Did you love the Barbie movie? Are you curious what Margot Robbie did to transform herself for the iconic role of Barbie? If you think she fasted for hours on end, cut out carbs, and ran 5 miles a day . . . think again! Jo and Lauren (one of Couture Coaching's first clients and coaches) discuss all the things Margot Robbie likely did to become Barbie and it might be different than you think!
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Did you love the Barbie movie? Are you curious what Margot Robbie did to transform herself for the iconic role of Barbie? If you think she fasted for hours on end, cut out carbs, and ran 5 miles a day . . . think again! Jo and Lauren (one of Couture Coaching's first clients and coaches) discuss all the things Margot Robbie likely did to become Barbie and it might be different than you think!
Listen up to learn:
Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed it. Follow us for more tips, tricks, and support in our private Facebook Group, Boost Your Metabolism After Age 30.
Take our FREE quiz: What's Sabotaging Your Metabolism?
Follow us on Instagram @couture_fitness_coaching
Check at our website and blog.
Grab our free mini course - The REAL Reason you can't lose weight
Want to start boosting your metabolism today? Buy our $79 DIY, self-paced "Master Your Metabolism" course.
Want customized plan for boosting your metabolism? Learn more about our 1:1 coaching
Reserve your spot with a Couture Coach: Buy a 1:1 coaching package
Hey everyone, welcome to the Couture Coaching Booster Metabolism After Age 30 podcast. It's Jo here, and today we're going to be talking all about the Barbie movie and how Margot Robbie built that amazing physique. But first let me tell you what's going on at Couture Coaching. We're enrolling right now for our October Metabolic Makeover Program. This is our signature one-on-one coaching program and with it you'll get your very own coach who will create a personalized fitness and nutrition plan for you. All you have to do is execute no decision making about your macros what you need to be doing in the gym. We calibrate it right down to the number of steps you need to take every day and how many minutes of cardio you need to get in a week so very tailored, and you just have to do the plan. And also, during your when you're working with us, you will be supported by the live coaching we have in our program. We have two coaching calls a week. We also have a private podcast and really all the support and accountability you need.
Speaker 1:So if you want to sign up, head over to our website. There are also links in the show notes. If you want to sign up directly from there, or if you still have questions. You can book a discovery call with us. Links to both of those in the show notes. Okay, so, as I mentioned, today's topic is going to be all about Margot Robbie and how she became Barbie, and really I think our main aim here is maybe to dispel some misconceptions that there might be, especially amongst women, about how she or one would go about building that iconic physique. And today I'm joined on the podcast by one of our very first clients who became a coach, lauren, who I am happy to report has rejoined couture coaching. Lauren, do you want to tell the listeners a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 2:Sure, I'd love to. First of all, super excited to be back at couture. Yeah, let me, I guess, just yeah start by introducing myself so you guys can kind of get to know me. So I am a working mom of two kids. My kids are eight and five and I am 39, but will be 40 in about four short weeks. I, like I said, I'm a professional working mom. I married to someone who is a professional as well. We both work full time, we both have pretty demanding jobs and I coach clients in a one on one capacity for about I did it for oh Joe, how long was it?
Speaker 2:Like six sessions, probably so about a year and a half, and I had to. I left for a bit earlier this year just to focus on work responsibilities, but I really missed coaching and so I really wanted to come back in some capacity. The mission of a tour is so important to me. I'm one of those women who spent years trying to do it all while basically running on fumes, under eating or not eating the right things, not getting the right workouts in, really just not not putting myself first and thinking I can, I can do it. That way. I really.
Speaker 2:My big thing was that I chronically under eight and it really did trash my metabolism. It worked for a while. I didn't gain weight for a while when I was under eating. But after my second child it did not work any longer. So I knew what I needed to do and I asked Joe and Allison and I used to compete together. So I knew, you know, I knew macros, I knew lifting, I knew all of it. I knew that I, you know I couldn't under eat forever.
Speaker 2:But it was the thought of changing it and kind of going back to the tracking macros and being on a very, you know, being on kind of more of a schedule, just I don't know, for some reason at the time it overwhelmed me, but I knew I had to do it. I just got to putting it off but finally I gave in and I was actually one of Joan Allison's first skinny big clients and it and it wasn't until I was a couture client that I really had the support that I needed to start eating more and to be accountable for that. I know it sounds crazy that you know how hard is it to eat more, but you know, when you're really scared of gaining weight and somebody tells you you need to eat more in order to basically lose weight or look better or feel better. Really, feeling better is the most important thing. It's very, you know, it's counterintuitive and it's also obviously not what we're told as women you know for the first for all of our lives really.
Speaker 2:So I worked with Allison and you know she got me eating more. After I did that for about a year I went into a cut and now really am physically probably in the best shape ever, just because I've been so consistent. But when I became a coach it really made me realize how many women were in the same spot as me, which was very shocking and it was such a bigger problem that I had like ever could have imagined. So I am, like I said, very excited to be back at Couture, you know, to kind of help with the mission, and you know I'll be not coaching, maybe so much, but I will be helping behind the scenes and doing some of our group coaching.
Speaker 1:Nice. Yeah, you were definitely one of our very popular coaches. All of our coaches are amazing, but I do think it's helpful and I would say this for all of our coaches like to know what our clients are going through and, having gone through it ourselves, to really know the mental gymnastics, especially that can go on, especially when you have to reverse diet and get your calories up.
Speaker 2:so you're definitely an example of that, so, okay, I will say I do think you know it's much easier for clients to go through the process when they know their coach has gone through the process. You know I can, when I coached it was always very easy for me to you know be empathetic and really like understand where they were coming from, when you know they just said they could not eat and they were like so scared to gain weight because I was there. So I do feel like, you know, being both a coach and a client was advantageous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure. Okay, let's move on to today's topic at hand, the Barbie movie. Have you seen it? Who did you see it with? What were your favorite scenes?
Speaker 2:Yes, so, yes, I have seen it. I went and saw it with my mom, my aunt and my daughter. I didn't know what to expect. So, you know, I think, like most people like took me, you know, by total shock, like how much it spoke to everyone, right, and it was just, it was so. I mean it was, it was like right, all the feels, it was like you could relate to it so much, from like the very start to the very end. You could relate to all the characters. Yeah, it was just, it was so much more than I could have imagined. It was such a great movie Favorite scene. So, of course, of course it's, it's America for Eris speech. You know, I know it's been talked about quite a bit on social media, but I mean literally like crying at the end of it which I think most women were.
Speaker 2:You know, because you, you do, you feel like you have to do all the things but yet you're never doing anything. You know well enough. You know you're you're just so, so spent. So, yeah, I mean, that just really really spoke to me and I think it spoke to most people. But yeah, I still I like to find like social media clips and rewatch it, that part of it.
Speaker 1:I watched it earlier today. I was like man, she nailed it. All the dichotomies and all the you know, ridiculous in tangible situations, yeah, that we have to meet. So I thought it was so, so good. What about your daughter? Did she have a favorite scene? What spoke to her?
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, I don't think, I actually don't think she liked it that much. We really didn't. We really she really didn't talk about it that much afterwards, so I don't know if she really really spoke to her the way it spoke to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, well, that makes sense. She's pretty young still. Yeah, she's young.
Speaker 2:Seven at the time.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, so I took my daughter and her two best friends and we actually went and saw it on my daughter's 17th birthday. For her birthday we got dressed up, we went to dinner and then we went and saw it and we all loved it. My daughter and her friends really loved the scene where the Barbies conspired to take back Barbie Land and go let the men think like mansplain to them so that they can like charm them. So they thought that was so funny and so accurate and were like, oh my gosh, that is exactly how guys do it. That's how they totally mansplain to you. So they liked that scene. And then my daughter in particular mentioned the scene where I guess it's the scene where Barbie they're dancing and everyone's having a good time and then she says didn't anyone ever think about dying? And then, like the whole movie takes a turn and they all talked about that scene. I got it, but it was really impactful to them and I guess that's when you are a teenager that might be the first time like your mortality is an issue or something you think about. So I thought that was interesting, that they really picked up on that, and that can turn the mood when you start thinking about that. So I thought that was interesting. So, yeah, I think there are just different parts of the movie that spoke to everyone. I loved the opening scene when the little girls are playing with their baby dolls and then a Barbie appears in that swimsuit. I wasn't like anything, obviously that was said, but she just looks so strong and powerful and hopeful. It gave me goosebumps. I just loved it. And then I loved the ending scene where she goes to her appointment. I mean I was like what is she going to be doing? And then I just thought it was the perfect ending and a perfect way for her to celebrate being a real woman. So those were my favorite parts of the movie. And, of course, I loved Weird Barbie. I thought she nailed it to you.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's talk about how Margot Robbie got ready for this role, but before we do, I do wanna make a few comments about Barbie's physique, and I've heard over the years like it's not a realistic physique. So I chat GBT this. This is what I learned is that her proportions have long been a topic of discussion and a debate due to their unrealistic nature. So if we were to translate Barbie's iconic measurements to a real life human. They would be roughly as follows Her bust would be around 40 inches, her waist would be around 18 inches and her hips would be around 33 inches, and so obviously these proportions would create a significant difference between a person's bust, waist and hip measurements, and leading to what's commonly you know what we think of as that perfect hourglass figure, but these measurements are not achievable or healthy for most real individuals. They are highly unrealistic and often criticized for promoting an unattainable body standard. So let's talk about that.
Speaker 1:You and I have both competed. We've gotten in the best Lena shape of our lives. Have you ever had a waist? Almost, and you have a very tiny waist. Lauren naturally has a very I would say Barbie like Kirby hourglass physique With and can get a tiny waist.
Speaker 2:It's got brown pie too, so.
Speaker 1:Okay. Have you ever had a waist almost 20 inches smaller than your bust and 15 inches smaller than your hips?
Speaker 2:No, no, I mean that would look ridiculous. I mean, what I'm sitting here thinking about is so I don't know if you guys remember that Tyra Banks modeling show like America's Next Top I don't know what it was called, but Tyra Banks for a long time hosted this modeling show and I remember one season this woman was on and she had like the smallest waist ever. I think she's like seriously had like a 20 inch waist. I mean she didn't have these other measurements right. She was just like Mary, thin and lanky, but she had like a very small waist to where she could like fit her like hands around her waist. And she in real life she looked not great right, in real life she looks so unhealthy and really just not the look that most women would really want.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean, it's all just to say this is not realistic or really something you even want to strive for. I've heard also about the Barbie physique. Like in a real person, most people wouldn't be able to walk around or even function with these proportions. They're so like, not in proportion to reality. So we are not by any means saying that any grown woman or girl or any human should strive for this physique, and we are not telling you that this should be the goal. So we don't want you to miss here any of this, as we're talking about you know, if you wanted to aspire to find your inner Barbie, this is a doll.
Speaker 1:Her features are, of course, exaggerated, I'm sure, just as the GI Joes dolls features are likely exaggerated. So when we talk about humans and real women working toward a Barbie physique, what we're talking about is working toward a balanced physique, a trim and healthy West waistline. I think you know that's something that is universally attractive or something maybe we would desire. But more importantly, I would say, the strength, confidence and energy that Barbie exuded in this movie. So that's what we're referring to, not these unrealistic proportions that if Barbie were blown up into a real life human she would have, and I don't know what Margot's measurements were for this movie, but I don't think they represented those proportions.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's talk about what she did Margot Robbie did likely to get ready for this role. I will tell you her trainers have not been revealed. They've not revealed themselves or their training secrets, but, putting our physique coach hats on, we have a good sense what we would do to help someone if they said they wanted to create a Barbie-like physique, and some good sense of what she likely did to get ready for this role. Lauren, do you wanna talk about what you think she probably did to get ready for the role?
Speaker 2:Yeah and yeah, of course. So, first of all, before we even start talking about what she did to get ready for the role, she's most likely started with a very healthy metabolism, so she likely was already eating an adequate amount of food. I mean, no way that she kicked this off with her metabolism, you know, no way like let's, let me put it this way there's no way she was eating 1,000 calories or 1,200 calories when she started this transformation. There's no way her body could have done it if that's where it was, because when you're eating 1,000 calories or 1,200 calories, there's nowhere to go from there. You can't go really much lower than that, and so there's no way that she built her body in that way without starting, you know, in a good place first. So that's first, and that's also very similar to, you know, our clients, you, our number one thing is you have to start out with a good metabolism, and if you don't have good metabolism, meaning that you're not, you know, meaning that you're not eating enough, meaning that if you're not losing weight or you're maintaining weight at very low calories, that's not a good thing. So that's first. Second, I mean, she definitely lifted weights. You have to lift weights, particularly to build out her glutes and her legs for the movie.
Speaker 2:It's probably important here to realize that becoming Barbie was probably more of a building process for her than a starvation process. So in order to get that curvy figure, it's not just about trimming your waist down. It's about really building out your body around your waist to get the curvy figure. So it's about building out your legs, your glutes, of course, but also your shoulders and your back and everything that goes into getting that curve. So she did not starve herself to this. She likely had to build a decent amount of muscle to get the look. I also heard that she did a lot of functional movement like yoga, but that was probably more to do with all of the posing and the dancing that she did versus getting the physique or getting the Barbie figure. She definitely, definitely lifted and did strength training for the Barbie, for the Barbie figure.
Speaker 1:So that's no way that you're going to get those legs without some strength training.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, the glutes, the leg. I mean we can talk about my battle with glutes later in the program, but no way did she get that lower half with just like running. Okay, so you know, starting the process of the metabolism we talked about lifting weights and then, third, you know, definitely intentional nutrition. I have read that Margot's Barbie diet was a lot of whole foods, lots of lean protein. What she did not do is she did not go on juice diet, she did not just drink lemon juice, she did not just have cabbage soup, she did not just, you know, drink smoothies all day. Or she did not do intermittent fasting again and like to build the muscle out that you need to have that curvy physique, to have that Barbie figure. It's not a starvation process. You really do need to build it out and you can only build it out with eating adequately and eating adequate protein.
Speaker 1:You know your nutrition has to go ahead. No, I was just going to say sorry. What I was going to say is like I mean, you have to think of it as, like you got to feed that muscle, you can build it. It has to be fed, not deplete it and starve it and restrict it.
Speaker 2:No, it is impossible to build muscle when you are in a calorie deficit, I mean, which means that when your body is burning more than you are consuming, you cannot build out muscle. You just can't. So, yeah, she was probably eating a lot of, you know, high quality calories, like we said, protein would be, would be up there. But also important to note, she probably also wasn't doing like low carb, no carb business. I mean, in order, again, to build out muscle, you have to eat carbs. In order to have the energy to do the workouts that she probably had to do, you have to eat carbs in addition to fat and protein. You cannot cut your carbs to nothing. That really just to bleach your muscle. Yeah, just just to spell that right here, that she went on some kind of keto diet or something. I promise you that's probably not the case. And then, lastly, you know she really, you know, put in the time to to create this physique.
Speaker 2:I mean, we all know that Margot Robbie looked amazing before she got the role, but she did not show up on the set looking like Barbie. She probably spent, oh my gosh, probably one to two hours a day in the gym, several months of very intentional nutrition and weightlifting, and I mentioned this because it's really helpful for expectation setting. You don't build a physique like that. You don't build a body like that overnight. The transformation you know, from Margot Robbie to Barbie, which probably somewhat small compared to the transformation Some of us are expecting when we start getting intentional with our nutrition exercise, but I mean it's still. She did, she had to put in a lot of work and I mean I think this is very similar and she's not the only one. Right Like often you'll read when any celebrity has to get ready for a role, they all, they all have to do this. Right Like they're humans, just like we are, and so nobody just wakes up looking like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or says, you know, for I'm going to put 30 minutes towards this for three weeks and show up looking like Barbie, so this was definitely, I'm sure, part of her full time job, you know, working on, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1:Okay. So you have a lot of experience coaching women from your time as a coach with us and you've helped a lot of women boost their metabolism and create beautiful physiques. What do you think most women would think is involved in becoming Barbie before, before we got a hold of them, or before you coach them? What do you think their beliefs would be about how you create that physique?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. So it would probably be well, 1000 calories a day and running on the treadmill for two hours and, you know, not eating one carb and cutting out all sugar and, you know, living on lemons, I don't know it would be. It would be a very, a very restrictive plan. I would say what most women would think, like we were saying earlier, basically some kind of version of starvation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I don't think most of I don't think most people, you know, our clients included realize that if your body is not in a healthy spot meaning like you've got a good, you know functioning metabolism, that you're, you know like a thriving metabolism, it's going to be very, very hard to get your body to change Like when you're in that metabolism is kind of barely limping along. So the way I've heard it put is like healthy bodies are responsive bodies and you have to start there. So there's no shortcuts around that. You know, just because you've decided you've been kind of under eating or not paying attention to things for a while and you decide, oh you know, I, you know I'm really inspired by the Barbie movie and I want to look like her.
Speaker 1:You may have some repaired work to do at first, but there's, there's not really any other place to start. If you now someone who has been eating, maybe overeating even, or eating plenty of calories, they're going to be in a different place. But if you have been chronically under eating, haven't really done anything to preserve your muscle, you've got, you're going to have some repair work to do. That's how you're going to kick off your journey.
Speaker 2:Yes, and that's really difficult. Right like that's really difficult because you know when, like I said, when I, when I was a couture client at first, I knew I had to get, I knew I had to get my calories up, I knew I knew what I had to do but it was still really difficult to be in that. You know that reverse or that repair process. You know I was in it for a long time, for a year, and not everybody has to do it for a year. I did it for a year and it's really it's really hard because you are being so intentional.
Speaker 2:You know you're still contracting your, your macros, you are still doing all of the workouts. You were still, you know, thinking about it and and you know you're probably the scale probably is not moving, it might even slightly go up. But I will say that what I experienced, and what most of them experience in that, in that kind of like ramping your metabolism up in order to go into a cut or a diet phase to lose fat, you know you gain muscle and your, your physique, starts to look better and you start to feel better. I mean, you really start to feel better when you eat adequately.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you actually have the desire to work out and the gas in the tank to have start having good workouts. So it's totally worth it. Yeah, I think also again, most women in my experience would not realize this really is a building process, not a getting as small as possible process. So if Margot Robbie just lost 20 pounds and didn't do the workouts and the lifting and I started building that muscle, she would not have looked like Barbie. I mean that she would not have had those beautiful curves. So having a great physique is really more of a building process. That's that's the best way to explain it and I think it's something most women just get singularly kind of obsessed with the scale and is it going down? And is it going down to this number? That, I think, is the right number and it really is not about that at all.
Speaker 2:It's absolutely a building process. I mentioned earlier you know my struggle with my glutes. So for gears, you know after I compete it, since this is so in the kidney competition, your legs and your glutes are like everything. And I don't naturally have like like good, good, a good perky butt.
Speaker 1:I don't know how else to say it.
Speaker 2:And for gears, you know gears. I did all you know everything you're supposed to do from a lifting standpoint squats, lunges, thrusts, all the things. But not until I was eating adequately did I really start to build out my lower half, my glutes and my legs and the way I want it to. And, by the way, back to expectations, that took a long time. I mean, that took 18 months, two years, to like really have noticeable, noticeable changes in my physique. So yeah, it's, it's. You know it can be, it can be a marathon sometimes, but it's all worth it. I mean, I always say like, put it in the hard work once and then you just kind of maintain it from there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's probably. The other thing is just, most women probably have a very unrealistic timeline. That's partly because of diet culture. I mean, like in all the stuff you're bombarded with, like, lose 40 pounds in a month or something. Again, this isn't really about losing weight so much as it is about building muscle, which is a lot harder than just losing some body fat quickly or losing a bunch of water and body fat. So so yeah, I mean, and also the amount of change most women expect to have in a very short period of time is very unrealistic. So you know what that usually leads to is most women are just very impatient with the process and think they can reverse years of not eating enough Excuse me or poor nutrition, neverlifting weights or having any sort of structured workout habits in just a few weeks or months.
Speaker 1:And that's not the case. But you can look a lot better in the process. You may not reach your ultimate goal in the timeline that you think you should, but you can start looking and feeling a lot better really quickly. Your body will tighten up in a crazy way once you give it the nutrition it needs and start lifting weights. So it's not all is lost, it's just going to take probably longer than you think it should, and I can also go back to like Margot Robbie. She did not build that physique and 12 weeks I mean there was a lot of time spent and I'm sure she showed up on the set looking a lot closer to Barbie than you or I would, or most people walking around, so she had a much shorter way to go and still put the time in.
Speaker 2:Right, I know what I was going to say is you know, in terms of expectations and goals, one thing that you know kind of I always noticed with clients is what they think their goal is is not actually what their goal ends up being. Because when you add, you know when you're adequately eating and you're feeding your body and you're building muscle, the number on the scale and even it just changes. Your goal changes. You start to even have like a new perception of like what is you know, what looks good or what is beautiful. You know like being just very thin and not, you know, having muscle tone. Like that becomes less attractive to you and what becomes more attractive to you is like a stronger look, and that's naturally what happens when you're, you know, eating and lifting. So it is. It always was interesting to me the way that our like my client's goals would change.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and as we get older, honestly, you know we get more cellulite. Like you know, you can totally change that with lifting weights, but you know just, that's probably going to stay there if you just lose weight and don't build any muscle underneath the skin. So, yeah, so you may not get the look you want just by losing weight.
Speaker 2:Definitely not as you get older. Right, I mean, it's I think. I mean I do think that you know if you're going after I want to be careful. I was, like I do think the most important thing about eating this way and this lifestyle and lifting really is the way you feel and the way like how you perform in life. I do want to say that first and foremost, but from like an aesthetic perspective, you know, if you want a youthful look that is honestly a strong look that is obviously honestly that is a, you know, having like lean muscle and, you know, looking toned, that's not just looking really skinny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, that leads me to my next topic. Let's talk about weird Barbie. What sorts of thing a woman would do if she wanted to look and feel like weird Barbie? Now, I'm not hating on weird Barbie. I thought she was. I mean, I thought she had a lot of wisdom, but she's probably not the look people are going for. So what are your thoughts on that All?
Speaker 2:right. What would you want to do if?
Speaker 1:you? Yeah, what would you want to do if you wanted to look and feel like weird Barbie?
Speaker 2:Okay, what was okay? So I mean, first of all, if I guarantee you weird Barbie's, like not eating enough, she's probably grabbing whatever she can on the way out the door, maybe, like you know, off of her kid's plate, you know probably working and then grabbing maybe a pop tart, like for lunch or you know some kind of frozen meal, and then, you know, just dinner you know, whatever she's feeding her kids, right, I mean literally that's as moms, that's the easiest thing to do is just pick off your kids plates and eat like children.
Speaker 2:So that's, you know, that's probably like what she was doing, just not being intentional and not, you know, really feeding, feeding her own body the way it should be fed. She probably was overdoing it on cardio, probably running a lot you know women love running and running, running, running. She's probably running. She was probably only elliptical. So probably overdoing cardio and, like I said, just really just not paying attention to anything. You know, not being intentional, just eating whatever, you know doing whatever, just not thinking about it, probably not managing her stress, probably not sleeping correctly, because all of these things go together.
Speaker 2:And you know, to be honest, like in my under eating days, I probably felt a little like weird Barbie a lot of the time. You know you feel drained, you feel like I mean you can't think, right, you can't. It is such. And what's really crazy is you don't know how bad it is until you know how good it is. Like you don't know how bad you felt until you understand how good you can feel from it. Being intentional about what you eat and eating enough and being intentional about your exercise habits. You just don't you. And you sleep better. I mean everything it's, it's an. You just don't know until you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is the one thing most of our clients who we we have to, you know, put through a reverse diet and work on the metabolism report is like I'm sleeping so much better. So I know all of this does definitely tie together and I definitely too. I, well, I kind of had a weird Barbie feeling today. I did it to myself. I stayed up watching TV with my daughter and I just I felt frazzled, like I couldn't concentrate and, you know, scattered, kind of like weird Barbie.
Speaker 1:But but definitely I remember very clearly, before I sort of got my act together, that you know I wasn't taking care of my body, but at the same time I was trying to work full time and not like I was. I just didn't really know what to do. So to me the answer was always you know, eat as little as you could, push it as hard as you could when you had energy in the gym, usually running all the while trying to work full time, raise children and basically be superwoman. And I in my, it wasn't working. I was pudgy, I did not like the way I looked.
Speaker 1:I felt tired most of the time, scattered, frazzled, like I had schizophrenia of some sort, so pulled in so many directions, but I really just thought there were women who had figured out how to do all of this and eat nothing at the same time, that you know they could just eat like a bird while training for a marathon, while climbing the corporate ladder, while being the best mom will be in the PTA mom, while supporting the husband who was also climbing the corporate ladder Basically all the things that America for era talked about in her speech. I just thought I didn't know the secret and that I was just failing and not doing it right. So I think I now realize well, I now know. I mean you can't do all of those things. If you are not taking care of your body and that means giving it enough food like you can't do that, you will be running on fumes and you will feel and maybe look a little like weird Barbie most of the time.
Speaker 2:If you do that to yourself, yes, I just remember, like you know, when I was under eating and wasn't consistent, and I always felt very sluggish, like I guess that's the best way to describe it and even like bloated most of the time, like even you're not, you're not eating, so you're like why do I feel like this?
Speaker 2:But it's because you eat, your body is holding on to and you're you know, your digestion is not working correctly. And then you, you know, I mean I was like a horrible, like not eating during the week and then like going out to these great dinners on the weekends and then that was just really I mean it was almost like a hangover. I mean it was just did not feel right. And I will say, since I've been very consistent and when I say it like I eat like all the things I want, I just have like upped my calories and upped my food. Otherwise, it's not like I'm on some very restrictive diet, that I I mean it's literally just being more consistent and like being consistent with higher calories and I just feel my energy is more even. I mean I can't even remember the last time I felt like bloated and sluggish. I just, I just really don't.
Speaker 1:So it really yeah, it really does, and I mean no one would describe Barbie like that, like she was like perky and happy and confident and bubbly and just exuding energy all over the place. So that's, that's at least the feeling we want to go for. So yeah, I had.
Speaker 1:We had one client last week described like when she started eating more and stopped trying to do the 1200 calorie thing. She was like oh my gosh, my husband and I like no more sleepy cat syndrome, which I thought was a great way to describe she was like I just snapped all the time because we thought there was like something. She was like I would Google it and nowhere did it say like you're probably not eating enough. I just thought there was something very wrong with me because I would sleep all the time like a cat, but I just didn't have. She wouldn't put any energy into her body. So, okay, again, putting your coaching hat on. If listeners were inspired by the Barbie movie and wanted to start taking care of themselves and finding their inner Barbie, where would you recommend someone start?
Speaker 2:I mean, like we've talked about like you have to be in a good metabolic state. So I would look at that first, I would analyze, like how much am I eating and like what does that mean? You know, like, am I eating 1200 calories and not losing weight? And you know, really think about trying to increase your intake, like trying to increase your food intake. Don't do crazy diets, don't restrict, don't carb cut, don't do anything fat. I mean that's just not gonna work.
Speaker 2:And yeah, just like I said, really just starting to take care of your body eat enough, eat enough, protein lift, you know, build muscle, make sure you have a consistent exercise plan. And you know this is a lot. I mean, I think it's really hard because you get so much information out there and so it almost becomes like analysis paralysis. You know, like one article says this and another podcast says that. So if you, you know, if you don't wanna think about it, you can't figure out yourself. You know, consider working with a coach to help you come up with like a solid self-care plan. It really does make all the difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, most of the information out there.
Speaker 1:It is contradictory and confusing and it can just leave you with your head spinning.
Speaker 1:I very much remember feeling like that, like I thought I'd found the silver bullet and then I couldn't implement the silver bullet, or but then I would read something that would told me to do the exact opposite the next day, and so it just leaves you kind of the wilderness and with your head spinning. So you know, a coach can look at things objectively and help you. So I totally agree with all of your advice and, as I mentioned at the beginning, we are enrolling now for our one-on-one coaching program and we can definitely help you find your inner Barbie, help you find your most empowered, confident self and get you looking and feeling like a million bucks, and that's you know mostly if the feeling like a million bucks is the most important thing. So we can definitely help and I would say that is the number one thing most of our clients report is immediately they start feeling better and having more energy. So, okay, I think that's all I have for today. Anything to add on this topic, or Barbie?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. Yeah, okay, this was so fun. I'm so happy to be back.
Speaker 1:Yes, we're so excited to have you back, so Lauren will likely be reappearing here from time to time, so talking about various topics, but thanks for joining us today. I think that's all we have and, like I said at the beginning, if you're interested in any of our coaching, all the details are in our show notes. Okay, thanks everyone. Bye.