What Is This Episode About…
Our society has got to the point where everything is just too easy. We get everything we want and hate being uncomfortable. We are raising a generation that is used to everything being easy. We have softened our kids and this has led to a lowering of standards.
One of the ways of being uncomfortable is by stepping out of your comfort zones and your routine to do new things. This builds up your mental strength and increases your confidence. You push yourself to grow. You can never grow while in your comfort zone or by avoiding being uncomfortable. You have to be comfortable doing uncomfortable things.
Doing hard things is not only good for your mental health but even metabolically. When you challenge yourself and push your limits, the mitochondria, which are the powerhouse of your cells work harder. This leads to the production of new powerful and young mitochondria. The old and non-efficient die off. Your cells now function much better with young and strong mitochondria powering them.
Doing things outside of our comfort zone makes us a better person. It pushes our brain to develop and increases our self-confidence. You reflect back on what you did and have the confidence to face anything. Be brave enough to try new things even if they appear hard at first.
Key Takeaways
- How we are raising a generation of softened up kids and why we should toughen them up (04:25)
- Finding different ways to be uncomfortable to build your mental toughness (08:27)
- Changing your mentality to push yourself by doing different new things (21:53)
- How doing hard things helps us metabolically by generating new strong mitochondria (24:07)
- Doing things out of your comfort zone makes you a better person (26:45)
- How rebels who take the 10-pound Takedown Challenge get their confidence back and try out new things (27:43)
- When you do hard things, you build the confidence to take on anything (30:34)
Learn More About The Content Discussed…
Get the Code Red On-The-Go Guide here.
Join the next 10-Pound Takedown Challenge here.
When Was It Released…
This episode was released June 17, 2020
Episode Transcript…
The Transcript Is Auto-Generated And May Contain Spelling And Grammar Errors
Cristy 0:00
Think about things and Carie give you a lot of examples. But what can you do that’s going to push you beyond what you have been doing. I hate to just keep bringing up relatives Cari. I mean, I like I’m not going to bring up any names of course. But I can think of a couple of our relatives that just gone through decades of their life, never trying anything new, never doing anything different, just let their life pass them by without ever stepping out of their comfort zone. And it’s so sad because it’s a waste.
Unknown Speaker 0:33
I’m Cristy Code Red and you’re listening to rebel weight loss and lifestyle where we believe food holds the power to heal or poison, and we believe our society has been misled regarding proper nutrition and weight loss. You’re in the right place if you’re looking for some straight-up truth because I’m here to shed light on the lies and brainwashing that has taken place over the past five decades. Thanks so much for listening.
Cristy 1:00
Welcome to rebel weight loss in lifestyle. I’m your host Cristy Code Red author, entrepreneur, retired professional boxer. And of course, I guess I should start making you the official co-host Cari but Cari is joining me once again to help me with this subject. Thank you Cari for being here. Welcome.
Cari 1:16
You’re welcome. Just a
Cristy 1:18
the moment I need to update my resume to include podcast co-host Can I get a name tag?
You know, speaking of name tags, I love learning people’s names but I don’t want to get busted looking at their name tag.
Cari 1:37
Right people need to pull them up higher so I can just do the nice glance and backup
Cristy 1:43
and that way when you say I don’t know Sally, it just sounds like you just know it is yes being awkwardly looking at their name tag. I love it when people wear name tags. I love to learn names.
Cari 1:52
I love name tags as well. I loved when I was a nurse making up names inappropriately for patients because I could not remember other nurses to be like, you know, Mr. Smith and room two and I’m like Mr. Smith, Mr. Smith. Oh, you mean pancreas guy. You mean a liver guy like I gotta remember that
Cristy 2:09
but I couldn’t remember their names. I have to go in there and look on the board and I was terrible about that. And in nursing, they I know when I went through the program years ago, they wanted you to do Mr. And Mrs. You know like they were big on that, you know, and so I don’t know if that’s still the case, but
Cari 2:26
it depends on what part of the country you’re in, by the way, because when I was in Texas, and down here in Kentucky, people are ms cari. Can you do this ms cari But and my students would call me that in different like when I taught in Texas, but Cristie when I taught in Idaho and Washington, totally different, they would call me Mrs. Whatever, or Cari, and it was not an in the south. It’s understood. They’re not going to call me just my first name. So it’s just regionalism, it is and it’s I do miss that about the South how, how polite children and just People in general are I love that about being in the south. Yeah, I agree.
Cristy 3:04
So today you guys were talking about pushing past being comfortable. So yes, I am. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to title this podcast yet but I will say that that I, it was kind of brought back to my attention. I have a neighbor, you guys know I talked about my neighbor Kris Gethin a lot. He’s really great. He’s a longtime veteran bodybuilder and a competitive athlete, you know, a 225 pound Iron Man and ultra-marathon athlete, and he’s just amazing. And he’s just been in the industry a long time. Well, he had brought back up to me or when I was following him on social media or something, he said, You’ve got to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And I think that I said something to him about, well, it’s raining outside. I don’t want to go out there and he said, Well, it’s a good thing your skin is waterproof. Hmm. And, you know, and we, we want to talk to you today about being comfortable being
Cari 3:59
uncomfortable. It’s such a great topic Cristy and we are not let me make this clear. We are not talking about Golden Corral and eating tell you’re uncomfortable. We’re not talking about that kind of uncomfortable. We don’t want you to push past the oh man one more by Nyan was died that roll me out. We’re not talking about that we’re talking about being okay. With it not being okay. I mean, that’s just kind of the way it is. And I think that if you had a growing up, if you were raised to not always get what you wanted and work for what you had, you’re more used to that. But I think we sort of are and I say we because I do it to my own daughter who’s still at home. We are raising, not everyone, but a generation of people that are just used to everything being a little bit easy, and I think things need to be a little bit tough. I really do.
Cristy 4:55
We keep lowering the standards. I know that Brandon, your husband, who’s active Army and he’s been in the army for over 20 years. 2223 2424 years. I hear him in frustration say that they’ll lower the standards for certain things. He said we’re just softening the army. And I know that that is a you know, a police force. You know, the standards are getting lower and lower to get into the police academy and to get into the military and we are we’re softening our kids. We’re softening our soldiers. We’re softening our and to a degree I mean, it’s true.
Cari 5:28
And I think that it is this idea of we don’t want our kids to be uncomfortable. We don’t want our grant we don’t want them to be uncomfortable. And Cristy This has never been more true. Let me think before I bring this up, if I think this person will listen to this podcast, No, I don’t. I’m probably safe mentioning this. Okay. And of course now all of our relative to that. Listen, this will be like what she’s talking about me. But we have a relative, you’re not as close to this person. But this person is never uncomfortable. It only takes going out to eat or on vacation with this person, both of which I’ve done, I went on vacation once and out to eat a lot.
Unknown Speaker 6:07
You’ll think about it, you’ll figure out who it is.
Cari 6:09
And Yep, and they don’t like being uncomfortable at all. So even if it is, I wanted a full glass of ice with my iced tea. Okay, for those of you that are listening, I’m holding up a glass, or it is well, but I want a side of guacamole and a side of beans, but I don’t want this but I want this kind of salt. It’s that it’s never and even like, I’m too hot, I’m too cold. They don’t want to be overly hot. They don’t want to be overly cold. They don’t want to be an inconvenience. And they’re very nice people that thought it. It is this sense of they’ve never had to experience what it’s like to be uncomfortable ever. And it’s evidence in the way they’re very again, very nice in a restaurant, but it’s that same thing. Sometimes you don’t get what you want a restaurant and that just needs to be am I talking about them burning your steak and you being like, Oh, it’s okay, it’s burning. I’m not talking about that. Talking about, maybe you have a few less ice cubes in your drink than you need. But it’s not the end of the world. It’s no tolerance for anything other than this standard. Does
Cristy 7:10
that make sense? That’s what I was gonna say is there’s just, there’s just no tolerance, there’s zero tolerance and to bring a brand in again, you know, he has been through so many uncomfortable things. I mean, that’s what it is being in the army. You know, he’s was brought up old school army, that anytime he’s uncomfortable, you just never hear him complain. Because it’s just like how it is it just he just accepts it. It’s not even a thing.
Cari 7:35
It’s just like, Christie when you do your Instagram and this reminds me You, of course, I’ve always I’ve maintained that Cristie is the female version of my husband, but it’s the same thing. You’ll see Cristie and her Instagrams. She’s out in the freezing cold in a top and her pants doing, you know her burpees is she cold? Yes. Is she going to die? No. It’s the same idea. Brandon will be outside working and he’ll be dripping sweat because he’s a sweater, you know, is that kind of person that sweats and to me I’d be like, okay, just a minute, I’m gonna go change my shirt like I’m, I’m really sweaty, like or I just want to pull my hair back and it just keeps moving. So even if you’re uncomfortable, it doesn’t affect the way you perform. You just keep moving forward and it’s a mentality Crissy you have it, he has it. And I’ve met people like this. They just are like, Okay, well it is what it is. I can’t change it you just go
Cristy 8:27
right and i actually look for ways to be uncomfortable if I see that it is particularly cold outside like when we go to the cabin, for example, and I show there is we were talking about our relative who just never wants to be inconvenienced, ever and has zero-tolerance for anything less than exactly what she wants. Then we have physical uncomfortableness and so I whenever I go to the cabin, I know it just runs colder there. I always look for a chance to go out into the cold and push myself to do my workouts while I’m in a sports bra and short shorts because I think like to see what I can endure. And I like to see how tough I am. I like to just kind of continue to push myself.
Cari 9:06
There’s this guy named Wim Hof who I follow him online. Yeah, I follow him too. So he is is he, Swedish Crissy,
Cristy 9:15
I don’t know what it is, but he’s something like something is
Cari 9:18
somewhere far away from where we are. And he does this whole. He has the whole teaching around. You guys have heard of the Wim Hof Method. It’s a way of breathing. I mean, they’ve injected him with like, ecoli and he didn’t get sick because of his immune system being so cold. It’s based around being able to immerse yourself in ice-cold. Now, Cristy and I first heard about this idea, at least the first time I remember hearing about it was at a Dr. Hyman conference, and we go in there and they’re like, yeah, if you want to it was Dave Asprey. Remember that Christie? And he said, if you want to challenge your body and kill off the crappy mitochondria that aren’t doing their job, turn your shower to cold every For two, you know, as long as you can a minute, two minutes, whatever, and then you, you know, take it off and then you turn it back on you, you know, that kind of idea. And it was challenging your body to be uncomfortable and I thought he was crazy. I was like, if you think I’m gonna stand in a cold shower, you got another thing coming. But the idea appeals to me. And then I learned about Wim Hof, which is, I mean, he has people like diving into ice cold lakes. And it’s not about it’s about making yourself uncomfortable for the sake of pushing past it and developing a mental strength that is beyond what you thought you could do.
Cristy 10:36
So I started doing the ice-cold ice pads. I go to Billy Yeah, I go to the spa, sometimes as take a little break and they have an ice bath there and so I’ve gotten up to three minutes. I use the whole four days I was there. The last couple of times I was there to submerge myself in this ice bath and it is all mental. Let me tell you, it’s a guess what you can do when you really put your mind to something and breathing because that initial when you get down into the cold water initially, yeah, you It takes your breath away. That’s why a lot of people when they fall into the ice, you know like they break through the ice, they fall on the water, they will drown not because of the ice-cold water is because of the fact that they do. They do that and they suck in a big, you know, this aspirate, or 68, however, whichever a word that is. And so the moment you go in, is the moment where you have to breathe very, very deep. And so I learned this from Wim Hof. And I’ve been and from Kris Gethin. And I’ve been doing that and I so I started with one minute then I went to two minutes and then by the end of the week, I was up to three minutes. And man, it’s all in your head. There’s so much in your head that you can really control.
Unknown Speaker 11:46
What do you feel like when you come out of it?
Cristy 11:48
Well, what I’ve been doing is going from the ice into the hot tub or into the hot sauna and 130 degrees and so it feels like little ice picks all over When I go from the cold to the hot, it feels like a little ice picks, but you’re not going to die. It’s not like you can’t walk. I mean, I’m not staying in there so long that my limbs have gone numb and they have to Cari me out. It’s only three minutes. It’s not that bad. But I think about my boxing rounds are three minutes. And you’ve got to endure so much pain during a boxing round and you have to mind you have to be able to relax your body, you have to mentally state keep up with your game and not let your head get too worked up. And so I was thinking Cristie is just one round like you’re fine. It’s all that you tell yourself because you can handle more than what you think. So when I get out of that ice water and go right into the heat, I it just shows like little prickles but it only lasts like 20 seconds and then you’re back to feeling normal.
Cari 12:41
When we lived in Alaska. This reminds me of kind of the same thing when we lived in Alaska, we would go out on the glaciers, and you can only do it in the winter because the river was completely frozen. And otherwise, you would die trying to do it in the summer. You couldn’t get out there and I would be cold and I would say to myself Well, you’re going to be cold. And then you aren’t when you warm back up. Like, it’s gonna be okay. You’re not. And I think just changing the way I thought about instead of, oh my gosh, I’m so cold because you are legitimately cold. Let me tell you, it’s not like, it’s not like it’s 30 and you’re like, I’m a little bit chilly, I get cold, it’s blowing when cold. And I would say, well, you’re going to be cold. And when I changed my way of thinking, Cristie, it became more tolerable. It’s just and I think also, starting on with exercise made a big difference to it. Yeah, you’re gonna, it’s gonna hurt, it’s gonna suck. And then it’ll be over, and you’re gonna be fine. And I think kind of shifting if you guys can start to shift your mentality is why what’s interesting to me is this wise person don’t like the one rule of code read where we don’t eat at night because they don’t want to be uncomfortable. We’re so used to being uncomfortable and shoving some chips in or being uncomfortable and eating some cashews, being unconscious. Having a glass of wine, being uncomfortable and eating some cheese, my instructor for the workout class I go to said, I said, Well, I don’t eat past a certain time I was just mentioning and I wasn’t bragging. And she said, Well, what do you do in the evenings? And I thought, it’s somebody that clearly is not hungry, clearly not hungry, but spends that time trying to fill it up with other things, which is just so interesting to me. What like, right, and I don’t want to be uncomfortable.
Cristy 14:29
Snickers Milky Way, which was owned by Milky Way came up with a brilliant campaign called hangry. And what they do, and they’ve made just a boatload of money off of hangry and of course, they do these incredible commercials, and advertisements about what happens when you’re hangry which is a mixture of the word hungry and angry. And people. When you get too hungry, then it slips over into you’re just mad and you’re raging. And we have made fun of this and we’ve made this Okay, and of course the in the Snickers commercials they’ve given people The candy bar and they’ve said, Now you feel better and then they go back to their normal self. And I, that is so disturbing to me. It’s not funny because we have perpetuated this thought that being hungry is bad. And it is uncomfortable when you get hungry and your stomach starts to grow. I mean, those that’s when the magic happens when that’s when the good things happen to your body. That’s when the fat burning happens. But Katie bar the door if anybody feels hungry, and they’ve got to eat right now, well, that was never what our ancestors went through. They never had to eat right now. They ate whenever there was food, so they were hungry a lot, but boy, we are not. We’re surrounded by food. 24 seven.
Cari 15:38
And I do think that that rule is one of the biggest sticking points for code read with most people. They cannot imagine a world where they don’t put something in their mouth. The minute that they get a little bit, kind of grumbly they just shove something in. I remember learning about this a long time ago back when I still had a weight problem. Do you ever go into shambling Krissy
Unknown Speaker 16:02
No.
Cari 16:03
So when Shamblin way back in the day, she had a bunch of problems. And I don’t think she’s in favor anymore. But a lot of the things that she I mean, she’s probably fine, but I don’t think her ideas are being preached. She had a, like out of Egypt series about eating. And her idea was and she was thin naturally. And she had a nutrition degree. She wasn’t thin, naturally, she was thin, and, you know, teaching this. And what she said was, I can have beans, I just can’t have Oh, you have a bite. And if you’re satisfied, you’re good to go. And it was the idea of not letting your body control you. And she would say get hungry. But let it pass. It’ll come back around. It’ll go away after a while. And that was such a foreign concept when we’re talking like the 90s, early 90s. When these are the mid 90s when these ideas were coming out, and I was like, so when I’m hungry, I just let it pass and she would say embrace it. be okay with the ground leads. And that’s again what Cristy’s teaching. It’s okay to be hungry. It’s gonna go away in about 20 minutes. And guess what? It’ll come back around now. Are we suggesting yourself? No, we’re not saying that but we’re saying it’s like in Mario go, Mama. I’m so hungry. And I’ll think I know when the last time she ate drank some water, and we’re on our way somewhere and we get there you can eat like it’s, it’s okay and why have we got this idea that we don’t want our children like I might be hungry Ah, here’s a Lunchable Oh, I might be hungry. Here’s a better grape. Oh, my God, I don’t want you to experience that for even five minutes. Right?
Cristy 17:36
You’re right. And by the way, the hunger only lasts about four minutes for me. Okay, it’s not
Cari 17:41
I thought it was like 20 minutes for some
Cristy 17:43
20 minutes of pure torture of your stomach. Just on Rob. You know, I have a friend that I’ve been friends with for several decades. She’s 60. Now six, zero. And she says we talk about exercise all the time and she says I just hate to sweat. I just hate to sweat but I want to be strong. Wrong, and I’m just so amazed by that that she so hates the sweat. I mean, really for you, this is so good for you to sweat, but she absolutely will not do exercise because she just despises actually sweating way and it’s just it’s beyond me, you know, but I know people like that they don’t want to bet I guess they don’t want to sweat.
Cari 18:21
I just find that so interesting is that people that have that get up at the same time. And again, I love the schedule. I love regularity. They get up. They read the paper. They have this happen. They have that happen. They eat this for breakfast. They shut this down. They walk out here. I mean, it’s the same thing every day. Never do they push themselves beyond their bounds. Never do they say okay, I walk a mile every day. I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to sprint to that mailbox. Or I’m going to power walk to that where I see that dog house and then today I’m gonna try something different. Is it comfortable? No. It’s just like when Christie made me stop wearing bootcut jeans. And start wearing skinny jeans wasn’t comfortable now, but it needed to happen. It needed to happen way before I actually started doing it. But it’s the whole point is that and then of course, you know, with the aftermath of the pandemic, somebody had a meme and it said, manana you guys have ever had never had the government mess up your plans and it shows. It’s true. We don’t want to be uncomfortable. We don’t want to be an inconvenience. And of course, this reaches farther than that. But I’m talking about the initial, well, I can’t get my hair done. I can’t get my nails done. It’s like when you’re a military wife, you’re used to never knowing when things are going to be you’re you’re always kind of uncomfortable. Well, what do you do without your stuff? while you sleep on the floor? It’s okay. It’s only for a couple of nights. It’s that same idea Christie of just not wanting to be uncomfortable. And I think it leads back to the epidemic with weight that we have in this country. I really do. Right.
Cristy 19:51
I have a fitness and health coach. Yes, I have a coach. And it’s funny because he just sent me a new workout and I’ve been on this I’ve been on my workout for seven weeks, and my golly hair cut and I was just starting to get good. And get used to my workout. And here comes a new workout and it’s nasty. And he said, Oh, it’s nasty. And he said, I figured a sick girl like you would like this, you know, awful. And so here I am just now getting good at my last workout. It’s taken me seven weeks to really get it down. And he’s changing it up again. And it’s so funny to me. And it’s going to be so trashed. I’m going to be so broken after this. And when I say broken, I mean it in a good way. Certainly not injured, or in pain, but definitely my ego and my mind because I was really starting to get a little bit full of myself, like look at how well I’m doing this workout and what does he do? He’s making me uncomfortable and he’s taking it down to a different notch. Same thing with my diet. He’s got me on a different kind of nutrition plan that’s going to yield itself and again, exercise has nothing to do with weight loss, and you have to find what works for you and it helps me to have Nutrition and a health coach because even the best surgeon can’t operate on himself or herself. So he’s changed it up again, just as I was really getting it down. He is saying, Okay, this is what I want you to do this, this and this. And I’m like, Oh, man. And another thing I was going to say is, I was recently and let me say it again, just because I can’t stress enough exercise has nothing to do with weight loss. So I do want everybody at maintenance to exercise when you get to go Wait, but getting to go away. Don’t worry about it for right now. Just the other day I said to miles, I’m looking at doing another difficult run. And he said, Oh, really. And I said, I’m thinking about going from here to here and then having you pick me up and I was going to run a portion of the way to the cabin, and have him pick me up on the way me and Annabel and the reason I chose this route is that it has hills, and it’s difficult and it’s a very long steep climbs. It’s difficult and a lot of different ways. And the bottom line is I’m trying to find different ways of pushing myself different things I’ve never done and to see if I can Do it. And I encourage you guys to push yourselves. It doesn’t need to be a seven 810 mile run, it doesn’t need to be that. In fact, I don’t suggest you even do that. And I do want to see how well you’ll do in an ice bath. I would love for you to not even ice bath. Let me take it down a notch even lower. How about next time you take a shower, you turn the nozzle on cold and you count to 60 while you’re standing with your face. Under that cold water, I promise you, you can do it.
Cari 22:30
You can do hard things. I do hard things. I have told myself that so many times I do hard things. I do hard things. Is it perfect? No. Does it have to be I’m going to go to the CrossFit Games. No. Does it mean I’m going to do a 30 day fast like Jesus? No, but you can do hard things in your own realm. And guys, the one thing I want to hit on really quickly is what happens metabolically when you challenge yourself what’s happening on a cellular level. Cristy and I are not just saying this because we want to just make you into it. We’re not doing that. Of course, we do think it does make you into a better person. But there is something that happens on a cellular level, guys, your DNA, your mitochondria, the powerhouse of your cells. This is actually true. I’m not making this up. Some of them work really well. Okay. And they’re just like young, and they’re out there. And they’re working really hard. And some of them are like, yeah, whatever we’re working, we’re not putting out very much power. We’re like a half-dead battery, you know, you put it
Unknown Speaker 23:31
on your tongue to test it, and we sit, we’re just any way,
Cari 23:35
so they’re just not working really well. Now, when you challenge yourself physically, when you get an ice bath when you maybe sprint a little bit when you send it at the stove when you’re doing your husband’s breakfast, and you do 20 squats, or needless or you get your heart rate up for a little bit or you choose not to eat for a little bit, or you say, Hey, I’m going to stop eating and I’ll eat tomorrow. At some point, and again, I’m just making these things up. You guys understand what I mean by hard things. I’m not telling you all to do these things. I’m just giving you examples. When you do a hard thing like that, what happens is the mitochondria that are not doing a good job that are not efficient, that are just kind of, you know, halfway putting out power,
Unknown Speaker 24:19
guess what, they die off,
Cari 24:21
they die off, and your body makes new, powerful young mitochondria. So now your cells are being powered by young mitochondria that are efficient, that do a good job, and you’ve gotten rid of the debris. You’ve gotten rid of dead weight, you’ve gotten rid of the crappy mitochondria. They’re gone, guys. So when you sit in an ice bath, the weak ones go, oh, we’re out. Like we can’t do this. The strong ones go Yeah. So you are essentially weeding out your bad mitochondria that are not efficient and are old when you push yourself. Do something hard. So I want you to keep it in mind. It’s not just something we want you to do for your brain, it actually has a molecular result in your body.
Cristy 25:09
And it also takes the white fat which is not metabolically active, and it’s that unsightly fat on our bodies, and it turns it into brown fat, which is metabolically active, and it’s a good thing to have. So there are so many things, those are just a couple of the things that are happening when you do push yourself and to be a little uncomfortable but mentally think about things. And Kerri give you a lot of examples. But what can you do that’s going to push you beyond what you have been doing? I hate to just keep bringing up relatives Cari. I mean, I’d like I’m not going to bring up any names of course, but I can think of a couple of our relatives that just gone through decades of their life, never trying anything new, never doing anything different. Just letting their life pass them by without ever stepping out of their comfort zone and it’s so sad because it’s a waste. You
Cari 25:59
No, I i’ve been joking with Cristie. There’s a gal we follow that as some exercise stuff and she lives in Brazil. Anyway, all that to say, I’m like, we should go to Brazil and we probably will someday and go do that. But there are people that live their entire lives. Christine never leaving the state, never pushing themselves, never going to different restaurants, never making new friends never standing up and going to a Toastmasters club and giving a speech. Never, you know, going and getting a photoshoot of themselves. I mean, we’re not even talking about exercise in cold water guys. What can you do? That is beyond what your comfort is? Do you love animals? Do you want to go volunteer at the animal shelter? Do you want to go meet new people? Can you go deliver meals on wheels? You know, can you do something that is outside of your comfort zone that it pushes your brain to develop? It makes you a better person. And again, it doesn’t all have to be exercise-related. It could be Cristy could be anything. Anything. Go get a phone Don’t shoot yourself, you’ve never had your own pictures, you know, stand up there and, you know, do it like, be brave guys and do something that’s outside of what you would normally do and you really will Krissy. I’ve known people that have never even left the city, they hardly left the city they grew up in. And I mean, not everyone has the funds to travel. But you can do something.
Cristy 27:20
I don’t agree with that. I don’t agree with that statement, that last statement, because people can spend money on what they want. And when you do want something, you will find a way because if you want your karma macchiato from Starbucks, and it’s $5 and 47 cents, or you find the money for that, you know, but the curious point is, you never know what you’re made of. You don’t know what
Cari 27:40
to tell you try and do the zip line. The nice thing
Cristy 27:44
about our rebels is that when they join a 10 pound takedown, and when they take their life back and they actually start to lose weight. It’s amazing how much everything else around there in their lives change. It’s not just the scale going down, their confidence goes up and then of course Scale going down means that you can fit into certain things like zip lining, there is a weight lift limit, like horseback riding, there is a weight limit. So when you get under that weight limit, you can try the new things that you’ve always wanted to try. And your confidence goes up and you’re like, boy, I tell you, I’ve accomplished so much. I’ve lost 62 pounds. I’ve liked 162 pounds. I’m going to try blank.
Cari 28:21
Yeah, yeah. And I think that it is it just puts you in a different spot. I’ve always wanted to scuba dive. Well go scuba dive, you know, I’ve always wanted to learn how to do the breaststroke. We’ll go take those free swimming lessons down to why, you know, I mean, I just think it’s so important that you find something has to you in your realm in your world and push yourself beyond whether it’s a new author or volunteering at the library or senior special in church. I mean, it does not have to be what Cristy and I consider that it could be anything for you. But it’s is it going to be uncomfortable? Yes. Are you going to make it Yeah. You’re gonna do fine and you’re gonna be better off having tried it.
Cristy 29:04
I would love for you to open up this app of the podcast or comment if you’re watching on YouTube, comment below or wherever you’re watching, comment and tell us what are you going to do or what have you done to make yourself uncomfortable? I would love to hear what you’re doing. You know, you can leave a review and you can tell us and I can read it on the air. I would love to hear what you are doing to push yourself to become a little bit just grow.
Cari 29:32
I think that it’s so important Cristy because it just brightens your experience here on this earth. We got one time one trip around guys one trip and I want my grandkids to talk about me and my great grandkids and they’ll be like because they’re gonna call me Mima. I’m just telling you now, okay, they’re gonna be like, me mom was awesome, you know, she took us places we went to caves. You know, Cristy like I remember one time it was really easy scary for me to think about going in a cave where it got real close. And then I was like, cari like, that’s not a big deal. Just do it. And I was like, Yeah, you’re gonna be fine. No ones gonna get stuck in the cave.
Cristy 30:10
You know what I mean? You duck in there,
Unknown Speaker 30:11
usually, yeah, well until that happens. I have nightmares about that. Hold on, hold on.
Cari 30:17
You know, I mean, you got to be brave and just do the things that are hard. Because I think that they enhance who you are as a person. And you bring more to the table then you bring more to the table. As a person when you push yourself beyond what is comfortable.
Cristy 30:34
You know, what really shaped me in my childhood was mom and dad letting us girls just three of us girls ages 1614 and 11. I love to take the family station wagon and drive 12 hours to go see our relatives in California. And that’s just one way and driving through an eight-lane freeway and driving late at night and that would really shaped me because that made me it built my confidence up as a kid like Look, we did I can do anything. I did this, I can do anything my boxing career eight, almost eight years and 15 professional fights. And I know after that, my gosh, I can do anything if I can get through that. And so when you do hard things, you reflect back on them. And you remember, look at what I did, I can certainly do this. And it really builds up your confidence. You push yourself further and farther, further and higher. And
Cari 31:24
I never want to be a woman. And again, I’m not. I’m not putting anyone down because I think that everyone has their story. But I never ever Crissy want to be the woman where something happens to their husband, and they don’t know how to write a check. I mean, this stuff doesn’t happen as much anymore. They don’t know how to write a check. They don’t know what life insurance policy they have. They don’t know how to make a car payment. They don’t know how to what their budget is. They don’t know what they were spending on this. They have no idea how to do anything because they let someone else live their life for them. You know what rebels you live your life for you So at the end, you can get to a stop right at the gates of heaven and be like, I’m here. I’m ready. Not someone rolling you up in a wheelchair. You know what I mean? Because you didn’t do anything in life. I’d rather wear out than rust out.
Cristy 32:15
Yeah, you know, you are responsible for your own happiness. Yes. So you make it happen. Nobody’s responsible. You’re it’s not your husband’s job. It is not your mom and dad’s job. Nobody’s job to make you happy. You got to do it. You look out for you. I love that I’d rather wear out and rust out I’d like I’d rather wear
Cari 32:30
out and just come skidding up to the good St. Peter at the gates with clouds of dust falling behind me and too worn out knees and bad hips. And Whoa, whoa, here we go. Then, oh, I have sat in a chair and watched Jeopardy for the last 20 years. Let me tell you, there are people like that. So I understand if you’re in that situation, but what can you do today to bring yourself and I hate to use the term live your best life but what can you do? To become a better version of you, it might involve you being uncomfortable, and you got to be okay with that.
Cristy 33:07
Well, in the words of my neighbor, Kris Gethin, be comfortable with being uncomfortable and what was it? Did you say? Did you say, push past your comfort zone? How did you say it in the beginning? Oh,
Cari 33:17
I don’t know. I don’t know. But the only thing constant in life is changed. Cristy, things will always change. And if we’ve been sitting in a chair watching Jeopardy for 20 years, you’re not going to be comfortable when the change comes. You have to push past being uncomfortable to get to this next place where you need to be and is it going to be hard? Yeah, but honestly, you’re just going to enhance your life so much better because you did the zip line because you stood in front of the church and did the choir, the solo it’s going to be worth it in the long run. You got to trust us on this one.
Cristy 33:50
Rebel weight loss and lifestyle. That’s the name of our podcast and we appreciate you watching of course the 10-pound takedown, we have monthly rolling challenges you can always get in On those by going to 10-pound takedowns calm I will link it up in the show notes. Guys, I would love for you to comment below and tell us or write a review or something. What did you do or what are you going to do to make yourself uncomfortable? Thank you for joining us. Thank you for watching it. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being a rebel. And if you’re not a rebel, we would love to have you join us in the rebel community. We welcome you with loving arms. You guys have a good one. And thank you, Cari.
Unknown Speaker 34:24
Thank you. Bye.
Cristy 34:27
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