Table Talk with the Hattens episode 10

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hey, hey, welcome, welcome everybody. This is episode 10 of what was formerly known as the Haddon Health Podcast. Now is Table Talk Podcast with the Haddons.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

Table talk with the Haddons.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Yes, yes. This is exciting. And as you see, we have a new setup here. We are here at our beautiful dining room table with this beautiful tree behind us. And you might be wondering what is here on our plates on this table. Why do we have these items here that look like toys?

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Because they are toys. Because we're childhood parents.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

And why not make them more appropriate to our lifestyle and what we do on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_02 0:46

It is happening. It's toys, right? And our toys on our toy salt and pepper shakers.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

So because we are about nutrition and health and cooking like that, it'd be more fitting to start recording this at our dining table. Yeah. Because that's one of our main things that we focus on with busy families is mealtime and how to address stressful mealtimes, chaotic mealtimes, and how to simplify that and help people achieve their treaty and mealtime goals. And so, and that starts at the table. So that's why we wanted to start doing this podcast at our dining room table to showcase that and call it Table Talk and invite you to our dining room as well.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Exactly. Oh man, I love that. I love that aspect of it. And I was excited when we started to relocate, but in the same house, but just relocate rooms in the background for that reason.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Well, and yeah, and I mean this is episode 10. It's hard to believe we're already 10 episodes in. And we wanted to have like a fun catching name to this podcast, besides just had no podcast. But at first we couldn't figure out what we're going to call this or in what direction we were really going with this. And after 10 episodes and having amazing guests so far on our podcast, this kind of helped us reframe and kind of niche down what the podcast is really about.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Yeah, it's broaden our scope of what we're talking about, broaden the subject matter beyond just food and nutrition, talking to health professionals, health and wellness professionals in different fields, and different professions in this field, and that brought along a lot of different conversations. And why not we while still adding the aspect of meal times, that's where the whole table talk name concept came from. And as always, maybe different location of house, different look, different backdrop, different name. The ideal ideology is still the same. And as of always, we still focus on family.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Help and empowerment and empowerment.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

So let's make it happen.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Welcome to our table.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

And we are going to pick up where we left off from episode nine, where we're continuing this conversation of what health means to us. And I would like to ask Abby this time what health meant to her throughout the course of her life. So we're going to take it all the way back, like retliners and car seats. All the way back to the city. Far back as you can remember. Like I started talking back on episode nine. I was talking about, as far as I can remember, age four or five, somewhere around there, whatever I could remember. And I just went in chronological timeline up to the present. So we're going to start with you. As far back as you can remember, what health meant to you, if you were even thinking about health at the earliest stages of your life that you can remember.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

Um, you know, I don't think I really thought about health and the way we talk about it now. But I had a very active childhood. I grew up on a ranch, so it's always running around doing stuff, playing in the mud, things like that. Very active. My mom got me into gymnastics and dance at three years old. And so that kept me active as well. And in a structured program with physical activity that lasted all through high school and college. I guess when health really kind of like I realized there's a way to lose your health or like have a decline was my grandpa, my papa, he had a lot of heart problems. And so when I was in elementary school, we took a lot of trips up to Denver. We lived in a small southwest Colorado town. And so to get any like specialized care, you had to either go to Albuquerque or the Front Range in Denver. And so he had a triple bypass with my mom, like late high school, early college. So ever since then he had reoccurring health problems and had to have multiple stents put in. So I remember we had to take a lot of trips up to Denver or Albuquerque for his either checkup appointments or he'd be in the hospital with another stab procedure, things like that. So I didn't really understand. I knew something's going on that's heart, but I didn't really understand at that time, but I knew something was going on, and I come with mom and grandma harping on him about his diet, and he had to make a lot of changes. He ate oatmeal for breakfast every morning after all those heart procedures. He stopped eating bacon and stuff like that at the time. And so again, I didn't know what was really going on. I just knew that he was having some problems, but then he would always bounce back and he was a ranger, he was a hard worker. We were always struggling to keep him down and resting. But he did kind of start to learn rest. He started taking his afternoon naps after lunch and stuff like that. So that's kind of like my first I guess interaction with healthcare was seeing all that my grandpa had to go through. And then growing up too, my mom was pretty strict on my diet. Tried to limit sugar as much as possible. We went through all different phases of like you can only have one sugary item a day, or we would have to be really good throughout the week, and then we'd have our cheat day on Saturdays.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

I mean, sweets like like a privilege, like something to look forward to, like an incentive to eat your vegetables and our healthy carbs and meats throughout eat your square balance meals throughout the week so you can earn that cheat day or cheat meal, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Yeah, then you I think what we thought is helping is pretty much eating salads all week. And then you can have your cheat day of eating, yeah, whatever going uh having a sonic hamburger or something. I don't think you're trying to remember exactly, but yeah, we went through all kinds of different kind of diet phases. That was you know, 90s and early 2000s, so all the different bad diets and definitely did all of those, all the skinny trends and stuff like that. Oh, I go to a friend's house and they have whatever's your mom let you eat this stuff or have it in the house. Because well, you didn't grew up where he couldn't be in the house, otherwise, that was the first thing that we ate like Oreos things like that. It was just better to not have it at all. So, yeah, so I think you know, had pretty good awareness of health growing up, but maybe not always in the right aspect. Like I said, eating salads was healthy, or later middle school years or early high school, we did the Metafast Shakes diet, where all we drank for a while was Metafast Shakespeare, and so looking back, maybe not the greatest option for uh middle school or high school students.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Was Metapast shakes were those like that year's version of the slimfast shakes were in the early 90s?

SPEAKER_02 8:16

I was like used to be like a prescribed medical shake, but then became over the counter. Okay, and so yeah, so you did that, like colonics claims it is and things like that. But I don't think I ever had like a true understanding of like how to properly like shield my body. Like I said, I was a very active caring growing up because I got a little bit older. I was kind of in and out of gymnastics, but I really took to dance. And as I got into like middle school, high school, it was pretty much a part-time job. I was at the dance studio over 20 hours a week. Like I could go to school, and then I'd be there from 3:30 to 9:30 at night every night, and then pretty much all day Saturdays.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

It is a part-time job, it really is.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Luckily, I went to a small private school where he only went to school Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but then we had our own like homework on Tuesdays and Thursdays that we did ourselves, but still I was at the studio either teaching classes or assisting with classes for the younger girls at 3:30 and then all my classes till 9 30 at night every week. And so I don't really remember like I would pat snacks, but I don't remember like meal prepping or like preparing foods. I would take a sap lunch to work to school. I remember I wouldn't even hardly eat like half of the stuff I packed because we either had a short lunch break or now looking back to it, there's probably anxiety. Like anytime I ate at school, I would get stomach aches and then I wouldn't want to eat a lot. And like I said, last time I'd pretty much just pack salads. And then a lot of times too, especially once I started driving, I would just go through a drive-thru a lot of the time in between school and dance to get something quick to eat.

SPEAKER_04 10:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

And then after dance, I would be starving. And the only thing that was around our dance studio at the time was a del taco. But then like a cringe looking back, but just hated, but it's like he smelled it coming out of the dance studio on the way home. He was opening open, and we'd get the stupid, super greasy burritos and their french fries, and so didn't really like grow up in family dinners a lot because again, I was dancing all night long, and my dad worked late hours or he traveled a lot for work. And we would have like, you know, occasional family meals, especially like on the weekends and stuff like that. But we never had like the true like family home cook meal every day. And my mom's not big on cooking. My dad likes to cook, but again, he wasn't always home to cook those meals. But so it took me a while to kind of learn how to like really balance a meal, and that's why I wanted to get into nutrition, yeah, into college. Because, like I said, I was always kind of like health conscious, right? Always had that in the back of my mind about it, but never really truly understand how it can fuel my body, how nutrients played a role. And so when I got to college, and my I originally majored in interior design.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

And as far house looks the way it does now, the genius here, and I just hoped that a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

But I thought that's what I wanted to do. That was probably the most inactive year I had ever had in my entire life. And so, you know, not having the best nutrition and things like that, I was always super active though. So I did I was a little overweight throughout my middle school, high school years, and I was always like really ashamed of that. And but that's a whole nother story. When I got to call, I just because everybody said you know you gained the freshman 15 because you're I'm not sure I'm familiar with that term. Oh, freshman 15. Freshman gained 15 pounds or freshman year. Oh, because they're away from home and oh okay, yeah. The freedom either I gained the freshman 25s. I gained 25 pounds my freshman year of college. Because yeah, I was extremely stressed. I I mean I love my school case, but I just I didn't know how to take care of myself. Yeah, it was kind of a free-for-all in the dining room, dining hall, even though I told myself I wasn't gonna do that. I wasn't gonna eat the all-you-conserve ice cream and stuff like that. But and I didn't. I I still like I ate pretty well, but what got me was my studio projects. So interior design is really difficult. I spent a lot of time working on studio product projects. It's pretty much another part-time job.

SPEAKER_04 13:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

And so, on top of all your other classes and studying. So I never sat for that long in my entire life, whether it was doing homework or in classes or doing those studio projects until the early hours in the morning. And so I ate a lot of Pop Tarts and notebads and like vending machine food to keep me going, and that's what was in the dorms and in the building where our studio class was, and so I that's pretty much what I lived on, and not great, and so, and I think just the stress of first time at college and away from home and all of that stuff, but and then I I kind of followed that trajectory all through college. I would go home, and it was like a major yo-yo dieting effect. I would go home, have less stress, be back at my parents' house, more stress, and so I and then I lose weight, work out with my mom and her girlfriends all summer long, and go back to school, and I didn't gain the weight back, and then it was just like never ending. So not great, and I was always super self-conscious about it, were mad at myself. College was a great time, but I didn't know really how to take care of myself. I mean, I knew how to cook, things like that, but I just should have done a lot better, and that's why I wanted to get into nutrition and exercise science. So after that first semester of interior design, I was like, oh my gosh, I cannot do this. I like it as a hobby, but I miss being active. Like I said, I sat more my entire life in that one semester than I had my entire life. And I also started getting severe low back pain and didn't know what was going on. And later found out through an MRI that I had some bulging discs in my low back that probably happened while I was in high school. But because I was so active and danced and was strong, I didn't really I had low back pain and I would always put a chiropractor and that would help. I think because I started sitting so much and losing muscle and not keeping up with my fitness that first year, it really started to get a toll and the pain started showing up. And so that's when I was like, okay, I need to start being active again. I need to start doing something. And I was dancing, I'm still dancing through college, so that helped. But that's why I wanted to get into nutrition and exercise science. So I wound up switching majors, do a majoring in nutrition and kinesiology, and that was good, but also a lot of stress because I was taking over 20 credit hours a semester, and so still a lot of studying, it was a lot of studying. But at Lisa motivated me to keep moving. And after I found out the sources of my back pain and trying to get through that, I started going to chiropractor care again, acupuncture massage, just so I could be able to start exercising again because I could barely walk with that little back pain and sciatic. I was 19 and couldn't even walk across campus. And I remember carrying my donut pillow with me to class, it was so embarrassing. And I would take breast breaks to just lay on the grass in between buildings, because my whole leg was enough.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

And once I you have a lot of soul pure packages at 19 that a lot of people do not have 19.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

I had to. I remember so miserable. And then after my sophomore year of college, driving whole with my mom. I mean the sophomore year.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

I know if it wasn't for if I went to the college as the one to the military at 18, knowing the way I was, I definitely would have been in the freshman 15. I probably would have had developed other unhealthy habits at that time.

SPEAKER_02 16:59

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

Yeah, because I remember I guess it was after my freshman year. Mom came out, we drove home, and I pretty much had to like lay down the whole car ride. 14-hour car ride. Because I could not stay because my leg hurt so bad and my back hurt so bad. But after getting chiropractor care and acupuncture to help release my muscles and massage, then I was able to start exercising again and building my core strength and that as a game changer. And I've been fine ever since.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

So that's good that you was on that at the time. Oh, I had to go.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

I mean, I was 19 and with that kind of chronic pain.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

Yeah. Kind of had no choice, really.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

I had no choice. I'm like, is this gonna be the rest of my life? Like, I have my whole life to live like the majority in exercise science, but I can't exercise.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

Right. Gonna be able to practice what you preach and be able to show that you know what you're talking about. You can't have clients if you're in bad shape.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

So I think too, there's always that fear a little bit, like, oh my gosh, like, is this gonna hurt? And so it has limited me in a lot of ways, but then also I try to not think about it too much. And then we occasionally I get like a little twinge or something, but yeah, it's better than it was, but yeah, being 19 and having that kind of pain.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

So was the pain and the fear of it getting worse over time quickly, was that like the motivating factor that helped you stay with it as far as like throughout your college career and later in college career when you're moving around the K-State, Colorado, was that like the motivating factor? Was there other things that helped keep you from falling off the wagon, so to speak? The fitness nutrition.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

But I think that was motivation. Once I started feeling better, I was like, okay, I gotta keep going. Like, I can't get back to feeling this way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

And then once I graduated from K-State, I uh went on to do my master's in exercise science in Denison, Colorado. That's a small town in Colorado that's super active. Lots of hiking, lots of mountaineering, things like that. And so I joined this high-altitude exercise physiology program. And one of the first initial things we did for that program was we were supposed to go on hikes, like group hikes, class hikes, and do research and head trips and stuff like that. And I was like, I'm not gonna be able to keep up with everybody. And so that summer, my mom and I and my dad, that was the most hiking we probably ever did in my entire life.

SPEAKER_04 19:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

We went on hikes every weekend, and I got my first like actual backpack, backpacking, backpack, and by the way, in the summer, I was able to load that up with like 40, 50 pillows and hiking up mountains, and so that was fine. Like willing best times I'm like best shape of my life was probably that summer. I felt so good and so proud of myself that I could do that.

SPEAKER_04 20:01

And keep up with my classmates, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

So when I was in KC and ran my first half marathon one of those summers, but that was also when my back was really bad. So, like it was a terrible experience. I did a six-week training program, which was not good, and then slept on an air mattress the night before the race, and the week was so stupid, but my mom and my best friend and I decided to do like a low-carb diet the week of the race. And so I like crossed hard, and luckily, my best friend Parley, she was with me the whole time, and I kept telling her, like, you just need to go, just go, like, you're doing seriously, and like they were doing like the same renard on the side of the row of race, and I like stopped and was just like loving the dog, and I was like, I don't want to get it.

SPEAKER_04 20:54

You're my friend right now, you're like, over four hours.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

If it was just a flat row, it was yeah, it was terrible. But then I wanted to do in the second half marathon in grad school with my classmates, and that went a lot better. And that was in no lab, and that was very that was a trail run. You gain over a thousand feet in that first, I think like three miles. That I felt good, and I was happy to do that. And I wish I had done more half marathons than you did them all, but it always seemed like something came up or it was and a place to do that.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

I wish I met you earlier back when you was doing those half marathons, because that was before I met you. But if I was doing those half marathons back when I met you, we both would have done a lot better. Because I was at that time in my life, I think was you at Western you said then?

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Yeah, I think the one I did the MOAB was the fall before we met.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Okay, yeah. And I think that was the fall that I did some logging part time where I mean it was the previous fall, and that was when I was like the most ripped I've ever been because of how strenuous that job was carrying those heavy chains, those equipment, those logs up and down those hills and toward those hours a day. And you said all the hiking you was going with those 40, 50 pound packs, you said you're in the best shape you were at that time. A lot of people understate hiking or just walking or changing in elevation, what that does is as a total body workout. And it does wonders for calorie burn, fat burn, cardio, muscle gain, muscle strength. Yeah. So I when you said that, I'm like, yep, I agree. I know exactly what you mean. And I'm never a really big runner, but I just wanted to the half-mirror found I did is for three specific goals for those three runs. Training led up to those was being said, I need the butt kicking, I need to get in my shape for that. Before and after those rounds, I was never a really big runner. So that's about how I related to your story about the hiking and the half-marath. You said sorry to go off in the story about me, but that's had to add that side note.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

So I guess to answer the question what health means to me through basically through college and grad school is just being able to be physically fit and be able to do what you want and not have limitations or things that hold you back when your health is when your health is taken away from you, whether that's you know, medically, like something going on, or physically, like with my back pain, it is it it's debilitating, it's yeah, detrimental, and it does affect your mental health as well. You take it for granted until something like that happens.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Yeah. So I'm sorry, I was gonna ask you. So what does so what does health mean to you now as becoming a mom? And or am I skipping ahead too far? Did you want to bridge that like from what you just mentioned to now?

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Nothing is jumping too far.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

I mean when it's one thing when you're thinking about your health as an individual, like, because I want to do this, I want to go this way for me, ni-nee ni.

SPEAKER_04 23:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

And then when you add another person, I mean, when we got married, then I was thinking about you, like wanting to be like looking good for you and being able to live your stuff together and stuff like that. And then once our daughter Ayla was born, it just took a whole another layer to that and worrying about like, oh, am I gonna live to see her turn 18 and grow up and like okay, what do I need to do to make sure that happens? But also set a good example for I think that is the most important part is like, I don't want her to necessarily deal with the physical ailments or the weight issues that I have dealt with over my life, body image issues, and so that's my motivation is to make sure that from the beginning she has the knowledge and the habit here and the correct mindset from a young age versus having to try to figure out and you should all have to figure it out on your own and go through trials and errors, but hopefully equipment as best as we can with our knowledge and be able to do things together and show her.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

And biologically and emotionally, you can connect to her and relate to her and explain it to her things at a young age and growing up throughout the course of her life. As a mother, that I probably couldn't, as a father, just like female, like woman to woman, woman to young, woman to girl ways that just based off of your experience and just things that you would be able to express to her that she may not know or get right away coming from me. I can probably tell her a lot of things, but things that she can explain that I probably can't. So that's probably like a little bit of a motivation right there, like she want a good example that you mentioned before.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Yeah, well, coming from you too. You probably think she wants to go exercise with you all the time. Yeah. I mean, you've already started that with her, right?

SPEAKER_05 25:54

Right.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

So I think we're doing okay jobs.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Let's start, but um Yeah, I think I think too became concerned with my health. I mean, and concerned uh when I really like started to like almost scare me was when I was pregnant with her and I started having complications.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

When I got COVID at 14 weeks with her and just worrying about like how that was gonna affect her. Yeah. Like not just my health, but how my health is affecting her and hoping I wasn't letting her down in some way. Yeah. And then that first year of postpartum, I did not take very good care of myself. I wish I took my care of myself a lot better, but I was eating a bunch of jokes food because it was craving too. Chess eating, and um, you know, looking back, and I remember like when she turned one year old and he had pictures of myself, and I was just like, oh my gosh, like what happened to me? I don't even recognize myself.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

I did the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

We lost together in that like I feel like a terrible period for her too, and that's also why we wanted to start this business endeavor and to not only help other families, but also to really help ourselves, motivate ourselves and keep ourselves accountable. And sure, and so yeah, after her first birthday, I was like, okay, I gotta change because also she's gonna start observing what we're doing, what we're eating. Yeah, and so I was like, okay, we gotta be good examples for her because you know, as a baby, is like you don't really think about them watching you or taking, you know, because you know, they're still a baby and they're not really the ones that they become taller, you're like, oh it's caused a lot of self-monitoring within ourselves, keeping ourselves in check. Yeah, right, because they're always flopping. And so, yeah, after not first point, it's like, okay, we are making changes. I know what I'm supposed to do. Like, I have I, you know, I studied this, and I know nutrition, I know our should be exercising, and I just kind of lost my way for a long time, then that is also why like mindset and being in the right mind frame is so important with any type of health outcome or behavior change because you can have all the knowledge in the world. I'm a prime example, you can have all the knowledge in the world, know what to do, but if you're not in the right mental space to have mindset or you know, accountability or community around you, yeah, that the knowledge is obsolete. And so I'm a prime example, and you always do always do a good job trying to motivate me and keep me accountable.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

But it's useless if you don't put it into action. Yeah, that's always the hard part, especially at the beginning when you're trying to make that change to be consistent. Yeah, it's fun when you start to see results, but if you don't keep at it or keep trying to elevate it, then you're gonna start to decline or just plateau. And that's the thing that we all struggle with from time to time.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

So that's why in our family time course, that's the first module, the first lessons are about mindset, making sure that you're in the mind frame to make changes or address what is going on with your family and their health and your mealtimes. Because if you're not willing to put in the work, it means changes are in the right mindframe, then you're not gonna see the results or reach the goals that you're wanting to. So that's why we start with that, because that is one of the biggest pieces of all things health related, is just making sure you're in the right mindset and how to get that right way.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

Yeah, that mindset module thing is very important. It's like I tell people that I talk to all the time, but you gotta find what motivates you, what makes you kick yourself in the butt to take that step to better yourself. Everybody has something different that motivates them. And a lot of people have a collective thing that motivates each other. And you just mentioned talked about things that motivate you. I talked about in episode nine, and briefly on this episode that what motivated me, yeah, I feel like that's been working. I noticed a big change in you. I've felt a little bit of a change in me. I have a long way to go. I know you have goals you want to reach.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

But I yeah, this past year I've made more headway as far as getting back into a healthier state, getting back to a normal weight, working on it, and being a good example. I mean, our daughter's a good example for that. And our clients and our and the people that we coach are such a good motivator because you know, I think I had a lot of postures to the job for a very long time because it's like I am exercised, physiologist, I malnutrition, but I'm overweight and don't look like it. And so I think I just had this internal battle for a very long time.

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

And I was I don't want to say I wasn't doing life preaching, but I just I wasn't in the right mindset. And I remember I had a professor in college, an undergrad. She was a dietitian as well and taught like our clinical nutrition classes. And she went through this phase when she missed a mom as well when her kids are younger. She's a clinical dietitian, like she treats patients in the hospital. She told us about this time she went through this phase where she had like, I think it was like a Wednesday night every week, where it's just her at her house by herself. And she would binge the brownies every single week. And she's very give me all this way, and then she felt the same way. She's like, I know I should do better. I know I have all the information. I coach other patients how to not do this, but here I am, not living by what I'm supposed to do and how horrible meter feels. And I resonated with me and realized it's okay. People have to always have things together all the time, but it's a matter of getting back to it.

unknown 32:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

And so that's where I am right now. And that's why I think that also helps me be a better mom and better coach and hopefully a better wife going through those trials and you know, learning from them versus somebody who's not saying it's always it's a bad thing for someone to always have been fit or always, you know, doing being healthy. But I guess it makes it more relatable and I can understand better where my patients are coming from or my clients are coming from because I've gone through it myself.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

No, too. Sometimes we don't always notice the differences that we're making when we are making strides in real time until you happen to see an old picture of yourself and you look at yourself now, or you see a picture or video of yourself now, like, wow, it did make a difference. Like I was looking at old pictures of us for other reasons, and I just happen to walk by, your driver's license was on the counter, I put it down, I looked up, like, you can make some progress. You can do this for stride, I'm telling you. And like always makes you kind of laugh and cringe a little bit at the same time when people say don't trust a skinny chef. I say, well, don't trust somebody who believes that BS. Because you would you take your healthy meals or your trust your diet with somebody who was built like job of the hunt.

SPEAKER_04 33:17

No.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

So there you have it. If you're trying to eat something to keep yourself alive, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

So I I guess circling back to what health means is the longevity part of it, being able to do the things that you want with the people that you want. And for a long time I thought my goal after graduating college and undergrad in graduate school, excuse me, I really found a passion with working with clinical population. And I think well, I know that stems from seeing my grandparents have a lot of chronic issues and complications. And I mentioned my grandfather on my mom's side and all his heart issues, and same on my grandfather and my dad's side, and seeing all that they went through, and that's why I wanted to start working with cardiac and pulmonary patients based on my personal experience and personal family, because I wish I had been able to help them when I couldn't. And so I had a mission to helping with other parents, other people language with grandparents. So grad school I worked in a nursing home under a PT to help those patients, and then my dream job was to get into a cardiopulmonary rehab. And so I finally achieved that back in our hometown. And I love that job, and it was a super rewarding job. And I taught nutrition, we taught a lot of education classes with those. Not it wasn't just the exercise part, but we did a lot of education too. And so I had revamped and taught the nutrition classes and taught it to everybody so we could not teach it and things like that. We did stress management, we did risk factor education for heart disease. And a lot of patients would come in and ask, like, especially after the nutrition class, like I wish I had an illness growing up, or I wish I had an illness before my heart attack, or I wish I had an illness 10 years ago. Like, what a difference that could have made. And they would always ask, like, why aren't we like, why does no one know about this before their heart attack? And never had a great answer for them, unfortunately. So after having our daughter Ayla, that's when I really hit home for me too, was to try to focus more on preventative health. Start at a young age, start with the kids, start education. I mean, there's some education out there, but it's hard to find, and it's hard to sift through all the noise out there and the health influencers and stuff like that. And there's government websites and programs, but you have to sift through all of the websites and stuff, and it's always hard to find or to get a dietitian on appointment, a lot of things being wrong. You have to check with your insurance, or you can only a lot of times see an actual registered dietitian if you're diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetic, and when it's too late, you have a bunch of money up front, out of pocket, to see one. And there are, you know, pediatric dietitians out there who do a great job and are totally great in what they do, but there just needs to be more people advocating for just general health knowledge for young families and for kids at a young level. And so that's the mission now is for kids and families to hopefully never have to be another chronic health statistic because those numbers are constantly rising and hopefully keeping their parents and themselves out of cardiac.

SPEAKER_04 37:05

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:05

The job that I had before, I want it to be non existent. Yeah. So I guess that's where health stands now is be able to age gracefully, be active, to live your best life with your family and be able to do what you want when you want, all the way up until you're 80 years old.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

Yeah. Well, I don't know how to follow that, but just saying thank you, thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

I don't know if I answered the right questions or I don't think you answered it plus more.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

You know, you gave all the information that people need to hear, starting off that just if this is your first time hearing it from us, first time tuning into this to the show, or your first time hearing about us, or if you've known about us for a little while, hope you're getting something new, take with you and to tell your friends and family about. This is very valuable information and it's fun to talk about it and share it with everybody. I want to thank you for sharing your story with everybody.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Thank you for sharing your story in the last episode.

SPEAKER_00 38:07

It feels like as long as I've known you, as much as I'm known about you, all the conversations we've had before we even thought about starting this podcast. Still, I pick up tidbits of new stuff just doing the shows that we do, like even today and previous ones. And that's one of the reasons why I love doing this so much with you, and why we love doing this because even though we've known each other more than we probably know anybody else when anybody else knows us, certain things that we share with each other that we haven't shared with others, we still learn new stuff. So it's keeping aspects of our relationship fresh, it's keeping the information that we're sharing with you fresh. And I love it, I love you, and thank you, and thank you for tuning in.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Yeah, if you want to stay close to your partner or have something to talk about or keep you guys occupied, you don't fight and you argue and clip don't get dull, you just stare each other on it.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Yeah, especially if you have a business together.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

Then you learn, well, yeah, you get to work together and spend more time together and loving it. You'll always have something to talk about, for sure. Too much to talk about today.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

I guess like we said at the top of the show, continue to search Table Talk with the Hattons, because that is the name of the show moving forward, Table Talk with the Haddons. Also, you can follow us on our YouTube channel at Hatton Health, Hadden Health L L C if you want to type it that way. We're on TikTok at Hatton Health, Instagram, Facebook, same name, Hatton Health. You can catch us podcasts. You can listen to the audio on Spotify, Amazon Prime, Apple, Apple Podcasts, yes, the video is on.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

And a few more announcements. So the beginning of August, August 1st, we're having a new group starting our family time program. It's a 12-week program for parents of young toddlers, ages one to four, zero to four. So this is a great opportunity, especially right before school starts, or older kids going back to school, or full-time daycare, parents not traveling, and runs your family vacations, getting back to that. So this is a great opportunity to start revamping your meal times, knowing how to meal prep, how to provide your family tools and resources, also how to get your kids involved in enjoying making meals together in the kitchen. So we prioritize spending less time in the kitchen, but also the time that you do spend in the kitchen is meaningful and full of connection because you're inviting your kids in there with them. Allows for growth, it allows for them to learn about where food comes from, it diminishes picky eating, and also helps build a foundation for positive food relationships for the kids too at a young age and for the parents. And so we have lots of worksheets, handouts, lessons. You go over cooking hacks and tips and recipe tips and information.

SPEAKER_00 41:09

And that leads into another tool, useful tool that can help you and your family with all that is the Hadge and Health app that we launched. So you can get hundreds, hundred-plus recipes in the app. The app you can build, you can share recipe ideas and you can build community with that with other members. You can connect with using the AI engine that can search all the grocery stores in the area that compare different deals, compare who has what in stock. We can get all your whole grocery shopping with done at one place.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

And automatically generates the shopping list for you based on your V2 meal plan.

SPEAKER_00 41:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

And automatically puts that into the shopping list for you that also tells you where to shop or the best deals you're gonna make. And then two, the community aspect, being able to share recipes or people.

SPEAKER_00 42:03

Yeah, they help you keep track of what you have stocked in the house, what you need, what you use, what you don't use, and have other things available to do on that app also.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Like nutrition tracking, tracking it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 42:14

Takes a lot of the best features from a lot of other apps out there like that, but that does many other things. Well, it combines the best elements of the research that we've done. It's from the hundreds of assets out there into one. Plus, the things that you don't see a lot of other apps doing. So, yeah, it's a web-based app right now, it's the app.hat tinhealth. So you search that and it's there. You can build your profile for free. Let us know what you think. We would love to hear your feedback because your feedback helps us grow and make it better, which in turn helps you, the user, get a better experience from that growth.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

Lots of like I said, family time starting August 1st. You can find uh information on our website or LinkedIn bio or socials. So that's August 1st. And then also to help kind of kickstart that, we also have our monthly free cooking class that's virtual as well. Called Sunday Family Dinner. That's maybe the next Sunday, August 2nd at 4:30 Mountain Standard Time. So this is a free online cooking class. All you have to do is get your ingredients ahead of time, but then you can cook along with us. Or if you don't feel like cooking, you can always just watch. We'll get set to replay and the recipe after the cooking class as well. This is another fun opportunity to be able to cook with other families virtually, and we break down all the nutrition information of the dish and explain cooking hats and stuff like that along the way, too. It's just a fun way to get to interact with us, cook with us, ask questions, and learn a new recipe as well. That's usually 30 minutes to make. We try to do one-pot dishes that are easy, not a lot of dishes, they're fast. And this was just a fun way to have another recipe added to your repertoire without having to just go to Pinterest and say something and then forget about it.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

Try to send you your recipes and the ingredient list a week ahead of time. We like to get people involved through social media, asking, like, we send out a couple of meal ideas and say, get people to vote on which one do you think you'll like to see us cook and what would you like to cook along with us virtually? So you try to do that early. Like example, our August 2nd class. Tonight, as we're recording this, is the last hours that you can vote. So by the time you see this, the voting had already been ended because it's probably going to be out Sunday or Monday. And try to promote it during the month before. So the next one will be promoting. Start trying to promote it shortly after this airs.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Yeah. So you can sign up for free. Um our website at hatcope.com. Like I said, it's really fun. You'll get the ingredient ahead of time, and come cook with us.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

Yeah. Well, another one now leading on to looking forward to the next one.

SPEAKER_02 45:05

And our new settings.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

Oh, this is fun. As we always say, at Hat Health, we love to focus on family, health, growth, and empowered. So let's make it happen. Once again, one more cheers. And cheers to you if you were a listener. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

Thank you for being on our channel.