Episode 82: What's Body Checking and How to Stop It
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Episode Description
In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah discuss body checking, a seemingly harmless action that has grown in popularity over the social media space and causes more harm than good. You may have heard the phrase “body checking” before and wondered what it was. The girls dive into little ways we might be participating in this and ways we can stop doing so to improve our mental health. Be sure to tune in every Wednesday for a new episode!
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Hello everybody welcome back to a brand new episode of the podcast
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hello everyone today we will be discussing a very controversial topic
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because it's definitely something that's been talking about Ben talked about more and
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we want to bring light to this topic because it's so prevalent on social media and whatnot we've talked
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I know we both talked about before and received a lot of backlash just because it's not very well known at all and
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people don't get what it is so what that topic is we're going to be
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talking about body checking today we're going to be talking about what is body checking you've probably heard
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that term used before it's very popular and the eating disorder world and dysfunctional eating World
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um and we're also going to be talking about why exactly is it problematic and
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then how to stop body checking yeah I'm excited for this one it's gonna
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be good yeah so let's get right into it we'll start with what even is this I mean it's kind of in the name but I
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think when you hear it defined like at a surface level you don't think of it as a bad thing so we'll describe why it like
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Emily said it's not so great but to Define it first of all body checking is quite literally like when you check your
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body usually to see how it's changed this often involves like
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this compulsive scrutinizing or monitoring or tracking of your body shape size or weight this could
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literally include like weighing yourself on a daily basis like that would be considered body checking but there's a
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whole Myriad of ways that we might do this behavior of body checking
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um like we said weighing yourself is a really popular common one to do looking
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at your body in the mirror like I used to do this when I was in my gym bro days
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go into the bathroom mirror at the gym you pull up your shirt look at your abs see if they've got any stronger you do a
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little Flex like that is body checking I'm taking measurements kind of like weighing yourself it's a way to just
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check the progress of the size of the shape of your body um maybe you're someone who like you're
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always when you look in the mirror like grabbing your belly rolls or like pinching your thighs any kind of like I
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almost said groping but that's a terrible word any kind of like touching or pinching like that would be considered by checking as well yeah
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and these might need to be things like we're like well
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I'm just keeping track of what's going on that's oftentimes what we tell ourselves but it's that obsessive side
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of it where it becomes a problem like you're really your mood is affected by
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you're constantly checking it you can't not check it essentially and we want to
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kind of pull away from that um additionally some other forms of body
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checking are what that could look like is putting on a pair of pants to see how
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they fit and that's something that like once again it said like doing it over
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and over again like oh maybe to track my progress sense and you keep doing it
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over and over again where it's like becoming a little bit unhealthy that can be another example of body
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checking staring at certain parts of your body when you walk by a store window very similar to that looking in
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the mirror but now like there's just a different kind of a reflective surface that we're focusing on and really honing
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in on one part of our body taking progress photos is a huge form of body
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checking gosh I did also a culprit of this yes oh God I if you go
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on my old phones I bet you could find like a locked folder of all my progress oh yes
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[Music] I'm like no no why
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why I guess why yeah I was gonna say where are we gonna post those later
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right no that's a little something no that looks playing like you were just doing
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it to like have this sense of control over our body and like what it's doing
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for you know Health purposes yeah no way false sense of control spoiler
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alert yes other things that kind of go along with like taking progress brothers or
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obsessing over past or current cells I know we're both also
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coverts of this as well or you're like oh my gosh I used to be so much skinnier
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when I was 12 years old what when you were in fifth grade when you were half
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the age you are now or like the classic high school because we all for some reason High School is the comparison
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point because 15 to 18 year olds is like people
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even though it's a very large growth period but you know Peak peek out and
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your lifestyle is a million times different when you're 16 than it is even when you're like mid-20s like us
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I can only imagine like it's completely different when in our 30s or 40s or if we had kids
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yeah completely different but that Obsession of back at
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other photos different photos it's okay to appreciate pictures be like oh my gosh look at my little tone
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muscles I don't know if like you're in like a travel sport or something you're like and now we work in a sedentary
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eight hour job like us it's gonna look a little bit different
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um but it's at like going back and constantly comparing yourself and obsessing over that
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additionally continuously asking others for reassurance of how you look this we
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can really just like unpack so much that comes from this by looking for that
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content constant external validation from others it's another form of body checking
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and as we're getting to the last one I feel like this happens we have a list and then we deter at the end near the
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end of the list but as we're going through this it's not like you're a bad person if you do these things these
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might be things that you don't realize could be harmful to your mental health from like a checking yourself obsessing
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over a different parts of your body but you just think are normal things to do because only people do these things and
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it's just it's so normalized um but we want to just bring some light to this situation that these might not
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be the most healthy yeah so you can like be like oh I didn't realize that I do that why I do that and
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how it's impacting me and then you get to on your own orthotherapist or dietitian whoever discuss like why and how and what that's
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doing to you yeah and our last one is comparing your body to other people's bodies or Images slash
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videos You See online I feel like this is one of the most popular ones up there
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with like weighing yourself it's just so easy to fall into that
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rabbit hole of seeing you're like oh my gosh I want to look like this person and
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you obsess over them hashtag body goals yep yep
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so well we have one last point on this that I want to mention like on what this
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is before we get into why we do it um not always but a lot of the time
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we will like pick a certain body part that we are body checking when we're doing it over and over and
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over again um for whatever reason again we could totally unpack where that comes from like why do you hate your thighs so much
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or whatever it is um but it usually is one or two maybe
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maybe more it always depends of course but usually a very certain part of your body that you're trying to have that
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sense of control over yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so let's talk about why
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we do this I kind of already gave it away but it really does come back to that like sense of control
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I think weighing ourself is like an example we always talk about around here that really demonstrates this we often
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weigh ourselves because we feel like if we know what that number is we can be in control of it that's going to make sure
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that we're being our healthiest version of ourselves when we really don't have much control over that number on the
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scale I mean to a degree yeah of course we do have some but those day-to-day fluctuations or like
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how your bicep looks in the light on this day versus that day like we don't
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have control over any of that and so that like compulsive continuous checking
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of that is often more harmful than it is helpful in any way this uh I was like we've said this
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savings or like something very similar where the idea of trying to be more healthy is
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more harmful then we go in with good intentions
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but we could be harming ourselves yep that's good to fact check yourself
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slash just reflect reflect I think that should be like our motto I think we have
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like eight bottles at this point but I think reflecting and unpacking is one of them yes yes
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so let's get into we've already kind of talked about why it's problematic but let's get into the
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specifics if you want a nice list right now so the first one being if we don't like
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something or like the way our body looks feels or fits in clothes AKA that
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checking point because we're looking at something and criticizing that part this can lead to thoughts of Shame anxiety
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and guilt about our bodies and this just really reinforces the idea that there's something wrong quote unquote with us
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and we aren't doing enough to take care of ourselves which is just not the case because
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no one has the right body and no one has the wrong bodies or like anything wrong
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with their body there's so much more that go this is
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just we're like you know what What's the phrase when you beat like a dead record is that it just combine two different
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things be a dead record it's broken record and be a dead horse
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best mixed be a dead record that's amazing
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well wait oh man we're gonna beat the dead horse and we're gonna sound like a broken record you're so good
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um what's they say I don't even know that took all my brain Powers did you hear my
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laugh I'm gonna like regret when I have to like edit this episode and I hear that back
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I don't think we've ever heard that that was an appropriate reaction though because that was hilarious thank you
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thank you um what was I saying there's like there's
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nothing wrong with your like bodies yes oh health is much more than body type
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that's literally oh like we've been we made that's like another one of our mottos is like there's more to them to
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help than just your body um so when you get really down on yourself
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we those feelings of Shame and anxiety and guilt just manifest
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can harm your mental health can harm your emotional health which can affect your physical health and we don't want
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that yeah did you see my Instagram comments today
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no it's all about this I post I'm talking talking about weight so you always know how that goes okay I think
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I think I've seen it your videos are always the first one on my feeds because
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I'm like I have to make sure I like yours every day um but wait what was your video today I
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think I did it like yesterday so that's why my feed's a little bit messed up with the algorithm I'm like well you
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probably saw on Tick Tock before it was on like a week or two ago on tick tocks it's how I do it
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um a little behind the scenes for you guys um it was about like how your weight is
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not your health like they're not one and the same and of course this this one guy's going hard actually I had someone
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DM me a a really great follower do you have me and she was like a hater dming
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you no I don't get I don't get a lot of DMS usually my DMs are very nice but the comments are always where the is
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but anyway one of my like really nice followers DM me and she's like would you mind like deleting some of these comments like they're like really
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harmful for those of us who are struggling like it's just hard to see I was like yeah girl
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so I went through on one of the videos um that she was talking about and deleted all the bad ones because
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you're a public you're doing a public service right like I'm here for you guys like I don't no we're not not we're not
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here to like appease the haters and the Trolls but on the other one because
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they're related um it's actually on Tick Tock like the comment I replied to is from the first video okay because you've been doing a
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lot of replies to comments I think that's why I'm getting them confused I've been getting some lately finally even though the tick tock algorithm is
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doing us dirty these days um but he is a surgical resident so he
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was letting me know how you know obesity is just the worst thing that could ever happen to anybody and I am I am killing
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people by saying that our weight is not equivalent to our health I've seen a
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couple Health Care Professionals in your comments that have really big like
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superiority comments another one the other day he was like I'm an ICU nurse and what they're saying is so dangerous
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yeah no okay that one we're getting sidetracked but we're getting into this
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because I haven't talked to you about this yeah she was like made it was such a good
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start where she was like it's real well it's really hard to hear from like a
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thin person that like it's okay to like not care about your body and you addressed Your Privilege and I was like
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look it up look at that this is great yes let's acknowledge the privilege but still address the issue
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and then they just came back with this essay and I'm like I'm so sorry that I
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was on your side I was like you're literally agreeing and
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people can never be happy but yeah it's been crazy lately all the nurses and
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residents are coming after you they're real mad that I'm not promoting weight-centric health
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care it's so oh okay that just triggered my now I know what you're talking about that I was like
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because I I remember I read that but I read it as like wait neutral somehow and
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I was like what is Hannah's oh yeah it's the All I Want for Christmas Is Us to get rid of weight
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Centric Healthcare that one okay okay the comment was like my doctor prescribed me Adipex restriction
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is that the new thing okay we're just taking a complete detail maybe she's not one of the new ones okay I know all the
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Deets there's what Govi there is Manjaro and there's ozone pick
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okay those are the injectables that are all arranged right now okay we should do an episode on that we
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should I know far too much about them and I have lots of thoughts okay future
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episode coming guys yes okay anyway back to why it's problematic
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so Emily talked about how like there's no wrong body that's not a thing we don't need to fix our bodies
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um but when we tie this into intuitive eating when we are using a sales all the time when we're using an external piece
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of information like our body size that makes it really tough to turn into our to tune into our internal hunger and
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fullness cues because we're letting like our body shape our size or whatever dictate when or how much or what types
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of foods we should be eating instead of trusting our internal cues that will tell us that a lot more accurately so it
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goes um along the same lines as like calorie counting that is also an external piece
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of information that tells you when how much and what you should eat and of
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course like there's no way that connect exactly align with like your actual hunger and fullness signals that are
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biological hormonal responses to biochemical reactions in your body like there's no
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way that a number on the scale or MyFitnessPal can know what your hunger and fullness cues are
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no no so if your goal is to be an intuitive
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eater and like it's how do I say this if your goal is to be an intuitive eater in like the way it's
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defined of like honoring hunger and fullness which as we've said it's a lot more than that but at a very surface
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level definition it's going to be near impossible to do that if you are doing these body checks
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and considering how your body looks to an extreme that takes away from tuning into your cues
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accurately snaps to that I can feel the tick tock snippet coming
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right now which I make myself so there we go put a little flag in my head
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for that one yeah perfect some of the most common examples of body
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checking I wanted to talk about and why it's kind of problematic and I know a lot of people will disagree
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um but examples of body checking in social media can include showing your body in a
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mirror behind a what in a mirror before what I eat in a day good one very common because that just sets that even if it's
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not your intention it sets the example here's what I eat in a day this is what
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I look like and then we follow it with this is what I eat
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and what I eat kind of helps determine what I look like what I eat in a day is our controversial
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topic the best way to just do it is to not body check I feel like yeah just don't
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have it in our upcoming episode list though so we'll break down the whole topic of what I eat in a day is actually
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yes but yeah the body check is a simple fix a simple fix is to not show your
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body before you want you because we don't okay cool like that by eating that cool yeah
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also in one day yeah and a lot of like very younger influential individuals
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will see it and they'll associate that with their mind like if I want to look like that person this is what they're
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reading I'm gonna eat just like them so let's not show our bodies before we do
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those videos in general next one is a lot of like they're every
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I Source every two to three weeks a body check comes around potty track Trend
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comes around and it's really weird and there's like either people like doing side profiles and showing off like their
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noses or like their eyes or like their facial structures or whatever it is
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there was that one where like the mirror filter like it shows like half your face duplicated and so like people finally
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half their face doesn't match the other half which mine's so asymmetrical it's insane
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hey um that's that's actually a really great example because I think that was like
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one of the most recent ones and oftentimes these features that are like people always go viral for or like they
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have whatever the ideal is are more like your eurocentric features so people who
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might like like pocs might have different I'm thinking of like one of
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the biggest ones I remember was like a nose one and people always wanted like a cute little button nose
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um and like some people had like more like it wasn't like curved and small it
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was like more straight and big um and they like got upset about they're like oh my gosh and I was like it's
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because it's just the trend is literally catered
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toward one like demographic and it you don't need to look like that
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like genetically you're gonna look different that's completely okay it's you have to it's like the body stand the
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beauty standards unfortunately that's what it's catered to but
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luckily I feel like there's a lot more conversation around it like people are aware becoming a little bit more aware
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of like oh this is a this is a Bobby checking Trend um and whatnot one of the last most common examples
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that I see all the time and I'm like why I love this one we do this where people
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will like it's always like their lip syncing to a song or something and then they'll like randomly like start pulling
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up parts of their shirt and I'm like you're body checking you're
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right look know that example see notes before continuously asking others for
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reassurance of how you look that is that yeah you're not asking you're silently
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looking for that validation non-verbally yeah yeah I saw there was this one video and I
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don't know anything about this individual so like don't send any hate their way because I don't I don't know
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anything about them but I remember they were wearing this like tiny little crop
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top with low jeans and they like were doing the lip sync and
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then they like turned to the side and we're like posing and they were eating yogurt I think
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and they were trying to like double down that they weren't body checking and I was like
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let's look at like what is happening in the video oh just like a definition like if you're
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called out by a decent amount of people though like if we look at the background like what
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are the splits or intent essentially like they're not like trolls like they seem like genuine people
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maybe something isn't right here yes
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it was just such a wild I remember I saw it and I was like what is happening here
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I feel like I don't get too many of those I don't know what's going on with your for you page I don't get I know I
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always see the stitches oh okay
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if I ever see the original sometimes I'm like what is this I have never seen like
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on my for you page like Addison Ray Charlie what's her name like I have never seen any of them ever no
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I think their target audience is not no the for
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you page is very good yeah it's yeah like it knows us a little too well right
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like how can Charlie whatever her name is have like what like a hundred some million followers like 120 million and
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like never also for you Paige that's I don't know if you confirmed but like I'm
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quite positive her family buys followers because if you look at like a lot of them they're like they're Bots yeah
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whatever but like that's not what we're talking about today yeah we tend to do
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this okay now that we know what I just forgot the word body checking is
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it's like right there in front of me like 10 times what it is why we do it why it's not so Bueno let's go over why
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we need to stop doing it or nope wrong let's go over how to stop doing it also I guess why
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um the first one might sound kind of silly but we just first need to identify that's even happening like you may not
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even know that you're even doing it like Emily said a few times some examples of like maybe you are making that video
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where most of your body is out when you're eating a certain food or whatever and people call you out on it that could
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be a good a good time to reflect and unpack like we always say get curious
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um but anyway the first step is to just identify that you're even doing it in the first place because it does usually
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happen subconsciously at least at first I want to add a little note here because
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I feel like sometimes my people might think of like outfit checks outfit checks aren't body checking when
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you're like showing it off unless like you start like pulling up your clothes exactly and like things like that yeah
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exactly that like you you're allowed to like look in the mirror and yourself in an outfit yeah you don't have to get rid
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of all your mirrors of this episode like you can still have your mirrors you can still like try to like dress your body
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in a way that makes you feel good and like put on makeup if you want to like yeah it's like the
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Obsession behind it and the intent and like how often we're doing it but okay so once you've identified it
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you're like oh this might not be so great for me let's try to actively choose to stop
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doing it so this is essentially like we've identified it happened we're like
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oh let's slow your roll brain okay let's put an end to this record
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let's put it into this activity and this can be just like looking away from the
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mirror this can be like setting down the tape uh like just telling yourself like verbally out loud or internally to stop
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grabbing your thighs or your arms your stomach it doesn't mean like throw out your mirrors and throw your measuring
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dreams and um keep your like walk around with your hands away from your body
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it's just like identifying happens and take that that small action will go a
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long ways exactly exactly and then from here once we've like identified it we've noticed
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it's happening we've made a decision to stop doing it we need to in some cases maybe like redirect our attention so we
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don't like just keep going back to it because like we said it can be like a subconscious compulsive thing that
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you're just so used to doing you do it like every single day maybe multiple times a day and so it's going to be
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important now to like actively find something else to do with your
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brain your hands whatever's involved in that body checking habit this could be a good spot if you're into
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affirmations um to include those like if you're like noticing that you're grabbing your arms
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you're like oh I hate the way my arms look in this shirt my arms are so gross and terrible and I am disgusting
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whatever your internal thoughts are there it can help to quite literally
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like just flip that script and say more positive things like oh my arms are really strong might help me carry my
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kids and carry the groceries saying those more positive things I know it can sound to some people kind of
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fluffy and not helpful but I'm a firm believer in these kind of things I really can like when you're
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saying different things to yourself become like your actual reality it can go a long ways it starts in the
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brain so essentially and then we'll seep out who
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so then the more you do it it's not going to get fixed overnight so you just gotta keep doing it over and
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over again be resilient with it you don't have to be perfect we just need to consciously be making those efforts
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whenever possible and then it's also individual just it
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it's also important individual it's also important to create a more positive
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environment for yourself so do a social media detox check out the previous episode because
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we talked about how to do that read your social media of those Bonnie Checkers or
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just like even like people that don't intend maybe don't intentionally body check but you compare yourself to they
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don't make you feel great and then also just pay attention to the media that you consume like is there A diversity in the
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body shapes the races the ethnicities the
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whatever it is like more related to like what you might
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compare to like body wise making sure that you're seeing a wide variety of individuals that you're not just honing
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on on one specific type and that's all you see on your phone or your computer
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and then that's but you compare yourself to because that's just all you kind of create your own little bubble around
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and from a other positive environment standpoint if there are people that are
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really focused on body checking or compare themselves or like maybe even notice that some of your friends or
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loved ones or acquaintances or co-workers do this often either removing yourself from a situation that makes you
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really uncomfortable or if you're feeling a little bit more confrontational you could also challenge their your thoughts on that or their
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thoughts on that as well and kind of figuring out what makes you say that
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never say don't ask the why questions that's something we learned in motivational interviewing 101 is why
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comes off a judgmental so what makes you what how
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whatever what like other ways to start a question
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besides why I mean where but that wouldn't really make sense here
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when who who Do You Think You Are
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no but just creating a good environment for yourself
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to all as you work on yourself you want to make sure you're not in a space online or physically with people that
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might inhibit some of your progress episode two on that also like how to
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discuss intuitive eating and this type of thing as well um with those who may not be quite as in
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tuned with it as you hopefully are becoming as a tud bud Ted Birds
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bottom line body checking you pop probably have done
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it to some degree if you're not still doing it so it's going to be good to just I think be aware of it it's kind of the goal of our episode today is just
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bringing awareness to it so you know that it's happening of course not trying to shame you because like Emily and I
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said we also did this we still probably do kind of time in certain capacities so
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it's not inherently like this devious thing that you're doing but it may not
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be as helpful as you think it is so it's going to be good to unpack while you're doing it and hopefully find better ways
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to well actually no this is a better ways to like check yourself but that's not what I wanted to say because that's
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immediately check yourself like maybe you should check yourself check yourself before yeah like hey am I
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doing okay that's true okay I did want to say that then check yourself but in a different way in a more positive way
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yeah yeah okay our bonus question we're gonna do
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part two from last week's episode so last week we talked about what your
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preferred social media platform says about you so if you prefer Snapchat what kind of person are you in our eyes
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so what we do last week that we don't have to do today we did Snapchat Instagram
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Snapchat and Facebook okay I think we're doing Tick Tock YouTube and maybe
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Twitter slash Pinterest Twitter and Pinterest are gonna be fast ones because I feel like we don't go there on there as much yeah
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Twitter I have no idea I just think of like Elon Musk these days I think of Mark or no no that's Facebook
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Mark Zuckerberg yeah Elon muskin is let's just start there that one will be
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fast because we don't know much about it okay Twitter what does that say about you Twitter is if Twitter is your
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preferred social media you love arguing with people you live for the drama you
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also enjoy I think detective work if someone's like subtweeting something you'll be like oh what is this actually
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about but I think you mostly like to argue for fun and you enjoy
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or observing people arguing as well yeah I'm trying to think of how they
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would dress because that was apparently my thing last week you just look like Elon Musk yeah
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whatever he wears I don't know I don't know what he wears I can barely even picture his face
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okay that's Twitter Pinterest Pinterest you are
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incredibly creative and have the best imagination you
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C thing you why don't I know any of these phrases
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I'm thinking of like the Silver Lining what is the Silver Line you see the Silver Lining there we go you see the
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Silver Lining yes and you might tend to romanticize situations
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might not be as great as they seem I picture it's like
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oh like 18 19 year old like what's the like Bohemian kind of
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style like like long blonde hair butterfly clips
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I don't know if you're listening to this just Google Bohemian outfit and that's what I'm talking about okay
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like those boots that have like the tassels on them the bag that has like
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the tassels oh here you Google it look up what you've been talking about you
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Google okay you Google it I'll do this with everyone everyone look up this with me right now
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oh he oh yeah like I think it's like this is like 70s 80s style yeah
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I think so yeah like the like flowy like headbander on your forehead yes
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boho that's what you're thinking of yes exactly boho just I think is Bohemian
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yes is that I think it's like an abbreviation for it or like a short a short I think you're
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definitely right yeah but boho's just short yeah and cute okay okay I like
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Twitter or that's Pinterest let's end with tick tocks let's do YouTube next well that's you YouTube
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is your preferred Source this is me this is Ross too of course naturally
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YouTube's your favorite stories you I feel like people watch YouTube are
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iPad babies and what I mean by this is you need to watch something while you eat this is Ross we have okay you know
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those um like standing phone chargers like you just put your phone on a charge we have
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a ton of those but one of them broke what we did we cut the cord on it and we just like have it on our Island so we
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can put our phone there it doesn't charge it but just like it holds our phone so we can watch something while we eat because we have to always have something
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playing while we're eating When Ross is there I don't I'm fine without it but like Ross has to always have a video
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playing while we're eating and it's always YouTube he pays for YouTube Red yes
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um but if you're you too preferred you're an IP iPad baby and I'm talking about myself right now so oh no hey I'll
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I'll we'll keep it real um you also prefer you have longer
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retention spans depending on if you're watching shorts or not we'll actually say that you have a little bit a longer
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attention span um but I feel like if YouTube's your prefered you've been watching it for way
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longer than shorts have been around no yeah I don't think you just I know
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people watch YouTube shorts but like I don't think that you're going to use that's what got them to YouTube no no
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um and I'm sure you also have a couple you're I think I feel like
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you're also loyal I don't Instagram you were loyal but you're also probably loyal if you're on YouTube because YouTube's gonna walk around for a while
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yeah and I feel like this subscribing feature on YouTube is much more
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meaningful than like oh yeah in my example like because takear doesn't show
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videos to no and I have 50 000 followers and get 200 views per video like it
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doesn't make sense it's not the math is not mapping no Tick Tock like
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put it on their for you page whatever but anyway
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you get like notifications you get like all the things about like who you follow
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so but I think your biggest Flawless Your Design you're an iPad baby
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my old job I would always for breakfast and lunch I'd always like
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watch this one specific YouTuber while I eat breakfast and lunch you know it was like I would get upset when people
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wanted to eat with me okay I don't get that sometimes yeah because I was like you have your meal and you're excited to
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just zone out yeah and watch your little video and then people are like they like
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come and interrupt your lunch and I'm like this is my time like not even from a YouTube standpoint like we should make
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a petition if someone's on their lunch break do not talk to them I know unless
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they're like your best friend at work then maybe you're like you can
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yes that's true like the girls I work with like we usually will eat lunch together
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but like if it was anyone else I'd be like no I don't want to talk to you yeah there are
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some people like it causes more stress like lunch should be the time that you get to decompress if you work a nine to five yeah which I can do that with the
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girls but with some other people I can't it's just more stressful no it's like
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putting effort in to talk to them yeah and you don't want to do that on your break now as a dietitian what's what you
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do all day is put effort in talking to people it's exhausting you're putting on a show for like nine hours a day
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um okay well
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you and Ross dress very differently I'm not quite sure how to say what they
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wear but um Ross's uniform is a pair of sport shorts and a plain T-shirt so I guess
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that's the iPad kid uniform okay yeah yeah
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and ankle socks and slides
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there we go slides yeah low maintenance very low maintenance
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let's talk about Tick Tock this is tick tocks your Preferred Choice which I know
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it is a lot of people's Preferred Choice one we're just going right off the bat you have a short attention span like
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there's two individuals who also consume media and Tick Tock like yeah but your
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attention span videos are just shorter you
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can manage your emotions well because of what is thrown at you and this might be
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specifically more me to like my for you page because like I don't know your for you the page but like it can go from
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like oh my gosh look at this recipe and look how good
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this looks to like my dog died to like it could not be good are you
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autistic it's not good you're all over the place like and it's
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backed up you're just Pro you have to process information so quickly yeah and such
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drastic levels of intensity that's not good for our health it's not good I will be like crying at one video
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just swipe past it and boom I'm like not sad anymore no Oreo yeah yeah what it's
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no it can't be good for any of our mental health no but it's really bad if
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tic-tac-to preferred Source you can process emotions very quickly your brain's probably forced to because
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of what you're consuming you have short attention spans um you're probably
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I want to I was about to say you're probably funny but like I'm not stating that because I've seen non-funny sides
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of tick tock who's true I think they're funny um but you're more trendy so that you're up
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to up with the trends a little bit more you probably enjoy a little bit of drama
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because you Tick-Tock comment sections however like half the reason people have Tick Tock for sure because people are
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funny in there you're probably have a very niche for you page and you don't really like
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any of the other social medias because they don't know you quite as well as Tick Tock has figured you out but it's
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one very impressive thing about Tick Tock like Instagram could never do that no like no Instagram like reels page not
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that I ever go on sometimes like when I post a real it will like put me on the reels page so I'll see some posts there it's always like the the basic Wellness
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culture stuff that I would never post it's always like seed oils are terrible here's how you
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lose 10 pounds don't use candles they're gonna kill you and your family because they're toxic like Instagram do you even
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like do you assess my content at all or do you just like apparently not because I
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put it on the pages of residents and nurses who are that's true yeah
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that's true yeah our Tick Tock um
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like Distributing algorithm is much better than Instagram yeah despite the
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weird view things happening at recently but like I don't know the people it's getting sent to I feel like is hitting a
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little bit better than Insurance when a dumpster buy recently I feel like it's
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I've been getting so many more views but it's the wrong people yes yeah
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they need to figure it out it's making it really hard to do this as a job yes
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so not making it they're not like helping the people that want to use it like right as that right
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to keep people on their platform like right don't you want anyway anyway get
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me in a room with Mark Zuckerberg I know this is a petition right and you're speaking of attention spans I was on my
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laptop today logging into Tick Tock and I could post 10 minute tick tocks on my laptop what yeah
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I've like heard about it but I didn't know I had that feeling yeah I guess you can do it or at least I can from my
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laptop dang I don't think I ever want to watch a 10-minute Tick Tock I've never seen
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them so I'm like if I posted that who would see that where does it go I feel like that
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wouldn't do well on that platform that's like the three minute ones bearably do
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oh yeah well like you have to really have a good video for it to be like I
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feel like a minute and a half is like the longest I've seen like success with and even then like
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I think the longest one I've had go viral is like a little less than a minute yeah but you have to like have
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some really good hooks in there or else they're not gonna keep them keep them around yeah yeah if I'm just like
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talking about topic it is for my community who's already there it is not to get views
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so what did the two doctors tick offers oh I don't know I do feel like it is
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mostly the Gen Z who are doing like the low rise and like I don't know what kind of shoes
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do the well the mini Uggs are coming back in that's true the mini Uggs the big New
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Balances I bought some of those I'm loving them crop top low rise jeans absolutely not
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skinny jeans middle part I don't know what kind of
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hair do they have they they We're Half gen Z I know
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I feel like it's a lot of like middle parts and like wavy hair oh the dice
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oh yeah the blowout yeah yeah the Jennifer Aniston hair yeah
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okay that's what they're wearing yeah so that's what your social media
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preference says about you let us know if we were completely incorrect yeah I don't know what our
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purpose was doing this it's very off the wall but well we're dipping into like the horoscope like or like the
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personality test I've been really into that lately not that I understand it fully but it's
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usually pretty accurate I know there's like a whole like whole idea of like you like believe it to be true just because
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you want it to be true yeah but I don't know some of those like things that you'll share on your stories
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I'll click on it and go find mine and I'm like oh wow yeah it's not not wrong
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yeah go listen to the social media Detox episode we're gonna link it in the
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description and I'll also be on the website in the show notes go listen to the intuitive eating
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episode for like if you're with skeptical family or friends if you're in a situation
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where it might not be as welcome and let us know your opinions on
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personalities and clothing yeah with your social media yeah okay we're gonna
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wrap it up now before we get into a whole new topic and keep you guys here for another 30 minutes all right okay thanks for listening bye
