Grumblings
Grumblings
Streaming services, new years resolutions, and we’ll be asking is it really healthy?
Streaming services, are there too many? New years resolutions what does the data say about them and which are the most popular ones. We will also explore whether common things we think are healthy actually are healthy for us.
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In today's episodes, we'll be delving into three topics, streaming services, why so many New Year's resolutions, really.
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And we'll be asking, is this really healthy? Stay tuned for fun facts at the end.
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Let's get into topic one.
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Streaming services.
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So the number of streaming subscribers that people paying for access to a service is expected to exceed 1 billion in 2023.
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Now streaming services overtook cable and broadcast for the first time early in 2020.
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Do and. It's easy to see why we can access our favourite movies and TV shows on demand whenever we want, wherever we want. But the playing field was pretty simple and easy before.
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Netflix, Hulu, HBO and that was basically it. All of the other studios networks, they just licenced their shows to a carefully and picked selection of subscription services.
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And Netflix, back in the day, was basically the default, right? That's the one that we all had and we would access pretty much everything from Netflix.
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That's no longer the case because I can tell you the list of.
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Subscription services that.
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I myself currently have and I can tell you now it is quite a long list. I have Netflix.
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Disney plus.
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Hulu, Paramount Plus, YouTube TV, Apple TV plus, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Discovery plus. I'm spending about $150.00 a month on all these different subscription services. This is way more than we used to pay.
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For cable TV services, in fact, I have so.
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Many subscription services.
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That there are.
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Only a small handful.
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That I don't actually have such as, you know, like ESPN.
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****. Does anybody actually have Peacock I?
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Would love to know this because this was pushed.
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Really, really hard.
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But I feel like.
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Everything that Tom Peacock was paramount plus.
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And I I'm a bit confused. Other ones. Brick Box, Box Nation, BT plus and I'm I guess there's a couple of others.
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That that I may have forgotten about.
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In there as well.
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But that doesn't change the fact that I myself am earning $150.00 on all those different subscription services that back in the day used to essentially just be consolidated into one really good streaming service, and then the rest you would access through your TiVo, but you would just access those through your normal cable TV.
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So the question here is have subscription services reach saturation?
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And when they do reach market saturation, what does that mean for us as customers?
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Netflix, for example, went from costing $7.99. It was like what £5 I think in the UK $7.99 so $8.00 in 2011.
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Now cut to today, the exact same script subscription service.
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I can get my.
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Words out from Netflix is $19.99.
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It's $20.00, so that's a huge increase. It's 150% increase. Now I know what you're thinking, but Jimmy inflation?
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Yes, I I've accounted for this, my dear friends. And inflation was only 32%.
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I say only that's still a lot.
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But if we were following inflation, that would mean that Netflix today should only cost $10.54. The maths has been done here. Now Netflix does offer a basic basic subscription service.
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And that basic subscription service is $9.99, so it's $10.
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But that is a really basic subscription service. It doesn't include any HD content, so I don't even know what what you'd be watching it on anymore.
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Like, aren't we kind of like 8K now? And I think most people have, like, a 4K television, so HD not being the standard.
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To me is just bizarre cause.
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4K shortly should.
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Be kind of like the new standard.
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Now, but that doesn't even include HD and it limits you to only one screen.
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So essentially, Yep, OK, Netflix can say, hey, we still offer a really affordable option at $10, which would almost match the inflation price increases over the last, you know, 1012 years.
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But essentially, in terms of video quality, we're taking a step back 15 years, so I don't really feel as though that's a justified subscription pricing point or service that should even be offered to consumers.
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It's so bad that no one's going to buy everybody's automatically going to.
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Go to the more expensive.
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It's an excuse for them to say, hey, we.
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Still offer it cheap.
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But you still gotta pay this higher.
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Price now the solution that most of these subscription services have kind of taken to justify either introducing slightly lower costs or by charging really high costs is to say, OK, we'll give you a cheaper option, but now you have to have ads.
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In fact, you have to.
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Have a lot of ads.
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Which kind of defeats the object of having these subscription services in the 1st place. It was an option for us to basically pay the studios a set fee every month to say I want to consume your content and instead of going through cable TV where I have tonnes of ads and you know whatever.
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I'm going to go to you and I'm not going to pay the ads. It's the model that we got used to. Netflix made this a thing. We all loved it, and that's been the new standard.
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That is no longer the case, and even Netflix are talking about introducing an ad based model now as well, and I suspect that that's going to start seeping into other business subscription rules that they have.
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So we're just going to enter back into the old world where all we ever saw were.
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Ads that would.
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Consume about 30% of our viewing.
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Time, which kind of really does suck Netflix themselves have also been cracking down on password sharing.
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So sorry mum. My mum uses buy Netflix.
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And they're going to.
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Introduce this new ad supported plan.
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Awesome. The most appealing thing as we just said about subscription services have been the ability to watch them without ads. But apparently Netflix's revenue of wait for this $29.7 billion.
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$30 billion is not enough for them. Now YouTube revenue is $28.8 billion, and this is in the context of YouTube suffering from its ad support model as well. So YouTube, with almost the same amount of revenue as Netflix, has really been suffering.
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Recently people have been jumping off YouTube, going to other platforms consuming, you know, more short short form video content on TikTok or or other platforms out there.
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And their their their ad revenue is going down as as a result of this right. The user experience also kind of sucks because when you consume these short form content platforms such as TikTok, you don't really encounter a great deal of ads.
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The the ads don't feel intrusive. They don't cut into the content that you're consuming. You finish the video. You've.
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And then you go on to the next video and that might be an ad that.
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You can actually just.
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Swipe past if you want to TikTok, make ads more entertaining and appealing in order to get users to stop and want to interact.
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To engage with that content, which I I think is a great thing, YouTube does it. YouTube forces you to watch an ad as you're watching video content. Netflix is now going to be.
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Introducing a model.
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That hasn't been working. The YouTube there is literally a case study example out there right now for Netflix to say.
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Maybe that's not a good idea. However, they're still planning to do this. We'll see how it works out for them now, they're not alone here.
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In terms of it.
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Feel increasing their costs and trying to.
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Rip consumers off because Apple TV plus.
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That was a great deal at.
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$4.99 didn't have a huge catalogue of content, but it was good quality stuff, right?
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Some really good quality shows that's gone from costing again $5 to $7.00. Now the reason for this.
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That apple have said is inflation. I think that that based on maths is higher than what inflation actually is.
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I'm not sure what numbers they're looking at for this, and if it is just based on inflation, then let's wait and see if when inflation goes down, their prices go down.
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I have a inkling that they will be keeping the price at $7.00 and using inflation as justification to increase.
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Their costs.
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Let's see if the collapse of CNN Plus that launch.
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You know, last year to ads absolutely everywhere. It was a massive big fanfare of the launch of CNN plus, and then it just collapsed after like two months or something ridiculous.
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Let's see if that's going to be.
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A good sign.
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Of things to come. Will this now begin to force some of these streaming services into consolidation?
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Can we stop?
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Breaking things down and having the same TV show.
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Accessible on about five different subscription services with different seasons accessible on different services, I go onto Netflix, I can access season.
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Like 37 or something of Survivor, which is a.
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Great TV series.
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But if I want to get the latest one, I've now got to go on to a paramount plus.
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Or if I want to get season four to it's Paramount plus, it's just it's messy, everything is messy. I don't know where I'm supposed to be going to consume. What kind of content at what time, so I really, really hope.
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That the collapse of things like CNN plus and some of these other streaming services that are really struggling, right?
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Now is going to force them to start to consolidate them, make things cleaner and easier for consumers.
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Until that happens.
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Think I need to go and cancel some of my subscription services.
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Topic 2.
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New Year's resolutions.
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I think most of us are guilty of overindulging during the run up to Christmas and and just the holiday.
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Season we promise ourselves.
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That as soon as January starts, we're going to make changes for the better, right? We're going to drop that holiday weight and become a.
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Whole new person.
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New year, new me.
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What I wanted to know is.
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Is there any point in this?
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Is it better just to start whenever you feel like starting?
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So should I?
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Just start mid-december. Should I start right now when I'm starting to think about it? Or is the new year as a trigger a good way for us?
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To just begin something and not create anymore excuses or delay something any longer. And what does the data most importantly say about people sticking to their resolutions?
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So we make them. Is there any point in in actually making them? Do we actually stick to them? Is there?
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Any point and what are?
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Some of the.
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Most popular New Year's resolutions, this one I thought was fascinating. So doing a bit of research, I don't think this is going to come as a surprise to anybody.
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But the most popular?
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New Year's resolutions were to lose weight.
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It makes perfect sense, that's.
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One of mine.
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And I'm sure it's one of yours.
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As well, eating healthier, I have to ask the question here. Is anybody else on a kombucha and a probiotic kick? At the moment, I don't know if this is a 2023 thing.
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But that's that's literally me right now. I'm on Caboolture and a lot of probiotics so I'm hoping it's just going to.
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Fix fix everything.
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So that's the second one. Quit smoking is the third drinking less yet dry? January makes sense, right? Saving money. I think that's a big.
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One reduce stress.
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I'm not sure.
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How people are quantifying this? But I guess that could be linked to other things like again, health related, smoking, alcohol, etcetera.
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Learning a new skill. I think this is a nice one. I I I yeah, I fully support anybody who picks up new skills or hobbies or things like that. Great.
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Travel more and a better job. Those are the top New Year's resolutions that people make now, according to surveys that have been done research that's been done, approximately 45% of people make a New Year's resolution.
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So that's quite.
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High actually. So 50% of people are making.
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A New Year's resolution.
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Well done everybody, but only 8%, eight, eight. That's not 80. That is 8A single digit number are successful in achieving them.
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That's quite low, isn't it?
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Some other studies have also found this number as well, so it's not just that one anecdotal study that found this.
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In fact, the highest study found that 20% of people stuck to their New Year's resolutions. I think some people are lying there because that I say that the 8% feels low or it was a shock to me.
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I think now I've sat.
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With it for this whole 20.
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30 seconds. I can see that. That's probably true.
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Even just using myself.
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Or friends as an example, 8% yeah, that that feels about right 20% that seems really high. So I'm going to say that 8% feels a lot more realistic.
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And who are these?
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8% of people then who are sticking to these New Year's resolutions. So apparently people who make specific and achievable goals are more.
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Likely to stick to.
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Their resolutions and breaking large goals into smaller, more manageable steps.
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And this increases as the data shows us a likelihood of you being more successful with your New Year's resolutions.
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Habits, for example, obviously take time to form, so if it is something that you want to become that that you want to become like a habit, like going to the gym and things like that, then you've got to be patient and persistent with it.
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So you've just got to keep doing it. You've got to just force that to happen every single day.
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I am and I read this somewhere before as well. Just you telling people that that's what you're planning to do.
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The look on people's faces when they're like, oh, that's a great thing and you feel great about yourself. And then afterwards you never do it.
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Because that gratification that you got just from telling people that.
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You were going?
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To do it is enough for you.
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And so you just give it up. That's a real thing. And I'm guilty of that and.
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I'm sure many.
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Many of us are guilty of doing.
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That as well.
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So in order to make something a habit, we've gotta be persistent with it. We've got to actually persevere.
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And do it, which is really important and that leads into having a support system. So if we want to be successful and we want to be one of those 8% of.
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People who are achieving these New Year's resolutions.
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Having friends or somebody that we can be held account to is really important. Now I've done this on my social media before and anyone who follows me on my Instagram will know that I occasionally post doing like a barrys boot camp kick, right?
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Like I'm doing like hit classes and I'll want to try to do 20 classes within a set period of time, and I use the social media.
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Forms as holding me to account to make sure that I achieve that 20 out of 20 goal. So I I do believe that some kind of support system or having some way to be held.
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To account will.
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Force you to actually, you know, accomplish these goals. The sad reality, though, is that most people give up on their resolutions.
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By the end of January, the no drink.
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1 dry January great as soon as February comes around, what does everybody do? They go out and they start drinking again and you see that gym membership within the first few months of a new year, they just dive off a Cliff. So it's, you know, anything that's going to be a health kick related activity or lifestyle change.
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They make all their money in the first few months of the year because throughout the year people just keep dropping off like flies.
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They must all have a great summer, because no one's doing anything by that point, so they can all just take a break.
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Writing things down is a great way to make sure that you do try to keep up with those things.
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So if you want to be one of those people who perseveres past January, writing it down can be.
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A really useful activity and also celebrating small victories along the way, can help to motivate you.
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And increase the likelihood of sticking to a resolution. I'm not sure exactly how you would go about doing that, so how would you create kind of like a small victory or something?
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Or I guess one way that you would do small victories would be if it was a health food thing.
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So I used to do this. I'm using myself as the anecdotal example here, because I've done pretty much every resolution there is available.
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Everyone that I've listed there, apart from smoking, I've pretty much done at some point and rewarding yourself is a great way to kind of maintain it. So if you're doing like the healthy food.
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Pick making sure that weekdays, for example, you eat healthy Monday to Friday, more healthy, and then on the weekend I'm going to indulge a little bit more.
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Now I used to use the word treat here.
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So I used to say ohh on the weekend I'm going to treat my.
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Myself, no, I had to start changing my mindset there because treating myself was putting the good stuff in my body, not consuming the junk food.
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That's treating myself well when it comes to me consuming any other kind of food. If I want to have, you know that burger.
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And fries or?
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Something that is burger and fries is not the.
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Treat burger and fries.
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Is me indulging in something? But it is not a treat for.
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And it's taken me a while to start switching out of that mindset, but it's quite effective actually when you do that, there's a freebie for everybody from the motivational coach that is me.
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And then the.
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Final thing that was recommended for resolutions is just tweaking them as time goes by, so being OK to kind of make small changes to them in the hope that in the long term you'll still be able to achieve the original goal that you set out for.
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So I think my personal favourite goal that.
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I ever set myself was to run a marathon.
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It was setting.
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Myself, like one big goal at the end of the year and I said to myself, I must achieve this one thing by November 5th.
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And by setting that very specific time frame for myself, it meant that I had no choice but to. I'd I'd spent money on the marathon. I'd I'd invest quite a bit of money in that, you know, flight tickets, hotels, a lot.
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So I had to make sure that I actually did attend the marathon and that I wasn't. And then I was going to complete the marathon because it was.
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Very important for.
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Me and that involved lots of things.
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But at the gym every day I had to be consistent in terms of, you know, working out. I had to eat very healthy, make sure that my body was getting the right kind of nutrition. I was really good. I didn't eat sugar for like a year.
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So for one whole year, I basically didn't touch.
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Any sugar which?
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Is surprising. Now when I think about it, because that's one of my biggest vices.
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But yeah, that that's what I did and it and.
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It actually worked.
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I mean it worked for that year.
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Now I I still consume rubbish, but because we're still in the, you know, we're still in early 2023 we're in.
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We're in February.
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So I'm. I'm actually still being quite good at the moment. I'm I'm still on. I'm literally on a juice cleanse as I'm recording this right now.
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So yeah, I set myself the goal to do a juice cleanse, and I'm currently on a juice cleanse. Nice.
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Now I've done all of these different things in.
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Just saying what works best. I guess for one particular person is really difficult. I think the key here is just setting yourself that realistic goal and then making some kind of plan. Just making some kind of actionable plan with specific steps and goals along the way.
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So what I've.
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Done for myself this year is I've written down.
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Some of my resolutions.
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And I'm making those small little tweaks and changes that we spoke about a moment, but I'm making some of those as I'm kind of going along.
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One of my big things, for example is I.
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Really want to write.
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A book this.
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Year. That's one.
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Of my main resolutions and now I've just said it on here.
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Everybody can hold me to account for this and ask.
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Me at the end of the.
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Year. Where's your book?
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And I.
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Have to sell you my book.
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Or at least link you to it on Amazon. Hopefully. Fingers crossed, we'll see.
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But that's one.
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Of my main goals of this year is to do that. It is written down. I don't have a vision board, but it is in my.
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To Do List and that is what I have.
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Set myself so resolutions.
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To sum up, I guess they are worth it for some people because 8% of people means that people genuinely do stick to this and if you get something out of it, great, fantastic, new hobbies, skills, things like that.
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I think that's superb, but I think more people should do those things and if we want to succeed at them, I guess some of the things that I've just told.
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You about that I researched online.
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Might be quite helpful, but overall it's.
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Yeah, it's up to you guys. You've just got to do it.
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Now feeding into topic 3.
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Is to ask the question, is it really healthy now? This speeds into part of the health kick that I mentioned.
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Earlier and we've.
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All been browsing down the aisles in the supermarket, seeing all these different products that promise all kinds of different health benefits.
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But should we really be listening to them or should we be taking the claims that they're making with?
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A pinch of salt.
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It can be.
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Hard to know what's truly good for us.
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As the definition of healthy seems to have changed overtime, there are many conflicting opinions on what is actually healthy.
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You know, low fat, low carb diets are those healthy? Should we cut sugar out completely or just start consuming it in moderation? What is?
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Healthy for us.
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Now my younger sister is the person that I normally go to if I have a question about what's going to be healthy because she is a stickler for checking the ingredients on all packaged foods and she vetoes just about anything that's going to contain some kind of unpronounceable.
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Ingredient on the other hand, I've always taken a little bit more of a casual stance and I do indulge in the occasional highly processed delight. Did someone say trans fats yummy?
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But in all seriousness, I do mainly try to eat things that are good for me, and I'm often directed to the next best thing that will cure all of my ills. 1 by my younger sister, but also by all of the fads and trends that I end up seeing and consuming through social media now. Until.
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My younger sister.
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Does begin her own health kick podcast to educate us all on what we should and shouldn't be consumed?
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Ming, I, my dear, stressed out friends, have dug through the research and there are a few things that we may commonly have thought were healthy for us but may actually not be so healthy. The first one's detox diet and cleanses. How ironic.
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I have just mentioned that I am doing.
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A juice cleanse.
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But let's have a look so many detox diets and cleanses are marketed as a way to remove toxins from the body.
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We've all seen that, but there's very, very limited scientific research or evidence to support their effectiveness. In fact, some detox diets can actually be harmful for you, particularly if they involve fasting or eliminating entire food groups.
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This is hilarious as I'm currently recording this. Obviously I am on my 5 day juice cleanse over a three day five day. I've gone all in on this juice cleanse.
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Should I just give up on it right now? I mean, I have been allowing myself to mention some carrots, so I've deviated from it slightly and even just to deviate from this topic for just a brief second, I, you know, has anyone else actually done a juice cleanse because.
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I find the hardest part of a juice cleanse, and I've I've done them in the past as well, so it's not my first ever juice cleanse. I've I've done quite a few of them.
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But the hardest part is in the evenings, because I'm a terrible snacker, so I get all kinds of cravings when I'm just sat at home.
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It's why I'm actually recording this. I'm recording.
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This because it's a great.
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Distraction for me and I'm not wanting to snack on anything. So I guess that's how you can solve.
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This problem everybody.
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If you get those.
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Evening cravings create a podcast and just talk about your problems. Perfect, brilliant detox diets. They can actually be harmful for your health by removing and eliminating specific food groups. But what about things like low fat and?
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Free products, are they good for us now while reducing fat intake is often recommended for weight management, consuming too many low fat or fat free products is actually quite harmful for your health because these products typically contain added sugars.
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And artificial ingredients that contribute to weight gain.
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And other health problems. So that kind of sucks, doesn't it? You think to yourself when you see, when you see a product that's advertised as fat free, that I'm making the healthier choice, I'm making the better choice for my body.
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But the reality is, is that that's not necessarily true, because they just dump a bunch of other.
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Stuff in there.
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It kind of just defeats the whole object really does.
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Now this next one I was a bit surprised by gluten free foods. I genuinely have been under the impression that removing or cutting out gluten products or consuming gluten free products is healthier.
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I think that we've just been, you know, overexposed to all of the negative things that gluten does to us and therefore.
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Guten Free has its association to healthier eating, but unless a person has celiac disease or a specific gluten into.
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Tolerance. There is no reason at all to avoid gluten, and in fact many gluten free products are way less nutritious than their gluten containing counterparts. The gluten free ones often lack fibre and other important nutrients that we need.
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So don't skip on gluten. Gluten free is not the way to go unless you have a specific issue, obviously, or a problem with gluten.
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It should not form part of just a generic healthy eating kick, so that was a good one.
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For me to.
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Know I'm going to throw out my gluten free bread immediately.
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Energy drinks now energy drinks are often marketed as a way for us to, you know, boost our energy and improve our athletic performance.
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The biggest issue with them is that they often contain high amounts of caffeine in sugar, and as we all know, sugar is essentially the devil's not included in this list because we know that Sugar's not what we're supposed to be consuming.
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And sadly, a lot of these energy drinks contain a lot of sugar, which is again harmful for your health. And Speaking of this.
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I actually saw an energy drink in the supermarket the other day. I was shocked this energy drink claimed that it could help with weight management.
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That was on the actual can itself. Weight management was one of the benefits of consuming this energy drink. What on earth? How?
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That got through regulators to be advertised is just beyond me. This is a relatively well known brand as well.
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This is not some small random this. This is a well known company that is making the claim of weight management or weight loss by consuming their energy drink product.
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That is just shocking.
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That will not help you to lose weight it everyone is always looking for those quick fixes. If you see that you think, oh, great, I'll consume this and it will burn my lunch or I'll burn that chocolate bar.
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That I just ate.
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No, just don't eat the chocolate bar or.
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Another great thing I do this sometimes.
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I get the chocolate bar.
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I eat half of it and I throw.
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The other half.
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In the bin, half the amount of calories.
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And I'm still relatively satisfied at the end of it. It's a bit of a waste, I know, but it's a way to have a small treat without having.
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To do.
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A hit class immediately afterwards.
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Artificial sweeteners. Now I am a big artificial sweetener fan, but there are specific ones I'm going to mess up these names, but artificial sweeteners such as aspartame mine as spartin as Spartan.
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As part of me, I feel like as part of me. So that makes sense as.
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Part of me and saccharin.
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Saccharin, saccharin or saccharin are the two. These are often used as sugar substitutes. But research has suggested that they have negative effects on the metabolism and weight management.
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That really sucks.
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I like I yeah, I I add when I make myself my English breakfast tea in the afternoon, which is an odd time to have it.
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Maybe, but I always have a a cup of tea in the afternoon. My cup of tea. I put a sweetener in there because I I don't actually.
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I prefer it with the.
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Sweetener. I prefer the taste of.
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It I think I've probably prefer the taste of it because I've also.
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Convinced myself that I'm making the healthier choice.
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But maybe I'm actually not making the healthier choice and it's messing up my metabolism.
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I we already have a metabolism that deteriorates overtime. I don't think we need any help with that. Like, yeah, please.
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Juices now, while juice contains vitamins and antioxidants, it's also high in sugar and really importantly, it lacks fibre. So if you didn't know when you eat food with the fryer, with the fibre intact, the sugar is absorbed a lot more slowly and that reduces those.
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Sugar spike levels that you get, so the fibre reduces that sugar spike. It allows for the energy to be more sustained over longer periods of time and the fibre helps you feel fuller so.
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If you want to do that, just.
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Have a piece of fruit rather than going down the juice fruit. Sorry. Going down the juice root.
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Go down just the piece of root root. That was harder to say than.
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That. Yeah, that's a bit of.
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Tongue Twister there but.
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Juice is still going to be better for you than having like a Coca-Cola because although they contain almost the same amount of sugar, the juice still does contain some nutrients.
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So if you're going to go for, you know.
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Kind of coke.
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You should probably go for a glass.
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Of orange juice instead, but.
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And better than that is to have a glass of water.
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And then have an orange.
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Granola I'm surprised about this because granola is often marketed as a healthy breakfast option. I don't want to shout, but but it is high in sugar, fat and calories. It does depend on the brand and recipe a little bit for this, but granola.
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Should not be our go to first thing in the morning. That's why it tastes so good. I like granola in the morning.
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And granola. What is one thing that you've often find in granola dried fruits? Guess what else is not really that healthy for you dried fruits and although dried fruits are convenient source of vitamins and fibre, they also are really high in sugar.
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And the worst part about them is that they can be very easily over eaten, and that's one of the big.
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Difficulties with them. So again, you think you're consuming something healthy, just like when you have fruit juice but you're still consuming something that's high in sugar and is not actually that great for your overall health and well-being. Fat free salad dressing.
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If you're like me, I'm not a huge dressing person. I like a little bit of dressing on my salads.
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I don't like pouring it all over and having everything just soaking and dressing. If you do do that and you often pick out the fat free salad dressing which may seem like the healthier option. Unfortunately it contains added sugars.
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An artificial ingredient.
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And as we've already discussed earlier, that's not the best decision to be making for your body fat free salad dressing maybe.
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Just again, moderation. Moderation for all of this stuff. The one thing I thought was a little bit sad was white rice.
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Now, white rice is considered unhealthy.
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Because it's a refined grain and anything that's going to be refined.
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Is probably not going.
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To be good for us, right?
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It means that the nutritious outer layer, the bran on on, on rice.
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And the germ have been removed, so the only part of the rice that contains any kind of nutritional value it.
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Has been removed.
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It's why we get brown rice when we get brown rice that still contains some of that nutritional value. By removing that and just having white rice, you're removing all the nutritional value that the rice actually.
00:36:15
That leaving only a starchy endosperm. That's a great name. Endosperm, a great name, a great word. It's a great word, endosperm.
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So this process.
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Strips the rise of its fibre, its vitamins and minerals, and justice makes it a less nutritious food choice.
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Eating large amounts of white rice.
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Can actually be associated with.
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A number of different health problems as well, such as weight gain because white rice is high in well, white rice, is a high.
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Glycemic, food and if you've seen in the glycemic chart, it tells you the kinds of foods which can raise your blood sugar levels very, very quickly and that leads to an increased insulin secretion and increased fat storage and it increases the fat storage particularly around the waste.
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Which sucks even more.
00:37:07
Oh gosh, that really does suck, doesn't it?
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It has an.
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Increase as well of type 2 diabetes. The High Glycemic index ranking for white rice has been linked to an increase in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, so a diet high in white rice has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
00:37:28
And it may contribute to elevated levels of bad LDL cholesterol and other risk factors. Oh, I just had my annual health cheque yesterday, actually. Apparently, my LDL cholesterol levels are perfect.
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So my bad cholesterols are very low, my high cholesterol and my good cholesterols are where they're supposed to be, and I consume quite a bit of, I wouldn't say necessarily, a lot of white rice, but you know, I like sushi and things like that, but I guess I don't consume it every single day.
00:37:55
So then just nutritional deficiencies in what rice?
00:37:58
Because it doesn't contain anything, right?
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We've we've just spoken about how it stripped everything away, the fibre, the vitamins, the minerals.
00:38:03
Yeah. I'm so sorry, everyone. I'm ruining.
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All of these.
00:38:05
Food types for you, I guess we'll all just have to start.
00:38:09
To become label warriors.
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And start checking the labels of the foods that we eat more and you might still be naughty from time to time.
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I know I am. Obviously I I I do indulge myself, but at least you're making educated, informed decisions so that when you do decide to be a little bit naughty with something, you are an informed consumer.
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And then you can do something about it afterwards.
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Next up, bun backs.
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The first fun fact that we have is the largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide and eight inches thick, and it fell in Fort here in Montana. And I don't know what.
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Happened. That was that.
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Montana, I will say in 1887, that is a huge, huge snowflake. I can't even. I can't even visualise how that would fall from the sky. That that's kind of intense like a meteorite, a snowflake meteorite.
00:39:14
Can we all start saying thank you abit more to our fellow Earthlings who hold the door open for you manners. Everybody remember don't cost anything.
00:39:26
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
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The average person will walk the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime. I mean, I honestly.
00:39:40
Feel like I've walked that when I enter any tube station in London anyway, and for anyone who's ever visited the tube in London, you know exactly what I mean. Those walkways feel long.
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The lifespan of a single taste bird is.
00:39:58
10 days that I think has created more questions for me than has answered, but maybe that will be another topic at one point.
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Taste buds.
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How useful are they if?
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They're dying after 10 days, I guess.
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So much. But maybe that's why taste buds change.
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I'm not going to.
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More questions I have more questions about this.
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