Beyond the Weight with Henny and Sandy

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!

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?

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.

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!

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?

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?

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.

Join us this week as we chat about how much we love food (shocker!) and our “eating out” habits. Then we go down a rabbit hole talking about all things food: food Henny used to pack in her elementary school lunch, food Sandy has been making in Lima and risking getting in trouble for, food we love to eat as leftovers, and how McDonalds used to keep their food warm. Then we discuss how important it is for everyone to work some sort of retail or food service job to learn not only employable skills but empathy as well.
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Join us this week as we chat about raw food that we like to eat (or used to eat) and each of us is convinced that the other has the weirder list. Sandy unpacks some of the new information she has learned from reading Nina Teicholz’s book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. Finally, we can’t say enough about the brilliance of Morgan Spurlock’s recent documentary, Supersize Me 2: a look into what it takes to start a fast food restaurant, from market research to farming to delivering a product to the consumer. You can find the documentary on Amazon Prime.

Join us this week as we chat about why we chose to start this podcast and how we feel our podcast as evolved over the course of sixty episodes. We discuss the very first podcasts each of us ever listened to, the podcasts we’re listening to now, and the podcast episodes that Dr. Gary Foster was featured on that you absolutely have to listen to (Sound Bites: A Nutrition Podcast - episodes from June 3, 2019 and December 11, 2019). Finally, we delve into a convo about thought patterns and the importance of taking note of our thoughts so that we can savour the good ones and let the negative ones go. What good thoughts/moments/events have you been savouring lately?