Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.
Today we are talking the working mom.
Who works it, mom!
Yes!
She is a longtime friend and now owner of multiple restaurants and a farm.
I want to talk about the farm.
And she has been in the theater world, so she's definitely got a mindset similar to us.
And she's a mom. She's a boy mom.
She is a boy. We had a girl dad and now we have a boy mom.
Yes, which is really cool.
And this is going to be really eye-opening.
I cannot wait!
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
And we are here with Christina Piieri.
Woo!
What's up, Christina?
Hi guys.
I'm sorry, what?
What was that?
Hey guys!
I feel like Carly.
Wait, third time's a charm.
Hey!
Amazing.
So, Christina, I was trying to think earlier, how long have we known you?
I've known your mom longer than I've known you.
That's true.
Christina always says, I had to meet you guys in New York and we're all from Delco.
I had to go to New York to meet you.
I had to go to New York to meet your mom.
And she, that's right, it was like 20 minutes from my house.
But like 15 or 16 years.
Because you went to school in New York City and then you were auditioning for shows and got hired.
So did Carly.
That's how Carly met mom too.
I did the same thing. I had to go to New York to audition for my own mother forever to hire me.
But Christina did the same thing and your mom hired her and brought her to Shawnee as a working actor.
And then was like, ooh, you're a dancer. You want to come teach for me?
And then Christina started teaching dance.
And you never stopped?
No. Right, you've been at Carmella's dance studio since then.
Since then. It's really hard to leave.
Well, we make it very hard.
Carmella doesn't like anybody to leave.
I signed a blood contract.
Yeah, my mom was having a baby when the show closed at Shawnee and your mom was like, well, this is great.
Because I was going to move back home and help my mom a little bit and make sure my sister knew who I was.
Yeah, exactly. Because you were in college.
So after Shawnee, that summer I moved home and then I taught the studio and then I did Shawnee's Christmas show.
Oh, that's right.
The Christmas show and then would teach and then the rest is history.
I've been there ever since.
You grew up with all sisters and now you have all boys.
Yes, very different.
You know what's really fun?
Christina has a son named Dean and Julian and I texted her and was like, if it's a boy, can I name my son Dean?
Oh my gosh.
And I did and I had a boy and I named him Dean.
You said yes?
Yeah. Not to switch gears.
But you completely switched tracks from the theater world into Peeray hospitality.
So the joke is always like, oh, you're an actor. What restaurant do you work at?
That's true.
Because we talked about that when you're a working actor, you work in a restaurant.
Yeah, so I was teaching dance and auditioning and then needed to make money.
So I started working at Stone Rose in 2010.
Never left.
Christina has a loyal husband.
Got a husband.
Family.
So I just started to work at the restaurant to make money and then I started managing still always taught dance and then just kind of then you fell in love with Brian transition.
Brian, Peeray of Peeray, everything in Contra Hocken.
If you live in Contra Hocken or in the surrounding area and have not been to one of these restaurants.
What are you waiting for?
We've got some favorite menu items that I'm sure we will talk about.
Give us a name of all your restaurants and everything that you guys provide.
So Stone Rose was the first, then Barluca, Barcera, and then we bought the farm, Peeray Farm and Vineyard in 2019.
And I just want to say they're Brian's restaurants.
Brian's like Christina, make sure you say.
The restaurant thing is his dream. He is a restaurant tour.
But you work there. Yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
He does 98% of everything restaurants and farm.
And then I do all of the event coordinating, catering with another manager.
We work together.
And the farm has an Airbnb. So I run the Airbnb and then we have a CSA program at the farm.
So I help run the CSA program.
I have done the CSA program and the Airbnb.
Yep. CSA, Airbnb. I frequent their restaurants and done their catering. Who's a good friend?
That's right. Thank you.
Having said all that, you do a lot.
You're a mom. You're a dance teacher. You work at the restaurants. You manage the restaurants.
You guys have a lot going on.
So we're talking today about working moms, how to work it mom, work with the...
Can you guess who made the name? Can you guess?
And how difficult it is to do it all.
It is very difficult to do it all with guilt, without guilt.
How do you handle it?
There's a lot going on in your daily day today.
Yes, there is.
There's no better way to answer that question.
Yes, there is.
How do you manage it?
Well, first of all, Brian and I, I think we make a good team when it comes to who does what.
Yeah.
We're very defined in roles.
Like, he's very hands-on as a dad. And thankfully, where we are now with the restaurants and the farm,
he has more of a flexible schedule so he can go in later, come home earlier.
So he's around a lot, which is super helpful.
But we have a good team that allows him the flexibility.
So he doesn't have to be there all the time. So that's number one.
Number two, I have... Brian always calls it my staff.
I have babysitter at school.
Christina Piieri staff.
So the kids, well, now the kids are in school a lot more, but I do have a babysitter that comes.
We just kind of like manage like our priorities.
Like he just really focuses restaurants.
Yeah, yeah.
And then I focus kids and then some of it overlaps.
But like I have like defined days where I'm working.
But as you know, as business owners, like it kind of always just like trickles.
It's never like at five o'clock we're done.
Right. It's never always kind of around.
And I think it was hard when he would be like, oh, I have to like go up.
Like there's an issue and I'd be like, why do I always have to like leave and like go in?
And like now I'm like, go, go. Yeah, go fix it. Yeah, I get it.
Like, but I think it makes more sense because I saw it firsthand working at the restaurant.
Right. So I think having help is huge.
I mean, we would never be able to do it without help family.
My mom, my sisters, they help a lot.
Carm likes to say it takes a village.
It really does.
And I think being able to like ask for help because I know I can't do it all by myself.
So I'm always like, who's coming Monday? Who's coming?
You have no problem asking for help.
Because you're giving me the death stare.
No, because I don't like to ask for help.
But I can learn from that. I need to learn to ask for help.
So we had kids around the same time and we love to work out.
Some might say we're a little obsessed.
But we had talked about this before and while we were going through it,
there is no such thing as a snapback for me.
Was there a snapback for you?
I'm saying snapback with air quotes because you read and you see these things on Instagram
where people are like, I'm back in my jeans three weeks after the baby.
I thought a snapback was a hat.
It is very confusing for me.
I actually think that it is.
No, a snapback is like a snapback is when you are expected to snapback from baby having a baby bouncing back, bouncing back.
But they call it a snapback. The cool kids call it a snapback.
The youngest.
I did not snap back.
It took me like eight years.
And I know we've talked about this by ourselves, but I want you to say,
what was your experience and how did you feel after having a baby and not snapping back?
So I think that while with Dean, I didn't work out at all.
I was actually like, this is my free ticket.
Just live it up.
Yeah.
And I had him and you know, when you're like pregnant and then the baby comes out and everything else comes out.
Victoria is so happy right now.
You look in the mirror and you're like, oh my God, I'm so thin because you were just so not.
But you're still very not.
Like you just feel that way better because you can like, you know, get pants up without like having to sit down and catch your breath.
So like it's very different.
But then like as the months start to go, like you just kind of plateau, at least for me, I did because you're trying to at least with your first kid figure out like feeding like everyone was like, oh, if you breastfeed like all the way, we'll just melt right off.
Lies.
That was not the case for me either.
Maybe that happens for some people did not because in order to sustain your milk supply, you have to keep your calories.
Yeah.
And so I'm also don't have time to like work out for an hour because like the baby's crying.
Right.
So that I didn't really know like what to do.
And I think I just kind of sat there being like, well, I'm just going to like lose weight.
Like it will just happen because when you're younger, at least for me, I would just like, I don't know, skip dinner.
And then the next morning I'd be like two pounds lighter.
This is amazing.
It doesn't work like that.
No.
So then I started cardio.
So I was I got a Peloton.
I spun constantly.
I was always spinning and I lost weight, but I was still like kind of eating whatever I wanted.
So like I was in smaller clothes, but I still didn't feel like great.
Right.
Then I got pregnant with Julian and I still was spinning like not like every single day, but I was more active with Julian's pregnancy during your pregnancy.
Then after I had Julian, I started strength training and I was like, wow, yeah, it made like such a huge difference in my body composition that I was like, man, I wish I would have known this before.
Before I know this earlier.
Well, I think this is a testament to the sign of the times because I think you two are the common every man in this.
And you know, every man, every woman in the situation, you are also of the generation of doing this in the times of social media.
Yeah.
And that's not what's portrayed.
And I'm not in the mom circuit of those specific accounts and videos and stuff like that.
So that's not what pops up for my feed.
But I would assume that you have a little bit more of those types of accounts that you follow due to the commonality.
What's crazy is that it is portrayed as how easy look, my whole house is put together and my kid is matching my outfit and everybody's happy and all of the snacks are perfectly organic and everything is homemade.
And I'm not having a mental breakdown.
I blame the Kardashians because surgery, surgery, they just didn't get to be where they are naturally.
It's just not.
And I'm all for like, if you wouldn't have surgery, go right ahead, but like you have not that you have to.
But you should like if you're a public figure, you should be upfront because there's so many eyes on you, especially like young girls who just look at these bodies and go like, wow, like I could just have a baby and literally be right back into my genes.
And like without they don't see all the steps in between and genetics have a huge part in that.
There are some people who who just have an easier time losing baby weight and a lot of that is genetics and a lot of people have a harder time and I am.
And money and money. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, I got really intense about the money.
I used to read, I remember after Melody, these articles that the celebrities would say, oh, I just run after my kids and the weight just came off.
I just chased after my kids.
And like, that's not happening for me. Like I also was working out 21 hours a week and it was not coming off.
I was like, that's all you are doing is running around your kids. That cannot be true. And it wasn't. They had nutritionists.
They had daily trainers.
They have all the stuff.
And what I was seeing on Instagram was like, total lie.
Oh, yeah.
You know, of what you're supposed to look like after you have a baby.
And now I feel like it's getting better.
Well, I think for me, I am getting better with who I follow.
I unfollow the people I know are like, it's the lighting, it's the posing, it's this, like I follow the accounts that are like, this is me posed.
This is me not.
Oh, like the same body. I just those accounts are so much more helpful to me.
But like, they also have very real bodies.
Right. They're accountable to the fact that your body's changed after pregnancy.
Right.
And it's not going to be, especially if you have multiple children, you both have two and three.
So it's not the same as when you were 20 years old and could eat whatever you want and drop two pounds by the.
You know, it's not the same thing, but there are.
And there's skin.
Exactly.
You can stretch all the way out and then go back and just be like, unless you have surgery, right?
There's going to be access.
And so I love all the like the accounts where the moms like, look at me.
I'm super fit. And then she like, and it's like her skin.
I'm like, thank you.
Christina, I just did that post this morning. Did you see?
No, I posted it on SheFit.
I did a picture like in good lighting.
And then I did a picture of me grabbing the three children's worth of skin in my stomach because the people that are posting just the good picture,
as soon as they let out a breath and stop sucking it in.
Yeah, there's more skin there.
You want to be humbled?
Look down in a plank.
Oh my God.
Look down at yourself in a plank.
You can tighten your core as much as you possibly can, but she's still there, you know, like you can't work that away.
And that's fine.
That's part of your body.
So having said all that, how do you think that affected you afterwards?
Like looking at social media?
Oh, it's so hard.
Like Brian would even say, like, get off of it.
Like stop looking at it.
No way.
And he's always like, you know, women are so different from men in this aspect.
He's like, I like men don't like look at like other men's bodies.
Like, wow, I really wish I looked like that.
You know, like that's not like the typical, right?
But for girls, it's just, it's so much harder to not compare.
Yeah, it just hits you over the head.
And I'm not like the, I don't really look at like people's kitchens and go like, oh God, I really wish I had that tile.
Like that's not my like comparison.
What a struggle.
Yeah.
It's like the bounce back or like the snapback.
What I hate is the like what I eat in a day.
I, I, when I tell you, I cannot stand the what I eat in a day.
Am I allowed a curse on here?
Yeah, sure.
Bullshit posts.
I love that that's the curse that you picked.
That was very tame.
I have more patines in the other room.
My Dean is in the other room.
Wait, go ahead.
Tell us more about why you hate that.
I hate when people are like what I eat in a day.
And it's like, if you eat this exact meal plan that I had today on Tuesday, you will look just like me.
Like that is so the only thing what I eat in a day is good for is if you're like, oh, I never know.
I could put that granola in my yogurt.
It's a great recipe or oh, I'd love to try that salmon with whatever quinoa like cool.
You will not look like that person if you eat the same exact food that they eat in that day or the next day or the day after that.
And that is everywhere.
It's so it's like get like looking at like hair pictures and be like, oh, I really like I'll always take it to like my style.
It's gonna just to give you like I love her hair.
And then like she does my hair and my hair was good, but like I still don't look like Jessica.
I'm like, oh, I need like her nose and her mouth and her eyes to can you do that?
Like it's just it's not the same thing.
Yeah, I just wish people would be more upfront with that or just stop posting it.
Right.
I know it's very difficult to watch because you think and everything everybody thinks is it's instant and it's not instant.
No, it has taken you years.
It's taken me years and I still like I'm I don't know if I'll ever get to a point where like, done.
I'm completely happy with exactly where I want to be right now.
That's my body and like I feel like it's always like a constant work in progress and you know, to not become completely obsessed is challenging.
Yeah, wait, hold on.
Hold that thought.
I have been told that I'm obsessed with working out by people and I know that you feel the same way, especially with our watches.
Yeah.
So like, how do you feel about?
Are you obsessed with working out?
If you forget to turn your watch on while you work out, do you think the workout counts?
Is this a trick question?
Oh, no.
Yesterday during yoga, my watch died.
I started it and then it died.
My immediate thought was, yeah, I'm not going to know my metrics.
Right.
And then my also the next very immediate thought was, you idiot.
Yeah.
Who cares?
You still did the class.
So I'm getting better at being like, it's fine.
Yeah.
I'm getting better at things that like I need to give my wrist a break too, because my skin, I shouldn't be wearing a watch 24 seven.
It's true.
You know, and become so fixated on it.
I do like to see my heart rate.
I do like to see, you know, when I work out, I use that as a metric when I run, when I spend where I want to get my heart rate to and back down.
But the calorie count is hard and it's also not accurate.
So I know all of these things.
I have to constantly remind myself that it's fine.
Where does that come from for both of you?
Like, where does that obsession and the need to know the count and to factor in the amount of effort that I just put in is this number?
Yay me.
Like, where does I feel a little bit.
I'm in competition with myself.
I like to see, well, I got this number last time in the same class.
Can I beat it a little bit?
That's a head game with myself.
I'm not in competition with you.
No, because we're very different.
And what I burn is not going to be the same as what you burn, which is not going to be the same with what Victoria burns.
It's just myself, but a little bit I can go overboard with the needing to know.
No.
I'm just a little bit extra with everything.
Where does this conditioning and obligation and obsession stem from?
You can pay me a therapy charge later, but just answer the question.
I'm doubling down this week.
Christina, you go first.
I think like being in the dance world definitely has done that.
But before like smartwatches were a thing, I had no clue how many calories I was burning because I didn't know.
Or even before I had one, like I just didn't know.
You just knew off of how you felt.
That was a really good workout because I feel it.
Exactly.
Oh, the millennium.
I know.
You know, now it's like go like, oh, you want to go for rock?
Sure.
Hold on.
I have to start my watch.
Why?
You know, stop being like that.
I think being in the dance world really like kind of expedited this because I didn't grow up that way.
Yeah.
We just were active growing up.
Yeah.
No one was ever like in my life like, whoa, you really should.
I went to modeling school in eighth grade, which I think was good and bad.
When I went to the doctor, I was like five foot, I think.
And I was going to take 100 pounds.
And I remember him saying, you're perfect because you take five and you multiply it by the inches.
So if I was five, one, I would be 105 pounds at modeling school, you multiply it by three.
So if I'm five, four to the doctor's standards, I should be 120 pounds in modeling school.
I should be 112 pounds.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
And they tell you this.
So this was like eighth grade.
Yikes.
Modeling didn't work out.
But I think like to digest that information and then always kind of have those numbers in your head.
It's like, OK, that's like my marker is like, I should be like five times my inches, like whatever.
It's stuck with you a little bit.
And that's something that's difficult to get away from, even though you know, I know.
That's not right.
Yeah.
It's still in the back of your mind.
Yeah.
And I think mine came after the kids and I was like, I just didn't feel good.
Yeah.
So that is where my whole journey started.
And I have recently, since this podcast, been self-reflecting because I can get obsessive with my watch.
I can get obsessive with working out.
I know that.
And I've been starting to think, well, what was I like before?
Like before all this?
And I kept like I keep replaying it back my mind.
Like I was happy.
Right.
I didn't know how heavy I was.
I just didn't realize until I look at pictures now.
I know.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, I knew I was heavy.
I knew I had gained weight.
I knew I had gained baby weight.
But I didn't realize how big until I lost the weight.
It's not until now that I was like, but I wasn't miserable.
No.
I wasn't unhappy.
No.
Well, I think good sometimes you don't always have to put a label on like overweight equals unhappy.
Right.
Or like not your ideal body goal is unhappy.
Like I think there's like a happy balance between the two.
Like there's extremes like you can go super.
And I'm trying to come more to the middle.
Like I'll never forget.
It was like a couple of years ago.
I mean, still I'm learning all of this.
I'm 35 and I'm not I'm still learning like, wow, I had Chick-fil-A,
which I normally don't eat like on a regular basis.
I had a milkshake and chicken nuggets.
Oh my God.
So good.
The next day was my birthday and I got on the scale because I in my mind this is going
to sound so horrible.
Say it.
I wanted to be a certain weight on my birthday.
On your birthday.
People do that all the time.
Yeah.
I got on scale and I was two pounds.
I'm using air quote last lighter.
And I thought, oh my God, Chick-fil-A has cured me.
I'm going to eat Chick-fil-A every day and just continue to lose weight.
Not factoring in the time of day I got on the scale.
My water retention, the time of month that I got on the scale.
What I ate the day like the morning of before I got like, but it's like such a mind game.
I know.
I'm like, oh my God, Christina, you can have Chick-fil-A and then not be like 10 pounds
heavier the next day.
Right.
It's fine.
You can work out for 30 minutes.
You don't have to do 60 minutes and be fine.
You can take two days off and get back into it and be fine.
And I have to just keep telling myself like it will be fine.
Right.
I was telling you like coming out of 2020 was hard because we do nothing.
So I really got into exercise because the kids would nap and I was just home.
So I would every day for an hour.
I was in the basement and once we came out of the pandemic and schedule started to happen
again and back to routines and life.
And it was like, oh wait, I got to drive Dean wear.
Oh, well, what time is that?
Oh, when am I going to have time to work out?
Right.
Oh, here's this.
Oh, I have to go do that.
What am I going to have time to work out?
So then I would like do my day and then at like nine o'clock at night I was like in the
basement for an hour and I'm like, this is stupid.
Right.
Yeah.
Why am I doing this?
So it was hard to like transition back to like normal life when in 2020 like that was
all I knew.
That's all we did.
Yeah.
And then to like have to have like normal life routine but then also keep my exercise
routine was like, I don't know how I'm going to do this.
But I'm starting to find like a happy medium between it and and like have fun with it.
Right.
I think that having fun is the hardest part, which we try like our motto at Seafit is like
you should have fun while you're working out.
It shouldn't be so much of a chore.
Yeah.
Which, you know, at times when you're obsessed, it is a chore because it's like, if I don't
get this in my day is ruined.
I know.
And I have those days.
I have them less and less.
Yeah.
I am the person on on vacation that works out.
But you do like that.
But like, for instance, like, you know, we were just away.
There was a morning where I was sitting with Brian like outside like having coffee in the
morning like before the kids were up and I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, this is a great
time for me to go work out.
But then I'm also like, I don't want to miss this time with him because I'm not going to
have this when we get back.
Right.
I'll have exercise later today, another time when I get back.
But like, I need to not substitute those small moments of joy for I need to exercise right
now.
Yeah.
There's a relationship balance between food and there's a relationship balance between
exercise.
And I do think the world of social media and instant gratification and fake versus real
is the biggest catalyst to all of this.
And I think you're right.
COVID definitely was not.
It's not normal what we had during COVID, what we didn't have during COVID and the time
you could a lot to things that you didn't have before and you don't have now.
So it's definitely different.
How do you balance all of that in a restaurant life?
Like if I were you, I would have Nutella donuts every single solitary day, which is a wonderful
happy thing.
But I know I wouldn't be happy in the long run.
But like, how do you is that even an issue for you?
Well, you know, they're always accessible.
So like, I know, like it's always there.
So when I wanted, I can just go down and get it, you know, it's not like this is your
only chance to have Nutella.
That's true.
Which is what I do.
I would just eat a thousand and then be like, all right, I'm good for a year.
Yeah.
Just, I guess, just don't over overdo it.
We don't overdo it.
And it's like in moderation.
Like we don't eat out every night.
We don't eat there every night.
Do you eat your restaurant food every night?
No, you don't.
But you also are in the works of growing a winery.
I mean, you're growing a winery that we're all going to go to.
I know it's so cool.
Yeah, I know.
So you drink.
Mm hmm.
I drink.
It's really just about moderation.
And you know, Brian and I have gotten to a place now where we really try and like enjoy
it like we're not drinking just to drink.
We're drinking like we're going to open like a good bottle of wine.
Right.
We're like we're not eating just to eat like we're going to like have like the best pizza
or like the best like pasta dish or whatever it is.
Right.
And really like enjoy it and and like quality over quantity, I think is like a huge in any
aspect of life relationships, whatever.
But yeah, with food and drink, I think that's important.
Well, to plug in the Peary hospitality, if you want all of that fine dining and way of
life that Christina is talking about, check out any of these restaurants in Contra Hocken
and you will you will be back for more for sure.
And you will definitely feel and taste the difference between.
Yep.
Chick-fil-A food.
Which is also great.
And the good stuff, right?
Well, having said all that and our obsession with working out, you are in the middle of
getting trained to be Pilates teacher.
So how's that going?
It's great.
It's actually because I love dance so much and I love fitness so much.
I feel like it's such a like awesome combination of the two because it's it's a lot of core.
It's a lot of lengthening.
It's a lot of stretching.
And I think it's one of those things that over time, like as we age, it will be so good
to continue with because it like for joint send like everything.
It's just so good for you as you age.
Who's aging here?
I will be the oldest one in this room.
Shut your face.
You are actually.
Shut your both your faces.
That cactus might be older than you.
I'm not just saying this because Brian's probably going to listen to this, but he is amazing
because he like it's like basically every Sunday for four hours, I'm gone.
Right.
I wanted to get this certification.
I had said to him like this is a huge commitment and he's always like, go do it.
Go do it.
We'll figure it out.
Like we have 17 balls in the air right now, but he's like, we'll figure it out.
Same thing with dance.
Like I love dance.
I love to teach dance.
I don't ever want to stop teaching dance.
Dance does not pay my bills.
It does.
Everybody out there.
But Brian knows that it's important to me.
So we make it a priority that I can go do it.
Like if the kids are sick and my sitter can come like he comes from work early so that
I can go teach dance.
So that's a great partnership.
You have a wonderful partnership where you're able to do it all.
But I think it's also important to keep doing the things that you love or else the other
things take over.
And then you need our podcast to help you get out of that.
Yeah.
That's right.
So in order to keep doing what you're doing, you have to find those little things to make
you happy.
I know.
So dance benefits you in all aspects as a mom, as a woman, as a dancer, as a manager
and in charge of other people and all that stuff.
Like being able to do Pilates that kind of like feed your spirit and dance.
It kind of feeds everything else.
Let's play Christina on the spot.
We have titled this.
I got a nervous.
Nutella do or Nutella do not.
Do you get it?
Do not.
I love it.
I do get it.
I get it.
Yeah.
All you have to do is answer the question and say Nutella do or Nutella do not.
Going to a restaurant with kids or without kids?
We like to bring our kids everywhere.
Just like control them and make sure they're good.
Coming in with a large party of 10 with no reservation.
Do Monday through Thursday.
Do not Friday, Saturday.
Don't not.
Sending back food if you are not 100% happy with it.
Do.
Do?
Yeah.
I don't want anybody to ever be unhappy with what they get.
Now, sometimes I can't ever make them happy and we try.
But I think you always send it back.
If you don't like it, send it back.
You should never have to pay for something that you don't like.
You don't have to be mean about it.
Yeah.
Don't throw it at the server.
You should never pay for something that you don't like.
Okay.
Showing up to a restaurant in workout clothes or do not go at all?
Yeah.
Why not?
Make it cute.
Yeah.
Just maybe sit at the bar.
I don't understand.
I mean, people come in after they exercise all the time for happy hour and stuff.
I think it's great because I don't know.
It's fun to work out with your friends and then to continue the party basically after
you grab a bite, Nutella do.
All right.
This is one for the signs of the times.
So maybe not in your restaurant, but when you are ordering, say at the Starbucks and
there is a tipping option, even though you're not at a sit down, Nutella do tip.
Nutella do not tip.
Nutella do.
I tip everybody.
You service jobs in hospitality jobs.
Starbucks is a little different because they get health benefits, but they're still there.
Carly or Victoria.
Oh my God.
Just Nutella do not for both.
I do not.
Do not.
Christina, you won.
Yay.
Thank you.
So ending this on a high note, what advice do you have for moms that are trying to get
in that workout or not get in the workout because there's just so much going on and not
feeling guilty about it?
What advice do you have for them?
Find the time that works best for you and your family.
So if everybody's working out at 6 a.m., but that doesn't work for you, you don't have
to do a 6 a.m. workout.
I would also say find the exercise that works best for you.
Everybody knows always like, what is the best exercise for weight loss?
What is the best exercise is the one that you enjoy the most that you will be most consistent
with?
And it could be everything.
I mean, I am all over the place.
I like spinning and lifting weights and yoga and boxing and running and dance.
I like all of it.
And so I do all of it, but I'll wake up in the morning and say, you know what, today
I'm going to do X, whatever it is.
So the best exercise is whatever makes you the happiest doing it to quote my man, Denzel
Washington.
So without commitment, you'll never start and without consistency, you'll never finish.
And I think that that is so true.
Say it again.
Without commitment, you'll never start without consistency.
You'll never finish it.
You must apply discipline, but more importantly is consistency, because if you are not consistent,
it will just not stay.
Yeah.
You have to have a little bit of discipline.
I know.
And I have to commit to it.
Like some people work out for like five days and be like, well, nothing happened.
Like I'm still the same and I you and it's hard.
And you guys know this too.
Like it'll be fun for like a couple of days.
And then like the next week, you're like, I'm kind of getting tired of this.
And then like by week three, you're like, I'm not seeing any changes.
Like I'm done.
This is like a waste of time.
You have to like just push through that.
Plot almost.
And that's why I feel like mixing up your exercise will help you like will help keep
it fun, mental and muscle confusion.
Yeah.
And keep it consistent.
And then you'll start to see change.
And I would venture to say to tag on what you said in the beginning, follow the appropriate
accounts that just feel real and not fake.
And comparison is the devil.
100 percent.
And say that again to me because as much as I know it, it's so hard not to do it.
It's the hardest part.
I mean, we all know the right things to do.
That's general.
We mostly know the right things to do.
It's putting it into action.
That's the hardest part, especially for yourself.
I can tell you what to do and what you should be doing, but I'm not going to do it for myself.
Yeah, you know, and that's that's hard.
So I think I think that's right.
Unfollow the people that are lying to you basically on Instagram.
They're lying.
It's not.
Social media is not true.
It just isn't.
And I wish I knew that after having a baby because I really thought.
Yeah.
And it puts you in such a bad place to you just feel awful and nobody should feel awful
about themselves.
Yeah.
So work it, mom.
Work it, mom.
That's right.
I like how you said it.
That was good.
It was good.
Working moms work it.
And I just want to add to that.
Stay at home moms are the hardest working moms and you are working moms as well.
That's right.
So stay at home.
Yes.
For your real tip today, it's called fake news, which is a very good description of
what your news feed in your Instagram or social media accounts might look like right now.
So the tip is to filter through fake accounts that just don't feel real and then unfollow
those accounts so that you are now the curator of your news feed of seeing what you want
to see and not comparing yourself to the accounts that are not real life.
And now for your real extra tip of the week, it's called give me a break.
Now, what that means is to give yourself a break from social media this week.
It is wild on social media.
There's craziness.
There's fake news.
All of it.
Give yourself a break from it.
Put your phone down.
Look at somebody next to you.
Have a conversation.
Watch TV, zone out, do nothing, read a book, whatever you want without using your phone.
You will be amazed at what the world has to offer out of the screen.
Well, thank you, Christina.
Number one, it was very nice to talk to someone other than Carly.
But it really was, I think it's really important to shed a light on the genuine nature of
what it's like to be out there working, being a mom, being a woman, getting caught up in
the craze and trying to get yourself back out of it into a sustainable way to keep your
mindset and your body and your happiness.
So thank you so much.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for being real with us.
Anytime.
And Carly, thank you for being extra.
Anytime.
All the time.
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Okay?
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