The Strongest Don't Survive, These People Do
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast with your host and the future leader of The Republic Of Wales, Sveldfjer. Now this might be the only podcast in the world where you actually have to reduce the speed instead of increasing it. However, what I wanna get over to you is that the past is gone. The future doesn't exist. So if you wanna make the most of your life, you've gotta make the most of these moments every single day.
Speaker 1:And this podcast is gonna help you live a healthier, more fulfilled life, hopefully, giving you some wisdom to take away every single day. So I'm gonna shut up now so you can get on with listening to the next episode. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Here's a quote for you straight off the bat, it is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent it is the one most adaptable to change Charles Darwin. So this is bang on guys.
Speaker 1:It's the thing, it's not the most intelligent of us who's gonna make the most of this fitness journey you get to everyone. It's not the person who knows the most of a nutrition who's gonna be in the best physical shape. It's not the person who knows every single fact about the human body who's gonna be in the best shape. Neither is it the person who's a strong mess and the fit desk is going to be necessarily the healthiest. Just because you've got all that knowledge or you are born with more of a athletic physique or whatever, you're more prone to being a sporty type of person means nothing when it comes to health.
Speaker 1:It's who can adapt the most and I think the world in the last hundred years has seen a huge change in our nutrition because we've only started to see the onset of obesity since around post World War II essentially when food has not been in any kind of shortage since and we've been able to eat way too many calories too easily. So what are we going to do? What's the answer to this? Well, answer is we have to adapt. We have to adapt.
Speaker 1:And a lot of people like, well, I'm going start losing weight. So I'm gonna change my diet completely. So I'm gonna go from everything I'm eating now, I'm gonna flip it, I'm gonna throw all our weight, and I'm gonna go and eat what I think I should eat, clean foods as they say. This is a mistake. You're not adapting in that regard.
Speaker 1:You're trying to be the best. You're trying to be the most you know, you're trying to use the most intellect and be like, well, this is the right move. I'm trying to be the best possible diet ever. That's never worked in nature, and it's not gonna work for you. That's the biggest mistake people do.
Speaker 1:They try and do all of these changes straight away. It really is as simple as this. If you're eating, okay, and your breakfast is, Cheerios, two pieces of toast, lot of butter, lot of jam, right, coffee with three sugars, say that's your breakfast. Your breakfast tomorrow needs to be the exact same thing, the coffee with sweetener instead or one sugar, maybe preferably none. When after that, say, right, what else can we do?
Speaker 1:How can we adapt? Okay. Well, maybe we have half a bowl of Cheerios instead. Okay the toast two pieces of toast with butter and jam why don't we have a Warburton's thin bagel with a bit of butter and jam instead right now we're getting somewhere Okay. What's missing now?
Speaker 1:Well, we're missing a bit of protein here. Well, why don't we have a Warburton thin bagel with some butter and maybe an egg or a bit of lean bacon or a plant based alternative? You know, those heck sausages. This is what we're meant to do. This is how it works.
Speaker 1:You slowly change your meals slowly over time. You try and switch things out and switch better things in. That's how we've always survived as a human race. We've been able to do this on a slow consistent basis. So when you're thinking about today and you're thinking about all things you've got to do to succeed in health and fitness and lose weight and stuff, you don't have to do much.
Speaker 1:You go to do the small stuff and make a few changes. And I think of me, I remember one member told me, I think it was the last challenge when she started tracking, she said, I can't believe it. I've realized I've been drinking 900 calories from coke every day and I'm like that's mental why don't you try coke zero? Well yeah I still want cokes to taste nearly the same but you're saving 900 calories and don't come at me with this cancer nonsense. The amount of sweetener in these cokes is not going to cause cancer, going to cause weight gain like people believe.
Speaker 1:Look at the studies, the recent studies not the ones in the 80s. What else is there in your Have a think about it now. Really have a think about it. What can you do? What can you switch out?
Speaker 1:There's not gonna be much of a difference to you and you enjoy it, but it's a better option. If you imagine doing one swap a day or even one swap every three days for about sixty days. All it takes. Adapt. And, another another way to think about adapting is the world wouldn't know.
Speaker 1:We're lucky in a sense that we're now living through an age of essentially health conscious people, people who want to go for plant based alternatives because they tend to be innovative and they're spending a lot of money into these stuff. And high protein is big now. So you even look at Mars and Snickers, they've all got high protein bar options. So we're lucky to be living in an age where this is being pushed now. You go back fifteen years, no one cared.
Speaker 1:High protein, nobody cared outside bodybuilders. No one cared of reducing sugar and fat. It was all about flavour, taste, sales. Now the consumer, us, we've adapted. We're like, no.
Speaker 1:We need change, guys. The stuff you've given us sucks, but we we love it. Like, we can't live without these amazing stuff. We really like them. But can you improve them, please?
Speaker 1:Can you start looking at different formulas, please? Come on. Make it help us out a bit. Right? McDonald's started putting their calories information on the menus.
Speaker 1:Right? Like, all these little changes are happening because the consumer is demanding it. And that's the main thing. So we're living through an age where we're lucky that these changes are happening thick and fast. And I think we will adapt with the change.
Speaker 1:You know, there's changes being made all the time. Innovation's being made all the time with foods. It's amazing. And we just switch them in and out. Look at muscle food, for example.
Speaker 1:I love muscle food because like ten years ago when they were first about, I think it was ten years ago, it was just all about protein, you know, meats. Now they they they they are trying to help us a lot. They got protein pizzas, 300 calories, high in protein, protein less, protein that. They're making it easy for us. They got takeaways or whatever they call them.
Speaker 1:Where you have it's a takeaway. It was way less calories. These companies are doing the jobs for us. Right? Simple.
Speaker 1:They are. Like, you got low dough. You got all these amazing things coming out. Yeah. Odd.
Speaker 1:Do they taste as good as the fullest, fattest pizza in the world? No. Right? No. They don't.
Speaker 1:But that's not the point. They're not meant to. They're meant to get want to satisfy us just enough that we're happy with it and we realize that the gain from reducing the calories and macros and stuff is better than the temporarily like, that's lush, I love it for an extra 2,000 calories. But you have to be going with this flow, this adaptability. And I think it's it's bang on, that quote, bang on.
Speaker 1:We we adapt to anything. Humans adapt to anything. Well, you're adapting to something right now, whether it's good or bad, who knows? But we're all adapting in a sense to this world, especially COVID as well. We're all adapting in different ways so we can do it but we've always done it slow and steady.
Speaker 1:That's how we've always done things and that's how the world works slow, steady, change, barely noticeable day to day but over time it's very noticeable. So have that in mind. Don't overdo things. Take things one day at a time. Switch a thing few things out this week or moving forward.
Speaker 1:Try and look for a healthier or a lower calorie option. Try and opt for a bit more protein. And if you could do this, guys, it is as easy as that. It is. Steps, track, switcheroo through things, be mindful on the weekends, make sure you have your hangover food ready before you go out on the Saturday night, have that ready in the fridge, a lot of fruits, a lot of water, a lot of hydration there.
Speaker 1:Maybe fill up local ice creams if you want to, maybe cook a meal before and have it ready in the fridge the next day ready for you to eat, whatever. Just do stuff like that and over time things change. A I've been using the app now for about ten weeks maybe, twelve, eleven weeks and I've gone through a phase where I started off, I've definitely lost a lot of weight from my midsection. I actually didn't realize how much weight I was holding compared to what I'm used to like. So I went through a period last few weeks like, I'm not changing, nothing's happening but you wake up one day and things change.
Speaker 1:Lyle McDonald's referred to this as the woosh effect. You think things are not happening, you're hitting your macros, you're doing your workouts, you get any steps and you take it and drink in your water. Right? You wake up the next day thinking things, oh, when's gonna change? When's it gonna change?
Speaker 1:And it's not changing yet, but then you forget about it for a bit. You keep going. You keep doing the work. Right? You kept you keep dedicated, disciplined.
Speaker 1:And then one day you wake up, you go, wow. Wow. What's happening here? Like, I have definitely changed overnight. What's going on?
Speaker 1:Beyond change overnight. Maybe dropped a bit of water, the whoosh effect, like I call it, but a water drop, boom, reveals some of the more the fat loss. So this happens all the time. We have a term for it because it happens to loads of people, but there's no exact reason why it happens so do stick with it. Things do happen, you have to stick with it.
Speaker 1:It's as simple as that. When we look at ourselves all the time three times a day, am I changing, am I changing, You might not see any change. But when you don't do it, when you just stick to the work, you get on with your life and you know five days later, go, yeah, that's changed. We see this all the time. Do know when you I remember school holidays and stuff like that when I was younger, like nine or 10 or whatever.
Speaker 1:I through school holidays and then I went back after six weeks or whatever. Was teaching, wow, you've grown. So I went, what? I'm saying I don't think I've changed at all. Yeah.
Speaker 1:You've definitely grown over some holidays because you haven't seen me in six weeks. Right. So there's definitely, there's definitely something to say about maybe not always looking at changes and just focusing the action and then, you know, let in time reveal it for you. I think there's a lot to do with that. There's even a science, a famous science experiment where and we learned this, I learned this in school and I did science for physics for A level, the other the split, two splits and you send atoms through photons they called through these slits onto a wall behind them.
Speaker 1:So the slits are just two lines, beam and atoms through and they were hitting the wall directly where the slits gap was. So think about like a big piece of wall and then just two slits and then we're going through the slits and obviously at the other side there was a few meters and there was a wall and they will hit the wall in the shape of the slit. Again, saying two lines. But when the scientists stopped looking at the atoms of the photons being sent and then they looked at the wall they were hitting through the slits, they were hitting all over the place they weren't in the straight two slit lines anymore they were all over the place like why are they behaving differently when we're not looking at them versus when we are looking at them. Now why is that happening?
Speaker 1:And that's an intriguing question. You look at the time all the time, it doesn't move. When you go and do something about time, it flies. Take it in mind, someone you think about us today, I want you to make a few suturus with your food if you can, I don't want you to change your entire thing because we adapt, we don't try to be the best, we don't try to be the most make the most intelligent move because more often than not, they're not going to work for us long term? We just want to make small adaptations from our current lifestyle over time.
Speaker 1:That's what we do, that's how we're going to be successful and that's always going to be something that we can sustain and be motivated with. You don't have to change to be someone else, You don't have to get up at 5AM. Get up ten minutes earlier than you do now, fifteen minutes, whatever it is, slowly make the changes one day at a time. Now enjoy your day, make the most of it and I'll speak to you as well. And that is it for today's episode.
Speaker 1:So hopefully you took something away from it. If you didn't, here's what you need to take away. Stop wasting time on social media. Stop wasting time gossiping. You've only got a day to live.
Speaker 1:Today's the only day you ever have. So if there's anything to take away from this podcast, even if you can't understand the word I say, even if you didn't resonate with the wisdom I try to deliver, this is a reminder of you daily to live one day at a time. Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days but if you can make the most of today I'm telling you you'll have a fulfilled life so enjoy your day and hopefully I'll see you back tomorrow. Do daily to live one day at a time. Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days But if you can make the most of today, I'm telling you, you'll have a fulfilled life.
Speaker 1:So enjoy your day and hopefully I'll see you back tomorrow.
