Bird's eye view your data & life
Good morning, hello, how are doing? Okay, today's voice note we're gonna talk about podcast whatever you wanna call it. So if I mention anyone on the podcast, never calling people out just to use it as an example so we can learn from it right. So it's really powerful lesson to be taken from MissSwept. In the masterclass Carrie Lewis says I'm on day 42, the last week had been the same weight with no loss at all.
Speaker 1:I've been doing everything all the same even my training. I've just checked in and for the last three weeks now my macros haven't changed at all. Feel them in a rut now. People are coming in, have you done your measurements, keep going. Have you emailed nutrition to discuss and obviously Adrian's amazing, measurements are great and I asked can I have a look at the email so I could check the data?
Speaker 1:When I looked at the data and this is very frequent like most challenges will have a similar message and people like our market progress. Now when I look at the data and I've got a very objective view of it, well the results are there clear as day. Carvey's results August 20 average weight 198.4. September average weight five weeks later 192. So in five weeks Carrie's down 6.4 pounds on average which is more than the pound a week we go for.
Speaker 1:So one to two pounds a week she's ahead schedule. So if anything, she's doing brilliantly. And you know when you look at averages only you start seeing the truth. If you compare day to day you're gonna lose your head, you're just gonna lose your head. You have to take the view from above, you have to take a bird's eye view at all times.
Speaker 1:It's very hard to do but if you don't get used to doing this with your data and yourself and your life, you're gonna have a tunnel vision approach and stuff and you're gonna wind yourself up and you're gonna quit when you're making progress, you're gonna feel negativity when you should be feeling positivity, you're gonna lose optimism, you're gonna trip yourself up, become a own worst nightmare. And I say to Carrie look, reading data objective is very important Otherwise we make stories up in our head that aren't true, spiral, spiral, spiral. Do a post, other people go, same as me, that spirals other people. It can really take others down as well. Looking at your data objective is important.
Speaker 1:If you make games at the start, you feel great. And they start tapering off instead of making progress, that's natural. You can't keep making lightning fast progress. Some people have fast progress, some people have slower going into it. Macros don't change on the app unless absolutely necessary to keep your progress going.
Speaker 1:So the app doesn't just look at your wait for progress. If you put the much information in as possible looks at your measurements, looks at your stress levels, looks at your menstrual cycle, looks at your calorie accuracy, macro accuracy, steps, training, looks all of this and only when there's a select, there's a few scenarios it will drop your macros. You don't want to be dropping your macros for the sake of it. You do not want to do the race to the bottom self stuff. You don't want to panic, you don't want to, it's all about patience.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait, wait, wait. The fruit will ripen, you will ripen, the seed will grow, results will come. You can't force it. Once you start forcing it and pushing it beyond what is kind of in the flow of the process that's when you start over analyzing stuff. Oh well I'm not making progress now.
Speaker 1:But you are though, but you're so keen to push, push, push, push the envelope right, push, push, push, You don't see reality of the results you're making. So Kerry replied awesome thank you sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture I need to measure to get this done once again. Happy days. You know there's not this is a very frequent thing I want to bring it up. Birds eye view, birds eye view, birds eye view, weekly averages, weekly averages, weekly averages, daily weigh ins to get a weekly average.
Speaker 1:You track your macros calories day to day but it only whatever matters is at the end of the week what's your average protein, carbs, fat calories, is that near your target? Happy days. I don't care if you're a massive Tuesday and a terrible Wednesday with the macros you were way over under. What is your average? All that matters.
Speaker 1:Right? We look at your stress on average. Day to day fluctuations are normal, water weight fluctuations are normal. You have a pint someone's like you go to work and you have to go for the work meal and you have more than you thought you planned in, that's fine you just reduce the next few days compensate, average is out. So can we today be objective, which is removing the me, removing the you from the equation.
Speaker 1:Can you remove the you and look at things clear as day? Why and if you can't, why are you doing the block? Why are blocking yourself? Can you look at your data like you look at someone else's data? So when you start looking at your data, look at your weekly averages look at it as if it's someone else, you have a completely different viewpoint on it.
Speaker 1:Winding yourself up about these things causes problems. You know, more than happy to answer the same like day in day out, week in week out month. I answer similar queries all the time with the same enthusiasm as all of them. Doesn't bother me. Every new person that comes in, every newbies will have similar things as he partners all the time.
Speaker 1:Absolutely fine. Always ask him. But all I ask is that when you do see the floor and how we do things and you you only look at day to day to day. So you say, I haven't lost weight this week, but you haven't finished the week yet. You don't know what your weekly average is yet.
Speaker 1:How can you say that your week is not going right when you haven't got the weekly average yet? I just want you to see the flaw in this and take birds out of your and learn from it. And as long as you learn from it, there's a no myself I can ask. I will happily help at all times. We just must learn, learn, must learn.
Speaker 1:So Carrie, thanks for posting because these things help other people as well to look at these things. And I think just a bit of perspective on your data and your overall life, where you're going in your life. You look back five years ago where were you today, day to day you'd be like I don't know if much has changed but you look you zoom out you go oh yeah a lot of change. So that's important that we are taking bird's eye view. You know using the tools in the app as well like the auto adjuster for example would be a good thing to start using if you are having different types of days going out for meals and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's the only thing I really want to get across today. I'm going into a weekend obviously so a lot of you would have consumed less calories all through the week and you'll have consumed more this weekend. And let me tell you, can consume a lot on weekends. Just be honest to yourself man. All I ask, all the app ass begging you please just be honest to me.
Speaker 1:Begging you, cry in you app is. I know you've eaten one, just put me in, just put it in man. I think that's what we need to do. Radical honesty which you know, that's all we need. Radical honesty, I've visited you.
Speaker 1:Use the app, happy days. So this weekend what's your plans? Are you drinking? Which means have you got your hangover cuer set, food menu pre done the day before so when you do feel hungry and peckish the next day in hangover, you eat the food you already put in the app, you don't to worry about tracking when you hangover. Just looking at your circumstances of reality you know.
Speaker 1:Starting Saturdays off with a walk or some like activity is always a good way to start the weekend at least you get that on. But at the same time I think like to reinforce the turtle philosophy as well really like so after the forest retreat we did drink, we drank a lot in terms of overall and our members didn't to make some portion of it about my birthday but they did and I humbled and loved it and it was so nice to see, but same day spending their time, was your weekend, it was your turtle method retreat weekend, it wasn't about me. But yeah, we did have like celebrations for that which was lush and we were drinking and shots going about and you might think well how is that related to Turtles brand of moderation and trying to live this healthy lifestyle? And I think that is all part of a healthy lifestyle. Like for me I've never said on these podcasts, I've never said to people to stop drinking.
Speaker 1:You have to be self aware like are you a person that goes too far with your drinking? And maybe it is where you stop drinking like Louise for example, she she stops drinking, she goes to foul there, she's tried it, she tried moderation doesn't work in drinking so a more moderate prefers to stop drinking at all. And personal responsibility, there was no requirement to drink, was alcohol free versions on everything we've taught and no there's no judgment on going alcohol free and going mocktails and stuff like that. I think a big part of life, health, total health, what we look at our zoom out on Turtle Method is that we do enjoy these moments, these big milestones in our lives. Turning 30, Turtle Method retreat where you meet all these people and yes, people can turn to alcohol to escape.
Speaker 1:Alcohol is a social lubricant as well. It can do a lot of wonders for groups and bring them together. It can also be destructive, it's a very potent thing and it's got to be carefully managed. But it's also up to the individual to know how they react to alcohol and what they want to do in that situation. Me personally probably drank a bit too much, got a few more shots coming away so they could have said no more shots but you know just went with the flow of joy, a bit too much maybe.
Speaker 1:And you just learn from it. That's all it is, nothing more to it than that and I think the message of turtle is never to be, it's never to like deprive yourself of social events and it's never to, it's also never to say that you're never gonna make mistakes again socially, you're never going to not drink too much again because of course we are. You're going to overeat, of course you're going overeat. That's part of the journey, that's part of the process, part of it. It's how we bounce back from these things that matter.
Speaker 1:Like what does the next day look like? Does it look like a binge? Does it look like anxiety central? Does it look like turbulent mind overanalyzing everything? Or is it yeah great night, things got a bit out of hand, we had a laugh.
Speaker 1:Anything important we could talk about but let's crack on. Never had a good laugh, crack on. You I mean? Yeah, we learn from events. The next event will be better.
Speaker 1:The next event will have more information. The next event will have potentially, more inclusion for people not drinking. So if people are not drinking and they're not getting like loose and that's what there's more things to do that doesn't just require, you know, being on the dance floor, like more like activities and games and stuff you can do whilst music's on. You just learn about these things as long as you learn it from them, I think is important. I think that's what matters.
Speaker 1:And I'm probably just rambling on by this point. I don't want people to think the turtle is like about non anything and just moderation in there. Like moderation to me is actually having some extremes. Moderation to me is being able to go to parties. For me, I like to go to a party.
Speaker 1:I like festivals. And they're not really moderate in terms of behaviour. You will drink a lot, you will eat a lot of food sometimes you will, you know, they're not exactly, only live a moderate like you're going out big time. Do mean? But that is part of moderation.
Speaker 1:All of it together, is it all moderate? Do we have some of the things in the left, some things in the right, and then mostly in the middle? Happy days. Middle. When you go away from moderation, which is taking things to the extreme all the time, overeating all the time, drinking all the time, know, destructive thoughts and behaviours all the time.
Speaker 1:That's where moderation, self discipline needs to bring it back in. But this is up to you. I don't know what moderation looks like to you. I don't know what your life wants to be like moderation wise. That's up for you to figure out yourself.
Speaker 1:We can help and signpost but you know what do you want your life to look like and are these behaviours destructive? If my drinking, if me going to festivals and going on holidays with my friends and going out nights out was destroying my life in a sense that it turned me into the most miserable person for three days after I hated everything, I felt depressed, I didn't get any work done, then I really would obviously reconsider the whole thing. But for me I'm fine with it. But for you it might be different. I know a lot of people that drink go out and it really impacts them for over a week, brings them down to press and maybe that's not right for you.
Speaker 1:Who knows? But have a good day, have a good weekend. Make sure you get day three done obviously first before you crack on weekend, one day at a time all our stuff and and stay in touch if you need any help obviously the turtle team is available nutrition. Turtlemethod.com if you do a check-in and you need some human eyes in it, let us know. But have a good weekend.
Speaker 1:Keep it cool. See you soon.
