Perricone Promise Intro

We're kicking off our study of The Perricone Promise. As 28-day program that claimed to reverse 10 years of aging through a simple three step program. Follow along as we breakdown what the program is and what we think will be good additions to our fitness journeys.  We also chat about the next 75 Hard challenge and Beyonce's Christmas Day performance.

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Hey girl, hey welcome back to another episode of Tia's table. I'm Tia a certified group business instructor and nutrition coach. I help women develop healthy habits that allow with their health, wellness and fitness goals. If you or someone you know, is interested in developing healthier habits, please reach out to me. You can do that by emailing me at TiaB fitness at gmail.com or you can hit me up on Instagram at TiaV fitness. We have a community in our app where we complete different monthly challenges, where we learn about nutrition and where you have my full support 24-7 for all things, health goal related, right? So, and I would love to have you as a member of that community. We start our next 75 hard challenge on January 1, 2025. And if you want to get in on that, shoot me an email, I would love to have you join us for that next challenge. It will be life changing. I can guarantee you that. girl, girl, girl, girl, girl, girl first of all, I kind of feel like I've been cheating on this podcast a little bit with the other podcast. If you're not subscribed to my other number, look in the description box and consider subscribing because we have a lot of fun over there. It's very random. It's very off the cuff. It's very unsensored. It's it's quite possible that a little bit of it every now and again might be able to explicit, probably not safe for you to listen to that one in the car with your kids. Like I know some of you like to do that one, just because I don't want my business. I don't want the Internet, nieces and nephews of the world, knowing all of Aunt Tia's private matters, right? So, you know, I just want to throw that out there before you subscribe, just know that that one is not as family friendly and clean cut as as this one, right? So there is so much that I would like to chat about today. We are going to do an intro to our next health book that I think came out. Let me see. When did this book come out? Let me look it up. We are doing the pericone promise, which, if you're familiar with that at all, it was a big, like health movement back in, ooh, this book was printed in 2004. That's it. I thought it was going to be the nineties. But yeah, I guess it was 20 years ago. Wow, which kind of seems like a long time ago in 2004, like girl, I was a junior in college. but I remember this being like a thing. I remember seeing it was it on Oprah? Maybe not on Oprah, but I just remember seeing it on like the today show. Good Morning America. Like it was a it was a big thing, kind of like right up there with Atkins and all the other big health movements of the 90s and the early 2000s. So we are going to do our intro to that on today's calls so we can kind of get prepped and ready for us to come in this book. And I say we need a call to just like prepare ourselves because this one is very science heavy. And I don't want people to be overwhelmed. I don't want people to be like just like completely tuned out or like not find these episodes interesting because of how science heavy the book makes this topic and what I'm aiming to do with this is to basically give you guys the cliff notes in a way that isn't so science heavy. So it's fun for us to chat about and learn from without being like completely bored out of our minds because sometimes that's just how some of this can be, right? Before we get into all of that, let's talk about what is on my table right now and probably the most delicious thing that I have eaten here recently was a sushi bowl. Now, I know that TikTok made the whole sushi sushi casserole sushi bowl thing, like really trendy and popular. But I hadn't had one. I tried the sushi casserole thing like a long time ago and it was good. I did the one that you bake in the oven and it was great. It was with salmon. It was delicious. But after meeting Logan and I say meeting with like the little rabbity or his bunny ears, after meeting Logan, I was like, oh, for sure we could do a sushi bowl, but like with Logan's cucumber idea, so that reduces the carb intake on it and quite quite possibly will make it actually taste more like sushi since sushi rolls sometimes have cucumbers in them. So for my bowl, I did an English cucumber and I always do the whole the whole cucumber because I'm greedy. So the whole cucumber, I did do some jasmine rice. I did some not at aame. What do they call it when it's out of the shell? Is it muame? Don't pick on me if that's wrong. I don't know, but basically Edamame, but you pop it out of the shells. So some of those I did salmon that I airfried. I had whipped Philadelphia cream cheese, which I think really made it taste like sushi. I had the everything but the bagel seasoning. I did use MSG. I did use a little bit of sriracha, a little bit of coconut, aminos, a little bit of wasabi to make like a dressing for it. I also put in some seaweed, like from the roasted seaweed snacks that you can buy. I just took a pack of those, chopped it up, threw that in there. I chopped up a jalaño, threw that and there, of course, without the seeds. And I think that was everything. Was that everything that was in my bowl and it was delicious. It tastes like eating forkful after forkful after forkful of sushi. And as someone who has recently started her love affair with sushi all over again, I just have to say that that did me some kind of good that day that I had it. It was just, mm, everything, everything. Now, the bowl did end up being about 700 calories, which is not a big deal, but it is something you want to be mindful of. Like if you decide to make it and you put all the stuff in it that I put in mind, it was, you know, it was up there in terms of calories for your whole meal. And depending on how many calories you get in the day that may or may not be, you know, something you want to eat at lunchtime, maybe it's something that you would eat at dinner time based on how the rest of your eating has gone that day. But if you decide to do it, girl, please message me and let me know what you put in your sushi bowl because I'm open to making that again. It was it was literally that good. So, okay. let's get into the parone promise and what his promise is. So he talks about well, he's a dermatologist, this doctor, and he talks about how using neuropeptides are able to like heal your body with inflammation from the inside out, but also from the outside in. He thinks that people should be able to get a deeper, bigger breakthrough in the, I guess in their attempt to reverse aging through the use of these neuropeptides, naropeptides are peptides released by neurons. Basically, your brain cells as intercellular messengers. Some neuropeptides function as neurotransmitters and others function as hormones. Peptides and neuropeptides, like many substances in our body, like cholesterol, can work both for and against us. The good news is he claims that by following the program in the parone promise, you can dramatically increase the positive effects of anti-inflammatory peptides and neuropeptides and greatly decrease their negative influences. And that is what I would like to kind of study through our um through our little book thing that we got going on here. I don't want to call it a book club. I don't want to oversell it. But as we go through this review of this book, I would like to hear from people if you decide to do any of this stuff, I would like to hear from you if you think that it works because he claims that as a result, you will experience dramatic changes not only in the way you look, but also in the way you feel in just 28 days And that is where I sat up in my chair a little bit in just 28 days, you can erase what seems like 10 years from your face and body Y'all, this is what sold me on doing this. I looked past the fact that it was too a little too sc and kind of not that fun to read. And I said, oh baby, if in 28 days, you think I can look 30, I think you have my attention. He says that with the pericone promise you'll learn to help reverse the aging process and add many more youthful years to your life. He says, look better, feel better in three easy steps. Now, his three easy steps include diet, so there's going to be a big chunk of this all about diet. It says a revolutionary nutritional program that includes the 10 superfoods to help reduce inflammation and rejuvenate the skin and body. Step two is through the use of supplements. In addition to eating well, these multiurpose and highly effective nutritional supplements will increase production of the anti-inflammatory peptods and neurer peptidess. Your body's natural anti-aging weapons. Now, I'm not saying that anybody should take any kind of supplements without consulting with your physician first, whoever your trusted medical profession is, professional is in your life, that is who you should talk to about using supplements, but I will be reading through whatever he's got to say about supplements when we get to that chapter. And then lastly, he says through the use of topicals, working from the outside in these newly formulated neuropeptide base creams will have you looking younger, almost instantly, and same same same same feelings as the supplements. Also always talk to whoever you dermatologist is, your ahetician, whoever you trust with your skin before you put anything on your face. Now, I did see a clip of Neil Long recently talking about how she started using a net cream, like years ago because apparently Chris Rock told her that he can always tell how old a woman is by her neck and not necessarily her face. And after he said that to her, she said she started using neck cream. And I think she is a who is she an ambassador for? Is it Lanccombe or E Lauder? I cannot remember, but one of the big beauty brands, she is an ambassador for them. and she says that one of their creams is like her go-to net cream. And I don't know if that's true or if she's just getting paid to say it, but either way, ne Long looks amazing and if she's putting that cream on her neck, I'm definitely going to look into whatever cream this is and see if I should be putting it on my neck too. But he claims that, yeah, from the outside in, as well as from the inside out is the best way to make yourself look 10 years younger and only 28 days. He says throughout the rest of this book, you'll find ways of unleashing the power of neuraleptides toreased production of college and an elastin, which I'm super interested in because whenever I see collagen offered in the store, let me tell you' why I don't ever get it. I don't ever get it because either you have to take like six of those supplements, like three times a day or something crazy or you have to take scoops of it and put it in something. And I'm still not there yet. Like I have the hardest time like adding things two things. Like I don't want to put college in my coffee. I don't want to put it in my water. Like I don't I don't. I don't. So if there's a way for me to possibly get more college and end without necessarily having to remember to take supplements three times a day, I'm all for that. He also says it can repair scars and wrinkles. It can increase circulation, resulting in breathtaking, radice and glow. You can experience rapid wound repair and you can develop a dewy supple appearance to the skin that you haven't seen since your teens. Now, when I was a teenager, my skin was not do dewy. It may have been supple, but I had acne prone skin like I was cute, but it kind of depended on what day you ran into me too. So I would love like a 40s something, do we complexion? But this book is not just about the way you look by following this simple three step program you can rejuvenate not only your skin, but also your brain, your emotional state, and your overall health, increasing the power of positive peptides can result in such diverse effects as decrease inflammation in every organ system, increased efficiency of metabolism resulting in cellular repair and elevated mood, a strong and healthy heart that is resistant to disease, denser bones as you age, decrease risk of certain forms of cancer, repair of the skin, normalize metabolism for losing weight while retaining youth, and a rejuvenated immune system. Now, of course, some of those st set out to me because I know a lot of people feel like once we cross over into our 40s, maybe our metabolism isn't quite working the way that maybe it used to. So if there is something in this book that we can take from it and apply it to our current fitness journey, that could be helpful for your metabolism. I definitely want us to do that. So he talks about a brain beauty connection. He talks about beauty really starting from like deep within the layers of your skin. He talks about I had oh, what he really talked about that I think will be somewhat, not that it'll be controversial, because you know what? I see people talking about this on social media, but I don't think I've ever spoken to anybody about it in person, but he talks about how bad Botox is for you just to give you a little bit of a spoiler, because we're definitely going to cover this too. But he talks about how absolutely not he would never he would never recommend Botox, not that he wouldn't recommend it, but he's kind of just like saying that the use of Botox is basically you putting a toxin into your your face. And when I read that, I was like, you know what? You're absolutely right. And he even broke down the word Botox. So let me do at least that little bit. He says, use of Botox, a neurotoxin, neuro means nerve, toxin means poison that paralyzes muscles to smooth out wringles and expression lines is rampant He said it's rampant. He said y'all are doing that too much. Why would you put that poison into your face when you know all you had to do was eat right, take these supplements and rub some cream on yourself? That's what he's saying. But I feel like something like Botox has gotten so, so popular and it's gotten so popular with people who are very young that I hardly ever see women in their thirties, even with wrinkles. Like some of, I know my favorite influencers on social media, some of them really don't have lines or even expression lines in their face anymore. And I think my issue withotox and I've said this before on the podcast is that I feel like the overuse of it ends up doing the opposite of what it is aimed to do. Like after you shoot your face up so much, you actually, in my opinion, you start looking older than what you actually are. And it's kind of no way to reverse that. I guess, not that I know of. Maybe you just have to let time pass and you just don't go back to get more Botox and maybe over time your skin will return back to what it used to be. I don't know, but what I do know is I love a good expression line and I don't know when those became a bad thing. Like if I'm happy and I'm laughing, I want you to see that I'm happy and that I'm laughing. I don't want my face to seem so like stretched out and smooth that you can only tell my mood based on what my mouth is doing. or what's coming out of my mouth. I don't want that. Like I I don't want that and like I was telling a friend a week or so ago, like I I honestly just I don't want to look tampered with. I don't want to look like somebody has been doing things to me. I feel like it is really beautiful to naturally age to age to the best of your ability by just taking really great care of yourself. And I think some of the most beautiful women are the women who who look their age. like, and I don't mean that in a bad way because really what is looking your age, but they just look the way you would expect them to at the age that they are. Let's put it like that. I I mean, but that's just my personal opinion. If you are a Botox girly, like please don't come for me, you do what makes you feel good and what makes you happy. But as for me and my face, we going finish this race like the way we came into this world, right? Oh, natural. So he says reversing the aging process is something that he introduced as part of research he was doing initially. solely based on inflammation and through his research on inflammation, he came into all of these steps. So if you are familiar at all with, um, I've talked about it before with different ways you can eat to reduce inflammation. He was studying that. But I guess kind of like from the perspective as a dermatologist. He says inflammation exists as a spectrum ranging from the highly visible, such as bright red sunburn to the invisible. It is this invisible inflammation that I am referring to when I use the term inflammation. You can't see it and you can't feel it. This invisible inflammation also called microinflammation exists in all of our cells and is responsible for their eventual breakdown. It is responsible for the aging process that gives us wrinkled, sagging skin as well as age- related diseases, as diverse as all-is, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and the auto immune diseases. Simply put if we want to decrease our risk for age-related diseases and decelerate the aging process, then we need to control inflammation. And we can do that best by controlling two essential lifestyle elements, diet and stress. Now, stress is a big one that he focuses on, but he kind of breaks it down under an umbrella, so he talks about our diets and aging and sugar and how sugar consumption stresses out your body. He talks about that. He talks about stress and aging and as you age, how aging naturally stresses your body out. But then, of course, we have like everyday life stressors that contribute to our overall stress and he talks about how that is a connection to anxiety that is ultimately aging us all. This sounds like such a Debbie Downer call like girl, I'm sorry, but I just wanted to kind of do I just kind of wanted to do an overview of what we're going to be talking about so that people like so now you know when I say it's a paragon parone promise episode, you know maybe this is maybe a time where you want to be like seated. You might not want to be walking through target and trying to listen to this at the same time because it might be something that you actually want to retain. Whereas normally when we have these calls, you can kind of multitask at the same time, right? So he talks about stress, right? He talks about the more stress you're under the greater the amount of cortisol your body is producing, which is something that whether women know it or not, that is like the main thing that we are fighting, which I feel like people talk about cortisol a lot now. So maybe 20 years ago, Cortisol wasn't something that people spoke about that much or maybe you spoke about it at your doctor if you were going through menopause, maybe that's something that came up in like private conversations. But I feel like now people talk about Cortisol all the time. But his response to what he believes can help us not necessarily eliminate cortisol, but like reduce it to me is pretty interesting and I'm excited to kind of share that and hear what people have to think about it and to see what parts of this people decide to add to what what they're doing. I think that based on what I've read up until this point, it would be good to go through this book first, because remember, I I shared it on Instagram that we were going to do a book all about Menopause, too. But once I well, first of all, once I found this book in my basement and I started flipping through it, I was like, ooh, you know what? Maybe it's better for us to go through this book first, because I feel like this book gives you actual tools that aren't necessarily hormone replacement because I know for a fact, the book that I plan to kind of go through that's all about menopause, hormone replacement is a big part of it. And I know that that's somewhat controversial too. I know that's not going to be for everybody, but I think if we go through this book and learn what we can about the different supplements, about the different topical treatments that he recommends. and also the different superfoods that he wants everybody to eat or he thinks that everybody should be eating. I think if we kind of take our time and go through those, then head into the menopause stuff, that'll be the better way to kind of go through that. and there is a 28 day program part to this too. So who knows? Maybe if we are able to get through this whole book before December, we can practice some of these things in December and then test it out and see how we feel, which I know that's like a weird time of the year to do some of this. But it's kind of like, you know what? I feel about December. And I know we had a whole episode about the winter artc. So I'm not going to repeat myself too much. But I do feel like December is actually the best time to try stuff. You're going to be eating anyway. So why not try some of these superfoods, right? You're going to be buying things and shopping anyway. So why not get some of these supplements or some of these creams are like whatever? And then use them all throughout the month of December. It could be like a little paracom promise advent calendar. Maybe we read this book. We'll be done with it by the end of November, and then in December, we can kind of grab the things that we think we want to do because certainly we probably all of us as a collective are not going to want to do every single thing he details in this book. Like I already know that. But maybe you decide what what of this you feel will work for you. And then we all kind of just try our own stuff over the next 28 days. You take your supplements, you do your net cream like whatever it is, and let's see if we can really reverse some of this stuff in the time frame that he says. Because to me, telling me you can reverse 10 years of aging in 28 days, that to me is a big promise. That to me is like you're selling me a dream and I don't like to be sold. dreams of any kind. It's like do I believe that this is something that will work possibly? possibly Only because the stuff we already talk about so many of us are already doing it. Like so many of us are already eating pretty clean, so many of us are already working out. So many of us are already sleeping. I truly believe to the best of our ability, but I still feel like sleep is a big one for a lot of people. I feel like people still don't get enough sleep. And even if they are getting the hours, I feel like the quality of sleep maybe isn't always where people would want it to be. So that is something that I think maybe at least that part alone will be able to maybe possibly learn a little something from him on that um because I feel like sleep is where the recovery and the magic really happens when your body is at rest. And if that part isn't right, then you can rub all the cream and take all the supplements and eat all the superf foods. But it can only do so much if your body is not getting really, really, really good rest. So hopefully that is a good introduction to what we're going to be talking about and I will do my best to make it less boring to hear because the book the book is a lot. The book, the book is literally a textbook. There's like a glossary at the end of it. And like it there's a bibliography for crying out loud at the end. It's like a little parone promise encyclopedia.. But I think I think we're going to get a lot from it. So yay for that. For the next call, girl, just have your notebook and your your pin ready because we're going to start diving deep into it so that we can put some of this stuff on our Christmas list if maybe you want to do that and then start it in January. Okay. Let's do a workout report because I am definitely in my Pilates era since the last time we spoke. I have fallen in love with the studio. I was there today. I didn't get a chance to finish my class, though, because my son' school called and said I had to come pick him up girl they say he was sick and at first I didn't believe it, but then when we got home, he threw up and I was like, oh, I believe you now. So I'm glad they called me. You know, I had forgotten what your body feels like after a Pilates class and I definitely see no reason for me to go back to the gym. Let's just start, let me start right there. I don't see no reason for me to go back. Okay? Between my home workouts a couple times a week and going to Pilates a few times a week, I think like I'm set. Like I think I'm in my groove. I think I'm happiest doing this and I see nothing else that I would rather be doing right now than going over to that Pilates studio and getting on the reformer. And I want people to lead this particular section of our call hopefully influenced to maybe take a class or two, because it is low impact enough that everybody can do it, but definitely start out in level one classes if you've never taken Pilates before. It's a low impact that everyone can do it. It's intense enough that you feel it when class is over. It is powerful enough that you will get results from it eventually if you go consistently, obviously. Now, but what it is not, though, it is not a calorie burner. It is not. You're not going to burn 500 calories in a Pilates class. So I think that would be the only thing about it for me that I would want to share with everybody while I really do want people to like get into it. And I know I know it is a cost associated with taking Pilates classes, but you can also do math classes at home for free, like on YouTube. Look up Pilates's Body Raven. She's amazing. I do have some other YouTubers that I really do like and I recommend all the time for Pilates and I will make sure I put those in our very first newsletter of 2025. I will because that's when I'm going to return to doing emails. So I'll put a list of those in in that newsletter, but if you take classes at home on the mat, they are just as effective. They are just as good. You just have to be really consistent with it. But it's not a super big calorie burner, right? We talked about that on the last call, too. So what I recommend is people continue to do their cardio, continue to do your daily walking, whatever your step goal is, you keep doing that. Continue streng training with dumbbells. Continue that. Don't fully abandon it for Pilates, and I think that's where people kind of go left with it is that they, you know, and I'm guilty of it too. It's like you turn into a little Pilates princess and you just want to stop doing everything else that actually does burn calories. And I only say that if some type of weight loss is your goal. If you're working out and you actually want to lose pounds and you want to see the scale go down, then Pilates is definitely going to whip you into shape and you'll be toned and you'll be strong, but you're not going to see the scale move as fast as I think people want to see it move in order to stay motivated to continue to work out. Right? So you definitely want to keep your steps. You definitely want to keep strand training with dumbbells or weights or whatever a couple times a week and then let Pilates be like a supplement to what you already have going on. I would not let it become the own thing that I was doing, right? I wouldn't. because it's certainly not going to be the only thing that I do, but I'm not going to lie to you. Like I'm in love with the place that I go, the classes are diverse. So like how you hear about people being the only black woman in their Pilates classes or people feeling like it's not a place for them or whatever. I am personally not not experiencing that at the studio that I go to, which, but that is a real thing, because I when I lived in Texas and I used to go to Pure bar classes and I was a Pure bar girl down, okay, I still have to grippie socks. I was going to Pure bar a lot after I had my second baby, I think it was. And yeah, I would go and I would be the only black girl in there. So I know what I know what that's like. Like people don't chat with you after class. It's hard to make friends and like the whole thing and you want to feel like you have your community and like your people that you see every time you go because that is a really big part of going to group fitness classes. People don't like to admit it. But as someone who was an instructor and as someone who likes to go to those classes having that camaraderie in that sense of community really does matter to a lot of people. And when you feel like you have that support system within your class, like you feel like people are looking forward to seeing you or you're looking forward to seeing people in class. It makes you go to class. It makes you want to go to class quite often, right? So at the studio that I've been going to, like I said, the classes are diverse. Everyone has been super friendly. Like I've already made friends with a couple of the women in class who go at the same days and times as I do. And I'm I'm loving it. Like I'm I'm absolutely loving it and you know when I fall in love with something, I try to spread that. I try to push that out to everybody. who gets on these calls with me. So the workout report is just that. Like things are going great and I'm so happy to be in a place where I am actually enjoying working out again. Now, we are going to start 75 hard again, January 1st. We're going to start it again January 1 and I'm super excited about that because I feel like since we did the last challenge this summer fall, I've learned a whole lot based on my own experience with the challenge and based off coaching women through it and I feel like at this point, I know how to get people to where they want to be a lot quicker. Now, like I I feel like I know exactly what to tell you to do. I could also tell people what I do tell people I don't tell y'all exactly what to eat, like what to put on your plate, but I do tell you your numbers. Like you have your number, your nutrition numbers are in the app, the workouts I created a workout for people like a workout schedule. I posted what I was doing and I felt like that schedule made it really easy for people to be able to push through all of the workouts without being like chronically sore. And I'm going to do that again, but this time it'll be a little bit more detailed because I feel like now I know exactly what to tell people to do. Like instead of telling people to get $10,000 steps, I'm going to say you need twelve thousand steps a day. It's 12. It's not 10. If you want to see weight loss, it is 12., right? If you want to see significant change in your body, you do need to be picking up those weights I'm going to say four to five times a week within the 75 hard challenge. I'm not talking about on an everyday, whatever. I'm just talking about how to get the biggest bang for your book during 75 hard, picking up the weights four to five times a week. If you are not picking up the weights, that often, then I do highly recommend your fifth strength workout of the week be something like Pilates or bar. I highly recommend one day that out of the week your workout B double cardio. These are all things that I did during 75 hard, by the way, one day out of the week, I would do double cardio, so for an hour and a half, I would walk or for an hour and a half. I would either split it and I would do a 45 minute walk and a 45 minute bike ride. or I'd do an hour walk and a 30 minute bike ride just whatever to get that hour and a half, one day out of the week, I did all cardio and I rarely ever ran. Some days I would run because my neighborhood does have hills and I would just do that because I'm insane. But again, you don't have to do that. What's most important is that you're doing the cardio for an hour and a half. So you could do Zooma. You could take any other kind of dance class that you want. Whatever it is, that would be my thing for that. And then obviously, one day out of the week, I would want people to do something that felt a little bit more mind body related. So one day out of the week try to make yoga your second workout or try to do something like a core workout that was strictly core. Nothing that's really utilizing like your glutes and your ham because sometimes people will say they're teaching you a core class, but then you end up working all these other body parts. And you really want those to be at rest so that you can hit weights all throughout the week. And as we get closer to 75 hard, starting, I'll make sure I do a much better job this time of breaking it all the way down so that people can really maximize their efforts. because you can really have big change during that 75 days. The last time we did the challenge, I had uh we had people in the group lose anywhere from zero up to 20 pounds. And I think she may have lost a little more than 20. I don't know, but based on the women that I spoke to in the challenge was over, people lost whole dress sizes, lots and lots of inches. And it it truly was a significant period of time where I saw I visibly saw people change and I got to hear a lot about their non-scale victories that in my opinion, if anyone heard those stories, they would be extremely motivated to do a challenge like 75 hard and what I like about that challenge for people is that it has an endate to it. Like you tell yourself if I do these things for 75 days and I know 75 days sounds like a long time when you think about it and you say it out loud, but it what if I told you that on January 1 you could start a challenge and in 75 days from January 1, whatever day that is, which is probably sometime in March, like what, March 15th or something like that. What if I told you you could be so incredibly close to your goal or well on your way to having a tried and true, solid fitness routine that would push you towards your goals for the rest of 2025. So then to me, 75 days doesn't sound like doesn't sound like too much to trade in for those kind of results. If I'm being completely honest, I think the mind shift that I saw that challenge have on women was probably my favorite thing about it because it does make you like I've been saying a lot lately relentless in your efforts to achieve your goals. And I feel like when you're on a journey like that, when you are being very intentional, very purposeful, and you have that like no excuses attitude about reaching your goals, you do become just a completely different person. Like it really does become your whole personality. It really does become your lifestyle and who you are and it no longer feels like a chore or something you have to do. You don't struggle to do it. It doesn't mean that you're going to want to do it every day. It just means that when you do have to miss a workout or you do have to eat something that you feel like isn't the best choice for you. You know that is a choice you're actually making and it's not like you are just out here living life. Like haphazardly. like I will speak for myself, what, seventy hard taught me and is still teaching me because I'm hardheaded. What it is still teaching me is that like, girl, every time you introduce some bad sugar to your body like your body doesn't like it. and giving up what I'll say like bunny ears bad sugars, giving those up the way that I have has been incredibly big for me. Like incredibly big. My physique has changed so much in a way that I truly didn't think was possible without going to see somebody and land on the table. Right? I really didn't think it was possible. But as it turns out, what was holding me back from myself was the bad sugars. and that's why I'll get up here and say over and over again. I don't care how many times I have to repeat this part, but really what was keeping me from myself was the drinking and I didn't have a drinking problem. I feel like I talk about it all the time. I have a drinking problem, but, you know, like I said on TikTok today, I never met a cocktail that did me dirty. I just didn't I just like them. I liked to celebrate. I like to catch a vibe. I think it goes well with dinner sometimes like whatever. But that was keeping me from where I wanted to be. And I can tell now because that's truly the only thing that I have completely eliminated from my lifestyle on a regular basis and I can tell a difference. Now, that is not to say because I don't want any if I ever post or talk, if I get on my other number and I'm talking about, I'm going out on date night and I had a glass of champagne, I don't need nobody calling me out so don't don't take what I'm saying as I'm never drinking again, but what I am saying is I see now where if I make the choice to drink, I know exactly what that means for my body and it it means inflammation. It means what he's going to talk about in the parone promise. That's what it means. It just it's just me saying to myself like, oh okay, so you want to be you want to be bloated and inflamed for the next couple of days after that. Like you're telling yourself you're okay with it. And sometimes, girl, I don't know I might be. I might be. I might be But then for the most part, though, I'm like, yeah, no, I don't want to look I don't want to look bloated. I want to be able to put my clothes on and like how they feel. So truly consider joining us for the next 75 hard challenge. If you have any questions about that, if you have any feelings about it, if it's something that you want to discuss with me because you don't know if it's right for you or even if you think it's going to be more of like a scheduling thing, maybe you want to do it and you just don't know how to find that hour and a half every day to work out. I'm serious when I say reach out to me to talk to me about it. Reach out to me because I do what I do for a living to truly help women change their lives and how they view what's possible for them. I don't do it just to get up here and just try to be funny and like try to like share what I know or try to like do cute little research projects on nutrition and diet an exercise. No, I do it because I'm really passionate about it. And if I know something is possible for you and I know that there's a chance that you might want it even a little bit, I want to be the friend that encourages you to like take it take the process and yourself seriously enough to go get what is rightfully yours. And that is whatever it is you want for yourself. So hit me up on my email. TiaV fitness at gmail.com and if you feel like I'm not responding to your email fast enough girl, then write me on Instagram because I do respond a lot quicker over there and that is at TiaV fitness. Let's get into some of the random things that I would like to discuss before we go now. let's first start off with what people are saying about Ariana Grande and Cynthia Ro as they continued their press tour for the movie Wicked. I'm very excited to see the movie Wicked. I think both of those women are so incredibly talented. They have beautiful voices and I'm not even a musical person like I don't like musicals. I'm probably going to go see a play on Broadway the next time I go to New York just to check it off my bucket list as something that I feel like, you know, I should do as a woman who, you know, tries to moonlight as a sophisticated woman. I'm going to go. I'm going to go because I feel like I should and I probably will enjoy it. Like it'll be a cool experience. But like, was I obsessed with Hamilton? No, I wasn't. Did I ever listen to the Hamilton soundtrack? No, I didn't. Did I care to? Absolutely not. Well, I go see these two women sing? yes, because I grew up watching the Wizard of Oz in school, like everybody else did on a rainy day or like when it was so close to school getting out and those teachers didn't have nothing else to teach you. So they were put on the Wizard of Oz and have you watch it. I grew up watching the whiz, right? I grew up watching the whiz. So I feel like it's only right that we now see wicked, right? Got to go see wicked, but what people are talking about is how they feel as if Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande are disappearing right before our very eyes while they've been on this press tour under the pressure to fit into the fashions to impress the people enough to go see the movie. Now, I remember back when the tabloids used to be full of all of the skinty girls when it wasowed to be skinty, skinty, skinty. And then we kind of evolved from that like the video Vixen became popular and the more curvy you were as a video Vixen, the more videos you got in and fast forward and now like everyday women look like video Vixens. Everybody's got to be BBL. And if you don't have a BBL, then you probably just look like you do. I don't know, right? But that is what became popular for a long time. And I think over the past, maybe six months to a year, maybe we have started seeing people kind of going back to the more natural body look or like a more slender look. People are trying to get lean again, right? They're undoing their surgeries. A lot of women are and they're talking about it and sharing it on social media and I think that's kind of cool, but they're taking out implants. They are taking out filler, they're doing the whole thing. Everybody's getting back to their smaller versions of themselves. What I think is interesting about people talking about the two of them is the fact that this kind of points out to me that people had really, I think, kind of got into a place where maybe they thought the BBL was like the real body. That's the only way I can describe it. To me, Ariana has always been just as big as a tear drop. She was never like a a person that I would consider to be described as anything other than petite. Like she's always been a small person. And I would say the same thing for Cynthia Oriva. Now, what I will say is that maybe Cynthia's face looked fuller, like maybe she has lost weight from all of the traveling and the lack of sleep and like the eating whatever she's had to eat because they're they've literally been all over the world. Every time you see them, they're literally somewhere else and maybe because of that, that whole thing is taking a toll on her and is probably putting her body under a certain level of stress and her body is responding to it. But I don't think these women are trying to purposely be small like that the way people are dragging them in the comments saying, I just don't believe that. And maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't I I just, yeah, no, not at all. I don't believe that for one second that that is yeah, that that's their goal. I think they are just under a lot of pressure and a lot of stress and sometimes people's bodies respond to stress by just not being able to hold on to wait, like the stress is literally like burning calories off of their little bodies. So I don't I don't really get that. I would love to hear what other people think about that. If you've been paying attention to that conversation at all.. Because I don't like it and I feel like this is one of those like made up Internet things that people need to stop doing. They they just need to stop talking about them and pretty soon the movie will come out and people will. Like this will all be over after Thanksgiving after the press tour is over, right? So that's that. Something else that I saw on social media and I just said, where have I been? Where have I been? Megan Good and Jonathan majors are engaged. Now, I am not going to do too much on Jonathan majors because I don't even think them getting engaged. I mean, it is about him, but it's not like the feelings and the thoughts that I have about the engagement really don't have nothing to do with like him and his personal like individuals situation because I don't even know what his situation is anymore. I don't know if he's already gone to sentencing. Like I don't I don't know what I don't know how that whole thing ended up concluding. Like I don't I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. So not too much on him, right but I guess the thing that I wonder about that whole thing is there was a lot of chatter about it on social media too, is that number one, she looks really happy. Like she looks really happy and she looks gorgeous. She looks really happy. So there's that. But number two, I do wonder about the what is the best way to put it? Not really the speed of it all, but maybe the the I don't I don't even know what like the right words for it. So let me just say this. I feel as if she was in a very public facing marriage to the pastor. And I kind of feel like that pastor never had her back. Like even though he would speak out like that one clip of him checking that woman that one time is out there. If I'm being honest, I don't really think that that's how he really felt behind closed doors. Like I think he really wanted more of like a traditional first lady, which is absurd because he knew he married like a sex kitten, like a sex symbol. Like he knew she was Megan good when he married her, right? I think, and I don't know these people from a can of paint, this is just me this is just me talking to y'all. I think behind closed doors, he he really did have a problem with how she oozes sex appeal and how she dresses and all of that because that was giving him problems from the people in his congregation, the people that would pay to come see him speak and all of that. Those people had a problem with her. Maybe mainly because they're haters. But also because they wanted her to be in like this first lady box that she just was never going to be in. So I feel like she got out of that situation that had to be hurtful because you could tell she really cared about him and one of that relationship to work. But I feel like she got out of that situation and it's not at all like I don't have any feelings about her dating Jonathan Majors. I think I have feelings about the time at which she started dating him when he had a very big thing going on in his own life. So it's kind of like, oh, you got with him when he had a lot going on and I don't know, like the the the allotness of it feels like a lot. And now y'all are getting married and I'm just like, I hope I guess I have a little fear for her and I guess if she ain't scared I shouldn't be scared but that's those are the words I was trying to find before. I think I'm a little nervous for her because I'm like, ooh, girl, you started dating him when he had all that mess going on. and even though we don't know like the inside scoop on all the mess, the little bit of the mess that dripped over the social media, we really didn't want that for you coming out of that marriage. We really didn't want you to get into a situation that seems like a lot from the outside looking in, even if it's not a lot from the inside looking out. But, you know, you held him down. You were his girlfriend. I guess she was you was this cortta girl. You you held him down and y'all look happy and y'all look cute together, but I'm like, I hope that she has been able to still have, I guess, like a regular relationship with them. I guess it's what I'm getting to because it's seems like that could have possibly been hard. Like to just date like regular, which I mean, I guess how regular can famous people date, but I feel like famous people date regularly all the time. So I would hope that their relationship hasn't the fact that I feel like it's been under such a bright light, the whole time that they've been dating as far as we know, to me doesn't give me good viibes. And you know, like who am I? Who am I? Who am I? But that that just doesn't give me good vibes. Like, ooh girl, I feel like y'all the whole time y'all' been dating, it was under this like this stressful situation where you had to be, you had yeah, you had to be a really big support system for him. So from like as a girlfriend, it looks like you had to really like hold him up and how can you possibly like date date with like lingering crap all in the atmosphere? Like how could that be like fun and romantic when you've got this like umbrella of doom over you? And maybe it's not and it's just what I'm assuming, but I don't know. I don't know. I hope it works out for her in the way that she wants it to work out because I'm a big fan of Megan Good. I can't wait to watch the next season of Harlem when it comes back to Amazon, but something about that whole thing just feels like, man, I wish y'all had dated a little bit more so, you know, yeah. So he wasn't in his situation when y'all got engaged. Like I would want him to be far removed, like far, like 2025, almost 2026, kind of far removed from his situation before y'all got engaged. But, you know, I know it's a lot of Jonathan majors, lovers out there, like my bestie loves her from Jonathan majors, loves him down and if Megan Goode does not marry that man, my best friend might. So I really actually need Megan Good to go ahead and marry that ma' so that I don't have to worry about being a bridesmaid at at Jonathan Major's wedding. Yeah. So congratulations to them. You know I cannot get off this phone without talking about the fact that beyoncé will be headlighting the halftime performance on Christmas Day when the Baltimore Ravens play the Houston Texans, right? The Baltimore Ravens happens to be my husband's favorite basketball. I mean football team, by the way, that was very girl thing to say basketball team. It's his favorite football team, so we would have been watching the game anyway, but now that beyoncé is practically the game and she's the moment, you already know I got an outfit for this. Now see, people picked on me when I bought like all of those Western themed food decorations, and I bought my little howdy earrings and I have like a couple pairs of cowboy boots now because I wanted to be on the front end of the things and not on the back end. I got my cowboy carter merch. I already got it. I still have my cowboy hat. I've already got an outfit ready for Christmas Day. I'm going to slide out of those Christmas PJs and write into my Texas Hold them get up. And I might buy a special Texas holdum romper situation to go with my cowboy boots and my cowboy hat. That feels appropriate. Ooh, because that would match my howdy cowboy earrings, too. I might do it. Now, I have a lot of predictions about the halftime show. I will save the predictions for my other number. But what I will talk about is the fact that I feel like the next announcement, because you know she doesn't do anything like this without an announcement. For example, when she performed at the Super Bowl, we got lemonade or like a tour date or something. Like she released her tour. When she was at the Grammys last year and Jay-Z got up there and said, like, oh, if she doesn't get ALTY, this next time I'll know y'all just some straight up haters. Like we'll, we'll know that because he knew Cowboy Carter. We didn't know. But when she didn't get a for renaissance, he said, I'll see y'all the next time. We'll we'll meet here again, right? When she popped up in that Verizon ad during the Super Bowl we got music, right We always get something when she decides to make herself present on television. We normally get something in return. And I think at the end of the Christmas halftime performance, we are either going to get the Renaissance film on Netflix because you know she has her Renaissance deal or she has her Netflix deal. I feel like we're either going to get that the film finally, we might not. We might not ever get it, but if we do, I feel like she'll announce that like after her performance cas see, that's what's going to happen. She's going to perform and then they're going to go to commercial break and when they go to commercial break, it'll be the Beyoncé screen, how she always does like either the blacked out screen or she'll probably do the red screen because she normally does that for Christmas. It'll do the the red screen with her font and it'll say something like Renaissance the film, like now on Netflix or it'll say come to Netflix whenever it'll be either that or and I could this could be a stretch. It really could be, but see, I don't think it is a stretch to think we'll get new music on Christmas Day. because the Grammys is in February, so her performing on Christmas Day is like brilliant because that gets Cowboy Carter back out into the forefront out in front of everybody, even though she's been promoting it through all of her other products since it came out, it'll get cowboy Carter back out there. Like people would be talking about it. People would be talking about the performance who she possibly might involve in that halftime performance. They'll be talking about what she wore, what songs she selected and all of the things and we'll be chatting about it. But see, it's not enough to do that on Christmas Day. You also have got to give people something that they can hold on to until the Grammys. Like you've got to keep people buzzing until the Grammys. And that's why I think she'll either release the Renaissance film and people will be talking about that and people will be watching it and it'll give us just another reason to have her trending until the Grammys, right? Or she might release some type of cowboy Carter visual. My guess would be maybe a video with Miley Cyrus because she's a, you know, Miley Cyrus is Miley Cyrus. She's huge. So maybe they have shot some type of music video and we'll get that little nugget and then maybe sometime in January we'll get another visual and this is this is like me totally reaching because she't already told us we was the visuals. But if not, because we know she has filmed things. We've seen the little looks and different trailers. Maybe she shot a video for some of her other stuff and maybe she'll release videos leading up into the Grammys so we don't know. My other prediction and this is the big one. This is actually what I hope that she does. I don't even care about visuals. I'm not going to hold y'all. I don't care about visuals. I feel like she's given us so many music videos all throughout her career that I almost prefer like the documentaries that she does. Like like the the Renaissance film. I prefer that over music videos personally. I do. Like I would rather see like the behind the scenes of her creating her art more than I would like to see like music videos. I don't know. That's just me. So there's that. I think the real, the real just moment that would just break the entire the earth would split open and it would make my Christmas Day as if after she performed, that halftime show, she said, oh baby, act three is out now. Go get your whole Christmas rock and roll life. Go pull up Apple Music or wherever you stream my stuff and get your life. Act three. It's out now. Why do I think that would be the real moment because that for sure would have people talking, talking, talking, talking, talking about her all the way up until the Grammys. And then you know she is going to do stuff between now and the Grammys anyway. Like she will, but if she released act three on Christmas Day, that would be huge and after the Grammys or the Super Bowl like if she decides to have another Grammy moment or Super Bowl moment, maybe she's going to be in a commercial whatever she'll announce a tour and the tour will include cowboy Carter and act three people keep saying like oh she's going to do a tour. She's going to do a tour. She's gonna do and I'm like no she's not. I don't think she's going to do a tour solely for Cowboy Carter mainly because so many of those songs include other artists and it's the big songs, like so that means for every single night of that tour, she would have to have post Malone. She would have to have Molly Cyrus. She would have to have shiboozzy. She would have to have Willie Jones and I don't even know if she's going to let Willie Jones come tour with her after all that mess he was involved in. She would have to have all of the ladies from Blackbird. or maybe she would just sing Blackbird by herself. I don't know, but it would be kind of classic. It would be really just delicious if she had all of them singing with her every night while she was on tour. Like it would be epic.. I've read comments that say they think she's going to do her own music festival because whatever music festival, that is that Jay Z or Rock Nation used to do what is it called Made in America. Apparently they haven't had a made in America festival in like the past two years and they feel like made in America and Cowboy Carter together is like a good fit. I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. I feel like that too. It's a strong possibility for them to bring back that festival. She headlines it It's Cowboy Carter, but they feature all of these maybe black country music artists or black rock and roll or like black rock artists that maybe we don't even know about, right? I could see it. I could see it. and I think that would be the the bigger like better thing for her to do is to release act three and then let all of us talk about that and then at some point in 2025 she'll announce a tour and we'll all, you know, we'll all just go to that. And it would be a bigger better tour because it would have music from Cowboy Carter and she probably wouldn't. I don't think she would even perform every song from Cowboy Carter. Cowboy Carter. I have a hard time saying that. But yeah, I don't think she would even perform every song from that on the tour because she didn't even perform every song from Renaissance at every single tour stop either. But if she releases act three, she could dip her toe into some renaissance, right? She could do some cowboy carter and she could do whatever's on act three and then I think after that she will probably go somewhere and be like I'm just going to chill out for a little bit before doing a Vegas residency for sure. Yeah, that that's what I think. Now, what I think about the actual performan itself, like I said, I'll do that on the the other number. So this call isn't too long. If you have not subscribed to the other podcasts, Girl join us over there. We have a really good chill relaxed time and I get into the mess a little bit more over there. So, yeah, thank you guys for joining me on this episode of Tia's table. Remember, when you're out compliment a woman, tell her something nice about herself, make her day. don't compete, don't compare, don't complain what God has for you is for you. and never knock another woman's hustle. I will talk to you later, girl. Love you bye.