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  <title>#18 - Weight Loss, Saying No &amp;amp; Weight Lifting with Mrs. Wise Eats</title>
  <description>Weight Loss, Saying No &amp;amp;amp; Weight Lifting with Mrs. Wise Eats (Wise Eats Podcast Episode #18) In Episode 18, we’re dishing up our first ever interview! My wife, Giovannina, joins the show to share her 39lb weight loss experience and many lessons she learned along the way. &amp;amp;nbsp; Episode Timestamps  Intro! Merry Christmas everyone! (0:00) Wise-Eats.com/Coaching (2:30) Introducing “Mrs. Wise Eats”, my wife, Giovannina (2:50) How she lost 39lbs and how long it took (3:20) The biggest factor leading to her weight loss: Learning how to say no (3:45) Why she prefers weight lifting and walking over cardio nowadays (2:45) Gio’s 9-year struggle with sustaining weight loss and why this time it’s different (5:30) Her history with crash diets, fad diets, and Whole 30 (5:50) The chicken and broccoli diet is not the answer! (7:20) Why she no longer uses restrictive diets to lose weight (7:50) The importance of sleep and reducing stress (8:30) Why reducing stress was her biggest factor for losing weight (9:10) Reducing stress through cannabis and saying no (9:40) Taking care of yourself first and being selfish about it (10:10) The impact that weight lifting has had on her fitness (11:05) Her new favorite form of exercise and flexibility of working out at home (12:00) Doing deadlifts in the driveway and the power of leading by example! (12:15) The results from weight lifting are amazing and it’s more fun than cardio! (13:00) How often Gio lifts weights and how she incorporates cardio (13:40) Why physical changes from building muscle has become a huge source of inspiration (14:30) When did health and fitness first become important? (14:50) Have you found a lifestyle/regimen that you feel will be sustainable? (15:35) Her current fitness goals and a John Cena Christmas blurb (16:10) #GOALS Gio wants to deadlift 200 in 2020 and how much she can lift right now (16:15) Making gains! Tracking workouts and getting stronger (16:30) Will Ferrell Elf blurb (17:15) Biggest motivating factors for transformation: Pregnancy, being your best self, beating genetics (17:20) You are in control of your health! (17:50) Lessons learned from Rachel Hollis: Don’t break promises to yourself (18:30) Randy Orton Christmas wrestling blurb: HO-HO-HO! (20:10) How her brother’s struggle with drugs motivated her to improve her health (20:10) Scrooged blurb: Getting greedy for the Christmas miracle! (20:45) How measuring food for her cannabis plants inspired her to change her diet (20:55) Scrooged blurb: It’s time to party! (21:45) Quick Bites: Rapid fire questions! (21:55) Her favorite form of exercise and favorite specific lift? (22:00) Favorite music to work out to? (22:25) Current exercise routine/program? (22:55) Favorite Wise Eats recipe? (24:10) Favorite Un-Wise Choice? Wally’s Custard! (24:40) One healthy food in our kitchen you can’t live without? (24:55) Golden retriever blurb: Our dog Cohen sharing apples (25:15) Something you love diet-wise now that you never thought you would? (25:15) Sharpshooter Breakfast Salad shout out. Awesome recipe! (25:45) Her favorite source of inspiration &amp;amp;amp; Rachel Hollis’ Girl Wash Your Face (26:00) What do you want for Christmas? (26:30) Stone Cold Steve Austin stuns Santa! (26:55) Favorite Christmas song? (27:00) Favorite Christmas movie? Another Elf blurb (27:05) Favorite thing about Christmas? Lights &amp;amp;amp; Starbucks! (27:30) Chinese food around Christmas time? (28:10) Closing thoughts &amp;amp;amp; Gio thanks Wes for being an example (28:30) Contact Gio via Instagram @wisegalsgrow or @wise.wifey (29:10) Go to Wise-Eats.com/Episode18 for the show notes, YouTube video, recipes, pictures, and more (29:20) MERRY CHRISTMAS AND MAKE WISE CHOICES! (29:45) BLOOPER REEL (30:00)  &amp;amp;nbsp;  Website Link: Wise-Eats.com/Episode18 YouTube Video:&amp;amp;nbsp;https://youtu.be/47qUPca_RN0 Podcast Webpage:&amp;amp;nbsp;Wise-Eats.com/Podcast Questions, Comments, Feedback:&amp;amp;nbsp;Wise-Eats.com/Contact Instagram:&amp;amp;nbsp;@weswisefitness E-Mail:&amp;amp;nbsp;wiseeatspodcast@gmail.com Facebook:&amp;amp;nbsp;com/wiseeatspodcast  &amp;amp;nbsp; Recipes Mentioned in This Episode:  Sharpshooter Breakfast Salad: Wise-Eats.com/Sharpshooter Complete Recipe List:&amp;amp;nbsp;Wise-Eats.com/Recipes  &amp;amp;nbsp; Articles/Brands/Products Mentioned in This Episode:  Wise-Eats.com/Coaching Wally’s Custard  Thinner, Leaner, Stronger by Mike Matthews  Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis Starbucks  &amp;amp;nbsp; Movie Clips  Christmas chaos: WWE Top 10, Dec. 25, 2017 End speech from Scrooged  Elf movie clips   Website Design Thank You: DoeringDesign.com Logo Design Thank You’s: @this_show, MGSignsDesign.com Editing Animations Thank You: Darin Roberts aka&amp;amp;nbsp;Misteredit1 on YouTube &amp;amp;nbsp; The Wise Eats Podcast is written, filmed, edited, and produced by Wesley Wise, and hopefully shared by YOU. Your support is greatly appreciated! &amp;amp;nbsp; Submit questions, comments, feedback to&amp;amp;nbsp;WiseEatsPodcast@gmail.com or to @weswisefitness on Instagram. Thanks for watching, listening, reviewing, liking, subscribing, and sharing. Be good to yourself, be good to others, and make wise choices! </description>
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