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Hi, welcome back everybody. Happy Wednesday. We are with my show bestie and you know, one of my besties in life, Ross Matthews. Well, I mean, you're on the cover of People magazine. Oh my God, can you even believe? For your. That's so crazy to see. What do you feel like when you look at pictures from your life, your past self? Umm. I feel like looking at at this magazine, there's pictures from all stages of my get My weight journey. I am so proud of myself and I don't mean it like I have reached the mountain top or something like that. That is not the case. I am proud that I am in the fight. Every single day, every single meal, every single choice, every second of every day, I'm in the fight and I am proud that I'm still there, you know, and I'm proud of. Thank you. I'm so proud too. I'm so proud too because I see so many of you out there like like nodding and understanding this, this struggle is so universal. Mine is with my weight, my health journey. And I know that we all have the thing. And so getting to come here and like we've been able to talk about on the show, but to sit down with you and to talk about it and to talk to People magazine and really reflect on my journey has maybe take stock of how far I've I've come. Had you stopped? And tried diets before every single one of them, every single diet on the planet, I had broken up with pizza and many, many, many times, you know, and I think it was the negotiating with myself, you know, I only have pizza on on the weekends or I'll only do this. And, and it, it, it was like I was still living with the same pattern. I hadn't really stepped away from the version of myself that I knew I had to Something was different this time. What do you think it was? Ohh I know for for certain what it was and I think we all have to find our our wise why we wanna change the how comes later, but the but the why is important my why was. When my mother died, I got to be with her when she passed away. And it is so anybody that's been there, you know how. Heartbreaking it is. But if you pay attention. There is a gift, you get something, I think, and what I got was the understanding that there's very little we can control between where we are and when we will be on our bed, right, going on to whatever's next. But we can control some of it. You gotta do your part. And I thought to myself, Ross, you've gotta stay in this fight. You've gotta do whatever you can do to stay on this planet as long as possible. And that was a gift I got. And so that was my why I felt like anything that I did to contribute to my health. Was like a gift to her. I understand. I really love that. The why, the why and the how will come. Well, the house, the hard part by the way, the how is like yo ohh. I, I didn't know. I knew I couldn't do it the way that I'd done it before, which was all or nothing. I had been on like a weight loss show where I had my diet was lettuce, water and shame and I, I lost like 40 lbs and then the second it was over I ordered 2 pizzas and ate them because I was starving and I had learned nothing. And you know what I found out? I I needed to educate myself. I need to do the thing that I hadn't done, which was like learn about food and how food works and how my body works. And so that's what I did. I did something that I thought Kardashians only did, no shame. But I, I, I went to a nutritionist and it was like 100 and something dollars for a couple hours to sit down with somebody and say, can you tell me like what is a healthy fat? I don't even know. Like am I a healthy fat? I don't know. But I really, I started learning and like that. For the first time like this knowledge make me make me, made me feel like I was in control of something to control control. I mean you actually created a four step strategy. Yeah, I will cause my how? Total took me some time to figure out and I'm thinking to myself as I'm having this conversation you know this why I wanna do this magazine People magazine because I I know how confusing it is when you look at that mountain you think how in the hell can I climb that how do I start so I'm doing this and having this conversation because I'm hoping somebody is sitting out there where I was when I had found my my why, but I was so confused about the how I'm hoping they can watch this and maybe start their journey well actually. Your Ross apes are absolutely my favorite. So we have a recipe. Should we cook it? Oh, yeah, we'll make it. We're going to do it. Do it, OK.