Clydesdale Media Weight Loss Journey - Had Cardiology Follow-Up, What Next?

In an effort to get as fit as possible, Scott has agreed to do his weekly nutrition check in with coach Cheryl Nasso Live on YouTube.

This week Scott had his follow up with his Cardiologist and we will discuss what was said there and how his progression at the gym has gone

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What is going on, everybody?

Welcome to the Clydesdale

Media Weight Loss Journey.

My name is Scott Switz from

the Clydesdale.

She is Cheryl Nasso.

She's my nutrition coach.

And before we get into

something about my weight loss journey,

I need a huge shout out to

a member of the Clydesdale family.

It was officially released

about half an hour ago that

our very own Carolyn

Prevost finished fifth in

the open and won $5,000.

Woohoo!

That's awesome.

Huge, huge shout out to Carolyn Prevost.

It's funny because she's

becoming one of my

favorites very quickly.

I don't know, just cause I,

I connect with her and Lex

like in the DM and I just

feel like she's somebody

that I could totally see

myself having fun times, conversating,

training with her,

not on her level anymore, but yeah,

we announced the top five last Thursday.

The only change from that

was Grace Walton was assessed a penalty.

I saw that she fell from

first to second and Von Rohrer.

whatever her first name is,

went from second to first.

Wow.

I don't know how I feel

about the Open because of

it only being three workouts.

But still, it's an amazing feat.

But I do think that the Open would

be better if it was five

when it comes to winning

the open but I guess it's I

guess like a single day

competition it's like

winning a single day

competition is really what

it's like so yeah I'm

really conflicted with it

because I think it is a lot

on affiliate owners yeah to

set it up I know my gym

used to go all out for the

open the five weeks by week

five everybody's so dead

Yeah, that's a good point.

But you get what I'm saying.

It's kind of like the

difference between a one

day CrossFit competition

versus like a two or three day CrossFit.

There's only so much.

There's only, you're looking at it as a,

as an athlete.

I'm looking at it as I was

the head judge for my gym back then.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I gotcha.

Like getting all the judges

in and getting all

everybody set up and all

the heats assigned.

And by week five, you're just like,

please let this be over.

Yeah.

I gotcha.

Well,

Congratulations, Carolyn.

Open's over.

Moving on to quarterfinals.

25% of people.

See how that's going to go.

That'll be the big one.

I wonder how you're actually

going to sign up.

Let's talk about you, though.

I've been seeing a lot more

selfies of you posting,

showing up at the gym,

which is making me happy.

How are you feeling being

back in the community?

Really good.

It's funny because

It's that spring break time.

So every time I go back,

there's people that I

haven't seen in a while.

So it's like a trickle

effect as I go back.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

But it's been good.

I took the one selfie and

then Lex texted me and said,

you need to do this every time.

And the problem is sometimes

I just forget.

Yeah.

I can't, I can barely walk at the end.

So like getting to my car,

last thing I think about is

taking a selfie after I'm done.

Well,

how many days a week are you trying

to get to the gym realistically?

So the first two weeks I did

two days a week.

This week, I think I'm going to,

I'm pretty positive.

I'm going to get three to four.

Okay.

And you're still doing stuff

at home the other days.

Yeah.

So I have this new meeting that,

got scheduled before I

blocked off my calendar.

I need that to bleed out and like be done.

Um, and so that's,

they keep canceling them.

So it looks good for the rest of the week.

Um, I just got to get,

I just got to get that to

go away and then I'll be set up for.

Yeah.

This last question about that,

because I know it sounds

like you're always trying

to like make it fit.

What's the worst case

scenario if you had to go after work?

Um,

It's a long story.

I mean, end of the day,

like that would not be a

bad option because you're a

night owl anyways.

You know,

you're not a morning person by any means.

So not every day,

but if there was a couple

of days a week where like

you need to get to the gym.

and you go after work,

like I'm assuming that there's probably,

I just,

I guess I'm just comfortable with

my group at noon.

It gets, it, it goes back to like,

I was very imbalanced in my life.

And like the evening time,

my time for me and my wife,

I had a feeling that was

what was going to come up.

But I think that it's also

important that like asking

yourself is a couple of days a week,

you go into the gym and,

really getting obsessive

it's not but I also learned

that if I work out in my

garage there's a really

good chance my wife comes

out and joins me okay as

long as you're getting

something in I'm fine with

that but if it's if it's

you're skipping the gym and

you're not going at all

then that's not a good

thing and that and that's

also not balanced in a

relationship either if you're having to

oh,

I can't go to the gym after work

because that's, you know, sacred.

It's just, at the end of the day,

on your end, if something can,

if your wife was like, hey,

I want to go to a class at 5.30,

you'd be like, go for it, you know?

So-

You know, obviously,

if every single meal was

missed because your wife

was always at the gym,

that'd be a different story.

But just something to consider, you know,

like, hey,

do you mind if I go to the gym today?

I know, you know,

can we do dinner a little

bit later together?

I've been getting crushed at

work and I really like

would love to be able to go

to the gym today.

So just something to think about.

Right.

But you have to remember, too,

that my podcast takes up

some of my evenings, too.

So it's it's that balance of it all.

Yeah.

Agreed.

But you don't have a podcast

every night and you, you know,

your work schedule.

So it might be like, if you're,

if you know, like, Hey, I'm,

I have a meeting on

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Maybe those days are like, okay,

I don't have a podcast.

I'm going to go to the gym

that day in the afternoon.

Just, I, we don't have to focus on that,

but I also want you to realize like,

we all have to learn to be flexible,

you know, like,

If there's a day where you

don't get to the gym and

that keeps happening,

you might have to be flexible sometimes.

We all get into our comfort

zone and sometimes we just

have to shake it up a little bit.

I think, like I said,

as long as you're getting something in.

But just to be honest,

that's way down the road

for me right now.

Not way down the road, but down the road.

My intensity is not anywhere near

what it needs to be eventually.

And I'm getting to the gym

enough to get my community.

And I do have a garage gym

to be able to back it up.

And I'm happy with that.

Listen, y'all,

you got to take a step back

by thinking the intensity

is what you need.

I want you to stop focusing on that.

I don't, that's what I said.

As long as you're getting something.

Intensity is just a word I'm

using to describe that I am

very limited in what I can do right now.

But you're pushing your

workouts because you're leaving sore.

You're telling me that you're leaving,

not walking.

That's pushing intensity.

It is, but like, okay.

That's intensity.

You don't need to be going

any more intense.

You're going at an intensity

level right now.

I think that what's happened

is we all get like this, myself included.

We're comparing ourselves to

a previous version where

what we're doing now would

have been like a warmup.

But our current level of

fitness is making that feel

pretty darn hard and

leaving us pretty sore.

So it's pretty effective.

Like we're not going to talk

about the schedule right

now because I know that

you're getting workouts in.

But I'm just saying if it

gets to be a place where

like your schedule is

getting in the way and all

of a sudden you're not able

to get to the gym two or

three times a week,

you might want to consider, hey,

I might have to switch to

an evening class if my

schedule keeps getting in

the way of me getting some

community every couple of days.

That's all I was saying.

But we can move on from that topic.

So Wadzombie says,

I had a home gym a few

times and gone to a global gym.

I can't push myself the way I can.

And I completely, completely agree.

Yeah, agreed.

But that's not where I'm at right now.

And the thing is,

do we need to push ourselves that hard?

for a workout to be effective?

That's the other question to

ask ourselves because I've

been doing CrossFit for a long time,

just like y'all have.

And I know when I first started,

if I didn't leave the workout,

like feeling like shit, like on my back,

I'd be like, I didn't go hard enough.

And I don't do that very often anymore.

And I'm still getting pretty

fit and I'm getting strong again.

Yay.

This isn't about me though.

So just, just.

So I'm in,

I'm in a position where I'm just

trying to flush stuff out.

I'm trying to get back to

where I can do most things again.

Yep.

I am still limited in what I

learned yesterday is I under fatigue.

I can't lay on my back.

Hmm.

I cannot breathe.

So there's still some kind

of fluid in there working its way out.

I can do it in warmup,

but the minute I get under fatigue,

I cannot.

So like bench press was in

the workout yesterday.

So I just, in the middle of the workout,

switched to seated dumbbell

strict presses.

Yeah.

just so I'm still moving.

I'm still getting a stimulus

and I'm not laying on my back.

Well,

let's kind of go rolling in away from

the workouts a little bit and talk.

I know that you had your

cardiology follow-up.

So do you want to fill us in on that?

Yeah.

So to close out the

workout stuff I asked him

about doing the workouts

he's all for it keep doing

it he thinks it's awesome

um but just listen to my

body for now if it's

talking to me modify to

something else um and the

other thing he said to me

is uh no pre-workout yeah I

would agree he doesn't want

you jacking your heart rate

up yeah so which I have not

been doing yeah but he said

yeah you don't need that

I love that a doctor tells a

CrossFitter to listen to their body.

Yeah, I know how to do that.

We are all, I'm just, I'm making a joke.

We're just notorious for

like CrossFit communities.

As a coach, I remember these days,

you go in to coach a class

and you see the workouts

pull-ups and you see that

guy come in and he's like

holding his shoulder and

he's like doing this number

and he's like stretching and he's this.

And he's like, I'm like, hey,

your shoulder.

Okay.

It's like, yeah,

I just got a little funk

and I'm just going to like

roll it out a little bit.

And I'm like, why don't we modify?

He's like in the workout.

He's like, no, I'm all right.

I'm all right.

Two days later, the guy's like,

can't lift up my arm.

It's like, dude, just scale the ring rows.

We don't know how to listen to our bodies.

But anyways,

I'm glad to hear that the

cardiologist is on board

with you staying fit.

Yeah, they also put me on, I have a,

I had to get one of those cardio mobiles.

Okay.

It takes a portable EKG and

tracks it on my phone.

Okay.

That's good.

So it's a way that if I'm in,

if I feel weird, I can take it.

If it detects the irregularity,

I can send that PDF

directly to my doctor.

Okay.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

Well, that's good.

So how have you been doing

with steps and moving outside of the gym?

You see if it's pulling up

on my Apple health.

Sorry, I had to cough there.

That's okay.

Um, I'm walking a lot.

I don't know why my watch is not tracking.

I don't know if it needs cleaned.

I don't know what's going on.

Um, it doesn't even track workouts or.

It's, I don't know.

It's either that or I got a

new iPhone like a week and a half ago.

And ever since everything is

kind of jacked up.

Okay.

Is it on your, do you,

is there an app on your

watch for your watch that you,

that tracks the data?

There is an aspect of my

watch that tracks that.

But I don't know what's going on with it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean,

I don't know if it's the phone and

the settings changing

because it's a new phone

and everything reset.

Like I can see your weekly averages,

but I can't see your dailies.

And that's really weird.

Oh no, I can, I can see your dailies,

but I mean,

the highest I'm seeing is a 4,500.

So I don't, yeah, like you said,

it might be something funky with your

watch but I would definitely

be checking because it's

it's definitely tracking

something but you know not

maybe tracking all of them

or if that sounds about

right that might be about

right based on your

schedule you know like we

went well I went for a long

walk last night with my dog

and I worked out yesterday

and it barely tracked any

steps at all well maybe

that's realistically all

you had though I mean when

you say a long walk with

your dog if you go for a 30

minute walk that's probably about

Maybe 2000 steps.

I mean, we're talking two hour walk.

One hour walk, double the half hour.

Okay.

One hour walk.

So if I walk an hour,

I'm probably going to be at

about 8,000 steps.

Right.

That's what I'm telling you.

Like,

And I told you like last week I went and I,

and I filmed Rudy and I

walked around his gym like

the whole time getting

different angles and it

never recorded hardly a step.

Like, so I don't,

maybe I need to get a new watch.

I don't know.

Maybe what you can do is

when you go for a walk,

turn on the walk as a fitness thing.

Try that this time.

Okay.

So whenever you go for a walk,

turn on walk.

like whatever it says,

record fitness or whatever, like on my,

on my Apple watch,

it says record workout.

And it gives me the option,

like click to record a walk

and it will record the walk this way.

I can say, Hey,

he's actually going for a walk.

Um, but just cause I'm,

I'm checking in on all the little things.

Okay.

Now we're going to go into, uh,

into Scott's nutrition.

So what is going on, Jake?

What is bringing,

what are we talking about here?

I started talking about

walking and now I see notes

about notes about erections and sausages.

So I don't know what I

missed in the chat here, but Oh,

here we go.

Working out is like cooking sausages.

If you go too fast,

you'll burn them and not do

them properly.

It takes you long.

You're not going to eat.

Oh, interesting.

Heidi told me not to read his comments.

So I'm just going to stop there.

Although he did mention that

you got a haircut.

I did.

Yeah, it does look nice.

First one since I went in the hospital.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, now that's done,

let's kind of go into nutrition.

So I did notice that last

week was a little off.

So just kind of fill me in, you know,

Monday, you had a good day,

solid day log.

Tuesday, you only had breakfast and lunch.

And then Wednesday, you had breakfast,

lunch, and dinner logged.

No snacks.

Thursday was nothing.

Friday was nothing.

Saturday was a normal day.

Little low on protein.

Sunday seemed like a normal day.

So I guess fill me in on

like the later part of the week.

So again, I thought,

unless I'm dreaming it,

I thought I entered stuff in to my phone.

I don't know what's going on.

Um,

I ate normally those two days.

So I don't, I don't understand.

Yeah.

So let's talk about this.

Cause this is something that

I think that we got to address.

All right.

When it comes to you entering your food,

right?

When are you entering your food at?

So I usually enter the first

two meals at around lunchtime.

Okay.

And then I eat dinner and I

log all that right after lunch.

Okay.

So when you log your food,

it shows up in the app.

Yes.

What I see.

Yeah.

And it's, and it syncs on the computer.

Like I've used my fitness pal.

It's got a computer desktop and that.

So if you're not, if you're,

you have to be logging it because you're,

if you didn't log it, like,

how are you checking to make sure like,

all right, I'm on track for my day.

I'm going to hit my nutrition targets.

I'm not like I'm,

I just want to know how

you're doing that if you're

not actually taking a look at it.

Because I would be after lunch,

if I go back in there, I'm like, oh,

it didn't seem to save.

I would have been like, okay,

let me take a look at what

was logged and not logged.

Maybe it didn't save right.

Like you're not getting that

happening to you or you're

not addressing that.

I haven't been this week, no.

Because I want to check in

on that kinds of stuff.

Because I don't want you

starting to slip up on your

tracking and all that kinds of stuff.

And, you know, oh, I just, you know,

I was pretty much eating the same thing.

Because I know you don't eat

the same thing every day.

You eat some of the same things,

but not every meal is the same.

And I don't want us to get lax again,

because that's when you

stop taking care of yourself.

And I want to make sure that

just because you're out of

the clear with the doctors,

that you're not starting to, you know,

kind of take the foot off

the gas a little bit.

I want you being smooth sailing.

I mean, I tracked all weekend and,

and checked at night and

saw where I was at.

Yep.

Protein is still a little bit low.

So that's going to be the

main thing that I really

want to focus on today is

just getting the protein up, you know?

So I think it really comes

down to just having one

more snack or including

protein with your snack.

You really don't snack a whole bunch,

but when you do,

I want you trying to find a

way to get some protein in

with that snack.

That's really where you're missing that.

In terms of food quality,

I do see you getting in more veggies,

which I love.

I think that you're doing a

good job with the grains.

Let me just take a look at the fiber.

Again,

it's kind of hard because I really

only have

Uh, one, two,

I've got four days really

where I can take a look at everything,

but for the most part,

fibers over close to 30, which I'm good.

How's your, how's your gut been?

Uh, much, much better.

Okay.

Burping is getting better.

Yep.

Good sleep.

For most nights, it's pretty good.

Sunday night was not great,

but the rest of the nights

have been even better than before.

Okay.

And what about your appetite?

It hasn't been... Like

you're usually getting a

couple of snacks in and

right now I feel like

you're kind of... I have

not been hungry the last few days.

Now, usually like after I work out,

it's hard for me to eat.

Like I really have to force myself.

But yesterday I didn't have to.

But then I wasn't hungry for snacks.

Yeah.

So like so far today,

you have nothing logged so far today.

Right.

So when do you typically log

your food for today?

So Tuesdays are my busiest day.

Like I have zero time.

I'm like catching things in the middle.

Um, so it would be after this podcast,

I would log.

And how do you plan?

I think, but the reason I'm says,

I think this is why you're

missing the mark on your protein,

because it's now going to be fourth.

It's four 30.

We're going to get off here.

You probably have some loose ends stuff to,

to, to, to finish up.

Then you're going to get ready for dinner.

And now you're trying to log

and figure out how much

protein you've already hit

for today and where you're

at with your calories and

then trying to finish off the night.

And I think that that's

where you're missing the

mark a little bit.

So I think that we need to get you,

I think at breakfast time,

like go ahead and log breakfast, lunch,

and a snack.

Then there's another dinner

as your variable.

And this way you can have

that flexibility for dinnertime, you know,

before, before your day gets crazy busy,

I would do it in the

beginning of your day.

when you're not having to

worry about things or

during one of those

wonderful meetings you have

where you can just be

zoning out and not thinking

about work for five minutes.

Yeah.

That's where,

and I'm only doing this

because I know that you

have goals and like, I care about you.

And if I don't be honest with what I need,

then we're not going to get further.

So like right now,

I think we need to get you

a little bit more

accountable to pre-tracking

because you're still not

hitting consistently on

your protein numbers.

And when I say hitting them,

you don't have to be like on the dot,

but like being at 105 grams

of protein a day is just not enough.

You know, I want to get that number up 125,

69 grams.

Like I want to get that number up.

So that's what I want you to

focus on this week.

Okay.

Okay.

Scale wise, you know,

your weight seems to be moving down.

So 284.2, that was today.

Yep.

Okay.

And I mean, that's motivating, but again,

I don't want it to be like, you know,

missing the mark on what

matters in terms of your health.

You know, when it comes to losing weight,

people have to realize this,

your body is not,

when you're losing weight

and you're not getting in enough protein,

your body is going to want

to utilize and burn off muscle.

why because muscle is

expensive when it comes to

being in a calorie deficit

remind yourself that you

are taking away energy from

your body you're pulling

from your bank account okay

and your muscle tissue is

expensive it requires

energy so in a calorie

deficit your body is going

to be like okay I really

want to hold on to this energy

What can I get rid of that

is costing me so much energy?

Oh, this muscle tissue right here.

And this is why it's really

even more important when

somebody is not lifting often,

which you're getting back

into the gym to ensure that

they're getting in enough

protein because people

focus so much on the scale

and they're not focusing on

the fact that you want to lose fat.

You don't want to lose

weight to stay the same body fat.

You want to lose fat.

So we've got to get that

protein number up.

That's going to make the

biggest changes in your physique,

how you look,

and also your blood

biomarkers and all that

kind of stuff as well.

So that's why I'm really

pushing the protein this week.

Heidi wants pictures.

You're being quiet right now.

Well, no, I'm just thinking.

Yeah.

Just thinking about what?

The picture thing.

I don't know.

You don't need to do that.

Yeah.

That's just a lot for me.

We can't even get you to

take a selfie at the gym.

We're not taking photos of

your food every day.

Although I did think it would be cool.

I did one of these recently

of what I eat in a day.

It would be really cool to

have like a Scott's what I eat in a day,

but we can,

we can maybe do that next week.

Like have you post.

Okay.

we can do it like we're not every day,

but like have a,

what we could even do it on this podcast,

show the photos too.

You can post on your stories

and we can highlight it here,

but that would be cool for

us to kind of see here's

what I eat in a day, breakfast, lunch,

snack, dinner, snack, whatever it is.

But I really want to get

that protein number up for sure.

So.

Okay.

Yeah, we can do that.

Yeah.

So, um,

We will settle for a selfie

from Cheryl every day.

Nick, I think we're,

I think maybe Nick is

trying to ask me at the

dinner or something.

I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

I got to put my school girl,

my school teacher glasses on then maybe.

So, but what is Jake talking about here?

Everything we eat ever played beer, man.

I'm looking at some of these, uh,

Now we're talking drinking games.

We got, we got to watch this guy, Jake,

man,

talking about sausages and erections

is now he's bringing up

drinking pints of beers.

Interesting how things can

just go off in different

directions on this episode.

All right.

So I'm in my life.

I was beer man a lot.

Not me.

I was never really a beer drinker.

I was, you know,

it's going to be so funny.

You guys probably wouldn't.

What would you think if you

were to guess what my drink

of choice would have been?

What do you think it would have been?

Gin and tonic.

Oh man.

If I was to guess yours,

I think that you're a craft

beer kind of guy.

Um, yeah.

Later in life.

That definitely was.

Yeah.

That's what I switched to.

Growing up.

I, and when I say growing up twenties,

when I actually used to drink,

it was Jaeger Meister.

I love me some Jaeger Meister.

Jaeger Meister and Jaeger

bombs ever had an Irish car bomb.

Yes, ma'am.

Man.

I couldn't even think about

drinking one of those right now, but,

and Guinness dark beer.

It's probably the furthest

thing from anybody's

thoughts of what I would be drinking,

but that's what I used to drink.

And now I don't.

I love bourbon,

but my favorite liquor is rum.

Anything with rum.

Yeah.

And then during the winter,

I love like a dark beer, like Stout,

Porter.

Yeah.

That's like I was Guinness.

I like the Guinness.

During the summer, I like an IPA.

Now I just don't really drink.

Yeah.

I haven't had a drop of

alcohol in a while.

It's a waste of calories for me.

And I get it.

Some people need that for me.

I'm like 25 carbs.

I could totally do some food.

I'd rather have the chips.

That's just me.

But yeah.

So Chris says, lost my pointer here.

There we go.

30 pack was my favorite brand.

even in my biggest drinking

days I was a beer snob if

I'm drinking then it better

taste good yeah like I

didn't I never got into the

cheap stuff like the

coronas or the uh uh like

even worse like bush or

milwaukee's best or oh man

oh how about cores that was

a pretty cheap beer too

right yeah you're that's

still high end for what

some of the stuff my friends would drink

When I was in high school

and we were drinking,

we would drink cheap shit too.

Absolute vodka.

You're really bougie.

If you think that's bottom of the barrel.

There was another one that was worse.

Not absolute.

It wasn't Smirnoff,

but I believe it began with

an S. I can't think of the

name of it right now.

That's how long ago it was.

So we have,

we have Kroger shopping stores

here and they have their

own brand of vodka.

And that's what my daughter,

when she went to college, she said, we,

we drank shitty K and that

was Kroger vodka.

We drank horrible stuff.

So I don't know.

But anyways, this is not an alcohol show.

This is a, this is a nutrition show.

But I guess alcohol is a part of that.

So, but yeah.

So what about this week?

Anything coming up this week for you?

Easter.

Oh, that's true.

That's, this is a good thing.

So good Friday and also Easter Sunday.

So you have Easter plans with your family?

Yeah.

My mom is coming over.

My nephew is smoking a

brisket and it's been made into pastrami.

Ooh,

that's different for our Easter dinner.

Yeah.

So pastrami may be my

favorite thing in the world.

So yeah, super stoked about that.

My grandfather used to love

pastrami sandwiches, pastrami on rye.

I was definitely more of a Reuben,

corned beef, little sauerkraut,

Swiss cheese,

and the old Thousand Island dressing.

That was my thing.

But he liked the pastrami on rye.

So that's good.

So your mom's coming.

Do you guys have kids or

anything that you have to entertain?

Easter egg hunting and all

that stuff or no?

I don't think so.

Not this time.

Yeah.

My nephew will probably do

something with him.

We'll do an Easter dinner

and that's pretty much what

we're going to do.

So obviously church,

I'll go to church good Friday and Sunday.

Um, so, uh,

wide zombie rabbit is lean meat healthy.

So just catch Easter bunny.

Yeah.

Roasted on spit.

Yeah.

But yeah, well that's,

that's going to be a fun weekend.

So I think the main thing

this week is just really

getting you back into being

consistent with,

your tracking,

obviously Easter meal

doesn't have to be tracked.

You can take that day and

enjoy with your family.

Just like I tell all of my clients,

you know,

if you probably don't get an

Easter basket at this point in your life,

or do you,

does your wife get you an Easter basket?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

My mom still gets me Easter candy.

She does, but she's evolved.

She she's kind of learned what I,

what I will eat now.

So she's not,

she'll get like dark

chocolate almonds or like whatever.

She'll,

she'll find things that she'll

think I'll eat.

So, and it'll last me for like six months.

She knows I love my favorite

is Reese's are probably the

one candy that I do really like,

but it's only the seasonal ones.

Like the Reese's eggs,

the Reese's pumpkins,

the Reese's Christmas trees, the hearts.

It's not even like the

little Reese's that I like,

but the actual,

cause they have more peanut butter.

So she'll probably get me some of those.

So I'm not a chocolate guy,

but I love my favorite

candy in the world is jelly beans.

Yeah.

The real jelly beans, like the,

like the old fashioned ones,

or do you like the,

like the jelly bellies and the like,

cause you know,

obviously the old fashioned

ones I'm talking about,

like the ones that you would get,

like the, what were they called?

Bracks, braches.

Is that the brand?

Like the real old, yeah.

Like the regular traditional jelly beans.

No, I'm the same way.

Starburst jelly beans.

No.

If it's made by a jelly company,

it's probably the best.

So like Welch's is making jelly beans now.

Those are the ones I like.

I like the Starburst jelly beans.

I like those too.

When those came out, I was like, oh,

these are awesome.

But I like those.

And I like Jelly Bellies,

but I like the Starburst ones the best.

Those are my favorite.

I don't want my jelly bean

to taste like popcorn.

Yeah, I don't buy those ones.

I do like going to the Jelly

Belly stores where you can get your own

pick them out.

They do have some gross flavors though.

Yeah.

And I never got into the whole, like,

you know how you can like take a,

take one of these and one

of these and it tastes like

strawberry cheesecake or

you did get all that into all that stuff.

But, um, but yeah, well, well, cool.

Well,

hopefully you'll get some Easter

candy and, uh, fit that into your plan.

Don't let your blood sugar, by the way,

how's your blood sugar been this week?

Good.

We're now in the one teens.

So another 10 points down.

Yeah, doing well.

Awesome.

So I think that you're on

the track to get off of the medications.

I think that you will be.

Hey man,

this is nutrition is candy and alcohol.

I mean, that's part of it.

In fact, Nick was on my,

I did a podcast this

morning on carnivore.

Uh,

so if y'all haven't had a chance to

listen to that one, you can, but I mean,

talked about the fact that

like life is moderation, you know,

like shouldn't feel guilty

for enjoying a little bit

of chocolate on Easter or a

few jelly beans.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Now, if every day you're just, you know,

filling your diet with

chocolate and jelly beans,

that's a different story.

So.

Heidi actually said,

just eat extra pastrami for more protein.

Yeah, it's a whole bunch of sodium.

And I also talked about

today on the podcast,

the whole... Extra sodium?

Yeah.

It's a lot of sodium.

Salty.

Pastrami.

Isn't it cured?

It's pickled.

Yeah, it's cured, right?

They use a lot of salt.

I guess less if you're making it at home,

more if you're buying it store-bought.

But what I was going to say

was people talk about the

whole meat being linked to cancer thing.

And people don't recognize

that like the main reason

that there's one specific

factor that really

differentiates the whole

meat link to cancer.

It's talked about my podcast today is like,

if you're charring your meat,

you're smoking your meat,

you're doing that stuff.

You are, you are putting yourself in,

you're exposing yourself to carcinogens,

not telling you not to

smoke your food and not telling you that.

But like when people talk

about the cancer link with

protein and animal protein,

that really is the one

thing that they're not

considering is the way you

cook your protein does

expose you to different things, you know?

So like you, they tell you not to,

you shouldn't be like

literally burning your food.

Although we all like that,

like nothing tastes better

than like the crusty skin,

unlike protein that's been on the grill.

So yeah.

Yeah.

If you're burning your food on a smoker,

you're doing it wrong.

Well,

the smoke in general is meant to not be,

you know,

ingested is what they're saying.

I'm just going down the

rabbit hole of why people are like, oh,

protein and animal proteins

linked to cancer.

It's like, it's not the protein.

It's usually the method of cooking.

I wanna put this up here

that some of us do not have

an internal moderator, sadly.

So here's the deal is we all

do have an internal moderator,

but when it comes to the

problem is that we're no

longer listening to our

internal moderator.

We are no longer living in a

time where there is limited

access to food and all we

have access to is plants and animals.

You can find food on every corner.

You can smell food in the kitchen cooking.

You can go to your cupboard.

So there's food everywhere.

And there's also a lot of

thoughts around foods and

beliefs about foods and

people having beliefs about

what they need to be doing with foods.

I shouldn't be eating that.

I can't be doing this.

If you have two kids playing

in a playground and

you ask a kid if you want

something and he's like, no,

I don't want that.

But then the other kid

starts playing with it and

now he wants it and he can't have it.

And you tell him he can't have it.

He wants it more.

It's like, it's just common nature.

It's like human nature is

that when we tell ourselves

that we can't have something,

we suddenly want it more.

It makes it more desirable.

So our internal moderator is no longer,

we're not honoring it

anymore because people are

so one exposed to the fact

that they can have food

whenever they want.

And two,

but also trying to make sense of

the external signals that

they're getting from all of the,

all of the thoughts that are being fed,

you know, whether it's,

you shouldn't have this, this is bad,

this is good, all that kinds of stuff.

So

It just ends up making it that.

And add to that people that

are always trying to

control their weight.

If you're always trying to

watch your calories and

lose fat and never just

letting yourself eat to satiety,

now you have other signals

internally that your body

is shelling out leptin and ghrelin,

saying, hey,

I'm hungry because you're not

feeding me enough.

And it's going to make you

crave those things.

And I say this because I

love when a client

has dealt with these issues

and they start working with

me and they're like,

I can't believe I finally

feel like after so many

years I can have a slice of

cake and not feel like I

have to eat five slices of cake.

Or I can actually control

myself and enjoy myself.

Or I can say no and not feel

guilty about it.

It's something I feel very

passionate about.

I love helping people find balance.

I just want to say that.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, so extra pastrami, extra protein.

Sausages, erections.

Keep the fiber up.

Yep, for sure.

So here we go again.

Jake and this talk is just,

we're going to end up

getting banned from YouTube.

I got to stop talking about it.

But anyways, well,

I guess we'll talk next

week and we'll get to recap

Easter and hopefully we'll

have some solid workouts in this week.

Sounds good.

With that, we will head out for the day.

And thank you for everybody in the chat.

We will catch everybody next

time on Gladstone Media

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Bye, guys.