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10 Week Summer Body Challenge for Over 50s : with The Transatlantic Housewives
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May 13, 2024
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grandma
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Welcome back to my channel. Tonight I've got an exciting announcement about a new collaboration that I'm doing with
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the Transatlantic Housewives of YouTube. So that's Busy B. Marie, Tina's Talk Time and Maria Crocker and myself
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are about to do a 10-week summer body challenge for over 50s
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So for every week for 10 weeks, we'll be talking about something
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a different topic to do with losing weight, getting fit and staying healthy for the summer
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and hopefully for the rest of our lives. Each of us are all going to do the same challenge
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and we're going to bring you the same video each week. but because we're so different, you know, everybody's going to put a different spin on it
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Everybody's going to, you know, eat different types of food. Everyone will do different types of exercise and they'll have a different view of looking at each of the topics
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So it's well worth following each of us if you want to get some motivation or some inspiration
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how you can follow it as well, how you can follow this 10 week summer body challenge
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Over the 10 weeks, we'll be talking about topics like exercising, diets, you know, what we eat
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We'll talk about cutting down on sugar, cutting down on processed foods, drinking more water, getting outside, you know, getting some fresh air
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It's not just about what you're putting your body, you know, it's about a mindset as well
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And I think getting outside always makes you feel better. We'll be talking about routines and starting to get into good habits so that you can keep it going after the 10 weeks
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We'll be talking about juices and shakes and if they're good for you and what you can make and things like that
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We'll be talking about cutting down on sugar. And we'll also be talking about socialising
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So not just in a way of what can you eat or drink when you go socialising
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but the fact that socialising is also good for your health. You know, if you're sitting in the house on your own
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then you're more likely to reach for the crisps and the biscuits. But if you're out, you know, if you've joined a club or something with some friends
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you're less likely to break your healthy eating goals. So we'll be talking about all those things over the next 10 weeks
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Like I said, there'll be one topic each week that we'll be talking about. Each week we will be weighing in and showing you what we weigh
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I'll be doing that before the end of this video. I'm going to get on the scales and show you what I weigh
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Now just as a disclaimer none of us are health professionals You know we doing this just for ourselves basically So if you wanted to join in with any of the diets that were following
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or any of the exercise plans that were following, please think about your own health issues first
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You may want to go and see a doctor and check out that it's okay to do that eating plan
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or exercise plan or whatever before you start on anything. We are in no way health professionals, fitness professionals, nutritionists, nothing like that
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So that's just a disclaimer before anybody says, you know, you can't tell people what to do
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We're not telling people what to do. We're just saying this is what we're doing. We want to show you our journey
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I know some people hear that word. You know, see how we'll get on along the, you know, over the 10 weeks
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Our ups and lots of downs, I'm sure that there's going to be
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And if you want to join in with us, that would be great. You know, you can leave comments below on any of our YouTube channels
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You can go over to our Instagram accounts and leave comments there. Give us tips
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You know, if you want to share your story, we'd be happy to hear what you've been doing
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or what you have done and done to lose weight and get fit. We'd be happy to share those on our Instagram feeds and on our YouTube channels
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If you want to share them with those, you know, you can. We could send us photos, we could put them on our videos and say, this is what such and such is getting up to
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So that would be great if you really wanted to join in. We'd like to build a really nice community over the next 10 weeks of people who are interested in the same things we are
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You know, over 50. You think more about your health. So it would be nice if the whole community could join in and get motivated with us
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We're hoping to motivate each other and hopefully we can motivate you and you can motivate us
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Now I just thought I'd give you a little bit of background on why I wanted to do this
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I've had my own health challenges recently. I think I've mentioned before in videos that I'm type 2 diabetic
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I've been type 2 diabetic for about 14 years now. And my last, I'll go for a checkup once a year and they do what's called an HBA 1
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blood test which checks the amount of glucose that's in your bloodstream as an average over the last eight weeks
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Now when I was first diagnosed as being diabetic, my HBA1C was at 51
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A normal HBA 1C is between 20 and 41.9. So 51 I was diabetic
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At my last HBA 1C, which was about three weeks ago, it was 80
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it was 84. It's, you know, that is the highest it's ever been since I was diagnosed
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I have gone up and down but it never been at 84 and that very worrying But what more worrying is some of the I not going to say side effects of type 2 diabetes but some of the issues that crop up with type 2 diabetes one of them is something called diabetic neuropathy
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And it's where you get nerve damage in your hands and your feet
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I think it can get it elsewhere in your body, but it's mainly your hands and your feet
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and I've found that over, I'd say, the last year, my toes in the top half of my feet are going numb
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which is, you know, that is very worrying. I can still feel my toes, but they do feel like they're going numb
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They feel a little bit spongy. And the pain in my legs and my feet through the night is horrendous
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I sometimes can't even stand the feel of it like the blanket or the sheet
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on my feet because it hurts that much. I've recently discovered I've also got osteoarthritis
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which is basically wear and tear, you know, it's something you get when you get older but apparently it is linked to
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type 2 diabetes. So I've got that issue and I've got it mainly in my feet as well
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so that's a double a double whammy for the pain in my feet. So the thing they advocate for both type 2 diabetes
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to get that under control and to keep your osteoarthritis manager, is to lose weight and exercise
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So this 10-week summer body challenge is ideal for me. If anybody else has got type 2 diabetes or osteoarthritis
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you might find that helpful too. But remember, I'm not a medical professional
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I'm just me. I just know from my own experiences, and I'm not telling you to follow anything that I'm doing
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Go and check it out with your doctor first if you wanted to do anything like this
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The diet I've chosen to follow for the next, well, I'm going to try and do it for a long time, but definitely for the next 10 weeks, I'm going to do low carb bordering on keto
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Now I have done low carb before. I did it for about six weeks a couple of years ago, got my blood sugar right under control, got my weight down, and then something happened and I just reverted to what I was doing before
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So hopefully I can build some good habits and routines and share some nice recipes with you
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And I think having to weigh in on video for everyone, every week is going to hold us accountable to it
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So I hope you'll tune in each week to find out what's going on with that
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At the moment I am, like I said, my HBA1c is 84
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I'm going to get weighed so I can show you what I weigh
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I'm 5'4 remember. I'm 59. I'm 60 in June. So we weigh in and we save what I weigh and then each week it can say how much I losing or not losing and we take it from there So I just switch the camera to me getting weighed So I 14 stone 12 and a quarter
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So 5'4 and 14 stone 12 in a quarter, that is quite overweight
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If I knew me BMI, I'm assuming it's going to be, you know, I'm obese
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I wear a size 18 to 20 in clothes. and I think if it wasn't for the fact that my diabetes is out of control
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I probably wouldn't worry so much about my weight. I'm fairly happy with the way I look, but I'm not happy with my health
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You know, I've got two little grandchildren, four and six, and I'd like to be around for them as long as possible
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and I'm just not going to be if I don't get this under control. So that is the main reason I'm doing it
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So like I said, every week we'll talk about a different topic
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So next week is going to be about building routines and good habits, you know, to help you stick to whatever you decide to do
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I'll share some breakfasts I'm having, some low-car breakfasts. I'll share some my exercise routines that I'm going to embark on
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I might share some motivational things that I'm doing to, you know
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know keep yourself motivated so like I said if you'd like to join in you know
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please feel free to leave any anything you want to in the comments below not
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nasty stuff but you know anything you want to leave any tips any help you'd
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like if you'd like me to share any particular you know low carb recipes with you
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feel free to ask if you'd like to see any holes of exercise clothes or you know if
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you'd like me to try out any types of exercise videos within reason
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Leave your comments below and I'd be happy to sort that out
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And I'm sure the other housewaves would be happy to do that as well. I'll put a full length picture in here
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of what I look like. I've got some black leggings on and a white workout t-shirt
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and it's quite fitting. So I thought that would be good to actually show you
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what I do look like because normally you can just see is from the boobs up unless I'm doing a try-on haul
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So that is the beginning of the 10 week summer body challenge for over 50s
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Of course, if you're not over 50, you can still join in. So that's all from me today
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I'll be back next Friday at the same time, 7 o'clock at night
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if you wanted to tune in as soon as it goes out. You can see how I've done over the week, how much I've lost or not lost
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and what we're going to do the week after. Don't forget to go over and watch my..
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Maria, Tina and Maria's videos to see what they're going to be doing
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Like I said, it's all going to be similar, but we will be putting our own spin on it
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So thanks so much for watching and I'll see you again next week
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So bye for now
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