VLOG - Update on my Bloat/Gut & Book

Hello everybody! I am back with my weekly vlogs. I did take quite a long break and I am sorry I have actually been moving up and down. I don't even remember the last time I have actually recorded a video but I'm back in Mexico and it's actually been really nice, very nice and not too hot actually. Pretty nice temperature and I am back in my place. It's pretty amazing to kind of come back to my home and yeah i've been really really enjoying my time here so i wanted to update you on a couple of things and a lot of dms are sent about similar stuff so i thought i'll just cover everything in here so number one thing is about my book now i have mentioned that i'm writing a book i know a lot of you signed up for the wait list and the book was supposed to come out end of November but due to my extremely busy schedule and things that I was getting up to I was filming a lot of a lot of courses online and testing a lot of recipes over the last couple of months it kind of pushed our deadline even though I have actually finished writing the book um now I'm you know so many things are changing so I'm actually going to go back to the book and rewrite a few bits in the last part because you know I'm changing so the book is changing a little bit and I didn't want to rush it I wanted to make sure that it is you know so so useful for everybody and it's perfect and I know you can never make something like super perfect but still I wanted to make sure that it's kind of perfect and so now the book is going to launch in 2024 as you can see look at this I have professional equipment now as well so hopefully you will enjoy the sound of this video too and but yeah the book is going to be ready next year and I am planning to dedicate the whole of december to really make sure that i'm happy with it and i want to finish it this year because it kind of symbolizes the end of my cycle and of everything that i've been through in the last couple of years because i'm entering a new chapter a new cycle which is totally different and you will obviously find out in the book and everything and actually more things are changing so i kind of have to like adjust a little bit the ending um so that's going to come out probably in April time because I still have to give it to my publishers and that will take time to edit and go back and forth so hopefully next spring we're going to finally have the book and for everybody who is interested in a lot of mindset things and a lot of psychological tests or fun games anything like that I actually created a new Instagram profile and I'll link it down below here and also in here too so you can follow me there I'll be doing a lot of cool stuff I'll share personal stories I'll also share stories of other people and give you hopefully lots of tips and advice so that you can enjoy this beautiful life and learn from other people's mistakes and also get inspired and encouraged and to sometimes you know you just need to hear one thing and your mood becomes better or you need to see one thing and mindset shift happens immediately you know like that so I want to be that person I'm also in the very beginning of this journey I have never done something like this before even though I'm in a food space and I know I'm vlogging and you've seen me before this is slightly different I'm trying different types of formats and I'm trying different contexts and it's like a new project for me I'm very excited about it I feel a little bit out of my comfort zone because it's not something that I ever used to do and I have to like put myself into like these crazy situations where you know I don't know how it's all going to be and of course I do feel a little bit vulnerable because I'm out there now publicly not just me and my cakes but me as a whole and you're gonna get to see all of it for those of you who have been with me for 10 years now you know that I'm exactly the same well as in real life and as on camera okay I guess not all of you met me in real life but for those of you who have you know that I'm completely me all the time and sometimes maybe too much I am very emotional person so I share everything that I go through or whatever period of my life so it can be up and down and I share all the good things and all the bad things and it's just my way of expressing it's like almost like my diary where I express how I feel and sometimes you know I do realize that I'm a little bit too emotional and you know time passes and then you're like well I don't know why I was so emotional but I can't help being who I am I'm you know crazy emotional bunny so I'm I just flow you know depending on my mood so you're gonna see a lot of different things from me and hopefully I would love your support and if you want to follow me there it would mean so much to me and um yeah that's one thing the second thing a lot of the questions were asked about my gut and my health and how am i doing am i still doing carnivore am i eating cakes do i have any gut issues so i wanted to cover this topic a little bit broader so i've made a lot of changes recently one thing that i stopped doing i stopped wearing fitbit i used to wear fitbit every single day for years and i stopped doing that probably good three three four months ago and i genuinely feel like it made me feel better because I know there's been a lot of studies done that any type of electronic watches obviously our phones and everything as well they do radiate a lot of frequency and I think they can potentially damage your health and I don't know I just want to do an experiment and to be honest I felt so much better I'm trying to learn my body understand how I feel without constantly monitoring it I know it works for a lot of people so you know if it works for you do it I just started to feel a lot of pressure like oh my god I need to hit 10 000 steps a day I need to do this I need to do that and it's just the list of I need to do it just kept building up and it kind of adding the extra pressure on me which I decided I don't want to have anymore you know if I feel like walking I'm going to go for a walk if I don't I'm not going to do it and actually I just love being in the state of flow where I'm just kind of doing what I feel like doing when I feel like doing and just kind of taking life as it comes in the present moment so I've stopped doing that and I have noticed a difference I think generally in my health and everything another thing that I do I also put my phone in airplane mode every night I go to bed and when I'm really good I actually leave my phone outside of my bedroom because that is the best thing you can do for your health and your body because again it does transmit a lot of things and it disturbs your sleep and things like that another thing you're gonna laugh at me i ordered these blue-ray glasses honestly i don't know what's going on with me in my life i'm turning into some sort of geek but these are protective glasses so you can put them on basically after like 7 8 p.m so that way you're not exposed exposed to blu-ray lights if you're using your phone if you're using a laptop which i know a lot of us do i'm no exception but i'm trying to be better i'm trying not to use my phone at night or in the morning because it really sets up your whole day so yeah so i use these well i'm trying to if i don't forget um and this is just general health because i feel like if i'm going to just tell you about the gut it's great but it's like overall picture like what am i doing overall to make me feel better now for those of you know i've been on carnivore for six months i was strict carnivore and actually did heal my gut a lot and right now i'm actually i've been kind of eating whatever and now I'm just filming so it hasn't been like super you know super great but right now in Mexico I actually now started about a week ago eating super healthy foods again I'm back on my healthy eating plan which is pretty much it's just like protein carbs and veg and it's quite strict you know I have three meals a day if anybody wants to know exactly what I'm eating I mean I can tell you let me know but it's it's yeah it's pretty much I have eggs for breakfast with like avocado and salmon some nuts so there's a good portion of fats and protein because that's what keeps you full and then for lunch I'm usually having some sort of protein like chicken or beef with vegetables and some sort of carb okay so because now I'm fully excluding gluten and dairy and sugar well I still kind of have dark chocolate so that's a naughty one but generally yeah I'm excluding all the gluten right now and all the dairy and so yeah so I'm just having like some sort of buckwheat, grechka or pearl barley or couscous actually no couscous quinoa for lunch and then for dinner usually would be like fish with vegetables. So that's kind of like a really healthy plan and I'm kind of trying to see how I feel on that and if any vegetables are bloating me then of course I'm going to exclude them. I still try and stay on a low FODMAP diet which is good for your gut especially if you have any gas bloating pains anything like that then I would recommend not to eat like aubergines tomatoes um things like um basically nightshades vegetables okay so they are not that good for you also limit your like avocados and no carb or hydrated drinks and basically the whole list goes on but my gut is generally is much much better like I feel like a totally different person you know from three years ago I can't even imagine like what transformation but even now like sometimes I can get bloated a little bit like randomly so I'm not quite sure what it is it could be like the oils that they put in food you know everywhere and I'm still monitoring myself I'm also taking different types of supplements I know usually show you what supplements I take I can probably recite it from my head so the supplements that always take with no exception and I don't have breaks is magnesium I always have magnesium at night i sometimes have a boost of vitamin c like 1000 units i do it with my collagen that i drink every morning now collagen is good for your hair for your skin for your overall being well-being and i take my fish oil and my zinc which is basically one of the most important things and vitamin d usually if i am not exposed to the sun as much now that i'm living here i might not take as much vitamin D but I will still test it out and see if I'm good and then I've actually started a new treatment with this new company about my gut to really heal fully like if I had because I had IBS and I think I had even SIBO and if you had candida or any of these kind of symptoms it's really good to obviously cleanse your whole gut just to replace your you know bacteria to make sure it's nice and healthy and perfect for you so started that treatment I'm going to test it out first I don't want to announce that I'm just testing it out like you know me I never share anything unless I've tried it myself because I just don't see a point talking about something if it doesn't work so I'm going to test it out for a few months they've sent me their stuff and the first three days were actually brutal I did not feel good but now it's getting better and I'll see how I feel if it actually completely removes my bloating and yeah I will show you obviously some videos later right now like i am not super bloated i'm just normal and i'm feeling pretty pretty healthy um well in the last two weeks i was a bit naughty in latvia because you know my home country and there's a lot of delicious food like blinchiki and all sorts of things and pelmeni like it's like dumplings and everything but the good thing is that i want to encourage you if you are on your journey and if you're doing carnivore if you want to do strict carnivore it really does work and it does help yes it's difficult yes it definitely requires effort a it's not as expensive as people think and b you don't actually eat as much as you think in the beginning you might but then you actually eat less and honestly it's the best way of eating that I've ever felt in my life so carnivore was the best way how I felt energy wise emotion wise weight wise and just you know just everything I might return to carnivore at some point but I kind of just wanted to experiment now you know adding back some other foods like fruit and veg and seeing how I feel and if I feel great then I'll just carry on doing that if I don't then I might just go back to carnivore and that's kind of like my update on my bloat and my gut and all of those kind of things of course I feel like it's an overall picture I did a lot of other things to heal myself so I started doing a lot of meditations from last year I also try and do yoga as much as I can I kind of need to get back into it so I kind of slipped and I haven't done any yoga for a while so I really really need to do it at least three times a week I'm trying and of course exercise this is also something that I want to do you know I suggest you walk at least 30 minutes a day just to move your bowels especially if you have any gut issues it's really helpful to move a bit after you've eaten and you know just go for those nice romantic walks by yourself or with someone or just exercise you know go to the gym or go just for a walk in the morning or at night it's just so nice as well just to clean your head and you know refresh your thoughts and just get into that zen state it does really help a lot these are kind of the two big things and a couple of other things obviously like I'm changing a lot about all the yummy food so I think potentially might be starting a second channel where I will be doing these types of vlogs because it's going to be a bit more personal so I'm going to announce it too and hopefully for those of you who are interested in a bit more lifestyle you know things advice and stuff like that then we'll be moving over there but here we'll just keep it as a food channel or some sort of business advice about food and cakes otherwise yes thank you all for watching I wanted to update you all and I just want to say that life is so crazy and I want you to remember one thing that actually helps me to get through a lot of stuff is that our emotions you know they kind of come and go and if you're feeling not in a good place like emotionally mentally right just remember that always gonna go back you know go back up it's gonna get better and sometimes it just takes a bit longer sometimes it takes shorter um but i have been working so much with meditations on my self-aware state so like now anything that i feel i can just feel it straight away in my body and i can like oh this is what i feel this is the fear that's coming up or this is this that's coming up and i allow myself to be the way i am like if i'm feeling scared i actually say it out loud like i'm actually scared about this and that way you are telling yourself and your body and your mind that you are feeling this emotion and then there is no dis I don't know what the word is in English so dissociation right whether it's true or not and then you're kind of giving yourself space oh gosh my leg went numb I think I was sitting in this cross position anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this vlog I can talk probably for ages so on this note have a lovely day I hope you enjoyed this vlog because I haven't done in a while and I'm sorry and lots of love bye