Introduction

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Hello! This is Mary Phillips and this is my podcast

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and it’s my first show so I just want to kind

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of explain to you what I want to accomplish with

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this show. I first want to introduce myself so

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as I said I’m Mary Phillips, I’m the mom of two

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boys. Can’t really say sweet but no I love my

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bunnies. Anyways, I am a health coach and a personal

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trainer. And I just wanted to share a little

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of how I got to be where I am. So food was a

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struggle for me my whole life, my childhood,

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my teenage years, my young adult years. And it

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was just something that I constantly struggled

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with. Well, there came a point where enough was

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enough. My husband and I, for one, we went on

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our honeymoon to Jamaica back in 2009 and I actually

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could not walk one mile up. It’s called Duns

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River Falls. It was a waterfall. So that was

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a big thing for me because I didn’t realize that

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I had gotten myself as far as I had. But eight

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months before that, we had gone to an amusement

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park. There was a new roller coaster and I waited

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almost four hours in line for that roller coaster

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just to get to it and I couldn’t buckle the seatbelt.

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It was kind of my walk of shame but I remember

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going to my at that time fiance and one of our

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friends and I was like I knew it was big but

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I’m not that big and of course they’re like no

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you’re not that big you should have been able

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to fit you know well the rest of that day I couldn’t

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ride pretty much anything there were some certain

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types of rides that I was able to fit on but

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most of them I couldn’t. I made excuses because

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we make excuses and my wedding dress was my excuse

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while I’d already ordered it. I can’t lose weight.

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Then when we did the Jamaica trip and I couldn’t

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do the Duns River Falls, I couldn’t do the excursion

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for horseback riding. I came home and I said

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enough was enough. And I started with a personal

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trainer and I have lost 170 pounds. So now since

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then I’ve I’ve had such a long health journey

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and I’ve learned so much. And now I’m a national

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nutritionist, I’m a personal trainer, I’m a health

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coach, a life transformation coach and a group

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fitness instructor. And so really my goal in

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life is to really be helping people to learn

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how to be healthy, both in body and mind. And

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so I will be talking some. Some episodes may

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have some Bible scriptures in them and really

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focusing on God and our bodies as the Holy Temple.

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I’m going to cover a lot of different things,

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kind of things like exercise and how to get into

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exercise, you know, nice little things to do

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to get into exercise. I’ll be talking some episodes

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on nutrition and different nutrition tips and

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tricks, I guess. I even plan on having one of

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my friends, she has struggled with anorexia pretty

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intensely. And so at some point we’re going to

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explore eating disorders and discuss that. I

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have another friend that might possibly come

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on or if I have not her, I’ll find somebody else,

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but kind of in home remedies, maybe talk about

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things like oils and different things we can

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do to just keep health. in home remedies and

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I really want to talk on mindset and focusing

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on God but also focusing on food as fuel and

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not an obsession or not that something that we

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turn to for emotional things like happiness or

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sadness and really just focus on those things.

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and my main purpose is to help others in their

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health. I want others to know it’s possible even

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if you’re over 300 pounds or maybe you’re 400

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pounds or maybe you’re 200. It is possible to

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change your life now. It is never too late. And

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then one of the top things is just teach others

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that it is possible to love yourself. I definitely

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have my up days and my down days, but overall

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I can now look in the mirror and not just hate

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everything I see and I can look at pictures of

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myself and just love myself. I’m still learning,

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but trying to grow and see how God sees me. So…

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If you have any ideas of things you would like

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to hear covered on this show, shoot them my way.

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I would love more suggestions of what my listeners

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want to hear and I will give you the best advice

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that I can. So have a good day.