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The Health Huns
EP.31 Navigating the Festivities
December doesn’t just bring twinkly lights; it brings the “super flu,” bulging calendars, and snack tables that call your name. We share a realistic, compassionate game plan for staying well through illness, navigating peak‑work weeks, and enjoying festive food without slipping into all‑or‑nothing mode. If you’ve ever felt guilty for resting or worried that a week off would erase your gains, this conversation will help you reframe rest as a strategic tool, not a setback.
We start with the big question: when should you push and when should you pause? You’ll hear how to spot true recovery needs, why training while ill backfires, and how to return without panic by turning the dial down—fewer sets, lighter loads, longer rests—so confidence and conditioning come back fast. Then we shift to practical routines during busy weeks: choosing one anchor habit, using short full‑body sessions, and sprinkling in micro‑movement with a walking pad or ten‑minute walks. No toxic hustle, no 5 a.m. martyrdom—just smart choices that fit the week you’ve actually got.
Food anxiety gets equal airtime. We unpack food neutrality, why big satisfying meals often beat constant grazing, and how to handle parties when tracking isn’t realistic. You’ll get simple ideas for ready‑meal planning, protein‑forward breakfasts, and letting go of perfection so you can enjoy the season and move on. We also address the social side: handling family comments about your body or your plate with calm, direct boundaries. If old diet rules or holiday pressure still nudge you into “I’ve blown it” thinking, we offer a way back—one action at a time, plus longer‑term support that targets roots, not just the scale.
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Hello. Hello and welcome to episode 31 of the Health Huns. We are your hosts, Ree Riley Timms and Amber Green. And we're here to talk about the messy side of health and fitness and anything else that comes to our mind while we record this. We just love a chat. We do, we do. Before we get into our weeks, we have a shout out to this week's biggest fan. And it is Lori Woody. Who has been a big supporter of the Health Hunts since day one. All the way from America. America, you will say.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, if you don't ask us, then we'll just pick people. But we only have a limited amount of people that we know that follow us. So eventually we're gonna run it out.
SPEAKER_01:Make yourself known.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so how has your week been, Amber?
SPEAKER_00:Um, my week has been okay. I have been it's the busiest time of year for work for me. Um last night I worked until 10 to 10 at night. Yep. And um I did I didn't start until a bit later, so I went for a run. I did 70 without stopping. So I'm very pleased with how my run-ins going. And yeah, so I I mean like eight out of ten, good.
SPEAKER_01:Eight out of ten, good. That's high for you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, how's yours?
SPEAKER_01:My week has been uneventful. I've been ill. I'm only just recovered, really.
SPEAKER_00:You're still not really that recovered.
SPEAKER_01:It's just this nasty cough. I've got the superflu. Well, I had it. Um, is what I think the sun have termed this epidemic of illness.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Well, if it's in the sun, maybe has to be true, right?
SPEAKER_01:Um so my week's been like really slow, boring. Haven't been to the gym because I can't breathe. But we're gonna talk more about that kind of stuff anyway. But do you know what? Things have been alright, so I'll go like a seven out of ten, apart from being ill, it's been alright.
SPEAKER_00:Considering you've not been well, that's okay.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I got which allowed me to spend a lot of time in my house, which is ideal for me. I I don't want to go out, to be honest. No, no, a good week all round. Yeah, ish good. So we're not really sure what we are talking about today.
SPEAKER_00:Well Navigating the festive period busyness, sickness, family.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And what that means for your not only your health and fitness goals, but also like your mental state.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, not that either of us are qualified to talk on that, but we're gonna give our opinion anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Well, yeah, and you know, it's it's a tricky time for a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01:And hopefully we can make it better for you.
SPEAKER_00:I hope so.
SPEAKER_01:I hope so too. Well, let's kick it off with illness, because everyone gets ill around this time, it seems and this is something that you are experiencing currently, yeah. This is a first hand experience. Yeah. And I'm fine with it because I know that the gym and all that kind of stuff isn't gonna it's not gonna make too much of a difference having a couple of weeks off if you're ill. And I think knowing when to stop pushing through, knowing the difference between not having a lot of motivation and still going to the gym and being on your deathbed and feeling guilty for not going to the gym, do you know what I mean? You've got to be able to decide what one it is.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and it's one of those things, isn't it? Actually, if you're not well, you need to rest. Yeah. Because if you go to the gym and you keep pushing your body, actually it doesn't have time to recover.
SPEAKER_01:No, and you're not gonna make any progress, you're gonna get more ill and you're gonna spread it around. Don't be selfish.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So actually, by taking some time off, in the long run, you're probably gonna make more progress because yeah, you might take a week off, but if you keep pushing through, you then might need two weeks off.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and you'll end up hating what you're doing because you feel so rubbish.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's okay, like even if you didn't go to the gym for like four weeks, or you didn't do your workouts for four weeks, it is a drop in the ocean when you think about how long of a life you've got. And it's not the end of the world, you're not gonna lose all your progress. Yeah, you might feel a little bit weaker or a little bit more unfit on your first couple of sessions back, but that's not really because you've you're just a bit out of practice more than you've lost all your fitness, and it will come back to you so fast.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it always does, doesn't it? Like, I think more than anything, when things like that, maybe it's a bit of a mental thing, like you feel like you're not as fit, you feel like you're not doing and like there's some like self-confidence, because you feel a bit more I don't know, I don't know if anxious is the right word, but you know, you're just worried about things. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:One thing I did experience, I think because I mean, for the last two, three months I've been so consistent with the gym, is that I'd realised how much of a positive impact it'd been having on my mood and my overall energy levels and my quality of sleep. And that's something that over like especially last week when I wasn't even at work, really felt the what's the word I'm looking for, the impact of not going to the gym because I felt like a potato, not because I'd suddenly like lost all my progress and put on loads of weight or whatever, but because the endorphins and the feel-good factor I get from going to the gym, I just wasn't getting from anywhere, and because I was just in my bed, I wasn't moving, I wasn't burning energy, so I was up until like two or three in the morning.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I wasn't feeling rubbish, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01:So sometimes having some time off the gym or doing your thing is a really nice way to remind you how much it does bring into your life, and you will then appreciate it a lot more when your body's back to cap like functioning capacity, and I don't know, a little bit of distance makes the heart grow fonder, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:So I guess that you are looking forward to being back in optimal health and getting back in the gym.
SPEAKER_01:I cannot wait. There's nothing more I want. And do you know what the most annoying thing was? I'd set myself a new workout program structure, and I was really excited to get my teeth into it, and it's just sitting there waiting for me.
SPEAKER_00:But it's waiting for you, it hasn't walked away, has it? It is just there waiting for you to go. And I'm still a baddie. So who cares? You just needed a rest to let your body recover. I remember last year, so I only started running in November last year, and I was doing couched 5k, and I was probably about five or six weeks in. I was getting to the point where you're doing like a three-minute run, a bit of a walk, eight-minute run, and I was like feeling like I was making loads of progress, and then I got last year's super flu, and I had to take time off in like my busiest week of the year because I I couldn't get out of bed. I remember like Matthew had to bring me my dinner to bed because I couldn't even go downstairs to eat, it was so bad. And um I remember we did Christmas Day Park Run, and I wasn't I had been better for a few days, but I wasn't fully recovered. And like I remember when I was running, my like my heart rate would just go so high, and I couldn't breathe, and I shouldn't have really done it, but I think that just goes to show, doesn't it? Like you shouldn't go back until you're ready because it just makes you feel shit. And actually, I hated that run because it didn't I didn't feel great.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think the body takes a lot longer to recover from things like from illness than we give it credit for because we can get back to our normal day-to-day, but when you then put that added stress of the gym or running or whatever you're doing, um like your body's been damaged by whatever has caused the illness, your lungs are not working very well, and yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's the thing, isn't it? Colds, coughs, the flu they really affect like your lungs and your breathing. And actually, when you're running and doing exercise, they are a vital part of what you need. It's not just your legs and if you're tired or not, it is your internal organs.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I'm gonna get the flu jab next year for sure.
SPEAKER_00:I was meant to have it this year, and then I couldn't make the appointment, and uh, I sort of regret not having it, but touch wood, I'll be on.
SPEAKER_01:How many more days have you got left of work?
SPEAKER_00:I break up next Saturday. Yeah, next Saturday.
SPEAKER_01:The 20th.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, at like I think I finish at seven or eight o'clock at night. Next week is horrendous. I'm so busy.
SPEAKER_01:You literally cannot be ill.
SPEAKER_00:I can't be ill. I can't.
SPEAKER_01:No.
SPEAKER_00:So he was hoping might just get everybody to wear a mask.
SPEAKER_01:Say some prayers for Amber.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, do you know what though? I do feel I don't want to talk it up, but I do feel like I'm gonna be okay this year until at least mid-January.
SPEAKER_01:Keep that scarf on and you'll be fine. Exactly. I actually requested that Amber wore that outfit today. Yeah, she did. I just thought it'd look great when I edited it later. I love it. So we talk about being ill. I think the other thing with this time of year is just being out of routine.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well, like my work diary. So next week I'm so much busier than normal that I will not be able to go to the gym like I normally do.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So how do you feel about that?
SPEAKER_00:Well there's nothing I can do. Like I'm gonna be tired. So even if I go to the gym, I'm not gonna be able to do anything. I will go to the gym still, but it just won't be anything like normal. And out of my runs, the only one that I really want to prioritize is my long run because I'm in a real good routine with that, and I will do that on the Sunday morning at gate 5k. Yeah, I'll get there early because next week I'll have to do 8k. So I'll get there early because the most important thing about gate to 5k with me is sitting around at the end, having a nice treat with my pals. Um, so I'll get there early, get the run done, and um take it from there because the I feel you if you physically can't get it in, you can't get it in.
SPEAKER_01:And I've always said that. Um yeah, and I think and part of having like a healthy relationship with exercise, we'll talk about nutrition in a minute, maybe. Um, not being able to exercise.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean it's a week out of my life. Yeah, I'm so big, I've literally got two weeks worth of clients in one week. So to think that I can do like I'll still see you on Thursday. Yeah. Um, I'll do my run on Sunday. I probably will fit something else in because I think Wednesday I finish a bit earlier. So it's not like I won't do anything else, but it just won't be like and that's fine. It's one week, nothing's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and I don't think you need to be like getting up. Some people would be like, well, you should get up even earlier then and make sure you prioritize your fitness and stuff. And do you know what? Just be like you could prioritise getting up at five o'clock and going to the gym, and then what are you sacrificing in return? Because I always do think there's payoffs to your decisions, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And you don't want to be doing that on the busiest week, work week of the year for you. Just to just to what?
SPEAKER_00:Also, I am not a morning person anymore. No me not. I I wouldn't, I just would not do it. I appreciate staying in bed. I like do you know? I up until I became self-employed, I was a real morning person. I was up at six o'clock every morning, I'd get out of bed, I'd do all you know, and I'd be in the office before eight o'clock. Probably because I wanted to finish early and get home. I I think that was what it was, but now I cannot, and I just appreciate staying in bed until 7, 7:15 more than anything. And I would, I I physically just would not get up and do that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And you don't have to force yourself, like this is what we're trying to say. Nothing bad is going to happen if you cannot stick to a routine. You're not gonna. I think another fear people have is a losing all the progress, but also B not getting back into the routine they had before Christmas. It's almost like if they stop.
SPEAKER_00:You okay? Sorry, I have my chair at a weird angle, so the back was at the side, so I couldn't get back. That's making my back ache. I'm an old lady, but I'm okay now.
SPEAKER_01:She's alright, guys. Um, and they thought they then worry that they'll never get back into their routine again. And it's all if they stop the momentum, then that's it, like there's no starting it again.
SPEAKER_00:And I do get that because that has been a habit, a habit, but like that has been something that has affected me in the past. Um, but actually, all you've got to do is just do something once and you're back in the routine.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Like, I didn't really run over the summer. And when I decided I was gonna start running again, I just was doing like 2k on a treadmill. Because I was like, at least it's something. Like, you don't have to just go back to your say you've got, you know, a busy, strict whatever routine where you're going to the gym so many times a week. Just go back once, go back twice for the first week. And like you soon get you do soon get back into it.
SPEAKER_01:Plan it. And you can even like change your routine slightly. So say you're going to the gym Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and you can't do that over the holidays. Just go for a walk instead for 15 minutes. Like, just replace it with something else. If it really is important.
SPEAKER_00:I've had a so unless I go for a run, I do very little steps, and or I go in the city or something because I sit down all day. Yeah. Also, it's raining a lot. I don't want to go for a walk outside. So I posted on my Facebook if anybody was selling a walking pad or would loan me one, and one of my clients, Kelsey Border, um, she was like, I've got one you can have. So I'm gonna go and pick it up this afternoon, and I can get some steps in at home without having to leave the house.
SPEAKER_01:I think you should actually start doing nails whilst you're on the walking pad.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I don't think that would work. But I was a bit like, you know, actually, I I hate walking because it's so boring. Yeah. But if I had a walking pad at home and I can do 15 minutes here and there, that's actually no problem. Like I can just put on like three or four songs that I really like, do walk pad karaoke to the pugs, and then I've done some steps.
SPEAKER_01:You can even get the pugs on there. Well, maybe Betty.
SPEAKER_00:Not Astrid. But I actually think that's quite a good idea, and I mean I'm lucky that someone's gonna give me their walking pad because they, you know, even on Facebook and stuff, they're like 50 to 80 pounds. Yeah, at this time of year is a lot of money for people because everyone's spending their money on presents and stuff. Um, but hopefully, this will encourage me to get some more steps in because actually just doing some steps is a good way of doing exercise, isn't it? And can, you know, yeah make a big difference.
SPEAKER_01:Get the body moving. Mm-hmm. So we're talking about spoken about exercise. How about food? I think that's such a worry for people, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it is a big one. Um, so I know for me, under normal circumstances, next week would be a fucking nightmare because I'm finishing late. Matt is also really busy because he's a barber and it's busy for him as well, so he's getting home late. So I think tonight I'm gonna go to Sainsbury's on Pound Lane, my favourite Sainsbury's, and get some ready meals because then in the past, like we'd have like ordered food or just eaten shit, whereas actually ready meals are fine, like it is it's food. I have been prepping, I've been doing overnight oats every day. Um, so it's like oats, a bit of milk or soy milk, some like soya yogurt, mix it up, and then I put a chopped banana and some like chopped hazelnuts and some choc shot on the top. Oh yeah. And like they actually keep you I I quite like them, and it means I've got a breakfast.
SPEAKER_01:You should write a recipe book, Amber.
SPEAKER_00:I'm thinking about it.
SPEAKER_01:Do you know what else you've got that you could use for this meal prep adventure? What? All those takeaway boxes you got for your your picnics in the summer that you never used.
SPEAKER_00:They're down here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you mean just you know to use them, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I mean sometimes you just have to buy things that you don't need.
SPEAKER_01:Capitalism, hey.
SPEAKER_00:Gets to us all.
SPEAKER_01:Um yeah, so I think Pardon? Sorry? I will find a use for them. I hope so. Um I think being prepared is a a a good thing. Um if you're out and about, but also let's be real. Just relax. I think I find it hard sometimes to understand the plight of people who have been maybe really redisciplined with their food, and then it comes to a holiday or a birthday or something like that, and there's no rules almost because they're out of routine, they might not be at home. I've done a lot of work with my food stuff, and I don't it it doesn't worry me anymore. So I find it hard, like I can be relaxed around food, but I know for some people it's like the fear. I don't know. Do you have any thoughts on that? I feel like I'd be a bit dismissive of it at times.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean, I definitely used to have that, like it's Christmas, I'll just eat whatever I want, and then I'd probably gain like a stone. But this, I mean, this year I'm like way less fussed about like food to the normal. Next week I just want to make sure that we actually have food to eat, which is why I'm going for the ready meals. But even over Christmas, like, I'm like, so Christmas Day, we're not having a Christmas dinner, we're having a Christmas lasagna. Mainly because I can't, we like what's the I don't want to spend all that money. I don't want either of us to be in the kitchen for like eight hours. I don't want all the washing up. So we're just gonna make a lasagna on Christmas Eve and then have some like snacks, but the food will be there the next day. Like, there's it's not like this is I have to eat everything in the world because it's Christmas. I can eat anything I want whenever I eat, when I want to eat it. Yeah, and I think that that's the thing, isn't it? I think when you're on a really strict weight loss journey diet, you do have that all or nothing. Whereas I don't have that anymore. Like if I want something, I have it, and because I'm like that, then food is less of a thing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think it's how you're gonna be at Christmas time with food is dependent on how you are before Christmas time with food. If you are someone who is all or nothing or sees these periods of time as a oh fuck it, I'm gonna eat whatever I want, and that's fine, like if that's your vibe and that's how and that's like no, we're not saying there's right way or a wrong way, but if you can be kind of what's the word nonchalant? Is that the right word? Around nonchalant, I don't know around food, and that does take work if you're someone who's yo-yo dieted for a long time or has a precarious relationship with food, that's gonna take longer than the week we've got before Christmas, two weeks we've got before Christmas. The biggest thing for me changed around food when I had to go through a period of letting myself have whatever I wanted, however much of it I wanted, whenever I wanted. I had to completely break away from the restriction and the calorie counting, and this is just my personal journey and experience. Go through a period of literally eating whatever. Yeah, I put on some weight because obviously, and then the it kind of eventually balanced out again, and then you don't want to eat like that all the time, yeah. But there was never a point where it's like I'm only gonna eat like this for a week and then I'm gonna cut back. The deal was you take as much time as you need to almost just reset everything, and that's hard if you're wanting to lose weight or you feel shit about yourself, or you all these other aspects that can make things harder, yeah. But maybe going into the new year, seeking out some help with that kind of stuff, and not just going on a diet, actually, maybe some therapy around it, or some uh nutrition coaching which is geared to set you up for life, not just to help you lose 10 kg.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, because I mean this is the trouble with nutrition coaching, isn't it? A lot of people you work with them for like say 12 weeks, and it's very much like what's gonna get in your way, think about this, but they don't really. I think a lot of nutritionists have maybe always been quite healthy and into nutrition, and they don't really understand what it's like as somebody that really struggles, yeah, has personal experience, so you know I know a nutritionist, and one of my clients worked with her, and there was this big whole thing about like my client went on holiday and she was like, We're gonna have a Domino's pizza, and I'm having the garlic dip. And the nutritionist was a little bit like, hmm, well, think about that, because there's like I don't know, 500 calories in like two of those, like there are a lot of calories in the Domino's garlic and herb dips. Yeah, but they're delicious. And I was I was like, you're on holiday, just have the fucking dip. You're not having a dip every day, you are on holiday, it's one meal, like, and that's that's sometimes an issue with like nutritionists because they want you to be on it on it all the time, and personally, I don't feel like you should be on it all the time because life is for living and it is about balance, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I think a really nice place to get to if food is when you're not having to think about it, is is your there it's almost like a neutral thing. You eat what you eat most days, and that for most people it's the same. If you overeat, I sit like what or you feel you've over you don't let it like get you down, you you're not obsessively thinking about it, there's no food noise. I think that's a really nice place to get to of food. Um, and I I think it's also counterproductive when some coaches in the industry go, fuck it, it's Christmas, eat whatever you want. I don't think that's helpful either. I think it's got to be a person-by-person approach. Try not to worry too much about it because it's really not gonna make that it's a few days ultimately over the Christmas period, and I think the less you worry about it, and I don't mean not giving a fuck, I mean not obsessing about it. Because obsession's gonna probably lead you to overeating loads anyway, and then you feel shit about yourself, yeah. Just and then you eat more. Exactly. Have the snacks if you want them, have the food, have the extra help enough potatoes, like try listening to your body if you're really full. Maybe stop, you know, all these simple things. But again, this is a long thing, it takes time to get to these points, so yeah, take the pressure off yourself, maybe a little bit, and maybe just start thinking.
SPEAKER_00:And I think sometimes, so this morning I got to my PT session with you early. Um, so I went to Greg's and they had one, not a vegan sausage roll, but like a bre like a bread roll with vegan sausages in it. And I thought, oh, that won't be that bad. So I had that and got two hash browns, and then I put it, because I am tracking my calories at the minute. Like because I am eating lots of snacks because of the time of year, I'm like, I'm gonna try and track it. Yeah, put it in my calorie tracker and it was like 400 and let me tell you, it was 406 calories, and the hash browns were 154, and I thought that's really high. And then I was like, Do you know what? That's like 550 calories and like 24 grams of protein if you're into that for breakfast and going to the gym, like that's actually really not that bad. So I don't know why. Well, I think I don't know. It's just something when I saw it was 400 calories, I was like, oh my god, but then I thought that's fine, that is just a normal amount for breakfast. My own is probably 500 calories.
SPEAKER_01:I think we're so conditioned to have like low calorie meals, high pro like we see it all the time, low-calorie recipe for this, or low calorie alternative. So we are conditioned, but I think that's one of the I mean, this is slightly off topic completely, and this is a personal opinion and experience that I think one of the biggest things people do wrong when they're trying to get a hold on their diet, and if their goal is weight loss, um, is they try and have the smallest portions possible, and then by the end of the day, they're starving, and then end up smashing like three bags of crisps and a big dinner because you're so hungry. I'm such a big fan of big meals.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's why I loved Slimming Well to begin with, because I ate loads and I didn't have to track anything particularly like and when I when I was losing the most amount of weight, yeah, I was bigger, so it was coming off quicker, but I was eating the most amount of food. Yeah. Because I'd have like a big like everything would be big.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Because I was hungry, and then you're full and you're satisfied and you're less likely to snack in. Snack.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, not that snacking is bad at all, but like it is when you probably replace all your meals with snacks, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But that's a whole big topic, I think maybe we could delve into in the new year. Um snack. Yeah, well, that's a good let me write that down. Um but yeah, food's a hard one.
SPEAKER_00:Try not to be too hard on yourself, and I think you just have to accept if you are going to you know, go to Christmas parties, drink a lot of alcohol, which I mean, if I drink a lot of alcohol, then I want to eat everything whilst I'm drinking, and the next day, and probably the day after. But you know, if you if you're going to parties, you're drinking, you're eating, you're eating party food, you're not if you are a tracker, you're not, I would say, don't bother even trying to track it. Like just accept the fact that you're there, enjoy it, and yeah, maybe you might gain a few pounds, but as quick as you gain those pounds, once you are back to your normal routine, they'll come off. Yeah, just relax.
SPEAKER_01:Um, I feel like anything else over the Christmas holiday?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, dealing with comments from family members. Yeah, I was gonna say that there's the emotional side of dealing with your family, the comments, just like having to spend time with people maybe you don't want to spend time with, and how that might make you resort to emotional eating. Cocaine. Oh, yeah. Cocaine, bottles of wine. You just don't see them, I think you do.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I mean, I know that's not possible for everyone, but I don't spend Christmas with people who I don't like. Family, if I don't like you, I'm not seeing you. But then I'm a bit brutal. But I am a happier.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I mean, my family are mental. Like, I haven't spent Christmas with my mum since I was about 13. Yeah. I just go to other people's houses.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna throw you some comments as a taury family member. And you've got to give me a response, how you'd like to respond the migrant crap. Wow. You've put on weight since last year. Yes, I have. You'd look so much better if you just dyed your hair a different colour to what it is.
SPEAKER_00:I wouldn't even have to say anything because my face would do the talking. I'd just be like, okay.
SPEAKER_01:Uh do you think you really need that second helping of potatoes? Yes. Oh, that dress is very short for a woman of your size.
SPEAKER_00:Um I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, but I'm not really a witty comeback person. I'm just a like glaring person. Um fuck off.
SPEAKER_01:That that will do, I guess.
SPEAKER_00:Um, okay, I can't think of any more comments. I mean, if people make comments like that, just be like, yeah, yeah, I do. Whoever's cooked it is a great cook, and I want to take advantage of the fact that I've got these brilliant potatoes. But like, there, I mean, this is the thing, there are family members like that, aren't there? I remember being young and like I fucking love Yorkshire puddings, they are the highlight of uh anything for me. And I remember being quite young and like just like my mum when she did a roast, used to put everything in serving trays and would put it on the table. And I remember my sister had come around once and we were having a roast. There's not many things I remember from my childhood, but I do remember the childhood trauma. And I think I ate like five or six Yorkshire puddings, and they were like laughing at me, and I'm like, I'm really enjoying these, shut up.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I just think people commenting on you and like literally anything, like even it doesn't even have to be about how you look, but some people are just arsehes, aren't they?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones because it's usually people that aren't happy with themselves for some way, and rather than thinking about themselves, they're deflecting their unhappiness on you having a nice time, living your life.
SPEAKER_01:So you could reply, do you hate yourself? Do you like what you see in the mirror? Are you jealous of me? I think replying to someone going, Oh, you put on weight, you should reply, sounds like you're jealous. Sounds like the green eyed monsters come out. Yeah, exactly. What are you gonna say?
SPEAKER_00:Like, people that are happy do not make comments like that. The people that make those comments are the people that are unhappy with themselves, they're jealous of other people, they've got their own issues, and that's why they feel like they need to make snarky little comments to bring other people down. Like, I quite like myself now, and I don't care what people eat. Like, that you know, if you want to eat 12 potatoes, go for it. Like, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes are the best part of a Christmas dinner. And who cares? Like, I don't care. Unhappy people.
SPEAKER_01:And if it gets really bad, violence.
SPEAKER_00:We do condone fighting at this time of year.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so if you got to smack a bitch, maybe throat punch them do it, you know. Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas. Yeah, exactly. I feel like we've given so much advice that we should start charging. So, um life coaches right here. Imagine do you know I was I actually did call myself a life coach for a period of time a few years ago.
SPEAKER_00:I feel like we had this discussion when we talked about the books.
SPEAKER_01:The books. I love the books. I know, I was just someone else.
SPEAKER_00:I mean I think that there is a time and a place for life coaches, and but it's not really for me.
SPEAKER_01:Can you be a life coach at 25? Is the real question.
SPEAKER_00:That is well, I mean, yeah, it's debatable, isn't it? It's debatable. Yeah, anyway.
SPEAKER_01:Um we are gonna leave you. We're gonna love you and leave you. We have one more episode to come out before Christmas, which is gonna be fitness and Christmas, which is what we've just done today.
SPEAKER_00:I think that. Um, but I feel like it's more apt this time of year because really the festive season is starting right now. Yes. So we are gonna stop recording and I'm gonna consult my pink notebook and tell you some of the things that I had for ideas last week.
SPEAKER_01:I looked forward to it. Thank you for listening and goodbye.