How To Start Living Your Best Life After 50
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How To Start Living Your Best Life After 50 with Jan Malloch
I realized there was a huge, huge gap in the market because there weren’t personal trainers who are older, who could, you know, really empathize and whatnot with older men and women for that matter. Because, you know, you’ll find older people will go to a personal trainer, and they’ll be in their 20s, maybe their 30s.
About JanI’m a Fitness and Lifestyle Transformation coach for professional women over 50.
I totally transformed my life at 62. I lost weight and qualified as a personal trainer specializing in helping older women to be fitter.
Prior to this change, I never fully appreciated the importance of health and fitness, especially as you get older.
I worked at a desk job, and was sedentary most of the time. Doing any form of physical exercise never entered my mind. I then came to the stark realization that my poor eating habits and lack of mobility were killing me.
That’s when I made the decision to do something about my life. The thought of ending up in a care home, sitting in the corner dribbling and being immobile really scared me.
Unlike the vast majority of personal trainers, I know exactly how it feels to struggle to lose weight and how exhausting it is to be unfit.
I also know how it feels to be older! All of these experiences have given me a much better understanding and empathy with my clients. I can personally relate to all of the women I work with – and they in turn relate to me.
Let me ask you…do you relate to any of the following?
Perhaps, as an older woman, you focus too much of your time on your work and families, to the detriment of your own health and well-being.
Returning from work after a hectic and stressful day, you are then faced with trying to sort out the problems that your husband and kids are going through.
A feeling of exhaustion and overwhelm often results in reaching for that wine bottle and ordering a takeout meal – just to escape from the havoc that is enveloping you.
Much of the evening is spent in front of the TV. You continually make poor lifestyle choices regards your health, which leads to weight gain, lethargy and fatigue.
And the more weight you put on, the more fatigued and stressed you become.
My role is to stop this vicious cycle. I help older women to appreciate the critical importance of prioritizing their own health and fitness so that they can enjoy a dramatically improved healthy quality of life.
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How To Start Living Your Best Life After 50 with Jan Malloch
Sun, 6/27 2:12PM • 53:06
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
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SPEAKERS
Jan, Terry, Roy Barker
Roy Barker 00:07
Hello, and welcome to another episode of feeding fatty. This
Terry 00:09
is Roy, this is Terry. So
Roy Barker 00:10
we are the podcast that we're chronicling our journey through getting healthy can include, you know, our diet, what we eat our exercise, and of course, we have changed in, you know, talk a lot about mindset these days. So well, on our Tuesday releases, we usually have professionals, other people that are in the industry.
And then on Thursdays, we have been releasing, you know, kind of our personal stories where we are in our journey. And we've been talking a lot about diabetes, just because that is something that I deal with a lot. So anyway, without further ado, Terry, I'm gonna let you introduce Jan
Terry 00:50
Jan Malloch is a fitness and lifestyle transformational coach, for professional women over 50. She worked a desk job and was sedentary most of her life. She has a varied background, work and education. And is she is a coach. So, Jan, I just would love for you to, we'd love for them to hear from you as far as your background and how you found yourself in this position.
Jan 01:21
Well, I mean, certainly, I mean, I qualified as a personal trainer about three years ago, that was when I was 62. So doesn't take a mathematician to know I'm now 65, right?
Terry 01:31
Where you would have to help me with.
Jan 01:35
But I tell you how my journey started not because, you know, as you'd said, I'd always been sort of, you know, sitting in an office and all the rest of it. And I really didn't care too much for fitness or going to the jammer. And that because, you know, when you were younger, you didn't really bother, you know, because everybody's everybody's fit, everybody can do what they need to do and all the rest of it. But as I was getting older, FM certainly when I was in my early 50s, I thought I'm gonna have to watch you know what I'm doing, you know, health wise.
Now, my parents, and I have to say this better my parents, both of them died in their 50s. Yeah. Which was not good. And the thing was that both of them died because of their own poor lifestyle choices. That was that they both drank to excess, and they smoked to access. And they really just did not look after themselves. So my father, he died when he was 54. My mother was 59. And what I discovered was really, it was a case of Do you know what I'm now 52.
I don't want this to happen. Yeah. So basically, I stopped drinking, I stopped smoking. And that was that. But as the years went on, I found that I was still putting on weight. And I thought, you know what, I'm gonna have to do something about my weight. Because as we know, weight problems now are pretty well, as bad as being a smoker. In the olden days, if you don't realize how bad it is. So what I did was I started to lose weight.
And what I did was, I thought, you know, what, I really need to, you know, get some exercise, go to the gym, and all the rest of it. But again, I joined gyms before, but you know, you pay your monthly membership, you never actually go, but you feel as if you've done something by paying
Terry 03:33
for it.
Jan 03:36
So, you know, I got and I got this idea of what I could do is, if I really want to sort of try and get myself to go to the gym, they actually had a they had a volunteer program, and it was an actually aging Well, it was called. And it was noted to help people over 50 to be you know, Fisher. And I thought if I volunteer for this, this might encourage me to go to the gym. Yeah. Now, of course, the thing was, I didn't know what sort of volunteer work I'm going to do.
Because I thought, right, I'll meet with this woman and she'll say, Well, how about Chang can fix our computers or we can do a bit of receptionist work or something of that, you know, something that was more based on what I had done before. But she, she sort of talked to me and she said john, do you fancy training to do seated exercise for frail older adults? And I thought, Oh, I could do that. So that's where I started on my fitness journey.
And then I thought, right well, what I'm gonna do is I'm because I'm just beginning to lose weight because of, you know, the the exercise I was doing, and I thought, let's become a gym instructor. And then when I became a gym instructor, they said to me on the course john, you need to be a personal trainer. That's what you need to do. And that's what I did. And then I focused on older people. But the thing is that I So I've lost track of what we were talking.
Roy Barker 05:06
Now you were just talking about how your, your path to becoming that person, you
Jan 05:09
know you well, this is it? Yes. Basically, I think I'm really, I think it's a case of whenever you get opportunities, you don't know where they're gonna go. And what you want to do is grab hold of those opportunities. Because obviously, if I hadn't have gone along to volunteer with the gym, I would probably still be sitting in an office somewhere still overweight, not looking after myself.
Terry 05:35
Yeah, new opportunities just breed possibilities for new life.
Roy Barker 05:40
I mean, exactly, exactly. You have to be open to them. That's the main thing is we have to be open and willing to take that chance willing to learn,
Terry 05:48
willing to learn Yeah, no, I
Roy Barker 05:50
think that's awesome. You know, we, I think a couple things I was writing down while you were talking there is that, you know, sitting is the new smoking. And that's why, you know, so many of us now are tied to a computer, and then then a lot of people that made a transition from working in an office to working from home.
And it's, it is hard to realize this, and this is no lie, that working at home, if I don't make an effort to actually do something else, I can usually end up the day with maybe three to 500 steps total, you know, walking from the bedroom, bathroom, desk, kitchen, desk, back to the bedroom. And that's it. And so, you know, I think it's just become more Paramount that we have to actually be conscious of this. So we can take that extra effort to do things, you know, get up because it's going to catch up with us.
Either orthopedically, you know, setting on our hips and our back and everything else or the weight that we've gained, because I'll have to say I've put on a few, you know, COVID pounds myself. But we really have to make that effort to say we've got to we got to move today, because it really doesn't matter how eight how old we are. It's gonna catch up with us eventually. There's just no.
Jan 07:12
It's interesting to Roy, because you were talking about, and it's funny how this has now come into our language. COVID pounds, that's now a part of our everyday language, isn't it? But the thing is, there are a lot of people who they've actually taken advantage of the situation and they've actually become better. Oh, no, because, you know, they're working from home. So therefore, they don't have all this commute and all that. So they might have a bit more spare time. So they are looking after themselves. But I would say the vast majority of us aren't. We've everything slide.
Roy Barker 07:48
Somebody was telling me that, you know, they they say they called the COVID-19 that they not team pounds I put on my wall. I'm an overachiever. I have the COVID 38. Because I think probably I've doubled that for sure. But it's uh, you know, our gyms were shut down for a little bit. And that, you know, that, you know, a lot of people catch me like, Well, you know, you don't have to work out to lose weight.
You know, it's all 80% your diet, which I get that, but for me personally, I think they're all intertwined and tied together that, for me to feel good. And for me to, to be able to walk by something that is not healthy. I need to be moving and feel healthy feel like I'm doing because if I'm just sitting around the house not doing anything. To me, it's so much easier to eat bed.
Jan 08:41
Well, the thing is, exercise isn't just for trying to lose weight, exercise, it's just to stay healthy. That's the important thing is
Terry 08:50
important for mindset, important for mindset, right? Isn't that and
Jan 08:55
what is it? Well, this is obviously, in this COVID thing. I mean, a lot of people are suffering from really bad mental health issues, stress, anxiety, all the rest of it. And the thing is, if you're locked away in your own house, in those four walls, you're going to get really feeling low, you're going to feel depressed. But if you can just go out and at least have a bit of a walk out in the fresh air. Think about things, you know, just even look at a tree and say, Wow, that's amazing. You know, I couldn't build a tree. You know, things like that, you know, it's just to focus in and really start appreciating what you've got out there. That's the thing.
Roy Barker 09:36
Yeah. Yeah. And for me creativity, you know, like I do a lot of, you know, problem solving. So if I get kind of jammed up or whatever, it's amazing just going out and taking that 15 minute walk, how it clears my head. And it also, I guess it kind of sparks my creativity because not only I'm working on but Luckily for Terry, it gives me a chance to think about other ideas for her to implement. He's like, I gotta go walk with you. So I can talk with you. So you don't think it's
Terry 10:10
a great idea. Think about all these other things that he wants to end.
Roy Barker 10:15
But, but even going with that, with that theory that the other part I think that troubles me is I love to go to the gym. But when I go to the gym, I love to stay for two or three hours, because I like to do some cardio, I like to do the weights. If they have a punching bag, or you know, do whatever, just a little bit of everything. And but sometimes you get in this this rut of Well, I don't have two hours to go spin. But yeah, it's not really about that. I mean, I have to refocus and say, you know, what, if I could just go get 15 minutes in two things. It's 15 minutes, I'm moving, but it's 15 minutes, I'm not sitting in front of a TV eating something that I shouldn't be eating.
Jan 11:00
Exactly, yes. Yeah. Yes, it is. I mean, obviously, if you're trying to get out of habits of, you know, I mean, people say, oh, what I do is I sit in front of the TV, and I eat all this junk food and whatnot. And they'll start saying, Well, what could I eat instead? well forget about eating altogether. Think about what else could I do? That's the important thing.
Roy Barker 11:25
Yeah, being in motion. And, you know, we think that we've talked about, you know, we talk pre show about some other stuff, but you know, about the, you know, my watch that I'm wearing now, cuse me to try to get 250 steps in every hour, instead of waiting, you know, to the end of the day, because we've talked that, for me, it's easier to commit to.
I can get up for two or three minutes, every hour to take a few steps. versus if I wait and say, Okay, I'm going to the gym or even get out in the neighborhood and walk tonight. So many things that can come up between now and tonight. Like, don't feel like it anymore. Maybe it starts to rain, you know, a million things, but we need to that little incremental stuff, it really adds up and is probably a much better plan. Would you say?
Jan 12:17
Oh, definitely. I mean, it's amazing how many excuses you can come up with, not to do particular things. Especially I mean, if you're talking about an hour or two hours, that's a huge chunk of your day. But if you knew you were just getting up from two, three minutes, even five minutes, it's no big deal. You know, you can do it. it's manageable. That's the thing. I think a lot of people when they're saying, oh, I've got to do all this stuff, I've got to go to the gym, and I've got to dedicate hours and hours and hours. No, you don't. You've got to start somewhere. And always start small, and do things that you enjoy doing. That's the important thing.
Roy Barker 12:57
Yeah, yeah. And we'll kind of keep on top of that consistency. Because, you know, if you will do those small things every day, over a length of time, you will start to see the compounding effect of that. Whereas, you know, if you make a commitment to get up and walk for a couple minutes for a day, you're not gonna see much effect of that. So that consistency factor is, and that's hard. You know, that's hard. that's usually where we fail with a lot of things is, we can do it for two or three weeks.
But it's trying to make that mindset change to where, you know, this is a life style change, this isn't permitted thing. And I think if we, I may, I'm gonna ask this as a question. But if we try to visualize the change that we want, in the incremental steps, not in this huge package, it makes it much easier for us to achieve, you know, what do I actually need to do today? worry about that knot. I've got all this, you know, I want to do all of this within a year, but you know, maybe what do I need to do today to be held
Jan 14:03
up? It's really a case of you break it all down into tiny, tiny chunks. That's it, you know, so, you know, don't be sort of thinking, right, okay, in a year's time, I want to lose 100 pounds in weight, something like that. I don't think that's way too big a goal to be looking at. What you want to be doing is saying every day, Well, today, I'm going to eat more vegetables. I'm going to forget that cake or whatever. And I'm going to keep doing it. And you know what, before you know what, you've actually lost that 100 pounds without really having to sacrifice too much in your life. That's the important thing. Yeah,
Terry 14:43
read there. I'm gonna I'm gonna remember that. Forget the cake. I'm gonna keep saying that's gonna be my mind. From now on. Forget the cake.
Jan 14:53
Well, you know one thing you know, it's very easy nowadays. You go into the supermarket and everything's there. And not only Is it there? But, you know, they're making it so cheap, you know, for all these, this junk food is just so drastically cheap, it's ridiculous. And you go and buy it, they're even thinking, and you know what? Well, let's reverse this try and say, Well, if I want a cake, then I'm gonna have to buy the flour, the eggs, the milk, I'm gonna have to find your recipe, and I'm gonna have to bake this, you know, think about that. Yeah. And then at least it's a bit of effort you're having to put in, rather than just reaching into the cupboard and eating.
Roy Barker 15:33
I don't think about it in those terms. But you're right, it's so easy for us to eat bad these days. because like you said, everything's ready made.
Terry 15:41
Yeah. All together, you don't have to, you don't have to use your time to do with the prep work.
Roy Barker 15:47
Yeah, or the drive throughs. You know, we were we were talking to, you know, another young man this morning. And that was kind of what he was saying that, you know, he plays in a band. And when he left, he had a long drive home. And he said, he always had to go by a particular restaurant with the drive thru. And it was very easy for him to pull in. And then it was kind of like, satisfying his boredom while he had this long drive. And he said, you know, eventually, he could see that, that started taking a toll on him.
Jan 16:16
And that was definitely a habit, because what he would have been doing is in a particular part of his journey, he would say, Oh, I'm just approaching this driving, which we will not name. That's just approaching this. So your mind then says, okay, right. That means you have to buy this, and we're going to have to eat this. And so the habit soon came into to action, whether he was wanting it or not, it was gonna happen. Yeah,
Roy Barker 16:44
yeah. In the intro, I taught I've begun to mention this more is that, you know, we started out this talking about changing some of our eating habits, and then like, trying to get consistent with our Yeah, be more consistent with the exercise and things that we did through the day. But we've really migrated to mindset because, again, you know, some things that you've mentioned, like having the big 100 pound goal in a year, it's daunting.
And if you think about that, it makes you want to go eat something, whereas you think about, I just need to get these steps in, you know, in sometimes maybe we take it minute by minute, if I got a couple minutes, I need to get some steps in it's better than eating. But the mindset portion of this very important, not only to get started, but then that sustainability as well.
Jan 17:34
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think actually talking about that, you really need a good, good reason why you want to lose the weight. That's the thing. Yeah. And it has to be an internal thing. You have to, you know, do this for yourself, you know, you there's no point in your husband and wife, or whatever, saying, Oh, you know, you're getting all fat, you've got to lose weight. That's not helping you. Because you're not you haven't bought into that idea. You've got to buy into it.
And you've got to list all the reasons why you want to lose the weight. I mean, for instance, I mean, I did lose 70 pounds, but I'm sure you're thinking well, I lost 70 pounds, because I want to be healthy. I've got two young grandkids, I want to be able to be at their weddings, I want to be able to dance, their weddings and all that. So health is absolutely crucial for me. So what you do is you find that if there are any sort of weak moments that you have, what you do is you just remind yourself of these flies, and that keeps you going.
Roy Barker 18:41
Now I will say Terry is very slender, and very nice figure. But I have not lived this long by being dumb and saying, Hey, honey, you've got to put on a few pounds. Maybe you need to hit the gym over there. Something like that. Yeah,
Terry 18:55
I say it. It's one thing, but I might have to whack you over the head find me very well,
Roy Barker 19:03
I am somewhere.
Jan 19:04
Interesting thing is, and this happened to Oh, this was a good 10 years ago or so that my husband said, john, it's this since when I was big. And he said, john, you know, why is it that you whatever goal you set yourself, you can achieve it. But you're still so heavy. And that actually set me on the road to thinking I'm gonna prove him wrong. So now this doesn't work with everybody, but it certainly worked with me. I thought I'll show him I will. I'm gonna go and lose this weight. You know?
Terry 19:39
Isn't that something? Oh, I love that. I mean, I you know, and I have not. I carried probably for about 1520 years I I carried a good amount of weight and about three years ago. I start I mean made myself go work at a farmers market? out, I wanted to be paid to go be fit and go do exactly, you know, I wouldn't get paid a lot, but I knew that something had to motivate me to do it. And I needed to do it. So I was able to lose at like 8590 pounds.
Roy Barker 20:18
Wow. Yeah. And she you know, every day she would, I don't know, you probably got a minimum of 12,000 steps. But you were, you know, bending over lift and stuff move into it. You know, it's just constant motion all day long. Which That's awesome. And you were you are getting paid to be fit?
Terry 20:37
Yes, me Yes, fit. And then I had a goal, I figured out a way to make it hat and I didn't think about I've just thought about I wanted to be fit, I wanted to lose a little weight. I didn't think about the overall picture, I just these little steps. And that's exactly what happened. Oh, it's just clicking. It did. Yep.
Jan 20:57
Yep. So you found the solution. That's the thing, don't be focusing on the problems. And I think a lot of people just focus on problems, what you want to do is come up with a solution. That's the idea. And you achieve that really well, without having too much of a stack base, and even got a few pennies at the end of the week as well.
Terry 21:18
A few, very few, but I got so that was the main thing.
Roy Barker 21:23
The Um, so starting out, everybody is different. And this is one thing that we talk about frequently is that, you know, if you're going to work with somebody, if they say, hey, I've got this great plan that's worked for 50 other people, that may be a little bit of a red flag for me, because I want somebody to ask questions to try to make, you know, like, I don't like to run, I don't mind walking the weights and all that, but I'm not much of a runner.
So if you came at me and said, Hey, the great solution for you is run 10 miles every day or something. I mean, I'm not make it for a day, but that that's gonna be it. So how do you start out? You know, if somebody was to ring you up and say, Hey, I'd really like to work with you. How do you start out with that?
Jan 22:08
Well, really, it's it's a case of obviously asking a lot of questions. I mean, obviously, you have to get to know the person first. Because you have to build up that rapport, where you know, that you will work together? Well, because remember, I'm basically taking responsibility for helping them to be healthier. Yeah. And they have also got quite a responsibility to do what I'm asking them to do. That's the thing. So the thing is, as you were saying, right, everybody is totally different. Everybody's got different goals. Everybody's got different requirements.
So it's really a case of right. What do you actually want to achieve? Yeah, let's see where you are. This is point A, let's see what you want to do at point B. And let's see what we can do to make this happen. Yeah. So then, yeah, as you say, if somebody says, There's no way I want to do any running or anything, so therefore, you obviously wouldn't get them to train for the marathon. That's it. Right? Whereas a lot of people would say, Oh, that's the only way to lose weight is to run a marathon and things like that, well, that's a load of nonsense, you know.
So you have to finely tune it to that particular person and their needs. Because Do you know, exercise if we can start thinking about this as more like play because obviously, as a kid, you were out playing all the time, and you enjoyed it, you were physically active, because you were playing, you did what you enjoy. So this is what you want to do with exercise, trying to think of it as more like play, and you're wanting to do what you want, not what you're being told to do
Roy Barker 23:47
right now. Yeah. And you can flip that switch by instead of the oh my gosh, it's time for me to go to the gym, I have to go again. We we should turn that around and say, You know what, I get to go I mean, because it's if you think about other people who are in worse physical shape, or may have even died from not being in good health, it's actually a privilege that you can actually go and so kind of flipping that switch was is exactly the right way to think about that.
Jan 24:17
Wow, that is brilliant. I've got your number now. Wow, I mean, that's it because you'll say Well, hold on. I can go to the gym because I can I physically can go to the gym. That's right.
Roy Barker 24:32
Yeah. When you get to be a certain age like myself, it's uh, you know, you look around a lot of people that haven't made it this far or that are in so much worse, worse health, that just can't they wish they could and then here I am perfectly healthy and think that it's a chore that I have to do so. But also talking about the, you know, selecting somebody to work with. It's good to have this trust because you're going to ask me to do things that I need to have this trust and a connection with you.
To be like, okay, she knows what she's doing and not be resistance and put up like, yeah, you know that fuss with you about, Hey, I just need to do what I'm asking I'm gonna get an outcome. And then also you have that cheerleader, the accountability and that you know, because there are going to be days that even the most active person is going to be like, I'm tired. I don't really feel like it. But that's where you can kind of be that the voice of reason. therapist, yeah,
Jan 25:31
yeah. But yes, you meet, you actually need that accountability. I mean, I have my I have a personal trainer. Now I only trained with him once a week. But you know, a lot of people say, you got a personal trainer, you are a personal trainer, you could just make out of your own workout programs to go along to the gym and all that. And I say, Well, I'm not necessarily wanting to go to the gym. That's a problem.
Yeah, right. But if I know, at half past two and a Monday afternoon, I'm seeing my personal trainer. Well, I think of myself as being a reliable person. So I don't want to let him down. I don't want to let me down. So therefore I go. And the thing is, once you're there, it's brilliant. And of course, obviously, he builds up my confidence and all the rest. And, you know, you'll say, Oh, well, I want you to look this certain way, you know, this week? And you'll say, you'll say to yourself, no, I don't know if I could do that. But he'll say, Oh, yes, you can. And before you know what, you have actually done what he reckons you can do. That's great.
Roy Barker 26:36
Yeah, no, that's a good point that, you know, even trainers have to have trainers, because it's like a, you know, a barber, a barber can't cut his own hair. And then, you know, with warriors, they say any lawyer that tries to represent himself has a fool for a client. So you know, it only makes good sense that you know, that we all need that help. And that encouragement no matter what position we're in. Exactly, yes, yes.
Terry 27:00
Yeah. And I don't like I mean, I, I have never had a trainer or coach or anything. Maybe that's what I'm, I need one. But I don't like to be told what to do. And there's a fine line there. Right? I don't they don't tell you. They encourage Yes,
Roy Barker 27:17
I strongly. Yeah, the nice thing about the trainer too, is I had one that actually came to the house. So you know, there was no escaping this guy. Because if I was on the phone talking with somebody, and he like did a little Knock, knock. If I wasn't on the door, immediately, he was like banging on the windows, like, I know, you're in there, you're not I'm not going away. But he really made sure that I got this. And that was the beauty of having him come to the house is I didn't have to make a decision to get a car and to drive somewhere.
And the other cool thing about it is, you know, kind of like you do It's like he wasn't just standing, we weren't going to a gym, and he was standing there counting reps on a machine working on. I mean, like he personally designed. We're, you know, kind of odd stuff for me to do you know, if we worked with the big one of those big old bouncy balls rolling on it, and they had some other things that he would bring in the house. And it just just wasn't routine. Yeah, yeah, not the same thing every day. But it was also like trying to work on building core, as well as extremities, but not just, you know, going in and saying, Okay, give me 10 you know, give me 10 on the arms and then one.
Jan 28:32
Yeah, that that's interesting. Because my, my personal trainers like that, he will always give me a variety of different things to do. And, you know, I remember when I started with, and this has been 18 months ago when I started working with him. And I said to him, are you going to tell me what we're actually going to do today? You said no. Good answer. I told you what we weren't gonna do, you would probably just walk out the door.
Roy Barker 29:02
Yeah, when I would hear my god drive up, I'd look out the window and see what he was getting out of his truck that day that we're gonna have to go through. But yeah, it's important because it's the again, we're looking for that consistency, you know, taking smaller steps. And that's the great thing about asking the questions, finding out where I am in this journey, you know, am I overweight? And have I been active because then you can design something to start me out slow.
And I think one one thing you talked about with some of your clients that are especially that are aging, some is one of your assessments is like how many times can you get up and down out of a chair, which is impressive. Yeah. Because the you know, no matter what we're all at this. We've all got something especially the older we get, we all have something that may be a little bit quirky about us that, you know, maybe bad hip, bad arm or whatever, but that allows that kind of personalization of what we're going to do.
Jan 30:00
Yeah, I think actually, although, you know, you're talking about sort of, you know, if I were dealing with older people, which I tend to do, but remember now, people in their 20s 30s can be extremely overweight. Yeah. And they might as well be in their 60s or 70s. Because of their lack of mobility. That's the thing. You know,
Roy Barker 30:22
are you seeing a lot of that? Oh, yes, yes. Okay. You know, now that you mentioned it, I think I did read something not long ago about that. They, they're kind of worried about this being an epidemic of the younger people being overweight and then having the diabetes as well.
Jan 30:40
Well, this is what they're saying. Because you think about it, if you have a whole load of young younger people who are totally overweight, who, who are going to be our policemen, or firemen. Yeah, all these jobs that need you need to be physically fit to do and it really is really worrying, you know, when you think on it, because we've got, and it's the same boat in the States or Britain or wherever you are, two thirds of the population is overweight or obese. Wow. And that only means we've only got a third of the population that are what would be classed as healthy enough to do physical dopes? Yeah, yeah, we
Terry 31:21
need those youngsters to stay fit and in shape, so they take care of us. I mean, we need to be fit, we're gonna be so healthy, we'll be looking at that. Right, we're gonna have to do it ourselves.
Roy Barker 31:36
A great time in life. For me, because I grew up in the age of, you know, you went outside and you had a rock and a stick. And that was how you entertained yourself. Today, you know, we rode bicycles, we played football by you know, just like pickup games in the neighborhood. But it was constant activity. We didn't have a video game. I think in the end, my later years maybe Pong came out but it you know, we had little things that slid up and down. But you know that I got pretty old after a while. But, you know, swimming, we always had places to go hunting, fishing. I mean, goodness, we were just it was constant activity.
And then, you know, that's one thing that really hurt me when I got to, you know, be in my 20s settle down, start having a family and a job then, you know, all that went away. And that was kind of when I started adding a little bit of weight. But you know, the good news is now I've kind of transitioned that we have all this technology at our hands and we can talk about that a little bit but unfortunate some of the other thing was the freedom to be on Rome. Our parents didn't really have to worry if we were coming home sometimes they more were worried that we make found our way home,
Terry 32:48
which is by darn by the time the streetlights Come on. Just get home. Yeah, but you know, now finally now. I
Jan 32:55
mean, you're talking about you know, how it was before I took my two I've got a grandchild, I'm sorry, two grandsons. One is age two, one is age six. Oh, and what I did was, and a lot of their time is spent in front of screens. That's it. But I thought one afternoon, I thought no, we're going to go out. And I'm going to show them just as I did when I was a girl, how to make bows and arrows. Yeah. So we literally went out.
And we chose the sticks. And I brought the twine, and I had my my pen knife thing and all that sort of thing. And we made bows and arrows. And I tell you, we were walking back. And every person that we came across, my grandson would say we've just made our own toys, and it didn't cost us anything.
Terry 33:46
Oh, that's awesome.
Jan 33:47
Yeah, that was so that's bringing the true value of what it was when we were kids, you know, because we had to make our own entertainment. You know, that was it?
Roy Barker 33:56
Yeah. And, you know, just like us. You know, we even rode our bikes to and from school, or we walked, you know, there was usually a bunch of us, but you know, like my kids, they weren't allowed, you know, things that changed enough by then that they weren't allowed to just do that by themselves. Now, if I had a day off, and I could ride over there with him, then somebody would come pick, pick us up, you know, pick up the bikes, but, you know, the world has just changed so much that that.
So it's just not an option for a lot of kids, single parents, I have to work a lottery, families working a lot just to survive. And so and then, you know, we've got the digital screens to entertain them, you know, at that age, so I guess it could, I guess it really could be a big problem.
Jan 34:41
Mind you, when you talk about the 50s and the 60s, we had what we still have television, and they were worried about that, remember?
Terry 34:49
Yeah, yeah. Well, and we were there remote controls to we were an old time Yeah.
Roy Barker 34:58
Yeah. Yeah. So now we've made it That's how we got fit. So now we've made a screen that travels with the right. Price, right? Yes, yes. Well, um, so, I guess, one, let's talk about that instance for a minute is that, you know, so what do you suggest for somebody that is way, way out of shape? You know, maybe overweight? And maybe he hasn't been that active?
I mean, kind of how do you start them off, where you can, you know, not run them off, because you got, I guess that's a challenge that you have is that you have to set something up, to help them out where they're bettering themselves, but not overload them where they just give up?
Jan 35:42
Yeah, that's it. Again, it's all about starting small, you know, you'd say, I mean, again, it depends on how old the person is what how much weight they're carrying, because a lot of people might find walking three or four minutes is more than they can handle, you know. So basically, what you're saying is, you know, just get up out of your chair, just walk around the house, Tibet for as much as you can, that's the thing. It's all about getting moving.
That's it. Now, there'll be a lot of people who are more than fit enough to actually go and have a good half hour walk, you know, but they choose to sit on a couch all the day, you know, but it's the case of just let's just see how you can do it. Even if it's 10 minutes spurts, just get up and then once you start this as a habit, you are going to feel the benefits, and therefore you're going to keep wanting to do it. That's the thing.
Roy Barker 36:38
Yeah. So what was it?
Terry 36:40
I'm sorry, I was just gonna say, What do you have? Do you have something that you say to them, that makes them more confident that they can achieve their goals, their, their small habits, their larger habit? What would you do? Again, it
Jan 36:57
depends on who the person is. But, uh, you know, again, individual, that's the thing, you know, you know, so that's, you know, again, I don't have a cookie cutter answer for that, because I know, we don't deal with cookies.
Roy Barker 37:15
I shouldn't be dealing with them either. But every now and then I do.
Jan 37:20
Yeah, really, it is. It's really a case of motivating, encouraging, trying to persuade, if you like, you know, talking about you know, you will, it's probably sounds really hard, but you really give it a try. Let's see, you know, you really will feel the benefits, you
Terry 37:37
know, you'll be surprised at what you can achieve, you know, yeah, exactly. When things get out of their reach. And then they start doing
Jan 37:45
again, we're talking about the mindset because somebody is closes their mind off right away and says, No, I cannot do this. You know, you have to sort of say, You know what? I bet you I bet you could, you could?
Roy Barker 37:58
Yeah, yeah. And yeah, and they have to really believe that or, you know, it's like pushing an elephant up a set of stairs, if they don't, because they've got, you know, I'll speak for me, I have to buy into the process that this is good for me. And this is what I want before. I can take anybody else's advice or any direction from that. But one thing I was going to ask you is like, Why do people come to you?
Or what do you think, is the most reason that people tell you? Is it because I don't look good? In my dress clothes, or because my clothes are tight? Because I walked up the flight of stairs and had to stop and huff and puff before I could walk up the next slide. What do you see that most people tell you why they come to you?
Jan 38:44
Well, certainly, everybody who comes to me is because they're overweight in some, some shape or form. But do you know what it's the main thing is because they lack of energy, they don't have the energy to do anything. Yeah. And the thing is more junk food you eat, the more energy is sapped out of your system. And it's funny, a lot of people think that the more rubbish but just the more you eat, the more energy you'll have. totally opposite. totally opposite. And a lot of people think the more I move, the less energy I'll have. Again, it's a total reverse.
Roy Barker 39:22
Yeah, because there are days when, you know, I start dragging, and if we will get out and just go for a little 1015 minute walk. It just really seems to perk me up. I come back just a lot more energized and ready to sit down and get after it.
Jan 39:36
Yeah, it's a lot of things are it's totally counterintuitive. You know, you think the more physically active I am, the more exhausted I would become, can be off in the desert, you know, totally different. Or the more I the more energy I'm gonna have no opposite.
Roy Barker 39:52
Yeah, and we talked a lot about the balanced approach. And I used to have a sign hanging over my desk for a lot of years that I had. Of course, you know, eat rot. But sleep is huge. And sleep is something that I found is the biggest catalyst for me to go totally off the reservation that you got to get that sleep. Because when I wake up feeling a little bit like that, then it's like, you know, you do what you say you try to go eat for that quick pick me up, which, to me, it'll help me for about 1015, maybe even 30 minutes, but then you get that crash, you know, an hour or two later, you start losing it.
Whereas, you know, getting the sleep. And the other thing is water, I don't drink water, and then breathe in deep. I'm a shallow breather. So those are things that you know, we tried to do too, because getting that oxygen in is refreshing. And you know, I've had actually had people comment on that. If you're doing something well, yeah, I'll be like, one of them. The worst one was we were at a, we call those a painting paint, you know, they have the painting instructor at the front of the room. And yeah, painting and I'm sitting there painting.
And this lady walked by the instructor after she got us going, she walked by I said, It's okay, if you take a breath. And that, you know, obviously she could tell from wherever she was that I wasn't breathing. But if I do I find that, you know, not only the stress full, but concentration, if I'm really concentrating, you know, so you just need to make yourself stop. There's all these little things, I think that help us, we just have to
Jan 41:32
And this is interesting, because you're talking about increasing your amount of sleep, talking about breathing, these are things that cost us nothing. But we have to be more aware of what we're doing. And we have to be looking after ourselves. That's the thing. I mean, a lot of people they live very, very stressful lives. And of course, the thing is that the less sleep you have, the more stressed you're going to be. And you know, it's funny, because people will say, Well, I'm just going to fight on regardless, I'm just going to keep working, I'm going to keep working even though I'm really tired. But your productivity levels just absolutely love.
Terry 42:08
Oh, wait that way I was going back.
Roy Barker 42:11
I wish I could attend just doesn't work. Was that gonna turn Terry's headphones off right before you just had me we've just had this conversation over the last a few days a week or so like, Oh, my gosh,
Terry 42:26
repeat, repeat, repeat, rewind. But
Roy Barker 42:30
it's very important, you know, to try to wrap all these things together, they just because they're so interdependent. And, you know, we talk, we have another show the for kind of the aging and caregivers. And this is something that we talk about on there a lot is that self care, because you can't help anybody else, if you aren't at the top of your game.
And then it's like, it's like emergency responders, you know, the fire department, when when they go in to a dangerous situation like a drug lab or shooting, you know, they're always told, well, we need to make sure it's safe. Because if you go into a bad situation, now we've got to come find somebody to help save you. And it's kind of the same way in our health if we have to have we can't look after other people in our life, if we have to have somebody looking out after us.
Jan 43:19
Yeah, yeah, I think this is the thing that people as you know, we do tend to look after other people before we look after ourselves. And we really have to, you know, just sort of get a grip and say, No, you have to start looking after yourself. It's you that's responsible, you know, responsible for your own health. So and once you know that you're going to be healthy, then you can help other people.
Roy Barker 43:47
Yeah, kind of like the thing in the, the airplane to you know, put your mask on first before you start helping everybody else. And I think it's, it's very true in this in this health arena as well. You know, we have to, and we just want to live our best life and we can't live our best life if we're not feeling the best. And then, you know, one thing we've talked about before as well is that, you know, I'm get to this point, I worry about what am I gonna be like in 1020 years?
Because I think if you go into older age, not as healthy as you could be, you really set yourself up for some things to go bad. You know, yeah. And I don't think anybody wants to be, you know, a burden to your family or to your loved one that somebody has to take care of you so that I think that's really something that over the last two, three years that has really sparked me to take
Jan 44:44
this thing because it's not only life expectancy, it's healthy life expectancy. A lot of people are spending 20 sorry, a fifth of their lives being unhealthy, you know, they might live To be some in the 80s or whatever, but if you're talking about a fifth of your entire life just being unhealthy, yeah, that's not helping anybody. Yeah.
Terry 45:10
Yeah. No. And I think the ultimate goal? Well, I don't know, I think everybody's ultimate goal is to help each other I think, yeah. Especially family, for sure. But as a community, so we can all be successful and lift each other.
Roy Barker 45:24
Yeah, we started talking. And one of our things we talked about a little bit is not outliving your health. And that's unfortunate. So many times we do that, you know, it could be we have a good mind, but our body doesn't work. And you know, you think about that, what, what kind of a sentence is that? To have a mind that's well working, but you can't you don't have a body to get up and do things or, you know, vice versa. A lot of times now, the, you know, we well,
Jan 45:52
you know, I, it was a lady I'm speaking to and this was so sad the story because she had the, you know, been both The couple have both worked and all the rest of it. And they had this dream about when they retired, you know, they would go and buy a house in this. I don't know where it was, but they wanted to buy a house in this particular place. And they had enough money and they bought the house. Yeah. And of course, all they had all these plans, what they were going to do in their retirement. But in the meantime, they had actually put on so much weight. While they were working that yes, they managed to buy the house, but they could not do any of the things that they had planned to do now.
Terry 46:35
Yeah, that's, that's amazing. I mean, I would hate hate to be in that situation, but you just don't, you know, you got to think you have, like you said earlier, you have to be more self aware of what's going on. So
Roy Barker 46:50
you can address it. Yeah, and we challenge people to start earlier, because when you're in your 20s, and 30s, maybe even 40s, you don't think about it a lot, you know, you're you can, you can eat worse, and it not affect you as much. But then, you know, it's this compounding effect that we've talked a little bit about that, you know, all these bad habits start adding up. And then when you get to be a little bit older, it's hard to break these habits and make a switch.
And sometimes, already, you know, like the diabetes and things, sometimes we've already became ill or you have a disease that we can't turn around or you know, it has negatively affected us in some other way that we can't recover from that. So, you know, get started early think about these decisions, because they're going to live with you the rest of your life. Exactly. Yeah.
Terry 47:39
And tomorrow minute. I mean, tomorrow may never come Don't put it off. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sound like a commercial.
Jan 47:47
Well, the thing is that so many things nowadays, you know, whether it's diabetes, or heart disease, or whatever, a lot of it is, it's within our control. Yeah, if we can look after ourselves, you know, it's not like COVID or something like that, which you really cannot control, you know. So it's really our own lifestyle that makes what the quality of our life the end of the day.
Roy Barker 48:11
Yeah, I think go to a doctor and get checked out. Because just like myself, I just happened to find out that I was diabetic, and I wasn't that bad off. able to catch it soon enough. But it was an accident. I didn't think you know, wasn't feeling sick. And, you know, we had another guest. It's been quite a while. JOHN, I can't think I can't Alaska Cove Alaska, he he had a really poor diet. And he actually passed out, you know, at work from a diabetic coma, I guess and was taken to the hospital. And so anyway, just
Terry 48:43
don't even know he I mean, he had no idea that he had diabetes.
Roy Barker 48:47
I think his blood sugar was what in the four or five hundreds and anyway, yeah, it was something that he was able to catch and turn around. And but again, if you go to the doctor, find this stuff out in free screenings, you know, we're going to talk about that. We went to a free screening with something, but there's all kinds of things that you can do to try to find out where you are. So you can get yourself on a better course, if necessary, you can get
Terry 49:14
hold of Jan and talk to her about figure it out. Yeah, she's very motivational. Yeah, I can get you going. Well, speaking
Roy Barker 49:23
of that, we're gonna wrap Jan, do you have anything else that you want to add before we get away?
Jan 49:29
No, I it's been a pleasure being on the program. It's been great. Well, thanks. I mean, I think really, I think people just have to remember that it's really our responsibility for our own health, you know, and, you know, it's just trying to think of what you're doing, be more aware of what you're doing, and think of what the future is going to be. Do you want to have a healthy future or not? Yeah, that's really it, you know, and really start looking at yourself.
Roy Barker 50:00
Yeah. Alright. Jan, well, thanks a lot. Do you have a Is there a habit or a tool, something that you use in your daily life that really adds a lot of value that you think,
Jan 50:13
okay, I mean, certainly I always start my day off in a positive note, alright. That's why they call me the positively pink personal trainer. So really, what you want to do is, and my advice is achieve something every single day, it doesn't matter what it is, you know, clearing out a desk or clearing out a kitchen drawer. It doesn't have to be anything big, or even just making a decision to say, you know what, I'm going to start looking after myself. And you're going to say to yourself, Well, let's think of the solutions on how I can do that. Yeah,
Roy Barker 50:51
I love that we need to be nice to ourselves, too. Because just thinking to be kind, because I'm the worst. If I've got 10 things on my to do list, if I get seven done, I'll drag around being upset about these three. So you know, if you get up and you make these accomplishments, even if they're small, celebrate them. It's something that you've done, and you need to be happy, and it's motivating. I think it'll motivate Oh, yeah. Next thing?
Terry 51:17
Yeah, like that.
Roy Barker 51:18
Yeah. All right, Jen. So tell everybody who do you like to work with? How can you help them? And of course, how can they reach out and get a hold of you?
Jan 51:25
Well, I really I specialize in older women over the age of 50. Certainly, because that's because I am somebody over 50 that I have a rapport with these people. So that's the people I tend to tend to work with. They are certainly people who are overweight. Yeah. And they need to get fitter. That's the important thing. Yeah.
So really, probably the best, the best way to get ahold of me is if you go to my website, Jan Malloch.com. And you can see what I've got to offer and whatnot. And then obviously, you can contact me via email, or go on to Google and look up Jan Malloch. And you'll find my Facebook, my LinkedIn, my Twitter, my all my different connections. So connect with them as they are.
Roy Barker 52:07
Yeah. Okay, awesome. And that the spelling of that last name is m a l l o c h. Yeah, and we will include all that in the show notes, but just in case you're having them road and pull over and want to jot that down. Get over now
Terry 52:24
Don't cry.
Roy Barker 52:26
All right, well, thanks so much. We appreciate our listeners as well. Again, this is gonna do it for another episode of Feeding Fatty Im Roy. of course you can find us at www.feedingfatty.com We're on all the major podcast platforms iTunes, Stitcher, Google Spotify for not only one that she listened to please reach out we'd love to get it added make it easier for you to listen to us every week.
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