E132 | From Weight Loss To Whole Life Gain: Molly 1-Year Later

What if chasing a goal weight is the least interesting part of a true health transformation? Today, Lindsey sits down with Molly to unpack how she moved from years of yo-yo dieting, disordered eating, and postpartum burnout to a steady, sustainable lifestyle that changed everything—her energy, marriage, career, and faith. The number on the scale went down, but the biggest win lived between her ears: the moment she stopped trying to be smaller and started building a stronger identity.

We trace the real pivot points: honest lab work and spotting insulin resistance, ditching event-based diets in favor of whole foods and protein-forward meals, and learning to use carbs for performance instead of fearing them. Molly talks about falling in love with movement through CrossFit, the power of small wins, and the mindset skills that replaced shame and perfectionism with practical tools. That mental shift spilled into her work life, where confidence led to promotions, speaking gigs, and a new career training teams in sales and mindset. She also shares how faith anchored her choices and how sustainable habits held up while traveling.

This conversation is a field guide for anyone who’s tried everything and feels stuck. You’ll hear clear strategies for plateaus, why simple routines beat extreme rules, and how to be radically honest with a coach to unlock real progress. Expect takeaways you can use today: build meals around protein, plan carbs with purpose, lift 2–4 times weekly, walk daily, and protect sleep. If you’re ready to stop white-knuckling diets and start living a lifestyle that lasts, press play—and if this sparks something for you, share it with a friend who needs proof that change is possible. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us the one habit you’ll commit to this week.

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Transcript

Welcome And Guest Reintroduction

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed on the Renee Health podcast are solely those of the speakers and are intended as such. Please consult your trusted healthcare practitioner for medical advice. Let's go, girls. Welcome after Renee Health Podcast. I'm Lindsay, your nurse practitioner, and today we have a super special episode. We have Molly Kubo here with us, and she was on our podcast probably like a year ago, but I wanted to bring her back on and do a little bit of a different episode with her. I'm just talking about how when we enroll in programs or go on a health journey, I think we solely focus on weight loss or a health aspect, but we don't necessarily think about how it can impact our whole entire lives. And I've seen this firsthand with Molly. So yeah, we're gonna touch some on, you know, your crazy transformation that you've had with your body. But I also want to really touch on how this has just like changed the trajectory of your whole entire life.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I, man, to make a long story short, like I've had issues with yo-yoing with my weight pretty much my entire life. I was a chubby kid and then in high school developed looking back, now I recognize that it was an eating disorder at the time, didn't realize it was, but was very, very thin in high school and basically just wouldn't eat. Or if I did eat, I would purge and did way too much exercise and all the wrong types of exercise to try and burn it off or punish myself. That carried into college along with some other things. And then after college, man, my weight just completely blew up. I dealt with some pretty bad postpartum depression and anxiety, and that absolutely didn't help. And so I think it was June of 2023 when I was introduced to the program uh and started going through everything, did the the full, what was it at the time? I think it was a six-month program at the time. Yeah, did six months and then stayed on. So, in that that transformation, so yeah, I mean, the big physical changes that happened, I think I ended up losing, I was 205 pounds that January. I think I had gotten down because I had started working out, started moving a lot more that beginning of that year. And so by the time I joined in June, I had I was down to I think maybe 185.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Yeah, that sounds cool.

The Program Start And Early Wins

SPEAKER_01 2:31

And then yeah, by the end of that six months, I had dropped over 60 pounds. Now I'm down closer to 80 or 85 pounds and have been able to keep it off. But yeah, outside of the physical changes, the weight loss, which was wild, and that carried into a lot of other aspects. I think honestly the biggest change was what happened between the ears and just my mindset around things. I never considered myself to be like, I don't know, this health focused person or somebody that moves or works out. And now that's very much a, I mean, it's a huge, huge part of my life. Um, so I I really went from being just very not disciplined, but just sad all the time. Like, yes, depressed and anxious, but I just I didn't have any kind of drive for anything. And it was carrying over into my job, it was carrying over into my role at home as a wife and as a mom. I was just, I was tired all the time. I mean, from the physical issues I was dealing with, but also I just had no energy or no drive to really do anything. And once I started seeing the progress on the scale, I think this was the biggest thing for me is I started picking up these little wins. And then that turned into it was like a ball rolling down a hill. It gained momentum. And I fell in love more with the process and what I was doing day in and day out and the habits than I fell more in love with that than I even did the results. Like the results were really cool. And seeing the weight go down, and really more than that, it was seeing how I looked in the mirror, my body composition training changing, things like that. But what was even cooler was all of a sudden I fell in love with eating these whole foods. And I didn't really miss all of the sugary garbage that I was filling my body with. I fell in love with the biggest thing I fell in love with was moving my body and going to the gym. Clearly, like you know how huge of a part of my life that is, so much so now that I coach at the gym as much as possible. But yeah, so I think the biggest thing for me was I fell in love with the process, and it no longer became me trying to do this healthy fad or this thing. It became a part of my life and a part of who I am. And now I identify as I am somebody who is healthy. I am a healthy person, I am an athlete in the gym, and that was never something that I had before. So that that was something that I was really surprised about and really excited about that has completely changed the trajectory for so many things.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Yeah, yeah. I think so many women can relate with how you started with the disordered eating and yo-yo dieting. Where do you like where did that stem from? Was it just like the culture that we grew up in? Or yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

So growing up, like I said, I was kind of a chubby kid and was bullied a little bit for it. And then my mom and my older sister were always on some kind of diet. Or they were always complaining about their weight. And there was always something. Like I remember my mom, uh, back when they had the curves gyms. Yeah. Remember those?

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

She would go to that and you know, or we had like these little, you know, five-pound dumbbells or two and a half pound dumbbells in the house that she would walk around with and stuff. But it was always something. Like she tried the workout videos and things like that. And then my sister kind of started doing that too. There was always a diet. We were always, it was always, hey, I need to lose weight. I need to look better for X, Y, and Z. It was never about the process to get there. It was just, hey, I need to drop weight for an upcoming wedding or an upcoming event or something like that. And so I started viewing weight loss as this necessary thing that just everybody did, and dieting was part of life, but you were never meant to stay on a diet. A diet was something that you did temporarily to lose weight fast, and then that was it. And so, you know, we were always often on my mom and my sister were always off and on different kinds of diets, and so I fell into that for sure. So yes, it was definitely a cultural thing, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Yeah, and then we both went to Butler, which is like this super like it's a it's a uh very expensive school that is very nice, that there is a lot of maybe trying to keep up with like the Joneses at Butler. Yes, I feel like for sure. Like I know going away to college spiraled my eating disorder, like way out of control. But you know, we all have traumas that we've been through and stuff that like changes the trajectory of kind of where we went. So you went to college, you never like had to get treatment or anything like that. Was there anything in college that made you like steamroll deeper into that, or was it just like this?

Falling In Love With The Process

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Yeah, yeah. So when I was in college, I was around people that were not great influences, and so there was a lot of drinking, there was some drugs, and all of that, and it was funny, like not funny, but I I remember thinking, well, if I just drink a lot, I get hung over. And if I'm hungover, I won't eat. I don't have an appetite because food would just be repulsive. And so part of I think my drinking was that I knew it was gonna keep me thin. And so I mean, there were, I mean, there were weeks, like it would be like these week-long binges, and that got really bad. And then also just I never learned how to eat or fuel my body. So I remember I actually, this was right before I went to Butler, but it was when I was really underfueling my body, doing way too intensive workouts, all cardio workouts, with no rhyme or reason other than just to quote unquote burn off calories. And a lot of times that would end up in me puking, or one time I actually broke my nose from passing out because I fell face down. And like I have a little chip in my nose now from it. Yeah, so that kind of continued on in college as well. Cause I mean, no one was there to really teach us how to live on your own. And we had this 24-7 access to food and other substances, and it was just a mess. And so I got in a really dark place at school and the constant pressure, you know, talking about Butler, I mean, a prestigious university, the constant pressure that I think was put on us too of, you know, you've got to be so good. And at the time I was going to Butler for their physician's assistant program, and I was pre-accepted into that, which was a six-year program, really similar to the pharmacy program there. And so it was a big deal that I was pre-accepted into it, but I could not get like a C. And I had one class, chemistry, that I ended up getting, I was like one point shy and ended up with a C minus. And because of that, I got kicked out of the program. And so from there, I had the dean of health sciences tell me, quote unquote, well, it's probably a fluke that you got in in the first place. And I just, I took that. My worth was so tied up in my academic performance and how other people viewed me. I took that, and I mean, I just everything spiraled downward. I thought, okay, well, what's even the point then? Switched my major and just lost all care for taking care of my body. And that was kind of the beginning of all of that. And it I realized now after I left Butler that while I was no longer drinking the same way or restricting from food, I still, it was that same issue of I'm not going to take care of myself. It was just in the total opposite direction. And so I would eat way too much and fuel my body with absolute garbage and junk and not move my body. And that led to a lot of other health issues too, and being on a crazy amount of medications at the age of 26, which is wild looking back.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Yeah. So you, you know, graduated college, you got married to Clint, then you guys had Piper. And Piper was really young whenever you decided to start working.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

She was, let's see, September or January, February. She was about six months old, six or seven months old when I really started getting into all of this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Yeah. And I remember like when we first started, you had worked with a nutrition coach and you were doing macros, and you had like tried a bajillion things to try to lose weight, and nothing was sticking.

Roots Of Disordered Eating And Culture

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Yeah. I was so I've always been the straight A student apart from that one C minus in chemistry. Always been a straight A student. So I I'm good at following programs and plans, but none of it was sustainable. So I had tried at this point, up until this point, I had actually before rewinding a little bit, before I got married, I was very much in the mindset of okay, I've got to lose weight for the wedding, right? And which right away, anytime I feel like we talk about I've got to lose weight for some event, we're already setting ourselves up for failure. And so I hired a nutrition coach and she was having me eat 1200 calories a day. We weren't really talking about movement or anything. It was just calorie restriction. There was no talk of what types of food to eat. It was just, hey, as long as it fits within this 1200 calories and you're getting, you know, 70 grams of protein, you're good. So I was, yeah. So I was definitely not eating things that were filling and nutritious, but you know, it was 1200 calories realized. So I was really good at that. I lost the weight, obviously, because how can you not on 1200 calories? Although I re I reached a point about, I don't know, it was maybe two months in where I kind of plateaued a little bit. And when I say plateaued, I mean it was maybe for two weeks. It wasn't a true plateau. And so she's like, okay, well, let's lower it down to a thousand. So I was eating a thousand calories a day, sometimes less than that, because at this point, the only thing I had learned was that okay, less is better.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

So I was miserable. I was miserable to be around, I'm sure, but lost the weight for the wedding. And man, as soon as I hit quote unquote that goal weight, there was no reason to continue. So it backfired and I rebounded so hard. And I ended up gaining all of that weight back, plus like an additional 50 pounds, easy. And that was when I was in the worst physical shape of my entire life. At 26 years old, I was on like metformin, I was on Tagamet for heartburn. I I had Tums in every room of the house and in like my purse and in my car because my heartburn was so bad and so bad, like I was on prescription medication for it. I was on antidepressants, anxiety meds, and all of these things at 26 years old. And looking back, like it was because I was just so poorly fueling my body.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

Yeah, I mean, no one ever no one taught you how to live a healthy life.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

No. And without going on a rant, but and I get so fired up about this so much now. But I mean, I was I'm five foot two and it five foot two, two hundred and five pounds. It's not hard to look and see there's an issue here. And I would walk into the doctor's office and never once was anything ever discussed with me about, well, what are you eating? What are you doing? It was just okay, here's your problem, here's a prescription.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

And it, yeah, it wasn't until working with you that I even the notion came to mind that, hey, maybe this isn't okay. Like maybe this isn't normal.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

So what was that turning point for you? Um, where you're like, okay, I'm gonna try something different. I'm gonna try to not go on a diet. I'm gonna try to maybe view this as a lifestyle. And because we don't ever advertise our program as a diet, ever. Yeah. We are very blatant that it's a lifestyle program. What was that turning point?

SPEAKER_01 14:00

So I hired the nutrition coach before I got married, and then after that fell way off the wagon. Like, okay, something's gotta change because I hated what I saw in the mirror. So I tried Weight Watchers, I tried Noom, I tried going paleo, uh, I tried which I didn't fully understand paleo. I tried um going keto, also didn't really understand keto, it was just what was trending. Yeah. And tried all of these different like smoothie cleanses, things like that, which would give me diarrhea for three days, and then that was it. And then we were back to where we were. So full transparency. And so at that point, I think after spending money on all of these programs and these subscriptions, and I tried tracking calories on my own, and I just couldn't stay to it because I I felt like I had no willpower. I realized something had to change. And I think the turning point for me was after I'd gone back to work after maternity leave, I got home and I just I had no energy, I had no desire to even hang out with Clint and Piper. I I just wanted to sleep. I just wanted to go to sleep because I was so exhausted emotionally, physically, mentally. There was just nothing left. And I knew that my health was a part of that. And I looked at my daughter and I thought, you know, I I can't not have energy for her as she gets older because she's only gonna get more active and I want to be there for those things. And so that was the turning point where I'm like, okay, I really need something different. And around that time, uh, I had saw rejuvenating health advertised on Facebook. And I knew about the the gym that you guys own. So I was like, okay, well, maybe I mean, I saw everything, everything that you guys were talking about. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's me. Like, I have no energy, I feel terrible all the time. I've tried everything, nothing, I can't stick with anything. And so that's really what got me to take that first step and reach out.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Yeah, and when you came, like we did blood work, you had insulin resistance, think we had like some PCOS different type stuff. And I think my biggest thing with you is like you never you just did what you were told and you just trusted the process and the process and you did the mindset work that goes along with it. Yes, because that's where people so underestimate it. And I think it's amazing that you've lost 80 pounds. Amazing. I'm so proud of you for losing it and keeping it off. But I think what is more amazing to me is like when we met, you like were mom and you were working at State Farm, like just you were pretty much just an insurance agent, right? And now you're like traveling all over the place and like talking in front of all these people, yeah. Coaching the 5 a.m. class at the CrossFit Gym. Like, I think I don't I mean, I don't know your relationship with like God and Christ before we went through this, but you're going to church and you're yeah, I just like talk about how just it's transformed your body and your weight and like all those things.

College Pressures, Substances, And Collapse

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Yeah. So I man, I think not I think, I know where it started was I suddenly started to have some confidence. Not so much in how I looked, but I was seeing like, man, I'm doing this hard thing and it's working and I'm being successful at it. And it was learning to celebrate the small wins and see these little milestones that were happening. I mean, the scale is one thing, and I know you just released an episode on your podcast about breaking up with the scale, and I love that. But I started to recognize these other wins and I started also looking at the scale differently. It was, I no longer viewed my worth tied up in that. I now looked at there were so many other markers that I was looking at now as to what quote unquote healthy meant that had nothing to do with the number on the scale. And so I started experiencing these little victories, and that created this confidence where again, it was like, man, I'm doing this hard thing. Like, if I can do this hard thing here and I can do this hard thing in the gym, like I can do this hard thing at home. I can do this hard thing at work. And so I started being more bold in what I was doing at work. And that led to more opportunities. I had really my career kind of took off because suddenly I was, I was just a lot more sure of myself. And again, it wasn't so much because of the physical confidence that was coming from it. That definitely came, but it was because I knew I could do hard things. Uh when I started being more sure of myself, people took me a lot more seriously. I could walk in a room and now I knew people were listening to what I had to say because I was no longer trying to make myself small. Like I had spent so much of my life trying to disappear and be small and unseen. And especially when I gained the weight, I was constantly just trying to be small and not wanting to take up space. And so I got over that. I mean, I'm still I not entirely, I'm still working through that at times, but I was right. I was a lot more just willing to speak and be heard and be seen. And that led to all of all of these opportunities. And so yeah, my career took off. I got a lot more confident as a mom. I got a lot more confident in my role in the household as a wife. Uh, my husband and I, our relationship dramatically improved. I remember really vividly, it was August after I had joined rejuvenating in June. He told me, I feel like I'm getting my wife back. I was like, oh my gosh. Which was amazing, like one of the best things that he ever could have said. Yeah, our relationship improved. Like I said, not only did I have more energy, but I was able to be more present and more locked in on things uh just because I felt so much better and because I had that confidence. And yeah, and then I absolutely fell in love, like head first, head over heels, in love with CrossFit. Got my L1 and L2 so I could coach, and then got really into the mindset work. You mentioned doing a lot of the mindset work. I loved the approach that you guys took of kind of meeting where you are. And what I thought was so interesting about rejuvenating's approach to mindset was it wasn't this just toxic positivity that I had always thought mindset was of like, well, you just gotta believe in yourself and just do it. It was very much like meet you where you are, and hey, let's unpack this and let's figure out what's going on. And that was huge, so huge for me.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Yeah, and you went on to get like the certifications that were. Yeah, so then I went on.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Yeah, so I I love school. Like I didn't have a great time at Butler, but I do love school and I love learning things. And so I'm all about like getting certs and things like that. So yeah, when I found out that you guys used enlisted for the mindset work, I got my enlisted L1, got my enlifted L2, and have continued to use that in a lot of areas of my life as well.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

So you went from being like a state farm agent. Now, what is your job?

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Yeah, so now, so it's very it's very niche. So I train and coach businesses, business owners, and their teams on it used to be more just on sales, but now it's really turned into sales and mindset because we know everything really starts with that mindset. So sales mindset, but now it's interesting in building these relationships with people. I've now had a lot of them reach out to me and be like, hey, I actually want more help with the mindset stuff, or hey, can you help me figure out like what should I be doing when from my five to nine after work? You know, we talk about your nine to five, but how can you help me with my five to nine? So I've been able to help some people kind of figure out prioritize things like that. Um yeah, yeah, and then coaching at the gym has been the other big part of my life that I love.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Yeah, I love that for you. So obviously, like when you joined, it was a scary investment, but I feel like you've probably made that back 10 times over, just like at least in your career, even.

Postgrad Health Spiral And Medications

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it was a it was a big investment for sure. And it was one that I didn't know if I was gonna be able to make, but I will say this and I will say it, I'll die on this hill. If it is important to you, you can find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse. And hear my heart, I know there's people that you know struggle. We all struggle. Money is tight, right? But it was really about making sacrifices on, you know, I you buy a six-dollar coffee every day, okay. Well, that adds up. Like that'll pay for it, right? So it was a matter of just making these sacrifices for it. And yes, it was an investment, but it was also a contribution to myself, but to my family. Like it was a very much a contribution to my family. And so in making this investment, yeah, absolutely. I made it back in that I was able to go off of pretty much all of my medications. Some were pretty pricey. And that that alone paid for it monthly. But on top of that, like I think of, you know, the income that I make coaching now. Like that never would have happened had I not gone through this. But also the job opportunities, the things that have come from working, and now I get to travel and speak and I do some motivational, some mindset speaking and workshops for people around the country. I actually just found out I'm going to the Dominican for a speaking event in December, just for a couple days. But uh yeah, like none of that ever would have happened to the Molly of three years ago because I just I wouldn't have put myself out there and taken that step, wouldn't have had that confidence.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

So obviously, like you're amazing and you've done a lot of hard work. But what do you what do you say for the people that are in the trenches of like trying to do this? Because it's not easy.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

No, no. And I think it's important to know, like, it has not been easy, and it has not all been this, you know, butterflies and rainbow experience for me either. And I think social media, I mean, we talk about this a lot, right? Like social media is very people only post the highlight reels, and it certainly hasn't all been a highlight reel. There have been a lot of fluctuations, there have been a lot of spots where just the numbers weren't moving, or maybe they were moving in the wrong direction, or you know, I just didn't feel like doing the thing. And I guess what I would say to somebody in that spot, what I know I said to myself a lot is, you know, just one day at a time, one step at a time. And as cliche as it sounds, trust the process. Trust the process. Like these ladies, the coaches at rejuvenating, you all know what you're talking about. You guys are the experts. And I remember there were times where I was like, I feel like, you know, because we have to kind of reprogram what we've been taught all these years and thinking that carbs are bad. And I remember there were times where you're like, eat some carbs. Like, yeah, I'm scared to eat carbs, but I did, and hey, it worked. It was actually the thing that I need, I found out I was stagnant because I wasn't eating enough carbs. So just listen to your coach and trust the process and but be honest with your coach. I think that's the other big thing I would say is for any lady that's going through this or they're not seeing the progress, you've got to do an audit. Are you being honest with yourself? And are you being honest with your coach? And you gotta lay it all out there, the good, the bad, and the ugly, if you want to get anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Yeah, and I think for you it's been huge. Like now, if you're sending me numbers, it's not like, hey, this number on the scale is this. It's like, hey, how do I increase my muscle mass? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

Like my goals have definitely changed. It's not like how do I make myself smaller? How do I change my muscle mass here? Yeah, I think I mean, obviously you're an inspiration to like anyone that me, I feel like. But I just feel like I mostly wanted to have you on because you're, yeah, you have a great weight loss story, but I don't think your story is about the weight loss. I think it's about how you've actually like changed your life and your family's trajectory. I mean, your mom even did the program after you, and I remember she was like, I'm not, I do not need a coach, I do not need mindset work.

Failed Diets Versus Sustainable Habits

SPEAKER_01 25:47

All this She was so skeptical. Yeah, she was so skeptical. And yeah, now she's done it and she's been able to keep the weight off. I mean, it it is truly life-changing. And the it's funny, the biggest change I've seen in my mom has been the mindset. Like the weight is awesome. And if you're in this to lose weight, like you're in the right place. It becomes so much more than that if you let it. And man, the rewards, the I don't even know how to articulate it. The reward, the benefit that comes from the mindset work and really adapting it as a lifestyle and not just this, you know, temporary weight loss thing to quote unquote get back on track. Like this will change your life if you let it, and it will change it in all the right ways.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Yeah, and you have to fully go all in, right? Yeah. I think the women that have results surrender to the process. Yeah. If you're just like tipping your toe in, like you're not gonna get out of this what what you you're gonna get out what you put into it. And so if you're one that like you showed up for the group calls, you showed up to the coaching calls, you showed up to the mindset calls, like you weren't afraid to kind of lay stuff out there, which is why you've been able to lose the weight and keep it off. If you're someone that's like half in, half out in anything that you do, yeah, like you can't be 50% in in what you do and expect to be success. You really like can't be 80% in something and expect to get this like crazy success, right? Yeah, you have to go all in. And I think we're both huge examples of we both tried to shrink ourselves to be these like small persons. And when we stepped out of that, like our whole lives changed. Like I remember Matt says to me all the time, like, you are not the person that I married. Because when we got married, I was this like little scared, self-conscious person. And now I'm like, I don't care, but like or that's taken with me. Like, I'm a yeah, have this huge coaching company, I'm like have this amazing job, and you're on that path too. So it just shows you that like if you stop trying to make yourself smaller and start investing in yourself and start believing in yourself and start trying to just brace the like person that you were meant to be, it really will completely change your life, not just in the weight, but in your career and your family. Like, yeah, even you're just like I mean, I I just think and I'm like, okay, if Molly would have stayed where she is, like her family would just be on this path of like probably obesity and maybe not maybe living like not financially the way they wanted to, just like this bad path. But you chose to change that for yourself.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Yeah, truthfully, I mean, I don't think I would be here if I hadn't, just because if I hadn't if I hadn't made a change, I would have either succumbed to my physical health or my mental health, one or the other, or both, because they were both trash. Yeah, but yeah, and going back to the faith aspect too, I mean, I I truly believe that this gave me the tools, the resources, the guidance to live out and be the person that I really think God designed me to be. And that was not the life I was living before.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Yeah, and that's huge. Like God will open up doors if you surrender to them.

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SPEAKER_01 29:04

Yeah. Right. And I and I think the other big thing I want to toss out there too, just for anybody listening, is you know, we talk about surrendering to the process and you know, all these things, but it's not, you don't have to wake up at 4 30 in the morning and go to CrossFit at 5 a.m. if you don't want to. Like, that's not why I was successful. Um, and I still I still struggle with that. No, but like all of the things that I did in this lifestyle, it wouldn't be a lifestyle if it weren't sustainable. Like this has been simpler than any diet I've ever done or been on, and that's why it is able to become a lifestyle. And so, also for anybody listening that is maybe thinking about getting into it, but you're like, oh my gosh, this sounds like a lot. Yes, but also no. It's everything is very like your coach will present things in these bite sized chunks, and it's very manageable, and you're not overwhelmed. Like at one point, I remember I just at one point I looked back and I was like, man. All of a sudden it's like, I don't know what happened. I before I knew it, I was drinking water and eating protein and eating more veggies and fruits than ever before. And it wasn't like this dramatic did a 180 overnight that I had to stick to perfectly.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

No, and you still travel all the time and maintain your.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've gotten good at eating airport food.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

Yeah, yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for sharing with us, Molly, and I'm going to be able to do it. My pleasure.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

Yes. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

All right, ladies. Hopefully, Molly inspired you. She has a really great smile and beautiful.