How Many Calories in a Nando's Large Chips!?
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast where we forget about yesterday. We don't worry about tomorrow. It's what are we going to do today? This all matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. Hopefully this episode is going to give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life.
Speaker 1:And remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Good morning, one day at a timers. How are we? Are you all pushing yourselves skillful frustrations? Are you doing stuff that's like frustrating, but also, you know, if you keep going, it's gonna improve you as a person.
Speaker 1:Keep doing it, keep going. Saying that because coming up to the final week of building this influencer marketing course and with a great team of people helping do it and when I first started I was like oh my god I got so much work anyway And this is 9PM until 11PM Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And it was killing me. But I'm very surprised at what I've learned in the last five weeks. It's incredible.
Speaker 1:I I don't regret it one bit. I wanted to I wanted to quit on week one. I wanted to quit on week two. I wanted to quit quit on week three. And I wanted the same week for look, guys, enough for me.
Speaker 1:Too much work for me to do, but I'm so glad I persevered and pushed through and doing the beta tests and just getting feedback and stuff now that you feel proud that you pushed through and I knew it was I knew it was resistance in me. There's a book on this and it talks about it like resistance it always comes out when the moment you're nearly there and it wants you to stop, it fights you, it's at its worst when you're kind of closing in on what you wanna be doing goal wise. And I knew it was my resistance talking, it wasn't me, I knew that it was gonna be hard and things didn't go to plan at the start, was confused about things, didn't know what to do and there was all such massive cognitive load and doing all this stuff, but I persevered. And I think for anyone listening, I know it's the same experience no matter what. Frustration is the same experience.
Speaker 1:Feel frustrated, depends on more, but it's still frustration. And many of you are feeling frustrated now with joining this turtle membership. You're kind of confused. There's a lot to take in and, you know all this stuff and you want to quit and you just can't be bothered and we're not going to do it. I know that happens, feel it, right?
Speaker 1:It's okay to feel like that. Most people feel that way, but you have to keep going and eventually you will learn and you will get used to it. Like we get used to everything. Like think about everything you've ever done in your life. All the new technologies you have to get used to, all the new trainings and work or whatever, all the new things you learned in university if you went, like learning to drive a car.
Speaker 1:Do remember your first driving lesson? I bet you were sucked, bet you nearly crashed. Look you now driving with not even a thought, easy. There's so many of these things obviously we do at the start and it's very frustrating and it's horrible. But if the only difference between people to succeed and all that they just keep going through the shit, that shit in the middle, the people keep going through, that is the only difference.
Speaker 1:I've seen players now playing for Wales in rugby that people said back when they were like 16, 17 or like younger, weren't even considered to be the best players. But guess what happened between the age of 16 and 21? Those players that had hard work and grit kept going, kept training. By the time they got to 22, 20 three, they had put so many more hours in than the guys that were maybe more talented at 16, that they did end up becoming professional players and pushing the boundaries and becoming better players. And that all it took was commitment and and perseverance and to keep going.
Speaker 1:And I just think as simp that's as simple as the answer is. If you keep going down the right path with the right system, with the right training, as the rugby players obviously get trained in the right way, great. As with our system in Turtle, trust us. You know, we've got people from GB with Dean and Doctor P and Lila McDonald and Donald Robinson, all these big names, who are experts helping us formulate this system that's backed by evidence based science, backed by skin in the game, is backed by our experience helping so many people. You are in the right system, all you got to do is keep going.
Speaker 1:I promise you, you got to keep going on down this path, down the Turtle Highway, that's where you're going but you're going so fast you're going we're going really slow but we're getting in the permanent gains, changes in mindset, permanent changes in life, everything's better, lockdown is easing, and we're gonna go back into this world as ninja turtles, ready to to take on the world. But in the end of the day, like, my advice for going back into the world and I've been thinking about it, a lot of people talk about it in the social circles is not like, doesn't matter like honestly, like going out and that this social construct we've made and all this stuff, it just doesn't matter like it's just, it's a game, it is a game, macros is a game, life is a game, everything's a game, it's all a game, you play the game, like it's not as serious as you think going socialising with people, know it's going be anxiety is going to be rising and stuff but think about it, it's just going out and talking to other humans you've done all your life. And I know I'm trying to detach a lot from it because I know a lot of people do suffer from anxiety and it may be different but exposure therapy like Donald Robertson says psychotherapist works most of the time in mild cases of anxiety And of course it's true, we know that's true deep down.
Speaker 1:Of course we know the more we get exposed to something, the less anxious we feel about it. We know this. Think of school, of uni, think of work, it's the same. Once you start feeling comfortable and exposed to different people, you open up and become friends and all that stuff. How do we think that like shying away from the social element of like going back into the world is gonna work for us?
Speaker 1:It's not, it's gonna make things worse. So it's just a game go out. These people are just like, they're just people. It doesn't need to be that serious. Life doesn't need to be that serious when we have to worry about, like, going out for food and the stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Well, let's see what we can do. Can we can we stay on track? Can we not? Like, is it gonna be hard? Maybe.
Speaker 1:Strategies for strategies for eating out and trainers staying on track with your macros. First of all, if you know you're going out on the weekends, reducing macros Monday to Thursday, 50 grams of protein, 50 grams of carbs less, 10 grams of fat less, that will help give more allowance on the weekend. Even if you don't track on the weekend you've already built up more allowance not saying you won't go over that's fine. Tip number two make sure Sundays are sorted so make sure Sunday is you're going for walks make sure Sunday you're not eating delivery make sure Sunday you're eating good amounts of fruit and veggies and high volume foods so you don't go over your macros on Sunday. If so, plan your meals on Saturday ready for Sunday that you're gonna get.
Speaker 1:Don't let the chimp mind decide on a Sunday morning because he will opt for a triple cheeseburger, only cheese, large strawberry milkshake, five chicken selects, all the dips, extra large fries, an extra double cheeseburger, McFlurry please, and please, may I have finish off with a or finish off with muffin. That's what the chimp would order and you'd end up eating it throughout the day so don't let that happen. That's tip number two. Tip number three, become curious. Curiosity.
Speaker 1:How much food is in pasta then? I don't know. Have a look. Have a look. Look it up.
Speaker 1:Be curious, but have a look. It's not obsessive to do it. Just go on whatever website it is. Let's have a look look we've got those eat out guides and me so you can have a look in, Nando's and stuff let's have a at Nando's. How many calories just have a look while I'm gonna have a I'm gonna spend ten minutes having a look at Nando's calories, let's have a look what they got here chicken butterfly.
Speaker 1:Chicken butterfly has got three thirty two calories 10 grams of fat no carbs and 59 grams of protein that's insanely good. Jesus that's two chicken breasts though okay that's fine okay that's fine let's have a look at the double chicken burger. Double chicken burger has got 561 calories, 10 grams of fat, 51 grams of carbs, and 64 grams of protein. Not bad. Okay.
Speaker 1:Let's have a look at the look at the chips the fries okay chips here we go. So this is okay this is regular chips, oh my god $4.50 calories, 19 grams of fat, 64 grams of carbs and six grams of protein that's a huge amount. So if you had a large chips which I order from Nando's all the time, it's 900 calories, basically 38 grams of fat, 120 grams of carbs, 12 grams of protein. So now I already know Scott do you think it's worth getting large chips and Andos in the future? No.
Speaker 1:Is it worth getting the chicken butterfly 100%? What all else can I have then? I'm looking at the matcha peas nutrition information, matcha peas 141 calories six grams of fat 17 carbs seven grams of protein that's quite good for protein isn't it? So I'd have matcha peas moving forward and then I'd have what kind of let's have a look at creamy mash. Creamy mash would give me 276 calories.
Speaker 1:No, it's a bit, that's not worth it. What about maybe corn on the cob? I'd have corn on the cob which is a 44 calories, two grams of fat, 22 carb, and five grams of protein. So moving forward, I'll have matcha peas, corn and the cob, chicken, butterfly. Not I'm I'm I'm not I'm not like I'm not like limiting myself eating out and stuff.
Speaker 1:Most of you can have an Andros moving forward because it is good. But like just be curious with the restaurants you usually go to and just do what I just did and have a look through the menu and look at the things and in the future you'll know kind of what's a better option for you. Without curiosity you're gonna see it all as a slog. Do I want it? Why do I have to track and learn about?
Speaker 1:Because when you're curious about stuff you're in your own body, can make better decisions, you're gonna be happy in the long term. So that's what I would suggest guys. If you know where you're going out for food and you know it's a recent it's like a frequent place, just have a look at the macros and calories, and then just decide what you think is the best option. Even if you don't track it, at least you've done those that massive two minutes of work looking into the, macros. So that's it for today.
Speaker 1:What's your one big thing today? So Wednesday, hump day is called, know, it's middle of the week. Get your steps in ideally, the weather's great, hit you hit your protein, drink your water, and that's all you can do, like your macros, just do it. Macros if you still haven't tracked this week, the week is still there to win. You don't like it's not even about winning the week just it's about building up one day at a time and you're not gonna get perfect days all the time but like look I don't care if you've had a terrible two or three four five weeks Make make today a good day.
Speaker 1:Pick a metric. Do wanna hit your steps? Hit your steps. 10,000 if you can today. That's your task.
Speaker 1:Maybe you can hit your macros as well. It'd be great. But maybe you don't wanna do the steps, but then you wanna really focus on macros. Okay? Just get your macros right today.
Speaker 1:Okay? Happy days. And even if you don't wanna do perfect macros, get a workout in the oven done in a while. Do something and pick that as your main thing and the other things will fall into place. And that's it.
Speaker 1:I'll be checking in with you tomorrow and for the annual turtles there will be a annual call Sunday or maybe Friday or Thursday. I don't know which day yet. I'll I'll put a poll up, and then we we go from there. But thanks, everyone. Have a good day, and I'll speak to you soon.
Speaker 1:And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Gough Lear. Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about yesterday. I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today.
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