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7 podcasts over 7 days with the ParrotPal 7 day free trial. An app that specialises in fat loss, and you can track food by just typing it out or voice noting into the app! Short daily podcasts to start your day.
Hello. Good morning to you for listening in the morning on your morning walk. It's day four of your trial with Parapal and day four of your kind of nutrition, lifestyle, masterclass, whatever you want to call this, little mini course or whatever. I don't know what day it is with you guys, you're starting off, you could have started on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, but the beauty of Parapal is it doesn't actually matter what day it is because it's so easy to track your food. Now say for example, you're eating out today, you go for a brunch and you've got a meal out.
Speaker 1:Some restaurants now have calories on menus but not all of them, but all you've to do is type out what the menu says, it could be something posh, it could be something fancy, know, heard of, just type it out. Parapar will do its best job to find the average of what that is from its massive knowledge. It's powered by artificial intelligence. None of that matters, it's what matters is the front end, how you use this app, what it actually does for you. So it doesn't matter anymore if you're eating out because a lot of people used to say, well I'm great on MyFitnessPal Monday to Friday because I got time, I can put everything in, it takes me five, ten minutes, I track everything, but when it comes to weekends, as soon as I see something I can't track, I just can't be bothered, what's the point?
Speaker 1:That's kind of what people do in. You don't have that with parapal. And the thing is, if you've been listening to the last three days of podcast, you know that this perfectionism mindset is never going to work. MyFitnessPal, people have a really bad relationship with MyFitnessPal, why? It gives you low calories, there's no way, it doesn't really care for your it just doesn't help you out.
Speaker 1:Like, you it assumes everyone's tracking perfectly, which isn't the case. Right? There's no such thing as tracking perfectly. So just be just be aware of that, and I and I don't want you to change your outlook on this whole track and stuff just because the weekend is coming. And even if you do go over by a lot, so what?
Speaker 1:The other day I was using Parapal and I was with my friend and walked to the shop and we had gone on a night out the weekend before so we still feeling there. And we were like, should we watch that film and then have a Ben and Jerry's? And I was like, yeah, yeah, alright, sound, let's do it. So we got a Ben and Jerry's, got a few more snacks, came back. I just put it in the app, I backward scanned the Ben and Jerry's actually, I didn't have to say anything, just back up scan, and I was 2,000 calories over my target, so my calorie intake that day was 4,200 calories, and on the walk up I was saying to him, look how easy it is to consume 4,000 calories a day.
Speaker 1:If I were to just tell you I've had the tea, you never would have guessed that's 4,000 plus calories, you would have think, oh 2,000. It was like I had a normal lunch, I had some chicken, I had some veggies, I had like spiced rice and stuff like that, I had eggs on toast, I had a protein shake, then I had the Ben and Jerry's, and then I had the bowl of strawberries, what else have? I think of the candy kittens, and a few more bits. And I was like, you know, that's crazy. That is so much.
Speaker 1:But I didn't feel bad about it. You know, I didn't feel like, oh, I'm a bad person. I just like, that's the truth. That's roughly how much energy I've had today. And I was gone away with my protein intake.
Speaker 1:Was like fifty, sixty grams over, which is absolutely fine by the way. You can go over your protein intake by as much as you want. So when it comes to stuff like it's about being honest with yourself. Change can't happen unless you're honest. Honesty has to be the base and honesty has to be from a place of non judgment.
Speaker 1:You can't be honest if you're always judging. When you go to the doctor they ask you how much do you drink, how much do this, you always lie about it, well I have one drink a week, we have five. We always do this. It's like our default state. We always think we've got to be appearing perfect.
Speaker 1:We're so worried about this. If you let go of all that, you actually have a radical change in you. You start being honest. You start being like, wow. Not judging myself anymore.
Speaker 1:I don't care if other what other people say. I'm not I'm not gonna overwhelm myself anymore with all these different diet plans and like hundred metrics. Why would I do this to my own life? I'm just gonna focus on three simple things. I'm gonna be radically honest about them, and I'll crack on living my life with a smile on my face.
Speaker 1:Happy days. You know, we take the stoic mantra of it's not things that disturb us, it's our opinion about things. If you really take that deeply, it's true. It's not the fact that I've had the Ben and Jerry's that's impacted me, it's my opinion about myself of eating the Ben and Jerry's, that I'm an idiot, that I'm fat, that I'm stupid, how can I do this, what are you doing, you're a waste of space, other people are doing this, You go on social media, you see people rip, and you're like, I'm a loser? How can I be like that?
Speaker 1:It is vicious out there. But for you to really live still, you need to live with no comparison at all. If you live without comparison, which means you are presently here one day at a time, I'm not comparing myself, I can see things, I can let thought run its track, but I'm not gonna compare myself. I'm not gonna look at someone else's life and go, I want that, or that body, or that job, and stuff like that. It just causes inner turmoil.
Speaker 1:It causes inner stress. And that's really what I wanna touch upon now on this podcast is you've got the tools. Right? I don't need to go on and on about hit your calories, your protein, your steps, you get it. It's simple.
Speaker 1:You know. Just focus on those. Very simple. Don't bang on about kind of like the eating side of things. You know what foods you like to eat.
Speaker 1:Eat the foods you like. You know what foods are nutrient dense and all. You know this. We all know it. Eat the fruits.
Speaker 1:Eat the veggies. Eat, you know, whatever. Potatoes. You know, having decent amount of potatoes or rice or whatever, your carb, whatever, like, that source of energy is you want. You know, if you if you like me like, you know, eat the foods you like for God's sake, don't eat stuff you hate because you won't stick to it.
Speaker 1:That's fine. Now what I want to touch upon is the impact of stress on your eating behaviour and in generally life. So when you stress about something, you turn on the stress response. Now the stress response was created for life and death scenarios, to escape and attack back in the day or to fight fight for your life. So when a stress response turns on, what happens is your muscles, your thighs get pumped in, blood flow gets pumping, adrenaline pumps through, your glucose shuffles to your muscles, you are ready to run and fight, your eyes open, your a focus, so late.
Speaker 1:You got to concentrate right now. You are ready. There's another version. It's freeze. You know, you got fight, flight, and freeze.
Speaker 1:The usual is fight and flight. Your body is putting everything on the line. It knows this could be it. It's let leaving nothing behind. Now you do this.
Speaker 1:Right, so you're doing this now for every little thing in the day. So if you, for example, ate that Mars bar, you stress yourself out, the stress response turns on and you go oh my god I'm stressed, my god adrenaline's pumping, and you think nothing of it, you think that's fine, whatever. That is damaging you more than any bad meal and like I say bad in quotes, any bad meal will do. The stress response is not it's very useful when we need it which is not five times a day by the way but when we are turning it on over everything five six seven times a day this chronic stress stress response causes a lot of health problems, a lot of health problems. When it comes to eating, what happens is because you've used so much energy and resources to turn the stress response on, you're basically getting all your legionnaires, You're getting your legions.
Speaker 1:You're getting your troops. You're getting the tanks. You're getting everyone. Not tanks. Let's let's keep it Roman.
Speaker 1:Legionnaires, you get the swords, you get the cavalry, everyone. You're like, right. Let's go. Boom. You throw all of them at them.
Speaker 1:Right? And what happens at the end of that? A lot of them died, a lot of them are gone, a lot of ruin. What happens after there's a lot of ruin? There's a lot of rebuilding has to happen.
Speaker 1:That takes a lot of energy. Right? It takes a lot of energy. So when the stress response is on, your immune is your immune system actually goes up like the legionnaires. The legions are there ready to fight.
Speaker 1:Your defence is up. Ready. Let's go. Let's scrap. But once this response is off, who's picking the pieces up?
Speaker 1:Your body's picking the pieces up. Look at this mess that's left behind. Could use all this energy now to flipping recoup this mess. What do you think happens to you in the in the body when that when that happens? Of course, you know, your body's now gonna want you to crave or desire or eat high energy foods.
Speaker 1:Right? Because it needs the energy. And what high energy foods are? High fat. So fat's gone double the energy per gram than than carbs and protein.
Speaker 1:But he wants you to have high energy foods, which means you start craving or desiring foods high in fat, high in sugar, high in carbs, which means the cakes, the pastries, the crisps, the chocolate, you know, the milkshakes, all that type of stuff you now need or you think you need. That's what happens. So unless you can control your stress response and keep them down, you're gonna turn this on all the time, and good luck to you fighting this response by the body because this response by the body is very, very powerful. A lot of people think it's willpower. Yeah.
Speaker 1:You need more willpower. You don't need more willpower. Willpower is finite. There's only a finite amount of willpower a day. They've actually looked in the research, the people that have more success in sticking to something, they they actually use less willpower.
Speaker 1:They don't need to use it. It is clear what they need to do when they do it, they don't use the willpower. You're putting yourself at a disadvantage letting yourself get stressed out over every little thing. So this is very important on your fat loss journey. If you're making it super hard for yourself by always stressing yourself out, feeling super super hungry, craving all the foods that are high in calories, you know, you're trying to focus on all these different metrics, you stress yourself out again more.
Speaker 1:Right? How good luck to you. You know I mean? Good luck to you. Make it easier for yourself.
Speaker 1:Use your head a bit. Let's have a cool head. So that's why stoicism comes in. It's not events that disturb me. It's my opinion about the event that disturbs me.
Speaker 1:If I can actually grasp that and understand that, no matter what happens to me day to day and let me talking about things in the middle here. Of course, someone dies in these things, they're bigger life events. You can't sit down and go, that's not gonna impact me. It's not it's just my opinion on it. My opinion about it is that it's that's horrible.
Speaker 1:Of course, I'm gonna react to it. We're talking about day to day grievances that make up 90 to 95% of what we get stressed about. Things that are boring, that are not actually worth our our time and stress. That's really what I'm talking about. That's where we have the control over.
Speaker 1:So don't try and like stretch yourself and go, well, what happens if someone dies a little different matter. Your day to day living, what happens? Someone texts you, you don't like what it says, you text your friends, oh my god, can't believe they said this, goes on for hours. You get stress response, you might turn on. You go to work, someone says something.
Speaker 1:You see something happens, someone says something to you, an email comes in, you're stressed with someone, your kids spills things on the floor, whatever it is. So today, I want you to really focus on you've got the power, you've got the keys to a supercar, know how to drive the supercar, parapal, the parapal supercar. You've got everything you need. You've got the daily motivations, hopefully some snippets of education in your years to try and get through and learn all about this stuff. You've got everything you need now.
Speaker 1:Okay? You've wiped out the nonessential. I've done that work for you. I've made this app, and I've taken all of my expertise and the science and helping tens of thousands of people. I've eliminated everything you don't need to worry about for fat loss.
Speaker 1:Remember that, fat loss. I'm not saying this is for optimal energy on the rugby pitch or optimal energy on a marathon run. You shouldn't be trying to lose fat and try and run a marathon, it's pretty obvious. You're in an energy deficit, need as much energy as can for a marathon for fat loss. And I know it's a lot to do with the mindset.
Speaker 1:You've got the tools. You want to track honestly today. Honesty is where everything comes from. Take everything on board from the last few days. I hope you did eat one of your favorite snacks yesterday, and I hope you and let me know what it was, how did it feel.
Speaker 1:And today, can do the same again today. You know, we're living one day at a time. Don't worry about yesterday. Now what's today? What's going on today?
Speaker 1:Even if yesterday, you had a terrible day, today's a new day. What are you gonna do about it? You can only do something now. You can say you you're gonna do something next week. Next week never comes.
Speaker 1:What are you doing today with the ease of use of being able to talk and type into an app? Your food intake, which is one of the biggest part of the fat loss puzzle, you get your steps in and enjoy getting your steps in. Someone asks you, do wanna go for a walk? You say no. You say yes.
Speaker 1:%. I'll come for a walk. Or should we go the long way around or should we go there? The long way around. Or you gotta drive somewhere and and you're gonna park up.
Speaker 1:Park up as far away as you can. Obviously, not too far because you won't get there. You know I mean? So do these things, lifestyle things, and look at your stress management. Can you look at what's stressing you out?
Speaker 1:Can you see the danger of always stressing yourself out of the small stuff? Keep your stress for the big things because that's when you really need it. It turns you into a superhuman, but the more you turn it on, the less the response works as it's intended, and there's a lot more consequences to it. Okay? And the stress response can be turned on by thoughts alone.
Speaker 1:You don't have to see a lion to turn on the stress response anymore. You can visual you can think this stressful scenario into being, and you can have the same response as if the lion was actually there. You know, that's the crazy part about our thoughts. Thoughts can create big technology. Thoughts can create marvelous poetry.
Speaker 1:Thoughts can also create hell in the head. You know? It's to be used only when it's needed and nothing more. So have a good day. Keep your stress there.
Speaker 1:One thing to think about is just do your best, like all the results. It's not events that disturb us, it's our opinion about them. Okay, remember that. If someone says something bad to you, say, okay, cool, thank you. If that's the worst you've got to say about me, then you don't know me, you know, and you walk away.
Speaker 1:Stillness is the key. It's damn right there is. So be cool, calm, collected today, and you can make good decisions. When you're stressed out, you're angry, you don't feel centered, it's very hard to make good life decisions. Like think of a Monday after you've gone on a weekend drinking, you feel hungover, you feel tired, You don't wanna work.
Speaker 1:You feel demotivated. You wanna cancel everything. You don't wanna do anything. Then look at how you feel when you're three or four weeks into a good, routine. You haven't been drinking a lot.
Speaker 1:You've been eating decently. You've had good conversations. Your life's been drama free, think about how great you feel. Are you feeling centered, you feel strong, you feel like you can take some life's challenges on? That's where we wanna be most of the time.
Speaker 1:We can't be there all the time, but give yourself the best shot at dealing with stuff that life throws at you by being able to be in opposition. So have a cool head. Don't catastrophize things. Okay? Don't do that.
Speaker 1:Enjoy your day tracking. Put a smile on your face, and, I'll see you all back here tomorrow. And remember to live one day at a time.