The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
FGT 58: What If Common Sense Isn’t Common, But Compassion Is
Hunger flips like a switch on GLP-1 meds—one minute you’re fine, the next you need a burger now—and pretending that isn’t real doesn’t help anyone. We get candid about what mindful eating looks like when the cue hits late, how tracking with ruthless honesty (yes, the handful of cashews on the scale) can steady the week, and why consistency beats guilt every time. From a 15-day logging streak to building an at-home advent workout plan with baked-in rest days, we’re choosing small, repeatable wins over perfect promises.
The bariatric program looms large: orientation, forms, mental health timelines, and rules that stretch into forever. Knowing the steps isn’t the same as living them, and that gap explains so much of the frustration. We talk about losing over 100 pounds and still seeing “class three” on a chart, the mismatch between progress and labels, and how a full-length seated mirror can shock you back into reality. There’s the sensory piece too—excess sweat, fabric, and anxiety feeding each other—and the medical fog: old scans misread as new, long waits, and the creeping fear that everything will be blamed on weight.
We also make room for curiosity and chaos. Bat nipples in armpits. Platypus milk through skin. Why “stale green” isn’t obvious until someone teaches it. City bike lanes that work only if everyone follows the same rules, whether you ride or drive. And then the holidays: Tim Hortons smile cookies, peppermint snowballs, whipping shortbread, and a tiny guest singing Jingle Bells. Money’s tight, trees are optional, but connection is non-negotiable. Our plan is simple: track what we eat, move in ways our bodies can handle, keep curiosity high, and choose compassion when “common sense” runs out.
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Hello.
SPEAKER_02:Hello, Chris.
SPEAKER_06:Hello, Lisa.
SPEAKER_03:I just for everybody at home, I totally just like slam back a burger right before I got into this. Brandon made burgers and just like pan-fried them. And he brought it to me just as we were about to hit record because I hadn't had my dinner yet. And at first I was like, I'm fine. But the thing with the GLP1 medications is like you're not hungry until all of a sudden you're hungry. And as soon as you're hungry, you're like, I need to eat now or I'm gonna die, is basically what's gonna happen. And I wasn't hungry, everything was fine. And then as he finished cooking them, and as I was literally starting up my computer, I was like, you know what? I am actually kind of hungry. So I just quickly devoured that burger. But it was delicious, probably one of the best things we've had this week, honestly.
SPEAKER_06:But I got cheap taste, so I I know my favorite place is this hot dog stand that's down on beach Eve, and it's like four bucks or something. And it's he has this garlic sauce that's so good on it.
SPEAKER_03:Ugh, KD and hot dogs is like one of my top favorite meals, to be completely honest. And if it's my birthday, I'll go bougie and have KD with taco beef.
SPEAKER_06:So when you said that, like I've had hot dogs and KD, but because you said KD and hot dogs, I imagine you putting KD inside of a hot dog, like in a bun with the thing. Oh I was like, what?
SPEAKER_02:You know what? Both are not wrong.
SPEAKER_06:You know, speaking of which, so you said GLP1 and burgers. I have something about both of those. I went to my doctor again today, which I already told you because I called Lisa before we went on, and uh he asked me again, have you tried Ozempic? Fucking god, buddy, you've been my doctor for almost 20 goddamn years, and I know you see a lot of freaking patients, but I have been on it since 2020, dude. Like we have had this conversation so many goddamn times. You even commented the last time I saw you, which was two weeks ago, about how I was probably one of the first on it. Sound like anyway, and then as I was coming home, I'm like, I want a McDonald's burger, which Lisa's on the phone while I was in the dry through. And it's like I keep getting mad at myself because I've done a lot of takeout in the last like week, week and a half. And um sorry, I just clued into something I have to do tomorrow. Anyway, uh a lot in the last week and a half, and I'm trying to be mindful about what I'm eating. So as I'm going through the drive-through, I'm like, I'm mindful. I'm very aware I'm about to eat McDonald's because I'm just like, what am I, what am I supposed to do? Like, I know I could have just waited until I got home, but when I have the urge to eat, it's like I have to eat, or that urge goes away, and then I get dizzy later and I don't know why, and it's because I haven't eaten at at 4 p.m. when I've been up since 6 a.m. It's and it's crazy. But anyway, I ate the McDonald's. I don't feel guilty, but as I was in putting it through my fitness panel, I'm like, get fucked. But like, as long as I'm I'm 50 a 15-day streak right now of tracking, and I've tracked everything. I walk into the kitchen and I grab a handful of cashews, I track it. Literally, as I grab the handful, I put it on the scale and I go, okay, and then I'll put it through my fitness pal after, just so that I know. I've been weighing everything. I made a seafood chowder yesterday. I weighed everything before putting it in and then put the recipe through my fitness pal. I'm like trying so hard because they said the bari, sorry, they said me, they meaning the bariatra clinic, need to see everything. They want you to be tracking every day. And if you do not come to your appointment with your tracker, it counts as a missed appointment and you will be released. Well, after like two or three appointments, you will be released. So 15 days so far. Had orientation last week. Uh, they were like, we're gonna send you an opt-in, opt-out text within 48 hours. Uh, you have a week to respond. The minute it came into my phone, I'm like, opt-in. Just opt-in. She sent the forms yesterday. Within two hours, all of the forms were done. Went into my doctor today, got him to fill out all the forms. I'm like, let's get on with it. Like, let's just do it already. But I'm a little bit skeptical because there's so many things you have to hit, like mental health, you have to be mentally good for 18 months. You like there's just so many. I can't even go into it all. I'll update you guys as I go along and then like we'll reflect back on it after a year. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:That might, I mean, it makes sense. Like, it's we're basically like expediting the process. So everything that you figure out along the way, usually, that like we've been talking about for five years that we still haven't figured out, you have to have figured out in 12 months.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and like we talk about bariatric surgery all the time. I listen to bariatric people. I've been part of a bariatric program for three years. Uh, I I know about it, like I've listened, but I'm not retaining it. And it's like, you know, I I know it's a lot of hard work, I know the things that have to be done, but when it's all laid out in front of you and it's like, this is how you have to eat for the rest of your life, these are the medications, this is your activity, these are your appointments, like all of it, it's like, holy fuck, I'm overwhelmed. Yet I've known about this for three years, but now I'm like, God damn.
SPEAKER_02:It's hard. I get that.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Um I feel like I'm overcaffeinated right now.
SPEAKER_03:Do you want me to tell you the story that I said that I'll tell you at the podcast? Okay. So a little bit of background. Chris and I were talking about, I don't even remember how we got here, but I was talking, oh, we were talking about common sense. And my one friend messaged me earlier, and she thought that this thing was common sense. Before I get into this story, Chris, how do you think like mother platypuses feed their babies?
SPEAKER_06:I have no idea. I've never thought about it. Right?
SPEAKER_03:Right? I know. And my friend, so the reason this came up is because we were reading a book, and you know, it's just it's one of those types of books. So she starts talking about like, oh, it's cold outside, my nipples are hard, naturally. So she's and there's there was this other book where it was we were reading it and they were referring to that, but it wasn't like that, it's not the moment to talk about that. You know what I mean? It's like you're just you're bringing this up just to make this a sexual book, and there was really no reason for us to talk about it. So within the first like three sentences, the same thing happens in this book. So she messages me and she's just like, This is the type of thing that you you love. And I was like, What did I say? I can't remember what it was, but it had to do with the word bat. And I my phone's charging, so I'm not gonna go get it. So naturally, I start thinking about bats and nipples because now those two things have been in the same sentence together and my brain has mashed them together. So I was like, Do bats have nipples? And I'm like, Well, they're mammals, so they're probably going to have nipples. And put a pin in the rest of that story for a second. Bats do have nipples and they're in their armpits. Some have them on their hips, but they're in their armpits. But if you think about it, it's like they're hanging upside down, right? So if your arms are up in the air, it's like, yeah, that we're just gonna expose our nipples at that point, right? But I'm just like, no.
SPEAKER_06:How irritating.
SPEAKER_03:Like, it doesn't make any sense. Gotta be anyway. So that's aside. So I was like, do bats have nipples? And then I went down that Google search. But then she was like, Well, they could be like platypus, where they sweat their milk. And I was like, Excuse me? She's like, Yeah, they have like glands all over their body and they sweat their milk out for platypuses. And then she goes, You didn't know that? I was like, bitch, I don't think people know that. That's not a common like do the babies just lick it off their skin then? Yeah. Yeah. Girl, platypuses are like they have a beak and they lay eggs, but they're categorized as mammals and they don't have nipples. That's that's and I'm a platypuses, platypi?
SPEAKER_06:I don't know. I I don't even think about platypuses.
SPEAKER_03:So, anyways, she's just like, You didn't know that? And I'm sitting here like, girl, nobody knew that. And she's just like, that's not true. So then she goes to our other group chat and she's like, Hey, just out of curiosity, do you guys know how like platypus feed their babies? Yeah, Chris just looked it up. Her face is in shock.
SPEAKER_06:The first thing is from the Huffington Post, I'm haunted by how platypuses feed their babies milk.
unknown:Right?
SPEAKER_03:So then she goes to our group chat and they're like, Do you guys know how a platypus feeds their babies? And they're just like, I don't know, I'm assuming it's like a bird where they chew it up and spit it in their mouth. And they're like, No. And I'm like, see, I'm not the one, this is not a common sense scenario here. This is not common knowledge, this is you knowledge. This is not not everybody knows this. So, anyways, that's how I found out today that bats have nipples in their armpits and platypus sweat their milk.
SPEAKER_06:I think it's so funny because Lisa and I were talking about common sense because I was having a thing that was it, it was so common sense. And then she comes with this, and now I'm just like, this is not common sense. Like, this is I have spent a lot of time googling random shit on the internet. I don't even think I don't think I've ever thought about a platypus. Literally, when you said it, I had to really go far back to remember what they look like.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my gosh, that is so funny.
SPEAKER_03:I don't understand how they're mammals because they come from eggs and they don't have nipples. I don't know if mammals are supposed to have nipples, if all of them do. Do whales? Because whales are mammals, right?
SPEAKER_06:They must have to be on land when they're doing this because they're in the water normally, and it would the milk would just go away. I'm just so intrigued by this now. Thank you, Lisa's friend.
SPEAKER_02:Whales have nipples.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, whales have nipples. Interesting. This just went from explicit to XXX rated. What animals have nipples?
SPEAKER_06:I just wasn't expecting this.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's okay. We can talk about something.
SPEAKER_06:There was something I was gonna relate to this and now it's gone, and I'm like, what the hell did I have to relate to this? Oh my god. Oh my goodness gracious me. Uh, it is crazy though when you do talk about common sense to things, and it's just like, I do know there's a lot of people out there that wish that phrase didn't exist anymore. I am not one of them, uh, because not everything's common sense and everyone was raised different. But it's like there's certain things that are goddamn common sense. And you know what? I don't even say with things with like I totally said this earlier. I don't think of things with driving ever as common sense. I've had people say to me, like, um, oh, I should just get this, like it's common sense, right? And I'm like, well, but did you know it? Because obviously it's not common sense then if you didn't know it. And with driving, it's literally something you have to learn. And there were things I didn't even know until I started driving um a different kind of vehicle. And I was like, wait, what? I'm like, I've been driving this whole time and I never knew that this, like, okay, one of the things was this person was saying, Oh, when you're approaching the stale green light, and I was like, the stale green light.
SPEAKER_03:I was so like it's been green for a long time.
SPEAKER_06:Let me just okay, I was like, I don't get what stale green means. That means it would be dimmer then, right? So I'm driving towards these lights and I'm focused, like I'm still looking at the road, but I'm focused on the light. Cause I'm like, I have to watch it get dimmer somehow, I guess. And I went two different lessons with this guy, and finally I said, Can you explain what you mean when you said stale green light? And he's like, you don't know if it's gonna change when you're approaching it. Like you don't know when it turned green.
SPEAKER_03:And I was like, Why can't you I would have never known that?
SPEAKER_06:Like, yeah, no, and it's because you know, pedestrian-controlled ones, once it goes green and it's not blinking anymore, like that makes sense. I I know that already, but it was just if you're driving up to something you didn't see when it turned green, you have no idea how much more time is left. And even like, because you can't judge on like the walk symbols, but anyway, I just thought that was so like is this a common sense thing?
SPEAKER_03:Can we talk about the walk symbols and how like the times when it the walk symbol changes, but the light doesn't change and you don't know the light, so you don't know how long the gap is between the crosswalk and the oh I hate that. Why is that not universal?
SPEAKER_06:Have you ever had it where the walk symbols counting down gets a zero and then goes back to the walk symbol and you're like, What? Why did you count down then?
SPEAKER_03:Yes, I have had that.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03:I blame the pedestrians.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03:The only thing worse than pedestrians, let's say it together. Bikers.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, okay. I don't know how bad it is over there in Ontario, but bicyclists are like it's like half bicyclists, half cars at this point in BC or in Vancouver. And, you know, I am helping someone like learn the ways of the road right now. And every time I'm just like, I don't give a shit what you're looking at. Look for bicyclists because they're not protected and you're gonna kill someone. I'd rather you hit a car.
SPEAKER_03:And I hate when it's like half of them will ride on the road, drive on the road, whatever, and follow the road signs, half of them will be on the road and follow the sidewalk signs, and then half of them will be on the sidewalk and follow the road signs, and half of them will be on the sidewalk and follow the sidewalk signs. If you're on the like, I personally don't give a shit if you're riding your bike on the on the street. Like the road is crazy and people are insane. So, like, if you're on the sidewalk, that's fine. But follow the sidewalk rules if you're riding your bike on the sidewalk and you're riding it in the bike lane, you need to follow the road rules.
SPEAKER_06:That's why you hate when bicyclists go on the sidewalk. That is not for you. And if you are incapable, I'm not talking about children, uh if you are incapable of riding on the road, then you shouldn't be riding your bike. Like that's just that. And also follow the street signs, follow the lights. My god, like they've built in Vancouver, there's bike lanes everywhere. They did a whole overhaul on it. It's insane. And it's just like stay in your lane, like we have to, and follow the signs. And if you don't, that's your fault. I think they should have to have insurance.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, I totally agree.
SPEAKER_06:And I say that as someone that wishes that I actually could bike in the city, but like, I'm not getting on a goddamn bike. So, like, they they have to have some sort of insurance.
SPEAKER_03:I get why they don't, but I think it would be I t I t thinking about it as you're saying it, like, I feel like if you're in Toronto or if you're in a like you're riding your bike in a major city area, and totally you should have insurance.
SPEAKER_06:And I just think that like also all bicyclists should protect themselves and have a version of like a dash cam on their bike to also just protect them because there are stupid drivers as well. I'm not gonna say all bicyclists are stupid, like drivers are dumb and they don't care about bicyclists, and it's just I'm I'm right in the middle, like because I'm an I'm an angry driver of bicyclists, but I'm also angry for bicyclists.
SPEAKER_03:I know, I totally agree. Oh hey, honey bunny. You wanna come say hi? Hi, Harper. Yeah. Hi. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Here, put this on, and then you can hear it. Put it on. You take it. You that is recorded, dear.
SPEAKER_06:Hi, Harper. What you doing? Hi, did you eat dinner already? Yeah, Anchor has a cat. What'd you eat for dinner? Ooh, yummy. Can I have some?
SPEAKER_04:Break my heart. You want for Christmas.
SPEAKER_06:One million dollars. I know.
SPEAKER_03:You want to tell an aunt Chris what you want for Christmas? What do you want for Christmas? I want strawberries. You want strawberries?
SPEAKER_06:Cool. What kind of strawberries?
SPEAKER_03:Red.
SPEAKER_06:The red ones, yeah. I wish I was there.
SPEAKER_03:Me too.
SPEAKER_06:Do you mean real strawberries or strawberry-shaped things?
SPEAKER_03:She always says strawberries. You say, What's your favorite food? She goes, strawberries. It's not her favorite food. She picks blackberries over strawberries any day.
SPEAKER_06:Love it. What were we talking about before Harper came? Platypus. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03:No, I think we started talking about uh just common sense and bikers and oh yeah, bicyclists. But we can move on from that. I actually have something I want to talk about with the whole being fat thing. Um so not to be blunt, but um I looked in the mirror yesterday, and uh so Harper's doing potty training right now, and in my parents' bathroom, there's like a long mirror on the bathroom door. So while she's on the potty, I'm sitting at the edge of the tub. And this is the first time in a very long time that I'm actually seeing myself sitting down and like full body sitting down. Like I'm on video calls all day, so like I see from like how you see right now, like from the chest up type of thing. But that was my first time seeing my full body. And my brain went, Oh, you are still fat. Like, and I think I kind of needed that. I don't know if the realization is the right word because like I look at the charts and everything, and then we'll talk about BMI for a second, where it still says I'm in like class three obesity or whatever. But in my head, I'm like, you've lost 110, 116 pounds. Like the idea of still being in that obesity doesn't make any sense because you've lost all of this weight, right? Yeah. So, and I think that was one reason why it was really hard for me to stay motivated on things right now because it was like, you've already done this thing, like, why do you have to keep going? But then I looked at myself for the first time in a long time in like that way, and I was like, Oh, so you can still lose weight. You know what I mean? Like it was and I don't know if it was like a body dysmorphia thing, because like when I'm standing, like I know how I look when I'm standing, and I know how I look when I'm sitting, you know what I mean? But it was like this is the first time I'm I was actually looking at myself in a while.
SPEAKER_06:I get it, because there's certain times when I catch myself. Like, I actually took my a picture of myself, I think last week or something, because I sat on the edge of my bed and my closet is just mirrors, and I was just like, Oh, wow. Like, and it just made me realize like, cause I went down 80 pounds and bounced right back, and it's just there's it's just so noticeable. And I was being down on myself, but then I was just like, no, just this is just just a picture to show where I am right now.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:But also just maybe we just shouldn't pay attention to ourselves when we're sitting down, because that's like the worst part.
SPEAKER_03:I know. I just I I don't understand how I look one way when I'm standing and then a different way when I'm sitting. Like I I when I do that, I just look, I think I look like two totally different bodies.
SPEAKER_06:And yet, like people of average size that don't carry much body fat, like they look pretty similar when they're sitting down and not. Yeah, I I get it. Like honestly, the thing that's bothering me the most about my excess fat right now is the overstimulation that I'm getting, that I'm realizing how much it's affected me. Because, like, like I admitted last week about my mental health. And so I do have uh meltdowns, and most of the time they do have it happen at home. And I realize a lot of the time it's while like I'm excessively sweating after not doing anything, just breathing. And I start getting because I have anxiety, I start getting anxious because I can feel the beat of drip of sweat dripping down my back slowly. And then I'm like, oh, you're gonna just start sweating, and now you're gonna have to change your clothes, you're gonna have to have a go have a shower, and then I'm just creating more anxiety, and I'm just very overstimulated by all this fat. Then I ask myself, how can you be overstimulated by something you've carried with you your whole life? And I'm like, well, also getting older, my skin isn't as elastic, things are getting droopier, things are getting harder. So, like, it's crazy how much I've noticed that my mood or my mood has been affected by my weight, even though it's been a lifelong thing. They asked me actually on this on this. I had to fill out paperwork for the bariatric thing yesterday. And I was like, when did you notice that you were overweight and at what age? And I wrote, I'm like, from the womb is my answer. Because I didn't know it would have there wasn't a lot of room to write it. And I was like, literally, when I was at my baptism, everyone commented how that looks like a three-month-old, and I was newborn, so it's like uh yeah, I don't know if it was my baptism, but whatever. It was when I was born. I just think of it being at my baptism. I don't think you'd be newborn. Do you baptize newborns? Yeah, I think how old you have to be. Anyway, that's the story I always got told, and it's like cool.
SPEAKER_03:My understanding is people will baptize like as soon as possible because knock on wood, if anything were to happen at that time, then they want to make sure that they have a place in heaven, is my understanding of it.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, like I do I see the pictures of me, but I'm like, I don't remember how I mean, I don't remember it.
SPEAKER_03:You're like, you sure that was me? I don't remember being there.
SPEAKER_06:I just have there's so many videos and photos of all that kind of stuff. Um, but yeah, I just thought that was so funny. And I'm really hoping that whoever reads it laughs too, because it's just like literally from the womb, I knew I was big.
SPEAKER_03:It's so frustrating when the answer from doctors has always been, and I know I mentioned this the other day too. How it's like the doctors have always been like, you need to lose weight, but then no guidance from where you in quotation should be, and it's just yeah, so it's like it's just this big unknown.
SPEAKER_06:I'm starting to actually really hate doctors a lot more now. And like, I mean, I've not hate, I just don't have the trust anymore. I've already told Lisa this, but I went to my podiatrist this week. Oh, I'm just I still can't get over it. I keep telling people. I go into the podiatrist office, I'm waiting for a bone scan. I have a really bad foot. I have the plantar fasciitis, and something else is going on, apparently with my tendon or something. He wants to put me through for a bone scan. I go in for my appointment, it's been three weeks, and he comes in and he's like, So, like your bone scan's clear. I give him this look like, uh I haven't had my bone scan yet. And he's like, What? But like I just looked at it and like, well, that's freaking weird. Who took it? And he goes back and I'm like, I did take one two years ago. He comes back five minutes later. Yeah, that is the one from two years ago. And I'm like, Yeah, and there was a stress fracture on it. So I'm kind of concerned that you said it was clear. And he just like, and literally moved on, like literally moved on right away, didn't even, and I'm just like, so is my bone scan skill still scheduled? Because last time I got a call within a week, now it's been over a month, and now I actually think I might be waiting until February. So they're messaging another hospital about it to see if I can get in sooner. But it's just like I'm on long-term disability now. Like, I don't even think after the bone scan, I'm not I'm gonna know what's wrong. But it's like there's something wrong, and no one can help me. And it's just like they don't see anything happen, and I get it, doctors aren't God, but like, what am I supposed to do? And and and I told the story, I think, where I said, like, I thought I was crushing it with my weight. My physiotherapist was like, Okay, but what why is your other foot so good? And that's the one that I have like an ACL tear on and stuff, like it might be me, that's not my foot, but still, like, I'm just I'm so over it. Like, I and I feel like we're at the point where it's just gonna get blamed on my weight at this point. There's only so much. I mean, doctors can do, like, I so I'm mad, but I'm also not mad, so I keep fiddling with my hair because I'm just so no, you're fine.
SPEAKER_03:It's not distracting. If you need to fiddle with your hair, you can fiddle with your hair.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, when I'm talking about things like that, I just tend to fidget uh a lot. Oh my god. When I was in my doctor's office today, the woman, right when I walked in, is on the phone and she's like, sir, if you threaten me one more time, I'm calling the police on you. And I was like, what the fuck's happening? And then she went to the doctor that does like Botox and stuff.
SPEAKER_03:I'm like, mmm, like maybe something happened. Oh my god, there's just like man, the medical field, it's just something else right now.
SPEAKER_06:I went and bought them both cookies from a store.
SPEAKER_03:A podiatrist?
SPEAKER_06:Um, no, the the podiatrist was last week. This is just at my doctor's office, and there's two receptionists, and then once I heard that, I was like, I'm gonna go get a coffee. And then I saw these little snowmen cookies, and I was like, I'm gonna get them these.
SPEAKER_03:Did you get uh any of the smile cookies from Tim Hortons last week?
SPEAKER_06:I have never heard of a smile cookie.
SPEAKER_03:What? That's not a Canadian thing at Tim Hortons?
SPEAKER_06:Well, like you have to remember, I didn't have Tim Hortons for the first time until I was like 22.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so a smile cookie. So now they have two. It used to just be the one, and the smile cookie is just their standard chocolate chip cookie, but they put frosting on it to put a smiley face. Blue eyes, pink mouth. And all of the proceeds of those cookies that are bought that week go to local charities. So we usually get the smile cookies, but you know, I don't like chocolate chip cookies, so I'm never a fan of that one. But now they've introduced holiday smile cookies where it's a sprinkle sugar cookie with the happy face on it. Oh my god, they are delicious. It was last week. I do not know how many of those cookies I ate, to be completely honest. So you're welcome, local charities, because I had so many of those cookies. In fact, I bought on the last day it was running, I bought one here up the road and they ran out of them and they used the chocolate chip. And I'm like, nope, I hate chocolate chip cookies. And then I picked up my brother in the town next over and got Tim Hortons there, and they still had those smile cookies. And that one I did eat because they are so flipping good.
SPEAKER_06:I wish they had them all all season, but I feel like Tim Hortons, because like the reason I said my age when I first went to Tim Hortons is because since it wasn't a staple growing up, I just feel like it was something I didn't care about. Like I knew Tim Horton. I don't even think I'd actually had heard of Tim Hortons because it's like, unless I'm aware of it, even if advertisements come up, I'm not really paying attention to it if I don't know who the company is. So it's like, okay, so I didn't know who Bell was, Bell Mobility, Bell Landline, until I worked for Bell in 2007. Because Bell also isn't as big here as it is in Ontario. Like we had mobility and then we got satellite. We didn't have home internet, we didn't like any of that kind of or home lines. We had Tellus and Shaw and Rogers. Right. Um anyway, it's talking about Tim Hortons. So it's like when I went to Banff, someone was like, Oh, we're driving to Canmore to go get Tim Hortons. I'm like, why would you drive 30 minutes to go get coffee? And she's like, No, I have to get the steep tea. And I'm like, Oh, what's steep tea? She's like, tea that's been steeped. I'm like, you can't steep it on your own. Like, what? Like that was just mind-blowing to me.
SPEAKER_03:When people were talking, like when steep tea first came out. Oh, I love the commercial for steep tea because when it first came out, it was like the it's like a teenage son goes to the Tim Hortons and he gets his mom a tea and she tries a sip and she's like, Oh, this is really good. And he's like, Yeah, it's steeped. And she thinks it's some kind of like code for or slang from for good. So she starts calling everything around her steeped. Oh, it was so cheesy and so good. And now looking back on it, like at the time I was a teenager when it came out, so I was just like, that's so cheesy. And now as an adult, I'm like, that's gonna be me. I know it. Harper's gonna say something, and I'm gonna think it's gonna mean one thing. Cause like even now, we've been on TikTok, but somehow the kids have a whole new language, and I have no idea what the hell is going on half the time. Like instead of broken heart emojis, they now send the wilting rose. Yeah. And like when something's really funny, they send the skull face. I'm sitting here with the crying laughter still, which means I'm old.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my god, when things are funny, it seems like people are actually using the cry emoji, not the cry laugh emoji, but the cry one. And I was like, what in the heck?
SPEAKER_03:Is that that or is that like upside down emoji?
SPEAKER_06:What do you mean?
SPEAKER_03:Like if somebody, uh, I'm trying to think of when I would use it.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, so like there's a comment to someone, like, because I've been in only in the comment sections these days. Oh, sorry. And the one sorry, she was like, um, like cry emoji. Imagine how he had to set up and pose before pushing record. It's a guy that's like posing with his arms up, like, and then puts them down once he starts talking. And I'm like setting the timer and then posing, watching it slowly count down. And I did like a laughing, crying emoji, and then she responded it to it with like please and then crying emojis. And I'm like, is that is that the same as laugh cry?
SPEAKER_03:Like, I can't I think it's I think it's laugh cry meets like I'm embarrassed for you, yeah, is the vibe that I get from that.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Um, that that was the guy that was like um ladies, if you see a single guy on a trail and you're a single girl and he says hi, try and say hi back or whatever, and everyone's been dragging him. And apparently he's a fitness guy, too. And I was just like, no one's gonna listen to you anymore. Oh, he came out with no, I'm sorry, he did come out. I gotta mute this. He didn't come out with a video for like five days, and now he's trying to like just talk about like TRT and stuff and like just act like it never happened, but it's like, bro, you still have the goddamn video up. It's been viewed 871,000 times, it has 2,500 likes and 13,000 comments.
SPEAKER_02:Yep, that really shows when people are feeling the way they're feeling.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my gosh, it's just uh I haven't been posting. I'm really just enjoying watching other content and judging it.
SPEAKER_03:I haven't honestly, I haven't even really been doing either. Like, I have stuff that's like saved in my drafts that I'm like, I'm gonna talk about this. But like I've been so I don't want to say behind and I don't want to say slacking, but I haven't been as motivated over like since October basically. And I just don't want to feel like I'm like complaining about the same thing over and over and over again. You know what I mean? And it's like I obviously just haven't kicked myself back into gear, and that's fine, especially the time of season that it is. And but I just I don't want to keep complaining about it and then feeling like I'm not doing anything about it. So but I do think I'm going to do the advent calendar as long as I can get everything in order by Sunday. And I've put it all online. I didn't do like uh I didn't do like the actual thing to open up and whatnot. I've just scheduled everything as to like this day will be this workout and this day will be this workout type thing. And by the time I'm done, I'm not gonna remember what I have organized. Um, and then it'll just be this day is gonna be this plan and go from there. Nice. And I have built it so that it's all at-home workouts so that if I don't make it to the gym, there's no reason for me not to be able to do that workout. I can do it at home, it's just you have to do it. Um, there are rest days built in, and and because it's an at-home workout, it is something that you can do at the gym just by adding weights to the movements that you're doing at so that's um yeah. That's how that's gonna be.
SPEAKER_06:Rams and I are hoping to get back to the gym actually next week. We're not gonna start with the personal trainer again. I told him I need to go and just be on the bicycle. That's all I can do because until I get my foot in order, I'm not going crazy, but I do have to add more movement back in because my doctor was even saying the last two times, like my blood pressure has been high, and he wants to put me on blood pressure meds. And I'm like, I do not want to do that because I know I'm in control of it. And unfortunately, like I'm not eating right and I'm not moving my body and I'm fat, you know. So it's I just I know I can just go on the medication. I just really don't want to. And I don't know, like, but you know what? Yeah, things can change. Like I said, counseling, never was gonna do it. Now I'm doing it, you know. Mental health meds, I'm on mental health meds. So uh yeah. I um gosh, my brain is so foggy today. The last three days, I feel like I'm living in a dream state.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Have you started any of your holiday shopping yet?
SPEAKER_03:Um, I'm pretty much I want to say I'm pretty much done, but I'm still on the people to shop for that are the hardest people to shop for. So it's like I would be 50 or I would be 90% done if they weren't 50% of the effort. So I'm like 50% done, I would say. But um we've got we've just got so much holiday stuff going on. So I've been Black Friday shopping tomorrow. And then on Saturday, we have our cookie baking day where we have friends coming over and everybody bakes like two different types of cookies, and then we all get like tins and whatnot, and we just fill our tins with cookies and everything. So excited for that. Um, and I thought I was gonna try two new cookies until my husband found out that I was making two different cookies this year, and he was like, You're not making this cookie or this cookie, and I was like, Well, no, I was gonna try new cookies this year, and he was like, But I wanted these cookies, they're the chocolate peppermint snowball cookies. Can you hear that thudding? A little it's my child running back and forth. Um, they are check chocolate, peppermint snowball cookies where I actually make them from a brownie cake mix or a chocolate cake mix, and you refrigerate them and then roll them in powdered sugar and add peppermint and blah blah blah. And then it's when you make it with the brownie one, they're so just like ah okay, now I'm thinking about them and they are really freaking good. But anyways, the other one that I make uh is the whipped short bread, is the other one that he also really likes. I'm not a big shortbread fan, but the whipped shortbread is like it just melts in your mouth and it's just I don't think I've had whipped short bread whipped short bread, but I don't have shortbread. It's so so so so good. And then on the 14th, I have other cookies that I still have to make for other stuff, which will be our um vanilla. We're gonna make two different ones, but uh for sure. We're gonna make the vanilla chip peppermint cookies that we made last year, where we took our chocolate chip cookie recipe and replaced the chocolate chips with white chocolate chips and then added instead of vanilla, it's half vanilla, half peppermint. Those cookies are so big, damn it. Now I just want cookies.
SPEAKER_06:Um I love it when people like not asking you to, but I love it when people send me big goods.
SPEAKER_03:I'm like, I'm not on my list. Don't worry. Like my viewer on the plan. It might show up late because God knows Canada Post is probably gonna go on strike again because tis the season. But uh it will end up to you eventually.
SPEAKER_06:The only person I ever knew that would bake me suffer on Christmas was that ex-best friend of mine that's racist. Um, but her mom would cook all the time, like so many cookies and everything, and then she'd always give me some. And I love that, but I'm like, wouldn't be friends with you again just to have big goods. Um, but Rams and I don't even have a tree this year, so like I'm gonna be helping my aunt and my cousin set up theirs because like Rams and I just we had to get rid of ours last year, and we were like, let's just not do Christmas this year because money's really tight, and now with me going on the long term, I'm only making 50% of my pay, which really sucks. And so, and it's yeah, just it's just such a headache. So Rams and I said that we're not doing presents for each other this year, and I'm not gonna lie, I'm totally gonna get sad closer to it. I know that presents are not the most important thing or anything. Well, I mean, like we don't we only celebrate the commercialized version of Christmas, we're not religious or anything, so yeah, it's just it's it's just it just makes me sad because it's just like I like that whole thing, like the warmth, the opening the gifts, and it's not like they have to be expensive or anything, but we said we're not doing it because it's just like it's just it's just been too crazy. And Rams and I we did WrestleMania earlier this year, and we did go on a cruise, so it's like we did wonderful things, we just didn't really plan it out that well, and I also didn't think I was gonna be off work again, so it's just like it's it's such a different Christmas experience. Like, I went ahead and still decorated, but I'm very excited to go over to my cousins and decorate her tree. She's just down in America right now because she's half American.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we're doing our tree tomorrow night, too, because like when else are we gonna do it? Actually, we have all of Harper's friends coming over on Sunday to decorate gingerbread houses. Oh, these mini gingerbread houses that were like in a pack of five, so I got three packs of those. So we have 15 mini gingerbread houses that are like these tiny things for the kids to decorate. So exciting. Four toddlers that are coming over to decorate Christmas or um gingerbread houses.
SPEAKER_06:So and that's another thing. I always think Christmas is so much better when you do have kids around because it's just like watching kids experience like that magic that you just yeah, you don't necessarily have anymore.
SPEAKER_03:And well, the magic is also a little scary apparently because we were decorating my parents' Christmas tree on Sunday, and my dad is dressing up as Santa this year, and he came out in his Santa gear and all that, and Harper was afraid of him, like didn't want any. And I don't know if it's because she thought it was Santa that was coming out because he did like the jingle bells, but and then was confused when he came out or what the scenario was. But like you could tell she was just like, no, I don't want to, I don't want to be near you, I don't want to do it. And then we have this ornament we have two, one for our tree and one for their tree. That's like it's just a flat ornament with a fake like camera lens glued to it, and it says Santa Cam on it to make it look like Santa's watching and all that stuff. So we were telling her, like, oh, we're putting it on the tree because Santa's gonna watch you, and she's like, like Santa's watching me, and we're like, Yeah, and she's like, Take it down, take it down. I d like, no. I'm like, what do you mean take it down? It's it's just so that Santa can see you easier. No, no, take it down, take it down. Like she She is now afraid of Santa in at some extent. She still gets excited when she sees him on TV and she understands the idea of Santa and like likes the like what do you want for Christmas and talks about that and all that type of thing. But the idea of him watching her all the time has her a little freaked out right now.
SPEAKER_06:Maybe just because like Santa's so big and hairy, you know. Like I said, like I don't I think maybe I just said it to you and not on the podcast, but when I was a child, I was scared of men with hair. Like uh my swimming instructor, I was in the first and I was like four or five, and he brings me out and I screamed bloody fucking murder. Like that, I really I don't forget that because I remember his face being like like as an adult, that's the face of Jesus fucking Christ.
SPEAKER_03:We could translate it now that we understand.
SPEAKER_06:And I remember my mom watching me and just being like, Oh god, and like that's child screaming again. Oh man.
SPEAKER_02:Anyway, yeah, I was just gonna say we should wrap up.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, like uh, but we should probably have at least one more episode that comes out this year.
SPEAKER_03:So yeah, maybe just to talk about I don't know, the year next year.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, our goals, our wishes, not anything that happened this year. But uh, we can't make any promises because you never know what's gonna happen, especially with us. Uh, but you know, yay, we're here.
SPEAKER_03:We did it. We'll be here at some point.
SPEAKER_06:Uh yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Can you believe next year's 2026?
SPEAKER_06:No.
SPEAKER_03:Isn't that insane? I can't believe this year is almost over.
SPEAKER_06:That will officially, like Rams and I are in our 10th year, but October will mark our 10-year anniversary.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_06:Halloween 2016, sitting on the back of a porch, totally drunk, and being like, are we official? Like, like, are we boyfriend, girlfriend? We're not gonna screw anyone else. He's like, Yeah. And I'm like, Yeah. And that was the end.
SPEAKER_03:We will be together. Actually, our anniversary is coming up on December 14th. That's not our wedding anniversary, but like our togetherness anniversary. And togetherness, we will have been together, oh, 12 years, 13 years, one or the other. Uh, I think it's 13. But yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Honestly, Rams is the longest thing I've ever done.
SPEAKER_00:And that's how we're leaving this, folks. Have a great night. Because we know Chris will.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, I shouldn't have ended it like that.
SPEAKER_03:Cause now we're about we started with nipples and then we're ending with penis jokes. Because we're about to introduce Harper. Oh shit. This is not appropriate. No. Quick, let's talk about something else.
SPEAKER_06:Uh, just to be clear, Harper was not in the room right now. You are going to hear her voice. We're plugging it in.
SPEAKER_03:Let's just leave now.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, thanks. Bye. Yay. Here's Harper. Okay, time to say bye-bye to Aunt Chris. Bye-bye bye. Bye. Bye, everybody. Bye, everybody. Say yay. Yay. Harper was meeting you. One more thing.
SPEAKER_03:Do you want to quickly sing jingle bells for Aunt Chris? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Jingle bells. Jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what findest to morn some day. Yes, that was so good.
SPEAKER_03:Yay! Okay, time for bed now. I'm such a good singer.
SPEAKER_01:Night night. Bye, Harbor. Night night.
SPEAKER_04:Bye.