Girlfriends, episode number 132, six ways to banish a bad mood.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a

mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace,

balance, and joy in family living. This week, we're sharing some easy ways to turn a bad mood

around. Are you in a funk? Let's get you out of it.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you? Thanks for being here. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for connecting with me. I love that we can gather here together week after week as part of the girlfriends

community. So thank you for being a part of that. And we're connecting yet again. This week,

we're going to talk about bad moods and how to get out of them.

But first, I just want to know how you're doing. It's been a little while since we did a health

and fitness check-in, and that's probably on purpose for my part. But I like to do this regularly

so that even I have some accountability here. It's maybe mostly for me, but I think it's helpful to just

check in about how we're doing with our health and fitness goals and what we say our priorities are,

but what we're actually doing in real life. Summer can be a challenging time. There are vacations,

there's parties, there's relaxed schedule, you can get out of your routine when the kids aren't

in school. So this can be really challenging to stick to your health and fitness goals,

but I find it's helpful to be flexible, but not to throw everything out the window.

For me personally, for like three months leading into late June, I was really good about sticking to an exercise routine and eating like almost no carbs whatsoever.

I just got into a really good habit with the things that I was eating in a really good routine.

And after that, I got sick. I think I shared that

with you when I was at Catholic TV recording the gist. I was sick that week and I was sick when I got

back. And I kind of, yeah, okay, I threw everything out the window. I just, I pretty much went

from eating almost no carbs to eating nothing but carbs, like for three days

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