I feel like it's been so long since I
posted a video as you can tell we are
now back from Greece and wow what a
beautiful country
I'm feeling really rejuvenated and
really eager to get back into creating
some content for you guys as promised
while we were in Greece we filmed the
highly requested Q&A video so how about
we just dive right into that shall we
hello from beautiful Santorini Greece
you asked for it and here it is pick up
limes first-ever Q&A I'll be honest it's
a little bit strange talking about
myself but we're going to do it anyway
and there were over 350 questions that
you guys have asked all together and
that's not even including the repeats so
I think it goes without saying I'm not
going to be able to answer all of your
questions but I certainly will do my
best to answer the ones that were most
frequently asked and if you find that
your question was not answered in this
video it might just mean it was so
golden that it deserves an entire video
unto itself I don't think I'm going to
be running out of video ideas anytime
soon so let's get started my full name
is Satya ba di or Betty E or ba da it
kind of depends on when you ask anybody
in my family because we all say it a
little bit differently so for me I think
most of the time I say Satya ba di I was
born March 6 1991 which makes me 26
years young and I'm a Pisces so some of
the questions that you guys ask made me
realize just how little you know about
the person behind pickup lines and so
let's use this opportunity for you to
get to know me a little bit better so
the answer the question are you vegan
the answer is yes which means that I do
not consume anything that comes from an
animal nor do I purchase anything made
with animal products
no I was not always a vegan but I wish I
was my journey into veganism actually
started in high school but I kept
falling on and off the bandwagon because
my reason for wanting to be a vegan was
for health reasons and at the age of 15
I mean it's really easy to tell yourself
one burger is not going to harm my
health in the grand scheme of things and
then you fall back out of it it wasn't
actually until October of 2014 that I
adopted veganism full-time and really
never looked back and it was actually
because of the TV show The Walking Dead
that helped me to realize this because
it shifted my Y power from health
reasons to more ethical reasons in this
particular episode the characters are
made to are forced to resort to eating
other humans in order to survive in this
post-apocalyptic world and when the
episode was done I kind of sat there and
realized that I mean we're not eating
humans per se but we're eating other
animals which in many ways can feel kind
of the same or it made me feel that way
and then at the same time I was studying
nutrition of course so I started to do
more research into I mean what is it
like to follow a plant-based lifestyle
and can it be just as nourishing and I
realized through my studies that it's
not only as nourishing but it can in
fact be much more nourishing and so in
conjunction with the studies and the TV
show I realized that veganism was
something I just couldn't ever undo in
my life no my goodness no when I went to
university all I knew is that I wanted
to go to medical school I had no idea
that I wanted to study nutrition and I
knew nothing about eating well and so
trust me when I tell you that I pretty
much survived off of hashbrowns burgers
ice cream and any restaurant that served
chicken strips so it's definitely been a
journey I actually started to pick up
lines as a hobby back in January of 2015
but it's something I only really shared
with family and friends
it wasn't until earlier this year that I
kind of took it more seriously as my
full-time career and my reason for
pickup lines was two different things
the first one was prevention I mean I
was working as a dietician in hospitals
and seeing that a lot of the times
people would come in with an illness and
it was at that point that we were
teaching them a lot of things with
regards to nutrition and how it can
improve your health but why wait until
your
six-two start eating and living well and
my second reason is simply to show
people that eating well and living a
simple lifestyle is not complicated it
is very simple I just wanted something
cheerful and fun and of course something
that had to do with food so one day I
was walking home from work and thinking
of different names and pick up lines
popped into my head
I searched the domain and luckily it
wasn't taken and so pickuplines was born
really that simple if you had told me
five years ago that I would be making
YouTube videos I would have laughed I
never saw it in the projection of my
future when I went travelling for six
months I started to video my journey
just to document it and I started to
upload it on to YouTube to share with
friends and family who always wanted to
know what I was up to and it was kind of
at that point that I started to consider
building pickup lines of the community
and was thinking of ways that I could
you know get the message out there and
so I figured I mean why not do YouTube
videos I was watching a lot of YouTube
videos myself and I feel that they
helped to inspire me in so many ways and
to help me grow as a person so I just
felt like I could contribute positively
in some way and having studied nutrition
I just felt like this was the best
medium to share a lot of it with you the
world
I studied Dietetics to become a
dietitian at the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver Canada it really
depends on the province state or country
that you plan to study in so I can only
tell you based on my own personal
experience so at the University that I
went to it required two years of
prerequisite studies before you could
even apply to the Dietetics program and
so these classes were generally science
courses and then if you were accepted to
the Dietetics program than it was two
years of specialized studies of course
in nutrition and this was followed by a
ten month internship which means that we
were placed in various hospitals that we
could learn what it was like to work as
a dietician in the healthcare field so
all in all it took about five years from
start to finish to become a dietician
like I said though it's going to depend
on the country that you live in so I
would recommend just doing a quick
google search to see what the
requirements would be in your area
I'm going to be completely honest about
something and something I've been shared
with many people which is I actually had
no intention of becoming a dietician I
didn't know even about the program when
I entered University all I knew was I
wanted to go to medical school and what
I learned about Dietetics I enrolled in
it simply because it seemed like a good
back-up plan in case I didn't get into
medical school my first few tries it was
a tangible career in the healthcare
field so something I thought I'd give a
go plus I didn't know much about
nutrition's I figured no harm to learn a
little bit more about it turns out in
the end I did get accepted to medical
school at the University of British
Columbia but I decided to turn it down
because I love what I do so much seeing
the way the pickuplines community was
growing and seeing how many more people
I was able to reach through the videos
it just made more sense I mean again I'm
working on prevention methods through
this channel and I just didn't see
myself necessarily working as a
physician per se I'm treating just
symptoms and I know that's not what all
physicians do but I guess what I'm
trying to say is that life throws you
these curveballs and you never know in
which direction it's going to take you
but that's how I ended up in Dietetics
in the end so there we go
a brief introductory Q&A into the pickup
lines origin but because you guys have
been asking so many questions it feels
wrong to just leave it at that so I've
created a part two to the Q&A in the
next video I'm going to share with you
some of the answers to the more personal
questions you guys have been asking me
questions like what is my ethnicity and
how did I beat my partner why am i
living in the Netherlands and what is
the meaning behind my tattoo and other
questions like this so if you're
interested in knowing the answers go
ahead and check out the next video on
that I'll see you there