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Tools our clients are raving about (1)
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Georgie: [00:00:00] /Welcome to the Confident Eaters Podcast, where you get proven methods to end overeating, emotional eating, and stressing about food. We are heading for harmony between your body, food and feelings, hosted by me, Georgie Fear, and my team at Confident Eaters.

Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of the confident eaters podcast. I'm here with Christina. Today, we are going to talk about some of the things that our clients have raved to us recently about. Because we talked to so many people about their health and fitness journeys, we sort of have a front row seat to hear the rave reviews.

If there's something that they've purchased or tried that they really think is fantastic. And sometimes it strikes me that two or three of my clients have really loved the same thing independently. So then I'm more interested in looking it up and potentially trying it myself or, referring to it when other [00:01:00] people seem to have the same need.

When people mention, oh, I miss the good old days. It kind of implies society has somehow gone backwards, but I feel like 20 years ago you couldn't buy an instant pot or an air fryer because they hadn't been invented yet. There's some pretty cool stuff that's come around. At its most basic, good nutrition comes down to simply having healthy food available and eating the right amount of it.

Not too little, not too much. And fitness can be simplified to very essential elements. To have good health, you need to move. Working your heart and muscles can be done in innumerable ways, and they all work to produce longevity, strength, and endurance. The reason I say that is because I want to make it clear that we don't need technology or tools.

I'm Not here just to tell you to buy more stuff. You can just, eat well and move and not need any products or purchases to support you in that. However, there's a bit of an oversimplification if we say, Oh, nobody needs [00:02:00] tools or technology. The whole reason this podcast exists is because it's not simple and it's definitely not easy to eat well, maintain a healthy weight or stay fit.

Guidance and tools can be helpful and even necessary to succeed. And most importantly, they can make the whole process more fun and enjoyable. Christina, I think you have found some products that you're going to talk about today, right? That make things more fun and enjoyable. Can you give us a quick preview?

Christina: Yeah, I've got all the goods on apps and things you can use right from your phone to help your confident eating journey along the way.

Georgie: And you've tried them out yourself too, right?

Christina: I have. I've tried a few of them, even in my own healthy eating journey, but also just to try them out to see like, could I actually recommend this for a client?

Or. someone else, or is this just another app that I'm never going to use on my phone?

Georgie: We all have a graveyard of unused [00:03:00] apps. So we'll talk about some different things. I'm going to talk about some sort of hard goods, some gadgets and gizmos. And then Christina is going to talk about some of the electronic resources.

At the end, we've got this little brief hall of shame for products we do not recommend you spend your money or time on. So we can get right into it. I also just want to add in that we're not selling any of this stuff. We're not making a penny from any of these recommendations. This is truly just our impressions of things that our clients have found helpful enough to mention to us.

So the first one that I'm going to talk about is called the SHAPA scale. S H A P A. This product takes a really innovative approach to the simple act of weighing yourself. You stand on it, just like you would a normal scale, but the SHAPA doesn't give you a number. Instead, it gives you a color, which is based on the last three weeks trend.

The color tells you, like, You're on the right path, you're making progress, or you're staying about the same, or if you're [00:04:00] trending away from your goal. My clients that have this, and at least three or four of them do, told me that this scale was perfect because they hated and feared weighing themselves, but they also didn't want to not weigh themselves because then they weren't in the right headspace to make good decisions and make progress. They wanted to keep their health at the top of mind, but not get on the emotional rollercoaster. I love the idea of a numberless scale because it places the focus on the big picture instead of just that single day's measurement, which we know is highly variable. Also, it eliminates some of the emotional carnage that can result from comparing our weight to other people's weight.

Thinking about how close or far we are from what we weighed when we were 20 or how far away or close we are to our goal. We all know those things can mess with your mindset and motivation. What matters is really the direction in which we're headed. The scale does have a companion app and it requires a membership, [00:05:00] but I was relieved to see the membership is pretty reasonable.

It's less than 10 a month and you can buy yearly or lifetime memberships, which further decrease the price per month. The scale on its own is less than 100, but depending on the offer that you purchase, because I found a bunch of them online the scale might be included. For example, I've seen offers where if you purchase, you know, 12 months, you get a free scale, or if you purchase, you know, a certain amount of the membership, they throw in the scale.

So it seems like different offers are available at different times of year. So do your internet sleuthing. And it seems like it's a reasonable fee to me. I don't think it's gouging. I just ask my clients when we talk, what color is your scale this week? And they'll let me know what colors they've been seeing.

And really that's all either of us need to know. So that might be a product for you to look into. If you have a love hate relationship with the scale, you don't want to completely go in the dark about how much you weigh, but you also can fall prey to some mind games because the numbers might be a good one to look [00:06:00] into. Another device that I discovered through my clients because I didn't even know this was a thing is a walking pad.

A walking pad is similar to a treadmill, but it's a very slimmed down smaller version. Whereas a treadmill will give you a big range of speeds and inclines, you can do everything from a slow stroll to a sprint workout. A walking pad just isn't going to go that fast. It's generally limited to walking paces. Many of the walking pads that I looked into don't have any capacity of incline, but some of them do. So that can be a feature that differentiates between the less expensive ones and the more expensive ones. Walking pad is definitely less costly than a treadmill. Most treadmills cost a couple thousand dollars, whereas walking pads seem to be in the couple of hundred dollars range, or one hundred to two hundred.

Walking pads also make less noise, which is super convenient. If you want to use this while you're potentially working, the noise won't distract you or potentially the person you're [00:07:00] speaking with if you're on a call or a zoom. It's got to be easier to get up the stairs because let me tell you, the treadmill that my husband and I own took both of us and, the better part of an hour and probably some hernias to get up the stairs when we moved into this house.

It was so heavy. It was hard to, hard to manage. So the idea of something that could be, just carried into a room and put on the floor is pretty darn appealing. If you're thinking of getting one of these, I encourage you to read different reviews online. Think about which features are most important to you.

Do you want it to have an incline or decline? Do you want it to be quieter? Do you want it to be longer? If you're a taller person, it may have a longer stride. So I'm not advocating for any particular product here, just the whole category, walking pads, weren't even a thing 10 years ago. So it's kind of neat to know that this is another thing that can make fitness a little more convenient.

Speaking of convenience, we were thinking about kitchen goods, and a few of Christina's clients had mentioned that they bought some [00:08:00] ninja products, right, like the Creamy and the Foodie were a couple of them, do I have that right?

Christina: Yes, exactly.

Georgie: And neither Christina or I have them, so I didn't want to do a full review on them, but I thought, you know, I have this mini waffle iron made by Dash, is the company.

I got it for about $10. And it makes a four inch waffle, which is ballpark, the size of a hockey puck, standard Canadian unit of measurement.

Christina: There you go. Yeah.

Georgie: And this little waffle iron has traveled with me to many hotels over the years. And if there's no kitchen, I will bring my Kodiak cakes. Just add water pancake mix or flourish, which is another brand of just add water high protein pancake mix and I can make waffles in my room, which is awesome.

So the mini waffle iron is a ton of fun. I have also made savory waffles. I made some spinach and feta waffles. A couple weeks ago I've done some apple cinnamon things [00:09:00] and I've even tried the pizza trend where you like put a little waffle mix in there and then put a little cheese and pepperoni and then you put a little more waffle batter on top of it and then you close the waffle iron and it bakes into like a melted pepperoni cheese sandwich.

Christina: Yum.

Georgie: The look on Christina's face right now is like sold.

Christina: I need my dash mini waffle iron.

So

Georgie: yeah, that's an incredibly fun one. I think it'd be a decent holiday gift too. If you don't have a huge budget, but you want to get somebody something that's actually pretty awesome. 10 12 on a Dash Mini Waffle Iron would be a good one.

Exercise bands. This is another low budget item that I personally have found incredibly helpful for getting in exercise, where it seemed like no exercise was going to fit into my day or circumstances. I bought a pack of looped exercise bands that are probably about 12 or 14 inches long and they came in a set of five.

And yeah, they're five different pretty colors, which always helps like eye appeal. [00:10:00] But these exercise bands are great because I can Just sit on my living room floor while I'm doing like watching television or listening to something. I'm like loop the band around my foot and do some rows, or I can loop the band around my ankles and do sideways steps like a monster walk while I'm doing something in the kitchen.

Now I own a lot of fitness stuff. As I mentioned, like the huge treadmill that we lugged up the stairs, it has friends. I have no shortage of exercise things, but I like the exercise bands in particular, because you can do some movements with them. Like any abduction exercises with your legs where you're like moving your knee or foot to the side.

Those are just great if you have a little exercise band. They're sort of hard to do otherwise. And you can just throw an exercise band in your glove box, in your backpack, in your gym bag, or in your carry on if you're traveling. And then you can sit on the plane and move your muscles a little bit, get some more options there for Preventing blood clots and just [00:11:00] breaking up the stiff, sore, slug feeling that we all get from sitting on a plane.

You've sat on planes for a long time recently, Christina, haven't you?

Christina: Yes, I'm thinking I need to get some before I get on another long plane ride here in a week or so. Yeah, sounds like A good solution there.

Georgie: Totally. And yeah, I, I haven't used them yet on a plane, but I have used them in the car as a passenger, not while I'm driving, as a passenger.

Christina: Yeah.

Georgie: Yeah. Sorry, officer. I hit the median, but my delts look great.

Christina: Yeah.

Georgie: But no, not while you're driving, but if you just want to like pull and push on some elastic bands and wake those muscles up after a lot, a lot of hours going to see Aunt Millie. It could be a good, buy. So again, I love Amazon.

Just drop in their exercise bands and you can probably find a set of, five for pretty cheap. The ones that I have in front of me on my desk are Gritin or Gritin I don't even know how to say this, but the brand is G R I T I N, and [00:12:00] I'm very happy with my five exercise bands. The last thing that I think might be a good sort of supportive gadget or gizmo for you if you're trying to eat well and stay fit would be some good Tupperware, including a bento box.

So I used to have a pretty embarrassing Tupperware drawer where everything was haphazard and half the lids were cracked and leaked and I'd just be cobbling things together if I was ever trying to package a lunch to take with me. And I finally decided, okay, I am just going to buy a big set of all the same size.

lids and containers and the containers are glass so I don't worry about like getting plastic stuff in my food and they don't warp in the microwave and the lids that like latch down over the sides so you can actively like turn it over the soup's not coming out you're good. So I got those glass containers and Soon, I decided that all of my containers needed to be the same size and shape so you can always just grab a container and a lid.

So I got big and small, basically the same shape. And I also [00:13:00] got little tiny Tupperware or plastic containers. They're not any brand. That were two tablespoons or one ounce. So it's like a little tiny screw top container. And I have found them so helpful for putting salad dressing, hummus, peanut butter in just like those little tiny containers.

If you want to put soy sauce on something, but you don't want it to sit in the soy sauce all day. So for me, I'm on the go a lot going to ski practices. gonna want to eat afterward and without driving the whole hour home. It's great just as part of packing lunch. So that is also where the bento box comes in.

if you have Instagram and you eat, You have probably seen some pretty good bento box images. They are an art form in some people's hands. Basically a bento box, if you're not familiar with it, is a style of lunch box that originated in Japan where there's dividers.

In the box so you can have one little compartment where you put your sandwich cut in half one little compartment for your snap peas and baby tomatoes and one little compartment [00:14:00] for your animal crackers. And so it's kind of fun to like pack yourself a lunch with, you know, three or four different little parts to it.

I feel very cared about when I go to the trouble to pack myself a really nice. Bento lunch because I have eaten my fair share of lunches, which were like slices of bread slapped with peanut butter and thrown back in the bread bag and thrown in my ski bag or, or worse,

like a whole carrot and a tomato. Three cheese sticks, like just a random, random stuff. So, yeah, I think picking up some food storage containers that are, nice and seal well and travel well can really be a nice perk when it comes to eating healthfully and especially if you're on the go. So that's what I have for today.

Christina, I am eager to hear what, what you have looked up as the assortment of electronic supports that people could use.

Christina: Yes, I'm excited to share and I'm going to [00:15:00] try to put links for things and maybe we can put some links for things to and from what you're describing in the description so that people can easily check them out.

But a bunch of apps that I have had clients tell me about or just looked into myself, but the first one is called the Wheel of Feels. And there's a lot of feelings wheels apps that are interactive, but the reason I like this one is because you can actually journal specifically about the feeling. And I liked the question that they asked, which is how are you experiencing this feeling? So. You can think about, what are you experiencing like around you? What was the trigger to get you to feel this way? Well, you can also talk about like how it feels in your body. You can use it however you want, but I think just having that moment, not only to identify the feeling, but to get specific [00:16:00] about, what's going on for you with that is such a helpful skill that we work with clients about, and just to have the ease of it on your phone is really nice.

So there's a lot of freedom in how you want to use that. But again, the one that I have tried is the wheel of feels and it is free and it's available on iPhones and Androids.

Georgie: If we had like a Confident Eaters amusement park, that sounds like one of the rides.

Christina: Yeah, exactly. But another one that I really like, and this does cost. 2. 99, but this one is called slow eats and the tagline for it is to create a healthy relationship with food by simply slowing down. And a lot of us could probably benefit from slowing down while we eat. the overall idea is the slower you eat, the more time your body has to realize that you're full.

And this helps you to reduce overeating and experience other health [00:17:00] benefits. And there's even a section within the app that talks about the research of like, why slow eating helps you and what benefits you can see from it. they also have different timers, so it's, it's basically a timer app that, you know, if at the beginning, if you're just starting out, they have one called the bite timer.

So this is actually something that dings based on how long you want to go between bites, so it's pretty Detailed. If you think about like I'm waiting for this beep in between every single bite, that might be like overkill for some people. But you can really space it out so that you're extending your meal time a bit.

you know, when we're eating very quickly, we're probably not even like finishing the bite of food in our mouth before adding another one.

Georgie: Right. Yeah.

Christina: Really extends that The next level of the app is the meal timer. If the bite timer is just overkill and It includes like how long you want [00:18:00] your total meal to last and also an option to take breaks throughout the meal. So if you're like, I'm going to eat for a little bit and then take a little pause and then continue eating, which is just a helpful way to extend your meal time.

And then lastly, there's the seconds timer. So this can be used with, or apart from the other timers. And it's meant to help you decide like. Do you need a second helping of food? So if, you know, it takes about 20 minutes to feel full or satisfied from a meal, it gives you a little bit of a break before going back. And oftentimes you might realize you don't need a second helping. You just haven't been waiting long enough to see how satisfied you feel. So it's also really cute and has a sloth on it. So I like it for that reason. Yeah. And there's other options. So if you don't want to pay 2. 99 one time there's other options for like meal timers and stuff.

But one of my clients told me [00:19:00] about this as she was working on eating slower. And I thought, wow, this is pretty cool. And I've used it. But yeah, check it out. If you want to try eating a little bit slower. So did you have it ding for every bite or did you set a timer like for the duration of the meal?

I did the meal one where it was, I did try the bite one, but I was like, no, this is too much. And then, but I did try it and I think I've made it. So it was like 40 seconds. Between bites. And that just like really was a long time.

Georgie: That sounds way too. So I'd be like, two.

Christina: Right, right. And I think within the app, it talks about like, you can gauge, how long does it take you to chew 30 times?

Yeah. And then measure it from there. And I'm like, that is a little too specific for me personally. But

Georgie: for a while, I tried to just. Looking at my phone and starting a timer, just like it would count up and try not finish my meal before the [00:20:00] 10 minute mark, okay. For me, that was like dramatic slowing down, but it's nice because it left me enough freedom to slide into eating a bit too rapidly and then be like, wait, hang on, cool your jets, Georgie, like drink some water, take some deep breaths.

And then I found that I cut my food into smaller pieces. So that I could stretch it out into more bites that way. But that was just sort of like the behavior that I settled into from trying to make the meal last 10 minutes. I know some people have their own style there. Like I've had clients who are like, Oh, I put down the fork or other things, but.

Yeah. It's nice that there's different options for how you can do this. And, yeah, I definitely have heard from clients that the first course isn't the issue, the speed isn't the issue, it's the second portions. So it's neat that there's like a specific function for determining if you actually need a second helping or not.

Christina: Yeah, exactly. And it reminds me of like the, the skill of taking halftime, even with the meal timer, because you can say, all right, maybe I'll eat for five minutes and then take a break [00:21:00] and see how much food I have left on my plate and just be a little bit more mindful. I know I have clients who are teachers and they have a very short period of time to eat.

So they just got into a habit of like shoveling their food in very quickly before moving on to the next thing. And Over time that was like, that was their habit. So it was just a good practice to be able to slow down. It doesn't have to be, you know, 20 minutes, but even like you said, 10 minutes can feel if you're really timing your meals.

That's probably slow for most people, I think.

Georgie: Yeah.

Christina: So the next app is called the Sunnyside app, and this is an app that helps you reduce or eliminate alcohol. And a lot of people that we work with at least want to reduce alcohol, knowing that that will help them feel better. more energized, not consume as many calories, lose weight.

And some of my clients are even sober curious which seems to be more common these days, just [00:22:00] experimenting with like, what would my life look like without alcohol? How much am I relying on alcohol as a social lubricant? So this app I thought was really cool. I could only get so far because it's only available in USA and Canada and parts of the UK right now.

And being in Poland, I wasn't able to access like the Full blown thing. But from what I saw, it was very cool. It asks you very specific questions. Like, why is this important to you? Like getting to the bottom of why you would want to make this change. So it's not just like, okay, I'm signing up to reduce alcohol, but like, what do you want to see happen?

Like, what are the results you want? And some of the things I hadn't even considered like I'm going to save money by reducing alcohol because how much money a week are you spending so you can think of it from a money saving standpoint a sleep improvement, you know, whatever your goal might be. So I appreciated that it was very specific and asking that.

But like I said, I didn't get very far into it. I didn't get to use it like in the day to day, [00:23:00] but from what I could tell, it seemed great and I have friends who have used it and like it as far as reducing alcohol goes. So if that's something you want to do, check that one out. The next app is called recovery record app, and this app was specifically designed for eating disorder management from the privacy of your phone.

And several of our clients are recovering from some form of disordered eating, like binge eating, emotional eating. But I actually think that this app can serve anyone who has just a tricky relationship with food and wants to develop more helpful coping mechanisms. There's a lot of things you can use to check in with yourself.

You can log your meals to eat more regularly throughout the day, more like a food journal. It's not really calorie tracking at all. It's just like taking pictures, talking about how you felt with your meal, what you're thinking about, what you're experiencing around the eating event. And it also [00:24:00] has an area for you to identify unhelpful thoughts, learn how to counter and rebut them, which is a skill that we talk about with clients all the time with sabotaging thoughts and helping them overcome this unhelpful cycle of unhelpful behaviors. It's just very comprehensive, this app. So there's also a section where you can identify your triggers and even just knowing and having that awareness, I think can be really helpful for people what are the root causes of these challenges?

And there's a lot of info. So like, if you want to learn more about what coping mechanisms you could develop, like It's all in there. they have options for you to link up with practitioners, or you can just use it on your own, but that is a pretty cool app. And, you know, it's all there right there in your phone

Georgie: I have used that one as well as a practitioner, as well as like, I've tried running through it as an individual. comprehensive, the word that you used that's a perfect adjective. It includes so many tools [00:25:00] for emotional awareness, thought awareness, and eating because we know that people don't only get stuck in a cycle of unhealthy eating, they're stuck in cycles of unhealthy eating, thinking, painful emotions that are all intertwined.

So I think it is nice to have that really comprehensive sort of like mental health, emotional and nutritional record.

Christina: Yeah, exactly. I want to play around with it some more myself. So the last app is more like a game, and it's something a friend of mine showed me, and if you're familiar with Tamagotchis of like the late 90s, early 2000s, or DigiPets I think they were called.

Yep, yep.

It's like a digital pet that you take care of, but the goal being when you do your own self care activities, that's when your pet grows.

So it's a finch, bird, and the more Sometimes you take care of yourself, do these things, you can [00:26:00] identify specific things like I want to brush my teeth or spend five minutes cleaning the house or take a shower or do a productive task first thing in the morning, something like that, but but yeah, it, it basically gamifies self care.

So if you're somebody who struggles with your own self care needs, but the idea of even connecting with friends on there and giving each other gifts and growing this bird. Then it's, it's kind of fun. I did it for a while when I was kind of struggling with my self care and it was a fun little way to gamify, you know, I, you know, if I brush my teeth, then my finch will get a little hat or something or go on an adventure to Japan.

It definitely has that nice dopamine hit, like, yes, I'm getting coins and whatever else my bird is growing. It's pretty fun. So if you want to check that out, it is free. But there are paid features.

I like the idea of the little finch bird, does it ever get fully grown? Or [00:27:00] does it like keep?

That's a good question. I stopped after a couple weeks. So I sometimes will get notifications like Cheep cheep, I miss you. And I'm like, I should probably delete that or check on it, because So I don't know, but it was a toddler, I think, when I left it, so

Oh, that's really cool.

I haven't been taking care of it lately.

Georgie: Cute idea.

Christina: So like they say, there's an app for that, you know, if you can think of a challenge that you want to work through or a skill you want to develop, like there's probably some kind of app. And I think that is very true, as we have seen with these examples.

Georgie: So, lastly, before we wrap up this episode, we wanted to include just a few things we really don't want you to waste money or time on. So, some of these that came to my mind one of the first things I wrote down was fat burners or greens supplements.

Fat burners typically come in like a capsule or tablet sort of format, and sometimes they have [00:28:00] stimulants in them, such as caffeine. Sometimes they have a huge list of herbal ingredients, but one thing they all have in common is they don't really work. No fat burner actually produces lasting changes in body composition.

They may make you feel jittery, they may interrupt your sleep. There are certainly people that have overdone it and landed themselves in emergency rooms, so they can range from benign to You know, somewhat dangerous, but my point here isn't so much that I want to scare you, but that I just think they're a waste of time and money.

If you want to make a change to your habits, trying one of the tools we talked about here, going for a walk, you know, walking 10 steps with your resistance band around your ankles to strengthen your lateral hips. They're just going to be better moves than buying a fat burner supplement. When it comes to greens supplements, I'm always a little torn on this because I hear clients, like people that I really care about, be like, Oh yeah, I took it with my green supplement.

And I'm like, eye roll. Generally green supplements are not going to harm [00:29:00] you in any way, but they can very expensive. Like some of the main leading brands here, people are spending a lot of money on greens supplements, which really haven't been shown to have any actual health benefit. When you take greens and you turn them into a powder, even if you do everything in like very cold temperatures and you control the processing to try and minimize degradation of the nutrients.

You're still turning it into a powder, you're still removing the chewing process, the digestive process, the benefit of a lot of the fiber that was in it, as well as the bulk that eating a salad takes up in your stomach. So, rather than going for supplements, I would say, try and eat some more greens not wasting some time on the supplements.

What would you call out as something people should avoid spending money on, Christina?

Christina: Oh boy. Probably cellulite wraps or cream. I see those in drugstores and makeup beauty stores and, you know, your mom's neighbor who [00:30:00] is selling her MLM wraps on Facebook, you know, I, I just, I don't know, I don't buy it.

That they work, no pun intended, but

Georgie: yeah, no, they, they, I don't think they do any lasting, changes to your, your actual body. And I, I also think it's sort of part of like the pathologizing of normal body tissue. Like the fact that You know, the bumpy fat has a name that's different than the smooth fat is really unnecessary.

So yeah. Yeah. Wraps, creams, any sort of treatment that you can go to in one afternoon that claims it's going to, you know, shrink inches from your body is probably just involving some kind of dehydration or extra hydration of your skin if we're talking about like smoothing fine lines. So yeah, I don't, I don't think.

Spa treatments or multi level marketing products. Ever really have done anybody a huge amount of good. So I think that's a good place for [00:31:00] them in the do not waste your time list. Yeah, cool sculpting is a similar idea. It's a treatment that people get and supposedly it. Uses some high technology gadgets to basically kill your fat cells.

And I know several people that spent hundreds of dollars on this only to say that there was absolutely no difference afterward. They were led to believe that it could produce differences similar to liposuction, which is a very invasive process. Which can produce noticeable changes in your physique, like you're literally sucking out chunks of body tissue.

But Cool Sculpting, I do not know hundreds of people that have had this done. I know like less than five. But all of them said, I just couldn't even see a difference. And I spent hundreds of dollars on this. So, yeah, I, I know some people have been very disappointed by it. So I don't recommend people go for that.

Before we started recording, Christina and I, we were laughing about I don't know how old this [00:32:00] was, but you know, come around a few times in the last 10 or 20 years, things where you put like electrodes on your skin, sort of like a TMS or muscle stimulation. And they would be like, it's like doing crunches, but you just sit on the couch and the machine zaps your muscles into contracting.

I don't know a ton about electronic stimulation of muscles. I know that they can make the muscle contract. A lot of people have had an injury for which they've used, you know, like a TENS unit to help, get the muscle to fire. But I don't think they make a lasting difference in anybody's long term health or disease risk or appearance.

So I think, especially if you're going to consider spending large amounts of money for some sort of electronic unit I think you could probably do something better. Better use of your resources. Diet teas are another one I've, I've heard about. Like, you know, all sorts of slim teas, dieters teas. They usually have some like very slim female silhouette doing some sort of dancer pose on the front of the [00:33:00] package. Usually just have laxatives and diuretics in them.

Christina: Yeah, I was gonna ask, what's actually going on there? It just gives you diarrhea.

Georgie: Yeah, yeah, basically a combination of laxative and diuretic. So you pee or poop out some more stuff, but we use within reason they're probably not all that dangerous.

However, lots of people use things. to excess, especially if it feels like it's helpful. And then you can deal with minor complications like dehydration or major complications like bowel dependence, where your intestines start to not work on their own to expel waste without the stimulation of the laxative.

And nobody wants to find themselves dependent on laxatives to go to the bathroom. Christina, you mentioned to me that you've seen a few things that were marketed as nature's ozempic.

Christina: Yes. I'm not even sure what it was, but supposedly it mimics the gLP 1 just like the injection does, but [00:34:00] it's a supplement and it's just, it's just a little too convenient that this is coming out around the same rise in popularity that this other stuff does.

Georgie: yeah, I think nature's ozempic is the GLP 1 hormone that we all have that goes up when we eat like the best way to raise your own GLP 1 level is to eat.

Christina: Yeah.

Georgie: So yeah, we're, we're skeptical of anything that's calling itself nature's Ozampic. There was a dietician's newsletter that I opened this morning where they had an image of a frozen meal and In addition to like saying how many calories and fat and fiber it had, it said GLP 1 Friendly on the front and they were pointing out that this particular recipe and product , it's been identical for years, but now they've just tagged that little label on the front.

It's just marketing. There's no change in anything. But now it's GLP 1 Friendly. Clearly a lot of food makers. To [00:35:00] hop on that bandwagon. So if there's a product that you try out that you think is really, really awesome, I'm super curious. I would like to hear. So anybody that's out there listening, if there's something that you have really benefited from using that you think could help other people drop a line and let us know.

I hope you get some new ideas for things that might be worth purchasing and. A lot of the things we've mentioned on here are really nominal in terms of cost. You don't have to shell out a lot of money. Sometimes it's, you know, a 10 set of rubber bands or $4 for the perfect Tupperware to transport your hummus with your packed lunch really can make life easier and anything that makes a healthy life easier and more fun, we are fans of. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you in the next episode of confident eaters. [00:36:00]