Kind of really continuing the health and wellness discussions. We're going to be focusing more on the human body now, in particular the lungs, because a lot of times we kind of focus on the heart, the mind or the brain and the stomach, but actually when it comes to the lungs and the functions of the lungs, what more do we need to know? What really do we need to know about the lungs for us to be well informed about this particular area? Luckily, we have with us a different of the channel, but also an expert in this field, Dr. Saeed Yasser Madani. We are very, very grateful to have you on the show. Assalamu alaikum. How's things? Are you okay? Alhamdulillah. Thank you very much. So we are, the theme through this series is going to be focusing on the lungs. And really, I suppose people don't really, as Ali was saying, we don't really focus on so much. We're just thinking about the heart, the brain.  So what's the functions of the, what's the important functions of the lungs for us to sort of learn from? Thank you very much for inviting me. I hope the viewers find this useful, inshallah, at home. As you said, we don't focus on the lungs as much as we do. For example, the heart and other parts of the body. Perhaps before we talk about the function of the lungs, maybe if we can talk about the anatomy of the lungs a bit, because that will nicely lead on to how the lungs work, which then sets a precedence for the remainder of the episodes, which is about different lung conditions. And once we've understood a bit about how the lungs work and a bit about the anatomy, then hopefully we understand those conditions a bit better. So we have two lungs, and in fact our viewers can see diagram number one. We have two lungs, one on the right and one on the left. The one on the right has three lobes, which essentially are three parts. The lung on the left has two lobes or two parts. The reason why the left lung is a bit smaller is because we have the heart on that side as well, on the left side. And then there is a tube, which is the windpipe. The medical word for it is the trachea. And that essentially connects our nose and our mouth to the lungs. So you can actually feel your tube going down the throat. So part of the tube is actually outside the lung, and part of it is inside the lung. And the tube is supported by cartilages, which keep it strong and upright. And those cartilages are C-shaped. C-shaped around the pipe. Almost like a horseshoe.  The viewers can feel your trachea. You can actually feel your trachea. And then the trachea divides into two. So the right main bronchus, the left main bronchus, which are the two major airways leading into the lungs, the left and the right. And then those airways, those tubes if you like, the airways is the technical term. The tubes is the lay term. So we'll use tubes or airways interchangeably. They then get smaller and smaller in lead and divide out to different branches. Almost like a tree. So our second diagram will show that the tree, the tracheal bronchial tree, starts with the trachea, then it goes to the bronchi, the main bronchi, and the bronchi divide and divide. And then they divide into bronchioles, smaller, smaller, smaller tubes. Those tubes lead to air sacs. So if we can go back to the first diagram, please. The air sacs are the terminal part of those units. They're called alveoli. So alveoli is a medical term. The air sac is really important and we'll come back to that. It really is responsible for the main function of the lung, which will answer your question. What is the main function of the lung? So we'll talk about that in a second. And as you can see, under the lungs is a diaphragm. That is a large muscle which divides the thorax, the chest cavity, from the abdominal cavity. Not only does it divide, but its main function is in respiration as well, in breathing. So we'll talk about that shortly. Now surrounding the lungs, you can go to diagram number three, please, is a thin membrane, a thin lining called the pleura. And the membrane that surrounds the lung is called the visceral pleura. And then inside the rib cage, inside the chest wall, there's another membrane which is the parietal pleura. So a very thin lining, extremely thin lining. And those linings, the two pleurae, they rub against each other. And when you're breathing and breathing out, they're rubbing against each other and there's a lubricant that's produced in that area that will allow them to slide against each other smoothly. Now there's a cavity, the pleural cavity, between the edge of the lung, the outside of the lung and the chest wall. And that cavity in normal state, in healthy states, should actually be empty. But in disease states, it's filled with fluid. It fills with blood, with infection, with pus or with air. Which affects the... It affects the rubbing of the lung, but essentially it has other effects which are more important, which is it compresses the lungs, fluid from outside, pushes onto the lungs and compresses them. And it presses on the diaphragm and causes breathlessness, et cetera. Now I'm a lung specialist, I'm a respiratory specialist, but my subspecialty is actually in diseases of the pleura. That's my main interest of all the... So we're probably not going to touch on pleural diseases much later on in the next eight episodes, actually, because they're not as common as other conditions which we'll speak about. And then the other things that are also involved in the respiratory system and the breathing are the muscles. So we mentioned the diaphragm. The diaphragm is the major muscle that's involved. And when you breathe in, the diaphragm contracts and pushes down and your tummy goes out because the diaphragm is pushing onto the abdominal contents and your tummy goes out. And when you breathe out, the diaphragm relaxes and goes back into a dome-shaped. You know, subhanAllah. I was just about to... Are you breathing as we're talking? Yeah, I was just thinking, subhanAllah, everything just go into place, so perfectly. Amazing. And then the other muscles that are involved in breathing are the intercostal muscles which are between the two ribs. There's muscles, there's external and internal intercostal muscles. They're involved in breathing as well, breathing in, breathing out. And then all of that is controlled by a respiratory center in the brain. So we have our main brain, which is the cerebrum, and then the part that connects the brain to the spinal cord is called the brainstem. The brainstem is the breathing center and that controls our breathing. It's actually our breathing, really. We're not... normally we're not thinking about it, right?  So those... that's the anatomy. The lungs, you have the lungs, you have the tubes, you have the air sacs. There's tissue around the air sacs, which we can touch on later. You have the pleura, the lining of the lungs, you have the muscles, and you have the brain. And any of that pathway can be affected and can affect the breathing system. And sometimes more than one of those pathways can be affected. And then that's the anatomy. That's the first part done. It's very fascinating. I hope the views are enjoying this. Now, as for the physiology, the physiology means function of the lungs. The main function of the lung is guest transfer. We're breathing in air from the outside. And within air, what we really are breathing in, what we really want, I should say, is oxygen. 21% of air is actually oxygen. Most of it is not oxygen. Most of it is nitrogen and other things. And we're breathing in oxygen. That oxygen goes through the airways, all that tubes that I just described, and it goes through the tubes and it goes into the air sacs. Now, if we can bring up diagram number five, I think it is, I think number five is the air sacs. The air sacs are surrounded by blood vessels. The red things that you can see are tiny, tiny capillaries, blood vessels. Within the blood vessels is blood and within that is red blood cells. Within that is the hemoglobin. And the hemoglobin has a high affinity for oxygen. So the oxygen diffuses, if you remember from your TCS, it's all coming back now. Within the air sac is a space. Air oxygen is there. The oxygen diffuses across the thin membrane that surrounds the air sacs and into the blood vessels and into the red blood cells is held by hemoglobin and the blood is pumped through to the heart. And the left side of the heart in particular, where after the blood has become oxygenated by the lungs and the left side of the heart is more powerful than the right side because the left side of the heart actually pumps blood throughout the body. So against gravity to your legs, to your limbs, to your brain, sorry, with gravity downstream and against gravity upstream to the brain. So the left side of the heart receives blood from the lungs after it has become oxygenated. Is there a part of that flow that has more of the blood oxygen received? So all of your body requires oxygen and it's all relative. Certain organs probably require a bit more etc. But all organs have cells and mitochondria and DNA etc. and they all need oxygen as part of their normal functioning process to produce energy, to produce ATP and you need the oxygen to produce energy. And it goes without saying if you limit the amount of oxygen that you breathe in or if within these functions the oxygen is kind of being affected or it's not going to the red blood parts, that's where you get kind of the conditions and the diseases and all that. Exactly, so you know other parts of the body receive less oxygen if your lungs are not working properly. So actually the lungs are very important. The other function of the lung, well it's part of the gas transfer we talked about oxygen, in fact if I can just digress for a second and just share another piece of really interesting fact these alveoli, these air sacs there's 300 million of them in your lung 300 million, that's quite amazing. And if you lay these out all these alveoli per two lungs, per person you lay them out, they're they're as big as a tennis court Masha'Allah sitting in your lung, SubhanAllah So Allah SWT has created our lungs in such a way it's so clever, it's so smart it's mind boggling, but it's all about surface area, the more surface area you have the more you enable gas transfer it's all about surface area I don't want to digress but did the imams ever refer to this? Do you know? Gosh, that's an amazing question because we always hear about the imams referring to scientific facts and they have these miracles that they talk about and 1400 years later it's everything which is being revealed Did they relate to this specific part maybe the lung, or the body So there is a book that the name escapes me at the moment Imam Ja'far Sadaq, alaihi s-salam As you know Imam Ja'far Sadaq lived in a time which he had was much more open and conducive for him to spread the sciences of Ahl-e-Bait, alaihi s-salam because it was the time when the Umayyad Khalifah was falling and the Abbas Khalifah hasn't yet started so he had a wonderful opportunity and he taught many scholars as you know he taught many of the big scholars from the Sunni school and there's I think I may be wrong, I hope people don't call me on this but Hadith Mufadwal I think is the name of the book which is out there actually can be downloaded from online and that talks about some amazing facts about the human body but a lot of the students of Imam Ja'far Sadaq later on went to become either physicians or scientists or chemists Again the name of a particular person who was a chemist escapes me so I can't remember a specific Hadith about the lungs but there are things and there are of course there are things that were the Ahl-e-Bait and the holy prophets have spoken about health from a medical point of view so that's the function the gas transfer the other thing is when all that blood is used around the body the body produces a waste gas which is carbon dioxide CO2 the CO2 travels from the rest of the body in the blood vessels into the lungs, into the air sacs and we breathe it out and this happens in every single breath that we take and breath we breathe out that's the major function of the lung the second function of the lung is protection actually if you think about it to so many things in the environment we breathe everything because you mentioned 21% of the air is oxygen that's what we need what about the rest of the the rest of the air that we breathe in is fine but it's all the added stuff the pollution, the particulate matter which is tiny tiny little things all the noxious substances smoke, dusts, whatever there's a group of lung disorders which we describe as occupational lung diseases which are caused by environmental factors organic dusts so farmers for example and these are organic dusts or inorganic dusts such as people that work in industrial environments with chemicals or fumes or dusts and they are exposed to these dusts for example asbestos is one of them we have a lot of them in the UK and the western ones not so much in the eastern world but if you in 1911 for example those firefighters that went to 1911 to rescue people and especially those that after they had collapsed they were exposed to so many dusts a lot of them have actually developed lifelong lung diseases that have actually in many cases led to respiratory failure and people have died from that because they're lung damage so that's just an example there's so many other examples other examples are in wars in the European Union and other nuclear weapons and biological weapons and people have breathed in those chemicals and that's caused damage to the lungs so the lung protects us against these things and the way it does that against this is amazing there's I think we have another diagram for the viewers diagram number six which will show the lining of the lung inside the tubes in the lining of the lungs there's hairs called cilia this is the lining of the lungs the lungs normally produced in healthy states produce mucus and that mucus traps these things that we breathe in that are not healthy to our body and then it's the cilia wafted up their hairs that beat like that they wafted up that mucus and it comes all the way up to the throat and we swallow it without knowing so rather than it remaining in the lungs and causing damage so it's not harmful to our stomach it's harmful to our lungs a lot of these things so it's amazing that's amazing we are nearly towards the end so as a lung specialist what was it that drew you towards this sort of area are you still as excited about it when you started working on it so I remember being a medical student actually one of my first placements my first medical placement as actually as a third year medical students the third year is when we start our clinical experience as medical students the first two years were mainly in universities and lecture theatres I remember doing a respiratory rotation and that's when I started becoming interested I think what drove me was the diversity of diseases the acuity versus the chronicity of the conditions there are some conditions which are very acute like infections which we'll talk about acute asthma and other things which called acute respiratory failure or respiratory specialist you can go in there potentially make a difference to someone's life and save someone's life whereas you have some people who have chronic conditions a lot of those conditions are irreversible they cause chronic respiratory failure and you just support them those patients to live with it and the other spectrum at the same end of those chronic conditions is palliative care where you're just helping people with their symptoms at the end of life lung cancers and things like that there's so much diversity in different ways so many different conditions that affect different ethnicities as well within respiratory medicine so you come across a wide variety of people of different ages patients of different ethnic groups etc and the other thing that drives me to it is the practical procedures I like to do things with my hand so there's a lot of opportunity for practical procedures within respiratory medicine where again you can make a difference to people's lives in terms of symptoms and diagnosis and management of their symptoms It's amazing so we've been told you've done quite a bit of work in Iraq for charity things for future episodes to see what you've done and hear about it I think that's all we've got time for but actually just one question you mentioned about the two lungs we have can we survive on one? We can survive on one so there's a procedure or an operation called a pneumonectema which means removing of one lung and normally that's done in lung cancer where the cancer is so large that you have to remove or not necessarily so large but pressing on such vital structures that you can't get away with removing just a part of the lung you have to remove the whole lung and people can survive some people can develop breathlessness it depends how healthy the other lung is if that lung is damaged from emphysema and smoking then they probably will be breathless but at least they will survive cancer potentially so yes you can in the same way that you can survive on one kidney normally most often you can survive on one kidney Fantastic Well I think we've got so much to discuss I've got four questions about that in terms of even keeping the lungs healthy in the future episodes we will discuss that so thank you so much for today I can't wait for the rest of the episode it's a fantastic start Ali is usually chatty so he's clearly mesmerised with the information so Brilliant Just echo the words of Zara thank you so much for your time we look forward to having you on the following shows on that note we are carrying on with the health topic or health vibe within the show today so brace yourselves it's going to be quite a challenging show so hopefully you're relaxed you've got your tea in your hand to take in and soak in a lot of the information that's going to be sent towards you after the break we're going to have it said we're going to be talking about jurisprudence however from a mental health perspective so join us after the break


I'm not really going to talk about the smartness of the supergrid because we give for granted that of course the new grids will be smarter and you have already heard quite a lot from an expert. So I will focus more on our concept of the supergrid and why all these companies, all these companies, the chairman was already mentioned in some of them, came together. It's a different association compared to many others that are based in Brussels because as you can see we have production companies, consultants, transmission system operators, technology companies, we have those that have the vessels, those that drag to put the cables and cable companies. And hopefully by the end of this month we will have also a smart data company Intel joining us, which is that part of the industry that would be necessary to build the supergrid that is still not in our group. So we started with 13 and it was Eddie O'Connor, the CEO of Mainstream that had the whole idea and started the association and now we are already 21, 22 at the end of the month. So why the supergrid? Why we think that it is the momentum today? Eddie O'Connor was already visiting Brussels 10 years ago with his idea of the supergrid. At that time I was still in Etso and well I honestly even myself, which I am a really European convinced person, I was not shocked but I couldn't see even the benefit or the opportunity to do that at that time. But now is really I think the time to go for it because there is at least on paper the agreement at political level to decarbonize the power sector and even the economy of the European Union by 2050 as much as 80, 90 percent because we have been fighting for 14 years now to have a single European electricity market that is still not there because of security of supply, because of sustainability and because we want to transform energy sector and the only sources of energy that are available in Europe are renewable energies. So all those companies thought that now it was the moment with that political background and all this innovation going on in the last 10 years, it was the time to think of the supergrid and we are already evolving on this definition that we have on the supergrid but we haven't agreed on it yet so still we consider it will be mainly a high voltage direct current network because we're talking about long distances. It's not that of course anything will go into the network whatever is the source of energy but the supergrid really makes more sense and it has its main justification if it is going to link all the renewable energy sources in Europe because probably you wouldn't need a supergrid just to link nuclear power stations all over Europe or gas. You normally build those power stations closer to consumption but what we are talking about renewable energies you have them in the North Sea and Ireland is a very good example and we still don't live in the in the sea so we need the supergrid for that long distances and this is a question I didn't have that in my slides previously but this question that always comes is the risk in investing in the supergrid do you think that industry will be ready today? Well certainly not today because it's all related to innovation we consider in our vision of the supergrid that it will start in the North Sea because there is a lot of potential for offshore and you have to connect all those offshore parks not only with the countries that but today have the network the national TSAOs but if we want to make them more efficient between them too because sometimes you have wind in one place you don't have it in another place plus if you only link them to the national country when there is no wind there is no use of that network and the idea is to maximize of course the use of the network but it's innovation nobody has ever built a meshed network under the sea and when you go to the bank and you know just put forward all innovation from the the parts from the producers and the part of of the transmission then of course they consider it as a risky investment unless you have the political support if you start with having a political support that the member states want to go into such an integrated network that's the first step and then of course we need the regulatory framework to do that and today they are still quite national regulatory network frameworks some of the benefits were apart from the general objectives that have been agreed at european level even if only theoretically of course you will be sharing the reserve margins so you will need less at national levels the same thing for the balancing but at the same time you will be able to really profit from the moments because it's a variable energy that we're talking about from the moment you don't have in one place you have in another place so the idea is to really optimize the use of sustainable energy it's very important also that it is we're talking about european technology from production to the transmission side and that will be important not only for employment opportunities in the EU but also to export that technology which some of our member companies are really doing and investing much more or allowing others to invest much more than in europe and of course we will gain from experience and skill people that again will be useful not only for europe but to export so what we did in the Friends of the Superview at the end of last year and after the European Commission presented its first thoughts for an infrastructure package we are waiting very much of course for what is going to come up now in November we made our first proposal of how could be regulated and financed a first phase of the supergrid we consider that because we're looking ahead by 2050 and there is the objective of decarbonize as much as possible the economy and the power sector we consider that the super grid the european mesh system could be already started to be designed from today and then develop in phases and we consider that for that it should be the transmission system operators in nsoe that are of course the most capable of designing a network at european level so a completely top-down approach and this might sound really very too european but in order to design such a network you have to get rid of political borders to just take care of consumption and production facilities that will be the ideal not maybe possible for time being then for this supergrid because it will be a european grid you will need an independent system operator set up at the transmission system operators but having all the knowledge in order to plan that network in phases even if you have an overall plan every six years and of course to decide on everything that has to do with the operation of the network one grid code of course again nsoe to deliver it and one regulator we already have Acer the agency recently created it doesn't have the powers today of course to act as a one regulator but we consider that if there is willingness to do so the you know the national regulatory authorities can increase in the near years more the power of this of this agency and then the ownership of the super grid well here we put transmission system operators which is the case today and other investors because the idea is that of course if the transmission system operators are willing there will be the operators in any case of the network through this is so are willing to invest on it that's fine why not to continue the way it is today but maybe there are also other investors which are willing to invest together with the transmission system operators or if the transmission system operators don't want to there might be others also willing to get into the business and the technology as I said before will be in our view mostly high voltage direct current so financing we also made some very preliminary proposals on how we see this first phase of the super grid could be financed we haven't invented anything we just have taken into account what is exist today is of course the regulated way which is what normally is happening when developing now the national networks and some interconnections between member states there is also some merchant interconnectors that have been have been put in place in the in the last years between some member states especially in the North Sea so we could have a mixture of both probably to start with it will be better the regulated one then there could be also a european network fund and then we will be using that fund little by little while this network is being developed in phases so that we can maximize the welfare gains of all european union citizens and then of course the involvement of the european investment bank is also quite important of course with this kind of european projects they are already quite involved I think when when transmission system operators are investing today so even more in a project like like this one this is the first phase proposal that we suggested to embraces to the industry to regulators to to the institutions we base it on the objectives that have been presented by different governments of these countries for 2020 maybe the figures will be lower because well these are in the national plans but could be that in the last moment it doesn't go so far and so we have taken the examples of these four or five countries we have taken also Norway because of the hydro and because of the balancing with wind and we have taken it around Germany but as you can see we don't mean that exactly the lines have to go in that direction or have to go in the UK that way that is for the TS also of course to decide and to define but it's just to give the idea that the production in a remote area like the North Sea has to go to centers of consumption and the south of Germany in our view was an important one because all that part of the north of Europe is very much congested it's very well known by the TSOS for many years and many other countries in this part are always complaining for those congestions and so bringing an important amount of of energy to the south of Germany straight away could alleviate some of those congestions and also reduce the costs and these are the numbers that come out when using the merchant way so here you don't touch the national tariffs you don't ask all the consumers to pay for that first phase those lines you have seen between the four countries you just ask the users of those networks to pay for it and of course depending on this capacity factor because you will have four countries already being linked and not one or two by two and you will have also those wind parks connected between them from different countries the use of the network will be much higher it will get to 90% it will be used also from onshore to offshore and vice versa and you will maximize the use of the network compared to what it would happen if you would have for example in the cost of Ireland offshore only connected to Ireland if there is no wind that line is not being used in this first phase proposal they are used much more and so you can have this 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour which is something that users are very ready to pay and that will cover this 28 billion that with the figures that we have today would cost the first phase linking these four countries if we go to the socialized way so there you have to modify the national transmission tariffs you have to ask all the consumers to pay for it again we took these four countries took into account how much energy they can they consume from the IA and the cost again of the of the network this 28 billion for 40 years we get to these zero point cents increase in the tariff of the consumers of these four countries we didn't take into account cost benefit analysis so maybe Norway will benefit much more than in the UK and so maybe the Norwegians will have to pay a little bit more and the UK less but we didn't take into account either that other countries outside these four could also be benefiting because there will be a reduction of congestion some because there will be also another source of energy getting to them through the existing networks and so you need less capacity production in your own country we didn't take those into account if you take all those into account then that figure could even be lower so we were trying to show even with no very sophisticated methods is that it is affordable for Europeans and then as regards the technology because this is the other question but can we do it already now having this ACDC and changing all the time from one kind of technology to the other well the answer I have to believe of course the members of my association and another technology companies in the world there are not many and we have two of them in the friends ABB normally is going to come in also is that it does exist that today we could already start having through this voltage source converter these links between the offshore windparks through AC and AC alternate current network then transforming into DC and brought into onshore and then transform it again into AC because today is of course the national networks are mainly AC it's not apparently the ideal because they are working and they are putting a lot of money and effort to have another technology which will be much more performing than this one with less losses and in the future also less expensive which will be this DC to DC converters but to start with and not wait until everything is perfect that would be the way and this is all from my side thank you very much


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I am on the WW or the Weight Watchers blue plan today Is a super exciting a video it is my one-year update Since I transitioned over to a clean approach to the WW program So about a year ago. I transitioned into a cleaner eating type of style and approach to the program Basically meaning that I cut out a lot of the sugar-free fat-free options from my diet and decided to go ahead and take the point Hit or the calorie hit for the full fat healthier version Everything from my cheese to my coffee creamer to my yogurt you name it I've transitioned over to the full fat version again for the health benefits that come along with those I ended up putting out a clean eating one month update video and a clean eating six month update video I will link those down below for you. So today is the one-year update I'm gonna let you know what the expectations versus reality are I'll recap the items I shared with you in the one month and six month update Let you know if those are still things that are happening for me today And then I have a few new things that I've discovered about clean eating and how that's been extremely beneficial to me So we're talking reality versus expectation when it comes to the clean approach to WW So if you're excited for today's video, don't forget to give it a big huge thumbs up It really helps out my channel and let me know to keep talking about clean eating or a cleaner approach to the program I know a lot of you have transitioned over as well That makes me super happy and I'm really really grateful that I'm here to help you guys with that transition Don't forget if you're new or you're not yet subscribed hit the little subscribe button I'd absolutely love to have you here on YouTube or such an amazing and growing community We'd love to have you don't forget to check out the description box down below where you're going to find my 2021 custom calendar. This is a tool that I have been loving on my weight loss journey in the new year It's not too late to get one in your hot little hands I'm shipping relatively quickly so you should have it in plenty of time to utilize it for the full year You'll also find my nutrition coaching options. I do offer personalized macro and calorie calculation This is personalized to you to help you most effectively reach your goals Also, I offer 30 and 60 minute one-on-one coaching sessions if you're looking for a little bit more one-on-one support So check that out down in the description box links and discount codes to my favorite things are down there As well as some of the things that I'm sharing with you in today's video and last but not least my Facebook group another community That would be honored to have you so come on over and join us there as well So let's jump into this one year clean eating update Like I shared in the one month and six month update. I am not a doctor or a physician I'm not even a dietitian or nutritionist. I am simply a weight loss and nutrition coach So the information that I'm sharing with you today is my personal experience as well as somewhat of a professional experience When it comes to weight loss and nutrition coaching So if you have questions on your diet what you should be eating How much you should be eating what diet plan you should be following highly recommend that you check with your family position To see what their recommendation is so a little back history on why I decided to transition over to a cleaner approach to WW I was finding that I wasn't full and satisfied with the foods that I was eating because I was eating a lot of fat-free Reduced sugar reduced fat all of those foods that are really more chemically laden than they are Satisfying and I wanted to find a way to feel full and satisfied on WW But still get the health and nutrient benefits of the foods that I was eating I was also experiencing a lot of disruption in my gut that rumbly feeling in my stomach and just not feeling my overall best So I decided that the easiest thing I could do is to take out the fat-free sugar-free foods eat a more well-rounded Whole food diet and see if that helped overall make me feel like a healthier happier person when I initially made the transition I let you guys know that I would be following Essentially a 90-10 approach to clean eating 90% of the time good real whole food and 10% of the time some of my favorite foods Like my bill bars or some of those more processed less nutrient dense foods I'm still following that approach, but I would say that as time has went on. I've actually adjusted a little bit I would say that honestly now it's more like 80 20 I gravitated away from some of the foods that I was eating initially just because I wasn't enjoying them any longer Maybe I found better or more satisfying substitutions But I would say that I still follow about the 80 20 approach to clean eating 80 percent real whole foods 20 percent Some of the more processed foods that I love I'm once again going to put the definition of what clean eating is right here for you Just so you're aware of what the actual definition of clean eating is I'm also going to link down below in the description box that one month in six month update as well as my entire Clean eating playlist for you. I've done several several videos on clean eating What foods I used to eat that I no longer eat and just tons of tips and tricks whether it's budget-related Or what to look for at the grocery store to help you make a cleaner approach to the WW or really whatever program you're following So all of those will be linked down in the description box I'm going to be sharing with you 10 Expectations I had when I transitioned to the clean approach to the program Versus what the actual reality was and will recap how things were going one in six months in as well as how I'm feeling today One year into this approach. So number one is energy as I shared in my previous two update videos My energy has never been better and that is still the same today I find that I am much more full of energy throughout the day The foods that I'm eating are fueling my body in the most effective way I'm able to make it through not only my day-to-day activities But my workout without feeling just overly fatigued and tired now Don't get me wrong There are days that I'm tired and fatigued and don't want to get out of bed But for the most part my energy levels are Expedentially better when I'm eating more whole real food number two is my sleep My sleep also has never been better now. I will say that for the last three or four months I've been struggling a little bit with staying asleep I have no problem falling asleep, but it's the staying asleep that I struggle with if I'm sore from working out I'll wake up and that soreness keeps me awake more likely than not it's when my mind keeps me awake I'll wake up in the night Whether it's to let my dogs out or use the restroom And then I just have a really hard time falling back to sleep because my mind starts going and I start thinking about all The things that I need to do who's with me on that? So I started taking a sleep gummy vitamin again a few months ago and that seemed to help a little bit But what's really been the game-changer for me when it comes to sleeping more soundly has actually happened in the last month Or so and that's when I went ahead and had my gut health tested from thrive gut health You guys saw in a previous what I eat in a day video that I had the kit I took a sample sent it in they sent me a personalized probiotic for me and one of the Healthy gut bacterias. I was deficient in was the one that helps with sleep makes perfect sense So since I've been taking my thrive probiotics every single day. I have not been taking my sleep gummy vitamins I've been sleeping a lot better and all of the other good bacterias that I was deficient in have come up in their levels And I'm overall feeling better than I've ever felt before my weight loss has increased Energy has continued to increase my gut health and my overall health has just gotten a lot better I ended up ordering the kit for my husband. He's been taking the probiotics. He's loving them It's really truly been a game-changer So I'm gonna link the thrive gut health test down below for you guys with a link for 10% off that I was able to score from them for you highly recommend having a healthy gut Leads to being unhealthy overall human being if one of the good bacteria is you're lacking like I was is Beneficial for weight loss taking that probiotic game-changer. These are my probiotics I order them at the three months supply just so that I have them on hand always I will forever forever take my probiotics I plan on retesting my gut bacteria after about six months to see where I fall and then my probiotics would be adjusted at that point As well because they're personalized to me So I'll put that down below for you guys, but overall sleep has definitely definitely improved Let's talk regularity and I know that this isn't everybody's favorite topic in the world But it's a topic that we need to discuss when I was eating a lot of fat-free sugar-free. I suffered from Irregularity even sometimes constipation I wasn't able to do my thing on a regular basis and that leads you to feeling What and bloated and your belly hurts since I transitioned to clean foods I definitely definitely have been more regular and again in the last couple of months That's increased as well by taking my probiotic because it helps make my gut health in superior shape Which helps also make everything regular So I've noticed a huge huge difference when it comes to regularity The foods that you choose to eat make a big difference and how your body processes those foods and also Rids your body of those foods number four is my grocery bill This is something that I expected to just skyrocket as you know I buy most of my produce if not all of it organic I really focus on grass-fed grass-finished meats because I find them to not only taste way better And I mean way way better I find them to just digest more effectively in my body and I don't feel that heaviness that sometimes comes With a big hearty meaty dinner now to be honest with you Yeah My grocery budget has increased a little bit by buying these organic foods in these grass-fed meats But I will also tell you that that amount of increase is a very very minimal anywhere from about ten to twenty Dollars a week more than I spent before now if you are trying to save on your grocery bill Just make sure that you're purchasing only the dirty dozen foods organic I did an entire video on the dirty dozen. I'll put that down below for you guys That way you're not buying foods that are on the clean 15 are clean foods organic if not absolutely necessary And when it comes to grass-fed grass-finished pick and choose what meats you're purchasing in that fashion I tend to lean towards the butcher box I love them their meat is superior. It is better than any other meat I've ever had and for grass-fed grass-finished meat. It's extremely extremely affordable So I just order it online. It comes to my house every two months I pop it in the freezer and I always have that grass-fed grass-finished meat on hand So I'll put that down below for you too with $30 off of your first box I also find that Walmart in my area has the best prices on grass-fed ground beef So I generally buy that there just shop the sales shop the ads take advantage of places like butcher box and have those High-quality meats and foods delivered to your doorstep without having to spend a lot and go from store to store Number five is my overall satisfaction and lack of being overly hungry So I shared in my other updates that I definitely definitely feel more satisfied and that is true to this day When I'm eating a more whole food diet when I'm eating real peanut butter instead of PB2 Or full-fat yogurt instead of low-fat or fat-free yogurt or even and actually maybe the biggest change is having Regular coffee creamer in my coffee in the morning rather than sugar-free or fat-free coffee creamer That coffee is so much more satisfying for me and my coffee is the one thing I do not skimp on I do not worry about the points of the creamer I pick a creamer that makes me feel good about my coffee makes it taste good and starts my day off Right so my satisfaction overall has increased so much like I mentioned I no longer have that rumbly tummy and I'm definitely more full and satisfied with the foods that I'm eating Let's be honest having a snack of chips is a lot less satisfying than having a snack of full-fat cottage cheese or full-fat Yogurt or a meat stick and some veggies. So I find that when I'm eating a cleaner diet I'm definitely more satisfied with my meal and between my meals number six is staying within my points I had a feeling that this was going to be quite the challenge as we know that WW puts higher point values on foods that are full-fat things like peanut butter cottage cheese yogurt the things that I Gravitate towards have higher points So I knew going in or have the expectation going in that I probably would have a hard time Staying within my point if I wasn't choosing the lower fat fat-free sugar-free options So I decided shortly after this clean eating approach to not worry so much about the points that I'm eating every day Now I do track my points. I do try to stay within my points But my number one focus is my calorie goal every day I want to fuel my body stoke my metabolism keep metabolism red and ready. So when I do hit maintenance I don't have to worry about gaining weight because my metabolism had adapted to such a low Calorie low point diet. So although I do track my points every day. I make sure that no matter what I hit my calories for the day and then I use my points as data as a secondary measure But my calories are numero uno for me every single day number seven is I was worried that clean food wouldn't taste as good as Processed food and actually this is a reality There are certain things that are processed that tastes a lot better than the clean version For example crackers the rits of the world tastes a lot better than some of the crackers that have real good whole food Ingredients, but that doesn't mean that I don't eat the rits. That just means that I eat them more in moderation Remember 90 10 80 20 what I've been able to do over the course of this last year is find good tasting whole clean food Substitution so I find the clean ingredient cracker that tastes the best I find the full fat cottage cheese that tastes the best I've done a lot of shopping on the thrive market. You guys know I love thrive so much They have thousands and thousands of healthy options at up to 30% less than the grocery store So I like to go on their website and just kind of scroll through and see what they have It's been a great way for me to try new things some things I've loved some things I haven't and it's delivered to my doorstep free of charge with a minimum order So I've been utilizing the thrive market a lot this last year I'll link them down below for you guys as well and at the filming of this video They were offering 25% off your first order and a free gift So I don't know if that's still the promotion, but they seem to always have a constant promotion So definitely check out thrive if you're interested in finding those good alternatives that taste good because let's be honest We're not going to eat gross disgusting clean food for the sake of being on a diet or following clean food Because what happens when we're no longer losing weight we're no longer going to be eating those foods And that's not going to do anything for maintaining our weight I always say the foods that you eat while you're losing weight should be the same foods that you eat when you're maintaining your weight Number eight goes hand-in-hand with me curious as to whether or not I could stay within my points and my calories So I've done a lot of digging into points versus calories. I've done a ton of videos on this I'll link that playlist like I said down below I recently did a what I eat in a week points versus calories where my goal was to stay within my points And it was very enlightening to see where I fell Chlorically wise every day staying in my points and this was still eating the clean whole food diet And of course I have the 80 20 20% was things like bill bars But the other 80% was the foods I normally eat and how that translated points versus calories So I'll put that video in the description box for you guys, but I found this to continue to be a challenge for me It's very very hard for me to reach my point goal and my calorie goal on the same day I have to do a lot of strategic planning I have to eat a lot a lot of zero point foods in order to keep my points low enough that I'm within my goal But also reach my calories and again That's what led me to be more focused on calories than on points I was very concerned if eating a cleaner approach to WW would be easy to stick with I thought it was going to be very hard that I would find myself Naturally Gravitating towards the lower point items again the fat free cheese the low-fat dairy the PB2 versus peanut butter But that wasn't actually a reality for me I found myself enjoying those real foods so much more that it was worth the point hit It was worth the calorie hit and I would much rather eat the real whole food Then eat the processed food and I was so delighted by this because I thought truthfully this was going to be a huge Struggle now in the beginning it was a little bit of a struggle It was hard for me to make that transition and to kind of get the points out of my mind and focus more on what I was eating But as this year has went on that's been my primary focus and now it's literally second nature for me I think it's really important when you're making any changes to your diet or the foods that you're eating to do it in Baby steps, you don't have to throw away all of your non-organic produce You don't have to throw away all of your processed foods But as you go through those items bring the healthier option into your house And that's kind of what I did and now it's literally just second nature So I find it very easy to stick with and I'm grateful that I allow myself 20% of the time to eat some of the foods I'm craving or that maybe don't fall on the clean foods list and that's really made this Extremely sustainable for me, which it's all about sustainability and last but not least is weight loss So I shared with you guys where I was with my weight loss in my one month in six month update And where I am today when it comes to weight loss So now following the clean approach to WW for the last year as you know I have hit a total of 53 pounds down at the filming of this video now when you see this video I've probably lost more because to be honest with you I have lost more weight than I ever have eating this approach eating real food eating full fat Eating peanut butter eating regular creamer in my coffee I have lost more weight than I've ever lost before on WW and in counting calories I think it's very very important to find something sustainable I feel like a broken record, but sustainability is key Like I said what you do now to lose weight You have to be able to do when you maintain your weight or you're gonna gain your weight back So that's my update for you guys one year later I couldn't be happier with my decision a year ago to make this transition Don't get me wrong. It's been hard at times and there have been days that I have sucked at the 90 tan or the 80 20 But overall I find myself craving and gravitating towards those more healthier foods As you also know I've upped my water intake to a gallon of day and that's helped me as well because the more water I drink the less snacky I am the less hungry I am so that's helped me have the points and calories available to choose That full fat option. So I'm loving it. I don't see myself changing my approach to WW I see myself continuing to eat a clean whole food diet A lot of you have reached out to me and said that you've transitioned over as well And you are feeling better than ever which seriously warms my heart We all have to do what works for us We all have to work the program the way that works for us and this is working for me And I'm seriously so excited to move into 2021 continuing this approach and see what happens at that two year Check in if you're curious as to how many calories you should be eating every day What macros you should be eating carbs fats protein definitely take advantage of my personalized macro and calorie calculation option On my nutrition coaching website Again, I offer one-on-one support in 30 and 60 minute sessions where we can talk about your goals and set you up for Success moving into the next week the next month and the next year You'll find all of that information down in the description box along with the items that I shared with you today Links and discounts to my favorite things and of course my facebook group another community that would love to have you Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and let me know down in the comments Have you transitioned over to clean eating? Is it something you're considering? And let me know what your thoughts are and the things that I shared in today's video And last but not least don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell next to it So you're notified when new videos are uploaded Thank you guys so much for all of your love and support and sticking with me through this transition And being there to support me and love me no matter what i'm doing on ww counting calories Whatever program i've chosen to follow you guys have always been such a big support to me and I really appreciate it So I love you guys so so much check out that description box for everything I discussed today And i'll see you all in the next video. Bye


In 2015, I made 600 grand as an agent. The next year I wanted to make a million dollars. And I said, hell, here's the plan. This question, raise your hand or I'll meet you, so what you got? We got written for about 10 more minutes, so I know you cut it off for family time of five. That's right. This stuff right there, I'm not very happy. I used to not be there. I used to work till 10, 11 o'clock at night. Every night, I worked 15 hours for 15 years. And I loved it, dude. I mean, I was doing what I love to do. So I wouldn't go back and change that at all. But you do get to a place where I have my daughter's three and I want to hang out with the family and I can afford to do so. Yeah, I love that. Plus you learn how to be more efficient, right? You learn how to get more done between nine to five. As you become more experienced and you've tested activities that produce results, if you're a good adapter, then you get to where you've built machines and systems around everything where you actually get a lot more done. There's four keys to success. There's believe. You have to believe 100%. If you believe less than 100%, if you believe 99.99%, it's chances are it's not going to work. There's work hard, right? And so a lot of people believe, but out of the people that really believe, not very many actually work hard behind the belief. They believe all day long, but they don't put any effort or execution behind it or they're not consistent.  So a lot of people believe, very few believe and work hard. And then out of that group that believe and work hard, not too many of them also adapt. So they just keep doing the same stuff every year. And they just keep making the same money. And they never really expand or grow their business, because they're not adding, they're not testing and adding and being more efficient to what they're doing. And then the fourth key is patience. In 2015, I made $600,000 as an agent. The next year, I wanted to make $1 million. And I said, hell, here's the plan. I'm going to make this many calls, going this many listing appointments, and get this many listings and close this many deals. That's going to equal $1 million. Boom, January 1st, I started executing the plan. By March, I realized I'm only going to make $50,000 a month. I'm only going to make $600,000 again. I couldn't do that big of numbers to scale up to that point. And I was like, as depressed as someone can be, making $600,000 that year. And so I went out and hired a coach. And the coach basically just reinforced that everything I was doing was right. And that was the year I had to learn patience. So up to that point, I believed, I worked hard, and I adapted. But the part I was missing was patience. And it took me to 2017. So 14, 15, 16, and then finally 17, I hit that mill. And so what I had to realize in 2014 is that I'm doing everything right. I just need to keep pushing forward. And I will eventually get there. And it took three more years. That's a long time. All right, that's a long time. But you have to play the long game, guys. It's such a long game. But when you look back after you hit it, you realize it wasn't that long. It just feels long when you're in it, you know? That's a really good piece of advice. I can agree with that. I did 13 years in the army, so it felt like a long time for me to wait and get out. And I got out, and I was like, really, that was me once. And when we get into that part of the conversation, we get into the part of the conversation where we get into our 60s and 70s and 80s, where we're getting to the end of our life, right?  And then you realize, okay, my whole life was a snap of a finger.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. The Bramley Moor Dock Stadium has been recommended to be approved by, for planning permission by Liverpool City Council. The council will meet on Tuesday the 23rd of February. They will be holding a special planning meeting and they will decide on that night and hopefully they will accept the recommendation and give Bramley Moor Dock planning permission. If planning permission is passed it will then be sent to the government for approval by the Secretary of State. Everton hope to begin the process of building the stadium in spring early summer. Now it could go down to the government and bounce straight back and hopefully that means we can get the stadium done as soon as possible or it could be called in for a more closer looking check on the stadium with some groups obviously opposing the stadium but all the indications are saying at a local level that it will be passed due to the recommendations. The government of course could decide by calling in and then approving it that it makes it look like they have given a big green tick to approve the stadium and you know obviously look like the big heroes in the eyes of everybody but we'll have to wait and see whether that happens or not but it is it is good news that we you know we are coming to the end of this saga of course it does look like good timing today but this obviously this is more than just you know announcing something for the sake of it after the defeat and it does it does bode well but that planning permit that planning meeting is on the 23rd so a week tomorrow we're hopefully it's given the rubber stamp and we can move on to the next stage which we'll be with the government so good news and hopefully we're on course for the summer for getting it built that's all really really good news. The day for Everton's quarterfinal with Manchester City and the FA Cup has been announced it will be on Saturday the 20th of March with a 530 kickoff it'll be live on BT in the UK obviously playing Manchester City on Wednesday but obviously by the time this game rolls around who knows where we'll be but it's a big chance it's a big chance I know a lot of people are worried about the situation about the game but for me I'd rather play Manchester City at the Scottish Park than at Wembley saying that I don't know actually. Carlo Montalati will hold his pre-match press conference tomorrow where he will update obviously the fitness of Alan by my carman Lumin and Hammers-Rodri I guess ahead of the game against Manchester City obviously after the back of last night's very very disappointing result against Fulham and it'll be interesting to hear what his take is on the game and you know what positives we have going forward on the carman Lumin retain would be a massive boost also might hear about Jordan Pickford see whether he will be available for the game we'll have to wait and see and finally Shen Tolson scored twice at the weekend for Biscites they won 3-0 so he was delighted to be back and report in taking that he wants to stay in taking so that is that's positive isn't that's positive that's the only real positive that came out of the weekend games for Everton so there you go good news in terms of the stadium obviously next Tuesday as I said is the big day for that but all signs are looking good for Everton in terms of getting Bramley Moore Dock Stadium approved don't forget give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already we want more great videos join us on Patreon see you later


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