Beyond The Weight With Henny And Sandy

Join us as we chat about our experiences watching the new Netflix special, You Are What You Eat. We discuss the experiment, the findings, the participants, and the importance of understanding that plant-based foods can still be highly processed. Finally, we talk about some of our own plant-based eating goals as we move along in 2024. Will you join us?   **Show Notes** Netflix Show we mentioned: You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment Book we mentioned: I Must Say by Martin Short Movie we mentioned: Maestro

Join us as we chat about a few of the books, podcasts, and documentary series that have us excited currently. We also discuss Gretchen Rubin’s theory about happiness and habit formation, unpack her four “Tendencies”, and apply what we’ve learned to our own lives. How can knowing what motivates you and how you deal with both inner and outer expectations help you to find balance and live your best life? We’re starting to figure it out.   **Show Notes** Books we mentioned: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin Wallis Netflix Show we mentioned: You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment Podcasts we mentioned: How to Be Fine Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness (specifically Episode 369) Website we mentioned: www.gretchenrubin.com

Join us as we chat about how to stay connected with friends (long-distance or not) by making an effort to reach out and by sharing the most mundane details of our lives with them. We also discuss our obsession with talking about food and the fact that not everyone begins a story by telling what they ate (really?!). Finally, we start 2024 off with a difference of opinion. You gotta listen!   **Show Notes** Book we mentioned: If You Had Told Me by John Stamos

Join us as we chat about what we learned as children about cooking and cleaning, how we divide labour in our relationships, whether or not we should be actively de-centering men in our lives. Having other people in our lives can be enriching and rewarding, but it can cause extra stress too! How do we stay healthy and well AND manage the people in our lives? Finally, we discuss where we belong when it comes to generational categories, and Henny is fired up about it!   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: How to Be Fine Book we mentioned: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Join us as we chat about how super cool we both are. Sandy’s life right now consists of doing puzzles and making jam. Henny’s greatest excitement in life currently is the book she’s reading about roads, animal crossing, and roadkill. We also discuss some interesting ideas about anti-fat bias and how challenging it is to disrupt deep-rooted thoughts and perspectives.   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: We Can Do Hard Things (Episode #262) Book we mentioned: Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

Join us as we chat about the importance of making social connections with the people around us and especially with the people at our work places. We discuss the factors necessary for forming and deepening social connections: positivity, consistency, and vulnerability. Finally, we learn that Henny has become a bit of a social butterfly, and it’s freaking her out.   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: The Happiness Lab

Join us as we chat about the pressure so many people feel to make changes to their bodies in order to meet the expectations of others around them. We also discuss our thoughts on whether or not doctors should be advertising (or maybe even offering) cosmetic procedures. Finally, Henny is experiencing a new level of towelgate in her new home; luckily, Sandy sent her an emotional support pickle, so she is coping quite well despite the mess.   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: We Can Do Hard Things (Episode #255) Instagram follow we mentioned: @cleaningwithdanielled

Join us as we chat about the variety of different reasons we may feel loss and how that feeling presents itself in our lives. We remind one another that the way we are feeling at any given moment is not ridiculous, and that we have a right to feel. On a lighter note, Henny continues to conduct her entire life by the alarms on her phone while Sandy is pondering life as a coupon-clipper!   **Show Notes** Instagram Follows we mentioned: @couponcutiecanada @livingonaloonie

Join us as we chat about our aging bodies and the way we are made to feel about our aging bodies by society, media, and our own subconscious. We also discuss asking ourselves why we feel the way we do. For example, if we don’t feel like going to an event, why not? If we feel like we have to dye our hair, why is that? Finally, Henny is a real party pooper, and her students are beginning to learn that quickly.   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown

Join us as we chat about emotional agility and four helpful tricks for getting unstuck when we’re caught in negative thought patterns and troublesome habits. We also discuss how our key values can work against us and how we can use them to achieve satisfaction and happiness in all areas of our lives. Finally, Sandy is SURE that our phones are listening to us and may even be out to get us!   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown

Join us as we chat about the beauty of the changing seasons and whether or not we think we could live in a place that doesn’t have four distinct seasons. Sandy’s been Christmas shopping, wrapping, and writing Christmas cards. Henny’s still growing tomatoes. Finally, we discuss the many parallels between dating and eating for health. Have you found your match?   **Show Notes** Podcasts we mentioned: Flightless Bird How to Be Fine

Join us as we chat about feeling the feel and taking the wheel! We dive into Oprah’s newest book and learn all about our emotions, what they’re telling us, and how we should listen to them. We take a test to figure out our positive affect profile. We discuss how emotions have physical sensations. And we end the podcast on a happy note.   **Show Notes** Book we mentioned: Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey

Join us as we chat about things Sandy and Henny can’t do. For example, Sandy can’t use an immersion blender and ends up spraying soup all over the kitchen every single time while Henny can’t be the squeaky wheel trying to get the grease no matter what she does. We discuss some of the tense conversations Sandy’s been having lately, and we ponder how incredibly easy it is to be kind . . . and wonder why people can be so mean.   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: The Happiness Lab Book we mentioned: Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith

Join us as we chat about what it means to have a healthy relationship with food. Is that even what we actually want? We discuss how much we think about food and whether or not we are expending too much mental energy when it comes to food on a daily basis. Finally, we get into a conversation about compliments. Our challenge to you: compliment someone in your life today!   **Show Notes** Podcasts we mentioned: Food, We Need to Talk The Happiness Lab

Join us as we chat about some really nifty kitchen gadgets that we feel everyone should have! We also get into a conversation about fat phobia, the way that “healthy” is used as a euphemism for “thin”, and the negative connotation that the word “fat” still carries for us. Finally, Henny has a lot to learn about being a plant parent. Maybe you can help!   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness (specifically the episode entitled “How F$^*#d Up is Fatphobia”) Book we mentioned: The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland Gadget we mentioned: Cheese Grater Rotary-style

Join us as we chat about so much food! Everything from Sandy’s recent intense meal-planning and quest to try new recipes to Henny’s first encounter with “provisions” to a lengthy discussion about whether or not we should be brand-loyal when choosing certain grocery items. It’s a food-based episode! Bon appétit!

Join us as we chat about mindful and mindless eating. Henny has been extra mindful this week about eating extra quickly while Sandy has been doing some research about whether or not it is possible to eat mindfully in front of the television. We also discuss the difference between what we think we want and what we actually want. Finally, we get into a conversation about gift-giving, and Sandy has to confess something.   **Show Notes** Podcasts we mentioned: How to Be Fine Food, We Need to Talk We Can Do Hard Things

Join us as we chat about the positive impact of physical movement on mental health and well-being. If you want to boost your mood, even a brief stroll can do the trick! We also discuss Sandy’s mouth-watering cauliflower hash; it sounds so good! And we continue our ongoing conversation about friendship and interpersonal skills. Are you a good listener? Do you have good listeners in your life?   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: Food, We Need to Talk

Join us as we chat about how lovely it is to put faces to names and to meet the actual people behind the stories we’ve heard. We are both settling into our Fall schedules and have been leaning heavily on the FitOn app to help us with our workout routines. Finally we discuss a few different habits that could be deal-breakers for our friendship . . . you’ll have to listen to see if we think similarly or not on these important topics.   **Show Notes** Podcast we mentioned: Handsome Books we mentioned: Spare by Prince Harry Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

Join us as we chat about some great advice we heard on a podcast lately. Also, let it be known that Henny’s parents have already given her most of these pearls of wisdom throughout the years! We discuss the importance of learning from our mistakes and recall times when we avoided situations or experiences for fear of failing in them. Finally, Sandy is debating buying a new bathing suit. Will she do it?   **Show Notes** Podcasts we mentioned: We Can Do Hard Things (episode #230 and 231) Hidden Brain (episode titled “Learning From Your Mistakes”)