Beyond the Weight with Henny and Sandy

Beyond the Weight #172: The Taste Test

Join us as we chat about our current obsession with ready-made salad kits! We also get a few updates . . . Henny has a vacuum update, and Sandy fills us in on changes she’s been experiencing since getting her hormone pellet. Finally, we have a first on the podcast! A Reese's Peanut Butter Big Cup Taste Test! It’s crispy, crunchy, and delicious! (Our apologies in advance for some on air crunching noises! Trust us, Henny is cringing about it.)
 
**Show Notes**
Chocolate we mentioned:
Reese's Big Cup with Potato Chips
Reese's Big Cup with Pretzels
Cadbury's Crispy Crunch
Purdy's Campfire Bar
Podcasts we mentioned:
No Stupid Questions
Armchair Anonymous

Beyond the Weight #171: That’s Embarrassing!

Join us as we chat about shame, embarrassment, and laughter . . . can you experience all three in reaction to a single situation? We think so! And we chuckle quite a bit! We also discuss some recent shopping experiences . . . some of which were real wins and some of which were not. Finally, we think about sensitivity related to the scale. When is it that we learned it told us our value?
 
**Show Notes**
Podcasts we mentioned:
Armchair Anonymous
We Can Do Hard Things
Book we mentioned:
The Shame Machine by Cathy O’Neil

Beyond the Weight #170: No Regret . . . Yet

Join us as we chat about our latest escapades in the kitchen and whether or not we are washing produce correctly. It is quite possible that we’re both disgusting. We also discuss some of Henny’s latest impulse buys and wonder what Sandy will ever do with those Hearts of Palm that have been sitting in her cupboard forever. Finally, we debate the difference between a kebab and a skewer . . . it gets intense.
**Show Notes**
Book we mentioned:
Yum & Yummer Cookbook

Beyond the Weight #169: When You Don’t Quite Belong

Join us as we chat about what it means to be from one place, to be in another place, and to feel like you might not belong in either. We also discuss the importance of flexibility when it comes to living in a healthy way. Finally, Henny recounts the very first moment she ever saw an underwear model who actually resembled her! When was the first time you saw yourself in the media?
**Show Notes**
Books we mentioned:
Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King

Beyond the Weight #168: It’s a Dilemma

Join us as we chat about a variety of different dilemmas we face. Should Sandy take a pre-made cake as a carry-on, or should she pack it in her checked luggage? Should Henny always pack a snack to take with her when running errands, or should she trust that if she’s just going to be gone for an hour or two, she’ll survive? What exactly is the Omnivore’s Dilemma? And why should we be concerned about it?
 
**Show Notes**
Book we mentioned:
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (The Young Readers Edition)
Movies we mentioned:
Being the Ricardos
Elvis
Shows we mentioned:
Arrested Development
My Octopus Teacher

Beyond the Weight #167: We are Bee-lievers!

Join us as we chat about some recent learning Sandy has done about hormones, bloodwork, and the HPV vaccine. We also discuss what makes a person empathetic, compassionate, and open-minded. Do they need to have similar lived experiences as you? Or do their experiences have to be completely different from yours? Finally, we reveal our most current guilty pleasure television viewing escapades!
 
**Show Notes**
Book we mentioned:
10 Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
Shows we mentioned:
Benefits Britain
Hot Bench
Survivor
Big Brother
Family Feud

Beyond the Weight #166: Striving for Excellence

Join us as we chat about whether or not people can be friends (or even acquaintances) if they have some major differences. Should we seek out friendships with people who are different from us? We also discuss a new podcast that we found, and the episode we listened to was all about breaking up with perfectionism. One of us is a recovering perfectionist, so there was plenty to unpack there.
 
**Show Notes**
Podcast we mentioned:
WorkLife with Adam Grant

Beyond the Weight #165: Ya Gotta Talk About It

Join us as we chat about the trouble with taboo subjects. What happens when we, personally, feel too embarrassed about a subject to talk about it? What happens when we, societally, are trained not to talk about certain subjects? Does it ever help to avoid conversations? On a less serious note, we hear all about the drama of Sandy’s latest attempt to rent a car, and Henny laments the chunk of skin that is now missing from the side of her big toe. It’s a story-filled episode.
 
**Show Notes**
Podcast we mentioned:
We Can Do Hard Things

Beyond the Weight #164: Is It All In My Head?

Join us as we chat about portions. What is the right portion size? How do we know if we’ve had enough? Or too much? Where did we originally learn how to portion out food? Why do we always feel so hungry? Sandy also has a bee in her bonnet about people whose integrity is lacking, so we have to have a little rant about that too. Enjoy!

Beyond the Weight #163: When Too Much is Too Much

Join us as we chat about some of the fun we’ve had together (IRL) in the past few weeks including attending a concert together (a first) and eating some great food (no surprise there). Sandy fills us in a bit about her son’s wedding (which went off beautifully), Henny shares some interesting ideas she heard about habits vs. addictions, and we both chat about a book we read about the start of the opioid epidemic in North America. It’s been a busy week!
 
**Show Notes**
Podcast we mentioned:
No Stupid Things (Episode 101)
Book we mentioned:
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Shows we mentioned:
Dopesick 
Frankie & Grace