The Unf*ck Your Fitness Podcast

173. Macros, Music, Muscles, and More: A Fun Q&A with Me

• Kristy Castillo

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I’m switching things up with a super chill and FUN Q&A session for today’s episode!


Between perimenopause, a new cut phase, and all the day-to-day chaos, life has been LIFEING (I know you know the feeling)!


In today’s episode, I’m answering YOUR questions on my go-to’s for fast food, affordable fashion, creatine, skincare, what pumps me up in the gym, and more. 


Like with everything I teach, perfection is NOT the goal here - progress and real-life balance are. I’m just trying to do my best in this season, and I know you are too!


I hope you enjoyed this laid-back chat, and it helped you get to know me a little better. I would LOVE to do more of these in the future, so don’t hesitate to reach out and send in your questions!


In this episode, we cover:

  • An honest life update with perimenopause struggles, travel & more
  • Macro-friendly/flexible fast food options for on-the-go
  • Finding clothes on a budget + alterations when needed
  • My favorite protein-packed snacks
  • My eclectic workout playlist
  • My thoughts on creatine
  • My ‘ideal’ date night
  • The truth about cellulite
  • My favorite skincare, makeup & hair care products


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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Un-Fuck-Your-Fitness Podcast. I am your host, Christy Castillo, and I'm here to give you real talk and cut the BS so you can actually enjoy building a body you love. I'm a personal trainer obsessed. What's up?

Speaker 2:

Welcome to today's episode, Today's short, sweet, spicy episode is going to be just a little bit about me and my thoughts on things, and I think it's just going to be fun. I just had an idea to ask on my Instagram stories over on Christy Castillo Fit earlier this week, just you know, I kind of said something like I just want to create a podcast episode where I just kind of answer your questions. So I've been really busy and not I haven't done an ask me anything in a while on Instagram and honestly just kind of been out of it mentally and physically lately. So I thought this would be kind of a fun way to catch up on all the things, allow you to ask me questions and I can kind of expand on them here on the podcast, and I know it's just nice for me to chat with you and you can get to know me a little bit too. So I don't put a lot of just like a quick little update in each Tuesday episode or even a Friday episode Like I don't talk about. I intermix my life into the topics that I'm talking about, but I don't just do a lot of. Here's my thoughts on X, y and Z, which I think would be kind of fun to do every once in a while. So this could be something that I lean into and ask every once in a while on my stories. Maybe we do this monthly, just kind of a what do you want to know my thoughts on, what do you want to know about literally anything about me, and I'll answer it here. So I thought this would be fun to most, I guess, like the most asked questions Is that how I want to word it? I got a lot of the same questions and I wanted to definitely answer those, and then I wanted to answer some fun ones as well. So here we go. First of all, a little life update. Oh my gosh, I feel so tired. Just to be real with you, I'm recording this the week before it comes out, so right before Easter here, and I'm just feeling so overwhelmed.

Speaker 2:

Baseball season has picked up, or started, I should say, for my son. So things are picking up here and moving right along. He's a sophomore and he loves baseball and I love baseball. But yeah, it's just been nuts, I think, honestly also traveling so much lately. We went to LA at the last part of spring break. We went to Dodgers opening day, we went to the Dodgers ring ceremony, so we were in LA for a couple of days. I was then home for a couple of days and I traveled to the Chicago area to see my friend Aaron, who I am creating the new membership with, and we had an amazing time. It was the first time that we had met in person. We talk every week and on video and we talk every day texting, but it was the first time that we had met in person. So it was fun. We just had a lot to do for work and then a lot to just catch up on and hang out and be friends. So that was really, really fun. And then just getting back into life my son had, I think, like four baseball games doubleheaders last week and it's just been crazy.

Speaker 2:

And you guys, I can't for the life of me, like figure out why, why, as a 43-year-old woman, out, why, why, as a 43-year-old woman, like I have teenagers. I'm in the midst of like perimenopause where I don't understand my thoughts. I don't understand like my food cravings are changing. I'm so freaking tired. My blood pressure is under control now with medication. I was so sick the beginning of the year, like I just don't understand why God thought it was a good idea to be like, oh hey, in your 40s you physically and mentally will kind of fall apart, but you'll also have teenagers to raise and it'll be like the busiest time of your life also. So you know, just good luck with that.

Speaker 2:

I think I just I'm daily in awe of how much I am struggling to like survive and it's, it's crazy. I can't even put it into words, but there's a little update on me. But I life is just crazy. So I have been talking a lot of my stories about just how like I'm in a cut. It's going okay, it's not anything to like talk about. I honestly can't, hardly, cannot, hardly form sentences these days. Like friends are texting me and I'm like I have no energy to get back to you. It is just I feel like it is madness. Life is lifing, I'm, I feel like I'm drowning in it, but I don't even have the energy to like tell people that's how I feel, like I'm drowning in it, but I don't even have the energy to tell people that's how I feel. I'm just like I want to go to sleep. So, anyway, that's how I'm doing, doing great.

Speaker 2:

So let's get into some questions, since this episode isn't all about my midlife crisis, but also, yeah, is perimenopause, is your 40s kind of a midlife crisis? Yeah, I think it is. I don't know, should I do an episode on this? I could have all my 40-year-olds write in and we could just complain about it. That'd be kind of fun, okay.

Speaker 2:

So let's get into some questions, and in no type of order. I'm just going to kind of give my honest thoughts on these. I have little notes and then, in true Christy Castillo fashion, I'm just going to give you my raw thoughts. Okay, and also let me just say that I am not a doctor, I am not an expert in any of these. And we're talking fashion, we're talking fast food, we're talking music, so I'm not an expert in any of these. So I'm just going to give you my thoughts. Take them for what they're worth. Okay, I had a lot of questions about my macro-friendly fast food options on the go. Here's my real thoughts on this. Buckle up. Okay, macro-friendly is great.

Speaker 2:

I love that term. I love that. You know, obviously I love macros and I love being macro-conscious and all of the things, but remember there are times, remember that you don't always have to eat a macro friendly option. I'm going to get into it, but I think that term and that is just it's. Sometimes I think people think about it as like, oh, I can't eat anything unless it's macro friendly, or I'm always looking for a macro friendly option, a macro friendly recipe. And I love that, I do, I'm not really knocking that. But I want you to remember too that sometimes things don't have to be macro-friendly. It isn't the end of the world.

Speaker 2:

So that's my first thought when people kind of ask, like, what are your on-the-go snacks? And I'm going to get into that in a minute too. But also remember you can just have a protein shake and you can have something super high carb that's not macro-friendly. You can have a combination and you can also just have a day where you screw up and who cares? So, anyways, I'm so basic that I will just get a double cheeseburger, only ketchup, from McDonald's. Like, I love it. It has a lot of protein, yeah, it has a lot of carbs, you know too. But a double cheeseburger right, it's so freaking good.

Speaker 2:

And sometimes I'm like this is as good as it's going to get for me and I'm not going to have my family, you know, eat some. Like, if everybody in the car wants McDonald's and I don't, I'm just getting a double cheese like, and that's maybe not as macro friendly, right, but who cares? So I literally so basic here, so I'm not going to give you a ton of options. There are some on my Instagram page that I put together if you scroll back to different options. But for myself, I'm getting a double cheeseburger, only ketchup from McDonald's, for no particular reason other than it has quite a bit of protein and it's good. So it's good, and try that Chick-fil-A has the grilled nuggets. I'm always going to get Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets ton of them and I'm going to get the honey mustard because it's so good.

Speaker 2:

Honestly, anywhere else that I eat I don't really have anything that's a go-to. I'm always going to get something with protein. I'm going to stay light on the sides and I always feel like this too. I'm always gonna check the calories if I can, and be like, ooh, that is a lot of calories. And if it's too many calories for me for the day, I'm just not gonna eat it. I'll just wait till I get home or I'll have a couple of fries, right. But if all of my other meals and my snacks are protein heavy for the day, which they usually are, a little bit of fast food isn't gonna hurt. Protein heavy for the day, which they usually are. A little bit of fast food isn't going to hurt. So that's my thoughts on that.

Speaker 2:

Clothes on a budget. Are there good alteration places? So alterations are great. We have someone that we go to for. I've had her do a couple of my clothes and clothing pieces, and she's done my daughter's with prom dresses and stuff. Alterations are great. There's so many fashion influencers on Instagram that find good things on Amazon. I would definitely check that out. Amazon's great because you can send it back. It's like free two-day shipping. You can send it back if you don't like it pretty easily, so I love that. If you have a lot of weight to lose, don't buy expensive things that you will grow out of, but once you are in a body that you love and you want to maintain, honestly buy some expensive, you know capsule wardrobe pieces. Stick to the basics. When you are in a body that you love, and I think that's really important to know that like. Yeah, we should buy, you know, cheaper things as our bodies are changing. So alterations are great. Alterations, though, are expensive, so it's sometimes cheaper to just go on Amazon.

Speaker 2:

Marshalls I love the big comfy-looking pajama pants right now that they have at Marshalls. The big, flowy summery pants are so cute. I love Abercrombie shorts. But you guys, I don't have a ton of clothes. I have a ton of workout clothes, I have a ton of sweatpants and I've got about two pair of shorts that fit me right, two pair of jeans that fit me right. So I am like I'm skimping over here. But clothes are hard to fit into for anybody and when you get smaller, when you get you know body recon, when you get more toned, it doesn't necessarily get easier to find clothes. So sorry, I don't have a better answer, but I'm just rambling things off here.

Speaker 2:

My favorite quick snack and protein-packed snacks here we go. It's also okay to have some snacks that aren't protein-packed okay, but when you need some, I literally have wrote down here. One thing to learn is that snacking sometimes just needs to be avoided. So you know I'm not going to be like, well, eat protein-packed snacks or don't eat anything at all. But also, sometimes I'll go in to get a snack somewhere with my kids or husband or whatever, and I'm like you know what? I don't need any of this shit. Like I don't need it. I can wait 30 minutes to get where I'm going and eat a meal. Like sometimes we don't need a snack. Okay, sometimes the snacks cannot be protein-packed.

Speaker 2:

But also I love protein bars. I love first-form protein bars. I love Bear Bells protein bars. I love Bilt Bars protein bars. I love protein sticks. I love first-form protein sticks. They are the freaking best. They're huge, they're good and they're 20 grams of protein. I love Greek yogurt. I love overnight oats. I love tuna fish. I love Kodiak cakes products. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Speaker 2:

What do you listen to to pump yourself up for a lifting session? Right now, I listen to mostly Kendrick Lamar. While I'm working out, right before the Super Bowl, my son actually started listening to Kendrick Lamar and I thought you know the song where he screams mustard. And I made fun of it and squabble up. I just kind of ripped on those two songs Like these are so ridiculous. I can't believe you're listening to this Music just isn't what it used to be. And then the more he listened to it and I therefore listened to it and learned the words and I just became addicted. So Super Bowl, love that. And that's pretty much not what I listened to.

Speaker 2:

I kind of went down a Kendrick Lamar like his favorites and, you know, like best songs on Apple Music and added a bunch of those to my Apple Music hashtag gym playlist. I think is what my playlist is called on there. I could actually link that in the show notes if you want to go listen to it. It is a hot mess, but I usually just have my playlist on Shuffle and I get ready to work. I just whatever I'm kind of feeling. I like some Blink-182, sometimes I like to listen to Nicki Minaj, sometimes I like Doja Cat, sometimes I will listen to Nelly on occasion. It just depends on what I'm in the mood for. It's kind of random, like my Gemini personality. All right, next question Creatine, yes or no?

Speaker 2:

So creatine, just like any other supplement, is one of those things that just drives me crazy. Yes, creatine is great. There were so many throughout my journey with weightlifting and health, fitness, all the things. I've heard so many different things about creatine, that my brain is kind of mush when it comes to it. But here's the facts. I didn't take it for years and years and years and years and years and years. I've only consistently. Actually I don't know if I've ever consistently taken it. I consistently take it during my build phases. I'm consistently taking it right now. I don't know for how long, but I taking it right now. I don't know for how long, but I didn't take it for years and years and years and years and I was just fine. So it's not something that you have to take. It's not something you're going to see huge results from. You might not feel like you're seeing anything, and that's normal With any other supplement. You're kind of like am I seeing any results from this? I'm not sure.

Speaker 2:

So it is great for muscle gain. It is good for exercise performance. It is good for recovery. It does support brain function. It has a lot of really, really, really good benefits. So, yes, take it. There's nothing bad about taking it. Of course, unless your body can't take it, holding on to more water, it will then sometimes increase overall weight. It's not a bad weight. It's not a bad weight gain puffy gain weight after they're on it. It's not that you've gained fat, it's not even necessarily that you've gained muscle right away. It's that your muscles are bigger. They are filled with water. So keep that in mind when you are taking it. But it is really really good for many, many different things. Do you have to take it? No, no, you don't. So there's my thoughts on that.

Speaker 2:

Next question Favorite date night. This was interesting because just the other night we watched baseball at my house, like almost every single day, except the Dodgers were blacked out the other day on MLB Network and that was annoying. But we were watching and my husband said you know, I think right now he said something to the effect of your favorite date night would be a baseball game. If I could just take you to a baseball game, you'd be happy. So yeah, I think that's actually true.

Speaker 2:

I am not really a sucker for romance. We didn't have a lot of money years ago, went through a lot of financial things, so I have some money issues. But I think our date nights were always like going out to eat and then accompanied to like going to Menards right and getting things to fix up the house. And, yeah, I do love going out to eat and I do love, you know, sitting and talking and quality time. I also am like a goer, like I'm not big on just spending just random time. I don't know if that's making any sense, but I do love sushi and I do love just kind of hanging out. But I, you know, a good date night is like, hey, let's go catch some dinner, let's get a Bundt cake from Nothing Bundt Cake Store and let's go do a little shopping for ourselves, without a budget or without a time limit, like those kind of things would be fun. And a baseball game I'm not a huge sucker for just like a big date night. I don't think that that's my love language, I guess. But that's a really good question. I wish I had a really I wish I had a really exciting answer. But a baseball game would actually be the most amazing date night. So call me crazy.

Speaker 2:

Next question I only have two more Cellulite. Um, this person wrote in and said cellulite, I'm lean, I lift weights, I eat well, but I still have it. Could it be my macro percentages? I don't think so. Possibly could be what you're eating, maybe not your macro percentages, but maybe the quality of your food. That could be. It also could just be hereditary. You know, some people are just super lean but still have it and it's just, it's just hereditary. So I don't know and I'm not an expert in this, but there are those massage techniques and those little massage, oh boy, like brushes or something that have like rolling things on them. This is making no sense I can't think of the word, but it's supposed to target and helps cellulite. I think it helps with blood flow. Maybe lymphatic drainage Some of those types of things may help. I would definitely contact someone who is more of an expert, but those are the things I would try. I'm getting more cellulite as I'm getting more fat on my body, as I'm growing muscle and going into a body recop. My legs are changing, my glutes are getting bigger and I notice cellulite on my body. I haven't done a thing about it and it hasn't bothered me at all. It's normal. But yeah, if you're lean and you think like, yeah, I'm doing everything right, then it could just be hereditary. And maybe working on some of that lymphatic drainage, getting the blood flowing, massaging those areas, those kind of techniques could help. And then, just as I was surprised that someone asked about my fashion sense not really, they just asked about clothing Someone asked what are your recommendations for skincare makeup, what do you use?

Speaker 2:

So currently I am using ZO. I think it's literally spelled ZO, the letter ZO. So I don't know if it's ZO or ZO. I think it's Z-O skin health Thanks to my friend Julie. I've mentioned this a couple of times on my Instagram stories, but I'm currently using their products not all of them, but I do use their cleanser. I do use their pads the skin brightening pads, I think they're called. I do use their exfoliator, I do use their day time protectant, I do use their retinol, I do use their eye cream. I do use a bunch of their stuff. And then I also just use a cheaper brand from Marshalls and I do use another cheaper brand of cleanser from Ulta. So kind of all over the place. But Zio Skin Health brand is really really good but it's expensive. So my friend Julie, who I've leaned on for some skincare tips, told me that I could use a different cleanser, maybe in the morning and at night, and a moisturizer that's a little cheaper to cut costs and things like that. So if you guys want more of this kind of content, please shoot me a message and I can. I'm not sponsored by them, so I would just send you a picture of what I'm using and send you on your way.

Speaker 2:

As far as makeup, I'm all over the place. I do not have a brand that I necessarily love and I don't wear a lot of makeup. I'm currently using Fenty Beauty's foundation, which I do love and I'm obsessed with Again, expensive. I am also using I don't know the brand I'd have to put photos on Instagram on my highlights or something. I can totally do that but I'm currently using just a skin tint. And then, yeah, I use like a cheap Maybelline brow pencil, I use CoverGirl mascara and sometimes different brands, but, yeah, every day I put on my little eyebrows, I put on a little bit of eyeshadow, I put on a little bit of mascara, a little bit of blush and some I'm obsessed with chapstick, like I do like shiny, moisturized lips and that's about it.

Speaker 2:

I'm kind of surprised no one asked about my hair care, because I do get that question a lot. So to just dive into that a little bit, I do use a bonding shampoo and I do use Olaplex bonding and a serum. I really, really like those. So I definitely wanted to put these into the skincare makeup section. Because, also, we got the Lange. My daughter and I use the Lange blow dryer curler what am I trying to say? Blow dryer brush. There's a Kristen Ess spray also that I use on my hair after. So a couple different things that I put on after, before I blow dry, makes it so soft, and then finishing off the blow dry with the Longe little blow dryer brush has been amazing and really, really healthy, and my hair has actually gotten a lot longer and it feels really healthy. So that is all of the questions that I have for today.

Speaker 2:

So I hope you loved this episode. If not, then please be one of the people who sends me a message next time I post about it, so that you can get in here and I can answer your questions, because I would love nothing more than to just read your questions and be able to ramble off my answers. But I really really do hope that you liked this episode. I always want to just give you my real thoughts and then tell you what I do, and if you want any more information on certain things, if you want links to things, please, please, please ask on Instagram. I am more than happy to put things out on my highlights and just to let you guys know what I'm currently doing and currently using and always ask. Anyways, I can post them on my Instagram and I can also keep them for a future episode. So I always want to know what you guys are interested in, and how often you like, just hearing about me and from me randomly. It's always good to know. So I will talk to you guys in the next episode.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for listening to today's show. Go ahead and leave a rating and a review and, of course, follow the podcast so you don't miss out on any future episodes. And I would love it so much if you came to connect with me over on Instagram at Christy Castillo Fit. I will see you next time.