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#46 Personalized Nutrition: Truckers' Route

• Cindy Tunstall, Malinda Fox-Wellington, Rheece and Machale Heartte • Episode 46

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Grab your keys and get ready to shift your health into high gear! This episode is your trucking convoy to better nutrition and wellness while hauling loads. You'll hear from two dietary detectives, Rheece & Michale Hartte who have cracked the code on building personalized nutrition plans tailored for life on the road. 

Instead of just counting calories, discover how comprehensive lab work can provide the roadmap to a customized wellness strategy that tackles issues like diabetes head-on. Learn the key distinctions between different nutrition professionals and why that clinical, holistic approach is so pivotal.

But it goes way beyond just diet plans. Get inspired by real-life examples of truckers who have transformed their health by establishing sustainable routines and mindset shifts while rolling miles. Simple but consistent dietary upgrades, perfectly calibrated to unpredictable driving schedules, have allowed these road warriors to lose significant weight and reclaim their vitality.

As you steer through the show, you'll gain expert guidance on nutrients that are often nutrition mysteries, like separating good and bad fats, the role of fiber for cholesterol management, and so much more. Whether you're just getting started on your wellness journey or already hauling towards better health, this episode provides a clearly marked route to eating smarter and boosting energy levels - one nourishing meal at a time.

Tune in for a wealth of invaluable nutrition intel that will have you taking the wheel towards a happier, healthier life out on the open road!  

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Cindy Tunstall:

enjoying life over the road.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

A community that champions adventure, innovation and well-being hey everybody, welcome back to the healthier trucker segment. It's melinda, and my guests today are reese and michelle. Now, they're a husband and wife of clinical nutritionists who specialize in creating personalized health plans for truckers like us. While they are not drivers themselves, they do understand our unique challenges to stay fit and healthier out on the road.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Reese and Michelle are experts at analyzing lab work and health histories to uncover the root causes that could be impacting your vitality. The root causes that could be impacting your vitality, whether it's insulin resistance, inflammation or gut issues. They get down to what's causing it and from there they will build a strategic wellness plan that is designed not only to work for you, but also for your driving style. They'll share inspiring examples of clients who finally achieved their healthier goals while out on the road. So get ready to rewrite I Can't Be Healthy on the Road story, because this episode proves it is possible when we put our skills into overdrive. Welcome, it is so good to have y'all here on the show. How are y'all doing today?

Michale Hartte:

Best ever. Had a great workout, feeling amazing how about you.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Doing great, Just cleaning up the truck, getting ready to go back out on the road. So I really am excited that y'all chose to come on to the show for Healthier Truckers. Y'all are actual clinical nutritionists. Now, that is a little bit different than registered dietitian and, as I am, I'm a nutrition coach. Most of us, we just hear diet or nutrition and we just assume it's all the same. But it's really not. So how do they differentiate?

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, so as a clinical nutritionist, first of all they're very personalized to the individual's goals and where they're at at the moment, and so once we know what that is, then we collect the data, which is like blood work and all these kinds of intake forms. So I feel like I'm kind of a detective, and so I look at the information that I've asked my client and then I customize the exact blueprint to the individual for them to get their result. So it's very, very personalized and customized. Um, and that's would be one example.

Cindy Tunstall:

And the other thing is why is it clinicals?

Michale Hartte:

Because, um, it's a clinical setting as in, like I don't just like write books, I actually it's back and forth. So I've had clients for 22 years and I get to hear feedback, so I get to and we adjust as we go, and so like so basically what I'm saying is we know what works and what doesn't work. Not because I've read it, I've read it, but I've practiced it and get to see the result of that also. So that's that's what I mean by clinical.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Okay, and then a registered dietitian. From what I understand is more that they go according to the ADA, which is the American Dietary Association, and they kind of have a diet plan for a specific illness, is that?

Cindy Tunstall:

right.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Right.

Michale Hartte:

As a general overview, yeah, exactly. But the problem with that is, if I have two clients with diabetes, there's different root causes to each one. It's not just one diet to fix this person, one diet and the same diet to fix the other one. No, you're still different people, so how you got there is going to be different. So we need to customize and personalize that nutrition and lifestyle plan to that individual.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, so I'm a nutrition coach and I know that as a nutrition coach, we don't deal with the blood work, but we just deal more with doing one-on-one coaching with the client to say, hey, okay, so how does this food feel with you? So, okay, well, it seems to be sitting. Well, let's adjust it this way, whereas you're actually adding in that blood work and getting a deeper value base. Is that right?

Michale Hartte:

It's absolutely critical because blood doesn't lie and you know they may not know their field.

Michale Hartte:

however, they respond is just like how they're responding, but really the blood isn't going to lie, and so when I look at blood work, I look at some real critical factors where I would start with that we need to turn around right away and if not, then at least to other conditions later on, and so that's basically how I'm trained. And again, blood work is just like that exact moment, what's happening in that body, and so that's why it's important once you get the blood work, you get the data, you, you create a plan and then you test again, and then you test again in three, six, maybe nine months, depending on the individual, and then you want to make sure that the numbers are moving in the right direction while you're working with that patient recline.

Rheece Hart:

Yeah, that is important and then. So we like to test, not guess, and that's very, very important. And then the other thing is Michelle has a couple of other modalities that we work with as well being a chartered herbalist, so having a whole basket full of tricks that we can use there, a whole basket full of tricks that we can use there, as well as being an intracellular detox specialist. So we have the cell and we typically hold toxins from the air, water and food that we eat, that we're exposed to on a regular basis, that we can be exposed to on a regular basis. And so with this intracellllular detox it's actually going right into the cell and pulling those toxins out of the body and helping the elimination organs in the body to be able to get rid of those now, y'all have worked with drivers before, so y'all y'all understand this lifestyle, that it's a little bit trickier than working with most people.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Do y'all have any specific truck drivers, clients that y'all worked with that y'all could share, obviously without mentioning any names or anything, just some of their progress and how y'all were able to help them turn things around and kind of where they started at and then where they ended up at?

Michale Hartte:

I think it's okay to say the name, because he's so excited about he's telling everybody, so he's already been posting and everything Like. He's just amazed anyways.

Rheece Hart:

but we have a couple actually we have Mike, mike who's who was a truck driver. He's not driving anymore. He's 72 now. He's a retired truck driver, but he's been with us for a number of years and so he shared a lot of his experiences on the road and how he manages things as well. And then we have another client that comes to mind is Corey, and Corey's wife started with us about gosh. It'd be about 14 months ago. She lost quite a bit of weight, changed things hormonally for herself, and then her husband kept looking at her and going, getting excited about the changes that she had made, and went what the heck are you doing? I'm going to do this? And he's a hardcore truck driver still driving. And so he hopped on and between the two of them they've lost over 93 pounds and kept it off.

Rheece Hart:

And kept it off, which is the important thing yeah, that's the important aspect for sure, for cory about developing uh and for mike about developing the, uh, the daily routine, uh, we call them bookends. So you know how do you manage things when you wake up in the morning, how do you manage things when you're getting ready to go to sleep at night and how are things in between? How do you manage your meals, how do you manage your energy and so forth.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, I know that's a really, really big issue for drivers, especially when I was driving. Well, I for drivers, especially when I was driving. Well it was, I still am. But when I was learning my healthier journey and I kept hitting a wall when it came to routine, because I'm like, well, I don't know if I'm getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning or 5 o'clock in the evening because it depends on what time my appointment is. Because it depends on what time my appointment is.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And when I was going through health coaching school and of course you know you have to go through the program as a client before you can become the coach and one of the biggest things that I learned was just doing the small word change from routine to rhythm, and that made a world of difference for me. So it doesn't matter if I wake up at five o'clock in the morning or wake up at five o'clock in the evening, cause to me routine means at five o'clock I'm doing this, six o'clock I'm doing that, seven o'clock I'm doing, but changing it to rhythm, I'm like, okay, I wake up two hours before I have to get on the road, so that is a rhythm, whether what. No, it doesn't matter what time it is. And that's made a huge difference to me is just getting that quote, unquote routine down. That wasn't time dependent.

Rheece Hart:

I like that I really like that yeah, wow, that's.

Michale Hartte:

That's brilliant. I like that. I really like that. Yeah, wow, that's that's brilliant.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So on your clients. So once they got their routine down when they came to you, where were they at? Mentally, physically? Obviously overweight. But I really like to kind of get a little bit into that mindset of it, because that's to me a part that isn't talked about a lot.

Rheece Hart:

I love that you said that Just before I finished up last time. I was thinking, you know, we should really talk about mindset, because we have three pillars that we work with One is nutrition, one is exercise or activity and the other is mindset. So, just as an example, when Corey came to us he was quite overweight and he still has a little bit of weight that he wants to lose and tighten up certain areas, especially in the belly area. But when he came to us, we do a profile of our clients first of all to find out where are they in their health journey. We can look at them and we can kind of assume, but we should never do that. We always test, yes, right. And so when we did this, we found out, oh my gosh, this gentleman is actually a walking heart attack. And so we were like, okay, well, what's happening? What medications are you on? We always take a look at medications as well. What medications are you on? Oh, I'm on stuff for my heart, for blood pressure. Well, what's your blood pressure? And it was to the moon. And so we said, oh my gosh. And his wife was on the call with us and we shared you know, he has to do something or he's not going to be around much longer. And so we got him started.

Rheece Hart:

So his mindset was open to it because he had already seen great results with his wife, so he knew that the program worked. So that was an easy slide in for him. It wasn't overcoming. You know, I've heard of so many different things. I wonder about this diet and that diet and this program, that exercise program, and you know I'm different because I'm a trucker. Well, yeah, but there's a lot of things that are similar as well as being different.

Rheece Hart:

And so what we did was we adapted the program for him around his rhythm, his daily rhythm, um, with what's happening when he wakes up, where he wakes up, what's involved with that, his exercise program as well. Um, you know, are you able to exercise in the cab? Do you get out? He's driving in Canada, so there's a ton of snow in the wintertime and so he's dealing with that all the time, you know, throwing on the chains and moving loads and so forth inside the vehicle or strapped on the outside of the vehicle, depending. So we play with all that. As far as exercise is concerned, a lot of that is activity, but not necessarily what we would suggest as a designated exercise program where we're looking at trying to build lean muscle tissue while at the same time reducing body fat and getting healthy.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Right, yeah, I really, and I'm not. I'd be interested to hear what y'all think about micro workouts, where you do like two to three minute workout three or five times a day because that's what's worked wonderful with my driving schedule. But I know a lot of people don't believe in it either, because they're like, well, you're not working out even though you are, because it's more of a moderate workout instead of a high intensity workout. So what? What are your thoughts on that?

Michale Hartte:

well, there's something to be said about just moving. So, first of all, and there's also something to be said about just moving. So, first of all, and there's also something to be said of, what would you even do Like, what can you start with that you can see yourself doing consistently?

Cindy Tunstall:

Those are like two biggest levers.

Michale Hartte:

Most people don't even look at.

Cindy Tunstall:

So those are two wins for you.

Michale Hartte:

This is incredible that you were doing that. You found it works for you and it's working. So, if you look, you look at physiological. Physiologically, um, you're asking the body to, you know, perform some kind of an activity, and so that does require some energy from the body. Well, if you're not here's an example if you haven't eaten for a period of time, the body still needs the energy. Where is it going to get it? From your stored fat, from the storage that's so. That's how you're able to burn. The fat is when you can extend the period of your eating and get some movement in. So you're you're basically training the body to be a fat burner, and when you do move, you're providing strength.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So that's super, super smart, yeah going back to the mindset, when I started going through the whole healthier me journey, I was still in the mind I hated exercise. I get hives just from the word of exercise. I'm prior military, so exercise is punishment right. So I just had a really negative association with that. I actually started out every time the truck stopped I had to dance one song in the truck before it could move again. And that's actually how I evolved into micro workouts was by that one look, because I love to dance.

Michale Hartte:

It's not exercise, it's movement, and so that's kind of was my first step in the process right so first of all um congratulations on doing that, because that that can be tough for people, but you did it because you obviously had some kind of a why and, second of all, you know what? Um, it must be fun. The gym to me is like my happy place and it's almost like, if I can say it, it's like my church. I go and I feel purified, I'm like whoa, like what? But not for everybody. You got to find one that works for you.

Cindy Tunstall:

But just find one that works for you. That's the thing, and that's what you did, melinda.

Michale Hartte:

And it doesn't have to be like an hour a day. You did these micro ones and they were. They were working for you plus you loved it. So those are all really, really important thing. And then after time you go wait a minute. Wow, I really like this. What can I do next? And then you move to the next level, because that's called evolving, and if you don't you're devolving, but where do you want to sit this? Do you want to be the person you're?

Cindy Tunstall:

meant to be or do you want to?

Michale Hartte:

sit back into who you wish you were.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Absolutely. If a driver was just beginning, they called you up and say hey, I heard about you. What is your process? How do I go through this? And is it even for me so kind of, how does that process evolve? Just that initial process, sure well, okay.

Michale Hartte:

So how it works is first of all, we need to ask some questions, we want to know more of you, and so it actually starts with the conversation going okay well, where do you?

Cindy Tunstall:

here's the thing where do you want to be? What's your health?

Michale Hartte:

number one health goal that you would like to achieve in the next 90 days. It's good to know what you want, otherwise you're shooting in the dark. So that's always the first question is what would be one thing that you would just really love to accomplish in the next 90 days? What, what, what do you want? You know, and so they will you know, share with them. Oh, actually, you know, I've got some extra weight that I'd like to lose. Oh, okay, wow, that's exciting, okay. So then I would ask the question you know, um, what is standing in your way of that?

Michale Hartte:

So then we can dive deeper into right, you know I just there's this one thing that I keep doing that I know I shouldn't be doing, but I really want to drop. So then we just start collecting the information and get to really know the person, okay, and cause it um. So then, once, once, get to really know the person, okay, and cause it um.

Cindy Tunstall:

So then, once, once we do that, then we can even see if we can even help this person or not, like if they're going to be a fit for our program, cause we don't just take anybody, we actually want them to make sure that it's a fit and if not, we always give them good direction and where to go better.

Michale Hartte:

So and I like that because I feel like I'm serving Cause it's like well, make sure you don't do that, because if you keep doing that you will never be successful. So I can pretty much identify that right away.

Michale Hartte:

so don't do this, because that will never get you there, but do this instead and I would find like their biggest lever to get them the results that they would want right away. That would move the dot, and if it feels like actually you know what it feels like this would be a fit, oh okay, well, let's explore that a little further, and then that's what we do.

Rheece Hart:

A lot of people, melinda, come to us not necessarily for weight loss Some do, a lot do and then we find out there's many other conditions involved. Some come to us because we've helped others with those conditions or they've heard, oh, you work with this and this and this and this and this Because. Or they've heard, oh, you work with this and this and this and this and this. Because not all truck drivers are, not all people are overweight necessarily, but they have other health conditions. We know lots of truck drivers that are very, very lean, some underweight, in many cases, right, because they're high activity, maybe anxiety, stress and so forth, and therefore they may be under, under muscled or underweight or just unhealthy in their own way, right, and so they're looking for other health changes.

Rheece Hart:

And so what we do is, after the initial conversation, as we go through a fairly extensive health profile with them very easy questions it's just circling like. It's super duper easy to do. It takes about half an hour, but it's like am I like a one or a six, right? It's like circle it, and then what happens is it spits out a graph for us that, on the very first call with the client, they can see exactly, based on their various body systems. Um, what's going on, you know. Do I have a thyroid issue? Do I have heavy metal? Do I have parasites? Do I have candida? What you know, what is contributing to my specific, my specific health condition? Right, yeah.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Now do y'all work with a lab that people have a kit mailed to them and then they mail it out, or how do y'all get y'all samples?

Michale Hartte:

yeah, we make it so easy. Everything about the program is easy, so I I actually give a handout and it's recommended blood work. So these are all the markers that I'm looking for, as a clinical nutritionist, that I would like them to give to their primary doctor or their doctor, and and then, with some languaging around it, oh, I'm working with a nutritionist, she's here to help me feel better, and then I'm concerned about these conditions.

Cindy Tunstall:

Because of this, this, this, and then he looks at it and goes okay, and then I get more of the markers that I'm looking for because I know what to do with this data.

Michale Hartte:

Like one would I have. To just give one example of one. We need to get the insulin, the fasting insulin, on these blood works and not just the glucose, because if glucose is already elevated, insulin has been elevated decades before and we could have prevent this long time ago and so cause.

Michale Hartte:

Insulin's job is a storage hormone. It's what's storing your fat, it's what's storing the nutrients it's with, it's what's narrowing the uh, the blood vessel wall, which leads to heart disease. So when I can see these kind of markers, we can turn things around so quickly.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And so it amazes me that they don't make that a standard test.

Rheece Hart:

I just I don't understand why the medical industry as a whole is actually having such a hard time understanding that concept yeah, I think it's primarily because it is an industry and and therefore people are looking at it with different eyes, right like. So doctors we know traditionally don't have by their own admission, they don't have very much in the way of nutritional education, but they have a lot of physiology, pharmaceutical education from the drug reps and so forth, and so when you come in with a problem they have a solution, but it may be more in that direction yeah, maybe I mean they're all here to help um and um, but I I know what I'm doing and I'm just looking for these markers to be able to help my clients.

Michale Hartte:

Really, about that, it's all right, so um and so what I do is not only do I give this handout, which is like a frame, like a handout, like it's a piece of gold, you know here, get this to your doctor and ask for these, because if you don't ask, you're not going to get them, and they're important. Like, for another example, would you crp? We want highly sensitive crp, not just the. We want highly sensitive CRP not just the CRP.

Michale Hartte:

The highly sensitive CRP tells me your inflammation and that's what's leading to this heart disease piece, which is the number one killer. So if I can see this and couple it with some markers in cholesterol and the insulin and glucose boom like it's pretty much it's a given. Then I can see, oh well, this is where you're at.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Oh, we just need to do these things and be consistent with it. Boom, you're good. Now just to kind of break it down just a little bit. Kind of explain what crp is, because a lot of people don't know what that is. It's your c-reactive protein, but kind of explain what it actually does for you or goes against you yeah, it's a marker in the body that is C-reactive protein is what it stands for.

Rheece Hart:

But it's a marker for inflammation in the body and inflammation. Sometimes, when we say the word inflammation, we think, oh, I got a sore shoulder or sore knee or my hip joint or whatever. Yes, that can be inflammation. But the inflammation can also be in our brain, in our eyes, in our ears, in our skin. We see psoriasis, eczema and so forth. It can be on the inside, we can have bronchial inflammation, asthma and so forth, and and then, of course, we do have the joints and everything that goes on from there. In some cases, we're having other organs that are involved in the inflammatory response right, the heart, for example, and then the prostate for men in some cases.

Michale Hartte:

Right, yeah, that's why I love blood work, because we can look to, to see it could be in like a low-grade infection, which commonly it is. And so when I get to see the white blood cell call that differentiation and see like all the different white blood cell count and what they're doing, then I can even start to identify oh, this correlates, oh, like I just had a call just now oh, parasites, this is correlating to parasites. Oh, okay, let's do the soft test, which is this questionnaire, which actually can be very, very. These soft tests can really identify it with the blood where it's okay, we have a parasitic infection.

Michale Hartte:

That's what's driving all this info, that's what's driving the vertigo, that's what's driving the, the high blood pressure, that's what's driving the visceral fat. It's the parasites and they're wondering why don't I feel myself, they're overtaking, and I'm letting you know right now, parasitic infections, they should not be part of our bodies and they're bullies, and so we take them out. Body gets back and it's like, wow, I didn't even. Oh, I feel so much better. And it's the parasites. So you got to really identify these things and I'll let you know right now stool tests will not pick it up. It won't. There has to be other ways, and that's what we do, and I see a lot of parasitic infections actually.

Rheece Hart:

And keep in mind Melinda, you're in foreign places right. You're not at your home necessarily, where maybe it's tidy and clean. You're out on the road and you're touching feeling things all the time and bumping into a variety of different things.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

It could be. Yeah, we'll just leave it at parasites. Well, like I tell people all the time, I'm like no, you don't understand. I never use a private bathroom. It is always a public bathroom.

Rheece Hart:

Right.

Cindy Tunstall:

I mean it's they're okay enough said a lot of us are carrying these in our bodies and we're wondering, like what's going on?

Michale Hartte:

why don't I feel myself, is it's this the candida, is these other organisms? Because we know we have 10 times more of them than we do even human cells, and they're going to be dictating your food preferences, your sugar cravings, your appetite. You think it's you, but it's not even you. And if you know it's not, you, you can.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, I was always told it's either parasitic, it's either hormonal or and a lot of people don't realize that the fat is actually an organ and it produces the communication that hormones and stuff to actually communicate to the body to increase also. So it's usually those three things. If not, I mean most of the time it's not the person's mentality or their will or their motivation. It's usually parasitic, hormonal or the fat is like communicating Right. Is that accurate.

Michale Hartte:

Well, okay, so hormones are just the signaling messenger. So what's driving? The hormones we have to go a little bit deeper than that. And I love that you said that. But I have to say to your point, melinda, you were absolutely correct. They are trying everything they can and they're like I'm just trying, but oh, at the end of the day I just man.

Cindy Tunstall:

I got to have that. I know I shouldn't, but why am I still?

Michale Hartte:

having that Blah, blah blah, it's not even it's not, it's not the willpower that's not going to win. No, the bugs will the bugs will make you eat that because there's more of them and they want to live. It's literally that.

Rheece Hart:

So once you kind of identify, oh thank goodness now I know kind of what it is you tackle that and you're good literally it's like you're in the truck and you've got a terrorist sitting in your passenger seat remember they want to live hijacking you, so the candy that craves the sugar, the parasites.

Michale Hartte:

They crave other things. So it's not even you, it's them.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So so one thing I do want to touch on um, when you start going through, because I know from doing medical and stuff, you know, uh, depending on what the blood levels look at, you can either identify if it's viral, bacterial or parasitic. Depending on the blood levels, you can actually identify that and, um, in correlation with symptoms, not just just blood work, you got to have the correlation also. When y'all go through y'all's protocol, how do you, especially if it's bacterial, how do you isolate and get the bad stuff and keep the good stuff? Yeah, because a lot of protocols will just wipe everything out, oh, and that's not good. So how do y'all's protocol differentiate through that?

Michale Hartte:

Oh my gosh, that is like a golden question. I love where this is going. First of all, oregano is going to annihilate everything, and so you know, if you're going to take oregano, it's so powerful, it's going to like destroy the good bacteria. So when you do say if you were to use that as an antimicrobial, as an extract, as an antimicrobial, basically what I'm saying is it could be drops or it could be a capsule.

Cindy Tunstall:

If you're taking that internally yeah, not food.

Michale Hartte:

No, because this is like medicinal. Then just know that, okay. Well, apart from that dose, apart from the time that you have that, let's take in the human strain microflora at a different time with food.

Michale Hartte:

So then you're killing off the bad, the pathogenic and obviously some of the beneficial, but then later, when you eat, you're going to put in the beneficial, and so what you're doing is you're working with this ratio piece. So you're clearly. So you're clearly. So you're bringing down the bad, which is a collection. It's not just bacteria. You think it's bacteria.

Cindy Tunstall:

It's not if bacteria is growing in your body. You've got parasites, you have viruses, you have protozoa, everything it's really about the inner terrain.

Michale Hartte:

It's not even about that one isolated it can be, but there's also a collection, because remember your immune system is always out in surveying. Oh, you have, you know. Yeah, you have your special forces in there and they're going.

Cindy Tunstall:

Oh, wait that shouldn't be in there.

Michale Hartte:

Let's get that out. But if there's too many, then the immune system is over, it's working too hard and then it can't keep up and then all sorts of organisms start to grow it's not just bacteria. So for what we do is we already know this?

Cindy Tunstall:

And to grow, it's not just bacteria. So for what?

Michale Hartte:

we do is we already know this, and so when a client comes to us, we go wait a minute, no, we're going to shift the microbiome to be more beneficial and less pathogenic. We need some pathogenic. Just saying we're not going to sterilize you, no, they keep the good guys in check. They do actually so, but we want that, we want the ratio to be healthy for the individual, and so, um, that's how we do it. So, so oregano would be one, but guess what, melinda, there are other, there are other antimicrobials which actually keep the good ones there and they only go after the bad. So each one has its own, um, therapeutic, uh, purpose, yeah, and when you know what you're doing and you've been doing this for like decades then you get pretty confident with this and also what I love about this is there's no side effects.

Michale Hartte:

If you have side effects and you feel crappy when you're going after this, you know what the problem is. You haven't even eliminated them. You've killed them off with the antimicrobials, but guess what? They're circulating back in. That's why you feel crappy. You should never feel crappy when you're on a detox.

Michale Hartte:

You should always feel good and if you do, that means that you're circulating back in the aftermath like the battle, the dead back in, and now your body's feeling crappy, like it's hung over. It should not. When you're on these detoxes, you should feel really good and that's what we.

Rheece Hart:

No fun being in the cab around the long haul if all of a sudden you've got to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes, right?

Michale Hartte:

yeah, or you feel crappy. No, you need to feel good, yeah. Yeah, that may have been long in the tooth, but really I think you unpack something that I think more people need to hear, because they think, oh, I just want to feel better, I'm going to. That would be not my recommendation unless you know exactly what you're doing. And that's what we do, and we keep it super simple.

Rheece Hart:

Or they end up taking an antibiotic for everything, which is the wrong thing to do, right? They're wiping out all their good bugs in their digestive tract and so forth, and often I mean it's less prevalent now, with doctors that are becoming a little bit more aware. However, before somebody would come in with a cold, a virus, and they would give them something to kill off bacteria an antibiotic, right. And so now we bump into all these strains of bacteria that are hard to kill off.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, one thing when I used to work in the medical field and I knew a patient was getting antibiotics, I would always like now, you know, day four or five you're going to start feeling good, you're going to want to stop taking this. I said, but you got to take the whole thing because that's what causes the strands that are resistant to antibiotics, because you they get enough of it to where they can recognize it and then they can adapt to it. So that's why you got to take the whole thing. If you're going to take it and it kind of goes back to that same you know concept is that the balance, the circle, it's always about balance right.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So I kind of like to explain it, uh, just a little bit to kind of make um drivers understand. It's when we get a load and they load up the trailer and we have to balance that load in the trailer for our axles to meet the right rate requirements, so we slide those axles forward or we have to slide them backwards, and it's just finding that right spot for those axles forward, or we have to slide them backwards and it's just finding that right spot for those axles in our tandems for the trailer to be balanced with the truck so we could be legal down the road. It's kind of the same concept of figuring out what they're doing with the blood work and with their protocols and everything. It's their finding that sweet spot where those tandems go.

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, is that right okay, actually that's super cool.

Cindy Tunstall:

Oh, this is great and also it sounds like oh my gosh, this is like super gibberish.

Michale Hartte:

But really when, we, when we're the gibberish people.

Cindy Tunstall:

We're the ones who collect all the debt. You don't have to know all that stuff.

Michale Hartte:

All you have to do is go oh, here's the daily routine, just follow this like. We keep things very simple because here's the thing. We can create a program, but you get, how good is it if you're not going to follow it?

Michale Hartte:

we make sure that you guys have fun when you're on this program, like well, fun, I mean, it's fun getting healthy, you can get healthy. And people think also like, oh, I have to go on a diet. No, yeah, but really we're shifting, we're eating to foods you actually probably like even better. And because we've been so misguided with this whole diet piece, it's like healthy foods actually taste. When you do it right, they taste really really good, so you're actually not even depriving. You're like wow, I can have that.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Well, I know what the drivers most of the time it's the convenience factor than the healthy factor, because time it's the convenience factor than the healthy factor. Because, um, and and it's finding rhythms that work for you on the road, um, I, through my experimentation, and when I'm home I cook three meals a day and portion them out into eight, six to eight portions, and freeze them, and I have a freezer on my top bunk, and so it's very convenient for me to grab a bag, put it in a cooker and it cooks in the cooker and it only gets up to like 160 degrees. It's almost like a slow cooker, so it reheats the frozen meal. That's what I found has worked for me. That's super convenient. Um, and to me convenience is the factor, because after we drive for 10 hours, we don't most of us I'm not gonna say all, because some people do find it very meditating but most of us don't want to cook, don't want to clean while we're on the road, especially with their regular schedules, and so it's just finding the convenience that is healthier that works for you that is so brilliant and we're saying like

Cindy Tunstall:

we're. We're about convenience too.

Michale Hartte:

So what we do is we have strategies all around that, so you're not cooking all the time. No, it's very strategic and again, this is all personalized to the individual. What do do you like to do? Because if I find out more about what they like to do and what foods they like to have. Oh great, I get to be this detective and scientist and go perfect. This is what we'll do then. Oh and how do you like your results? Feeling great, awesome. Let's keep going. You know yeah, good for you.

Michale Hartte:

Melinda, this is amazing. No wonder you do what you do. Good for you.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Well, and I know what works for me is not going to work for every driver, and that's why I really like having I have the Facebook group healthier truckers and then this podcast, so drivers can learn different tips, tricks and techniques that may or may not work for them, but the beauty of it is you can grab what you think will work and just throw the rest of it out the window while you're driving down the road. You won't get a ticket for it. It's not littering, so you won't get a ticket for it.

Rheece Hart:

Or adapt it like you're suggesting. Adapt it to your own self right. That's what I was going to gonna say you have a certain way of doing it, um, but really it's about preparing ahead both mentally and physically for your next uh, you know, your next driver the superpower of semi-truck drivers that a lot of drivers we don't even consider it a superpower because we do it every day is we're extremely adaptable.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

That is one of our superpowers as drivers, and just learning to take that skill from driving and apply it to your health will make the hugest difference. It's just learning to be adaptable with your health, with what options you have. Sometimes it's not about what's the healthy option. Most of the time it's about okay, I have A, B and C. Which one is the healthier option of those three choices? And most of the time that's all it takes.

Michale Hartte:

The other thing I think about all the time is I know for me I do guard my health pretty, pretty viciously, like I'm very, very healthy, but if I wasn't, it's going to affect my kids, it's going to affect my husband, and it's not just even me, it's everybody around me, it's everybody. So I'm like, wow, like I, it kind of like keeps me going on it anyway. But really you think it's just you, but it's not, it's everybody that you know sometimes on the road, we're looking for a quick fix.

Rheece Hart:

You know, we've got a cloudy mind or something like that, or our energy's a little bit low, and so we go and we look for something sugary right To eat to get a quick buzz, or we look for, uh, uh, what do you call it? An energy drink. Or, you know, our sixth pot of coffee for the day. And maybe that's not the ultimate solution, because it does lead to breakdown both mentally and physically over a period of time. Right, and so we have to have strategies, like you were suggesting, where you're thinking ahead of time. How am I going to manage my energy throughout the day so that I have an amazing day and get up to more with the same or even better energy?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

yes. Well, I'd like to compare it to driving in the mountains. Um, when you learn to keep your blood sugars pretty steady, it's like driving, it's like driving in the prairie it's nice, smooth drive, um, your engine's not struggling, so your engine's going to last longer and you're going to have better miles per gallon, whereas when you're in the mountains it's like having your energy drinks and high sugar, high ultra processed foods. That engine on your truck will struggle. I mean there's sometimes I'll drop down to 15, 20 miles an hour because it's just struggling so much to get up that mountain. And then, whenever I get down, I have to, you know, really put on that jake brake and just kind of tap my brakes occasionally to keep it from losing control of my rig going down the mountain.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And it's the same thing with our blood sugars. If you have it, go up and go down and go up. That's that. Going up, your body is just really struggling, like your engine does. And then when it crashed or goes down really fast, it almost loses control. And that's where the jittery and the headaches and the nausea and all that. It's because your body's just freaking out like oh my gosh, something's dropping, something's going crazy, help me, you know. And then we reach for the sugary thing because we think that's what our bodies want, when in reality it's not so. We really want to drive in that plane instead of driving in the mountains. So our engines, our bodies, will have that steady flow so that's super beautiful what came to mind.

Michale Hartte:

I really like that. You said that I'm kind of correlating it to longevity. I bet you the engine has. Yeah, so you know, you, you maintain that engine for longer. You have longevity right, and then you have two notes instead of like this overhaul going, oh, now, like I'm broken down, now I have to find some an emergency to come in and like rescue me when really and that's where this piece- of you don't want to hit a wall and go oh no, I have to eat some sugar.

Michale Hartte:

No, we were, when you know about how to eat properly and it's super, super simple way simpler than what people think. It is like super simple how to eat in a way that's going to get your health back Super simple.

Cindy Tunstall:

You won't even run into that situation going oh, I'm going to hit a wall?

Michale Hartte:

No, because you you're actually able to get two fuel sources. Remember you have your glucose and you have your fat and you want to. As a good human, you want to be able to shift gears from glucose to fat, but you, that is called longevity, that's called metabolically flexible.

Cindy Tunstall:

So then it's like I'm not gonna hit a wall.

Michale Hartte:

I can tap into my own fat because I train my body. Oh, and I'm getting leaner. Oh, the belly fat's going down. Wow, I feel sexier. Oh, this is good. My confidence is up now. Whoa, and people are noticing oh my gosh and wow, I look so much younger, I feel younger, I can think better. This is good. My confidence is up now. Whoa and people are noticing oh my gosh and wow, I look so much younger, I feel younger, I can think better. This is all a fact. And your brain will last longer too. What are we seeing, now more than ever? Alzheimer's dementia. Why diabetes?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

type 3 that's called.

Michale Hartte:

now we know, because people are studying it, what the risk factors are here. We think it's just age, it's not.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Since y'all do a lot of intercellular kind of, explain a little bit the functionality of a cell. The outer layer of the cell is nothing but fat. I don't understand where the no fat diet came from because you know what I mean, because I mean our cells are covered in fat for it to function. So I just it's always confused me, but y'all want to go a little bit deeper on that aspect of it. Well, think of your brain.

Michale Hartte:

Like what does it mean? The most cleanest fuel is ketones, it's not glucose. Well, think of your brain. Like what does it mean? The most Cleanest fuel is ketones, it's not glucose. Fat is essential. Okay, and what does fat do? First of all, if I think about fat, it is going to allow you to absorb your fat-soluble vitamins.

Cindy Tunstall:

What are they?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

D. What is that for?

Michale Hartte:

Immune system. That's one example, sorry.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Well, one thing real quick. I just want to differentiate. For people who's not really familiar with this topic there is dietary fat and non-dietary fat, so it's a big difference between the two. If y'all want to kind of touch bases on that too, because a lot of people don't know the differential between those two.

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, so okay, so dietary fat is essential essential, first of all, to keep you from eating all day. Let's look at this from a blood sugar perspective. So when you're eating dietary fat that's very satiating to the body. It gives your body a lot of energy for a longer period of time yes it's kind of like a diesel engine.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

It burns diesel fuel really slow and steady compared to a car engine with gasoline. That kind of burns it at a faster combustion. But each of them has its place.

Rheece Hart:

If you put nitro into there, it's not going to be great right.

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, that would be like refined sugar. So that's great. So we need okay, our bodies are starving for fat. Eating healthy fat gets you lean. So we have been misguided from these studies that were very correlational, that weren't even fully, um, they weren't. After we had these studies out, there were correlational, um, they were debunked. Because it all started with this one kind of narrative which is if you eat fat, you're going to gain fat. That is absolutely not true, Okay. So when we eat certain types of fats.

Michale Hartte:

Our body can use it as fuel and energy and burn its own fat, but also this fat is energy. So then you have good like mental cognition, okay. So good fats can help you with good energy and longstanding energy, because it will give you this long, so that way you're not eating all the time. Okay, so that's a really good thing. Second thing it does, is that when?

Cindy Tunstall:

you eat dietary fat.

Michale Hartte:

Dietary fat, the right type. You're able to absorb the nutrition from your foods and one would be vitamin D. What is vitamin D for? Well, it's for the immune system. Having healthy vitamin d's prevents cancer. We want healthy fats to be healthy. It's knowing the healthy fats and avoiding the bad fats. So we're going to want to have fats that are stable and so, just as an example, what are are they? Just think of the Mediterranean fats coconut, coconut oil, avocado, avocado oil, olives, olive oil. That is your stable fat. That's what you want to eat more of. Animal fats are amazing. They're stable fats. They're saturated with some unsaturated sorry, they're saturated with some monounsaturated, but they're very stable. Like, just think of. What I want you to do is think back at what did our ancestors eat? We're still genetically the same right, and so they hunted and they gathered. That's what we're designed to eat, like our ancestors, and they were healthy. Okay, they had infections and that's why they died earlier, but they were lean and fit and healthy. They eat from the land.

Cindy Tunstall:

So, whatever mother nature, whatever's in mother nature is really what you want to mimic.

Michale Hartte:

Okay, so you want sat, you want stable fats, and the ones I've just described, the ones you don't want, are the unstable fats, the ones that actually cause damage in. The ones you don't want are the unstable fats, the ones that actually cause damage in the body. What are they? The seed oils? We don't want those. What are the seed oils? Canola oil, soy oil, corn oil, sunflower, safflower, so those would be peanut oil. They're not grapeseed oils. They're not healthy for our body. So if you're going, oh my God, I'm at a restaurant. How do I know what kind of oils get steamed you can get? I, I order at restaurants all the time. I make sure that I go. Okay, well, can you just grill that for me please?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And can I?

Michale Hartte:

just have like steamed vegetables, and if you're going to saute them, I would love to have coconut oil or olive oil. What you want to start avoiding are these seed oils. Why? Because they actually are linked to heart disease. We know that.

Rheece Hart:

And inflammation.

Michale Hartte:

Inflammation. It all leads to that.

Cindy Tunstall:

So I would have to say that would trump even the sugar.

Michale Hartte:

These good fats are critical.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, one thing I do want to kind of reverse a little bit on is um and I've even had a couple clients ask me about this and I'd like to hear y'all's explanation on it. Is they like okay? So I want to avoid seed oils, but avocados and olives have seed in them, so why are those good for me and not bad for me, since they have seeds in them?

Michale Hartte:

yeah, they're fruit oils. They're fruit actually.

Rheece Hart:

Um, yeah, just like an orange would have seeds in it, or an apple have seeds in it. The avocado does, the olive does.

Michale Hartte:

Those are fruits yeah, they're fruits, just like a tomato is a fruit oils.

Rheece Hart:

Yeah, we think it's a vegetable, it's a fruit yeah, I want you to think of better training.

Michale Hartte:

What do they eat? Just think of three easy fats coconut, avocado, avocado, olive oil. Those are your most stable, healthiest fats and fats from animal products. They are so healthy for you. When you're looking for your animal proteins, just you know, get your leanest one, but really, don't be afraid of fat. What you do want to be afraid of is oxidized fat, rancid fat, hydrogenated fat, fat that's been heated and then altered, and then it causes damage in the body this is actually what we're looking at leading to heart disease, and that.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

The way I explain it to them is that the avocado and the olive oil they can be pressed and oil can come out of them, whereas the other seed oils actually have to go through a heated process to get it extracted at. So that's kind of how I help them differentiate the difference.

Rheece Hart:

Yeah, heat and chemicals. Right, they use hexane to draw it out, carcinogenic chemicals to draw it out. The other big fat myth that there is out there is about cholesterol oh yeah, that's a good one.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Oh, one of my favorite books that I came across a couple years ago was the cholesterol myth. That is a very insightful book and it's even very easy to understand if you don't have a lot of medical background. So I highly recommend that book.

Michale Hartte:

Yeah yeah, the longest living individuals actually have higher cholesterol. Cholesterol is very protective for us. It's the oxidized cholesterol that's the problem, so it's not the LDL.

Cindy Tunstall:

It's the oxidized.

Michale Hartte:

LDL. So when you look at your like, when you're been told certain things, you need to really dive a little bit deeper. It's not the lvl in itself the bad cholesterol. No, it's. If it's oxidized, then why is it oxidized? That's the thing is. Then you go well, how did I even get there? And that's where you could like be like. You can recover your health so easily when you have the knowledge, and if you don't, that's when you find someone to help you, because it makes it so much easier and more fun and cholesterol is a starting point for all of our hormones, including our sex hormones.

Rheece Hart:

So for men and women, testosterone and estrogen and progesterone all of those hormones come from a starting place of cholesterol, yep, and then they go down the chain from there, so we have to have cholesterol.

Michale Hartte:

We've got to get the cholesterol in Without a good diet. It's very true. There's so many good things about cholesterol yes, yeah, unfortunately, you know.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Again, it goes back to the blood cholesterol and the dietary cholesterol.

Michale Hartte:

A lot of people get those two terms interchange, when they're actually two separate things yeah, cholesterol from your foods like eggs, and that in and of itself isn't really going to raise your cholesterol as as most people believe it's not it's really the liver making the cholesterol. Why is it making the cholesterol? Oh, because it needs to do certain things. Whatever your body's doing, you're giving it a signal. It's doing what you're asking it to do.

Michale Hartte:

But if you know more about your body then you know you can move in a direction that you want instead of what you don't want while we're talking about cholesterol.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Cholesterol is actually recycled and it's not actually always new cholesterol. It's recycled through the gut and that's why fiber is so important is because it actually attaches the old cholesterol so it can get expelled through the bowels instead of getting recycled. So I thought that was pretty interesting too, because and it really amazes me how so many foods fiber is taken out and when fiber is really really important, and a lot of people I don't know why they just started.

Rheece Hart:

And that's where the ultra processed foods, between the seed oils and removing the fiber is why they're so bad for us, from my understanding fiber is attached to the oil, and the oil, if it's left in processed foods, goes rancid, and so it lowers the shelf life of the products. The manufacturers are looking for a way to keep the product on the shelf forever and keep their stresses lower, and so they take out the fiber which has the oil attached to it.

Michale Hartte:

If they left it in there it would be rancid that makes sense to create a longer shelf life, which is one of the reasons, probably why so many of our healths are struggling that's like the inconvenient truth we're looking for convenience, but over time you're this you're withdrawing when we really need to start depositing and getting our help back like we have to start thinking ahead like where do I want to be and I'm not really going in the direction.

Cindy Tunstall:

So it's like okay, well we can turn it around, earlier the better. Later some things can't be turned around.

Michale Hartte:

Alzheimer's and dementia. We don't have a way to do that. But on the right these kind of things we can move it ahead in the trajectory who wants to lose?

Cindy Tunstall:

their brain when you do like how is it going to affect yourself and everybody?

Michale Hartte:

else like.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

It's just like we have to think about these things now right, right, and you know it's never I don't want to say it's never never too late, uh, but for the most part it's never too late because the body regenerates when you give it the right food and you know, you almost get a whole new body, minus your brain, uh, every seven years. So it's not too late for the most part. I mean, there's always that one or two exceptions, but start now, oh yeah.

Michale Hartte:

You're going to wish you did if you didn't, yeah, and it's like, okay, well, where do I start?

Cindy Tunstall:

Well, that's when you find someone to help you. I mean, why would you want to keep spinning those wheels Right, like we have experts that have done all the work already, like just make a call and they will share this information that will change your life forever so.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

I know the majority of people. They like to be told how to to do it, how they should do it. There's a handful of people who like to have general guidance and explore their own path and it's just finding you know there's a coach for everybody. It's just finding that right coach for your preference and it doesn't matter if it's a clinical nutrition, a regular health coach. It depends on what level you need, how much hands-on you want. Every aspect of it has different levels, so it's just what you need as your personality type and you really got to be insightful and know your own personality type so you can get the wins you want.

Rheece Hart:

Yeah, we have a few different directions for our clients. We have a high level where it's really high touch, high accountability, day-to-day, 24-7 access to us, although we do sleep. And then we have other offers as well, where it's just like let's put together an ideal nutrition program for you, an exercise program, a mindset program for you, an ideal nutrition program for you, an exercise program, a mindset program for you, based entirely on you as an individual, which is far less and far less cost a lot easier. And then we just have smaller like challenges and so forth that we work with people on.

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, the blueprint, we love the blueprint.

Rheece Hart:

And have trainings on it.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So if anybody's interested in working with you, I'm going to give you a few minutes to let them know how to find you and everything and also leave at least three to five tips on how to get started until they can find the right coach for them you want to find someone who's already done the work and been successful, that's number one is, I know, for our coaches.

Michale Hartte:

we're looking for somebody who has already been where we are, but now exceeded into where he's going now. So that's what I want to grab is somebody who's been successful already. Do you want to speak on that Cause I would have to say that You'd also want to know, like have a discussion with them.

Rheece Hart:

So it's not just a a quick thing, it's like have a chat with them to understand who they are and have them understand who you are, and then you get a feeling for it. You get a feeling for, well, how does that coach speak? How does that coach react to things? What's their way of doing things? Is it personalized? Is it cookie cutter? How much is involved with this? Um, and you know, get your questions answered, um, during like, for us it's a free call. We just offer people hey, hop on a free call with us. It's a zoom call. Um, here you go.

Rheece Hart:

Here's our calendar. Book it in during your convenience. You know we, we live in Mexico, but we work with all different timelines throughout the world. So just let us know what can. Whatever's convenient for you, is it such and such time in the morning, is it in the evening? Find a time that works with you. Hop on a free call. We just have a chat. What's going on in your world? What do you want? Where are you now? Where do you want to be? What's the gap in between and how? Here's how we could help you achieve it Right.

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, so it's a strategic call, it's it's it's a chat, but it's also we're gathering information to help you quicker, faster, where you want to be and doing things you should be doing and not doing what you shouldn't. So, like we're going to eat anyway, why don't you find a way that's going to eat to get your results Right? Um, and that's great.

Rheece Hart:

And then it's it's um, you know how do they coach you Like, do they coach you? They give you a piece of paper and say, hey, have a great life, or do they? Um, are they, you know, asking you to connect every morning, every evening? Maybe that's too much for a lot of people.

Rheece Hart:

Um, so we have channels that we help our clients to work with. They can connect with us one-on-one, either by email, either by messenger, on Instagram, on Facebook. They can connect in a portal that we have online that they have available on their phone or on their laptop, whichever they prefer, or at a cafe. They can go online and get the information. They can go in and see what's going on. There's lots of information in there that they can access on their own educational things. There's group calls, there's group coaching, there's one-on-one coaching. There's all kinds of different types based. Again, ours is a very individualized coaching and so it's simple, but it's based entirely on the individual. Yeah, who are they? How do they like to be communicated with, how do they like to communicate? What's going to work into their schedule, their lifestyle, and go from there?

Michale Hartte:

the thing is that you're you're buying a result. That's really what you're actually doing.

Cindy Tunstall:

You're buying a result, so it's like, okay, who's going to help me get my result?

Michale Hartte:

That's what you always keep in mind. I want to lose 20 pounds in 90 days, Okay.

Cindy Tunstall:

well, who's going to help me get?

Michale Hartte:

that result where I can have fun doing it. That's what you want to do is find someone to help you get the result. And if somebody is interested in exploring what y'all have to offer. How would they reach you?

Michale Hartte:

Yeah, so we have a community and it's a free community and it's a really good stepping stone. So it's called the fit and healthy. We can give you the link. But it's a fit and healthy community where we give like we give trainings in there. We just did one on insulin resistance and how to stave off brain disorders like Alzheimer's, dementia. We've done ones on fat loss, muscle building, heart disease, diabetes, like we give real, like really good trainings. That is really simple but practical, like, oh, I learned that I can apply that right away, very, very applicable. So, anyways, we have free trainings in there. We have a guide in there. We have a seven day rapid weight loss, which is a healthy way to lose weight. We've got that free guide in there. We have a seven day rapid weight loss, which is a healthy way to lose weight. We've got that free guide in there. Um, so we have free guides for certain topics, like right at your fingertips, that you can watch on your own. So that this is the fit and healthy community Cause.

Cindy Tunstall:

what we want to do is we want to help more people get fit and healthy. That is our mission in life.

Michale Hartte:

Our mission in life is literally. I want to see more people get fit and healthy, cause I know if I do, the world's going to be a better place. The children are going to be in a better place, and then their children will be in a better place, and you know what? We're going to be a lot happier. So this is our service to the world, is creating this fit and healthy community, and it's completely free. All this good information, and here's the thing.

Cindy Tunstall:

You can watch the information, but you go wait a minute.

Michale Hartte:

I need some accountability. That's when you hire a coach. You hire a coach to help you stay on track.

Cindy Tunstall:

Be consistent to get the results, tweak things as you go, and that's what we're here for.

Michale Hartte:

So, but we do offer this free community and it's incredible meal plans recipes. I just posted one like a simple coconut bread that you can make at home and take on the road. Are you kidding me?

Michale Hartte:

seven ingredients, that took five minutes and it's going to literally help you balance your blood sugar so that you can, you know, burn fat, build muscle, love your food again and like. These are simple things that we can do. We give all this away for free and, again, if you want accountability, that's what you'd be paying for. So we would be more than happy to invite all your audience to join our community and we can all get fit and healthy together. In fact, you're going to see Corey's story in there, you'll see Mike's story in there. You see all these transformational stories in there, so that you can aspire and stay on track.

Michale Hartte:

And it's based on what you learn.

Rheece Hart:

If you like to listen to things, there's lots of auditory things. If you like to watch a video, you can watch a video. If you'd like to read something, you can read something. There's all kinds of different ways of learning in there. Whatever is best for you.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, I love that. Y'all's mission pretty much correlates with mine. Mine just very slightly is that I want to change a driver's beliefs that they can be fit and healthy on the road, because a lot of them just don't believe they can do it and it's a false belief it is, it is absolutely, they can be yeah limiting belief.

Michale Hartte:

I mean, other people have done it, why can't?

Cindy Tunstall:

them, people have done it.

Michale Hartte:

If you give the right, the bodies respond to everything you're doing. Why?

Cindy Tunstall:

don't you find out what it needs and just have fun doing it, it's like super simple and it's really fun. Nothing tastes better than how fit and healthy feels.

Michale Hartte:

I'll tell you.

Cindy Tunstall:

Fit and healthy feels so good.

Michale Hartte:

It's just like one step at a time.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Thank you all so much. We could probably talk for another three or four hours easy, but we're going to go ahead and call it a close today.

Michale Hartte:

I appreciate y'all's time and the information y'all have shared truly, thank you thank you, we've appreciated your information too, I mean and much thanks to your audience I love this rhythm, one I mean I may I may be adjusting my.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

You're free to use it, because that was a huge mind shift for me. I love it, yeah, because I have that plan.

Michale Hartte:

It's like step two is daily routine. I'm like maybe the daily rhythm. Maybe I'll ask Melinda if I have permission Smart Good job.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, yes, thank you all so much, woo-wee. What an insightful conversation with Reese and Michelle. Their expertise has me energized to kick my healthier, holler transformation butt into higher gear. I love their perspective on using lab work to identify and address the root cause that could be hijacking our vitality, and their process of setting personalized goals, screening clients and reviewing detailed health histories truly proves that this is no one-size-fits-all approach. It is a tailored by child wellness plan to fit your driving style, and hearing the motivating stories of their clients who were drivers like Mike and Corey and they were able to lose 90 pounds by establishing routines and meal prep that work with their individual driving schedules proves that we too, can become healthier out here on the road. The key is learning what works for you and your driving style by embracing healthier habits one mile at a time. I'm Melinda Fox-Wellington and this is Healthier Truckers.

Cindy Tunstall:

Hey, this is Cindy Tunstall from Enjoying Life OTR. I think you can see why I think every trucker in America needs to know Melinda Fox-Wellington. She's breaking the myths that trucking has to be an unhealthy lifestyle and she's giving us practical tips to help us along our journey. Be sure to check out her Facebook group, healthier Truckers, as well as the Enjoy Life OTR Facebook group. Both communities have amazing things happening in there and we want you to be a part of it. Thank you.

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