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  • only Thomas, and this is everything I need.

  • So the first thing I do anyway, uh, honestly is check my phone.

  • I wish I could tell everyone that I, like, meditate first thing in the morning but actually link out.

  • Kind of startled because I just what I do in my activism work issue No, really intense.

  • I love it, but I just wake up just ready to do this work.

  • So I check my phone because a lot of my work, his activism on instagram on social media and just get out of it.

  • So I eat first thing in the morning.

  • I mean, honestly, my partner is so sweet and I'm so thankful for him because, honestly, he has kept me so but and nourish doing during this very transitional time of life when I went from a very small private life in a following of around 13,000 people following that grooves over 100,000.

  • I've been a three week period.

  • So during that it felt incredible to have him Teoh making food.

  • And sometimes I'll eat first thing in the morning and sorry, I'm not begin anymore.

  • I try to live in their face light, but Please.

  • Vegans don't come for me.

  • You know, I'm gonna be really honest.

  • And I love to have scrambled eggs for breakfast A's I love toast.

  • I love carbs.

  • I just love carbs so much with everything in my being like, bread is probably the best thing ever.

  • So I love to have toes Problem.

  • Two slices of toast.

  • And if we get being the only have two different jams on each of the toes.

  • You know, maybe a little like strawberry and raspberry jam on second one.

  • Just like spice it up every room in west where we like We love our jam and preserves when I don't have a lot of I'm your breakfast I love to get a smoothie with likes apple, strawberry and banana And now you just start me day Like things that are really quick So I tried to just drink a smoothie, eat my toes, my eggs and then start the day and start trying Teoh dismantle systems of oppression and credit.

  • I don't drink coffee.

  • Really?

  • Because I'm already kind of anxious.

  • So kind of stayed away from coffee, but I've been traveling and mocha a little bit.

  • I know it sounds like something.

  • But I've been dabbling in Boca like I've been trying to transition into mocha o clock tase with Oh, no, I really love those.

  • But I prefer a good tries.

  • He lots or after eating my food, I'd probably Honestly, it usually takes me a couple of hours, even eat my breakfast because a multitasking in between meetings trying to set up intersectional environmentalists and just spreading awareness about, you know, black lives, matter, movement and environmentalism.

  • And I'm so pumped about it.

  • A lot of it is doing bread and coffee and just writing articles, meaning social content and then also working on programming for intersectional environmentalist.

  • I tried to be very loving with myself because their days when I work out a lot and sometimes they're months, I'm just tired.

  • And I've given myself kind of entirely this last month Teoh activism.

  • So I wasn't working out as much, and I I'm okay with that, you know, like I love my body in all its stages and I tried to be very, very understanding with myself, but I don't like shame based motivation when it comes to working out.

  • I like to work out because I know that it's good for my mental health.

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  • It's a clarity, and it makes me feel better when I get to practice yoga exercise, get my body moving.

  • So when I do work out tragedy, yoga or maintain Chloe eating, let me tell you, I know she's like Tic Tac famous now, but her workouts are amazing, and she has shred challenges that I really, really enjoy.

  • I love to snack.

  • I love to snack and because it takes me, like for ever to eat breakfast.

  • Sometimes my meals during the day just kind of fold into each other, and I can't tell what's lunch.

  • What's breakfasts and what's dinner.

  • But if I had a perfect lunch, probably say I love little crackers with homis like a spicy How Mr Like a garlic calmest and pita chips that really easy.

  • You just and I also a kale salad that I adore.

  • Her lunch.

  • It's perfect.

  • It's refreshing.

  • Get a little bit of kale delivered, and that's what your favorite nets are.

  • Get some raisins in there and just like a nice, creamy, sweet and zesty sauce Village flow.

  • We can't go anywhere, so I haven't really been traveling But when I am traveling, I like to snack.

  • I'm a snacker all day.

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  • Next I am I like Teoh.

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  • What E o pickles, Pickles.

  • I am here, some from the Midwest in W watching?

  • No, And we love our pickled or pickled games like crazy on next level.

  • Okay, so I love bread and butter Pickles.

  • They're really good.

  • They're really sweet and zesty at the same time, because that's my viably sweet investing.

  • My mom nickname for me is actually paprika.

  • She calls me her sweet eyes.

  • So I love bread and butter pickles there, so, so good.

  • And they're probably my favorite.

  • My baby meals.

  • A cook is doing the holidays.

  • I don't do this all this, But there is one time where I got to help my great grandmother Dorothy with Mom, my sister.

  • We all made soon potato pie, which is just really important.

  • Historically cultural Teoh African Americans and a staple sweet potato by not bunking by another both really good.

  • That's my favorite thing to cook my weekend.

  • She meal.

  • I don't like saying some things that sheet meal, I just like to see that you I tried to be progress over perfection like nothing is ever gonna be perfect.

  • But okay, to answer the question, I shoot meal.

  • I love ice cream, you know, sort, but I think mango sorbet is I could even though there, you know, I don't have been in a while, but if I'm going to just go off the rails and not care about the nutritional value of anything I get like a mango sorbet begin Buffalo means fries.

  • Waffle fries called you get like animal eyes fries.

  • I just get fries, fries and their branch involves and their pizza And the pizza I could in the branch with fries, and I could just eat an insane amount of branch like I don't know, I just disappears and the pizza crust because that's the best part.

  • Like just I could range on top of the pizza, and I also have a little Range Dipper so that I can did the pizza.

  • Every part, every part of the crest will be dit.

  • You know anything that that's me Ceemea.

  • When I just get ranch and bread and carbs, it's beautiful.

  • I love you work.

  • They've got all the good food.

  • It's beautiful, and it's all close together.

  • Whenever I go to New York, I love meeting my friends like late at night and just getting really good food.

  • Friends ABS who actually helped start intersectional environment list with me to this amazing vegan Rahman place, And there's also pleased they're called, I think J J J.

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  • That's a really good begin Mexican restaurant I absolutely adore to New York's probably my favorite place in my favorite food city or New Orleans like it's really hard to compete with New Orleans food because they got days.

  • They got gumbo, all the food I love.

  • I love that Southern cooking Southern cuisine thing that compared like you, it really depends.

  • It just depends on what the day is like, but I think my favorite dinner that's pretty easy to cook.

  • It would be like a tofu tikka masala.

  • And to make it too easy, I don't make the tikka masala sauce from scratch, but I'll pick up a little simmer sauce from the store and also some and brace.

  • And some tofu are some kind of protein for the simmer sauce, and I like it all that good and Queenie and Warm or soul food like Big Mac and cheese.

  • Like my grandma, you can't really find that in California.

  • There's a couple places that you so different here.

  • It's good, you know, it's good when I'm from the Midwest, you know, our soul food is just a little diffident like hits.

  • Okay, so I think I would love you know, some collard greens and some mac and cheese.

  • Yes.

  • In the last two years, I just really know Europe.

  • You know, I was behind it to me a while to see the vision, but sparkling water was just like a hint a flavor.

  • It is so good and so addicting.

  • And I was buying so many cases of clear it's sparkly water that one day has never mentalist.

  • I was like, Okay, now these Aaron aluminum cans.

  • But there's no way that this is the most ICO friendly and cost efficient option for me to just be enjoying this flavored, barely flavored sparkling water.

  • So I decided to buy a sparkling water machine and Caisse Sodastream and has changed my life.

  • It has changed the game for me and I make it super sparkly like you're only supposed to press the button.

  • Probably like 3 to 5 times, but I just keep going because I never wanted to be flat.

  • Just go, go, go, go, go, go, go, Go Get a nice you know and enjoy.

  • So that's what I like to have dinner.

  • You know, I try to be good.

  • So the plan had some home on Earth and I don't like Teoh eat things that are damaging.

  • And I think that's why I love environmentalists.

  • Might really like meat.

  • You know, sometimes I'm not gonna do enjoy how me tastes.

  • And but I grew up with Mom who's a past experience, so it's really easy for me not to you to tell me.

  • But that's something that I tried a boy.

  • K Foes are terrible was confined animal feeding lots.

  • If I ever do eat anything with me and trying Teoh, make sure that's locally sourced when I can.

  • Because sometimes accessibility isn't issue, and I tried to support local farmers and often for that kind of food, so I can support the local economy and regenerative farmers that are doing farming correctly.

  • My favorite late night snack.

  • I love ice cream sandwiches.

  • They're so good you could get nondairy versions that you like by love Ice came I love chocolate Have a sweet tooth So all the chocolate definitely Do you get angry?

  • And I think my gangrenous comes out is irritability But I do have my grants and I got my brains my entire life.

  • So I'm very sensitive when it comes to you needing to eat and drink water and making sure that direction I'm not sure actually get a headache.

  • So I'm kind of irritable when my blood sugar is kind of low.

  • That's why I'm a snap girl.

  • I eat so much because I want to be pleasant to be around and I feel like my best self.

  • I have food and that's everything I eat in the day.

  • Thank you so much for watching power.

  • Hi, everyone.

only Thomas, and this is everything I need.

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