Where Do You Dream of Going (as GLP-1s Change Your Life?)

Añadido: 2026-05-18

[00:00:01]Oh, it'd be good if you could see me, huh?

[00:00:09]Now you have to tell me if you can hear me. I tried to come on a little early.

[00:00:13]This thing I don't understand.

[00:00:16]I don't know why I have such a difficult time getting live. It's just so crazy.

[00:00:22]Oh, that's so bright.

[00:00:25]Let me back it up a little bit.

[00:00:40]That's a little better. Little better.

[00:00:42]How is everyone? Hey. Oh, good. I'm glad. Thank you, Lynn. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good. Good. Good. I'm very happy. Oh, this way.

[00:00:53]Yeah.

[00:00:55]Happy Mama's Day to everybody who's out here. Gwen, hey Lynn, Travis, I love seeing you here. Travis, too. Thank you.

[00:01:05]Thank you. Thank you. Um, yeah. Happy Mother's Day to everyone.

[00:01:11]I have three three I've had three babies tell me happy birthday. A happy birthday. Happy Mother's Day today. But I will say, I'm not gonna say it on the big one when everybody's here, but I'm kind of sad because this is my first Mother's Day without my mama.

[00:01:33]She passed in October. I was with her when she left. Hi, Tamara.

[00:01:41]So, it was um Nancy. Hey.

[00:01:45]It was a very beautiful passing. Thank you, Lori.

[00:01:50]Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers.

[00:01:52]And then also happy Mother Day to all the mothers out there.

[00:02:01]Oh my gosh, she is with me. I've got a huge picture of her over there. And I look when I was big, I didn't look like her at all. And now I look exactly like her, which is so funny. People couldn't figure out who I look like before.

[00:02:18]never looked like her at all. Now we're like twins, so it's pretty cool. Oh, how is everyone today? Talk to me. Tell me what you're doing. Is everyone going to dinner? Re, hey, I'm so glad to see you.

[00:02:36]I'm so good. Celeste, thank you. You did make it near the start. I just started like seconds ago, two minutes ago. So, you did you did great.

[00:02:46]Um, yeah. What are y'all doing today?

[00:02:49]Any mamas? Lynn, I know you're a mama.

[00:02:52]Y'all going out to dinner, of course.

[00:02:54]Where are you going?

[00:02:56]Are you able to show us a picture of my mom?

[00:03:00]Sure. Let me get her off the wall. Hold on.

[00:03:12]Let's see.

[00:03:14]Let's see if I can get this without this way. This way.

[00:03:21]There we are. Don't we look alike?

[00:03:25]That's my mama holding my first grandbaby. Her first great grandbaby.

[00:03:30]Megan or Amy's daughter.

[00:03:33]So, oh, sorry. Just trying to make this.

[00:03:35]So, and I'd wear glasses, too. She is beautiful. She worked at Disney. You're in Colonial Beach, Virginia. heading to Hagerstown, Maryland tomorrow. Fun. So, yeah, there's my mama and she looks over me all the time. I talk to her all the time.

[00:03:53]Um, she worked at Disney for 42 years and, um, re there were when she started, she waited on kids that came back with their kids who came back with their grandkids before she passed.

[00:04:13]So, it was pretty cool.

[00:04:15]Michelle, hey, frankly, Michelle, I just hosted my family at how at the house, 22 of us with my mom.

[00:04:24]You have such a big family, Michelle.

[00:04:28]Oh my gosh. I'll have to come play with you one time. They wouldn't even notice me.

[00:04:34]Oh my gosh. Wow.

[00:04:38]Um Travis is planting flowers and shrubs all day so far today. And now a short break. Good. Before taking mom to dinner. Where are y'all going?

[00:04:47]Oh, that's right. Lynn's going to Texas Day Brazil. I have to tell you, first of all, I don't eat meat. So, that place, putting me in that place is like throwing money into the trash. I when I went with my family probably last Mother's Day actually um I ate off of the um salad bar, but it was not salad bar.

[00:05:15]They had like like um uh a graten potatoes and things like that. So it was um good, but I'm on muro. I can't eat that much. I couldn't eat that much. I don't even think before. Probably if we stayed for a while, I probably could have done that.

[00:05:38]Thank you. We do love our mamas, don't we? We do. Absolutely. Ari says, "Enjoyed the Substack article regarding CKD." Thank you. Very informative.

[00:05:48]Looking forward to the Lily Trespatite.

[00:05:50]Treasure CKD clinical trial study results. Me too. Me too. So, every once in a while I will email with um Dave Bricks, who's the CEO at Lily.

[00:06:06]We've gone back and forth just a couple times, but I thought I might send him that article just so he could know. What do you all think? Okay, so the deal is with the article, what I wrote was that my chronic kidney disease healed or is healing more with the Mongjaro than it did with insulin or truly and um and then I also had to use during the shortage I had to use my Mjaro. They would give me a 7.5 10 or 12.5 pen and I'd have to augment with compounding. My li my kidney values dove into the toilet when I went on the compounded. And the moment I went off the compounded, my values when it was straight Mjaro, the the um name brand Mjaro went right back up and kept sailing. So, I know that like Christopher really swears by the compounding.

[00:07:08]Now, when I was on the compounding, I lost weight, but metabolically it wasn't doing what it needed to do for me. So, I don't know exactly what the difference is, but and I didn't believe there was a difference for a long time.

[00:07:24]looking at my substack. If you go look at my substack, the latest substack, it's at the metabolic the metab metabolic midwife and see exactly I have my graphs there and you can actually watch what happens during the time that I'm on the on the um insulin only, then we add tricity, then I wean off of the insulin, blah blah blah blah blah, and then when it goes down to the compounding, then it soarses up. Great.

[00:07:54]The going up is fantastic and the going up just soarses once I'm on the Mandaro.

[00:08:00]So, it's very weird. Um Travis is going to a little Italian place that she loves. Olive Garden. I know she loves it. Yeah. Little Italian place. Exactly.

[00:08:10]Tristan, my son used to work there. Um we did chicken salad, white fish salad, egg salad, and sides. Oh, Michelle, that sounds yummy.

[00:08:23]Yeah, Lynn. Lynn, you could eat my meat.

[00:08:25]I'll eat I'll eat the sides and you can eat the meat. Lynn says I don't eat that much, but all meat. Yeah, I haven't had meat in many, many, many, many years.

[00:08:37]Um, no red meat um or pork. I do eat chicken um and fish, some fish. I like salmon. I love catfish. Catfish is my favorite. Michelle, I don't do much red meat, but do chicken, pork, and fish. I will eat red meat, but not often. Yeah, I can't do pork.

[00:08:58]And I don't know if that was when I I I hadn't even eaten pork when I was considering changing to Judaism to be Jewish. It didn't even what it was way before that. I just never liked pork chops. I had to put a uh A1 sauce on it and then dip it in ketchup. And it was like, why am I even eating this? It's just ridiculous.

[00:09:22]We are all different, Gwen. You're right. Gwen says we are all different.

[00:09:27]Everybody's body acts differently. As Mindy would say, everybody's different and everybody is different. Exactly.

[00:09:34]Exactly.

[00:09:36]Well, I love hearing what y'all are doing. What did I have? Oh, I had a shake this morning and then I was like getting hungry and I don't get hungry very often, but I had not eaten and I knew I would not do well if I didn't eat before I came and saw y'all. So, I had one more healthy choice in the freezer and I ate half of it.

[00:10:00]I've been eating too fast. And this is something that I somebody wrote about was eating fast actually makes for visceral fat. So I I and before that I realized I was eating fast. So I had a sticky on my computer. I got it all gushy with Alfredo sauce. Um so I had to throw it away. I need a new one that says eat slowly. Take tiny bites.

[00:10:29]camera does mostly man mainly meat too.

[00:10:33]Um, and so what I've been doing because I used to only eat little bits at a time, but when I was really big and eating the 8 to 10,000 calories a day, I would eat a little bit at a time and then I would graze through 8,000 calories in a day.

[00:10:54]So grazing kind of concerns me. I've got some sitting over there, but I don't think I've had enough protein or food today, so I'll eat it.

[00:11:05]It's just juggling thing. And then the other day, I don't know if y'all got to see my um park bench chat with Julio from uh It's going to take me a second. I know it by heart, but it's just I'm thinking about him at the park. Um, oh, for crying out loud, Barb.

[00:11:35]Riding the tide. There we go. Riding the tide. Julio's really cool. We're very, very different um creators, but Oh, I'm glad. Rejoyed the park bench chat with Julio. Yeah. Gwen says she had half a baked potato with cauliflower cheese on top for lunch. That sounds good. Yummy.

[00:11:55]Yeah, Julio was wonderful. We got along like as if he was my kid. He We were just We had such a good time. And we went to lunch afterwards as well.

[00:12:05]Charted started the chap and need to finish it. Lynn says he is great. So go to Riding the Tide and subscribe. But like I said, he's very different from me.

[00:12:16]He counts every calorie. He counts every gram of protein. He exercises like a banshee. He goes to jiu-jitsu. He's just, you know, really, really, really active and and very statisticoriented and that is like the complete opposite of me. So, um, so he he fits people. He and Amanda from Amanda Widner Wellness W Ide Amanda Widner Wellness. Amanda is a group fitness instructor. And so even when she was over 200 pounds, she was a fitness instructor and a lot of the people who were really big loved to come and see her. And the people who were not would say things like or she'd see them like roll their eyes thinking she's never gonna give us a good workout and she did. So she's very fitnessoriented as well. Absolutely love her. She and Julio, one one male, one female, um is they're both just really amazing and do things I could never do. So, um, Nancy Nancy asked, "Barb, how is your LDL? Mine went up last test. Still in the normal range, but I want to keep it that way. The only thing I can think is that I've been eating a lot more meat for the protein." I just checked it.

[00:13:46]Sorry, my nose is doing weird stuff. I just checked my labs because I was working on the the CKD um post that I did and all of my labs are amazing. My LD I'm also on two statins. Well, one statin I had to double the dose because I had um diastolic heart failure in 2022. So, we're trying to keep my my good one really high and my bad one really low.

[00:14:16]And um yeah, so I don't know, Nancy. It might be more meat for protein. I don't know. Are you on any statins or no? Gwen says, "I try to track, but I'm so busy taking care of my hubby. It's hard." I'm sure, Gwen.

[00:14:34]I'm sure. Gwen, I really do want to see you sometime. I mean, we're not that far away from each other. We're only a couple hours away from each other, and it would be so much fun. Like, Blue Highway Pizza, right outside of Mkenopi, is like one of my favorite pizza places in the entire country. And I would love to come up there and be able to even if I just someday came and went and got blue blue highway pizza and brought it over to your house.

[00:15:06]We should meet. We should meet. I love that part of the part of Florida. Caring for others and me. What is your name?

[00:15:14]Tell me. Happy Mother's Day to all.

[00:15:15]Going out for dinner with the kids. So can't stay. That's okay. That's okay.

[00:15:18]I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Y'all hit the like if you can before you wander out. That would be great. Grant, hello. Hello.

[00:15:28]Happy Mother's Day to Christie. Grant has a wonderful channel as well. Grant's Faithful GLP1 journey. Also very different from mine. He does lots of lives and then he's also incredibly Christian, which is great for him and for his followers for sure. Um, what were you reading the other day? Psalms.

[00:15:49]Is that what you were reading live or did you do a recording?

[00:15:55]Um, yeah. I Your LDL is doing good, but I'm on Crestor. Yeah, I don't remember what I'm on. I'm on something. I'm on Oh, a toast statin. And they they doubled it after I had the thing where they went in and looked at my my valves, my arteries and stuff in my heart. Gwen says, "Next fall, Barb. I spend the summer in Massachusetts. I live full-time in a class a motor home."

[00:16:25]Cool.

[00:16:27]Next fall would be great. That's a good time. Absolutely.

[00:16:32]Oh my gosh. Yeah.

[00:16:35]Yeah. My LDL is good, too. So, I asked, "Why do I have to do a statin and then double the statin?"

[00:16:44]Um, LDL is the good one or the bad one?

[00:16:47]I never remember the one that's not the good one. They went down to 40 and right now it said 50, but I told them I didn't want to add any more statin to it. I thought that was plenty. I had enough going on. Nancy says, "My doctor said as long as my numbers are so good, we won't worry about the statins for now. Just keeping an eye on it." Good, good, good.

[00:17:08]Oh, Terry. Hey, I don't know why I didn't know that. Did you change your name like I did?

[00:17:18]So, you know, I know that people are going to be heading out and stuff soon or going to dinner, things like that. I really, really, really would like to know.

[00:17:29]A lot of people want to jump out of a plane or go ziplining or go scuba diving or things like that. What kinds of things do you think about as one of your major wish list things that you would like to do in the future? Um, yes, cardiac catheterization. Ari, thank you. Thank you. Yes, Ari, you're wonderful. Are you a medical person, too?

[00:18:01]I'm more medical in the in the birth arena than I am in the heart.

[00:18:07]Tamara, I can dance.

[00:18:10]I can dance. It's so cool. And now, um, the cruise is coming up June 4th, and I am going to dance. And I'm going to swim for the first time. I'm going to swim in about 20 years. I got myself a SPF 50 uniard. I could show you, but I'm not going to. It's right over there, but I'm not going to show you till after I go in the pool.

[00:18:36]um just started a YouTube channel. Oh, well that would be why.

[00:18:41]Thank you, Terry. Thank you. Thank you.

[00:18:43]And it's called Caring for Others and Me.

[00:18:48]Let me write that down.

[00:18:50]Caring for others and me.

[00:18:58]Terry Lan. Good. Thank you for letting us know. That's great. Um, Travis says, "I went to Rome in 2005, but wasn't in shape enough to get around to all that I wanted to see. I want to go back and do it right."

[00:19:18]When I was in Germany, the kids I was having kids and getting a divorce. When I was in Germany, they always say in the military that we were there for three years, that when you leave Germany, you either leave with a baby or a divorce, and I left with both. Um, so Amy was born in Germany, Megan was born or Tristan was born in Orlando, Megan in Tacoma, and Amy in Frankfurt. Um, but when we walked around, we had no car for a long time. It was still being shipped over.

[00:19:50]So, we walked a lot, but it was hard.

[00:19:53]They have no elevators. They have no unless you're up above five or six floors. They don't have elevators. We lived on the fifth floor in housing.

[00:20:08]I rarely went anywhere. I was so big and had all these kids. It was just like crazy.

[00:20:15]Um Gwen, I want to go to New Orleans again and walk the streets. Me, too. I went to New Orleans right after well nine months after Katrina when a lot of people were having babies. So I went to New Orleans because all the midwives had evacuated and left and had not come back yet. So I had a client bring me there for her and I was able to maneuver all kinds of other things that I could do with the women who didn't have a midwife um but were going to have a home birth.

[00:20:48]So, I spent uh two weeks in one of the the mobile homey things that they did for for people that didn't that lost their home and spent two weeks in that and walked around. But I would love to go back again because walking the music on the street was just so amazing, so wonderful.

[00:21:15]Um, and Rome would love it. Would love it. Greece, love it. I would love it.

[00:21:21]Never been. We were in Germany three years. We went over the over the border into Belgium for a day and that was it.

[00:21:30]Everything was like so France was like four hours away, England five.

[00:21:37]We never went anywhere. Number one, we were an E3, so we were pretty poor.

[00:21:42]Number two, I was too big and I couldn't do it. So, that sucked eggs for sure.

[00:21:49]Um, oh, Celeste is also a caregiver for her husband. Welcome, Celeste. I'm glad you're here. Look at all the support you women have. I love it. Bernice says, "Hello, Barb. I finally caught a live.

[00:22:02]I'm about to fly to Detroit from California this week. I'm hoping after losing 60 pounds, there will be no seat belt extender.

[00:22:11]I hope too. I hope so too.

[00:22:15]Let me go back up because I think that Artney said something to me. I'm not in the medical field. I'm an agreed engineer and work in prochemical.

[00:22:24]You have the part of brain I don't have, baby. I don't have that part of a brain at all. Well, Bernice, I hope you have a good flight and I'm hoping you don't need a seat belt extender. How great would that be? Nancy Germaine says, "A Guza, Auaza, Auasa Falls in Brazil, Argentina.

[00:22:44]Beautiful. Very close second to Victoria's Falls in Zimbabwe. I've been to several of the major falls in the US and Canada. Do you think I love waterfalls?" We went to Snowqualami as we were going from Orlando to Tacoma. We went through snowwami and watched the and it was in winter but the snowwami falls just gorgeous. I have lots of pictures really beautiful. Italy is next year for Benise. Yay. Ari says I've been dreaming of running the New York City Marathon for 25 years. I finally get to do it this coming November as long as my body continues to cooperate.

[00:23:28]currently training and it's 10 miles re that's amazing. I cannot Megan told me I wasn't allowed to run anyway. So, but I was I have no desire to run or do marathons. I would like to do the Princess Marathon at Epcot in February, but I would walk, but you have to walk a certain pace and I couldn't do it two years ago when I would have been able to do it. So, I'm hoping that in I think June is when they come out with the the reservations. You have to call and like they're gone like that fast. But I'm hoping to be able to Kirsten and I Kirsten from um Disney Memories, Magic Memories.

[00:24:21]I need to write everyone's name down and what y'all do.

[00:24:25]Um, caring for others. Miss Terry Lockan, we just returned from a 17-day road trip. Drove 3,500 miles. Had a great time, but is exhausting. Still recovering. Yeah.

[00:24:39]Yeah. Well, you know, the cruise for the downsized cruise is coming up June 4th, and I, like I said, I'm gonna go swimming, and I have not been swimming in so long. and was had to stay out of the sun. Still have to stay out of the sun. Um, I'll be swimming. They have a salarium, but as the day goes on, the sun it's not covered. So, the sun comes right through. So, what I'm going to do is swim in the morning is what I'll do.

[00:25:11]And apparently in the morning, there's not many people there. Um, I can't believe you went 3,500 miles.

[00:25:20]Ari, how long did it take you to get up to 10 miles? Good question. Good question. What else does everybody else want to do?

[00:25:29]I wanted to go to China for a long time and I actually learned a teensy bit of of Mandarin, but now it's all gone. But I really, really, really want to go cruise around South America. Not cruise, but cruise with my feet. I would love to go walk around South America and Central America so bad. I love Mexico.

[00:25:55]I love Mexico.

[00:25:57]Those are the when I was a midwife, those are the women that I took care of were the Mexican migrant and immigrant women. So that's where my Spanish comes from, which is hilarious because my family has Cuban Spanish. I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, so they all laugh at me. And you sound like a Mexican. I'm like, "Yeah, I know. I know. I know. But at least I can speak it."

[00:26:20]Um, Arie says to Nancy, "It took me four months." That's nothing.

[00:26:32]That's nothing.

[00:26:34]Wow.

[00:26:37]I'm so impressed. Now, Ari, I have a question. Do you like it or do you just do it because you have this goal? Oh, go this way, Barb.

[00:26:46]Do you like it? Because some people hate running, jogging, all of that stuff. I I would not enjoy it at all. I know I wouldn't. And then my knees can't take it. My back can't take it. I told Negan I wanted to do a back dive um on the cruise, but I went and found out that the pool is only four and a half feet, so there's no back diving to be done.

[00:27:11]And Megan told me I didn't want to go anyway. Nancy, I want to go to Orlando and do a park bench chat with Barb. Yes.

[00:27:18]Yes. Yes, Nancy. I agree with that.

[00:27:20]Darium, hey, good afternoon, Barbin.

[00:27:24]Chad, King Darium's here. I'm so glad you're here, Darium.

[00:27:30]Thank you. Yeah, park bench chats. I love them, you know, and and what I like about it is that it came organically, but it turned out so wonderful that I I could interview, but I'd rather not interview people. I'd rather not go question question answer answer. I like interaction and talking and as if the camera is not even there and we're just chatting with each other and that's what it ends up being. We're looking at each other and talking with each other and sharing things. Now, one of the things I want to make sure that you see about Julio that was so different from most men.

[00:28:19]Yes, Michelle, you were my first park bench talk. Yes, you were. Julio is a man who is, I don't want to say, in touch with his feelings, but verbal with his feelings.

[00:28:34]A lot of men are very um in touch, I'm sure, with their feelings, but they don't verbalize it a lot. Julio just lowers his guard and shares exactly what it is that he's thinking and feeling.

[00:28:52]And that's so beautiful. That's so beautiful. Well, it's one of the coolest things about him is that he was able to express it because he was on the round mound of Zapbound on Charles's channel last week as well, week before.

[00:29:10]And uh shared feelings there, too. And he gets so teary eyed and he's so wonderful. He's such a gentle man. Such a gentle man.

[00:29:20]Uh Grant says hello to Daria and Michelle. Denise, hey. Hi. Hello all.

[00:29:27]Ori says, "Barb, I'm an avid life lifelong runner. I enjoy it. I've been running obese for 25 years.

[00:29:35]I'm still running. However, 85 pounds lighter thanks to Mjaro." How cool is that? Now, you know that Lorraine was an obese or an overweight runner and Mindy was an obese runner and is considered an overweight runner now even though she's in incredible shape and she did um triathlons and things like that as well. So, yeah. So, you're not the only one, but I can't wait to hear how it is now that you're 85 pounds lighter. I think that'll be great. I think that'll be great. Thank you, Denise. I'm glad you liked it. I'm glad you liked it. Really, really. Now, I'm going to the OAC conference in July here in Orlando, and I know that there's all kinds of And I blessedly I won a scholarship, which is awesome. So, they're paying for my hotel, and they're paying for the um the admission ticket that gets you food and all that stuff. So, I plan on the downsiz is going to be there. They have their own room, which is going to be awesome. That I plan on meeting with people, finding a a quiet space on a fifth floor or sixth floor out in a hall that where nobody is in the middle of the day and doing interviews. I want to do interviews that way. Oh, I'm glad, Grant. Glad to have connected with Julio's channel now.

[00:31:10]Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Um, so yeah. So Daren, you're on my list, baby.

[00:31:18]You're on my list.

[00:31:20]Daram, hey there, Gwen, Nancy, Michelle, Denise, Re. Yeah, Lord Grant. OAC will be lots of fun. I'm very much looking forward to it. It's the Obesity Action Coalition's Convention is what it is.

[00:31:36]And it's a mix of people who are on GLP1s and we're probably the ones on GOP1s are probably in the minority of the people that are going to be there at the conference at the at the convention.

[00:31:49]Um but it'll be good. But I know that um Jamie Selzer is going to be there. um blessedly Robin Pashby. She's a a psychiatrist or psychologist who is one of the most amazing women in the world and I can't wait to spend time with her as well. She and I have emailed back and forth about Omparexia.

[00:32:12]Um she's curious about what it is that I found about omparexia.

[00:32:20]Denise, thank you. She says, "I'm a great candidate for OAC, for the OAC. I I part of what and and I know this is arrogant. Excuse me. I'm just going to put it out there. I want to speak. I want to go to conferences and share my experiences.

[00:32:41]I what's wonderful is that Darian was telling me how he's learning from my substack which is the metabolic midwife and my substack and what I write is so different from what most people write about um when it comes to GOP ones I pull deeply from my own experience absolutely but I also explore my midwifery part of has enabled me to read studies, translate studies, be able to put it into normal English, things like that with analogies and metaphors and and I like that a lot. So, I want you all to say I knew her when I knew her when hardly anyone was on her YouTube channel. Bernice says, "Oh, Barb, that scholarship sounds wonderful. You'll be able to bring back some great info." I will Jerry. It's more obesity focused versus being GLP1 focused. At least it was last year. Yeah. And that's that's pretty that's why I said the GLP-1 community will be in the minority. Um Nancy Germaine says, "Listening to Julio had me starting to realize just how deep my own emotional scars are.

[00:34:02]I now realize if one has 50, 100, 200, 300 pounds to lose, there are different levels of emotion to deal with.

[00:34:11]Absolutely.

[00:34:13]Absolutely. I explained to Julio how I did great for three years. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with the second cancer last May 27th that I freaked out and started and then realized a week and two weeks later in therapy that I was emotionally eating. I didn't even know I did that.

[00:34:35]Bernice, it's not arrogant, it's kind.

[00:34:37]Thank you. Um, and yeah, I I have written about my childhood as well and how difficult it was being fat. I never could run around the field. We were supposed to in PE and even in elementary school. Part of when you watch me when I go to do the park bench chats, I hang from a tree limb is because I couldn't even do it in elementary school and now I can do it and it's so much fun. So, everybody takes a picture of me hanging from a tree lamp. A nice big live oak.

[00:35:11]Lots of fun.

[00:35:13]Um, sweet bee. Hey, bee. Hi, Barb. In chat. Sorry, I missed the beginning.

[00:35:18]I'll have to go back and listen. Doing my meal prep for the week. What are you prepping? Do tell. Michelle, I think more JLP folks will be there than ever before. It's definitely not focused on GLP1, but it is in so many more ways than a year ago. Yeah, definitely.

[00:35:38]Definitely. And every year it may get better, but it's important to remember that. And this is part of what I do as well. You all know this. I Paul Hey Paul Amadeas Lane is here. call on Rios. Part of what I do is make sure that those who are still in the middle of their their disease of obesity are respected and cared for in the appropriate way with with absolute honoring who they are. We have to remember not everybody qualifies. Not everybody can afford it and not everybody wants to take the medications if they're if they are clinically if they have um obesity the disease of obesity. So everybody deserves to have respect and kindness and love shared with them no matter where they are whether they're in a restaurant being ushered to a booth like fools. I tell the manager, every time I go into a place and I see big people in booze, I go to the manager and I say, "Look here, when you have a big person over 200 pounds, please don't put them in a booth. It's just not right. It's not fair." And it's not. So, restaurants, hospitals, doctors, uh, reception areas, whatever, I work very hard to make sure that all of that is taken care of as well.

[00:37:16]Uh, great great group going representing us. Denise, I agree. I agree.

[00:37:23]I agree. So true. Nancy, how's my Paul doing? How are you feeling, my love?

[00:37:30]You doing good?

[00:37:33]B says, "Overnight oats for lunch, lentils, spinach, and quinoa veggie stew for dinner." Young, are you a veggie or a vegan? My son Tristan is a vegan. He's on um he's on Zepbound is what he's on.

[00:37:49]Megan's on Trisepetide. I'm on Mandaro.

[00:37:51]Tristan's on Zetbound. And um he's a vegan. And he makes his own tempe.

[00:37:59]And he eats about a hund. Now, mind you, he's incredibly active. You have to remember this. Incredibly active. Like 8 to 10 hours of pickle ball a week. He rides his bike to and from work in Chicago in the winter, in the summer, whatever. He's just always, always, always running.

[00:38:20]He eats about 180 grams of vegan protein a day.

[00:38:27]True stuff.

[00:38:30]True stuff. I made him lay out what it was he ate because I couldn't even believe how much he was eating. Um, Darium says, "Hey, there's sweet bee in Bernice. Paul on wheels. Yeah, baby.

[00:38:43]Exactly.

[00:38:47]Every journey is different and nothing is right or wrong. Michelle says, "Yeah, one of the things I hear a lot of people talking about is they feel an urge to go tell people who look like they have the disease of obesity, people that are bigger, people that look like them when they were when they were bigger themselves, that they have this urge to go tell them, do you know about Mjaro? Do you know about turside? Have you tried ompic?" And I have to remind everyone and reminding you all as well. They may be on them.

[00:39:20]People would have said that to me for two years with me being on GLP1s.

[00:39:26]Thank you be Barb Barb. Thank 100%.

[00:39:29]Thank you Barb for all you do to be an advocate. Thank you. Prep for me too.

[00:39:34]Nancy says truly truly truly.

[00:39:39]I'm so glad so glad you're here Paul.

[00:39:42]I'm so glad you're feeling better. It was wonderful to watch you the other night. It was great with my Julio. Did you get to watch my my park bench chat with Julio, Paul? It was lots of fun.

[00:39:55]You gave me Oh, it was he was on not on yours yet. He's going to be on yours, but on round up and I learned a lot from him that way. But yeah, when he gets on your channel, he'll be a hoot as well.

[00:40:09]He'll be lots of fun.

[00:40:11]Um, no but love beans and lentils. Be says, "Not a vegan.

[00:40:19]I eat them pretty much every day." Good.

[00:40:21]Bernie says, "Thank you for advocating for big bodies. I told my new eye doctor that he needed at least some armless chairs. It doesn't matter that I fit now, but we have to advocate." You're right. I cannot even tell you in my endocrinologist, my diabetic doctor when she moved to a new office and I went to her office.

[00:40:46]I am not kidding. She had a scale that only went up to 300 lb and I was easily 360 I think when she moved offices.

[00:41:00]And I went into her office. I said, "Excuse me, what is the deal here?" I said, "You cannot be an endocrinologist and have a scale that goes to 300. Come on now." Now she's got one that goes up to 600.

[00:41:16]Yeah, baby. Yeah.

[00:41:19]So, yeah. So, you have to open your mouth. I've talked to so many office managers. I'm can't even tell you how many office managers I've talked to to tell them, "Get big chairs. Get really firm, not stools, but you know, like a bench, but but with cushion on it, you know, not cushions because then we get stuck, but a cushion that goes up against the wall so that they have plenty of room.

[00:41:48]So, yeah, I open my mouth a lot.

[00:41:52]I'm sure they run when they see me coming.

[00:41:57]Oh, B says, "Y'all are welcome to come for dinner in Ontario."

[00:42:05]That would be kind of fun.

[00:42:08]Sunshell, love the park bench chat with Julio. I hiked the video. It was amazing. Thank you, Sunshell. I asked you your name and I can't remember if you told me. Tell me what your name is.

[00:42:23]Unless you want me to call you Sunshell, which is fine. That's beautiful. I like that a lot. It'd be a great name.

[00:42:30]Bernice, her head's exploding.

[00:42:35]Oh, I'm glad you're doing better, Paul. I'm so glad you're doing better, my love.

[00:42:43]Yeah, we all have to open our mouths, don't we? Yeah. I'm gonna do a thing on papmears. I know the guys will really look forward to that one, but I am. I'm going to I'm going to find an OBGYn or a midwife's office and I'm going to go and do one. Not showing you how to do it. I mean, like getting undressed and stuff, but people who are over about 250, 300 lbs need to have a certain kind of speculum because when we're really big, our vagina actually gets fat inside on the on the inside. Not here, but on the inside so that our walls kind of fall in. So their speculums usually they go like this, but these go like, see if I can do it like this. They go like this so that it holds the sides open as well.

[00:43:36]So, I want to be able to show women who are bigger how to do um how to get a papsmear without it hurting and without being embarrassed or ashamed and making sure that their provider has the right equipment to take care of them.

[00:43:51]Um Bernice, I love your head exploding.

[00:43:56]Nancy says, "Sweet be what part of or of Ontario? I grew up in Michigan. Went to Toronto often. We used to go camping in Wawwa north through the upper peninsula through Saw Oh, Susan Marie. I see I almost said it wrong. Ah, on Lake Superior. Beautiful. Bernice says 100%.

[00:44:16]My last path was a real slice of hell. I have another in July and I'm hoping it's way different. Bernice, email me.

[00:44:24]please email me and I'll talk you through how to make sure before you go how they how to do it so that you're more comfortable and it doesn't hurt because it should never hurt ever ever ever ever and if it hurts they're doing something wrong but I can help you with that. So email me the metabolic midwife atgmail.

[00:44:52]I'm east of Toronto on Lake Ontario near Whitby. Oh, Whitby Island.

[00:44:59]Ah, Whitby Island is so beautiful.

[00:45:02]Jodyie, hello all. Happy Mother's Day, Barb, and all the others here who are also moms. Thank you, Jodie.

[00:45:10]Thank you so much.

[00:45:13]So, yeah. So, keep going with your wishes. Now, I have something.

[00:45:18]I have this guy that I follow. He's actually up on my wall because I love him so much. His name is Truthless.

[00:45:26]His name is actually Campbell Walker, but he goes by Strethless. He's got like two million followers on YouTube. Strut TL SS. Now, Strethless is really amazing as a um somebody who has gone through the trenches in his own way. And then now he shares his experience to help others be able to find motivation and find their way in um making themselves a more comfortable world. So he did his most recent one was ADHD hacks.

[00:46:13]You're welcome Bernice.

[00:46:16]Um ADHD hacks. Now, I don't have ADHD, so I just was like, h, we'll see if it goes.

[00:46:23]It was flipping awesome. One of the things that I'm going to take from his cuz there were lots of people that were like, uh, you know, if you have to if you like he says, his mom used to if she had to take a casserole to school, she would put the keys on the casserole inside the refrigerator so that she would remember. Terry, hi Barb. Thanks for providing such great info. Happy Mother's Day. Thank you. Thank you. And so people people talk about what they do. If they're watching their phone too much, they throw it onto the bed so they don't get near it. All kinds of little hacks that I found incredible. One I love was pretend you're a content creator. If you like have to clean the bathroom or the kitchen or you have to sweep or you have to go out to the garden or whatever, pretend you are a content creator and say and you're talking to your audience. Okay, now we're going to go and we're going to sweep the floor. You got to grab the broom and then you put your hands on it and then you sweep, sweep, sweep, and then you take it and you put it in the dustpan and then you throw it into the garbage. And I thought that was so clever.

[00:47:39]I thought that was such a good little thing to do to just pretend just play pretend and how much fun it is. There were several on there that were play pretends that were that were lots of fun. I've got it over here. Um also, uh this wouldn't work for me, but it worked for a lot of people was to watch cleaning videos or put cleaning videos on while you're cleaning at the same time. Now, I did that a little bit when I was decluttering my Kari days, my Marie Condo days. I did that a little bit, but yeah, I get too distracted, so I can't do that. Um, Lynn, are you gone already?

[00:48:25]Lynn's going to Texas day, Brazil to go eat meat.

[00:48:32]Um, yeah. So, anyway, so there were all kinds of life hacks. So go to Strethless Strut TL SS. I He's my guru. He really is my guru. He's just so fascinating and so amazingly creative. He's written two books. Um I on Audible you can get both books for the price of one. One is Your Head is a Houseboat and the other is Doom and Bloom. And they're both absolutely exquisite. And you can you can get them of course to read. Um, I had them and I gave them to Mindy so that she could read them as well.

[00:49:10]Oh, good. Lynn's still here. I'm picturing you shoveling in me little by little. Not shoveling, but you know what I mean. Body doubling to have someone to clean with. Yes, I've absolutely watched videos on decluttering while cleaning.

[00:49:26]Yes, Tamara. That's what they did. They talked about body doubling. What else?

[00:49:30]They talked about body doubling with something else.

[00:49:35]I didn't write that one down. Oh, and then also pretend. Play pretend as if your broom is an animal. Now come here.

[00:49:44]Come. Come on. Come on. Come to Come to mommy. Come. Oh, there you go. Let me pet you. Yeah. There you go. Uhhuh.

[00:49:53]Yeah. That's good. That's a good girl.

[00:49:55]That's a good girl.

[00:50:00]Oh, Lynn just got off the treadmill. Was walking. Yes, Tamara. I never heard of body doubling before. And then he also used another term that I didn't know. I didn't write it down.

[00:50:14]Yeah, I thought talking like a content creator was brilliant because that I can do because I do it in my head. So, if I did it out loud and you can do it, you know, do it in your head and just oh, and just look at the camera and just, you know, print and look it all pretty while you're there washing the dishes.

[00:50:32]And you take the sponge and you go round and round on the plate. Round and round four times. Three, four. Yeah. And then la just all kinds of fun things. I have not done that. Tamara says, lots of crazy things. What else was I going to talk about? I had other stuff, but let's see here. What else was I going to do?

[00:50:58]Um, oh yeah, this is something Darian and I have talked about too.

[00:51:10]People have and and it's fine. I'm, you know, everybody's different, la.

[00:51:16]Um, people have weight goals, but your body does not have one care in the world what your weight goal is. It's gonna do what it's gonna do what it's gonna do. You can do everything everything that you're supposed to do, but your body has the last say. Your body is the one that has the last word about what you're going to end up weighing. I thought I was going to be done at 150, which is what I was after I had the gastric bypass for about a day and a half, but um I kept going down and I knew I wasn't going to waste away. I did get to 125 and go, "Oh, that's enough." And then when I was with Julio, I weighed 122. I wasn't feeling too good the day before, so I didn't eat a lot or drink a lot, so I was 122. Today, I'm 123. So, I'm going back up. I like between 125 and 131, but it's not like I do anything for it. And I was explaining to somebody else that you can do everything, but watching the scale and trying to explain why you gain three pounds in one day can make your mind crazy. It can make you just stress so much.

[00:52:41]And for some people, I guess it works.

[00:52:44]It would make me mad. Not mad, angry.

[00:52:47]Mad loca. I just I just can't fathom teasing apart every thread of what I've done. What have I eaten? What have I done? Did I walk enough? Did I eat enough? Did I eat too little? Did I drink enough? Did I get enough sleep?

[00:53:07]Did I, you know, did I eat enough protein? Did I eat too much protein? Oh, maybe I had too many carbs.

[00:53:14]If y'all do that, I I if it bothers you and it hurts your mind to do that, please stop. You don't need to do that.

[00:53:24]It's going to happen.

[00:53:26]And then the other thing I told Darien this week too and other people in Substack, when you look forward as you're lo losing weight, when you look forward, it goes so freaking slow.

[00:53:41]But when you're on the other side and you're looking back, it went fast. And I try and remind people, you went to when you went to school, how slow it was.

[00:53:53]so slow in school. So long till Easter break. So long till Christmas. So long to summer. And now my 50th anniversary 50th class reunion is in three years.

[00:54:10]I was just in high school. I swear I was just in high school and it's gone. And my kids, I was just nursing them.

[00:54:19]My kids who were wishing me happy Mother's Day, they were just nursing and now they're 40, 42, and 45.

[00:54:33]The time just goes like that.

[00:54:36]Um, the days are long, but the years are short. Absolutely. And we say that with mamas. The days are long, but the nights are short. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.

[00:54:49]Let me come up here. I like that y'all are talking about this. Thank you. I stopped weighing for a month. I was stressing.

[00:54:58]Gwen says, "Um, I was stressing out about the scale. I weighed a couple of days ago and lost a pound." There you go. There you go, Travis. You're spot on, Barb. I wanted to maintain weight and build muscle once I hit maintenance. Nope. I kept losing and I'm decreasing dosage and calories.

[00:55:17]I'm okay. But I think my body has its own goal.

[00:55:21]They do. And it doesn't care. You know, if we're 40, 50, 60 years old and we think we're going to get down to our high school weight.

[00:55:30]Why do you have a goal of what you wanted to be when you got married 30 years ago on the day of your wedding day?

[00:55:37]We have such different hormones and metabolism than we did when we were in high school or when we had kids or whatever, you know. Okay, I have to go to the bathroom. I'm muting. I'll be back in a minute.

[00:57:18]had to go downstairs. So now I'm coming up the stairs. Isn't it wild that I could move into a place that had stairs?

[00:57:25]I think that's absolutely crazy, but I can do it.

[00:57:31]Okay, back. Coming closer to you all.

[00:57:36]Closer. Closer. Closer.

[00:57:41]Okay, here I am. Wasn't that fun?

[00:57:47]Um, yeah. So, Travis, how much do you weigh? How tall are you?

[00:57:52]Or you don't have to share if you don't want to, if it's not important. What I want to hear is what Darian says. How many people have done that thing that Barb just described about weight? How many people have felt pressures of social media to perform or live a certain way?

[00:58:12]B says, "Inputs versus outcomes." Like Barb said, body doesn't care what your goal is. Your body will decide what the outcome will be. B says, "Happy Mother's Day, Barb." And all the moms here forgot to say that. Thank you. Be Travis's decreasing dosage and increasing calories. Are you way below where you thought you should be? You're 510. 151 now was 270 14 months ago.

[00:58:38]Yeah. 510 at 151 is kind of You know what? If your insides are good, 170 was the goal. Okay. Yeah, 170 sounds good for 510 for sure.

[00:58:55]Yeah. Tristan is 64 if I recall correctly. And now he weighs 211.

[00:59:03]And so he's lost 80 pounds on um Zetbound and doing really well. So I'm very happy for my kidlets that they're healthy now, too. It's so wonderful.

[00:59:15]Yeah. Eating and and doing that. And you know, I I've been watching a lot of people who are staying down on 2.5 and five for months. Five, seven, nine, 11 months.

[00:59:36]I'm not losing.

[00:59:38]I want to stay on a low dose. I'm not losing.

[00:59:44]They don't do it on camera. I'm just being being not so nice.

[00:59:52]How How can people think that that's a good thing?

[00:59:57]If money is the issue, I understand that. But if you're gonna if you're gonna stay on a lower dose and you're not losing, how can that not be obvious?

[01:00:09]Well, I don't want to go up, they say.

[01:00:11]And I'm like, and there's no prize for for going up, they say. What do you do when you get to 15?

[01:00:20]Been on 15 for almost three years now.

[01:00:24]Okay.

[01:00:26]right here. I don't need to go up any higher. I'm perfectly fine where I am.

[01:00:31]Christopher as well. We're both the same. Christopher on the downsize.

[01:00:36]Nancy says, "Daren, not social media, but just yesterday I found myself thinking I would like to lose 10 pounds by the OAC, the one place where people will not judge. The weight bias stigma runs deep." You are correct.

[01:00:53]You are absolutely right, Nancy Tamara. Having a goal weight is pointless. It was fooling myself into believing I had control over it. Years of doing all the right things and still gaining taught me otherwise. I I hope you all will speak out about these things because I what I see and this is what's so hard is I see people hurting over this. if they were like, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah. It's not a problem if I go up or down or if I have this I have this goal and you know, but they're in pain in emotional pain about not being able to get where they want to go.

[01:01:38]Michelle, I had goals that were just numbers. Hold on.

[01:01:54]again. Uh Michelle says, "I had a goal.

[01:01:57]They were just numbers because diet culture said to pick a goal. Now I'm fine where I am but still have lost but still have lost. I am okay with this.

[01:02:06]It's just a number focused on muscle."

[01:02:08]There you go. It's a waste of money.

[01:02:12]Oh yeah, I know exactly where you're going with that.

[01:02:18]Waste of money to not use the dose you need.

[01:02:22]I know. Anna, hey Anna, how are you doing? Oh, my niji's here.

[01:02:30]Hey girl. Hey. Late because I was cleaning out my closet. There's a floor in there.

[01:02:37]I love it. I love it. Are you cleaning out your closet to toss stuff? That's too big. Is that what you're doing?

[01:02:45]Did you do it like we were just talking about? You didn't hear, but doing it like you're a content creator. And now I'm going to look at this and see if it sparks joy. Do you spark joy?

[01:02:57]No. Right into the into the donate bin. I think I like this. What do you all think? Do you think this is fun? Do you like this outfit? Should I try it on for you?

[01:03:11]Yeah.

[01:03:15]To make things fun that are very difficult. Um, let's see here. Michelle, did all the family you had over want to want to try your tonal? Nancy, you've got to be kidding.

[01:03:29]You've got to be kidding. I don't want to try the tono. Megan, when I stay at Megan, she's like, "Do you want to do it?" And I'm like, "Uh, no. I'll go for a walk. Thank you.

[01:03:40]And now she like she can for a long time she couldn't like doing Lorraine's challenge from the downsize doing her challenge to be able to do a pull-up. Megan now when you watch her in those videos she just no I have no desire to do the tonal. Hey Anna. Hey Lynn Gwen. Michelle, they did.

[01:04:10]Tamara, I think I've let go of the emotional part for the most part, but physical pain and mental exhaustion are real. Absolutely.

[01:04:17]Absolutely. And this is where um this is where I think we can support each other is with understanding and compassion. is that most of us have been there in that place of visualizing. That's why I wanted to talk about what you wanted to do, not where you wanted your weight to be. But I think for those of us who have been I want to weigh this, I want to wear this size. I want to wear the size that I wore when I graduated from high school or in my wedding dress or whatever.

[01:04:57]and then we catch on as we go longer.

[01:05:01]I think what we can do is offer compassion for those people that are earlier and still haven't gotten there yet. Not just don't do that. Don't do that. Just let them know, oh, I did that, too. I did that, too. And then I had to let it go.

[01:05:20]And just give them options of things that they can do instead.

[01:05:24]find those non-scale victories.

[01:05:29]Absolutely.

[01:05:32]Miji says, Michelle says, "Nancy, I had the cover on because I put a table in that room and did not want it banged into." Good girl. Miji says, "Yes, ma'am. Found some some shies boots." What is that? What's a shooty boot that you lost?

[01:05:52]Do they fit? All of my shoes. I had to I had to get rid of my my Sketchers that I started with because they were too big.

[01:06:01]And then my Birkenstocks. I have two pairs of Birkenstocks. I used to have about 25 pairs of Birkenstocks. No black, no brown. Every other color they had from orange to purple to lavender, fuchsia.

[01:06:16]Yeah. So, my Birkenstocks got too big, too. And now I had to get smaller ones.

[01:06:22]My white ones are smaller. I'm gonna take them on the cruise. Gonna take my white ones on the cruise.

[01:06:31]Enjoy the live Barb. Got to head out.

[01:06:34]Thank you, Ari. I'll finish later. Have a good Sunday evening, everyone. You too, my love. You too. Anna, I just wanted my health to get under control.

[01:06:42]Weight loss was a plus. Truly, I'm with you there, girl. Miji, yes. Compassion for all of us. Some of us with some of our clothes are uniforms, others a friend that is losing to then donate.

[01:06:57]Yep.

[01:07:00]Tamara says, "I won't feel too bad if all my shoes end up not fitting. I'm down to two pairs these last few years that I had to wear Birkenstocks because that was all I could put my feet into.

[01:07:13]I couldn't get socks on for goodness sake. And now look, I can like I feel like I'm an alien sometimes. I'm like, who who is this body? I don't understand. Where did this come from?

[01:07:30]Because it happened like that. Tamara, I'm in a wheelchair so they don't wear out. There you go, girl. There you go.

[01:07:38]No, but they may get too big. They may get too big. Darium, I have non-scale victory request of this community. Can we not treat non-scale victories as consolation prizes, but as true wins we obtained on this health track? I love you, Darium. You are so flipping amazing.

[01:07:59]That's correct. That's That's absolutely true.

[01:08:06]Got boohoos in my head. Amen, Daria.

[01:08:10]Amen. Absolutely.

[01:08:12]What did I have? I had a non-scale victory the other day that I had totally forgotten about. I told you all that I could sing like Mariah Carey. Well, not quite like Mariah Carey, but like Madonna when she was younger. Um, and I couldn't sing before.

[01:08:35]Laying down and not having gird is a huge one for me. I used to have to sleep like this upright. I have still have the pillow in case I have surgery and have to sit up.

[01:08:51]Darium. Darium, you're so wonderful.

[01:08:57]Michelle having an autocorrect. When I heard somebody say the other day that autocorrect is rarely correct, I thought that was so funny. I was like, yeah, that's true. That's true. But yes, when we speak of our Oh, shorties or the short ankle fashion boots. Oh, okay.

[01:09:16]Yeah, because I never could wear boots in my entire life. I still can't. When I went into the emergency room, they kept asking me, "Are your legs always this swollen?" And I'm like, "Look, I lost 280 pounds. It's skin. I still wouldn't be able to wear boots.

[01:09:34]I don't think I want to wear boots. I have a pair of boots that go up to my ankle like that. That would be kind of fun.

[01:09:46]We love Darium. Darium is so wise. If you all are not on his the messy middle by It's Darium on Substack. He's just amazing.

[01:09:57]Supposed to say shies, not shorties. Oh, okay. Shooties. That's interesting.

[01:10:03]Thank you everyone. And I'm glad you all feel the same.

[01:10:07]You bring out the best in us, Daren.

[01:10:10]That is for sure. Because you Darien has a whole different perspective than a lot of us do. and his perspective. To me, when I look through Darian's um mirror, it's like looking at a mirror for the first time, like a wishing mirror, wishing glass, and just going, "Oh, I never even thought of that."

[01:10:36]Daram is so wise.

[01:10:39]He and Struthless could both be gurus together for sure.

[01:10:46]sneak preview. I'm putting out a video this coming week on non-scale victories.

[01:10:51]Good. Lynn, I'm so glad. Good, good, good. Lynn has a fun channel, too. Lynn, write your name of your channel on there because I can never remember. Please put your channel up there.

[01:11:08]Well, I like that it's been a nice little small group. I like this. This has been very fun and I appreciate you all so much.

[01:11:21]Does anybody have a non-scale victory this week that they want to share?

[01:11:25]Not just where they want to go, but a nice wonderful non-scale victory. What was it?

[01:11:35]I don't remember now. Darian, I wasn't following Lynn's channel, but now I am.

[01:11:40]You should do. You should too. There you go. There's Lynn's channel right there.

[01:11:46]Yeah, Lynn is also very different than a lot of us are. Lynn is very um when I heard you on Oh, she was just interviewed on the downsize. So, you can go watch Lynn's interview on the downsize on the downsized dish. When I listened to you on there, Lynn, and saw how meticulous you are with numbers, with statistics and stuff, I was like, "Oh, see, now I understand a little bit better. I understand Lynn a little bit better now." Yeah. Totally different from me. You don't find many people like me who are like, "Count, what?

[01:12:28]What's a protein gram? I don't understand how I stay healthy. It's beyond me compared to what other people do. Other people just make so much of a big deal out of it because it is for them. For y'all, whoever it is.

[01:12:46]Be says, "Went for a two-mile jog today." That's three jogs now. Yeah, baby.

[01:12:52]Yeah.

[01:12:55]But yeah, I I don't know how I stay healthy because I I still don't have very much hunger. And I'm not bragging because, you know, Lorraine did a wonderful thing on the downsize today about hunger and how important it was.

[01:13:07]But what I do is I mark it down because if I don't mark down that I ate enough, then I have to go eat something. And so, yeah, each of us has a different way of doing it. That's for sure. Gwen says, "Got to go. need to do some laundry put away before hitting the road tomorrow.

[01:13:27]And dishes, talk to them. Do be a content creator while you're doing your laundry. And here I'm going to wash this in white with the whites and I'm going to put bleach in it.

[01:13:41]I love you all so much. You're so much fun, Lynn. Thanks, Barb. Thank you, Dario. You're so welcome, my dear.

[01:13:47]Non-scale victory. Down in fat, up in muscle mass. Yeah, Midgeti. Yeah, baby.

[01:13:56]Midgeti says, "Subscribe to Lynn. Going to look up Darium." Darium's on Substack. He does not have a YouTube channel yet.

[01:14:04]Yet. Darium's a busy busy busy man.

[01:14:09]So, I can't wait to meet you in person, Dariam. I can't. Two months. Where are we? May, June, July. Two months. And I get to give you a hug. And I might not let go for a while.

[01:14:25]Oh my gosh.

[01:14:28]Okay, I'm gonna go. I've got writing to do. I'm writing. What am I writing right now?

[01:14:35]Oh, I'm working on the the gay AIDS memoir that's going to the chapter that's going to come out on June 1st, which is gay pride month, and June 1st.

[01:14:48]And it's going to be behind the payw wall. It'll be my very first Substack Behind a Paywall because it's pretty graphic. So, if y'all are interested, I wrote a little bit in there. Um, it's called Behind the Bushes and I have part of the first chapter in there. So, you can go look at that and see if you're interested in it. Darian, my non-scale victory today is that I have the pause that allows me to make mindful food choices. Yes. Bye, Barb. Have a great Sunday, everybody. B says, Miji, love you. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, Tamara. Thanks, Barb and everyone. Hope you all have a great night. Thank you, Darian. That's exactly right. One of the things that that I Megan describes the pause as well as you know, but I describe it as before it used to be think, eat, and they were mushed together. They were the exact same thing, one word, think, eat. Now it's think, eat. And now I've got that pause between and I'm able to make a decision.

[01:15:47]So that's amazing, Nancy. You're out here being a strong lady. Agree.

[01:15:56]Agree.

[01:15:59]Oh, hit the like, please. Enjoy your Sunday, Barbin Chat. Thank you. Love you all. Love you all so much. And I'll see you next Sunday.

[01:16:08]Talk to you all soon. Ciao.