Summary: Highlights of the Podcast: Stephen goes to McDonalds for coffee The Tough Mudder training in Chicksands The main things that women encounter when they’re going through menopause Fat storage around the stomachInsulin resistance and inability to handle carbohydrates Eating a lower carbohydrate diet and increased intake of fiber from green, leafy vegetables Menopause causes lack of good quality sleep through magnesium depletion Chelated magnesium versus magnesium oxide Hot flashes Getting rid of hot flashes with Vitamin E Gamma-Tocopherol versus Alpha-Tocopherol Eating 70% dark chocolate daily helps ease menopausal symptoms A glass of Spanish red wine (Resveretrol) a day keeps menopause symptoms away. Eating a lower carbohydrate diet and increased intake of fiber Hello and welcome to another new episode of the iloveweightloss.co.uk podcast. I’m Mark Gray. Stephen: And I’m Stephen. Mark: So today, I’ve drafted a few notes on the kind of outline of what I want us to speak about. Stephen: Hey, hang on, hang on. Who drafted the notes? Mark: So today, Stephen’s drafted a few notes on what we’re going to be talking about. But first things first, I wanted to say thanks for all the feedback. We’re getting this really positive, really good – and it kind of rejuvenates us so it makes us want to record more and more. So thank you very much. But also, first things first, even more, just to find out what we kind of got up in the weekend because contrary to what a lot of people think, we don’t live together. We don’t speak about… Stephen: Well, because we’re men, we don’t talk about like what we got up to… Mark: Personal things. Stephen: Personal things. So yes, we don’t necessarily always know what the other one has been up to. Mark: This is kind of a catch up actually for us as well because we’re obviously pretty busy. But yes, anyway, what did you get up to? Stephen: I went to McDonalds. Mark: Wow. Yes. Philip the face was looking a bit… Stephen: [Laughs] No. I went to McDonalds, and before anyone loses faith in me and thinks I’ve gone off the rails, it was always a matter of time that they – but I went to McDonalds on Sunday morning. Me and some friends, we were going to do some tough amount of training. A tough amount, if no one knows, is where you’re running over obstacles and doing different sorts of things. Actually, we’re actually doing the Spartan race training. So it’s Spartan races for the DVCCs. So for every client of DVCC they can do Spartan race training. That is kind of building up to eventually, hopefully, a Tough Mudder. Tough Mudder is like a big, 12-mile course. So anyway, we went away to a place called Chicksands to train there, and I wanted a coffee to start the day because it was Sunday morning and I wanted my coffee, but we couldn’t find anywhere. So a friend suggested we went to McDonalds because apparently they do a decent coffee. I know it’s not organic so it’s not ideal, but I chose to have the coffee anyway that day. So we got. I didn’t really know what was going on. I haven’t been there for a long, long time. I bumped – well, I hit the curve, for one, because there’s calls back type. Then I started talking to a pole because I didn’t know where I was supposed to take my order. I always assumed there was a person you used to speak to, but now I think you speak to a microphone, but I chose the wrong thing so I started speaking to a pole, which apparently… Mark: It doesn’t get your order. Stephen: It doesn’t get your order. Yes. So I got myself a coffee, but it was quite interesting and I noted how easy they make it to buy. I thought that that’s part of their strategy in that a lot of people, when you go into McDonalds, is because you want to grab a quick bite to eat. Mark: It’s fast food, right? Stephen: It’s fast food, right? Exactly. And so it’s similar to the Amazon 1-Click thing.
