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Speaker 2:Catherine, join us on a mission to embrace your fabulousness and redefine wellness. Get ready for some feistiness, inspiration, candy chats and humour as we journey together towards empowered well-being. Let's dive in. Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of far too fabulous. And today we we're keeping quite well I say we're keeping it quite light-hearted. I who knows where it will go, but we were feeling quite relaxed and maybe, I don't know mid summer holidays, not really sure what on earth's going on, kind of feeling between the pair of us. And so we thought we would talk to you about some of our favourite things. And actually, since I've decided well, since we decided this, I have been singing the Sound of Music in my head over and over again.
Speaker 1:It just reminds me of that episode of Friends where Phoebe's singing it and she gets all the words wrong. And yeah, but that song is going to be stuck in your head now for sure.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love it, I love. So there you go. That's. One of my favorite things is is musicals, musical songs, singing musicals. I'd like to go onto the top of a hill and fling my arms in the air and sing the sound of music. Or how do you solve a problem like Maria?
Speaker 1:When you like to just live your life as if you're in a musical. I sometimes think this like every conversation you had. You would just sing it and do some kind of dance or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, absolutely Well, my kitchen actually is very much like that because the girls love all the show tunes. There's always some sort of musical being blasted out of alexa, and today there were pitch perfect songs on nice and then and you kind of know the moves, don't you? So I was moving around. Arnie was looking at me by the end of it like I was completely insane and that's another one of my favorite things, then, is kitchen discos, and I know that you love kitchen.
Speaker 1:I love a kitchen disco and I just think it's so. It's such an easy thing to just put into your life. Yeah, yeah, when the kids were younger it was such a good way to to get their energy dealt with after school with a fun aspect, before I then had to get on with things like cooking the dinner and stuff then I could still have my kitchen disco music on. But yeah, everyone got to pick a song and then you just had three songs worth of mayhem. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I yeah, I've got so many videos of the children just dancing around, particularly Mikey, who just looks like I don't know what he's doing, quite honestly, that he's got absolutely no control over his arms and his legs, but he's having a whale of a time I love it when they they pick really inappropriate songs that they don't really.
Speaker 1:They just like the beat of it and stuff, but they don't really know what they're singing or what they're dancing to, and it's just.
Speaker 2:I find that quite amusing, yeah why don't you find that now I I've watched movies again that I watched when I was a child, and then you sit and watch them with your own child, like Grease, yeah, and then you suddenly realise how completely, or, friends, how completely inappropriate it is, how many references to sex or God knows what there is, and yet, as kids, that just went totally over our heads.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've done that loads of times. Yeah, I've done that so many times and just gone. Oh no, this is it like you watch these films and it says it's a 12 on it and you're watching now thinking that is not a 12.
Speaker 2:It's so funny. I love it. Yeah, no, I do. I I remember watching greece with the children. We were up. They do remember they did the um open air cinema up on the um, up on the slopes, for like oyster festival, yeah, and I remember sat there and I am very sure I was not the only mum sat there with all my children. Then suddenly, as they're parking and he's there, they move over to the back of the car. Yeah, I'm like I don't remember this. Oh dear, yes, so, and then, and then of course, greece, and and the music again and singing. We're back to that again. So that's definitely one of my favorite things is singing.
Speaker 2:Singing, yeah, have you got anya asked me and mark today what if we get to choose a choir song? And uh, and I know that ross and abby pretend they give us some sort of autonomy over choir songs and I know that they don't I know that they don't. What would you choose? Have you got any idea what song you?
Speaker 1:would choose? That is such a great question and I feel like you've put me on the spot and I don't know what to say now. I, we didn't know either.
Speaker 2:No, I went back so obviously. Um, the song from Rent that we sing. That is one of my absolute favorite, favorite songs and the one we did with Justin Timberlake. Yeah, I really enjoyed that one, but no, I couldn't think of one no, I was having a right.
Speaker 1:I was singing song this morning when I got up because you know, on radio two in the morning they have the, the three songs that a listener is as um. Okay, yeah, they have the listener's choice and they do three songs and it was olympic um inspired this morning. And the one song that really reminds me of when I was competing and stuff is that whitney houston song one moment in time and it was on that. So I was proper gumming for it in the kitchen this morning and that song gets really high yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't care. See, yeah, whitney is always a good one in the kitchen for a good belt out. Yeah, oh, I love that I have a tiger for your Olympic song. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I have the tiger. They did have the running one, and what was the other one?
Speaker 2:that they had. Emily Sanders, read it read all about it was.
Speaker 1:It was in there. I like that song actually. That might be a nice one to inquire. Anya said that one today there you go very good.
Speaker 2:Okay, we've. We've sorted that. So one of the things that inspired me to think about our favorite things was actually that I gave Mikey a list of instructions today to make my smoothie with everything from oat, milk, ice, protein powder, avocado, banana. What else was there Peanut butter, god knows and he made it for me and it was very, very nice, and I know that you are a huge fan of smoothies. What's your favourite?
Speaker 1:I seriously love smoothies, but there is no way that anybody else is making mine. No way, even if I'd given instructions. It's not happening. I have to make my own smoothie. I'm really particular about it. So my, my favorite smoothie that I will have most often is a handful of berries, about a quarter of banana.
Speaker 1:I will put in some a tablespoon of natural yogurt, like a greek yogurt for the protein yeah, nice, okay, always a handful of greens, yeah, so whatever pack choice spinach, kale, even lettuce, and not even lettuce, lettuce, full of nutrients, lettuce. I'll put something green in, and then I've got my my plant-based milk. I'll always use a plant-based milk in my smoothie. I'd have my protein powder, yeah, and normally something to support the gut. That is my smoothie. Oh, I will put in some cashew nut butter or almond nut butter as well in that. That's.
Speaker 2:That's my go-to smoothie yum, here's a bit of well. It's probably not, uh, new information to you, but it was new information to me. Did you know that peanuts are not a nut, they're a legume? Yes, I did, I read that the other day.
Speaker 1:You can't say that to a nutritionist. No, I know that's hilarious.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that, though I mean it's quite a peanut.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and do you know, what's most annoying about that Is that when schools say that they have to go nut free, they mean all nuts, and they will include coconut in that, and these nuts are not connected to peanut in any way. Now, appreciate that there's some children at school that may be allergic to other nuts, yeah, but for most, most of the time, it's the school's not understanding that differentiation. You've just said it's a lagoon.
Speaker 2:I mean that just blew me away. I mean my whole grounding of my life was just blown away. Yeah, that's so funny. Anyway, there you go, a bit of useless information for you. I don't know so favourite good food. And I know we don't label the goods and the bads.
Speaker 1:Right, my favourite food. It's one of the foods that you know. You get those questions what would you take with you to a desert island? Exactly, yes, yeah, it's hummus. Yeah, I am obsessed with hummus, and it's a good food in the terms that it's got protein in it, it's got fat, it's got fibre oh my God, I thought you were going to it's got omega threes, it's got, you know, it's got all the good stuff in it, and so I would. Yeah, hummus, I'm obsessed with. It, goes with everything. Do you know tuna mayonnaise? Well, you probably don't, because you don't eat tuna, but this is one of the the tips I often give my clients, because mayonnaise generally is not that great unless you make it yourself is, and we spoke about this with the wallpaper paste before. Yeah, they put that in mayonnaise when I make it like I'll reduce fat or whatever.
Speaker 1:But the wallpaper paste stuff is to do tuna hummus instead of tuna mayonnaise and you can use hummus in your sandwich instead of mayonnaise. It's brilliant love it.
Speaker 2:I was holding my breath because I thought you were going to say that I was going to have to limit my hummus intake in some way no, don't just enjoy your hummus.
Speaker 1:What's your favorite food?
Speaker 2:hummus is definitely one of them.
Speaker 1:Avocado, uh, halloumi all those, I mean halloumi is just fabulous, isn't it? Isn't it just?
Speaker 2:yeah and yeah I. I see I love this time of the year when it just feels easy and comfortable to just have that stuff all of the time, almost like picky bits. All of the time I just yeah olives I love olives, yes, yeah, have you always loved olives?
Speaker 1:well, when I was younger we didn't really have we didn't really have olives. It wasn't a common thing? No, it wasn't. I'm not aware of never having an issue with. I'm not aware. I think when they came into my life I was probably older and a bit more sophisticated.
Speaker 2:I don't know well I had to train myself to be sophisticated. I didn't like them at all and I really wanted to like them, and we used to holiday a lot in in greece when mark and I were younger and we could afford to go on holiday and um and I, and so then I really liked them when I was in greece and I used to like tomatoes.
Speaker 2:I had to train myself to eat tomatoes and I used to like them in greece and often I wouldn't eat them back here because they never tasted the same as when you're on holiday, yeah, but uh, yeah, and it's so. Feta, greek salad greek salad is the best, isn't it? Oh, my goodness, yeah, and we've recently actually kitty got me to get some honeydew melon, some greek yogurt, and we've been having that with a bit of honey. And so then, from the episode the other day, I'm now reading I look like a lunatic in the shop I'm now reading the back of honey jars to see what's in it and and where it's come from.
Speaker 1:One of them said on the back that the honey could come from something like 20 different countries yeah, that's a red flag right there, because then they've got the opportunity to put all sorts in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, it's interesting though, isn't it once you? Once you know when you start to look, um, but yeah, that, and toasted pine nuts sprinkled all over that, or sunflower seeds, or something, yeah, it's definitely I. I love eating in the summer all those things. It makes it. It makes it for me. It makes it much easier to make healthier choices yeah, yeah, I think I think you're right there have you got a? And again, we don't label foods. But if we did, have you got naughty food?
Speaker 1:biscuits, biscuits oh, they're just so nice, aren't they? Your favorite biscuit? I like the. I can't remember the name of them. They're the square ones that have the chocolate on the top. They've got a particular base on them. Oh, begin with an l yeah, they've got a funny name yeah, yeah yeah, that would be my treat.
Speaker 1:Biscuit, yeah, or custard creams back in the day, but I have to eat them in a certain way. I have to take the top off and then bite the biscuit around the cream and then then they need the bit the cream with the cream all on it saying, yeah, the cream is.
Speaker 2:It's so sweet. I'm amazed that you can actually tolerate how sweet.
Speaker 1:I don't really eat them anymore, but back in the day that would be my, my biscuit of choice oh, isn't that funny when you talk about business, you're so, so interested in these neural pathways.
Speaker 2:So you started talking about custard creams and for some reason I went to malted milks and nice biscuits, malted milks, yeah, and did it connect that with your nan, my grandma, yeah. Yeah, Instantly. She used to make me a cup of tea and I got them on a saucer. You used to get the biscuits on a saucer, yeah, yeah, biscuits on a saucer, yeah, yeah, you've got to have your biscuits on a saucer. Yeah, and even if we were up there on the holidays, she'd still get you up at the crack of dawn.
Speaker 1:You're like, I'm not really sure why I've got to get up this early, but thanks for my malted milk biscuits. Yeah, the biscuits that I like, that I will almost allow, allow myself to have, are the nons biscuits, because they are, they have got less sugar in them, yeah, and I and I like the fruit and spice ones. Oh, really, but they don't always have them in the shops.
Speaker 2:No, I'd say I don't think I've ever seen those. Really yummy. Yeah, they are nice. That's so interesting. So those your favourite chocolate biscuits are. I associate them with my NCT group. We for some reason I think Zoe used to bring them to whenever we met up and then it became a regular thing. And also the other thing we associate with the NCT group was the Rocky biscuits, so not posh Rocky Road ones like in a blue wrap or a red wrap chocolate biscuit, because we used to have those in our actual NCT groups. And then one of our group went off and gave birth after our second to last meeting and so we decided it was the biscuits.
Speaker 1:It was the biscuits, so you were allowed to eat loads of biscuits to get the baby out. Get the baby out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and I remember her coming to the next meeting and she'd had the baby and none of us had, and we all looked very shocked that there was actually real babies in there. We all looked fairly horrified. That's, that was so funny. That's my, that's my thing. I thought about biscuits. Well then, my favorite are, I like, lotus biscuits, biscuits that you get with like coffee. Oh, they're lovely, I think. My, I don't know, and it can be, it can be made not so naughty, but my naughty food is pizza. I could eat pizza every single day if I was allowed to, or chips?
Speaker 2:Savory stuff for me, crisps. Oh, now I'm hungry. Move on to the next subject. What's the next? Oh, there you go. Then exercise, that's better, okay, phew.
Speaker 1:What's your favourite exercise? I think this is quite tricky, because I just like exercise anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have you got like a? What about a favourite gymnastics exercise or gymnastics? I don't know flip, I don't know anything about gymnastics.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as you know, I do love my. I love my gymnastics. I love doing the floor Tumbling. Yeah, yeah, probably tumbling. But then I'm quite happy to go on a paddleboard on my bike. I love going on my bike. I'm not a gym person, never going to be a gym person have you ever been a gym?
Speaker 1:person. I used to go back in the day because that's what I thought you're supposed to do. Yeah, you know one of those. Oh, I'm of a certain age now. I should go to the gym yeah, yeah, and go and do those things. Yeah, I, although, when I should go to the gym yeah, yeah, and go and do those things yeah, although, when I used to go to the gym, I never went in and did the. I never went in the actual gym. Yeah, I would go and do the classes and go swimming. Yeah, that's what I would do. I love swimming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, I haven't been actual swimming for a very long time actually what do you like?
Speaker 1:you, you're like me, though, aren't? You like all sorts?
Speaker 2:yeah, I just I do love me and I find myself when I'm doing a class. I'll find myself probably about five times in the class going oh, this is my favorite. I do like a single leg stretch with twist. That's definitely, definitely one of my very favorite moves. But no, you're right, I like to be outdoors doing something active and, weirdly, although I claim I don't like uh, I don't like wind, that is my worst, my worst weather. If it is a bit choppy and I'm out on the paddleboard and I've got to really concentrate and be very active with trying to remain on the board, that is when I'll the most fun. Or if we're swimming and it's choppy actually, that's. I will claim that I love a sea where it looks like you could look into your reflection in it. However, when it is, it's choppy and the wind's blowing and you just feel alive. That's probably when I have my most fun.
Speaker 1:I used to like the choppy sea, but I've gone off it in recent weeks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if you don't know what she's talking about, go and listen to the podcast that Julie did the solo one a few weeks back and you'll know exactly what she's talking about then. Yeah, I mean I did. Yeah, when I was on my paddle boards and it was choppy, I did make my eye very black once upon a time. It's probably not good for us.
Speaker 2:Remember that you did, didn't you? Yeah, but I had a whale of a time. Yeah, all the people looking at me going why has she got a black eye? But yeah, no, anything. Do you know what I'm really enjoying and I kind of go through like cycles of this I'm really enjoying weight training, I training, I'm enjoying picking up the, like, the kettlebells, and sometimes this is something that I tend to try and get more guidance from mark with, because I don't sort of instinctively know sometimes what to do with the weights. But uh, yeah, he's given me a program that I'm sharing with mikey and, um, that's cool, getting the weights out. So, yeah, I really enjoy that. Here's a random one clothes. Have you got a favorite piece of clothing or is there a favorite style?
Speaker 1:I just like my pajamas. I could just be in my pajamas all day, every day. Oh yeah, although I do. I do like dressing up every now and then, but but not normal clothes, most part just wonder woman. Yeah, I do like dressing up as Wonder Woman Pyjamas all the way, all the time. They're so comfy, aren't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I do not. Actually, I think I completely agree, or anything that's as close to pyjamas as is possible to leave the house in.
Speaker 1:Tell you what I don't like, clothes-wise Bras. Oh, I hate bras. I can do one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's probably why I like pajamas. Yeah, because you don't have to wear any underwear then do you? It's much better so liberating.
Speaker 2:You want more and more. Now I, I think I probably own one or two bras that have got an underwire. All the rest don't have any wire at all, and then all of the rest are sports bras and, yeah, more and more. Again this it irritates me that we have been mis-sold bras. This is a tangent I did not see coming, like lots of things, like lots of the marketing and stuff with like fat, for instance, like we should be on a low-fat diet, all that, that mis-sold information.
Speaker 1:All that BS yeah.
Speaker 2:The bra actually stops your body. Yes, the bra actually stops your body. I mean, I'm not very gifted in this area. No, me neither. God was not particularly kind when he handed out breasts to me. So I think, probably taken with a pinch of salt, when I put on a bra, it means that the muscles all around my, all around the area don't have to do what they were designed to do, so actually it makes them saggier. So with that in mind, I have actually read research for this.
Speaker 1:with that in mind, I do take it off as frequently as possible I used to just not wear a bra, but I could get away with it, yeah, because I didn't need that support and I was quite small, so I just used to wear like a vest, top under, yes, whatever I was wearing. And so, yeah, I just I think they're hideous things, I, that's exactly what I do more often than not now.
Speaker 2:I mean obviously, if you're jumping around.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yeah sport.
Speaker 2:Sports bras are a whole different game, although getting in and out of those blooming things is is that's an exercise in itself, isn't it? And I don't.
Speaker 1:That's on the don't like list, it's so true, isn't it getting out of a sports bra? If it's an over the head one, yeah, that is some exercise workout in itself, isn't?
Speaker 2:it? Yeah, definitely I would like. I bet there are statistics. I bet physios have got statistics of how many ripped shoulders there are from from women putting on or taking off sports bras yeah, yeah, when you're sweating, yeah, and you just can't. No, it's so funny that, no, it's just wrong. How funny yeah, I think I agree something.
Speaker 2:I mean I live and die in leggings, for for work leggings, and sports bras and sports tops. So that, or the older I'm getting, the more casual my clothes are becoming yeah, definitely, and the more okay I am with that. I mean, I like getting dressed up, however, more now I am choosing the comfort, even over like any kind of fashion or anything like that, and heels no way, jose no way heels.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've really worn heels since I had kids. I think I.
Speaker 2:I think I played with them for a little while while I was still going like out, but even now I just head out in my trainers yeah, because otherwise you can't dance like you want to exactly, exactly, yeah, we came across this.
Speaker 2:We went to see abba a few weeks ago and ideally I'd have worn a knee-high pair of uh, paint and white boots, because that is what it called for, and I would love to have done that, but I wouldn't have been able to have danced and that would have been miserable. Anna would have been thoroughly miserable on the way back. So, yeah, so trainers all of the way, and actually more now, not just trainers, my running trainers I spend a lot of time in, but I have replaced some of my trainers with barefoot trainers or barefoot shoes, and they are much more comfortable. In fact, actually just no shoes at all.
Speaker 1:No shoes at all. Yeah, I like no shoes at all. No shoes at all. Yeah, yeah, I like no shoes at all yeah, no, much, much better.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you have? This is a very strange one. Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 1:meditation. So I always listen to the car map when I go to bed at night and I have a particular meditation on there that I really like and it's called the Far North Line and it's about a journey from Inverness to the highlands, like the outer, you know, the Orkney Islands and shit and the highlands out that way, and I just love that meditation and I've listened to it. I've never got to the end of it because I've always fallen asleep, so I don't know what happens, yeah. But yeah, I love that meditation and I've listened to it.
Speaker 2:I've never got to the end of it because I've always fallen asleep so I don't know what happens. Yeah, but yeah, I love that you need to get them to start the other way around so you can hear about the other end of the journey yeah, that sounds really really lovely. I um, I've got some on Insight Timer that I really like to listen to.
Speaker 1:David G's voice.
Speaker 2:I just adore and I like the bits where he will do a guided part and then just leave you to drop into that gap, which I just I love.
Speaker 2:I also, when I meditate on just on my own, I always put binaural beats on for meditation yeah and put my headphones on, because I find that that really really helps, and I also like the um, a zen meditation, which is basically where you picture the, an enzo circle, I might put. I'll put a picture of the enzo circle into the far too fabulous facebook group and you can see what I'm talking about. But you, basically you, you, you picture in your mind's eye, painting, doing like brush strokes of this, of this circle, and again, it's another way to kind of keep hold your attention, to be able to breathe with that, with that brush stroke that's interesting and that's I, I'm very visual and I really, I really enjoy that one.
Speaker 2:But I like that having the binaural beats.
Speaker 1:There's a lady on Insight Timer who I absolutely adore and I've recommended her to so many of my clients because she will do things about being kind to yourself, things like that. She's called Sarah Blondin. Have you come across her on Insight Timer? Not that I can think of. Oh, just about letting go. Yeah, she's just brilliant. She's got a lovely voice and she does the most amazing meditations.
Speaker 2:Oh, how lovely and just. It's so easy when you do if you don't know what to do or you feel like you've got that story that I can't meditate to be able to plug yourself into into an app and just sit and listen yeah it's just really easy. Oh, how fantastic. Right then, this was.
Speaker 1:This was your addition to the list favorite supplements well, I was thinking about the things that we do for our well-being and favorite things that we do for our well-being, and I've got to say probably my it's almost like a favorite nutrient rather than a supplement. I do have some favorite supplements, brands and things, but that almost is a separate discussion. But magnesium, oh, I was gonna say the same thing. Yeah, it's so, it's used in the body everywhere and so many of us are deficient in it and you will feel the difference when you take magnesium. It's absolutely brilliant, and when I run the tests that I do on people, a lot of them are calcium dominant and calcium makes things tight and rigid and magnesium makes things relax and flow and you want to be relaxed and flow. So, yeah, magnesium all the way. And there's one particular one that I like that you actually put in water and it's got four different forms in it, because there will be that'll be the next question that I will get asked is what form is the best?
Speaker 1:yeah and they're different forms will have different benefits, but that one has the four forms of magnesium in and, because it's in water and it's dissolved, it gets straight into your system. It's lovely. It's by far my normal, that one, that I use magnesium dissolvable, dissolvable tablets and you just have it in water, just in water, yeah. Yeah, it reminds me of, like elka selkza. Oh okay, you know, when I was younger and you know you had to tell me I used to get given this fizzy thing to drink. It reminds me of that. It's got a bit of a funny taste, but the benefit of it is huge.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't get over the difference that just one magnesium tablet a day has made yeah to to me and I've I've not looked into it hugely.
Speaker 2:I know that when I got it, there was a discussion over uh, how whether my gut became upset with things or not as to which one I chose.
Speaker 2:I think maybe we need to do a whole thing on magnesium.
Speaker 2:So I started taking it whilst I was training for my marathon and then I have continued to take it and what has happened is that I used to, so I had plantar fasciitis all the way through training for the marathon and then even after that, I used to wake up, put my feet on the floor and the heel would hurt from the plantar fasciitis, but my ankles would hurt from the running.
Speaker 2:The other foot would hurt. I feel like I constantly sprained an ankle and I would I'd almost kind of like tiptoe to the, to the bathroom or wherever I was first off to, while everything woke up. And since I have regularly taken magnesium, that has completely gone, which is just. I genuinely thought and I think this is a really common misconception I genuinely thought that I was going to have to put up with this for the rest of my life and it was uncomfortable and it was painful and it made it actually made lots of my choices about shoes and and how far we were walking and all those sorts of things became an issue. So, and it's such a simple, simple fix.
Speaker 2:The other thing that it does is helps me with my sleep now I was going through a stage where I did I started I like normally I would hit the pillow and I would be out like a light, and then it started to get to the point that I was quite sleeping, quite lightly, and then something would wake me up and then I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. And so since taking the magnesium, that's made a massive difference. I do take it at night time, just before I go to bed, and I wondered if I kept meaning to ask you whether you had any thoughts about that yeah, you can take it at night time and it will help sleep most of the time.
Speaker 1:When you get that, you fall asleep easily, but then your sleep is disturbed. That's normally because you're calcium dominant, because calcium is also a sedative, so you'll be able to fall asleep. But then you need magnesium to aid that relaxation and it's needed for repair and detoxification as well. So, yeah, you can take it at night. It's perfectly fine to take it before you go to bed, perfect amazing magnesium needed for, um, if you've got cramps.
Speaker 1:Now a lot of people say, oh, I need that, for I need the salt. No, it's magnesium. This is another thing.
Speaker 2:Thank you for saying that. This is another thing that it genuinely has helped for me and I'm and I am sure it's been like a time of life hormonal kind of thing that I have been noticing these, these cramps building up and more and more and more and again. I thought it was something that I was going to have to just put up with and that's an off, and then I will know when I have forgotten to take it regularly, because these cramps will start to come back in again. Yeah, yeah, no, it's just, uh, an all-round goodie. That one, yeah all hail magnesium. Wow, this seems like a really boring one after all of that shops you got any favorite shops?
Speaker 1:favorite shops, what like for clothes or for food or for any anything, I don't know.
Speaker 2:That's just a really hard one to answer, actually I I was laughing at myself the other day because we went into the new shop in the high street that has bags of nuts and oh yes, what's that one called?
Speaker 1:I know the one you mean.
Speaker 2:I can't think what it's called and I'd been shopping with Anya the day before in Zara and I quite like Zara and I was I was just bored, I was uncomfortable, I just did not want to be there yet in a shop full of bags of nuts you were. I was so happy, so happy. Mikey was looking at me as if to say you're absolutely crazy. I genuinely was very, very happy and could spend a long time it had like it had ground almonds, it had ground spinach grapevine or something like that, something like that and it was all relatively reasonable.
Speaker 2:It just made you know looking after yourself a bit more accessible. And yeah, I was.
Speaker 1:I was very happy I do like a farm shop and a gross green grocery, and I absolutely love mades McNades. Yes, mcnades in Favisham for those of you that don't live in this area is just a health like if you're into health. It's yeah, it's just the way it's laid out. It's got everything, hasn't it? It's so expensive, though, but it's just gorgeous.
Speaker 2:It's brilliant. Every colour and type of fruit and vegetable you can well. More than I could imagine, in fact, some of them.
Speaker 1:Yes, brilliant, love it yeah no, that's true, absolutely.
Speaker 2:This was your one as well. Kitchen tools.
Speaker 1:Well, kitchen tools are quite interesting because I've always been this person that would not go for the like. I held off having a NutriBullet for so long because I was like I'm not jumping on that bandwagon. You know, and whenever I've done my cooking classes or my online videos and things, I've always used your everyday tools yeah, exactly. But I have to say that I can't do without tools in my kitchen. My bread maker, because, as I was saying, kitchen my bread maker? Yeah, because, as I was saying to you, bread is ultra-processed, so make your own bread.
Speaker 1:I've got a bread maker to make life easy, because I don't have time to prove it and need it. No, so I make the bread in the bread machine. And my Nutribullet was gifted to me by my mother-in-law after my Kenwood blender broke God rest its soul and I'd had that for years and, like I said, I was like you don't need a Nutribullet. A Kenwood blender is fine and it was fine, but when I went over to the Nutribullet, it was just brilliant and because I love my smoothies, I just I'm like I couldn't do without this Nutribullet.
Speaker 2:Now, yeah, no, absolutely we. So my, my ninja bullet did uh have to be put to rest. Um, and we've got a ninja and it is. I just love it. Is it another level? It's a whole. I'm gonna have to go to the ninja you are gonna have to go to the ninja level.
Speaker 2:It's brilliant. Yeah, I do do love it, and we use our bread maker every single day. Every single day, if we're not making bread in it, we're making dough for pizza on Fridays. It's just yeah fantastic. And what was really interesting, our it didn't break. I can't remember what was the matter with it. Anyway, it wasn't working and I put I put a shout out on Facebook, because I know that these are the sorts of things that sit in the back of cupboards and that are never, ever used, and I got a massive response from um of people that I could buy second hand I bought my one second hand, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So dust them off and use them because they are so simple. I mean, we don't, we're very boring, really, we don't really change the recipe, the bread recipe, that we don't need to do is once you, once you know what you, what you like and the sort of yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Most of the time you need to straight up wholemeal sandwich loaf, don't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, yeah no, it's absolutely brilliant, and also in the winter. I quite like my slow cooker, but I wish I used it a little bit more I do like my slow cooker as well, actually. Yeah, yeah and they're a great big kitchen with lots of sides to be able to put all these on. That's what I'd like. What's your favorite, uh, piece of well-being kit? What's yours?
Speaker 2:well, I think what my big, one of my biggest kits is my um ice pod yeah my mine's, mine's a loomy, other ones are are available and that, although it's dirty at the moment I need to. I need to clean it out and what I would love to do is upgrade it to have the ability to really keep the water very cold. So at the moment I've just got a bog standard one and I've got this reflective cover around it so that in the summer it doesn't just heat up to 30 degrees in there, it keep, but it it still comes up to about like 18 degrees. So I would love something that kept it down to like three or five degrees so I could just go in there for sort of three minutes or so and make it quite snappy and quick.
Speaker 1:But that's my yeah, that's my favorite you're going for the cold and my one is probably my infrared sauna. The other way, yeah. So, although I find it a little bit more difficult to use in the summertime, because you don't want to get too hot unless I'm ill or I'm injured or I know that I've done gymnastics and I need to get in there because it makes such a difference to my recovery um, it's brilliant, infrared sauna yeah, we need both of them.
Speaker 1:Really need the need the cold and then the hot yeah, so I just yeah, so I go in the shower in the shower afterwards and do a cold shower after I've been in that, because you want to go in the cold shower anyway, because, yeah, you get very hot in the infrared sauna, but that is just that's. At least that's one of those things that you invested your money in, like you did with your pod, and part of you thinks is this just another gimmicky thing that I'm buying?
Speaker 2:but I've, I use my sauna blanket a lot yeah, yeah, absolutely, and actually it's interesting what you said about using it in the summer, because I felt a bit odd about going to the sauna on the beach when it was really, really hot. However, it's never 80 degrees outside, so we were still in the sauna absolutely baking, and then it was quite nice to come out and it'd be, and it'd be nice outside and obviously because it's on the beach or we get to use the barrels and stuff you get to cool off. Yeah, so that would be. It's obviously it's not my kit, but being able to use a sauna is a really nice way to detox and look after yourself.
Speaker 1:Really good for your body, I suppose the only other one that I would put in that category that's not an expensive, because these things are quite expensive, aren't they? The solar blankets and the and the ice pods. It's just a straightforward roller that you just lay on to open up your shoulders, especially when you've been working on the computer and stuff. Yeah, I use that every single day. It's in the corner there now, as we're, yeah, as we're recording and it, yeah, I lay on that roll you lay your spine down it long ways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, open up the chest, yeah, and then I've got some other exercises that I do on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I notice if I don't use that, I take that with me when I go places yeah, I've got a client that um begs me to use my roller when we're when we're working out. She regrets it sometimes because we don't just do stretches on it. It's a great one for balancing and doing like single extractors yeah, but yeah she loves it for stretching. That's a really, it's a really good piece of kit. Actually, what's your favorite uh favorite piece of self-care?
Speaker 1:that's a hard one. I said pause on the podcast recording why julie engages her brain. It's quite a difficult one to answer because self-care can be lots of things, can't it probably a bath? I was just about to say I think the easiest things really nice bath stuff, natural bath stuff with the oils and stuff and a candle yeah yeah, I was just about to say things like.
Speaker 2:Things like maybe spending some time on myself like doing my nails or doing a hair mask or a face mask or yeah something, yeah, that you don't do every day, that really you kind of have a little glow up of yourself, yeah, but it could be so many things couldn't.
Speaker 1:It could be singing. Could be certain foods. There's so many things. Couldn't. It could be singing. Could be certain foods. There's so many things that could come under that yeah could be sleeping.
Speaker 2:Oh, that would be nice or just yeah, things like. So on a saturday morning and a sunday morning, I get up the park run both mornings, and so sometimes I will make an executive decision not to do that, and I will. This is what I assume the rest of the world do. On a Saturday morning, I will go downstairs, make myself a drink, come back upstairs and read a book or something, and that feels really luxurious to me. I love that. Or all of these are on my own. What does this say about my self-care? Or take myself down to the beach, or go and sit in a cafe and find a really nice comfy seat and read a book a lot of it's around reading a book, actually or just that, just spending that time read.
Speaker 1:Reading a book is a nice, nice self-care thing to do. Yeah, there could be lots of things under that one, I think yeah, I completely agree with that and interesting.
Speaker 2:So when we were looking, when we talk about what we were, what we were going to talk about today, and after you said that, you said something about what do you do for yourself when you're ill? What's the favourite thing to do when you're ill?
Speaker 1:Okay. So, apart from put myself in the sauna, because raising your body temperature can make a huge difference, so the first signs of anything, I just get in there. But I think one of my it's my good tip. Yeah, one of my favorite things to do if I'm ill is to steam, so I've got various different oils that I will use and I again it's about that heat, isn't it I just put the my head over the bar with a towel over my head and that will be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that will be what I'm looking at what I will do if I'm feeling under the weather I love things like that because I don't know if it's me wanting to just be in control all the time, but I feel like I've got some sort of control over it, that I'm actually doing something for myself. So, like you're getting in the heat blanket, you're you're using the steam bath to try and help you. I'm making sure that I'm drinking plenty of water. I'm putting in my orders from all of my willing family members that want to look after me for delicious, nutritious meals. It's that empowerment element, isn't it? Yeah, you're doing something for yourself yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:There's certain things that I just automatically do if I'm under the weather. There's certain supplements that I will up. There are foods that I will just cut out of my diet while I'm ill. In fact, one of the best things to do when you're under the weather is to not eat for 24 hours. Oh really, because that allows your system, because your digestive system takes a lot of energy and it's in it's activating the immune system. If you switch that off temporarily, then you allow your body the energy to go and deal with the thing that's going on and you give your you we talk about this when we do intermittent fasting and things you turn your body's um autophagy on, which is that healing and repair element. So that, again, is one thing I will do.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I mean, and often you don't feel like eating. Do you as much when you're not very well? That's your body's work, that is your body's natural way.
Speaker 1:And there's the, you know the feed a fever, starve a cold or whatever it is the other way around. No, no, starve both, starve of fever, starve of cold. Yeah, then afterwards you will then naturally feel hungry and you will know, and you will tend to be hungry for carbs, because you need to replenish your energy supplies. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, very interesting. I mean, of course, the obvious answer is a duvet day in Netflix as well. There is that too. Yeah, is a duvet day in Netflix as well. There is that too. Yeah, that's. And weirdly, I think sometimes I need to just give myself those days Permission to rest. Yeah, because I almost want to be ill, like I'll look at somebody that's ill in the family laying on the sofa under the.
Speaker 1:You know You're jealous of them.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I'm jealous, absolutely, because genuinely and I'm going to jin genuinely and I'm gonna jinx this now, I know, but genuinely I'm very, very rarely ill. Yeah, if I am feeling slightly under the weather, generally I don't give myself this isn't the message we're sending here at, by the way but genuinely, I don't give myself permission to to stop and acknowledge that I don't feel very well, because it makes me cross and that I'm not super powered, which really annoys me. So, yes, so when I see somebody on the on the sofa watching Netflix under their duvet and I do get jealous, but I very occasionally again, often on a weekend I will make an executive decision that I am not moving off that thing and I am binge watching whatever piece of rubbish I am watching at the time. Good for you, yeah, no, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2:And actually, my last thing on my list is what we started with in the first place, and that was favorite songs. We went straight there yeah, we did anyway straight into favorite songs. What we would love for you to do is, please be interactive with us. Come over to the far too fabulous facebook group and tell us what your favorite things are of all the things that we have talked about and if there's any new ones, then let us know as well, because we are as willing to learn from you as you get to learn from us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's so. That's so true. We would love to engage with people in the facebook group and hopefully there's some little things that you know in our. We're just having a bit of fun chatting, but there are certain elements that come, come out well, like peanuts being legumes. Maybe you're not the only person that didn't know that please tell me I'm not the only person.
Speaker 2:It was a total surprise to me. It's rocked my foundations.
Speaker 1:I think most people would think that peanuts and cashew nuts they're all part of the same family.
Speaker 2:Hang on a minute. What are you saying about cashew nuts? They're nuts, right? Yes, they are.
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm just saying that people would think that a nut is a nut and they're all part of the same family.
Speaker 2:But no, they're not. Peanuts are separate. Yeah, yeah, okay, phew, right then, yes, talk to us people and we'll see you again soon. Bye, thank you for keeping us company today. If you enjoyed the podcast, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review your support helps us on our mission to reach a thousand women in our first year so share with your friends and family. You might just change your life. Connect with us on social media and make your life easier by joining our podcast mailing list.
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