Unexpected Encounters, Weight Loss Success Over 60 And Regrets | Life With Sandra Hart

hello this is Sandra Hart and welcome to my channel let's talk Slumber awake Dawn I'm here slippers coffee kisses another day [Music] gratitude morning meditation [Music] I hope I get through this video in one piece it is Memorial day here in United States and in Miami Beach we have an air show for Memorial Day I usually film on Thursdays or Friday so that I upload on Sunday well today is Friday and I didn't realize that they were going to be practicing all day today so all day long there have been Jets flying by breaking the sound barrier noise all day long and a fire engine just went by I hope I can get through this without too much Interruption Six Degrees of Separation that is when or the premise that most of us if we meet someone and we start talking with them even though we've never seen them before in our lives somehow there may be some type of connection with that person that you have never ever met didn't really know or haven't seen before I've always believe that and last night I had the best time Brett and I were invited by a young man who lives in our complex and he just got engaged to a wonderful young woman that he is been dating for a long time and when I met her the first thing uh she talked about was well about Washington DC and I said oh I was born in Washington DC and she said so was I now she is 35 and I am 85 they're 50 years difference between us and I said well that's interesting I said I was born in the SI Women's Hospital she said no way so was I and I said yes I love the Washington DC area I said I went to the University of Maryland there she says really she says all of my family went to the University of Maryland and it was so amazing and the more we talked I realized how many things that Sarah and I had in common even though we had never ever met before this has happened to me so very often I had a very small role in a movie called Six Degrees of Separation from the play it was a movie made from the Broadway play the connection I had with Donald Sutherland was that my son and he both lived in LA and they would play billions together so I also had a connection in Six Degrees of Separation with Donald southernland even though he's a big movie star and I'm just looking nothing and he uh but our sons made that connection so through our sons we were actually connected I think it is so fascinating because this is not the first time that this has ever happened to me and I'm just wondering I'm going to ask you have you ever met someone a complete stranger and found out that in some weird way you have a connection with them I really would like to know because I this has happened as I said before to me so many times that I believe that all of us somehow even when we meet remote strangers have something in common more than not and it's it's very bizarre but I do believe and I'd like to hear from you if that has happened to you it's it's just I don't boggles my mind out the universe works and how amazing it really is I was asked the other day also about regrets someone asked me the other day oh you're 85 do you have regrets and you're talking about you know no regrets you don't believe in and I said no I really have no regrets because I live for today regrets are yesterday and I really can't dwell on them and all the decisions that I made in my life and I want you to think about your life all the decisions that you made in your life if you made them with your instinct and you felt that they were right and you made them directly from your heart they were not mistakes they may have led you into a different path but you cannot say that they were mistakes and what I would say to my younger self regrets are not what you have done in your life regrets are not the choices that you make in your life but regrets are the things that you didn't do in your life if you are young and you still have a lot of Life to Live and a lot of choices to make in your life try to live your life working on your goals and things that you see for yourself and you want to achieve for yourself in your life and I think that's the best advice that I could ever give to my younger self but right now I really have no regrets because every decision that I have made in my life and I'm sure you agree every decision that you have made in your life whether it caused angst for a while or whatever it was but those decisions have made and taken you on the journey where you are right now no regrets please really no regrets something else that I was on my mind because I've been asked so often about diets and you know they were saying oh you look so thin you look like you've lost weight but basically I have to tell you we genetically usually age the way our aunts our mothers our fathers age I am aging exactly the way my mother did my mother was never skinny skinny skinny but she always had a nice figure but she was never really overweight I am aging just like she is I am getting thin and I try to eat so much I'm trying to pump up and exercise and do everything I can because I don't want to lose weight but I am aging the way my mother did she was always very trim and slim so that is the way I am aging I have a daughter that's 6 feet tall in Lexington and she is also very slender and my daughter Brett not only has an autoimmune illness that her medication makes her gain a little bit of weight but she was born with the gene that is in our family that does not allow her to burn calories maybe as efficiently as I do but if there's ever a famine someone like Brett will live and longer and get through the famine more than someone like me would but she is currently working really hard to lose weight and she's lost 50 pounds now I really have been asked so many times you know what kind of diet can I go on when I'm you know going through through menopause when I'm over 5050 well as I said before I I really don't believe in diets I believe in just eating Whole Foods portion control exercise and all of those things but if you are like my daughter and you were born genetically maybe to not to hold on to weight more than uh other people do she is on the I have to look at it because it's called the starch solution tion diet and it's by John John and Mary McDougall I'm sorry I had to check my notes but I'm going to put a link to his channel below here and I'm also going to show a cover of his book that you can get on Amazon Brett this diet for her has been so successful she's lost 50 PBS already and she told me that she is never ever hungry she can can eat everything that she on this diet that she likes until she's full and she is never ever hungry and I think diets usually are very hard because people are hungry and they don't feel satisfied and they don't feel full but she eats all starches very very little oil she eats potatoes I'm going to look rice greens sweet potato Poes and little to no fat and she is losing weight and she has low cholesterol all of her stats are excellent with the keto diet that some people are on I know that a lot of times their cholesterol levers levels really really rise and that's when they eat fat and meat and all of the things I think they do lose weight but I'm not too sure that cholesterol buildup is healthy for everyone some people can tolerate it but if you have fatty liver disease or something of that nature it's really really hard but any anyway it's called the no starch diet and I wanted to share this with you if you are overweight you're 60 50 60 or over and you're are having a terrible time losing weight and you want to try this diet because you don't go hungry Brett said she's never ever hungry uh of course you always should probably check with your doctor to see if this is the right kind of diet for you and looking back when I was you in my 40s and I was trying to control my palpitations and my tacac cardia I was really concerned that about heart disease even though I didn't have heart disease I just had that extra impulse Nerf so I went on the dean ornish diet and this basically is kind of like that that because zero fat zero fat in this diet and it you know keeps your arteries clean and keeps everything working so I thought I would just share that with you today life is what you make it you can go around with a smile on your face and try to be positive and and try to make the best of your life or you can go around with a Sour Puss and be all negative and as far as I concerned if you can do it take care and I hope you have a wonderful week ahead happy Memorial Day weekend for all of you in the USA here and please try to think about the glass being half full instead of half empty and if you're lonely you're not alone please know that we all love you and that tomorrow is another day for happy and another day to make everything right in your life thank you for being with me today and I hope to see you soon [Music]