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Type 2 Diabetes Low Carb Diet Week 9 : Did I bring my blood sugar down?
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May 13, 2024
Week 9 of the Summer Body Challenge in collaboration with The Transatlantic Housewives of YouTube: @Maria_crocker @BusyBeeMaree @tinastalktime #type2diabetes #lowcarbdiet #hba1c Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeordieg... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeordiegr... Blog: https://www.thegeordiegrandma.co.uk Email me: [email protected] Disclaimer: All products were purchased by me unless otherwise stated. These are my honest opinions. This video may contain affiliate links, which means when you click on one of the product links, I will receive a small commission. Thank you so much for subscribing and watching my videos - truly appreciate it :-)
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grandma
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Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to week nine of the summer body challenge
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Now if you don't know what that is, it is a challenge between myself and three other YouTube ladies
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at Busy B. Marie, at Maria Crocker and at Tina's Talk Time
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And we got together and decided to do a 10-week summer body challenge
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to try and motivate each other to lose weight, get fit and healthy for summer
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But it's not just for summer, really. It's to try and get fit and healthy for the rest of our lives
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So to motivate each other and hopefully motivate anybody watching as well
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We're all doing different diets, different. healthy eating plans so I'll drop the links to their channels below so you can go
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and see how they're doing and every week we talk about a different kind of
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healthy eating topic we share what we've been eating that week we share if we've
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lost weight or put weight on and things like that so I hope we've been enjoying
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the series and I can't believe this is week 9 already it's gone so fast the
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healthy eating plan that I'm doing is a low carb diet a low carb diet a low
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carb way of eating and that was mainly because not just because I wanted to lose some weight but
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mainly it was because I needed to get my diabetes under control type 2 diabetic and it is the
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my last HBA 1c blood test which was on 30th of March was way out of control highest it's ever
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been so I wanted to get that under control so I had my last HBA 1C blood test done on the 16th of
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June so roughly about eight, nine weeks after the 30th of March, I think that is
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So I'll share the results with you at the end of this video and you can see how that's gone
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But this week is been, it's been a different kind of week, it's been a funny kind of week
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because I've been away this week. We went to stay in a tree house near Penrith in the Lake District and there will be a
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vlog coming of that so watch out for that soon. But it was also my birthday this week
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so I knew I was gonna go off track. I knew I wasn't gonna stick to low carb all week
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But I've planned for that. As long as I can get back on track
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then that's fine if I go off track for a few days, as long as I don't go mad
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So that's what I've done this week. So I did have a few things that have been not low carb
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I've had a couple of, cream teas so you know tea with with the scorn and cream and jam and all that I've had some cake I've
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had some chocolates I've had some prosceco I had fish and chips one day so I did go I definitely went
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off track but like I see I knew I was going to so it is what it is and it will reflect in my
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way in later on in this video but because we were in a tree house because it was
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self-catering. It did make it a little bit easier and I did have some things that were low carb
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We did take some things with us and bought some things that were low carb. So breakfasts I stuck to the
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low carb things. We had some berries with yoghurt. We had eggs and some low carb sausages, that kind of thing
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So I stuck to it for breakfasts. We did have a barbecue one night where we had vegetables vegetable kebab so we put some onions some peppers some mushrooms on skewers and barbecued those and I also had some barbecued salmon which was the low carb
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and I didn't have any bread or anything like that with it. So that was good, but I did have
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chocolates that day, so that was the bad bit. So self-catering does make it easier to stick to low carb
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when you're away. But I think, you know, as long as it's only once and, you know, once every so
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often, it's not that bad to go off track as long as you then get back on it when you come back
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and don't continue the slippery slope back to the way you did eat, which I'm hoping I can do that
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It is Friday to day when I'm recording this just a hour before I'm about to upload it
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which is very last minute. But I've only just come back this morning so I didn't have a lot of
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time so I'm hoping I'll ease myself back out of eating the the rubbishy foods over the
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weekend and hopefully on Monday I can get straight back into it. Now this week the focus was on
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meat free and dairy free which is a little bit different for me than it is for Marie Maria
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and Tina because I don't eat meat. I've been pescatarian for about eight years now
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When I first stopped eating meat, I stopped eating fish as well
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And I did that for about two years. But it did get really difficult, which is why I started to reintroduce the fish and the seafood
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But I still don't eat meat, haven't eaten meat for eight years. And it is a struggle
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I do think it is a struggle. I know a lot of people these days go for meat-free days, you know, for health reasons
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for ethical reasons, for helping save the planet reasons. Apparently, cows produce a bigger carbon footprint than travel does
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So, you know, if you can help to eat less meat, hopefully that will help reduce that
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I don't know. I'm not an expert. I'm not a medical professional
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I'm not a science expert. I'm just me doing my own thing. So I haven't eaten meat for my own reasons
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which I'm not going to go into because I don't think they're not. is the place to do that
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So I've had to find ways of getting around that over the years
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because I did like eating meat, you know. There's nothing I like nicer than having a pork chop or, you know
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a nice roast dinner, something like that. But if you want to do these things
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you have to find ways and means of getting around that. And one of my favorite meals was always like a chili
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a chili con carne or a spaghetti bonnese. and for a long time
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I tried different kinds of meat-free mints to make those with and none of them seemed to work for us
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I found meat-free mince to be very spongy and not very palatable for me
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anyway I'm not very keen on corn products I have to say I don't buy very many of them
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but I did find some meat-free mints that meant that I could enjoy a chili con corny
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in a spaghetti bowl of it. spaghetti bolognese and that is Vevera mints. Now that is the best meat-free
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mince I've found on the market since I stopped eating meat and it makes a lovely
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Tilly con carne it's not spongy and it is it probably tastes the most like real
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mince that you could probably get or that I've ever tasted. If anyone has had a really
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good meat-free mince they think is just as good let us know in the comments
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below. So I do buy the meat free vera mince quite often and we make chilis and
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bolognese, you could make like a low carb shepherds pie and things like that with it
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So that is really good I also like the the vera schwoma kebab meat as well Nothing like cab meat really but it does taste quite nice
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And I think I've showed a Vivera kebab meat meal on one of these videos
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So that's nice. I also eat the Richmond meat-free sausages. You know, sausages make a nice, quick, easy meal
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You can have it with salads. You can have it with eggs. You can have it with a tomato sauce and vegetables
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So again, I found it difficult to find a meat-free sausage that I really liked
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In the Richmond ones, when I came across those, I was like, are they're really meat-free
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And yes, they are really tasty. Yes, these things, the Vivera mince and the meat-free sausages, they are processed
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But you've got to pick and choose your battles, I think, you know, especially when you're trying to lose weight and you're trying to lose weight, and you're
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trying to stick to no meat and you can't do everything so uh you know i do have some processed foods
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and not terribly you know processed there's not there's not hundreds of ease and you know terrible
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things in them but yeah i think you've got to pick a battle so i do have some of those um as well
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with the food i eat i also eat a lot of salmon um smoke cod some people would argue that that is
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still meat but I think again when you're not eating meat if you just have a meat free days you know
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and you don't eat meat every now and again then it's probably not quite as bad but if you're not
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eating meat at all I think especially when you're doing low carb you've got to introduce some good
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fats and things in and some healthier things into it and fish is the easiest way for me to do
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that so I did reintroduce fish and seafood into my um my way of eating
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And I do love some and I have to say it's nice put in the oven
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I put it in some foil and put in the oven with some spices or herbs on and it just makes a nice quick and easy meal
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So yeah, meat-free meals consist of the plant-based products that I've just talked about and usually fish
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We also wanted to talk about dairy-free this week. I never really drank milk, cow's milk, before anyway, but now that I'm low carb I don't drink cow's milk at all
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I drink almond milk and I never actually drank a glass of milk
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I don't like the taste of it so I still don't drink a glass of almond milk either, but I use it for protein shakes
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If I do have a low carb cereal I'll use almond milk on it
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I never have dairy-free cheese or yoghut or cream. anything like that purely because when you're doing low carb you do need the good fats and
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those kind of foods do include the good fats. Maybe you know vegan cheeses and cream that are
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dairy free do still have the same kind of vitamins but I haven't looked into it. If anybody
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knows that you know they are as good of a protein source or a vitamin sauce than the non
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than the dairy ones, let us know in the comments below. So because I've been away this week
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I haven't got a lot of pictures of meals to show you or anything like that
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So I'm hoping this video is going to be okay and people find it interesting
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So here is the way in. I'll just put the picture up here
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I didn't video it, it is just a picture. And I got weighed quickly when I came back this morning
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And as you can see, I have put three and a half pound. on. I had lost seven pounds altogether. Put three and a half pounds on so I'm back to losing
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three and a half pounds, which is still fine over nine weeks. It's still a loss. I haven't put weight on
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and I did really expect to put weight on this week So three and a half pound It is what it is Hopefully I can try and get some of that off next week So stay tuned to our last week to see how I did overall
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But the one thing that I did want to share this week, and the one thing that was the most important thing for me
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and that was to try and get my diabetes under control. So on the 30th of March, my HBA-1c result
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and this is the blood sugar levels in your blood over a, it takes an average over eight weeks
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and it's supposed to be, normal HBA 1C is around 42 and on the 30th of March mine was 84
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and that is the highest been, highest it's ever been ever since, you know
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it wasn't even that when I was diagnosed with diabetes so it was really, really high
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So I had it taken again on the 16th of June and I think that works out at about eight weeks
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eight or nine weeks after the 30th of March and on the 16th of June
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my HBA 1C was 62 so I'm so happy with that it has come down a lot
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I'm halfway in between what I was and in between it being a normal level
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so I feel like if I keep doing what I'm doing if I keep doing the low carb
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then I can really bring that down you know hopefully I can get that down
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into the 50s, maybe even into the 40s, I don't know. But I think if I keep doing what I'm doing, it's only going to go down
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I am still on metformin, so that will have an effect. But you never know, maybe if I can get down lower
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I can come off that medication altogether. And I haven't, I'm not doing keto
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I am doing low carbs, so I'm sticking to under 130 grams of carbs a day
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Sometimes I'm way under that. Sometimes I'm near the 130. I would say I'm probably on an average
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I'm around the 70 grams of carbs a day. And I'm not, I don't feel restricted
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You've seen the kind of things I've made, you know, keto chocolate cheesecakes and things like that
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Mug cakes. I'm eating, you know, healthy foods. If you want to go back over the previous weeks
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some of Body Challenge videos, you can say I'm eating decent food
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I'm not starving myself. occasionally I will go off the healthy eating plan and I will have something I may have a
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takeaway or I may have a chocolate you know a bar of a bar of chocolate what I do do on a Friday
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is I have a hot chocolate from Costa so I'm not sticking to it completely I am you know
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letting myself go off track a little bit and it hasn't really affected what I've been doing
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I have still brought that you know my blood sugar levels down so I'm really
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happy about that. So for me, that eclipses the fact that I put three and a half pounds on this week
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the fact that I did get that HBU on C down. So next week is our last week and a focus is on
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outdoors. So I'll show you some photographs next week of my trip to the Lake District this week
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because it was nearly all outdoors. But I will talk about some other things, you know
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exercise now does and things like that next week. And it will be the last week, like I said
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next week. So we'll get an overall view of what weight I lost. And also, if the others lost weight
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overall as well. So that has been a little bit jumbled today. I feel like I hadn't prepared
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for this at all because I had been away and I knew it was going to be rush. So I hope you found it
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interesting. I hope you picked some tips up from that and I'll see you again next week with the
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10th week of the summer body challenge but also look out for my vlog of the week in the street house
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So thanks so much for watching. I hope you found it interesting. I'll see you again soon so bye for now
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