my plan. And then and this is a this is a big part of stopping overthinking is once you've picked that plan, you commit to it and you just say, I'm doing this. And so I committed to six weeks in my mind because, you know, when I look back over my history, I realize like I was usually quitting a plan. After about a week, I would give it a week and then I would quit. And then, you know, sometimes I'd be with something for longer than that. But generally speaking, I was thinking week to week, not like months of trying something consistently. Now, if you actually commit to a plan, it takes out the overthinking or it can you know, any time you start overthinking your plan, it means you're not really committed to it. Now, I understand that it's really difficult to commit to a plan when you don't really know if it's going to work. And that's the thing. Before you've tested a plan, you're not really sure if it's going to work. So it can be hard mentally to truly commit to it. But if you commit to it and you, you know, you can give yourself an out, What worked for me was to say, okay, I'm going to do this plan and I'm going to try it for six weeks and if during that time I gain £10, then I will allow myself to quit the plan. And I chose £10 because at that point I was around two or five and I knew that if I gained all the weight back, I would have been really upset with myself and it would have been really hard to like try again. So I thought, okay, £10. If I gain £10, I would put me to 15, which means I still would have, you know, lost £7 from my heaviest confirmed weight and it wouldn't be like completely starting over. So that was an that was enough of a compromise for me to get myself to commit. And what has helped me since then, to stay committed to the plan and to try my best not to overthink it is to simply be committed to it and to remind myself if I ever do hear people, you know, like and I do, I hear people all the time trying to, you know, convince me that one plan is better than the other or, oh, you know, you should really be trying to eat this way or whatever. The thing that has helped me is to just remind myself I'm committed to my plan and I know what works for me. I know what I feel best done. And if it works for them, great. But I don't need a plan that's different from what I'm already doing because I'm happy with it. In the end, I just decided, you know, I think humans are really adaptable that we can survive and thrive on a wide variety of food inputs, you know? So I'm going to just eat what is available to me. I'm going to be grateful for every bite that is put before me. So that helped me to stop overthinking food and it really improved my relationship with food. I found stopping power once I said, you know, all the foods are allowed and I'm not going to worry about it. And it's just given me a lot of peace. But everybody has to make their own minds up. I would say, you know, just figure out what works for you. You know, pay attention to how various foods affect you and and eat those, the things that make you feel the best and avoid those things that make you feel the worst and and just go based on your own experience. So if how remote your eating is causing the scale to go up, it simply means you're eating too much. So don't overthink it. Don't don't like get it all in your head that oh, it means I need to like cut out this or that. It just means you need to eat. That's all you need to do. There's a lot of different strategies you can use to help yourself eat less. You can cut out snacking, you can cut out distracted eating. You can just make yourself slow down while you're eating. You can eat from a smaller plate. There are plenty of things that you can do to help yourself eat less. So once you have your goal weight and you've got your plan, then it's time to start implementing. And this is yet another place where overthinking can really start to come into play because you're going to be constantly bombarded with information from all different camps about, you know, what you should be doing or what you should not be doing in order to lose weight. You know, if you bring this up with people, you're going to get lots of opinions. You're going to get a lot of advice. And, you know, my personal advice here is that if you don't want that kind of stuff, just don't talk about the fact that you're losing weight, that you're on a plan or anything like that. Just keep, you know, keep it to yourself and that that'll help you to have less advice thrown at you. But even even if you tell no one, you know, likely you're going to see it on YouTube or on television. There's going to be, you know, various fad things in the news about, oh, you get to try this diet drug. Are you going to, you know, do this new exercise? And there's just a lot that can kind of cause you to doubt the thing that you're doing. One thing that really helped me a lot was to go on a low information diet, meaning I just stopped consuming most news. I didn't watch the news anymore. I really limit my YouTube consumption. And, you know, I avoided and really when it came to like all the weight loss things, I completely avoided those in 2014, 2015, I was going on different websites, you know, that would, you know, talk about different ways to lose weight. There was one blog in particular. This girl had documented her weight loss journey, but she had gained the weight back. And so I was always like looking, you know, watching her story, like, oh, is she going to figure out how to get the weight back off and I realized that I had to stop looking at all of it. So, you know, when it came to things I was going to watch or things I was going to read or things that I was going to listen to, I just avoided all things diet and exercise related. And instead I just focused on like motivational things, uplifting things, inspirational things, things that would make my life better and my attitude better. And I'm really glad that I did that. And I told myself, if I ever actually have a problem, then I'll go and try to find the solution. But until such a time, I'm just going to keep it all turned off. So protect your mind, you know? And that includes like turning off things like this podcast, my YouTube channel. If those things end up messing with you and you find that you're not being as consistent, then don't watch it. You know, if something helps, you keep it in your life. But if something is just causing you to overthink things, get it out of your life. The last area that overthinking can creep into is the tracking. So you know, you've got a plan, you've got a goal, you're implementing, and then you got to be tracking in order to decide, you know, like, is this plan working or do you need to implement some changes into your plan so that you lose weight? And so the tracking part is tricky because weight fluctuates right now, if you have not weighed and you're trying to lose weight, I would encourage you go get on the scale right now. Just face reality. It's I know it's scary, but it's one of the best things you can do on the weight loss journey, because then you'll know you'll know exactly where you are and you can start tracking your progress. But just know that weight fluctuates. You know, some people, their weight fluctuates by £5 within a day. This is why I really like daily weighing and then keeping track of that seven day average over time because you know, your weight is going to fluctuate up and down, up and down, up and down. And your cycle, if you're a female, is also going to cause weight fluctuations. Generally speaking, people find their weight is a few pounds higher on their period than it is for the rest of the month. And if you know these things and you can just mentally prepare for the fact that it's not going to be a straight line down, but that you do need to be tracking so that you see what's going on, You're going to have a much easier time looking at things on a day to day basis or even a week to week basis. It's really not going to tell you very much. And if you and if you focus on those things, it's going to be really easy to overthink it and to, you know, kind of panic like, oh, you know, like my weight didn't go down per pound this week. Does that mean my plan isn't working? Like, those types of overthinking instances are going to be very unhelpful. Instead, just detach from that. Look at your seven day average over six weeks of time. Here's a little window into how my mind works, how much I can overthink things and worry about things. So once I started this plan and I was being consistent with it, in 2016, the scale started moving down consistently. I mean, it wasn't necessarily every single week it was down exactly £1, but it was consistent enough that I was like, Wow, I'm finally losing weight. Do you know what I started to do? I started to worry that I had cancer or some other terrible disease because because I was losing weight. Because it was because before it had been so difficult to lose weight. And now here I was. I was eating all the food. I was having chocolate cake. When I wanted chocolate cake, I was you know, I wasn't doing anything for exercise except for walking and I was losing weight. And so I was I was suddenly worried and I was over thinking. And this is one of those times when you kind of just have to say, okay, let's more likely let's try to be rational here that, you know, I suddenly have this terrible disease, or is it perhaps because I finally have picked a plan and have started implementing it consistently? Sometimes you have to just give yourself a little sit down talking to you and tell yourself, you know, you're just overthinking it. You need you need to stop. Which is exactly what I did. So if you are in the habit of overthinking, I hope that this episode has helped you to kind of realize it, you know, kind of see maybe where you're overthinking things. And so hopefully you can use that information and help yourself to stop overthinking in the future. Thank you for listening to this episode and I'll see you in the next one. Do you want to lose the weight without getting rid of the foods you love and that you know you'll go back to eating again anyway? My book Believe That Guide to Intermittent Fasting teaches you how to practice intermittent fasting so that you lose the weight sustainably and keep it off for good. You can get the audiobook read by me for free when you sign up for your 30 day trial of Audible. The link is in the show notes, and if you've gotten value from this podcast and you'd like to let other people know about it, it'd be great if you could leave a review on either iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. Thanks.

YouTube Live Q&A  In today's episode, I'm talking about the most important lessons I've learned in maintenance.  Other links: IF for Weight Loss Course Become an Insider Private Coaching With Kayla Sign up for my weekly newsletter My Books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon: The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles: How To Keep Going When Things Get Difficult  Get the audiobook for free with a 30 day FREE TRIAL from Audible My young adult fiction novel: Escape From Olshek's Castle  ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM.   The following is an AI generated transcript of this podcast.  Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over £80 with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. Hey, guys, before you get into today's episode, I just wanted to take a minute to let you know about something you might not know about, which is my live Q&A, is that I do on YouTube. These happen on Fridays at noon Eastern, which for you international people, that is UTC minus four in these lives. I take questions from people in the chat. So if you have any questions, you just can join up and you know, ask your question. Usually I'm live for about an hour and I'm usually able to answer all the questions that are asked. I'll put a link in the show notes to the live and if you are subscribed to my channel, you can also choose to get notifications and then that will alert you whenever I go live. These lives are always a good time, so I hope to see you there. And this episode, I'm going to take you through my two maintenance experiences and talk about the similarities and the differences and what I've learned. I went from 220 to down to about 157 158, and that was my initial weight loss. I was really happy at 157 and I remember thinking, you know, we're coming up on the holidays. I don't really know if I'm going to be able to keep this off. It felt so easy that I wasn't really sure, you know, like would it continue to be easy or what? And so I decided to maintain and I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do. I kind of had it in my head, you know, Is it. It was this question of is it is it like failure? If I continue to do the plan or some version of the plan, like, you know, is it kind of like graduating from the weight loss program and then you got to go back to real life? You know, this is where I had always failed. I had always gained the weight back, which was, you know, at this point in my life, I had done it many, many times. I don't know how many times I had, you know, lost weight, gotten down to a goal away and then just promptly gained it. All right. Back. So I wanted to do it right. So I made some decisions that I think were really important right upfront. And that was, first of all, I cannot go back to eating how I was eating before, like eating all day, no boundaries with food, overeating, you know, on a regular basis, snacking all the time. Those things I didn't think would be wise, you know, to do anymore. But as far as the day to day planner wasn't really sure. And so I decided to just keep the experimental mindset. And I just wanted to see, you know, like, what exactly do I need to do in order to keep the weight off another decision I made that was really important was to continue to weigh. And my idea was, you know, I'm just going to do some experimentation here. But ultimately, if my if my weight start to trend upwards into a place where I'm just not comfortable anymore with the weight gain, then I'm going to stop. I'm going to, you know, change something up and I'll lose weight. My, my, my kind of vague idea was I'll I'll just go back on the plan that I know works and so I started experimenting and I tried to keep, you know, self-aware, like, you know, what's going on. So there were days this would have been like 2016 and into 2017. I just would sometimes do, you know, homemade like I like to do. Sometimes I would do two meals a day. Sometimes I would do no fasting at all. Just eat, you know, like just be, you know, quote unquote normal, you know, just have breakfast and have lunch and have dinner. And I would even experiment with like, okay, you know, like, what if I what if I snack? You know, what? What is that like? And I really wanted to see, you know, what works and what doesn't. And a big lesson I learned that year was that my walks were important and it wasn't because of calorie burn. I don't think, you know, it was more going for my daily walks put me in a good headspace, like it just made my emotional life better. I found that I was a more patient person, both with myself and with my family, and I just didn't feel great if I didn't get out there and do my steps. So that was really the first lesson I learned in the maintenance journey was, okay, I need I need to keep active. And I found that I could maintain my weight pretty easily within like a £5 range based on my seven day average with really being pretty, pretty lax. I would say like looking back at those times. I mean, again, I wasn't practicing intermittent fasting very consist ardently as far as like I didn't have a consistent plan. I was being really lucid. So maintaining my weight between 158 and 163 was pretty easy in my experience. It didn't really require too too much thought really, as long as I kept, you know, walking like I was walking and which was six miles a day and and just keeping on weighing that, that was really easy. So then I decided in September of 2017 to start my YouTube channel, and I got it in my head that, you know, I really need to lose these last like, you know, it was at this point probably five or £6 to get, you know, into the normal BMI, which I know, you know, BMI is not perfect. It's arbitrary, quite frankly. But it was the the yardstick that I had decided to measure, you know, by and and it did kind of bug me that I was a few pounds overweight. It did not bug me as far as my weight felt great. As far as me moving through life, I felt great. My energy levels were really good. I my joints were good. I didn't I didn't feel like my weight was holding me back at all. But, you know, the idea of being on YouTube and having a journal about weight loss and being a little bit overweight, like, I just couldn't handle that. Like I was afraid of what people were going to say. And I wanted to be helpful to people like I didn't want the fact that I was slightly overweight to prevent people from learning about intermittent fasting and that kind of a thing. So I thought, you know, like, I want to do this, I want to do it for myself, but I also want to do it, you know, just to show people that it's possible to do it. And so for the next year, I went on this journey of, you know, losing more weight. And so I went back to the plan that I had used to help me lose weight. So that was eating one meal a day, walking six miles a day, and then taking a cheat day on Sunday. And I documented that process on YouTube. I just, you know, like every month I would sit down and give like a report of my numbers, what my weight did and all that stuff. And so I got down to a point by like the end of 2018 where I was like, okay, I feel like I'm just chasing a low number at this point. Like, like there was there was just nothing that was like motivating me to lose more, you know? It was just like, Why am I doing this? I kept thinking, like, what? Like why do I continue to want to lose weight? I mean, and I wasn't even really wanting to is just kind of like, you know, you need a Y, right? So I thought, you know, since I've been the type of person historically who's just never satisfied, like, no matter what the number is, it's like it needs to be one less, you know, like if I'm at 142, it needs to be 141. If I'm at 141 needs to be 140, and if 140, then I'll be happy when it's 139. So I said, I'm going to stop doing that. I'm just going to be satisfied with that number, which I had been satisfied with. 158 So so I decided, okay, I'm going to try to maintain this and so here's what I've learned since then. So that started, you know, like at the end of 2018, I think it was around September or October of that year that I decided, okay, I'm done and now I want to maintain again. And I wasn't really sure once again, like, what exactly does this mean? And I think that's where a lot of people find themselves when they get down to their goal weight. They're like, I don't know really what I'm supposed to do next. And so, you know, based on the the the things I had learned before, I knew I wanted to continue to be active, to continue to do my walks. I knew that was going to be really important. And it was definitely important to continue to weigh. But I wasn't really sure about my day to day plan. I felt kind of I was overthinking it, quite frankly, which I tend to do about things. But I was you know, I was thinking, well, you know, I know what would work. Obviously, eating one meal a day, like if I just kept doing what I was doing, I would either, you know, maybe lose some more weight or I would just maintain. And so that was an option. But then I thought, but what if, you know, what if the only reason I'm doing this is because I have this YouTube channel and people are watching me and, you know, and that created a little bit of a problem in my head because I don't want to do things like that just for the sake of doing them because I'm being watched, if that makes sense. Like, I think it's much more helpful for you guys and anybody who watches my videos, if I do my very best to act as if in my own life, as if I do not have this podcast, as if I do not have the YouTube channel, and as if I have not written books about intermittent fasting and weight loss. Because if I do that, if I, if I, if I try to just live my life in that way, as if I do not have those things, I feel like my daily actions are just going to be more normal and I know that this is on some level futile. The Hawthorne effect comes into play, which is, you know, when you observe something, it changes its behavior. It just does. But I still try to do my very, very best to act as though I don't have those things. And so with maintenance, I was like, well, you know, like, I remember when I was maintaining last time, I was pretty loosey goosey. Like I really didn't have to be on any particular kind of like fasting window. I could, you know, just it was just easy since then. So at this point it's been about five years and I've just been experimenting with all different ways of eating and, you know, like there have been times where I've done, you know, like two meals a day. Sometimes I've done just an eating window like a six, eight or an 18 six. I've done shorter fasting windows to like, you know, like a 1212. And there have been days where I'll just do, you know, like no fasting at all. Like we're just going to have a, you know, quote unquote regular day. And so here is what I have found. Maintaining at a higher weight is easier. And maybe that sounds obvious to you when I say that out loud, but it really is true. I mean, it was it was just a lot easier to maintain in that £5 range when I was up at that height weight. I mean, which makes sense. You can eat more at a higher weight and maintain that weight. When you weigh less, you have to eat less. And as someone who likes big portions and likes to eat, that is just something that I have had to learn that, you know, if I want to be in the one forties, then that means I have to eat at that 140 level, which is fine. That's actually something that I that I can do without too much effort. But it does mean that I have to be a bit more structured than what I have found during both of these times of maintenance, that it's been very important to stay vigilant because those little habits can just creep back in, you know, these little things and it's like it's not it doesn't seem like a big deal at the time, you know, like one little time where you eat just a little too much or, you know, like that time you're like, oh, I'm just going to, you know, have the snack or, you know, those things can really creep in and then the weight can start to come back on. And so just being vigilant about that and just remaining aware like, okay, why, why am I want in this snack and, you know, 99 times out of 100 for me, it's I'm stressed about something. So it's not actually that I want to snack. It's actually stress eating, which is not good. That will definitely make me gain weight. And in general, what I have found because I am a tinkerer, I know that about myself. I like to experiment. I like to, you know, kind of see like, well, you know what? If I do this or what if I try, you know, this this way of, you know, doing, you know, an eating window, you know, or just doing it, you know, every other day, like, how is that going to work? And I like to do that at times. But what I have found works the best is to pay attention to what's going on in my life and then proceed accordingly. So when my life is chaotic, you know, things are really stressful. There's a lot going on, maybe a lot of changes are happening. The best thing I can do is be on just a regular plan with a lot of just regularity. So in other words, like just saying, okay, I'm going to do ad, you know, six days a week or I'm going to do, you know, six, eight, six days a week, or I'm going to do to med six days a week, just keeping it the same and not experimenting and not being loosey goosey. And when things are like really, really stressful, I'm talking, you know, not only are they hectic, but also maybe upsetting. Like, you know, I've gone through a couple of different periods of time where it's been some really difficult things to deal with, like with some deaths in the family or, you know, of friends during those times. I have found it's a lot easier on me to just go back to Omaha six days a week, walk six miles a day, six days a week, and, you know, take Sundays off and just keep it super easy. And it provides a balance there, because when life is hectic and I need my my, my eating life to be orderly. On the other hand, when my life is really calm and I've gone through seasons like this where it's like, wow, you know, like it's just been calm. It was, you know, no stress, really. Then during those times, it's a better time to try those experiments to, you know, like kind of be looser and see like what's going on, you know, how how's my weight going to do. And so there is that balance there. What I have found to be most important, though, because I think this is something that happens to everybody on, you know, in maintenance there. You're going to have times, right, where your weight is going to be a little bit higher. And, you know, it may go out of the range that you want it to be in, like I like to say, a £10 range. That's a good thing to shoot for. I know Joe Holman, a guy that I interviewed years ago, he's an Omega guy and he says £15. But, you know, like I like £10 of beef. 15 just a little bit, you know, like I feel like that's maybe a little bit too much free rein for me, but like a £10 range, right? So I want to be in the one forties. But what happens when I get outside of the one forties, which has happened since maintenance? There have been times when my seven day average has even been one 52.49 because I keep track of all this stuff. And so I want you to know that like there are times where mine is not in range. And so what do I do in that moment? Because those are the moments I feel like that are just crucially important. Nobody likes to talk about those moments because it's like, Oh, no, you know, you want to believe that it's always going to be easy, and sometimes life is just not easy. Sometimes you mess up, sometimes you just have water weight, like sometimes you get sick and that can cause water weight. Sometimes you eat salty food and that can cause water weight. Sometimes you go on vacation, you gain weight, you know, there's like a lot of things that happen where you may just get into bad habits for a while. What what my process has been doing during those times is to say, okay, what's going on? Because that's the first thing, is to figure out, you know, like what's going on. And usually if you're just able to just sit and think, you'll know what's wrong, like you'll know, you know, when you look back on your days, like, yeah, like there's this stressful thing happening. I mean, and there's lots of things that can that can mess with you. So in that moment though, if you will, just give yourself a pep talk. And that's what I do. I just I sit down and I'm like, you know, what's going on? I usually can figure it out most of the time. I know at this point, like I am more self-aware than I used to be. And I can tell when when I'm, you know, feeling stressed out, especially if my sleep is out of kilter. Like, that's always a big red flag for me. If I if I notice myself waking up too early in the morning or having trouble going to sleep at night, something's up. Got to get that under control. But I'll sit down and I'll just say, okay, what's going on? And I'll figure out, you know, usually it's just stress. And then the main answer is, okay, go back to the old reliable plan, you know, which is bad. Six days a week, get down Sunday, what, six miles Monday through Saturday? And that's what I do. So and I've found that every time that I do that, then the weight, you know, comes back down, gets back in range, and there's nothing really to worry over. But I have had moments, you know, where I kind of get nervous. It's like, oh, wait, you know, like, does this mean I'm gaining the weight back? And I always have to remind myself the only way that's going to happen is if I don't change something. And I think, you know, remaining humble always, like just remembering like, look, no one's perfect. We all mess up. If you're ever out of range and you realize, like, wow, you know, like even if you've gained, let's say you've gained ten more pounds, right? Like you're not only out of range, you're like £10 out of range. All you have to do is just go back to work, go back to what worked, get back down into your range and then try maintenance again. Like it's it's a process is what I'm trying to say. So I hope that my experiences can help you on your maintenance journey whenever you get down to your goal weight. Thanks for listening and I'll see you in the next one. Do you want to lose the weight without getting rid of the foods you love and that you know you'll go back to eating again? Anyway, my book The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting, teaches you how to practice intermittent fasting so that you lose the weight sustainably and keep it off for good. You can get the audiobook read by me for free when you sign up for your 30 day trial of Audible. The link is in the show notes, and if you've gotten value from this podcast and you'd like to let other people know about it, it'd be great if you could leave a review on either iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. Thanks.

In today's episode, Nikki Esquivel shares her 30 pound weight loss journey with intermittent fasting. An autogenerated transcript is available at the end of these show notes.  Click here to connect with Nikki on Facebook Click here to donate to Mercy House    Other links: Slow and Stead Success Academy Courses Become an Insider on Youtube Private Coaching With Kayla Sign up for my weekly newsletter My Books (ebook or paperback) on Amazon: The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted Overcoming Weight Loss Obstacles: How To Keep Going When Things Get Difficult  Get the audiobook for free with a 30 day FREE TRIAL from Audible My young adult fiction novel: Escape From Olshek's Castle  ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM.   The following is an AI generated transcript of this podcast.  Welcome to the Six Miles to Supper podcast. I'm your host, Kayla Cox, and I've lost over 80 pounds with intermittent fasting six days a week, eating whatever I wanted at my meals, taking a cheat day every Sunday and walking six miles a day. And I'm here to help you on your weight loss journey. Today's episode is a crossover from the Intermittent Fasting Success Stories series I do on my YouTube channel, also called Six Miles to Supper. These interviews are recorded on Zoom, so the audio might be a little bit different than what you're used to on this podcast. Regardless, I hope you enjoy it. If you consider yourself a success story and you would like to be interviewed, please reach out to me at interviews at six miles to supper. Tor.com. Nikki Esquivel lost a £30 with intermittent fasting and she's kept it off for two years now. So thank you for being here. Nikki. Why don't you give yourself a little introduction, Tell everybody who you are and what you do. I sure. Thanks for having me, Kayla. My name is Nikki Esquivel, and I live in the Philippines. I've lived in the Philippines for ten years, along with my husband, Anthony. We run an orphanage for street boys called Mercy House X Street Boys because there are boys now. We have 17 boys in our home right now. We've had as many as 25 at times here and there. Ten years ago, we moved here from the U.S. We were just your regular typical American family. We had six children that we homeschooled. My husband worked outside and I stayed home and took care of the family. And just kind of your normal, average family that we're called to to come overseas and and start an orphanage. So that's that's me. Wow. So why don't you give us a rundown of how you have found success with weight loss? How much have you lost and how long did it take? Sure, sure. It took about a year and I lost about 30 pounds. I was not ever what you would call obese. I was probably I'm five little less than five four. So I'm not very tall and at my highest weight, I was probably about £170. So maybe by the doctors charts, I was I was on the edge of obesity. But what really challenged me to lose weight was I was just feeling so achy and old and bad every single day. When we first moved to the Philippines, it was busy and hectic and I lost some weight and I had a lot of energy. And then as we got settled into our routine with our orphanage and kind of knew what we were doing and knew the ropes, we just I got a lot more sedentary. A lot of the work that we do here involves a lot of writing of newsletters and updating our friends in the States and all of this. And so there was a lot of sitting on the computer for me and I started packing on the pounds. My husband and I started this nightly habit of having a glass of wine and some chips in our room, and it became every single night. And before I knew it, I had just put on weight and I just felt achy and uncomfortable. So that's kind of what led to the I just had to change. I knew I had to do something. Mm hmm. Right. So. So you lost 30 pounds and it took about a year. What were you doing during that time? What was your daily routine like? Well, first of all, I learned about intermittent fasting from a friend of mine in the States who. Who's a lady much older than I am, and one of the a close friend of our orphanage. I went home on a furlough and I saw her and she looked amazing. She looked thin, but just radiant. Her skin was beautiful, her eyes were bright. And I said, What are you doing? And she said, I'm intermittent fasting. And I kind of said, okay, well, that's great. And I didn't think about it again until I started to feel bad and realized I needed to do something. And I thought, what was that thing that my friend said she was doing? And I just started Googling. So the routine that I settled on is I started out slow at 16 eight, I think was my first fast and I had to take a spoonful of peanut butter in the middle of my my fast I couldn't even make my first bypass because I was so hungry, but I stuck with six eight for probably a month. And I was amazed in the first two weeks just how much better I felt. My my aches and pains started to go away. My sleep got a little bit better. Just small things of those non scale victories in two weeks time. I was already seeing those. And so about a month in I upped my my window. I made my eating window a little bit smaller and I did 18 six for a while now, now several years in, I'm in maintenance. I'm about 132 pounds, I think. I don't weigh regularly anymore, but I know when my certain pair of pants fit a certain way, you know that it's time to to do something different. So my maintenance is either 24, so four hour eating window or man, just depending on how busy the day is. And I like to eat early in the day, so I will have a window for maybe 9 to 12 or 9 to 1. You know, earlier in the day. And then I will close my window before dinner time for sure and just fast out the rest of the day with some decaffeinated coffee, helping me make it through to bedtime. So that's my my window. And I do exercise. I do walk about six kilometers. I don't know what it is in miles, but I think that's six kilometers, five days a week probably, and then two days a week of strength training with dumbbells, resistance training. Just a an hour. I'm just I'm light near. Exercise is fairly light, but it's super effective, coupled together with with my fasting program. So when you are eating in the evening window, what do you eat? I'm a I'm a mindful eater, but I'm not on any specific plan. I'm not low carb or no sugar. I've toyed with those things. I know you have to because I've listened to your podcast and I've tried temporarily and I'm just so unhappy right now. I, I like I can't have a piece of cheesecake if I'm at a gathering and there's cheesecake. Come on. You know, I'm not going to I'm not going to live that way the rest of my life. I'm more than 50 years old and I'm definitely not going to live out the rest of these years, not having cheesecake or not having so I'm mindful, but I do eat till I'm nice and full and satisfied. I focus on vegetables and protein because I know those things keep me going until the next day. And then I usually do have a little dessert at the end of each window, sometimes a little glass of wine, even though it's still afternoon, just so I don't feel deprived. And then I shut my window and I think, okay, I'll see you again tomorrow, refrigerator. And I kind of go about my day. And so you said mindful eating. I think that's really interesting. What what is mindful eating to you? Like what? How do you define that for yourself? I eat with a purpose. Like I know I need to get some fiber in my diet each day. I want to have vitamin dense food. So normally I will have we don't have good lettuce here in the Philippines. It's hard to find. So I'll use a cabbage for my lettuce and I'll cut it up and then I'll put the things on it that I know have what I think my body needs. I'll put cashews and some raisins and other vegetables, some kind of addressing that doesn't have a lot of sugar in it and just make a really big, pretty salad and eat that first. When I when I open up my eating window and I feel like I don't want to take a bunch of supplements, I just feel like, okay, I've you know, I've given myself food as medicine, and so I've given myself the things that I know my body needs. And it tasted good. But now maybe little something I want after that and I'll go for a little treat of some kind of a break before I shut my window. I'm just mindful of what's going into my mouth. I don't eat in front of a screen watching a movie or on my phone or any of that I really look forward to. It's almost like a little ceremony. I get my food, I get my whatever I'm going to drink, and I'm excited. I like to be alone. If I'm if I'm eating. A lot of times of the schedule, the kids is a lot different from my schedule. So I like to have that kind of as me times saying and just kind of enjoy my big salad and think about the day and, and and eat alone. Very good. And so you said you drink coffee during your fasting window and do you put anything in every district hit black? I just think it's like I always have even before intermittent fasting. So that was an easy thing for me. A lot of my friends struggle with that, that splash of cream, that that's stevia or monk fruit or something to sweeten it. But I really have never used anything. My dad's a military man and so black coffee was I thought, that's all you could have if we put that around the house. And so I grew to love it at an early age. So in maintenance, you said that, you know, occasionally maybe the pants get a little bit too tight. And so what do you do when you when you find yourself? It's like, huh, I think I've gained a little bit. Do you what has there been anything where you've noticed, like, oh, here's what I started doing and this is what led to it to a lot of gain. Can you talk about that a little bit? I'll notice I get a little bit loosey goosey in my window. My my four hour window will still usually be 4 hours, but I'll have you know, I'll get a candy bar at the gas station. And when we stop, I'll get a few more treats here and there, and then I'll notice maybe the next week or so. The the pants getting tight and I'll just go back to oh, mad for a few days. I don't stop having my little one treat if I want it, because I know that it takes time to, you know, to to gain it takes time to lose. I don't mean to do it overnight. I'm very thankful for my body the way that it is right now, the way that it's working. I feel so good and I love the way that I look. So it's not a matter of beating myself up, but I just don't want it to get out of control. You know how one one kind of Lucy Day can turn into two, three, four. And before you know it, so am I still in intermittent fat? Start in my still on a health program at all of my. So I like to rein it in kind of quickly, but I don't do anything drastic. I just go back to Oman and just kind of move on and it always resolves in just a very short time, just a few maybe three days to five days of being a little bit more mindful and it resolves. All right. And so do you feel like you have any challenges that you that you still face with this whole thing, or do you feel like I've pretty much got it under control? I do sometimes have challenges. There are times that I have I'm challenged with being consistent, giving myself a few too many liberties sometimes. And I and I, one of my big challenges is, is finding good shoes here for my walking like I love to walk. And it's hard to find a good pair of trustworthy walking shoes when I find a pair, I I'll buy them and then when they start to hurt, it's hard to find another pair. That's been a big challenge for me. So when I come home on furlough, that's when I. I get good shoes, good shoes that are made in the States. And then I but I mean, I'd a consistency as far as the fitness journey can still sometimes be a challenge for me because I can be an emotional eater and it's a very high stress environment. I live inside the orphanage with the boys and my husband and some of our own kids and, you know, a lot of behaviors from past trauma come along with what we do. And so sometimes at the end of the day, I just think I just want a sleeve of cookies and need to end my and some days I give in to that. And I'm sorry when I do and other days I don't. And I feel really strong that I didn't. But I still do struggle. I battle myself sometimes. That's good. Thank you for for sharing that. So I'm going to show my ignorance, like in the Philippines because you're in the Philippines. So Amazon is not a thing there. It's no, they have their own version, but it's local products. So Amazon has just started delivering over here. We haven't tried it yet. I mean, we're missionaries, so we also have to be careful and frugal. And there are times that I just feel bad about dropping 100 U.S. dollars on a pair of shoes. But I think, yeah, Amazon has just started. And so I'm thinking it may be something that's worth the investment just because it it's my sanity, my mental health, those walks are my everything. And like, I can't wait to get out there when it's time to walk. It's not even a chore. I never dread it. I don't think I've got it. I think, Oh good, I do it all at once. a6k all at one time. I don't break it up. I know that you break it up, but just. I know, I know my Marg when it's three K when I turn around but that's when I listen to podcasts. Yours and others, I listen to worship music I can think have time to just not focus on the orphanage so that you know, that that walk is. It's one of my favorite things, actually. That's awesome. So what is one piece of advice that you would give to someone else? Right now they're on the weight loss journey. What would you tell them? I would tell them to be patient on the journey. It takes so much longer than you think it's going to take, but it's instead of eyes on the goal all the time, eyes on the being skinny or eyes on the wearing a size whatever, or having a certain number on the scale just each day. Just enjoy the journey because it is going to take you longer than you think, but it's so worth it. I am so thankful that I saw that friend and her glow and heard the words intermittent fasting and then, you know, came back here and thought I got to do something. I honestly I thought that maybe I have an autoimmune disorder or some kind of an illness or even ALS. Like, I scared myself because my body was just hurting and I was young for that. I wasn't you know, I was too young to be in that much pain. And I would just I would just encourage anybody who's thinking about starting intermittent fasting to just start today, pick a pick a window that you think you can live with whatever food you really wanted when the windows closed. Just save it for tomorrow and do a little bit. Do a little bit of moving, if you like. Put on a song and dance to one song with the blinds closed in your room. Just one song. Maybe the next week, two songs, little by little and just give it time. Give yourself a year. Don't, don't say if I'm not feeling better or looking great in 30 days, I'm done with this thing. Give it a really good, fair shot. And I don't think anybody would be sorry that they did. I'm super thankful that I started this this journey. I can't even believe I'm in maintenance. I never thought I would say I'm in maintenance. I always thought I'd be losing those extra ten. Those extra five on there. I'm just I'm just exactly the size that I love being just a normal, healthy, energetic 53 year old woman. That's awesome. And something I said, You've been in maintenance for a while, so when did you actually lose the weight? And so you've been maintaining for how long? It took about a year, a little bit more than a year to be where I was really felt like I wasn't going to go back and I was comfortable. So I started around 2020. So sometime in the middle of 2021, toward the end of 2021, I would say I had lost all the weight I was going to lose. And then I became I went into maintenance. But even through maintenance, I worked on toning up things through exercise and trying to walk my 6ka little bit faster. Little personal challenges just for my heart. In my own physical health. I do have my youngest child is a child who has Down syndrome. And so a big part of my motivation was just to be here as long as I can for him. So it's, you know, it's one of those special needs parent's worst fears that something would happen to you and your child would be left with somebody that isn't just as crazy about them as you are. But for me, it was, you know, that bad thing was already happening. I was out of energy. I was out of, you know, desire to play and run and all those kinds of things. And so that was just a big part of my motivation to get myself together for him so that I can be the best mom. So, Nikki, is there anything else that you'd like to share about your weight loss journey? I guess, you know, one one little tiny piece of advice that I'd caution people that are maybe just starting or haven't started yet is to be really careful about scrolling the Internet for advice. You hear so much contradicting advice. Meals, great. Oatmeal is terrible. Peanut butters, great. Peanut butter is terrible. And you can get yourself so confused. And I know you call this the research stage. People will get there. It's so easy, especially with Reelz on social media, to hear from these influencers. All this contradicting advice and think, forget it, I'm not I'm never going to get it right, but you're never going to get it right if you don't get started. So my advice is just to get started, eat mindfully what sounds good to you and your window and just test it out and see what can see. You will make progress if you're if you're reasonable with your input and your and you're faithful with your window, you will have progress. So don't be scared of all that contradicted contradictory advice. That's such good advice. Okay. So Nikki, if people would like to get in touch with you, connecting with you somehow, how can they do that? Sure. So they can go to Facebook and look for Mercy House of the Philippines, and that's me. I run the page for our orphanage and I'm happy to answer questions. I can, you know, help somebody be there. Accountability, partner, if they need that. I'm happy to help out in any way that that is feasible for my time schedule and theirs as well. So Mercy House in the Philippines. And I can I can help you out. Awesome. And can people donate to Mercy House? Is that like do you? I'm assuming charities always need money, right? Yeah. Yeah, we are. We're missionaries and we we don't we aren't allowed to work here. Even though my husband is a native Filipino, he's not able to work on the visas that we have. And so, yes, anybody wanted to to donate to the work we do here. We have residential care for street boys and then we have a lot of community outreach. If anybody listening is planning to be in the Philippines for another reason and wants to join in a feeding program or community outreach, you can just come and serve food and meet the kids. We'd love to have you. Awesome. And I'll put the link in the description so that everybody can find you on this. And so thank you very much for being here, Nikki, and for sharing your story. Thanks for having me. You've been a great part of my journey here lately. Kayla, it's been a pleasure to really meet you. Now that I've met you on a podcast, to really meet you on on a chat. So thanks for the opportunity. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed that interview. I just want to take a moment to remind you, if you are a student in my slow and steady Success Academy that you have access to me during office hours to make an appointment. You just simply need to log into the academy and go over to the Office hours module. So if you're having trouble implementing some of the concepts, be sure to reach out. Do you want to lose the weight without getting rid of the foods you love and that you know you'll go back to eating again? Anyway, my book, The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting, teaches you how to practice intermittent fasting so that you lose the weight sustainably and keep it off for good. You can get the audiobook read by me for free when you sign up for your 30 day trial of Audible. The link is in the show notes, and if you've gotten value from this podcast and you'd like to let other people know about it, it'd be great if you could leave a review on either iTunes or wherever you get your podcast. Thanks.  

Hot on the heels of our First Conspiracy Theory episode the Debut Buddies discuss the First Female Serial Killer... or do we!? Lavinia Fisher was purported to have poisoned men who were looking for a place to stay in Six Mile House outside Charleston, SC in the early 19th century... But did she? Kelly puts on a show with some shocking revelations! Plus, we talk about cereal, female cereal mascots, other female serial killers, read the First Ever Listener Mail, and play a game: "What Someone Did Somewhere, Do You See?"Learn about Lavinia Fisher with Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr  and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Fisher!Have a First for us? Email us at debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster.Check out Kelly and Cabe on Thirteenth Depository.Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: First X-Files

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In 1819, Lavinia Fisher and her husband John were accused poisoning and murdering multiple guests of their Charleston, South Carolina inn and sentenced to hang. But were the Fishers really serial killers or is the legend simply a tall tale concocted to entertain tourists? The true story of who Lavinia Fisher was and why she was hanged may shock you.  Resources:  Lavinia Fisher: Legends of America, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/sc-laviniafisher/  Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City, Pat Hendrix, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006. Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher, Bruce Orr, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2010.  Thanks to our sponsors:  Chime - Sign up for a checking account with no monthly fees at www.chime.com/once. Away Travel - Get free shipping and a 100-day trial of Away travel essentials at www.awaytravel.com/once20. Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends FREE at the App Store or Google Play. Even the Rich Podcast - Listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.  Links:  Get your in-person or livestream tickets to the Generation Why Ten Year Podversary Live Show, September 8th at the Screenland Armour Theater, Kansas City, MO.  https://genwhypod.com Become a Patreon member for ad-free, early release episodes, OUAC merch, and more at www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime. Join Stitcher Premium to get ad-free versions of all your favorite podcasts including Once Upon a Crime. Use our offer code ONCEUPONACRIME to get your first month free at https://www.stitcher.com/premium.  Opt-in to receive texts from Once Upon Crime - Text OUAC to 408-676-1770. Text messaging provided by www.textsanity.com. Msg & data rates may apply.  Check out the OUAC YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/OnceUponACrimePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Resources:  Lavinia Fisher: Legends of America, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/sc-laviniafisher/ Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City, Pat Hendrix, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006. Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher, Bruce Orr, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2010.    Links:  Get your in-person or livestream tickets to the Generation Why Ten Year Podversary Live Show, September 8th at the Screenland Armour Theater, Kansas City, MO.  https://genwhypod.com Opt-in to receive texts from Once Upon Crime - Text OUAC to 408-676-1770.  Text messaging provided by www.textsanity.com.  Msg & data rates may apply. 

Story: Six Miles High Author: Malibusunset Rating: Teen and Up Site link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9340655?view_full_work=true Read by: kristinsauter Summary: Remember Ethan? Used by the author's permission. The characters in these works are not the property of the Audio Fanfic Podcast or the author and are not being posted for profit.

Story: Six Miles High Author: Malibusunset Rating: Teen and Up Site link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9340655?view_full_work=true Read by: kristinsauter Summary: Remember Ethan? Used by the author's permission. The characters in these works are not the property of the Audio Fanfic Podcast or the author and are not being posted for profit.

Die Brainwashed - Radio Edition ist eine einstündige Show mit Musik von den Künstlern und Labels auf Brainwashed.com. 1. A Place To Bury Strangers, "Let's See Each Other" (See Through You) 2021 Dedstrange 2. Joseph Allred, "Six Miles up the Obey River" (Six Miles up the Obey River/A Great Yellow Poplar) 2021 Future Grave 3. Cassetteboy, "Crap Boasts" (Carry On Breathing) 2008 Barry's Bootlegs / 2020 self-released 4. Rude Skøtt Osborn Trio, "L'Ombra Blu" (The Virtue of Temperance) 2022 El Paraiso 5. Lennert Jacobs, "The Mission" (Enthusiasm) 2021 les albums claus 6. Treasury of Puppies, "The Treasury of Puppies" (Treasury of Puppies) 2020 self-released 7. homeshake, "Feel Better" (Under The Weather) 2021 Sinderlyn 8. Tanz Mein Herz, "Tales from the middle of the night" (Quattro) 2021 Standard in-Fi 9. Tirzah, "Tectonic" (Colourgrade) 2021 Domino 10. GB3 (feat. Steve Kilbey), "Sakura Flower" (Sakura Flower) 2021 self-released 11. Emeka Ogboh, "Everydaywehustlin" (Beyond The Yellow Haze) 2021 Ostgut Ton 12. Lisa Germano, "Diamonds" (No Elephants) 2013 Badman # Brainwashed - Radio Edition Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening. * http://brainwashed.com

Author Bruce Orr joins us on the anniversary of the hanging of John and Lavinia Fisher! He talks about his book, "Six Miles to Charleston." Is Lavinia Fisher really a serial killer? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-childers5/support

If you've been searching for Puddle in vain, perhaps it's because you've only been searching on the ground. Our latest hot tip on the whereabouts of Puddle instructs us to look up to the sky. If you or anyone you know has information on the whereabouts of Puddle, please post to social media using #justiceforpuddle or email your hot tip to melroseplacecast@gmail.com Together, we will #findpuddle --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/melroseplacecast/message

I would first like to thank all the guests that have made this podcast possible. Sharing our stories and lessons learned we can help others who may otherwise struggle for years and not know there may be solutions to their problems. I would also like to thank the listeners of the Calorie Conundrum Podcast. This podcast has been quite a bit of work to put together and it would all be wasted effort if there were nobody to listen to this information. Because of this I would also like to ask a favor. If you have listened the Calorie Conundrum Podcast and enjoyed it please share it with someone you know that may be in need of hearing these different ways of thinking. The slogan for the podcast is Expanding the Weight loss conversation beyond just calories but this mentality or way of thinking can be applied to health in general. The basic premise is if you are sick, overweight, or in pain and what you have tried in the past hasn't worked, keep searching. The answers are out there and I hope that this podcast can lead you towards the answers you are looking for. In the first episode of seasion 2 episode…021 - Calorie Conundrum's Mission, Vision, Core Values – I expand on the why behind the podcast. Listen to this podcast and let me know if you are in line with our mission. On episode022 - Anxiety and Weight Loss with Jodie Ellenor – we discuss a very common but rarely discussed struggle for many trying to lose weight. On episode…023 - What You Need VS What You Want with Carl Weston – We talk about the fundamentals of health and how sometimes what the body needs is different from what you may want. On episode…024 - Gaining Health to Lose Weight with Jimmy Moore – I sit down with the one and only Jimmy Moore a true pioneer in podcasting, self-experimentation, and sharing helpful information. On episode… 025 - Exploring Calorie Density with Chef AJ – We talk to the Vegan Chef Chef AJ and she drops numerous truth bombs that you must hear for yourself. On episode… 026 - The Answer to All of Your Health and Weight Loss Questions I do a solo episode and whether you lose weight or not may depend on if you listen to this episode. On episode… 027 - Fasting for Health with Chris James – We talk about one of the most powerful healing tools known to man. On episode…028 - The Pizza Diet with Chef Pasquale Cozzolino – we talk about how Chef Pasquale ate pizza and lost weight. In episode…029 - The 3 Problems with IIFYM with Coach Strick – I talk about some of the issues I have with the If It Fits Your Macro diet philosophy. In episode…030 - Environmental Toxins and Your Weight with Lara Adler – We discuss the ever increasing toxins and how they may be affecting your weight. On episode…031 - Jillian Michael's Calorie Counting Critique with Coach Strick – I do a critique of a youtube video posted by fitness guru Jillian Michaels where I disagree with most of her arguments for weight loss. In episode…032 - The Invisible Soda with Coach Strick – I talk about a new way of looking at diet and weight loss that could change the way you look at food forever. On episode…033 - The Dark Side of Social Media with Laura Lux – We discuss how trying to look good for the camera may not be good for your mental health. On episode…034 - Champion for Weight Loss with Coach Strick – I once again talk about why I started this podcast and my desire to help those in desperate need. On episode…035 - Your Wellness Detective with Berna Khoury – We discuss why you may need a detective to help you with your health. In episode…036 - LivFitFuel with Olivia Ruth Estela – we discuss new and unique ways to approach weight loss. On episode…037 - Six Miles to Supper with Kayla Cox – We talk about losin

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Episode 549: November 28, 2021 playlist: A Place To Bury Strangers, "Let's See Each Other" (See Through You) 2021 Dedstrange Joseph Allred, "Six Miles up the Obey River" (Six Miles up the Obey River/A Great Yellow Poplar) 2021 Future Grave Cassetteboy, "Crap Boasts" (Carry On Breathing) 2008 Barry's Bootlegs / 2020 self-released Rude Skott Osborn Trio, "L'Ombra Blu" (The Virtue of Temperance) 2022 El Paraiso Lennert Jacobs, "The Mission" (Enthusiasm) 2021 les albums claus Treasury of Puppies, "The Treasury of Puppies" (Treasury of Puppies) 2020 self-released homeshake, "Feel Better" (Under The Weather) 2021 Sinderlyn Tanz Mein Herz, "Tales from the middle of the night" (Quattro) 2021 Standard in-Fi Tirzah, "Tectonic" (Colourgrade) 2021 Domino GB3 (feat. Steve Kilbey), "Sakura Flower" (Sakura Flower) 2021 self-released Emeka Ogboh, "Everydaywehustlin" (Beyond The Yellow Haze) 2021 Ostgut Ton Lisa Germano, "Diamonds" (No Elephants) 2013 Badman Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.

Today a ghost haunts the Old City Jail in Charleston, South Carolina, one said to be in a white wedding dress looking for more victims to add to her list. Her name is Lavinia Fisher and she's often called America's first female serial killer. The legends say in 1819 the authorities of Charleston, South Carolina raided the Six Mile Wayfarer Hotel just outside of the city looking for a group of thieves. Instead they found more than they bargained for and discovered a hotel of horrors.The owners, John and Lavinia Fisher, were arrested and charged with over 100 counts of murder and Lavinia Fisher went down in history as America's first female serial killer. But if we look at the events surrounding the case was she really the evil entity the legends say she is?Find out the true story of Lavinia Fisher on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!If you have any myths, mysteries, or monsters you'd like us to cover, send an email to mythsmysteriesmonsters@gmail.comSubscribe, rate, and review. And remember, always look behind you.Sourceshttps://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781609491178/Six-Miles-to-Charleston-The-True-Story-of-John-and-Lavinia-Fisherhttps://ghostcitytours.com/charleston/lavinia-fisher/http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/charleston.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquakehttps://www.postandcourier.com/news/lavinia-fisher-of-charleston-nations-first-female-serial-killer-or-wrongly-accused/article_8cd5c8da-e60f-11e9-abd7-0712bc94dd35.htmlhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119735321/lavinia-fisherhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_FisherSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/mythsmysteriesmonsters)

Hank Williams - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" [0:00:00] Hank Williams - "I'd Still Want You" [0:06:28] Hank Williams - "Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)" [0:08:59] Hank Williams - "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" [0:11:45] Hank WIlliams - "Cold, Cold Heart" [0:14:09] Music behind DJ: The Mile-Tones - "Trial Of Love" [0:16:50] Johnnie White - "Happy Birthday Cake Boogie" [0:20:24] Faron Young - "Forget The Past" [0:22:21] Buck Owens - "Above And Beyond" [0:24:36] John Prine - "Please Don't Bury Me" - Sweet Revenge [0:27:05] Warren Bros. (Shorty & Smokey) - "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight" [0:29:48] Music behind DJ: Cal Collins - "Forty Miles Of Bad Road" [0:32:22] Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton - "The Right Combination" [0:34:39] Dolly Parton - "Ping Pong" [0:37:35] Mac Wiseman - "Ring Of Fire" [0:39:50] Bill Haley - "Within This Broken Heart Of Mine" [0:41:47] The Pell Brothers (The Georgia Boys) - "Jesus Is The Man" [0:44:58] Music behind DJ: The Mile-Tones - "Trial Of Love" [0:49:32] Gene Wyatt - "Twelve Men" [0:51:58] Willie Nelson - "Man With The Blues" [0:54:28] Rudy Wesley - "Mutual Feelings" [0:56:39] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107678

Hank Williams - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Hank Williams - "I'd Still Want You" Hank Williams - "Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)" Hank Williams - "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" Hank WIlliams - "Cold, Cold Heart" Music behind DJ: The Mile-Tones - "Trial Of Love" Johnnie White - "Happy Birthday Cake Boogie" Faron Young - "Forget The Past" Buck Owens - "Above And Beyond" John Prine - "Please Don't Bury Me" - Sweet Revenge Warren Bros. (Shorty & Smokey) - "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight" Music behind DJ: Cal Collins - "Forty Miles Of Bad Road" Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton - "The Right Combination" Dolly Parton - "Ping Pong" Mac Wiseman - "Ring Of Fire" Bill Haley - "Within This Broken Heart Of Mine" The Pell Brothers (The Georgia Boys) - "Jesus Is The Man" Music behind DJ: The Mile-Tones - "Trial Of Love" Gene Wyatt - "Twelve Men" Willie Nelson - "Man With The Blues" Rudy Wesley - "Mutual Feelings" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/107678

Kayla was an obese mom of three, when in 2014, she was tagged in a photograph on Facebook, and could barely recognized herself.  Tired of riding the weight loss roller coaster, she decided to figure out once and for all how to lose the weight and keep it off, eating whatever foods she wanted. She eventually found success with intermittent fasting, and after maintaining her initial weight loss for about a year, she started her Youtube channel, Six Miles to Supper, which has since grown to over 49,000 subscribers. She wrote a book detailing her relaxed, sustainable approach to weight loss called, The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting: How I Lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It off Eating Whatever I Wanted. Let's hear how six miles to supper has led to significant and sustainable weight loss. 

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This week we speak to Jenny Tough; ultra-endurance bikepacking racer and adventurer. Jenny was the 1st woman to complete the 2020 Atlas Mountain Race and the inaugural Silk Road Mountain Race. We unpack some of her many adventures and strategies for thriving when the going gets tough.  Episode sponsor:  PNW Components.  Use promo code: 'thegravelride' for 15% off.  Jenny Tough Website Jenny Tough Instagram Jenny Tough: Bikepacking Racer and adventurer Automated Transcription, please excuse the errors.  Hello everyone and welcome to the growl ride podcast I'm your host Craig. Dalton. This week's episode is brought to you by our friends at P. N. W. Components I mentioned the company a few episodes ago and the great customer service I received ordered a mountain bike. See Post many ago. So I was super excited to start talking to them about what they were doing in the gravel market specifically this week I wanted to highlight the coast handlebar I've been writing the four. Hundred Eighty millimeter version of the bar, which is about forty millimetres longer wider. Excuse me than the bar I had previously been riding. They also do make a five hundred twenty millimeter bar. It features a shallow drop and a twenty degree flair which all translates into a super stable bar. When you're getting aggressive on the bike I'm really valuing the width of the bar in terms of getting leverage from the outside to throw the bike around the shallow drops seemed to make it. Easy for me to move around between positions, I feel very comfortable when I combine a dropped saddle with shallow drop bar that I'm very much in the pocket of my handlebar and I very much in control of the machine. So I've been super keen on it. It's definitely a different look for the bike. If you're more used to a Rhody type position going to the wider bar feels a bit extreme to begin with, but it quickly fell into the recesses of my mind. As I took advantage of the attributes of the bar and as I said I feel really great in the technical terrain so much so that we really want to dig in and do a full episode on these wide bars because I think it's super interesting for certain writers to consider depending on the type of riding they're doing what they're looking for. So head on over to PM W components, Dot Com and use the code the gravel ride for fifteen percents off your order. This week's guest on the podcast is Jenny tough. I'm not sure where to begin talking to you about her resume. She's an amazing adventure athlete both a runner and a bike pack racer. We got to talk about the Silk Road Mountain Race and the Atlas Mountain, race, and these bike packing events are going to blow your mind and you absolutely have to go visit Jenny tough dot com and see some of the pitchers and interviews and videos of these events Kazaa absolutely breathtaking in terms of the terrain and incredibly inspiring about what the human body is possible of just talking to. Her about the lack of sleep and the challenges that one goes through in these expedition style races was really inspiring for me and I remember my last long ride thinking about how I was suffering and thinking. Well, that's nothing compared to what these athletes like go through. So I hope you enjoy the episode Jenny's one of the APP Adora ambassadors for the bad company out of the UK who made the introduction for me. So I appreciate that and I very much appreciated this conversation with Jenny and I hope that you take a look at all her adventures and enjoy the conversation. So with that, let's dive right in Jenny. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Awesome. I Love I always like to start off by finding a little bit about your background and I think in this conversation, your background is both an athlete and someone who's riding gravel bikes. Athlete is a really strong word I don't know if I'd go. Hi. Yeah I mean, my background's always been adventure and travel was always one of my biggest passions and and on the. Side of that I was also really into endurance sport like why I mean like a normal person I guess I started doing marathons before realize marathons are just terrible thing to do to yourself and I started. Cycling actually because I was running marathons going to spin class. Now he's actually really So when I graduated university I. Spent what little money I had on a touring bike and I cycled all the way to the Yukon from my hometown. Calgary having never rode a bike anywhere before only best-in-class. And then I just realized that this combination of my two loves endurance sports and travel was really what made my heart sing and that was really where I found my bag, what I want to keep doing so you know that was Eleven years ago and I guess you say it keeps us going and getting a little bit out of hand. So, that after that first trip did that sort of spiral your imagination to like Oh, I'd love to go ride here an adventure there. Yeah I think it really opened my eyes because before that didn't I mean I didn't know anything about like or cycling. I didn't have any friends that are cyclist at the time I certainly didn't. So I just wasn't exposed to this world and then I just kind of when I did that bike tour and I started another cyclist realized there's this concept that there is nowhere in the world that you can't go got a bicycle and you can just explore and you know. 00:05:09 - 00:10:12 Tire widths depending go really anywhere and yes, it did it did sparked my imagination once I started getting a little bit more comfortable being alone with the bike I mean going on your first trip to a place like the Yukon where you're really alone when you've never wrote a bike is just a dumb thing to do I didn't know how to. I didn't know how to fix a puncture at all I had like a handwritten note in my bag. Like I've been watching youtube the night before I left on your trip teaching me how to change change of time. Just in case I had to do it like I didn't even know there were tubes inside like that's how. About Bikes and I left the front door and cycled off to the Yukon. So that was my only real apprehension was I had no idea how bikes worked and if it broke, I literally had no concept of what to do about that. That's both amazing and refreshing I think. Audience I don't WanNA project too much. But I think a lot of my audience may come from a traditional bike racing background and then they discovered gravel silica adding on adventure to their love of cycling is kind of this new thing and to hear you just talk about adventure was the main driver and the bicycle was just this means to kind of get out there and discover the world is kind of something refreshing and I think a lot of my listeners should probably take in and put in their pocket for the to have a little bit more perspective on what you can do with the bike. It's really cool and I think I never fit in with the bike the traditional bike touring culture because I also really did get off on pushing myself really hard and trying to do really big days walk the adventure. For me sport is part of it. It's not just about getting to waste is also like how far can I ride before the sunsets kind of stuff I love doing not so it's it's both of them combined. And that seemingly has led you down this path of bike packing, and for the uninitiated, what how would you define? What bike packing is? What are you doing to your bike that enables you to duet and what are you able to do when you pack your bike full of everything you need? And most pure form it's taking whatever bike and stopping whatever stuff you need to it somehow and going on an adventure Overnight Adventures obviously is what makes it like packing but it's really whatever works for you whatever type of bike you have. Every type of bike is a packing bike i. do a lot of back country stuff where I've got you a tent or Viviana out there for ages. But then he's also do the clamping stuff where those hotels and being bees and you have a really nice trip. So it's it's really whatever works for you. In my opinion there are no rules. There's no minimum distance. There's no specific Hitless. A you have to have it's you know it's adventure it's open. Do what do you think it's adventure is one of the most creative. Things out there. So yeah no rules. And I feel like we're in sort of the golden age of bike packing bags whereas before you know fifteen twenty years ago there might have been this notion that okay. You've got to put a rack on the back. You GotTa Have Panthers and it's going to be pretty unwieldly off road. Today's bike packing bags are just quite a bit different. Can you talk a little bit about your setup? Yeah. It is really incredible what we've got available now and not when I say everybody is like packing bike that's largely because this has to place where even your respect bike squishy mountain bike, whatever it is there are bags available to do it and I ride with Dr Bags, and been working with them for a couple of years and in my opinion, make the specs out there. I do have three bikes, but my gravel bike is definitely my favorite bike packing bike and we've been to five conscious together now My Kit will change a little bit every time based on the terrain, but basically, it's got the gravel bikes got a front row bag I'll keep my sleep system, which might be might be a tent in my frame bag will be all the tools, and then in the saddle pack will be the stuff that I need to survive like spare clothes waterproofs maybe a stove going quite remote. But not usually I'm just whatever. Whatever I need for this specific adventure at hand, it's it's pretty basic. It's pretty minimalist that I can are you trying to distribute the weight in a specific way like you putting the heavier stuff in one area of the bike versus other? Yeah You're definitely going to be happier if you can keep your weight in the frame and that's where full frame bags are. Quite popular just because that keeps the weight really Lo- low like that's obviously where you normally keep your water anywhere because that's where your bottle cages are So people are putting the heavier stuff like water down there Yeah. Heavy, and that's I think that's the great thing about passing bags or Hispanics opinions I mean I remember how many? And how long it would take me to make sure that the right side and the left side were even if they weren't, you're going to have a disaster of a day. 00:10:12 - 00:15:07 But biking. It's. It's a lot easier to just chuck stuff in because everything's really compact on the bike. It's kind of hard to mess it up I. Think. I do like to keep the front kind of light and like I said the frame kind of heavier but really i. It is it is a lot easier to get way with a lot more. It's it's not that complicated. Yeah. For those of you haven't seen any of these type bags, I mean imagine sort of just a rolltop bag that you can really stuff a lot of stuff into I've been amazed kind of rear seat bags can hold I mean you really you can hold basically a week's worth of compressed clothing in there if you need to. Yeah and I have. I'm sure you have and then I questioned on the front bar now you mentioned kind of trying to keep that a little bit lighter. Have you found had experience if you overload the front bar that front end is just too heavy and it's making you more. Puncture. Potential. I haven't memories with the front. Bar Is that that's the one I will use I will never open during the day. So like there's two to fast one is that you ride fast in your your bike is late on the other. The Scottish term for faffing around. The time always having a dig at every wants something on your bag. You have to take everything of it to reach at that kind of stuff if you can just be really slick in your packing. You never do that. So my front bag, just because it is the most fiddly one because I've got drop ours as if it on a mountain bike on job bars, you know you kinda gotta squeeze it in between them. So it's harder to get into during the day. So I only ever keep my sleep system there because I only need that once lots at the end of the day right? So yes or no I've not really had problems genuinely the move from bike to bike packing. And just easy this works. And then what type you mentioned you writing drop bar bike, what are you writing and how big it's higher? Are you able to ride in that bike? So the biker us the most love my life is my shine stew she which is a steel bike maintenance Scotland with carbon forks and it's kind of for me. It's the ultimate by packing bike because it takes to wheel size this I've got seven hundred sees if I want to go on a road adventure but most of the time I run my six Fifty v wheels. I think tires of. I, don't even remember what has gone on there. I want to say the two and a half The more tired you have the more comfortable you're going to be. to bliss obviously is GonNa Increase Your Comfort. The difference between going out for a nice bike ride or who's going bike packing up by packing you're going to do this all day and then you're going to get up tomorrow and it again and then you're gotta get up tomorrow do it again so comfort becomes a lot more important if you're bouncing along I'm really high pressure. You're going to end up having saddle sores by the end of the week. So so I'd always prefer comfort. So I I love my big tires and I would never go. They can never go skinny ties again I'm with you on that and the listener knows them a broken record that bigger is better on tires. Yes. I also questioned on the front handlebar. Are you writing particularly wide drop bar to accommodate the bag? Is your front bag just kind of fit nicely and what you would traditionally ride on your on your road bike. Yeah I I. DON'T I think I. Attempted. Going into flair bars because that will give you a bit more space. But I've been on standard I mean all my road bike I do actually have lady sized handlebars so I don't use those on my gobble bar. So that's the only thing I would say that they are bigger as the standard. man-size drop. Virus. Gotcha. But no I've I've been okay and that certainly that's where you needed to make more space. That's something you would look at I. Mean because I've gone on tours with my mountain bike with flat bars and that just got unlimited space with bars. Obviously. no, but I I mean again, it's you've got to have your stuff. We've also got to be comfortable like it's going to be sustainable. Something you're going to do for a week or more. You've got to be comfortable and I. Just always think if I had the wrong bars I'm going to be uncomfortable. I'm going to get an injury I'm not gonNA be happy. So I'd rather make everything work around the bike and keep the bike something. That's enjoyable. Yeah, absolutely. So we've set the stage of Jenny as a bike packer but I don't think we've scratched the surface of doing justice to the type of adventure athlete you are. So I want to jump into a couple of these events that listener may not ever heard of one being the Silk Road Mountain race in. Conserv. Stan probably. Oregon Dan, and then the Atlas Mountain Rise. Atlas Mountain Race could you just in broad terms give the listener an idea of what these epic adventures look like. 00:15:08 - 00:20:06 So. This style of bike racing is single stage unsupported writing rolls off the tongue. So out doesn't it? So. The idea is that there's a set route for these ones and you have to pass through I think those ones had three or four checkpoints each and the distances were epic and you got given a cutoff time. So the Silk Road I, think we had fifteen days to finish it in the atlas. We had eight days to finish it and single stage unsupported means you've got to carry everything that you need to keep yourself and your bike going and the clock never stops. So you. You will sleep, but the longer you sleep the less likely you are dual So it is this really cool competition where you see so many different styles by packing people doing what works bound the atlas race, the guy that won it outright he didn't sleep at all but a guy that finished. In second place James was two hours behind him and he slept every night for a few hours knew that he would ride better if he did that I again, the unsupported means if anything breaks on the bike, you've got to fix it You know and can give you any age. So you have to find your own food out in these countries that most of us have never been to into Norway around everything, you've got to be self sufficient and really really cool. It's so much fun. To just put a fine point on it for the listener. I mean, these are races that I think the Silk Road Mountain race was over eleven hundred miles. The Atlas Mountain Race was seven hundred and twelve miles. These incredible distances relative to what we often talk about on this podcast is being long events like the decay two, hundred being two hundred miler here in North America. Let's talk about the Atlas Mountain bike race in Morocco because the imagery from that just look. Amazing. You talked about sort of going at your own pace and deciding to sleep when you WANNA to sleep and acquiring food. However you WANNA acquire it. Can you just walk through what those six days look like for you because I think it's just an epic tale. Yeah and it's it's really crazy now to. Realize that I did that in twenty twenty like it just feels like a pass life not doesn't it Yep? Yep My strategy. My strategy for these races is my what line is keep your shit together like just keep everything functioning and get yourself onto some kind of circadian rhythm with your sleep that's going to be brutal. But so my strategy was we all left Mary cash and we had to get over the high atlas leaser like the snowy peaks. We have a really huge climbing obligation day Am My only plan was to get out fast on that first day and get a good good day under me. And then after that, it was Tried to sleep at the same time. So miraculous quite equatorial, which meant that we had twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night, and that was one of the big challenges in the race was that half the time. Urine darkness and you have to keep your lights running so mostly by using dynamos on their bikes to keep the bright headlights going So I would. I would ride as consistently as I could all day and not around midnight or one am is when I was busy down. So I would just roll out my sleeping bag on the sand or the rocks by the side of the trail and try to for two to three hours to mount how I was feeling, and then get up quickly put that sleeping bag away my role bag and keep riding again, and then just rides. All Day Long whenever there was a town or village that you went through you dolphins you have to stop get supplies Morocco's really difficult on water in particular. So you had to be quite meticulous making sure that you'd never run out of supplies like obviously riding those kind of hours you're trying to ride for. My ride time each day would be eighteen nineteen hours. The calories are going through your cutting, such a fine line keeping yourself like you just can't eat enough. So you had to be. You had to be pretty well organized making sure that you hit those resupply locations. This is all blowing my mind. So lots of questions for you were you running where you're running a Dynamo Dynamo is a hub mechanism that generates electricity as it's going around. So you were using to kind of keep a light charged. Yes well, so I've got a USB charger on it. So I was able to keep everything going. So I'd have power. Bank. And my computer. So you have to follow the route, your other ACC biking you're going for that long as well. I had exposure lights that were helmet mounted because. I mean it was pretty gnarly. It was a gravel riding event but I think it was by far the GNARLIEST gravel I've done like a lot of you thought and kind of wish I was on full saw straight now. So yeah, you want help mounted like. Student Fall off the mountain. Obviously keep your phone going because I'm not doing something like that without podcast and play to keep me from going insane via the Dynamo. 00:20:06 - 00:25:07 Is What kept my power going on? If I went to a village or something, you could try and plug it in a cafe or something like that. Try to find the electricity. Because, you're just it's such a losing battle to keep that much technology running smoothly. Yeah. I mean we're you successful in kind of having battery when you need it. Yeah I. So I took two lights and that was probably the smartest thing that I did because. That much night writing and I don't like to mess around with a small light. Proper going down a mountain trail I I wanna see it. So, and that's also why I slept at night like some people will just sleep whenever they feel like it and just be. All entire now and take a little micro nop or something like that. But I always thought it was a waste of time to sleep when the sun was up when I didn't need to waste my life battery. So. Yes. It was definitely something I had to stay on top of and be really conscious of keeping it going because if you're going up. Like if you're. Doing I mean there was a lot a lot of Haiku bike and we do not the downloads obviously not running like pretty to be over ten kilometers an hour to keep the working. Six Miles. Yeah, that's the Dynamo things always been super interesting to me as a piece of technology that people should look into. So then going to sleep, I mean you mentioned you just sort of rolling out a lightweight Vivian and sleeping wherever on the trail made sense wherever your body was saying, Hey, it's time to go. were. You were you did you bring a stove with you? So when you got up, you could have some tea or coffee or make a little bit of food. In this race. Because Rocco's a lot more compact in its population and also. It is fairly warm that you know you didn't have to worry about that kind of stuff. so I didn't bother with stove. I would just have dry food like I. Think I had. Wasn't GonNa make me sound like a Canadian stereotype hippie. GRANOLA. To get me around the course every morning I would take my little bagnall out and try to stuff something in my face before I got going again. but yeah, I think just dry food like biscuits and chocolate bars is just i. mean the Diet is not good. Let's be honest like. The Diet is pretty unhealthy. Imagined like whatever cafe you stumble across. You're just ordering whatever seems like it will survive when you pack it up to the counter and you just say what food do you have that can be really quickly in my face and that's basically what you're gonna eat you. You just don't care anymore even calories. And how was that journey across Morocco? I mean did you feel? Were there multiple days where you weren't interacting with any villages along the way. So one really big factor in this race is that North Africa is. is a place where men and women have very different roles in society. And in this race, we compute as equal. There's only one podium. There's no difference between like we unofficially acknowledged the women's race. But officially, it is one race for all of us. No matter your gender or your age or your abilities. but but in Morocco it is it is a fairly difficult place to be a woman. I wouldn't be around the Bush interest in Morocco. You're kind of okay. You can probably even go around and the Bikini in some places but we were in very rural areas where. being woman come with extra complications. women traditionally can't actually go to cafes and restaurants in those kind of places especially on their own. So I kind of have to hide between the other riders. which was an interesting dynamic because technically they are my competition. But on the guys in the race, you know I gotta say I'm just still really blown away. By how sensitive they were to the fact that the women in the race had this extra kind of penalty against them that we had an extra complication that we had to look out for our safety and we had to comply with dress code and we had to be a lot more culturally sensitive and. There were some incidents like there was one woman in particular who had a really hard time with kind of male harassment. So We had to deal with that stuff on top of this, very difficult by grace. So. That was a factor I've been to Morocco before actually on a solo expedition running. So I knew all that and so this was very different experience because I have these male writers with me so I can have this pack and again like it was just so such a cool thing in this community that is really competitive but they put competition to the side every time that we went through a village to make sure that the women in the race. Felt and were safe. That's amazing. So we. As a community, we came together and that was that was such a nice thing about the race and I imagine just the of spirit of adventure that everybody who signs up for these races is in for there really are whether it safety. 00:25:08 - 00:30:04 In villages or just mechanical issues or what have you I imagine everybody's kind of looking out for one another to the degree. That's possible. Yeah absolutely. Yeah and. It's kind of hard because you really love each other like it's you know it's the tribe. We all become instant best friends on these things but with the self supported rule actually if someone has a mechanical, you can't help them or else you've disqualified them because they've accepted your health right See You. You can't just be next to someone sometimes going like, Hey, buddy looks pretty broken and you just have to sit. There with your arms full that and watching tat to them or whatever. But if you take one out of your bag and it's so hard as a cyclist like we live by this creed that someone's GonNa Puncture you help them if you've got a tube for them whatever. And these races you you just you can't on it. So Weird So awkward I'm it's probably the thing that I hate the most is that you can't help each other that you just have to watch someone else suffer and and hope that he's GonNa figure it out and be okay back because a lot of these situations I'm sure like you know you break your driller off and you're on the top of climb or whatever you've got no choice you've got to continue forward. You've got to convert that bike into a single speed or do whatever you have to do to keep going forward or you're just walking. Yeah exactly, and I should say the scraps rate in these races is really high. You mentioned the Silk Road? One. Done a couple of years ago. I think out of one, hundred, thirty, one finished. the atlas was a little bit better than that I can't really remember how many people cross the finish line but you know the chances of finishing it sometimes goes pretty close to fifty percent. you know just things are not gonNA fix or obviously you're in these foreign countries the likelihood of getting sick The justices are insane. So injuries takeout quite a lot of riders and yeah, it's it's just to finish. Absolutely and how do you keep yourself sort of mentally with it and focused on the on the prize throughout these events. Yeah that that can be hard because you are so low. So I I really do like music and podcasts I think music is great for manipulating your mood. So for me night riding can be the hardest because I'll just. I'm such a like Zan rider all just happily slow down and look at the stars and have a really nice time. But that's not how you WANNA race. So I do sometimes have to pull out some kind of playlist that's GonNa get me like turning those pedals and get me really mega The Nice thing about these races when it's on a set route is that you are passing the riders all the time. So even though you can't help each other ride together and draft. you can ride in proximity to other people as long as you're not pairing up and actually helping each other in the race. So I did have quite a lot of hours spent other riders people from all around the world that would have never met otherwise completely different lives but the one thing we have in common is gravel bikes. So How'd that company in that Camaraderie and that was really cool. So Yeah I think you just you gotta stay on top of it with your mental game. You know if you start thinking negatively if you start focusing on how much pain urine because by the third hake guaranteed you are in pain If you start zoning on that stuff, you're in a losing battle you know you've got to find a way to come back from that and keep yourself just thinking positive thinking about how much you love your bike even if that's not feeling very honest right now, you just you've got us to be proactive about it is what I found. So that's where. The music and podcasts to manipulate remove or with the other riders or your gratitude was huge for me. Said being Morocco is very difficult place for a woman. You Know I. It was really hard to to. Lose focus on the fact that I'm so privileged. I. Get to compete in this sport by his very melt Arment I get to fly to other continents around the world and ride my bike freely and you know get the spare time and health and money to be able to be an athlete. You know like my gratitude levels see that race were so through the roof though just look around you like this is cool. You get the opportunity to do something like this like it hurts but you chose that hurt you know yeah. Yeah that's amazing I. think that goes a long way just everything you're saying about a positive attitude whether it's One hundred mile ride or an adventure like this just. Knowing and understanding that everybody from the first person to the last person is GonNa have a moment of almost deep despair in how they're feeling and not thinking they can turn the pedals over another moment. But at the end of the day, the body is capable of more than you think it is in most cases. 00:30:04 - 00:35:02 So just keeping that positive attitude and keeping moving forward seems like a great mantra. Yeah, absolutely, and I read a study in. A couple of years ago that you actually will get to the top of a climb faster. If you keep repeating yourself the phrase, I've got this versus. Oh my God is hard. I don't like this hill So scientifically proven to say Nice things to yourself back yourself and think positively not maybe doesn't come naturally to me, but you know we start doing it and see how it works and you know it totally helps. So. Can we talk about how that attitude applied during the Silk Road Mountain, race and that I climb. That I've read about. Off that I climb, it was like a punch in the face right out of the start of that race like we had I think the first time was just over four thousand meters altitude, which is a serious altitude for. anyone. You know it was a it was a hard climb. We got hit by a thunderstorm while we were doing at. The last bit was hike bike. And then the big going down if he even got over that pass, which a lot of people didn't on the first day going down that pass also. So Mike Bike and when you're hiking down, that's like hard on everyone's mood like. What am I doing walking downhill? This is an appropriate. It seemed like there was this calculation that you had to make as a writer right out of the gate about how far you were. GonNa, make it in that first day, and if you were going to be giving in the snow and all kinds of horrible choices that if you didn't get to where you thought, you were going to go your your your beginning of your race could start awfully difficult. Yeah because you're really committed. I mean you don't want to set up camp four thousand meters is a dumb thing to do So you've got to decide am I going to actually make it over the past or am I not. Yeah it wasn't. Then that thunderstorm I think a lot of people didn't expect the thunderstorm again at actually been to carry on an expedition before. So I was kinda familiar with the flow of the nature out there, which is very typical in the summer to have a bill of of a thunderstorm late afternoon and it's GonNa. Last couple of hours but then it's GonNa stop. So, when the thunderstorm hit, I know a lot of people set up their tents and bunker down and just thought you know oh well. Like bad luck. Back Down and I kept going because I knew that if I kept moving I would stay warm and I would eventually be drying a couple of hours when this will all stop and I could just keep going so i. Went through the thunderstorm which. I think kind of steals my race start for me at least that I I did do that and I didn't stop The. Yeah I remember that day really well, it just seemed like chaos. There were just riders everywhere clean like what? Everything's hard. Everything's getting thrown at US exactly I. Remember it must have been like two seventeen when I became aware of that race and event and I looked very much forward to kind of observing it and being dot watcher and they did a great job of kind of conveying information from the field via their podcast and other kind of social platforms and. All that anticipation as a fan to look at it, and then to see how challenging that first day was for people. It really just blew me away as an event. Yeah I mean you definitely knew right from the start with not your cut out for this. And there was no gentle warm up. It was really like you're either in this or you should just go home now like this is going to be hard and you know and it stayed true to that theme every single. They had a new punch in the face like it was a hard. Arteries and without event did you feel more remote for longer periods of time than you in Morocco? Yeah absolutely, and that event does require a level of back country skill and one that you are at altitude but also there are really remote stretches. So you had to carry a lot more in this race. So you had to have things like water filters a stove on, you would have to carry several days worth of food at any point. and they're just being a lot less villages means you know your mechanical 's you don't get to walk to the next mechanic or someone that can help you like it's going to be days and that village probably isn't GonNa have anything like there aren't bike shops in the countryside curious down like that doesn't exist. So yeah, I did I think that one. Felt. A lot more like a mountain expedition race with bicycles rather than a bike race, right? So you were fortunate that Atlas Mountain Bike Race happened early in twenty twenty. So you actually got a big event under your belt. Did you have any other events planned for the year or is there's are there things are excited about pursuing in the future? And yes I. I don't raise very often on more of an adventure, but actually I stay in racing because of the tribe because of the get together of all these really cool people that we get to ride together the racing element is always really weird for me because I'm not back. Actually So I. 00:35:02 - 00:38:27 I am gutted that we're not racine at the moment that it's going to be a while on I did not another race bond for the atlas was GonNa be my event. So I'm yeah I'm just beyond grateful that I got it and then I was going to do. More bike packing, and touring kinda around Europe which isn't having at the moment of actually speaking to you from Whistler. As a Canadian citizen quite lucky that I get to just hide out here. Yeah it's not about place. I have not gotten a bike packing trip around nine Cougar island which family lives. So have managed to keep going again I'm really grateful because I know a lot of people aren't able to adventure on the levels that that I am. Yes I'm just I'm just not thinking about it too much. It'd be nice to do a race and get the tribe together but you know if it's GonNa be a while before we do that again, I'm just not going to dwell on it. Yeah. I think that's a good attitude. We've all had certa just take a deep breath and a pause and say like we love being out there in the Wilderness we love riding our bikes and do it for that, and we'll find a way to get the community gather when it safe and healthy for everybody. Yeah exactly and thank goodness for bikes I mean if you how can you get through this without cycling I now I think we all need to get outside. This is what we need. I now I would have gone nuts I. Remember we talking briefly about Spain before we were recording and some friends over there who were limited to riding bicycle trainers on their balconies. Yeah, and so I did quarantine when I arrived in canvas to weeks worth of a terrible trainer. And for about two weeks, I could probably keep it interesting. But I I, mean I think longest I ever stayed on it was two hours and I was just like. Support. Seen anything new and you know to I ride I mean come on I need way more than that. Yes. It's certainly sounds like it. Well, this has been awesome Johnny I really appreciate you. Talking to the listener about these great events and anchorage everybody did check out. Jenny's website which I'll link to because there's some amazing film that you've created about some of your vendors. And also pointing to other coverage of the Silk Road Mountain raise in the Atlas Mountain race that are worth watching, and then I'm also Jenny geeking out over your running expeditions because I think that's awesome as well. Yes I do have fun. So fun stuff. Thanks so much for the time Jenny. That'd be great. Wow, quite a story right I find athletes like Jenny and those races, the bike packing races so inspiring. So want to do something like that at some point in my life don't know if it will be these week long events, but certainly something overnight I think would be an amazing challenge for any of us. So that's our episode for this week. Appreciate you joining us. We've just started a new forum on facebook to kind of have conversations about these items. So if You have any questions make sure to check out that forum. You can find it by finding the gravel ride podcast page and just look for our group over there. As always we welcome your feedback and we love hearing from you can be reached at Craig at the gravel ride dot bike. Next week we'll be back with another episode of in the dirt with my co host Randall Jacobs, and we look forward talking to you that until next time here's defining some dirt under your wheels.

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Kayla and her family live in an RV! She is an author, maintains a YouTube show and she is the creator of Six Miles to Supper. Find her at kayla@sixmilestosupper.com Kayla and her husband J.R. wrote Keep Talking: Communication Habits for Getting Along All Marriage Long https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084DGFLHK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DEQREbJJK6BMT --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Is Lavinia Fisher America’s first female serial killer or was she falsely accused? Is wearing your wedding dress to your own hanging metal AF or needy and desperate? Who is whispering from inside the cells in the most haunted building in South Carolina? And finally, are Sarah and her husband Dave ever going to agree on which drag queen embodies the spirit of Lavinia Fisher? Find out all of this, and more on the 11th episode of Your Mom is a Creep! We've got true crime, ghosts, haunted jail, historical murder, truly everything you ever wanted in one place. Welcome to Charleston, South Carolina. Find me and tell me all your *deepest, creepiest secrets* on Instagram and Twitter @yourmomisacreep or email me your very favorite creepy stories and subjects at yourmomisacreep@gmail.com! Some resources where you can find out more information about Lavinia Fisher and the Old Charleston City Jail... Episode of Southern Fried Crime on the legend and the TRUTH about what happened to Lavinia and John Fisher https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/southern-fried-true-crime/id1242028887 Episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved where these dudes visit the prison and capture what could be Lavinia's ghost! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdEFos9YQQ The definitive text on the matter, Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr https://www.amazon.com/Six-Miles-Charleston-Lavinia-Fisher/dp/1609491173#:~:text= Charleston News Segment with Bulldog Tours, who give the guided Ghost Tours of Charleston Old City Jail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZNM-_xPDg0 Also feel free to check Wikipedia for the basics ;) xx Creepy Mom Out! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In today’s podcast we will be listening to a Christmas message preached by Dr. Ray Pritchard, Founder and President of Keep Believing Ministries entitled, Six Miles from Jesus.

The end of the line for the Forlorn Hope.

Last month, Matt Wooters, a Jesuit brother from the Midwest Province, decided he was going to try and swim six miles for a birthday fundraiser benefiting the immigration legal aid group RAICES. The only problem was he only had a few weeks to train and it’s not like he was doing long-distance swims all the time. But as Brother Matt is wont to do, he just went for it. His effort struck a cord, and the the fundraiser blew up on social media. With an original goal of $1000, he blew past that right away and ended up raising over $23,000 for RAICES. Host Mike Jordan Laskey chats with Matt to ask him about the swim, his thoughts on why he thinks the fundraiser did so well, and how his experience working with immigrant families has affected his view of our political discourse around migration. Matt was also the first participant in a new segment on the show, which we’re calling 20 Questions, so stay tuned for that at the end of the episode. As we continue to grow here at AMDG, we’d really appreciate it if you could leave us a nice review on iTunes, subscribe to the show wherever you listen, and tell your friends and family about it.

The Road Home begins, and the first stop lands Evangeline at a campground off I-80 in North Platte, Nebraska. It's nothing special but it's better than running out of gas which almost happened before they got there. Dan has a song stuck in his head, Janice is suffering in the humidity, the trees are big, and the open road beckons as Nebraska and Week Nine stretch out. Follow along on Instagram @tincanevangeline Follow Dan on Twitter @dansinker Follow Janice on Twitter @janicedillard

Get your copy of my audio book, The Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting for FREE when you sign up for a 30 day trial of Audible. The Laid Back Guide To Intermittent Fasting E-Book This episode is an introduction to Kayla, the host, her history of weight loss success and what the podcast is about.     This podcast is brought to you by: Our Slow and Steady Success Academy The Slow and Steady Success Academy is an online school designed to help you achieve your goals by implementing sustainable lifestyle changes.  If you'd like to get access to every single course as it becomes available on this site, you can sign up for your All Access Pass subscription. This includes: Monthly access to every course that gets published to Slow and Steady Success Academy Group support discussions for troubleshooting and sharing experiences Access to a bonus weekly coaching video for accountability and motivation Opportunity to get in the Hot Seat, a one on one Skype coaching call that will get shared inside the All Access Pass area so that everyone in the group benefits Anonymous Q&A area so that you can get sensitive questions answered   ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL BEFORE GOING ON ANY DIET OR EXERCISE PROGRAM.

A bit different take this time around as we have a little fun with Rob Miller, executive producer and John Schneider, co-executive producer and star of the television show "Twenty Six Miles".The show, Twenty Six Miles, stars John Schneider as a corporate executive who leaves a stressful career, moves to an island, and "gets the old band together".  (Sounds like an awful lot of Trop Rock artists that we know!)Take a listen, you just might hear something VERY exciting regarding the 2011 Trop Rock Music Awards at this year's MOTM, which happens to be the 20th Anniversary.CLICK HERE TO GET THE EPISODE  Enjoy,JimmyP

The time between three and four in the morning is said to be the hour when evil is at the height of it’s power -- the time when the Devil ascends from Hell and ghosts haunt the land of the living. In part two of my experience of the Devil’s hour inside Charleston’s Old City Jail, I receive a message from Hell itself, and discover the truth about one of the jail’s most famous prisoners -- Lavinia Fisher herself. Episode Highlights: 3 AM inside the Old City Jail Torture chambers, the crane of pain, and the hangman’s lair Lorraine Warren visits the Old City Jail Footsteps in an empty corridor A child behind bars Lavinia Fisher and Daniel Duncan: Old City Jail’s famous residents An exploration to the third floor My conversation with Bruce Orr: The truth about Lavinia Fisher Resources: Abode of Misery by David C. Scott, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010 Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr. The History Press, 2010 Enjoyed this episode? Please support the show by rating, reviewing, and subscribing on iTunes. Please visit Pleasing Terrors, the podcast behind Old Charleston’s best ghost tour, on Facebook and Twitter!

David serves as the field services manager for the Minnesota Historical Society travelling nearly 35,000 miles a year to engage with, and assist, local historical societies, His recent publications include "Building Museums: a handbook for small and midsize organizations" and a history about Sarah Jane Sibly, the first Governor's Wife (modern First Lady) of Minnesota, "Six Miles from St. Paul: the family and society of Sarah Jane Sibley" reveals how Sarah led the first historic preservation effort in Minnesota, and was key to setting social patterns that endure. The story, meticulously researched and illustrated, is told through the observations of her by her family and friends.

Paul and Rob run a long way at an early hour through Hackney's green - if dark and damp - spaces. Featuring shocking admissions, heavy exercise regimes and a heartbreaking birthday story. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/runningcommentary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Paul and Rob run a long way at an early hour through Hackney's green - if dark and damp - spaces. Featuring some nipple talk, and a lot of not-yet-open pubs. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/runningcommentary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Visit us at www.paranormalunderground.net to read Paranormal Underground magazine! In this episode of Paranormal Underground Radio: In The Dark, we talk with Bruce Orr, paranormal investigator, retired criminal investigator, founder of Lost in Legend, and author of Ghosts of the USS Yorktown and other paranormal titles. Bruce is a retired criminal investigator turned author. After retiring, he combined his love for investigation and research with his love for history and writing. His first book, Six Miles to Charleston is an in-depth look at the facts behind the legend of John and Lavinia Fisher, who were accused of robbing and murdering their guests at an Inn outside of Charleston, SC, in 1819. Bruce has also written Haunted Summerville, SC and Ghosts of Berkeley County, SC in which he covers the legends and lore that he grew up with in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In these books, he interviews the witnesses, examines the locations, and even relates a few of his own experiences. In Ghosts of the USS Yorktown, The Phantoms of Patriots Point, Bruce tackles the paranormal tales associated with the World War II-era aircraft carrier since its arrival at Patriots Point Maritime Museum. As a result of multiple historical and paranormal projects, Bruce founded "Lost in Legend." The focus of his organization is to research and promote the facts behind the folklore and the history behind the hauntings. Often this creates new and increased interest in the legends they explore. This has led to Bruce being sought as a speaker and lecturer and also as a consultant on the area's legends, folklore, and paranormal residents. An avid diver, Bruce often incorporates scuba diving into his research and book projects. He is often involved in historical Maritime Archaeological projects with the Maritime Research Division of the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology as a volunteer diver. His projects can be followed on Facebook at Lost in Legend.Air Date: March 19, 2015 Topic: Paranormal Investigation, Ghost Ship, USS Yorktown Guest: Bruce Orr Hosts: Karen Frazier and Chuck Gotski Producer: Cheryl Knight

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Margaret Brown has worked on a variety of films including cinematography work on the film Ice Fishing, the narrative short 99 Threadwaxing, producing the narrative feature film, Mi Amigo, and producing the narrative short Six Miles of Eight Feet which won a Student Academy Award.  She has also directed and produced music videos for Okkervil River and Cat Power.She has more recently focused on documentary work including the acclaimed documentary Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, and The Order of Myths which won her awards including the Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. The Order of Myths is about the world of secret societies and centuries-old traditions branching from the 1st Mardi Gras in America celebrated in Mobile, Alabama organized along enduring color lines.

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