Join us as we chat about our love of beeswax wraps, pork tacos, grocery shopping, memoirs, and salads in the summer. We revisit the advice we learned about several weeks ago about eating a variety of fruits and veggies each week, and we check in with each other to see what we’ve been eating lately. Finally, we discuss a few things that are keeping us busy such as long audiobooks, riveting documentaries, and ready-to-go salads.

**Show Notes**

Book we mentioned:

My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

Shows we mentioned:

Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces

Only Murders in the Building

Alone

Podcast we mentioned:

Food, We Need to Talk

Join us as we chat about Sandy’s recent birthday celebrations, and we think you’ll agree she celebrated correctly! Then we discuss our on-going and ever-developing thoughts and feelings about body positivity, weight loss, diet culture, and weight loss drugs. Things we know: our bodies are amazing and we love feeling good in our bodies. Things we don’t know: literally everything else. Our apologies for the extra-long episode!

**Show Notes**

Shows we mentioned:

The Jinx Part Two

What Jennifer Did

Don’t F*** With Cats

Baby Reindeer

Podcasts we mentioned:

MeSsy with Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Honestly with Bari Weiss

Join us as we chat about our recent forays into skin moisturizing . . . Sandy is putting bear fat on her face, and Henny is dousing her fingertips in hand cream. Then we get serious, and we discuss a super interesting documentary on Netflix all about gut health and the microbiome. Our guts are impacting our overall health is a plethora of ways, and the things we eat are vital for maintaining a healthy gut! How many different veggies have you eaten this week?

**Show Notes**

Shows we mentioned:

Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut (on Netflix)

Unfrosted (on Netflix)

Join us as we chat about the process of unwinding oneself when preparing for a move to a different home, job, or life situation. Henny has more to say about The Circle, and we get into a raucous conversation about whether or not a person’s level of charm is connected to their weight. Finally, we discuss a couple of documentaries on Netflix that are really worth checking out if you’re so inclined. Enjoy!

**Show Notes**

Shows we mentioned:

The Circle (on Netflix)

Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut (on Netflix)

You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack (on Netflix)

Join us as we chat about some of the great dishes Sandy has been checking on Instragram and some of the equally great (she hopes) dishes Henny has been making for supper. Sandy wonders aloud about whether or not she’s the only person who doesn’t mind sharing a toothbrush, loofah, or razor (Spoiler alert: She’s not). And Henny is currently obsessed with The Circle and is debating whose pictures she would use on her social profile to ensure she became the most popular player.

**Show Notes**

Podcast we mentioned:

Synced

Instagram handle we mentioned:

@andyseastcoastkitchen_

Show we mentioned:

The Circle (Netflix)

Join us as we chat about change. We all know that change is inevitable. We all can likely identify ways we’ve changed in the past. We all know we will continue to change lots in the future (although science tells us we underestimate this). We are reminded of the fact that Sandy will always choose breakfast, and Henny tries to convince us that she is truly becoming more agreeable in her older age. Finally, we’ve got a baked penne recipe that you have to make! It’s delicious!

**Show Notes**

Podcast we mentioned:

No Stupid Questions

Recipe we mentioned:

https://beefandlambnz.com/recipes/baked-ziti-grass-fed-beef-vegetables/

Join us as we chat about everything from tickling fetishes to lunchables to how to navigate friend groups. We get into it all! We discuss what to do when we find ourselves in social situations with people we are having trouble connecting with or are irritated by. We also wonder about when (if ever) it’s appropriate to give some constructive criticism related to socializing. Lots to digest here!

**Show Notes**

Documentary we mentioned:

Tickled

Podcasts we mentioned:

Flightless Bird

We Can Do Hard Things

Book we mentioned:

The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

Join us as we chat about some of the things that make us laugh and some of the things that we are anticipating will make us laugh soon. We also go down a rabbit hole on pop and its impacts on our overall health. Finally, we reminisce about some of the tried and true WW advice we’ve  gotten and given over the years.

**Show Notes**

Podcasts we mentioned:

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

MesSy with Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Book we mentioned:

The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

Join us as we chat about all things perfection. Each and every one of us have a few perfectionist tendencies, and Henny is learning how we can all harness the power of those qualities and use them to our benefit. We do a little quiz to see what type of perfectionists we are, and we do some thinking out loud about how perfectionism connects to eating habits and weight loss goals. This episode is pretty perfect if we do say so ourselves.

**Show Notes**

Books we mentioned:

Ultra-Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken

The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

Podcast we mentioned:

Armchair Expert (specifically the episode with Maureen Dunne from March 28, 2024)

Website we mentioned:

https://www.perfectionistsguide.com/

Join us as we chat about a couple of great books we’re in the middle of right now. Henny’s learning about different studies proving that the way a food is processed actually has more health impacts than the nutritional make-up of that food while Sandy’s learning more about the benefit-only practice of eating more plants. It’s not all serious though! We also discuss the relabelling of Coke Zero products and the lengths Henny will go to replace a missing puzzle piece!

**Show Notes**

Books we mentioned:

Ultra-Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken

How Not to Die by Michael Greger

Movie we mentioned:

Roadhouse