Beyond the Weight with Henny and Sandy
Our podcast is just us, chatting about activity, food, mindset, and life in general.
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Episodes
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about a couple of great books that we have read (well, kind of) and that you should read too! Sandy also calls Henny out on a couple of things, and we all learn that Henny might not be as kind as she portrays herself to be. Finally, we discuss how we can use time efficiently and how we can waste so much time doing all sorts of mindless things (YouTube rabbit-hole, anyone?!)! What do you spend more time doing than you care to admit?
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about the Wear Your Support campaign by Reitmans about which Henny is very excited. Sandy also shares about her experience enjoying an 11-course tasting menu (super posh) and her current listening obsessions (did you say, “Dolly”?!)! Finally, we discuss what we’ve been learning while reading Michael Moss’ Salt Sugar Fat about marketing, the food industry, and how it’s connected to us. Does anyone else tear up at the Coca Cola ads that always come out around the holiday season (or is that just us)?
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about the importance of community particularly as it pertains to health. We all need people in our lives who can be our buddies when we are looking to make changes with our food, to delve into new activities, and to get real about what’s going on with our bodies. We discuss our recent listening endeavour: The Michelle Obama Podcast on Spotify! And we get the update on Sandy’s true feelings about tripe: yay or nay?
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about Sandy’s new mission in Lima (you’ll have to listen to find out what it is). Henny has learned some new vocabulary that can be used to describe food, so we just have to delve into that for a while. Then we discuss how the world might be different if we never knew how must we (or anyone else) weighed. Would we find different ways to measure our health and wellness? Would we find other numbers about which to obsess? What do you think? Share your ideas with us!
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about what we learned we need to do and eat if we want to live into our 100s. Then we discuss a recent article from the Globe and Mail about redefining obesity and ending the stigma against overweight. The article makes us think more about the BMI, other measures of overall health and wellness, and the importance of having health care professionals who understand obesity and - more importantly - who understand how to talk with and support people who have obesity. Have you read this article? What are your thoughts?
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about the fast food restaurants we loved as children (and the ones we still love today). We reminisce fondly about our experiences (albeit decades apart) playing in McDonalds’ Play Places. We also discuss our experiences watching an episode of My 600lb Life. Sandy explains how she stumbled across the show and the empathy that she has developed through watching it. Henny cries. Sorry for the sniffles.
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about Henny’s adventure with noodles made from yam fibre. We also discuss the By the Book podcast by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer because we both find it absolutely delightful. Finally, Sandy shares what she’s learning from reading Cribsheet by Emily Oster: there is no one right decision about anything. We think a bit about how we made the decision to join WW and all the different decisions we make daily to be healthy and well. The decisions we make are right for us, but that doesn’t mean decisions other people make are wrong.
Also: SO SORRY about the weird sound on Henny’s end this week! We had some headset issues that will be solved for next week!
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about things we’ve done that we knew we would regret in the moment but did them anyway! We also discuss some interesting information Henny came across this week about water consumption and are, once again, shaking our heads at how easily we can be swayed by one-off research studies. Finally we chat a bit about a couple of Netflix shows we’ve been enjoying (Down to Earth with Zac Efron - Henny; Unorthodox - Sandy) and how much we can learn from seeing how other people live and how people around the world are working to be healthy and well. Have you ever done anything you knew you would regret?
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about our WW journeys in three parts: what worked for us, what didn’t work for us, and what we wish we’d known sooner or what we wish WW spent more time talking about. (We stole the structure from Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer’s book, How to Be Fine, which was absolutely delightful, and you should all read it too!) We also spend a bit of time poking fun at Sandy’s husband and discussing our own intense need to have our laundry folded a specific way. Anyone else particularly particular?
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Join us this week as we chat about a true crime story that hits close to home, and then Henny has to apologize. We are constantly learning, and we have no choice but continue to do better. On the food front, Henny tells us all about her recent experience with “mock 5 cup salad” with cottage cheese, and Sandy encourages us to try her “mock potato salad” with cauliflower (Henny's not convinced). Finally, we discuss how we have been encouraged to rebuild habits and refocus priorities throughout our quarantined time and ponder how we can make our futures better by reflecting on the past.