Welcome to Fit to Be Real.
What's up?
Oh, and a little extra.
Oh my God, I forgot where we were.
And a little extra.
She said, what's up?
Now you know.
No, that was real.
Yes.
I forgot where we were and what we were doing.
Oh my God, I cannot believe you just did that.
What's up?
I'm sorry, I just came from school drop off, so I'm like, all out of sorts.
So if you tuned in last week, she said she was going to wear all the clothes and wanted
to wear all the clothes that are in her closet that truly are like, it's like a cartoon of
things exploding, like clothes are just coming out of everywhere, drawers, hangers, baskets.
So she's wearing a beautiful gold sequined skirt as a dress.
I took the tags off this morning, dropped Dean off at school.
Maybe in this, maybe not.
You guys will use your imagination.
And yeah, this is me.
This is me.
I think it's the giant fabric earrings that are going with it.
Well, they don't go with the skirt, but I never get to wear these.
So you don't care about matching this version of you.
Whoa, don't say that.
Don't you dare.
I'm going cream and gold.
I'm going with like an aesthetic.
I feel like this is very Gen Z.
This is like basic beige plain.
You're wearing sequins.
I know, but the color palette.
Anyway, this was for school drop off.
I don't know what to tell you.
What's up?
So if you're listening, I can't, I cannot.
If you are listening in on any, you know, anywhere you listen to your podcasts and you stream
Spotify, Apple, whatever, know that you can watch this as well on our YouTube channel.
If you dare, if you really want the visual, I think we've always been really good at describing
what's going on.
And so now, now we're going to continue to describe well the expressions or a lack of,
you know, life in the eyes.
I don't understand why you're referencing towards me with your hand like constantly.
But now, now with YouTube, you can watch the train wreck happen.
I'm included in the train wreck.
This is not just she's wearing a Dolly Parton shirt.
This is very on brand for both of us.
She shows up in a Dolly shirt.
I show up in a skirt dress with, you know, Bahama earrings.
This is very Island.
Island earrings with a skirt dress.
It's a vibe.
Yeah, it's a vibe.
So welcome back and a little extra.
What are we talking about today?
You tell me because Carly is the one who wanted to talk about this and I'm happy because this is exactly where I am in my life right now.
And I am so frustrating and I did it to myself.
I do it to myself every season.
It feels like I would say that we do it a lot less these years.
We do.
I'm in it.
I'm in it right now.
But yeah, you're right.
She's in it.
She's in a mood.
We're going to talk about it.
We are talking about beating the bloat.
So we know that we all just got through the holiday seasons wherever you are in the country.
However, just this country.
Just this one.
All of our friends overseas.
We can't help you.
We don't know how to help you.
We barely know how to help our country.
Dolly would help.
But she can't help us today because we did this to ourselves over the holiday season and you ate too much.
You drank too much.
You ate the salty foods.
You ate the desserts.
Fine.
Everybody.
Absolutely fine.
Now how do we deal with it?
Cry.
Well, a lot after that.
That does get the water weight off.
Yeah.
I will say that helps a little bit.
But we're going to talk about how to de-bloat or beat the bloat after the holiday season.
Cry a little.
Die just a little.
What's that song?
I have no idea.
Pretend that you're feeling a little more pain.
Faith Hill.
Someone else something in return.
So cry just a little.
Did instinct do a cover of it?
For me?
No.
Brittany?
I don't know.
Faith Hill.
I know.
I don't know it.
Oh my God.
Let's talk about bloat.
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys.
I'm Carly.
And I'm bloated.
We all are.
Even if you were super good over the holidays or you were okay and you're like, okay, some
days I was bad.
I'm air quoting bad because some days I indulged a little more than I normally do.
Some days I didn't.
But on average, you generally did good.
It doesn't matter.
Bloat happens.
I was horrible.
I don't feel that you were.
I really don't.
I'm happy for you.
I'm happy that you feel that way.
I don't know.
I don't feel like you were.
I feel like we're more conscious of it now.
Like when you're conscious of it.
You're conscious of it.
Yeah.
I was consciously aware of how horrible I was.
The choices I was making, I was just so like content and happy with the holiday season
and the holiday season leading up to the holidays, right?
And that.
And that's great.
Like I'm not, I don't regret anything.
I don't regret it.
No regrets.
No regrets because I, you know, put stock into Dot's pretzels.
Oh my God.
I gave them so much of my money.
Oh my God.
And I know regrets.
They're just so good.
I do it again.
Yeah.
I do it again too, but not for a little while until we de-bloke.
Hold on.
Have you tried the cinnamon?
No, you keep telling me about these cinnamon Dot's pretzels.
I have not had that.
Oh my God.
It's a game to, if you know what the Dot's pretzels are, the original is awesome.
But the cinnamon, if you like a sweet tooth, which is like my problem.
Sweet and salty.
Sugar.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
It's so good.
Like they're incredible.
But I feel like maybe they put a little crack in them.
Do they put a little crack in them?
I mean, yeah, that's the hidden spice.
Yeah.
That's the hidden spice.
It's like Dot's pretzels with a side of crack.
It's funny.
It's funny because you know we have no idea what we're talking about.
No, I don't know how you do crack, but we've done episodes about gut health before.
Yeah.
We're not, that's not what this is.
So if go listen to that one again.
You're like, wait, you guys already did this.
You already talked about gut health and all that.
This is different.
Like gut health is a daily routine, daily habit.
This is, you've gone overboard a little bit and now we got to get G to come back.
It's really just like the what, because how many times I've said it before I knew what
it was like, I'm bloated.
But what is it?
What is bloat?
Why does it happen?
How can you relieve it?
Because you can and know that bloat is not fat.
Yes.
So bloating fat are two different things, right?
And we're going to talk about that.
We're going to prove it to you.
Well, I'm so glad you brought that up because the biggest misconception of bloating is that
you just overate.
Like people think bloating, oh, I ate a huge meal.
I'm bloated.
That is the number one biggest misconception.
It happens over time.
You are stuffed after a big meal and a big meal does.
It's the same effect.
Yes.
It like attributes to bloating, but it is not the sole reason for bloat.
That's just a food, baby.
Yeah.
That's just a food, baby.
It's just your stomach being like, there's no room at the end.
And, yep, that's a good way to put it.
So that's the biggest misconception is that I ate a big meal and bloated.
The doctor version, you know, Dr. Justin would say it's an excess of gas and there is a million
ways to gain an excessive gas.
Yeah.
So let's talk about it.
Yes, I can't wait.
What are the causes of bloat?
Lots of things.
Okay.
I actually had to write this stuff down.
So it is my brain these days.
I don't know if it's a holiday thing.
I don't know if it's we're in a new year.
So I can't say it's like just the year for seven days in.
Yeah.
We just started, but like my brain, I cannot remember things.
If I don't write them down, I'm tired at night.
I can't retain.
Part of it is you're still on like, yeah.
Put your hand away.
You're still in that I don't feel well.
I need to get back on my routine.
You're not clear-minded right now.
That neither of us are.
There's a lot happening.
The eating isn't on our routine.
The working out isn't on our routine right now.
We're sort of just getting by and that is brain fog.
That's literally what happens.
I'm in the foggiest.
It's London in my mind.
It's London town.
Great.
It's a foggy day in London town.
Okay.
So what causes that?
What causes this bloat?
Just like anything else.
You can do too much and you can do not enough.
So if you're eating too much fiber as well as if you're not eating enough fiber, bloat.
Life is so hard.
It's hard.
You just it's so hard.
You got to find a happy medium with everything.
Yeah.
Like everything.
Anyway, you'll be okay.
We're going to talk through it and figure it out together.
Okay.
Can't wait.
I forget what your question was though.
Okay.
The causes of bloat.
Oh, the causes of bloat.
The causes.
Eating too fast.
Yes.
That's one that I have learned.
I think that's an inherited thing.
Our daddy's really fast.
I mean, you take one bite and he's done his meal.
Yeah.
And not an exaggeration.
Our dad is the fastest eater.
I've noticed that more and more these days and I think I, so you're not chewing enough.
So when you eat too fast, it's because you're, you're putting too much in your mouth.
Number one.
And it's not getting completely chewed up, which is the proper way for your stomach to digest it.
So when, I mean, this is going to, nothing is going to be attractive that we're about to say.
So when there's big chunks going down, it's harder for your stomach to break them down,
which causes a lot more work for the stomach lining, which is where that bloat feeling comes in because the more the stomach contracts,
it distends the, the distended stomach.
Oh, we're going to talk about it in a minute.
That's not like a threat.
Sorry.
But that comes from eating too fast and it's not chewing the food and then bringing too much air into the swallow.
So you think you know, and then you have no idea.
This is an E true Hollywood story.
You think you know, I need an a British accent.
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Why is it my for lady?
Why, why is that your accent?
That was not.
That's not even how that happened.
You know, the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
I was sort of going for that guy.
He's like, you didn't do it.
You missed it.
Anyway, yeah, you think you know, but you have no idea.
Okay.
That's what I meant to say.
I would assume that bloat comes from overeating all that all the salty foods, all that, but air.
I had no idea.
I had no idea that bloat came from swallowing too much air.
Air is a big one that I read.
Yeah, me too.
That's why I don't I, but I knew this because I haven't chewed gum.
We used to be big.
We're going to talk about this, but yeah, we're going to talk about everything.
I know, I know, I know, you're getting you're getting ahead of it.
Well, you asked me what the things were.
Go ahead.
No, she's not here today.
So what's up?
What's up?
We used to the extra the green I can see.
Yeah, extra gum.
It's gum.
I forget what the flavor is, but we used to the whole family.
Yeah.
Like Jeannie or aunt is who pops in my mind when I think about it.
That I forget when I learned it, but the more gum you chew, you're just creating those
bubbles in the gum itself or air pockets that you then just put in your mouth and swallow
without really thinking about it.
And that creates bubbles and air in the stomach, which is just gas and bloat.
Yeah, I didn't know that or maybe I did and I blocked it out.
I know I probably took when I found that out, I stopped chewing gum.
I don't chew gum.
So I chew gum every day.
It's so rare that I even buy gum.
I have one pack and it's like a, it was for when I was going on dates and I was like,
I don't know if I eat something garlic.
Yeah, I might as well just have a pack of gum in my bag.
Yeah.
And now I don't care.
Yeah.
And the thing is it was like big in the 80s and 90s, like when cocaine chic was like,
it was so important for everybody to be super skinny.
They were just, you know, smoking cigarettes and chewing gum.
Like I feel like that was a meal.
Yes, that was the meal.
That was the model meal.
It's ridiculous.
Cocaine, cocaine chic.
And well, because you did, you did drugs too.
If you're not crack, not crack cocaine, you did the cocaine and the gum was like a meal
replacement. It would suppress your, it would make your body think you were chewing and
eating.
So that to me is like a very 80s and 90s thing, chewing gum to not eat a meal.
Oh, well, I never chew gum to not eat a meal.
It was just like a habit.
Like, oh, you're going to a show.
Let me pop a piece of gum in my mouth.
No, that's just what I always think of with chewing gum.
Like, oh, how do I not like grab those Oreos to a piece of gum?
Because you don't want to have Oreos after a piece of gum.
Oh, I could do anything.
We're going to be completely honest.
I could do anything.
Well, basically don't do it because it's just swallowing air bubbles.
Don't do it.
Also straws.
Oh, yeah.
How about that?
And I have to, I, I, I drink straws all the time.
I'm trying to save my teeth from all the coffee.
So here's my question about straws.
You're saving your teeth from coffee, but then other people say straws create wrinkle lines.
Who do we believe?
I, oh no, it totally creates it because you go.
I'm sorry.
One more.
You make this a little personal.
Hold on.
Hold it.
All right.
Screenshot.
Perfect.
That's upsetting.
Okay.
So you make that.
Yeah.
My mom always says it all the time.
I know.
But so my mom said it the other day, our mom, whatever, she's your mom too.
And, but then I use it to save my teeth from coffee, but I'm like, okay, what's the
lesser of two evils here?
It's what you don't care about.
So we're going to have laugh.
Lines on our face either way.
And we all have the genetic.
Yeah.
We have this lovely little parentheses around our mouth.
So like, oh, well, yeah.
And, and it's, it's a right of passage to wrinkle.
Say that again.
Nope.
I'm never going to let it go.
But yeah, straws.
So now I got to rethink.
Do I want to drink a straw because I have a lot of stuff to do.
Because I don't want to be like, do I not do a forego the straw for no bloating or use
the straw to save my teeth?
I don't know.
Lesser of two evils.
I mean, I also use straw if I'm going to go to a restaurant.
I don't like to put my, this is my like germophobia.
I don't like to put my mouth on a glass, even though I know that they get cleaned with high
temperature dishwashing, but like we think, you know, I was a server, I saw things fall
and then people just pick them up and go, whoops.
So I always get a straw and my teeth are sensitive.
So if it's cold, I want to get the water past my teeth.
I'm never going to let go of straws.
I'm just going to be bloated.
Well then you can leave the episode because we still have a lot more to talk about.
I would love for you to shut this whole thing down.
No, I wouldn't be able to do it.
I'd be on camera forever.
So what happens after you do all those things?
Too much fiber, not enough fiber.
Oh, wait.
I'm going to talk about this one that's super important that you told me about not eating
enough.
Oh yeah.
So that makes you bloated.
So overeating and under eating both makes you bloated.
That's just not fair.
It's called starvation mode.
And it's not actually, I actually explain this maybe once every other week to people.
Like I'm constantly reminding people it's not wait, it's bloat.
Here's why, right?
So starvation mode is your body is saving itself.
Your body is saving itself from like going hungry and not getting the nutrients.
So when you under eat, you're not feeding it enough and it doesn't know when you're going
to feed it again.
So instead of burning the carbohydrates and burning the fat essentially converting from
fat to muscle, it stores it because it's like, well, we're hibernating for winter.
Yeah, gotta gotta keep it in there so that whenever she decides to feed me again, I have
something to live off of.
It's it's the body is awesome.
Like it's really cool how it works and it can save itself and it can regenerate and
do other things.
But that one's BS.
Yeah, it's so annoying.
But at the same token, never under eat.
You want to you gotta eat.
You have to eat to lose weight to maintain weight to stay healthy.
You have to eat.
Under eating is just as bad as overeating.
So here's my way of describing it to which I think a lot of people understand because
this is how I understood it.
Good, good, good.
Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna break it down for a second.
Let's do it.
The reason or the feeling of being bloated comes out in a distended belly.
Yeah.
So when you see those horrible, horrible commercial commercials of the orphan babies and they
all have these large distended bellies.
It's malnutrition.
They're asking for money so they can be fed.
But you're like, why do they have enormous bellies?
Because they are so bloated from not eating enough and sucking in air.
So that's what I picture.
Not that I picture this often, but when you're bloated and you're like, I don't understand
why I'm not eating, but I'm bloated.
Picture that.
That's why.
You're not feeding it enough and you're sucking in air and then you get a distended belly.
Now theirs is a very.
That's really sad.
No, but I'm saying that's how you can understand.
I don't understand why I'm not eating enough, but I'm but I'm still bloated.
That's why.
Yeah, it's malnutrition.
You're not giving your body enough or in that situation, any food to function properly.
Like every organ that you have has a purpose.
Every except for Carly's brain.
Every.
I had to take it back from the serious place that you took it.
I didn't throw a joke in there.
Listen, it's the I'm all about the visuals.
My brain works in a visual way.
If I can't see it, I don't understand it.
Right.
Well, it's the same thing.
It's the like when you feel distended like that, it's like, oh, I look like I'm pregnant.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you're not unless you are.
Listen, we don't we don't want to go there.
Unless you are.
No, we don't know.
So, yeah, that distention in the belly is nine times out of 10 air, under eating air.
No, that's it.
Over eating, but not enough fiber, too much fiber.
It's like not fair.
Yeah, it's not fair.
You'll be OK.
I don't like to live my life down the medial strip.
I like to go big or go home.
And this doesn't allow me to do that.
This means you have to go to the straight and narrow and like walk the fine line of the
medium and that's just not what I like to do.
Well, nothing's linear.
Like you can't just you that that's impossible to do that.
I want to live life like through the straight and narrow and like do everything perfectly
and never overindulge and never, you know, underindulge who underindulges.
Well, people that don't eat enough and think I want to lose weight, so I'm going to not
eat breakfast and lunch today.
And then you wake up loaded because you didn't eat enough.
Yeah, yeah.
So let's talk about prevention.
How do we prevent that?
I love that you are taking the reins here.
I love it.
Your segwayist ism.
I'm such a good segwayist.
They're on fire almost to the point where it feels like she rehearsed and scripted.
But she hasn't.
I think this dress skirt.
I feel like I'm on QVC and know what do you want to talk about now?
This is the sale of the day.
Bloat.
She is selling bloat and you are selling it so well.
Am I making it look good at least?
I need to do Collins.
That's what we need to do.
Collins to be like, I want some bloat.
I want to buy some bloat from the girl wearing a skirt as a dress with some Island earrings.
Oh, my.
All right.
You want to talk about prevention or reducing it?
You want to talk about prevention?
No, we can do reducing, reduce, reuse, recycle.
Go ahead.
No, we're going to do prevention.
Don't eat too much.
Cool.
My past self should have heard that, but I didn't.
We've already said basically everything now.
Chew thoroughly.
Like that's what was, I think it's made fun of obviously.
But like the etiquette, like the old school etiquette classes for women.
For women.
Yeah.
I think like London, like British.
We love the British.
Not that.
That's not etiquette.
But we do love when you become it.
Because it's a little bit Australian.
You never give us enough.
It's not.
No.
Nope.
That's not.
Okay.
Nope.
I'm not going, but it will turn into Southern.
You cannot sustain your cockney accent.
What's the girl in my fair lady?
What's her name?
Oh, Eliza Doolittle.
Eliza Doolittle.
Somebody give me a stage.
Do it.
The rain in Spain.
The rain in Spain stays mindfully on the pline.
Why does your face do that?
This is a time that you want to tune into YouTube to watch what just happened.
Watch what happened live.
So yeah, you want to chew thoroughly and I think of those etiquette classes because
it was like some ridiculous number like a hundred times to chew.
That was a fad for a while, I think.
I never did that.
I never was like, hold on, I have to count my.
No, but our, our pop did.
Pop-op used to chew 25 times before he swallowed.
I remember that.
Then he put like pads of butter on his cornbread across the market.
So he did not walk the fine line, but he chewed it 25 times.
All right.
Try 25.
See what happens.
This is not, you know, medical.
This is not medical people.
I don't know if you understand that.
We're guessing here.
So avoid those pads of butter because the next ones avoid salty fatty foods.
Because that the stomach just has to work a lot harder to digest those.
And that is what creates the contractions in the stomach muscle and the stomach lining.
And those contractions are where it creates some retention, water retention.
So when, when the stomach is constantly working, which is this like contracting, squeezing,
letting it go and releasing, the body sends fluid to basically help, quote unquote, help
the muscle or the stomach do its job.
And so it sends fluid to all the other places.
And that's where the water retention comes in, which is the bloating feeling.
So the harder the digestive tract has to work, the stomach, the GI system, the more bloated
you're going to feel, not necessarily fat you're going to gain.
Right.
Because that's more of like a consistent intake versus, oh, I just ate something that made
me feel bloated.
Like a one and done is not really going to, you have to really do that every day to gain
fat.
Well, what's it's the time of the podcast where I say, you know, this meme I saw, I
really love that you're late.
Yeah, I know.
It took me this long.
It literally says you cannot ruin all of your progress in one meal.
And that's what, but it might feel like that the next day after you feel bloated because
of this one big salty, maybe meal that you've had, it might feel like that, but you, you're
not going to ruin all your progress.
It's the consistency of doing that.
Yeah.
That, that's what ruins it.
Yeah.
So that's just bloat.
And that's what I think she's, that's what she means when she says bloat versus fat.
It is what I mean.
Thank you.
But I need to say it.
If I don't say it, I, I won't say it.
I'll spray it.
I was going to say that and I was like, no, I'm not going to say that.
Cool.
Well, we did anyway.
Hydrate, which seems redundant.
Is that the word I would?
Yeah, it does.
Redundant.
Because you want to take in water, but you also want to lose the water.
Right.
So the extension in bloat is like what, what are we water weight, water weight, water weight.
But to release that, you have to drink water.
Yeah.
So dehydration is, we didn't list it earlier, but that's a huge reason for bloat and your
muscles and your organs are like begging for, for water.
And so they all contract and they like, I mean, if you can fit shrivel, right?
That's not actually happening and it would take however many days of dehydration for
that to like really happen.
But that feeling of them needing water so badly is what the body is like, okay, we're
going to try to push whatever water we have.
We're going to ration and we're going to send to all the organs to make them function as
like minimally as they possibly can with the water that we do have, which is why like your
skin, you ever wake up and you have the lines on your face every day.
Oh, oh, oh.
You dehydrated.
Well, I'm canceled.
It's fine.
It's the brain fog.
That's dehydration.
Yeah.
So like when you have the, you know, in the sometimes I'll look pillowcase or like, gosh,
I have lines for my t-shirt that I wore.
That's dehydration.
That means you didn't drink enough water.
Your skin is not, you know, like it's not cushiony.
It's not that like supple.
I hate that word.
I hate that.
Dude, I think I do too.
I hate that word.
Supple.
It's up there with like moist and supple.
Trigger and anxiety.
It's up with those words.
Cool.
But yes.
Yeah.
I, when you're saying all this, I'm picturing the shriveled up little things in the little
mermaid at the bottom of Ursula's lair, you know, with like, oh, you are visual.
I have to, because that's what I feel.
Like when you don't have enough water, you're like that little shrinking thing at the bottom
of Ursula's lair of all the people that sold their souls.
I feel like I've sold my soul sometime.
For what though?
I don't know why.
I'm not sure.
Yeah.
In any case, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, because you're going to take in the water.
It's going to go to the organs and the everything in your body that it needs to.
And then the excess water is what flushes everything out.
Yeah.
So the more you hydrate, I mean, the better.
You can over hydrate.
So don't do that, but stay hydrated.
I've talked about that.
Fiber is a big one.
Yeah.
The one you were going to say next.
No, I was done.
Oh yeah.
Fiber for, and this is again for prevention.
Yeah.
Not, we'll get into how to help yourself after it's happened, but the prevention is to get
enough fiber, which I know that I don't.
And when I think of fiber, I think of our mom and our aunt.
That's weird.
Being like, well, they always talked about, oh, I haven't gone to the bathroom in a couple
days.
Don't you remember that growing up?
And they had to eat fiber one cereal.
We had to eat fiber one.
And then we had, we ate fiber one bars because they needed, we needed to be regular.
But we also didn't have a lot of sweets in the house.
So if you wanted to like sneak some fiber one bars, you were just it.
You were rough.
Rough.
It was like, oh, the chocolate.
Because fiber one bars had chocolate on the bottom, but they were fiber.
And it was like, yeah, we had a little too many of them because we wanted, our mom wanted
us to be regular, but she was also telling us to try and be unique.
So it was very confusing growing up.
Be your own person, but also we need you to be regular.
So that's what we mean by fiber.
I have had gut issues my whole life.
But it's what Carly hated me for.
Oh my God.
Every morning.
I would make her late for school because she would drive.
Well, no, you didn't drive until senior year.
I didn't drive until she was 27,000 years old, but mom drove us to school.
Right.
So neither, either way, she had to go to school.
And she was like, oh, I'm going to be in the car.
Right. So neither, either way, she had to go with me, but I was late and I didn't get
to go to the bathroom before this one because she was in there for however long first.
One bathroom house.
One bathroom house that didn't shut the door.
It didn't.
Still doesn't.
And I would make her late every day and I'd be like, there's nothing I can do.
I'm not well.
Yeah.
And I guess it was the fiber one bar.
Note to self, don't over fiber your children or under fiber your children if you want them
to go to school on time.
If you're not getting in a fiber though, the bent of fiber is really, that's pretty helpful.
Yes.
You could do the to go packets because they're already portioned out for you.
And you can put it in the what, in the water.
Yeah.
A couple foods that are healthy and really have a good amount of fiber in them are beans,
broccoli, avocados and oatmeal.
And that's why the song beans, beans, musical fruit happened because.
I'm sorry.
Could you sing that song for us?
I just did.
No.
Beans, beans, musical fruit.
The mall, you eat the mall, you too.
Why?
I don't know.
Why?
It's better with an accent.
Also finish the song.
Finish the song.
Damn it.
The mall, you too.
The better you feel.
So eat shebangs at every meal.
I don't like which has happened.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It's the skirt dress.
It felt very supple to me.
If you are a measure, I'm going to ignore what's happening over here.
You should be having 14 grams of fiber a day.
If you are a measure, you can absolutely do that.
Measure?
If you like to measure your protein, measure your everything, go to 14 grams.
It's easier than you think.
Yeah.
You just have to eat more vegetables and fruits.
I mean, that's don't get fiber one.
It's a bunch of sugar.
It's processed.
Don't sponsor us.
Don't.
We don't want any more.
We don't.
And we had raisin brand.
Raisin brand.
Yes.
Oh my God.
That was our, I was like, can you put more raisins in my.
No wonder we were always late for school.
I was like so annoyed standing by the door waiting for you to come down.
And it was like, she was not apologetic ever.
Why would I be?
I'm not functioning well.
I don't know what to say to you.
I'm like to be on time turn, turn and now you all know, and I don't care.
I literally don't care.
No, I know you don't.
So the way to reduce a relief, relief, excuse me, this is stretching.
You ever stretch?
No, never.
But you would do it to your baby.
I was picturing this, you know how a baby, you, they get constipated and you have to
pull their legs in and out and the doctor says, pull the legs in and out.
Sure.
They're the side rub their belly.
That's what you have to do as an adult.
Yes.
Yeah, I never do that.
You should.
I know.
Okay.
I don't think you have to get Andrew to pull your legs or anything.
Please.
No, no visuals.
No, I do think I kind of want to see that.
So you could film that.
That'd be great.
Take it back.
No.
Okay.
But yeah, just stretching.
If you sleep on your left side, if you're a left side sleeper, you, that is the proper
side to sleep on.
First of all, and to lay on and to shift to because of how the stomach is shaped in the
body.
So when you go to the left, it can drain through the GI system.
Yeah.
All the juices and everything.
I think that's another word I don't like.
Juices.
Yeah.
You said juices body.
I was thinking body juices and I don't like that.
Literally, that's what we're talking.
Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
I need a tissue.
I don't have tissues here for you.
Okay.
You have to pick, you have to stand up and show us what's on the bottom hand of your
body.
Can't do it.
Won't do it.
Body juices.
If you were wondering, it's sweatpants.
She's holding in her body juices with the sweatpants.
So yeah, laying on your left side, that will relieve gas because it will allow everything
to flow.
You're going to be gassy.
Yeah.
Like you're going to, you know, lots of things happen, but that's the better, it's the better
side.
The right side will have it store more and then you'll feel that constipated like, I
got like a rock in my stomach type thing.
You know, I'll know what I'm talking about.
So stretch, lay on your left side.
That would be a big way to relieve it in the moment.
Like it's pretty, pretty quick.
Pretty immediate.
Yeah.
One that I like to do is tea.
I'm not a tea drinker, so I have to not feel well to drink tea, to be honest with you.
And they say the best teas are peppermint, ginger, chamomile.
The peppermint relaxes your stomach.
So you know, when you're sick and your mom gives you ginger to help the nausea, because
I'm 39 and my mom still takes care of me when I'm sick and she makes me eat ginger or ginger
rail or whatever, it relaxes your stomach.
It soothes the lining of your stomach.
So if you are or want to be a tea drinker, you should try it when you are not feeling
well.
Fun fact, if you get yourself a diffuser, an oil diffuser for your room or your house,
if you get peppermint oil, that helps, yes, with the stomach, but like if you have a hangover,
you put some of that into your diffuser and diffuse that through the room.
It helps the head, it helps the spins, it helps the headache, it helps that nausea.
It works.
It sounds like a good hangover.
Yeah, that's literally what I'm saying.
That's the point.
Didn't know if we all got that or crushing it.
This one seems pretty obvious because it is over the counter medication.
Pepto-Bismol, Gas X.
I think, I don't know if I've ever used any of this.
I think I've used Toms.
Toms I've used before.
But I think it's not for like acid reflux.
Yeah, but you can use it for, I know, but I never think of it like, oh, I'm bloated,
I'm gonna pop some Toms.
Yeah.
I definitely don't think I've ever used Gas X.
I don't think I've ever been that bloated for that long of a time where I said, okay,
I need to.
That's nice.
No.
I'm really proud of you.
Wait, I'm gonna say it.
Should I say it?
I don't, yes.
Victoria went through a period of her life where she had not gone to the bathroom for
how long?
How long was it?
I don't remember, to be honest with you.
It was like, it was a long time.
It was a very long time.
I'm talking like 20 days, right?
Imagine, 20 days.
She was in so much pain.
I think I know what story you're talking about.
It was right before my wedding.
No, it was after the wedding because we had done this stupid diet, this 17-day diet that
we did for three months, which we talked about never doing, never do that, which totally
messed up her insides.
Remember, we had to go to an internist.
We talked about acupuncture.
Something was, she didn't go for so long that she was like doubled over in pain.
You don't remember that?
Wait, I actually don't remember this.
Really?
I thought you were talking about it, something else.
What were you talking about?
When I got rushed to the hospital at a funeral because...
We love funerals.
I was in so much pain that they thought it was like...
Appendicitis?
No, the egg top, ovarian cyst or something like that.
Ovarian cyst or burst or something.
I went to, wow, this is a lot of information, I went to the ER.
This is months later because I was like 23 or 24.
I had a boyfriend at the time that was sitting with me and my mom in the ER room and the
doctor came in and was like, sorry, I think you should step out.
He was like, no, anything you have to say, whatever.
I was like, you should probably step out.
He steps out of the room and the doctor was like, I'll never forget this.
I never get to say this.
I'm going to say it.
He smiled.
We were like fad and I had drank all that gross CT scan stuff.
Glucose.
Yeah, yeah, so you can see the insides of your body.
I had to drink it twice because I was so messed up that it didn't work.
My body needed it so badly that it went to my organs versus lighting myself up like a
Christmas tree.
I drank it twice and it tastes so bad.
If you know, you know.
This is long after he comes in, he says this, he smiles and I was like, oh god.
I'm okay, but what's wrong with me?
He was like, you are literally full of shit.
Do you remember that story?
And mom was like, we semi-left, but also we're like, what?
Are you kidding me?
And I, oh my god, this is so TMI.
Pedro, turn it off.
Turn it off.
I had a bladder infection so bad it was closing my intestines off.
Well, I mean, that actually is serious because it can turn into like sepsis and people sometimes
I've had a lot of near-death experiences.
Yeah, you actually have.
You have like nine lives.
Congrats to you.
I'm on my ninth.
But that's, it can be dangerous if you're so backed up like that.
It can kill you from the inside.
Yeah, it was bad.
It was bad.
Yeah.
The other one that you're talking about, I don't remember.
I literally don't remember.
You went to Dr. Daniels.
You went to, we talked to Andrew's brother who was in acupuncture school at the time
to try and see what, if maybe acupuncture might help.
That was for my hives.
No, I know.
And the hives came because you couldn't go to the bathroom.
Oh my god.
I know.
She's, I'm telling you, she's had a problem with this since she was little and it is the
most annoying thing.
And yeah, she's in pain and whatever, but like it is, it always comes back to that.
Story of my life.
Anyway, the next thing.
Well, yeah, let's buy it.
Let's just, let's just stop talking about that.
Let's take you over the counter meds.
Don't go to the ER.
Wow.
Cool.
Well, now you know.
Not much has changed.
No, no, she's still the same from the inside out, but the next one I think is something
else I never think to do is heat, a heating pad.
I, this one was chalking to me too.
I didn't know that.
I have one.
I use it for many other things.
But I thought like when I feel bloated to put a heating pad on, I would do that every
day.
It said because of the same, the same reason as when you overeat, like the stomach works
really hard to digest.
So when you do the wrong things, eat the wrong things, overeat or under eat, it goes into
those contractions, which is similar, not painful, but similar to like cramps, menstrual
cramps.
Right.
And that's what I use my heating pad for.
Which is what the heat does.
So what the reason for the heat, whether it's like that bean bag you can put in the microwave
or a heating pad or a water bottle.
What's up, Bob?
A water bottle.
Yeah, a water bottle.
Our mom just got us a heating belt that you can wear like as you go about your day.
You literally velcro it on and it's a heating pad.
I don't know where that was for the past 36 years.
Oh my gosh.
Because it's a game changer.
Well, we would have had to go to school because it would have been able to be unseen
and on.
I would take it.
I would go to school.
I would go to school for the amount of pain that it is.
Yeah.
They gave me Vicodin.
I would go to school for my period crimes.
Yeah.
Pedro, turn it off.
I was going to say we are just learning so much about Victoria's insides.
I don't even care.
Like I have nothing to lose at this.
I don't care.
2025.
We don't care.
I was going to say we don't care.
Remember?
I don't care.
What's that?
It's like Judy Garland.
Judy Garland.
Yeah.
I don't care.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, that's us.
We don't care in 2025.
Yeah.
So all those, the heat just relaxes the muscles.
That's all it does.
But it helps.
It won't like, you can't overeat a meal and put a heating pad on and be like, I'm good.
I could do it again.
Yeah.
No.
But it will, I really like how you said that.
But it will just relieve that like, it's uncomfortable.
It's discomfort and it's can be very, very painful depending on the extent of it, which
we know where I've been.
So the next one actually is eat consciously.
Like, you have to be aware of what you're putting in your mouth and what you're drinking.
No, that wasn't for you.
That was in general.
Like, eat the bananas for potassium, eat the fruit and vegetables that have a lot of
water in them, like watermelon, cucumbers, celery.
That helps daily so that you don't.
Well, it helps with hydration.
Yeah.
So it doesn't happen every day.
So eat consciously.
Take a million bites, a million.
It literally says, Dr. Justin said a million bites and then swallow.
He's so smart.
And yeah, same thing if you have intolerances, like know that your intolerances exist and
then eat accordingly.
Like I avoid dairy as much as I can and it's just an intolerance.
I don't have like an allergy.
It's not something that's going to like celiac ruin my weeks.
It's going to ruin the next couple of days for me.
So I don't, I just don't.
So you just have to consciously know that and that's if you don't want it enough, you
won't do it.
Yeah.
And then lastly, move.
Move.
Like move your body.
That was just the last thing you want to do.
No, but think about it.
When we have a big meal like Thanksgiving or Christmas or something, what was like our
joke?
You got, you want to go take a lap?
We would walk.
We did it.
Yeah.
A few times.
Many times.
A few, many.
I'm extra.
But we, we would take a walk and it will absolutely make you feel better.
Yeah.
It just like, I think it just like revs up the, the body to start working for you versus
being like, oh my God.
Yeah.
It's the same with stretching.
You're moving your legs, your metabolism starts to kick in again and it starts literally
getting everything moving.
So try it.
We are a giant tube.
If you think of it.
Give me a visual.
Okay.
You asked for it.
You don't know what a tube is.
I know what a tube is.
It goes in, it comes out.
Yeah.
Like what you put in has got to come out at some, some way, but the in between process
is completely what you decide it's going to be.
So like consciously, you know, this is going to bother you.
You got to deal with it.
Yeah.
Like you've made that decision, right?
So what goes in must come out.
I love today.
Cool.
I love today.
I know the TMI for Victoria today.
She didn't even know that was coming, but I can't.
Usually how it goes.
Yeah.
That's, that's usually how it goes.
I, we cannot stress enough how important hydration is and to some, and for me for years,
I would think, well, water is the reason my stomach is descended, distended, distended.
But it sounds counterintuitive, but the more you drink, the better it is for your whole
digestive system.
The more you drink water.
Yeah.
Did I not say that?
No.
The more you drink wine, the better it is for your digestive system.
But your body knows when it reaches, when like Victoria was saying like a little bit
of water will go here and a little will go there.
Your body knows when the water is going to all the places and it's enough and then it
will start to lose the right amount of fluid and you won't wake up with those lines anymore.
So I need to do it especially in the winter because I don't drink enough water.
Yeah.
I drink more in the summer.
Definitely.
But I still drink a lot.
Yeah.
I drink less than a gallon, but more than a hundred ounces a day.
And sometimes my body's still dehydrated.
I know.
I'm a mess.
I'm gonna die like this.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna die like this.
I never figure out the right formula and I'm okay with it.
2025 is the year of acceptance.
2025, we don't care.
I don't care.
If you don't know what that is, I am sorry.
I think all you have to type in on Instagram is I don't care and it will come up.
It's probably accurate.
Yeah.
Lastly, hold on real quick.
Hold your breath.
Don't suck in the air.
No, don't do that.
Anyway, don't try.
No, not don't.
Try to avoid seltzers.
So like if you're a spin draft or a LaCroix, that is full of air bubbles.
So if you are constantly feeling bloated, I really hope you're holding your breath.
Don't drink them.
It will release the bloat.
Okay, go.
I sometimes when I'm like really, this is bad, when I'm really thirsty, but I don't
want to work, I have a really slow faucet.
So filling up my water, like that's a chore, which is a mental problem for myself.
So a first world problem.
100%.
Not an issue at all.
But I'll be like, okay, I have a bubbly or I look great and it's cold.
So I want something cold and I'll like chug it because I'm so thirsty.
And then I'm in pain.
I'm in so much pain or I'll have to like burp so much, but it like hurts.
I know.
Like I did this.
I chugged a carbonated water.
What an idiot.
And you just said, don't swallow water.
I mean, don't know.
We want to just follow water.
Don't swallow air bubbles.
Don't chew gum.
Don't do straws.
And that's like all of that put into one.
Yeah.
A carbonated drink.
It's like a science or a project of like putting whatever in the volcano.
I'm watching it like explode.
I'm like, this'll be fun.
Yeah.
So don't do that.
Mistakes are okay.
We did it.
We did it almost.
But we have some more real and real extra tips for you because we know we love our real
and real extra tips and we kind of strayed a little bit.
There was like a how many episodes that we didn't give real and real extra tips and that's
like our thing.
Yeah.
So we're going to get back into them full-fledged.
Bring it back to you.
So your real tip is to maybe start counting your fiber because I think that is the probably
more popular way of doing it wrong.
That we're not getting enough fiber or we're eating way too much fiber because you like
all the fibrous foods and that's great because that just means that they're like vegetable
related.
But that's too much.
So count.
Maybe you're, what did you call it?
14 grams.
Oh.
No.
A measure.
If you're a measure.
Maybe you become a measure.
And try that.
Maybe try it for a week and see if it makes you feel better, makes you feel more organized,
makes it feel more conscious.
Maybe that'll change some of the other options that you're making throughout the day.
But I would become a measurer.
Yeah.
Become a measurer.
Yeah.
You ready for your real extra tip?
We have no choice.
Extra tip of the day is this beat is automatic, supersonic, probiotic, funky, fresh, fresh,
fresh.
What does this beat is?
Automatic supersonic, probiotic, funky, fresh, mean?
I have said twice.
We are all cringing so hard.
Have more probiotics in your life.
We've talked about this in the gut health episode, but it really helps the body with
the imbalance.
And it keeps you regular because you want to be regular, but you also want to be unique.
So when you want to be regular, grab some probiotics.
What are probiotics?
This is like, I am so, I hate you so much.
I know they support your immune system and your bodily functions.
Some examples, cottage cheese, yogurt, anything with live cultures in it.
Kiefer.
Wait.
And the thing you just told me about.
Yeah, kimchi.
Yeah, I did not discover kimchi.
It just happened.
Like it has just happened.
She loves kimchi.
I think a lot of people love kimchi.
It is an acquired, I think it's an acquired taste, but pickles.
Pickles have probiotics in them.
Yeah.
So over time, if you're not one of those people that like, oh, I need to have cottage cheese.
If you're not a dairy person, there are so many non-dairy options, but they still have
the live cultures in them.
Just check them out, look them up, ask your doctor.
But yeah.
Because we're not going to tell you.
No, we're not definitely not going to tell you.
That's too much.
Especially for this country, because we're only helping this country.
Yes.
Only the US.
But yeah, so add some probiotics to your life to keep you regular, but also unique.
I need you to just stop saying it.
Keep you regular.
Which keeps you unique.
Well, we hope you feel as bloated as we do.
Because that's the point.
Oh my God, we are so bloated.
We're just trying to figure it out.
I feel like I float a little bit, even though it's really hard and heavy to float.
But you feel, you know, don't shake your head.
You know when you're that bloated and that just out of sync.
Yes.
That's what I feel like.
It's total body dysmorphia.
I know.
I know that.
That's good.
But yes, I know the feeling.
You know that feeling.
I just feel heavy, but I feel puffed out.
Yes.
That's the bloat.
But I also think that's the general population after the holidays too.
It's just, you know, like everybody's feeling that way.
It's a writer passage.
You had a really good holiday.
You enjoyed yourself.
You had events.
You had dinners.
You had cookies.
I'm not taking away your bloat from you.
I want you to have all the bloat that you feel you deserve.
I'm not taking away.
You have the bloat you deserve.
I'm not taking away your bloat.
I'm just saying a lot of us feel that way.
And I think that's why I wanted to bring it up today.
The other day she got so freaking mad at me because she was like, I don't feel good.
I feel heavy about it.
And I was like, me too.
She's like, what?
I'm saying I do.
I'm like, I'm not taking away from you feeling that way.
Hold the phone.
That's not how it went.
That is exactly how it went.
She was like, how are you?
I was like, oh my God, I feel horrible.
I just feel horrible.
I'm mad at myself, whatever.
She was like, yeah, I think we all are.
I mean, that's just the holidays are.
We all feel like that.
I was like, mm-hmm.
And then what did I say?
Don't ask.
I'm not taking away your only because you saw my face and my face was like, okay, Harley.
But I meant it as I was agreeing with you.
Like, yes, I feel horrible too.
But Vitturi doesn't like that.
I'm just going to close my mouth next time and say, yeah, no, I get it because sometimes
some people just want that.
We've had an episode about that.
Sometimes you just have to be like, I hear you.
Yeah.
I don't want to take your bloat away.
But Carly can't hear you because Carly needs to relate to you.
I do.
She needs to relate at all times.
I am not trying to one up your bloatness.
I'm just trying to say that I agree with how you feel, but I don't want any more bloat
than you have.
I don't have it.
I want to go home.
You are home.
Yeah.
I want to go to a different home.
Anyway, we're all feeling it, but maybe Vitturi feels it more.
No, it's up to her.
I don't know.
You're such a brat.
And now that we're videoing it, I can't even edit to be like, try again, Carly.
Try all of that again.
You all have bloat per year's roll.
We're ending this thing because we are all just fit to be real and always allowed to
be a little extra.
Bye.
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