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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Geordie Grommaw. Welcome back to my channel and welcome back
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to week two of the New Year Reset series we're doing in collaboration with Busy Bee Marie
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Tina's Talk Time and Maria Crocker. Last week I focused on not being a couch potato
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this week I'm focusing on health. So my goal for the year, or my vision for the year, is
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to be a lot more healthy. I have talked many times on my channel about trying to lose weight
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get my blood sugars under control and things like that, and I did let it slip last year
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I kind of got out of the habit of doing low carb and got out of the habit of walking
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so I wasn't getting much exercise. So my focus for this year is to kind of get back on track
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with that. So initially I'd like to get down to 13 stone. I'm 15 stone 3 at the moment
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so that would be £31 I would need to lose. Now I've worked it out that if I take 45 weeks
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of the year, so that gives us weeks for if I'm on holiday or anything like that, that
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would be under £1 a week to lose. Now that is surely doable, even for me. So I'd also
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like to be more energetic, less stiff, because like I've said before I've got osteoarthritis
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so exercise is good for that. So I want to work on being less stiff and obviously keep
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my blood sugar down as well so I don't get into complications with that. So if you watched
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last week's video I talked about the 1-3-5 plan to help us keep on track with all of
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these things. So if you didn't watch last week's and you want to know what the 1-3-5
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plan is, I will put a link at the end of the video and in the description box below so
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you can go and watch last week's and see what that's all about. But I do plan to follow
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that plan for everything I'm trying to do during this 4 week new year reset series
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So the vision is to lose weight, be more energetic and less stiff. So the first thing I'm going
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to start with is my eating, so food. And I'm going to keep it simple and I'm going to start
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slow. I'm not going to dive right back in to doing a strict low carb way of eating because
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I think doing that, because it's January, it's not going to last. I'm going to give
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up. So I'm going to start slowly. So the first thing I've done to help us with food and eating
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and all that, this week I've actually ordered Gusto. If anybody doesn't know what Gusto
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is, it's like a meal prep box that you get on a weekly basis. You can order, I think
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it's 2, 3, 4, maybe 5 meals per week and they send you all of the ingredients plus
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the recipe and you just make it at home. So I decided that I would get that this week
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and I've chosen 4 meals for 2 people because Warren's going to have them as well. Now the
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thing with Gusto is it's not very low carb. So the 4 meals I've ordered, which I'll put
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on the screen here, the 4 meals aren't very low carb. I think they're between 70g of carbs
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and 90g of carbs for the total meal. Now low carb is classed if you have 130g of carbs
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per day or less. So that is less than 130g. But it means that for breakfast and lunch
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I'd need to keep it really low carb. Now for me that's quite doable because with breakfast
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and lunches I have no problems cutting out the carbs with those. It's always been what
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I would call tea or dinner or supper, whatever you want to call it. That's where I've always
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found it difficult to keep the carbs low. So I thought if I start with Gusto, at least
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it's getting us back into proper evening meals, at least for 4 times on the first week. And
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then I can plan my breakfasts and lunches to be a bit more healthy. And hopefully that'll
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get us back into a proper eating plan after that. So I will let you know how the Gusto
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goes next week. I'll show you some pictures of the meals that we cooked. If anybody's
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interested in finding out more about Gusto, I'll also leave the link to that in the description
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box below. So the other things I'm going to do to try and get me eating back on track
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is I'm going to try and cut out eating in between meals because I'm type 2 diabetic
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and it's not good for you to eat little enough through the day because the more times you
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eat the more you're raising your blood sugar. So it's better for me to have 3 meals a day
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not snack between meals and that will keep my blood pressure and keep my blood sugar
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low where it's supposed to be. So cutting out snacking in between meals is good for
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me. I'm also going to stop buying biscuits. I've got into the habit of buying a packet
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of biscuits when I go shopping and maybe a cake occasionally. I'm going to cut that out
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because me and biscuits have got a very bad relationship. I can't just eat one biscuit
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I eat half the packet. So it's better if I just don't buy the biscuits. So I'm going
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to cut out the biscuits. That's not to say I won't ever have a biscuit or a cake because
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occasionally I will but as long as I'm not eating them every day. Another thing I need
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to do is to drink more water. It's been proven that if you drink 2 litres of water a day
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that helps you to lose weight. I think it's partly to do with the fact that if you drink
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water you don't feel hungry. So I'm going to try and do that and I'm also going to try
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and plan my meals. Now I've said this before and I'm not great at it but the fact that
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I'm starting off with Gusto I've already got a plan for 4 days of the week. I know exactly
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what I'm going to be eating. So it should be easy if I use Gusto for maybe a month
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That should be easy just getting to the routine of planning what I'm going to eat for the
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day. So those things should help me stick to the eating part of this new healthy me
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for 2024. The next thing that I need to focus on if I want to be more energetic and less
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creaky less stiff is to exercise. Now I've already started, I've already joined a gym
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last month. If anybody hasn't seen my video come to the gym with me where I take, me and
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my personal trainer take you through the 6 exercises that I'm doing there. I'll put a
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link to the video in the description box below and you can go over it and have a look at
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what I'm doing. So I've already started the gym. I just need to get myself into a routine
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for that. I've been going twice a week but it's not always on the same nights and I think
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if I set myself nights that I want to do 3 times a week. So if I set myself say Tuesday
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night, Thursday night and Saturday morning I can get myself into a routine and that'll
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be better for me. It'll be better for us to stick to that plan. Also measuring your
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progress helps you stick to an exercise plan I think. And at the gym they do give me a
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sheet with each exercise on it and it'll tell me what weight I'm using and what repetitions
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I'm doing and that should help. I can see me progress with what I'm doing at the gym
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And I've also taken body measurements so I can see me progress there if my body is changing
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in shape and the inches are coming off. I'm not going to focus too much on weight loss
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because I think especially when you're doing weights at the gym you might not always lose
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weight but you may lose inches. So I'm going to focus more on the measurements rather than
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the weight. So I will put my measurements in here what I am now. It was quite surprising
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actually a little bit shocking but I'll put them in here so you can see what they are
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because I also think another thing to help me stick to this exercise and food plan is
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to share my results. If I share my results with you on a regular basis that might help
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me stick to it more because I'll be thinking to myself oh I've got to tell people what
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I've measured in at and what I've done. So in my head I'll probably be more likely to
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stick to it so I'm going to do that as well. I think it will help to keep us motivated
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I also would like to start walking more. I got into a routine earlier last year when
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I did six month temporary work was I was walking to work every morning. Now that I'm working
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just in the house I'm not doing that. So I would like to get out and walk a little bit
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more so I'm going to try and include that into my day. So we've talked about food, we've
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talked about exercise. I also need to think about mindset because I think mindset is the
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main part of sticking to a new way of eating and a new way of exercising. So definitely
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mindset is something I need to concentrate on. The first thing I'm going to do is go
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back over the summer body challenge videos that we did last year, me and the other housewives
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We did a ten week series where we focused on a different thing each week and I actually
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lost weight and I got my blood sugar down to a, not a perfect level but it did come
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down. So I'm going to go back over those and watch them again myself to try and get into
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the right mindset again that I was in at that time. The other thing I'm going to do is I'm
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going to set up a playlist so when I do go out walking I've got a motivational playlist
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to use when I'm out so it'll make me more motivated to actually get out the house and
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listen to it. And I'm going to put on it music that is upbeat and makes you feel like moving
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I had one last year but I think I'm going to update it a little bit and use that and
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I think that will help us get out the door and get me motivated for walking. I'm also
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going to give myself rewards. Now they're not going to be food rewards, I'm not going
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to reward myself with a big cream cake or a bar of chocolate just because I've been
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out for a walk. I thought what I would do was I would say, okay if I stick to this routine
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so if I stick to going to the gym three times a week and getting out and walking for even
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just ten minutes a day, I'll put a little chart up on the wall and I'll tick it off
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when I've done it. And if I do that for a month then I'll reward myself with something
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I may reward myself with going and getting some gel nails done or maybe having a facial
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or something like that. So not eating related and I don't want to tie the reward into, well
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if you've lost three pound you can go and do this. I want to more tie it into the routine
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so if I've done it then I get the reward. I do think that might keep us more motivated
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I've also read a book called Atomic Habits by James Clear and he talks about getting
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into a routine, getting into rituals and building good habits. And he did talk about how to
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get into the habit of exercising. So for instance, using cues. So if you're going to exercise
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first thing in the morning, get out your exercise gear and your trainers or whatever and have
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them by your bed so when you get up in the morning you're more inclined to put those
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on and start exercising. Or he says something about, associate cleaning your teeth with
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doing lunges or squats. So every time you clean your teeth you know that's what you're
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going to be doing. And he also talks about going for a ten minute walk before your coffee
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break in the morning. And I think that may be a good one for me because I work from home
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I usually have a coffee around half ten and again around half two. So if I associate those
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times with going for a walk, I can have my trainers ready, my bottle of water ready and
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my headphones ready. I'll know that when it's half ten I'm going for that walk. Even if
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it's just ten minutes walk around the block then I come back and have my coffee. And if
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you do that on a regular basis it's going to become a habit and you will do it more
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often. That's the plan anyway. Those are the things that I'm going to focus on to do with
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my health. And again like last week I don't plan on doing them all at once. I'm going
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to take it slowly, take it bit by bit and try and build it up as the months go on. So
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I'm doing it throughout the year and it's not just all squeezed into one week. Now last
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week I talked about No More Couch Potato and things I was going to do to stop myself sitting
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in front of the TV every night and not moving and my brain not moving. And I talked about
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a few things that I wanted to do and I have done some of them. So one thing I did was
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I created a TBR pile, so a to be read list for books so I'll read more often because
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I do love reading and I tend to do more of it when I'm on holiday. So I thought if I
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had a to be read list pile set up then it would be easy for us to say those are the
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books I want to get read in the next four weeks and have them either by my bedside table
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or on the coffee table or wherever I'm going to see them most. Probably on my coffee table
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is the best place to have them. So for the next four weeks these are the four books that
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I want to get through and I've already started the first one so that's a good start
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The second thing that I talked about was going out to stop us being a couch potato. So I've
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had a look at the what's on sections of the two theatres, well the main two theatres that
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are in my local area and I've had a look at what's on there and I've jotted down a few
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things that I'd like to book tickets for and go and see. So that's really exciting
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because there's a few things on there that I'm really happy to get tickets for. I also
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talked about setting up a scrapbooking project for myself and what I've done is I've chosen
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ten photographs that I can make ten pages around on the theme of my grandchildren. So
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I've got the ten photographs there ready and I know what theme I want to do for each
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page so every time I decide to get my scrapbook and stuff out I know exactly what I'm going
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to do rather than thinking what am I going to do a scrapbook and page about now it's
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already there for us. So I'd love to know if you watched last week's video did you do
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any of the things that I talked about or are you going to do any of the things that I've
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talked about today health wise? I'd like to know so just let us know in the comments
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below. Remember to go across and watch Marie, Maria and Tina's videos to see what they're
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talking about this week regarding their New Year reset for 2024. So next Sunday we'll
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be talking about a New Year reset for our wardrobe and we also have a special guest
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next week so hopefully you'll tune in then and see who that is. So thank you so much
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for watching I'll see you again soon and bye for now
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