What's Good with John & Joyce: Ep. 38 - Holiday Eating Hacks
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What's Good with John & Joyce: Ep. 38 - Holiday Eating Hacks

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how about this call?

Oh, wait, no, I really need to ask you
this because, when I walk by your coffee.

Right. Your coffee smells so good.

What is it?

I before before I come to the studio here,
I go to a place called Common Grounds.

It's like 8 or 9 locations
here in the shrubland, right?

Yeah.

And Wilson and Dena, they own the place,
and it's like my favorite place

to go get coffee.

But what is, the brand?

This one is vanilla macadamia.

Oh, they have a different flavor
every day.

Good day.

Enjoys. I, I go out of my way.

My wife laughs at me.

There could be a coffee shop
right down the street.

I go out of my way
to go to Common Grounds.

That's how good it is.

Yeah. That smells. Oh, yeah.

Sounds fantastic.

What does that mean?
If I go there tomorrow, it may not have.

It'd be a probably a different flavor
of the day, but it is so good.

So good. Yeah.

And it's so good too.

I mean, we just have so much to be
grateful for.

We've got the holidays upon us, choice.

Holidays and talking about Covid, but.

Grateful to be working with you,
hanging out with you.

I love this.

This is like, I don't know,
like my yoga class or something.

Yeah.

And we're grateful for the folks
behind the scenes here,

you know, David and Stefania and Robert
who does a lot of our marketing.

It's just, Robert Graham.

Yeah.

People see us here on camera,
but it's all the people behind the scenes

that really make this thing happen,
and we're so grateful for them. Yes.

Thank God it was.

Thank God.

Really sitting in my basement doing this.

We were doing that back.

There's going to be a program about that.

We should dig out some of the early tapes
of us in your basement right?

Oh my goodness, how far we've come
or how far we've fallen.

It depends.

It depends on perspective, right? Yes.

Yeah, but it's always been good.

Yeah. It's always been good.

So you got some notes right there.

You got a.

I just had some notes
that we were going to talk about today.

Like, like hacking your holiday
eating habits.

For sabotaging. Or sabotage.

A lot of us sabotage.

You know, I,
I did a little bit of that over Halloween

because, you know, you and I, Joyce,
were pretty good with our nutrition.

We're pretty much spot on.

Except
that wasn't so much during Halloween.

So what happened to during Halloween?

Oh, I get caught up in it.

You know, we

we went to a couple Halloween functions
and we went to one together at,

at woodwinds recently.

And, I don't know, I just love candy.

Yeah, I have candy.

We do candy. Your.
Yeah, it's my Kryptonite.

I love Baby Ruth bars.

Sky bars, which I found.

The Sky bars are still available.
They were big when I was a kid.

They have, like, different flavors,
just like different segments.

Peanut butter, caramel, vanilla.

And their little. Segments are layers.

Like different segments.

And, and they've been around forever.
And they're still.

I thought they'd

pretty much gone by the wayside,
but you could still get them.

Yeah. Of course. Peanut butter cups.

I love him when he, Hershey's,
like three Musketeers, Milky way.

Snicker
I love them all. All right, all right.

You don't discriminate. Against. No.

And my wife has seen me on the couch
when we're watching something.

And she'll say.

And she'll see all these wrappers
next to me on the couch, right.

The cats on one side
and the candy wrappers on the other.

So I kind of, like, hack myself
or sabotage myself a little bit.

But then I got right back on track since,
you know, because of my intermittent

fasting and my strict nutrition,
for the most part.

Yeah, that allows you to do that.

But now, though,
now that we're entering holiday season,

I know it's difficult for a lot of people.

And some people will say to me, well,
you know what?

I'm just going to forget about the diets,
forget about anything.

I'm going to eat my way
through the holidays.

But then it's so difficult
to lose that weight afterwards.

So that's what happened to me years ago.

I mean, you know,
people will say to me, oh,

it's easy for you to say
because you're on the thin side.

I wasn't always I.

Know it hard to believe that you said
you were. Actually, I. Was 40 people.

I was, yeah, probably closer to 50 pounds
heavier, really.

And when I lost the weight, I decided

I am never going to go through this again.

It's so easy to put it on. Yeah.

Why can you put it on over a weekend?

But it took me, like a year,

you know, to lose that sensibly.

Like I didn't do a crash diet.

I usually don't work.

Yeah, it's got to be a lifestyle.

It's got to be a commitment.

Because I used to be a personal trainer.

You know?

I used to be a

and I had so many customers and clients,
I would guide them through and,

but I'd also throw myself
under the bus too,

because so many times
people feel really bad when they binge.

Yeah.

And they would come in the next morning
and they feel really guilty.

I say, listen, I've done it too, right?

Know this is a brand new day.

Let's start all over again today.

It's a brand new day to start.

Yesterday's gone and let's focus on today.

And it just takes the pressure off
because people just need that.

We all binge.

We're human

or we're not necessarily binge,
but we all kind of

go like the who reservation
every now and then.

Right.

But the, the,
the trick is to get back on track.

Like you said, it is so, you know,
and I worked for many, many years

for a group of cardiologists.

So every holiday
they would put out information about this.

And what I remember the most is like,
if you're going to a holiday party,

drink water before and have some protein.

Yeah.

And I actually was going to

bring what I, you know do before a party.

And I had the dish all made up.

But I ate it before I came here.

That's a good one.

That's a really good piece of information.

Before we go out to parties, Patty
and I would eat something like

yeah before we go there.

So we're not going to be picking
on all the appetizers, right?

That's where the calories,
you know, really add up.

Oh yeah.

Because when I'm doing

wedding receptions, Joyce deejaying those,
I'll see people with the appetizers.

Yeah.

And people coming up and up and up and up
and just one adhere to a there are three.

That's thousands of calories.

Before they even got into the entree.

I saw a woman eating a whole bowl of nuts.

And and after she finished the nuts,
she said, I don't know why I can't lose

weight, you know, because I've been trying
and I stay away from the fried foods.

Right?

But in that bowl of nuts,
there's like a thousand calories.

Right?

And depending on the nuts as well,

I mean, when you're talking about, like,
people think peanuts are really healthy,

they're not.

I mean, peanut,

the peanut plant is related to the, poison
ivy plant poison medication.

I love peanut butter.

Yeah, I can eat a whole jar.

Isn't it a lagoon, though?

Also, yeah, yeah, but I like almonds.

I like pecans. Like poison ivy.

Yeah, but.

Yeah,
but you know, so related to the poison.

Ivy, is that why people have peanut
allergies?

Maybe. Could be. But.

But I'm still guilty of eating
peanut butter.

You know, I still like it,
but I've been I trying to sway more.

Oh I love. Oh, yeah,
but I love peanut butter out of the jar.

I do not want a Reese's.

I don't want an A cookie.
I don't want to in a cake.

I want them all. No I want
I want them all.

I am just pathetic.

My wife says to me, you have no willpower.

And the thing is, I've competed
in bodybuilding shows. Oh, you've.

Got. Well, I got a lot of willpower.

Yeah, but when I don't look, when. You
don't, you don't. I don't.

She looks at me. She just shakes her head.

Yeah, but you're disciplined enough
now that I am.

I mean, I can get right back on it.

I mean, I, I when I make the mind
up, I said, okay, I'm back on again.

And since you know, since Halloween,
I was spot on workouts, nutrition

and for my dessert,
many times I'll have honey,

organic honey and raw almonds,

which is one of the best combinations
you could ever be in your body.

Yeah, yeah.

As you know. Yeah. And with some cinnamon.

Oh, cinnamon. So. Right. And magnesium.

Make sure you get plenty of magnesium.

Because most people in this country
do not have enough magnesium.

That's so so. And collagen.

So before the person let's say
leaves the house.

You know have a little bit of protein
have a protein drink or protein bar.

I usually do a protein bar
with a handful of nuts.

Not a lot you know.

But I love like raw organic pumpkin seeds.

Oh I love
I don't know I am like addicted to it.

I have it every single day
because I love it.

Not because I have to.

So I do that.

And sometimes the the raw walnuts. Yeah.

The only nuts
I like toasted or like almonds or

you know,

some other ones, but for some reason it's
those.

It's a plant
because a lot of us love pecan pie, but

it's a whole different thing,
you know, because.

Well, I almost say,
okay, on a, on a Thanksgiving,

I realize that I think I ate
almost a whole one that somebody made

and I was making myself sick,
but it was the best thing I ever.

Eight but after that,
my body didn't want to eat for two days.

Yeah, it wasn't that I stop myself
from eating, and I thought it was

my body's way of now knowing
how many calories and fat I needed.

And it was telling me, honey,
you don't need anything else.

I did this for a couple of days.

Oh, God, it's you.

And we do do that all the time.

I mean, how many times
you eat, you overeat on Thanksgiving?

Yeah.

And you're on the couch
and you want to go into a coma?

Yes. Right. And you're just eating.

And then the next day you feel like,
oh, can't believe I ate the whole thing.

Like that commercial.
Back to that, right? All day.

And I've been guilty of that.
I'll eat the whole.

And I usually hide because I don't want
people to see me pigging out.

So I'll be in the kitchen
and Patty will yell, are you eating?

What are you.

Oh, no, no, no, the whole pie is gone.

You know, lemon
meringue is like one of my favorite pies.

Lemon meringue. But yeah, I love.

I love all pies.

I like pies more than cakes.

Me too, me too.
I mean, I love cake, but I prefer pie.

But people who are in the kitchen cooking.

And those of you out there who do,

if you're
pickers and you're tasting things

you may not realize you're
almost eating a whole meal because usually

the people they come to my house,
you know, every holiday, my family,

I can't sit down and eat with them
because I'm busy.

I'm doing stuff.
So I may be picking here and there.

But here's another trick eat
only what you really like.

You don't have to try everything.

And if you're going to someone's home,

you could always take a little bit home
with you for the next day.

So I think a lot of people feel like
they have to eat.

But there's another reason
why I don't like eating at a party.

I really don't enjoy it
because I like speaking to people.

Yes, and you're
not always hanging with your teeth.

Oh my god, yes, yes. Spinach.

Something you got salad
hanging from your mouth, but people choke

because I worked in the restaurant
business.

I cut my teeth
making money in restaurants.

You know, business,
waitressing, hostessing, all that stuff.

And so many times the ambulance was called
because people are choking,

because they're laughing and talking
while eating.

And it gets sucked down your esophagus.

And if someone doesn't know the Heimlich
method, you're catching them soon.

I mean, it's really serious.

So I thought, I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to sit quietly and eat.

But if you're at an event and everyone's
speaking, it's difficult.

So I'd rather not eat at an event.

Eat before, take some stuff home. Right.

And I'm good.

I do the same thing when a DJ events or MC
events too.

I'm not eating when I'm there.

Typically, like you saw me
that event recently, I didn't eat

because I'm pretty much fasting right
for most of the day anyway,

and I try not to eat after 8:00 at night
anyway.

Yeah, I don't. Think you don't want to be.

You want to give it at least 2 or 3 hours
before your last meal, before you eat.

And I found out two to be able
to control your blood sugar, especially

if you've had a really big meal.

Have like a teaspoon of apple
cider vinegar.

Put that in your water
like a glass of water like this.

Right. And that really helps
with the insulin spikes.

You'll sleep better through the night
and you'll wake up with a fight or stomach

in the morning. It's great.

You know, that's really good.

I my mixed with chia seeds every now
and then.

I'm a big fan of the chia seeds
because they're packed with omega three.

So you you mix the drink with so.

You sometimes I do you're.

Putting it in a blender then.

No, no I just I just stir it up.

How do you drink the chia seeds.
You just drink it.

I what I do is when you put
chia seeds in a glass of water.

Yeah.

Let them settle for 10 or 15 minutes
and they become like a gel.

Right. And it's so. Good.

So do you spoon it out
or do you, It's usually dissolves,

but it's almost like drinking pollywog
eggs, you know?

But that sounds horrible.
But it's so good for you.

But typically, I'll just have the apple
apple cider vinegar on its own.

But usually I have chia seeds before.

It's a great way to break your fast,
right?

You're fasting for a long period of time.

Glass of water with chia seeds or avocado

or cucumber slices with Celtic salt on it.

That sounds. Awesome. Protein.

Yeah,
I usually do that with a Greek yogurt.

Oh yeah, I love Greek yogurt.

And the fewer ingredients the better.

If you're going to get your yogurt,
your cottage cheese is 1 or 2 ingredients,

right?

Like there's a cottage cheese
I love called Daisy.

Yeah, it's only got two ingredients.

And some of the cottage yogurts.

I get are basically high fat,
so I eat a lot less of them.

The low fat or no fat stuff.

What's what's going to get you?

Yeah, try to get high fat.

And that's what I do
because you need the fat.

But just nothing as good as Greek
plain yogurt.

Oh, that's what I do. Yeah.

It's like with. Honey.
You love nuts, honey.

You know, look at that.

Wow. Okay.

But for the people who are going to a
home, let's say you're coming to my house.

So I'm like, you know.

Invited to Joyce's
house your Thanksgiving.

Oh, yeah.

I make I other than making my own noodles,
everything is from scratch.

So I make a big panel lasagna.

Then I make a big crock pot of,
I think it's really good.

And my family does the turkey
stuffing, but, it's vegetarian.

Okay, so I do the stuffing, I do that
I make a couple of broccoli pies.

Oh, broccoli.

So, Broccoli is so good for you.

But I asked my son. My son Tim.

I said, what can I make that
you really like?

And he said, you know, I what

I really want,
and I just don't make for myself.

I want a big pot of beef stew.

I said, okay, I can do that.

So we're taking one for the team
because you don't eat meat?

No, I don't eat meat.

Anybody touching it. Right.

But yeah, but I do it for my family.

So I asked my son Jeffrey.

I said, do you really want like, turkey?

Because it doesn't seem like people eat
turkey is like, whoa.

Then I had my son, my grandson say, no,
we want turkey

because it's traditional
and one wants a whole turkey.

The other one wants
a, What do you like a breast of turkey?

So I said, okay, so I'm gonna have
a whole turkey breast of turkey.

I'm going to have beef stew.

I'm going to have lasagna.

I'm going to have, mashed potatoes,
sweet potato.

I didn't
I know we're regular for Thanksgiving.

And then I've got

this recipe,
and now this is really going to test me

for a chocolate pecan pie.

Oh my.

Goodness. Oh my stomach.

Yeah. It's like right now.

And of course I'll have the traditional
pumpkin pie and I'll make an apple pie.

And as my sister said to me,
who is coming to your

you don't have that many people.

I said, yep, it's Thanksgiving, you know,
and I make everything from scratch.

So I've been saving up the apples.
I've been saving up.

I bought the cans like a pumpkin
puree on sale for leftovers.

And maybe you can find somebody
who's in need.

Well, it's my my family's is.

And believe me,
the family's in. Yes, yes, yes.

So I send everyone home
with a little care package.

But what?

So the thing is,
if you're going to a house like mine

and there's all this stuff
all over and a table full of desserts,

are you telling me

John and Joyce,

that I can get through this
without feeling so stuffed

that I feel like I'm going to throw up
in my mouth when I bend over again?

You can. Yes, yes.

And the trick is what you eat a little
you don't need.

You just need the taste of.

You don't need a whole slab of lasagna.

I'll give you some to take home. You know.

Am I really good at that?

Because, you know, she'll,

she'll take the little baby
candies, like, during Halloween.

She'll have 1 or 2, and she's good.

Yeah, not like me,
where I have to eat the whole bag.

And if you wait 15 minutes.

And I know a lot of you know this,
but sometimes we just don't do it.

It takes a good 15 minutes for your brain
to register that you're full.

That that was satisfying it.

But when you keep scarfing it in. Yeah.

You know, it's not triggering. Yeah.

That's my my challenge.

At times I eat a little bit too fast
and then you get the bloating and you,

you don't let your brain catch up
with your stomach, right.

Or vice versa.

So if you eat slow, put your spoon down

like a knife down, have a conversation
and then go back to eat.

You get fuller. Yeah.

You know, instead of just, you know,

like a shovel.

Right?

That's sometimes my problem
when I'm fasting for so long.

By the time I eat, you know,
I got to slow down.

And my wife always just slow down.

Slow down. Right. I'm guilty of. That.

But you're hungry.

Is that why you're starving?
Yeah, starving.

But you know, but I still I'm also able
to do a 48 hour or a 72 hour fast.

Right.

And just have plenty of electrolytes,
lots of water, lots of,

you know, black coffee.

And it keeps me full.

It really does. Yeah.

You know, and I have always fasted,

and when I say a fasted, it doesn't mean
I said, oh, I'm going to fast

the day after Thanksgiving, that Friday.

I just don't want to eat. Right.

I don't want the leftovers.

I'm probably because I've been
in the kitchen for days making it right,

you know, and then I'll probably go back
like on Sunday

and, you know, finish up
some stuff that I liked.

But your desserts are like the best to me.

Whenever you set me up of desserts
and I bring them home.

Now you're
my guinea pig. I send home to eat.

And my other half is always saying,
I love Joyce.

I, I, you know, I.

Love Joyce,

I hate Joyce, you know, like the cartoons
with the angel and the devil on one side.

Yeah, I love Joyce, I hate Joyce.

That's most of the people I know. But. Oh.

Yeah, well, man.

But the whole thing is just to be smart
about that.

And be intentional.

You know, before you go out to that
family outing, enjoy yourself.

Remember, it's just one day.

Just try not to make the one day
turn into 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 a week.

Yeah, because that's what happens. Time.

People will say, you know what, I'm

going to just eat through the holidays,
and then come January I'll hit the gym.

But why?

Why put yourself through that?

Hit the gym? Yes, by all means. But,

just do things a little easier, slower.

And what we were just talking about,
you know, there's like this

three byte thing to just take three bites,
2 or 3 bites or chew.

Chew longer before you longer.

Hydrate more.

I'm guilty of not hydrating more.

I need a. Couple glasses of water
before you eat.

Yes, that helps a lot because it gives you
the sense of being full.

In most times when people are hungry at
night, it's because they're bored, right?

They've been on all day and they're bored.

They're watching TV, reading a book,
listening

to a podcast, watching a podcast,
and then they just eat.

And I've been guilty of that.

It's like you get in front
of the refrigerator and my wife's, why?

In front of the refrigerator?

It's just a habit at night.

So just like you say, give it some time.
Think about it.

Have a glass of water

or have a seltzer water, which I
like a lot because it's filling me first.

Fills me more than water,

and then I can go back
and do what I'm doing, and I feel better.

Yeah, because you want to go to sleep
on an empty stomach if you can.

And because your, your body does
a lot of its repair when you're sleeping.

Oh, absolutely.

The last thing you want to do
is sleep on a, on a full stomach.

You you keep getting up and and the
next morning you wake up, it's like,

then you got to go to work. Yeah.

And you got to be on your best behavior
and a good mood.

It's hard to be that way.

You know? That's a good point.

Yeah, because if you get on a routine
of not eating after, like,

I don't eat after 7:00 at night,
you don't need after 8:00 at night.

When you get in a routine of doing that,

you don't have to think about your body
and just do that.

Yeah, maybe.

Thank you. Yes.

The first few nights might be like,
you're hungry, but it passes

if you go do something else.

Like you said, tell me again
what you drink with the cider.

Like what is the combination?

Okay, so I'll get the Bragg's apple cider
vinegar.

Bragg's is a great.
This is a great brand. Yes.

And I'll get that.

And I'll take a tablespoon.

Put it in my glass.

You know, like halfway.

Whole full glass. A full glass of water.

Because you want to keep everything
going overnight.

Some people say, oh,
if I drink too much water,

I get up in the middle of the night
and do this. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, you got to keep your body right
hydrated.

Won't get the toxins out.

But then I'll have a, you know,
just a little tablespoon of the apple

cider vinegar and just, you know,
just especially after I have a big meal.

So basically it's that that acts
almost like

why people use it to drink Alka-Seltzer,
things like that.

And this is.

Yeah, this is the natural.

Juice controls your blood sugar.

But you do that every night,
no matter what.

Every night.

Okay.

That's what I wasn't sure about, is it's
not because you eat a big meal.

No, I.

Just do that. Every night.

I'm just a big fan of that.

I'm a big fan of eating our own, drinking
olive oil.

Right. Tablespoon of the.

I'll splurge on the right olive oil
because I'm worth it.

And so are you.

We're all worth it.

Do you do a tablespoon
every day? Every day.

But I usually load the whole purpose, of
food is to put olive oil on it.

I put olive oil and everything generously
because it's an anti-inflammatory.

It's so good.

The health benefits of a great don't
you don't get like, the stuff that you get

at a typical restaurant that they serve,
where a lot of that stuff is watered down.

Not every restaurant,
but some of the ones I've been to.

But I will splurge on a good olive.

Oil, a really good olive.

Oil, and also salt.

Table salt is really bad for you, right?

There's no nutrients in it.
Get Celtic salt.

Yeah CFL it's
like the best salt in the market.

It's got like 77 nutrients
and it's one of the best supplements.

It's like nature's form of creatine
that you can put in your body.

So you

do the olive oil and on its own.

I mean I'll drink it on its own,
but I, I have a big salad

and I just pour the olive oil on it,

the really good olive oil,
because you need healthy fat.

Yeah.

People say, oh, you don't want to put
too much fat, I'm going to get fat.

No. In order for you to lose fat,
you need to eat more fat.

I get most of my calories from fat.

Good fat, good fat.

We're not talking about the lines
and everything right.

It's salmon avocado which is probably
the most perfect food on the planet.

You know a lot of,
I eat a lot of red meat.

I know you don't, you know, enjoys.
And you do whatever you need to do.

You're a vegan. Vegetarian.

You can still get your protein out.
Read about it. Yeah.

So I respect what people do,
but works for me, though, is a lot of meat

because it's an anti-inflammatory.

And I need the good fat.

I'll eat the fat from the rib eye.

But I also loves fish.

You know, a lot of,
salmon, walnuts, avocados.

Like we said before, olive oil. Excuse me.

He reminded me
when my mother had a heart attack at 52,

and, well, the doctor gave her,

you know, a
list of things to eat every day.

And it was two tablespoons
of olive oil on your food,

no matter where you put it,
on your vegetables, on your fish,

but not put it right,
but not fried in a pan.

Yeah, right.

It's just pure olive oil.

Just pour it on there.

And boy did she start looking great.

Great for your skin.
Oh my God, look at you.

You're 120.

Listen. Listen to. Him.

I'm the same age as Moses.

When he walked up the mountain
and he was like,

strong as a horse when he went up to.

That's right
above the amount of the. Yeah.

That's right. Moses. Yeah,

yeah.

Moses and I were good buddies, right?

When he when he had a hard time
holding up the stick.

The part,
the red, a Cadillac, a new drug. Oh.

And I was there.

I would believe that you're ageless.

Absolutely. Age.

As are you, my friend.

Well, I mean, I love you sharing about.

You know what you eat
and what you do because you really do

take care of that body,
which is our only vehicle.

The thing is, I mean.

When I use to train people to Joyce,

I say it's a lot easier to stay in shape
than get in shape. Yes.

You know, the whole thing is like,

at this stage of my life,
when I'm working out to.

It's all about functionality, right?

You I don't care about lifting

the heavy weights anymore
and everything at this stage.

Right now, I just want to be functional.

I want to be healthy, to do the podcast
with you, to have a great life

with my wife, to be able to go out there
and do what I do in radio or deejaying

or whatever it may be, right,
and take the best possible supplements.

Well, that's it.

It's all about feeling great rather
than looking great or fitting in to,

for women, you know, like
fitting into a size six pants or whatever.

It's more about feed
your body what it needs.

You know, if you can't really exercise
or join a gym walk

because, you know, with my back injury,
I learned this

from the natural past doctor
when I really couldn't do much,

she said, well, walk in your house,
just keep walking so don't.

Go up and down the stairs.

Well,
you know the downstairs area that I have.

That's right.

So I just
I just walk until I could get my pace

a little faster and I that's what I did.

So you you always have the ability
to do something.

You know,
like when you wake up in the morning

before I get out of the bed
for ten minutes, I'm basically,

you know, massaging my face,
massaging the back of my neck for 30s

to get the blood to the brain
behind my ears.

You know, like this.

When I do this, I'm doing, I exercises.

I call them
Tai pushups every every morning like this.

And then going around like this
every morning.

And then I flex my calves
because that helps people.

They say

avoid like, blood clots
because you have like a second brain.

Yeah. Second brain here
and also down in your calves.

So going up like this rotating my my feet.

Oh I'm going to do that.

I get up and I do balance exercises.

And if you have a hard time at home
hold hold something.

But just kind of yes,
hold your leg up the can.

Because when people are over 60,
especially

the most injuries happen
because they lose their balance, right.

So you've really got to do the balance,
do some push ups.

And if you have a hard time doing them,
do it with your knees on the floor right.

And do push ups, you know,
take some cans and do some bicep.

Yeah.
You could always grab something to do.

But the thing with the calves, I'm so glad
you said that because I do remember

I had had, a surgery years ago,
and the first thing they do is

put those inflatable things on your legs
to keep your calves moving because.

Because of blood clotting. Right?

Or when people are on airplane,
they tell you, get up,

you know, go to the bathroom, walk
a little bit because of that.

But I'll do I'll do leg raises in bed.

I'll just

have my legs go both sides like this
leg raises up and down type of exercise.

But just, you know, rubbing
underneath my body, underneath my armpits.

That's for the lymph
nodes. The lymph nodes.

Which is really, really important.

And you got to take your going
to get that blood flow in your body

and it gives you the energy.

Then I'll get up
and I'll do 15 20 minutes of tai chi. Wow.

So just a lot of like, you know, movement.

Okay, I think I want a camera on you
in the morning.

You don't want to show people.
What would be great.

Yeah.

Wait, so if we did that at a party
and you're doing that in the corner,

everyone would stay away from you.

Isn't that guys crazy? Away from me
anyway?

Yeah. No, it's him.

Go. Yeah, I go to the coffee shop.

Is like Moses once again.

Yeah. No.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so we hope we gave you some hacks.

I know
I had that on there about the three.

And this is actually from a cardiologist
that I was, you know, took notes on.

And I was trying to think what else
they had said.

Whole thing.

I mean, the big thing is sugar,

cancer feeds on sugar.

We can't say that enough.

And I'm a sugar freak myself,
so I keep that to an absolute minimum.

But especially the processed foods.

Yeah, that stuff just is.

It is a killer,
and it's hard to avoid that stuff.

I know with the holidays upon us and,
but just please, I mean, I just caution

you, please be real careful with sugar
from a guy that binge over Halloween.

I know, but, but that's more
the exception than the rule.

But just try to be really cognizant of
what you're putting in your body culture.

Yes, you've got to treat your body.

Mindful eating, mindful eating.

And the other thing is, don't feel guilty
if you go off of it.

Don't feel guilty because tomorrow,
the next hour is a new time.

So you can always change it.

And a lot of people that I worked with
that were,

really obese
and they started losing weight.

They said they knew they were on the right
track when they gained 10 pounds,

and they stopped it and they went back

rather than what they used to do
is saying, I can't lose weight.

This 10 pounds is never going away.

And they continued, continue, continued.

So you're already blown it.
Let me keep going. Right?

So be more mindful.

You can do this.

You just eat less.
You're going to feel better.

And give yourself grace.

Yeah. Self grace.

You know a lot of times where easy
to give other people grace than ourselves.

So if you kind of fly off things, that's
all right.

You're human, right? Human.

We all do it, you know,
we all make mistakes.

We all go off diet.

So just cut yourself some slack
and then start again the next day.

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