Speaker JOSEPHINE

Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today’s episode is How Not To Struggle Through The Summer. But first let’s start with Memorial Day since it was just last week. If you are struggling after Memorial Day weekend because I know so many of you are, and it’s time to pull it back together. We are finally experiencing some beautiful, beautiful weather in New York and you want to be ready. Summer is only a couple of weeks away. So this week I want you to concentrate on moving forward and only moving forward. Leave the past behind you and focus on the future. Stop beating yourself up. It gets you nowhere. Don’t spend your energy and your thoughts about what you didn’t do or you should have done this past holiday break. Think about what you want to look and feel like come this summer. Are you ready for the barbecue parties? Are you ready for the pool parties? Can you imagine yourself in shorts and a tank top, a sundress, a bathing suit? These are questions only you can answer, because in a few short weeks you will be pulling out your summer clothes, if you haven’t already. And you know, when you pull them out, they will either be very tight, they will fit or they will be big. The results are always entirely up to you. 

01:40

After a long weekend or vacation, we tend to have a hard time getting back on track. Okay, so if you had that hard time this week, it’s because we eat a little more than usual over holiday, weekends or vacation and we’re eating more food more days in a row. So when we go back to our 100% week, we feel the weight from all the extra we ate. We see it on the scale and on top of all that, we’re hungrier because we ate more. So now we have to retrain our appetite, our mind and our body to go back to eating less. Honestly, this is why I always say either do the Five-hour, the Detox, or now we even have the Ketox after a long weekend or vacation, because you’re going to be hungry anyway, so at least, if you’re hungry, go on one of those three and it’ll get you right back to your pre-holiday or pre-vacation weight, it will shrink your appetite again and it’ll get you back quickly to your numbers and that is what you need to move forward in a positive mindset. 

So let’s just go over the three programs. So we have them and we know them for the summer, so immediately after any long weekend or vacation. The first option is The Five Hour where you do two meals and one snack in the same five hours, Monday through Friday. Saturday and Sunday you go back to three meals and one snack, or two meals and two snacks, and one cheat meal. Now remember, in those five hours when you’re doing your two meals and one snack, it’s like a breakfast, a dinner and a snack. 

The second option is The Innovation Detox where you do a detox drink, an Mct Muffin and an Innovation meal, or 6oz of grilled chicken or fish with two cups of vegetables, and you do it Monday through Friday. Again, Saturday and Sunday you go back to your three meals and one snack, or two meals and two snacks, and you have your cheat meal. 

03:17

Our New Option is Our New Detox Ketox  where you do one Ketox drink and these do have a caffeine booster in it. But to give you an idea of how much it is, it’s 75 milligrams in a 16 ounce bottle. One cup of coffee is 95 milligrams for a 12 ounce cup, so that gives you an idea of how much is in it. It’s less than a cup of coffee. Caffeine is known to help burn fat, but it also acts as an appetite suppressant. Also, this detox ketox has no sugar added, so you will combine it with a Ketovation muffin and one Ketovation meal with two cups of vegetables or 6 oz grilled chicken or fish with 2 cups of vegetables. And you do it Monday thorough Friday and Saturday and Sunday you go back to your 3 meals and 1 snack or 2 meals and 2 snacks and your one cheat day. Some clients go back to regular innovation on the weekend and others will stick with Ketovation it’s up to you. The whole idea behind the Ketox is you’re incorporating very little to no carbs, no sugar, no gluten. So it really works amazing to see really quick results. The clients who have done it absolutely love it and they said they haven’t seen results like that in a really long time. So that’s amazing and always great to hear.

04:07

All three programs work if you stick to them. So pick one that you feel you can do. And yes, if you’re asking, can you switch from week to week? Yes, you can. If you want to do the five hour one week and the next week do the ketox and next week do the detox, you can do that. You can even incorporate them together in one week and do the ketox for a couple of days and then the five hour for a couple of days and then the detox for a couple of days. Some people do the detox or ketox only before a cheat day and after a cheat day, or both. 

So do what works for you each week. Every week is different to how we feel, what we can mentally handle and what we have on our schedules, so you have to look at your week and decide what will work for you. But what I will tell you is these three programs will get you to where you want to be faster, and that includes helping you lose holiday or vacation weight. It will help you get back to eating less and feeling really good about it, and it will help your numbers move faster in the right direction. And I think when we are trying to lose weight, we need all three of those things in full action. So we continue on our positive path and in our positive mindset to feel great about what we’re doing. 

05:11

So please don’t beat yourself up about what you did or didn’t do over long weekends or holiday vacations, because you know you will have a lot more of these times as summer starts to go into full swing. And this is where we talk about summer. We all know with summer, yes, of course we can plan some things, but many things are last minute or spur of the moment. But what you can do as these things come into play is enjoy them, because we all wait for summer, right, we wanna enjoy these moments in these times. This is what we work so hard for all year. But what you have to do is you have to prepare for what you do after you have these moments, these vacations, these long weekends. 

05:46

You either do the Detox, the Ketox or the Five-hour and it will help you get right back. And this all falls into when I say on the days you can be amazing in the summer, be amazing. And on the days you can’t in the summer, be mindful, right. And that includes the Detox, Ketox or the Five hour. Because when you can’t be amazing, you want to be mindful, and mindful might be if you’re doing the Detox or Ketox for breakfast and your muffin for lunch and then you have a cheat meal or evening it’s going to help you maintain that day. 

So if you know you’re going out to dinner because it’s a summer night and you just think I want to cheat tonight or you know you won’t be perfectly on program, but you know I don’t want to go crazy. So then do the Detox or the Ketox for the morning, have the MCT or Keto muffin and then have your cheat meal and the same thing with the five hour. You can do the same thing on a summer day. For the five hour, you do two meals and one snack, but one of your meals is a cheat. What all this is going to do is it’s going to help you maintain that day so you don’t go backwards. Because like I always say you don’t want to gain and lose the same weight over and over. Incorporating any of these programs into your day thought the Summer is going to prevent that because it will help you maintain that day instead of gain. That’s the whole point of being mindful – to maintain and not gain.

06:45

The Detox, The Ketox and The Five Hour are all fantastic for weight loss, but they can also really help you maintain your days in the summer, especially for those last minute plans, or for the longer weekends that you weren’t expecting, or those quick trips that all of a sudden come into play. They will really help you maintain those days so you’re not gaining, because like I said we don’t ever want to gain weight and then lose it. When you gain and lose the same weight over and over you are getting nowhere if you do that. But if you can throw the Detox, the Ketox or the Five hour into play, when you have those spur of the moment nights that you’re going out to dinner and you didn’t know, or your long weekends, and you do the Detox, the Ketox or the Five hour, either the day of or the week after it’s going to make a big difference in your maintenance and that’s what you want. 

07:42

That’s what we really need over the summer. We want to maintain the days that we can and lose on the days that we can. We really want to avoid gaining, and that’s what’s going to help you do that the Detox, the Ketox or the Five hour so make sure you have them into play. It’s going to make such a big difference in your mindset, in your body, in your appetite and, of course, on the scale. And that’s what you want. That’s what I want for you. 

You know, we can learn each day what we are capable of and what is important to us and what we really want out of each day. This is all about balance, so we can have everything we want and enjoy each day, but stay in a great, healthy, happy mindset doing it. 

Okay, thank you for listening that is all I have for you now. I am wishing you all a happy, healthy week full of blessings and love. Hugs from me to all of you. 

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick

Innovation Weight Loss & Healthy Market

8025 Jericho Tpke

Woodbury, NY 11797

516802-5055

www.innovationweightloss.com

00:32 – SPEAKER – JOSEPHINE 

Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy Show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. This week’s episode is I Want the Change. Yes, I want to change. The first day of summer is June 21st, which is approximately five weeks from the time I’m doing this podcast, and while five weeks isn’t a long time, it’s long enough to make changes in your life. Think of it this way you can either go into summer feeling like you do now maybe not so great, a little out of control or you can go in feeling your best, feeling like you’re working towards your goal, feeling amazing because you are in control. Those are your choices, and we always have choices. I say this all the time. But today I’m talking about more than choices. I’m talking about want. 

01:20

Yes, so many times in my podcast I would say it’s a choice to stay on or go off, or I would say your results are in your choices. You know you always have the choice of what your results are going to be, but it has to be more than a choice. It has to be a want. You need to want to stay on program. You need to want to live healthy. You need to want to be thin, fit and strong. You need to want to fit in your skinny clothes. You need to want to wear a bathing suit without feeling uncomfortable. It has to be a want for you to achieve this, because weight loss is hard, so you have to want it. It has to be more than just a choice. 

01:56

I did a little short message yesterday and it was really about you wanting this, wanting to change and, most of all, being fed up with going off program, being fed up with cheating and overindulging. You know letting yourself down over and over. Think about it, even at times you don’t tell me about how many times you grabbed a little something extra or indulged in a little something extra more than you should have. You know, maybe it’s even bigger portions of healthy food, but all those times you keep giving into your temptations. These are the times that keep holding you back. They are holding you back from what you want and eventually you will get fed up with yourself and be done. And I tell clients all the time I see it, all the time you see it in the podcasts you know eventually it will click. That’s the switch in your brain that you are so done with sabotaging yourself. You’re so done with all the little extras that really mean nothing. You’re giving them to yourself and they don’t make you feel better. They don’t make you feel any change. When you have those little extras, those little indulgences, they are holding you back. They’re not helping you. 

It’s one of the reasons why I do the podcast with all the clients. I want you to see how many people go through what you go through, but they do amazing. It’s because I want you to see they had challenges, they had struggles, they had moments of weaknesses, just like you did, and sometimes, you know, I do have some sharks that just pull it off immediately, but most are turtles. They go slower, but at the end of the day, everyone gets to the finish line. Whether you’re the shark or the turtle, you just can’t give up on yourself. You have to keep going. I know how hard it can feel and I can’t stress enough you have to keep going.

03:38

One of the most important things you can do is change your appetite. When you shrink your appetite, you will shrink your body. That’s how it works. That’s why the five hour and the detox are so important. They don’t give you just a boost in your weight loss, they help you shrink your appetite. So you’re getting both the boost of your weight loss, but you’re also shrinking your appetite. And when you can shrink your appetite. That’s what’s going to change your life. That’s what’s going to change your mindset. That’s what’s going to change how you look and feel. 

04:08

Most people don’t even realize I created the five-hour fast. There’s so many fasts out there, but I created the five-hour fast. I did so many tests and I realized that fasting is great, but if you’re not in the five hours, you’re not going to see the results you want. You’re working so hard and you won’t see those results. But if you look around and you look at all my clients, you will see they live on the five hour and it’s because they’re at their lowest numbers ever. But not only just that, but they also have the lowest body fat they’ve ever had. And even for those who don’t work out, their body fat is still so low. 

Most importantly, it shrinks your appetite first. It shrinks your appetite. It helps you lose the weight, but it’s not just water weight, it’s body fat weight and that’s the key. That’s why the change is so significant. 

04:56

Now, the only thing about the five hour and the detox is, if you have been out of control, you can’t just start doing them. You know you can’t just jump to the five hour or the detox, because you can’t go from eating everything to nothing. You will never last. You will give in. So my advice to anyone who wants to try it, that have been a little bit out of control or maybe out of control for a week or a year start with the signature innovation. Start with your three meals and two snacks. Master that for two to three weeks, then start the five hour or the detox, and alternate between them to see what you’re comfortable with. Now I just want to go over the differences of the detox and the five-hour. 

05:34

The detox is great for a quick one or two-week boost or even a day or two boost. I do that all the time with clients. You can’t really live on it every single week, but what I have a lot of clients do is they will either do it every week the day before cheat day and the day after cheat day it works amazing and they’ll do the five hour in between. It really brings that whole week together with the five hours, okay.

So basically you have your cheat meal. Then you do the detox the day after you cheat, then you do the 5 hour for 4 days and then the detox again the day before you cheat. 

Or you can do it for one week before vacation and one week after vacation, you know, just to kind of set you up for vacation and then recover from vacation. It works amazing. Or you can just throw it in a week when you feel like you need a little boost in your numbers, when you’re feeling a little stuck, I tell people do a detox week, it’ll get you to that next number.  

06:18

Now the five hour is different because you can live on it. I have clients live on it permanently. I live on it all the time. I love it. It’s two meals and one snack and you do it in the same five hours every week, monday through Friday. Now, although some clients will do it Saturday and Sunday and they’ll even keep their cheat in it, because they just love that control, they love how it makes them feel. I do it Monday through Friday. My weekends are always so busy, so I kind of go back to the signature innovation on the weekend with my cheat. But it’s entirely up to you. Most people do have busy weekends. 

06:49

So I say focus on the Monday through Friday, especially to start with the five hours. Remember you can’t change your five hours daily, you can change them weekly. So say, for example, you decide to do 1pm to 7pm this week, but next week you want to do two to eight. That’s great. You can do that as long as your five days are the same. But you can’t do like one to seven today and then two to eight tomorrow. That won’t work. And the reason it won’t work is because with the five hour, the whole process is fat burn, and the fat burn happens when you give yourself the 19 hours each day to force your body to feed off its own fat. That can only happen if you start and finish the same time every day for five days straight. That’s what gives you the 19 hours each day. 

07:32

Now the biggest difference with the detox and the five hour is the five hour focuses really a hundred percent on body fat loss. It’s not just water weight, it’s not weight that you just see on the scale, it’s actual body fat. That’s why everyone that does it tells you even when they lose one pound, they felt like it was three to five pounds, because it’s not water weight, it’s fat off your body and that is permanent and it makes all the difference in how you look and feel. 

Now remember, when you’re fasting for 19 hours, your body has to take from its own body fat to feed off of. It’s the one program that will really not only shrink your appetite but it will shrink your body fat with it. Now, of course it’s challenging, but it’s only challenging for a week or two, like anything else you do. After that, I promise you will love it. Everyone that does it tells me after I can’t believe how much I love this. I’m staying on it and they do. What happens is you will have control of your appetite instead of it having control over you, and that makes all the difference. 

I love the detox. I love the five hour Remember the five hour you can live on. The detox you throw in. It gives you that boost in between. A great, great week is to do a detox day after cheat day, then the five hour for four or five days, then detox before cheat day. 

Okay, so it’s detox to start, detox to end, five hour in between. It works amazing. You will see the most amazing weight loss with that. 

08:58

Listen, the end of spring and the beginning of summer it always brings many, many, many changes and challenges in your life. Most of them very happy, but still challenging. We all know when it comes to overeating and sabotaging, it doesn’t have to be over something sad. Sometimes it can just be even difficult when it’s celebrations, vacations, parties, planning for things. Whether you have been amazing on program or you are struggling. It’s so important that you find your strength and you use the tools of the five hour and the detox and continue to use it to do the right things, because over the next week and over the next month, you want to feel your best mentally and physically going into the summer.

09:36

Most of the time how you enter the summer is how you will stay. Most people maintain or gain in the summer not very many will lose, we know this. We know this from experience. So, for the rest of spring and going into summer, I want you to believe and own your strength, own your want. Remember you want this. No one’s forcing you. You have to want this. Keep things simple. Follow your plan, whether you’re on the signature innovation, the five-hour or the detox. Follow your plan.

09:59

You know there will be challenges going into summer. There always are this time of year, with school ending, graduations, kids leaving for camp. I see the clients all the time coming in. They’re so stressed. You know the celebrations of summer will even be extra challenging, but you also know that you will get through them on program if you want to. It’s all about what you want. Don’t use them as another excuse to have an off day or an off week we always have that in our life. You have to look at each challenging day and know that you are stronger than anything that can possibly get in your way, because you want this, you need this, you want this. Remember, you have to want this for it to happen. Yes, it’s a choice, but it has to be a want. 

10:46

So, whether it’s the innovation, five-hour or detox, each week you will have your plan. You will prepare your meals and snacks and you will know where you’re going and what you’re eating and what you’re doing. Okay, very important, you will not go through another summer in a place that you’re uncomfortable and sad. You will not let another week go by without changing who you are and who you want to be. You know deep down that you are strong and you can do this. More importantly, you want it. Don’t let anything or anyone get in your way. 

11:16

Always remember people who truly love you want this for you as much as you do. They know how being on program keeps you feeling the best about yourself and your body, and they know what makes you happy and they want that for you. They want happiness for you. So those are the people that are in your corner. Okay, those are the ones that want this for you as much as you do. Everyone else you push aside and ignore this week and this month and this summer. The challenges will be there, but you will be different. There will be no slip ups, no excuses, not this time. You won’t do that. You won’t let it happen. 

11:51

You know how important it is that you go into summer feeling your very best, even if you are not at goal or close to it. Knowing that you are on your way is what matters most. You need and want to go into summer feeling good, feeling strong, and knowing that every day you put your mind and body into is another day is closer to where you want to be. Every day you’re getting closer to where you want to be. Every good day leads to another good day. I’m reminding you that you are no different than anyone else. You see all the clients who do it, all the clients that feel amazing. You want it and you want to be amazing. You want to feel amazing. You have to remember everyone works hard for it. Keep working hard. We all have our own challenges. You can’t let those challenges get in the way of what you want and how you want to feel. If you believe in yourself and focus on your strengths to do all the right things, it will happen. 

12:49

Do not give in and do not feel sorry for yourself over food. It’s not worth it. Instead, I want you to embrace it and feel empowered and proud of yourself for being prepared and choosing to stay on program, because that is what you want and that is what makes you happy. You want to be happy and you know feeling good makes you happy. Every day, you will be another day closer to the body you want and the person you want to be. I know you can do it. You know you can do it, so get out of your way, stop sabotaging yourself and do it. 

Okay, that is all I have for you. I hope this helps and I’m wishing you all a healthy, happy week full of blessings and love.  Hugs from me to all of you.

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick 

INNOVATION WEIGHT LOSS

INNOVATION HEALTHY MARKET

8025 JERICHO TPKE

WOODBURY, NY 11797

516 802-5055

Innovationweightloss.com

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Josephine (Host)

Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today we have two very special guests, Tracey and Jennifer from Westchester. So excited I’ve not even met them visually in person, only through online, and I’m really excited to meet them visually myself. So let’s see if we can see who’s waiting to come in first. I think Tracy’s waiting. Let’s see. 

Tracey (Guest)

Hi, hi, how are you? Oh, there I am.

Josephine (Host)

Good, how are you? This is so great.

Tracey (Guest)

Sorry, I was actually getting my hair colored and it just ran later than I expected. 

Josephine (Host)

Well it looks beautiful. 

Tracey (Guest)

Thanks. Thank you, well, it’s nice to meet you.

Josephine (Host)

Me too!. I love it so great. It’s so funny because for so long I deal with people I feel like I know them and then when I see them I’m like, oh this is amazing

Tracey (Guest)

Well, we definitely feel like we know you because I’ve listened to your podcast and I follow you on Instagram, and love to Live healthy. . But it’s more of a surprise for you because you don’t hear our voices. 

Josephine (Host)

Yes, exactly, exactly. It’s so funny, even when you were doing the program, like when you send your weight, I’m like I always know everyone’s feet. Lol But I never see their face. 

Tracey (Guest)

(Laughing) That’s funny, 

Josephine (Host)

Okay So we are waiting for Jen, so I’m gonna bring her in. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Hello, yes hi, how are? 

Josephine (Host)

Hi. How are you. I love this so much. So, you’re both from New Jersey, right? 

Tracey (Guest)

No, Westchester. 

Josephine (Host)

Westchester. Okay, why did I say New Jersey, I think Jeff told me that. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Then he’s sending all our food to the wrong place. 

Josephine (Host)

Hahaha. No that was totally my mistake. (all laughing) I blame Jeff for everything. 

Tracey (Guest)

(laughing), So funny. that’s a good thing to blame the man for everything (all laughing).

Josephine (Host)

Okay, tell me everything you want to say. It’s just free talk. 

Jennifer before you came in I was telling Tracy I feel like I know you guys forever, 

Jennifer (Guest)

Because we nag you (laughing) 

Josephine (Host)

No not at all. I love hearing from you both. It’s why I feel like I know you both so well. I always feel like I know clients forever then they will say to me, NO, it’s only been in like a 6 months or a year. And I can never believe that. I am like that can’t be I feel like we know each other forever. 

Tracey (Guest)

Josephine how long have you been doing this

Josephine (Host)

I have been doing this for over 15 years

Tracey (Guest)

What about the food and store

Josephine (Host)

Over 12 years. Yea, it’s been a long time. 

Tracey (Guest)

Yes it has been a long time. Wow.

Tracey (Guest)

Sorry, Jen, you were going to say something. 

Jennifer (Guest)

I was saying Tracy’s the reason why, how we got to you and because she’s more social media savvy than I am. And I said to her I can’t lose weight post covid. I did a post COVID diet and I got my weight down but only because I was exercising a ton but then it came right back. But you know, like north of 50, it doesn’t come off the same. So, tracy’s like literally like my sister from another mother, I was like I just can’t get a hold of my weight. I don’t generally have a weight issue but you know, with you know menopause and all that. 

Josephine (Host)

Right. I get it

Jennifer (Guest)

And I just felt like, should I just get accustomed to being a bigger person? And that didn’t feel right to me. So, you know, I kind of reached out to Tracy and Tracy said well, I’ve been following, Josephine Fitzpatrick and I think this is something we should try, And so that’s when we connected with you. Instagram really was really instrumental. 

Josephine (Host)

Love to hear that. Makes me so happy. That’s awesome. 

Tracey (Guest)

And I would say that you know, for me I was. I think I told you in the beginning that I used to teach a class called SLT, which was also on Long Island right, but I taught it in Westchester for eight years and then last year I had a really bad back issue and I couldn’t work out and I was really nervous. I mean, I had gained a little bit of weight over covid and like Jen I felt like oh, maybe you know this is my new norm now that I’m not teaching anymore, my activity level went down and so I just, you know I’m not going to be in the shape that I was in with my back. I couldn’t do anything with my back and I was scared because, to be honest, I always worked out. I know you can’t out train your diet but I always kind of was able to be okay.

Josephine (Host)

You maintained your diet because you at the time you weren’t overweight or anything and you didn’t have any issues. So you worked out and maintained your weight even if it wasn’t the weight you were 100% happy with. Then when you hurt your back I remember us talking about how you wanted to lose your coivd weight but also you were scared you couldn’t do it without working out because of your back. 

Tracey (Guest)

I was scared and really your diet, was the way for me. It’s very simple and easy to follow, first off and second it really retrained my feeling towards food really for the first time. And both Jen and I have tried things together we work out together. We’re the best of friends and have very similar mentalities. When we gain weight, we don’t let ourselves get past a point, but for us both, after covid we felt like we were heavier than we wanted to be. A little bit goes a long way, you know, and you and your diet just really connected with us. 

I think for both of us, but for me especially, that it’s really about your diet and learning you know to have to eat in the calorie deficit. Weight loss, for everyone I mean, it is a roller coaster. I think it continues to be a roller coaster for us, right? 

Josephine (Host)

Yes absolutely it’s a roller coater for everyone that is all part of real life.

Jennifer (Guest)

For me, I mean, I almost wouldn’t call your plan a diet per se. I think we’ve all been on like diets (air quotes).  I think it’s a way to have a better relationship with food, Because, you know I tried everything. I even did intermittent fasting before you and then, as soon as the fast was over, I ate everything in sight and I always couldn’t understand why I was not losing weight. (Laughing).  

And so, you know, with your fast, it helps me to structure my food intake and, you know, even with the regular innovation I felt like the food and choices never got out of control for me. 

In the past like I would just pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, and it was just like a blob of eating day and this structures with the innovation or the fast is like, okay, this is my snack, this is my morning meal, you know, this is my breakfast, or this is my lunch and this is my dinner, and I get another snack and It’s just a better relationship with food regarding portions and structure and I know what I am always doing. 

Josephine (Host)

I love that. That’s great. And I do agree because I do think the control that you get from innovation, the 5 hour fast or the detox is what helps you the most because its not so many choices you know what you are doing and that’s it. Because sometimes it’s not just the amount of food, but it’s also all the choices, because when you know like, okay, this is it, this is what I am having – it does give you that sense of control. 

And that is really why I think you said it perfect Jen, the relationship with your food is so much more because you’re actually enjoying what you’re eating instead of thinking like what am I gonna have next? Sometimes all we think about is what is next instead of enjoying what we have in front of us. So when you know this is it. Well this is it.  

Tracey (Guest)

I love that and OMG your muffins. 

Jennifer (Guest)

I mean your muffins. 

Tracey (Guest)

I mean, those muffins are so super filling. I just actually, even before this call, today I’m doing the cleanse (detox) and I had my juice earlier. And it’s interesting, Jen and I we talk all the time. Part of this journey is that we have each other, which has been very helpful, And so we talked about this. But she, you know, drinks her juice quickly. But I actually, you know, like I started my juice today at 11 30 and I didn’t finish it until 145. I drink it slowly and I drink water in between, but then right before getting on this call, I hadn’t eaten. You know, 3:45 pm. I was hungry, and I ran and I had my muffin and now I’m so full. There’s something about those muffins that are so filling they are so amazing.  I don’t know that I’ll ever live without them. 

Josephine (Host)

That makes me so happy that you enjoy. I know you listen when I say – if you’re eating less, you better love what you’re eating. You know really love it and look forward to it and it has to fill you. You know it has to fill you to a certain extent. And that makes me so happy when clients tell me how filling they are. 

Tracey (Guest)

You know I have a sweet tooth which I’ve never, ever, really get over, no matter how many times I’ve tried, I’m always gonna have a sweet tooth. It’s just ingrained in me. And you, I don’t know how you make your products, but you know you make them great and they really work.  

And I would say the other thing that I think is really impactful, at least for me, is that you know you’re kind of in my brain. I don’t always follow it, but you’re in my brain, in when you one of your podcasts a long time ago talked about, if you cheat and even when we were working together, you would text us and say those little cheat bites are going to make a difference and you’re not going to get to where you want to be. And it’s a hundred percent true, because when I follow your program, the program to a T, it is, it works 100% . And when I have a little bite of this and a little bite of that, I think it’s nothing. The scale doesn’t move. It’s amazing. 

Josephine (Host)

I love that is so great. You don’t understand, like right now, everyone that’s going to be listening to this it makes such a big difference when they hear it come from you more than me, because they always hear it come from me but when they actually hear that you say it and have experienced it. That makes all the difference. 

Tracey (Guest)

It’s amazing. We don’t realize how just the little bites makes a difference, but it really does impact you and if you just stick and be more mindful about eating these things, it works and it is filling and satisfying. j I have tried other diets and you know, once I try it I can’t go back to it. And this is the only program me and Jen can go back too. Like when we fall off we can’t come back but we are excited to come back to Innovation. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Yes. It was nice to go into the holidays, you know, feeling like you always say I can enjoy, and then, knowing that, okay, I’m going to enjoy and then go back, and it’s funny my husband said to me you really earned those extra pounds this holiday season. Because I really enjoyed myself. But I knew that when I returned I was going to go right back to my innovation and, you know, work on it and get myself right back and get the number right back down. it didn’t feel hard and I didn’t feel deprived. I was never out of control or like I was on this merry-go-round of up and down.

This really is so easy to do. And, like Tracy said that you know the muffins are amazing. I’m on the cleanse but I didn’t get to my muffin until like 245 today, just by virtue of my schedule, right, but I mindfully ate my muffin. I’m, you know, satiated. I’m drinking my water and then, you know, have my juice, probably in an hour, and my dinner, and you know that’ll be it. 

Josephine (Host)

Right, I love that. That’s great. I love that you said mindfully ate my muffin. 

Jennifer (Guest)

I savored it. it was delicious. (Laughing)

Josephine (Host)

That is so important. I love that. 

Tracey (Guest)

Josephine I think you talked about once that you eat the crumbs off your muffin.

Josephine (Host)

I do I actually just had mine before the call

Tracey (Guest)

I actually cut my muffin into five thin slices and I eat a slice at a time and sometimes I don’t eat it all at the same time. I’ll eat like maybe two or three slices and then wait a bit. So it’s really been helpful listening again to listen your podcast and hearing how you enjoy the muffins, and like how you eat these innovation foods. I’ve learned so much from you really. 

And one of the other things that I was going to just say is that during the holiday time, both Jen and I, you know, we go out a lot. We go out to dinners a lot, and you know I like my cocktails. 

Josephine (Host)

Yeah, that’s great you have to live that’s a big part of it. 

Tracey (Guest)

And you know, but we were very nervous that you know we were starting to gain a weight that was going to be really hard to come back from, and so we collectively said let’s start doing what we did with Josephine and let’s text each other in the morning and at night the way we did with you. Right, Try to keep ourselves just on track. And it helped. 

Josephine (Host)

I absolutely love that. It’s great. It’s really great because you’re motivating each other, which honestly there is nothing better than that and nothing makes me happier. 

Tracey (Guest)

So I think that for me, especially when it comes to trying to lose weight, which I think is probably one of the hardest things to do, I think actually having someone else to be able to talk to and not be alone in it is really, really helpful. Because, you know, jen and I both have the same situation. We still have kids at home that we have to make dinner for. We have husbands that we’re making dinner for and my husband is never gonna say I wanna do this with you. So, and neither are my kids, although I do have to put a sticky when I would take a muffin out of the freezer and leave it on my counter. 

Jennifer (Guest)

(Laughing) I also have to put a sticky that says do not touch, so my children don’t touch it either. Or when I’m eating them, they’ll say, ooh, can I have some of that? And I say no. Do not touch my food. I only get this much to eat (laughing) 

Josephine (Host)

Yes you only have this much you can’t share (all laughing)

Tracey (Guest)

But having each other and having a friend is helpful and helpful really in the hard times, because there are hard times. It’s not easy. You’ve said that. 

Josephine (Host)

There’s always going to be hard times. You know there are days when it’s easy and days when it’s tough. You have to take advantage of the easy days and try your best on the hard ones.

Jennifer (Guest)

Yes we are doing really well with them.

Josephine (Host)

Yeah, when you can control the days it’s amazing. So Jen what are you doiing now the cleanse (detox)

Jennifer (Guest)

Me. Yeah, I just started the cleanse (detox). I was a not sure about the cleanse because I’m not like the juicing type. And I can’t drink a green juice. But Tracy said no, they’re really good. And so I took the plunge and I had the banana strawberry, yeah, and I like gulped it down. It was so delicious and I’m going to do the apple fire after today.

Josephine (Host)

Okay, good, let me know what your favorite one is. 

Jennifer (Guest)

I will. I’m trying them all. But Tracy’s like the juice person. That wasn’t me. But I started it yesterday and I found it to be very easy and also the juice also very satiating. Did not really feel hungry. I’ve been enjoying that too, and it’s nice to switch it up, because I was doing the five hour for a while and getting a little bored with it, and then maybe this weekend I’ll do the regular innovation. 

Josephine (Host)

Right, right, good, I love it. I love how you mix them all up. Tracey, you’re doing the juice too this week, right? 

Tracey (Guest)

Yeah, well, I actually I think from one of your recent podcasts, when you talked about doing Doubling Down the five hour fast for three days and then the cleanse for two days, and so that’s what I did last week and that’s what I’m doing this week again. It’s really working great. So I did the five hour fast the first three days of the week and this is the second day of the cleanse and I guess for the weekend I will do the regular innovation. 

Josephine (Host)

Perfect. I love that. What would you say is the best advice you can give someone. That’s listening. 

Jennifer (Guest)

You know what I think, and you’ve said this many times and this occurred to me. You know I work but I, like you know, I also exercise in the morning and then I play tennis sometimes and I remember doing the five hour fast and wondering can I get through all the exercise ? You know, like you know, it was one of those days I was light on work and heavier on physical activity and, you know, during the match I’m wondering can I survive on this? And I basically whizzed through everything and didn’t feel like you say this often, I did not feel like I was in deprivation at all and I think it makes you realize you don’t need as much food as you think you do, and you say that a lot. So I would just say you know, try, you know, start with regular innovation and to mix it up, the five hour fast is a great way to show yourself that control. 

Jennifer continues: 

And you say this all the time, and I catch myself with this is one thing is I catch myself wanting to go for food and I say do I need this or do I want this? So when I realized that 99.9% of the time I just want it because there’s nothing else going on, it’s an easier way to stick to the program and walk away from it, because if you really think about stop and mindfully say, do I need this or want this, and you answer that question honestly, you can really stick to the program quite well

Josephine (Host)

I absolutely love that. Wow that is really great. What about you Tracey what would be your advice.?

Tracey (Guest)

I would say two things. The first I would say is to trust the program, to trust the process, because I think that’s the hardest part for people is to really trust, like, a new program that it’s gonna work, to really buy into it. And then the second thing I would say is to not be too hard on yourself, and I think that was the one things that was so important with working with you, is that you were there for accountability, but you were supportive and you were constantly telling me not to beat myself up if I had a bad day, but to try harder next time. And this is what I should be doing. 

Tracey Continues (Guest)

And I think that I tend to be the type of person that if I fall off, and I do think this is common you know, I would go dark and I would avoid the scale or I would go away, as opposed to regrouping and saying, okay, big deal, so I had a bad weekend. I need to move on. So fften it’s a weekend right, not just the cheat day and it’s okay. And now I’ve gotten to a point where I know, if I’ve had a big weekend, and I’m not going to get on the scale on Monday, because that’s only going to make me feel badly and I’m going to get up on Monday and go back to innovation and I’ll weigh myself on Tuesday. But I think that those two things are the most important thing, because I think a lot of people fall into that of having a bad couple of days and then feeling like I got to throw my hands up and I’m done. 

Josephine (Host)

That’s great. Both great advice. I love it. Thank you .

Jennifer (Guest)

Oh my God. Well, it’s all from you. 

Josephine (Host)

Oh, thank you so much makes me so happy to hear that. It’s so, so wonderful.

So now are you guys going away together at the end of the month. 

Tracey (Guest)

I wish Jen was coming. She has to go visit her son at college. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Yeah, it’s Traceys big birthday but it’s also my son’s mom’s weekend at college with his fraternity, and there are only so many of those in life, so I felt like that’s right. 

Josephine (Host)

Yes absolutely you have to go with him. I’m sure you’ll have many celebrations with Tracey in the future. 

Jennifer (Guest)

That’s right. God willing, we’ll be around for many, many more years

Josephine (Host)

Yes, absolutely. Well, that’s so exciting. So you’re ready to go Trace. 

Tracey (Guest)

Well with the weather here in New York. Yes!. That’s the other thing I would say. It’s very hard. Where we live, you know, being it’s cold in the winter. I tend to be a person that when it gets cold and I think a lot of people feel this, you know you feel like you need to eat more becuase it’s cold out, right. So it’s been very hard to stay really on program, you know fully, but I’ve gotten to a number that I’m really happy with. 

Now. I have two weeks and I’m just really like trying to stay really good for the next two weeks and not cheat, and I’ve actually did one thing that was a choice to just not drink this month, and I think that is very helpful, because that’s the other piece of this is that I think when I do have a drink even though I love that the program allows me to have a drink I often will have two, and then that leads to not having as much discipline. 

Jennifer (Guest)

We have to make it out to to you to Innovation on Long Island, we have to make it out to see you. 

Josephine (Host)

OMG I would love that. You both haven’t been in the old store or the new store right?

Jennifer (Guest)

No We haven’t. We’ve got to get out there. 

Tracey (Guest)

Oh my God, I want you to open a satellite store in Westchester, so your stuff would be here and would sell great. Your next business?

I do have a one question for you. so, like Jen, and I never really know, like, what maintenance is, and I feel like you haven’t really talked so much about maintenance. So like I know it’s like you can be a little more, but I’ve never felt that I’m at a maintenance point even though we have both made it to our numbers because we aren’t sure what maintenance is,

Josephine (Host)

Right, okay, so that’s a great, great question and it’s definitely something I should incorporate more, even when I’m doing like my little talks on instagram, I think you are right it would be helpful because a lot of people have been with me for a long time and are in maintenance, you know, but everyone does it so differently and you have to see what works for you.

I would say this is probably the majority Monday through Friday clients are 100% and Saturday and Sunday they’re not full out cheats, but they kind of like are mindfully cheats through the weekend and they go through the weekend and have what they want and enjoy. You know, that’s definitely probably the most popular as far as maintaining. If you do that, remember you may not be the same number on Monday, but you should be the same number by the following Friday. So every Friday your number should be the same if you’re going off on the weekends and then go back on 100% program Monday through Friday. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Oh okay that makes sense so every Friday it should be the same

Tracey (Guest)

Also can maintaining be for someone like me and Jenn the innovation 3 meals and 1 or 2 snacks. 

Josephine (Host)

Yes, absolutely that would be a great maintenance. Im going to do a podcast on all the ways to maintain but those are two great starts

Tracey (Guest)

Got it Okay. 

Josephine (Host)

Have you guys been, you’ve been on vacation doing the program. Or when you went on vacations while you were on program, did you go off completely? 

Jennifer (Guest)

I think I haven’t, I think I haven’t gone on vacations on program.  You know, on it, I usually, like you know, buckle like Tracy’s, like buckling down preparing for vacation. Then I go and I, you know, just, I try and be mindful and make choices but not, you know, like I’ll have a few cocktails, right, and then, knowing that you know I’ll, I’ll reel it in, you know, when I get back. So I don’t weigh myself when I get back, I wait, you know, I wait a few days and then get a baseline and see where I am and then adjust from there, 

Josephine (Host)

That’s perfect, okay. Good. What about you, Tracy, when you go away? Do you ever stay on it? 

Tracey (Guest)

I think that what I do is try to wait to eat my first meal, if I can on vacation and I’m not where you know, my family is having breakfast every morning I will be mindful to make my first meal at lunchtime, you know. So not quite the five hour but a version of it. 

Josephine (Host)

Right. A version of it. That’s good.

Tracey (Guest)

So that I know that I’ll have less control of what my choices are, but I’ll have less meals. So in my mind, that’s still eating in somewhat of a deficit, definitely, without a doubt. I learned so much from your program and Instagram stories, 

And now with the meals and snacks the info you sent me with whats a meal 1,2 or 3 and a snack. I felt like I was always asking Jeff, you know what is this? Is this a meal, is this a snack? Before, and now it’s very well and clear. So thank you for sending that

Josephine (Host)

Oh good, I’m glad. Of course makes me happy that it helps.

Tracey (Guest)

Yes, I have everything printed out, all in different places around my kitchen. And I’m like oh, I’m not doing five hour. Where’s the cleanse (detox) ? 

Jennifer (Guest)

or where’s my regular innovation? (All laughing)

Tracey (Guest)

I need to make a notebook with it now it’s just all in one place. I love it all because of you. Because I love that you really talk about being able to switch it up and going back and forth. That’s what I think, honestly, is the greatest thing. It isn’t just one plan. It’s really like three different options and you can go to either one of those options and have success or keep switching them up as much as you want.

Josephine (Host)

Right, right, which I’m glad. I’m glad that you feel that way, because it’s easy to get bored. And you can’t be bored with weight loss. That’s why, even with the innovation food, I’m constantly changing the food, because you know, when you’re trying to do the right thing, you need the change, you need to feel like you have other new options and it’s something different, you need something new to look forward to, or just something different to look forward to. I realized it’s really important for my clients and customers. I guess if you really think about it that it’s actually the whole name behind innovation. That’s what Innovation means. It means new and change. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Absolutely. Yeah, well, you’re doing that. Thank you, my other piece of advice would be use Josephine. 

Josephine (Host)

Oh, thank you, Thank you. 

Jennifer (Guest)

Consult her, ask her questions, and you’re always so kind and you know, like Tracy said, so you know, when we’re not forgiving with ourselves, you are forgiving with us, Like that means everythinggggg….

Josephine (Host)

Zoom what are you doing to me? Okay, for some reason Zoom cuts us off just while she was saying all these amazing things about me 🙁 How horrible zoom!. 

But I really, really appreciate it. I really appreciate you both. I appreciate you both for being on. Thank you so much. I probably had the time set wrong and it gave us a half hour instead of an hour, but I really do appreciate you both being on. I appreciate all kinds of words. You both look gorgeous, amazing, you’re doing so wonderful and I’m so happy that you feel so good in your body and that you are loving and living the innovation program. Nothing makes me happier all the way from Westchester. So thanks again and I will be talking to you both soon. And happy birthday, Tracey. 

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick