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my name is Scott Switzer
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Wow.
I'm excited to connect with you today.
It's been a little bit.
Actually,
we haven't talked since... We
didn't do a podcast last week, did we?
No,
it's been a wild week that we'll
probably get into in future weeks.
Yeah, I know.
My work has been utterly insane with...
And just so people know my day job,
I do testing for our
systems at the state of Ohio.
And when those systems go down,
then you have to test
immediately to make sure
everything's back up and
running correctly.
And then when they go down again,
then you have to test again
and again and again.
And that's pretty much what
my last week and a half has been like.
And so last week I decided
to hop in a car and go to Knoxville.
Yeah.
And that's kind of like,
so we missed our podcast last week.
Your check-in day is Wednesday, Thursday.
So typically you fill in
your form for me on Wednesday.
I review it, send you notes,
reach out on Thursday.
And yeah,
literally I had the feeling
that something was off
because you didn't message me at all.
And then I texted you and I
didn't get a message back.
And then the next thing I
knew you're in a car in, in a,
in a Knoxville.
And this is what's so hard
is like communication.
is like the easiest way to
just like make sure that
everybody's on the same page.
And I like just had no idea
what was going on.
And I was worried sick about
you as your coach.
So, you know,
when I'm pulled in to work in
the server area,
I can't even take my phone
in with me because in that server area,
I can't have my cell phone.
Got it.
So like when, when I get called in there,
I have no choice, but to be,
and I have other stuff going on,
like family stuff that I
can't even take it in with me for.
So that's what happens.
I get in there and then I
can't look at my phone.
I can't do anything.
I just have to work on what
I'm working on and I can't
leave till I can leave.
So yeah, that's what,
that's what happened last week.
Yeah.
It was just like, for me, you know,
like I'm going through,
and this is me being transparent.
Like I'm,
I'm being 100% honest right now
on the air, which is hard for me.
Um,
I'm going through a really tough time
myself.
My mom's very sick.
And last Thursday I had an
appointment with you and I
wasn't going to give up that commitment.
And I was at the hospital
with my mom on Thursday.
And I'm like, I got to take this call,
mom.
I walked out the room
And I'm like calling you and
I'm being honest because if
I'm not honest, it's not,
I'm not going to make this about that,
but a simple like message, like, Hey,
I'm not gonna be able to
take the call today.
Cause I'm like trying to,
I'm at the hospital right now.
Who's not doing well.
And I'm like feeling like, all right.
Okay.
And then like, I just,
it was something that I had
to be honest about that.
I, as your coach,
like that was something that I was like,
dang, I couldn't even get a quick, Hey.
Can't talk right now.
Hey, I got to reschedule my appointment.
I'm leaving, whatever,
because I did keep that
commitment to you.
And as a coach who cares,
that's something that I
have to be honest about.
So that was just something I
wanted to mention.
Well, I apologize.
And 98% of the time I work from home.
And so like,
it's never a problem for me to
be able to text or whatever
during that time if something gets busy.
this is just that one
instance where I'm locked
in a room and can't take my
cell phone in.
Yeah.
And, and I agree.
I totally understand,
but I like had to tell you
what I was feeling on the other end.
I'm like, this sucks.
So, so kind of going away from that,
you know, is you had an amazing weekend.
Okay.
So let's,
let's talk about how much fun you
had this weekend at semifinals.
So I did have a lot of fun.
Of course, in Scott Way,
I can't do anything easy.
I get there.
I'm walking into the venue
on the first day and I step
in a giant hole.
My ankle,
my knee buckle and then I try to
catch myself and I torqued my back.
Literally,
I didn't even get into the venue.
I was walking
had just got to like fender
village and I step in this
hole and then and jamie
said when she saw the way I
tried to catch myself she
knew like I was toast that
sucks so it didn't really
hurt that much that day it
just it got worse as the
weekend went on and then it
was just like getting into
squats positions to get it
to stretch and getting into
other positions to get it
to stretch all weekend and
I still had a really good time,
but it was like,
now I have this thing
hanging over me through the
whole weekend.
Yeah.
Um, now kind of shifting into nutrition,
it's been a rough couple of weeks.
I, the logging wise, it sure has.
Yeah.
Um, I don't,
I have not had a lot of
control over my time over
the last couple of weeks.
Um,
But I,
I have done really well making the
best of what I had.
Okay.
And I, and I agree that that's,
that's kind of what I
wanted today to be about is, you know,
when it comes to these
journeys that people are on
is it's not always going to
be smooth sailing.
You're going to hit road bumps.
You're going to,
you're going to have times
like this where it's like
just off track a little bit.
It's okay.
it's not failing.
It's not winning.
It's not anything.
It just is what it is.
It's that, you know,
it's been a little bit of a
rocky couple of weeks, like full trends.
It has been, you know?
So I think that it's okay to
say like right now,
like I'm so physically and
mentally exhausted by other
things going on here that I
haven't been as focused as
I should be where I know I need to be.
But it doesn't mean,
I'm completely derailing.
It just means that I haven't
been making that push to
make the next step happen
because my mental and
physical batteries are drained.
Does that kind of resonate?
This is probably going to go down a road.
I don't want to go down today, but I mean,
we're here and I'm having
some mental issues with
everything going on around me.
And then
And this was the straw that
broke kind of the camel's back.
So we would go to the venue
early in the morning and
our hotel had breakfast.
So I would grab a scoop of
eggs and either bacon or
sausage and then go to the venue.
I had beef jerky and apples
and stuff in my bag to kind
of live on until I got to dinner.
We'd go out to dinner and...
the waiter or waitress would
come to the table and they
would automatically assume
that the dinner I ordered
was for Jamie and the
dinner that Jamie ordered
was for me because I'm
eating the chicken and the
fruit plate and the
coleslaw and Jamie's
getting the steak and the
fries and all that kind of stuff, right?
And it just hit me hard this weekend.
I'm working my ass off so
hard by making these changes,
and I feel like sometimes
it's for naught.
Does that make sense?
It just hit me in that
moment this weekend.
Here I am.
I have to be so careful
about every little freaking
morsel that I put in my mouth.
And the progress is so freaking slow.
Go ahead and finish.
Because I wasn't going to cut you off.
I thought you were done.
That's it.
I'm really proud of you
right now for sharing that.
And you're right.
It's not fair.
And I think I've said this before.
That people judge a person
by what they see.
Without knowing where that
person's been and where they're going.
No idea at all.
The external shell doesn't matter.
I just want to cry.
I just, all I want to do is cry.
Like, I feel like I just, I'll be honest.
I feel like, is it even worth it anymore?
Yes.
Yes.
Like I'm, I'm here.
I am working my ass off every effing day.
And I didn't think we were
going to go here today, but we're here.
And I think we needed to be
here and whether it's on air or not,
this conversation needed to
happen because it is really hard.
It is really fucking hard to make changes.
And you're right, progress is really slow.
But what's the alternative?
What's the alternative to
just not doing anything?
Where do you go then?
What's the alternative to,
and we're going to talk
about simplifying things,
but what's the alternative
to just throwing in the towel right now?
I'm not going to throw in the towel.
No, I know you're not.
But what I'm telling you is
when you're in these places, for one,
your feelings are valid.
You were judged this weekend.
And that's a fucked up thing
for anybody to do.
Excuse my language.
You were judged and that
makes you feel
uncomfortable because
you're busting your ass and
you're still looked at like,
The guy that needs to lose weight.
And even so much that it's
that like it just
illustrated how meticulous
I have to be to make any progress.
Well, what do you when you say meticulous,
right?
Let's talk about this.
Because I had this
conversation with a client
of mine last week.
She said,
I just feel like I'm working so hard.
I'm working out every single day.
Instead of sitting in my lunch hour,
I go to the gym.
I'm meal prepping.
I'm doing all this stuff.
And it's just, I don't even know why.
I'm like, well,
what do you think people do
that are fit and healthy
and live a healthy life do?
They do that.
But I used to love working
out and now it just hurts.
Like everything just hurts.
Like I step in that hole on
Friday and then everything
I try to do fitness wise hurts.
Your body's in pain, inflammation,
inflammation.
All of that.
And then you go to a
restaurant and you have to
replace the fries with
broccoli and do all these
extra steps that other
people don't have to do.
And it gets you nowhere.
But when you say that other
people don't have to do,
who are you referring to?
I'm just venting.
I'm not asking it towards anybody.
Guess what?
A lot of people do that.
It just might not have been
the people sitting at your table.
So even though you might
have been the one at the
table that was swapping
French fries for broccoli,
it doesn't mean that there
were two other tables right
around you that somebody at
the table was also the only
one swapping out French
fries for broccoli.
It can feel very lonely sometimes.
When you're watching people
around you just free with
food and not thinking about
it and you're putting in
effort and you're like,
I just want to be like that.
And I'll be honest,
a weekend like semifinals,
I probably would have told you, hey,
enjoy a couple of fun meals.
Don't sweat it.
You come back home,
you pick up where you left off.
The whole weekend had an
element to this and it
wasn't even all nutrition.
Yeah.
So I'm just, it just was a pile on.
Yeah.
And I went off on it on
Saturday night show.
I mean,
I had security called on me at the
venue for following the
instructions I was given.
I didn't even watch that yet.
I had to catch up.
I had them called on me and
told where and what,
And you, you've been a part of my team.
So you will actually understand this.
Yeah.
I was told this person was
trying to tell me where I
could do an interview and
where I could not.
I was following the
procedures given to me by
the head of media for the
syndicate crown and the
head of media for CrossFit.
I asked them to go talk to them.
I then get talked to by the
head of media from the
syndicate crown asking me
to do it in another venue.
And I said, that's fine.
I said,
I just don't want to be picked on
as the one team that has to
do it this way and nobody else.
Oh, no, no.
Everybody has to follow these rules.
The only people allowed in
that area will be medical.
The same people that were
allowed to do stuff last
year were allowed to
continue to do it the
incorrect way this year.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm just tired of always
being singled out as the
people who get talked to.
And then you go to dinner
and then this happens and
it's just a pile on of more, right?
Yeah.
It's that, it's that feeling.
And I think we've been here
before where it's like,
you're always being picked
on in some way.
Like, it's like, this is it.
It's nobody with authority.
It's yeah.
It's just a little miss
puffy pants on the podcast.
But she had no authority to
tell me what to do.
Yeah.
But yet makes my whole
afternoon miserable because
of her perception.
Right.
Right.
It's so hard, Scott, because like I said,
a fat loss journey,
a weight loss journey does
require sacrifice.
Anybody who says that they
don't have to work hard for
weight loss is lying.
There's decisions that are
being made on a daily basis,
especially because most people,
when they gain weight,
there's other influences.
It's not just you in a bubble, right?
There's so many things going on.
And I think that you were
kind of like at your breaking point,
like work has been crazy busy.
Your wife has been going
through a rough time.
Hopefully she's on the mend.
Hopefully things will be
getting better with that.
You know, like the decision to travel,
even things like podcast
sponsorship and all of these things,
these moving pieces.
And
And this is good for
everybody to hear because guess what?
If it's not the person at the dinner table,
it's the person at the pool
party that says something to somebody,
you know, it's, it's all of those things,
or they're the one at the pool party.
That's not eating the snacks
or at the barbecue.
That's not eating the snacks.
Everybody experiences this
stuff in different ways.
It's it shows up in
different ways and it
affects them in different ways.
And we all have a choice to be like,
all right,
I know that this sucks right now.
Like I know I've kind of
just been out of my element, but like,
I'm gonna get back to my program,
back to my structure.
And when you're feeling that fatigue,
that's what I'm here for.
And I know that like,
I probably was the last
person on your mind to
reach out to that night, but man,
a text message of like,
just had a really tough night.
Like I was at the dinner
table and I'm like making good choices.
And I just felt like, I don't know.
I just felt off.
Like it could have been all it was.
And then I probably would
ask you what happened, you know, but it's,
it's,
I just didn't even know how to
process it myself.
I don't,
I don't know.
Well, that's why it's,
it's crazy how I didn't
know where today's episode
was going to go.
I mostly just wanted to kind
of get you back into the swing of things,
but this is all making sense.
It's, it all, it's all making sense.
Like just the whole lead up to this call,
this talk today, you know?
So, but you know,
I think it's also important
right now to look at how
far you've come and, and know that like,
all that's behind you.
You've done all that hard
work leading up to this.
And what you're doing isn't really,
I think also sometimes when
you're in a place of overwhelm,
the simplest things can
feel so overwhelming.
So like, for instance, on my end,
if I was like,
I just feel like I have to
be so meticulous.
Like I'm the one at the
table that's swapping out
French fries for broccoli.
You're like, on your end, it's like, well,
was that really
That hard or did it just
feel hard because you're
feeling like you're being a
problem to the waitress or
the waiter and that you're
the one and that you're
kind of like people are
looking at you for the judging thing,
the judgment thing.
Right.
It's it's that stuff.
It's it's knowing that it's
not even about the meticulousness.
It's about we think.
things are harder than they
really are because of how
they're affecting us mentally.
And, you know,
it's really hard to just keep going,
but that's where resiliency
and that's where people
become successful.
It's actually leading into
that discomfort and being able to say,
all right, like I can feel a certain way.
And guess what?
On Monday morning,
I'm going to wake up happy
with my decisions.
you know?
So I don't know.
It was a breaking point.
Yeah.
It's okay.
I'm telling you, it's okay.
I'm telling you as your
coach that I'm proud of you.
I'm proud of you for being able to be like,
all right.
Like I freaking like,
I've been so freaking busy
with everything.
And like, just,
it's been not my priority right now.
And I,
I'm like recommitting to
like back to routine.
You don't have any travel on
the schedule until the games.
Are you going to the games?
Uh,
the only travel I have is just a day
trip with my mom to the U S
Olympic swimming trials.
Oh, fun.
When is that?
Uh, June 15th.
Okay.
All right.
So, but other than that,
nothing until the games,
are you going to the games?
I have not made that call yet.
Okay.
Is it going to be one of
those last minute get in
the car and go to Knoxville
type of things?
I cannot drive to Fort Worth.
Okay.
So I have to get a plane
ticket if I'm going to go.
Well, regardless,
we got a couple of months.
We got about eight weeks or so.
One day trip, 4th of July, easy peasy.
Now I say easy peasy,
but just because you don't
have any trips doesn't mean
that you're still not going
to have daily stressors.
And the next thing that to
talk about today is I forget the quote.
Have you read the book Atomic Habits?
Oh my gosh, Scott.
If people on this podcast,
if you guys have not read Atomic Habits,
you need to read Atomic Habits.
And if you don't read, audio book it.
You won't want to turn it off.
If you're anybody that is into self-help,
self-development, personal growth,
the book will change your life.
But he talks about the fact
that we do not rise to the
level of our goals.
we fall to the structure of
our systems or something
along that way is that the
people that are most successful,
they don't just become
successful by focusing on the goal.
That's funny.
They focus on putting
systems in place and
following routine with that.
Like for instance,
I work out every day at noon,
whatever that is for you.
I eat at these times of the day,
every day.
whatever it is.
And I think that right now it's been,
your routine's been a
little thrown off and that
you're not in your routine
and your group because of
your work schedule and everything.
So what we really need is like to pivot.
How can we make things super
easy for you this week to
nutritionally just recommit
to getting back on routine
with your tracking and your
nutrition and all that stuff?
Well,
I came home to no groceries in the house.
So the first thing I have to
do is go get groceries.
Um,
and then I need to start logging again.
I have what I ate today.
I ate like normal stuff that
I eat all the time.
So.
Okay.
So you had some food at home.
Well, breakfast,
I had eggs and egg whites
because my wife doesn't eat
the egg whites.
So that was, there's plenty of that.
Um,
and then I, I had, uh,
there was some chicken breasts left.
So I had that with a salad for lunch.
Okay.
You have dinner tonight or not?
I do not have,
I have no uncooked protein in my house.
Okay.
Um,
I have like one hamburger that was
leftover from before I left
and the chicken I used up today.
Okay.
So are you planning on going to the store,
getting takeout?
What's the plan for tonight?
Um,
So I don't have a car until
my wife gets home.
I'm hoping to go to the
store or do an Instacart to
get some groceries here
within an hour of getting off this call.
Okay.
So again, worst case scenario,
you get takeout tonight to
make it easy for yourself.
Can you find a place locally
to get some healthy takeout?
Sure can.
In fact, let me be honest,
you can order from a Chinese restaurant
and get steamed chicken and
broccoli and rice and
likely have leftovers for tomorrow.
True.
And you could totally use
whatever sauces you have at
home to jazz it up.
And then you can still get
your Instacart if you want,
or you can order that,
stop at the grocery store.
Now you don't have to cook
and you have your groceries.
So you can totally make
something like that work.
go to the grocery store,
pick up your groceries,
grab a rotisserie chicken.
You know, I mean,
I know you had chicken for lunch,
but you can do that every day now.
So you could also make a flatbread pizza.
That's a fun meal, you know, lavash bread,
some marinara sauce, turkey pepperoni.
It's easy.
Like keep it easy for yourself tonight.
And, you know, or, you know,
you can grill up some
burgers and have a burger
tonight and have a burger tomorrow,
you know, like,
Whatever is easier.
I don't know what your
schedule looks like the rest of the day.
Now that I'm doing all the cooking,
I cook a bunch of burgers
and a bunch of chicken at
the beginning of the week.
And then I can chop up the
burger if I need to,
chop up the chicken if I need to,
or just eat them as is.
And then I supplement with
other cooking throughout the week.
But I don't want to cook every night.
Yeah.
So I think that simplicity
tonight might be cancel cooking tonight,
get something pre-made,
even if you're getting
pre-made from the grocery store.
Um, and then, then you can cook tomorrow,
you know, buy the groceries today.
So all you have to do
tomorrow is cook them.
And now tomorrow is already Wednesday.
So you're really only cooking.
Well, even if you cook extra,
you have stuff for the weekend.
Correct.
So it's not like the weekend
has to be any different than the weekdays,
you know?
So, um, but yeah,
I think the main thing today is to like,
first of all,
I'm glad that we went down
this rabbit hole.
I think.
Well, it's obvious as treat yourself,
get some steak.
Didn't he hear that?
That's what started this
whole emotional rollercoaster.
Well, you can totally have steak.
Try leaner cuts.
Uh, stick to top sirloin.
Top round is a horrible cut of steak.
Don't ever get, unless you're,
unless you're slow cooking it.
Top sirloin is probably
going to be the leanest and
still give you some good flavor.
Um, or like a flank steak is,
is pretty lean too.
But, uh,
I actually did have a steak in Knoxville.
Yeah.
Nick, just so you know,
we did go to Outback one night and I,
and I did get a filet.
That's good.
Yeah.
So, I mean, I think that, you know,
get yourself some stuff, um, uh,
gym wise.
So how's the body feeling?
So it's,
it's getting a little bit better
every day.
It's just the back.
The one thing I will say is
for years I would go to
these events and my feet
would be killing me.
Yeah.
My feet were fine all week.
Yeah.
And I did a, um,
I did a lap like every heat
where the press pits were,
there was like little boxes
you could be in.
So I'd go sideline, upper sideline,
finish line, then go back in an interview,
take them back around,
get to do the interview, then pop out.
But, and I did that lap for every heat.
Mm-hmm.
And I was killing it.
That's funny.
So I guess my question is,
are you able to get back in the gym?
So I'm taking Julie to work
the rest of the week so I can go at noon.
I love it.
And then we're having a
summer kickoff party Friday night.
Awesome.
That's awesome.
I think that mentally,
that's what you need right now.
I think that mentally,
you need to kind of be around...
some other people that, you know,
like Scott, I know this journey is hard,
you know, and like, you know,
you're very,
brave for putting yourself
out there the way that you do.
And the whole reason we
started this show was
because when you had that goal of like,
I want to lose a hundred
pounds by the next CrossFit Games,
I was like,
I want you to have the
accountability you need.
And I knew that this show
would be one more thing to
hold you accountable to
those promises to yourself.
And so I knew that was going
to come with some transparency.
But I also knew that other
people were also going to
be there to support you.
And I know everybody that
watches the show that I
talk to wants nothing but
the best for you.
And they want you to be successful.
And I get a lot of comments
on how your journey has touched people.
And so I know that it can
feel like you're working
hard and getting nowhere.
But I also want to remind
you that you're inspiring a
lot of other people out
there to work hard and be
patient in the process.
And all of that stuff.
And that's not any pressure on you.
That's just letting you know
that people do value your hard work.
Well,
I can say my fitness level was better
this year at semis than last.
And that's even with AFib in the middle.
Because I did those laps and
then the media room was two stories up.
So I would do those stairs up and down,
up and down all day long.
And it never, ever affected me.
That's awesome.
So I think that this week for you,
it's simplifying dinner tonight,
getting a plan in place for
the rest of the week.
And I'm going to be texting
you every day this week.
Like let's get on the food
tracking journal.
It doesn't,
even if you have to like
eyeball things sometimes,
cause you're busy.
I don't care.
It's not about perfection, right?
It's, it's about just being consistent,
you know?
So we'll see where things are at.
Um,
And not stress about things.
No stress.
No worries.
Be happy.
As Bob Marley says, right?
Yeah.
Mark Moss is talking about
the Uplift Challenge.
If you guys don't know about that,
Mark has a charity called Uplift.
It's about suicide prevention.
And they put out a monthly
workout that the community
can do together.
So make sure you check that out.
Challenge.
I will also promote that on my podcast,
Uplift Challenge.
Yeah, in the past few months he's had,
like Rudy Berger did the workout,
Scott Tetlow did the workout,
like created the workout.
Is there a website for it?
They're on IG as Uplift, all caps.
I'm looking for them right now.
If he has a website,
I'm sure he'll put it in the comments.
Yeah, that's what I was hoping for.
I would totally also promote
that on my challenge right now.
It's actually brought to you
by Wadzomi this month.
Uplift WOD.
I found it.
Great.
I'm following you guys now.
Okay.
I'll take a look at that.
Awesome.
Something to do.
Brought to you by WOD Zombie this month.
That's awesome.
All right.
Two of my favorite people
working together.
Yeah.
WOD Zombie's real name is Nick, right?
Yep.
Okay.
I wanted to make sure I said it right.
And Mark Moss is the one that runs Uplift.
Okay.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
I just started following them.
All right.
So...
This week, back to tracking.
You got this.
How's your work schedule?
Crazy?
Today was a lot of catch up.
I think I'm actually going
to have a couple days.
I don't want to say it.
You don't want to jinx yourself.
I don't want to say it.
Okay.
But I do have a project I
have to run in like a week.
Are you in the office or at home?
I'm at home right now.
Okay.
This week though, pretty much?
And the only time I get
called in is emergency.
So like, I won't know unless it happens.
Okay.
So like last week when you
had to like take the,
couldn't have the phone or
that's probably not going
to happen again this week.
Hopefully, hopefully,
hopefully as long as all
the servers stay up and running.
Okay.
All right.
So then this week,
let's just try and hammer it.
Remind yourself of where you're going.
You know, like don't let,
you're going to have
thoughts and emotions.
I know you got a lot of
stuff on your plate right
now and it's hard to stay focused.
I totally get it.
Like I told you in the beginning,
like it was hard.
I was,
I was taking work calls at the hospital.
I, I totally get it.
Like right now that's a
whole nother thing that I'm taking on.
And all I've been doing
right now is like food and
training is on autopilot.
on autopilot.
I'm not worried about making
progress in the gym right now.
I'm worried about not regressing.
I've made too much progress
in the last six months that
I don't want to see myself go back down,
back down.
So I'm like,
I'm just holding on tight and
maintaining right now.
So in fact,
I've been doing a lot of the
same workouts.
I know that sounds probably
counterintuitive to a lot of CrossFitters,
but just another tip for you, Scott, like
My Mondays, I'm like, all right,
I'm going to do this
workout that I did last Monday.
Again, this Monday,
because I don't have to
think about it and I'm just
going to do it faster or in
a different rough scheme.
Like that's kind of what
I've been doing because
it's been taking the
thinking out of it for me.
So just a little tip for you too.
Yeah.
Well, I will let you know how it goes.
Um, again, taking Julie to work the next,
the rest of the week so I
can go to the gym and I
can't wait Friday night party.
That's awesome.
I have to catch up on the podcast.
I haven't gotten to listen to any of them.
I actually haven't even
finished watching the semifinals.
I've watched bits and pieces
of it while I've been doing
either Zone 2 training or whatever.
I'll put it on.
Yes, Wad Zombie Nick.
This is my gum of choice.
Trident Spearmint flavor.
It's been my choice for I
don't know how long.
I had not been chewing gum
I used to all the time and then I didn't.
And then I had it this weekend and it does,
it is a game changer.
It really is.
I am a gum junkie.
I will tell you this.
I cannot work out without gum.
I,
there's been times where I've gotten to
the gym and I'm like, Oh, I forgot gum.
And I'm like,
I'll like literally go to a
gas station before I go to
the gym if I forgot it.
So always have gum.
Yeah.
I love, I like the ice breakers.
Yeah.
I like the Trident Spearmint.
This flavor tends to last the longest.
That's why I like it.
Denise Moore,
Trident Cinnamon is my go-to.
See,
the cinnamon and the other flavors
don't really do it for me.
I've had the 5 Gum, too.
That's also a good one.
I like that one, too.
5 Gum was my good luck gum
when I pitched softball.
The blue 5 Gum,
because our uniforms were blue.
And, uh,
and we won three city
championships with me chewing that gum.
Do y'all remember the, uh,
this is totally off topic.
Remember the zebra gum?
That has 15 seconds of flavor.
Yes.
And you would just like
chain shoe it because like
the flavor would rot so fast.
That was like my favorite or like, uh,
Huh?
Zebra fruit stripes.
Yeah.
Those are them.
And then there was another one, the, uh,
the bubble tape that was like the big,
the role.
And it'd be like, you pull it out.
I remember that gum too.
That's a little after my time.
Yeah.
That's that 10 years
difference between our age.
Yeah.
The bubble tape gum.
And then there was the, well,
there was always the double
bubble that was like rock hard.
Like you would have to like
really bite it to like,
to like get it to soften up.
And then it would finally like,
and it also lost its flavor
in like two seconds.
But yeah.
Yeah.
I, um,
the big revelation for so
like when I was a kid it
was either like the stick
gum like wrigley's or any
of those and then in your
trading cards you got that
hard oh yeah piece of gum
yeah um and then when they
came out with big league
two like our lives changed
I remember that gum too yeah
Yeah, gum, man.
Definitely gum is a game changer.
It's funny because it's a great way.
If you're a snacker and you
just randomly snack throughout the day,
I think it's a great way
while you're dieting nutritionally.
I'm not telling people if
you're hungry to just chew gum,
but if you're used to snacking,
it can kind of stop you
from just grabbing things.
It kind of keeps your mouth busy.
Anyways, gum topic.
trying to think that was
that was really the gum big
the the zebra gum and then
I mean obviously yeah there
was juicy fruit and uh for
a little while there I was
into extra used to make a
uh like a dessert gum line
and this was like recent
years like in the last 10 years or so
And they had like a,
I think it was like a mint
cookie or a mint ice cream one.
Mint chocolate chip ice cream one.
Don't even ask me,
but I got into it for a little while.
I think I remember that.
And it was really good.
Yeah.
It tasted like.
Yeah, it did.
It tasted like chocolatey ice cream.
It was weird.
But yeah.
Now I got you on the Ninja Creamy,
which is.
Yeah, which I haven't made any in a while.
I need to make some.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got to get on.
I think I got a bad batch of
black cherries.
That's why my black cherry didn't work.
Yeah.
Did you get frozen ones?
I did, but it tastes alcoholic.
Like they ferment it or something.
That is weird.
That is strange.
That's not good.
Try one of the cherries
outside of the... I did.
That's why I think they're bad.
Oh, okay.
That'd be a good way to try it out first.
I was like, it's like doing a shot.
I actually saw a recipe for
a strawberry ice cream with
like fresh strawberries.
And I know you like fruity.
I was going to send it to you.
I haven't, I have, I saved it.
I haven't sent it to you yet.
The peach truck was here
right before I left for Knoxville.
I was like, man, peach,
fresh peaches and ice cream
would be so good.
That sounds good.
Yeah.
But I'll have to see if they're,
cause they come like every
couple of weeks here.
Yeah.
Straight from Georgia.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Um,
They're not cheap, but hey,
if they're fresh and juicy,
they'd be really good in ice cream.
Well, cherries aren't cheap here.
Are cherries cheap there?
Well, frozen are fine.
Yeah.
They're not even selling
cherries here right now.
They sell cherries here,
but they're like $6.50 a pound.
It's like crazy.
Yeah, we can't even get them right now.
Yeah, so they do have them here,
but they're expensive.
My mom loves them,
so I had bought them last week.
But yeah, they're expensive right now.
Anyways.
Well,
I think that next week we're
hopefully going to have a
good a good week.
I think that this week was
this week actually was a
really good week for you, Scott.
I think that people often
think that the progress is
made with like the success,
but the progress is really
made with like the
transparency of today's episode, I think,
is where things are changed.
I'm going to leave you with
this one funny story.
All right.
So Sunday, middle of the night.
So into Monday,
Jamie's plane took off at
like four 30 in the morning.
So I dropped her off at the
airport around four o'clock.
Now Knoxville's airport only
has two gates.
Okay.
That's pretty quick.
Doesn't take you very long to get through.
So I dropped her off and I'm like,
you know what?
I'm just going to head for home.
So I get in, there's nothing open,
nothing open at four
o'clock in the morning.
So finally,
like a McDonald's is open on
the interstate and I pull
off to get a coffee and an egg McMuffin.
And,
and I take one bite of the egg
McMuffin as I get back out
of the interstate,
I'm already gone and it's all eggshells.
And I'm like spitting in my car,
like trying to get them out.
Well,
And I was like,
this is the capper of my
nutrition weekend.
I can't even get an effing
McMuffin sandwich that is
not full of eggshells.
Well, I mean,
I guess the good thing is
that they're cracking eggs
to make the egg patties and
it's not like some, you know,
like egg product.
That's not real eggs.
So I guess, you know, that, you know,
what's funny about that, dude, like
you know the whole carnivore
diet thing there's a guy
that I follow on instagram
and he's really into the
carnivore diet and he was
like I don't even know what
it was he just like it just
he's really bizarre I don't
even know if I follow him
or I just happened to find
him and he's like
showcasing his meals and
he's like I even left the
eggshells in for extra
crunch I'm like you did
what for extra my teeth
make me want to vomit why
would you people are just
I mean, I know they're edible, but whoa,
like let's, oh,
I'm going to use eggshells
as croutons now on my salad.
Like random shit, people.
I just don't even, I don't even know.
At that point,
like nutrition is no longer enjoyable.
Yeah, agreed.
Like let's just start eating
the banana peel.
I would rather eat a banana
peel than an eggshell.
I would agree.
Actually, I don't know if I agree.
I don't know if I could eat
either of those things, but yeah.
So anyways, I agree with Denise.
I thought that they were
like already paddied up and
and they could have been.
But you just got a bad batch, I guess.
When I worked at McDonald's,
we cracked eggs on the McMuffin.
Yeah.
See, I see.
I worked at Burger King and we did not.
We had these round frozen
egg patties that would come
in that we would heat up.
That's what we had.
They were like these round egg patties.
So the round eggs at McDonald's are real.
If you get a folded egg,
it is a solution that you pour.
That's interesting.
Just so you know.
If you order a real egg,
you get the round one on a McMuffin.
Yeah.
You know what else is crazy
about fast food?
Like looking back,
when you make sausage at home,
you don't deep fry sausage.
But at Burger King, we deep fried sausage.
I've never deep fried sausage.
Neither have I. But when I
worked at Burger King,
that's how we cooked it.
Took the sausage patties,
they went in the deep fryer.
Denise wants to know how
long ago that was.
Denise,
you and I are the only ones old
enough to know about that stuff.
How old is Denise?
She is a master's athlete in the 65 plus.
She made the CrossFit Games.
That's awesome.
Congratulations.
Or like the third or fourth time.
That's awesome.
Congratulations.
So does she know she's in
the same division as Paula?
Siasia?
Shasha?
Paula?
Shasha?
So she just turned 65.
I think Paula just recently aged up.
I could be wrong.
I don't remember.
I'm not sure if Paula was in
60 to 65 or 65 plus.
She's one of my clients.
So Denise...
You, uh, I worked at McDonald's in 1988.
I was three years old.
That's crazy.
I worked at Burger King in 2000 ish,
2001 ish,
somewhere in that area around 2000.
I worked there for like
three and a half years.
I actually loved my job at Burger King.
I'm going to be honest.
It was a fun job for me.
So I hated my job at McDonald's.
I ditched them and went to Wendy's.
I loved it, man.
I had fun people that I worked with.
And the fact that I ate fast food,
I ate so bad.
Man, I was a bad eater.
If you'd have known me then,
you would have never
thought I was going to be a
nutrition coach.
Never.
Well, when I started at Wendy's,
I probably was 180 pounds.
And those chicken nuggets
are so damn good.
Yeah, I agree.
Wendy's chicken nuggets are the best.
I would 100% agree.
Once I was old enough to
look at the McDonald's
chicken nuggets and be like,
these are a weird color.
I was like,
I don't think I want to eat
these anymore.
And then,
and I had the Burger King and the
Wendy's ones,
which were like all white meat.
I'm like, that's my jam for sure.
And then we used to sell
Otis Spunk and Meyer cookies.
Yeah.
You take two of those and
squirt a Frosty in the middle.
Oh my God.
Sounds amazing.
That we would eat those all
the time when I worked at Wendy's.
Those freaking muffins,
those Otis Funkmeyer muffins,
those are like a thousand
calories in a muffin.
I would eat one of those for
breakfast easily.
I have not had anything like
that in years.
I know.
I just, I can't even.
It's funny because I'll have
clients that'll put that
kind of stuff in their food journal.
I'm like,
I couldn't even think about
eating that right now.
It didn't even come to my mind, but.
It shocked me that Wendy's
didn't sell ice cream
sandwiches with the Frosty
and the cookies.
They would have made a mint back then.
Yep.
They probably would have.
Wendy's has gotten a lot bigger now.
At 17, I worked at a bakery.
Not all raisins and apple
pies were raisins.
Hmm.
that doesn't, that's not nice.
No, it's not.
Anyways, we're getting off topic,
but it was good to end on a good note.
So, all right.
Well,
I think we're in a good spot this week.
I think that,
I think that we feel good
about going into this week.
Do you feel a little bit better?
I feel a little bit better.
I was going to say, you know,
I was going to say,
I was talking to a client
before this and she asked
me how I was doing.
I was like, honestly, not doing great.
Got a lot of stuff in my mind.
And I was,
I could lie to you and sugarcoat it,
but that's not going to help anybody.
I think that the main thing
is sometimes you feel
better when you just get it out,
freaking get it out.
And that's what you needed to do today.
So I'm proud of you.
So let's do it.
I got it out.
So with that, everybody,
thank you so much for being here.
You guys are always the best.
Thank you for the encouraging words.
And we'll see everybody next
time on Clydesdale Media
Weight Loss Journey.
Bye, guys.