Father Update #2
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Speaker 1:Remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Good morning, everyone. Hope you're having a good Monday. Hope you got a good start to the week. It's time to basically, if you start today off well in the morning, your week will run smoother.
Speaker 1:That's just how it goes. Don't let Monday beat you. Don't let the day run you. You run the day. Jim Rohn, classic quote.
Speaker 1:Let me so I'm just gonna do some observational stuff today. First of all, my voice note last week was about my father and his struggle to lose weight because he's got a heart condition, heart disease, whatever you call it. So after investigating, let me reveal some information. This is his diet, by the way. Two pieces of toast in the morning with lots of butter, five cream crackers and cheese on all of them for snack, bacon, eggs and chips later on, mashed potato and sausage, and then packets of crisps.
Speaker 1:Now here's where it's kind of like more important. Like obviously it doesn't matter what you eat really as long as you're in a deficit to lose weight. Alright, That's the fact. So, you know, I could look at this and go, right. So you currently eat now, let's reduce your toast to one piece of toast.
Speaker 1:Let's reduce those cream crackers to two cream crackers and cheese. Let's like remove the maybe one of the sausages or like one of the chips from the bacon egg and chips and less reduce packing the crisps. Right? That's like the obvious thing to do because that's what he likes to eat obviously and it would probably help him lose weight. But because someone's got a heart disease and is like in bad health condition, You need you know, the food quality will matter more in this regard.
Speaker 1:So we need them to lose weight because that's where a lot of the benefit comes from for him. He has to be in healthy weight. So weight loss is is the primary focus. But in these instances, you should always try and see where you can add in some nutrient like nutrient dense foods. So, you know, two toasts and butter in the morning is that, you know, it's a it's a it's it's it's energy from the carbs.
Speaker 1:But what I've done is replace that with a small bowl of oats full of fiber, still carbohydrates with a mix with a with a with a scoop of our protein. So our chocolate protein in either vegan or chocolate or the whey chocolate for him. So get him a boost to protein in the morning. And he gets the energy, so that's a good change. In terms of the cream crackers and cheese, I'm leaving them in for him to have throughout the day because it seems to be something he likes.
Speaker 1:And cream crackers actually got very low calories. So, you know, it's not too bad. It's just the cheese, like the controller cheese. Bacon, egg and chips and mashed potato sausage. So that's a lot of processed meat.
Speaker 1:Now there are studies, okay, on is eating meat bad for you? The thing is eating processed meat was seen to have a correlation with like problems like heart disease and stuff like that, but lean meats are different. We have to differentiate, like having chicken breast is different to having a sausage. Why is that? Well, breast is lean, meat is not being processed.
Speaker 1:Sausage is processed meat and bad quality, high in fat. It's just not nowhere near the same quality as chicken breast. Right? So when you come to these decisions, switch out the processed meat for the unprocessed version, which is the chicken breast. Okay?
Speaker 1:The turkey breast. It could be, you know, the the steaks and stuff like that. The beef. I could get him some chopped up beef cubes, whatever, but like steak. So like high quality meat.
Speaker 1:Okay. It's important. So like don't go for sausages. Bacon's a tough one because it depends on the bacon. Obviously, there's a bacon that's high in fat and sometimes, you know, if he's having butter and if he's having butter with his toast, I'd imagine that with his bacon, he's frying on a lot of oils so that my next investigation phase is to see how his partner's cooking all these foods.
Speaker 1:Because if she's just putting the bacon, the chips, and the sauce and just frying it in oil, then obviously, that's not accounted for right now when he's telling me what he eats. Because he's telling me what he eats, he doesn't know much oil is being used. And all of you who have tracked your oil will know how much fucking oil is in some like, how many calories are in oil. So is to get my next step as well is to get in one of those air, air fryers, if you've seen them. I personally haven't used it.
Speaker 1:My older sister has used an air fryer. She's just awesome. So it's just an air fryer. Don't have to use any of the, oils to cook stuff and then just eliminates that problem. So instead of, like, asking her to switch to one calorie spray and stuff like that, air fryer, boom, job done.
Speaker 1:So that's the next steps. In the packet of crisps, I'm gonna get him from one annual member mentioned on the annual call last week that she buys Quest protein crisps that are a bit expensive, but what's, you know, what's more important, health or not? So if he loves crisps, I'm gonna give him crisps. He's having crisps, okay? But he's having protein crisps.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm starting with the changes. And then in terms of environment, so this is what I've noticed. So since being back home, there's like where we've moved into a new warehouse, it's in a small town called Crosshounds, which where kind of like the hub's got a McDonald's there. It's been there since I've been alive, basically. And that McDonald's brings back so many memories, like as a kid going there after school on Friday, secondary school, everybody used to go to the cinema, then walk to the local McDonald's, and then everybody used to hang around there.
Speaker 1:And I've found myself, I've had two McDonald's already since being back. I've put into my macros, right, but I don't really wanna be eating McDonald's that frequently. And I've come to the realization, like I said, the environment's really important. But the reason I'm going for it and it's pulling me in is because, obviously, back in the day, there's so many positive emotions of being around McDonald's as in younger with my mother and stuff like that, but more so with my friends in school. Like, I probably kinda still think that, oh, you might bump into your friend at McDonald's.
Speaker 1:That's what people think around you. They're like go to McDonald's and you expect to see someone you know. So you kind of got that pull as well. And it's interesting because I'm very aware of why it's happening. And I think self awareness here is like a superpower.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, do you know what, Scott? I know why it's pulling you in, and you don't have to let that happen. But it's interesting. Like I said, environment shapes your behavior more than you can ever imagine. So that's the changes I'm doing.
Speaker 1:I don't if any of that helps with you guys, but there's some tips in there for you. And then in terms of getting an old person oh god. That was a load. Getting an old person to change your habits, you gotta do as a team. So every day now I'm like, what does he love doing?
Speaker 1:He loves working. He loves being busy. Okay. He's got like a mini bus business. He loves being busy all the time.
Speaker 1:Okay. He loves having a go at me for saying, I knew how many boxes have gone out today? How many clothing items have you sold today? Not many. Not many.
Speaker 1:He's like, always negative to it's just that classic age of men. And he always comes to the warehouse to have a have a nose. So I'm gonna say to him, okay. Do you wanna come to the I'm gonna try and work out a system. Like, do know, come to the warehouse now.
Speaker 1:I'd I want you to walk around the main warehouse, check things are going well, make sure everything's going fine. Can you, like, make sure that the the clothing is so tight? I don't need you to clean up, but I want you to tell me what the state of the warehouse is. I want you to walk around it a few times in case sneakily get his steps in because he will be out of breath. He literally can't walk for more than two minutes without being out of breath.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, like, spot, but he needs to get walking. But if I can get him walking whilst doing something he loves, which is to, like, analyze business y things, then by the time it comes to him coming back to report to me, he's done maybe a thousand steps. And then from there, and I'm gonna say, right, let's go for a walk now down down to the down to the shop, get some water, and then I'm gonna walk back and make sure he drinks water on the way back. I'm gonna try and build this out. Maybe it's three times a week, maybe it's daily ideally, but that's what I'm gonna start doing and see how that goes and try and get him into that kind of habit.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, that's it guys. It's interesting. Interesting. But I hope you've found it useful. I'm gonna keep, documenting the changes.
Speaker 1:He's basically has to lose two stones, so it's a decent amount of weight to lose, and it's not it's gotta come quite fast, but not extreme. It's gotta come in a decent pace. Can't be waiting around too long, about this stuff, and we'll see what goes on. But, yeah, I hope you have a good day today. If anything you get from these voice notes is, like, to be like, be aware of the oils you're using.
Speaker 1:Make sure you are tracking accurately. Right? Make sure you are trying to build habits. Because if you're not trying to build positive habits, you're probably ingrained in some bad ones and you have to break the bad ones. To break bad habits, you gotta make them harder to do or make them very unsatisfying.
Speaker 1:And it's a team effort. So if you are trying to lose weight and your partner's not on board, I think that there needs to be a discussion there to be like, look. If I'm trying to lose weight, okay, and I'm trying to track my macros and stuff, I need you to help me out. I need you to be on board because if you're on board, we can both help each other, and we can both create new habits together. And a team of two is as more powerful than one person.
Speaker 1:Okay? And you can ask them, you know, if they if you see if you see someone, your partner, are gonna do something that they know is against their goal, just give them the eye. Just give them, hey. Hey. Don't say, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:Just go, hey. Don't mention anything. Just say, hey. Just raising your awareness. This is not something you actually wanna be doing.
Speaker 1:And that might stop 40% of those kind of cupboard grabs or like not doing a workout. Like, oh, I don't feel like doing a workout today. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Speaker 1:Is that the goal you is that the person you wanna be? No. Okay. Do the workout or do the walk. Do something.
Speaker 1:Just don't not do something. And that's it, guys. Hopefully, it's helpful. I'll stop my rambling on about this now. And I think there's an echo in this room.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm quieter. Because if I spoke like this, I can hear myself twice, and it's not good. But, yeah, Will's won six nations as well, by the way. Go on the boys. Alright.
Speaker 1:Tonight, guys. And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Galf Lier. 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.
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