Finding What Works For YOU - Episode 34

Finding What Works For YOU – Episode 34

What Is This Episode About…

When losing weight, you’ve got to stick to the rules and follow the program. But once you get to maintenance, it’s all about finding what works for you over the long term.

People often come to think there’s only one way to eat for everybody – that is just simply not true. Now, we do believe that there’s never really a place for processed Frankenfood crap. Talking of having Slurpees from a 7-Eleven every day, and having Ding Dongs and Ho Hos every day, there’s not a place for that, but other than those foods, there really isn’t just one way to eat for every single person.

There’s just not one right way, and that’s how Code Red was born. The program was born because I got heavy and fat. I put on quite a bit of weight even though I was exercising three to five hours a day. When I realized that it was all diet-related, and that exercise had nothing to do with losing weight, I created Code Red as a mixture of many different programs. It is a mixture of Atkins, paleo, Mediterranean, keto – lots of different things. I mixed them all and came up with Code Red, so you’re going to see things that they allow on keto, that we don’t allow on Code Red.

Once you lose your weight on Code Red, we transition you to a maintenance group, and we encourage our rebels to find what works for them because they might be a little different. We’re really strict during weight loss, but during maintenance, although we still have our core values and rules in place, we do want you to mess with the formula, just in case you think you are missing something or you think you want to try something else out.

You need to have the right plan for you to match your goals and to whatever is going on in your life, right then. For instance, if you are training for a marathon, and you are in our maintenance group, we are going to change your diet a bit. We’re going to help you determine what carbs you need to help fuel you for that marathon.

If your goal is to get super shredded and super lean, we’re going to keep you on Code Red. I might even put you on a carnivorous diet, I don’t know. And so we’re really going to adjust you down, but you have to find what works for you.

In the short term, we want you to eat according to Code Red. We want you to stay strict. I want you to stick to the food list. Do not deviate from your custom program plan. You do exactly what I say until every last drop is gone, and then, I switch to playing the long game – What can we do for you long term, that is going to keep this weight off for the rest of your life. Weight loss and maintenance modes are not that different, but there are going to be some shifts. To know more, stay tuned as Cari and I explain to you how one size just does not fit everybody.

Key Points of Discussion

He’s able to build muscle on veganism; not everybody is that way (6:28)
Code Red was born as a mixture of many different programs (6:44)
We encourage our rebels to find out what works for them in maintenance mode (7:48)
Be wary of too much stress on your body in the fat-burning mode (8:09)
We change people’s food when they’re on maintenance as per their goal (12:05)
What works for me, might not work for Cari (12:05)
Different case: She’s not exercising. She doesn’t have a big calorie demand… (13:12)
I don’t want you coming to Code Red just for short-term ends (15:48)
I don’t want to see you add certain foods back in, but there are some foods you can if it works for you (16:32)
What are you eating now and how is that working? (17:25)
We have a very strategic protocol to transitioning you into maintenance. And it’s only adding one thing at a time (18:27)
What is working for you right now may not be what works down the road (20:12)
Being a “nutrivore”, meaning picking the best quality you can, of your food, and finding the eating style that works for you (26:38)
It’s about accountability, and long-term sustainability (28:01)
You can’t take Phentermine every day for the rest of your life and expect it not to hurt your body, but you can do Code Red every day for the rest of your life (28:18)
If you clean up your diet, you can find out what is going to work for you (30:05)
We only want what you can keep up with for the rest of your life – for you to keep your weight down and still feel good (32:25)

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When Was It Released…

This episode was released November 13, 2019

Episode Transcript…

Cristy: 00:00 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 some light on the lies of brainwashing that has taken place over the past five decades. Thanks so much for listening.

Cristy: 00:28 Welcome back to Rebel Weight Loss and Lifestyle. Hi, I am Cristy Code Red. I am here with my sister Cari Thompson, and we are so happy to be here with you today. So happy. Don’t forget the podcast drops every Wednesday morning at 5:00 AM Mountain Time, and Cari sometimes does, sometimes doesn’t. I’m trying to get her on more podcasts, but Cari is joining me for this one. I’m so glad cause I think it’s better when Cari is here with me, but Cari, in case we have new viewers, in case they don’t know, could you tell us who you are and how you are affiliated with Code Red?

Cari: 01:00 I would love to. I would like to say first for any of you watching, check out Cristy’s cashflow hat, which, by the way, reminds me of an old preacher that used to be on TV and his name was Creflo Dollar, Creflo Dollar. Remember that, huh?

Cari: 01:17 Yeah, I think it was Creflo. Anyway, I remember thinking so it reminded me of cashflow dollar, but it just reminded me of that for some reason. Creflo, cause it’s got the spirit of grief low honor today. You guys, I am Cari Thompson. I’m the chief operating officer here at Code Red fitness and nutrition. I lost over 100 pounds doing mostly the Code Red lifestyle and I say the word “mostly” because I am a failed weight loss surgery survivor. After many years of struggling, reversing weight loss surgery, having an absolute nightmare, I finally got my weight under control and realized that the problem was sugar and had nothing to do with needing to have weight loss surgery. My background is ICU open-heart nursing for many, many years before I came to work for Cristy just over two years ago. Best decision ever and I have just been a happy work-from-home nurse slash mama slash pack and tee-shirts and in whatever poly mailers making photocopy girl ever since making photocopies. Yeah, yeah. That’s what she’s now, Cristy.

Cristy: 02:23 We’re trying to we’re trying to grow big and you know, trying to reach millions all over the world and it is happening in guys because of you. This podcast is ranked really high and we just appreciate it. In fact, let me give you a couple of you a shout out who took your time to rate and review. This one comes in from pancake 17 five stars. The top says she changed my life best in the business. She lays down the truth with spunk, SAS and statistics. She knows her truth and she’s darn good at it. Thank you pancake. I love that. The next one is Rick Parker’s music. Hi Rick. He says, love the love the book. Love the podcast, finished her audiobook, ordered the cookbook, and excited for the next challenge. You are going to change

Cristy: 03:03 So many lives Cristy. Thank you Rick and sure. Thinking about your buddy, how you doing? This is from creaky house. Fivestars says, can’t get enough of Cristy code, red nickel every video, email and now podcast teaches me something new. Knowledge is power and she shares it with anyone willing to listen beyond happy and the code red lifestyle and that has found its way into my life. I don’t know where I’d be right now without it. Oh, I love the stories of hope and healing. Cristy, when we have events and we get to go and stand next to people and hear their stories of hope and healing, it’s almost more than we can handle getting to, you know, getting to listen and just, I don’t know. It’s amazing. It’s amazing. Yeah, it’s incredible. It makes everything worth it. All the stuff behind the scenes that none of you guys ever see unless you follow me on Instagram.

Cristy: 03:51 Maybe Cari and I share a lot of behind the scenes, but I share a lot of code red behind the scenes cause that’s what my life is. It’s tough. It’s tough. It’s stressful. It’s sometimes I just cried yesterday so sometimes I cry and Cari’s like, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, get on a call with me, get on a call with me. You’re going to be all right. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I’m like, I’ll meet you in the basement in my darkened basement and we’re going to talk about this on, on a, on a call real quick and it’ll be fine, you know, because Oh, the weight of everything is on Cristy 24, seven. I mean I experienced the weight but I am backing it up with my personal checkbook. No, eight that’s a big difference. Yeah. So yeah, the buck stops with me for sure and I feel it.

Cristy: 04:31 But boy, Cari, you really on that thing that happened yesterday, boy, I don’t know what I would have had cause I was going, okay, I could feel my exact five. And you know what, I actually got triggered at that point and I wanted to go into the kitchen and eat. Yes, I love crusties pancakes and if I can just be honest and real with you guys, I got triggered too. I did. And I wanted to go shove a whole bunch of pancakes in my mouth and I was like, Nope. And I was like, you’re going to be fine. And when you go on that call with me and call me down, that was really, I didn’t go in and binge on pancakes. I mean he’d be like, Cari, tell me, tell me how am I going to do this? And if for those either can’t see me, I’m mixing up the pancakes.

Cristy: 05:08 Okay. Blurred them on the grill. Tell me how this is going to work. It’s not, it’s, it’s funny, but it’s, it’s not funny. You’re so funny. We’re only laughing because we’ve been there. Yeah. And I totally, you guys think I don’t understand. We, we understand. We get it. You know, and guys today we’re going to, we have a great podcast for you and it sounds so simple. When you read, when you hear the title or you’d be like, what? It’s fine, what works for you? Because people say this and they spout this off all the time. Just find what works for you. You got to find what works for you. And they shout it off and they just kind of boom. What does that really mean? I think you’d be surprised to hear what we actually think about this. I think where where the confusion comes in, that’s the word I wanna use is when people think that there’s only one and let’s just talk about eating.

Cari: 05:54 There’s only one way to eat for everybody. That is just simply not true. Now we do believe that there’s never really a place for processed Frankenfood crap. I mean, you know, I understand that people think once in maintenance they want to have a bite or whatever of that. Like I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about Slurpees from a seven 11 every day. I’m talking about ding dongs and ho hos every day. There’s not a place for that, but other than those foods, there really isn’t just one way to eat and every single person. The problem is, and I was just listening to a podcast on this, you get someone who’s vegan who’s deadlifting 500 pounds. I’m making that up. That’s probably all wrong. And then they go, vegan is the only way to live. Well for him, veganism works and he’s able to build muscle on veganism.

Cristy: 06:44 Not everybody is that way. So do you see what I mean? There’s just not one right way and that’s how to Code Red was born. Like code red was born because I got, I got heavy and I got fat and I put on quite a bit of weight even though I was exercising three to five hours a day. Of course, we know that and then could read was born. When I realized that it was all diet-related, that I was heavy in that exercise had nothing to do with losing weight, so I created code red as a mixture of many different programs. Is a mixture of Atkins, a mixture of paleo, a mixture of Mediterranean, a mixture of keto, a lot of different things and I mixed them all together and I came up with code red so you’re going to see things that we allow on code red or that that they allow on KIDO that we don’t allow on code red.

Cristy: 07:26 You’re going to see things that Dr. Adkins, a lot of people that have copious amounts of cheese and we don’t allow that on code red. The whole program was born out of a mixture of many different programs and I think you might be surprised to hear that when we do transition you, once you lose your weight on code red, we transition you to a maintenance group to learn how to live there and I think you might be surprised to hear that we encourage our rebels to find what works for them because there might be a little different. We’re really strict during weight loss, but during maintenance, although we still have our core values and rules, we do want you to mess with the formula. If you think you are missing something or you think you want to try something else out, and I think it’s really important to try those things out.

Cari: 08:09 You know, I was just, again just listening to a podcast on this the other day and the author of the podcast was saying, Hey, I think that eating a more fat-burning lifestyle is good for everybody. He said, but this person, which I thought was really interesting, she’s, he said, if you’re the mom with three kids that is burning the candle at both ends, you’re not sleeping, you’re not drinking water and you’re doing CrossFit four days, five days a week, you should not be doing fat burning. You are going to burn out your adrenals. And what he’s saying, for those of you that don’t understand what I’m saying, and that’s okay, is he saying that’s too much stress on your body to be in fat-burning mode if you cannot control the other parts of your life. So what works that mom and tell she can get some stress down and some things taken care of, maybe back off on the CrossFit is not to maybe to eat a little bit higher carbs to maybe have some more complex carbs, you know?

Cristy: 09:10 And so that’s what I mean, I find what works for you in the point you’re in where you’re going to say something. I had another example but I’ll go ahead and that’s, that is a perfect example and not the right time for her. No. And, and you got to understand that, that yeah, that, and we’re not here to talk about the exercise, but, but I like this example because the exercise is putting stress on an RD, very, very stressed out body, sleep-deprived, dehydrated, and you’re just going to do damage. And I love that example. Here’s another good one that I’ve come across recently it was Cari, I have to head into chemo and I’m very, and I won’t reveal their name, but I’m very stressed about what does this look like for me? And I just said, again, we have to find out what works.

Cari: 09:54 We, there’s a very clear link between sugar intake and cancer. We know that cancer feeds sugars or that sugar feeds cancer cells, so we absolutely don’t want to go back to, Hey, have the Oreos have the Twinkies, have the mocha Choco lot, whatever you’re going to eat. We don’t want to go there, but what does this look like while you’re going through heavy chemo? Maybe for you, we say, okay, for the next five months, while you’re going through chemo every day, we don’t worry about losing weight. We just eat off the list. I told her, eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full. Get into our cookbook, find some really good shakes again, please. For those of you that don’t know, I am not saying prepackage junk shakes. I’m decking. We have real food. We put them together and we make a blended food item. That’s all it is.

Cari: 10:40 I don’t want everyone to be like, they don’t believe in shakes and Kerry, you said shakes. We’re talking like avocados, spinach, you know that kind of stuff. I said, eat and drink some of those. Let’s just give your body whole foods and as little processing as you can do and tell you, make it so for this Gow right now, what works for her, Cristy is this plan. This is a form of what we’re doing and it keeps her healthy and strong as she’s going through chemo. I love that example and I love, I wish we could talk about cancer more. That is just, yeah, but it’s such a tough subject. And I don’t know if I want to go down that road, but that is so true. And you know, we talk about metabolic flexibility. We talk, you know, we talked about that in our maintenance group.

Cristy: 11:23 We talk about you need to have the right plan for you to a, match your goals and B, however it is going on in your life, right then. So if you are training for an ultra marathon, we are going to change your diet a bit. Like let’s say you’re at goal weights and you decided, all right, I’m going to, I’ll just won’t even say ultra cause that’s so, I mean it’s a hundred miles. Let’s just go with a regular marathon. So in you’re in our maintenance group, I’m going to help determine what slow, low carbs you need to help fuel you for that marathon. I’ve got plenty of cyclists are like Cristy, you know, on code red, I’m bonking means you’re just running out of energy at the 46 mile Mark and I need to get to 66 miles. And so what can we do? All right, good.

Cristy: 12:03 Let’s add this. And so we change people’s food according to, and again, on maintenance according to what their goal is. If your goal is to get super shredded and super lean, we’re going to keep you on code red. I might even put you on a carnivore, I don’t know. And so we’re really gonna adjust you down, but you have to find what works for you. I know Cari, Cari eats two meals a day. All of our rebels, we eat two meals a day. We believe in two meals a day. Cari has one mid-morning and then she has one mid-afternoon. I do not do well eating after 12 so I eat between six and 12 and cause I go to bed short early, I just don’t have anything on my stomach. That’s what works for me. Cari would not, that would not work for her. It would if I didn’t have a family, but if I didn’t, yes, that’s a perfect point.

Cari: 12:52 You just said I had to do when Brandon was deployed, I did it exactly that Cristy did it and it worked perfectly. But now that he’s home, you know, and now that I’m not trying to lose weight actively, I can do this as long as I don’t let that second meal be huge. Like I’m not eating three hamburgers or something. Our hamburger patties, I mean I’m eating like a half, you know what I mean? The other thing is, for instance, our mom, Christina’s mom, she’s just this big for those of you can’t see me, I’m just holding my fingers up and she’ll have coffee in the morning, forget to eat all day long. Towards the end of the day, she will have a salami and cheese and that’s it. Like all day now that works for her. She can have her coffee in the morning and not need to eat till five o’clock in the evening.

Cari: 13:36 I know how she is. That is what works for her. She’s a little bit older than us, her metabolism, she’s not burning as many calories at rest and she’s not exercising. She is active, she’s moving, but she’s not exercising and so she just doesn’t need the big calorie demand. And so that is what works for her. And I love that, that she knows that Cristy, she’s not getting up and eating bacon and eggs and three Friday eggs and a couple slabs of bacon and a big old, I mean whereas you and I could go start off our day with a big breakfast and then just a little bit later on in the day. That’s what works for us, so right. But she can’t do that. That’s not what works for her. So many rebels in weight loss mode. We had a rebel once that lost 130 pounds with us and she would be like Cari, this and that.

Cari: 14:25 And I would say go back to your logs, what worked. And she would say this one meal with cream cheese sausage like crumbled up sausage and spinach and she would make this concoction and it worked perfectly. She lost week after week after week after week with this concoction. I don’t know, it was like magic. There was a unicorn hooves. I don’t know. I don’t know what was at it, but whatever. It worked and she did great. For instance, Cristy, I can eat green beans, tell Jesus comes back for us and do fine. I could eat. I mean I don’t, but I could eat an entire, you know, the steam, the steam side of and be fine. But if I ate half that much cauliflower, I would gain weight. So it’s just the person. It’s the weirdest thing. Show is funny cause partly I’m playing the long game here with you guys and partly I’m playing the short game show.

Cristy: 15:16 Short term, we want you to eat according to code red. We want you to stay strict. I want you to stick to the food list. No cheating, dear God in heaven. No cheating. Do not deviate from your custom program plan. You do exactly what I say until every last drop is gone and then I switched to play in the long game. What can we do for you longterm that is gonna keep this weight off for the rest of your life and really weight launch mode and maintenance mode. They’re not that different but there are going to be some shifts in order to keep this weight off you for the, for the rest of your life. I don’t want you just coming to code red because you want to lose five pounds to make your boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend jealous. I’m not here for people like that. I’m not here that you want to fit into your wedding dress.

Cristy: 15:58 You need to lose seven more Polish or you’re going to go do the Chi and lemon pepper diet. I don’t want those people. I want people who are going to play the long game so we’re going to pay the Piper now and then we’re going to transition to that. What’s going to work well for you for a long game? There are certain foods we don’t want you adding back in. Like Cari’s shed lean cuisines and hot pockets and Eggo waffles and red bulls and a bottle of wine tonight. We don’t want you adding. That’s gonna. Look, we know we have proof that gluten damages every single person’s gut lining in their intestines. We know it’s causing leaky gut and everybody we know it is. We just know this so I don’t really want to see you add back in certain foods, but there are some foods you can if it works for you.

Cari: 16:38 It’s so important to find that right formula. You know Cristy, I have the pleasure of answering the tickets on our help desk. We have a help site. We call it a desk. It’s not really a desk. It’s a virtual desk. Y’all and people put tickets in just like an old fashioned Ching, Ching Ching number 42 number 42 anyway, I get to answer all the medical ones. It just reminds me of when I was a nursing instructor, I would always say, people would say, carry this patient. What do I do? And I would say, well, what did they do at home? Well, what’s worked in the past? And so I think it’s really important to always ask you this off that question. Somebody just wrote to me and said, I have irritable bowel syndrome and I don’t know what to eat with Code Red. So instead of going, Oh, well let me give you a 10 foods, I didn’t say any of that, Cristy.

Cari: 17:25 My very first question back to that person was, well, what are you eating now and how is that working? Because we have to have a baseline. What are you doing? Code red, rebel. Now if it’s tuna if it’s our rebels spinach concoction, sausage mix. If it is celery with nut butter in the morning and sausage, and even whatever it is, you have to find that. You have to play with it and work with it and find out what’s going to work for you. So your very first question should always be just like nursing. Well, what did you do before Mr. Smith? All my legs are killing me. Well, what did you do before? Oh, I just sit down. We’ll sit down, don’t make it more complicated than it has to be. Don’t overthink this. And I think people do, they get way complicated. You know, but I had pepper yesterday and today I didn’t, I didn’t lose.

Cristy: 18:17 Well yeah, don’t make it too complicated. Right, right. And we notice like people, when we do transition to maintenance, they will add back in too many things in our, we have a very strategic protocol to transitioning you into maintenance. And it’s only adding one thing at a time. And so we want to avoid, and I think it’s funny cause it’s funny what people can avoid and like Kerry can’t eat haul of flour. I can, but for me, I can have a quarter cup of Jasmine rice feel fantastic the next day. If I have tortilla shells feel rotten the next day. Oh, we going talk about those corn tortillas again. Tell you Cari. They were horrible. I had a horrible experience. So it’s just so funny that what we can and can’t add back in. And you’ve got to, you know, I know people you know back in, we might add a sweet potato back in maybe just a half a sweet potato.

Cari: 19:07 We just, we got to play around. So if you are on the WeightWatchers and you say, Cristy, I’m on weight watchers. I’m going to say how’s that working for you? And if you say to me, I feel fantastic, my weight is down. I have flexibility and freedom. My blood worker’s all good. All I have, all my inflammation markers are down. I’m going to say for crying out loud, don’t come to code red outline. Cristy, I’m on the Mediterranean diet. How are you feeling? How are you, how are your clothes fitting? How is your energy level? How’s your libido? How is your thyroid like I’m going to look at, we’re going to look at the whole big picture. You’re not going to, if all of those areas like, Cristy, I feel freaking fantastic. My Lord don’t change anything. Oh boy. I agree with you 100% on that one.

Cari: 19:48 Yeah. And you know, it’s interesting you’re talking about what works for people. That kind of reminds me of a person that I had to turn down for a custom program, come to find out they were actually in the ICU with heart failure at the time when I was emailing them. I didn’t know that, but I was like, nah, something’s not right. So, later on, she emailed me and I was like, what can we do? It’s like the chemo person, what can we do to figure out what’s gonna work for you right now? What can we do right now? And what is working for you right now may not be what works down the road. People that have lost weight on code red, it might’ve been tuna, was the key to the net and they were going to lose every day eating a can of tuna. Hallelujah way that tuna puts a Mayo in it.

Cari: 20:26 Salt, Redmond, salt, some pepper, and they just did great and all of a sudden it quits working. So don’t forget rebels that sometimes what works for you is going to need to be adjusted and that’s okay. That is your body just changing. That’s totally normal.

Cristy: 20:42 Totally normal. And we roll with it guys, because why? Because hormones are stored in body fat and as you go through this process and you lose the body fat, which is what we want, your hormones are going to change. Your body’s going to change. My gosh, Cari, I’m having experiencing things now. Nothing bad. Just things that I didn’t experience years ago. Cause now I’m 43 and I’m just getting older. I’m getting closer to menopause and it’s just like, okay and I’m just kind of going with it. What’s working now? What needs to be adjusted? We want to adjust. We want to be flexible.

Cristy: 21:11 We never want to go back to our old ways. Okay? We never allow sugar to stay in our house. It can be in your house for whatever reason. If you’ve got a family member that’s having a birthday party or if you’re having something in your lower sugar, but it doesn’t stay in your house. Never. Never, never, never, never. It leaves that night because those five cupcakes leftover from your six-year old’s birthday party. It’s going to call to you overnight. Hello, come on. We always stay on the scale every morning without exception because that’s the first line of defense. We always drink our water every single day and the rest we want to flex with. We really want to flex. We want to flex. We’ll like, for instance, Cristy, the other day wanting to go out for lunch with miles. Miles asked you out for lunch and you knew that so you didn’t go crazy at breakfast.

Cari: 22:00 You probably were careful about the coffee cause you knew you were going to have lunch with Miles. By the way, guys send in your vote. I think that Cristy should get a her very first tattoo. I’m going to take her while we’re in Boise. It’s going to be four corn tier TIAs, and it’s going to say never forget. I’m just saying where are we going to put it? Cristy, right on your ribs for corn tortillas. Never forget, and I am not making fun of any other, never forgets. I’m just saying poor Cristy and those dang corn tortillas for any of you listened to us all the time. You’ll know that this has been a common theme. The corn tortillas story. It’s, it’s, well, we all have stories like this. I’m like, they’re like, I won’t even touch them now. I had no reaction to them.

Cari: 22:44 Cristy, you’re like the one, I was a kid. I was in kindergarten. This is, I mean you were like three I ate spinach at school. I’ll never forget because this was the 70s y’all. I was wearing my yellow with the sunshine right here on the chest, the sunshine, and then the other side was the rainbow and it was a jumper. It zipped up and it tied on the waist. It was so, I was styling y’all. Anyway, I was wearing it school. I don’t know why that sticks in my memory, but I got sick and threw up the spinach and I don’t think it was spinach. I just think I was sick. And ever since then, I love spinach now, but it took me til I was a code red rebel to eat spinach and cottage cheese. There was something and I still won’t eat Kashi equalizes no one. What?

Cari: 23:30 I did go to a private Christian school. What were there. I know, I’m just teasing. I’m teasing. I am teasing. I do not want to hear emails. I did go to a private Christian school. That’s not why I got sick. But anyway, I’ll never forget that jumper and throwing up and that, those memories stuck with me. So I don’t know, Cristy, never forget corn tortillas, but all I mean is that yeah, it’s going to have to adjust for you guys over the years. It really is what worked before. Like for instance, when I was in weight-loss mode, Cristy, I could eat beef for my second meal and still lose and now that I’m eating a leader later in the day, if I have beef, I don’t know why. For my second meal I’m going to gain the next day. So pot roast, a hamburger or a steak, especially not a good choice for me.

Cari: 24:12 For my second meal, it’s too heavy. I’m going to have it, save it and have it in the morning. I’ll do fine with it for meal one but not for meal two so I’m going to have a sweet potato or usually, it’s a half a sweet too cause they’re like the arms of God. They’re so huge. They’re huge. And if I’m going to have a half a sweet potato, always meal one, never meal too, unless I want to gain. Isn’t that just an I have found, I know what works for me. We are heart’s desire. Hands down without a doubt is that you feel good and you are optimized and you are feeling your absolute best self longterm. What does that look like for you? I personally think real food, water, and sleep. The proper human diet is what it should look like for you, but my gosh, my only heart’s desire that sets it.

Cristy: 25:00 I don’t care if it’s code red or if it’s Adkins or weight Watchers or the Mediterranean or paleo or keto. I don’t care what, what you choose, what is going to be the best for you longterm. That is what you have to find the we can lead you into that. You’ll notice with code red, yes, we expect strict. We expect a hundred percent compliance on a custom program. When you get your weight off though, you are going to notice that we are going to work with you with the other components to create a long term plan. Something you can do longterm. We don’t want you going around and around and around and around. This weight loss mountain again show much of it also is mental and so that’s why we have loving the new you. We have that digital course for you that’s going to help you except in love, the new you.

Cari: 25:44 Then you know we have rubble for life program that is only available when I release it and so there are programs in in place for you to be able to tackle this longterm, but you’ve got to remember your spirits. While we’re losing weight, we’re paying the Piper, but then we’re going to, we’re going to say, all right, what is the, let’s look like? It’s just like a farmer. You could make more money on the outset just planning straight corn in your field. I’m just making this up. I’m not a farmer, but you’re going to strip the soil. You need to rotate your crops. You need to have sustainable agriculture, so you need to put back in and give the rest to the, you know, the, all these ideas in agriculture where you don’t farm it every year. You, maybe you run cows on it next year. I don’t know.

Cari: 26:25 All I’m saying is we’re all about sustainability. We can make more money just taking your money, letting you lose weight and kicking out the door. But we’re into sustainable agriculture here, folks. We’re in this sustainability. That’s huge for us. It’s sustainability. Cristy, I just heard Dr. Chris Kresser on a podcast and he said this word. He said, I want everyone to be a nutrivore, and I love that. Undo Trevor, you know, was like, well, I’m a herbivore. Well, I’m a meetup, or I’m a carnival or I’m a this, I’m in that. He said, be a nutrivore, meaning pick the best quality you can of your food and find the eating style that works for you. And that’s exactly what he was talking about. He said, I don’t care if you know if it’s 90% plants and 10% meat or only once a week you eat fish or whatever it is that works for you.

Cari: 27:10 Become a nutrivore. Become about the quality and what is going to be best for your body long-term sustainability. How can you manage this for the rest of your life? We want to be on this field. We want to use this field for as long as possible. We don’t just want to strip it up the weight and be done with it. We want to be sustainable.

Cristy: 27:33 And that’s my biggest problem with the companies that sell the shakes, the pills, the powders, the potions because you have to continue to consume their product in order to keep your weight down. I just can’t get on board with that. I am a capitalist and I am absolutely on board with capitalism, but I absolutely, I cannot get on board with a company that says what you got to keep up with their membership here. You know, we do have a membership to our coaching, but that’s to stay connected in our community and continue to turn in your weight every Friday.

Cristy: 28:01 Cause it’s about accountability. But you don’t have to keep buying our products. No, no, no shaking, no pill. That does not. Right. That is not right that you have to keep drinking their shakes three times a day. That’s not right. That you have to wear a patch or you have to take a detox. It’s not right. How can that be long-term sustainable?

Cari: 28:18 Well, everybody loses weight on, on phentermine and Cristy, I mean it’s math and just saying everybody loses weight on that. I lost weight like I had the devil chasing me. I mean, I’m telling you I lost weight like crazy, but I just saw this with a family member recently that was taking it in and all their weight back because you cannot take venture mean every day for the rest of your life and expect it not to hurt your body, but you can do code red every day for the rest of your life.

Cari: 28:47 What works for you is not the shakes, the pills, the magic, this, the that, the zip you up. You got to take a downer to go to sleep at night because you’re so wound up. If that’s not sustainable, it’s not good for your heart. It’s not good for your body, you know, abuse of laxatives, all these things. You may have a short term fix, but you will need a longterm fix and you have to find what’s gonna work for you. It could be code red, it could be code red. Ask, and let me just say one more thing if you don’t mind. Real quick says, is that all the years I’ve been working for you, the only people I have seen that don’t do well on code red. Now let’s exclude all of the people that just don’t want to do it. It’s not their time.

Cari: 29:26 They cheat. I mean that kind of crap. So take all of those people out. If you have a thyroid problem that is undiagnosed. If you’re suffering from Hashimoto’s and you’ve never gotten it treated, you really need to address that first and get that lined out first before you try any kind of eating plan. Now you can do code red along with getting your thyroid, your Hashimoto’s evened out, but you have to get that. Those are the people. I’ve only seen one or two Cristy and I said, have you checked your thyroid? Oh my gosh, they checked. And because you can, you can light the fire all day long. I mean, but if there’s no, the fire isn’t let you can get gasoline on it, but the fire Haggerty that I think it’s, if you’re not converting that chief or to T3, it’s just, I don’t know a lot.

Cari: 30:05 I’ve learned gasoline and fire. I don’t, I wasn’t going to try to explain it now. But anyway, all that to say, those are the only people that don’t, that have not done, they’re not gonna do well on 80 any eating plan you could starve yourself in, you are not going to do well. So it’s important to have that lined out, but folks, even those of you with audio immune disorders, those of you fighting awful things like ms lupus, those of you that are fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, we believe you deal. There’s so much of that out there, Cristy or doctors don’t believe them. We believe you. We know this is a real fight. Psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis. These are real fights and if you will clean up your diet, you can find out what is gonna work for you. We can find some version of this that is going to work for you.

Cristy: 30:50 Exactly. Yeah. We’re not going to let you out of the rules, but we will work with you and you gotta pay the Piper and we’ll get this weight off you. Then we will work with you finding what mixture of either code red and a little mixture of this little, make sure of that. What’s gonna work long-term. You’re playing the long game with code red. We don’t care. We don’t want you going back around the weight loss mountain again. We don’t want that. In fact, you know, truth be told, if you, if you adopt a paleo lifestyle after code red, you’re still eating real food. Cause that’s what paleo believes even though they let you have potatoes and legumes and things that we take you off of for short term. So there are lots of options out there. But can you keep it up? And that’s our heart’s desire.

Cari: 31:30 Oh yeah, a hundred percent a hundred percent so you know, I think that’s the key. The key is understanding. There’s something out there that will work for you and that you have to adjust it as time goes on and that when you find it, hang on to it, get it down and work it. Because again, anybody can get weight off of you. Not everyone can help you find out what is going to work for you longterm. And code red is committed to finding what works for you. Even if you don’t eat strict Code Red like I don’t want you eating that. So if you come and join us and join our community and join our tribe and let us work with you, we’re not going to be mad if you come to our maintenance. If we, when you reach goal weight and you come to our maintenance groups and you decide to test out different ideas, we want you to do that.

Cristy: 32:18 So you gotta understand we are looking for what’s right for you. Even if you go off Code Red a little bit, we don’t want you damaging your body. We only want what you can keep up with for the rest of your life, is to keep your weight down and still feel good. So guys, we really hope you’ve enjoyed our podcast. Oh, finding what works for you and that is our heart’s desire. Bottom line. And we care about each every one of you. We would love to have you want a 10-pound takedown challenge – 10poundtakedown.com. We would love to see you at one of our after-hours events. One of our, we have the Annual Code Red winter ball. We have the an Annual Code Red live. We have lots of places where you can go to actually be in person, connected to our community, but we welcome you with open arms, so whatever we can do for you, please reach out. We have a lot of platforms, Instagram, Facebook, we have the podcast, we have YouTube. We have all kinds of ways that you can stay connected, so we care about you. Cari, thank you for coming on here with me.

Cari: 33:14 You’re welcome. Thank you for having me.

Cristy: 33:16 You guys have a good one. We will talk to you on the next podcast.

Cristy: 33:22 Thanks so much for listening to Rebel Weight Loss and Lifestyle. If you’re a Code Red rebel and you haven’t already downloaded your free Code Red lifestyle on-the-go guide, then now is your time to get a copy. This guide will teach you how to stay Code Red-approved even with your crazy tight schedule. To get a copy right now, all you need to do is open your podcast app, go to this episode show notes, and click the link to get your Code Red-approved on-the-go guide. So, I will see you on the next episode of Rebel Weight Loss and Lifestyle.