I Want to Go to There: Food, Travel, Friendship - Part 1

In this episode of Get Your Shit Together we chat about:

🧡 Highlights and lowlights from Diane’s big Tel Aviv adventure

🧡 What we’re consuming and something we really wish we skipped

🧡 Adjusting to big time changes when traveling

🧡 Our approach to training/ working out on vacation 

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Transcript

Diane: 0:29

We're

Adina: 0:30

We're back.

Diane: 0:31

are back. It's been a minute. Friends, or more like a few weeks

Adina: 0:36

Diane's back.

Diane: 0:38

Yes, I am back. You never left. But if you haven't seen on the gram, we had a, a big adventure. A big adventure together. So we wanted to catch you up officially. And I guess we could have, I mean, we'll be dropping some stuff in our feed. We got some tent that we took during our, uh, that's content abbreviated. If you weren't, if you weren't familiar while we were together. So we can recap it there. Choose, we have a vil visual component, but here we are.

Adina: 1:08

Here we are no longer together.

Diane: 1:11

So sad. So sad. And actually we should have got like a little slideshow together, but I mean, we kind of had to figure out how to record again and do this whole thing since it's been a little while.

Adina: 1:22

Oh man. It's always like rusty, dusty when we get back to it.

Diane: 1:27

Yeah. What is work? How do I do it?

Adina: 1:30

It's hard. It's hard out there, my friends.

Diane: 1:34

Yeah. Yeah. Well, what are we doing today? Oh my gosh. You're gonna hear my mouse clicks because Diane hasn't bought a track pad yet.

Adina: 1:43

I told you. I'm done editing your mouse clicks

Diane: 1:48

can you just turn it into like a more fun sound? Like a

Adina: 1:50

No, I can't. I'm not doing any more

Diane: 1:53

and all of your spare time. Yeah.

Adina: 1:56

you and your mouse clicks.

Diane: 1:58

yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess we should get into what we do know how to do what we're consuming

Adina: 2:04

Let's kick it off.

Diane: 2:07

Yeah. I mean, there's so many things we are gonna be talking about food activities, the sites that will be consumed, but right now I'm really just catching up since I've been home on the last of us. because I couldn't get a VPN to work and we had things to do and I'm stressed about the last episode. I had to do a palate cleanser of catching up on the Bachelor. I know some of you listen. Tell me what you think of the lead this season. Adina has no idea what I'm talking about here, but finally a, an emotionally mature man who seems to be able to talk about his feelings just seems very sparse or scarce with the last few leads. So I really like the casting of this lead, but, um, so many nurses in the pool this time. That's fun. Um, yeah, he's a good, he's a good pick.

Adina: 2:59

Oh yeah. Um, sure. I'm sure everyone's gonna love that

Diane: 3:07

the polyamorous dating show that I'm watching.

Adina: 3:10

Yeah. Also very annoying that I have not been on my like movie and television game on account of newborn baby stresses. But like,

Diane: 3:25

Would rather be outside.

Adina: 3:26

yeah, Donnie continues to watch these things without me, and many of which Diane has watched as well. So when we were all together, the two of them had so much to catch up on and I was feeling very left out.

Diane: 3:43

yeah. He messaged me and said, did you watch the latest episode of the Last of Us? And I think that one's not for you anyway because of zombies and whatever. But I mean, when we were together, we thought, let's watch a romcom.

Adina: 3:54

we made a mistake. We made a big

Diane: 3:56

friends, if you haven't watched it yet, don't, it's called Your Place or Mine on Netflix. I'm sure it's popped up in a top 10 list. And you thought, oh, Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher love them. Let's see what they're up to. No.

Adina: 4:11

Don't see what

Diane: 4:12

One of the worst. One of the worst, if not the worst romcom we've

Adina: 4:18

It's so annoying because I love the creator. She's the creator of crazy Ex-girlfriend Elaine Brush McKenna, like, love her. How come? How come it was so bad? Wait,

Diane: 4:31

were they high? Except like that could have made it better.

Adina: 4:34

them about the, uh, letter box review. I think that's like the funniest thing ever.

Diane: 4:40

Ooh, well, which,

Adina: 4:42

Oh, was that, I thought that was something you read, but it was Donnie. Um, the movie is titled Your Place or Mine, and the Letter Box Review was simply neither.

Diane: 4:51

Neither letterbox reviews are pretty hilarious. I, I thought you were gonna reference one, um, that was actually for another movie, but still stands for this one. Netflix original. We can tell we can tell like, okay. The classic rock soundtrack that just did not fit. But like, how did they have the budget for all those songs? Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon have turned out some great movies. Like, are they embarrassed? Because they should be, I would've, if I were them, would've accepted like an Imodium commercial or something before this movie

Adina: 5:24

If I see Ashton Kutcher in a romcom, I'm like, this is going to be delightful. And unfortunately,

Diane: 5:31

looks very handsome. He's, he's looking.

Adina: 5:34

yes,

Diane: 5:35

He's looking good still, but not good enough that I'm gonna watch him for. Oh, it was also very long, like this should have been capped

Adina: 5:42

wait. Should we mention also, it took us three nights to finish it.

Diane: 5:45

Yeah. And why And every time it was Donnie who was like, well we, we should finish it. And then he would get up and

Adina: 5:52

Yeah,

Diane: 5:56

So not a win. Uh, we have many other wins to share with you, I'm sure. But we also weren't spending much time in front of the screen because we had buddy time to catch up

Adina: 6:05

we had a lot of play to do, but I will say I wish. Okay, so I consumed a rom con since then, and I wish we had watched this one together because it was delightful. So if you need a good romcom recommendation, somebody I used to know created by Alison Bree and Dave Franco, who are just the cutest, Alison Bree stars in it and Dave Franco, they wrote it together and Dave Franco directed it.

Diane: 6:34

Did they play the song? Somebody that I used to know

Adina: 6:36

It's funny. I was actually trying to think if they did. They definitely name-dropped the title, and I'm trying to remember if they did. It was very nostalgic of like the romcoms we grew up on, like successful girly living out in LA now goes back to her tiny hometown, runs into an old boo, and how do things unfold? Is she the same person she was when they were growing up? Are those, you know like and they mentioned Alison Bria and Dave Franco have mentioned in interviews, like they really were trying to hit all those nostalgia buttons from the romcoms they grew up with and it was so fun. Like she's great. I love her. If you didn't watch Community or Glow, two of my favorite shows that she's

Diane: 7:24

or Mad Men, where she is. Trudy

Adina: 7:26

Yeah, it was so fun. I thought it was really fun and like silly funny lines and just like a great time head by.

Diane: 7:35

I need a good romcom after that. I mean, I think of my classic favorite as like Meet the parents. Something about Mary that's not a romcom, but there's a funny little romantic element in Dumb and Dumber. That's just one of my all time favorite like nineties comedies. Yeah, there's We need some good ones after that mess that we watched on Netflix for

Adina: 7:56

this one's enjoyable. Give it a watch.

Diane: 7:58

Mm-hmm. Well, we're definitely going to be doing a longer what we're consuming Food recap and jumping ahead a little bit into the meat of this episode, several of you, many of you are in my dms, like, can you please save these recommendations? And of you know me, I'm a freak in the spreadsheets and the Google Maps. Okay. I've been saving, I took notes in part for myself because I do plan on returning at some point and want to remember

Adina: 8:25

Can I just say something like, yeah, a few people reached out to you. A people reach out to me like, Would you girlies get on a plane for an international G Y S D retreat if we wanted to eat our way and swing kettle bells through Tel Aviv

Diane: 8:40

Oh, how fun would that

Adina: 8:41

Just way too fun.

Diane: 8:43

so cute. Yeah, we didn't have time or space to do that this time, but I'm a fan. Love the I R l FaceTime. Um, but where was I? Yeah, I've saved, uh, all kinds of things to a Google map, so I need to clean up my notes, organize it a bit. I will put that in the show notes for this episode. If you're planning a visit or maybe you live there. I know that we do have a lot of listeners who live in Tel Aviv and the surrounding area. Um, so yeah, maybe some good places for you to try. let's start from the beginning, I guess. Well, oh, we didn't put this in here The first night We arrived super tired after like a day of travel, uh, from the states. It all together took us about a day and so we ordered in via the service that I love. We have something similar here like Uber Eats, but it's called Walt and a little man on a bicycle or moped brings you your food and you can watch him on the app.

Adina: 9:37

It's really great. It doesn't sound like much, but it's amazing.

Diane: 9:42

Yeah. But we ordered rotisserie chickens

Adina: 9:45

so cute too.

Diane: 9:46

and actually was, this was Valentine's Day and I remember Valentine's morning I re-shared some little Valentine's cards that I made last year, and it was, I would share rotisserie chicken with you and I would share rotisserie chicken with you. That's exactly what we.

Adina: 10:00

Oh, it was great. Um, yeah, so this is from a spot in Serona market called Rotisserie. If you are local, and the chicken was actually excellent, like not a dried out rotisserie chicken. It was juicy and the skin was crispy, as we know.

Diane: 10:17

Order a couple and lol, lol, lol, Tani, who was like, oh, ordering two chickens for four people. Yes, yes.

Adina: 10:27

Yeah.

Diane: 10:28

at minimum, but the sweet potato fries that they had there. I don't know what they did to these, but it was like crispy on the outside, on the skins, and then the inside was just kind of tender and they were seasoned, so well.

Adina: 10:41

herbaceous one

Diane: 10:42

Mm-hmm. Yeah, Herbacious. Then the next night we went to this restaurant called Vora. Did I say that right?

Adina: 10:50

Yeah, that's my Hebrew name actually. My first name is Devora.

Diane: 10:54

oh, oh, and it was in the Deborah Brown, so that makes sense. Fun fact. a Dina's first name is, Deborah. Anyway, we go there for dinner and I quickly learned that the Hebrew to English menus are sometimes hilarious because Donnie ordered a dish called intimate chunks and the description, so basically it was like a meat pie and the comes out and you all the steam comes up out of it, right? And there's a sauce in there. And beef, beef, it's like stew meat or beef chunks, which sounds gross, but then the description said something like beef chunks swimming in something thirsty for getting wet.

Adina: 11:34

yes. So like that could be a translation thing. And like it is true that the Hebrew to English translations on the menus are always hilarious. It's like they just Google translate it and they don't try to ask a native English speaker if it makes any sense. But we did learn on our Shuk tour later on, which we will talk about that the chef that inspired that restaurant is just like a total nut job. So it might have something to do with that too.

Diane: 12:09

Like that. Oh, and it was in comic sand. So that was a first giveaway that this was gonna be interesting um, and jumping ahead of it. But if you recently saw my story a couple of days ago, well, I guess now on this airs last week, uh, if you saw the Maka dolls, those nesting dolls, the bathroom, that was just a completely bizarre restaurant, but the name was PPE Doll in French, or as we kept saying poopy There was a salad. It said pooper style or poopy style. Like I want the poopy style salad. You know, cuz we're super mature and we talk about pooper. So of course. And I think there was something else, oh, it was like trying to say freaky or freaky. Is that like a green, not a green bean?

Adina: 12:57

But it was spelled as freaky. Yeah.

Diane: 12:58

freaky. Instead of F r f r E E k E h it was freaky and saffron. Like, ooh, what do we have here? So I had to laugh at some of the menus. Um, but that bathroom was intense. It was these nesting dolls that was the toilet, each one of the toilet star. So I couldn't figure out what the door was. When I went in there, there was like fake plants hanging from the ceiling, monkey noises. It sounded like I was in a rainforest cafe, but had also taken an edible or several edibles.

Adina: 13:30

wild in there.

Diane: 13:32

strangest bathroom I've ever seen in my life. And then the dining room of this restaurant had Chile glass chandeliers. I think, um, some people here in the states will be, recco, will recognize that if you live in Seattle or we have some installations here, beautiful ga glass sculptures. Very cool. Vibey lighting. And it was clear that a lot of people are going to this restaurant to tick their influencer, us influencer in French photos because this table next to us almost gave me a seizure with the amount of flash photography of their outfit. Like, I don't know how many angles they're getting. I hope they got the shot, but it was, it's pretty disruptive.

Adina: 14:09

know Donnie was like, will they notice if I go sit next to them?

Diane: 14:13

I don't know if they even like ate. And the food was, it was, we don't need to spend any more time with ppe. But the bathrooms were very interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Adina: 14:22

Um, that was the menu with nuts, sauce on it though.

Diane: 14:26

Oh yeah, the dessert, which was peanut butter.

Adina: 14:29

Well cuz the thing, yeah, like the word rote in Hebrew means sauce. So like a lot of Israelis will translate dressing to salad sauce too. you know, like it's just

Diane: 14:43

like that in Italian

Adina: 14:44

Yes. So anyways, get not sauce.

Diane: 14:47

Yeah. Get your nuts, sauce, That was a really good dessert. I think, if I recall correctly, um, on the other hem, we went to this place called and there was a little bit of a show at that place too. There was a belly dancing with fire on our table or right next to our table, which was super cool. But this was where we had a phenomenal prime rib

Adina: 15:13

Oh my God, it was so good.

Diane: 15:16

And you said this isn't it? What did you say? The food should not be as good as it as it is here.

Adina: 15:21

Yeah. Like for a place with such a theme, you know, like you don't have to do as much in the kitchen as you're doing.

Diane: 15:30

but we appreciate it. Thank you.

Adina: 15:32

Uh, yeah. The

Diane: 15:33

And it was in an office

Adina: 15:34

Yeah. But like they do such a good job with the decor that you don't feel like you're in an office building, like you've stepped into another dimension. But the four of us, okay, first, let me preface by saying we'll catch up a little bit more about like our buddy time, but who knew that? I mean, we knew, but I didn't know that the men folk would come along too. The four of us are like the perfect group of people to go out to eat together because we're all like major food appreciators.

Diane: 16:04

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 16:05

all down to just like order and share and there was no drama. It's just. Let's all order this. Let's split the bill. Let's do it again tomorrow night, you know?

Diane: 16:18

Yeah, when we all have good appetites too, because we're like, yeah, we're gonna need the big, I remember the server was like, well, we have a couple of sizes. And we're thinking, oh, what, what size should we get? The biggest one that we'll have the biggest prime rib that you have, please. And then we will be taking all of the meat and fat off the bone. And what I really appreciated that they did here, and another place that we went was they brought out the steak on this board and brought out a hefty amount of finishing salt so that we

Adina: 16:44

Fresh Crack. Cracked Black Pepper too.

Diane: 16:47

Yes. Table salt could never, um, I actually put some in my bag too, some salt. You never know. You never know when you're gonna need it.

Adina: 16:59

Oh.

Diane: 16:59

Um, we also went to a place twice for lunch, and this is, uh, Adina mentioned this for her birthday, went there for her birthday dinner a little while ago. It was so good. It was called Manara. It's in the Sheridan and Tel Aviv. Overlooking the beach. So perfect view at lunchtime. And I love the decor is very sexy in there, but they had made to order faca. Oh my gosh, I'm laughing at this. You put a faca, faha, faca pillow, what you called it, a pillow

Adina: 17:32

It was, was it not?

Diane: 17:34

I would rest my head on that face first. Yeah. And so made to order. And at first, I mean the, the, it was a good size for us to share among like the four or five of us. Well, I said five even though, or, or is not eating that at all. the four of us. Uh, but each person is entitled to their own focaccia pillow. So the first time we went, we ended up getting one to go, which I snacked on, on the way to Jordan. But yeah, delicious, salty exterior. The inside was pillowy and fresh warm that we would just drag through some really delicious tomato dip.

Adina: 18:11

Wait. Okay. A couple of

Diane: 18:12

that was.

Adina: 18:12

Yeah. Oh, Diana and I were trying to figure out what this tomato dip was made out of cause it was so good. They like strained it really well. I think it was just fresh tomatoes strained with maybe blended with some garlic. There was definitely some kind of citrus in it and olive oil. Yeah. But I will say

Diane: 18:30

are in season, right? So it makes sense that these nice, ripe, amazing tomatoes would taste

Adina: 18:36

so. Good. Um, but something I wanna mention, so we went there for lunch as Diane is telling you, which is why RI was there, because I am a big believer in just strapping your baby to your chest and. Going on with your life the way you want to So we did not miss an opportunity to go out to eat. That's one thing I wanted to mention. Second thing is there are some restaurants in Tel Aviv that are harder to get reservations for and can be very busy at dinnertime, but you guys did this move in the shuck too. Lunch, like these lunch specials at some of these places are so good and they'll have an nice deal on the menu for lunch where you get like an appetizer with a mane and free bread and that kind of thing. And it's much easier to just like same day walk in and not have to compete for a table. So that's another thing. And you also maybe listen to this and thinking the girlies are eating unfermented gluten. What is that about

Diane: 19:35

what is that about? I tolerated that the bread and most of the food are better over there. Um, I know there are a lot of oils that snuck in too, so we'll be talking about some of this later, like tummy stuff. But, um, yeah, I felt good eating the bread. I didn't blow it up or anything. If I here, if I eat more pasta's, breads that are not fermented, I definitely notice a difference and feel more puffy, but I didn't feel

Adina: 19:59

Yeah, and also we've talked about this on some of our travel episodes before and some of our healing episodes before, but if you haven't been listening closely to some of those, something that we want to mention is like we are very far along in our healing journeys, and so we make decisions when we travel or when we have friends in town to go out to eat. And we choose experiencing new flavors together and enjoying each other's company and enjoying the menu and enjoying local foods over restriction because. It doesn't leave us symptomatic at this point. And depending on where you are in your journey, you may need to choose more structure around your food. Even when you're traveling, if you know it's gonna keep you up all night or it's gonna ruin your trip, cuz you're gonna be in the bathroom for the rest of the trip or it's gonna ruin your trip cuz your eczema's gonna flare and you then you can't be in the sun at the beach. Like it's, it's very important to be able to have these conversations with a practitioner if you work with one or decide for yourself. Which of these things is more worth my time right now? you know.

Diane: 21:10

Totally. Yes. Yeah, I'm glad that you brought that up because I've been on this gut journey and it's an ongoing practice too. Some of the things that I keep in my routine, um, for several years now. So if you've been dealing with a lot of gut stuff, one, get him my dms, get into reset. Uh, your, your journey, your timeline's going to look different if you're just starting out. And so sometimes we need to make some adjustments. I'm talking to some women in my RCR plus coaching group right now who have travel planned and they're letting me know, here's where I'm traveling to and when I'm going, and we are doing menu audits or just planning ahead for. Her support might look like what her supplement stack might look like, stuff like that. I also know that one of someone who joined my program last year, uh, she actually reached out while she was I traveling in like Portugal or somewhere and she was like, okay, we need to, we need to get together. Because her stomach was being rude while she was out and she's like, I can't travel and like this and feel like this. So if you're someone who feels like your stomach has held you back from enjoying travel, it doesn't have to be like that.

Adina: 22:19

I will say also Diane totally practices what she preaches cuz we were at this gorgeous restaurant, it's called Whiskey Bar. It's in Serona Market. It is like the fifth largest collection of whiskeys in the world. They have over 1500. Yeah. And Diane and I are docents for whiskey bar Um, we were eating this beautiful steak and drinking these smokey cocktails and Diane whips out her functional support. And you know, you're traveling, sometimes you need a little extra tlc. We've talked about it on our travel episodes. So if you

Diane: 22:53

We'll link those in the show notes.

Adina: 22:54

Yeah. If you want to be able to enjoy all the foods, sometimes it means a little functional support while you're traveling, even if you don't use that in your day-to-day anymore after completing a protocol or something like that.

Diane: 23:05

Yeah. Yeah. Oftentimes people ask me, especially when they're starting R c R, cause they just wanna know, get a sense of like what they're jumping into. Like, how long should I be taking the supplement? And by the end they're learning when to bring it in and bring it out. Like my stomach mostly is all quiet on the stomach front, but if I'm traveling across the world, then that's a place to bring things in and out as

Adina: 23:28

Yeah, across time zones, not knowing what bugs you're gonna encounter in, you know, a completely different climate, all that kind of stuff.

Diane: 23:36

Oh yeah. Well, at Whiskey Bar and Museum, this place was so cool. Um, we were basically in what used to be a winery in the 19th century and at some point was a like headquarters for like the, the secret cer, not secret service, I dunno. It was used for like a meeting place of sorts and now it's, it's a whiskey bar restaurant and Adina and I had a really delicious smokey cocktail

Adina: 24:06

It was so good. It was called like the penicillin, and it was like lemony, gingery, smokey, like if you like that type of cocktail, man. This was it.

Diane: 24:18

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I love like, one really nice craft cocktail. I almost said cocktail, uh, also, I mean, I'm going kind of out of order here, but we stayed in a couple of hotels and the second one we went to, Had a phenomenal included breakfast. Now aino kind of, not warmy but like got me all excited about booking a hotel because if you think of the typical like continental included breakfast at your typical regular, regular Western hotel, it probably looks something like eggs that are dry or came out of a bag. So gross, little boxes of cereal, dry ass bagels. I don't know what else I'm missing here, but basically things that you're not excited about. Right? So we B Tropicana or sunny d orange juice maybe. Um, burnt coffee. So I booked a place called Market House Hotel. There's several around Tel Aviv and I think it was, it was a kosher hotel, which I didn't need Kosher hotel, but

Adina: 25:21

I think most of the hotels are kosher actually.

Diane: 25:24

The other one we stayed at was Soho House, which is an English chain around the globe. Um, and that one was not, it was the only place that I saw pork on the menu. They had like Benedicts,

Adina: 25:35

you said it was an English? Yeah, it

Diane: 25:36

yeah, it's an English chain. So

Adina: 25:38

of the big hotels here for sure are kosher and then a lot of the boutique ones are as well.

Diane: 25:44

cute. Yeah. This was kind of like a boutique hotel. So included with your stay. Okay. Every day, the most impressive spread. So they had everything from Shakshuka and some like other hot dishes to made to order dishes that were included. They had, uh, a very beautiful spread of bca, different Israeli, like baked goods, other croissants. They had all kinds of fresh salads. So Israeli salad or is that, I guess this is what they think most salads look like, right? Is the cucumber, tomato

Adina: 26:16

Yeah. In the US we call it Israeli salad, and here we just call it salad.

Diane: 26:20

Salad it. So it's like finally diced cucumbers and tomatoes with olive oil. They had locks and other cured fish. What else? Oh, the cappuccino and coffee that was included was really, really yummy. So that's every day? Every day.

Adina: 26:35

And that's every hotel too. Like they all have a spread

Diane: 26:40

mm-hmm. I put a couple of shots on my story and people were like, oh, it sucks here. And they met like in the states like, why don't we have that included? It's just, it was such a nice way to start the day and we didn't have to figure out breakfast so we could just roll down there, have breakfast, go back to the room and like get ready to explore. So that was really nice. Cause you know what, we always talk here about Frontloading the day starting it strong or my clients, no, you gotta put that fuel in the tank.

Adina: 27:05

I know. And also like something that's really wonderful about it is even in like nicer hotel breakfasts in the us, I feel like. It revolves around pancakes, waffles, like it's very carb forward, which if you do that for your breakfast plate, you're not gonna feel good all day.

Diane: 27:23

You're gonna be sleepy.

Adina: 27:24

So here I just feel like there are so many options to build a protein forward plate between the locks, all the cheeses, all the different egg. Egg verti. Yeah. The dishes of egg varieties, yogurts, like that type of thing. Um, all different kinds of fishes, like salted cured, just so many fishes.

Diane: 27:44

Yeah. And I had cottage cheese with fresh jam and they had lo like local honey. Um, I also, someone put me onto this cottage cheese with tomatoes in it, and then like pepper and salt, so you could go sweet or savory. All the cheeses that were out were absolutely delicious, so, oh my gosh. Like mouthwatering already. I could do breakfast any time of day. Bee salad that we had. And then there was, oh, fresh orange, fresh squeezed orange juice, fresh bee juice, all included.

Adina: 28:15

Yum. Yeah, I to, I think, I feel like I mentioned this on the podcast, but Donnie and I have done for a date before when like RI wasn't on such such a consistent bedtime schedule and we couldn't figure out how to do dates at night. We would go, we went to a hotel breakfast for a date cuz you can pay, even if you're not a guest of the hotel, like a flat rate for the all you can eat breakfast. And that's a great little tippy if you are in this area and looking for a fun date.

Diane: 28:44

Yeah, and speaking of fish, we ate so much raw fish from ceviche to, I guess some places are calling, calling it tartar now, sushi. The first day that we were there after we arrived, we went to a place and ordered a just stupid amount of sushi for four people. In fact, I think, um, Donnie left to go pick up the kids, the big kids from school, and he brought some sushi for them too.

Adina: 29:11

Yeah, they love sushi. But yeah, we ordered the amount of sushi that prompts the waiter to bring you over a free dish and say, this is a gift from us.

Diane: 29:22

They're like, we see that you're eating a lot and you have a lot to eat. Left here is some more food for you to eat. it's the thanks. And that was a really interesting salad. It was like fried fish on the bottom with peanuts and onions and there was like some palms in there. Yeah, it was really fun.

Adina: 29:40

yummy. And it was spicy too. Maybe like some Fresno chilies in there or something.

Diane: 29:45

Had a lot of those. There was a Turkish place we, um, ate out twice that had some really yummy little chilies peppered into things.

Adina: 29:53

Yeah. To sum up, balance your plates, not just like protein, fat and carbs, but flavors too, like sweet, salty, spicy.

Diane: 30:03

crunchy

Adina: 30:03

Crunchy. It makes a big difference. in the mouth

Diane: 30:07

it's.

Adina: 30:09

Were were you about to say that?

Diane: 30:10

Jinx mouth party. Yeah, I was like to say mouth party lots going on in there. Well, that was along what we're

Adina: 30:18

Wait, wait, wait. I didn't even talk about a huge mouth party.

Diane: 30:21

Oh

Adina: 30:21

We didn't talk about the grouper. Kebabs at Manara.

Diane: 30:25

Oh yeah. I'm gonna have to recreate those. Grouper is everywhere, by the way. And is that a seasonal thing, do

Adina: 30:31

I think

Diane: 30:32

Is it always

Adina: 30:33

I guess I'll let you know in different seasons.

Diane: 30:36

Hmm mm-hmm So what did you wanna say about this Gruber? Kaba?

Adina: 30:40

Just how surprised I was by how delicious it was.

Diane: 30:43

I had it twice.

Adina: 30:45

me too. Because I ate it today with my parents. I.

Diane: 30:48

Hmm.

Adina: 30:49

Okay. This dish, so unassuming, so delicious. Such a mouth party. It's like the bottom has which if you have never had that before, I've talked about it on the show before. It's like a smoky tomato dip. Chunky, like yummy smokey tomato dip. And there was a susiki on the plate as well. And then resting a top it where these three, almost like grouper burgers or, yeah, but they were so juicy. And today I noticed I paid close attention. don't

Diane: 31:22

like, I'm gonna recreate this.

Adina: 31:24

I don't think the, the fish was like ground up, like I didn't seem like a ground meat. I feel like it was flaked and then assembled. I don't know. It was like the

Diane: 31:33

I had a, I had a texture. Her kind of, of like, okay, Nam non Paleo has these want, they're called wantan meatballs. It's a recipe I've made many times. It's not for you cuz it's pork and shrimp in one meatball. So, not for Adina, but like, almost as if it was just chopped finely too. Um, yeah. The texture was different.

Adina: 31:54

So good. It was so like, just such a nice bite. Not at all fishy, not at all dense. Like, hmm. So good. And they just topped it with tons of fresh herbs and those chilies again, it was just like, man, that was good.

Diane: 32:09

Yeah. If you are using, say, like fresh herbs, like cilantro for ion, it's, it's called for like, as a garnish. Use those up. I add like tons of different herbs into things now. Like why not have some parsley mond, um, together, a little bit of dill in there. Just toss it all. I like to make a really Herby egg Sally too, and just put everyone in there,

Adina: 32:28

I also love an herb salad. I feel like those are underrated, like people are all about like lettuce and I like herbs.

Diane: 32:34

not just like tabula, like other, other herbs. Mm-hmm. Um, well that, I think, I mean, we're gonna, I'm sure talk about food when we get to the shuck too, but, That's our longest, what we're consuming because we ate a

Adina: 32:48

Oh wait, you know what?

Diane: 32:49

food. Friends.

Adina: 32:50

didn't put this in the outline, but I did wanna ask you this. So you didn't eat too much food out of my kitchen because we did go out to eat a lot. Cause we wanted to eat our way through Tel Aviv. But what was your favorite or your favorites That came outta my kitchen,

Diane: 33:09

from Casa Ruben. Ooh. I loved the welcome cinnamon buns. I called it a cinnamon roll. And ape goes, it's not a cinnamon roll. It's a cinnamon bun. I was like, okay. Okay. Yes, yes. Loved those. It was like the first thing that we had when we got there. Um, you're a sourdough. Always super delicious. Is this all gonna be about baked goods? Um, Adina also sent me home with some chocolate sourdough Bob. And yesterday Neil goes, this is so good. Adinas a good cook.

Adina: 33:35

Aw Neil, you shouldn't have.

Diane: 33:39

Yeah. And he's just like with chocolate all over his mouth. this is so good. Um, what else did we have? And I got to join you for Shabbat too one week. Yes. So that was really yummy. We had, was it brisket? Yeah, brisket with some like onion jam

Adina: 33:56

Mm-hmm. we've talked about it on the show before.

Diane: 33:59

So yes, I loved all of it. Aina is a good, great. A good, I was gonna say good and great at the same time. Good. Great cook.

Adina: 34:05

It's so fun to feed you guys.

Diane: 34:09

Okay, I'm coming back. So let's get into the meat. I mean, we're gonna do some more highlights, but also some of you sent in some questions, so, like we said, it's been a minute. We had a lot to catch up on and some of you in the dms were curious about the big adventure. It was so nice to have an in-person reunion. We see each other all the time on Zoom, but it's just not the same as being in-person. But we wanna talk also about how to take care of your health during, before and after international travel. I know that we have some episodes around this and how to, um, feel good while you are away from home. So we'll cue those up in the show notes. But definitely was traveling a lot farther. Seven hours time difference is quite a jump. My body was like, where are we One of you also asked about making and maintaining friendships through adulthood to, the person who submitted this. Uh, maybe this is unrelated, but I think this is a great time to have this conversation. Um, I, I know a lot of us are maybe late twenties, early thirties, and things change as you get older or maybe if you were Yeah. Stuck in your house for a couple years. So we'll spend some time talking about friendships, ours, how to make'em, how we feel. Uh, friendships and adulthood in general. I know we both have some thoughts here, so thank you to whoever submitted that little question in the question box. But first, before we dig into it, wanna read a very cutie review from SN 9 22? Those Apple podcast, uh, usernames are always hilarious. If this was you, feel free to slide into our dms. She rated us five stars, said gem of a pod, and she said, edutainment at its finest. And I just love how you two are not know-it-alls, but rather just chit-chatting about experiences you've had with ladies and making loving suggestions, putting in a, in parenthesis, no pressure order for a couple of episodes. I'm plotting to hear from you.

Adina: 36:10

Diane, do you know what plotzing means?

Diane: 36:13

No.

Adina: 36:14

It's Yiddish. I just didn't know if you like Yeah.

Diane: 36:17

did not

Adina: 36:18

Yeah. We were doing this fun thing where like Diane and Neal were telling me, I was asking them about Yiddish words that they use regularly and if they knew the actual definitions of them So anyways,

Diane: 36:30

I can add another to the list. Yes. Well, she's plotting to hear these and I love the little emoji like bullet points.

Adina: 36:37

Yeah. She gets.

Diane: 36:38

So the first one, bedtime routines, how to make winding down routine for us. Busy ladies, what you do for lighting, other ideas, and especially curious how Adina implements this for a family with littles. Next up, the postpartum app. Oh, it's coming,

Adina: 36:53

Yeah,

Diane: 36:55

Then next up. It's been so long since the first episode talking about each of your health journeys, and I'm wondering if you would do a chat one week about your journey in the two years. Oh my gosh. It's been two years. What you've continued to learn and tweak in your own health journey and body image.

Adina: 37:08

yeah, that's a conversation. I actually, wait, let me jump in here for one second because I did wanna say, um, we've been getting some great feedback on the Adina Got Fat and here's what happened, episode and our Valentine's Day body image conversation. And I did wanna mention that this is cycle day one of my first postpartum cycle and. I feel very, very happy. Like of how in touch I was with my body. Like I started to see signs of my ovulation and I was like, like two weeks ago and I was like, oh, I feel like my body's trying to ovulate. And then like lo and behold, everything went great. Um,

Diane: 37:47

you're like, I'm jumping in here and giving you this episode right

Adina: 37:49

yes. Sorry guys. I just need to

Diane: 37:51

Which way? I'm like checking my, I think I'm on cycle day one too. I think

Adina: 37:55

my God. Did that happen when you were here? How freaking

Diane: 37:58

Yeah. I mean, I got a cup. Oh my gosh. That's we're intimate. I got a cup in, but like I'm pretty sure

Adina: 38:05

We're gonna get back to this review in a second, but I just wanted to say that after that whole conversation around like fortifying my body and taking exceptional care of myself in the postpartum season, focusing on nourishment in a very intentional way and disregarding the body image side of that whole thing, um, like this was completely asymptomatic. First cycle back after baby, which is just confirmation for me that like we'd done it right cuz having a baby is stressful. Moving to a new country is stressful and just all the stresses that come along with not sleeping through the night and all that new baby stuff, to have a completely asymptomatic cycle, one is like you are doing it right, girl. So can't wait to talk more about it.

Diane: 38:59

Yeah. Yeah. I'd give you an update too, but I'll Dera. Derail born. Forget where I started. So yes, to be continued putting a pin in that, uh, her last two episodes got, and by the way, I we're sharing these two because if any of these are really calling to you, you'd like to hear them asap. Let us know in the dms which one you wanna hear first. Okay. This next two, I'm guessing this person is a coach, an ntp. Maybe she'll let us know. She also asked, um, also want to hear how you learn it alls, learn it all. Would love to hear you chat about who your mentors have been along the way. How you've slowly come to the opinions you have now, step-by-step. Ooh, lots of, um, investing, trials, tribulations, um, definitely lessons from, um, experiences that weren't the best for sure. So maybe I could tell you who to avoid,

Adina: 39:49

yeah. But I think, um, our, what episode was that? About how to hire a coach? I forgot what the

Diane: 39:54

uh, yeah.

Adina: 39:56

because I think that a lot of the things in there ring true for choosing mentors and continuing education as well. But maybe we

Diane: 40:01

Yeah. Like not just fitness and health. Yeah, for sure. And then she also said maybe slightly off brand, but also would love a chat about how each of you built your health businesses up. Ooh. Yeah. So I dunno if this would be an episode, but maybe we could do like a one-off for like the coachee

Adina: 40:15

Maybe if the coaching girlies are are in there, let us know. If you want us to do a webinar or something, we could

Diane: 40:21

Mm-hmm. that could be fun. And again, I could say avoid this person like the plague, Give this person your money. Um, I mean, feel free to reach out to me too if y'all are like thinking about. certain continuing ed, because I'm always happy to give my unfiltered feedback. Like there is a program that I did where I was like, good information, but absolute fucking chaos on the like, learning the organization side, so wouldn't recommend it. You know, things like that. Um, and she ends with Thanks ladies for all you can do. Thank you. And the ps. I love the ps. PS is G Y S T mini course and cookbooks still a thing. Has it been updated recently Also? You mentioned merch a while back. Is it still. with a little party emoji at the end. So to answer those G Y s T mini course yes is still a thing. And it does include our cookbook with recipes through season two, I believe, like recipes we've mentioned here on the show, uh, we haven't been updating it since, and maybe it'll get a refresh at some point, but we've had our plates full in several meanings of that phrase, uh, literally and figuratively. And as for merch, this is also something that we would like to do too. Honestly. We need like, we need some extra hands. I'm sure.

Adina: 41:34

can I say this is actually great. Let's put this out there because. We have adorable designs for merch. We tried to use one company, it was not meeting our needs and like it's something we want out there very badly because like we love merch. It's so freaking cute and there are just adorable and hilarious things that go on on this show that need to be commemorated on merch. if you are a person who like runs a Made to order merch business or knows of good ones, like let us know cuz we've had bad experiences and we wanna have a good experience so we can get that merch out

Diane: 42:07

Or you're a designer and you like make cute shit. Like actually cute

Adina: 42:12

Yeah. It has to be actually cute.

Diane: 42:14

Yeah. Like maybe let us know like dms, because we don't really check our gmail right now, but we're on the gram

Adina: 42:23

is derailing into a cycle day one episode.

Diane: 42:26

Uh, yeah, we are synced up. I mean, I was just checking my moon app. Normally I'm synced up with the full moon, but it's like it wanted to sync with you instead.

Adina: 42:35

Aw, that

Diane: 42:35

You're powerful.

Adina: 42:36

so cute of it.

Diane: 42:38

Isn't that so cute? Is it, what's the word? It's not romantic, but like friend. Cute.

Adina: 42:43

Yeah. What is

Diane: 42:44

What's the word? Charming. Okay, so also got some continuing on about this big adventure. I got some dms from listeners and um, this first one, She said, not gonna lie. You made me view everything so differently. I know this is so bad in stereotypical, she said in parenthesis, but truly to see your journey to Tel Aviv has been so wild to see what we are fed about those countries. And I, I received several other messages from y'all who are like, thanks for sharing. I'm putting this on my travel list or variations included stuff like I've never even thought about going over there, but seeing your stories makes me wanna go asap. It seems so beautiful and thank you for being along for the ride. I know it's not typical nutritional therapy, gut and hormone health content, but I love to travel and I don't wanna start another Instagram account. And I think showing different food from different cultures also is, is very part of what we like to share here. And um, obviously seeing Aina was, and her family was the focus of this trip.

Adina: 43:46

So good.

Diane: 43:47

Um, yeah, it was so good. And. I'm hearing from several of you that you never even thought about visiting anywhere in the Middle East for a variety of reasons and that you wanna visit someday, and I think that's so awesome and I appreciate that y'all were watching and following along with an open mind. Um, there has been conflict over there for a long time, let's say, the dress, the elephant in the room, but also a lot of beauty and community. And I really appreciated having the opportunity to take in the culture to visit my friend Adina, my co-host extraordinaire, meet her Bebe, and just really spend some much needed friend time, which I know we're also gonna talk about on this episode of like friendship in general. And that was just so, so special and priceless to me in so many

Adina: 44:34

Yeah, that was the best. And also, I wanna say this too, if any of you do travel over here, like please DM me because I want to meet you. And I love like meeting up with anyone who's interested in having chats and hanging out. And it's so fun. So like, don't come to Tel Aviv and not see me.

Diane: 44:59

Oh, they're coming. Uh, so I guess I should start this little specific recap. I know we kind of got into a little ready, but like, things I didn't love. Things I didn't love because I like to give a balanced Balanced review. Balanced review. Right. So first up, customs chaos, they were understandably toy with their security coming in, but like the lines were just absolutely chaotic. And I noticed this in Jordan also. Like there might be a line ish and someone will just insert themselves wherever they want.

Adina: 45:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Diane: 45:34

And that was fascinating. Um, someone tried to sneak in ahead of our group, like, or with our. Through customs or getting back into Israel from Jordan. And we're like, no, no, no, sir. Nice try. Uh, the service Adina kind of warned me about this. Like the customer service, they kind of had this, and, and this isn't all places, but it happened a few times where it's kind of like the customer's always wrong or like, we stayed at this hotel, this hotel after staying with Aina for a bit and would order like dessert and we ordered a bottle of wine and like we finished dessert and then like 30 minutes later the wine came and they're just like, oh, here it is. What we had forgotten about it. Or like, our cabby getting mad at us for some things. Like, so it wasn't the same service here in the States. I, and correct me if I'm wrong, like the service is a little bit different there in that like people get paid a little more so the tipping is lower. Or do people just generally tip,

Adina: 46:29

Yeah.

Diane: 46:30

they don't really tip

Adina: 46:31

I think also part of what you're, yeah. Like I did warn you, the customer's always wrong. That's like a huge part of the culture, but it has gotten better. I think also, like we didn't have any experiences at restaurants like that. Like I think everything was pretty on point with our restaurant experiences we did eat at.

Diane: 46:45

they were slow. Like they'd fire everything all at once or like it, we would be waiting for, it was a little odd.

Adina: 46:52

Pacing is definitely like it. It depends where you ate for sure. Um, and we did eat at some of like the nicer places, so the service was good. But um, yeah, it just like, everyone has a little bit of a rough exterior, but like, It's all coming from a place of like love and treating you like a granddaughter. You know, like,

Diane: 47:14

Yeah, yeah. And I mean, no one was like outright rude, but I think there were some times where I was like, oh, interesting. not as like our cab was like, you took too long to come and we were just at the wrong entrance. Or no, they went to the wrong like pickup spot at one point with our, um, Their version of Uber there, but they were like, no, it's your fault. So that was, it was interesting. Um, the toilet situation. Now this is, was the same when we went to, like, throughout Europe, just older plumbing and that, but I, I definitely missed like soft tepee, the comfort of a, a clean toilet Like in some areas, especially when we were in Jordan, um, someone had to come in and like flush the toilet for us, like pour a bucket down

Adina: 47:57

Oh no,

Diane: 47:58

like, all right, all right. I'm excited for, for our toilets, I did go some places where they had like a Bret instead of toilet paper. And I wasn't mad about that cuz like everyone needs to, you know, sometimes wash your up. We just wash your butt, you know. Um, oh, also why, I'm curious, why did they adopt oat milk but not pour over coffee?

Adina: 48:18

So the oat milk thing is like, especially Tel Aviv, I told you it kind of has like notes of New York and LA cuz it's like a big bustling city. So it kind of got that whole like vegan alternative milk, gluten free thing. Like there's so many gluten free options and non-dairy options,

Diane: 48:40

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 48:41

like, no, there's not gonna be pour

Diane: 48:45

No, no. Pour over, which I was fine with. I do like using a Chemex here. Neil was like, I'm addicted and I need coffee. One of the hotels we stayed up to the servers horror, he ordered, um, two Americanos each with an extra shot. He's like, I need my zoom, zoom juice. But I really like the cappuccinos that we had and I noticed that the coffee shops in general don't seem like the ones here where you're like sitting down sting for a while. Does that feel pretty true? Like they're kind of more coffee cart, which was also really

Adina: 49:19

Yeah, I, it does kind of depend, like some of the, it depends when you go, like there's a big laptop lifestyle here also, so there are coffee shops where people like spend the day. Um, but yeah.

Diane: 49:31

But they're smaller in general it seems.

Adina: 49:33

But in Tel Aviv, there's also, they did figure out the cold brew thing, like there's a lot of good cold brew to be

Diane: 49:40

And canned cold brew. That was good.

Adina: 49:43

But yeah, that, I don't know why pour over is just not the move

Diane: 49:48

and coffee slushies. If I find the product, I didn't get time, get time to order it for this trip, but there was, it's like a travel pour over thing with like, each packet has a filter and you can put it over a normal coffee cup. And it also comes with some ground coffee in there. So you could do with like a hot water kettle in your hotel room, pour over. So maybe I'll get that for a meal for our next, our next adventure. So yeah, so that really rounds out the meth to bad. I really didn't have many complaints. Um, I was there to take it all in. Um, but highlights, first up meeting Ori. Meaning baby Ori in person. Um, and got to give him his baby blanket, which was my first official first quilt that I finished and was making in secret before I came

Adina: 50:35

Yeah. That was so special. Like, ugh, love a handmade surprise. Um, this thing is so beautiful and I like cannot decide which side of it to display more because the woodland creatures are so cute. But the actual like quilt patterning work is so beautiful. So yeah, I love that. And I was telling Diane that ri christened it today cuz he barfed all over it.

Diane: 50:58

good as he should. It should be well loved and can be washed like anything else. It took me a couple weeks and I did. I have to hu shout out my mother-in-law because she's been amazing. Um, but really enjoying a little hands-on. Hobby and sending home my first project to just a little cutie. Um, obviously a big, big highlight. The main one for me was buddy time with Adina, seeing her family. Hadn't seen them in over, was it like a year and a half since I had actually seen you in person when you were in New

Adina: 51:30

the previous year, so yeah.

Diane: 51:32

Oh my. Um, we also had time to train together, uh, one afternoon while the guys were downstairs. We were just like snuck in a little session, uh, which I also shared on story and that was so much fun watching movies. But, uh, it was just so special. The sunsets, the beach, I mean, you've probably seen some of them on a Dina's story, but the sunsets every evening were gorgeous. And just the vibe on the beach. we were joking about this, but like so many people there are fit and hot

Adina: 52:04

fit. Hot guys have problems too. Um, I know there are some crazy ex-girlfriends fans who listen to the show. So that's for you, that's for you girls?

Diane: 52:13

we'll put that in the show notes too. Yeah, that was a funny song and it just seems like a very active city. So Adina and her family get to the beach a lot. Right. And like, so we went along with them for beach walks, hanging out, and it was really cool to see so many people active, running, playing, uh, hands free volleyball, which I didn't know was a thing.

Adina: 52:38

Yeah, it's wild to see that athleticism. But yeah, I, I don't know if I've mentioned this on the show, but that's been a really big part of like what we love about the city. you guys know how much I value movement and play and not as a chore. And so I think you can create that culture in your home. Like I think if you view training as fun and a way to use your body in a fun way and be athletic and view it as playtime, I think that carries over to your children. And it doesn't become this like, I have to go do my exercise because that's something I need to do, or I have to work off the calories from the, you know, like we've talked a lot on our diet culture episode about that relationship with fitness. So I do think you can cultivate this culture in your home where fitness is fun and playful and your kids wanna be strong, like you and your kids wanna practice their pull-ups and they wanna get good at the monkey bars and like it's this whole fun culture in the house. But I do think it be

Diane: 53:37

by the way, the, the playgrounds there, I know we've mentioned this briefly, are just, they look very dangerous, that a lot of climbing, lots of, but there's also outdoor gyms, which were really, really cool.

Adina: 53:51

Yeah, like talk about access. You know, if access is a huge

Diane: 53:54

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 53:54

that everyone's complaining about, like let's just build more free gyms that people can access Yeah.

Diane: 54:01

Tons

Adina: 54:02

But again, like you can create this own cult, this culture in your own home, but it becomes a lot easier when the city you live in is a place where people enjoy climbing and they enjoy surfing and they enjoy playing pickup volleyball on the beach and they enjoy using their body for fun. And so like today, Donnie and I got invited to a pickup beach volleyball game, and we already fell asleep in the stroller. We carried the stroller onto the beach. The sun was shining. We got to sweat with our friends. And like, I haven't played volleyball since high school and it's my favorite sport.

Diane: 54:36

Was it hands free or used your

Adina: 54:38

God forbid. It's so freaking hard to do it that way, But um, It was so fun. And like we're going on a standup paddle boarding date on Friday. And just like when that is the opportunity and that is what your kids are seeing. Like you, were you at the beach? Did we see that, uh, guy doing his little, like swinging on the pull-up bars routine

Diane: 55:01

We did, but we also saw from Manara,

Adina: 55:04

Oh yeah. That woman,

Diane: 55:05

Cirque de sole type shit on the playground, and you're like, oh, she's here like every

Adina: 55:09

Yeah. The TikTok ERs are out on the beach. Pull up ours. But it's just so fun and like that's what my kids are watching every day. It just, it really makes a difference what they're seeing. When we were living in New Jersey, like we had a nature reserve and me and my friend Hannah would take our kids there basically every day. And it, it was just us in there, you know, like there were no other people hiking and climbing and playing and like, yeah, we cultivated that experience, but it sinks in even deeper when they're seeing the whole community, the whole city out and about like that.

Diane: 55:42

Yeah, I had a very like part, especially by the beach, like Venice vibes, well, from several years ago. Not Venice now, Venice Beach. Um, just seeing lots of active people. That was really cool. And of course, with it being a city and the public transportation being so good, it seems like a lot of people are walking. I mean, you can drive, but not many people do. Or they're using like a combination of scooter and electric bike and walking. Right? Yeah. Love that. Well, our second, this is actually the day that we snuck in our workout, uh, our second full day there. It felt so good to move after being on a plane for like 11 hours. from New York to, to Israel. But then, um, after

Adina: 56:23

Wait, speak to this experience though, because I think there are definitely some listeners who have heard me talk about strength training for happy hormones, and they've heard us talk about it. They've heard clients talk about it, but still might think like, oh, I'm gonna get hurt. Oh, it's not for me. Speak to the experience of being cramped up on a plane and feeling creaky in your body and feeling like, oh, I wanna workout with Adina, but she's doing pull-ups. Will my necks and trap get tighter? Will I feel worse after this workout?

Diane: 56:55

yeah, yeah.

Adina: 56:56

If you felt better? Tell us more.

Diane: 56:59

Oh, I can tell you more. So definitely just, it's hard not to feel. creaky after being squished into a metal tube in the air for like 11 hours. So my shoulders kind of hurt, my neck hurt, so I could have told myself I needed to stretch, but I knew I'd feel better if I moved around a little bit. Told Adina kind of what I was working through. Um, and also like there was, there was still a part of me who was like, okay, well I'm training with Adina. I wanna go a little harder. Right? But when we were doing pullout practice, she caught me or told me to only do a few, and I think I did chin-ups instead of like my typical strict unassisted pull-up. And I'm glad that I did that because I hadn't had the time, the space before our trip to train. as often as I want. I think maybe I got half of one workout done the week prior. So if I were to have go gone and swinging, like, all right, I was sitting for so long, so I'm gonna make up for it now by doing like eight pullups, that wouldn't have felt good the next day would've felt really sore. So she had me cut it off after a few good ones per set, and it was like the Goldilocks amount of movement that we've talked about that felt so good. We concentrated on open, concentrated on opening my shoulders up, and I felt like I had a better range of movement after that. So I'm really glad that we did that and then got to go and walk around and enjoy the rest of our day. And I think we were limited because Ari was waking up and we had to go. So it's not like we spent a lot of time doing this either. And as we're always talking about here, the movement should fit into your day and be functional, and we're all about like getting more for your more bang on it for your buck or for your workout time. So the things that we did, I mean, maybe I'll put this in a reel On our feed, our G Y S T feed, we were doing like front-loaded squats. We were doing, um, hinging movements or um, dead stop swings and things that will work more instead of just like, I dunno, trendy Instagram workout or these isolated like accessory type workouts.

Adina: 58:55

I think there's two sides of the spectrum when it comes to travel. Like there's some people who are like, I'm traveling, I'm on vacation. I'm not gonna work out because like I'm not addicted to my workouts and like

Diane: 59:05

Sure.

Adina: 59:05

I should just live my life and be free. And then there's the other side of it, people who are like, this is my routine, this is my structure, this is my, like, this is how I take care of my body. I need to train my three days a week on vacation. And like, as you can imagine, Diane and I are both more balanced and nuanced. And it's like we utilize movement to first of all have fun training together because we haven't done that in so long. And to. Enhance our vacation time because now my neck and shoulders feel better and I can walk around the whole day and not feel like I'm clenching my butt hole or my arches are flattening and my back is hurting and you know this stuff.

Diane: 59:45

Yeah. I mean, even in the video that you took too, I also saw like, okay, let's see. There are some things for my feet to work, for me to work on with my feet. But like, ultimately I'm just so glad that we made that time together. Um, and it really, really helped, made me feel better. And I think that was, that was the only time that I trained while I was out there. The rest of my movement looked like going on a hike, walking so much, um, just in general while we were there. And I really like walking after meals also when I'm at home, but especially when I was traveling, because there's so much to see.

Adina: 1:00:17

Yeah. It's so much easier to get out for walks when

Diane: 1:00:19

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 1:00:20

at, as opposed to just like walking around your block, you