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So News Talks B Welcome back. It's the Weekend Collective. Roman Travers here in for Tim Beverage this afternoon. Great to have your company as well. Feel free to get in touch anytime. You can text nine to nine two and the free phone number eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. A reminder to that if you want to hear previous episodes, whether it's today or previous week's weekends, you can catch all the Weekend Collective on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts from after five o'clock this evening, Smart Money Amanda Morel. She joins us she's a favorite when it comes to personal finance and coaching in that regard, and we're going to talk about setting up your whole finance sort of portfolio. I guess if you even have one. I don't, but making yourself financially successful for this year. We'll talk to Amanda about how to make that happen and how to boost your income outside of your base salary, which I think for most people is almost an impossible thing to do, isn't it. Right now, of course it is the health Hub. We're just having a bit of trouble getting hold of David Ltally at the moment. He's out and about around enjoying some of this lovely summer weather. As I look out the studio windows, it's actually a very overcast and quite breezy, perfect for the sale. GP. If you're in Auckland for that, I hope that's going well for you. Now you might want to think about this hour because we are going to talk, of course, David the Tally, well known for his work in charity, the former boxer, former rugby league player and the founder of butter Being motivation. It's the motivation aspect that we're going to focus on the most, because you know, outside of all the promises of what you're going to do, as soon as you know whoa happy New Year, Wow, congratulations, you grab someone kissed, some fireworks are going off, and then you actually think about what it is you want to achieve, whether it's a health focus, which I think is quite important, isn't it. You know, you know, if you need to be healthier, you know, the things that you shouldn't be having that you are having, all the treats in life, we do tend to reward ourselves with food. I'm pretty bad at it. I guess you know. I've been really really good. Therefore I'll have two steak and cheese pies and four cream buns and a donut because it's Friday and I made it to the end of the week or something. Those are the sorts of things that you might be focusing on. Knocking on the head. One of the producers I work with, she's actually given up sugar, so that's a hard thing to get rid of. But David Ltally joins us. Now get a David, how are you, hey man? How's it going?
Yeah?
Really good, nice of you to join me, and I look, I just I have talked about your your CV as incredible. People know you very very well. But in terms of motivating people for you, would that be one of the hardest challenges for you to get through with someone?
Yeah, definitely. I mean we get a coach all the time or where at the moment running a big fun fest here where we're a charity partner and there's people coming up to the mid all of the time asking me to you know, my mom, my dad, my brother, my uncle, my aunt, you need the help. Can they know? How can we help them? And it's really hard because the person that has to be the person that really wants their life back, really wants to regain control and get healthy again. It has to be that person. No one else you can do it for them.
Yeah, that's right. It's like you or me going to a GP and hearing a whole lot of figures in facts and statistics around what we're probably heading towards, and some of that doesn't really ring true until all they say things like, you know, you won't be around to see your grandchildren if you keep doing this. Is that the kind of stuff that resonates with people more than cold hard stats.
One hundred percent. You have to you have to break it down that way. I remember I helped the father you know, had quite a number of kids, and you know, and and always putting you know, we have parents, and we always put ourselves last year and we're trying to support everyone else and trying to be there for everyone else. What I said to them, well, when you die of a heart attack, who's going to look after your wife and kids where they going to go then, because that's where you're that's where you're headed. Yeah, yeah, and that clicked. That clicked for him, you know that. But you know, diep down, you know, sometimes you give up on yourself so you have to find something else. But then deep down it.
Has to be for you.
Yeah, it totally does it sometimes as external motivations that that definitely help, you know.
Yeah, that's what I think about too. The older I've got, the less bulletproof I think. I realize I have been and I've been quite lucky over the years. Perhaps, But when you get people coming to you because it's twenty twenty five and the fireworks are literally done, is that a good thing to do to focus on I'm going to do everything right now it's twenty twenty five. Or is it better to tackle things slowly and gradually.
Oh? Look, you know, we definitely have a massive inflexible messages and people starting their journeys. So you know, it's it's fine, but you've got you do have to start. It's it has to be a slow process, you know, and you build a solid foundation because a lot of times when you start too fast and you're going one hundred miles an hour, and you're you're eating like you have a living shift and training like you've got a full time professional training. You're an embly athlete and everything's hashtag help you living that's not maintainable, and you know you crash and more than often when you crash, you feel bad about it, You eat more crap to feel better, and you're finding yourself in the spiral again.
Heck youre Yes, we do tend to use food as a reward, don't we. Look, if you've got a question for David Letelli, I will encourage you to call. This is a chance to one on one with David and the rest of the country, of course. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two ninety two. On the text, a friend of mine who's an immunologist, she often says, stop using food as a reward. Why do we actually do that? Is that something that we're hard wired to believe?
I think so, I mean, it's always, you know, it's I mean, it's a big part of our culture, right, you know, everything we're doing around weddings or you know, even you know, just get it getting together. I always say to be why can't we you know, with a lot of our Pacifica people we help and you know we think called on Sundays called Kannet where we all get together. You know, we have a lot of food, so why can't we get together and go for a walk. Ye, these things are like this, But it's you know, even when you see these challenges, you know, a lot of them, they at the end of it, they're all getting on the piss, you know and having a massive you know, big feed and a big piss up. So it's just I think it's just the way that's wearing grain. But for us, you know, even when we run challenges and not really challenges, there's more a lifestyle course. That's the way we have to look at these things like, you know, it's the way that we live now. You know, we're trying and living. It's about having treats every now and then, you know, But if you're treating yourself every day, that's not a treat. That's the way you eat them.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like I remember, I've gone through phases where I come and go from drinking, and so if I've given up alcohol for a year or two, which I've done in the past, and often to support people who are on a journey themselves. I do this thing mentally where I go, oh, I'm not drinking, therefore I can eat lots of ice cream and biscuits, and you know, it's almost like we need to have something to look forward to that's food related. What proportion of people that you see really struggle to give up that?
It's everyone. The hardest thing is getting up your nutrition under control. It's the hardest thing, you know. You know, when we get together we exercise. We love the social part of exercise, you know, we get around, especially with what we do in bbm's a big groups culture. You know, everyone's encouraging each other. But it's so hard to when you leave gym to make sure you're doing the right things with food and drinking.
You know.
So it's the biggest thing, biggest it's the hardest thing to do. But again, though, that's about you know, it's you know, we're not about having six packs. It's not about that. It's about being healthy, happy and being able to maintain it.
Yes, yeah, absolutely, there's all sorts of benefits that come from moving more and being less sedentory. I understand that too. But hey, look, if you've got a question for David. The free phone number is there, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. If you're a bit shy, you can text nine two nine two. I often see people, and I can think of people in my life who have decided that they need to make a big change, so they buy some running shoes and they start running, and then they wonder why their knees are crumbling and their ankles sore. So how do you actually recognize what you're capable of doing? Are you quite deliberate in saying to people, Hey, that's probably not a great fit for you, let's try something else.
Yeah, you know, I started my journe I was two hundred and ten kilos, could have time. My shoelas is really bad shape physically, worse mentally, and you know, the anacritic was going off in my head saying I'm an idiot and I should just end it all. And all I did was to silence that was I just went for a walk. Walking is the best thing that you can do to start off with. And you know, a lot of the time we're helping people that might be three hundred plus kilos. Well, walking for them, it's probably not the best thing to do, you know, jumping going and doing some water walking first and really concentrating on nutrition, you know, to get the weight down. So yeah, you've got to be careful because the worst thing that can happen to you when you start off is you start too hard. You get injured then, and that's a massive obstacle you've you know, you've got to restart again.
Yeap, Yeah, heck, I'm just around the corner. For me, there's one of those forty five type gym where there's lots of whoa and yelling and time is going off and then people are with their shirts off, usually men running around the block celebrating a couple of left. Is that kind of stuff? You see that and you think, I quite like the idea of that. Is that an easy thing to get into if you've never been moving before, Are you better off just going for a regular walk every second night or something and then working you in towards that forty five sort of stuff?
Hundred's So that's what we do. We get people with it. You know, a lot of the people that you're just starting, you know, you're very self conscious and you don't feel confident enough to walk into those types of places.
You know.
So for me walking as that was the start of it. You know, I didn't know the complicated. I went for a walk. I went for a walk around one Tree Hill for thirty minutes. And what I noticed was, you know, when you're walking around, you know, a beautiful place you're no longer thinking about that is exercise. It's so nice. But you also stop thinking about how crap life can be, you know, and you're only thinking about man, this steep hills talking. You know, at the end of the natural endorphins running through your body, you feel better, you know, feel a bit better about yourself. Your brain has had a chance to stop thinking about things. So it's so good for you all around.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Among A Kiki is one of the most beautiful places you can walk around as well as up there a couple of days ago. Beautiful, beautiful places get stuck in eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. You might find yourself being pretty motivated. You might have bought all the right gear, maybe you've gone and purchase some nutrition, but you're not really sure how to stay regular with your exercise. This is the man to speak to David Letelli is with us right through until four o'clock. Hi there, Caleb, how are you good?
How are you ring in?
Travis?
Good your Caleb? Yeah good, David's here for you. What's your question?
My question is how do I lose weights?
That's a very good question. So when I start, I'll relate it to what I do and what I teach people. The first thing is I really it comes down to nutrition, and I did it real basic when I started. I just stopped drinking fizzy drinks and I stopped eating rubbish. That was the two things I thought. I didn't try and do too much too quick, because I was drinking a lot of phizzy, which you know is really bad for me, parts filled with sugar. So I just cut that out and the takeaways. And I'd had one treat a week, you know, and it wasn't a whole treat day. It was just one meal where I could enjoy and feel good about it. And I started walking. I walk for thirty minutes, you know, and I'd walk every day.
You know.
Sometimes I just leave the house if I didn't want to travel to a hill or and if they're I just leave the house, walk for twenty minutes turn around, I've got to get home, so you know that ends up being a forty minute walk. So it's just keeping it, just keep it really basic and not try and lose. It's not we don't want to be in a race. Too many people in a race to lose weight quickly. When you lose weight quickly, you can't maintain it. So it's just really is bit by bit by bit. As you get fitter from walking and eating better, you're going to feel so much better and you're going to want to add more. You want to go. You're going to naturally want to do more. You know, you're going to look at it. You're going to start seeing changes in the mirror. Becaudes are going to feel better, and you're just going to start wanting to do more naturally.
There you go, Cale, Hey, Caleb, can I just ask have you tried losing weight before? And are you calling because what you've tried hasn't worked.
No, I'm I haven't tried losing my for love.
Oh well, good luck and I hope that goes well. And just remember that you can catch up with David Lettelli. He's available. I guess you could just google you David You're pretty well known, aren't you.
Yeah, jump on Facebook and find me on the Brown Butterbean or Shorey. Now join our Facebook group. BBN Motivation is a private group that you know, there's thousands of us all in there supporting each other. Yeah, it's all freelyone and joined.
Do you know what the whole group thing? I think? Really, for some people it's very important. I'm motivated enough to go down. I had this middle aged man work out down in the garage of the apartment. I put on the little funny little bluetooth speaker and I do funny little exercises. I love that. But for some people, the group thing is everything. It's the only reason that keeps them going, isn't it.
Yeah.
The great thing about the group for this is, you know, especially when you're around others that are on the same path as you, they're on the same journey, you know, so you really can encourage each other. And you know, one of the things we say in BBM is make sure you surround yourself with good people. Yeah, that are all on that same path. It's so important. If you thrown some people that I am eating rubbish every day, it's very hard for you not to eat rubbish every day.
Yeah.
I want to go back to that comment you made with Kate about losing weight quickly, because I was one of those idiots that did the lemon detox diet years ago, and I lost ten kilos within about seven or eight days or something, and I was so wow, I look at that, and then I put it all back at it all came back within about two weeks. Are those are those? Is it any value in the fad type diets at all?
Oh?
Not really, If I'm honest, you know, they can be used as Whenever I see them, my people ask me about these things, I said, Look, can you imagine doing yourself this into your life? Is? You can't, But there's not much point in it. One thing is you can use it as like a kickstart, but more than often assaults tream. As soon as you put something and start eating something again, you're going to it's just going to pile on. When I was so, it's just it's just no point even doing those types of things.
Yeah, all right. And the other thing too that makes perfect sense is energy and energy out, So don't eat as much, move more. That simple equation should work. Because you mentioned before that walking can be a really good place to start with, and that can be just as addictive as other sport, can't it.
I literally, when I first started, I would walk everywhere, you know, even if I drive somewhere, I try and walk, you know, park a bit further. I try and take the stairs, doing the elevator. All of these little things they all add up, you know, and that's what you've got to do. And walking. And I mean even when I when I started doing really high intensity fitness and I'd plateau my weight loss that for a toad, you know, I was about I had another thirty kilos to lose. But the closer you get to your natural weight, it's the harder it is to lose. So you know, all I did is I train, I do my high intensity training, and straight after it, I go for a walk straight after that, and that whole walk was that bird the whole time. So it was a great way of getting out that toe.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think for me, the big thing around the motivation. I've got the motivation and some people have some people don't. But for me, it's about portion control. I always eat more than I need to always, I always eat till I'm full and having someone else serve that meal for you? Is that a good idea? Have someone dish up your food for you? And in terms of what you actually need.
Oh, if you're lucky enough to have someone do that, yeah, yeah, definitely. You know, there's lots of also some good you know, meal prep places that can do it for you as well, and just really you know, but educating yourself as well, you know, trying to find out what what how many calories do you need to have to just stay the same, or what slight coloring deficit do you need to be in to lose some weight. Now, once you know those numbers, then you can start, you know, start adding each meal. So you sort of have an idea and it's just education using doctor Google and just educating yourself around it. You can find all of that stuff online.
Yeah see that's a really good point, David. But you'll find everything online. Surely you be recommending certain websites to people. Do you have all that nutritional in yourself?
We do.
It's just just find me and we can think. You join our group BBM, you know, because we have in our group we have a dietician that works for us full time.
Brilliant.
You know that, so we can help you their note problems.
Good stuff. David Letally is with us. He's a former boxer, rugby league player. He's an incredibly motivated person doing an amazing job in New Zealand, in this community with all sorts of charities as well. But if you want to be motivated and you think you are, but you don't really know what to do next. Is it a case of buying the flashiest cycling or running gear or whatever. Do you need to join a gym? Let's talk about that. Get involved. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and the text is nine two nine two twenty four past four. Great to have you accompany this morning twenty six this afternoon twenty six past four. This is the Health Hub and we are talking. We're talking about your health and your journey towards doing things better. I think we've all got that focus at some point in life. But having the motivation to stick at it that can be the hard thing. And we're joined by David Littally from BBM. But a being motivation for those that are asking on the texts, it gets stuck in. You might have a question for David eight hundred and eighty ten eighty z b ZB is the text.
Why there Joe, Oh, hi Roman, nice to talk to you. We've talked in the past, but not on the not recently. You used to know my husband, my late husband, he actually passed out last year due to walking motivation. And while he had a fall at home and he was in hospital, it was lest twenty days without getting out of bed, and the food was so bad. Moment it's ice cream every day. So I'm just wondering, why are the people in hospital not keeping people in bed instead of motivating them, getting them out of bed and making them walk. There seems to be an age discrimination if you're not in your thirties and you have had a fall. But when he was not thing broken. Uh, and then when you came home, he was so dehydrated, so unfed. He contracted pneumonia et cetera and other bacteria due to that. So the hospital has to really focus on nutrition and motivation to get people out of bed and walking in the hospital. But unfortunately, and I go there all the time because from there I met another disabled person and that person is became blind due to medical misadventure.
Okay, Jo, I'm just going to jump in there because this sounds like a novel as opposed to a question. But David, in terms of healthcare and what happens in the healthcare system, what are you saying, could they things be done better?
Oh? Look, yeah, the phoneline worked around the I've on many hospitals, and last one I visited a little more last year. I visited a guy that weighed well over three hundred kilos, was fully reliant on everyone there to help them, to do everything for them. And you know, I actually did a post on trying to reach out to someone order. I said, oh, you know, it would be so cheap just to get us in there, you know, into middle more. Give us, give us some kind of office there, and let us let us help these people there, because just basically they're just being made to feel comfortable until they pass. You know. But you know what I use for example, I said to and everyone listening, you know, we all think it won't happen to us, and we keep eating and drinking crap, doing our exercise and think it won't happened to me until it does, you know. And everyone I've met in that hospital, a lot of them never made it out, a lot of them. But every single person had one thing in common. They would give anything to have an opportunity to go back in time and start. So to everybody here listening, you know, if we're still here and we're able to do something, don't waste that opportunity.
Yeah. Yeah, it's a very strong message. And thanks Joe, thanks for the question and the observation too. And I think that's a reflective Probably on the previous hour, we'll be looking at a county that's pretty breast of money. They probably want to do more with the very few nutritionists who work in their health care system, but they must be stretched as well, and having you being able to go in there and help people would be a big headstart. I think this ties in quite nicely, David, with the addiction and sugar is in everything. How many people do you speak to actually flip the product over and have a look at what's actually in what they're eating.
And no one until we start working with them. A big part of what we do is education around just turning the packet over or turning the bottle over and reading, reading the you know, what's what's in it and looking at how much sugar? So we do you know, we do examples where we have a bottle of coke and when we show it next to it, how much sugar is in it. It's all these different things and people are shocked, you know, so when and then I so, well, does this make sense though? When you're drinking leaters and liters and liters of coke or what mountains dew or whatever else it is? You know, now, do you understand why you just can't lose weight? You'll get your game every day? Yeah, you know. So that's why it's the first thing we do. Simple. That's it sounds simple. It's hard to do, but yeah, yeah, just that alone. Just do that that alone, you'll feel you'll get healthy.
And really, this weight and a lot of these habits are started quite young. A friend of mine and I we were sitting up on a on a mountain looking into Auckland from the devonport side on Friday evening and there are a lot of children running around with families and they're obviously they were obviously arriving going for a walk, but they had their treats. And these children had chocolate bars and bottles of fizzy drink and I thought, that's just sugar with your sugar and.
So do you think bad?
It is bad And maybe it's because where you could blame marketing, but ultimately a parent has to decide to buy that. And there's a lot of pressure from children to have that cool stuff, isn't there.
Yeah, you just got it. I mean, you know, back on not how being a sunny old now I'm forty five. Back of my days, those things are you know, those were retreats. Yeah, you know that's it's not now. It's just it's an everyday thing. You know, going to mcdoals for us with dress up, it was like a big thing, but nowadays an every day thing, you know, and if you know even you know when I go to them, when I go to the hospital and that's all that. In Middlemore they had a cough was a pie and poke special a little more hospital and then it's like how is this happening? You know? So again that's why we have to take get us around education and just educated with parents are educated with children.
Yeah, yes, And the children do drive a lot of decision making, they say, don't they. When you go grocery shopping, never take your children. You'll you end up buying stuff you don't really need. There's a question here around motivating people in your family, because often the people we love, we're very reluctant to tell them honestly what we think, and so we we fudge around with nice words. But how do you how do you personally motivate someone you're living with to make some significant changes. What sort of language should you be using?
Oh, it's very hard. I mean all I say to people, as you know, again the group, that they have to want it. But what I say is to be the example. You know, keep being the example to them, and sooner or lay they're going to join you. You know, So you can't be like, you know, shot it down people's throats, like you've just got to through to big example and you know and invite them, you know, invite them out the stuff that you're doing. Yes, once, if they start seeing that you're showing the results and you're feeling better at how much better things are going, you know they're likely to join you. So the first thing you could do to motivate your family is be the example for them.
Yeah, good stuff. David Letelli on the line with us, a bit of a scratchy line, but I can still hear you. If you'd like to put a question to David or maybe even just talk about your success and what has motivated you that in turn could be a motivation for others eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two ninety two On the text we're talking before about for some people that'll go whatever, like walking? What's that going to do? Walking is like a gateway drug, isn't it? You start, it starts being effective. You might want to join a group, you might start running, You might join a cycling group or a gym. What should people do though, in terms of understanding what understanding what they're capable of, even from a medical point of view, before they just throw themselves into a gym membership which costs a lot of money and realize it's not for them. Is there a process to actually having your body checked out properly and making sure you're still capable of doing stuff?
Look, the problem is, but you know for me, I didn't overthink it. You know you can go and get checked out by a doctor to make sure you're okay before you know starting you know, starting a gym or some of that, or get a get a presson or trainer if you're able to, if you can have the luxury to do that. But for me, I didn't ever think it, you know, I just started. Yeah, and I started really simply. I didn't try it. I didn't try and go for a run, and I didn't try and do sprint up the hill, you know. I just literally just went for a walk. That's it. Yeah, you know. And then as I got what I would do is that time, I've had my time for thirty minutes, so I just try and each time beat the amount of laps that I was doing in that same amount of time.
Oh, good stuff. And you get to that point. I think you mentioned it earlier on that plateau. You mentioned another thirty kilos, and that can be the hardest thing to do. It's just getting that you've done very well, You've lost a lot. What is the tipping point? What else? What did you have to change in order to achieve what you wanted?
Yeah? I mean, you know, so I've lost about I think seventy eighty kids at that point, and I just couldn't shift anymore and it was doing my head and I was training so hard any so well, but nothing was happening because your body is so clever, you know, it just adapts to what you're doing, and then it will only do enough to get through what you always do. You know, it's so clever, So you've just got to trick it, you know. So you've just got to do stuff different that can even be simple as train training at different times, you know, all the types of training you're doing. So all I did was I was doing a lot of high intensity stuff, so I would just add walking straight after it. That's what I did to you know, to kick that, I'll try. But to get out of the close normally you have to do something, just do different stuff than what you're doing because your body has to have You have to shock your body again. That's what it is. When you're training, you're shocking your body, and then to recover it you have to have good food and then recovers that get stronger and you're you know, that's that's how it works.
Yeah, absolutely, Going back to that nutritional aspect. You know, water properly isn't all you need. Sometimes you need a pinch of salt in that, or maybe some hydrolyzing hydra what do you call it? That sort of stuff. But what about all the bars you see when you go into a health food section and the soupermarket and you see all the protein bars and all that kind of stuff. If that's a motivator for you, is that a good Is that good food to be eating?
All? Dan? You've got to read the back of these labels because a lot of the times, I mean it's all a lot of marketing goes into these bars and into those health food sections. I just read the back. It makes sure you want to be you want them to be low sugar. Whatever you're having, it needs to be low sugar.
Yeah, good on you.
But it can be a great that can be a great option. So instead of you know, it's sometimes it's good to have them on board because you might be driving around, you're hungry, and you might be going to need picture in your car and while you're at why you're getting a peture in your car. They've got a special on penis slab. So to have a protein bar.
Yeah, your point around marketing is absolutely on point. Some of that stuff tastes like the footpath and others taste like a beautiful Moro bar or something, don't they. But yeah, I guess whatever works for people. David Lettally is with us for the next twenty minutes or so, so get stuck in. It's an opportunity for you to have a chat or to talk about how you were motivated to do better physically, mentally, whatever. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two text twenty three to two five nineteen two five. Just remember with the Weekend Collective, you can get all the previous episodes, including today's online on iHeartRadio or wherever you go to get your podcasts. And David Lettally, welcome back. It's a pleasure having you, and thank you so much for giving us your time and your advice as well. We've got Tippany on the line. Get a tippany.
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In talking and and and uh look, I was just out to look for a job. I was staying from flat mate and I saw I saw signs his last position for a job, well he paid in a packhouse. It was the last position I was going to take it. But you know, I was considered about my mate their home made the flat because he was really down there depressed. He was always thinking about what well you know, you think our silly things when you when you're depressed, and he was thinking about how he wants to get ahold of money. I didn't want him to go that way and I see something both to me, it's all year. Look, he's the last per Yeah.
Now, Tippany that that point is actually quite valid, isn't it from the point of view. And David, I think you'll agree with me on this. You're the expert.
I'm not.
But just getting up and getting moving and having a job, having body, body positivity, having something to look forward to. Those can be very simple motivators, can't they yet?
One hundred percent? You know, it's one of the reasons why we started out BBM recruitment was, you know, to take people, you know that may have not even been able to fit behind the steering wheel at one stage, you know, into work because there's no better feeling than being able to, you know, to provide for your family and provide for yourself. So it's a massive, massive thing.
Yeah, good on you, thank you, and Tippany, well well done, and good on you for having that concern for your for your flatmate as well. Good a there, Georgie.
Hello, I was just wondering about diet drinks. I don't drink much busy at all, and I don't generally like cold drinks, so if I do on the bench in my last forever, but I have fundered the diet lime lemon dimon bitters, and I can't reletely read the label very well because it's quite small, and I was wondering. I can see sugar cane and I can see sweetness with three numbers, and I think, wow, those three numbers look healthy.
Yeah, so you want to know what those because.
I want to know. I want to know if some of the things they could put in diet drinks could be worse for you than sugar.
The ego, David, what do you think?
It's no doubt. You know, they don't have sugars and they have to make them, but they are a good tool for you to get you off the sugary drinks because it's a drug. Yeah, the drug and the drinks. You're taking a lot of drugs every day. It is really hard, so it's just come off culture. M Yeah.
Well, there are some nutritionists who call sugar white death or as addictive as heroine, which you kind of think, what the heck? But it is very hard to give up, isn't it.
Yeah, very You know, you got to go through with all the withdrawal symptoms that you would have with any other drug.
Yeah, you were here. It's quite frightening, but quite true. Georgie. Well done with that. And look, you know those numbers that are in brackets after the name of it of a chemical. Often they use a code, and if you put that code into the computer and have a look for it, you'll find out that there's it could be a spartan or caramel or something that's actually not that great for you. So, like you were saying before, David, actually having that analysis, if you've got time in your life to actually look at the back of a packet and see what the heck you are about to eat, is a big thing.
Isn't it. Ah, we said, you know, and just just educating yourself. You know, it's when you know, when you know what's in these things, you're a lot you know, you're going to be a lot less, like you know, to put them into your body so freely.
Yeah, yep, good stuff.
All right.
So here's a text or two.
Roman.
I think it's really simple. Just eat less calories and should be less than calories out. And although I mentioned that before, that equation sounds very straightforward. It is the addiction. It's that whole I usually eat soon full. I'm going to keep doing that. Learning to eat what you need as opposed to what you like as hard, isn't it.
Yeah? Look, you know, I mean for me, I'll share it. I had a conversation with him, my mate, the other day. I'd have really puffed it. On Friday, a whole bunch of things were going wrong, you know, helping a lot of people there was things were going wrong for them. So, you know, I helped this lady and I got really depressed and not about helping her, about the system and you know, all this sort of stuff. So I just finished training, I pull and helped this lady and I turned around and instead of going to something healthy thereat, I went to McDonald's and I just got shiploads of food, sorry, a lot of food, and I sat in my car and ate it. You know. It was like, you know, and then I talked to my mate about it. I maint my mate because you know, it's good to share these things. And I know he was a former meth addict and he goes, but it's the same thing. You relapsed. It's the same thing when I'm going through, you know, my mythic you know the stuff that I was going through with myth you know, so there is that aspect to it, and you know, so I ate it. I felt like crap. At least now I know about it. I know about it, and I felt really bad, you know, I knew what I was doing, and I was sitting in the car and you know, hiding away even even this rubbish and students. I ate it. I felt like crap.
And yes, but I know now, you know, I'm equipped.
With the tools. I just you know, I said, okay, well I've fallen off. I've got to trump back on. And that's what I've.
Done, you know, if it David, that's really that's really refreshing to know that someone who knows and you motivate so many people. It's nice to know that even experts in your feel do make mistakes too, because I know, I know for a fact that when I'm standing in the bakery next to where I live and I'm too some absolutely disgustingly beautiful, yummy looking donut thing, I know I'm going to feel terrible after a e isn't it it's the mind?
What is?
It goes back to that reward system like I've been good, I need to treat you know.
Yeah, all things are tough and I need to feel better.
Yeah that's it.
Yeah, you know, And it's it's a it's a dangerous spiral because you know, straight away that last fight, once you finished it, you feel like instant, instant guild and regret.
You feel like crap. So what I would say to people is what I'd do is I'd simply make sure my next meal was spot on, like I'm really a healthy meal. I'd go and you know, go for a walk or have a workout, and straight away I'm back. So a lot of the times, though, people will eat like that, feel like crap, follow it up with another bad meal, feel worse through their exercise, and down that spiral they go.
Do you know, I was going to talk more about sugar, but I've just suddenly remembered Grant Fox years ago used to talk and be a real advocate for not eating salt. Now salt isn't important. You can't cut salt out. So do you find people cutting out all sorts of things going Oh, this is what I heard and this will be great and you're going, what the heck are you doing?
Yeah, there's all types of cutting carbs. Always again you just go, you know, it's just eating basic, you know, whole throughs and that's you just you can't over complicate things and you have to do it where you're with you know, you can maintain it for the rest of your life.
Yeah, good stuff, that's whay you look at it?
Look at it. Can I do this for the rest of my life? If I can't, then don't do it? Yeah?
Yeah, or you know, I guess the other aspect of that is if you're not going to make changes, are you happy with the consequences of what your body is going to become? Because you know as well as I do that as I'm older than you. By the way, once once you're carrying weight, it gets harder and harder to lose, doesn't it.
Oh yeah, you got to work. I think I remember, you know, I was a playing league when I was young, and I was lucky that to play around the world, and you know, I pick whatever I want, and my coach will say, once you hit twenty five, you're gonna have to work a lot harder, and it was like an instant thing. And then now that I'm forty five, Jeeves, I just got to look at KFC and I put away.
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. I used to work in very physical jobs. I used to work for the Forest Service and then doc and I'd literally on a Friday by a packet of cream buns and eat every single one of them with a coffee. I couldn't do that now, all right, David, let tally with us for a few more minutes. Anyway, if you've got a question or maybe you want to boast about something, and it should be something you boast about. If you've managed to be motivated and you've succeeded with your goals in terms of your physicality and you're eating, let's hear from you O eight hundred eighty ten eighty and z b ZB the text. It's the Weekend Collective, the Health Hub seven to five. It's the Health Hub, joined by David, Lttally and Mary.
Welcome to you, Hi Roman, and hi to David, and a big huge hug to David because boys team amazing. I'm down and Wrington come from Toko so and he knows Sokara. Yeah. I have a huge weight problem and had two. I was told probably three years ago that to have a knee operation, i'd have to adopt. Said I'd like you to lose fifteen kg's and I said, oh my god, you know you'll be waiting a while. But when he told me his story about how much weight he lost, we're giving up sugar, including fifteen cheese ands of sugar and a cup of tea. Yeah, like syrup. So I went home that day and I just totally gave up sugar. I read Freud Peckets and it is really hard to understand what sugar is one peckets a lot of the time as well, but I did. I gave up all sugars and I actually lost the eleven kg's over two months. But unfortunately I came down here to Washington and to visit a friend and oh god, you go out to Lovely Mills. But I'm back on it now because you know, like my knee. We went to visit in the stuff A house today and Waring and that took up an hour and a half of time that was away from home.
With a food your tempted to.
The other thought. I had David was thought about people taking dogs for walk. Like I've said a lot around Orian, good baby down here, and I'm thinking, boy, I don't have a dog, but I should borrow a dog to take for warm.
I wish you lived here, you could borrow my dog.
You've got big one. Yes, seriously taking dogs for walk and you meet people and you get chatting with people, and it's getting you away from that bloody food.
It's a good point, isn't it, David. The whole thing with dogs, is it? Even if it's raining, Your dog doesn't care. It wants to go for a walk, and there's another motivation to get you off the couch.
Your dog is saying, no excuses, We've got to go for a walk.
That's exactly right. Hey, just before thanks Mary. It's lovely to hear from you and from God's chosen city. Of course, in terms of cutting out meals that whole thing around fasting, is there anything does that work for people?
It does work. But again, if people are coming and they're just looking at starting, you know, I would not start with fasting because you've got to get the basics right. You know, you've got to eat first. But it's what you're eating. You know, when I reselet my journey, I wasn't eating enough. You know, I was only eating a couple of meals a day, and you know, trying to train heaps and the stress of the job and my body was just you know, just shutting down. So you know you've got I was now eating you know, four to five meals a day, but feeling great. And it sort of goes against what you're thinking. But it's about what you eat. So before you think about fasting and all the other things, get the basics down right first.
Yeah, you know I got on you and you can get that from the butter Been butter Been butter Bean Motivation. David, I just want to say thank you on behalf of all of us listening. Thank you for everything that you continue to do for so many people. Keep up the good work and well done. Thanks for your time afternoon.
Thanks.
Oh good on you than me. Oh you're welcome, David Ltally the butterbean motivation. If that's what you need to get stuck into it, it's going to work for you. If you wanted to work, it will
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