Why “wholesome consuming” can look so many various methods

Betty Rocker (00:15):
What’s up, rock stars Coach Betty Rocker right here. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me. It’s nice to spend a while with you at the moment. I needed to speak to you about consuming. It’s such a private factor, proper? Such a private alternative and it has such a big effect on how we really feel, how we reply to our coaching, how our power is, and naturally our general well being. And I, I suppose I really feel like one of many largest challenges we face is being offered with so many diets and consuming kinds which can be supposedly one of the simplest ways to eat or to drop some weight, or to get more healthy. And I hear from ladies every single day who’re confused and overwhelmed attempting to wade by means of all of the conflicting recommendation. One factor I believe it actually helps to recollect is that among the motive there may be a lot conflicting recommendation is as a result of really various things work for various folks at completely different instances.

(01:09)
Some diets are actually efficient for sure folks at sure instances of their life. There’s merely simply not one good food plan for everybody. Bear in mind in our final dialog after we had been speaking about tips on how to recuperate successfully in case you’ve been sick or injured, we had been speaking about all of the completely different methods in our our bodies and the way they’ll affect the extent of stress our physique is coping with at any given time, proper? All of us have these distinctive stressors because of our life stage, our life-style, our genetics, and so many different elements. So how our physique responds to the meals we eat will differ as nicely, as a result of the interaction of those completely different methods in your physique is having a distinct dialog than say the subsequent individual’s. For example, your sister’s good food plan may not work the identical for you as a result of you have got an intolerance to one of many principal meals in it that could be causes an inflammatory response for you however not for her.

(02:12)
And that units off a cascade of different points that stop you from shedding weight or it really works for you and never for her due to the best way you utilized the data because it possibly was only a higher match to your life-style. So that you had been in a position to be extra compliant and extra per the rules within the food plan. Or say your husband’s food plan doesn’t work the identical for you and you’re feeling that there’s some lack in you or that you’re not doing it proper, it’s doable that his food plan works notably nicely for a person’s physiology, for a person’s hormone ranges and for the upper quantity of muscle mass a person has in comparison with a lady. Bear in mind, we aren’t small males. We’re ladies with hormone ranges and physiology that’s distinctive to us. So not each food plan will work the identical for each women and men on a regular basis.

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It is perhaps that he responds extra rapidly as a result of he has extra muscle going into the food plan than you do. Maybe the food plan is even working for you. It simply requires extra time. I don’t truly know, however I do know that these are all issues I’ve seen occur over time, and it’s arduous to generally pinpoint precisely what it’s that’s working and never working if you’re evaluating two utterly completely different folks. One other instance is the food plan you adopted at a sure time in your life now 10 years later, doesn’t work. There are various the reason why this could possibly be one instance could possibly be your hormone standing has modified and your physique simply isn’t responding to the best way you’re consuming the identical manner because it used to, or a food plan you used up to now isn’t working for you now as a result of your exercise stage is manner decrease than it was up to now.

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So there’s a mismatch within the quantity of meals you’re taking in and the quantity of power you really need. Or possibly there’s a brand new inside stressor that your physique is utilizing its assets to cope with and it doesn’t have the identical capability for fats loss presently. Because of this it’s each arduous to match the best way you eat to the best way another person eats and even the best way you used to eat. And likewise why we merely want to simply do some experimenting as we undergo life to see what works for us now, and actually simply keep open and curious and depend on the response we’re getting from our physique realizing that meals is simply one of many many inputs that causes it to really feel, look and carry out the best way it does. I all the time consider consuming and our our bodies like a two-way dialog, proper? Like what we eat is us speaking to our physique and the way we really feel because of this is our physique’s manner of speaking again to us.

(04:48)
That’s why I have a tendency to have a look at the meals I eat as like a set of vitamins which can be going to assist my physique in numerous methods after I know what’s in my meals and what it vitamins it incorporates, it makes it only a lot simpler to decide on deliberately how I’m going to assist that like inside workforce of cells and organs and processes occurring for me 24 hours a day, seven days every week, one year a 12 months after I’m sleeping, after I’m awake, like actually on a regular basis. And I’m all the time picturing the internal panorama of my physique like a universe contained inside me. All these roadway methods like our circulatory pathways, our lymphatic system, and our digestive system operating by means of every thing our organs like cities with necessary roles within the inside world, every with its personal merchandise and duties that helps the whole ecosystem. And our hormones and enzymes are chemical messengers.

(05:41)
So I consider them just like the texts and the packages your physique sends throughout the universe that communicates and performs important jobs that hold the city provided with what they should operate correctly ourselves are like all the employees who’re working nonstop devoted to supporting our well being. So after I eat or after I practice or after I take into consideration staying up actually late for the third evening in a row, I take into consideration how what I’m doing goes to assist this workforce or goes to hinder it and caring for me and the way I’m a part of the workforce itself with the alternatives I make about utilizing my power, power that my physique works very arduous to provide, even the alternatives I make about tips on how to discuss to myself. Like if I’m being down on my physique for the way it appears, I’m additionally telling my total system that it’s not ok or it’s not doing a ok job when truly it’s doing the very best that it may with the enter I’m giving it.

(06:37)
And that’s actually why these days when issues aren’t working proper, I take into consideration what I have to do to assist the workforce. There’s this sense of accountability I really feel to handle myself. It goes manner past how a lot I weigh or how I look on the surface. And generally possibly it’s not one thing I can determine all alone. Perhaps I want some exterior assist or somebody to look inside my at my blood to get extra info. Then I can simply glean with the signs I’m experiencing. The underside line is absolutely that caring for ourselves is a posh course of and it’s not simple. There isn’t one particular or proper strategy to do it, proper? We’ve to experiment and discover the suitable manner for ourselves. And there are a variety of methods that may work and a few that don’t work as nicely or work higher at particular instances in our lives than others.

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I all the time take into consideration this podcast I did a pair years in the past with Trisha Nelson who wrote a e book known as Heal Your Starvation about serving to folks cope with emotional consuming. It’s a fantastic episode in case you haven’t listened to it earlier than. She talked a few idea known as Three Meal Magic, which she makes use of to assist folks focus and have an anchor level. And I simply love how that sounds and it’s simple to recollect too, and it all the time resonated with me as a result of I’ve all the time taught an identical method with three principal meals as anchor factors all through the day. It’s fairly primary and quaint, however it works for a motive. Whereas I deal with three meals a day myself, I do additionally wish to have a smoothie, or I’ll have one thing in between meals on a day when my timing extends previous after I usually eat or I’m exercising arduous and I’m simply hungrier.

(08:14)
However the anchor level of the three principal meals actually helps me get the vitamins my physique wants all through the day and it simply makes it simpler to plan and never have to consider it very arduous. I do know that cravings are an actual factor, and I believe after we’re not getting the vitamins we’d like persistently that the workforce inside us must do all of its duties. It’s gonna inform our mind that we’d like power, we’d like one thing to maintain working, and sugar or candy meals are a fast hit of power. So we type of go to them, not ultimate essentially, however efficient within the second. That’s why consuming deliberately with our principal meals to present the workforce what it must do its job is so necessary. So we now have the constructing blocks that assist us assume, assist our power, rebuild our tissue all day lengthy.

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You realize, talking of rebuilding, possibly you’ve heard me speak about protein earlier than and why it’s such an necessary nutrient to incorporate in every principal meal. It’s as a result of protein breaks down into amino acids after we eat it, and people amino acids serve a ton of necessary features for us. Now, the breakdown course of can be serving us truly breaking down protein takes extra power than breaking down different vitamins. So after we’re consuming sufficient protein day by day, we’re additionally rising our general power burn due to the thermic impact of meals, which I talked about in relation to our general use of power all through the day. In one other current podcast, that was one the place I additionally talked about strolling and fats loss, in case you wanna take heed to that one. So anyway, the protein, it breaks down and the amino acids, it incorporates journey by means of the physique and get to work and our exercises break down our muscle tissue.

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So a giant job that the amino acids have is to restore and restore the muscle tissue, which helps make us stronger and makes it so we will truly see the outcomes and the affect of our exercises. These amino acids additionally assist our immune system. They activate specialised cells known as NK cells or pure killer cells that restrict the unfold of microbial infections and determine and eradicate dangerous micro organism, which is superior, proper? They’re simply so useful. In addition they assist regulate your response to oxidative stress and power irritation and pace up the speed at which your physique produces one thing known as lymphocytes, that are illness preventing cells. These are all some fairly necessary features for retaining us wholesome and retaining our immune system robust, proper? And people amino acids, additionally they affect our temper. Consider it or not, with out sufficient protein, your mind can’t produce sufficient neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.

(10:48)
And that is important for enhancing our power, having psychological readability and making us really feel happier. Plus doing issues like regulating ache, nervousness and initiating sleep, that’s a giant one. The higher the neurotransmitters are fed, the higher they do at delivering necessary info, which helps higher reminiscence and psychological alertness. I would like all of these issues to be occurring on autopilot in my physique mainly. So it’s another excuse I’m all the time ensuring to incorporate protein in my meals, and also you is perhaps sitting there considering, nicely, how a lot do I want? And the reply is, it varies considerably. However in case you’re consuming three meals a day, possibly begin with 20 to 30 grams per meal, which is perhaps somewhat low for you, however it’s a great place to begin and also you gotta begin someplace. If that feels okay and also you wanna enhance your quantity, simply strive making the portion of the protein supply you’re together with somewhat bigger in every meal.

(11:40)
Or you may add a protein smoothie in sooner or later in your day like I do. And in case you’re within the perimenopause or submit menopause stage of life, it’s good to know that our physique doesn’t soak up the aminos as because it did after we had say, increased ranges of hormones in our biking years. So even in case you’re on hormone substitute remedy, you do wanna up your protein and take a bit from the ballpark vary I shared earlier than. So in case you had been round 20 to 30 earlier than, you’d wanna go as much as like 30 to 40 grams per meal, and that’s a sliding scale, proper? Similar suggestion right here about tips on how to simply enhance your protein, like simply rising the portion of protein within the meal you’re making or including a protein smoothie into your day sooner or later. However , first, you do type of want to check out what number of grams of protein are within the meals or meals you’re consuming now, so that you truly know.

(12:29)
And that is actually the one nutrient I take note of, particularly realizing the grams I’m getting of day by day on a median quantity. And actually, when you get a great sense of what number of grams of protein are within the numerous meals you rotate by means of, it will get loads simpler to estimate and not likely give it some thought as a lot. And hey, if these numbers don’t give you the results you want, you may also take into consideration percentages like attempt to make 25 to 35% of your plate in your meal be a protein supply. For example. I all the time give a variety since you may fall someplace on both finish of the spectrum, both due to your life-style, your exercise stage, your physique composition targets, , what have you ever. Just a few experimentation is all the time a good suggestion. And really one different cool factor about protein is the way it’s extra satisfying than fats or carbs.

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So not solely does it use extra power to interrupt down rising your resting metabolic price, it additionally makes you are feeling extra full and glad if you embody it in ample quantities to your wants alongside together with your different meal parts. Meaning you’ll be much less more likely to be as hungry as quickly after since you’re supporting the inner workforce with what it wants. So that you gained’t get these craving indicators or the necessity to snack as a lot since you’ll have a great baseline of nutrient density from the protein portion of your meals. And there’s much more that protein does for the workforce. I imply, the amino acids are the constructing blocks of a few of our hormones which carry out necessary signaling roles in our physique like insulin glucagon, human progress hormone, simply to call a couple of. And naturally we’d like amino acids to assemble our enzymes, which helps pace up chemical reactions in our physique like muscle contraction respiration, that’s type of necessary, proper?

(14:14)
Our digestion, our nerve operate, protein synthesis, and so many extra issues. So there’s simply a variety of worth in constructing protein into your meals day by day with intention. After all, completely different meals sources include completely different amino acids. There’s a variety of completely different amino acids, however 9 which can be known as the important aminos as a result of your physique can’t make them by itself and has to get them from meals. Animal sources of protein include all 9 will. Plant sources include a mixture. So in case you don’t eat meat, for example, consuming a different vegetarian food plan can nonetheless cowl your bases. After all, I’ve all the time included each omnivore and vegetarian choices in all of my meal plans and applications. So that you’re all the time coated in case you’re utilizing one thing that I created. And naturally, protein isn’t the one factor the inner workforce must operate. We additionally want these carbs and fat. I do know it’s simple to be confused by carbs, but when you consider them for his or her capability to assist your power stability and your intestine well being, it’s simply simpler to incorporate them with intention I believe, and make our selections from complete meals sources that include extra fiber, that helps that intestine well being.

(15:18)
And our coronary heart well being carbs in fact, are damaged down into glucose, which will get used for issues like quick power and it’s your mind’s most popular power supply as nicely. Something that your physique doesn’t want for that on the spot power will get shipped off through the UPS system in your physique to your muscle tissue or to your liver, and it will get warehoused there as a usable type of power that your physique can name on afterward. And it’s known as glycogen in that type. Now your physique unpacks the glycogen in between meals, so you have got power to maintain doing all your issues and it helps to gasoline your exercises and your restoration as nicely. Because of this I don’t actually advocate low carb or no carb diets for ladies, however , experimentation is all the time necessary. It’s part of discovering what works finest for you as a result of what low carb means to at least one individual is perhaps a average or balanced carb consumption for another person.

(16:15)
So for example, if we’re basing excessive carb on counting on a variety of excessive sugar meals, undoubtedly a decrease carb food plan that incorporates issues like complete grains, legumes, fruit, and fibrous greens goes to be a discount within the grams of sugar we’re consuming. And all of these complete meals are actually helpful to our well being and include a variety of minerals and nutritional vitamins and issues like fiber which can be so necessary for us. And that long run, , carb deprivation can result in this actual depletion of your physique’s storage glycogen ranges. It may depress your immune system, cut back your train tolerance, lower your metabolic operate, and simply trigger a variety of long-term points. I keep in mind when the keto food plan first turned actually common, and that’s a really low carb food plan. Individuals had been lining up as a result of the science confirmed how impactful it was for weight reduction.

(17:06)
However the analysis was finished on males who’ve very completely different hormone ranges and a better quantity of their physique tissue is muscle as in comparison with us. We aren’t small males like I used to be saying. And you’ll’t simply blanket apply each examine finished on males to ladies’s our bodies and count on the identical outcomes. Now, ladies did see weight reduction too from doing that food plan, however there have been long run outcomes that confirmed that whereas it was efficient within the brief time period, it didn’t appear to have a fantastic affect long run for us and will truly enhance our cortisol ranges, which in fact, cortisol is a stress hormone. And when that’s elevated over time, it promotes fats storage. So whereas it’s all the time thrilling to assume that there’s a shortcut or strategy to drop some weight quick, it may find yourself backfiring in the long run. That’s to not say there isn’t worth in it.

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That’s to not say you could’t use it for a particular timeframe, um, or experiment with it. I completely assume experimentation is so invaluable. However these are simply among the outcomes of the long term research and in addition ladies’s particular, proper? I believe that’s actually necessary to recollect after we are speaking about how various things work for various folks and never every thing works the identical for everyone. Anytime we’re going somewhat too low on our fiber consumption, like a food plan that’s very, very low carb, particularly as ladies, I do get involved, uh, a extremely low carb food plan may deprive us of a few of these key components that assist us in necessary ways in which truly can result in long-term sustainable fats loss. If that’s a objective in the way you’re selecting to eat. Fiber is in fact a element in complete meals carbohydrate meals that slows the discharge of sugar into the blood, which provides you extra regular power, helps your wholesome intestine micro organism and immune system and helps an optimum digestive circulation.

(18:50)
Fiber is absolutely necessary, it’s a extremely necessary a part of our food plan at all ages, however it turns into much more necessary to concentrate to as we get into perimenopause and particularly supportive submit menopause as nicely as a result of there’s this space of your intestine known as the estrobolome, which particularly helps our physique course of and take away extra estrogen. And within the menopause years, it’s actually essential to concentrate to nutrient dense meals that gasoline the nice intestine micro organism to each assist the variety of the microbiome and particularly assist hold the estrobolome stability so it may assist that elimination of extra estrogen. So we don’t find yourself getting, um, the soiled estrogen circulating again into the bloodstream triggering, um, estrogen dominance and the issues that actually exacerbate a few of these uncomfortable menopause signs that so many ladies wrestle with. After all, we’d like wholesome fats in our food plan too. It actually helps gasoline our muscle after we’re doing low to average depth actions, which is why I’ve finished some current podcasts about how your physique burns power and the affect that low affect exercise like strolling has on fats loss.

(19:52)
A number of the nutritional vitamins that your physique actually wants like a, D, E, and Okay are all fats soluble and so they can’t be absorbed within the absence of dietary fats. Wholesome fats in our meals can be very satisfying and it may assist us really feel full after we embody it in stability with the opposite vitamins in our meals. And it additionally helps to gradual gastric emptying, which is only a fancy manner of claiming it slows down how briskly the meals exits your abdomen. And that is useful as soon as once more in retaining your blood sugar ranges secure, which prevents an insulin spike that may set off fats storage. And having sufficient wholesome fats in your food plan gives you with actually lasting power in your exercises, in your day by day actions together with these glycogen shops we had been speaking about, which is, you understand how the physique shops glucose from our carbs, fats is burned throughout train and in addition low affect actions to spare the important amino acids from protein in your muscle tissue.

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And that’s truly an necessary level I needed to tie in about protein and why I encourage you to make it a degree to incorporate protein in every meal you eat. We’ve talked about how your physique diligently shops each fats and carbohydrates for later use. You realize, after we want power in between meals, however the physique doesn’t actually have the identical mechanism for storing the amino acids from protein. They get used to rebuild our physique tissue although, and that’s what the physique breaks down when it must name on aminos for any of these necessary jobs I used to be telling you about earlier, if it may’t discover amino acids circulating in your blood, say out of your final meal, it actually breaks down your muscle tissue to entry the saved amino acids there. And in case you’re engaged on like a physique composition objective that features fats loss and muscle tone enchancment, you don’t wanna be shedding muscle tissue simply since you didn’t take note of your protein consumption.

(21:47)
And as we age, this turns into extra necessary than ever as a result of we’re not absorbing the aminos as simply, proper? So this is likely one of the causes folks begin to lose their muscle tissue as they age. And the much less muscle you have got, the extra your resting metabolic price goes down, and that’s how effectively burn energy or power at relaxation. So the extra muscle tissue we now have, the extra power we burn. So shedding our muscle tissue means we don’t burn as a lot, and if we hold consuming the identical quantity, we achieve weight. So in case you’re lively and exercising, we will take into consideration the significance of consuming round our exercises, proper? As a result of going into your exercise fueled or fueling up shortly after you practice goes to assist your power and the muscle variations out of your coaching, which helps you protect the lean mass you have got and helps your physique in restoration and restore.

(22:40)
This doesn’t imply you want like a pre-workout drink or that you must have a protein shake instantly after you train, however in fact you may in case you like, that’s completely effective, , it simply, it simply signifies that in case you go for lengthy intervals with out consuming, then work out after which don’t eat for some time after that, your physique’s actually not getting the assist it wants for that exercise and that power expenditure and it doesn’t have the constructing blocks. It wants to enter restore mode and regrowth mode after the coaching session. So your exercises gained’t truly be as efficient for strengthening your physique. Because of this I personally simply type of focus persistently on getting these quaint three principal meals a day. And my exercise normally falls someplace between two of these meals. And a few ladies are simply extra comfy understanding very first thing within the morning after which consuming their first meal after they practice, which is okay.

(23:33)
I’d simply advocate that you just eat fairly quickly after you practice in case you didn’t eat earlier than your coaching session. Uh, one other strategy to form of, um, give your physique extra of a buffer your coaching session could be so as to add a protein shake within the combine along with your principal meals, possibly on coaching days and even on non-training days in case you’re simply hungry for it. And that is only a nice technique for enhancing your general protein consumption for the day. And it may simply be an effective way to get some extra nutrient dense fiber from fruit and even greens into your physique. So in case you like having a protein shake, you might need it in case you simply labored out, however it’s gonna be a short while earlier than your subsequent meal. Once more, it’s a fantastic buffer. This, this might simply give your system a few of these nutrient constructing blocks it wants after your exercise, specifically protein and carbs, however you may additionally simply eat your subsequent principal meal if that was the suitable time of day for that.

(24:26)
Uh, I’d say one other handy manner to make use of a protein shake or smoothie could possibly be a short while earlier than your exercise. So right here’s a straightforward instance of that. Say you ate breakfast and also you’re going to work out in your lunch break at work, you need to use lunch as your post-workout refuel meal, however it’s been some time since breakfast and your power ranges are dipping a bit. So as an alternative of going into your exercise hungry, you may have a protein shake an hour to half an hour or sooner or later earlier than your exercise, which might provide you with some quick digesting power from the carbs and the fruit and a few aminos in your system, proper? This may help you push more durable in your exercise and get extra out of it that manner. Too many various approaches together with your consuming timing can work, and I actually wouldn’t overcomplicate it.

(25:13)
Simply deal with making your meals encompass these nourishing complete meals and keep away from going lengthy intervals round your coaching with no meals. I, I’d counsel not consuming or coaching too near bedtime both as each can type of elevate your physique temperature and stop deeper sleep. And I do know it’s very easy to get in our head about meals consumption and we wanna have these good numbers and ideal quantities for every nutrient. And don’t get me incorrect, completely different methods work for us at completely different instances. And experimentation is an effective way to be taught and be taught extra about meals deteriorating and see what works for you or , what you want. However one factor I believe that’s necessary to remember is that energy on meals are estimates. That’s why they differ between completely different producers. So if you wish to observe a calorie sort of food plan, I simply counsel having a spread and even taking a look at your estimated intakes over the course of the week.

(26:06)
And remember the fact that on-line calculators that inform you what number of energy to eat or additionally estimates, they’ll’t actually know everyday what is strictly best for you. So don’t give them an excessive amount of energy over your selections or, , attempt to go to an excellent low calorie food plan too quick simply since you actually need weight reduction. Bear in mind, the physique wants its personal time for this to happen in a secure and wholesome sustainable manner. After all, in case you devour lower than you expend every day, you’ll drop some weight. However once more, is it sustainable? Are you having fun with your expertise? And we now have to ask if weight reduction alone is the objective, or if we wanna lose physique fats and assist muscle power, assist our power stability, our hormone well being, our bone density and extra, which is the method that I are inclined to take, which is why it’s not very excessive, proper?

(26:57)
It’s a long-term well being targeted method that will get nice outcomes. However I additionally wish to be actual about the truth that I’m not attempting to do a crash course in weight-reduction plan right here. That may not be best for you. You realize, solely you may resolve what’s finest for you. I’ve simply seen over time how excessive weight-reduction plan and consuming too little for very long time may cause critical well being points, actually depress our metabolic price, making it more durable to lose price weight down the street and depart us poor and important vitamins that we’d like, which may trigger a variety of different well being issues. And this simply brings me again to this connection that we now have with our physique. Though we will’t see and possibly admire what our physique is doing for us every day in any respect hours, it’s occurring beneath our pores and skin continually and dealing tirelessly with one objective to assist us.

(27:48)
So what we put in with what we eat, what we breathe, what we drink, and even what we expect impacts the output or the end result and the way we really feel, how we operate and the way we age. So get in contact with that internal world. Should you haven’t thought of it in that manner earlier than, I believe it’s in all probability one of many issues that has had the largest affect in all probability alone selections and, and the way I write my applications and simply take into consideration meals on the whole. You realize, getting in contact with and caring about caring for my physique and the community of methods which can be caring for me each single day. And when you begin seeing it that manner, it’s simply simpler to make selections that assist us higher. So anyway, rockstar. I hope this dialog gave you some meals for thought , pun meant. And also you’re impressed to simply take into consideration nourishing your self with this theme of supporting the workforce inside you.

(28:42)
And do not forget that various things work for us at completely different instances, and that there isn’t one good manner to do that that works for everybody on a regular basis. There are some absolutes, like all of us need to eat , however there are a variety of completely different choices to fit your tastes and you’ll experiment to see what works for you. You will discover the consuming plans and recipe guides that I’ve created on the betty rocker.com web site, and naturally my exercise applications and natural protein powders too. A number of nice assist to your wholesome physique that I’ve loved creating over time. And thanks a lot for taking the time to hang around with me at the moment. I hope to attach with you once more very quickly. And till then, I’m Betty Rocker and you’re so superior blossom and wonderful. Bye for now.