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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. Today, I am going to do something slightly different. I am going to tell you my story. My story of transformation and what that looked like. And you might be thinking, why? Why do we want to know your story? And there's two reasons why I would like to tell you my story.

Number one, Just so that you can get to know me a little bit better. And I would love to get to know you, so if you're not in the Facebook group, come and join the Facebook group and introduce yourself. And that's really a place where I can connect with people and we chat and get to know each other a little bit better.

So that's the first reason, just getting to know each other a little bit better. And the second reason is, I want to explain to you why I'm so passionate about health and wellness. And as I explain, you'll see how easy it is for you to make changes. Where to start? Where to start? Like, back,...

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. I hope that you are feeling fabulous, fabulous today. Today, I want to wax lyrical about habits and how to lead a healthy life without thinking about it. So many people say to me, you know what, I want to lose weight, I want to get healthy, I want more energy, and I want to do it all without thinking about it.

It feels like a little bit. of an impossible thing because that without thinking about it bit It seems almost like you can't get there. Now, I promise you, you absolutely can get there. The without thinking about it bit is just a habit. Just a habit. The thing about habits is when you have the habit, you're doing that behavior without thinking about it.

It's almost the definition of a habit. Let me give you a few examples. I was talking to my sister yesterday. One of my sisters phoned me and she said to me, Oh my goodness, I just, my energy levels feel so low and I don't...

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Hello, everyone. We are very fortunate today to have Dr. Orlena as a very, very fancy guest. She is going to tell you all about what she does. And how she came to be in the wellness industry.

Welcome. I'll hand it over to you, Dr Orlena to tell us all about you and what you do. Well, first of all, thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me and having me on your podcast.

It's an absolute pleasure. And hooray for technology is what I say, because it's amazing, isn't it? I'm in Spain and you're in Perth and we're just chatting, like we're in different rooms. Who am I? I am Dr. Orlena. I trained in the UK as a pediatric doctor, actually. I worked in Australia for a bit. I love Australia.

My alternate life is in Australia, but I ended up in Spain. I accidentally lost my career, as I say, long story or short story is that it wasn't as easy as I had hoped to work here in Spain as a doctor. And so I turned to online and I originally started doing healthy...

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. I hope that you are feeling amazing today. Today, I want to talk to you about the difference between restricting your diet and healthy eating. If you're just eating healthily and you're not eating the other stuff, aren't you just restricting your diet anyhow?

Are they not the same thing? And this is a subtle but exciting distinction. Before we dive into this, let me just tell you a little story. This morning, Easter holidays, my daughter is going to learn to do roller skating. Not roller skating, skateboarding. And so she's off to her, what they call, you know, a day trip to do some skateboarding.

Now, in the holidays, she likes to have pancakes for breakfast, which is fine on one level, but she's not the tidiest cook, and it leads to a little bit of stress in the kitchen. She gets a little bit het up, and then she doesn't tidy up. This morning she came down and she said,...

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Dr Orlena: Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. Today, I'm excited. We have a guest. We don't have guests very often, but when we do, they're super special. , Diana, welcome, welcome. I'm going to ask you to pronounce your surname because I don't think I can manage it. And first of all, I want to find out, tell me about your surname.

Diana: Well, it's, it's Chaloux-LaCerte, so very French, as I'm sure you can figure out. And Chaloux is, is my maiden name. LaCerte is my, is my husband's name. So, and they're both French. . So when we got married, it was, it was a little bit of double French there.

Dr Orlena: Today we are talking about fitness and fitness specifically for women over the age of 40. Hooray, hooray. One of my favorite topics. Before we start, how about you introduce yourself and tell people a little bit about why you're so passionate about this topic?

Diana: Oh, well, thank you for the...

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. I hope that you are feeling amazing, amazing today. It is mid March and spring is in the air. It's a little bit chilly here in Spain, but I can just feel that beginning of spring. You know, I look at my garden and there's little buds coming and little leaves I'm excited, excited.

I love spring. It's one of my favouritest times. Everything here in Spain is green. I love the summer as well, but everything in summer is brown and dry here in Spain. I hope wherever you are, you have wonderful, wonderful weather and a wonderful day. Today I want to talk about self confidence and specifically self confidence connected to weight loss and body image.

This is more of a posing questions podcast as opposed to, hey, I've got some answers and some tips for you. But one of the things I noticed working with my clients and chatting to people. On a daily basis is so many people say to...

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. I hope that you are feeling amazing, amazing, amazing today. Today I want to talk to you about, drum roll please, mindset. I know my favorite topic. I want to talk about mindset and why mindset is the foundation of any change that you want to make.

Let's set the scene. You are wanting to lose weight and You don't really know what to go, do. There are two options here. Either you're thinking, okay, I don't know what to do, I'm eating perfectly well, everything's super fabulous, and I just actually don't know what to lose weight. Or, you do know what to do, you just have what I call a doing gap.

Now, the second one is actually a little bit easier than the first one. If you're in the first camp, yes, you may very well be eating healthily. But there are changes that you still need to make in order to help your body lose weight. You just aren't a hundred percent sure what those...

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. Are you feeling fabulous? I hope that you are. , quick question for you. True or false? In order to lose weight, you must only ever eat when you are hungry. What do you reckon? Yes or no? I hear so many people say this to me. I need to only eat when I'm hungry and that means that I am going to lose weight.

I personally do not think this is true and I'm going to spend the next 10 15 minutes explaining to you why. Let me start by telling you, it is Tuesday. Oh my goodness, it is so windy here in Spain today. We do the whole windswept, like, thing in a totally new dimension. The gales are howling. And it's Tuesday morning, and I have a habit of eating nuts when I know that I am not hungry.

Am I hungry? No, I've eaten my breakfast not that long ago, I know I'm not hungry, I am just work avoiding, you can call it boredom eating if you want, I know that I have a habit of basically...

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. I hope that you are feeling amazing, amazing today. Today, I want to talk to you about the stories that you tell yourself about yourself , your health and your wellness and your ability to be able to lose weight. What on earth am I talking about?

Let's take an example. , it is four years ago. February, March, 2019, 2020 even, my goodness, years are slipping past without me, anything happened that we can remember? Yes, four years ago, we went into lockdown. What happened in lockdown was our world was thrown apart. At that time, some people created habits that were not great habits.

A lot of people did baking and cooking and drinking more. I, however, sat in my little corner of Spain basically doing pretty much the same as I did. I used to go to market. I remember I used to wear my pyjamas to market and then come home and wash because that was kind of what we were advised to do.

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena. Today, we are talking about glucose and glucose spikes. So I'm just going to dive in and give you a whole load of information bombshell that you are going to be blown away by and think, oh my goodness, I can do some really easy things to minimize my glucose spikes.

So number one, let's have a think about why glucose spikes are important and why we might want to reduce them in the first place. So, I am sure that you have all heard of diabetes and how it is a horrible, horrible illness that nobody would wish upon their worst enemy. And I'm sure that you have also seen that people with diabetes get a whole host of horrible, horrible complications.

It can affect many, many parts of your body. It can affect your eyes. It can affect your nerves. You can have your leg amputated. It affects your heart. It basically affects Next, what we call the end organs. Now, the reason why...