Code red - For this episode, I'm sharing my answers to the top SIX most asked questions I've been getting this summer.

I got these questions from reading comments on my YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok channels.

Here are the six questions I'm gonna answer in the episode:

"How is Miles?" (Miles is my ex-husband. We were together for ten years.)

"Anything new happening for you, Cristy?"

How is Hazel?" (Hazel is my Belgian Malinois who turned two a couple months ago. She's featured in a lot of my content and is quite a character.)
"Why did you grow out your hair and change the color?"

"Why are you competing in bodybuilding again?"

"Are you SEEING anyone?"
Yep, these are all personal questions about me rather than about the Code Red program. (I've also done podcasts where I answer common Code Red program questions.)

And, since so many people seem to wanna know the answers, I'm dedicating this episode to answering them.

If knowing the answers interests you, tune in to this episode to hear them!

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A few months ago, Instagram suggested I start following a guy named Jake Thomas. I'd never heard of him, but when I saw that we followed a lot of the same people, ran in the same circles, and had a lot in common, I thought, "Why not?"

One thing Jake said that stuck with me was, “Every day is day one.”

See, Jake grew up in New Orleans in a suburban family. He appeared “good” on the outside and his family seemed “perfect"...but things were NOT good OR perfect.

Having no direction or purpose in his life, and while carrying a lot of suppressed emotional baggage he didn't know what to do with, Jake joined the Marines at age 17, where he found leadership, assertiveness, and mission.

But after he left the Marines, he lost all sense of identity. Even working in the oil fields and making plenty of money, he couldn't handle reality and escaped with booze and "pleasurable company." He also got fat and inflamed.

His turning point came at age 30, when he finally got fed up and asked himself, “Dude! Where are you going? What are you doing?!”

Determined to clean up his act, Jake researched human physiology and discovered that what we eat impacts everything in our lives, including our mind and spirit.

Jake took control of his eating (he went carnivore) and adopted the same training style used in recruit training in the Marines, which is where "every day is day one" comes from.

The day recruits ARRIVE for training is day ZERO. The day they START is day ONE.

As Jake explains, it doesn’t matter what you look like on day zero. When training starts on day one, it’s on. Everybody is the same on day one.

Jake also says that “The single most effective thing we can do as human beings is controlling what we put in our mouth.”

Amen! And you can start doing that today, even if you've never done it a day in your life or you've gone back to your old ways.

Every day is day one, which means every day you can "start training" again.

For more motivation and encouragement to move beyond past choices, guilt, shame, and any other crud holding you back, tune into this episode of Rebel Weight Loss & Lifestyle, where I talk with Jake Thomas about why EVERY day is day one.

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Exodus 14 of the Bible includes a famous story everyone’s heard about: The parting of the Red Sea.

The Israelites were fleeing captivity and slavery in Egypt at the hands of Pharaoh.

With the Egyptian army closing in on them, the Israelites stood at the edge of the Red Sea with nowhere to go.

So God told Moses to stretch out his arm to part the waters...

BUT the waters didn’t part until the children of Israel TOOK A STEP toward the Red Sea.

In the New Testament of the Bible, while Jesus was walking on water, he told Peter to take a step toward him - ON the water - to meet him.

These stories remind me that the first step is usually the hardest.

(Or, as we say in boxing, the first round is the hardest.)

For example, at the half-marathon most of my Coaches and I ran in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this year, that first mile was the hardest.

The first step is usually the scariest, too, no matter what you're doing...starting a business, going on a first date, or even starting the Code Red Lifestyle™.

I wish more people understood that NOT taking that hard or scary first step is worse than the fear or difficulty of taking it.

I’m not good at very many things, but I don’t fear taking chances, because when I take a chance, I have a 50/50 chance of being right.

Sometimes I’m right. Sometimes I’m not. But I find out.

If I don't take a chance, on the other hand, I have a zero percent chance of being right.

Tune into this episode to find out why taking that first step and finding out if you're right is the key to an amazing, fulfilling life that you'll be proud of (and quite possibly, the key to getting and keeping your weight off).

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