What’s healthier than that kale smoothie? A positive relationship with your body! Welcome to the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. Melissa is a registered dietitian and certified personal trainer, and Katy is a certified health coach and yoga instructor, as well as the author of the book Worth It: A Journey to Food & Body Freedom. We are two friends who share an interest in non-diet approaches to health and wellness, including Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size.
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Our relationship with our bodies is complex. There’s a reason why most diets and fitness trends don’t work long-term for most people, especially women. If you’ve struggled with weight gain and loss, are stuck in diet culture with no results, or feel like you’re not in control around food, the solution isn’t as simple as it seems. It’s time to part ways with emotional eating, bullsh*t diets, and the painful cycle of being trapped in food hell and body jail. Hello Body Freedom is where women r ...
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#46: Melt Fat. After 40. While Sleeping. Without Dieting.
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In this episode, learn how to combat common toxic beliefs about aging and fitness as a woman over 40. There are many misconceptions about energy loss, joint pain, and the necessity of extreme diets or workouts. Listen to discover: Evidence-based strategies from leading researchers on enhancing your metabolism and thriving in midlife without drastic…
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#45: The year I thought I lost my mind. AKA: perimenopause and my journey to feeling better!
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This is a very personal episode! It's scary when you think you're losing your mind or going crazy. It sucks waking up between 2-4am every single damn night, and not having any real reason why all of the sudden depression and unbridled anxiety showed up out of nowhere! And let's not forget the real fun part: losing muscle, body composition changes, …
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#44: Behind the Scenes of an Epic Transformation
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In this episode, I am excited to share a unique and in-depth interview with my client, Tina, who underwent a profound year-long journey towards body freedom. Our conversation delves into the emotional roots of stress eating and trauma and how she was able to recognize and regulate her nervous system, highlighting the transformative power of the hol…
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#43: Powerful Strategies For Summer Weight Loss
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In today’s episode, I invite you to my Summer Meltdown Workshop, a live and interactive event designed to help you enjoy summer activities like pools, parties, and vacations without sabotaging your weight loss goals. We will discuss strategies for balancing, having fun, and staying on track with your health journey. In this workshop, I’ll cover: ✔️…
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Do you know there are strategies to stop weight loss sabotage? These strategies are crucial for addressing food-related habits and behaviors that hinder progress. In this episode, I emphasize the importance of awareness as the first step in changing these habits. Understanding the intricate role of the nervous system and its unique response to stre…
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Do you know that we all have self-sabotaging behaviors when we are stressed? Today’s episode mainly focuses on understanding and regulating emotional eating and how our nervous system is set up to protect us using the coping mechanism we learned as children. I’ll dive into: ✔️The autonomic nervous system's role in reactive behaviors, including emot…
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#40: 5 pieces of the weight loss puzzle you're missing
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Imagine if I shared with you that sustainable weight loss is a complex puzzle with often overlooked pieces. Drawing from over a decade of dedicated research and learning in the fields of eating psychology, somatic work, trauma resolution, and healthy habit formation, I've developed a unique approach that steers clear of quick fixes and focuses on f…
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In this episode, I explore a client crush story that genuinely showcases the power of vulnerability and awareness in untangling overeating patterns. Discover how this client's journey led her to uncover deeper layers of her relationship with food and how she navigated through rebellious parts of herself to find peace and understanding. Witness my c…
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#38: Ready to finally get weight loss handled?
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Sustainable weight loss and overcoming self-sabotaging behaviors can seem impossible for sure, and it’s not your fault! A multi-billion dollar weight loss industry feeds off our insecurities and basically just keeps us stuck in restriction and binge cycles. If you're ready to break free from the dieting cycle and truly transform your relationship w…
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Dealing with our emotions is HARD. I know because I’ve been there and it took its time for me to fully start feeling them without turning to food to shove them down. In this episode, I’ll give you strategies for dealing with intense emotions without turning to food as a coping mechanism. Also, I’ll share practical tips and techniques to help you he…
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#36: To Feel... Or to Not Feel (stuff feelings down w/ food)
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Feeling our emotions instead of using food to numb them is the ultimate end game. However, it is easier said than done. So, to feel or not to feel your emotions becomes a dilemma. For many of us, it is incredibly hard to feel our emotions and deal with the inner reasons why they come up in the first place. For that reason, I want to share insights …
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#35: Do what you say you’re going to do: Here’s a powerful approach
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Straight up, change is hard. No matter how good it is for you…no matter how much you want it…behavior change is just.plain.hard. That’s why I’m so excited to give you a behind-the-scenes sneak-peek inside one of our powerful group coaching calls inside of Hello Body Freedom. We explore the concept that self-sabotage is often just our brain's way of…
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#34: How to handle inevitable health & weightloss setbacks
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I want to make something clear: setbacks in life are not the exception. They are the rule. So, in this episode of the Hello Body Freedom podcast, I dive into the topic of handling setbacks on your health and weight loss journey. I’ll share my personal experience of getting sick and how it affected my progress. I’ll dive into: ❗Recognizing the role …
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#33: How to Handle an Emotional Meltdown During a Health & Weightloss Quantum Leap Year
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I'm sure we've all had emotional meltdowns at least once in our lifetimes. For some people, their emotions are so out of control in their everyday lives that this occurs even more frequently. Having emotional meltdowns is part of our human experience. But, if we want to live healthier and happier lives, we need the tools to manage our emotional res…
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#32: My Quantum Leap Year. Are you ready for yours?
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This is our year to make progress. Therefore, I wanted to share with you the definition of a quantum leap year and how it can transform your body and health. So, are you ready for yours? In this episode, I'll talk about my journey towards creating a quantum leap year and some practical steps to achieve your quantum leap in your health and weight lo…
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#31: How to Create a Quantum Leap In Your Health & Weight Loss Journey
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Mindset. A word that'd been said everywhere and something we should all take a closer look at. In this episode, I want to talk about the power of your mindset and how it can help us create our desired reality. Don't miss this episode as I'll dive into: A powerful exercise that involves visualizing your future self and writing a journal entry from h…
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#30: If you want to lose weight... PLEASE DONT START ANOTHER DIET!
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Did you know about the harmful effects of diets and diet culture? Many people enter this cycle without knowing how diets impact their bodies. That's why I wanted to share some eye-opening statistics and research that reveal why diets fail and why they can be detrimental to our physical and mental well-being. Don't miss this episode because I'll div…
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#29: Why Emotional Resiliency is KEY for Weight Loss (+ 5 steps to get it!)
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Christmas is just a few days ahead of us and we all know that high-intensity feelings and experiences will also come with and sabotage our efforts to enjoy it. So, in this episode, I’ll talk about the concept of emotional resiliency and how it can transform your weight loss journey. I’ll also share five steps to help you build emotional resiliency …
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I don't know about you but stress eating was a real thing in my life for many years. We all go through experiences and situations that hijack our nervous system and we enter this cycle of eating our emotions over and over again. Today, I want to teach you how to focus on addressing the underlying emotional issues that drive stress eating to break t…
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With the holiday season in full swing, emotions can run high, and many of us turn to food as a coping mechanism. I want to share with you some personal experiences that offer valuable insights and tools to help you break free from emotional eating patterns. In this episode, I'll dive into: Understanding the connection between emotions and eating. H…
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Just thinking about all the holiday food and obligations is enough to send anyone into hiding until the New Year! The truth is…it's not the food's (or booze) fault. The holiday season itself can trigger emotions like stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, which then leads to stress eating, mindless eating, comfort eating, etc. So, if you want to change th…
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Ahhhh….yes… the holiday season is upon us! How do you handle the holiday food, booze, celebrations, get-together? Research shows that most of us go into full-blown "unconscious mode" around food and booze and end up gaining between 5-20 pounds. Or, the 180-degree opposite of that is not participating in holiday traditions at all, fearful of gaining…
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The holiday season is in full swing and while there might be holiday happiness and cheer… we also know that it comes with overwhelm and stress. So, how do you usually cope with this? I'm certain that many of us got so out of our minds and bodies that the only way to survive this is by using food. However, today I want to share with you a different …
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#23: How to Calm Your Overwhelmed Nervous System
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How do you cope with an overwhelmed nervous system? For me, I learned how to cope by eating, and eating, and eating. I really didn't understand the connection between my eating habits and an overwhelmed nervous system for a long time, so I'm hoping this episode will help you make that connection! The thing is, most of us deal with high levels of da…
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Another overeat? Another binge? Feeling out of control around food, hopeless, or defeated? Ready to break free from these behaviors and create a healthier relationship with food? Join me as I dive into specific steps to take after an overeat or binge. The truth is we don't get to that elusive place of food freedom, where overeating or binging is no…
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#21: Tired and Hungry: How to Handle Exhaustion & Not Overeat
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Exhausted. Long day. Gotta push through. How did I do it for decades? Eating my way through the day! Choosing the pastry at Starbucks seemed logical! Two Pastries? That makes even more sense! And the combo meal at the drive-through to boost my energy? Another very logical decision! After a day like described above…when I would wake up the next day …
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#20: Back to square one? This is how to begin again.
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We all know the feeling of waking up with such good intentions, only to be completely knocked off course when the kids are driving us crazy this morning, we're running late to work, and we have an important meeting we're now going to be late for. We walk by the break room after the meeting and the donuts are calling our name. One donut never hurt a…
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#19: Self Sabotage, Resistance & Fleeing From Health
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You try to do the healthy thing, you start to make some progress, and then BAM! You're back to old self-sabotaging behaviors around food and body. You might even think something's wrong with you since everyone else seems to have it figured out. How can you want to improve your health, and at the same time self-sabotage your best efforts? Maybe you'…
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#18: 5 Ways to Use Coaching to Exponentially Reach Health & Weight Loss Goals
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Hiring my first coach was a humbling experience. I already had a degree in Kinesiology. I was a Certified Nutrition Educator and studied Nutrition as an undergrad. I also already had a rocking fitness & nutrition company that served thousands in Silicon Valley. So it was hard to think I needed help with food and my body… Yet I was sugar-addicted, o…
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#17: Sustainable Weight Loss - The Good, Bad & Ugly
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I don’t know about you, but working so hard to lose weight only to turn around and gain it back might be the most painful and defeating feeling on the planet. A sustainable weight loss journey on the other hand is one where the changes that are happening on the inside create an inner-environment where we’re healing the reasons we overeat in the fir…
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#16: Wait... I struggle with my weight because of trauma?
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Here's the deal: If you've lost weight and gained it back like it's your job… If you feel like food is in control and you're not… If you identify as someone who self-sabotages yourself every time you make progress with your health and weight… If you've literally tried everything…and none of it worked (or it worked for a while until food sabotage re…
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#15: Holiday Weekends + Celebrations + NOT blowing it
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Ahhhh…the weekend is here! But wait…the loooonnnng weekend is here! For those of us on a journey to better health, a better relationship with food, and even a weight loss journey…these weekends can be really stressful. But no more! In this episode, I'll give you 6 practical steps you can start using immediately to make sane decisions around food, h…
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#14: Want the Fastest Way Out of Using Food to Cope?
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Using food to fix the moment when you're tired, lonely, frustrated, or sad can totally suck because it often feels like food is in control. But wait! It gets crazier because we can also use food when we're really happy and excited! We also use food for no other reason except "it's there" (enter the break room filled with donuts) Not everybody strug…
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#13: How to Fail Your Way to Food & Body Freedom Success
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"I tried this diet but I gained the weight back. I took those pills but they didn't work. I hired a personal trainer, followed the food plan, and it still didn't work." Based on the thousands of conversations I've had with potential clients, the number one reason women stay stuck with their health & body goals, and suffer in an obsessive and crappy…
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#12: Are You REALLY Ready to End Overeating & Lose Weight?
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Are You REALLY Ready to End Overeating & Lose Weight? The habits you created to SURVIVE... ❌Stress eating ❌Comfort eating ❌Over-drinking ❌Hiding out so no one sees you ❌No boundaries, people pleasing, allowing others to walk all over you... Will NOT be the same habits you create to THRIVE. ✅Enjoying food stress-free and because of hunger ✅Loving a …
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#11: Do It Alone vs. Getting Support on YOUR Food & Body Freedom Journey
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Have you spent a lifetime overeating, mindless eating, binge eating, comfort eating or stress eating? Does food feel like it's in control? Does always thinking about and even obsessing over food all day long leave you drained and exhausted? The journey out of that hell is not a journey that the latest diet or fitness fad can fix, yet so many of us …
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If part of your "getting healthy" journey includes weight loss, it's REALLY frustrating when the weight won't budge, or worse, you worked really hard to lose it, only to gained it all back plus some. This was my story for years so I know first hand how defeating it is when it feels like you're running into a brick wall over and over again. In today…
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#9: The Power of Boundaries for Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
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Why do so many women who struggle with their relationship with food also struggle with setting healthy boundaries? If you identify as the helper type or a people pleaser… If you say yes when you'd rather say no, or prefer to be agreeable rather than get what you want… then there very likely is a direct connection with your overeating, stress eating…
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Not everyone seeking freedom around food and body also desire weight loss to be a part of that journey, but for 90% of the women who walk through my doors, the two are very connected. The diet industry over simplifies it as if it's some easy thing you can cross off the list and move on with your life after starving yourself (or drinking their shake…
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#7: Unlocking Your Potential: How to Stop Getting in Your Own Way
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The pain and suffering created when you say you're going to do something good for yourself, but then you don't do it… it's real, y'all! 😩 It doesn't matter if you're trying to create healthy habits, be kinder to yourself, or let go of the nightly ice cream… In today's episode, I'm dropping the truth bombs, and I think you'll also walk away pretty i…
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Who here would LOVE to never overeat again? How would your life change if your relationship with food was easy? Where you ate what wanted and put the fork down without effort before overdoing it and feeling too full? Today we're talking about ending overeating for good. My overeating patterns were SOOO unconscious for most of my life…and then when …
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#4: Q&A Session: Answering Your Burning Questions on the Trauma & Weight Connection
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After the last episode on the trauma-weight connection, there were a lot of questions that came up…so this episode will dive deeper into taking last week's knowledge and applying it to different life circumstances. We dive into creating boundaries, regulating our nervous system and really working on changing negative self-talk. There are so many st…
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#5: Accepting Your "Now Body" Along the Health & Weight Loss Journey
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In this episode, I dive into a topic that is so hard for anyone on a health, healing, or weight loss journey. And of course, it's hard…you're trying to improve your health and feel better in your body because you're NOT accepting of the way things are right now! I get it….AND…part of actually getting to the healthy goal and staying there includes a…
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In this episode of the Hello Body Freedom podcast, host Audra Baker explores the connection between trauma and weight. She discusses how traditional weight loss journeys often fail because they don't address the deeper healing needed to maintain weight loss. Audra shares her own story and the training she and her coaching team have received to help…
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#2: Understanding Food & Body Freedom: What It Is and What It Isn't
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In this episode of the Hello Body Freedom podcast, host Audra discusses the concept of food freedom and its importance in developing a healthy relationship with food. There are a lot of misconceptions about what food freedom entails… it's not simply about eating whatever you want whenever you want. So many women have a complicated and unhealthy rel…
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#1: From Food Hell & Body Jail...To Finding Freedom!
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In this episode, Audra celebrates the launch of her podcast on her birthday, reflecting on her decade-long journey to finally start it. She introduces the concept of "Hello Body Freedom" and explores the desire to feel better in our bodies. Audra questions the idea of constantly being on a weight loss journey and invites listeners to consider their…
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Episode 17 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts, Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we talk with Shreen El Masry. Shreen is a non-diet, body inclusive and Health At Every Size personal trainer, Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor based in Sydney, Australia. Shreen struggled with dieting and body image from a young age, but it wasn’t until s…
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Physiotherapy & weight stigma with Dr. Melissa Cioffi
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Episode 17 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts, Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Melissa Cioffi, owner of New Quest Physical Therapy in Beacon, NY, and host of the Finally Fearless podcast. Dr. Mel brings her services to her clients in the comfort of their own homes, whether that be in person or virtually. She is passionat…
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Episode 16 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts, Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we talk with Jessica Keogh, founder of The Body Positive in Australia. The Body Positive is a counseling practice built on the principles of unconditional self-acceptance and body positivity. Jess is a qualified mental health and counseling professional with a…
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Episode 15 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts, Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we talk with Natasha Ngindi, also known as the Thick Nutritionist. Natasha is a Non-Diet Nutritionist, Body Image Activist, Zumba Instructor, and Entrepreneur who lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She spent years being a slave to diet culture but she was never…
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