Christina Orman shares her story of a truly amazing young woman and a lively Georgia Peach, who seems to accomplish more in a 24 hour day than anyone else we have interviewed. This dedicated mom and nurse just keeps drilling down and achieving one fitness goal after another, all while raising kids and maintaining and furthering a career. She reveals what worked, what didn’t, how she includes her kids and how she keeps it all together to make sure she isn't the last item on her list of important things to do.
Christina has been a nurse for 10 years. She has spent most of her career in the Emergency Department but also has experience in the ICU and in a cancer treatment clinic. Throughout her career she noticed many people with chronic debilitating diseases that could be prevented with lifestyle changes. This provided the inspiration needed to make better choices in life and become the best version of herself. She started working out regularly and eating a healthy and balanced diet. Christina says she feels great and has more energy than she used to. She loves living healthy so much that she wants to inspire others to do the same. This is why she became a Transformative Nurse Coach. Christina is excited to share her knowledge and coach others through their lifestyle transformations.
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Christina Orman shares her story of a truly amazing young woman and a lively Georgia Peach, who seems to accomplish more in a 24 hour day than anyone else we have interviewed. This dedicated mom and nurse just keeps drilling down and achieving one fitness goal after another, all while raising kids and maintaining and furthering a career. She reveals what worked, what didn’t, how she includes her kids and how she keeps it all together to make sure she isn't the last item on her list of important things to do.
Christina has been a nurse for 10 years. She has spent most of her career in the Emergency Department but also has experience in the ICU and in a cancer treatment clinic. Throughout her career she noticed many people with chronic debilitating diseases that could be prevented with lifestyle changes. This provided the inspiration needed to make better choices in life and become the best version of herself. She started working out regularly and eating a healthy and balanced diet. Christina says she feels great and has more energy than she used to. She loves living healthy so much that she wants to inspire others to do the same. This is why she became a Transformative Nurse Coach. Christina is excited to share her knowledge and coach others through their lifestyle transformations.
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This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast. To help others in their fitness journey. It's all possible. It’s time to wake up. Here we go. Hello, everybody. This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast. Today I have with me Christina Orman. We're going to be talking about her great lifestyle that she tweaked here and there throughout the years so that she can become the best version of herself. Hey, Christina, How you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. So happy and excited to have you on the show. Not only is Christina going to tell us all about herself because I think she's a true inspiration, but also she's my niece, and I watched her throughout the years with her struggles in health and fitness to become the best version of herself. So, Christina, let's go back and let's tell a little bit about yourself. Well, I played sports my whole life, and then I had a child when I was very young, when I was 20, and I kind of was just working all the time and I was doing so full time. And then, you know, flash forward, I'm in my mid-twenties and I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm not in shape anymore, you know? And that kind of is when I started thinking like, Oh my gosh, I'm getting older. I better get it together. I didn't really know how or where to start. And then I started working as a nurse, and that is when I started seeing everything that happens. When you make bad lifestyle choices and I see patients with all these chronic illnesses and diseases and they can barely walk in their are like in their fifties, some of them are even younger. And I would think about grandma and Grandpa and how they were living on their own all the way into their nineties and doing good. And I was like, I want to be like that. How do I get there? And then, you know, that's how I started. What's gone to the gym. And then I started just reading about health and fitness, reading about boomers, watching podcasts, listening to documentary. I would try things for myself, some things would work. Sometimes I wouldn't stick with it, and then I'd have another kid, and then I just would eat whatever I wanted and I would gain about £50 and then the cycle would start all over again. Mm. Yeah. All those cravings when you're pregnant, that doesn't help any. Right now. Yeah. It's hard to lose all that baby fat after you've given birth and you've had three kids. So three times, three times a round of, of gaining and losing. Gaining and losing. Gaining and losing. When you first started trying to lose weight, what was your fitness regimen like? Started out doing online videos in the living room. And then I was kind of like, well, I do better when I'm pushed. So I started going to the gym and I went regularly. And there is this one instructor who is really tough, and I thought I was going to pass out several times. And I think I always threw up several times that I liked it because I saw the biggest difference when I took her classes. No, been in the gym, relocated, and it just it relocated to a difficult area to get to. The traffic was terrible. And so then I started running though, and now I'm all involved in Florida. Then when I moved back to Georgia, that's when I got pregnant with Delaney, the Last of my Children. And so the cycle started over. So I started doing the workouts again and I did one program. I can't remember what it's called, but they sent me the little food containers to portion your food. And so I did that. And I try to work out at home. I would run and then I started doing Half Mudders and I kind of started hanging out with people that were in shape. And then I really realized that I was definitely not in shape. I'm not to a certain point because they're all like, Oh, just take the back, fill, you know, the way to fall off. And it did. But you have no muscle and then it comes right back. And then I realized how terrible those are for your heart and your body in general. So I decided I was never going to do those again. And I just had to start working out regularly and I had to commit to it. And that is when I started going to burn Victim. So that's a group fitness gym. You did the same workout for that day, so you just take a time. We go and everybody does the same workout, but it's in a group setting and every day the workout changes. They have accountability groups. You get trainer meetings that help you with your nutrition and everything like that. So and I started that gym. That is really when I felt like, okay, I finally found a G ended up fit into I feel comfortable going. And so I've just been doing that now for 30 years. Three years you've kept up with the same type of workout. They change it every day. So yeah, they change it every day. You have what you might have Arm Day, then you'll have like day or they have my athletic auditioning, body weight conditioning. And no matter where you go in the country, if you go on vacation and there is a burn boot camp location there, you can go and it's the same day for the whole country. So if Monday is Arm Day this week, the whole country of Burn boot camp is doing Arm Day. That wow. You know, So it's not like, oh, I'm going to go out of town on Thursday and Friday. And you did arms in Newnan and I go to Florida and they have our now they're still going to have the same days at noon. So it's pretty cool. MM Okay. And tell us about your transformation. What have you seen since you started going there? Well, the first thing that I noticed is my cardio was a lot better. I even had friends notice. We went, I did another Tough Mudder or some of the things people, and they were like, I can really tell this one was so much better than the first one because the first one was tough. You know, there is a lot of running. So I noticed my cardio health was better and I just felt better even mentally. You know, I haven't had as much anxiety, you know, I just I feel happy and healthy. And that was the first thing that I noticed. And then I started getting muscle definition and then that just mainly how more encouragement to go. And so now I've started macroeconomy. It's hard though, right now. That's my new journey is we did a challenge for a month and I counted my macros and prior to this I've talked to several different nutritionists and I talked to trainers and I told them my goal and my goal is that I want to get down to like 8% body fat. Mm. And they said, yeah, that's part of my fitness that I was it get now laid percent I have to like get on the nutrition. Mhm. And even though I eat healthy you have to do a lot more than just eat healthy. Yeah. You have to really pay attention and balance everything. So yeah I did that and I actually lost 4% body fat and gained 3% muscle and four weeks. Very good. So where about right now with your percentages. And that was actually last month. So I've gone two more weeks. So in two weeks I'll go, I want to do it for another month and see. Mm. And night break. Yeah. Feel good. Awesome. Yeah. That's what it's all about, right. Not just looking good. Feeling good. Yeah. Having more energy for your life. Not only do you work a lot, but you also have those three kids running around that you got to keep up with and and your lifestyle and being happy with yourself and everything that's going on around you. Yeah, yeah. You put in your bio that you became a transformative nurse coach. Tell us about that. So after I had been working on a pill and I started to realize that there are a lot of people that just don't know how to be healthy because I will ask patients or I'll ask a friend and they think that they're making good choices. But they feel bad. They're like, I don't know, I'm just not lily white that I'm trying to do this and that, or they get illnesses or things going wrong and they feel terrible. They have no clue where to start. And so I thought, well, I need to do something to make changes. And I researched, you know, and I as a nurse, help people live healthier is modern medicine doesn't exactly do that. And, you know, it's like it's good for certain things, but it makes people feel like, oh, if you're overweight, we're going to give you a pill. It's a quick fix. Oh, if you have side effects from the pill or you need another pill for that, that affects and it just continues. And I wanted to just teach people. So I found a course it was a seven month course that I just finished and I had to do 120 coaching hours. I just finished. So now I'm a transformative nurse coach. I'm not sure how I looked at doing a LLC to possibly, you know, just start a business doing that. So I just finished this past month to about two weeks ago. Congratulations. That's awesome. So was not only bookwork. I mean, I'm sure you learned a lot about health and fitness and helping people change their lives and feel better, but what other intensity did you have with this course? It was really it was online and they had different sections that they opened throughout. So it was just nutrition. There are a lot of link about healthy eating. They taught you how to talk to people. It's sort of like motivational interviewing. Get deep with somebody and try to figure out how you're helping them figure themselves out. You know, you're not going to tell them this is what you need to do. Any kind of ask questions in a way that they are figuring out for themselves. You know, what it is they want. Why do they want to change what will change look like for them? And then it kind of helped them map out their own journey, even though part of that was we had to coach from people or whatever it was. And it's interesting because some people coach people on like time management and they're just like, I'm so stressed out at work because I can't manage my time. And it wasn't really a physical help, but more like emotional and what mental health, you know, they're like, I'm, I'm anxious. I can't do this at work. I'm stressed out, I don't know what to do. And kind of helping them through that because we did have to also do like a mental health partner and needed mindful practices with them. And then, you know, we had discussion boards and we had virtual meetings and things like that. We share case studies about people that we worked with. Mm hmm. So very psychologically trying to get into the psychological part of trying to get people healthier, changing their their habits and the way they think about their lifestyle and what they can do to improve it so that they could be healthier and try to get an exercise plan into their lifestyle. Do you actually come up with exercise programs for them? So that's not really within the scope of a nurse, and that is something I actually was looking into getting a personal trainer certificate at some point because I have to be careful and I have people like the Board of Nursing. It's kind of weird because if you're working under if I'm working under one nursing license, I have to stay within that. Go, Okay, There's something I thought of them. Yeah, because that would be the next step, right? But there's so many people out there that do need the help with what you've done so far. They might not realize, even when they come to you, that that's all that they need. Trying to figure out how they can fit a program into their schedule or maybe something that they need to give up and put something else in so that they can live a healthier lifestyle. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, even thought about becoming there's another certificate to become a functional nutritional counselor. Mm. And so I'm very interested in that now because I just want to teach people it's a lifestyle change. So it's not going to happen overnight. But like they said, maybe they can give up one healthy habit or one healthy food and replace it with a healthier version. Mm hmm. And then over time, when you start replacing the battle to good, then suddenly you're just like, wow, I'm doing so good here. I feel so good. You know, the next time I'm little changes. Yeah, it makes a big difference over time. Absolutely. Let's go back to the fact that you have three little ones at home or two little ones and how do you fit all this into your schedule? That's a challenge for people right there. How do you do that? That is challenging. You know, think all that. My job, I only have to work three days a week. Uh huh. So sometimes on the day that I work and don't get to go to the gym, adult love that, but is make up for it on days off. And those days are very full because I have to go to the gym, I have to keep up with house, get the kids from school. We do our homework with your extracurriculars. And then usually what I'll do is whenever they're practice, there's normally track and I'll try to run or walk the track just to get some extra steps in. During that time, I don't know. I've just I've gotten lucky somehow. So I try to schedule my things around the kids bowl in their sport because it's always on your mind, right? So, you know, you need to do it. So even though every day is different, you figure it out every day. Maybe you think about it the night before. Do you ever do that the night before or even at the beginning of the week? Like, how am I going to do this all week long? Yeah, well, I normally start now because my schedule comes out or week increments and I write everything on the calendar. That's part of the day. The work I write down, the days that the kids have the And when I first started going to the burn boot camp and doing the gym all the time, I would write down on the calendar, date all my things to do gym or get an hour across them, all that that jet even even though it sounds silly, I'll even put grocery store like, you know, I'm doing the grocery store today in between, you know and that's what that's what I do and I just cross it off as I do it. Were you always that organized with, you know, I was nine, my mom? Not for that. I, I can look at you as I got older and then the kids are getting older and they have more pain and they orga. You're not going to get it done. Yeah. Then life is just going to feel scattered and chaotic and you know this and you're forgetting that. And then you end up being last on the list, right? Yeah, And I did, I did work on Monday through Friday and that was tough. So I actually understood in that lifestyle too, because when I did that, it was like I felt like I was even busier because it's like, wake up, everybody get ready, go to school, go to work. I would get off and then I would go to the gym and then I'd pick the kids up from school. And knowing how sports and everything. And then by the time we get home, it's like, okay, we're we're doing homework in the car or homework before practice starts and then get it home, shower, bed. But I did it because my thought about it is time goes by so fast. And if you don't take care of yourself right now, then you're going to be behind and the next thing you know, you're 56 and any move? Hardly, because you just sat there and didn't do anything. So even though it's hard sometimes to get the fitness aspect and you just have to do it that way, you're able to take care of your grandkids when they get older or when your kids grow up, you can travel. You're still able to do things for yourself. Absolutely. Excellent. That that's what kind of motivates me to. Yes. So I've seen pictures of you and your kids doing sports together outdoors that look like some kind of a obstacle course. So you involve the kids in all kinds of outdoor activity, too. You're an inspiration to them. Tell me what you do with them to get them moving and stay healthy. Well, I'll let them on their tablet sometimes, but they have spring tans. Or if it's a rainy day, you know, they might be longer. But they do play outside when we go to sport, I'll take the dog to the fields. So like when Liam's doing his baseball practice, Delaney and I walk the dog and she enjoys that. We take walks in the neighborhood. I did sign them up for the kids Tough Mudder, which was the obstacle course, and they had so much fun. They brought a friend. It was they had a blast doing that. We go hiking. There are a lot of like nature parks and stuff around as long to get outside into light, learn to enjoy life and not be stuck on a tablet 24 seven and I want them to be well-rounded though. Ego one Delaney goes to a ballet on Thursday. That's Liam and I date night when we go to Starbucks and we play board games. We have an hour and a half and we don't have any bond, no electronic anything, and we just play games and just spend time together and they kind of learn to value that. That's sweet though, and then I just want them to learn that there's so, so much to like. There are so many things to do. So every time, like last summer, I took them to see like historical sites and even though I'm sure they're a little bit bored, like in the museums and stuff, they always find something that they think is funny or silly is not the most entertaining thing they've done, but they'll remember it as being there. You know? And I always try to make it fun and they'll be some fun after I try to take that, you know, talking to the world of Coke in Atlanta, the aquariums, I just try to get them out the top two places in Florida we've gone and done. I'm taking them to New York City. Wow. This this summer? Yeah. Yes. So we're going to go see all the thing. And I already told you don't have a car there. So we're going to have to do some walking there or up for them. I've had them in training, walking through the neighborhood, but now we're going to go all through the city. But it's nice though. Yeah. I never want them to be scared to be adventurous, you know? Mm. That is really cool. And as a result, those kids look great too. You know, a lot of kids these days, you see them, they're they're gaining weight, getting a little chunky, overweight, don't want to be outside. So it's really nice to see that you have children who enjoy that. They see you, too. They see you and what you do. And that's an inspiration to them to be just like their mama. Well, I hope that I can inspire them. Yeah, they get things. So right now, the ladies involved in ballet, the lady does ballet. Yeah, she was doing gymnastics. She's not doing gymnastics right now, but she's doing traveling. And she's really good at it, too. Oh, yeah. And she loves the dance. And I love that for her because you can always dance, even when she's an adult. They have adult dance classes that she could teach dance just, you know, something that she'll always be able to do. Yeah. And what about Liam? What is he up to? Liam does a football, and right now he's in baseball. He did soccer and basketball at times, but he's sticking to the baseball and football right now, and he does parkour also. It's pop. Parkour. Well, you know, the American Ninja warrior, you know, on the TV. You know, there though, there is a place here that it's called the Georgia Parkour Academy. And that's where Delaney does tumbling. And they offer ninja warrior courses and they offer parkour, which is, you know, the people that are like jumping on the building. Yeah. And that's what it is, though. They have in this big gym. They have all these little obstacles and they teach the kids how to jump over the boxes. Totally. They're hurry, you got to jump. And the technique of being able to jump over all these obstacles really fast and the guy that I'm that was actually on American Ninja Warrior, I know he does it because some of his friends did it. The last hour to take in Delaney tumbling And I'm just sitting there. I was like, well, why don't you just, you know, do parkour while she's doing her tumble class? So just giving them something to do, it keeps them moving. And he enjoys it. Yeah, he did. Yeah. The wild and crazy. It it is the more kids love it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Which comes back to adults, you know, we stopped doing all those crazy, wild things when we get older. And, you know, if we could just act like kids again, how much better in shape would we be? Yeah, right. Instead of sitting around, just get up and play, right? Yeah, absolutely. Get up and do something. Even yardwork. You know, I'm all of that's not as much fun. But yeah. Yard work and your plants and vegetable plots. Oh, how's that going or something? It's good. I do it every year. Yeah. On my little mini farm now. You know, I have the chickens too. So you're eating really well from your garden. Do you get enough food from your garden to. I did that last year. Last year? It didn't do very well. I don't I'm not sure why a lot of people around here had issues last year, so hopefully this year will be better. But I normally yeah, I normally have tons of peppers, tomatoes. I have a blueberry and blackberry bush and a squash and zucchini. I usually have a bunch, so sometimes I even give it away. Nice thing about that is, you know, you get past the pesticides and the preservatives that they put on all of our fresh supposedly produce at the grocery stores. It's nice having a garden if you have the time for that. That's something else you get into your life. Yeah. Little farm. Yeah. Since we're talking about food now, it's let's talk a little bit more about the way you eat and how you keep it organized so that she can stick to it all week long. You get my protein in. I learned that I beyond the grocery store, any buy regular oatmeal there or another kind of oatmeal. It's called Kodiak Oatmeal. It has extra protein. So I get that. I'll get my protein intake. I substitute like when I make spaghetti for the kid instead of eating the pumpkin, it'll be a spaghetti squash. And then I turn then to the noodles. And that's what I have. I've tried to get the kids to eat that, and they are right now with the new doesn't work. You know, I try to I do eat fried foods sometimes, but I try to eat that very rarely. I just try to eat fresh like me. And I eat a lot of salads. I have started getting like carrots and celery in instead of department ranch and dip them and rice. I don't drink juices very rarely, you know, I don't drink a lot of Korean grape and apple juice and things like that. It's just loaded with sugar. I hardly ever have soda and drink the sparkle waters. That was my transition because I like the carbonation. Yeah, the that was a healthier version of the soda, I guess. So I do that now. I've been doing that for years, actually. I rarely ever drink during soda. I don't drink that much. I cut down on drinking a whole lot, though. He's like, Oh, when I go to eat, I need to get a beer or I need to have a black one. Now put that down. Why? I hardly ever green beer at all anyway. Normally if I drink it like a glass of red wine or something and I try to eat organic when I can, if it makes sense. I'm not sure about the organic cereal. I feel like it's probably still processed. I don't know. I have to do a lot of research to see if that would even be worth the extra money, produce and stuff. I try to get organic and then I try not to buy anything that says added sugar. Okay, so you sounds like you make it easy on yourself. You really don't go too crazy. You just make better choices. Yeah, yeah, it's easier that way, especially with a family. You know, if you're going to be cooking completely separate things from the kids, that makes it really hard. And the kids eat vegetables and stuff. So, you know, when I make chicken and chicken, rice and vegetables that they have on cheesecakes, all of that, then when I go to work, I started there's a company called Raney, and they have little mills that are frozen. And I get those because it's just a healthier version. And they have macros on there. So I normally stock up on those and they're like $8 and mil. But if you think, well, if I went and got something at cafeteria work, it probably more than that. So, probably so yeah, they see that you have the kids helping you in the kitchen to chop vegetables and and make things so they're learning to you right there beside you. Yeah. To make their meals and make better choices. That's, that's great to have them in the kitchen with you doing that making Grandma's Esther all it. Yes. They love that. Yeah they are. I think it's fun. I tell stories about, you know, I made something for grandma. You know, I'll say this is grandma recipe and they love it. And then I try to tell them to, like, when we cook things, you know, I'll have them ask Alexa. Ask Alexa what this is good for. So they learn, you know, they love avocados, so it's good. I just want them to be mindful of what they're eating. They know making better choices so that as they get older, it's easier. Yeah. Yeah. Tell me about struggles that you have had throughout the years and how are you were able to overcome them? Well, I had a lot of struggles because really it's just being able to commit and be consistent while being a single mom and working full time and taking care of the yard and the animal, you know, it's a lot. So that's why I went up and down at one point was on the diet, you know, because it was hard to establish a good routine and it was hard to know. It took a lot of time to come up with me just knowing how to find healthy foods quickly and how to make those meals. And I didn't know how to do it. And I just kind of figured it out. But it took years. And then on I finally was like, okay, I have to commit to it. I have to stick with it. And once I got the routine, it was okay, but or then it was sometimes I would work out for month and it would go, I wouldn't realize. And that's why I started writing it in my agenda, because I hope, like, you know, next thing you know, it's been two months. And I'm like, When's the last time I worked out my And, you know, it's been a long time. Whoa. So it was like that. And then with the kids sport and then those changed football practice mainly Monday, Wednesday now and baseball season comes around. It's Tuesday, Thursday and then I have football and ballet on the same day. But once you're in a routine and you're writing it down to do it, you put it on the calendar as part of your day and you find the time to do it. But it was hard. Yeah. And then, of course, there's always a monkey wrench, right things or Oh yeah, that you people might get sick. You've got kids to deal with, they get sick. You get sent home, changes need to be made or you fall off the bandwagon a little bit and then you come back again. You ask being able to come back again, that's another hard thing for a lot of people when they fall off their schedule, be able to bounce back and get to where they were before. Oh yeah. Because when I was working at one hospital and I had a child care issue and so I had to leave and I was like, I can't work in the hospital anymore because I'm having trouble with them to watch my kid. And I was having to take up overtime just to be able to afford to pay the babysitters or the days that I work. And that's how I ended up at the Monday through Friday. So that was a major life change. And then I found where I work now and it's a lot more flexible and so now I will make it work. I found a baby sitter. She's been with me for years now, for two years. She's amazing. And the babysitting factor has, whether you're the girl or a lot of times it's people would come and then they know when you're stressed out about all of that, it makes it harder to focus on her. So any you know, when you get stressed, you make that habit already. My drank too much something or you my people will strap unhealthy mom downtown You're an amazing woman, Christina. Look at you. You raised three children. Got a great career, too. And so while going to school, earning these extra certifications so that you can help other people, not only yourself, but you're still thinking about others. How great is that? And still balancing the work? The family, the home, the pets? Yeah, all of it. And you're you're in great shape. You look great. You are. You're happy. Look at how far you've come. I know. Well, thank you so much. Yeah, I have come a long way. I'm so proud of it. I still try to always be better, though. I try to, you know, just keep going and stay positive and everything always seems to work out. So right now, are you working in the emergency room as a nurse or where where are you at with your career? So I'm working in the emergency room. That's my full time thing. And then I, I just pick up shifts here and there. And another place. It's called Purify I.V. and it's an IV hydration place, though. It's in a chiropractor's office. And the guy that owns it is someone I work with in the E.R. And so he knows about not transformative of the nurse coach desires and how I want to be able to help people live healthy and the people that are there. And it's in a chiropractor's office, they all are kind of on the same page as far as, you know, health and fitness and trying to be healthier in general. So hopefully it'll maybe open some doors. Yet. It sounds it sounds like you've landed a nice little place there. Tell me about the IV hydration. They just have different bags of hydration that you can get and it just has different like vitamins and minerals in them. If you want a bag, you just come in, you pick which one you want and there's a mini actually, and then you just get your fluid. They get B12 shot, they do semaglutide for weight loss, which, you know, I don't love that, but they're actually making some comments about trying to have people educated on lifestyle changes and combination with that. And it's right there in the chiropractor's office and it's next to the gym that I go to, though some people will just, you know, they might go work out and see the chiropractor and then get a bag of fluids and a B12 shot. Yeah. Do you do you try to help people decide what they might need off of that menu? Look at what their symptoms might be. Yeah. Kind of. You do it sort there's a whole menu and it says what each bag has in it and what it is good for. So if you want hydration, you're trying to call different things. I can't remember all the things because I just started doing that. But the whole menu will tell you it. You just want you don't want any of the vitamins at all and use one just a bag of fluids till you're dehydrated. You can get that. But tells you on the menu what each one is good for. I know quite a few people who have gone for the B12. Yes, I have had the B12 shots. Yeah, Low energy and a little need a little boost. And did it make a difference for you when you got your B12 shot? Yeah. And you can tell a little different. Yeah. Some people I'm just so active and always moving, but a lot of people, they get them regularly and so they know they're like, I need it. But I also take a lot of vitamins and stuff in general, so I don't know how much. At a certain point your body can't process all of it. Yeah. So you take a lot of vitamins or vitamins? I take a prenatal vitamin, I take creatine, I take collagen, fish, oil, B12 and vitamin D, prenatal vitamins. Why? Yes, because they just work better. Every time I take prenatal vitamins, my hair is like, thicker. My nails are thicker. Oh, I've taken a women vitamin just like the vitamin for women. But I just. It is as good when I take a prenatal vitamins. It's subtle. My fingernails are thicker and my hair is better. Yeah, maybe I need to try that because my nails are always breaking though. Mine do too. And for some reason when I take the prenatal vitamins, they're so much better. Wow. Like mine are nurse and free ATL vitamins are. I know. So. Yes, I feel I'm nowhere near pregnant in Natal. I didn't have any more babies in the future for, you know, I had a hysterectomy. Yeah. Okay. Let's let your other sisters do the baby thing, right? Yeah, I, you know, I just now got to where I don't have to bathe somebody, you know, because for 16 to say that son of one of them got to the age or they can give themselves their own shower. I had another baby and they got big enough to get a shower and I had another baby, you know. So now Delaney's sick. I'm finally like, Man, the first time in 16 years I can say, Y'all go get a shower. You're free. I'm free. I don't have to give anybody a bath. Yeah, that's liberating, isn't it? Yeah. And I get to get happy. Yeah, so I'll get that out. I wondered, like, one would be like, when I don't have a little baby, but I'll find. You'll find out one day again when your grandma. Not too soon. Now, that's now. Hopefully not. Yeah. I'd like for you to think for a second about goals that you would like to give our listeners. First, about health and fitness that could possibly reach more and how to get there. One goal would be to take away one unhealthy item that you consume. Well, you know, take it away completely. You're just if you're drinking sodas all the time to say no, I'm not have any. So during the week, I'll have a soda on the weekend. The same with alcohol or fried foods, just something that is unhealthy that you're eating too much of or drinking too much up at that name. And then another goal would be just to try to do 30 minutes of activity three or four times week. Whether you walk for 30 minutes, you have a gym membership, swim one in the pool, if you like that, go outside and you go height somewhere, anything just 30 minutes, 3 to 4 times a week in them. How to do that would be to make a calendar and add it on calendar, get it into your schedule, and then make sure you do it and commit to doing it and try to like fitness and help apps and stuff on social media. Because I cleared out anything that was politics and negative energy and I just started liking these pages that had people who are into health and fitness. And it doesn't just have to be hardcore high intensity fitness. There are some people that just they sell herbs or they meditate regularly or they do yoga and I like their pages. And so my newsfeed on social media always has something healthy. There are people that dance that way and their dance classes will pop up and that just kind of helps inspire me and, encourage me to keep going. So if people do that kind of you always see it and it keeps it fresh on your mind. Very good. Do you dance? I don't really dance. I did take a bar class at the gym. I've done Zumba classes and I thought about taking adult belly laugh where Delaney goes to ballet, Zumba, about how cool would that be? But I didn't. I don't have time for belly laugh now. Yeah. Yeah. I have to draw the line. You know, I have no schedule right now, so. But yeah, so I never dance large. I never took dance or anything like that. Now, is it good? So at least are have a little more time. Yeah. Yeah. And you in the lady can she can show you some moves show or she can write you guys in your spare time in the living room. She can show you some of her ballet moves. Oh yes, she would love that. Yeah, she could teach Liam, too. That would be fun. Yeah. Yeah. No. Who is that? Do we have the lady there? You know, say hi. Hi. Hi. Delaney, little ballerina. She's here and gone up. She said, Oh, yeah. Cartwheels in the background. Beautiful. Nice. Does she ever get you to do cartwheels? We do cartwheel and we had headstand contest and we've had bridge contests and I always wear them and she always wins them. Awesome. We got to keep on trying to get Mommy better at that. Get it, get her better it be acting like a kid. Yeah. Rach. Oh, she said I need to stretch more. Yeah, that's a great that's, that's a great thing I'm going to say actually. Yeah. Do you incorporate that into your physical fitness routine at all? Flexible. I do sometimes, but actually do it probably more. Our bodies definitely need that, especially as her muscles get stronger. Enhanced flexibility should be incorporated into your regiment. Yes, that's very cool. So there's another thing to put on your calendar. Yes, stretch it doesn't take too long. I could have been stretching while we're talking. Yeah, it's just that the computer on the floor, even for again. All right, Christine, it's been so nice talking to you. You're a true inspiration, not only to your family. It's brought you a long way fighting through their struggles to get to where you need to be in life and to keep those lifestyle changes going so that you can continue with those new habits that you've learned from eating better, substituting better things in your diet, writing down your schedule. So important to help you keep on track. That's great. And I know that when people listen to this recording, they'll be able to take your ideas and put them to work for themselves so you can know that you're helping others just by talking about what you do. If anybody wants to reach out to you to talk about your transformative nurse coaching, would you be open to that? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So you can share your knowledge with them and try to help them on the right path to best form their lives. I would love to do that because everybody has to find their own way. What's good for me in my routine is not good for someone else. Nothing. They might do something different. They might need to do something different. It's not a one way fits all. Yeah. And sometimes it's so hard for us to look at our lifestyle files and think that we just can't make any changes. But when somebody else looks at it, maybe they can help you just tweak it here and there and try to get things out to make things better for you. Yeah, in the long run, we all want to be happy, healthy and feeling good, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Christina, thank you so much for being on the show today. Thank you for having me. Absolutely inspired me through the years to, you know. Yeah. Your beach, yoga and fitness. The. Yeah, it's always active. It's me and anybody that I can inspire them. Seeing what I do, that's. That's awesome, you know? All right, well, you take care and I'll pick it up, as you said. All right. Bye bye. This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast. To help others in their fitness journey.It’s all possible. It's time to wake up. Here we go.
