Your Friday Five – Let’s Get Weird (and Fit It In)

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Hello. Hello my friends. Welcome to another week of us doing this mini Friday. Just thought something to bring you into the weekend, something to motivate you, something that's going on, maybe something that I'm thinking about with my patients and how we're strategizing it. Let me know. I really wanna know'cause this is a new thing that we're doing and I really wanna see how it's landing with you all. Underneath where you're listening, there's the thing that says fan mail, right? You can send us a message anonymously. Remember, if you ever wanna reply, you've got to put, you know, your email if you wanna hear back from us, but I wanna know, can you tell me what are you thinking of these segments? Are there things you wanna hear about? Again, let me know more'cause I have lots of thoughts, but I always wanna hear what you're thinking and how you're liking these or not.'cause if they're well received, we keep going. If not, we eliminate it. All right, so something that has been front and center this week has been. People not thinking that exercise is a non-negotiable priority. So how this shows up is this. A lot of my patients, they're doing amazing great things, by the way. Yes, you meet yourself, where you're at, and you slowly build up habits, right? But what ends up happening is that there's certain things that are just always falling between the cracks. And one of the biggest things that I see happen with this, there's many that I, where I see this, but exercise is maybe the number one culprit. A lot of people understand the importance of protein, and if they don't eat fiber, they get consequences of getting constipated. So it's like they're directly getting the problem, right? So they're listening to it. But exercise sometimes isn't that way. And here's the analogy that I came up with, and whenever I've been telling people that, they're like, oh my gosh, instant understanding instantly I wanna do this. So here's my thought for you. If you're always. Putting it off, number one. I can tell you, look, you know it, what was it? Uh, Dr. Uh, Kamal Patel, SIA, right? I think it was last week on the podcast, sometime early April. I think it was like April 7th. She came on the podcast and she talked about, it's the episode of Insulin Resistance and PCOS, and she talked about how 11 minutes of walking per day, how that prolongs your life. I remember thinking, oh my gosh, 11 minutes. Yeah, I think you have time for that. Right? But here's the analogy I want you to think about. So think about the non-negotiables in your life, like brushing your teeth imagine how fuzzy and disgusting and. Wreaking smell your mouth would have if you wouldn't brush it for a week. I mean, even after a day or two, if any of you ever had this, like you're sick, you forget something happens and you're just like, Ooh, what's happening? I can't be the only one. Imagine if for a week you did no dental care. Imagine how you would feel at the end of that. That's the equivalent when we're not moving our bodies. If you're able to, and again, I think that everybody in some capacity, unless it's a very extreme situation, we can get in a little bit of movement. It can be in a chair if you're not able to stand up again, there's different levels to this. It's not that everybody needs to go walk an hour a day like me. That's not the case. But in some capacity, we need to be moving our body a few times a week. Ideally, I want you moving daily about 30 minutes. honestly, I really think that's baseline, minimum now. I think the hard part is that a lot of people are really over committed in their lives. I. You're over-functioning. You're doing too much at work. You're saying yes to too many things. So this is not just a matter of, I decide that exercise matters and I'm gonna do it. And by the way, I really like to use the term movement, which is just anything. It could be that you're more active in general at home. Remember, the only difference between movement and exercises, that exercise is a discreet period of time. You have a discreet agenda. They're pretty much the same thing, I really want you to be moving daily, but I want you to start where you're at. So if you haven't been doing anything, can you start with a five minute walk? If you are trying to bring in weights and you're not really getting to it, I'll talk about this on another Friday episode, but it's really been working for me in the middle of my walks to just. Do 10 lunges, 10 side lunges, 10 overhead presses to break it up much more. So you really start to meet yourself where you're at. But think about if you thought about it in the context of, I would never not brush my teeth. What if you started to think about movement in that capacity? If you can imagine fuzzy teeth every time you say no to exercise, I want you to imagine that, okay? Now remember when we set non-negotiables, what are things that can break that? Fire blood, right? Things like that can get in the way, but otherwise we can't keep letting everything else railroad over us. The other thing I definitely wanna address when I'm even saying this is that people are gonna say, well, you know, I'm so pressed for time. I don't have time. Listen, I hear you. And validated because this, I'm, this really is true for a lot of people. However, you do have five, 10 minutes and we need to then do a time audit where you need to look at what am I actually doing with all my time? Because the guaranteed, you're on social, you're listening to a podcast, you're doing something I'm not even joking when I say this, like maybe you have two pound weights in the car and as you're driving home, if you're at a light. Maybe you do a few, a few curls with the, with the weights. And yes, you're gonna say, oh my gosh, people are gonna look at me. Let's get weird. Let's start to get weird. Let's find the time when you go to the bathroom before you come outta the stall. Let's do a few squats. Let's start to really make this a thing where you're like, I'm gonna figure out something. This analogy has been really working for people. The fuzzy teeth people are like, oh my gosh. Yeah. So that's what I wanted to bring to you today. Alright. I hope you have a super fantastic weekend and that you come out of it feeling amazing. Alright, we'll talk soon.