Stories from the community to get you going
Hello you Octagoons, how are you doing this morning? It's Friday, but guess what, we don't care it's Friday do we? Bit alone, sorry. We don't care it's Friday. We we just this is this is day, it's twenty four hours, we enjoy all of them, don't we?
Speaker 1:We make the most of all of them, so it's Friday, don't worry about Saturday yet, we still got today to go. And today I just wanna, it's a tribute to all of you really, I did a post the other day saying how's everyone doing, it's day 29, what's going on? And so many awesome stories come out of it. So if you don't have a chance to read Facebook all the time, I'm gonna read a few of them out now. And you see all the different amazing people listening to these podcasts on Turtle Radio, you know, think right now all of you who have got up and you've decided to improve yourself and you're all on the same path here in this community, all different lives across the globe.
Speaker 1:It's cool as hell. So yeah, we should celebrate that. But let's have a look. Emma Jackson, I did really well for the first two weeks and then things have gone wrong desperately want to get back on, but keep finding and putting her off and worry I'm too far behind. You're not Emma, just do one thing, track your breakfast right now, right.
Speaker 1:And then she's just gone and done, gonna sit down and put meals in, job done. And that's the thing, if you feel behind, there's only two options ahead of you. The option is to keep going down the path of going further away from getting back on track, or that is just doing the next small action that gets you back on track such as tracking a meal, you know, going for a small walk, you know, just small stuff build it up. Christina's feeling good, COVID has interrupted motivation and dedication is high, boom, you know, life is gonna slap us all in the face, isn't it? There's loads of quotes on this like, know, when Mike Tyson said something every boxer's got a plan until he gets punched in the face.
Speaker 1:I think, the German general, general Rommel had something the same as well. Everyone has a battle plan until the battle. Like, everyone plans until the battle, and then it's just all kind of crazy. But Napoleon would have something to say about that. Some of his plans were executed to perfection.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, it's the same it's the same thing. We're like, we we plan for the perfect thing, and then when the perfect thing doesn't happen, we're shocked, but that's that's been the same the rest all of our lives. Well, I guess it can be perfect. What evidence do you have is gonna be perfect? Because I have no evidence anything I've done has gone perfectly.
Speaker 1:So let's leave the perfection behind. Don't fall for it. Emma Louise, going well so far. Feel really on track with macros and pleased with progress. Unfortunately, got COVID on Saturday, so fitness wise, I've done my work.
Speaker 1:Was trying to kick start what I trying to stick with what I can control, which is the food side. Boom. That's the one. What can you control? Your voluntary actions, you can do your best through that but you know we can't control hardly anything else.
Speaker 1:Charlotte, I'm basically starting again today just thinking we have five weeks left to make a change rather than think I've ruined the first half go and give up, I won't give up now. Yeah, nice one, exactly. That's what I'd like to see and Charlotte says yeah she tracked today, boom. It's like to hear Charlotte Randall, I hope you're listening, hope you're getting back on it. Tyler, did well for the first two weeks, weight didn't budge, then it was my birthday and got drunk and ate hangover food, but managed to come down during the week, so it might maintain still.
Speaker 1:Then went to a gig and got really, really drunk. Had a hangover for three days and put on four pounds, been hitting my goals yesterday and today, but still trying to shift the weight. It's day two technically for me now, was at the start again, but feeling positive. That's what I like to see. Right?
Speaker 1:That's what I like to see. And remember, you put weight on over weekends, it's water weight. You haven't eaten 20 or Big Macs have you? You know, let's be honest. And that's the that's exactly the mindset we need.
Speaker 1:Tyler, perfect bang on because the reality is that's life in it. That is life. And I think the bad thing we do is we do the all or nothing mindset. We do the oh this has happened so I'll go the other way now or not. You're never on and off, just we're gonna be doing this for life, we're gonna be balancing up and down.
Speaker 1:Doesn't mean we're on and off, just means we're back and you know, in between a zone basically and that's absolutely fine. Charlotte Cade's going really well kept up my strength workers managing to track my macros as a few days going over the whole time having let weekends be an issue, loving it all. I've definitely got a more positive mindset by taking each day as it comes and not worrying about what's in the future except having to advise an exam. Perfect, that's the mindset. You know people think like, when we think about the daily, the present moment and you know you might wake up in the morning do the same thing or whatever.
Speaker 1:Do the same thing every day. But if you see every day is a new day, a new fresh start and you kind of die of the past, you die of the old like the you know, yesterday's dark gone now, that isn't the point thinking about it. You have a new day today. So even if you did the same thing like it doesn't matter, like it's it's a new fresh day and you're doing these things it's gonna improve the day. Even if it if it takes time over time like the day itself like feeling good about looking after your health, feeling good about getting steps in, feeling good about like you know, not catastrophizing and starting the day off of the podcast and like liturgical radio.
Speaker 1:Like these doesn't matter how many times you do these things. If you look at them as a day thing in a silo, it makes the day better. And it's not that all that matters. We make the days, we make most of the days. Amy Mansell, so far going well four pounds off my goal weight, all of those unable to complete yesterday workout at lunchtime.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna finish it, boom. Nice one Amy, weight's coming down. Again weight's a good metric over time, but, you know, you got measurements, you've got strength, you've got just feeling better internally. Remember fat comes off the organs inside first, visceral fat and then comes on the subcutaneous fat on the outside. Stuff, you know, happy days.
Speaker 1:Kirsten Jones yet to start, can't bring myself to work out or even to track macros such a wall in front of me usually hit 10 key steps. And as I said, you know, whip out the macros app right now and add one thing you've eaten today. Okay. I've weighed and recorded tomorrow's breakfast. Kirsten, that's all it takes.
Speaker 1:It might not mean you've done more tracking after that, but you know you can do it, you just got to do it right now in a second. Anyone listening to this is like I'm tracking ages, can you please just track right now? Just get your phone up or what you're gonna eat later in or now and just put her in. I mean, what is the delay? This wall is created by us psychologically, it's our own mind creating its own wall.
Speaker 1:It's this problem of the mind is completely made up by ourselves and we're the ones to bring it down. No one else can bring that wall down. Right. I've just come with a hammer though and smashed this hopefully it'll help. Jess Bishop, I was doing really well and then worked up to London, got on the way last week.
Speaker 1:Got on to see the language had gone away last week and I've been struggling to get back into a sense of kept my one non negotiable and called up with all the workouts. That's good, but really need to get my nutrition back. Boom. Thing is out Jess as well if you're listening, you know, going to trip to London got in the way. I mean, it got in the way or is that just life, the flow of life, you go and work is this London, it's all you know, got in the way of what, having a nutrition day you can only have at home, maybe so, but it shouldn't be gone in a way it's just different type of day, different type of flexibility needed.
Speaker 1:Remember, we're not rigid dieters here, we're not rigid, we don't make foods problems, we can eat what we want. We are flexible if we need more macros today versus fine. No two days might be the same for some people, some others every single day is the same working from home, you know, depends. If I'm catching a train back to Wales, my diet is way different. I'm definitely having a bag of crisps when they bring the food trolley around.
Speaker 1:Definitely having terrible cup of coffee on the on the train. They do like coffee tea bags and that was weird. Probably having a Trex leg. Right? Have a Trex.
Speaker 1:Because I'm not buying the sweets in the shops before I go. They're like, I've seen the cost of these sweets and stuff in the small shops in the train stations. Water is $2.99 for the bottle, small bottle. I actually asked the only one so you're having a laugh. He's like, well, know, surprised.
Speaker 1:I was like, okay. So I don't prepare because I'm always late and then, you know, I'm having a nap. But I don't panic about it. Put in the app, happy days. No problem.
Speaker 1:No, you know, no worry. I'm all rigid. You know, that's it. Sallie Hill having to tap out this week with COVID. Another COVID.
Speaker 1:COVID's gonna get us all at one point, guys, probably. Looking forward to rejoining after it. Yep. Sallie, look, you know, COVID sucks. Don't cast to cast catastrophize.
Speaker 1:Do what you can. If you wanna track, track, but just be more sensible. Don't let COVID turn into a binge eating episode. Right? Don't make it do two double bad things for you.
Speaker 1:Jade Hesseldon. Hesseldon. I think I've seen your name right, Jade. I'm sorry. I have met you.
Speaker 1:Like, I don't know. People say insane. Some people call like, Ryan is Ryan had been his phone as Scott Fleur for, like, two years. I was like, mate, my name is not Scott Fleur, Scott Fleur. He's like, oh, sorry.
Speaker 1:He's like, have you been calling me Scott Fleur for two years? Now he calls me Franco Fleur. I feel like Mr. Motivator almost fell in the valley of despair, couple of injuries and hormones test to me, but I managed to build a bridge and got to the other side. Super happy with how consistent I've been looking forward to the next book.
Speaker 1:Boom boom, Jade. Nice one. Let's have a look here now. Now, Naomi going well, I'm up to date in strength workouts, is something I haven't done on previous challenges. I'm also keeping up my running alongside it and already seen improvements in pace and endurance.
Speaker 1:Macros aren't too bad, was struggling hit protein most days, but now I've purchased the Turtle Cleo A hydro powder. It is much easier, and I am now nearly hitting the goal. I need to work on being brave and joining more of the calls live and speaking on Turtle Radio. Yes. You will be speaking on the radio later, you want me 100% get on.
Speaker 1:That's awesome to hear. Doing really well. Again, you know, we just improve stuff realizing like a tweak like our protein struggles, clearway hydro give you a twenty gram boost a day, two scoops, two servings, forty gram boost. Rule of thumb with protein is you can safely and without impact of your results get half of your protein intake from powders. I wouldn't really consider whey protein a supplement.
Speaker 1:It's more of a food because it is dried milk, but it's been, know, if you think it's just been it's kind of like purified and everything, it's milk powder with added well, removed the fat and carbs and it's just complete protein really from milk. It's kind of a food, does that make sense? I feel like supplements we think like chemically made pill. So yeah, you can have half of your protein from powders if it helps. Like for me, I love clear whey 40 grams a day and then I love a scoop and a half of the turtle chocolate whey, your plant based whey with my oats, which adds another 35 grams of protein.
Speaker 1:So 75 grams of my protein a day comes from, powders and then sometimes I even have the ghost they call this like protein or chocolate, which is 20 grams. So I might test actually doing the plant based way with hot water to see if it tastes nice. I don't know. I'll give you Elena. Ronnie keeping up with strength workers, but struggling my carb intake, always been carb y kind of gal, gotta reduce them.
Speaker 1:Go to the macros planner, macro preferences tool and tweak it. Give yourself more carbs, it reduces your fat, happy days. Tweak to your preferences guys, remember that. Eat what you want, eat what you like. We give you meal prep ideas and recipes, but just eat what you like and that's what's gonna make you stick to a lifestyle, not eating foods you don't like.
Speaker 1:And then you tweak from there. Eat what you like, tweak. Eat what you like, tweak. Eventually, you'll be motivated to want to eat veg and like stuff like me. I never used to wanna cook, but like since doing the meal prep, the Mediterranean chicken veg and just loving the fact I've got all the colors of the veg and I feel good eating veggies, I'm now at a point in my life where, you know, I want to eat veggies and improve my, you know, that kind of content.
Speaker 1:And, yeah, like it tastes great and it's not maybe it probably does taste better than other foods that I have but yeah, so it's kind of a different kind of viewpoint on it. It might take time for you to be motivated to actually want to eat the foods that typically would call clean foods. And I don't think anyone should jump into clean foods, which is just chicken and broccoli, which is the boring stuff. Doesn't really work, but over time with complete freedom, paradoxically you might want to eat those foods. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Let's have a look. Ali Finjan buzzing buzzing buzzing. I can run five k, did it yesterday morning, strength done, done, loving life boom boom boom. Awesome stuff Ali, awesome stuff. Holly week four for me doing relatively well with the food, steps, water and one big thing, but I've lost exercise motivation which is annoying.
Speaker 1:Holly, look, look what you said there, doing well with food, doing well with steps, doing well with water, doing you one big thing, four big things there. But you know exercise comes and goes. I don't know, I don't know, I'm not as motivated to exercise. Ask Ryan. Sometimes you know, I'm always got that work in the back of my head, I got to do work, got to do this, I got exercise, I always feel better after exercise, it's like why don't I just do it.
Speaker 1:And it's about making it manageable. Like for me, I need to know that I cannot exercise a day and just go another day. Like today I did exercise but I was gonna take a day off two legs tomorrow but I did it today. But you know because I'm I only fix and doing three workouts a week, I'm don't panic about missing a day because the seven days in a week, the three workouts, I can miss a day all the time obviously, but I don't miss twice. If I miss once I say right that's it and I go I'm gonna work out tomorrow, I will then do it.
Speaker 1:That's kind of a rule I stick by. That's all up to it by me, can't go so. It basically it's basically gone. I'm talking normal, ain't I? Bit more, pain but happy days.
Speaker 1:But like there's a few more here guys that I'll go through it but I think Tara, yeah, Tara, amazing story on Turtle Radio. Spoke about, like, only a year ago had a stroke and literally had to relearn to speak and, you know, could have easily gone down another path but Tara absolutely smashing it and I'll read a post now. Going well so far, absolutely loving it. I haven't really lost weight but I'm not fast as I've lost inches, boom, good. My gym leggings are loose, yes, loose.
Speaker 1:Never in my life have I had loose gym leggings or jeans, so I'm buzzing or something is clearly working. The big thing is mindset. I've got a totally different mindset. I focus on protein and not worry if I do have a bad day or week as long as I get back to it. No food is bad, off limits, I just add it to my macros even if I go over.
Speaker 1:My colleagues and boss have also noticed I'm more positive and I do think that's tiny habits every morning. I wake up and tell myself today is a good day. I might not be good to do the five k I wanted and life and injuries and health has gone the way of the live worker semis, but that's okay as I watched the replay. The big change is I don't see this as five weeks or as a ten week challenge anymore. I see this as a lifestyle and we join in as a full turtle after the challenge.
Speaker 1:Boom boom. That's what it's all about guys. I will leave you with that. I hope you have an awesome day. Hope you have a really good weekend.
Speaker 1:You know, you don't have to go nuts, You don't have to get wrecked. You know, British culture tells you get wrecked. I'm saying don't have to get wrecked. You can have a few drinks, but don't go overboard. Same with food.
Speaker 1:You know, if you're gonna go out and eat, there's loads of foods on the app. You can look at the, Bill's restaurant, which has got a lot of different foods. You can pretty much guess the similar food and put it in the app and just don't worry about it. It'll take you one minute. What am I eating today?
Speaker 1:Alright. I'm gonna have I'm gonna go out for brunch and have, you know, eggs royale or whatever it's called. And, I'm gonna have some toast, and I'm have cup of orange juice. Let's get that on the app. Let's put it in.
Speaker 1:It's not gonna be perfect, but it's in. And I don't have worry about it. You go out for food later. You have a spaghetti carbonara, and you have some garlic bread starter and you have two glasses of wine. Well, again, something's gonna be similar in the app.
Speaker 1:Pop it in. Forget about it. That's all it's all you need to do. Don't panic, but just be in Montreit. Keep in mind, you know, like I say, you don't you're not gonna eat 21 big macs, but what you can do on weekends is you can reduce the deficit you've built over the week to near nothing.
Speaker 1:So you've been building a 500 calorie deficit a day. So say now you've built a 2,500 calorie deficit so far this week. Right? Weekend comes, your maintenance is a 2,000. You could eat 3,000 calories on a Saturday.
Speaker 1:On drink, you can eat 3,000 calories again on Sunday. And that's 2,000 over in two days and your deficit is now just 500. So whilst you're not going to gain a huge you're not going to really gain fat unless you probably eat a lot, you can slow down your progress significantly and that's just something to be aware of. And sometimes it's okay to just be like, you know what, I worked hard all week. I'm gonna be, you know, if I go out I might be slower fat loss.
Speaker 1:I might lose half pound instead of a pound, but I'm happy with that because that weekend I wanted to enjoy my friends, family, whatever, and that's life. And we don't want to catastrophize, we leave it there. That's the golden thing. We leave it there, move on, happy days. So enjoy your weekend and, yeah, I'll speak to you all soon, alright?
