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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clyde Zone
Media Weight Loss Journey.
Another week in, another week recovered.
I love it.
I don't know where we're at.
Yeah.
It's time for another week.
How's the weather up there today?
Not bad.
If you look out the window,
you think it's the first day of spring.
You think it's full spring.
You're going to go out in
your shorts and your tank top.
And you walk out and the
wind will rip you apart.
You know what's funny?
It's really windy here, too.
It's actually,
the weather's beautiful today,
but it's really windy.
Like, annoying windy.
It's a cold wind.
Yeah, we have a cold wind, too,
but our cold wind is
beautiful wind for you.
You'd be, like, in heaven right now.
So, for sure.
It's a good time of year in Florida.
Corey says what I'm feeling.
Hey, Judy.
Hey, Holly.
Hey, Corey.
What a gentleman.
Just addressing everybody.
What a nice guy.
Yeah.
That goes my sentiment.
It's freezing and windy here in Columbus.
Yeah.
So you let's, let's just start with that.
You and Judy met up last week, correct?
We did first day back at the gym.
First day back at the gym.
Oh, how was it?
Judy is straight up savage.
Is that a compliment?
She killed the workout.
So that's a compliment.
yeah yeah yeah okay I've met
judy before so like she
came to masters fitness
collective she cheered on
corey cheered on jamie uh
so we got to hang out there
but man she's fit yeah
that's why being called a
savage you can kind of take
that one of two two ways
you know like in my head
you you picture like the
like the tarzan person like
oh you know like just ravaging the food
So I do have to say at the
end of the workout,
so we go back and my first
workout back was a 40 minute workout.
I'm like, wow.
Judy asked me like,
what have you done to me?
Yeah.
And so when it was all over, she said,
we need to do this every couple of weeks.
Um,
but let's look at the workout before we
decide.
I love it.
Yeah.
Well,
So you went back to the gym on Thursday,
and I know that that was
kind of taking you into the weekend.
Did you get another workout
in there at all since Tuesday?
I did Friday.
Awesome.
And what was your workout on Friday?
The open.
Oh, that's right.
So did you do the workout?
I did.
What did you end up doing for scaling?
I did a 15-pound empty barbell.
Okay.
And ring rows.
Love it.
And so first of all,
Thursday crushed my legs.
Yeah.
Crushed them.
Then to do thrusters,
even with a 15 pound empty
barbell hurts so bad.
Yeah.
Um, so I, I,
I got through the first five
rounds and that's about it.
Got it.
Well, I think Brooke Wells and Tia to me.
Well, just to give you like,
think about that's 50 reps
of 100 reps more than
you've done in a long time
and two days in a row of
pretty high volume.
So that's a lot.
And then what was your weekend like?
Did you get any fitness in
over the weekend?
So I did something Sunday in my garage.
And then I took yesterday
and today off because work has been.
What did you do Sunday?
Okay.
I just did a little 2159 of
the bike cause I needed to
get some lactic acid moving.
And then, and then I did a sandbag cleans.
Okay.
And then I got back on the
bike when I was done just
to like super slow, just a flush.
Got it.
Gotcha.
Well, how are you doing your steps?
Cause for some reason on my Apple health,
when I try and look at your,
stuff like it's it's giving
me like your averages not
your actual dailies and I'm
trying to figure out what
I'm looking at wrong um how
have you been doing with
your steps I've been okay
um hit seven a couple times
um and then a couple times
it doesn't but what's
bizarre is like I went to
watch rudy do the open on
saturday and I took
pictures the whole time
like I was on my feet
moving for a good hour plus
and it barely registered any steps for me
Yeah, when you're standing, it won't.
Well, I wasn't just standing.
I was moving all around in the rig.
Even me,
I'll be cooking in my kitchen and
I'm standing and moving around,
but it's just not
registering as actual steps.
It's fine.
That happens sometimes.
I believe that you're
probably on your feet.
And or I also notice if I'm
like pushing a cart in Publix,
That's a grocery store for
all of y'all that aren't from Florida.
It doesn't register if
you're pushing the cart.
I'm wondering if it's from
me holding the camera.
Yeah, it could be.
Because like I said,
when I'm pushing the cart,
it doesn't register.
So just kind of funny.
But anyways, so all right.
So that's good.
We got you back in the gym.
And but so let's get you
back in the gym this week again.
I know that work is busy.
Already committed to
tomorrow and Thursday.
Awesome.
Did you get any gym fitness?
Did you get any fitness in at home?
You said you took this week off so far,
right?
Nothing in?
Well, I worked out Sunday.
Yeah.
So just Monday, Tuesday rest.
Yeah.
So you're going to work out
the rest of the week probably.
Yeah.
Did it feel good to get back
in the community again?
It did.
It did.
Good.
The only weird thing is my
coach wanted to talk to me
so much because his dad had AFib.
They're like in the middle of my workout,
he's trying to ask me questions.
It's funny.
I was thinking about that
because we'll go back into
you in a second.
We're having issues with the lawn, uh,
the lawns at our, at my, in my community,
a lot of the grass is like dying.
And at first I thought they
weren't turning on the irrigation.
But my neighbor comes over
and tells me yesterday or no Saturday,
she's like, Hey,
I just want to let you know
that the reason the grass
is dying is because there's no soil.
It's all sand underneath the grass.
And so it's dying.
So the reason I'm telling
you this is because I'm in
the middle of getting ready
to start 12 by 500 meter.
growing in intervals and
like y'all know how painful
growing intervals get and
she doesn't understand
crossfit so she's coming
over and she's like
starting to talk to me
about the freaking lawn and
I've got my headphones in
and I can't hear and I'm on
like a one minute rest I'm
like listen lady I can't
talk to you and I felt so
rude but if you just don't
understand crossfit
you don't understand it.
And then she's still trying
to talk to me about getting it.
I'm like, I'm like, I'm sorry.
I can't figure out how to
turn my headphones down.
I can't hear a word you're saying.
Cause I really couldn't,
but it's just funny.
Cause nobody gets it when
they're not in the CrossFit world.
Like we just don't stop and
talk in the middle of our workouts.
So.
Yeah.
And I think,
I think he was worried about
me and just keeping a close eye on me
And so he was coming over to ask me like,
cause his dad had just gone
through it and wanted to
make sure like I was okay.
But yeah.
Can I just,
can I just take a little detour
and tell Kenneth that he
must've went to the wrong
Publix because a pub sub is like,
that's like one of the best things.
If you come to Florida and
you've never had a pub sub
before you're missing out, Kenneth,
I just don't,
I don't know that we can be
friends that crusty bread.
It's just.
It's amazing.
I just, you know,
I don't know what kind of pub sub you had,
but did you ever have a pub
sub when you lived in Florida?
I don't think so.
Oh, man.
The bread.
First of all,
the bread is it might as well
be a loaf of French bread.
That's pretty much what they give you.
It's probably about the
bread alone is probably about 100 carbs.
But they're just something
about them sandwiches, man.
I don't know what they put in on this.
It's a good sub, but.
So Damien has had the
interruption during his
CrossFit workout of solicitors.
Well, that happened to me too that day,
but I was stretching,
so it wasn't a big deal.
I'm getting a lot of people
coming to my house to sell me things,
like bug spray and lawn
care and water stuff.
And did you hear about the
FPL bills going up?
You should invest in solar.
And I'm in the middle of stretching,
and the guy doesn't want to interrupt me.
So he says...
Do you mind if I knock on
the door and see if your
husband's available?
I'm like, I don't have a husband.
Oh, surprising.
I'm like, why is that surprising?
Like the guys are trying to
make conversation, but I'm like,
why is it surprising?
I'm like, I'm not.
So anyways,
but that's when I swing my
kettlebell and say I have grip issues.
Yeah.
I tell my mom about it.
My mom's like, Cheryl,
you never tell somebody
that you're not married.
That's dangerous.
I'm like, dude, do you know who I am?
Just some funny stuff.
Look, lady,
I'm about to die on this rower.
And I'd much rather do it
without you yapping in my ear.
That's literally how I felt.
I was like, oh my God, woman,
please shut up.
Please shut up.
But I get a lot of... I mean,
I walk on my hands on my sidewalk.
So I get all kinds of people
asking me questions about
what I'm doing around here.
I'll be pushing my sled.
And the construction worker's like, you go,
girl.
And I'm like, thanks.
Thanks, cheerleaders.
But...
Anyways.
So, all right.
Back to what this is about.
Scott's weight loss journey.
So we're getting you back in the gym.
Weight trends are looking good.
How are you?
Good.
Yeah.
Good.
They look consistent.
They look great.
They do look great.
How are you feeling?
Let me ask you this.
Are you noticing feeling differently?
Yes.
Hunger?
Cravings?
energy definitely hunger yep
um not necessarily cravings
um but I feel I just feel
like my joints just feel
better my everything feels
better even sore after a
couple days of working out
I felt better well the
movement is medicine I will
say that um for sure I'm
seeing a lot more whole
grains looks like you're
starting to make your own
English muffin sandwiches in the morning,
which is good.
Seeing some veggies, some fruit.
Just bought whole grain bagels.
Yeah, pizza's your thing.
It looks like you're getting
in on the... You had pizza
for Friday night dinner?
Yeah, and then leftovers on Sunday.
Yeah,
but you did have... You also did have
your salad with it, which I like.
Listen,
here's the thing is a lot of people
like to think about what
they're removing from their diet.
And, you know, life is all about balance.
And if you're eating...
80% of your diet is coming
from lean proteins, fruits, vegetables,
and things like that.
You should be able to
incorporate some pizzas and
things like that.
But more importantly,
what people should be
thinking about when they're
having those things is
trying to balance it out
with more of those nutrients.
So I love the fact that on
Saturday when you did log it,
I also see a salad with that as well,
which makes me happy.
So it's funny,
the name of your chicken sausage is
It says Seymour.
That's what it says.
Oh, wow.
Like Seymour.
Like, I don't know.
I just wasn't there like an old movie,
like a joke about like Seymour, Seymour.
Well, there was a, there was a cartoonish.
Yes.
Seymour, the C6C monster.
No, there was one also like Seymour butts.
Oh, what is that from?
I can't remember, but it's yes.
Kevin remembers.
I don't know.
I'm feeling old right now,
but I can't remember.
Um, oh, is it from the Simpsons?
I don't know.
It might've been from the Simpsons.
I might be thinking of the Simpsons.
If y'all remember that show
now I'm really aging myself, but yeah.
Cheryl.
Is it really like new?
Yeah.
Like,
like new there's new there's oh my gosh.
Wow.
Um, see, I was right.
See, Judy even says it too.
I was right.
The Simpsons.
Okay.
Yeah, it's funny.
The name of your chicken
sausage just says Seymour.
It just made me think of that.
But I'm seeing sweet potatoes.
I'm seeing homemade pizza with the lavash.
Chicken shawarma.
Was that homemade or did you
get that somewhere?
HelloFresh.
Oh, how is that?
It was really good.
I've actually never had that,
but I know a lot of people
that like that stuff.
So overall, looking really good.
Seeing some popcorn in there,
which I like.
I like the fiber.
People often don't realize that popcorn,
especially if you're making it yourself,
guys, it's just corn kernels.
And you can literally air pop it.
In fact,
super good hack is if you take
your popcorn kernels and
you put them in a paper bag,
you can make your own microwave popcorn.
That's all you need.
So don't you make popcorn, Scott?
Or do you buy it?
Yeah, you make it.
How do you make yours?
Do you have an air popper or do you?
Uh, so I have, uh, it's a,
it's a contraption that you
put them in and you have
the arm that stirs the
kernels and then it's just
starts popping and you flip
it over and the top is a bowl.
Well, that's fancy,
but literally all you need
is a paper bag.
30 bucks on Amazon.
I'm serious.
You take a paper bag and you can, you can,
if you want to,
you can spray them with
like cooking spray.
It's going to add a little bit of fat,
whatever.
Put a little butter in there
if you want to.
Salt, you can make your own like caramel,
whatever kind of corn you want to make.
Put that in the microwave
and it pops just like you would.
But popcorn's really high in fiber.
There's like, I think per,
about per 25 grams of carbs,
I think there's four or
five grams of fiber in it.
So it's a pretty good source
of carbohydrates, people.
So.
So Judy wants to know the
deets of my weight loss.
Okay.
I'm going to put it to you
in this framework.
So I went to the doctor on Friday.
Even more?
Had a huge bill of health.
Like, things are going great.
Keep up the good work.
On their scale,
I'd lost 14 pounds since
the first time I met with
her just three weeks ago.
That's awesome.
So the same has happened
pretty much on my scale.
It is around,
it's like 13 point whatever pounds.
I'm at 285.6 pounds.
let's just go ahead and do this.
I'll just pull it up for them to see.
Y'all can see Scott's progress right here.
That's what things are going on.
We're seeing this nice trend down, uh,
which I like,
obviously it probably will
start to slow down a little
bit as life gets back to routine.
Whenever we have big changes,
we're going to see big changes.
It's just the way it is.
If you make big drastic changes,
you're going to see a big drastic change.
And I think you had,
a bunch of things all at
once between medication changes, between,
you know,
your life just kind of being
turned upside down.
We're making a lot of
nutrition changes right now
with the fiber, with the veggies,
but things are looking good again.
I feel like we're back in
that smooth and consistent pace.
I like the term great better than good.
Yeah.
Well, I like thinking about,
here's the deal is I'm always like,
What I want to say is the
reason I don't like to get
hyper things are going
great is because I don't
fully think that we should
be so up and down with a
weight loss journey,
whether it's going good or going bad.
Does that make sense?
Meaning like it's good to
celebrate the wins,
but we have to realize that
oftentimes when we
celebrate the wins and we're like,
things are awesome.
We often tend to do the exact opposite,
the exact same thing when
things aren't going so good.
So the reason I say great is
not just about the weight loss.
Yeah.
The reason I say great is
five weeks ago I was in ICU.
Yep.
And where I'm at today is great.
Agreed.
Yes, I would agree.
Not just the weight, but the way I feel,
the way I'm able to move,
the way I'm able to sleep.
All of that stuff has
changed dramatically.
And I'm feeling great.
And I love that.
And I want you to say that.
But I don't want it to be like, oh,
things are going great because of scale.
Because I like that.
But I also think that.
And I love Corey.
I don't know what it means
to be Joe Biden because I
don't pay attention to politics.
But I'm not thinking that's a good thing.
So everything is awesome.
Everything is cool when
you're part of a team.
I would a hundred percent agree.
So, and that's the thing,
what Judy just said,
you're telling me things are going great.
I'm not telling you things are great.
Like I want,
I love that your feedback is good.
That's what I actually want.
And you did an open workout,
which is awesome.
So really good.
So what do you have going on this week?
You're going to get
So workouts into the gym Polaris.
Yep.
Right.
Okay.
So noon,
noontime is going to be your time.
Yep.
And I actually,
last week I took the
initiative to block out the
noontime on my calendar.
So nobody will schedule me in the future.
I love it.
I have to like,
I had to get rid of a
meeting yesterday and today.
Well,
Tuesdays are going to be the round
table all the time, but right.
And then,
so now that'll be free for me
going forward.
Awesome.
Um, how is your blood sugar?
It is in the one twenties now.
Okay.
That's good.
Dropping about 10 points a week.
Okay.
And she's super,
she was so excited about
that that she's already
talked about like backing
off the insulin.
Good.
Um,
what we just have to get down like
another 10 points and then
backing it off two units at a time.
So you can get rid of that
and then it'll be getting
rid of the metformin.
Yes.
Which I really want you to get off of.
That's medication is
literally something that we
could go into a whole nother topic on,
but it is what it is.
It is nothing you can do about it.
So you're just going to get off of it.
So and heart and everything
like that is going good
with being back in the gym.
Yeah.
Um,
like I'm still making sure I'm not like
cranking the heart rate way
up anymore or right now.
I mean, um,
so I'm trying to keep it like
one 20 is like, you know what I mean?
Okay.
That's, that's good.
That's like a zone two ish.
Right.
And then as I keep going,
I'll leak it up a little bit at a time.
Well, and here's when,
when we're measuring,
when we're thinking about
progress being made in the gym, um,
heart rate isn't really what
dictates that.
Right.
So it's like,
I know it's really easy as
CrossFitters for us to get
focused on like the
intensity and how hard I'm,
how fast I'm going.
And am I, you know,
getting that intensity piece,
but honestly it's,
that doesn't give you the
results that just like
consistent strength
training and moving well
and moving through sets
with the intended stimulus of like,
I'm getting 10 unbroken reps.
You know,
I'm doing that stuff is so much better.
You could EMOM your way fit,
like seriously,
it's not going to be competitive,
but it's going to keep you
in a good place.
You know what I'm saying?
Like you can back off the
intensity and make a lot of
gains in your fitness and
in your strength,
in your mobility and all that stuff,
the intensity piece is like
the top icing on the cake, you know,
but that's not really what
creates the results.
That's what creates that.
Okay.
Now I have a new level that
I've reached and now my
percentage just have to go
off a higher number, which sucks.
That's what I always feel like, you know,
like you had a new 2k road
time and now you're like,
all my road times are going to go,
go faster.
You hit a new back squat PR,
a new snatch PR,
you're like 90% my old one rep now.
It's like, that's the stuff that, you know,
comes with that, but that doesn't,
you don't need that to get
fit and to be healthy, you know?
So, um, in fact, I'm, uh, debating,
I'm doing my level four and
I was just kind of earlier
today going through the old
journal and there was one
of the level one journals
was talking about the whole
Um, you know, doing CrossFit, you know,
when you don't want to do
it for intensity,
you want to be able to just
be fit and healthy.
That's okay.
It's part of CrossFit.
So I actually made a comment
to somebody like CrossFit
is good for everybody,
but not everybody's going
to be the right fit for CrossFit.
You know what I'm saying?
It's just, so you can do CrossFit.
You just have to take away that, you know,
need to be intense,
just a little side tangent.
But Judy says being background active,
like-minded people helps for sure.
Um, I 100% agree.
So it's why even on the days
when I know that I can just
do work at home,
I still try and get to the gym.
Like I've been trying to
make sure that I get to the
gym at least three times a
week because otherwise I'm
like the lady with her cat.
I'm the cat lady at home
that just does nutrition
coaching all day.
I mean,
my clients get to see the most of me,
but you know, just me and my cat.
So I got to get out and see people.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
So my goal right now is
three days a week until I
can get my schedule cleared
and then back on trying to
get back to five.
Yep.
Um,
the only thing I'm going to mention is
this week,
your protein has been a little
bit on the low side and I
don't know if it's just been, uh,
like not thinking about it.
You know,
it might just be your lunch was a
little bit low protein some days.
So I would like to see a
little bit more protein.
Um,
You know,
like you can also make sure that
you're getting a high protein snack in.
You know,
you used to be pretty good about
before bedtime having
something because your
proteins have been
definitely a little bit on
the lower side.
That's the only other thing
that I really want you to
focus on this week.
Yeah, I did.
I did get some rice cakes
and some lunch meat and go
back to the lunch meat,
rice cake and laughing cow
cheese thing that you
taught me a long time ago.
And then I did get some
oatmeal to start doing the
oatmeal pudding.
Have you tried the cottage
cheese pizza dip?
I have not.
Okay.
I have a recipe and I'll send it to you.
Um, and if you guys,
anybody on there that
doesn't like cottage cheese,
little hack is put it in a
blender because it takes
away the little chunks.
Um, but you put literally cottage cheese,
fat-free mozzarella, um,
a little bit of Parmesan cheese,
marinara sauce, turkey pepperonis,
put it all together, pop in the microwave,
put a little Italian seasoning in it.
And I take the Joseph's lavash bread and
You can cut it into like squares,
dip that in there.
Now you've got a really nice
high protein snack that's
also high fiber.
You can use other, whatever you want.
So you can use pita chips or whatever,
but something high fiber would be great.
And that's a really easy
high protein snack.
I think the recipe that I
have that I'll send you,
I think has like 40 grams
of protein in it.
And it's only got like two
to 300 calories.
So super easy high protein
snack if you're looking for
something salty and
you know, I love my Greek yogurt bowls,
a little bit of vanilla
protein powder in those.
Uh, but I,
I think that what you need to be
thinking of with your, it's,
it's really your snacks.
Uh,
cause your main meals are usually about
40 grams of protein,
which is pretty good.
Um,
but I think that like your one or two
snacks,
you need to be like reaching for like,
where's my protein first.
And, and if you're going to,
cause you might just be like,
I'm craving something salty.
And the easiest thing is like,
how can I add some protein to this?
You know?
So that's where
I think the rice cakes is a
good idea with the turkey.
Cottage cheese is great.
Even some things that people
don't think of.
Like I told you,
I've been getting down to tuna,
like the tuna salad with
the mayo or the Greek yogurt.
That's been a good, easy snack for me.
And you can even make it ahead of time.
You can make like a buffalo chicken dip.
So any of that kind of stuff
would be easy to have.
And you can dip that and you
can even get some more
veggies in that way.
because you can make a dip
like that and use like bell
peppers or the tuna salad
and use some bell peppers
or carrots or cucumbers,
any of that kinds of stuff.
Okay.
So that's going to be,
that's the only thing that
I really want to see is
more protein because I
definitely feel like that's
where you're lacking,
but everything else looks pretty good.
Calories are in a good spot.
Um, how about your gut?
How's that been?
Much better.
Okay.
Now the doctor did say that she,
so I'm still,
I was still having the cough and the,
the congestion.
So she changed my allergy medicine all,
all together.
And so now I'm, so I was on Zyrtec.
She took me off that and put
me on Clareton and then
Singulair at night.
And we're giving that two weeks to work.
If that doesn't work,
she's going to check my gut
health because it could be
that that's causing
everything that's going on,
but I'm not burping like I was.
Okay.
All right.
Um,
Okay.
I think that everything else
is looking pretty good.
Like I said,
I think that protein intake
needs to go up a little bit.
Your meals are pretty
balanced for the most part.
You tend to balance out your
calories a little bit.
You're never really hitting your carbs.
You're always going a little
bit over on fats and a
little bit under on carbs.
I really think that if you
optimize your carbs a little bit more,
your fiber intake would go
up and it would also help
with your blood sugar a little bit.
But getting in complex carbohydrates,
so like more sweet potatoes,
fruits and vegetables,
that kinds of stuff.
And if your gut's still giving you trouble,
that's what I'm going to say again,
is getting the fat intake
down a little bit.
But really what I want you
to focus on this week is
getting the protein up.
I'm not because you're
keeping your calories in a good spot.
I'm not really that worried
about macros of carbs and
fats as long as we're
getting the protein up and
your calories are staying within control.
So I want to speak to Jay Birch.
Grits are nasty.
I lived four years in the South,
could never ever get used to them.
You know, I've never had grits before.
Go up to the panhandle.
I've never had grits before.
See my family, we live in Florida,
but they're from New York.
So they're not like into a
lot of Southern food.
They're, they're like, my mom is like,
you know,
they're Italian in New York and just,
they're like not into that stuff.
So we did not eat grits growing up.
We had pancakes.
We didn't even eat oatmeal growing up.
Like I tried it a number of
times and I thought it was
healthy and I never liked it growing up.
Yeah.
so definitely what every
single person told me this
exact phrase every time
they brought me grits mine
are better than anyone
you've had you have they
haven't been cooked
correctly blah blah blah
nope sorry there's a lot of
southern food I've never
had like chicken and
waffles I've never done
that either now that that's
just way too good
I've never done that before.
Chicken and waffles are top
10 food of all time.
Yeah, never.
I didn't do that either.
And that I will only buy in
the South because they
really know what they're doing.
Yeah.
There's another thing I used
to eat growing up.
Have you ever heard of pastina?
Yeah.
It's just like really,
it almost looks like couscous.
It's like really small pasta.
And literally we would just
eat that covered in
Parmesan cheese and butter.
Like just, it was so good.
But I think that might've
been like a Pennsylvania thing.
It's like a,
I think it's like a new England thing.
Well, that's fun.
That's where you're from.
I don't know where it's from then.
You would have had that.
So, but I know one that you might know of,
this is a gross food.
Anybody that knows this food
might think it's gross, but well,
do you know what scrapple is?
That's from like the Northeast, right?
That's a Northeast thing.
So it's, I know it's a Philly thing.
Yes.
When I, when we went, when I,
so when I went to visit Kat,
she lives in Delaware,
just South of Philly.
She bought me a scrapple
breakfast sandwich.
My grandfather used to love
that stuff and it smelled
so bad when it was cooking.
Oh,
and then I remember like in towards the
end of his life, well, my grandpa,
I was like the only one
that would cook it because
like my aunt was like,
I don't know how to cook that stuff.
And he likes it when you
cook it and it tastes,
it like smells gross.
has gross food yeah it's not
something I'd have every
day for sure no probably
and I haven't had it since
I've not been out there
that way yeah yeah I know
what it is and I've had it
once or twice oh can I just
can I just start by making
a comment here I'm going to
bring this up right here
heidi mex mentions has
scott considered pure
carnivore guys oh the world of dieting
is just disgusting.
Disgusting,
it just makes me so angry for
people that are just trying
to be healthy.
The extremes that we think
we have to go to in order to get healthy.
What does eating only meat,
having only meat in your
diet really solve?
Is that really a healthy diet?
What is that going to fix?
I mean,
think about all of the nutrients
you're missing.
Talk about gut health.
I mean, it just, to me, is like,
I just can't even.
And you might feel amazing
on a carnivore diet.
That's great.
But the health benefits of
carnivore diet are slim to none.
And there's a lot of
research that shows that.
In fact,
you're limiting yourself on so
many of the nutrients you
could be getting.
And it really is like for some people,
they need to just go to that extreme.
But it doesn't solve any of the problems.
It doesn't.
And then you're going to
have the vegans telling you,
why are you eating meat?
Meat is going to make you sick.
You know,
and then you just it's ridiculous.
It really is.
I really do find that the
extremes in this world with
dieting are unbelievably ridiculous.
And at the end of the day,
most people that do diets
end up going back to doing
something else.
They'll live a lifestyle for
a period of time and they shift.
And I love what Philip just said.
Just do whatever works for you.
Something sustainable.
Absolutely.
It should literally be that.
And I will be honest.
Heidi says I did it for a
limited time to solve my joint problems.
I'm not sure.
Okay.
How I call it disgusting.
I think it's,
I'm not calling the diet disgusting.
I'm calling the fact that
people are selling these
diets as the solution to inflammation,
to joint problems, to over to obesity,
to blood sugar from a diet.
Do you know why they all work?
Because they get people to
remove the shit from their diet.
They're controlling their calories.
They're getting more protein in.
And guess what?
A lot of their symptoms go away.
Has nothing to do with the actual diet.
Now, I'll be honest,
diets that add things in like.
you add in more protein,
you add in more fruits and
vegetables and fiber,
often do have a lot of health benefits.
That's my opinion.
And I'm going to just make
this a really controversial show today,
aren't I?
I'm just very opinionated on it.
I am.
Right.
You have to go with what works for you.
This is working for me right now.
Balanced diet.
Exactly.
I've tried everything under
the sun in my 54 years.
Me too.
And so this is what's working for me.
So there it is.
I'm somebody who followed a
paleo diet for years
because I thought that it
was going to be the
solution to my gut issues.
I was petrified that I was
going to get leaky gut and
all this stuff.
And I literally stopped doing that.
I added food back in and felt better.
Everything improved.
But I still believe that
that type of a diet,
whole food based diet is
how we should all be eating
everything in balance.
Have I ever tried carnivore?
No,
I don't plan on it because even here's
the deal.
Even if people were going to
use an extreme diet to
actually get the systemic
benefits of something like that,
you would likely have to be
doing it for like a year plus.
And I am not willing, nor do I need to
completely remove all the
foods from my diet in order
to get myself healthy and
nobody does so and I and I
can't say I've tried
carnivore before and before
we met like I said I've
tried everything and uh it
wasn't sustainable for me
it's like the people that
are like oh fasting works
no it doesn't you likely
are controlling your
calories you're losing
weight and guess what
Less fat in your body,
less adipose tissue does
help remove the chronic inflammation.
You know,
our fat cells is where we store
everything.
Again, when we're talking about this diet,
like people are like,
have you tried carnivore?
How long have you tried carnivore?
Why?
What is the purpose?
When we talk about trying a diet,
what are we trying to achieve?
Right?
Like that's the goal.
What, why are we going on this diet for?
So if there's not a purpose for the diet,
why do the diet?
In Scott's case, but once again,
what is the purpose?
If he's losing fat,
if he's improving his blood biomarkers,
why would we make things
more restrictive?
Like, that's my question.
Like, it's like, oh, you're doing great.
Hey,
let's go ahead and remove everything
from your diet because
We just think you need to do that.
I just,
this is what I mean by people are just,
it doesn't make any sense.
It just doesn't make any
sense that people would go
to such extremes when they don't need to.
No worries, Jake.
You missed the first half of
the show that when Scott
was talking about how great he feels.
So, and just to answer, I, when I tried it,
I, I made it like three months.
Um, but it just,
it wasn't sustainable at that point.
I did whole 30 for like six months.
What am I doing?
Like why, you know?
So I do believe that we
should all be getting in enough,
but I just think the
extreme dieting world is just, and
I'm going to be off on a tangent.
I think this needs to be my
next podcast is the people
that are talking about
these diets are usually
selling you something too.
By the way, by my ancestral supplements,
I shouldn't even use that
word because I don't want it.
That's a good company, but by my,
these beef liver tabs or this or that,
that's going to help with
this and that it
it's all a marketing game, you know,
like it's, it's,
it's just as bad as the freaking medical,
the medical companies, the same,
the same people that are
feeding people pills are
feeding people Oreos, the same companies,
you know,
they're coming from the same places.
Oh, here to have this Oreo,
but let me go ahead and
give you the medication.
It's going to help you with that too.
It's like, it's the same shit, you know?
So anyways,
Just to recap and bring this
ribbon around the package.
Because now you've got
Cheryl all fired up right now.
We're down 14 pounds since
the hospitalization.
Blood sugar is back down into the 120s,
which is really good from where I was at.
And it's on a downward trend.
Weight loss is still on a downward trend.
And I'm feeling great.
I'm back in the gym.
I am back to working out.
I'm back.
My joints are feeling great.
And we're just going to keep
on trucking with what we're doing.
And I'm going to say one more thing, okay?
Because first things first.
I don't want anybody getting
offended by my opinion.
And here's what I'm going to say.
I'm going to leave it at this.
If you're following a diet
trend and that works really well for you,
that's great.
But I'm always going to be
the honest person that
tells you why a diet works.
Okay.
Likely you're getting more
nutrients and less of the
crap and you're controlling
your calories.
Okay.
No matter what all that stuff is.
My approach to nutrition is
one that I want to be
realistic with my clients with.
that they have full-time jobs,
they have kids, they have families,
and their kids are also
watching what they're doing
and what they're eating.
And what I teach is meant to
be balanced because life is
meant to be balanced.
We should all be able to enjoy things.
And a lot of people on those
quote unquote diets,
whether it's carnivore, Whole30,
that was me at one point,
live for cheap meals.
They live for cheat meals.
They literally, they're so happy,
but they still have to have that.
It's my cheat day.
Guess what?
We don't cheat on our food
because there's no cheating
on what you eat.
So my approach to nutrition
is meant to be one that
makes a person feel excited
for their meals, not restricted by them.
And I know that if a person
is eating enough nutrients,
and they're controlling their calories,
and they're getting their
movement in throughout their day,
they're going to be healthy,
they're going to be
lowering their inflammation markers,
and they're going to be
living a lifestyle that
they can sustain forever.
And that's what I'm going to say to end.
So what I want to say is, Heidi,
don't be sorry.
No, don't be sorry.
This show is for.
I want to have open discussion.
Agreed.
Where we can talk back and
forth about why you think
that's a benefit to you,
why Cheryl doesn't,
and we can have a
conversation about it and
not just shut people out.
That's what this show is about.
And that's fine.
We're all entitled to our own opinions.
And I've tried a lot of things.
And I've done,
I used to weigh over 500 pounds.
I have lost almost 300 pounds,
gained some back.
I'm on the track back to
losing the weight again.
The first ways weren't sustainable.
This is working better.
It's slower.
It's more methodical.
And it's more sustainable for me.
And that's why I choose this.
Yeah, I would say I agree.
And I also want to thank
Heidi because guess what?
If these topics aren't put out,
I can't educate people.
So your questions help me
help the people that might
be literally living in a diet prison.
It might be really sustainable for you,
but there might be somebody
else out there that thinks
that they have to eat that
way in order to see results.
I got clients that are
afraid of eating bread or
afraid of eating carbs or
afraid of eating this stuff.
Being able to show those
people that they don't have
to live that way to get
healthy and eat and see
results is what I'm passionate about.
So if it works for you, great.
I'm so happy that it works for you.
But I just wanted to make
sure that I also said that as well.
So I want people to ask.
I want people to challenge me for sure.
And now I'm going to have a
podcast episode on it.
So we're going to do it.
Whoops.
She said, to be fair,
I have been eating more
sourdough than usual.
There we go.
So you're, yeah, it's good.
But anyways, guys,
I got to get going because
I actually have a call with
somebody in a minute.
So I'm excited for that call.
Thank you everybody for the input.
This is an open forum for everybody.
We love you all.
And with that,
we will see everybody next
time on the Clydesdale
Media Weight Loss Journey.
Thank you everyone.