This is a YouTube video titled "Hear the spice that helped Susanna’s inflammation in her face disappear in 2 weeks!" featuring a conversation between Nagina Abdullah and Susanna. The discussion centers on Susanna's weight loss journey using the Spice Yourself Skinny program, her experiences managing health and diet amidst a busy entrepreneurial life, and the benefits of various spices like turmeric, cumin, and cayenne pepper for inflammation and metabolism. The content is an interview-style conversation recorded in 2017.
So tell us, Susanna, about the weight you lost in Spice Yourself Skinny and any other changes that happens.
Yeah, well, I ended up losing 10 pounds over the course of eight weeks, which is great. Yeah. And I think that that's probably the most that I've ever lost in a program. Because most of the programs, like you had mentioned in your introduction to your program, you know, most of the programs have really boring. You know, when they're really boring when it comes to food. And I would just get so bored and fall off the wagon. So, yeah, I just. That was a huge success for me, given that. Given the fact that I was in a, you know, doing a startup and ran into, like, having to put out some fires with. With some of my stuff in my business and basically wasn't able to meal. Meal prep as much as I could have in the last half of the eight weeks. But what I did was I stayed within the framework of the program and I stayed within the principles of, like, the spices and things like that. And I applied that with takeout food. So I would get takeout food within the parameters. And so I was able to keep it within that £10. So I probably would have lost more than that had I been, like, right on. But just the fact that it's one of those programs that is not so stringent that you feel like you have to be perfect to see results, that's one thing that I really loved about it as well.
Oh, gosh. Absolutely. It's like sometimes we feel like, oh, can we just take eight weeks out of our life and just go lose weight and then just, like, come back, you know, like at a resort somewhere?
Yeah.
Like, go to a resort and just be, like, this boot camp for eight weeks. You know, Then that would solve all our problems. We'll just be like, the newer. The newer me. But then, you know, we have kids.
We have life happening.
Yes. So we can't run away. It's like, you can't just run away and lose the weight. You actually have to figure out how to do it in your real life. And I love how you said that, you know, you would get takeout because that's what happens. I mean, yes, you have an urgent situation, a fire drill in your entrepreneurial business. Then you have to just make do. But you absolutely can be healthy when you know what to order and how to look at what you're eating. £10 in eight weeks is really, really great. So tell me. Okay, now, Susanna. Well, first tell me what your favorite spice is. What's your favorite spice? And what do you use it on?
Yes, Well, I do love turmeric in general. I think I had probably two answers to that question. I do love turmeric in general just for how it has helped with inflammation. Cumin. I actually make eggs, you know, almost every day, where I add turmeric and cumin to it, to, you know, onions, and then use that in my eggs. I think one of the newer spices, not new to me, but just the fact that I didn't used to use it, is cayenne or red pepper. I used to always have this mindset toward it, like, it's too spicy for me. And I think my body just acclimated to it. And, like, this morning, I had coffee. I had stevia and cinnamon and red chili pepper. Wow. You're just like, nothing to start the day. You know, I was up till two in the. Almost two in the morning working on my business, and then I was like, oh, crap, I have this video interview, and I'm gonna look so tired, and I feel bloated and la da. So I started my day this morning with that. But, yeah, so the cayenne pepper has kind of surprised me with how much it's actually not as hot as I thought or my body just acclimated to it.
Yeah.
So that would be probably my. My favorite. Oh, wow.
What a surprise, because it's like a new addition to your life. And it's true. And the thing is, like. Like the other spices you mentioned, turmeric and cumin, they're not spicy at all.
At all.
Yeah, they're flavor. And then they have the benefits. Like, turmeric helps decrease inflammation. It helps block fat formation, and cumin actually helps decrease belly fat, like fat in general, but focuses on the belly, so. And then when you add cayenne pepper, it increases your metabolism, and, like, you might even see it decreases your appetite. So that's kind of awesome, you know?
