What We Learned 1 Year Off of Hormonal Birth Control
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Hello guys, welcome back to another episode. I'm Taylor. I'm Sam. We are finally doing the long-awaited birth control update We get birth control updates If you didn't know we got off birth control a little over a year ago We give little updates all the time But people want to know more and more information and we didn't want to have like a full in-depth episode until we had the time Yeah, understand

Like shit under our belt. Yeah, because like a month from going off to a year is just like a lot different. And I was inspired to do this today because I woke up and it was that time of the month. And I was like, we should talk about being...

Being a woman today because and I just feel like really in tune with this episode as right as I'm sitting down now the cramps are starting to kick in. So it's just like dude that's me gonna be me in like a few days. Just period vibes. Yeah. Period vibes all around. I know. It's definitely crazy because even like six months ago.

I wouldn't even say I'd be able to have an episode about this because I just feel like I didn't know as much as I do now. Yeah, and we've had some different experiences too. Our journeys were different, so it's good just perspective on how it's really different for everybody. And we'll get into it and talk all of that later.

just our experience not like advice on what you should do but like like maybe some advice yeah we're not we're not like freaking hormone doctors like this is just like for if you want to do it this is what we went through for the first year and you can kind of use that to make your decision yeah i did also want to say that too because like

Everything that we do on our podcast has been for the most part our experiences with things. So just keep in mind, we've never really had guests on like we haven't had guests on in a while to give like an expert opinion on things. So with everything that we say, just a reminder, it's our experience. It's what we've gone through. We're just trying to be as real as possible, giving our experience. So if that's going to persuade you to do one thing or another, make sure you also put in actual resources with it. Yeah, we're just.

Speaking from experience. Because I think a big problem with the going off birth control, some people are taking it like everyone's saying, like, get off your birth control all willy-nilly. Like, just being like, oh, get off. And it's like, that's not what we're saying. And people are like, it's really harmful what people are doing. Yeah.

But at the end of the day, you deserve to make informed decisions about your body. So here are two real girls telling you the ins and outs of what happened on birth control versus off birth control. So yeah, we will get into that and it'll be awesome. I think for our podcast in general, rule of thumb, this is not a podcast for you to learn hardcore facts. No. This is a podcast for you to...

Get a life understanding from two girls in their 20s going through the same shit as you. If you look at the new description of our show that I wrote, I know I'm like the best author ever. It says like a funny, not so serious self-development show because we want to help you guys be the best. But we're just fucking what the fuck do we know? I know. I wanted to feel like just girls in our 20s. Like if you went to your big sister and like asked. Exactly. That's what we're doing over here. If you are unaware, like what this show is, that's what it is.

Exactly. And if you like that, rate us five stars. Because we have all these conversations with our girlfriends too. It's just like we might as well just record it. Yeah, 100%. So yeah, but without further ado, what's one thing about you? Dude, I didn't even... I was thinking about this like as we were studying. I was like, fuck, usually I come prepared with these things and I'm not prepared. So you can go first. As always, I feel like there's just so many things going on. But I think one thing about me in this new...

I feel like when seasons change there's like a new like goal. I don't know how to explain it. Like summer it was like

We're having fucking fun. Like, especially the first half of the summer, we were, like, balls to the walls. Not necessarily just... There was just, like, we had a boat every weekend. Like, it was, like, how can we have the most amount of fun in this band? Like, how can we have the most amount of fun ever? Which is, like, 10 out of 10 amazing. Like, summer in Austin was one for the books. Like, this was the coolest summer fucking ever. But now I'm, like, it's fall. Like, going into winter. Like, time at home with family. I'm really in my, like...

self-growth season like for the fall like I'm doing like on my TikTok like

like I'm turning 23 next month. Like I'm doing like a globe with me for my 23rd birthday, like getting things done. Like for my body, I want to like, everyone's talking about journaling, might start journaling. I'll try. I don't think I'll like it, but I'm going to give it a shot before I say I don't like it. Um, really, really, really getting back into my reading. I still keep reading. I've never gone like a week without reading. I just go slower and now I'm kicking into high gear. Like I started a book two days ago. I'm like halfway done. Like I'm

kicking it into high gear with the the like so you be devastated with yourself if you don't hit your buckle a little bit because like I've kind of prepared like I have a little bit of time left like if I go balls to the walls I know I can it's like it's my own self-discipline the reason I'll be mad with myself is because I could have done it yeah you know what I mean like it's my own kind of wrongdoing the reason I'm not super mad about it um

is I also didn't expect to like get a job and also read 50 books. So it's like I've been like productive in other areas. But it's like I know at the end of the day like it's my own doing if I don't do it and that sucks. But my last goal was literally like I think the most books I've ever read in a year is like 12. So to jump from like 12 to 50 like you get in the 40s like that's a big thing.

improvement and like 40 something books a year is a fucking ton and some people read like 100 but i'm just like in my in my fucking self-developed like did you see that one clue i when i did a q a on my instagram story like last week someone commented book recommendations and i'm just thinking to myself i'm like you got the wrong fucking girl who are you asking so i just respond back and go i've only ever read spark no spark note books that's the only thing i've ever read

yeah um i'm i'm also reading real books i bought like a paperback book not on my kindle because i needed something you know you need it's kind of like anything in life you kind of need to switch up a routine to like get re-excited about something yeah and i feel like when i got a kindle i was like i'm so excited about this i got a kindle so i read it a lot and now i'm like i don't want to like like i want a real book it's like if i want to really go head first into a routine i need a

switch something up yeah to get like re-excited so i got a real paperback book and i read it i'm reading it really fast it's really good it's called the missus degree found it on tiktok it's really good i guess my one thing about me is kind of similar but more in the sense of i just can't wait to this is like thinking like a few months from now but i'm just so excited to hopefully buy a house this coming year i know the fucking interest rates are like

so bad right now, but I just can't wait to like start really investing into my like longevity life, like buying like, cause I don't, I've been wanting to buy things for this house. I'm like, there's no fucking point. Cause like six months from now I'm going to move out and then it's like, what am I going to do? Like pack it all up or like just get rid of like something that's like we have right now. I don't know. So I'm just very excited. It's hard to buy new stuff that you don't know where it's going to be.

Like I don't want to buy something. For instance, the bar cart that like I kind of made a small makeshift one. I really was like surfing the web, found like really nice ones. But I'm like, what if I move into a house in six months and then it doesn't fit in the spot that I want it or I want something a little bit different. So I'm just I cannot wait. I feel that. I don't know. It's maybe because I have a boyfriend now and I'm just like. It is your like nesting. Yeah. You're like, I want to create.

Like a life for myself. But I think that's very normal. I'm like that too. I think I'll thrive when I'm like 30. I can't wait to be like settled down. I'm like, I'm 22. I did my time. Yeah. Give me...

Give me a white picket fence and a family. But I was at an antique store and there was the most beautiful sets of like serving dishes and cups. There was random shit. Like there was these gold, like heavy, nice seashell, like bookends. I was like, oh my God, if I had a home. I was like, I would love those.

Like I was like I would buy so much in here Because it was just like such nice I was like I'm obsessed Like there was these beautiful just like pictures And matching plates I was like I'm obsessed But I was like I'm not buying this right now But I was like well if I had a home I would have done damage in this fucking antique store Another thing too is my fucking comforter I had to finally throw it away because Our washer destroyed my comforter And was ripping it apart And I want to get the bed threads Sets but they're like $600 And

I was like, dude, I don't know if I can get that right now because what if I'm moving to a house and then I want to completely redo my room? I just... I find myself catching...

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What is your favorite of the week? So my favorite of the week is... Sorry, let me un-slack. My favorite of the week is something I'm like late to. Not late to the trend. It's like been known that was like trendy, but I finally...

got them the gold like drop earrings I'm wearing my tiny ones now I have a bunch of different shapes and sizes they're like based they're the dupes for like the bottega ones are really popular but now everyone makes them the ones I have that are big and these like little ones are lovers and friends on revolve but the big ones like instead of hoops like these like big like gold like drop earrings are so fucking pretty I'm obsessed and I

I just love them. And I literally have like a million sizes of them. And the big like drop earrings are my life. And they're beautiful. I'm going to go the opposite. Ready? My favorite of the week is silver jewelry. Silver jewelry. I'm not wearing silver jewelry right now. So don't fucking say you're not even wearing it. It is having a moment for real. It really is. So at ACL, I was wearing on Sunday all silver jewelry on Sunday. Okay.

I was like fuck I haven't worn silver jewelry in forever I love this so I just bought a bunch on Amazon I need to get silver jewelry because it's having a moment it is I just need to build the collection because my gold collection is massive and I was like I don't have I don't have necklaces silver necklaces so I was like

I like mixing metals too. I've been loving the mixing metal look people are doing. I even, so Danielle Carolyn from like Gals on the Go is so trendy. Like she knows everything and she was on their podcast. She was talking about how the new trend right now, she's like, you'll see people start to do it. Like it's a thing. People are doing it. It's those big gold drop earrings. They're not only gold. They have them in silver. Those big drop earrings, people are doing a silver and a gold.

uh but it's like what people i would look at someone and be like did you accidentally no i think she said that she said that to someone oh and they were like no it's like on purpose like it's like a thing like and it's apparently i think it's so funny when people are on the pulse of like this is what people are going to start doing and then people start doing it you're like oh weird but mixing metals is very in right now like people are always just like have like a bunch of rings on and they're like i can see with rings but having one gold earring and then one silver earring is a

big stretch but it's apparently it's apparently in the trend but like rings like necklaces that like have two-tone like two-tone jewelry like yeah the earring itself i have a few rings that are like that um i think that's a good vibe um and something i want to do but i agree about the silver jewelry i've only worn gold especially going into winter with like the darker tones

I think silver is going to be really in. Last time I bought a bunch of silver jewelry is literally for New Year's because the outfit I was wearing, I needed silver jewelry and I didn't have any. So I went to Francesca's real quick, bought a bunch. And ever since, have not worn it until this past Sunday. Not this past Sunday, but two Sundays ago for ACL. So, yeah.

Cool. Hot gossip. Hot gossip. Okay, so obviously we keep updating Travis and Taylor. I'm like more and more obsessed with them by the fucking minute. Dude, I can't even keep up with it anymore. Her at the last game, obsessed. Like she was having so much fun. So cute. Like her watching him. Like they like seriously seem together together like more and more by the minute. Like she seems, they're so cute. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed.

I literally have no comment on it. I feel like I say the same shit every week, to be honest. I'm just letting y'all know I'm obsessed. As it goes on, I'm like, yep.

I'm obsessed. We'll send them, I guess. But did you see Pete Davidson and Madeline Klein are dating? Haven't they been dating for a while? I had no idea. Did not know until I saw like paparazzi photos drop of them on TikTok. And I was like... Pete Davidson dates everybody. How the fuck did they meet? I don't understand. Pete Davidson literally dates everyone. I don't get it. Would you... If he was a random Joe Schmo, would you date him? I wouldn't. Yeah, but like personality is what gets me. I feel like you would date him. Pete Davidson...

Kind of like... Stop. I know what you're going to say. It gives me similar vibes to your boyfriend. I guess. It's not that they look alike. No, I know. They just give me similar vibes. Personality. Right. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. He's going to listen to this and be like, what are you talking about, Taylor? I feel like Pete Davidson is great in bed.

maybe i think that's the that's the take like that's what it is but like how do you date kim kardashian dude that's what i'm saying like madeline klein imagine dating pete davidson and then being like imagine that's his ex-girlfriend that's crazy my jealousy issues could never i don't i just i don't understand how these girls do it like your ex-girlfriend is kim kardashian who else is he dated

Ariana Grande yeah fuck Ariana Grande is weird right now dating she is so weird dude spongebob guy but also I feel bad because she made a tiktok recently saying that she's struggling with an eating disorder and all this stuff oh yeah yeah that's really sad everyone was giving her so much shit in the comments I'm like you guys are so mean yeah no nothing about the way she looks concerns me and people are really coming at her for the way she looks it's more just like the relationship thing he was like a married man and then she just like

Yeah, she just seems like she's fully going through it. Yeah. Like every aspect. I agree. But poor girl. Poor girl. Poor girl for real. Another thing, this is so random, but on I don't listen to Not Skinny, Not Fat, but I saw clips that Charli D'Amelio was on it. And then like she was saying how like she doesn't drive and like she never drives anywhere. And like her boyfriend Landon like doesn't even have his license. Just made me think like that's such a crazy way to live.

yeah can you imagine like she's like so you don't like she's like you have drivers like work thing she's like yeah yeah someone will drive me and she's like what if you wanted to go like to air one pick up food what do you do she's like i don't do that like you order it she's like i don't i don't leave the house and i'm like oh my god what also i realize i don't know if our one guy friend listens to this but one of our guy friends doesn't drive

Really? Yeah. Like, doesn't have a license? No, he has his license, but he just refuses to drive anywhere. Why? I don't know. I meant to ask him this weekend. Oh my god, if I started dating a guy and he didn't drive, I would get so icked. Yeah, but... Yeah, I don't know. That just made me realize. You gotta fill me in on that. Because I meant to ask him this weekend. I was like, oh, why do you just not drive anywhere? That's so weird. But...

No, there was fucking something else that I wanted to say and now I can't remember. Because we were sitting downstairs, like, drinking our coffee and I was like, I'll just ask her in an hour when we podcast and now I can't remember. No. I know. You didn't write it down? You always write down. I know. Dude, I didn't write anything down this week. You always write it down. I know. I always have a fucking list. The news is very serious right now, so it's hard to see and find, um...

like stupid news for us to talk about but i mean our fucking weekend this week are we good we got a lot to talk about so fun so let's just stop wasting time i guess and if you think about it um

pop on in and say it. Yeah. I'm going to start with Thursday, though, because we had kickball again, and kickball was so fucking fun. Kickball was fun. I went to doubleheader kickball game. Now, our team is obviously our entire friend group, and a lot of the other teams are just random ass people that get together and play together, and they just don't look like the vibe that we're bringing when we show up. You guys are also, age-wise, way younger than us. Way younger. Yeah. Way younger. We're like young 20s. Everyone else is...

Yeah. So I just didn't realize how much fun kickball was going to be. I was kind of like against it at the beginning. I was like, fuck, my boyfriend's doing it and then all my friends and they keep asking me if I'm going to do it. I'm like, fine, I'll do it. But we literally won, I think, 17 to 2 this game. And I'm sorry, but...

People were saying, oh, you guys are being so mean. Soften up on the team. All this stuff. Don't be so loud. Stop screaming. Because we were crazy, having so much fun. We're not even standing in the dugout. We're outside the dugout on the side. It's not that deep. It's not that serious. But I'm sorry. We are in our 20s. I'm not going to lighten up just because...

somebody else is upset that they're losing because it's not that deep and it's not like like if i'm losing six year old if i'm losing 17 to 3 i'm not gonna be like can you guys please lighten up on us like oh my god yeah like it's just it's just not that deep like we were having so much fun and i just can't i can't believe people get so worked up about sports i

Especially just being grown. Exactly. And it's not a joke league because there is going to be a playoff championship game and stuff. But it's funny to me. It is, yeah. They're fun to watch. They're fun to... I thought I was going to get the ick so hard watching my boyfriend play kickball. He's good at it. No, he's good at it, but I thought I was going to get the ick watching him. Which, to be fair, I kind of do get the ick because he's the only one that wears cleats. Which is so weird because...

um the like other team that i watch everyone wears everyone wears cleats and the one person that doesn't is always fallen yeah so i almost fell a few times he fell twice everyone wears cleats on the other team round like going around the base that's when i like slow down and like i'm like running like like i'm surprised you guys like do well without cleats like everyone else wears cleats yeah i have turfs turf cleats but those are so fucking different i just don't really feel the need to go out of my way to buy another pair of shoes

But yeah, he wears cleats and he stretches like hardcore. He's the only one that stretches like hardcore. Like his groin. He kicked two home runs though. I know he did. He did get two home runs. I know. He's going to listen to this right now being like, yeah, Taylor's got my back for once. Well, I'm just saying like he's the most prepared and he did kick two home runs. So like,

got to give credit where credit's due like it works yeah and so I've been pitching every single game which I thought was going to be like the scariest thing ever which it's not I I like pitching because honestly I'd rather be pitching than on the bases having to worry about throwing it and like catching it and all that stuff and I don't want to be in the outfield either because I feel like they don't get that much action back there so I like pitching yeah

Well, on Thursday, I just watched the games. Yeah. And also, update on Mac's race. That's tomorrow, so I don't have a little recap on that, unfortunately. So it's going to be tomorrow. Next week, you'll get the full recap. And I'll vlog it, too, on TikTok, so that way you guys get a live update on how Mac does on his race. Very exciting. And then Friday. How was your Friday? My Friday was spent with some friends. What did I do first? We went to this bar in Austin called Nickel City Bar.

for halloween they do it like the simpsons it's like moe's tavern everything is simpsons themed really cool took forever to get drinks really kind of pissed me off whatever and then left there like chill vibes wasn't like a going out rage vibe it was just a socialized go home vibe then we stopped to get food because it was only 5 30 when we got there we went to like a food truck and

Like a random little Mexican food truck. Not like a cool trendy one. Just like a random one. And it was really good. I got chicken there. Chicken. Got meat. Ate it. I mean, it was good. But nothing I've eaten has been like, oh my god, how have I been missing this? Yeah. It's like, whatever. It's just more the benefit of all that fucking protein you've been missing out on. No offense. And then...

Met up with some friends at like 8.30, so like time to kill. Went to TLC on South Lamar. Isn't TLC a TV show? It's a channel. Oh, channel. TLC, Tender Loving Care. Dude, what shows are on that? Well, TLC is the learning channel, but TLC is like my 600-pound line. Oh, okay, yeah. Now I understand. Okay, but TLC is a place on South Lamar, which on Instagram, like I thought it was so different than what it is. First of all, it's easy. Oh, catfished?

Kind of. Oh, I don't like that. Kind of. But like it was empty. It was empty. But like some friends wanted to go there because they were doing dollar oysters. Oh, sick. But golf oysters. Oh, yeah.

The waiter was like, do you want the dollar ones or do you want the good ones? Oh. Like. Basically saying like, you should get the good ones. Yeah, but they were like, we want the dollar ones. But just got like one drink there and it was good. Like, just like hung out, shoot the shit, gossip, gossip. Oh my God. Like big gossip weekend. Like harmless gossip. But just like. Oh, I love gossiping. But just like, especially when it concerns you, literally not at all. Like it doesn't affect your life, but you just get to hear it all. People that are like.

I hate people that gossip. Get out of my face. What do you talk about then? Like, we're all having fun. Yeah. And it's like, if you're not saying anything... You're not saying anything malicious. You're not saying anything...

You're not spreading rumors. You're not making out anything mad. Like, there's drama and you need to discuss it. Okay? Like, and... I think the most fun part about doing gossip is, like, predicting what things may be. Yeah. Like, you talk about, like, the, oh, what if? Or, I think it's this. Or, I think it's that. Yeah. I love doing that. If you remember a few episodes ago, I mentioned how there was someone I ended up meeting who was on this reality TV show. And on the TV show, she's the biggest villain ever.

ever and when I found out and put it together that it was her fucking freaked but I could never bring it up to anyone I'd ask like Jonah I'm like can I tell can I bring this up I'm like I need to know if like they know because there's one girl I'm kind of closest with and she's close to her so it's like I need to ask her I need to ask her and he'd be like don't like don't bring it up and I'm like oh but I have to and then finally at this like dinner she wasn't there but like people that know her were there and I forgot how it got brought up but it was like

can we please fucking talk about this girl on this show i know the huge elephant in the room we need to discuss who's seen it and what like i was talking about like how they found out and like the one girl closest to her is like i haven't seen it i was like you need to watch it bro like you have to watch it dude if one of my best friends was on a tv show i would be the first to watch she was like she said she just heard so many bad things you didn't want her to like get a bad narrative yeah and i was like but to be fair like in the show she's like perfectly nice to the girls and like you're never gonna date her yeah like

doesn't really consider like the girls on the show have no problem with her like so it's fine but like it was just so much like can we finally fucking talk about the fact that we all know about this and like what do we do about it like does she know like can we talk about it in front of her like what's the vibe

um it was actually a show that you actually do get real so you get married on the show and it actually is a real marriage and the show was like a year and a half ago and it the paperwork to get it annulled just got through like last week so she's been married this whole time jeez fuck that yeah so she's been i would never go on a show that ended in a marriage so just in case maybe you see some of these shows and you're like are they actually married it was real paperwork

I would never do that. It was real paperwork. But yeah, so like a lot of that. And then we went to Gibson Street Bar right across the street on Lamar. They do like Christmas bar, I think like all year round, but it was Halloween this time. Really cool decorations inside. Very Halloween stuff, but decorations like Halloween decorations low-key scared me and I was like, I don't want to go in there. But like they weren't scary. I'm just like,

a little bitch. Like, I don't like a clown statue. No, neither do I. Like, get away from me. Like, I just don't like it. But I did get over it. And then we got these drinks, which we were kind of like, that was the whole point. We're like, we're gonna go to this Halloween bar and get Halloween drinks. The drinks were god-awful, nasty, disgusting. If you go there in Austin for Halloween, don't get the Halloween ones. Like, they're, like, kind of pre-made. They were gross. Were they gross because of the coloring in it or because of the alcohol? No, it was, they were so sweet. I don't even, like,

so sweet they must have for the coloring because i saw the pictures of them use sweetener for the coloring so like it literally said like pineapple like ginger beer like we thought we ordered like pineapple moscow mules from like the description it was like ginger beer like vodka we're like oh that'd be good it was literally like the sweetest like fake pineapple juice you could ever get in your life

And like that's it. Like it literally tasted like if you melted a bunch of like Starburst and drink them or like melted like Lifesavers and drink them. Grody. And I was like, oh, like I was like, this is disgusting. Like it was almost like hard to swallow because it was like sugar. I was like, this is gross. Like it was like if you drank those the whole night, you would wake up.

puking everywhere. And then I finally fucking went home because yeah you got home like at like 1130. I really wanted to get out of there earlier. It was kind of just like a standard like we're really doing much. So I was like

I mean, I was asleep by then anyway. Yeah, but it was easy. It wasn't like a go out, go crazy night. It was just like, shoot the shit. Yeah. So my Friday, I got my hair done, which has been this saga. Dude, this has been a whole ordeal. And even today waking up and it's been now what? Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. So it's been four days. I need to go back in and like get it fixed because it just I spent $300 on this fucking hair and it's not what I wanted at all.

It kind of is, but not really. Like the red undertones you can see in the light, but it's just still so light. I literally went in there, showed her. It's so dark. Yes. You said light. Oh, sorry. So dark. I went in there showing her inspo photos of an espresso brown with red undertones. And I walked out of there with jet black hair.

With red undertones and it's so dark and I just knew because I used to get dark hair like this back like last winter and I just knew going into the winter like I just didn't want this. I looking at the photos of myself from last year. I'm like, I never want to go that dark again. Um,

I wanted to keep like the kind of ground that I had. And I'm like, I was freaking out. It doesn't help that I'm in my luteal phase. So I'm fucking emotional about everything. Which we're going to talk about. Yeah. And I'm literally after getting my hair done on Friday, which I was in that chair for like three and a half hours because she had to do foils and stuff to get the undertone to pick up because my hair is so dark. You have to like, it's a long ass fucking process and a lot of money to leave with what you don't.

want yeah so i'm a back home she never she didn't even style my hair for me i don't like when she styles my hair because like i like doing it myself i'm married you don't like your hairless stylist no i like whoops i like her but i don't know thanks i just i don't know i maybe i'm just not comfortable enough to tell her hey like i mean i kind of get that because i mean i won't tell anyone i don't like anything ever but um

What I'm confused about is if she did your jet black hair before, why'd she do the same exact thing she did when you asked for something different? That's what I'm not understanding. I'm not a hairstylist, so I don't know. But I just feel like... We literally had the conversation last time over the summer when I got the money pieces, balayage, partial highlights. I said, I'm trying to go lighter. And then she just fucking... We had this whole conversation. Yeah, so that's...

Definitely crazy. It's kind of a stressful job to do hair, though. I know. Like, putting all these, like...

chemicals on someone's hair and like people's hair is such a big like if they don't like their hair you fuck i've never felt like this too like i've always left like liking it it doesn't look bad i know which is i think when when you say you don't like it people are kind of confused like what's wrong and it's like it doesn't look bad it looks no it looks fine it's just not what i wanted or anticipated having so it's like and i've never felt like this so

At the end of the day, like, it's not fully her fault. Like, maybe there was miscommunication or whatever, or I should have before I left that fucking chair. I've been like, it's too dark. Because she did say to me when I was leaving, like, I could tell on her face, her facial expressions, that she kind of, like, fucked up. Because she kept reassuring me that I could come in in a few days and get a touch up. So she knows. And I'm like, why would you say that if I haven't even said anything? I kept saying how, like, oh, like, it looks so good. It looks so good. Like, I never said anything before.

She was like, oh, don't worry, don't worry. Like, in the light, you'll see the red undertone. Don't worry, don't worry. Like, and if you don't like it, like, come in. I'm like, why are you saying that so much? Okay, so she knows. Yeah. How light do you want it? Do you want it, like, the... As, like, the... Well, how... Like, the darkest part of my hair color? No, like, how my brown was before I got my hair done. Like, I wanted it, like, where my roots were. Like, how, like... Because I had, like, those pieces, and it was, like, a little bit lighter on the ends. But I wanted it, like... Like, if you look at fucking...

I don't know. But, yeah, I wanted it much lighter. So... And everyone keeps saying, just keep washing it, keep washing it. I'm like, I've washed it twice now. But also, I feel like you should leave the salon with what you want. Like, not like, oh, but wash it out. Yeah. Because, like, my toner washes out, too. I leave the salon with my hair really dark, and then it washes out, and I kind of don't like it. I want it to stay the way it looks in the salon, and it does wash out. But...

I don't get leaving and being like, oh, but go wash it out. Like, no, that's why I came here and got my hair done. I know. I know.

Definitely really interesting and that's really unfortunate. Yeah. So we will see what I end up doing later in the week. So I ended up leaving the salon being in like I'm like I was having a fucking breakdown. I almost was crying but I was like Sam don't fucking cry. People are dying. Dude like literally you little fucking pussy don't cry. So I'm like standing there looking in the mirror like taking selfies like trying to reassure myself like oh Sam it looks so great. It looks awesome. Like take these selfies. And then my boyfriend comes over and he's like you got your hair done. Couldn't even notice.

No, that. So he got me like flowers and stuff and I instantly just like started smiling. But then I was like, I just need to warn you. Like, I fucking hate my hair right now. He's like, what do you mean? He was like, he goes, I just don't really notice. Like, it looks great. It looks great. I was like, no, like, you don't understand. Like, this is not what I wanted. Blah, blah, blah. So then we ended up going and getting food. We went to Samarato's food truck. It's a New York City based owner for a pizza truck. They move locations and it's in this really nice little food place.

Truck court thing that has now wine live band. It's so cute I think I want to do that more often if i'm ever craving pizza and get a bottle of wine because we didn't get a bottle of wine I knew friday. I did not want to go out or do anything crazy I wanted to stay in acl was literally four days ago. Like I was on my deathbed on monday Like it's only been four days. I want to stay in and

And we just went back watched movies and I literally fell asleep before taylor got back and I had to ask her the next morning I'm, like when did you get back? I didn't even know you were here Yeah, I was like, I didn't even know you were here. I was long gone passed out And the reason I also stayed in was because saturday morning was the start of my run journey So yeah, that's crazy. So saturday morning Um, I had tons of like appointments not tons. I had three. I had three appointments on saturday. I kind of

Had a million things I needed to go do. So I did them all on Saturday, like had quite the self-care day. I got a massage at the domain because it was like a reach out thing. Like, hey, we'd love to get you for you to come into this for this. I was like, amazing.

Did some like lymphatic drainage around like my neck and like all of that and just like felt really good. Got myself a Starbucks in the domain and then I drove to a chiropractor appointment and got adjusted for the first time. He was shocked that I'd literally never been before and I have scoliosis and my back is literally always on fire. So going in three weeks and

um and i'm gonna keep going with that because i think i just need fucking back help um i had one person tell me a horrible experience with a chiropractor and it literally scarred me from ever going to a chiropractor but it was really not bad and i was really scared for him to pop my neck i was like the neck popping and cracking like really scares me i crack my own neck but the way they like do it so quickly so quickly i'm like that really freaks me out and he was like okay and then he was kind of like

behind me like he was like i'm just gonna do some muscle work and i was like are you are you gonna crack my neck he was like are you okay if i crack your neck can i and i was like yeah just like like bringing me out and he was like it's really gonna be fine he's like you crack your own neck i'm like all the time he's like you're literally gonna like it and i'm like okay can we talk about how your chiropractor also called you out yes i will tell you that

And so I'm literally like, okay. And he did it and it was actually so gentle. Like it was fine. He's like, see, that was not bad. I was like, okay, you're right. And just like the way everything cracked, like he literally like rolled me over, put one hand under me and every single vertebrae in my back cracked. And I was like, guys, I have exercises that I have to do. And I just want to not have scoliosis pain fucking forever because I'm fucking sick of it. Yeah. For real. So I'm at this chiropractor appointment and I'm like,

to me i'm being like more than lovely like i'm talking like he kept asking me if i had questions but i kept being like no because i don't know like i don't know what i don't know i was like i don't know usually for me questions come after like if i do something right he just kept asking me do you have questions i'm like no because i don't i literally have no idea what's going on like i need to like ask things happen i'll have questions but i have quite literally no idea what you're about to do i just kind of need to

to see to do it like i don't know um so that's like i didn't i never had questions oh i had some questions but yeah i'm like i don't i don't know um but like we're literally just talking like we're talking about like i knew people that like go there like literally to me being normal and i was a little nervous because like i mean you're just getting really all up close with someone and they're like touching like popping your spine like something that's very like delicate a little like

maybe. But he was like, are you introverted by nature? And I was like, pardon? I was like, is that like obvious? Like, I thought I was just like enjoying my work. He was like, yeah. He's like, I'm like that too. But like, yeah, it is. And I was like, like the audacity this man had to ask if you were introverted by nature. I was like,

I was like right okay it's like kind of a weird thing to say I don't mind it because I so then when I said I was like I like just learned to embrace it like he was like embrace it as if I should like work on it and I'm like okay I've worked on it a lot from where I started like move to a new place like I used to like not be able to order at restaurants like I can go to things by myself like I have worked on it but I'm also to the point where like I'm content with how I am as a person and I'm not gonna like

change how I am as a person. Yeah. Like I had to change the certain things like I said that I can function as a person in society. Yes. And like speak and like ask a waiter for ketchup. You know what I'm saying? Like I can do that now. But it's like as a person like I don't really take it as an insult because I'm like yeah that's how I am. And I'm okay with it. And I'm not going to like I don't need to be different. Like that's that's how I am. That's my personality. I'm content that way. I'm myself. Like

whatever like I don't really take it like as super insulting because he was just kind of like oh I'm like that too and I was like he wasn't just like because he said that it wasn't so much of like a I didn't feel like he was trying to offend me I feel like someone would look at me and be like are you extroverted by nature I would feel insecure dude I'd be like are you telling me you want me to shut up I mean yeah maybe but like

But I guess it depends on like tone. Because I think someone could say like, oh, you're very extroverted and say it with a tone that's coming off positive that you can tell they're complimenting you. Yeah. Okay. Got you. I guess that's facts. I think it would depend on like tone. I guess in certain times it'd be like, so you want me to shut the fuck up? Yeah. I'm talking too much. But I think if I told someone, oh my God, break everything. I know. Fuck. Jeez. I think if I told someone like, oh my God, you're so outgoing. Like I would mean it as a compliment and not.

like they should shut up yeah um but yeah I just thought that was funny but I'm kind of it's part of what I said about my one thing about me just like kind of figuring out myself and like I don't know I'm just gonna be the point that like if that's just how I am like I'm okay just being how I am yeah like I can be how I am it's fine

Yeah, but it was a definitely interesting call out and I got my nails done because the nail saga journey was Awful i'd like no time to get my nails done and I got little nubs and i'm so happy with them This is gonna be the first time in a while that we both talk about our saturday together I know thank god. I know but saturday morning is my start of my run journey My boyfriend and I decided once a week because now it's getting cooler. We're gonna start running which

To be fair, we ran and it was like a 90 degree day. Yeah. So I don't know. But I mean, the humidity slash like the UV index has gone down tremendously over the last few weeks. So we started running. We're going to do three miles each week. We're going to work up to consistently running more. So we started off with running a mile and a half. What? This is the most hilarious update ever. So like I just got a text from the chiropractor office. Oh, God. Oh, God.

Hi, Taylor. This is the doctor from the chiropractor. It was such a pleasure meeting a fellow introvert. How are you feeling after our first meeting? Shut the fuck! God! One, he heard us speaking. Two, he's obsessed with the fact that you're introverted. I know. Dude.

He's trying to get it. Low key. Okay, that was just so funny that that just happened. That's so funny. Jeez. Well, anyways, my boyfriend and I are starting our run journey. I started off by running a mile and a half. I was so nervous to do this just because I haven't run outside like that in could not tell you how long. I can do it on the treadmill. I've done workout classes every now and then, which every now and then is like a fucking...

dramatic but I have run on treadmills before and so it's a mental game for me I knew that but going into it with my boyfriend next to me I kind of knew I couldn't stop so we ran a mile and a half walked for a quarter mile and then finished out the three miles and then we ended up walking for another like 45 minutes so at the end of the day I think we did about like four or five miles

And it felt great, but each week we're going to consistently work up to running a full three miles. So we did a mile and a half, and then next week we're going to add another quarter mile and just keep going up and up and up. And hopefully as we're doing that, it's going to get cooler out so my lungs will not hate me as much. But it was not bad. I enjoyed it. And so what I'm going to do is Barry's class once a week and then run on Saturday just to give my...

like heart health, like it needs it. Just a goal. I know. It's also fun to have a goal. Yeah. And I've just, like I've said over the last few weeks on this podcast is that I'm just struggling to figure out what the fuck I like to do. And I think I will find more interest in just changing up my daily form of exercise every day. So solid core, various classes, going on walks with friends and going to the gym, just a mix of everything. And I'll

enjoy it so much more in 2020 I was a runner girly for real for real and I got up to by five miles that was my goal I did my five miles without stopping finished the whole thing and then stopped yeah I was like well I did it and I was like done now I'm not gonna do six and the whole literally did five and then stopped and it was a fun

It was very rewarding. It is super rewarding. It was really rewarding. I would do like this loop around the park and I did like five loops of this like mile loop. And when I finished, I was like, holy fuck, dude. It's like a mental rewarding. Like, fuck yeah, I'm capable of anything. And it's mentally, it's very mentally taxing because you can run. Right now, you can run five miles. You can. Yeah. But like getting your body to like,

like allow you to do it because you can yeah like you're physically capable but you don't like your body's gonna tell you to stop i will say though running in just a neighborhood through the streets fucking sucks a good amount of our run required to run to get to the trails and i was like oh my god running on a street sucks over quarantine i'd take it to the track i'd go to a high school um i'd go to the track at a high school all the time no

I could not. Why? Running in a circle? I just like the whole, this is the exact. And it's easier on my, I have my ankles and my knees get so, they're so sensitive to what I'm running on. The track is the best place for me to run. You should get a Hoka's, dude. I felt like I was running on clouds. I'm getting, I just got one pair of sneakers from...

Victoria's Secret sent me this amazing fucking package and I had two pairs of shoes and one of them was a nice pair of running sneakers. And then this brand just...

reach out to me too. They're like for women. I don't know. They're like really nice. So I got those two and I was like, Oh, I just was talking about how I wanted running sneakers. So I just got two new pairs. There you go. Um, so yeah, but, um, we had the girls night of a fucking lifetime. We did. And we girls nighted way too hard. Girls nighted way too close to the sun. And dude, we literally have not had a girls night like this in years.

months well like honestly ever with the sense of like clubbing yeah motor dress heels like that's not something we do no like bottle service that's not that's not what we do i loved every fucking second of our night i felt like we were in vegas like we were like it was like we were in austin texas like that's just not something we do so it was really fun to do

something different like go to different places get dressed to the fucking nines not a man in sight actually there's a few things i will say as we explain this that i didn't like which we'll get into oh for sure but backstory we talked about this last week a promoter reached out to taylor and i about a event here in austin at a club called superstition diplo was hosting like an after party for f1 f1 has a bunch of events going on for the

A lot of them are after parties slash clubbing experiences. And so we went to that and check-in was 9 to 11. But before that, we wanted to like sit down with the girly pops and have like a gossip hangout. And I knew this place called Estelle's had these Aperol flights. So if you think of those...

tree hanging tree things that you can hang the drinks onto. That's what it was. There was eight of them and only five girls. So obviously I was like, I'm taking two of these. But the vibes were just immaculate at Estelle's. It was like...

It was so just like upscale and classy. So like we're drinking our Aperol Spritz as one of our friends ordered caviar. Like what are we doing? Like, so like literally like caviar Spritz. We finished our Spritz. We got martinis. I got a matcha martini. It was, oh, those martinis were so good. It was delicious. The matcha martini tasted like a straight up matcha latte from a coffee shop. It was so good. Yeah. I was nervous. I was like matcha martini. This could be really good or whatever.

really nasty like I don't know how I like vodka and matcha together it was 10 out of 10 the like spritzes were good sometimes a spritz is not good they were good weak though okay also why did the bartender say to you oh I've

You took a sip of it at the bar and he looks at you and goes, oh, is it good? Like I've had it. He goes, I've never had it. I've only ever made it. I'm like, what? If I feel like if I was a bartender making specialty drinks that are made, I need to try because I need to know what the fuck I'm making.

Isn't that weird? I felt like he was lying to us. I was like, there's no way you weren't practicing making this and taking a sip. Maybe. I was like, you're lying. This is a form of you trying to flirt with my friend. Maybe. I thought he asked me if I liked it, which like him saying he didn't like it was weird. But when I took a sip, I kind of made a face. Oh, really? Yeah.

well just because it was it was weird it was like when it touched my lip I could smell the alcohol yeah so I like thought it was gonna be really strong so I was like preparing myself and it wasn't no and then I swallowed it and there was zero like alcohol taste so I think like he might have saw I was like oh smells strong like nervous and then I sipped it and I was fine so I think he was like oh do you like it because I kind of

gave it like a stank face i was like oh no it's good it's good i'm sorry but he said he never tried yeah i was like you're lying like there's only about five specialty drinks on this menu and you're telling me you only ever made it but never tried it it's also it's weird to make something that you don't know exactly right i don't know bartender girlies let us know maybe let us know is it normal for a bartender to have specialty drinks and then not know what it tastes like so i

But then checking in Superstition was from 9 to 11. We had to get there and the doors were going to close, which I feel like we showed up there too early. 945 is when we got there. Yeah, but we did have like kind of space. We did have a lot of space. We were like of the first group of girls to get in there and show up, which anyone and their fucking mother can just walk in there. I feel like they did not ID us. They did not ask a single question of like our names because we had all

all of our names ready to go on a list because he made me send all of our Instagrams and everything for approval. And then we get there and he goes, oh, are you here for XYZ? And we go, yeah. And they go, okay, follow me. I'm like, so you're not going to ask us our names? I bet they didn't like guys in. Yeah. So I was like, okay, so should we, can we just do this every weekend that there's an event? Because I don't know, but it was like,

cool being like up somewhere. Like what I think though is like some people bought tickets for this. Yeah. Which...

Speaking of, people that bought tickets ended up sneaking up to where we were. And I was like, how do you get up here? Because they weren't caring who came. Well, they were checking wristbands at the thing to get them up. Yeah. So when we get in there, I'm like, where the fuck are we going? We're going to this back ass door like upstairs. And I had saw the stage when we entered to the right of me. And I'm like, where are we going? And we're going up these stairs. And we're in this whole ass private room with a whole bar like everywhere.

The club itself is on the first floor and on the second floor there's these blackout windows. So if you were to be in the club and look up you wouldn't be able to see into the private room we were in. You could only see out and down. And I was like damn like

This is going to be way more lit than I expected because I thought we were just getting a table. Yeah. I thought we were just at a table at the club. Nope. We had a whole ass private event room with its own tables and bottle service and this photo booth thing. And we were the first ones to get there. And the promoter guy...

He was like, all right, just give it like 30 more minutes and then the bottle service will be out. But then we ended up getting, we were so impatient that we ended up getting our own drinks at the bar anyway. Because they had a menu of drinks and one of them was OnlyFans martini. I was like, I want that. So we got martinis. But then the bottle service ended up coming out. Yeah. So there's like bottle service or making drinks. Like bottle service is just absolutely hilarious. It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so hilarious. Like,

Nothing cringier than bottle service, truly. Yeah. So they just bring out bottles of vodka. We're having a grand old time. Just girling it the fuck up. Yeah. Couldn't even tell you what we were doing, honestly. Could not tell you what we were doing. Not in a blackout way, but just in a like... What the fuck were we doing? The room was so dark that it felt like... Another world. Yeah, another world. Like, I did not feel like I was...

I don't even know. I don't know where I felt like I was. It was just so fucking dark. We were there for so many hours that I'm like, how did we... What the fuck did we do? Dude, time did not matter in that room. No. Until we were like harassing the fucking bouncer or the guy about what's going on, when he's going on, when he's going on. But so this guy...

there's five of us girlfriends we're all together we all look fucking hot we're all getting the bottle service there's like no men in this room at this point it's only girls that this promoter had invited into the event so it's just a bunch of hot girls left and right and the promoter guy is going up and talking to every girl like basically hitting on them and it's just the funniest thing because he's like an old ass man what did you say he looks like

The salamander from Monsters, Inc. Yeah, he looks like the salamander from Monsters, Inc. So hopefully that puts it into perspective for you. And he's like old as fuck, like probably like 35, like 38. Old as fuck, 35. Dude, like for like a guy. Pushin' 40. Yeah, like a guy promoter, like just hitting on all these like young 20-year-old women. I'm like... Yeah. So...

He kept going up to all of our girlfriends and saying, you look so gorgeous tonight, like grabbing like his putting his hands around our hips being like, you look so gorgeous tonight. Tell no one but you're the best dress in here and you're my girlfriend, but we got to break up in the morning.

Saying it to everyone and all of our girlfriends started to put together that he kept saying the same thing to all of us So we're like, all right, let's fuck with this guy right now So we're like he's keep in mind He's so drunk like every time the bottle service like emptied out like the bottles at the table would empty out we'd go up to him like

we'd be like oh my god like where's the bottles like the bottle service it's all gone he goes okay i got champagne coming i got more champagne don't worry don't worry more champagne more champagne more shots more shots we're like yes like daddy would love you and so and which there were a lot of fucking people in this room so it made sense that these bottles were flying so quickly like it came to the point where we had so much room to walk around where i was shoulder to shoulder with

everyone like it was packed in there yeah but we were just like finagling left and right and then i told our friend that we could go get these guys to like buy shots because she really wanted rumple mints because she's addicted to rumple mints which is crazy behavior she just loves rumple mints and i was like we can get someone to get it like i'm telling you it'll take two seconds yeah and uh went in with my classic opener what are you drinking and then within five seconds it's

They bought us shots and drinks. And I was like, it's so easy. I was like, so easy. So they tried Rumpelmints for the first time. They got us drinks. Like, it's just... And I literally didn't even want the drinks. I was like, let's just go...

Make men buy them for us. Yeah. And fuck around. Dude, I did not want to... At this point, I had stopped drinking because I was so fucked up. And I did take a little bit of shrooms, which did not help every time I'd go to the bathroom. The wallpaper in the bathroom was like... Crazy. Dude, so crazy. It was looking at it like an illusion and it felt like the walls were moving. I was like, oh God, I got to get out of here. Completely sober. The wallpaper was crazy. Yeah, the wallpaper was nuts. And...

It didn't help that we were also in a room where there was like no lights I hardly was looking at the time on my phone. So I had no idea what time it was It was a black hole. We were in a black black fucking hole so then it came to the point where it was approaching midnight and i'm like You know what? When the fuck is diplo going on because I want to start shaking fucking ass Like that's all I really wanted all night Like I was in this dark ass room Not the loudest of music and I was like i'm here for a good time. I want to shake ass I want to have a good time and so we all started just like

kept going up to the promoter being like, hey, like, one simple going on, which...

That whole ass room I thought we were going to be all going downstairs to the two tables that are next to the dj stand Which we were so there was two tables next to the dj stands and he said yeah We have those tables But I can only bring a select group of people down And he looked at me and a few of my other girlfriends because we would all go up separately and like harass him about it And be like don't worry like you'll come with me just like find me when it's time I'm, like find you when it's fucking time like

This room is massive. You keep disappearing. You're talking to every girl. There's no way. He's saying this to everyone. So the first table gets filled within seconds. We weren't with him when he was bringing a bunch of people down. We were all separated. And so we were like, fuck, once the second table gets filled, we got to make sure we get into that table.

And then we harass him a little bit more about it. He goes, they're not giving us the table anymore. And we were like, what? He goes, they canceled it. Like they're like shutting off the table. There's overcapacity downstairs. And we're like, what the fuck? Like we want to go down. So he said Diplo is going on at one. It's now like 1230. And we're like, I need to see Diplo. And if I don't see Diplo, I'm going to be fucking sad. So we decided, fuck it. Let's go to general admission and let's try to get to the front. And we're like,

So we go downstairs and we try to get into general admission. We're like all linked arms trying to push and shove to the front. And we get like, I would say, how many people? There were probably like,

five rows of people maybe in front of us before Diplo like we were pretty fucking close maybe the room was small though it was a small ass room like the room wasn't yeah the room wasn't big room was really really small so we get to the front we're as close to the front as possible and Diplo hadn't quite gone on yet and all of a sudden like this one man is like

and shoving me and I'm like to be fair we're all pushing and shoving each other because it's so compact like there's a lot of fucking people in this room and he starts pushing and shoving me and he makes like this rude ass comment to me

And I just look at him and I go, I'm literally fucking taller than you, sir. Every man in that room, I did not realize until I made that comment to that man, was shorter than me. And I know I was wearing heels, but my heels were probably only two inches high. So at that point, I'm standing there like 5'7". And I did not realize I'm literally eye view over every single person in front of me. And majority of the people in front of me were men. And I was like, what the fuck? Why is everyone in this room so short?

And I made Riley take a video of like a panorama of me standing there just to document it because I thought it was the funniest thing that every man in that room was under like 5'5". I was in disbelief. Austin does have short kings. Well, I...

I you know did you see that one TikTok that went absolutely viral after South by Southwest weekend when some guy he was visiting social media influencer he's visiting and he made a video going oh my god I can't believe it like I feel so fucking short every man here is so hot so sexy so tall like what's going on like this video went viral and I got tagged in a billion times so that's how I saw it and everyone was asking like where in Texas are you and he goes Austin Texas I go

What are you saying, sir? No, because when I'd be on Hinge back in the day, everyone's height was short. Short. But then, so I ended up making this story into a TikTok. People in the comments are like, yeah, like you got to go somewhere else. You got to go like the Midwest men are the tall ones. The Northeast men are short, short. And the South...

guys are even shorter yeah no they definitely are 100 short but i was like i'm in a response video i'm like austin texas is not people from austin texas like we have a mix of everyone we have people from the northeast we have the midwest people we have the south go boys like we have it all it's just austin texas chooses to only allow men that are short to move here

It's down bad. Down bad. And they all have fucking short man syndrome where they just want to like scream at you. Oh, wait, I have to tell you. Did you see that person that we don't like there? What person? I made eye contact with him and I forgot to tell you that night. Fuck. He was there. Who? Give me a hint. We were walking down at Abba and he walked past us. Shut the fuck up. He was there.

Dude, guys, there's this one social media influencer guy in Austin who gives the worst stink eye ever. He just is so full. You can tell he clearly moved from LA, which he did. And I've never heard good stories about this man. Anytime he's brought up, I'm like,

oh my god like I need the tea like who are you talking about and it's always the same guy I did not know you saw him oh dude thank god I didn't look over cause like obviously I was drunk I was on shrooms I probably would have been having like these weird thoughts in my head I think it was like my peak drunk and I was like jump scare

Yeah, no. I forgot to tell you that. Oh my God, we're leaving and we were the literal like nasty ass girls who took our shoes off in the parking lot. Dude, my feet hurt so bad. Took our shoes off in the parking lot. Full blown. And then like there was a Snapchat like video and like this guy's like shoes off. And I was like, yeah, what about it? Yeah. Like what the fuck are you going to do about it? What about it? My feet are not your feet. My feet are going home to where I need to go. My feet are my feet. Hashtag not your feet. Like why do you care? We didn't take them off in the club.

Dude, that'd be disgusting. I'd be stepping in like sticky tequila. Ew. Like we took them off in the parking lot. Yeah. In the comfort of our Uber. And you know what's fun that I've learned about this night is that I like these things in mix and pieces, but I don't like the whole only girls aspect and every girl like fighting for like...

no the attention from the promoter i'm like i don't like this like to be fair i was part of the problem but i don't that's one thing i will not be able to do every weekend no like i like a club scene is just not for me like even every now and then like i had so much fucking fun yeah so much fun but like that needs to be like i'll revisit that in three months yeah exactly not having any time soon like the way alex earl does that all the time even though alex earl's not fighting with anyone for

spots anywhere but you know back in the day she probably used to yeah and that's couldn't be me it's hard no it's hard out here to be you feel like it's hard because you have to like you have to rely on someone for your stuff I know and like

It's just everyone kept coming up to him and like it just like I was like, ah, this part I don't like. No, I didn't fucking like it. But it was very fun. It was a very. And I like dressing pretty. But the heels part. No. Like I literally was saying at the end of the night we were in the parking lot. I mean, I'm never wearing heels again. Fuck this. They look so hot. I know you have to. Like, can we normalize? Like, no, you can't. You can't because it doesn't look fucking good.

But so our night was so fun. So great. And then I fucking got home and crashed. Crashed for real. And then Sunday, I had like just like a slow day. I actually like wasn't hungover. I thought I woke up still drunk. But I wasn't hungover at all. Did put some eye patches on. You can listen to our little hangover episode from last week. But...

Put some eye patches on, made some breakfast, did some reading, did some cleaning, did some hanging out. The usual, like, very, very chill epitome of chill Sunday. That was what happened on my Sunday. There's not much to report from me because...

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Visit betterhelp.com slash one thing today to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp.com slash one thing. Can we also talk about that? We didn't even go to bed though until like three in the morning. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like we did not, I usually never stay out that late. We got home at two. People always say like the most fun, the best fun happens after midnight, the post game, which we didn't have a post game. We literally just went home. Like we were, we just happened to be out all night.

We didn't leave there until, what, 2.30? No, we got home at 2. 2, 2, whatever. We got home at 1.50. So I was awake forever with my boyfriend. So I was in the parking lot. We were getting the Uber, and my boyfriend texted me and was like, can I come over? Because he was out too. And I was like, fuck yeah, you can. Like, huh? So we ended up having a sleepover, and I was awake until 4 in the morning hanging out with him. And...

Like I was just saying, people always say the post fun, the best fun when you get so close with your friends is the after parties. Never in my life will I do after parties. You were really big for a while on after parties. Because our friends would always do it. And staying out super late. Our friends would always do it. Our close guy friends would always do it. They would always...

like have people over and it was like they were like there was some like funny shit that was but the next day it's not worth it to me oh no and i'm like so like i can have as much fun as i'm on here like i tell you guys that i like the desire to like let go balls to the walls is like truly less and less for me like and it's almost like every time it's like really really fun i'm like a

Like I said, I'll revisit that in a few months. Like, no. Like, don't want it. But it was fun when our friends were doing it. And it was like our best friends. Yeah. So it was like... And like they were like... Their apartment was like a fucking second home to me. Like it was comfortable there. So to me it was like fine to go there and like chill on their couch. Because it was like home. Like I could chill here. Like it was not a big deal. But yeah. Yeah.

yeah i mean i i will never do it i never did it but you're also like not in your going out era at that time i feel like as much as you are now and i feel like you would have done it a few times if you were the way you are now that but like i all our friends go to dane and seth's i just don't do it oh like it's the same like i just i choose not to everyone's always like it will be after latchkey they'll be like all right we're going back to their place i'm like i'm not i'm going home yeah like i've never been no i would never been like that yeah no i wouldn't do that now either that's

So, I did not go to bed until four. Boyfriend slept over. We were up talking all night. And I realized, too, we were making, like, drunk food in the kitchen. I'm like, fuck, I don't have any drunk food. So, when I went to the grocery store on Sunday, I bought a bunch of, like, frozen stuff because I was like, I just need some of that comfort shit in the freezer because I never have, like, groceries in the fridge to make anything. So, frozen food, stocked up on that at the grocery store on Sunday. And I...

or struggle sometimes to fall asleep with my boyfriend at night because he fucking does this annoying ass thing where he twitches. I do that too. Yeah, I can't sometimes when he's like, we're trying to cuddle and fall asleep and he's twitching and it's keeping me up and he does it all the time. I'm like, I just want to be like, can you stop fucking twitching? Stop doing that.

So it took me a while personally to fall asleep. He fell asleep a little bit earlier. Woke up at fucking 8 a.m. Taylor came into our room. We were doing like our little morning recap and went to Trader Joe's, went back to the house and made like appetizers, which was a lot of fun. Love cooking and trying to get him to stay at my place, kidnapping him at my place so that I can stay and cook and clean and all that fun stuff.

But, yeah. Yeah. Chill Sundays. I slept for 12 hours last night. Amazing. Yeah. Felt fucking great. I slept in today, too, because, like I said, I started my period. And I think this is a good segue. Yeah. So when you're on birth control, now into birth control's rant of our year off of it. When you're on birth control, you don't have a cycle. And, like, the biggest problem with getting on birth control is

Is that it's just given to you with zero explanation about what's going on in your body. And in the current climate where, like, people just want to take away women's rights, like, it's amazing that you can get birth control at any time you want, pretty much. But what's not good is that they're just give it to you as, like, an end all, like, the only solution.

oh, your periods are irregular, just get on birth control. Your skin's not doing well, just get on birth control. You think you have PCOS, just get on birth control. You want birth control? Here, take it. Without, like, let's see, like, maybe doing blood work. Maybe answering questions about your mental health. Like, I'm sorry, like, if I was going through, like, I was going through, like, bad mental health stuff and no one was like, maybe you should get off your birth control. Yeah. Like, no one said, like, there's just no...

education on what that's doing to you and just being like me being like 16 being like I want this and they were like here without being like let's talk about what

the side effects are, what the long-term effects are, the giant list that's like as big as your body of side effects. Like what does this say and what's on it and how does it work? And I didn't know that there was phases of your cycle until like last year. No, not that I didn't even know that that was a fucking thing. People don't even know that when you get your period on birth control, it's not like you are not having your cycle. Your period on birth control is not a period. You don't ovulate. Like

You literally just take this every day without having no idea what it is. And the scariest thing about this entire thing is that we have obviously come from a place of under eating and not treating our bodies the best during the time of being on birth control. So when I do recap on like that restricted part of my life, people will ask, did you lose your period?

And the real answer is, I don't know. I can't tell you. I don't know because it's a withdrawal bleed. It's not a real period. So if I were to look back on that time and maybe I wasn't on birth control, I probably wouldn't have been getting a normal fucking period with the way I was treating my body. So that's the scary part is you're,

Period is just a withdrawal bleed. You don't actually know if there's underlying issues when you are on birth control. And I'm going to say right now, I think if I wasn't on it, I probably wasn't getting my period. I would say I wouldn't have gotten my period either. So it's a very interesting thing to look into and...

Kind of fast forwarding into like why I have this answer for myself of I probably wasn't getting my period is because when I got off birth control, I didn't get my period for six months. Yeah. I got my period right away. Irregularly. It was really it was like clockwork the first two months, which doing some research there's doing your own research is hard, though, because there's like barely any people talking about this. It's become way more of a popular thing to talk about now. It's very trendy. Thank God. But it's like.

There is barely any research. So when we say things about your cycle and people are like, there's no research to support that. Because no one's fucking doing the research on it. Like there's no research to support it because no one cares. The research that I'm telling you is things women feel day to day. Like how are you going to tell me there's no reason to support that when no one even told me I had phases of my cycle before?

It literally until maybe two years ago. Yeah. And you're going to tell it. Why is that not a class in school? I'm supposed to know. Oh, but there's no research to support that. Yeah, because who the fuck is doing the research?

Who is caring to do this research? No one. No one is doing the fucking research. So yeah, maybe there is no research to say that cycle syncing works. But there's thousands of girls that feel better in their life when they do it and don't feel crazy. So if you didn't know, when you were off birth control, not on any type of hormonal birth control, your period is four phases. You can also maybe just split it up in like

two halves because there's two that are very similar to each other. But your period is the first day of your cycle and then they all happen. So your period is obviously your period when you're bleeding, your menstrual phase. And then after that, you're in your follicular phase, then your ovulatory phase, then your luteal phase. Your luteal phase and your menstrual phase are when you're going to feel

The worst and your follicular phase and your ovulating phase is when you're going to feel the best basically for short. And it's real shit. Like it's not fake. You're not in your head. And I think this whole thing of like women are crazy. Women are emotional. Women are like bipolar. Yeah, because you are literally four different people in a month. Like you have four drastically different hormonal changes throughout a whole month. So it's just like annoying when it's like

like women are so emotional. Like, yeah, you are literally different fucking people. Like yesterday, I got my period this morning. Yesterday I was crying at like anything. I could watch a TikTok, like a heartfelt TikTok, teary eyed. Like I'm just an emotional wreck. And it's like, um, I'll go into some other things, but you are straight up for different people. And it gives you peace of mind to know you're not fucking crazy. Like, I feel like I'd get very stressed out of like

like oh this week i'm just so tired and like why can't i get shit done and like kind of putting so much pressure on yourself and you're like rather than waking up and being like i'm in this phase of my cycle i know that i'm gonna be like this and i know next week i'm gonna be better or like next week i'm gonna be worse and it like doesn't stress you out of like what the fuck is wrong with me yeah you kind of know what's going on i don't know if you ever grew up like this um but my my dad would always be like stay away from your mom she's pmsing this week and

I didn't realize like what that meant like growing up my dad's been just letting you know like warning like careful what you say around your mom like your mom like might freak out she's PMSing like I did not realize like that was actual real thing I thought my dad was just saying like just leave her alone she's on her period like whatever but no like dead ass

It's crazy, like, the way your body is affected by your fucking cycle. It is crazy. It's, I can't imagine being a man and being the same all the time. I know. Just being the same. Must be fucking nice. Like, waking up every day and being the same. Yeah. Like, you feel the same. You look the same. This is something crazy that I've learned.

And another reason, you know, like girls and how they look and, you know, like they're always like complaining about how they look and like insecure and this and that and the other. It's real shit. So you can look up stuff about this because this is like legit real. In your follicular phase, in your ovulatory phase, you literally look more attractive than in your luteal and your menstrual phase because when you're ovulating, that's when you can get pregnant and have a baby. So we're animals. So your body is like we need to gear up.

to have a baby and like you need to mate and have a baby like it's time we're about to ovulate so in your follicular phase right before that your body is like you need to find someone to reproduce with the same way like animals like get all pretty in the feathers and like they try to like mate like we're literally animals so it's like you need to find a way to like like you need to get a fucking person you literally look prettier you'll find your partner more attractive you dead ass look prettier like I was watching this TikTok and it was this study with

like two pictures side by side and it was like which one of these women do you think is more attractive and it was like this is the same girl in two different phases of her cycle and it's like everyone says like this side is more attractive and it's like that literally happens and then you you literally get more attractive in that phase so it's like so such a mind fuck of sometimes you know when you're like god i just feel ugly today like bad face day

It's like real. Yeah. Like you dead ass have like a, like half the month you look prettier. Yeah. Um, so do you want to get into like our birth control experience and like kind of like what on birth control or like getting off of it? Getting off. So I got off, we got off at the same time. So it's been like a year, but I got off and I didn't get my period for about six months. And at the very beginning of getting off,

I didn't realize how quickly it was going to affect my body. I can't really remember your like. Some of it's hard for me to remember because it was so long ago. So I immediately experienced like the period flus. I was, it felt like I was on my like deathbed for the first three or four quote for quote periods. I wouldn't get a bleed for the first like three or four months. I was getting like the flu.

I was setting myself up knowing that, hey, Sam, like you're technically supposed to be getting your period this week.

You're going to have flu-like symptoms. You're going to be nauseous. You're going to throw up. There were a few months of getting my period where I was throwing up. I was in my bed throughout the middle of the night getting the chills, getting the shakes, and running to the toilet throwing up because of how unwell my body felt. I got the same thing for the first three months. Then I think I had a break, and then it happened again one more time. But it was the first three months. I was getting my period really regular the first –

around that time it was pretty regular and it slowly got more irregular and it's back to being regular but um so they were really regular but when i tell y'all these like these flu-like symptoms would kick me in the we literally thought we had covid like i was down to rent i think it happened to me first yeah and i and then a week later it happened to me oh my god i feel like shit you know like

you know when you feel like shit and you know you're so down bad and you like don't want people to think you're being dramatic you're like no you don't understand i'm like down for the count yeah like i don't have like a cold like i'm borderline take me to the fucking hospital like awful and then they're just like oh you're kind of sick then like you got it and i was like oh my god i'm not fucking crazy i'm like this shit sucks like it was it was to the point like you said like

probably won't be able to make it that I'm supposed to get my period. No. Yeah. We were literally setting up our weeks because mine fucking sucks. They were aligning with the weekend every single time. And I'm like, I just know I can't go out this weekend. Like, yeah, it's going to happen. I'm going to be down bad. Like, oh, you want me to go to that on Wednesday? I'm supposed to be literally throwing up Wednesday. So that's that's not going to work. Yeah. So for me, that happens for the first like three or four months. And then I'm

then it just stopped out of nowhere didn't i wasn't experiencing the flu like symptoms anymore and then it took me all the way up until like the sixth month mark where i finally started to get like a bleed but it was like a small fucking bleed like i'm not even getting like spotting type bleed it was not a full period but i was bleeding so i was getting excited about it and i was documenting this entire process through the flow app i know you use natural cycles now right yeah but i haven't been using it i haven't been taking my temperature

Really? Yeah, I've been using it for a while. Like, I really try to be consistent with it, but I'm, like, just going to be so honest. It's, like, the biggest fucking bitch to do. Yeah. Like, it's such a bitch to do. So I straight up just haven't been doing it. Yeah, so I was... I'm constantly tracking mine on the Flow app. And now keep in mind, you're probably thinking to yourself, Sam, how the fuck would you know even though...

You're not getting any bleeds though all of those six months How would you know what part of your cycle you're in so you gotta track yourself based on the moon phases? I can't remember off the top of my head like what the cycles based on the moons are But if you look it up you gotta track your cycle based on the moons And so that's what I was doing because I was doing a lot of things once it hit january so like after the From when we got off to january, how long was that? That was like three months four months

Like four to five. Yeah. So January 1st going into the new year of this year was when I really wanted to take like my hormones seriously. It was a new year's goal of mine. So I started a lot of things. I started a few supplements to take. I was seed cycling. I also was getting like my boobs done. So workout wise, um,

I couldn't work out as much and I knew that's another thing in order to balance out your hormones You needed to do was not work out as much like completely cut back the working out So I was kind of already setting myself up with that not working out as much So I was tracking everything based on the moons because I didn't have a period yet and Within three months of just consistently doing all of these things I got my period and I don't know if it's placebo effect or whatnot, but I really truly think that

putting my hormones into my top priority. That's what helped me get my period back. And then from that, that is when in the flow app, I was able to track my period and really narrow down on what I thought was working and wasn't working to get my period back. And I am now able to get a consistent period. It's anywhere from like 28 to like 35 days. It's within that like healthy, natural, like timeline. And yeah,

I now have a period, which I can go into more detail on like those things. But Taylor, do you want to like? Yeah. So I always had a period. Like I said, it was really natural. I'm not natural, really regular at first. And I think it's because I would look into some things like sometimes for the hormones to really leave you, it takes a little bit. So I think I was still kind of having my like birth control periods. Like it was pretty exact as if I was still on the pill. So I think it took a little bit for that kind of get to get out of my system. And then once it did, they were very irregular periods.

And I was like, this is so stressful, like, to just not know when your period's coming. Because then I take, like, a million pregnancy tests because I'm, like, terrified. I can literally, like, not have sex and I'd still be like, I'm pregnant. Like, it's just a girl thing. So then I started taking a lot of vitamins to try to get it back on track. I literally just Googled what vitamins are good for...

Your cycle and then bought them all and started taking them every day. And then a month of taking those vitamins had an exact 28 day cycle after having like 40 something day cycles.

Like I said, the thing with us being like, we added these new things. It could have been what we're doing or it could be the fact that it like was going to take nine months. Yeah. You know, like, like, is it? I'm going to go off of the things that we were doing, though, just because I truly do feel if I started those things way sooner, I probably would have got my period way sooner, especially the PMSing symptoms of the flu, because this one like supplement I take by Texbury, I've talked about it a few times on the podcast. Yeah.

which do your own fucking research on supplements like this like if you can do it based on like you know y'all's backgrounds because i know there are there's a lot out there but ever since i've started retaking that because i took a three month break from it over the summer of not taking it my pms symptoms are like non-existent i see every time we talk about this i say i need to get it yeah dude you like need to get it it's insane because i like pms like hard i have i was diagnosed when i was going to a psychiatrist and i was like diagnosed with like

all my fucking mental problems with PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Dixie D'Amelio talked about it on the D'Amelio show and then people started talking about it on TikTok. Basically, it just means you're depressed as fuck right before your period. So like they were like, I think you have PMDD because I'd always be like right before my period. It's literally awful. Like my depression is so bad. So I would like literally got prescribed

Like I'd have like separate medication like on top of my normal everyday depressants that I would take as needed week or two weeks before my period. And like I'd never heard anyone else talk about what that is. And I was like, oh, whatever. And then like now it's kind of popular because they talked about on the D'Amelio show. But like that would happen to me a lot. That's better now, I think, because I'm off birth control and just life scenarios change and like kind of made it better. But like that was like a big thing I'd go through. But I did end up like stopped.

taking that um and i think with getting off birth control why i would recommend if possible especially at this age for people is um you know self-growth era so much in my fucking life has changed in the last three years like i was thinking about it yesterday the amount of fucking life changes in the last three years are crazy like started off with a fucking pandemic like

dropping in school, moving here, like lots of shit changing. And there's so much going on and you're really coming to yourself and coming into yourself as a person. And I wanted to grow in my to myself as an adult without fake hormones going into my body every single day. Like I want to like grow into myself as an adult as I am.

And like know what my real fucking body is. Because if you are like the average girl and like us, you probably started birth control when you were like, you could have been maybe like 14. Yeah, I think I was 16. I was 16. And that's a long fucking time. And you're literally growing up and you don't know what your natural self is. You don't know how you feel. You don't know.

Like, like, yeah, like I was having those like pre-period symptoms that were like fucking with my mental health, but it wasn't even real period. Like, you know, it was like, OK, so now I'm taking more drugs and I don't even know what like now I'm taking more drugs. Like for what? I'm not even having a real period. Like, let's let's actually see like the issue rather than just like covering shit up.

And I think that that's the issue with like, I mean, women's fucking health care in general. It's just no one fucking gives a shit. But slowly more people are starting to give a shit. And I do wish like I think it's crazy that any time I've gone to the gynecologist, I don't get talked to about this. Yeah. I mean, like like I've never gone talked about it. Like I'd go get my birth control prescription refilled when I'd have to go and like talk to them about it.

never brought up not once for me when it came to going to the gyno and talking at my like yearly appointments I would discuss with her because I would have so many fucking issues on birth control of like

I couldn't get wet, like sexually, like I could like sex was just not really an option for me. So many other things like horrible cramps, like so every fucking year I would go to my appointments. I was getting jumped onto a new form of birth control every year with no explanation. They just be like, OK, let's try this one. Let's try this one. So each year, like people always ask me, like, oh, what birth control were you on?

Girl, I don't know. I was on a new one almost every single year when I was going to my yearly appointments. And that's just crazy to me, too, that they can just so easily change which one you're on with no question about it. I just don't know another field. And like, I don't know, like it probably happens in other areas, but I don't know another like potential is a serious medication. It's like an Advil. Like it's a serious medication with a lot of side effects.

something where you prescribe a daily like for years that you're gonna take it with kind of just no here take it like with like zero like you didn't check my blood like you didn't like do blood work make sure it's

good you didn't like they should do like a psychiatric evaluation yeah like they should have like hormone testing should be fucking free for every single woman and it should but in my opinion like maybe i'm wrong because i'm not a fucking gyno but i'm like i feel like you should test my if you come if someone comes in saying i have this this and this why don't you do a hormone test yeah and then prescribe them birth control or it's like

Well, how do you feel? Maybe we'll give you this birth control. Can we like actually do a deep dive? Can we do a deep dive? We get nothing. And then it's like, okay, maybe I could have asked. I bet if I asked, I would have said, I didn't even know that this existed. I didn't know I could ask. Like, I didn't know.

Any of this was a thing. How was I supposed to ask if I don't know? Yeah, and the craziest thing too is before a year ago when we first went off we had a um hormonal nutritionist on the podcast and that's when I really started to open like the eye for us where we were like Oh fuck like You know what? This is like we really want to get off because we were learning so much from her which is a podcast a great podcast episode We'll link it on the our instagram that episode if you guys want to give it a listen, but um

I didn't realize when they were talking about she was talking about the cycles and she was educating on that stuff and like the way you're going to feel on each cycle, like truly how you're going to feel on each part of your cycle. And now that we know how we feel, we're so able to like set ourself up for success and not allow for it to be as bad. So like, for instance, of

like in our luteal phase like we feel crappy we feel a little bit more inflamed we feel puffy not our best self it's like okay well i know that and like i know you were saying earlier like

workout wise or like day wise with work like you just know like okay I'll sleep in it's not gonna be the best but even just like the clothes I'm wearing the type of makeup I like to wear the the way I like to put my hair like knowing I'm going to feel not as great it it sets yourself up so much better because I can feel my body in that phase whereas like at the beginning of the year when I was doing this I couldn't feel my body in those phases so I didn't know so now that it's been a whole year it's like we can

Max, stop fucking crying. We can successfully allow ourself to feel our best. Yeah, and we are very in tune with our phases now. I know when I'm ovulating. And I know when I have my period. Well, obviously, you know when you have your period. Duh. And as long as you...

Like you get a period and you can tell when you're ovulating, then you pretty much know where everything else falls. I never thought too. People would be like, oh, like you'll feel it when you're ovulating. Never thought like I would actually feel when I'm ovulating. You know. And then you can also take tests. Like I've test like they work just like pregnancy tests, but their ovulation test like same same vibe stick.

lines actually really funny uh good prank if you want to prank someone you can send them pictures of like two lines on a ovulation test and make them shit their pants and it's just an ovulation test so fun prank because they look the same but um so you can like do that like i said you can do like the tracking of your temperature but i do know now which i think is why i stopped being like oh i'm gonna track my temperature because

I just can't know. Like, I know. I know when it... When I am ovulating and when I'm not. Yeah. I just like using the Flow app even though, like, I kind of do know. I need to know what my period is so I can see how long my cycle was. So I like to know when I'm going to get my period. I like to know when I'm going to be ovulating. I like just to know these things in the future. Not necessarily, like, in the moment because in the moment I can feel my body in the phases. But in the future, like...

From here on out like I went to florida and I was on my period with my boyfriend in florida and it was miserable like I bled through so many bottoms and It was just a very heavy flow month for me And I just know now moving forward when i'm planning vacations with my boyfriend or just in general I'm gonna plan it around my fucking cycle. I'm not gonna travel on my period I'm, not gonna travel when i'm ovulating like i'm going to travel in the best time of the month for me and

if I mean obviously if it's possible but like I'm gonna try my best where I'm not traveling during those shitty times of my cycle and just like like I said earlier it gives you so much more peace of mind because like like a woman like I said it's like girls are crazy so it's like rather than me looking in the mirror like fuck why am I so bloated like why do I feel like this and like getting in my head yeah just being like

I'm going to get my period. Yeah. It makes you feel so much better. But right before my period, like, my skin is horrid, okay? Like, horrid. And then I get my period two days later, and it's fine. But it's like, then that doesn't, like, stress me out. Like, I'm not like, oh, fuck. Like, what do I need to do? Like, going crazy. I'm like, I'm just going to get my period. And, like, that's something I hope to figure out. And, like, maybe it'll get better. And, like, the symptoms will lessen. But, like, it gives you a little bit more peace of mind that you are not insane. Like, you are not insane.

going fucking crazy you can just be like yeah like i'm bloated that adds up like that is up because i'm letting my period i also just looked at my um my app my period is so fucking regular right now so in august i got it on the 22nd last month i got it on the 23rd and today i got it on the 23rd damn

i'm like clockwork i'm supposed to get mine tomorrow or wednesday i hope i don't have it over the weekend because my if i wear a halloween costume my halloween costume is the tiniest white fuck mine's white too the tiniest white shorts you've ever seen in your fucking life fuck dude so that sucks but um let's talk about um like safety real quick because like people also like just like pregnancy like oh my god i'm like not the right person to ask okay well i i know i mean obviously like

Condoms are fucking the best fucking approach. But to be honest, condoms, I just don't really... But let me just say this. We're also speaking from a relationship aspect of things. If you are not in a committed relationship where...

If there was an accident, it would be absurdly horrible and there's multiple people and there's things going on. You need to use condoms, point blank, period. We are your big sisters right now yelling at you. Fucking wear the condom. You need to use condoms, point blank, period.

One for your own mental clarity because if you start to stress about it around the time of your month and you're not getting it like the more you stress about it the more you're going to hold off your period and it's just going to get worse and worse and worse and worse. I used to be like that even though I like at the time like I was I'm dating my boyfriend like I wasn't sleeping around but like still when I do stress about it like it takes a while for me to get it. So like now that it's more in like my control and like I am so fixated on my cycle and everything and I use this cycle approach.

I have less stress on myself. But I will say, like, now that it's been a year, I really feel my body and I know when I'm ovulating.

big no-no big not fucking happening let's not do that so that's my like biggest thing because it's like come on fucking you got 20 you have a full month out of the fucking month like there's a few days don't fucking do it just don't do it i mean luckily for me like i would try to have that mindset but like i'm gonna be the thing that ended up happening is a lot of the times um i wasn't seeing like

my boyfriend every day so it's like there was a high chance it was happening like midweek or something and that's not when we would be hanging out or doing anything so it kind of like would just happen that way of like like maybe i knew it was kind of like sunday to like wednesday like kind of more so thing and then it like it sometimes it would just like it would honestly like total like there was like so many months where just like happened to work out that way without me trying hard that it was like kind of skip this one um

But if I did, because that wasn't perfect, it would... Not Mac snoring. It was just being extra careful. Dude, he's snoring so loud. But you can really only, like, get pregnant, like, a couple days out of the month. Do your own research on it. But, um...

If you are educated and in tune with your body, it's way less scary than... You just need to really dive deep into educating yourself because it takes so much stress off yourself. Because if you have unanswered questions and you're worried, it's just going to make time for you so much more stressful coming around each time of the month. So tracking your cycle and then...

Using the flow app or natural cycles, Taylor used to be huge on like the temperature thing. Not really anymore. Because I figured it out myself. Like I just realized that I thought before I was so in tune, like when people were like, when you're ovulating, I'm like, how am I supposed to know when I'm ovulating? Yeah. I got to track this. But then-

I realized wait I don't need to track it I just know yeah so that is kind of why I was like oh I actually don't need to add this other thing because I thought I needed an external thing to tell me I was like how the fuck am I supposed to know um but then I just realized that I won't know and if you don't like it's not necessarily like don't feel stressed like if you're like I've been on birth control like I'm not in tune like I need to track it like so track it like you're not

I just realized if you're hearing that and you're like, wait, I don't know. I still rely on my app. Then take your temperature and rely on your app. Do whatever you have to do if you're not feeling it the same way. Because honestly, I'm kind of more jealous that you don't feel the phases of your cycle as deeply as I do because they hit me like a fucking truck. But it's not a bad thing if you don't know. I would work on trying to know, but you're not like,

Like, do you. Like, if you have to track it, track it. Yeah. So, I kind of want to end this. Like, do you have much more to talk about or no? Because I want to end it with talking about ways to balance out your hormones. Okay, yeah. I mean, I don't really have much to say other than, like I said, I just recommend if it's something you can do to do it. Because you can always get back on. Yeah. So, I want to end it with that. And then I'm thinking next week, if this episode...

run states with a lot of people and people have questions about our personal experience we could do a Q&A next week we could do a Q&A and I would love to do that so I just want to end it with like ways to balance out your hormones that I personally did now there are probably going to be way more out there but what worked for me is obviously bringing down because this is for the people the girlies that are just getting off and you're fucking freaking out you haven't gotten your period in the last few months or like you want to get ahead of it like huge on getting ahead of it I wish I did that is

lower your exercise. If you think like I'm going to the gym only five or six days out of the week, but I'm also hitting 10 K steps and I'm also doing that, like lower it down a little bit, like just for the time being, because you don't really notice, like you may think like, Oh, I'm,

My workout schedule is pretty regular or whatever. I used to hit my 10K steps. I used to go to the gym. I was on top of it compared to a normal person who works a 9-5 who's sitting around all day. I was moving my body a lot. So I lowered it a lot and...

That helped me. And then taking supplements, I was supplementing, which I am still supplementing, Vitex Berry, turmeric and ginger for body absorption, my prebiotics, probiotics, my multivitamins. I take a lot. And now I do magnesium as well, which are all in my Amazon storefront. If you guys would just want to know exactly which ones I'm using because...

They're all on the cheaper side. We don't need to be going out there and spending all this ridiculous amount of money on supplements. And then also tracking my period based on the moons helped me a lot so that I could cycle sync. So I was seed cycling. I've been trying to do better about like the types of like protein sources. Like I know fish around...

specifically tuna when I'm ovulating is very good for you. So tracking my food, seed cycling, all those things have helped out a lot. And then obviously the basics, drink your fucking water, eat every two to three hours, get your eight hours of sleep. That's just like obviously non-negotiables no matter what, but make sure you're really on top of all those things. Yeah. So I'm kind of going into the stage where I'll have more to say on this as time goes

goes on because I didn't have to go so deep like when you did because I was getting my period you know so I wasn't like feeling immense stress like something was wrong because I was getting my period and I didn't have much to fix except like I said I did start taking the vitamins I take magnesium vitamin E vitamin D vitamin fish oil

I think that's it. And then I take a bunch of other random supplements. I take a lot of supplements these days because I just fucking love taking vitamins. But those are like things I take every day. I have a TikTok video on it. I think that's all of them. But when I tell you, I just straight up looked it up and then went to HEB and bought everything on the list. Oh, also bone broth. I used to drink bone broth every single day. I kind of stopped doing that just because we went into the summer and it was getting hot. And I was like, I just don't want to be sipping on warm bone broth. Maybe I'll get back into it. But

um another thing is like your gut health is very important if your gut health is happy your hormones are gonna be happy so if your gut health is not like the best make sure you're really focusing on your gut health as well um sleep is really big for me so um obviously you guys know we like to be like pretty early in bed but sleep as in like i read before bed i don't watch tv before bed i went through like a big phase before of like tv before bed i don't do that i don't have a screen before bed i read before bed

every night, Monday through Friday, and sometimes on the weekends. But I'm always, even if it's five pages and I fall asleep, I always fall asleep reading. It's kind of now the only way I can fall asleep really fast. But I fall asleep reading no screens to have a really solid night's sleep. And that's really beneficial to me. And then right now, like I said, I'm obviously eating meat again, which is crazy town. But I'll keep you guys updated on

On how I feel after that and whatnot. And I've also done the same things that Sam has done with the with working out in terms of just kind of like doing what feels good on my fucking body, doing what I want, doing what I want and trying to keep a mix of what I know is good for me. Like,

Obviously you guys know we started literally being friends everything because we like to lift heavy and everything I look I've said about that like still stands like you want to be stronger like you want to build a physique the fastest and most efficient way. That's the way like that is the way we did it. We're satisfied. We feel like that is the way like you want to put on muscle. That is how you want to get stronger. That is how you want to literally reshape your whole entire body. That is how but I can't do that forever because I get I'm a human being.

And I just like don't have the desire to do that. So I like still try to go and lift to kind of keep my physique up and because it's good for you to move weight around. It's really good for your bones. But I'm also just doing other shit that I want to do because it feels good taking rest when I need it. Like as women, I think we're just supposed to be like calmer creatures like me.

it's okay to like be fat. Like we're supposed to like be bless you. Like be more relaxed. Like take rest days, like chill. Like I work out sometimes three times a week, depending on the cycle I'm in. Like I'm, I only work out three days a week, especially now. Um, it's a hormone thing, but also like my, my goals are different. Like back then my only goals were what I was doing in the gym. And now I have so many other things going on that going to the gym is like

I'm now just kind of a person that makes it a priority to go to the gym and not like a gym person. Yeah. I'm just like working out is something I do. It's not my whole life. Being healthy in every aspect is more important to me. So doing what I feel is best and really, really like it sounds so cheesy. Listen to your body. But like that's like I feel like the best advice I have with this is listen to your body. I got my period this morning, like sleeping a little extra.

not waking up so early like if i feel like it one day and i feel fine yeah but it's like your body's doing an entire extra function you need sleep you need rest there's a whole other fucking thing going on inside your body sleep like get the hours in sleep in a little just um things like that i try to cool it on caffeine around my period too um like i had one coffee today i'll probably only have one coffee today if not i'll maybe like

I don't think I'll have something else. Like, I'm trying to cool it around the caffeine. Yeah. I mean, I will say, like, the best thing about this, too, is also educating your boyfriend. So I hope any girl that has a boyfriend listening to this right now, I hope you fucking made them listen to this episode with you, whether it's in the car or at home, because...

This is something that is now really being talked about in the girl side of like social media, TikTok and everything. But I do think it needs to also be taken to the boys end too because they need to fucking learn. It does. And there's actually a lot of guys that are making...

content about this recently there's one that's like a meme because he just goes women should not be working 40 hour work weeks and then girls are stitching it like I really we need to start listening to men like men have a point like men are so right so it's like really funny when people are stitching it but it's people saying like their traditional hours of like nine to five every day of the month forever it's like women's bodies don't work like that because it's like we literally have weeks out of the year where we

have to drag ourselves to function. Yeah. Like we are unwell. Like we, it's truly like if men had periods, like they wouldn't know how to handle it. They wouldn't. There is, it's, it's truly crazy feeling. You kind of feel crazy all the time having your hormones switch so much. I know. It's crazy. It's like you have a good week and then by the, like you had a great week and then it's like, fuck, change it again. Like it's like,

Dude, I love it, though. I would prefer living like this than living how I was on birth control. Oh, because I just always felt like a... I felt like... Like, it sounds like we're complaining about the fact that, like, our bodies are constantly changing, but trust me, guys, I rather feel like this than how I did on birth control. Yes, because on birth control, I just felt like crap. Yeah, I felt like a robot. I was so foggy. Yes. Like, I have such a clear mind now, and I feel so much more creative. I feel like I am, like...

The world opened up. Like, I don't know. Like, it was like the world, like, the sunshine brighter. Like... Yeah. Like, it just...

life felt fucking better. And now I wrote down like a lot of like, I just felt like I've changed so much as a person, partly because of birth control, partly because like I said, in the last few years, life has changed so much that it's like a mixture of the two. But I think being on birth control helps so much. I just feel like a different human. Random things about just things that I like or dislike have changed. And I can think of like

this is the most random example but it's like you literally it's like your brain rewires and there's things that I just like didn't used to like that now I like you guys are gonna be like what the fuck are you talking about this is so random but I was thinking about it the other day like fuck I just feel like there's random things that I used to dislike that now I like or I used to not care about that now I'm so fixated on one of them I used to never care for ice in my water like I'd always be like

a no ice kind of girl. Oh, do you want ice in your water? No. And all of a sudden I need to have so much ice in my drinks at all times. And there's other little things in my life that are just little differences of my wants and needs. I'm like, oh, I like this or don't like that, that are different, which is so weird. I would just notice like, oh, weird. I never had like a craving for that. But now my body kind of wants that or I never...

felt that way toward this and i'm telling you little stupid things like ice in your water that's the stupidest fucking thing but i just like things i've noticed like wow i used to literally like not like that and now i not like that or like something the other thing i think was like

like lemon flavored things like lemon desserts i used to be like oh i don't want that and all of a sudden i'll see lemon things i'm like that looks so good yeah and i'm like wow like why do i just like feel differently about like why am i why do i feel so different i think it's also because though we put our gut health as a bigger priority because like at least for me like i i don't really know if it's like the hormone aspect but just like opening myself up to more like whole foods has allowed me it's not even just foods it's like more just like a taste like it's not like my like

Well, that's just, I don't know. I feel like I was just changing as a person. No, like, it was just, like, getting off, like, things getting off birth control. Because you know how they say, like, you get off birth control, you literally, like, your taste in men changes? Yeah. It's, like, your, just, like, your brain rewires. Yeah. It was literally, like, things that I used to find, like, that I liked, it was, like,

I literally would just like do random things. I'm like, I literally feel like fucking different. Yeah. And it's like the weirdest thing. I was like, I literally feel different. No. Yeah. We definitely are. Like I, like I feel different, like things I maybe used to dislike or like my taste in things or like things I used to like, like in men, like just crazy. Yeah. Wow. I'd love to do next week though. A Q and a to see, um,

Like if we can answer more questions because I mean, I feel like we definitely covered a lot, but I would love to just like you have a question. I'll answer that for you. So we can definitely do a Q&A and everyone loves our girl talk Q&A is our best episode. Yeah. So let's do that next week. Make sure you guys are following the Instagram. I'll post about it on my regular Instagram story that we're doing the podcast.

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