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That's all I'm doing for an intro today.
Yeah.
He is the Clydesdale.
I am Coach Cheryl.
And we are here to talk
about where Scott's at.
And it's funny because as a
nutrition coach,
I don't know if it's just
as a nutrition coach, as a person,
I kind of have like, well,
For one, I never have an off.
I never have a day where I'm
not thinking about somebody.
And it's funny because I was
messaging Scott over the
weekend because I needed
something from him,
but also because I had a
feeling that things weren't quite right.
And I was like, hey,
you got a few minutes?
Didn't hear back right away.
And then the next
conversation I get is that
you're not feeling well and
it's been a rough weekend.
So fill me in on what
happened this weekend.
So as we get into it, you understand,
I don't have a ton of breath.
So it's short statements.
Basically,
I've been telling you for like a
month and a half that every
time I work out,
I run out of breath really fast.
And
It's been very frustrating
because I feel like my
sinuses were getting better and, um,
and I can breathe
completely through my nose now.
Like it's really cool.
Then this weekend just took
a turn for the worse and it
got where I couldn't really
even catch my breath.
Like felt like full on
asthma attack or that I
could just not breathe at all.
Like really scary.
so I called my doctor he
couldn't get me in until
today and um and that's
like all of a sudden like
it went from I could do a
workout but like holding
back a little bit to I
can't even like get up the
stairs like instantly so so
I get to the the doctor today
He,
and I was still having that gas problem,
like excessive, excessive gas.
And so he felt around, laid me down,
went through my stomach, my chest,
a lot about a lot of stuff like that.
And then after a few tests,
turns out that I have a
infection in my lungs and
And it's probably been there
for a while and just really
ramped up this weekend.
Yeah.
Well, a couple of things.
You haven't really spoken
too much about the out of breath stuff.
Like you haven't really been disclosing.
So I have on our on this
episodes and we can listen back.
I know you've been
struggling a little bit with breathing,
but you haven't been like,
I'm getting so out of breath that like,
I have to stop.
Like I haven't, that hasn't.
So this does seem like it
got better very quickly.
However, or got fast really quickly,
got bad really fast.
However,
I do think that there being
an underlying lung issue
might be why the last couple of months,
remember how we've been like, Hey,
you're like,
I feel like you're sick a lot.
I think that you might've
had something brewing and
it just wasn't bad enough to actually
be treated.
It wasn't,
it wasn't affecting you that
much until all of a sudden last weekend.
And that also likely
might've been what was
upsetting your gut.
It might've all been kind of
the same thing.
It might not have been your food at all.
Could have been just that stuff kind of,
you know, sitting there, you know,
so that might've been more
what you were feeling is
maybe pressure on the belly
from the lungs.
So,
cause all that stuff pushes into your
diaphragm.
So you might've been getting
gas and stuff from that.
I'm sure the doctor probably
talked to you about that.
Well,
the one thing he found was my stomach
was really tight.
Like it was being pushed out inches, um,
from everything that's going on.
Yeah.
From the lungs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it was distended like way out there.
And it,
that today is where that really hurts.
Like my stomach hurts so bad
this morning when I woke up, um,
And then it's just burp and
burp and burp trying to get some relief.
Yeah.
And then I went to the
doctor and all that.
So he gave me antibiotics and a steroid.
And it's just for five days.
And then he wants to see me,
see if there's any kind of
headway with it.
And then we'll go from there.
Okay.
Did they do lung x-rays?
Not today.
Okay.
Okay.
So you're on a steroid and I
was going to say,
I was going to say before you said,
I'm assuming they put you
on steroids and antibiotics.
So you're going to likely
start to feel pretty good
in a couple of days with
the steroid for sure.
But yeah,
huge setback for sure in terms of
that stuff.
But, you know,
the main thing that I want
to touch on as we're going
into this is the title of
today's episode is another
hurdle right before the open.
Right.
And so,
I really have mixed feelings
about that title because I
think that in your head,
you're already like, oh, this is great.
Now I'm going into the open,
not being at my best.
I'm under, I'm not, I'm sick.
You know,
I'm not gonna really be able to showcase
myself as a person and
showing up at the gym.
And it's almost like
becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy that,
oh, my open workouts are going to suck.
Okay.
First of all, I love CrossFit.
I love the open.
I love the games.
I'm all about it.
You know,
my goal is I want to compete again,
but the end of the day, it's one workout.
That's likely going to take
about 10 minutes out of your entire week.
So this hurdle, I don't give a shit.
about the open.
I don't give a shit about the open.
I'm gonna be honest.
That is the least of my
worries when you're telling
me that you have a lung
infection that is so hard
for you to walk up the stairs.
My concern for you is your
health and being able to
walk up the stairs.
So when I wrote the title
Um,
and I'm not concerned with the open
either.
Good.
I truly not.
I really just want to feel
better and be able to be
active again without breathing heavy.
Yeah.
And so the title was just,
everybody's talking about the open.
I just kind of went in there.
Well,
and why I'm going to say that is
because I'm happy that you said that,
but do you know how many
people right now?
out there are stressing
about being sick two weeks
before the open or having a
funky itis in their elbow
before the open.
Freaking the games ain't
writing their paycheck.
They're going in there to show their ego.
You know, like it's like, it's dude,
it's not worth it.
So my bigger concern for you
is where we're at right now.
with your health.
Okay.
And, and this is like really important,
you know,
like your health really matters.
I'm going to be honest.
I think you are entirely too stressed,
entirely too stressed.
I'm going to be flat out
honest with you today at your coach.
You are not prioritizing
your health in your life.
You are the last person that
matters in your life.
And I'm being brutally
honest with you today.
I wouldn't say last,
but I'm putting a lot of
people ahead of me.
A lot of people.
And it's got you in a situation right now.
And the solution is recognizing that
Just like your coach,
there's only so much your
body's going to be capable
of before it says, sorry,
I'm going to put you on
your ass and you're going
to have to deal with this.
And all those things that
you've been putting before
you are going to have to
take the backseat burner.
And that's only going to
make you feel worse because
now you're letting people down.
And that's not the truth,
but that's what you're going to feel.
You know,
so because I want you to get better.
And yes, like I've mentioned to you,
I've been saying this, like,
I think that there's
something going on with
your immune system.
You've likely had a lung
infection for the past 12 to 16 weeks.
It's been just brewing a little bit,
a little bit of stuff brewing in there.
And, you know, it just comes down to,
you know, people don't realize, you know,
not, yeah, you do sleep pretty well,
but your sleep schedule
isn't great for your circadian rhythm.
You know,
I think that you're working up
until the time you go to bed.
You know,
I think that you do a lot of things.
You know,
you're stressed a lot with work stuff.
You're stressed a lot with podcast stuff.
You're stressed a lot with a lot of things,
you know,
and you're not really taking
your own self and saying,
I matter in my life.
And I get it.
I don't disagree with that.
Just to answer Philip Kelly.
I do go to therapy,
but my therapist just
retired in December.
Yeah.
So I need to find a new one.
Let me just tell y'all, therapy,
underrated.
We should all have a therapist,
especially if you work from home.
I'm just going to be honest
because you are literally
always second guessing
every thought that goes
through your head.
And it's like to the nth degree.
So I do want to disclose a
few things that I've kept
private because it's just a lot.
My mother-in-law has cancer.
My sister has cancer.
Um, my sister and my mom are fighting.
So now like we're the only
ones that listen to my sister.
It's, it's just a lot.
And we're four hours away
from all this going on and
it's taking its toll on my wife big time.
So then I feel like I have
to be behind her.
and supporting her however I can.
And all of that is taking a
front seat to like our stuff.
And it's killing my wife and me.
So first off,
I'm really proud of you for
opening up about that
because that was really hard.
But I'll be honest, I feel like this
is the first podcast in a
while that you've been
authentic with actually telling us,
not just me,
but where you're struggling
in your life to make priorities,
make you a priority.
And what you're dealing with is not easy.
It's not easy.
It's not easy to watch loved ones,
especially because I don't
know the severity of either
of those situations.
And one is your wife's mom
and one is your sister.
You said your sister.
So your your blood and the
other is your mom's blood
or your wife's blood.
That's that's not easy at
all to deal with.
And.
You have every right to lean on people,
including a therapist,
including friends and family.
And no,
this is definitely very vulnerable.
You are on YouTube right now
sharing your story with people.
But guess what?
The cool thing about this
channel is the people that
are listening to you right
now truly care about you,
like truly care about you.
And sharing that with them,
they literally- I know,
they're going to make me cry on here.
They literally,
they would literally wanna
be in the room with you and like,
and just hug you and try
and make things better for
you and make your life easier.
Can we cook you dinner?
Like they would do that for you.
I truly believe that all of
the people in this chat
would be there for you.
So you being open today and
sharing that was the best
thing you ever did ever.
And I'm so proud of you.
And it doesn't, now, first and foremost.
And that's the tip of the iceberg.
Because we're having family
fights on both sides.
It's just really complicated.
A lot of people from my
hometown are getting cancer.
Classmates, friends.
And it's scary.
And then all this stuff happened to me.
And I was like, oh, my God.
I'm getting the cancer like
everybody else.
Guys, cancer is, I don't even,
it's really sad.
the rate of, of how many,
the amount of people,
I feel like you can be in a
room of five people and
like at least two of them have cancer.
And I think every single one
of them has had a blood
relative with cancer.
Now, do you feel comfortable disclosing,
um, in terms of prognosis, uh,
stages and all that are
things looking positive on,
on those ends?
Or I know that you had told
us earlier on about the
mom-in-law was a leg, a leg cancer,
correct?
Something on the skin.
throat throat okay no that
wasn't what we what we
heard about you and told me
we had throat cancer we we
got all that cleared up
they found three spots on
her lungs um it's early
they think um they think
they're gonna get it good
prognosis with that my
sister's weird um she was
having trouble breathing
they found masses in her lungs
They removed those.
They were not cancer.
And then in her hip and groin area,
started to develop a cluster of cancer.
Okay.
All right.
Well,
first things first is... And I don't
know the prognosis there.
Yeah.
Praying, obviously.
Prayers for your mother-in-law,
prayers for your sister.
prayers for your family,
because I know that I know
that stress of having family drama,
when you don't need family drama,
when people are fighting
over things that don't
matter when you got a loved one sick,
it doesn't and it doesn't help anything.
All of that aside, okay,
because I do want to really
make sure that you are taken care of.
No matter what happens in your life,
and the people around you,
your life still matters.
And putting you on the
backseat burner for the
state of worry is not going
to help the situation.
That goes for your wife as well.
You guys are a unit.
And no matter what goes on
outside of your house,
you guys need to lean on each other.
And sometimes that means
making the hard choices to say, hey, no,
we need to take care of our health.
We need to come first this weekend.
We don't need to be involved
in the bullshit and being
okay with that decision,
knowing that you're not
going to be able to affect
things in a positive or a negative way.
You know,
like there's a lot of people out
there dealing with sick loved ones.
And in fact, I can talk about her.
I had a client that got
diagnosed with cancer when
working with me.
And let me just tell you,
one of the happiest women I
could see being told, literally,
this is not looking good.
Had to go through chemo, radiation,
lost all her hair,
lost a bunch of weight.
And the entire time, every single week,
I got a photo of her, bald head and all,
with a muscle.
I'm going strong.
because she wasn't gonna
fucking quit on herself.
And you have to realize that
you can only do so much for other people.
You still gotta take care of you.
You gotta take care of you.
You're only gonna be able to
help them if you are 100%.
And I'm not telling you to be selfish.
I'm not telling you not to
go see your family.
I'm not telling you that.
I'm telling you that we've
gotta take Scott's journey
Seriously,
just like the guy that writes
your paycheck,
the job you show up to every day,
that stuff matters.
This matters too.
It's hard to look at it that way.
I know.
It feels shameful.
You feel guilty.
You feel selfish.
You feel overwhelmed.
You feel all of those things.
This right here, super hard, super hard.
It's,
it's a gift and a curse being
somebody who cares so much about others.
I get it.
I totally get it, dude.
And,
and right now that's why we're having
this conversation, you know,
cause I want you to walk away today.
saying like, right now,
I'm gonna make the best
choices for my health,
whatever that looks like.
And right now,
you wanna know what the
leading cause of cancer really is?
It's not your fucking
aspartame in your diet
sodas and that shit, it's stress.
People do not realize how
much stress affects your
body's immune system.
And if you have the genes for cancer,
because we all have those genes,
if we have them or not,
the expression of them,
oxidative stress is one of
the biggest causes of cancer.
There is truth to being able
to stress yourself sick and dead.
I do believe that 100%.
And there are studies on there.
PubMed, go ahead and Google stress, cancer,
PubMed.
You'll find a bunch of studies.
I don't have to tell you,
but so that was my,
I didn't expect to go there today.
I'm happy that we're having this talk.
I mean, I'm not happy, but I'm,
I didn't expect that to be
what we were talking about today.
So, but I'm going to put it before to you.
Um, I just feel helpless right now.
I feel like I'm so weak, um,
after this weekend that I, I can't,
I can't help anybody.
Um, and that worries me a lot.
So I'm trying to,
I'm trying to flip the
script and take care of
myself so I can take care of others.
Absolutely.
Let's start with mapping out
what that looks like.
Okay.
I think you have pretty good sleep habits.
Am I right or am I wrong?
Are you lying about that?
Wow.
Jab.
I go to bed at the same time every night.
I go to bed at 10 o'clock.
What?
10?
Up at 745.
Up at 745.
That's 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
I'm happy with that.
You're getting a good amount of sleep.
Okay.
You sleep through the night
for the most part when you're not sick?
Yeah.
I have not been the last five days.
Okay.
So you are restless right
now when you sleep?
I just wake up not being able to breathe.
Okay.
And then recovering from
that is really hard.
Throughout the day,
do you feel energized in your day?
No.
Okay.
Before last week,
were you feeling energized in your day?
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
So this past week has just
been hitting you pretty hard.
All right.
That's good.
I know the gut stuff has been going on.
Your day,
how much time you work from 8 a.m.
until what time?
Five.
Eight to five.
Yeah.
Of that time,
how many times during the day
do you actually get up off
of your computer?
Quite a bit.
I really did.
After the games this year,
I did put some habits in
place where I do get up and take a break.
Like if we were in an office building,
I'd get a break.
Okay.
And so I'm just setting that
up for myself.
Okay.
Okay.
So you do get up and you take breaks.
Okay.
Eating schedule is pretty routine.
Yeah.
Okay.
How are you relaxing between
the hours of 5 PM and 10 PM?
Is that when a lot of your
worries starts to come in?
Is that when you and your
wife are talking and
talking to the family and all that stuff?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Um,
can we put some boundaries there in
terms of like,
how often are you talking
to your family and she
talking to her mom-in-law every day?
Um, mom,
mom-in-law probably every other day.
Okay.
Um,
it's my sister-in-law is a pain in the
ass and, and that's where,
so what happens is she
sends in her side of the
story and then we have to
figure out the reality of
by then reaching out to
family members that we trust.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
Okay.
So reality is,
is that you don't have to
put out fires in the family.
You're putting that
responsibility on yourself.
So my suggestion right now
is to stop putting out fires.
And if you want to call and
you want to check in,
And you want to say hi and
you want to check in on
your sister and your mom and your family,
schedule it in, have the nightly call,
pray and move on because
otherwise my sister, it's different.
Right.
She's so mad at the world
that we don't know when we get to know.
Yeah.
Like.
It could be two weeks.
I don't hear from her even
trying like to reach out
and I don't get a response for two weeks.
Yeah.
Then I don't feel like I'm
getting the full story.
I don't know where we really are.
That's so that's that stress,
which is very different than the other.
So here's what I'm going to tell you then.
This is me giving you
coaching is I'm not going
to be able to control what calls you make,
who you talk to, what you do.
However,
I can tell you that you're going
to use those things either
as an excuse not to take care of yourself,
or you're going to make the
decisions that, hey,
I'm going to take on this
stress as a choice,
but I'm still committed to
the things I need to do for me.
And that's going to be your choice.
And some days you might realize,
you know what?
I don't need to talk to that
person today and add the stress.
I can wait till tomorrow.
I don't need to put out a fire today.
And that's really important for you.
And I do think we've got to
work on getting your immune
system 100% again,
getting you 100% again.
And that's important.
So a couple of things for
this week is food diary.
I was kind of checking into
things a little bit and I
didn't see much.
It looked like you hadn't
really logged a whole bunch.
I haven't really been eating much.
I can't.
Every time I eat, my stomach blows up.
Okay.
All right.
So here's what we need to do.
Okay.
I don't care if you're not
eating much or you're
eating your normal food.
You got to get back to
tracking your food because
I got to be able to help
you with your nutrition.
All right.
So 100% honesty in your food journal.
Like that's got to happen
because I also want to make
sure that you're getting in
enough micronutrients.
You're getting in enough protein.
Protein is one of the
biggest factors in your immune system.
It's not just the antioxidants.
Protein does have a huge
factor on your immune system.
Okay.
Fats have a huge factor on
your immune system in terms
of how they affect your
neurotransmitters and your hormones.
So we need to make sure that
you're getting enough of that stuff.
Are you taking your vitamin D?
Okay, good,
because vitamin D does help
with the immune system, all right?
So you're taking your vitamin D,
Need to get back to food tracking.
All right.
So before I even give you
parameters in terms of what
I want to see in your meals,
let's just spend the next
three days and get back to
actually tracking your food again, 100%.
And then I'll take a look at
what you're eating and we
can start to kind of maybe
I'll look at things on, let's say Tuesday,
on Friday and see going
into the weekend if I want
to make any adjustments to
what you're eating.
You'd be like, hey, I'm feeling bloated.
I'm feeling blah.
You know,
I think that right now bone broth
soups is probably something
that you should be having
on a regular basis.
You know,
I know you like things like ramen.
So making some ramen,
but using bone broth.
I had that last night.
Yeah.
I think that that's a great
thing to increase the
protein and also get you
some of those that's good
nutrients for your immune system.
So I think that bone broth
soups would be great for you right now.
Really good for the gut as well.
So I think that daily you
should be maybe looking at
maybe making a soup or
something like that.
It's still cold up there, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cheryl, it's still freaking cold.
So that would be good.
Um,
and if you don't know a good
brand the kettle and fire
brand is good there's
plenty of bone broths out
there yeah um so let's make
let's make get let's get in
a cup of bone broth a day I
think that that's one thing
that you can can do in a
soup in a stew in something
okay tracking your food
getting in a cup of bone broth a day.
You're already taking your supplements.
Okay.
The next thing that we have
to address is movement.
All right.
I get it.
You don't feel good.
Walking up the stairs is
getting you winded.
I don't want you doing CrossFit this week.
I want you on that spin bike.
I don't care if it's just
for literally at a zone one with,
with your mouth closed,
just trying to breathe through your nose.
Nasal breathing only.
That's how intense I want it to be.
That you should not have to
open your mouth to breathe.
I want you doing 20 to 30 minutes a day,
every single day.
Because those things right there,
the bone broth, the food tracking,
and the little bit of
movement is going to get
you starting to feel better.
And it's going to help you
kick that infection a little bit faster.
It's going to get the mitochondria going.
Mitochondria also help with
the immune system.
Okay.
Phillip Kelly.
Yes.
Nasal breathing only.
If you've ever tried it with
something like burpees or
kettlebell swings, it's even worse,
even worse.
But the bike is actually pretty bad.
Okay.
So actually where I'm
getting the most air right now is nasal.
That's so that's exactly good.
It's good for you.
So 20 to 30 minutes a day.
I'll put it in trainer eyes
as a thing you can check off.
Actually do that right now.
Um, I'm going to,
I'm going to actually put a
checklist for you right now.
You'll have daily weigh in.
You're going to have track
your food and you're going
to have 20 to 30 minutes of bike daily,
because I think that those
are the first things that
we need to start with to
kind of get you on the path to recovery.
You know, I think that here's the deal.
This goes for everybody.
Stress and what you're
dealing with is not easy at all,
especially when it comes to
family's health.
But we can't change that stuff.
The more we focus on it,
the less we lose sight of
the things that we can focus on.
Like just being a support system,
like being a sounding board
when your sister calls you
and she doesn't talk to you
for two weeks and just listening.
You know,
and being a sounding board for your wife,
you know,
like that stuff is so important.
So on your dashboard,
you have daily weigh in,
track your food and 20 to
30 minute bike every single day.
Oh, I forgot the bone broth.
Can you do the bone broth?
Are you comfortable with that?
I like bone broth.
Good.
One, I'm going to put one to two cups.
And that's probably going to
be for a little while.
I think your,
I think your gut can use it
as well for sure.
Okay.
So obviously I'm assuming
that you didn't go and get
any workouts in this week.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Okay.
So my goal this week is that
obviously no gym or just
getting those 20 to 30
minute bike sessions in.
to answer Corey, he asked,
how long did they say?
So the infection clears up.
They said,
I would start feeling better
tonight if I could get the
prescriptions in.
And I did.
Um, but it won't,
I'm not going to feel
myself for a couple of days.
Yeah.
Um,
and then I think he wants to see me in
five days because he doesn't know, like,
This was just kind of a first step.
And then, and it was an emergency visit.
And then now we can start
doing some more testing, stuff like that.
Yeah.
I feel like chest x-rays
would be good just to make
sure that you don't have pneumonia.
Yeah,
he did test me for that in some way
and said he doesn't think I have it.
Good.
Well,
I wrote down what our goals are for
this week because that's important.
More so,
I'm really happy that you shared a
little bit about what
you've been going through
personally because, you know,
when it comes to nutrition, you know,
if a person's brain isn't quite there,
it's going to show up in
their nutrition and their workouts.
It's something that,
and we can only hide it for
so long before it ends up surfacing.
So I'm happy that you did share.
So,
and I will be praying for your mom-in-law,
for your sister,
and also for your
sister-in-law who doesn't
know how to handle things
as good as she could.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's,
and maybe that'll be a
conversation next week,
but that's another complication.
I'll tell you off the air
and then we can decide if
you want to talk about it next week.
Again,
the main thing here is all of those
things in life are going to happen.
You still have to go on.
Your life has got to go on.
In the words of Celine Dion,
do not make me pull out my song, my song.
Do not make me pull out my
song because it would not be pretty.
I did not grow up with a
choir or chorus in mind for sure.
Just, just kidding.
But, um,
I love this.
I love what Judy just said.
Post your stories each night
so we can keep up.
I will post a screenshot of his, if you,
if he checks things off in
trainer eyes for me,
I will post it on the
stories every single day
that he does that.
So he's got to check them
off and on the honor system
that he's actually doing
them and not just checking them off,
which I know that he will.
I know he'll do them.
I will call you and sing.
My heart will go on.
Scott, don't tempt me.
Corey, you know,
there is a calling number now.
I mean, just saying,
isn't there a calling number, Scott?
It's not hooked up right now.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
But Kenneth wants to give you a hug.
He really does.
No.
Yeah.
So we're all here for you, dude.
We're all here for you.
So.
this audience is the best, this group.
And I, I don't even,
I shouldn't call them on audience.
They're more than that.
Like getting to meet Judy at
MFC and hanging out with
her and her husband and Corey.
Hell, I was, I roomed with Corey.
Um, Kenneth has become a good friend.
Like, man,
you guys are just freaking the best.
They care about you.
Like I said,
any one of them would take you
out to dinner and listen to
you vent for hours.
They would.
They would.
All right, guys.
With that, thank you so much for all.
The prayers, well wishes, vibes,
whatever it is you do,
I appreciate every single thing.
Corey just texted me Celine Dion.
With that,
I will see everybody next time
with Cheryl as we go
through this and see how
I'm doing in a week.
We'll see you all next time
on the Clydesdale Media
Weight Loss Journey.
Bye, guys.