Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
Dysfunction Junkies
Flashback Friday: Dysfunctional Diets-Parsnips, Ice Cream and Hot Dogs!
Remember the days of Deal-A-Meal cards, Thigh Masters, and Susan Power screaming "Stop the Insanity"? That's exactly where this week's Flashback Friday episode takes us—straight into the heart of 80s and 90s diet culture.
Hosts Chrisy and Kerry revisit their 14th episode about the wildly dysfunctional diets that shaped their relationships with food and their bodies. Whether you've personally experienced the diet culture rollercoaster or just want to understand its impact, this episode offers both nostalgic humor and profound insight into how we might build healthier relationships with food and our bodies.
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Welcome to a Flashback Friday edition of the Dysfunction Junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry:Hello, junkies, I'm Keri
Chrisy:and I'm Chrisy,
Kerry:and welcome to Flashback Friday. Yes, we have a. This is a fun one. We really enjoyed doing this episode. This was our episode that talked about I think it was episode 14. And we talked about all the crazy diets that we were exposed to.
Chrisy:Yes, and Kerry might have been exposed to them, but I actually participated in a lot of them.
Kerry:Yeah, we reference this a lot. You know, if you hear us talking about something and we'll say like the hot dog and ice cream diet and things like that, that was this episode.
Chrisy:Yes.
Kerry:So any thoughts about this before we flash back into that episode, Chrissy.
Chrisy:Well, I just reflecting on where, when we were growing up yeah, I mean that was dieting has always been around, always will be around. Yeah, I'm not a believer in the only diet I feel is the way to go is moderation. Yeah, making healthy decisions and not overdoing it. Right and being physically active yes, I mean that's pretty much gonna get you through and keep you healthy.
Kerry:But we were at the age that, like you know, the richard simmons area, with the, you know and I don't think he had it completely wrong, no, but it was that was this, that was what was out a lot, and then you had like the, the, the diet helpful thing, that was like you had your cards and you had to like, every time you ate, this, like deal a meal deal a meal. Yes, deal a meal I never I never bought into that never anything.
Chrisy:That that takes right cards and the dieting who is it?
Kerry:the billy banks? I think it was the boxing guy what was that?
Chrisy:did I have a name, oh I have to admit I think I had those tapes yes, and then there's suzanne tybo.
Kerry:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then there was the suzanne summers thigh master, you know you remember the chick with the crazy hair?
Chrisy:susan powder, susan powder. She was like really like kind of really big. No, she had like a, a buzz cut yeah oh, susan powder.
Kerry:Yes, the boy. Yes, I liked her, you liked her I did.
Chrisy:She was a little bit too aggressive. She was very aggressive, yeah, she was I like that kind of. Thing.
Kerry:That's the kind of trainer I like. Well, she definitely caught your attention.
Chrisy:You know one thing we didn't touch on real quick when we were talking about all the crazy diets I participated in were those, and I don't even know to what level. They're still in existence and I don't want to give these people a plug.
Kerry:But you remember those like what is it Nutrisystem?
Chrisy:Oh yeah, where you basically have to order your food weight to be delivered.
Kerry:No Weight Watchers is more calorie counting, and they had a point system for. Weight Watchers.
Chrisy:Although I did, I forgot to bring that up during that episode to my mother did make me go to Weight Watchers early on. And let me tell you what's humiliating about that. And I don't. I'm sorry, that's okay. I don't Weight Watch a sponsor and I don't. Okay, thank you.
Chrisy:There is a level of humiliation with Weight Watchers Really, I mean with dieting in general. But we were watching this one TV show. Well, I guess I can cite it right the Biggest Loser, no, mad Men, because I'm a huge Mad Men fan. I think it was a fantastic show and I show and I just loved the subject matter. I love the way it was made. It's just, it's a wonderful show. I loved it.
Chrisy:There is one season where they take this gorgeous actress which I find hilarious who hasn't seen a day of fat ever, but they turned her into a fatso for the show. They put her in a fat suit and the storyline was that she, her and this the main character divorced. Uh, it seemed like she was struggling with her new life for a little while, yeah, and she had put on weight and she was really trying to figure all that out. Yeah, huh. And they had some scenes that they showed where she was a member of Weight Watchers during the 60s. Okay, now, I had gone during the 80s, but there was a scene showing where they had the people at the Weight Watchers meeting and they would be weighed in front. You had a group weigh-in, they had you come up and weigh yourself in? No, and then they would announce they didn't say your weight.
Kerry:But they would say if you lost or gained or stayed the same, or maintained.
Chrisy:Wow, yeah, that would have. Do you know? I mean, you know how much you could dread. I dread the scale anyhow, right, but to do that level, wow, I mean. And nobody ever came in and said so-and-so, lost 10 pounds. This week they give you this crappy stuff like 0.5 ounces, so-and-so, lost 0.5 ounces.
Kerry:Are your numbers? Did you pee before?
Chrisy:you come. Well, yeah, I'm like are you sure that you're calculating that correctly? It doesn't seem that's like a stick of butter or something?
Kerry:Did they make you like take your clothes off? And wear your clothes.
Chrisy:No, no, no, it's like so it could have been your shoes, your shoes were like heavy, or you were wearing if it was winter, you were wearing too many clothes, or yeah, I mean, you know, I even drive the people at the doctor's clothes and I make sure I can slide my shoes off.
Kerry:Oh yeah, Crocs are a must.
Chrisy:That way you can take those babies right on and off and I'm not bringing my purse with me, Somebody's holding that or getting that out of my way, so but yeah, you know these crazy things, the crazy things. And so now what I real quickly want to touch on is because you don't seem to see all of this which, Like we talked prior about going through checkouts and just the diets, all the diets that were offered and so-and-so lost 70 pounds that you saw sitting in the checkout. I don't even remember I don't.
Kerry:Do they even have tabloids and stuff at the checkouts anymore, because, well, I think they do. Ok, I usually go to self-check and there's, there's nothing there.
Chrisy:As do we, but I think that yeah, but the magazine industry in? General has been hit pretty hard and you don't really see that yes, anymore which I think is a good thing.
Kerry:Yes, because it was just again very not good for body image and for no, and I'm sure it definitely influenced, and did you have to do weigh-ins when you went to weight watchers? In the 80s though. Yeah, oh, group weigh-ins, yeah you went to Weight Watchers in the 80s though. Yeah oh, group weigh-ins Dang.
Chrisy:Yeah. So when you said because you had asked me when we were watching that, you said did they really do that? Oh, and I said yes, I mean, the guy who made that show was not going to deviate from history. He was pretty he wasn't going to. It may have now, because it's a point system is what they were doing, I guess, or whatever, but I couldn't speak about after that, if I would hope. To be honest, I kind of hope they did get away from that because, yeah, that's body shaming in a way.
Chrisy:Well, yeah, and I mean I know that they were probably trying to do it to sort of inspire, yeah, but I mean I think it was crushing, especially if people didn't maintain or lose. I mean that's hard, it's so hard. And then it's just the one thing hey, everybody talks about now is sort of alleviated. This need Semi-glutide, yeah, the azempic and there's some other ones out there and I think for what it is supposed to be helping with people with type 2 diabetes and and I think there's some other health benefits they have found with this type of medication.
Chrisy:I very, uh thankful, just as I am, with all science that helps promote, uh, longer, healthier lives. But there is a part of me that you know I try to understand. I don't think I could do it because I could never poke myself all the time, and I don't understand why this form of medication requires injecting. Why can't I take a pill? But again, I'm not scientific, I guess, so I just do it. Hey, you say this is the way you have to do it, so you got a lot of people stabbing themselves. Okay, I guess, if you say don't eat or you're going to get stabbed, that might be all the incentive.
Chrisy:I need. So you either stop eating or I'm going to stab you or make you stab yourself. But yeah, I do hear a lot from famous people who touch on this not the ones participating in it or using it but there's a lot of other people, celebrities out there, or people, personalities, who talk about these type of things that I get a lot of like.
Chrisy:I feel like I hear a lot of hostility, especially people who are maybe our age or older, who remember having to do all that horrible things eat hot dogs and cold ice cream or get humiliated at Weight Watchers when you stand on the scale in front of everybody and now all you do is just, you know, quietly poke yourself, which to me it just seems dark. Just you know, quietly poke yourself, which to me it just seems dark. Like, are you doing this in front of everybody or you go hide somewhere? I mean it's just whatever. Do it If your doctor says you need this. There is no joke in that and I'm not trying to crap all over it, but it is a whole new era of being thin. It is, and I think that people who are really angry about it I'm not saying there's no scientific backing for this, but they like to talk about like ozempic face, oh yeah yeah, yeah and I think for a while.
Chrisy:They even said people who take ozempic have something with their rear ends.
Kerry:Going on, I think that's ozempic butt, yeah, or no butt.
Chrisy:I think people are just really trying to discourage anybody from you. You got a ozempic face, yeah what?
Kerry:oh my god. But I think that, yeah, I've, I've seen that I don't know that I agree because I'm like no, I think what it is is just that when you lose a lot of weight, it changes your look.
Chrisy:Yeah.
Kerry:And most of the people that I feel like are taking this are the older generation, who are having troubles with losing weight because your metabolism changes or whatever, and so you're just getting old, you know?
Chrisy:Oh, yeah, so yes, I hear your point. So but yeah, I want everybody again with this episode please listen, please enjoy and we again stay healthy. Yes, keep yourself active as much as you can physically and but don't overdo it. And moderation with your diet, but enjoy your food. Enjoy it Just don't eat a whole cake. I guess, I don't know.
Kerry:All right, everyone. So here is our flashback episode and it is our diet episode, so enjoy. Hello, dysfunction Junkie family. How is everyone doing out there, chrissy? How are you?
Chrisy:How is everyone doing out there? Christy, how are you? Oh, I'm doing just fine, I guess. Thank you, we started a new year and we're moving along, I guess.
Kerry:Yes, we are. So we're like what a month now, basically almost into the new year, and the weather is disgusting here in Northeast Ohio and I'm trying to get this marathon training done and this weather is not cooperating.
Chrisy:Oh, we got. No, you got it.
Kerry:I'm doing the gym Like I go to the gym. I go to. You know I do all that stuff but to get my outdoor running done it's not happening. Whenever it's negative teen wind chills and 20 degree weather and snow and ice yeah, screw that.
Chrisy:Do I need to like maybe be in a car in front of you and sort of maybe try to clear the road for you as you run behind the car and I'll cheer for you Go.
Kerry:Carrie, go Carrie. I think I need like a heat blower is more of the thing. It's not the desire. I've got the desire to run, I've got that down. I just can't stand this weather. It does not help my diet and my exercise routine right now.
Chrisy:So I can also have a music playing the Rocky theme.
Kerry:Oh, that would be good.
Chrisy:Yeah, all right.
Kerry:Well, if this weather lingers much longer up here, then we might need to, you know, take some, you know extreme measures on that.
Chrisy:So hopefully we'll get through it somehow. Yes, yeah.
Kerry:So dieting seems to be a good topic for this time of year, a month in after all those New Year's resolutions and everything. And Chrissy and I were talking about the dysfunctional diets over the years. So, chrissy, take it away.
Chrisy:Because I am the queen of dysfunctional diets. Unfortunately, they were encouraged for me. I don't know why, but they were. Yeah, I just always wonder why we're encouraged to make that resolution.
Kerry:Yeah.
Chrisy:That we're going to get healthier in the new year. Were you that unhealthy in the year prior or in like many years prior?
Kerry:Right.
Chrisy:Or did you just like completely go out of control in December?
Kerry:Exactly, and.
Chrisy:I wonder if the push to be healthier in a new year encourages us to be completely part of just a debaucherous lifestyle.
Kerry:Yes.
Chrisy:The month prior to the year.
Kerry:Yeah, For the last six weeks, from November till you know January or December 31st it is it's out of control. I mean all the food, all the cookies, all the pastries, all the parties, everything for those last six weeks I have no food control, no self-control when it comes to food, whether I'm on a diet or not, or just right. So yeah, the last six weeks are horrible. So you're right, not, or just right. So yeah it, the last six weeks of the horrible. So you're, you're right. That probably is why it leads up to the new year resolution of oh, I gotta, I gotta now lose the extra 10 pounds I put on, plus that whatever I put on for the whole year before my break.
Chrisy:We should do a uh, where you're totally healthy, yeah, and or totally unhealthy, like january through october, and then you just try to be completely healthy and just like completely trash everybody else who's around you trying to have a good time like you're being, you know right, the the healthy one. But yeah, it does it.
Kerry:It's a crazy thought to have be healthy I know I give credit to the people that like plan their meals and have it all packed in the little boxes and you know, they bring it to work and oh, we're going to have a lunch party at work, you know. And they, oh no, I can't eat all that yummy. I have my little pack, little chicken breast and my whatever. I wish I had that control, I wish I had that desire, I wish I could be that committed. But I just look at that and go how are you living? How is life enjoyable when you're, when you're doing that?
Chrisy:You're living out of the bento box. Well, if you really like that type of food, and that's wonderful- yeah.
Chrisy:But you know, denying yourself is a huge part of the problem and you just got to try and be reasonable. This is all taken me a very long time to figure out and I will explain because I have been on so many horrible diets. I was just making notes about what we were going to talk about today and I have to tell you that I believe that I probably have lost enough weight and gained enough weight back to probably have created one whole full grown person. I believe that Because when you want the quick fix of the weight loss, especially when you're younger and I think we've become better in general with understanding that the quick weight loss is not good.
Chrisy:I'm sure there are still people who just want it, yeah, but when you're younger you really want it, you just in a hurry.
Kerry:Got to get into that dress or got to do whatever. The bathing suit season is coming up.
Chrisy:I have been on diets that have dropped a lot of weight quickly. When I was younger I could go on those diets now Ain't going to happen. Because I'm just at that age where your body's just going to fight against that. No, thank you, it's going to hold on to all that fat because it's like you're not young anymore. You better keep all this for nutrients, because you're going to need it.
Kerry:You're so cute if you think you can do that. Still, your body says to you yeah, you kind of think oh, maybe I'm still.
Chrisy:No, no, diet required me to limit my calories to 600 calories a day for a few days, then bump it to nine. Then for a whole week, which was like a splurge, you went to 12. Wow, all of it had menu plans.
Kerry:And you were able to follow this and stick to it.
Chrisy:Once I got into the mindset of it, I was and when I was younger. I would be on that for three weeks and I know people are going to say this is impossible, but I literally would drop 15 pounds in three weeks.
Kerry:Oh, I believe it.
Chrisy:I was very hungry and I was exercising. And then you had one week off. So it was a three week commitment and then you had a week off.
Kerry:Did you just go crazy?
Chrisy:for that week you go crazy, so usually I would gain back five to seven pounds back on and then you do it again. Oh my God, I did another crazy. I was so mad. If I saw a parsnip in a store I'd probably freak out. I'm sure you would.
Kerry:But it was just, it was all just parsnips.
Chrisy:Yeah, and I was like really hostile about that one with my mother, because she kept making me eat, she kept trying to prepare them in different ways for me. I stuck to it and after a week of parsnips, I lost nothing. I lost nothing.
Kerry:Oh, my God. And I was so angry, so angry I can't, I can't imagine that I would have cheated. I would have been like OK, mom, I'm eating your parsnips. And then shut the bedroom door and out come the candy, out come the chips. I give you credit for sticking to it.
Chrisy:I did, but is it at a cost?
Chrisy:It was not because once you had time off or you decided you were going to take your break, you went so crazy you basically just destroyed everything you did. And then I did have another diet, which was really weird. I don't know, I can't remember any of the other menu parts of it, except that it told you to have vanilla ice cream and raw hot dogs, and I would take and cut up a raw hot dog and I would stick it in the vanilla ice cream and I would eat it.
Kerry:I don't remember if that diet was successful or not I'm having flashbacks and when we talked about new year's eve and we were talking about hot dogs and the sauerkraut and all that, like it's the same thing yeah, well, no, hot dogs and sauerkraut's fine.
Chrisy:I don't know that you should put hot dogs in ice cream, but they were raw.
Kerry:What's the difference between a raw hot dog and a cook hot dog?
Chrisy:well, because it's cold and the ice cream's cold. I don't know if you want to put a greasy, warm hot dog in your vanilla ice cream oh, chrissy I mean you.
Kerry:I'm trying to rationalize what. What is the nutritional game like what? What was the theory behind this? That that was making you think that I don't know?
Chrisy:I don't know if at that young age I was in high school, and maybe when you're that young, a sugar you hear the terms sugar, rush, yeah, which doesn't exist for me anymore. As soon as I eat anything sweet, I pass out.
Kerry:I'm Googling this as you're talking Hot dog and ice cream diet.
Chrisy:Well, don't say the name. I remember the name of the diet.
Kerry:I won't say the name.
Chrisy:But if it even comes up, they may tell you do not ever do this for it will ruin your health. But as I've gotten older I learned that, oh my gosh, it really is a thing, is it? It is, yeah, it is. Everybody in my room right now is going DJ Nick's on his phone, carrie's on her phone. Oh my God, does it explain why it's beneficial to do that?
Kerry:I'm trying to get to that point.
Chrisy:I would hope, because this was 35 plus years ago.
Kerry:This diet works and there is science that says it's dangerous.
Chrisy:No freaking way, of course. So yeah, it was.
Kerry:Uh, it was oh my god, that's what? And your?
Chrisy:mom. Yeah, my mom did encourage this because, you know, I was supposed to look a certain way right, I wanted to look a certain way right so that. So that's most of my teens and into my 20s and early 30s. Probably the best thing that happened to me was when I decided to start a family Right and I decided to get healthy.
Kerry:See, I never really thought about my weight growing up.
Chrisy:You are you're very fit. If you can run, which you're doing and you've done in the past, there is a level of fitness you have that I have never achieved.
Kerry:Well, but I always have to remind you, but when I run I always got that stitch in my side and it's only kind of recently that I've learned how to control that. But I was, I just weight was never an issue. I mean food was always an issue for me. I mean food and my family equated love. Food and my family was comfort. Then there was the whole ice cream. Meant we're going to have some kind of very uncomfortable conversation. So there was that, you know, kind of bad association of food. As much as I never really thought about weight like I couldn't even tell you how much I weighed in high school. I have no idea. I don't know if I ever stepped on a scale other than a doctor's office.
Chrisy:You were thin. I remember you, you're beautiful.
Kerry:You're still beautiful.
Chrisy:And you're taller than me too. Damn you, Height helps. Yeah, height does help a little bit.
Kerry:It wasn't until I graduated from college and I was working at a major theme park and was performing on stage where all of a sudden I became conscious of my weight, although they never said it to me, but I remember the women and the young girls I worked around with that there was the, you know people that were in charge of our performances or whatever that they would get on them about their weight. Now I know I was heavier than them because these girls were wearing like a size four, size six. I don't think I ever fit into that, like I never remember wearing clothes that small, but for whatever reason they didn't get on me and I think part of it was that I was a strong personality. So I think my boss was kind of new. Like you pick on me about weight, I'm going to be really coming back at you, but I did become conscious of my weight.
Kerry:But at the same time, I think at that point in my life I did have a good metabolism and with the jobs that I was doing I exerted so many calories a day. It didn't matter what I ate, because I wasn't going to eat as I just did too much scuba diving and doing all the things. It was just so much output, so I got to eat whatever I wanted. But then when I got my like a grown up job, my body still wanted to eat like that and I couldn't do it anymore Because you know now I had a sedentary lifestyle.
Chrisy:So activity is definitely a plus. I would have to say activity in your mind should be important and not to go crazy, though don't be overdoing it. But I subscribe now to. I try to commit to 30 minutes a day for five days a week. Oh, that's good and I think that that's. I think that's sort of what they recommend. Anyhow, yeah, and it's doable. If I try to do any more than 30 minutes physically, I could, yeah, but if I did I think I would discourage myself because then it would become more effort and I would get upset with having to be away from my family or
Chrisy:away from something I want to do, right the other thing. I don't want to promote anything, but what has worked for me is not an extreme level, but the intermittent fasting. Yeah, I do agree that. They do say that it's probably good to give your system a break from having to work. When you eat, you know digest and everything else. So the fasting is good. So I do like that. But sometimes you have to be careful, because sometimes I intermittent fast and it's not because I'm doing it on purpose, but because I didn't maybe start out my day eating something and then I get busy.
Chrisy:Yes, out my day eating something Right and then.
Kerry:I get busy, yes, I get very hungry. Yep, then the hangry, and then I probably eat stuff.
Chrisy:I should not, or a lot of it, yes, but when I was younger, too, I was so extreme, so probably that was why I was fairly successful at maintaining these horrible diets.
Kerry:I still can't get over the ice cream and hot dogs Flash. I can't.
Chrisy:Because when I did something, there was like no middle ground for me and I've tried to get better as I've gotten older I am definitely a.
Chrisy:you know, they say there's a gray area. It's not always black, it's not always white. For me, it was either high or low, and this is the. There was nothing in the middle, there was no way to negotiate, and so if I was not eating, I was not eating right, and if I was eating, oh my god, was I yeah, I mean and you know that's kind of funny because my personality I am very, you know, very black and white like this is right, this is wrong.
Kerry:These are the rules. These are not these. Everything is like that, very rigid for the most part, and then there's not a lot of gray, not when it comes to food and diet and exercise. I'm I for whatever reason, that does not translate over into my brain there, so I don't have that commitment Now I can get committed to so many things that like it's not a lack of commitment and everything. If I have a goal, I'm going to achieve that goal. In fact, my son, the other, probably about a month ago, said something and it was like so endearing to me. We were talking about some future plans and my son said when has Carrie ever planned something and it didn't happen? You know? So like that showed me that he recognizes that when I set a goal that it happens, I make it happen. But why can't I stick to a diet? Then it's the same. I can't. It's when it comes to food.
Chrisy:It's a bad, bad relationship, just not good I think that the fact that you're committed to just being a physical person, yeah and I don't see you eating extreme food.
Kerry:Oh, well, well, I know already. Did you not see me chow down when we went and got tacos and tequila?
Chrisy:no, I didn't you didn't seem to eat any more or less than anybody else. No, but it's just. You definitely can commit yourself and I remember this from the fact that from high school and early on, I mean you you said I'm going to do this and you would do it. Yes, I probably took the approach that don't say you're going to do anything, yeah and don't do it. And then no one's disappointed and you're not disappointed. So I am very distracted easily and my brain goes in all different yeah.
Chrisy:I guess I have a focus issue.
Kerry:Yeah, I know I do Right, but you're able to focus when you commit to these crazy turnip diets.
Chrisy:Well, not anymore, Not anymore. But back then I tell you something. The last time I went on one of these crazy things, what was it? It was probably after I had my daughter, although I really was fairly fit and I did not gain. I gained the same amount of weight with all three of my kids, which I only gained 12 pounds through each pregnancy and I generally afterwards lost that and then some, just my activity level and things.
Chrisy:I was doing. I did try to go on after my daughter, an extreme diet that I had tried in the past, because I was like I just really want to lose this much and I knew this diet used to work for me, so I'm going to do it. My gallbladder gave out on me Now it probably was bad already. From the ice cream and hot dog diet Well, maybe, or something else, but I mean, I had a severe gallbladder attack. It was pretty funny.
Chrisy:Because I didn't like I never. I used to get like heartburn and stuff, but I like spicy food. So I just assumed that was it.
Kerry:Yeah.
Chrisy:And all of a sudden it hit me and I can't say it was because of that, but it was close and it was actually I was on my week off, so I was like eating.
Kerry:Yeah.
Chrisy:And I remember laying in bed with this pain in my upper stomach. And I said because I ate a bunch of spaghetti the day before and I was like I called my husband. I said he was not home, he was out of town and I said the spaghetti is not digesting, it's stuck in my gut, it won't go anywhere else.
Kerry:And I'm in pain and I ate too much.
Chrisy:And then when I called the doctor and I told where the pain was, they're like oh honey, you need to go to the emergency room. It's probably your gallbladder, and it was, oh my God.
Chrisy:And I was so upset because, number one, I had never had any major surgery outside of having a baby. Yeah, they were going to have to take. And I'm like, well, wait, I was born with all this equipment. You're going to take something away. I don't know that my body's going to want to be missing that. And they're trying to tell me. But it doesn't work. It's not doing what it's supposed to anymore. I'm like, are you sure? Because you know, sometimes you take stuff, I know. And then I'm like, whoops, no, it was fine, you can't put it back after that.
Kerry:Take it out and you still have the pain. Whoopsie yeah.
Chrisy:But it was hilarious because I actually had it like Easter weekend that they had to do the surgery to get that gallbladder.
Kerry:And they were able to do it laparoscopically.
Chrisy:I was just going to ask you laparoscopic, which they were, but the surgeon did not know for sure he's going to be able to do it, Because I guess my the stone was enormous and when they took it out so my incision was a little bit bigger than normal.
Chrisy:For that but they were able to pull it out and the guy he took it out to the room outside to the waiting area where my husband and some other family members were waiting until I was finished. He had this thing in a jar. He showed it to him and my husband said it looked like a black Easter egg. It was perfect, it was huge and it was black. And the doctor was amazed that I never had anything prior to that.
Kerry:Okay, now here's the big question Do you still have that black Easter egg? No, you didn't keep it.
Chrisy:No, but I bet you he uses it, you who? Keeps everything. He probably uses it as a paperweight on his desk. I wish somebody you know, because when I had this happen the phone taking pictures thing wasn't a thing I did not get to see what this looked like. They didn't even show you. It's probably in a medical journal somewhere. See what happens when you extreme diet. This could be you, yeah, it could be so watch out when junkies do not yeah extreme diet, it's not worth it.
Chrisy:Don't encourage your kids healthy lifestyles. I try to tell my oldest daughter look, don't worry about how you, you're beautiful and she is, stay active and just eat healthy and that you've got to tell people that it's very important. Nobody ever told me that, not one person. And the other thing was my mother always pushed music, and I'm not saying I'm not crapping on music programs.
Kerry:Music is important.
Chrisy:I am very glad I can read music. I can play to some extent. It was enjoyable to some level, but that was all my mother was interested in encouraging me to do.
Kerry:Oh for a career.
Chrisy:For anything, any extracurricular activity. Oh I see, it was all music.
Kerry:I get where you're going with that now, okay, and I don't want to be like, hey, I'm the greatest.
Chrisy:I'm not the greatest, but I am fairly athletic. I am good at many different sports.
Kerry:And you were given that chance.
Chrisy:growing up, I was never, ever told you should go out for this.
Kerry:Yeah.
Chrisy:You should go out for that Number one. My father didn't feel a girl should be that involved in sports, right. Generally he wasn't interested in really participating, right. If you were playing sports as a girl, I think he would. If I was a boy, I would have, yeah, shut up, just they, just. I think it would have been more that they would have had to been committed to, I think, the music thing, because it was more I could stay home and people could come and give you lessons there, passive yeah it was less off there.
Chrisy:Yeah, they didn't have to take me anywhere. Not that my mom didn she would take me for music lessons but I really feel like they should have encouraged the sports thing, because I think that would have helped to, instead of throwing me on extreme diets and making me sit on a stationary bike, which I still love. I think it's just that's what I do like to do the stationary. Right, I think treadmills are wonderful, any kind of equipment that encourages you to move right is good.
Kerry:Yes, I know, and I think that you know that just realized, while you were talking about that, a little difference between you and I. So my dad, after having five girls I think he realized he wasn't getting a boy Right. So with me he did do things like he they did I played softball and you know just different things and stuff but I think it was like he realized I guess you know you have four girls and you know just different things and stuff, but I think it was like he realized I guess you know you have four girls and you have a big gap and then you get this last fifth one and it's a girl too. This, this is all you're getting. So if you want to make something out of this tomboy, it is you know. So I did have a little bit of that growing up.
Chrisy:but let me tell you something else that always amazed me with you and with the people that you were friends with while we were in school, being in the band.
Kerry:Yes.
Chrisy:Playing an instrument.
Kerry:Yes.
Chrisy:And moving Junkies. But let me tell you this when I played an instrument, it was stationary like my bike. Chrissy's all about stationary. I'll move like crazy, but Only one place. It's like a cartoon with me I'm not going anywhere, but I'm moving like crazy. Yeah, the fact that anybody who is in a band marching band.
Kerry:I'm talking although.
Chrisy:I guess a rock band too. Now I did. I was in a rock band briefly, and I was I would sing but that kind of movement is yeah, you're jiggling around, look at me, move A band, a marching band that you are able to do those different movements and continue to play and stay on. No, it's a different level of fantastic. Yeah, I give props to that.
Kerry:That is amazing I didn't think about that.
Chrisy:You're right, and so and plus the fact that you're carrying something right sometimes heavy oh my gosh.
Kerry:I'll never forget because one of the bands I was in was like a competition band and you had to try out to be in this band. It was like, collected from all the different kids in the area, created this, this band, and we would travel and compete. I was playing the xylophone.
Chrisy:So it was this really heavy piece of equipment.
Kerry:I swear to God, I think that thing weighed like 50, 70 pounds. It was probably half my weight. So we were doing this parade and I think we were in Wisconsin doing the parade or something. But it was really long, it was in the summer, it was hot. We're wearing this big uniform.
Kerry:I normally wouldn't have marched with that. I normally would have had the bells, but the kid who was supposed to play the xylophone got sick, so they moved me over to that. So I was marching with this heavier piece of equipment and we're doing this parade and I was committed. I was like nope, I'm making it through the judging stand or whatever. And I mean it was hard, it was. I do remember like I was struggling and I didn't know at the time the precursors of like passing out. You know where you would get the chills and you know like the shakes and all this other stuff, right, but I had been experiencing that for like a mile while we were on this parade route and I think everyone around me could tell that like I was maybe going to pass out because they kept trying to take them from me and I'm like no, I got it, I'm doing this.
Chrisy:I'm doing it. There's that commitment.
Kerry:I was talking about. Right, but I wasn't dieting, I was, you know something else, but you had a goal and you were going to stick with it.
Kerry:Finally, when we passed the judging stands and I knew that basically our judging part was over, they came over and I was like, okay, fine, you can take this from me and I'll never forget. They lifted that off of me. It took two guys. I mean, that's how heavy this freaking thing was. They, the parents, came over, lifted it off of me and thank God somebody was behind me, Because as soon as they lifted that boom, I started going down. Never had experienced that and I remember starting to pass out and going down and I was like in my brain, what is going on? And I realized what was happening and I just like, no, I you will not pass out. No, like I was still in that competition. Like no, you can't. You know, this will look bad on the, on the, you know judging or whatever. But yeah, I'll never forget that. Yeah, so you're right. I guess marching band was an endurance sport.
Chrisy:Definitely so. Anybody out there who did band or is currently or has children doing band tons of admiration for that, because it can't be easy. Anybody who's sitting there watching that has to, I would hope, acknowledge that the kids and people who do that.
Kerry:It's crazy. It's fantastic who do that. It's uh, it's fantastic, so, but well, this was good to wrap up. Uh, a little bit on where we're at and in our dieting month into the year. So what I want to know from the junkies is I want to know what crazy diets you guys have done or are on, or whatever, or considered yeah, real quick.
Chrisy:One other thing yeah, when they talk about dry January.
Kerry:Oh yeah, what's that about? What's that concept about? I've never heard of that.
Chrisy:Well, I mean, I guess I mean only recently, but why?
Kerry:Because they're trying to get healthy. I guess because they drank too much the six weeks before.
Chrisy:But isn't the whole? I'm going to join the gym. I'm going to eat better. This year, the this year. The resolution's not enough. Now they have to also declare dry January. Dry like it's dry skin, january Cause. Yes, in Northeast Ohio I'm always like wondering what the heck is everybody dry January? How much did you drink? You need to be all dried out now I just imagined somebody in like some tank, you know, just like completely dry, I mean maybe.
Kerry:I would need to be like a dry July because we go on our big vacation in June and that's probably my heavy drinking season of the year, so I would have to do dry July because the dry January. But I never really heard of that until recently.
Chrisy:We need to start like just throwing stuff in the wrong order out there and confusing everybody, while we're, like everybody, dry August.
Kerry:Everybody for dry August, it's dry. Or what's the thing they do with the beard? No shave November. Oh my God, is that a thing? Oh, that's a thing my husband does.
Chrisy:Is it for a girl? No, it's no. Shave your legs. Everybody's walking around looking Europeanan yeah, it is.
Kerry:It has to do with, I think it's supporting cancer or something. Well, that I can get behind, but it's like a whole no shave thing. But I hate it because then he gets all like out of control what is my january benefit?
Chrisy:I I don't know. It's certainly not benefiting the industry that sells the spirits.
Kerry:Definitely budweiser didn't come up with that one. No, I don't think so, mogan david maybe benefits your liver.
Chrisy:A benefit your liver, yeah, I don't know.
Kerry:Yeah, all right. Well, that could be another thing. Someone find out where this dry january thing came from and tell us so?
Chrisy:yeah, and junkies, I would just say remember, just eat healthy foods. Splurge when you want, amen, just some minor physical activity. I'll do everybody the best, don't do extreme stuff. Yeah, moderation. Because it leads to many, many years of just unfortunate gain of weight and discouraging your positivity. And Oregon started deciding to give up on, you know, trying to do what they're supposed to do. You know I still miss my gallbladder.
Kerry:All right, everybody. Well, thank you for joining us. Be sure to check out our Facebook page for any you know. Give us any of those comments and feedbacks. Also, wherever you're listening to us from a five-star review like follow, everything like that. We sure appreciate it. We sure do. All right, bye-bye junkies. Eat those ice cream and hot dogs. Yeah, let me know, yum, yum.
