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Christina Couture: What's up, bitches?
Savanna: What's up bitches?
Christina Couture: Welcome back to Raising and Chaos.
Savanna: Welcome back to Raising Chaos. Ooh, I said that weird.
Christina Couture: Ooh, I said that weird.
Savanna: This is Christina.
Christina Couture: This is Christina. This is Savannah.
Savanna: This is Savannah.
Christina Couture: And Emily's here.
Savanna: And Emily's here.
Christina Couture: Not that you can hear her, but she's here.
Savanna: Not that you can hear her, but she's here.
Christina Couture: She's making food.
Savanna: She's making food.
Christina Couture: We're having girls' night.
Savanna: We're having girls' night.
Christina Couture: Summer ween.
Savanna: It's summer ween.
Christina Couture: It was a ghoul time.
Savanna: With ghouls' hide.
Christina Couture: Ghoul time.
Savanna: Ghoul time.
Christina Couture: Hot ghoul time.
Savanna: Hot ghoul time.
Christina Couture: I got it from Miranda.
Savanna: I got it from grandma.
Christina Couture: I know.
Savanna: I know.
Christina Couture: That was catchy as fuck.
Savanna: That was catchy as fuck.
Christina Couture: Don't bark.
Savanna: Don't bark.
Christina Couture: You're going to hear all kinds of noise in the background because there's lots of shit going on in the background here.
Savanna: You're going to hear all kinds of noise in the background because there's lots of shit take sense going on in the background here.
Christina Couture: Like my dog or my kids or Emily.
Savanna: Like my dog or my kids or Emily.
Christina Couture: And that's fine.
Savanna: And that's fine.
Christina Couture: So how's shit going, friend?
Savanna: So how's shit going, friend?
Christina Couture: Good.
Savanna: Good, how are you?
Christina Couture: How are you?
Christina Couture: Surviving.
Savanna: Surviving.
Christina Couture: It's been a week.
Savanna: It's been a week.
Christina Couture: It's been a week, but I'm doing better.
Savanna: It's been a week. But I'm doing better.
Christina Couture: I'm not as, I was in like a mental funk and I and know why, but I sound ridiculous when I explain why.
Savanna: I'm not as, I just am like a mental funk. And I and know why, but I sound ridiculous when I explain why.
Savanna: So, okay, just making sure.
Christina Couture: okay, okay, just making sure, Savannah's adjusting, so making sure we're all surviving.
Savanna: Sabina's adjusting, so making sure we're all surviving.
Christina Couture: What's up, chick?
Savanna: What's that shit?
Christina Couture: I'm surviving.
Savanna: I'm surviving.
Christina Couture: Okay, go away.
Savanna: ah Okay, cool.
Christina Couture: Love you.
Savanna: Love you. That was CJ.
Christina Couture: That was CJ. sir i
Savanna: Surviving.
Christina Couture: So any like business you want to chat about before we get into this?
Savanna: So, any business you want to chat about before we get on into this?
Savanna: Shout out to...
Christina Couture: Shout outs. We'll do it later.
Savanna: We'll do a light out. Okay, sorry.
Christina Couture: We'll do it right before.
Savanna: We'll do a right before you.
Christina Couture: We have some people that we want to shout out before um we sign off for the night.
Savanna: We have some people that we want to shout out. Yes. So for... ah We sign off for the night.
Christina Couture: um So local businesses, we want to support.
Savanna: um So local businesses, we want to support friends that we care about.
Christina Couture: friends that we care about.
Savanna: I'm excited to start getting more of those things so we can start sharing more of them for people who have supported us thus far.
Christina Couture: So ah excited to start getting more of those things so we can start sharing more of them for people who have supported us thus far.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: oh um
Christina Couture: But yeah, other than that, because it's end of, is it middle July?
Savanna: But yeah, other than that, because it's... Is it middle July?
Christina Couture: Or is it end of July?
Savanna: Or is it end of July? Next week's last week of July.
Christina Couture: Holy crap.
Savanna: Holy crap.
Christina Couture: to holy crap I don't know time anymore.
Savanna: I don't know time anymore. either. It's all one day.
Christina Couture: fall one Like summer school started two weeks though, and then football started last week.
Savanna: Like summer school started two weeks though. And then football started last week.
Christina Couture: And are you checking yourself for breast cancer?
Savanna: And are you checking yourself for breast cancer?
Christina Couture: Just making sure I have enough for you.
Savanna: Just making sure have enough ribs.
Christina Couture: Making sure you have blood?
Savanna: Making sure you have what?
Christina Couture: I have enough for you on my skeleton.
Savanna: Enough ribs on my skeleton.
Christina Couture: Oh, um dear Lord.
Savanna: Oh, um dear Lord.
Savanna: I'm always over here.
Christina Couture: thought she was just checking herself.
Savanna: Check she try to yourself
Christina Couture: What an interesting time to check your titties.
Savanna: What is interesting? I'm going to check your titties. It's like every damn show.
Christina Couture: Like every day in the shower. Goodness.
Savanna: Goodness.
Christina Couture: What was I saying?
Savanna: What was I saying?
Christina Couture: Sorry.
Savanna: Oh, football started last week.
Christina Couture: Football started last week.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Summer school that started two weeks ago.
Savanna: Summer school i started a two weeks ago.
Christina Couture: You're losing quite time.
Savanna: You're losing track of time.
Christina Couture: I don't know.
Savanna: I don't know.
Christina Couture: And like Chris is football coaching, which is like great.
Savanna: And like Chris's football coaching, which is like great.
Christina Couture: But in the same breath, i I have no idea what's going on.
Savanna: But in the same breath, I'm, I have no idea what's going on.
Christina Couture: Yep.
Savanna: Yep.
Christina Couture: It's all one day.
Savanna: It's all one day, isn't it?
Christina Couture: Yep.
Savanna: Yep. Blurred.
Christina Couture: ye
Savanna: Yep.
Christina Couture: And these freaking kids are still driving me nuts.
Savanna: These freaking kids are still driving me down.
Christina Couture: Like my summer is over.
Savanna: Like my summer is over.
Christina Couture: mean
Savanna: me
Christina Couture: They go, CJ has summer school in the morning and she gets home at like 1.30, 2 o'clock, depending if she is tutoring after school.
Savanna: They go. cday has summer school in the morning and and she gets home at 1.30, 2 o'clock, depending if she is tutoring after school.
Christina Couture: And then the boys have football from 6 to 8.
Savanna: And then the boys have football from 6 to 8.
Christina Couture: Like what do I do with myself?
Savanna: And what do I do with myself?
Christina Couture: Now I have to just be home.
Savanna: Now I have to just be home.
Christina Couture: I can't go anywhere.
Savanna: Can't go anywhere.
Christina Couture: I thought I knew the work of moms, but cannot live with them.
Savanna: i I thought I'd never be one of these moms, but I cannot wait for them to go back school. Here's the thing. They fight all day long.
Christina Couture: I'm excited for them to go back to school.
Savanna: i'm excited for them to go back to school.
Christina Couture: They're ah a little excited to go back to school because they like want to see it with friends.
Savanna: They're a a little excited to go back to school because they, like, want to see you my friends.
Christina Couture: and like i think they're I'm not going to say they want to go back to school and be busy for eight hours, but they...
Savanna: And, like, I think they're... I'm not going to say they want to go back to school and be busy for eight hours, but they...
Christina Couture: want to see their friends and do kind of like school signifies fall, the football season, dance starts, CJ's cheerleading.
Savanna: want to see their friends and do kind of like school signifies fall you the football season dance starts cj's cheerleading like there's a whole bunch of shit going on and so they love this time of year yes i like summer no and besides the fact these little suckers drive me nuts 24 7 i like
Christina Couture: Like there's a whole bunch of shit going on. And so they love this time of year. yes I like summer. And besides the fact these little fuckers drive me nuts 24 seven, what am I going to do with myself now?
Savanna: they What am I going to do with my stuff now?
Christina Couture: I'm not working.
Savanna: not working.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: You're going to miss them when they're gone.
Christina Couture: We're going to miss them when they're gone.
Savanna: Because that's why I'm complaining.
Christina Couture: I'm complaining. want to back to school.
Savanna: I want to be back at school.
Christina Couture: soon as they're gone, like, what are we doing again?
Savanna: as soon they're gone, like, man, what am going to do in my day?
Christina Couture: see We're going to do stuff.
Savanna: See, we're going to stuff.
Christina Couture: yeah were
Savanna: Yeah, we're going to have to.
Christina Couture: You are going to be roped in that too because you're not busy on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Savanna: You are going to be rubbed in that, too. Because you're not busy on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Christina Couture: so
Savanna: so We're going to coach.
Christina Couture: working're by coach yeah you coaching the epa go to so yeah he down We're brunch.
Savanna: Yeah, you coach in the evening. We're going to brunch. So, hell yeah, down for brunch.
Christina Couture: We are ladies who brunch.
Savanna: We are who brunch. ho bro so see I love the fact that Emily's getting picked up here and there.
Christina Couture: We're going to brunch. I love the fact that Emily's getting picked up here and there. So I hope people hear her.
Savanna: So I hope people hear her. I heard her a couple times.
Christina Couture: some
Christina Couture: Oh, and we're drinking cocktails.
Savanna: Oh, and we're drinking cocktails.
Christina Couture: And I say we, it's me.
Savanna: And I say we, it's me.
Christina Couture: Emily's drinking too.
Savanna: Emily's drinking too. honor So here's the thing.
Christina Couture: So here's the thing. I don't know if I said this, but our girls night is summer weed.
Savanna: i don't know if I said this, but our girls night is summer ween.
Christina Couture: I thought there was a hair in my drink.
Savanna: I thought there was a hair in my drink.
Christina Couture: It's summerween themed.
Savanna: It's summerween themed.
Christina Couture: So we're having a Halloween party in the summer.
Savanna: So we're having ah Halloween party in the summer. I pulled out my Halloween decorations.
Christina Couture: pulled out my Halloween decorations. I dressed my skeleton.
Savanna: I dressed my skeleton.
Christina Couture: She's in a patriotic bikini that's fallen off her ass.
Savanna: She's in a patriotic bikini that's falling off her ass. My skeleton's in bondage.
Christina Couture: That's...
Savanna: That's... Oh, yes, daddy. Anyways. Ew, don't say the D word.
Christina Couture: and
Savanna: i anyway it's don
Christina Couture: Ew, don't say the D word.
Savanna: ah d bird
Christina Couture: You're into freaky shit like that.
Savanna: You're into freaky shit like that. I'm vanilla, baby.
Christina Couture: I'm vanilla, baby. No.
Savanna: No, I'm vanilla.
Christina Couture: I'm vanilla. You are not.
Savanna: You are not. You are dirty snow.
Christina Couture: You're dirty snow.
Savanna: You
Christina Couture: We are not the same.
Savanna: are not the same.
Christina Couture: We are not cut from the same cloth.
Savanna: You are not cut from the same cloth. I'm the backside.
Christina Couture: On the backside.
Savanna: I'm just kidding. Did you say the backside?
Christina Couture: Did you say up the back side?
Savanna: I said I'm the backside.
Christina Couture: said up back side. Ew. Ew.
Savanna: Ew.
Christina Couture: I got peed on a dog park.
Savanna: Ew. I got peed on at the dog park.
Christina Couture: Is that what I'm thinking?
Savanna: Does that make me kinky? Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes.
Savanna: By a man?
Christina Couture: By a man?
Savanna: By a dog.
Christina Couture: Oh, that's not the same.
Savanna: Oh, that's not good. I'm going to say, by a man, that's wild.
Christina Couture: Are you sports?
Savanna: Did you just remember?
Christina Couture: No. I only like... are you in no water
Savanna: Are you into water sports? No.
Christina Couture: no
Christina Couture: i only
Savanna: I only liked in the shower and even these on my titties.
Christina Couture: zo Nobody knows.
Savanna: Nobody knows. Didn't we talk about this already before or not?
Christina Couture: point i was i just scream
Savanna: Was that just between me and you?
Christina Couture: This was in an episode we recorded but never released because I said I said our listeners probably shouldn't hear that Savannah likes to get peed on.
Savanna: This was in an episode we recorded but never released because I said and I just gave everybody all I said then. Our listeners probably should hear while Savannah likes to get peed on.
Christina Couture: yeah
Savanna: Just on my titties.
Christina Couture: That's all close to your face.
Savanna: It's real close to your face.
Christina Couture: Nope, I put it on.
Savanna: Nope, I put it on.
Christina Couture: Now I'm judging you.
Savanna: Now I'm judging you. to
Christina Couture: ah But anyways, it's summerween.
Savanna: But anyways, it's summerween. Yes.
Christina Couture: Got hall like Halloween decorations up.
Savanna: We've got Halloween decorations up. Everybody's bringing Halloween kind of treat.
Christina Couture: Everybody's bringing a Halloween kind of treat. We're all wearing Halloween pajamas, except Emily, who's dressed for prom.
Savanna: We're all wearing Halloween pajamas, except Emily choose dress for prom. And hot.
Christina Couture: I'm not.
Savanna: No, I can't look for two dress for a summer party.
Christina Couture: It's hot. It's high summer party.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah. It's hot.
Savanna: It's hot.
Christina Couture: don't like some.
Savanna: don't like shorts.
Christina Couture: I don't either.
Savanna: I don't either.
Christina Couture: like I like shorts too, but it makes my own hair hot.
Savanna: I like shorts. I wear shorts, I know. I like shorts too, but it makes my aunt's carriage hot.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah. Just pull it to the side and let it air out real quick.
Christina Couture: I need a misty panel.
Savanna: that' so i That's what I do.
Christina Couture: that's a i need a mytic i am
Savanna: I need a Mystic fan. This episode has really taken a drastic detour. Yeah, I don't know what's going
Christina Couture: This episode has really taken a drastic detour.
Savanna: this episode is really taken aas de took her yeah
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Christina Couture: All right.
Savanna: All right, so because it's still summer in Michigan, it didn't hit 90 degrees in September, so we still have lots of time.
Christina Couture: So because it's still summer in Michigan, it can hit 90 degrees in September. So we still have lots of time. We wanted to kind of talk about...
Savanna: We wanted to kind of talk about,
Christina Couture: you being
Savanna: and mean like
Christina Couture: We wanted to kind of talk about something that it is near and dear and very important to us both.
Savanna: we wanted to kind of talk about something that is near dear and very important to us both, um but body positivity, self-love,
Christina Couture: Um, but body positivity, self-love, um, just how we have felt about our own bodies and how this topic has infected us or infected us, affected us both.
Savanna: Um, just how we have felt about our own bodies and how this topic has infected us, or infected us, affected us both.
Christina Couture: Um,
Savanna: Um, but yeah.
Christina Couture: But yeah, do you want to get started?
Savanna: Do you want to get started?
Christina Couture: Do you want me to get started?
Savanna: do you want me to get started?
Christina Couture: Are you?
Savanna: Or do you?
Christina Couture: I thought you were writing over there.
Savanna: Oh, I'm doing right now. I'm writing right over there.
Christina Couture: and um Sorry, you're hearing my job.
Savanna: I am. So when you're hearing my dog, Jameson, shh.
Christina Couture: Jameson. So much chaos.
Savanna: So much chaos.
Christina Couture: So much chaos.
Savanna: You can. tell mar
Christina Couture: I can what?
Savanna: I can what? I'll go first.
Christina Couture: I'll go first.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: um
Christina Couture: Okay.
Savanna: Okay.
Christina Couture: So a little backstory on how I kind of really...
Savanna: So a little backstory on how kind of really
Christina Couture: learned more about body positivity and self-love and really figuring out what it means to me is because I am a personal trainer and I have my degree in new nutrition.
Savanna: learned more about body positivity and self-love and really figuring out what it means to me is because I am a personal trainer and I have my degree in nutrition.
Christina Couture: Um, so
Savanna: ah So,
Savanna: hey, hey.
Christina Couture: Hey, Hey, um,
Savanna: oh
Christina Couture: After my daughter was born in 2019 with our third child, so she's baby number three, my body was not the same and I struggled big time.
Savanna: After my daughter was born in 2019 with our third child, so she's baby number three, my body was not the same and I struggled big time.
Christina Couture: um I joined a gym that I absolutely freaking loved.
Savanna: um I joined a gym that absolutely freaking loved.
Christina Couture: It was more group fitness, so I wasn't showing up to the gym and trying to figure out what to do while I was there.
Savanna: It was more approve like group fitness, so I wasn't showing up to the gym and trying to figure out what to do while I was there.
Christina Couture: um I had friends that expected me to be there, and it really became a community.
Savanna: I had friends that expected me to be there and it really became a community.
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: um
Christina Couture: And I loved it.
Savanna: And I loved it.
Christina Couture: And the donors...
Savanna: And the owners.
Christina Couture: preached no longer obsessing over the scale and focusing more on how you feel, how your clothes fit, how strong you're becoming and those types of things like really detaching from the scale.
Savanna: preached, no longer obsessing over the scale and focusing more on how you feel, how your clothes fit, how strong you're becoming and those types of things, like really detaching from the scale.
Christina Couture: When all growing up, I've heard you have to eat less and move more.
Savanna: When all growing up, I've heard you have to eat less and move more.
Christina Couture: We all have the same 24 hours.
Savanna: We all have the same 24 hours.
Christina Couture: And
Savanna: And if I'm not working out or not finding time in that 24 hours, then I don't want it bad enough.
Christina Couture: I'm not working out or not finding time in that 24 hours, then I don't want it bad enough. um
Savanna: um And all the while i was taping pictures of what I wanted my body to look like and putting them on my fridge or saving them in my phone as motivation.
Christina Couture: And all the while I was taping pictures of a what I wanted my body to look like and putting them on my fridge or saving them in my phone as motivation.
Christina Couture: and
Savanna: And on now, like, post-baby 2019, I also had social media, the thing.
Christina Couture: Now, like post baby 2019, I also had social media, I think. And I would just follow different accounts of people who had bodies that I wanted to look like, or like I wanted a body similar theirs.
Savanna: And I would just follow different accounts of people who had bodies that I wanted to look like. Or, like, I wanted a body similar to theirs. And, you know, I would follow their workouts.
Christina Couture: And, you know, I would follow their workouts. I would follow what they eat throughout the day.
Savanna: I would follow what they eat throughout the day.
Christina Couture: And hearing that the scale didn't make...
Savanna: And... Hearing that the scale didn't mean a damn thing, it was life changing for me.
Christina Couture: like didn't mean a damn thing. It was life changing for me. And my mindset shifted.
Savanna: And my mindset shifted.
Christina Couture: Hey, chick.
Savanna: It's it.
Christina Couture: I decided then that I was going to help people learn this mindset as well.
Savanna: I decided then that I was going to help people learn this mindset as well.
Christina Couture: And I decided to become a personal trainer myself.
Savanna: And I decided to become a personal trainer myself.
Christina Couture: So that's kind of how this whole thing started.
Savanna: So that's kind of how this whole thing started.
Christina Couture: I wanted to be somebody who helps provide and
Savanna: I wanted to be somebody who helped provide an
Christina Couture: provide accurate and safe information um for friends, family, and other people to rely on and not strictly what I did.
Savanna: provide accurate and safe information um for friends, family, and other people to rely on and not strictly what I did.
Christina Couture: Someone who is on social media with no experience except for the fact that they have all times, all time to spend in the gym um or had free time to eat what they wanted, can work out, you know, whatever.
Savanna: Someone who is on social media with no experience except for the fact that they have all times, all times to spend in the gym um or had free time to eat what they wanted, can work out, and just,
Christina Couture: I'm going to do be somebody realistic.
Savanna: i'm going to be somebody realistic now a lot of people don't know this but to maintain your personal training certificate you actually need to take continuing education classes and one of the classes that i decided to do was nutrition class i ended up learning more and more
Christina Couture: Now, a lot of people don't know this, but to maintain your personal training certificate, you actually need to take continuing the education classes.
Christina Couture: And one of the classes I decided to do was nutrition class. I ended up learning more and more that...
Savanna: that
Christina Couture: People truly have no idea what to eat.
Savanna: People truly have no idea what to eat.
Christina Couture: and There's so much misinformation about it.
Savanna: There's so much misinformation about it.
Christina Couture: It's
Savanna: It's
Christina Couture: a chaotic field because I feel like people look for social media more for nutrition advice than actual nutrition professionals.
Savanna: a chaotic field because I feel like people look for social media more for nutrition advice than actual nutrition professionals.
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: Um,
Christina Couture: I decided that after this course, I was going to get my bachelor's degree in nutrition.
Savanna: I decided that after this course, I was going to get my bachelor's degree in nutrition.
Christina Couture: So that's how this whole thing kind of started for me.
Savanna: So that's how this whole thing kind started for me.
Christina Couture: I wanted to help people lose weight at first.
Savanna: I wanted to help people lose weight at first.
Christina Couture: And that...
Savanna: And that...
Christina Couture: and um
Savanna: yeah
Christina Couture: I figured more knowledge, more ways to help people.
Savanna: I figured more knowledge, more ways to help people.
Christina Couture: And yeah, I figured when school was done, I would start my own business and I would help people with workouts and eating to me to maintain or reach their goals.
Savanna: And yeah, I figured when school was done, I would start my own business and I would help people with workouts and eating to me to maintain or enrich their goals.
Christina Couture: What I wasn't prepared for is for my mindset to shift again.
Savanna: What I wasn't for prepared care for is for my mindset to shift again.
Christina Couture: At first, I was really like, we need to lose weight and you need to work out, you need to eat this.
Savanna: At first I was really like, we need to lose weight and you need to work out, you need to eat this. And I was just another person on social media telling people what to do.
Christina Couture: And I was just another person on social media telling people what to do. you And providing information that even if it was accurate, everybody's different.
Savanna: And providing information that even if it was accurate, Everybody's different.
Christina Couture: every Everybody is different.
Savanna: Everybody is different.
Christina Couture: Um, I learned for myself that I was not someone who was able to track calories or macros because it fucked with my head so bad.
Savanna: I learned for myself that I was not someone who was able to track calories or macros because it fucked with my head so bad.
Savanna: like i would i became
Christina Couture: I'd like, I would, I became obsessive and I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder, but I definitely had disordered, disordered eating tendencies or behaviors.
Savanna: And i was never diagnosed with an eating disorder, but I definitely had disorder to eating tendencies or behaviors.
Savanna: ah
Christina Couture: Uh, i you know
Savanna: i you know
Christina Couture: I was no longer tied to the scale that I weighed myself on, but then I still became tied to the scale that I was weighing my food on.
Savanna: I was no longer tied to the scale that I laid myself on, but then I still became tied to the scale that I was weighing my food on. Yeah.
Christina Couture: and I traded one toxic thing and brought another one right um it
Savanna: and I trained in one toxic thing and brought another one right in. on it
Christina Couture: in. I just really at that time shifted my focus on weight loss to finding
Savanna: I just really at that time shifted my focus on weight loss to finding other reasons why I wanted to work out.
Christina Couture: other reasons why I wanted to work out.
Christina Couture: And also finding other reasons or finding other ways to incorporate my favorite foods while also eating balanced diet.
Savanna: And also finding other reasons or finding other ways to incorporate my favorite foods while also eating balanced diet.
Christina Couture: And it's a process, but that's kind of like my backstory and how I got started into this whole thing.
Savanna: And it's a process, but that's kind of like my backstory and how I got started into this whole thing, you know, and it's still challenging because social media is still torn.
Christina Couture: you know And it's still challenging because social media is still torn. you know
Savanna: know,
Christina Couture: and they
Christina Couture: It's hard place to be as so many people have a business in this field.
Savanna: it's hard place to be as somebody who has a business in this field.
Christina Couture: Because I don't really want to help people lose weight anymore.
Savanna: Because I don't really want to help people lose weight anymore.
Christina Couture: I want to help people eat.
Savanna: want to help people eat.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Be healthy.
Christina Couture: Yeah, be healthy.
Savanna: Yeah, be healthy.
Christina Couture: Like I want to help people get rid of the food noise, no longer feel like they have to binge eat because they ate salads and chicken and rice all freaking week.
Savanna: Like, I want to help people get rid of the food noise. No longer feel like they have to binge eat. Because they ate salads and chicken and rice all freaking week.
Christina Couture: And now they're going freaking crazy because all they want is a piece of damn chocolate that they haven't let themselves have since they started the diet on Monday.
Savanna: And now they're going freaking crazy because all they want is a piece of damn chocolate that they haven't let themselves weight. have since they started a diet on Monday.
Christina Couture: and I'm laughing because I'm looking at my friend Emily.
Savanna: I'm laughing because I'm looking at my friend Emily. but
Christina Couture: she and
Savanna: and
Christina Couture: and It's taken a while for me to learn that we can all eat the same thing.
Savanna: and It's taken a while for me to learn. that we can all eat the same thing, we can all eat the same amount, we can all move the same way, and we are all still going to look different.
Christina Couture: We can all eat the same amount. We can all move the same way. And we are all still going to look different. It doesn't...
Savanna: It doesn't, that mindset of, James, eat less and move more is bullshit because you can't really eat less
Christina Couture: That whole... Mindset of eat less and move more is bullshit because you can't really eat less if you're not eating enough to begin with.
Savanna: If you're not eating enough to begin with.
Christina Couture: right
Savanna: Right.
Christina Couture: like
Savanna: like
Christina Couture: that.
Savanna: it's It's just, it's so tricky, but people don't get that. yeah
Christina Couture: I try every day.
Savanna: I try every day, know, if I get up and I put on jeans or shorts now, because it's so freaking hot out.
Christina Couture: You know, if I get up and I put on jeans or shorts now because it's so freaking hot out. And I have a couple of cute pairs of jean shorts that I love to wear.
Savanna: And I have a couple of cute pairs of jean shorts that I love to wear. And um I will say, like, I've been in a very good workout routine since April.
Christina Couture: And i I will say, like, I've been in a very good workout routine since to April. I work out five to six days a week.
Savanna: I work out five to six days a week.
Christina Couture: And the one to two days, I'm trying to stick with more with five days of workouts.
Savanna: And the one to two days, I'm trying to stick with more with five days of workouts.
Christina Couture: One day ah active recovery, one day you just chilling, depending on what my week looks like or where I'm at with my periods and my cycles.
Savanna: One day active of active recovery. One day just chillin'. Depending on what my week looks like or where I'm at with my periods and my cycles, I try to pay attention to that as well, too.
Christina Couture: I try to pay attention to that as well, too.
Christina Couture: But yeah, i like a good routine since April.
Savanna: But, yeah, like a good routine since April.
Christina Couture: I was so excited come summer.
Savanna: Yeah. I was so excited come summer.
Christina Couture: And I was like, these jeans are gonna fit so good.
Savanna: And I was like, these jeans are going to fit so good.
Christina Couture: I'ma look hot as fuck.
Savanna: I'm going to look hot as fuck.
Christina Couture: And um our first vacation where we were going camping, I tried those jean shorts on and they went up, but they didn't buckle.
Savanna: And... um Our first vacation, where we were going camping. I tried those jean shorts on and they went up, but they didn't buckle.
Christina Couture: And I was like, you know what?
Savanna: And I was like, you know what?
Christina Couture: I don't wanna, I'm not gonna bring these.
Savanna: I don't want to, I'm not going to bring these because even if I wear them, I'm going to think about all day how uncomfortable they are, how I can't breathe.
Christina Couture: Because even if I wear them, I'm gonna think about all day how uncomfortable they are how I can't breathe at all. and There's no point.
Savanna: There's no point.
Christina Couture: And then I go on vacation and start my period.
Savanna: And then I go on vacation and start my period.
Christina Couture: So in my head I'm like, oh, I'm bloated.
Savanna: So in my head, I'm like, oh, I'm bloated.
Christina Couture: This is why they don't fit.
Savanna: This is why they don't fit.
Christina Couture: That's why, whatever.
Savanna: That's why. Whatever.
Christina Couture: We come home from vacation and we're going to Florida this time.
Savanna: We come home from vacation and we're going to Florida this time.
Christina Couture: right We were home for what, like 10 days?
Savanna: We were home for what? Like 10 days. Yeah.
Christina Couture: And then and I'm trying on clothes again.
Savanna: And then I'm trying on clothes again.
Christina Couture: I'm like, so maybe these jeans fit, these short jean shorts will fit again.
Savanna: Like maybe these jeans fit. These short jean shorts will fit again.
Christina Couture: I can't talk today, but maybe these jean shorts will fit.
Savanna: I can't talk today. But maybe these jean shorts will fit.
Christina Couture: I'll try them on.
Savanna: I'll try them on.
Christina Couture: We'll bring them.
Savanna: We'll bring them.
Christina Couture: So I at least have one nice pair of shorts to take and kicks me going anywhere.
Savanna: So I at least have one nice pair of shorts to take in case we go anywhere.
Christina Couture: And I couldn't get those motherfuckers over my thighs.
Savanna: And I couldn't get those motherfuckers over my thighs.
Christina Couture: I was so pissed.
Savanna: I was so pissed.
Christina Couture: Because I'm like, I eat good.
Savanna: Because I'm like, I eat good.
Christina Couture: ah Guys, i when I tell you this, I have a balanced diet where I don't up obsess over things.
Savanna: Guys, i when I tell you this, I have a balanced diet where I don't obsess over things.
Christina Couture: Like, if I want an ice cream sandwich or if I want candy or if I want something, I eat it.
Savanna: Like, if I want an ice cream sandwich or if I want candy, if I want something, I eat it.
Christina Couture: but I also eat fruits, vegetables, protein, like from different sources, carbs from different sources.
Savanna: But I also eat fruits, vegetables, protein, like, from different sources, carbs from different sources.
Christina Couture: Like my diet is very balanced.
Savanna: Like, my diet's very balanced. I don't have cravings.
Christina Couture: I don't have cravings. I don't, I used to but now it's like, because I let myself have it, I don't crave anything.
Savanna: I don't, I used to. Your diet's so good. But now it's like, it's because I let myself have it. I don't crave anything. Right.
Christina Couture: And I don't have food noise.
Savanna: And I don't have food noise.
Christina Couture: I'm not stressed about when I'm gonna eating again, because I know when I feel hungry, I'm gonna eat.
Savanna: I'm not stressed about when I'm going to eat again because I know when I feel hungry, I'm going to eat. Right.
Christina Couture: But I figured because I was eating pretty good and I've been working out so regularly and clearly just started my period.
Savanna: But I figured because I was to eating pretty good. And I've been working out so regularly and clearly just started my period.
Christina Couture: So there was bloating before these shorts should fit.
Savanna: So there was bloating before these shorts should fit.
Christina Couture: And when they didn't go over my thighs, you remember that yeah I was crying.
Savanna: And when they didn't go over my thighs, be but you remember that you I was crying.
Christina Couture: I was so pissed, like fucked up.
Savanna: I was so pissed, like fucked up. So pissed.
Christina Couture: So pissed. And yeah,
Savanna: And you know, it sucks.
Christina Couture: You know, it sucks. Because you do all the right things.
Savanna: Because you do all the right things.
Christina Couture: But I like to say it's because my ass is getting fatter.
Savanna: But I like to say it's because my ass is getting fatter.
Christina Couture: It is.
Savanna: It is.
Christina Couture: but
Savanna: I'm just kidding.
Christina Couture: It's nice. I will say, though, like, I do feel like it's getting thick with two Cs.
Savanna: I will say, though, im like, I do feel like it's getting thick with two Cs. Yeah. Thick. Thick.
Christina Couture: Thick.
Savanna: that
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Christina Couture: You know, my thighs are getting, I noticed they're slim, but I'm getting more definition.
Savanna: You know, my thighs are getting, noticed they're slim, but I'm getting more definition. yeah and Like I'm seeing it.
Christina Couture: Like I'm seeing it.
Savanna: The picture I tried to take of you last week, my mom's like, turn, let me see your booty.
Christina Couture: let fresh i nice bo Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: like So trying to see the progress, even if I don't feel like I'm making any.
Savanna: So the progress, trying two see the progress Even if I don't feel like I'm making money.
Christina Couture: Right. I don't know.
Savanna: and know and it's
Christina Couture: And it's, it's, i see the progress but what i'm looking do from outside
Savanna: I see the progress. you know But I'm looking at you from outside the window. you You're stuck with you all day.
Christina Couture: huge that with all that And the day to day and seeing the regular, I don't see it, but it's nice to hear.
Savanna: and the day-to-day. seeing the regular. I don't see it. I don't know if it is without seeing you, but I can see the difference.
Christina Couture: lots you but i see
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah. Thank you.
Savanna: If I didn't, I wouldn't tell you.
Christina Couture: You wouldn't tell me.
Savanna: You wouldn't tell me? Yeah, if I didn't see it, I'd be like, well, I don't see no difference.
Christina Couture: i carry wild know else you
Savanna: No. No, I do. what i do
Christina Couture: But I wanted one thing that has helped me.
Savanna: But I wanted one thing that has helped me.
Christina Couture: I don't weigh myself anymore.
Savanna: I don't weigh myself anymore.
Christina Couture: I desperately try not to, even though the scale is in my house.
Savanna: I desperately try not to, even though the scale is in my house.
Christina Couture: When I go to like doctor's offices or different appointments that ask for my weight, I stand on the scale backwards and I ask them not to tell me that number because I know right that it'll trigger me and it sucks, but it's, I don't, I don't need to know that number.
Savanna: When I go to, like, doctor's offices or different appointments yeah that ask for my weight, I stand on the scale backwards. And I ask them not to tell me that number because I know. Right.
Savanna: Then it'll trigger me. yeah And it sucks. But it's I don't i will't need to know that number.
Christina Couture: I don't need that stress.
Savanna: I don't need that stress.
Christina Couture: I don't need to beat myself about it.
Savanna: I don't need to beat myself about it.
Christina Couture: So
Savanna: So. right
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: and
Christina Couture: It's kind my thought.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: And I just freaking hate people.
Savanna: And I just freaking hate people.
Christina Couture: I freaking hate social media.
Savanna: I freaking hate social media.
Christina Couture: I don't understand why do people are...
Savanna: I don't understand why people are so
Christina Couture: Yeah, be quiet.
Savanna: Yeah, be quiet. Sorry.
Christina Couture: i thought Sorry, you hear me snapping at dog.
Savanna: Sorry, you hear me snapping at my dog.
Christina Couture: sorry you hear me snapping at my dome
Savanna: sorry you hear me snap it at my don
Christina Couture: and my kids.
Savanna: And my kids.
Christina Couture: It's a very chaotic episode.
Savanna: It's a very chaotic episode. but
Christina Couture: Usually when we record, it's at night so that everybody's sleeping.
Savanna: Usually when we record, it's at night so that everybody's sleeping.
Christina Couture: I should have known.
Savanna: but I should have known.
Christina Couture: I should have known today was going to be interesting because they are so excited.
Savanna: I should have known today was going to be interesting because they are so excited. If you guys have TikTok and you've seen our Facebook and seen that lady who has the farm earn it and she has Karen, the emu, and she puts her hand up.
Christina Couture: I'm just like, come on, guys. Give me an hour.
Christina Couture: hello
Savanna: Literally the kids are coming in going, drop.
Christina Couture: um real is the kids that bro christina dance but think i'm just like come on guys
Savanna: And Christina's hands go, hi. I'm just like, come on, guys. Give me that one.
Christina Couture: and hour Why are you going to act so crazy?
Savanna: like Why are you doing that? It's so crazy. You can't do nothing. you can't even shit alone.
Christina Couture: You guys should follow us on social media, though.
Savanna: You guys should follow us on social media, though.
Christina Couture: yeah read about
Savanna: Yeah, we're getting better with it.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: We're trying to post more.
Christina Couture: So you get our day-to-day crap.
Savanna: So you get our day-to-day crap. Yeah, we're pretty funny. And you get a sneak peek at the real life.
Christina Couture: sneak bill but Or what all the chaos that is behind the scenes.
Savanna: Bullshit. Or what all the chaos is behind the scenes.
Christina Couture: Absolutely.
Savanna: Absolutely.
Christina Couture: So what are your thoughts?
Savanna: So what are your thoughts on body positivity?
Christina Couture: How do you feel about things? Well, I'll just start off with
Savanna: Well, I'll just start off with when I was young, used to think I was always bigger than my mom.
Christina Couture: When I was young, used to think I was always bigger than my mom, i was bigger than my sister.
Savanna: was bigger than my sister.
Christina Couture: They're taller than me, but you know what I kids.
Savanna: They're tall and slender. And I was just built different.
Christina Couture: but you that highest was nothing at all was
Savanna: But you look back now, I actually was not big at all. I was very, very petite. So I have always struggled because I always felt bigger just because i was bigger than my mom and my sister.
Christina Couture: yeah so you're biggest sharing they're toant
Savanna: They're taller than me, but like, you know what I mean?
Christina Couture: you know um
Savanna: um
Christina Couture: then i had kids
Savanna: Then I had kids and that changed body.
Christina Couture: And that changed the body.
Savanna: And that, so ah I mean, people that know me, you know, hide, I'll buy a 3X shirt and people like, you don't wear a 3X.
Christina Couture: And that, so often people that know me, you know, hide, I'll buy a 3X shirt. And people are like, you don't wear a 3X? Yes, I do.
Savanna: Yes, I do.
Christina Couture: And I wear a 3X to cover, which then in turn makes myself look bigger.
Savanna: And I wear a 3X to cover, which then in turn makes me set myself look bigger, but I feel better when it's covered up.
Christina Couture: But I feel better when it's covered up.
Savanna: A social media message with you?
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah. So I, cause I look at people and be like, dang, I want to look like her.
Christina Couture: So I, because I think people will be like, dang, want to look like her. How is she doing that?
Savanna: How is she doing that?
Christina Couture: Like,
Savanna: Like,
Christina Couture: and As my, you know, going and you obviously have a green nutrition and stuff.
Savanna: as my, you know, you're my friend and you obviously have a degree in nutrition stuff.
Christina Couture: I don't eat a lot.
Savanna: I don't eat a lot.
Christina Couture: A lot of people think that I am just smashing food all day.
Savanna: A lot of people think that I am just smashing food all day. I really don't eat.
Christina Couture: I don't eat.
Savanna: I'm lucky if I eat once a day, i drink a lot of soda.
Christina Couture: I'd be lucky I eat once a I drink a lot of soda. And that's where I get cold and all that sugar and tend up to lose weight because of that.
Savanna: And that's where I get full and all that sugar and i I tend to hold on weight because of that.
Christina Couture: I don't eat good.
Savanna: I don't eat good because I only eat once a day and it's not that much.
Christina Couture: Not that I really don't eat that much.
Savanna: I really don't eat that much.
Christina Couture: Yeah. So people just assume that
Savanna: yeah So when people just assume that I'm out here eating snacks and stuff, but I'm not.
Christina Couture: I'm here to get snacks and stuff, but I'm not. Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: on
Savanna: but it's not
Christina Couture: And I'm not talking shit.
Savanna: And I'm not talking shit. No, I know.
Christina Couture: No, I don't. But when people see...
Savanna: But when people see... brow
Christina Couture: Sorry, you're hearing somebody yelling in the background.
Savanna: Sorry, you're hearing somebody yelling in the background.
Christina Couture: when you When people see somebody who is overweight or carrying extra weight, they automatically think fuck that you are lazy, you are a pig, all you do is spend your time eating.
Savanna: When you... When people see somebody who is overweight or caring, they just automatically think that you are lazy, you are a pig, all you do is spend your time eating.
Christina Couture: When, again, that's not the case.
Savanna: When... Again, that's not the case.
Christina Couture: Like, this is here we come.
Savanna: Like, this is here we come...
Christina Couture: It's that old, you need to eat less and move more.
Savanna: It's that old... You need to eat less and move more.
Christina Couture: Mm-hmm. But you can't eat less when you're not eating enough to begin with.
Savanna: But you can't eat less when you're not eating enough to begin with.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: And it's, granted, like, you are drinking your calories.
Savanna: And it's, granted, like, you are drinking your calories.
Christina Couture: You do drink.
Savanna: I'm drinking it. So then I'm drinking more than I actually need and the sugar and the, there's a lot of stuff.
Christina Couture: So then I'm drinking more than I ever need. And there's sugar. And there's a lot of stuff that, obviously, we all know my go-to is not going to do.
Savanna: And obviously, we all know my go-to is Mountain Dew.
Christina Couture: That's not good.
Savanna: That's not good.
Christina Couture: So, yeah, I'll eat a half-chart sandwich.
Savanna: So, yeah, i won I'll eat a half turkey sandwich and that's all i have all day.
Christina Couture: That's all I'll have all day. But I did have seven Mountain Dews.
Savanna: But I did have seven Mountain Dews. Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: yeah So I know what my problem it's my diet.
Christina Couture: So I know what my products might eat. It's my diet.
Savanna: But I also use food for every emotion.
Christina Couture: But I also use food for every emotion. I was just going to say, like you've talked to me about before.
Savanna: I'm to just going to say, like you've talked to me before. When I'm sad, and it depends on my emotion too, what I'll eat.
Christina Couture: And it depends on my emotion too, what I'll eat.
Savanna: When I'm really sad, it's like the junkiest junk.
Christina Couture: When I'm sad, it's like the junkiest junk. When I'm happy, can eat the best food.
Savanna: When I'm happy, I can eat the best food. Like I could eat, but I just keep stuffing my face.
Christina Couture: But I just keep stuffing my face.
Savanna: Even though my belly says, hey, I'm full.
Christina Couture: Even though my belly's as painful, I keep eating.
Savanna: I keep eating.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah, I'm happy.
Christina Couture: i but then I just eat when sad.
Savanna: But then I just keep eating when I'm sad. It just depends on...
Christina Couture: You can usually tell what I'm in by what I'm if I am eating.
Savanna: You can usually tell what state I'm in by what I'm eating, if I am eating.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: And that's, I looked into, and I still am, because I love to learn about different things still, especially in the nutrition field, but about intuitive eating.
Savanna: And that's... I looked into, and I still am, because I love to learn about different things still, especially in the nutrition field, yeah but about intuitive eating.
Christina Couture: Yes.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: And we've talked about it, and we've had tons of conversations about it, and I've talked to a lot of people about it, actually.
Savanna: And we talked about it and we've had tons of conversations about it. And I've talked to a lot of people about it, actually.
Christina Couture: And that's one of the things, is like,
Savanna: And... That's one of the things is like stress eating or you know emotional eating is normal.
Christina Couture: stress eating or emotional eating is normal. It's happened.
Savanna: It's happened.
Christina Couture: It happens.
Savanna: It happens. Yeah.
Christina Couture: But we want to find other ways to cope with our emotions but besides eating.
Savanna: But we want to find other ways to cope with our emotions besides eating.
Christina Couture: And I've done that too.
Savanna: And I've done that too.
Christina Couture: Like when I'm bored, I snap.
Savanna: Like when I was bored, I snapped.
Christina Couture: Like I will snap eat enough all the time.
Savanna: Like I would snap and get another dream.
Christina Couture: You know?
Savanna: You know?
Christina Couture: oh Yeah.
Savanna: Oh, I guess I can have another Mountain Dew, I'm bored.
Christina Couture: another na Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: And I explain, I don't, I'm not a sugar.
Savanna: And I sling, and I don't, I'm not a sipper, I'm a chugger. So like, i it fills my belly, you know what mean?
Christina Couture: So like, i It fills my belly. You know what I mean?
Savanna: Yeah. It's not good. so
Christina Couture: Yeah. My body doesn't feel what it needs.
Savanna: My body's not getting what it needs.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: But social media will get in my head and then be like, I'm going to get that going with this lady I saw.
Savanna: But social media will get in my head and then I'll be like, oh I want to be a bag of bones like this lady I saw.
Christina Couture: So I'm not going to eat nothing.
Savanna: So I'm not going to eat nothing. And I'll literally not eat or drink.
Christina Couture: And I'll literally not eat or drink. and I'll just starve myself.
Savanna: and I'll just starve myself.
Christina Couture: And then I'm like, this is stupid.
Savanna: And then I'm like, this is stupid.
Christina Couture: I love my skin that I'm in.
Savanna: I love my skin that I'm in.
Christina Couture: And then I'll just go here and eat in a couple days.
Savanna: And then I'll just go ham because I've eaten a couple days. So now I'm real hungry.
Christina Couture: And I'm real hungry.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: haven't eaten or drank nothing like this water, but that's a big thing on my head.
Savanna: I haven't eaten or drank nothing. Like just water. But if that's like, i you know, in my head. Yeah. Well, and...
Christina Couture: People think that when you work out, you have to lose weight.
Savanna: People think that when you work out, you have to lose weight.
Christina Couture: You're working out fertile.
Savanna: You're working out for a goal.
Christina Couture: You hate your body and you want to change it.
Savanna: You hate your body and you want to change it.
Christina Couture: or or you why like
Savanna: oh Or you want, like, you want to change your body composition in some way.
Christina Couture: you want to change your body composition in some way. Whether it's you want to lose weight, you want to gain muscle, whatever it may be.
Savanna: Whether it's you want lose weight, you want to gain muscle, know whatever may be. Whatever it is.
Christina Couture: People don't always understand that sometimes you can work out because you want to with no other motive.
Savanna: People don't always understand that sometimes you can work out because you want to with no other motives.
Christina Couture: It's a good stress reliever.
Savanna: It's a good stress reliever. Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah. like
Savanna: Like I make sure I get something in David because that's my me time.
Christina Couture: i make sure i get something in daily because that's my me time. It's a little bit of something.
Savanna: It's a little bit of something.
Christina Couture: i it Straight up, my family history stops.
Savanna: it's straight up my family history sucks I have every type of medical complication risk factor disease whatever somebody in my family had my cancer list mile long like I don't want love my family I don't want to end up like my family are we still there
Christina Couture: I have every type of medical complication, risk factor, disease, whatever. Somebody in my family had it.
Christina Couture: My cancer list, mile long. like i don't I love my family. I don't want to end up like my family.
Christina Couture: Are we still there?
Christina Couture: Our recording may have paused for a second.
Savanna: Our recording may have paused for a second. So we paused and we're just going to regroup.
Christina Couture: So we pause and we're just going to regroup.
Savanna: It's chaotic today, peeps.
Christina Couture: It's chaotic today, peeps. Yeah, it's real.
Savanna: Yeah, it's really tough. But it's...
Christina Couture: But it's
Savanna: There are other reasons to work out.
Christina Couture: There are other reasons to work out. Doesn't need to be because you hate your body.
Savanna: Doesn't need to be because you hate your body. You can work out because she loves you love your body.
Christina Couture: You can work out because you love your body.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: cause you
Christina Couture: Because it feels good to do it.
Savanna: It feels good to do it. Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: It feels so good that when my husband and I get another piece of divorce furniture, he doesn't have to ask i friend to come over and help him move it
Christina Couture: It feels so good that when my husband and I get another piece of divorce furniture, he doesn't have to ask a friend to come over and help him move it in.
Savanna: He knows I can.
Christina Couture: He knows I can.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes. Side note, we call it divorce furniture because we always fight when we bring in it in.
Savanna: Side note, we call it divorce furniture. because we always fight when we bring it in. But even if I can lift it, we're gonna fight about it first.
Christina Couture: Like even if I can lift it, we're going to fight about it first.
Savanna: yeah
Christina Couture: yeah
Savanna: Always, never fails.
Christina Couture: Always. Never fails.
Savanna: Never fails, we're gonna fight about it.
Christina Couture: Never fails. We're going fight about it.
Savanna: So it's divorce furniture.
Christina Couture: So it's divorce furniture.
Savanna: but pick
Christina Couture: but
Savanna: you but
Christina Couture: you But
Savanna: and it's been
Christina Couture: it's
Savanna: It's just an important topic that nobody, people talk about,
Christina Couture: it's just and an important topic that nobody, people talk about. oh
Savanna: But I just feel like it's talked about because they're being compensated for some reason or somehow.
Christina Couture: but I always feel like it's talked about because they're being compensated for some reason or somehow.
Savanna: And that's, I mean, good for them.
Christina Couture: And that's, I mean, get good for them, but
Savanna: But...
Savanna: People suck.
Christina Couture: people suck.
Savanna: Social media sucks.
Christina Couture: Social media sucks.
Savanna: It does.
Christina Couture: It does.
Savanna: I know.
Christina Couture: I know your, your clothes are meant for your body.
Savanna: You're... Your clothes are magic for your body. Why are you smiling at me?
Christina Couture: Why are you smiling at me?
Savanna: I just keep thinking about something.
Christina Couture: I'm just thinking about something.
Savanna: I'm sorry.
Christina Couture: I'm sorry.
Savanna: And share it.
Christina Couture: and Share it.
Savanna: No, it was what Luke said to me.
Christina Couture: No. Oh God. Huh?
Savanna: Huh?
Christina Couture: huh All right.
Savanna: All right. so last weekend I was getting ready to go out and then I was like huffing and puffing.
Christina Couture: It's the last week when I was getting ready to go out and then I was like huffing and puffing.
Savanna: don't like to out social settings anyway have anxiety.
Christina Couture: don't like out social settings anyway. Well, anyways, my kids were like, what's wrong?
Savanna: Well, anyways, my kids were like, what's wrong, mom?
Christina Couture: I was like, I feel bloated.
Savanna: And I was like, I feel bloated. i feel like I'm not going to look good.
Christina Couture: I feel like i'm not going to go and I just, I don't want to go.
Savanna: i just, I don't want to go. ah feel fat.
Christina Couture: I feel fat.
Savanna: And my son looked at me with the, he was trying to be so nice, but he has no idea what he's talking about.
Christina Couture: And my son looked at me with an He was trying to be so nice, but he doesn't what talking about.
Savanna: Well, he does, but he doesn't.
Christina Couture: Well, he does, but he doesn't.
Savanna: He said, you're not fat, mom.
Christina Couture: He said, you're not fat, mom.
Savanna: You're medically obese.
Christina Couture: You're medically obese.
Christina Couture: That's it.
Savanna: said, thank you, son.
Christina Couture: Thank you, son.
Savanna: um What about on two occasions where CJ told me I have a large vagina?
Christina Couture: What about on two occasions where CJ told me have a large vagina? That's what I'm just saying.
Savanna: That's just saying. Like, he was so sincere.
Christina Couture: He was up this year.
Savanna: i
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: and don't think he realized that obese meant, like, you're fat.
Christina Couture: don't think he realized that obese meant like you're fat. Yeah.
Savanna: yeah
Savanna: It's that I feel fat.
Christina Couture: It's a fucking mess.
Savanna: You're not fat, Mom.
Christina Couture: You're not, mom, you just medically open.
Savanna: You're just medically obese.
Christina Couture: Me and my large vagina, just take it on the world.
Savanna: And you have a large vagina. Just take it on the world. It's a normal size vagina.
Christina Couture: It's a normal-sized vagina.
Savanna: No, so when you're talking about this stuff, like, no, we're not working out.
Christina Couture: you're talking about this stuff, like, no, we're not working out.
Savanna: I feel like I'm just thinking, like, Luke's probably like, my mom needs to work out.
Christina Couture: I'm just thinking, like, Luke's probably like, I'm not going use the workout when she's medically open.
Savanna: She's medically obese.
Christina Couture: But there's...
Savanna: wait But We look for that instant gratification.
Christina Couture: We look for that instant gratification. That's why emotional eating is so common.
Savanna: That's why emotional eating is so common. Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes.
Savanna: You want results right away.
Christina Couture: You want results right away.
Savanna: When I eat that good-ass Taco Bell, I feel good.
Christina Couture: When I eat that good ass pepper bell, I feel good.
Savanna: Yeah, I mean, I feel good.
Christina Couture: ah Yeah. I mean, I feel good.
Savanna: Until you're shitting your brains out.
Christina Couture: Until you're shitting your brains out.
Savanna: It's been five minutes for me now, and I don't have ideas.
Christina Couture: ah You know, but we want instant gratification.
Savanna: I know. But we want instant gratification. That's facts.
Christina Couture: That's facts.
Savanna: You know, so it's hard to stick to a program when your only goal is to lose the weight and you don't think about anything else.
Christina Couture: You know, so it's, hard to stick to a program when your only goal is to lose weight and you don't think about anything else.
Savanna: It's your goal is to lose weight.
Christina Couture: It's your goal is to lose weight.
Christina Couture: And then it's, and when it doesn't happen right away, people are like, oh, fuck, fuck this shit.
Savanna: And then it's and when it doesn't happen right away, people are like, oh fuck, fuck this shit. I'm done.
Christina Couture: I'm done.
Savanna: That's me. They quit.
Christina Couture: They quit.
Savanna: know And it's the thing with weight loss, with enough of my time and knowledge in the field, that scale, if you're regularly weighing yourself, you'll lose weight for a couple of days and then going to spike and it's going to go back up and then you'll drop again and then it'll go real high and then it'll plateau.
Christina Couture: you know And it's the thing with weight loss with enough of my time and knowledge in the field, That's fail. If you're regularly weighing yourself, you'll lose weight for a couple days, and then it's going to spike, and it's going to go back up, and then you'll drop again, and then it'll go real high, and then it'll plateau.
Christina Couture: And you need to focus on other reasons, other things.
Savanna: yeahp And you need to focus on other reasons, other things. Yes. And if your clothes don't fit you, I'm on a roll right now.
Christina Couture: And if your clothes don't fit you, I'm on a roll right now.
Savanna: This fear this one gets me so hungry.
Christina Couture: This feel this one gets me so hyped.
Savanna: I know.
Christina Couture: Wow.
Savanna: and Your clothes are meant to fit you.
Christina Couture: and Your clothes are meant to fit you.
Savanna: So your shorts are too tight, you get to go shopping.
Christina Couture: So if your shorts are too tight, you get to go shopping.
Savanna: Buy a bigger size.
Christina Couture: Buy a bigger clothes.
Savanna: Even your underwear.
Christina Couture: Even your underwear.
Savanna: Like, if you're underwear, and I need to buy a new underwear because my shit's uncomfortable.
Christina Couture: Like, if you're underwear, and I need to buy a new underwear because my shit's uncomfortable.
Savanna: Big vagina. Yeah, I got a large vagina to carry around.
Christina Couture: Yeah, I got a large vagina to carry me around.
Savanna: But...
Christina Couture: But... Like...
Savanna: You're ugly laughing.
Christina Couture: black
Savanna: Like...
Savanna: Even with something as simple as a pair underwear.
Christina Couture: Even with something as simple as a pair underwear.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: yeah If it's uncomfortable, you're going to think about it all day.
Savanna: If it's uncomfortable, you're going to think about it all day.
Christina Couture: Buy yourself new underwear.
Savanna: yourself new underwear. Yep. Buy yourself a new bra.
Christina Couture: Buy yourself a new bra.
Savanna: Buy new shorts.
Christina Couture: Buy new shorts. Or if you have other options, switch it.
Savanna: Or if you have other options, switch it. Don't force yourself into something that you're uncomfortable.
Christina Couture: Don't force yourself into something that you're uncomfortable because you're going to think about it the whole freaking time you're in that outfit.
Savanna: Right. Because you're going to think about it the whole freaking time you're in that outfit. Right.
Savanna: I do.
Christina Couture: I do.
Savanna: I get hype about this.
Christina Couture: I get hype about this.
Savanna: no We're probably all over the place.
Christina Couture: oh We're probably all over the place.
Savanna: You're good.
Christina Couture: We're good. We're pretty much all together.
Savanna: We're pretty much on the same topic. I think so.
Christina Couture: I think so.
Savanna: We rant a lot.
Christina Couture: We rant a lot.
Savanna: But that's...
Christina Couture: But we'd love to hear other people's input on body positivity, self-love.
Savanna: We'd love to hear other people's input on body positivity. Self-love. Why do you work out that's not...
Christina Couture: Why do you work out that's not...
Savanna: i mean it can be losing weight.
Christina Couture: mean, you can't be losing weight. Yeah, or gaining muscle.
Savanna: Yeah, or gaining muscle.
Christina Couture: Don't just be like, well,
Savanna: Don't just be like, well, no. I can't tell you what to do.
Christina Couture: I can't tell you what to do.
Savanna: But, you know, we want to hear why you work out.
Christina Couture: But, you know, we want to hear why you were not just because was a little bit of book.
Savanna: Not just because I'm losing weight because fat fuck. No. We're all sick.
Christina Couture: No. What else?
Savanna: What's your other reason?
Christina Couture: What's your other reason?
Savanna: thing Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: To stay flexible.
Christina Couture: To stay flexible.
Savanna: Yeah, for your kinky shit.
Christina Couture: Yeah, for your kinky shit.
Savanna: Flexible. Um, I did want...
Christina Couture: and
Savanna: flexible
Christina Couture: Flexible.
Savanna: oh
Christina Couture: oh I did want...
Savanna: i did what and think you' were going talk about the same thing.
Christina Couture: I think were going to about the same thing.
Savanna: What were you going bring up?
Christina Couture: What were you going to bring up?
Savanna: Last week's episode.
Christina Couture: Last week's episode.
Savanna: episode Yes, that's what I was just about to bring in.
Christina Couture: Yes, what I just about to bring in.
Savanna: We did get some ah
Christina Couture: We did get some um listeners have messaged us and answered the questions from last week's episode.
Savanna: listeners have messaged us and answered the question from last week's episode. if
Christina Couture: yeah
Savanna: Do we do it?
Christina Couture: Do we do it when it comes around?
Savanna: we do the deed when Aunt Flo is around?
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: I tried to do that good.
Christina Couture: ah tremendous No, that was good.
Savanna: No, that was good.
Christina Couture: oh We have little ears in the kitchen with us.
Savanna: Oh, okay. We have little ears. have little ears, so I was trying to be say it, you know.
Christina Couture: She's trying to get a snack.
Savanna: She's trying to get a that
Christina Couture: So yeah.
Savanna: So, yeah. Do you bump uglies when you're on the rack?
Christina Couture: Do you bump uglies when you're on the rag?
Savanna: I'm a no.
Christina Couture: I'm a no.
Savanna: I've done it, but basically it's a no.
Christina Couture: I've done it, but basically it's a no.
Savanna: I will do it.
Christina Couture: I will do it.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes.
Savanna: If it's, like, at the end.
Christina Couture: If it's like at the end.
Savanna: At the end.
Christina Couture: At the end. Yes.
Savanna: Do you do it all in the time?
Christina Couture: Do you do it all the time?
Savanna: No.
Christina Couture: No.
Savanna: Just at the end?
Christina Couture: Just at the end?
Savanna: Depends on flow of the cycle.
Christina Couture: Depends on the flow of the cycle.
Savanna: Depends on the flow of the cycle.
Christina Couture: Yeah. That's basically what we got from a lot of listeners.
Savanna: That's basically what we got from a lot of the listeners. We had one listener say that they love it.
Christina Couture: We had one listener say that they love it.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: like By day three, she wants to get her on all the time.
Savanna: Like by day three, she wants to get her in bed all the time. ye Shower sex.
Christina Couture: yeah Shower sex.
Savanna: Because it's easy clean up.
Christina Couture: With a DZ clean up.
Savanna: Why did you do that?
Christina Couture: Why did you do that?
Savanna: I don't know. Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah, she loves it.
Savanna: like She loves it. Yeah.
Christina Couture: yeah
Savanna: And it says, that she says it makes it shorter too.
Christina Couture: and it says She says it makes it shorter too.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: yeah and know so Compared to like a normal...
Savanna: You know, so compared to like a normal five to seven day.
Christina Couture: five to seven day.
Savanna: Yeah. sure just ja worth warrior or four yeah but she It's not as heavy.
Christina Couture: Hers is like three or four. yeah It's not as heavy.
Savanna: and helps with cramps.
Christina Couture: It helps with cramps. So everything we kind of looked up for last week's episode, she says like she does reap those benefits.
Savanna: Yep. So everything we kind of looked up for last week's episode, but well she says yeah like she does reap those benefits. I love that for her.
Christina Couture: I love that for her i will say i noticed I have more of a sex drive toward the tail end of my period.
Savanna: I will say I notice I have more of a sex drive toward the tail end of my period.
Savanna: I think I ovulate early.
Christina Couture: I think I ovulate early. I think, I think, does that towards me count?
Savanna: think I do too because that towards tail end, I'm like, I can't.
Christina Couture: I don't know. I can't.
Savanna: going to jump the bones.
Christina Couture: I'm going to jump.
Savanna: But I think too, it's because your hormones.
Christina Couture: But I think, too, it's because your hormones stop might be spiking post.
Savanna: Yeah. My spiking post.
Christina Couture: Yeah, because your period is the lowest.
Savanna: Yeah, because your period's the lowest. So then...
Christina Couture: So then post period, like when you're coming off your.
Savanna: oh post-tweet, like, when they're coming off. you That's when I'm, like, most of them.
Christina Couture: Yeah. So that makes sense.
Savanna: that makes sense. Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: That makes sense.
Christina Couture: That makes sense.
Savanna: So, we're here that we're the only ones who don't really do it on the time of the month.
Christina Couture: So we're hearing that we're the only ones who don't really do it on the time of the month.
Savanna: We should have asked.
Christina Couture: Who should I ask?
Savanna: Oh, yeah.
Christina Couture: Oh, yeah.
Savanna: She has a boyfriend and a girlfriend, so. I don't know how that works. Ew. That's interesting.
Christina Couture: That's interesting.
Savanna: We'll have to ask her to follow up.
Christina Couture: We'll have to ask her to follow up.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: Um... But before we wrap up, we have some shout-outs we want to make.
Christina Couture: But before we wrap up, we have some shout outs we want to make.
Savanna: Absolutely. Yes. So if you are listener in surrounding area, so like Lapeer County.
Christina Couture: So if you are listener in a surrounding area, so like Lapeer County.
Savanna: I don't know if she does Macomb County.
Christina Couture: I don't know if she does Macomb County.
Savanna: I think she goes outside of Lapeer County, a little depending on where you're and at.
Christina Couture: But our friend Alyssa, and I'm going to pull her business right now because
Savanna: Yeah, depending on where.
Christina Couture: depending where does have a
Savanna: She does travel a little bit. But our friend Alyssa, and I'm going to pull her business up right now because...
Christina Couture: but our friend a lista and i'm gonna pull her business up right now because
Savanna: I want to make sure I'm saying her saying it right saying the business name right.
Christina Couture: I want to make sure i'm sitting her saying it right saying the business name right. I want to say it's Rise and Shine.
Savanna: I want to say it's rise and shine. Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes, Rise and Shine Cleaning.
Savanna: Rise and shine cleaning. Um, is she is now accepting for the first time in forever.
Christina Couture: um is She is now accepting for the first time in forever.
Savanna: yeah So, you know, she kicks ass, um, but she's accepting weekly, bi-weekly and monthly like deep cleaning clients.
Christina Couture: So you know she kicks ass. um But she's accepting weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly like deep cleaning clients.
Savanna: I say deep cleaning.
Christina Couture: I say deep cleaning. I don't know.
Savanna: I don't, i
Christina Couture: i I don't know.
Savanna: I don't know.
Christina Couture: You have to reach out to her.
Savanna: You'll have to reach out to her. need You guys figure out your what your needs are.
Christina Couture: You are what your goals are.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: And she most likely can help you.
Christina Couture: She's most likely to help you. But she's on Facebook.
Savanna: But she's on Facebook. Her business page is Rise and Shine Cleaning LLC.
Christina Couture: Her business page is Rise and Shine Cleaning LLC.
Savanna: We'll share it on our Facebook page.
Christina Couture: We'll share it on our Facebook page. Maybe we can make a little something yeah for our TikTok.
Savanna: Yes. Maybe we can make a little something yeah for our TikTok. Like, just share pictures of their things.
Christina Couture: Like just share pictures of their things.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah. um
Savanna: We'll reach out to her.
Christina Couture: We'll reach out to her.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: She does an awesome job.
Savanna: She does an awesome job. Amazing job.
Christina Couture: Amazing job.
Savanna: so
Christina Couture: So... and know We're all about helping a friend, and supporting a local business.
Savanna: You we're all about helping a friend, supporting a local business. She kicks ass.
Christina Couture: She kicks ass.
Savanna: So reach out to her.
Christina Couture: So reach out to her.
Savanna: Yep.
Christina Couture: yep um
Savanna: That was the one I wanted to bring up today.
Christina Couture: That was the one I wanted to bring up today.
Savanna: Who did you?
Christina Couture: Who did you...
Savanna: I just wanted to shout.
Christina Couture: i just wanted to come out and listen to you.
Savanna: I wanted to shout out Alyssa too. And if you guys are in the mood for some rock and roll, some country, 16 Penny.
Christina Couture: And... If you guys are in the mood for some rock and roll, some country, 16 pennies.
Savanna: That is our local band here.
Christina Couture: That is what they're doing here.
Savanna: um They kick ass.
Christina Couture: um They kick an ass.
Savanna: Of course, I'm a little biased.
Christina Couture: Of course, I'm a little biased.
Savanna: It's my brother-in-law.
Christina Couture: My brother's mom, he's the yes, they're kick-ass band, community, to spice up your...
Savanna: He's the bassist. He's the star of the show. o Sorry, Ryan. oh But, yes, no, they're a kick-ass band. You need to spice up your bonfire, your grad party, you're just a regular party.
Christina Couture: so spice knock are your band party and they do don't they they're coming up and playing a
Savanna: You should check them out They do a variety of songs. Very good. Yeah.
Christina Couture: yeah
Savanna: I just want to shout them.
Christina Couture: and just i think i'll do like different events don't they
Savanna: I think they do, like, different events. They do different events, yeah.
Christina Couture: but yeah they just the boom days here at drive-in and um
Savanna: They just did the boom days here at Dryden. They played at the Dryden Bar a couple times just for their night.
Christina Couture: plants growing to our couple wi for their
Savanna: They played at Holly Meadows.
Christina Couture: they played at hollywood me
Savanna: And they're coming up.
Christina Couture: and theyre coming and play
Savanna: They're playing... um some so Someone's family party, they are playing there coming soon, too.
Christina Couture: someone's family party they are coming soon too okay they'll do any type of event they kick ass and they do so you said other events and they're on facebook they're on tiktok
Savanna: Okay. They'll do any type of event. that they They kick ass. And they do... So you said other events? And they're on Facebook? They're on TikTok, too. Yeah, they're on Facebook, TikTok, 16 penny.
Savanna: um
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: They're fun.
Christina Couture: they're fun they're great uh down to earth people you obviously my family uh i've known
Savanna: They're great. It's four guys. that Down-to-earth people. Well, obviously, one's my family, but... I've known Ryan a long time.
Christina Couture: ryan We're hoping to get them to do our intro music.
Savanna: Yeah. We all know him. He's from, they're they're from this area. You know, your favorite local band.
Christina Couture: So you need entertainment, reach out to 16 Penny and then push them to do our intro music.
Savanna: We're hoping to get them to do our intro music.
Christina Couture: Please help us.
Savanna: Yes. We're going to, I want to work with, I want to talk to them and see if they can work with, give us a cool little intro going.
Christina Couture: We want to fancy and official. get us a little intro going
Savanna: ah So if you need entertainment, yeah reach out to 16 Petty.
Christina Couture: so if you need entertainment yeah break you off the next feet pet
Savanna: For sure.
Christina Couture: sure
Savanna: and then let's jump to do our intro music.
Christina Couture: and then pushed him to door and drew music yeah
Savanna: Yes. say Are you doing podcast music?
Christina Couture: please help um we want to sound more fancy and official
Savanna: We want to sound more fancy and efficient.
Christina Couture: But we're not musically inclined.
Savanna: But we're not musically inclined. No, not at all.
Christina Couture: No, not at all.
Savanna: He says good.
Christina Couture: Oontz, oontz, oontz, oontz.
Savanna: my God. Well, all right, bitches. Anything else you want to chat about today?
Christina Couture: I with Luke.
Savanna: No, it was cool. Hang out.
Christina Couture: He says I'm good.
Savanna: oh my
Christina Couture: Oh, my God.
Savanna: bor bitious
Christina Couture: Well, all right, bitches.
Savanna: anything else too might to chat about tonight
Christina Couture: Anything else you want to chat about today? No, but was cool hanging out.
Savanna: no cool hang out Oh, let's our TikTok and shit.
Christina Couture: Oh, let's do our TikTok and shit. on
Savanna: Email us if you want.
Christina Couture: Email us. If you want, if you listen to last week's episode, episode three about bumping uglies on your period and you want to let us know, we'd love feedback.
Savanna: If you listen to last week's episode, episode three about bumping uglies on your period and you want to let us know. love feedback. Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes.
Savanna: You know, we finally fixed our audio.
Christina Couture: you know, we finally fixed our audio.
Savanna: We think.
Christina Couture: We think.
Savanna: Yes.
Christina Couture: Yes. So,
Savanna: So. Let us know your thoughts and on the topic or if you have something to add about body positivity.
Christina Couture: Let us know your thoughts on the topic or if you have something to add about body positivity, self-love, anything, let us know.
Savanna: Yeah. Self-love. and Your wins. Let us know. Our email is RaisingChaosPodcast at Outlook.com.
Christina Couture: Our email is raisingchaospodcast at outlook.com.
Savanna: You can also, if you're friends with us on Facebook,
Christina Couture: You can also, if you're friends with us on Facebook, message us or text us separately.
Savanna: Message us or text us separately. That's fine.
Christina Couture: That's fine.
Savanna: You can also send us topic suggestions.
Christina Couture: You can also send us topic suggestions.
Savanna: Absolutely.
Christina Couture: We have ah lots of exciting ideas in the works.
Savanna: We have ah lots of exciting ideas in the works. Yes. So there's going to be more coming from us once the kids get back in school and we can really give this the time and attention it needs.
Christina Couture: So there's going to be more coming from us once the kids get back in school and we can really give this the time and attention it needs.
Savanna: um We're also on Facebook, Racing Chaos Podcast.
Christina Couture: um We're also on Facebook, Raising Chaos Podcast.
Savanna: You want the page, not the group.
Christina Couture: You want the page, not the group. I accidentally created the group.
Savanna: I accidentally created the group. And now she can't get back in.
Christina Couture: and our
Savanna: No, I can't get, yeah.
Christina Couture: No, I can't get Yeah, I'm an idiot.
Savanna: I'm an idiot. um
Christina Couture: um
Savanna: TikTok.
Christina Couture: TikTok.
Savanna: TikTok.
Christina Couture: TikTok.
Savanna: We're also, if you want to follow separate accounts too, like us personally.
Christina Couture: We're also, if you want to follow separate accounts too, like us personally, yeah mine is Christina's Always Eating.
Savanna: Yeah. Mine is, Christine is always eating. think mine's just Savannah West.
Christina Couture: Mine should stay out of us.
Savanna: Yeah.
Christina Couture: Yeah.
Savanna: So, but other than that,
Christina Couture: So, but other than that, have a good night.
Savanna: Have a good night. We're going to go enjoy our girls' night.
Christina Couture: We're going to go enjoy our girls' night.
Savanna: Our summer ween.
Christina Couture: ah summer we And we will talk to you next week.
Savanna: And we will talk to you next week. Hell yeah.
Christina Couture: Bye.
Savanna: Bye. Bye.
