Welcome to fit to be real and a little extra.
We're actually a lot extra today because Carly has no idea what we're talking about.
She was just told to show up and she did.
So your role is now complete.
Complete.
I so that is all I have to do today.
Hmm.
I don't have to be good.
I don't have to know anything.
I don't have to wait a second.
Carly's not someone who likes to be in the dark and as much as you love surprises,
I hate surprises.
Love surprises.
Yeah.
Love.
Love them.
I like surprising people.
I like being surprised.
I don't like improv like the anticipation.
No, no, no, no, like I don't because you didn't tell me what this episode was about today.
I have no idea what might come out of my mouth and that could really hurt me.
But what's different from any other day?
Because I do some research, but like not knowing is like.
I'm going to use the word gives me anxiety.
You I don't like how you said that in any case.
Mystery day.
Episode 30.
Here we go.
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
And before we even get started, we all need to know if you did your homework.
I knew you were going to ask me this.
Yes, because we told you last week.
Yeah.
So I did know that.
I did it a couple of times, but I didn't write it down.
So you didn't do your homework.
No, I did.
I did.
I specifically looked in people's eyes and as you like to say not to look at my own reflection
in their eyes, I looked at their eyes instead of past them to, you know, not that I'm doing
it to be mean.
I'm doing it because somebody else is walking in and I'm like, Hey, whatever.
I did it that I could count three times, which is three more times than I ever do it.
Okay.
So because you said it like that, we all have to applaud you and pat you on the back.
Not only because you said it like that and we're here, we're inclusive and we are welcoming
the failures and the successes of everyone's lives.
I'm so happy I get included in that.
Yes.
Inclusiveness off, off the record.
Um, fail.
Cause I didn't write it down because you only did it three times in seven days.
But you know what?
No, I take it back.
That's a lot for you.
I didn't do it for you.
I did it for other people.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We weren't talking about it for me.
It's rude.
So this whole episode is Carly on the spot.
Is the bane of my existence.
I hate being on the spot.
It's really not though.
I'm using this platform to hold myself accountable, which is probably the main thing.
Uh, I also think it's a fun way to do something.
Have you not know?
So we'll see how that goes.
It could be you have absolutely no reaction and then we just like chat in either way,
but we're going to do a reveal.
This is, this is a reveal.
So what I have here is a TJ Maxx bag that Carly brought over and it's all cats.
Yep.
It's all cats.
I'm giving it back to you.
Everything, all the contents in it I would like to keep.
You're just going to take things out of the bag.
Oh, it's a grab bag.
I like it.
Okay.
Yes.
A grab bag.
So you'll probably all hear the crunchy crunch.
Hmm.
Is it food?
I like a good crunchy crunch.
Check out items in the bag and tell us what they are.
Is nothing's live, right?
No.
Chickpeas.
Garbanzo beans, if you will.
Peanut butter.
Also known as peanut butter.
Creamy though.
Does that make a difference?
No.
Okay.
What the heck are these?
Coos coos.
Yeah.
Clearly I don't make it.
It's a coos coos blend.
Of greens.
Black beans.
Should I be doing this faster?
Yeah.
Quinoa.
Oh my God.
Nothing.
You took out trash that you left in the bag and I just kept in there.
Oh my gosh.
That's not a part of it.
Tuna.
Oh my gosh.
You know I don't like tuna unless it's in my sushi.
Lentils.
This is what a mighty fine grab bag we have here.
Chia seeds.
That's it.
Yes.
Can you make any assumption or deduce what this is about?
This is about food from Trader Joe's.
Did we get sponsored by Trader Joe's?
No.
It's so less exciting.
We're making a soup.
No.
We're talking protein.
Okay.
This is a lot of different forms of protein.
Yes.
And we're making protein.
We're making protein.
We are talking drumroll please.
I don't know how to do a drumroll.
Yeah you can do it.
There you go.
I hope I don't know what you can hear of that.
I am going pescatarian.
Stop.
Yes.
What?
Why?
I knew she wasn't going to be happy.
Why?
I knew she was going to be happy.
So there's a lot of reasons why I've been thinking about this.
I've been thinking of actually going vegetarian for a pretty long time in the past six months
and it's something that like pops in my head and then it goes away and then you know random
conversations will bring it back in.
So at this point I'm feeling called to actually like take some action on it.
However, I think pescatarian fits a little bit better for me.
What is it?
Pescatarian is primarily the only meat I eat is fish.
It's fish.
So you can still eat sushi?
I can still eat sushi.
All right.
As long as that's on the table.
It's not to think of the things that I'm eliminating from my life.
I'm also not going to do the like oh my god I'm pescatarian.
You guys should all do that too.
Good.
Oh god you're so aggressive.
I knew it was going to come out like this and that's great but we're going to talk about
it.
So pescatarian for those of you who don't know like I said it's no meat but you eat
fish or shellfish.
Yeah if you can't say it you can't do it.
This doesn't affect you.
I just want to put that out there.
Like Carly doesn't like change but this actually has nothing to do with you.
But the thing is everything she does affects me so.
Vegetarian is no meat and sometimes no other animal products.
Isn't it just plant based?
It's plant based.
Yeah or is that vegan?
Vegan is no animal products no animal meat and.
No cheese no dairy because that's all animal.
Right.
No cheese no dairy.
Any products that aren't edible that come from the use of animals.
So like makeup lines.
Yeah.
That's harm for anything that causes harm to being is vegan.
So yeah I have vegan clothes.
You do.
I do I have vegan leather.
Like vegan leather skirts it's not real leather it's faux leather but it's like it's literally
called vegan leather.
So the difference between faux leather and vegan leather which I'm learning so like a
lot of this is trial and error of things that I don't know.
I haven't done this before.
We grew up eating meat.
And I haven't really dove into it because it's overwhelming and intimidating so I'm
slowly looking into it.
Back up we grew up eating meat but only chicken and turkey.
We did not have any red meat growing up never it wasn't until I met Andrew when I was 19
that I had a roast beef sandwich and I was like what is this.
Oh my gosh it's so funny.
I know.
When she says we grew up eating meat we grew up eating chicken and turkey.
Pretty dry except balsamic vinegar because my mom's like Greek you know how you fabryze
everything or windex everything if you're Greek.
Our mom is you put balsamic on everything and magically she thinks it tastes better.
It's so different.
So it was like chicken with balsamic turkey with balsamic.
It's so true.
So yeah the difference.
You're going to give that up.
Well the difference between faux leather and vegan leather is that vegan leather is also
a sustainability source.
Oh right.
So it's not just like using something that looks like leather and it's plastics and chemicals
like there's it's pure like eco friendly.
Yeah.
Anything that has the name vegan attached to it which is wonderful.
So we're going to talk a little bit about that today.
Then there's a partial vegan.
Nope.
It's vegetarian and it's interesting and I think I'm going to say this wrong.
So there's a lacto ovo lacto ovo sure sure L A C T O dash O V O.
Okay.
Right.
How would you say that?
Yeah.
Lacto ovo.
Yeah.
Nobody texts me about this.
Okay.
That is a vegetarian that eats eggs and dairy.
Lacto just lacto vegetarian is dairy no egg.
So like yogurt yes but eggs no.
So many rules.
I know.
And then Ovo vegetarian is eggs yes dairy no.
Oh my gosh.
This all seems like a little wild.
Now I'm already dairy free because of lactose intolerant self diagnosed.
So that I but I eat eggs like I don't eat yogurt or ice cream.
We eat egg whites.
Yeah.
But I'll put like if I'm baking I'll put it in the baking requirements.
And if there's a salad we've said this before we usually just have the feta on unless we
forget to say hey put it on the side like if it's on it's on.
And then this is also a possibility in my life but I'm going to start with pescatarian.
Are you ready for the name of this?
No.
A flexitarian.
What?
You're flexible.
Sometimes you eat meat sometimes you don't.
That's not fair.
That's not fair though.
Mostly plant based but like every now and then maybe if you're in a bind you'll have
a piece of poultry at a barbecue or something like that.
That's called a cheater terrier.
No.
However the whole basis of becoming a vegetarian or a vegan it's a religious belief, a moral
belief or a health belief.
Okay.
It's usually the three reasons why people make the change.
What's yours?
Mine is mainly just like we said I don't need a lot of meat anyway.
No we don't.
So like what's the big difference?
Yeah.
And also the environment right now.
Okay.
Because there's some scary things going on out there and we're going to talk about what
that means anyway.
Victoria watches a lot of documentaries and that's where I learn stuff so she probably
is right.
Before we get to my reasoning for the ego reason to cut down meat consumption for myself
there are six benefits that I've actually found on like a cross the board on different
articles.
Okay.
The show notes for this one is going to be.
Juicy.
Flourishing.
Yes.
Juicy.
So check all of these out because I think being informed is the best policy for anything.
But nobody has to I'm not putting this out there for anyone to change.
Anyone to feel guilty for not changing or I'm letting you all in on something I'm going
to try to dive into and see how it works.
Maybe I become a flexitarian.
Oh my gosh.
I think it's great.
So six health benefits.
It's a heart health thing.
So a third less likely to die.
Sweet.
Vegetarian.
Really?
It basically just the soluble fiber foods lower cholesterol so it's really a cholesterol
thing.
Reduce the cancer risk.
It's easier to get the five servings of fruit and veggies when you're a vegetarian.
When you're a vegetarian.
No we're talking vegetarian.
This is vegetarian.
Okay.
This is vegetarian.
Yeah.
Pascatarian you get a little bit easier protein intake.
However we're going to talk about how protein intake doesn't really matter.
With that and also sure you can be a vegetarian and have as many fries as you want.
It's about what you eat.
Yeah.
The third benefit is it prevents type two diabetes.
Yeah.
Just because of the low glycemic foods.
The whole beans.
The beans you just took out of the bag.
Nuts stuff like that.
Four is lowers blood pressure because Lord knows we have some.
My God.
Five is decreases asthma symptoms.
So maybe it'll help your breathing.
Yeah.
But you have asthma.
I had sports induced asthma but that's because we swear I was a chunky child.
Okay.
You were like allergic to sports to soccer.
And then the last one it promotes bone health.
So that's something that happens with age.
So it lowers the osteoporosis.
Yeah.
You know.
I learned that from our aunt Vicky.
She loves talking about fish oil pills and osteoporosis.
And while you know we don't love talking about it all the time that's where I get my stuff.
That's where I get my knowledge from Vicky.
Yeah.
And then all of her articles she reads.
Vicky's tagline is I read an article.
That's her housewife tag.
That's her housewife of Delco tag.
I read an article.
Honestly, I would eat more fish if it wasn't so expensive.
I know.
You know this.
We did a stupid diet before and it was called the 17 day diet.
Do you remember?
Oh yeah.
And part of that diet was eating as much salmon as you could.
That's true.
And like we were living with mom at the time.
It was right before I got married.
And like mom was going broke on salmon.
Like she was like, guys, I can't afford the amount of salmon you're eating.
We also did the 17 day diet for 700 days.
So that was a problem too.
But that salmon is so expensive.
But I would eat it more.
It's even more expensive now.
Yeah.
The tuna packet that I bought was almost just a dollar.
Little change, dollar and change.
Sorry.
Continuing pescatarian.
Is this why you didn't tell me beforehand because you wanted my natural reaction?
100%.
I also knew it was going to go this well.
But like what you said about the French fries, something I took from one of the articles
is the foods you choose make all the difference.
So you can have snack cakes and fries and milkshakes and be a vegetarian.
Yeah, of course.
But there's no nutritional value in that.
And there's like major issues with health.
There's no health benefit there either.
Right.
Same thing with vegan.
Like there's a lot of vegan products.
There's a lot of vegan cheeses.
And I think there's like, there's just so much other supplemental things to make it taste
like what you already know.
And it's bad for you.
It's bad for you.
Sugars and chemicals.
And yeah.
Yeah.
Vegan is a little more less chemically because it's usually all 100% organic.
Yeah.
But we've said this before.
I was a vegan for a day.
I think that's a generous time frame.
I spent a lot of money on being a vegan for a day.
It is.
It is expensive and it's pricey.
But I think the world is right now though.
So it depends on what you're going to spend your money on.
I read something.
This is my contribution to this episode.
Oh, you're giving a lot.
Good.
You pescatarian.
And it said, yes, everything's expensive.
I'm making this generalization up.
I can't remember the exact words, but it was like, everything's expensive.
You have to prioritize where you put your money.
And your health is going to be a million times more expensive when you are sick.
So put it, put your money in your health now so that you don't get sick.
And that's basically what you're doing.
Your source is a meme that you sent me?
Yeah.
I sent it to you.
On Instagram.
Yeah.
It was like, it's expensive to have a gym membership and to buy organic food at the store and do
some self-care things, but it's even more expensive to be unhealthy and have the surgery
bill and have the hospital bill and all that stuff.
You said it way better.
The meme itself is actually the best.
So maybe we'll find that.
You did send it to me and I think I reposted it on the Fit to Be Real story.
So I mean, everything's expensive.
You just have to decide what is worth it for you.
I do want to explain my environmental reasons for making this choice because I think we
all need to take this a little bit more seriously.
The basically the earth is warming.
We're all feeling that.
I mean Maui, the fires in Hawaii, Canada, do we not in the Pennsylvania tri-state area,
do we not remember we couldn't breathe?
It seems like forever ago, but it was the beginning of the summer.
Yeah.
Right.
Things were canceled.
We weren't allowed to go outside.
No, the air quality was at such a high level of like scary.
They said shut your windows and like stay inside.
And that's just from wildfires and it's truly because it's the start of the earth and the
atmosphere being a very dangerous place.
So the New York Times had this article.
It was pretty fascinating and it got to places that I was like, oh, it's English, but I can't
understand what's happening.
Yeah.
Oh, that's how I feel all the time with you.
Like right now?
Yeah.
I was just saying, I was thinking in my head, you're named after Ariant Vicki.
Her name is Victoria.
And now I'm looking at Victoria 2.0 with all of her articles.
There was an Oxford study and just putting Oxford in front of anything makes it sound
smart, right?
You're so Carmella.
I heard this on MPR.
No, but this was really fascinating that if meat eaters.
So let's make that more.
Carly.
If Carly consumed more than three and a half ounces of meat a day, which is they made it
equal to like a quarter pounder.
Okay.
Like a little less than a quarter pounder of cheese.
And if you cut that quarter pounder down to 1.7 ounces, which is the size of a McDonald's
patty, okay, a regular one, which we haven't had McDonald's in years.
I want to put that out there.
It would equal to taking eight million cars off the road.
Wait, what?
If you cut your meat intake, yeah, from three and a half ounces of meat to 1.7 ounces of
meat, the carbon dioxide emission at that, those burgers a daily.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Not just like one time, daily would equal to the eight million cars and gas emissions
coming off of the road.
I didn't understand the correlation of why that was related to cars.
Carbon.
Carbon dioxide.
Gotcha.
The carbon footprint that we are putting on the atmosphere, which is what's warming
the earth.
Gotcha.
I could have explained that first.
Yeah, no, that's fine.
That wasn't on you.
That's the greenhouse gases, right?
Right.
If you've heard of.
Yes, and collectively.
Basically.
It's hard.
It's really bad right now.
Well, people eat a lot more than 3.5 ounces of meat in a day.
Exactly.
In a day.
Yeah.
So do the math there.
Yeah.
Right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, wait, give me a sec.
Let me do that math.
Get your TI-83 out.
So with that said, right, that three and a half ounces or more of meat equals, this is
to me, mind blowing, it's equal to 22 and a half pounds of carbon dioxide.
And that's because of the livestock and then the farming of the land to feed the livestock,
like all of that mesh together.
So a meat eaters consumption, depending on the level, like obviously this is all give
and take is about 22 and a half pounds putting into the atmosphere and cutting it down to
that 1.7 ounce.
It's only like 11 is half of that.
It's like 11 pounds you're putting out.
So even if you don't want to be a pescatarian, if you just cut your meat is what you're
saying.
Like we just cut your portions, you would be immensely helping the planet.
The earth and the time frame that we have left on it because it's actually they're projecting
it sooner than we think.
Yeah.
And which is really, I'm doing this for your children.
I am doing this for the next generation, all right, which will affect us actually.
But I'm going to get to that where we're gone.
It's going to start happening while we're still here on earth, which is my main reason.
But yeah, it goes down like vegans.
It's only like five pounds.
They only put five pounds of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Right, because they don't eat.
What about pescatarians?
10.
I didn't think you were going to have that info and she just pulled it out of nowhere.
Vegetarians is nine pounds.
Flexitarian is between the two, right?
So what you said earlier is about protein.
The amount of protein that adults in the United States consumes is exactly what you said.
It's above what we actually need.
What we need.
Yeah, we I mean, you're supposed to multiply what your weight is on the scale by point three
six.
That's converting the kilograms and pounds of point three six is the pounds.
That's how much protein you should be taking in.
So it's around like depending on me, it's like in the fifties, I think.
Yeah.
50 grams.
I got that from a piece of Dave's killer bread specifically that has about six grams.
A cup of cooked pasta, believe it or not, has eight grams of protein.
So like there's protein in a lot.
Right, right, right.
We're consuming due to meat higher than is needed.
In terms of like protein intake, it's inconsequential.
It doesn't matter.
Like when people are like, yeah, but what about your protein intake?
It doesn't it doesn't matter.
Well, do you know what I remember somebody's friends with a I was friends with a vegetarian.
Hmm.
We're not friends anymore.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
Sorry, but they said one of the most annoying things is when people say, oh, you're a vegetarian.
So where do you get your protein?
Yeah, right.
Like they're like, you don't know what a vegetarian is then you don't understand and you don't
know what food is.
Right.
Like you don't know your food.
Where do you get your protein from almonds from quinoa from lentil like everywhere from
bread from avocado has four grams of protein.
Yeah.
Russell Sprouts one cup, four grams of protein, a cup of chickpeas.
So hummus, the hummus you're dipping your pita chips in 12 grams of protein.
There's protein in everything.
So that whole like where are you going to get your protein from is moot because we're
over-proteining.
Our protein is proteining.
Yeah.
And that's not good for our bodies either.
So it's it's really just like do your homework and and have the knowledge, right?
Cinoa proteins are complete proteins.
So they have the nine essential amino acids.
So it makes it easy.
Yeah.
Like if you're going to eat a piece of meat, a piece of chicken, you're good.
Plant based.
It's incomplete.
So you have to get your amino acids or your omega fatty acids and your proteins all from
different sources.
That's where it gets a little more challenging.
But if you know your stuff and eventually I don't know my stuff like that.
Well, listen, if you're going to be a vegetarian, you got to do the research.
You can't you because it's not going to work.
Cutting meat and just being like, yeah, I'm not going to eat meat.
Yeah.
Well, your then your body might actually not be doing well in how many years.
You're not going to do it right.
So that's why we have the chia seeds.
There's a lot of protein in there.
Lentils, couscous.
Yes, they're all from Trader Joe's.
Just FYI, I'm covered in them right now.
I mean, they're all over me, the beans and the cans and the.
She didn't move them.
They're just hanging out.
I do like a good tuna roll though.
Spicy tuna.
But see, and that's why I think pescetarian is a little doable.
I don't even eat that often because it is expensive.
Yeah.
Tuna packets are kind of really my go to.
And maybe that'll change.
Hopefully that does change in the inflation sense of it.
But if you're going to be a pescetarian, you got to eat some eat some real fish.
Let's just go for the tuna packet.
Right.
It's got 18 grams of protein in this tuna packet.
It's a three ounce packet.
So and that's easy right there.
That's 18 out of my like 50.
And I'm going to eat a bunch of vegetables.
So it's I'm not worried about it.
So guys, don't worry about me.
It's great.
It's going to be great.
I hope you guys walk into class and like you pescetarian.
I hope you all call me a Presbyterian.
That's what I'm hoping for.
These greenhouse gas emissions, I'm not going to lie to you.
I know the word.
I know the term.
No idea what it means.
Yeah.
And looking that up and knowing that we need to eliminate those emissions from the atmosphere,
I'm not going to rattle off everything that I fascinatingly wrote down.
The primary emitted one based off of humans, human activity is carbon dioxide.
Right.
And what we do and what we put out there, like these greenhouse gases, it's basically
just warming the planet.
It's carbon dioxide.
It's methane gas.
It's nitrous oxide.
And then it's flavinated, flow-vinated.
I can't read.
That's amazing.
I can't read my cursive.
But they're synthetic that we're creating.
Okay.
And they're probably some of the most powerful gases putting out there.
And they're from household and commercial and industrial products that we're putting
out there.
Solid waste is a big one.
So everything goes into landfills.
And a lot of that comes from the electricity that we use to make the cow farm and to slaughter
the cows and slaughter houses that are out there.
That's another issue in it itself.
I love animals.
That is not the number one reason I'm not doing it.
It's number two.
It's a big one.
The greenhouse gases and the longevity of Earth is, I think, mine.
And I do.
I think I'm going to change the speed of our carbon footprint.
No.
But maybe if other people all join in and we all do it.
Isn't that the whole thing about life?
If people did a little bit, if everybody did a little bit, it would make a humongous
difference.
Yeah.
If the world would be a nicer place.
If everybody did eat a little bit less, our world would fix itself slowly.
But that's everybody.
You just need to do a little bit collectively.
I wrote that.
Changing from a high meat eater to a low meat eater, not a no meat eater, can be a big impact.
So maybe I'll be a...
I knew it.
I knew.
I knew the conversation.
I was like, me too.
Me too.
A vegetarian.
No, you're going to be a flexitarian.
I'm going to be a vegetarian.
A vegetarian?
Like meh.
Today, I'll be a...
I kind of care.
I don't really care though, but meh.
I'll help.
Meh.
Not today.
I'll help my children's life.
Meh.
They're eating chicken nuggets.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm not that horrible.
Like I'm not that, you know, that horrible.
I'm listening to what she's saying.
I do like to learn it is very hard for me to change, but I change when Victoria changes.
So.
I have a lot of responsibility.
But yeah, so that is, that's the main nitty gritty of it.
Like all of these greenhouse gases are trapped in the atmosphere, which can, which can last
in the atmosphere a few years to thousands.
Oh, okay.
Thousands.
And some are more effective than others and what we're producing as humans, they're the
most effective or emitted.
It emitted, yeah.
In a negative way.
And it is rapidly affecting life.
So I'm going to put you on the spot.
Is there a documentary or a show that you've seen recently that is a good explanation of
this that you would suggest that we watch?
I think down to Earth with Zac Efron.
I was just going to say, I didn't know if that was specifically about water.
No, no, no.
There's one episode or one segment that was about the water we talked about, about the
water, the water.
Zac Efron partners with a man named Darian and he is a vegan and he, he's wonderful.
He is, this is like his baby, making sure people are informed about changes that they
can make in a small and big way or however they want to do it.
I would also say connected on Netflix and that is basically a documentary of just like
what I said, it's how what one person in France is doing affects you, right?
That you don't even know.
Look up connected because I could watch that again because it's jaw dropping of like, oh
my gosh, no way.
See and I haven't watched it because I'm afraid.
And it's not bad though.
These aren't Doomsday.
These aren't Doomsday documentaries.
No, I know.
But I know that it's bad.
It's getting bad.
It's getting worse and I am not prepared.
I think because I do have three small kids.
You're avoiding it.
Yeah.
It's an avoidance thing and I could be helping the cause but I'm scared of it.
So I'm like, you're making it worse.
Yeah.
And I'm just going to make fun of you.
You pescatarian.
I love that you're saying it like an insult.
I do.
I'm really sorry if any of you guys are pescatarians.
I'm totally just making fun of her because she just came out as a pescatarian on episode
30.
I did.
It's not even a big deal.
It's something I knew Carly was going to take to heart because we didn't grow up this way
and it's changed and it's also even though it doesn't affect Carly, like it kind of
does.
We do meals together.
We do barbecues.
But it also doesn't.
Because you don't have to worry about it.
Oh, I know.
I know.
But hey, it'll be fun.
We'll do like a mushroom burger, salmon burger.
I like I'm breaking generational habits in my family.
But anyway, watch that Zac Efron one.
I mean, he was super smart to talk about something serious when you can look at somebody like
that.
How smart is that?
He's so beautiful.
We need to do more of that.
I know.
Just I highly recommend it.
For lots of reasons and they do such fun things and there's it makes you want to travel
and it makes you want to just dive into other cultures and it's just so good.
I'm actually going to rewatch it after this with Zac Efron.
I'm going to call him.
No, no, no, no, I mean, like I want to do those things with him.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Well, sure.
We can sing high school musical together.
I don't think you're invited anymore.
I think it's a time he wants to forget, but whatever.
All right.
So the last thing I'm going to say about this before we play this super fun game that I
didn't create.
It's a quiz online.
So it'll be fun.
So just any country, every country, the food system is responsible for a third of the planet
heating alone.
Jeez.
And when it's heating, what it's doing is it's killing the rainforest.
It's killing the coral reef.
We need those like it doesn't seem like we need those.
We need them to survive.
Of course we do.
Springfield, Delaware County patrons.
We need the rainforest to stay alive.
We learned that in like the third grade.
Trees and plants grab the carbon and they can eat it.
OK.
So the more trees we have, the better it will be.
However, we're consuming so much more that we don't have enough of that to help anymore.
And we're cutting down trees like it's our job to build up the world that is crumbling.
So there aren't any trees to grab it to grab the toxins.
The United Nations has called for a drastic reduction in meat consumption.
So it's it's there's so many other ways to to be a part of this change, like the cleaning
products you choose.
All of those sustainability brands that are out there.
The H&M has a great sustainability clothing line.
They do.
And like you it literally says sustainable.
Little ways like that.
The United Nations is calling for less meat.
Yeah.
That's what they're calling for because that's the biggest one.
That's the big one.
And I think with that said, pescetarians still meat.
I'm still eating fish.
Right.
So I'm still eating fish farming is bad.
And wild fish is great.
And so like all of that that stuff is in there.
I'm slowly working into what who knows where I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
I don't have an idea.
But pescetarian I'm excited about.
Yeah.
You might be a Plexitarian.
It's a Plex Pascotarian and a Plexitarian.
Oh, oh, Plexitarian.
I put it together.
A Plexitarian.
Plexitarian.
I like that.
All right.
I like that so much.
We're going to move on.
We're going to play a game that I found on the online internet.
That cyberspace.
And it's called it's a quiz.
Carly's going to take this quiz and we're all going to be along for the ride.
The name of it.
Are you a vegan, vegetarian, an omnivore or a caveman?
Okay.
Say it again.
A vegan, a vegetarian, an omnivore or a caveman.
All right.
That's not the quiz.
That's the title.
I know.
Oh, okay.
You don't have to answer that question.
Oh, okay.
Do you care how your food met its demise?
A, of course.
I will never put anything that is an organic non-animal products on my plate.
B, yes.
Inhumane slaughterhouses disgust me.
C, yes, but not enough to stop eating it.
C, as long as it's meat, I don't care.
C, what type of food do you prefer?
Grains, beans, fruits, tofu, milk, egg, salads, meat, cheese, everything.
Did it die to get to me?
No.
C, B.
Tofu, milk, egg, salads?
Yes.
No, I don't like that one.
Let's see.
Meats, cheeses?
No, I don't like that one either.
We went with tofu because I already clicked.
Okay.
Why do you eat the way that you do?
That's a bigger question.
Whoa, whoa.
I have a moral obligation to not eat any animal products.
I have a moral obligation to not eat any animals.
I have always eaten this way and I have no moral problems with meat.
I have always eaten this way.
I feel attacked.
If you were in the wilderness, how would you acquire food?
Andrew!
That's E.
Okay.
A, I would forage for my food.
I would eat like our monkey cousins.
It's how this is written that made me laugh.
B, I would forage as well, but I might steal an egg from a bird's nest.
C, I would forage, but if I saw the chance for meat, I wouldn't say no.
And then D, I would stalk my prey, pounce, miss, and go hungry because my stomach can
no longer process non-meat foods.
I'm going A because I could never kill anything ever and then cook it.
Couldn't do it.
Even an egg.
No, I could not eat a baby bird.
I agree.
Uh-oh.
Interesting.
Yeah.
What do you eat in your breakfast?
Bread and butter, green salad, meat bread, or anything which I have on my table?
None of those.
I know.
I did the same thing.
What's meat bread?
I don't know.
Like meat pies?
Maybe.
Like from Sweeney Todd?
Let's say green salad.
Okay, but we don't.
Okay, fine.
That's veggies, but we don't.
You don't eat bread and butter either.
So no.
Those are your only four options.
She doesn't like change and she doesn't like being confined to options.
Pick any one of these.
Dairy products, green vegetables, anything that can satisfy my needs or grilled chicken
grilled chicken.
Grilled chicken.
I know that goes against everything we're talking about today, but yeah.
Choose any one of your favorite drinks.
I go with whole milk.
I prefer Coke always, not cocaine.
Oh, take me out.
I'm out.
Eggnog or silver tequila.
I can't live without it.
I mean, I don't like any of those other options, silver tequila all the way.
I don't like any of those other options, but that's the only reason.
Where's your favorite place to eat?
This is your last question.
A pure vegetarian restaurant, any plant based restaurant, an expensive restaurant or anywhere
that offers delicious food?
Anywhere that offers delicious food.
All right.
What am I?
You're a caveman.
Stop it.
No, I'm not, though.
You are not normal.
You always act in a rude manner.
Stop it.
I am, though.
Wait, because, but all my answers didn't have meat in them.
I just didn't like.
You're a caveman, though.
I mean, that's true.
I'm like, I'm set in my ways.
Not normal.
Well, we all know that I'm set in my ways.
I have a hard time with change, but when I do change, it does tend to stick, but it's
getting me to make that change.
You pescatarian.
Carly, guess what?
What?
You're a caveman.
I'm not sure I won.
I hope it was informative.
I mean, it was very informative to me.
I think I know all this stuff in the back of my mind, but just like we do every week,
you don't put it in play.
Like you just don't.
We know this.
We know the earth is not not doing well right now, but the every man, all of us need to do
a little bit more.
And if that means cutting down your meat portion a little bit a day, you're doing something.
Yeah.
Or if that means reusing your bags, bring all those TJ Maxx bags that you buy because
they're cute in their 99 cents, start bringing them to the grocery store.
Stop getting the paper bag or even the plastic bags, especially the plastic bags.
Try to look at the products that you're buying and see if they test on animals or see if
they're organically made.
I've always wanted to do the cleaning products, the chemical free.
Like I have a Windex or Breed.
Like I have all the stuff and once I had kids, I was like, Oh man, I don't even know what's
in this.
Yeah.
And I'm spraying it everywhere and then my kids are eating off the table and I'm saying
it's clean, but it's not.
Yeah.
They're putting toxins in their mouth.
So this might be my little kick in the pants.
Where we go to yoga is starting a sustainability.
Maybe that's a good place to start.
Yes.
Refill.
It's called refill.
It's the back room of EverFresh yoga studio.
We had Tyler on for one of our episodes, tried to teach Carly how to breathe.
Fired up.
He continues to try to get Carly fired up.
Chelsea and Tyler are opening a sustainability store and it's really, really cute.
Did you go in there to check it out?
No, no, we didn't go in there today.
It's really cute.
There's a whole wall shelf of glass bottles and so you buy the bottle and you can go back,
you refill.
That's the whole point.
You refill these products so that your carbon footprint isn't the plastics that you're
getting, that your detergents coming in or your shampoos.
I think they have shampoo and conditioner bars and it's all stuff like that, even lotions.
So it's like soaps and right now cleaning.
Yeah, like maybe some beauty products or stuff like that.
Yeah.
And the point is you go and refill it instead of buying new again.
Every single time.
Yeah.
And putting those solid waste into the landfills that are so close to just combusting the
earth.
Right?
Yeah, we should have him on, maybe talk about it.
Yeah, him and Chelsea.
I think it's Chelsea's baby and it's brilliant.
It's wonderful.
So check them out if you're in this area.
You can all do a little bit to make a big difference and that's something we learned
in kindergarten.
Right.
That if everybody's nice to each other, the world will be a better place.
We learned that a long time ago.
We actually need to do it.
Is that the Barbie movie premise?
Yes.
Oh my gosh, guys.
Now you're talking my language.
Barbie movie.
I saw it twice last week.
What you need to do is disguise big problems in cute clothes, blonde hair and singing and
dancing and I'm in.
It's a fun way to say, like, listen, let's all do our part.
Yeah.
Which is, I think my whole reason, I think a big piece of what deters people is when
people are preachy.
Right.
Yeah.
Anything that people are passionate about, which is what it is.
It's a passion, but it's like you get shamed if you're not on board with their passion.
Victoria has always been, this is what I'm doing.
This is not what you have to do and this does not affect you.
And that has how she's always lived her life.
I don't live my life that way.
I'm the complete opposite.
I'm like, Victoria, we're doing this or what are you doing?
Cause I'm going to do it too.
I'm very codependent, but she's always said that kind of thing.
Like you don't, you're good.
This is just something that I'm trying.
This is something that I'm doing, but I have no problem making fun of you.
No.
Which is what I was hoping to make this a little more lively.
Do you want to go get a burger right now?
No.
Oh.
So my, my real tip of the day for you is to just do some research and do some homework.
See something about the environments and the world, maybe not the environment as a whole,
maybe just the world around you in your bubble, in your household.
See what changes that you can make.
Maybe you do throw the windexes out and you start getting a little bit more organic spray,
you know, for your countertops and stuff like that.
You can make it too.
Just do a little homework and see if there's one small impact that you can make for the
greater good in your household, in your life.
And now for your real extra tip of the week, it's called cut it out.
But you have to do the fingers with it.
What does cut it out from full house mean?
It means we want you to just cut a little bit of that meat, maybe meat protein.
But what we want you to do is add another type of protein, add a little bit of avocado,
add a tri lentils, put some chia seeds in it, anything you can to spice up your protein
intake and also enjoy it.
And cut your carbon footprint.
Yeah.
Cut it out and maybe we'll all become flexitarians.
Oh my gosh, she's flexing.
I'm flexing.
No.
I'll try it.
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