Shadowing Practice: Getting back into healthy habits | weekly vlog - Learn English Speaking with Video

Good morning vlog, I am in much need of a restart,

a refresh, a, why is this not sticking to my face?

Is it on backwards?

Hmm, hmm, very much back on track, right?

My weekend has been filled with not enjoyable foods.

oh my god is the classic still on it?

We were away at the weekend like for like four days

and it was at a UK theme park

and thus what the food I ate was literally theme park food

and I've never in my life wanted to just eat a salad so much.

Why is there as long as it's sticking?

Freddie I'm not doing this every vlog where you're pulling the toilet roll off the wall um much

and much need guys of a get my wellness routine back in order

because i feel but i'm literally living off of buffy breakfast

and it's not even like an on holiday buffet breakfast it's like beans and hash browns a Weetabix with sugar

not where I want to be level of nutrition right

so we're getting ourselves back I've just had breakfast I feel already

that I've cleaned my insides out from that alone and I'm in much need of a skincare rejuvenation

oh this is where you find me for the next 15

minutes freddy surprisingly he doesn't mind this mask like he always wants to grab it

but he's not scared of it that might be slightly too tight

um i've put on a face mask on under this

and i'm just like penetrate the skin my skin actually doesn't feel too bad um

but i just feel i'm actually going to say this i lost my toothbrush

when we were away so i haven't brushed my teeth last night That's disgusting.

I just swirled my tooth face from my mouth and this morning I'm still without a toothbrush so my mouth feels disgusting.

I need to go get a new toothbrush and just, I washed my hair last night so that's the start, we've got clean hair, fresh pyjamas,

my own bed, I'm not going to lie, the hotel bed, it wasn't great and I was showing it with Freddie and I'm not in my own environment,

the whole bed was like covered in pillows

because i was terrified he was going to fall out he

also didn't sleep well it was just do you know what the weekend was just unhealthy

and i'm just ready to feel fresh and light and

and healthy and put together right

so let's get back on track right fear not i know you weren't feeding

but fear not i found a toothbrush

and you might be like what do you mean you found

a toothbrush i actually was saying this ages ago this is not an ad

but it was gifted honestly probably at least a year ago.

Suri, never used it.

I'm just looking them up because I'm sure they were like something sustainable or whatever.

Like I said, this is not an ad.

4 times healthier it comes in just two weeks.

Plant -based brush heads.

Right, okay, that makes sense.

And it comes in a UV clean and charge case which kills the bacteria.

I'm not going to lie, we need to start putting our toothbrushes in sterilisers, like a baby steriliser because, you know um but yes plant -based brush heads

and it came with a bag so

when you get four toothbrush heads you put them in the bag

and send them away for free and they recycle them so um

right

that seems all like sustainable vibe charging stand usb cable i

have more usb cables than i want to right i clearly opened it and just not used it let me see

oh my vibe green right it's obviously not going to be charged oh it's charged

get my toothpaste i thought it was just going to be

a manual brusher hold on right this has just changed my morning

because i haven't brushed my teeth today's monday morning i'm not

going to tell you actually saturday night saturday night's the last time i brush it's disgusting right toothpaste paste.

I'm not gonna lie I do feel like we should all skip brushing our teeth every now

and then so that when you do brush your teeth it feels like this because my teeth have never felt so clean.

Thank God.

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Like I said not an ad, free ad for them.

love it freddie is asleep blake is i'm currently trying to clear out my wardrobe

and i've taken out all like old jewelry sunglasses like you know the bits accessories

if you will

and blake is currently walking around with two headbands on a necklace a big giant bracelet stack

and sunglasses and she's just like in no clothes just like living a wee life it's great okay step one Skincare,

done Teeth, done Hair is washed, I think we'll just do what we're going to do Because I don't really want to curl it, I don't want to put a lot of heat on it I think we're going to

Do a wee Dyson Airwrap And a wee bit of Hair Thickening Serum Just to

Just to look a bit more Put together, but I'd rather have a No makeup day Do you know what I want on?

Body lotion Why is it when you put body lotion on you instantly Just feel

i don't know like i naturally have quite dry skin

but i think it's also because i fake tan and i find

when i don't fake tan for a long period of time

and it's genuinely all away that my skin is fine

but as soon as i start regularly fake tanning again it gets

very dry not so much from the lotion that i used the other day like i used the loving tan lotion

and that doesn't um make it dry

but the actual mousse maybe it all like goes scabby i actually must admit the loving tan doesn't really do

that that's more like i don't know i don't know

which other brands that are um

but it doesn't really go scabby there's maybe tiny patches like where my dry skin is

but other than that anyway let's go body lotion and let's put on some comfy clothes

we're going to dice in the air wrap just a wee bit just

so there's a bit of something to the air call it a day

basically we're out and we were at Alton Towers at the weekend which

if you're not in the UK is a UK theme park we went for three days it was good fun but

um as you can imagine the food i mean it was fine

but it just i'm just really looking forward to my own

my own food um right about uh look how much look

what this does guys we're still trying to um grow the

hair out did i stick to a routine no i did not

but we are trying to grow the color out

and i don't know how i feel about it the more it grows out the more

I don't like it but I do and I don't I do

and I don't like I see old photos of myself with my hair brown

and I think oh no that's the way my hair's meant to look

but the more it grows out just now I don't know if it's because this is still light at the bottom

hair thinning defense scalp serum um absolute must postpartum absolute must

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if your hair's just thin like mine and i actually use the shampoo

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and conditioner of this as well so that is

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all working on the hair growth journey i mean i feel

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like the actual what's the word quality of my hair condition of my hair is great like it feels

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so healthy i was on a zoom call the other day

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and they're like oh your hair looks so healthy

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and i was like thanks

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because i've not bleached it in like a year actually i

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don't know how long it's been since i had my hair done but

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long enough long enough um

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but i do want to this is good this is great this serum

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because you can just like it's dry it doesn't make your hair greasy

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so you can do it when you've just styled your hair

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and go about your day go out do whatever you want

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and it doesn't look like you've actually put anything in

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which is fabulous it's what we want okay comfy clothes achieved freddy of the week

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which is not ideal but we're ready why does it just feel good to be fresh

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but fresh in your own house like it doesn't compare in a hotel it just does not compare

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and yes Blake gave me a nipple sticker it's not actually

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been a nipple sticker she just put it there um

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so yeah let's crack on with getting back on track starting with the next thing I eat which will be lunch

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but it's only 12 o 'clock

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it's also a holiday here by the way that's why I'm not sitting cranking out of work this is work

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but it's fun work so I'm just going to put this back in whilst, do you know this is why my hair's coming out

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or not growing because Freddie rips it out of my head he's got a thing about hair and he just, as I think all babies do

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and he just grabs it all the time pulls it all the time and it's like bro no Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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okay we're out and about right now

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and both my children have fallen asleep in the car

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which is fabulous I'm also vlogging on my phone

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because my camera is in the house I didn't plan to be vlogging my nails are

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so nasty um they're both asleep which I find such peace being in the car

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when both my children are asleep um I try

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and aim for it to be around about a nap time

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so that does happen um because it's literally the only it's gonna sound

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so bad it's the only time of day I get like

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half an hour to 45 minutes of just no children making noise

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and I love my children they are with me 24 7 literally um

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but I went into actually side note Freddie is going through

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I don't even want to say he's going through a clanging face

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because he's eight months old right of course he's going to be clinging to me

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but it's like to the point where if I leave the room he's ballistic

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if someone else takes something looking at me as

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if don't you dare go anywhere um

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and then last night for example I went to Lidl Lidl

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was a two minute drive from my house I was there

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actually timed leaving the house being in Lidl for like two things

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and coming straight back I was away for 11 minutes

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and I came back

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and Adam was like my god he just screamed the whole

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time um he need he just needed he didn't need me to be back it was crazy um he's definitely

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he's definitely a pure and it's cute though

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because like the other day for example I was sitting on the floor

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and he was like standing and like holding onto my shoulder

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and like looking at me as if going to just pick me up

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and it was weird

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because I will admit I was getting a bit annoyed right I was getting a bit frustrated

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because I was trying to do something

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and he was like hanging on to me and pulling at me

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and clinging me and I felt like I just needed like five minutes to do something

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and I could feel myself getting annoyed and I'm just going to say this

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because I feel like there might be other mums

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that are in the same situation and then you start feeling really guilty

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because you're like oh my god this baby just wants my attention

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and then Adam's like I know you're getting annoyed Steph he's like

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but this actually looks really cute it looks really cute

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that he's just like he just wants you

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so bad um he wasn't crying he was just like clicking onto me he's pulling at me as

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if please lift me up um and then I kind of did think

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that actually is really cute because that's going to vanish really really quickly

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but I went to Lidl last night

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and Adam asked me to get him an energy drink I personally don't drink energy drinks

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but he asked me to get one and I got ID'd

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which is so funny because you have to be what is it 16

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or 18 to buy an energy drink which comical I understand the alcohol one

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because it's I think it's challenge 25

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so you need to be 25 I know you don't have to be 25 you can get ID'd

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if you're under 25 or look under 25

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and that one like i totally understand that

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but the whole energy drink scenario i was i was laugh i was laughable laughable um

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because it's my birthday next month it's actually my birthday in

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like three weeks oh my god is he waking up oh yes it's my birthday in three weeks

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and i'm gonna be 33 which is crazy

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and not gonna lie i've been having a bit of a

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don't know what to do with my life that's not true i do know what went through with my life

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but i feel like i'm kind of at this

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sticking point of this is too big a conversation to have

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right now i feel long story short we were in california last year

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when i came back i was like i absolutely love america like i love it there's

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so many things i agree with something i don't agree with

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but the same here so many things i agree with in the uk

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and so many things i don't

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and i don't know there's just something about america it's just it's

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so vast i feel like the opportunity is wild i feel

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like the things to do like etc like there's just

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so much more going on over there and i've been feeling like scotland is

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so scotland is a beautiful right it's literally such a nice looking country

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when you go to the right parts like right now my

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view from where i'm sitting i'll show you in a second

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but it's i've been feeling like i'm in such a small

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don't say insignificant there's such a small place with limited opportunity

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and I don't know I just I don't know I've actually

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been feeling it for over a year I've been feeling it

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extra since we went to California I felt it in California

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when we came back from California like when we were leaving California both Adam

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and I were like I don't really want to leave yet

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like obviously we're on holiday we're doing fun things right different story

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but yeah we're very much like I don't want to leave yet

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and then when I came back I had california blues for like two months

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and then obviously you kind of just get back to reality

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and that's fine and then we obviously just went to florida last month no june may june june and

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it has not left me like i actually this one sounds so dramatic right so so so dramatic

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but i just have this like heaviness of like i need to go to florida

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and not to go to disney and not to go to Universal

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and not to be like on holiday

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but I would love to spend like three months

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and just like feeling it extra lately because we just came back from Florida

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and all I do now is I think it was my

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last video I showed you someone I've been watching I think

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her name's Greta Wilson I don't think that's her name she lives in Florida like her family

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and stuff and like all her friends they all live in Florida

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and I found her through a girl called Hannah

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because I was watching all our Disney stuff before we went to Disney

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and guys I have watched every one of her videos for like what she's posted in the last year

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because every breakfast time I sit

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and watch a YouTube video as I said in my last one

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and I'm just obsessed I'm just like oh my god imagine

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having a pool for one imagine it being a nice day

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and it being you have a pool in your back garden

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a that's amazing b I just feel like the stuff to

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do in Florida is insane um did I love the food in America I'm not gonna lie not really

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but I also feel like we didn't really go to the

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like the places you maybe go as a local we did a lot of touristy stuff

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so there's that oh why is he

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so chill he's i think he's just listening to me um

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but yeah total rant in this vlog like look at these nice hills that's lovely lovely jobly

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but where's the palm trees where is

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florida florida i'm definitely trying to focus on getting on track

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and i want to get a chat about it

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because i've definitely um i've developed some unhealthier habits

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that i'd rather not have i don't call them unhealthy habits because that sounds like i'm chain smoking or something but

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essentially adam and i get a chinese takeaway every second saturday right

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which is great perfect total balance right there um

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and there's not like an all the time thing it's like every two weeks

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and with that i was getting like a wee fanta

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or a wee something kind of fizzy juice wise soda pop whatever you want to call it wise um

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and that's fine right I have like literally two a month

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but then I started being like oh I'll just pick one up

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when I'm in the shop oh see before I knew it

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see for the past maybe three four weeks I have been having some kind of like fizzy drink at night

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and I have never drank fizzy juice in my life like I'm not a fizzy drink person

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and I feel like they're full of literal crap right they're literally just chemicals

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and I can and I've discovered

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that i've all of a sudden every night now i'm like oh i could go a little a little juice

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and i'm sitting drinking a can of juice not to judge

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if you do that right but it's

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because adam does it right he's a pepsi drinker every night

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he has a can of pepsi that's fine you do you i don't want to do

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that i personally don't want to be someone

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that like needs a fizzy drink right i just think

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that they're full of crap so that's also on my can i get back on track

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because i've definitely felt a bit just been like not with it

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and i've just been a bit off

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and i've definitely just kind of been sloppy with my nutrition

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and I've as I said I've not been to the gym any hot minute

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because of my back injury

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and I've all of a sudden developed this I want to drink physio like Fanta every night um

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and it's a pure habit thing and I think it's

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so interesting how things become habits so quickly and

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if something unhealthy can become a habit

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so quickly surely something that's healthy can also become a habit very quickly

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so um keep that in mind if you're trying to build habits

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if you just be consistent with them and do them over

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and over and over again eventually they will be in place

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and you'll absolutely love it

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so i did get sent these drinks this is again not an ad

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but i did get sent them um by trip so so far i've replaced

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it's like got magnesium in it no idea sugar cherry lemon there's a cherry lemon flavor

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and a wild strawberry flavor both are absolutely great and i even

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so i think i got sent six cans and i had them

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and even now i'm like i don't even want

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that you know i don't want even though it's got magnesium

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lion's mane lemon balm chamomile like it's not got horrendous ingredients

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i still just don't want it like i don't want to

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be sitting at night feeling like i need a juice before

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bed hi hi um especially breastfeeding you know i try

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and make sure like my diet's mostly nutritional

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because it's getting passed on um but yeah that's just my point for right now

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that if you have a habit um

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that is unhealthy you can get rid of it

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so you can restart a healthy one just as easy good morning from the person

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that says she'll never wear a slick back

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but she's trying on a hairband anyway so rudely interrupted

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but welcome to another day um i've just made pancakes for black

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and freddy i'm actually going to tell you exactly what's in them

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because it's the most simple thing ever um

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but my breakfast i've just made i ran out of strawberries i'm very sad about it

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but i got my porridge with almond butter also broke up a brazil nut in there

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which i actually think i might i don't want to say i'm intolerant to

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but i feel like anytime i eat brazil nuts i feel Bye, bye.

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bloated don't know if it's just a coincidence

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and then we've also got the protein iced coffee guys protein

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iced coffee till the day i die um i want you to actually start associating me with protein iced coffee

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and self -confidence

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because i want to give you self -confidence that's what i want you to achieve from my social medias

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but hi welcome to another day the sun is shining by the way don't know

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if you can tell the sun is shining um i really

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don't suit slack back I actually had like a pure go at slicked backs on Instagram the other day

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because I'm like do you not just feel like we're at a stage where everything is like so clean girl aesthetic

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slicked back hair and I'm like I will never slack back my hair into like a bun more

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so because I look like an alien like I don't suit it

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but my hair um it hasn't really lasted from washing it

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so it's needing a wash where did Freddy go he's absolutely

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on the loose by the way he's crawling around everywhere and

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but welcome to another day and welcome to breakfast with Steph

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if you guys are struggling to make healthy breakfast please just make porridge

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and a protein iced coffee it doesn't even take five minutes

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and you can even take it on the go

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if you really have to I'm going to be popping out this morning for a bit

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so I'm going to take my coffee in the car with me

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but the porridge like it's just so good why why is it

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so good if you need porridge recipes go to my app

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because i've got loads on there more like baked oats

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and overnight oats and things but a genuine just bowl of porridge guys i feel like goldilocks but it's great right

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you can't go wrong these pancakes right they're not they're not great for adults

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because they are very very plain right but if you have young children

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or baby freddie absolutely loves these blake loves these

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and this made eight so this is the second batch um

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so this is for tomorrow but freddy eats one of these

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and blake eats like the other three literally one cup of oats

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and one cup of oat milk and a bit of baking powder and then

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if it still looks a bit either runny add in like just tablespoons of flour at a time um

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or if it's too thick because it's weird sometimes it's one

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or the other if it's too thick just add splashes of oat milk in

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and you just get these perfect like pancakes they're like wee crumpets um

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but like that's all that's in them no sugar no like salt no anything um

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and that's two days worth of breakfast for the babies um

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but yeah freddy's eight months now

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so i cut all this up for him blake loves these she either puts peanut butter on them

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or just a bit of maple syrup

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and then she sometimes has yogurt on the side because

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that girl loves to eat i really want this

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but that's their breakfast for tomorrow i really hope i don't get cooperated right now

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because adam's playing guitar upstairs and there's music going at the same time

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but i made this sauce for dinner three days ago right

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and well this will be the third day of having it

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but it's lasted me three days and it's made my dinner

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so convenient so it's like it's kind of like a Thai red curry

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but it's not like a thick sauce it's more like a brothy thing to like pour over your dinner

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so I'm just going to quickly put cauliflower and tofu in a pan

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and then serve it with rice right long story short I have cauliflower

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and I've got a block of tofu and I'm literally going to stir fry this for like five minutes

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um and microwave some rice and then just heat up the sauce

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and pour it all over the top i'll show you what

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it looks like it's kind of like a brothy bowl

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and then i literally just going to top it with cucumber

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and spring onion it it saved me a hassle of trying

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to think of sauce all the time it's literally lasted three

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days it was an accident it wasn't supposed to last three

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days it was supposed to last like one dinner um for like two people

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but it made a huge match

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so here we are now i don't know how good this looks to you on camera right

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but you can see all the sauce under here cauliflower tofu stuff right my rice cucumber

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and spring onion oh my lime i need to get lime

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as well it's just it's like soupy saucy brothy i don't

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know it's just fab okay one habit we are actually trying to do

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while we're solo down

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and one habit we are trying to do is actually have

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dinner earlier i was finding we were sitting down to dinner anywhere between seven

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and half seven by the time it's finished it's like eight o 'clock put them straight in the bath

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and then like straight to bed basically and I just felt like

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that part of the evening was very rushed it's very unenjoyable very just like tick off dinner tick off bath

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and it's just I don't know it just wasn't like settling down it was very just like you know

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so I've started making dinner

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earlier so we're having dinner by like it's not even

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that much earlier but aiming for between six

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and half six also obviously like Adam and I eat late anyway

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which is fine

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but I wasn't really taken into account the fact the children went to bed at like half eight

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and freddy's like falling asleep in his high chair trying to eat spaghetti um

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so that wasn't going to work out for us um

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so we started making dinner so we have it between six

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and a half six it is now 6 45

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and we are going to go walk nothing crazy literally like 10 -15 minutes one way

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and then the 10 -15 minutes back i just want to

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do like 20 minutes after dinner just to get a bit

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of like fresh air about downtime get the food moving a wee bit as well

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because that was also another thing i was eating really late just rushing through the evening then just sitting down

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and it just felt like blah you know but blah

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so we're going to get ready just to go like a

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quick evening stroll it's also just like no phone time just downtime just chat

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and walk for 20 minutes like nothing wild so then

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when we come back we can do the whole bath time

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we'll have showers everyone in their pajamas do the whole read

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a book play around for a bit go to bed you

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know nothing wild nothing crazy it's not like a major new

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habit it's just let's eat dinner earlier to have a slower evening routine

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and when the weather permits go out a walk because it's nice

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and like bright and sunny right now

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and like I said we live in Scotland that's not always

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the case especially coming into winter that's not going to be the case um it's going to be raining

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and snowing and dark and blah but for now it's bright enough to walk so let's go

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We'll be right back.

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We'll be right back.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 402 sentences and 4944 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:02. The speaker talks fast, about 183 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/ (noun) — An action performed on a regular basis.
brush /bɹʌʃ/ (noun) — An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including…
asleep /əˈsliːp/ (adjective) — In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
juice /d͡ʒuːs/ (noun) — A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/ (adjective) — Characterized by, or conducive to poor health.
thick /θɪk/ (adjective) — Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
wash /wɑʃ/ (verb) — To clean with water.
bath /bɑːθ/ (noun) — A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
routine /ɹuˈtin/ (noun) — A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
disgusting /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/ (adjective) — Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
lemon /ˈlɛmən/ (noun) — A yellowish citrus fruit.
serum /ˈsɪɹəm/ (noun) — Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies…
rush /ɹʌʃ/ (verb) — To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (verb) — To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
clock /klɑk/ (noun) — A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

come back (verb) — To return to a place.
back in (verb) — To reverse a vehicle into a space.
come back from (verb) — To become successful, confident or effective again after an injury, setback, failure, embarrassment, etc.
come in /ˌkʌm ˈɪn/ (verb) — To enter.
go at (verb) — To try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task.
go out (verb) — To leave, especially a building.
go through (verb) — To travel from one end of something to the other.
grow out (verb) — To allow (something, often hair) to grow unimpeded.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 188 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, thick /θɪk/, bath /bɑːθ/, thin /ˈθɪn/, tooth /tuθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: brush /bɹʌʃ/, wash /wɑʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shine /ʃaɪn/, nutrition /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
Long words — get the stress right: sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like habit, brush, asleep.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	i've been having · i've been feeling · I've been watching
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been filled · I've cleaned · i've put
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	has been filled · was terrified · was gifted
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was showing · weren't feeding · was saying

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Phrasal verbs you will hear

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