Hey, this is fit to be real.
And a little extra.
Today, we're going to talk about the number one question that we get asked all the time.
And that is, what do we eat?
And we're going to tell you the secret.
Oh my gosh, are you ready for the secret?
Secret!
We can't wait to tell you!
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
I think it's always going to be, hey guys!
That's the only way I can get my name out.
Why?
Somebody asked me yesterday, why is this so hard for you?
Yeah.
You're an actor.
Or you used to be.
And I said, because if somebody said, hey, can you be from London in the 1920s?
I'd be like, absolutely.
Can you say your name?
Can you be that right now?
Can you do that right now?
Hello!
Oh!
Yup.
There it is.
That's why I do fitness and I'm not a musical theater major anymore.
She's bound for Broadway.
Hello, Gopna!
So yeah, that's a lot easier for me than saying my name if you can believe it.
But when somebody asks me to be myself, it's a no-go.
You can't be real.
No!
All right guys, bye!
So we're going to start off by prefaceing that I
do have a certification in, it's called a specialist in sports nutrition through the International
Sports Sciences Association.
And Carly is a certified accountability coach.
But in terms of your dietary needs or any questions or concerns you have on nutrition,
you should primarily consult with your healthcare physician, dietitian, nutritionist that you
go to and feel safe with.
Yeah.
And we're going to talk about some fad diets in the past couple years and we're going to
go through those and...
Knock them off the list.
Yeah, knock them off the list because to be honest, what we will tell you is that we
don't believe in diets because we've done them all.
Oh my gosh.
All for years.
As we said, if you listen to our first episode, we were dancers, we were actors, we were in
musical theater.
So we've been health conscious, nope, we've been weight conscious.
Yes.
It has not been about health.
We've been weight conscious.
Very good.
For 15 plus years.
Plus years.
Yeah.
Since we were young and not because our mom told us we had to, she was like, you're beautiful,
you can do whatever you want.
It's because our industry said we had to.
So and it wasn't fitness, it was in theater.
So we've been on a diet for years.
I never thought about that.
That is so accurate and kind of heartbreaking because it wasn't health conscious.
It was weight.
100% just about weight and looks.
And I think since 20, so the past three years since 2020, I think our mindset has completely
shifted to the health, mindfulness aspect of how this works.
It's something that is now starting younger and younger and younger because of Instagram
and Tik Tok and all that stuff.
And kids are on diets now and they have anxiety about food.
And we did not have anxiety about it, but we didn't have social media back then, but
we had to think about it at a very young age to do what we wanted to do in life.
Yeah.
Be on stage and be critiqued and be looked at for a living.
I mean, as we said before, we would go into auditions and sometimes you wouldn't even get
to show them what you can do.
You wouldn't even get to dance.
You wouldn't even get to sing.
They lined you up, looked you up and down and said, okay, thanks.
We've seen enough.
They're called cattle calls.
You know, we yeah, yeah, they were called cattle calls.
You had to have a very thick skin and I didn't.
I did not.
I didn't.
And I think that's why I didn't really go for it as hard as I could have because
I did not have a thick skin.
No, I would.
No, I agree.
So we want to start off by talking about the number one or the top rated diets and I'm
air quoting diets right now because we just don't like we don't like that mindset of
2022 according to Tik Tok and social media.
And we are not pros at all of these diets.
I think we've done most of them.
Yeah, we've done a lot of them.
So number one is keto, which is low carb, high fat, which we've done and not healthy.
Not healthy.
Okay.
The balance is imbalanced here.
I don't know if I necessarily did keto, but I know you did the bullet coffee of keto.
Right.
Bullet coffee, butter, coffee and heavy cream.
Great way to start your day.
Andrew used to make it.
God bless him.
He used to make it for me every morning and I would had just had melody and he used to
make me bullet coffee every morning because it's the only thing I wanted.
It tasted so good and he knew I wanted to lose the baby weight, but it wasn't coming
off with the bullet coffee.
So we stopped drinking that.
Interesting.
I wonder why.
Number two is calorie counting.
And while that doesn't really scream negative, you know, vibes to me, it just doesn't.
It's not sustainable.
Calorie counting every single thing that you put in your mouth and then hopefully also
counting all of the energy that you're putting out there, which is really hard to measure.
It just, you can't do that long term.
That's not a long term way of life.
Yeah, fat.
Then low carb and that is just low carb in general, but you have to remember that fruits
and vegetables are also carbs.
So it's a kind of like a sneaky way to say low healthy vegetable fruit lifestyle, but
also that white bread stuff you're not supposed to eat to.
Wait, what was that diet?
Was it called the Miami?
Oh, yeah.
It was all fruits and vegetables, but it was certain fruits because other fruits are
bad.
It was like the cleansing fruits, not the starchy fruits.
Yeah, I guess.
Then vegan and then vegetarianism.
So vegan is no meat, no dairy, no nothing that harms an animal in any way, shape or
form.
Vegetarian is just no poultry, meat, fish or anything like that.
I'm laughing only because I was a vegan.
What?
When?
On tour.
When I was on tour with the show Respect.
Yeah.
And my musical director and I decided to be vegan to try it.
Like for real?
We love animals, but it wasn't for animal reasons.
We just wanted to try it and I last in six hours.
Oh, yeah.
So those were my vegan day.
A day.
I don't think that's a whole day.
It's not for everybody.
If you have an aversion to meat or if you are very pro animal and all that, we say
go vegan.
I went home.
I did not go vegan.
You went home.
Go vegan or go home.
I went home.
Amazing.
Then gluten free really should only be for people that suffer from celiac disease.
I actually did a gluten free diet for a small spin when I had some medical questions that
we couldn't figure out what was wrong.
And it's really, really hard.
I did it with you.
Remember?
I was like, it's easier to do it in twos.
So if you cut out gluten, I'll cut it out.
And I lasted a couple days.
Did you have pretzels behind my back?
It's very possible.
It's really hard lifestyle.
But if you have celiacs, then you have to live that way.
And then it's completely doable and attainable and sustainable.
But if you, it's for some reason, it's become this like, way more Hollywood thing to not
eat gluten.
But like, look at what gluten is.
Like you're good.
It's okay.
Then intuitive eating, which I had to look up.
And it's really just honoring when you're hungry, when you're not and resisting people
who question your intuitive eating habits.
Can you just stop at resisting people?
Cause I'm into that sometimes.
That's not a diet.
That's a lifestyle.
Damn it.
Then intermittent fasting, really all about timing.
I don't hate this one.
No.
I like it.
We've done it.
I support it.
I talk to my clients about it.
I do like intermittent fasting.
I think it's important for your metabolism.
You're still getting all of your nutrients and your meals in.
You're just shifting your timeframe that works for your body's digestive metabolic movement.
Right?
That sounds right.
Yeah.
Man, that sounded so profesh as the kids would say.
That was so profesh.
The kids don't say that.
I don't understand when you don't finish words.
I'll be.
Then the last one is dairy-free.
Again, dairy-free is completely, I think, a preference.
I am self-diagnosed as lactose intolerant.
I do dairy-free, but I also don't do it to the degree of like, if I'm at a restaurant
and they have a little bit of dairy, I don't know, mixed in, I'm like, ah, it's okay.
But if it's something you can opt out of, like putting cheese on something, like a burger,
I'm like, please don't put that on there.
I'm dairy-free because you're dairy-free.
You are not dairy-free.
I tried it.
You are lying.
I am not a big cheese eater, but that's just me.
And I've only done that recently in the past three years when I did my big sort of weight
loss thing.
I cut out a lot.
I switched to oat milk.
I did all that and almond milk and all that kind of stuff only because it made me personally
feel better.
Yeah.
And I cleared up and I noticed the correlation between dairy and my face personally for me.
Yeah.
I don't.
There was a book that I read and I will put it in the show notes because right now the
title is leaving my mind.
But I remember reading that we are the only species that drinks another mammal's milk.
And it's unnatural that we do this.
And the book was amazing and I will tag it, but that stuck with me.
There was so much more that that book was about.
And it was about diet, lifestyle, and all of that.
But that I was like, oh, that's it.
Probably why my body is rejecting it so much.
It hit hard.
Yeah.
So the great thing and interesting thing, and I use the word great in a sense of vastness,
that like wonderfulness is that none of the diets we did are on this list.
Oh my gosh, I know.
And we've done them all.
Yeah.
So here's just a few that we have racked our brains over.
Now we started with Weight Watchers and I think Weight Watchers is super healthy.
It's an accountability program essentially.
It has shifted since we've done it.
Yeah.
It's a little different and now they have food sent to you where you can buy a lot of
food from them specifically.
I don't know.
They didn't have that back when we did it.
It was more about accountability and writing your food down, which we are huge supporters
of.
It's still a point system, right?
Yeah.
It's still on points.
Yeah.
So that's great.
And then we did the Atkins diet.
We did.
And that is mainly meats and eggs and only low carb veggies.
So like, roughage, right?
Kale, spinach, broccoli.
But it was a full, fat, dairy diet.
Eggs, cheese, yogurt.
And here's the thing.
We did lose weight.
And then we stopped and gained double back.
And this is the problem with all of them is that that's what happened.
That's why we started a new one, lost weight.
Oh, awesome.
And then gained it all back plus when we stopped.
Always more.
Always gained more.
Oh yeah, we did Atkins.
What else did we do?
The 17 day diet.
Now this was before Carly's wedding.
I was graduating college.
Fun fact.
So Carly is the queen of life and she decided to get married.
The weekend I graduated college and quite literally the, the like I got off stage and
we got in the car.
Did I go to your graduation?
I honestly don't remember.
I don't think I did.
I already had left because we had like a sort of destination wedding two hours away.
I think I had left and I didn't actually go to your graduation.
I don't think I went to my graduation.
Like I sat for the diploma and we got, I walked off the stage and we got in the car and we
drove to the start of the weekend.
My, my, what's it called when you're the bride's first gal?
Brides the mate of honor.
Oh my, my mate of honor speech was thanking everyone for coming to my graduation party,
which was my wedding.
Yeah.
That's just like the first one fact of many of how, of how life goes around here.
So we were super strict.
What time is your therapy today?
I'm gearing up for it.
This is helping.
This is really helping.
I got a few hours.
So let's, let's get it all in.
That's another episode.
It's a 17 day diet and it's, I would call this, this is a crash diet.
Yeah.
It's like a hundred percent.
It promised 10 to 15 pounds within 17 days.
Our eyes got big to that.
Yeah.
Because we, you know, I was like, I'm getting married.
I have to lose as much weight as possible.
I was looking back, didn't need to lose any weight, but God, no, but I did it.
And guess what?
We lost weight.
So guess what we kept doing?
Victoria did the 17 diet for about 60 million days.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
But I do remember at your reception, not feeling great because my body wasn't used to normal
food or, you know, more sodium rich food and sugar and, you know, the things that you
eat at a wedding, like the fun, fun foods.
But yeah, I did that for way too long.
I got really sick.
Just a lot of eggs and meat and a lot of celery because it's water.
Yeah.
Water, vegetable, like it's cleansing.
Oh my gosh.
It was horrible, horrible, horrible.
Yeah.
Don't do the 17 day diet.
And then we also did, or I don't know about you.
I think it was, I think it was just me, the LA weight loss meals that you got sent.
Yeah.
Mom used to do it.
So we would eat the meals that she got sent.
Yeah.
One, I think she just didn't want to cook.
So if anybody wants to know why I don't, and Victoria doesn't really cook, we were never
caught.
Oh, wow, wow, wow.
All right.
Victoria bakes.
I cook.
I mean, you know where I live, you could send some stuff over because you know I don't.
Are you going to send me the money?
Eggs are eight dollars.
I know.
That's ridiculous.
So our main point is that we have done everything under the sun for a very long time and none
of it actually lasted.
No.
And our favorite thing to say is nothing fast ever lasts.
If you, somebody promises you to lose weight super quickly and you're not going to keep
it off.
You might lose the 10 to 15 pounds, but as soon as you get off whatever plan you're on
or whatever fad diet you're on, you're going to gain it back.
It's science.
You cannot sustain a life on crash diets.
You just can't.
It's a lot about the mental aspect to it because when you're in something that's moving quickly
and you are just as strict as possible for however long the timeframe is and you're thinking
the moment I'm done, like whatever the date is that I get to be done, I'll meet and whatever
I want.
Like all of this, like it's not a lifestyle.
I can't preach this enough that your mindset is just as important as the food you're putting
in your mouth.
If they go hand in hand, you cannot progress in whatever way you want to progress without
them being balanced.
One of the things that I really hate about Instagram is when somebody says, you don't
need to restrict anything and you're going to lose weight.
You just need to do this workout plan.
A hundred percent incorrect.
It is absolutely the opposite, actually.
If you are not eating healthily, you will not lose weight no matter how much you work
out and I am the number one poster child for that.
I was teaching 21 classes a week cardio weights, high cardio, high cardio, intense.
Not one pound lost because I could have cared less about what I ate.
I would come home at nine o'clock at night and house a burger, fries, wine and ice cream.
I'd be like, I don't understand.
Why aren't I losing weight?
Because I was like, I just worked out four times today.
I did four hours of cardio.
It has nothing to do with that.
It's, Victoria always says, your abs are made in the kitchen and that is a hundred percent
correct.
And sleep and stress.
I mean, the amount of factors that goes into losing a half of a pound, let alone 10 to 15
and seven days, like it's insane.
So the secret that I hope you are so patiently waiting for is that there is no secret.
It is all about an energy balance.
You have to burn more than you're putting into your body.
And you have to eat healthy, unprocessed, no added sugar foods with a little bit of balance.
I like to think of it as 80, 20, 80% healthy veggies, fruits.
If you're a meat eater, meat, whatever it is, and 20% like, okay, I'm going to have
a cookie.
I'm going to have that this weekend.
Just one of them.
It's not going to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but it's going to be one.
And guess what?
I feel really good about it.
I'm not going to beat myself up over it.
You start to enjoy your food.
Because when you don't have those things every day, number one, your body stops craving
them.
Number two, you will actually enjoy what you're eating.
And that's the whole point of the lifestyle.
I am going to blow your mind a little bit.
Are you ready for your mind to be blown?
Yes.
I've got stuff too.
I got good facts too.
You got stuff?
I got stuff.
What?
You cannot lose weight if that is the track you're on and you're like, I want to know
what you're eating because I want to know the secret and I want to lose weight.
You cannot lose weight with eating what you're eating right now.
You just can't.
Just because you're working out an extra five hours a week, you've got to change.
You have to change your diet in order to change your weight.
Can we say the word diet as a lifestyle?
Yes.
Not like a fat diet.
The food you're putting in your mouth, not a diet.
Right.
That word is, is...
All right.
Let me change it.
You have to change your daily eating habits.
Yes.
In order to lose weight, there's no going around it.
Is it hard?
Yes, it is.
Do you want to do it?
No.
But if it were easy, everybody would do it and nobody would need help.
The key is if you want to do it, you will do it.
Something has to click in your brain.
Yeah.
You have to go off where you're like, I don't feel good.
And that's what happened with us.
We did not feel good.
And something clicked in our brains where we said, it's not about, yeah, sure, we wanted
to lose weight.
Sure.
But we didn't feel healthy.
We were tired and we should have had more energy because we were working out so much.
And we felt horrible.
The minute we started changing what we were eating in addition to our workouts, it made
all the difference in the world.
We are not promoting anybody lose weight.
Absolutely not.
We want you to feel good.
And in order for us to do that, we lost weight in the process.
We also felt immeasurably better every single day.
And that was the biggest benefit of any of it.
Yeah, the weight loss is great.
I'm not going to lie and say that it wasn't.
That's what I wanted to do.
But I slept better.
My skin got better.
All of a sudden, I didn't want to fall asleep at two o'clock in the afternoon.
And all those changes were because of what we were eating and what we were drinking.
I stopped drinking.
I'm going to be honest with you.
We stopped drinking for a long time because, yeah, that glass of wine at night is awesome.
And you can do that.
But you have to put in the work first and then bring all those things that bring you
joy.
Yes, wine brings me joy back.
But you have to do the work first and the work is harder.
The work is very hard.
But it's not impossible.
Impossible is nothing.
40%.
All right.
Those are our brother's tattoos.
We like to just speak in motivational phrases of what ink is on our brother's body.
Now that I'm saying it like that, that's kind of weird.
That's kind of weird.
But yeah, so the secret is there is no secret.
You eat healthy.
You eat vegetables and fruits and meat, if that's your thing, and you drink plenty of
water.
Water intake is a game changer.
Something I struggle with every single day.
Right now.
But see, I don't usually struggle with it.
I struggle with it in winter because I'm cold.
And I don't want to drink water.
I just want to drink coffee.
And that is dehydrating and it's horrible.
So when you feel dehydrated, you are again lethargic.
You have, I get headaches and I feel like it's really hard to get through my days.
So water is a big factor, which also will help with sleep, which also will help with
stress levels before we get to the fun stuff.
I do want to say that we look like, or we did look like we lost a lot of weight pretty
quickly.
But that's because we were in the middle of COVID.
No one was going outside.
By the time I saw everybody in person about a year later, I had lost a lot of weight.
A lot.
And so had Victoria.
So people were constantly asking, Oh my God, what'd you do?
What'd you do?
It happened so fast.
Happened overnight.
Yeah.
It did not happen overnight for neither of us.
It was a, it's a slow process and people don't like slow.
Everybody's hustling every day, but this kind of healthy lifestyle, it takes time.
And I just want everybody to understand that this weight loss did not happen overnight.
The biggest change was portions was the most drastic change.
And it's something that mom used to say all the time.
And I used to just like scoff at her and I would be like, mom, you don't know anything.
Okay.
I still do that.
But, but she would say, and I think it's something that her mom would say is that you eat breakfast
like a queen, lunch like a king and dinner like a pauper, which is like a jester, right?
Yeah.
It's like a joker.
Oh, it's not a joker.
It's a joker and a pauper is not a joker.
That's a jester.
A pauper is a not wealthy person.
I don't want to say poor person.
Can you say poor person?
I don't know, but you're saying it.
Okay.
Poor person.
You have to eat less.
Just eat less at night.
Okay.
That's what we're going.
That's what she's trying to tell you.
Queen King, eat less.
Yes.
That is the point.
Anyway, so yes, your most substantial meal should be breakfast and then lunch because
you need to spend all of your energy throughout the day and then at night so that your body
doesn't have to work overtime.
So I want to leave this conversation, especially for the younger ones, stop comparing and just
be healthy.
Don't look at anybody else and say, why don't I look like that?
I do the same workouts.
Why don't I look like that?
We both drink the same amount of alcohol.
It's different, everybody is different.
So I want to play Carly on the spot.
I'm really glad that I started this, Trent.
No, it's a simple one.
So what is your guilty pleasure?
Just one.
Oh, oh my.
I know.
Okay.
So number one guilty pleasure is peanut butter and chocolate ice cream.
It's the oh yeah brand.
Or is it Planet Oat?
It's Planet Oat.
Yeah, Planet Oat.
And I can house that like nobody's business.
And I enjoy it.
A pint.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not a whole gallon, but I've known to do that too.
I've been there.
But the reason I'm asking this question is because life is about balance and these are
not foods that Carly refuses.
They are a part of her life.
And they're just not on the daily.
They're a part of me when they're in my belly.
All right, we're going to play.
Victoria knew the question already.
So now we're going to throw it back at her.
Or since she's had time to think about it.
Go.
Awesome.
I really like your working title.
It's short and sweet.
It's to the point.
Sour Patch Watermelon.
Oh, no.
For real?
Yes.
That like hurts my tongue.
It hurts my tongue.
It hurts my heart that hurts your tongue.
I'm really glad you enjoy it.
That's correct.
So our real tip of the day.
Prep for success.
And the way that we're going to do that is if you haven't already gotten into this routine
for yourself, meal prep.
You take a Sunday or whatever day works for you in your week.
I like Sundays to set myself up for Monday to Friday, which tend to be a little bit crazier.
And you prep your meals.
You make a big meal and you individual container dinner or lunch, whatever the meal it is,
that's hardest for you to get done in the schedule for Monday to Friday.
And or your snacks.
So you cut up your fruits or your vegetables, whatever you prefer to have so that you have
stuff at the ready and you're not making unhealthy choices because you were not prepared.
You prepare for success.
And the way that you do that is that you prep.
You're going to find at the end of the week how easy the week turned out to be because
you didn't stress yourself over, what am I going to eat?
What am I going to make?
When do I have time to go to the store?
Do I have time to go to the store?
Do I have a budget for this right now?
I didn't set for this.
All of that stress goes away.
And now it's about to get a little extra.
Oh, now.
Now it's about to get extra.
Your extra tip of the week is package.
I'll pass.
I can't.
What does package?
I'll pass.
Mean?
It means if it's in a package, pass on it.
I'm going to be honest with you.
So you may think that just because you went to the store and you got a hard boiled egg
with cheese and apples and maybe some, what does it come with?
Caramel sauce or hummus that it's healthy.
It's actually really not healthy.
Anything that comes in a package means there's extra sodium in there to keep it fresh and
preservatives and stuff.
Yeah.
So you don't, you want to try and steer clear of anything in a package.
So if you have the option of having like a full apple or going to, let's say, wow,
and getting a package of apples already pre-cut, go for the real thing.
Go for the cleaner option.
Do it for five days in addition with that meal prep and pass on all things that come
in a package.
Everybody has to try it all together.
One, two, three.
Package?
I'll pass.
I took it down.
I took it down, just in case I took it down.
But it's a real tip and it's real extra and it really works.
Yeah.
And you'll be real happy.
So remember, it's time to remember that you are always fit to be real and always allowed
to be a little extra.
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We are not healthcare professionals.
For all of your health, wellness, fitness, and self-care needs, please refer to the medical
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Okay?
Okay, bye.