Eating Like a Boss

Kathleen Shannon 0:05
Hello, and welcome to being boss. Our minisodes are bite size advice that you can digest in about 10 minutes. And this minisode is all about how we eat and listening to our bodies whenever it comes to food. So

Emily Thompson 0:20
I totally saw what you did there.

Kathleen Shannon 0:22
Did you like that?

Emily Thompson 0:23
I loved that.

Kathleen Shannon 0:25
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Kathleen Shannon 1:34
So we don't have a specific question in this minisode to answer if you guys do have questions, feel free to shoot us an email. Hello at being boss club and we will answer it on this minisode so earlier this week, we did an episode all about self care. And there's been a lot of chat going on in our clubhouse which is our exclusive being boss clubhouse where we have a Slack channel. And q&a is every month just with us in our slack members. What else a book club anyway, our clubhouse is amazing. If you guys haven't joined, it's $120 a year. So that's $10 a month for a membership. But anyway, so there's a ton of conversation going on in our health and beauty channel on slack. And if you guys don't know what slack is, it's just the kind of like a chatting platform and someone was asking about how we eat and if we experiment with what we eat and so we both eat I think pretty well but we've also had lots of experimentation around that and figuring out what works for us. So let's just spend a couple minutes talking about what we eat and why we eat and how we eat and how we do

Emily Thompson 2:49
alright, so I we pretty clean around here we are gluten free which which is something that we discovered we were a little adverse to and that's all three of us so David Lily and I were adverse to after doing a couple rounds of whole 30 after cutting out like doing some sincere elimination diet stuff I found out that gluten slows my digestive system same to David probably some like drying out of his skin and it causes some skin rashes a lily which is something she had experienced her entire life until we decided to take her gluten free to see if that would fix. So um so that's what we do other than that we are not super picky. I mean once you kind of cut out gluten you're cutting out cake and doughnuts and pizza and hamburgers in all all the things that you would usually think of as being like part of a probably not super healthy lifestyle. So even though even though we're not super strict about most things, when you cut out gluten, you kind of cut out most of the not super healthy for you stuff anyway. So that's what we do and we have found that going gluten free we went gluten free a little over a year ago has been really beneficial in a lot of ways. I am sort of naturally just from doing that. dropped some like weight I've been trying to drop since having Lily and and without really even trying and we sleep better. And my skin is clear actually. So New Orleans eating all that fun gluten that we ate because we do occasionally eat gluten, especially when we travel. I came home my face broke out. Like bad.

Kathleen Shannon 4:31
I was a wreck after New Orleans.

Emily Thompson 4:34
But it was so worth it. Um, so that's really like by my big thing is we are gluten free. Except for when we travel because I experienced places through food and everyone else eats gluten so I will do but whenever we are at home, we don't keep it in the house. We don't buy it we don't eat, eat it out very often. Occasionally we will have a pizza because sometimes you just need a gluten pizza, but it's pretty rare and it works really well for Once you do it is not really as hard to do as you think it might be.

Kathleen Shannon 5:04
So my history with food is I was a vegetarian for 17. Yeah, I think 17 years,

Emily Thompson 5:10
which baffles me, but ok

Kathleen Shannon 5:13
starting whenever I was a teenager and I don't at all regret being a vegetarian and my reasons for becoming a vegetarian change throughout the years, so it started as like a kind of just the easiest way to be a rebel without hurting myself, I suppose. And I'm

Emily Thompson 5:33
Did your therapist tell you that?

Kathleen Shannon 5:38
No, but like, I was so rebellious, but in my heart, like such a good kid, I was such a band nerd, but I always wanted to be a rebel. So I was like, I'm not gonna eat meat. No, anyway. So anyway, I was a vegetarian for a long time, and I recently started eating meat again, and a lot of that comes with having worked with both Melissa Hartwig of whole 30 and working with Melissa Joulwan of Well Fed. And so I was doing all this work for like design work for these paleo badasses. And I started reading their books, and I just wanted to try it, I wanted to try being paleo and I did do a whole 30 as a pescatarian. So I was only eating fish, and veggies and eggs. Um, anyway, after that, I decided whenever I wanted to become a bodybuilder that I just simply needed more protein. And so I started eating meat again, making sure for me, it's really important that my meat is ethically sourced and not coming from factory farms. So since then, I've decided to not label myself as anything for a long time, I was labeling myself as paleo. But even now, I don't feel comfortable with that, because my context is changing every single day. And so I do a lot of really nuanced tweaking now with my diet, and I experiment in things like carb cycling, so I'm right now trying to keep my carbs, my carb consumption to nighttime and so I'm eating fat and protein all day leading up to carbs at night, or eating carbs right after a workout. And this is all like really super minor stuff you guys like if you are still eating processed food and when eat healthier, just focus on the outside aisles of your grocery store. But if you are kind of a if you're fascinated and intrigued with fitness and exercise and diet, and you're not prone to eating disorders, like this is just stuff that is tweaking and almost splitting hairs really. Um, but for me, it helps me see the differences that I wouldn't see. And I'm constantly experimenting in that way. When other things that I recently did I think for the better is I am giving up coffee. Like not.

Emily Thompson 8:00
What?

Kathleen Shannon 8:01
I know not permanently but you saw me in New Orleans i was

Emily Thompson 8:05
you can down some coffee.

Kathleen Shannon 8:07
I mean, I was drinking probably eight glasses of coffee, it was insane.

Emily Thompson 8:11
And unnerving

Kathleen Shannon 8:13
having come off of a couple of years of sleep deprivation, which I have to report Fox has been sleeping like a few nights in a row. It's been

Emily Thompson 8:22
That's magical.

Kathleen Shannon 8:23
I know. So anyway, I decided to give up coffee just to get my adrenal a little bit of a rest. I am not eating dark chocolate right before bed. So that used to be kind of my routine is eating a couple squares of dark chocolate right before bed. And I'm limiting them to at least three hours before bed but trying to get a dark chocolate whenever I'm most like blood sugar stable in my day. And I think I'm sleeping better for it. And

Emily Thompson 8:50
I bet you are honey.

Kathleen Shannon 8:53
I mean, you know, I just couldn't believe that something as little as two squares of dark chocolate could be giving me night sweats or keeping me awake at night or giving me insomnia. And I think for better and worse the little things that you do add up for good and bad. So dark chocolate is medicinal like it's not bad for you. It's just all about timing. So little things like that that I do are the ways that I constantly experiment one other thing I'm doing right now that is pretty awesome is the sounds disgusting. And it's just another word for chicken broth is drinking bone broth. So I get like a whole chicken that has been pastored and you know no hormones totally organic. And I boil it and I use the meat to make some chicken salad but then I put the bones in carcass the sounds really disgusting talking about it. I'm sorry to any vegans or vegetarians listening to this because it sounds gross. But you put it back in the pot and boil it and you string out the chicken and all the liquid afterwards you'd let it cool off to get in the fridge and it becomes almost gelatinous. And that is the bone broth. And it is super healing and super good for your gut and your whole body. And so I've been trying to drink a cup of broth a day, which has been really helpful. That sounds beautiful. It does not sound beautiful, but it's really good for you. I listened to a podcast on Oh, so my favorite podcast for listening about people who talk about food, every single episode is balanced bites. It's by the woman who did practical paleo, and they're not strictly paleo by any means, or they really do have a balanced approach to eating but I really love that podcast for all things nutrition.

Emily Thompson 10:43
There we go.

Kathleen Shannon 10:45
And that's all we've got for today. Thanks, you guys so much for joining us for this minisode we hope you like it. If you want more q&a style conversation, join us in our clubhouse, go to beingboss.club/clubhouse, and learn more about how you can connect with your tribe and learn more about being a boss with like minded creatives. We'll see you next time.