God and the Dad Bod Part 2

Brad:
Welcome to Go Mad with Doug and Brad and Jesse. How you guys doing today? Fantastico. Well today guys we're going to be talking about God and the Dad Bod Part 2. Now, we talked about this once before a couple of years ago.

Doug:
For those that don't remember, one of our biggest downloaded episodes

Brad:
ever. It really was. It seems like a something that struck a nerve.

Doug:
Are we not the only ones with uh dad bods?

Brad:
No, there is uh there are plenty. Uh and good news, uh Doug and I, as we checked, we still have dad bods, so we were like, you know what? We We probably should take another look.

Doug:
Some of us need to lose forty pounds to actually get down to dad bod.

Brad:
That's not a good place to do it. We've uh learned some things about ourselves that we think will be helpful to you. Um, we're gonna share some simple tips to help you live as healthier ambassadors. for Jesus. Cause that's what go mad, that's what this podcast is all about. It's about being Jesus representatives and bringing

Doug:
Hope an ambassadorship and um what we do with our dad bods have a lot to do with one another. Brad and I actually look if you're tuning in to the show for how to be a great software engineer. We can't help you very much.

No we cannot. But the the uh this whole dad bod thing, eating right, all that good stuff This is something that we're experts in. Brad and I both have at one point or another, a couple times in our lives, lost like 40 plus pounds.

We're yeah, I'm also experts at gaming it.

Brad:
Sadly we are, but I will say that whether you have a dad bod, right are working towards a dad bod or know someone with a dad bod, you want to stick around for this episode because we really It's gonna be some practical takeaway things. Just a reminder, if you are enjoying the podcast, I mean share this with a friend. Review this on Apple Podcasts.

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Doug:
Okay, with our eating habits. How's that for a how's that for a segue? Oh, there we go.

So during our production meeting for this this subject My phone beeps and this thing called the Taco Bell Nacho Fries offer rings on my phone. This is literally for $10, you can get an order of nacho fries every day for 30 days. That's exactly what I need.

Wow. Thirty days of dipping fried stuff into cheese.

Brad:
Could you please use air quotes when you say cheese?

Doug:
Wait, wait, wait, Brad, would you do that? Would you like my fries? No, they're not Joe Fries.

Jesse:
Wow. Doug, did you sign up?

Doug:
Yeah, that's the quest That is a great follow-up. TVD. No, but the holidays are a good time to be tackling what we eat, right? The holidays are a little bit more than a lot of people.

Brad:
Holidays leading into New Year's because that that's one of the so many New Year's resolutions, and I mean great time to talk about it.

Doug:
Last year I actually heard an idea about how to not be so bad, how not to gain like the 10 or 15 pounds or whatever. So The guy said just have one Christmas cookie per day. Keep it to one Christmas cookie per day. Unfortunately, I misheard him. I thought he said one Christmas cookie type.

Brad:
Wow. See, that is important to clarify. And I also want to clarify that uh the Fact that Silver Dollar City, which is an amusement theme park right near us, has monster chocolate chip cookies. Does that count? As one Christmas cookie per day 'cause of so it was it was twelve inches by twelve inches, but it was just one.

Doug:
You know what Dudes, us dudes, we I think you might maybe you're listening and we go, well, I don't put as much emphasis into this physical health thing. Yeah, maybe that's more of my wife thing or whatever, but man, we should. Um I was at a doctor visit recently.

Okay. Listen to this. He goes, Doug, you need to make some changes.

And I said, Well, how much do I really need to do? You know what his answer was? Well, that depends.

How much do you love your family? Wow. Wow.

Whoa. How much do you want to be with them? And um I was like, yeah, that's a Good question.

Um then he just he's like dropped in the mic, he had a mic, he dropped the mic, left the room.

Brad:
Like what? That's right. That's right.

Wow. Well and For me, part of my journey is that uh you mentioned, Doug, that, and I'm gonna get to kind of one key that I would love people to know actually early on here. One of the things that I've struggled with is that losing weight and putting it back on.

In fact, there were years ago living out on uh in a native community out in Arizona, I Had realized I stepped on the scale one day and I was shocked and not in one of those good ways. Uh where I was like, wow, I've lost a lot. Nope.

I had gotten to a point I never thought I would get to in my weight And so I said, I'm going to try one of those, I won't name it so people don't, you know, get angry or because maybe it's worked for people. One of those fad diets. And it's still around.

And so I cut a key component out of my eating for the first two weeks and it's called the induction period. And I lost 14 pounds in two weeks. Whoa.

And I was like Game on and then you reintroduce some elements back into your diet like a little bit of sugar, a little bit of healthy carbs. The moment I did. I mean it was just I was like I missed carbs so much and let's face it, sugar is addictive.

And I put the so as soon as I tasted it again You I I put it right back on. And I've realized over the years, I the more recently, I did take off about 60 pounds, and I've kept about 40 of that off and want to get the rest back off, but I think for me that a key was knowing that I had the wrong motivation so many times. Oh yeah, we're gonna get to that.

And that's really a a challenge I would make for people is making sure that in all the things we'll talk about today, it's key to know what your motivation is and I think that's all the difference. Yeah, the goal has to be being healthy ambassadors for Jesus and and healthy for our families because It's not about the ideal weight or about the ideal physique, thank goodness for that, because it's not happening. I have I as I have told uh my family, I do have a six-pack I just want to make sure it's protected.

And so it is there somewhere, but I don't know if I'll ever see the six pack, but It's about living a healthy life.

Doug:
Yeah, man, that's so good.

Doug:
You you brought up um that sugar can be addictive. I looked into some of this a little bit here because I was like You know, come on. It's it I someone said I I there was a study that said it's as addictive as cocaine.

I went, come on, give me a break. But actually they really do release sugar and cocaine. They release the same uh dopamine into your brain that lets you know, hey, this is a good, this is a good thing.

And just like any drug The more sugar you feed yourself, then the more your body wants, and the next time you need to have more. It acts just like an addiction. Um and and I think that we're you know we're kind of quick to approve of others taking that big first step of conquering addiction.

It's drug, it's it's alcohol. Admit you have a problem. But no one likes to think of themselves as being addicted.

Check this out. All right. Actual definition of addiction having a chronic, compulsive, or psychological need to do, use or indulge in something repeatedly Even if you know it causes harm, put the crispy cream down, Doug.

Do I okay, so do you have a dad bot? Okay, let's define this for a second. If you know you have a dad, Bob, because the the this is apparently like what happens if you um once you uh have have uh gotten past, you know, kind of your early twenties and you um and and maybe you were in better shape, but you start to have a family Okay, and you start to have kids and it's a little harder to watch what you eat, you spend all your time.

But it's interesting because supposedly now y I don't know if this is true, we'll have to ask them, but supposedly gals kinda like guys with the dad bot. This is very weird. Like I said, the term comes from getting some extra chunk of dunk around the midsection because you're caring for a family and you have less time to work out and such.

So I'm hearing. Dad Bod equals great family man. High five!

Brad:
Hey! Hi five! There we go.

I couldn't, it was my best high five noise. And I I do want to say right now that if you're watching us on YouTube You may be thinking at that point, Doug and Brad are great family men then. They are I mean they must be fantastic.

I I We're both wearing slimming black today, I know that. Look, folks, I we really are. We live in a world where we have video access.

And so if you are and we are Seeing pictures all the time. So you know, if you've seen us that we're not sitting here today saying we are going to lead you in a workout right now where we that's not the goal of today. We're going to get into some practical steps uh right now um of trying to live out first corinthians six t six nineteen.

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God You are not your own. Our physical bodies are meant to be active participants in carrying out God's will. He wants us to glorify him in our actions, and he wants us to be ready for whatever he has in store.

So we're going to be talking about, like I said, healthy living. Um I think they it really is taking that first step of acknowledging, yes, I have a dad, Bod, and realizing that, hey, or worse. When we're yeah, or worse.

Uh in the uh when we're 20 Our bodies are like, what's a metabolism? Do whatever you want to me. I'll eat whatever I want.

30. Oh, there it is. There it is.

40 It's the Cursu metabolism. What's happening? I did the same thing two years ago and it didn't do this.

And fifty, it's in reverse. Trust me at this point I know your metabolism. You hear that shifting sound, you're stripping gears and throwing it into regrets.

Doug:
You just turned fifty.

Brad:
I know. And it is So I it happens on your 50th birthday, actually.

Doug:
So I I love this. Brad and I are just gonna kinda go back and forth. But Brad, hang tight here, because we uh I think we have some some good practical advice no matter where you're at in your dad bod journey.

Listen, here's what I'm calling it. You ready? How to go from a dad bod to a rad bod.

Whoa.

Brad:
That just happened.

Doug:
Wow.

Brad:
Alright, I'm gonna start. You ready? You bring a mic to drop.

Doug:
This thing won't come out of here. Jesse's like a

Doug:
Don't drop that mic.

Doug:
We only have one. Um so here, all right, you want to get started? Let's get started.

Here we go. This is my first one. How to go from dad bot to rad bot.

Maybe you've gotten discouraged before because you tried it and didn't work. So you ready? Don't let one slip up.

Totally trip you up. Oh, that's good. For real, you're stay you gotta stay committed.

You go, oh man, I ate a large fries from McDonald's. I might as well go have the Big Mac. Proverbs 24, 16 A righteous man falls down seven times and gets up. So ask the Holy Spirit.

God cares about our bodies. He lives in there. The Holy Spirit, this is his temple.

So ask the Holy Spirit who's living in your body to help you stick with it. Don't let one slip up, trip you up. You got one?

Brad:
You know what I've actually learned is uh that uh cheap month is really helpful. It's cheap month, right? I feel like it's cheap day.

Cheap day. Oh, sorry. That's that could be part of the problem.

But it's true. You don't you get back up again. For me, uh one of the big things for me was Making achievable so small food goals.

Oh, good. One of the uh things that I did that really helped out was I downloaded this app, MyFitnessPal. Now I have my Fitbit watch on Uh I do not get any sort of monetary compensation for mentioning that, but uh I have my my smartwatch on.

And I downloaded the MyFitnessPal app and I started charting what I was eating. And all of a sudden I realized that if I was going to have a donut. .

. in a day, because I like donuts, I do, and if I was gonna have one, it meant that I had to make other sacrifices as the day went on. It meant that I had to But but it showed me when I saw in front of me what I was doing.

putting into my body, sugar wise, calorically, it became like, is that really worth it? Is that really worth it? And sometimes the answer was yes.

And sometimes it became a no. So it helped me achieve some simple goals. So set a goal, whatever your biggest area of struggle is with what you're eating is. Make a goal to trim back on that.

Maybe have that once a week instead of three times a week or whatever it is. Start small.

Doug:
Start small, man.

Doug:
Um di are you able to get like the Peloton app or whatever on your on your Um on your your watch there?

Brad:
I don't know about the Peloton app, but it scares me. I don't I I've seen the commercials and all they're doing is go faster!

Doug:
Do you know Peloton in Latin? Peloton, it's a Latin word for to ride a bike while someone screams at you.

Brad:
Really? Wow, I never knew.

Doug:
I'm just assuming. I never knew I think you're right. I like Ducks word studies. They're so enlightening. They're so helpful.

Brad:
Are those on blue letter by all?

Doug:
So I got one. I got another one here. Now now I'm not gonna say exercise.

No dub. Not just exercise. You know that that phrase kill two birds with one stone?

Yeah I'm going with kill two donuts with one sneaker. That's a t-shirt right there. Thank you.

That is how do I do that? Well, it's funny you should ask, Jesse. So do check this out.

Exercise maybe with your wife or or a son, a daughter. You get the cardio and the caring. Wow.

Wow, Doug is full of things too. But I like these. These are I'll bobble it up.

Ecclesiastes four ten. If one falls down, the other can help him up and if you've ever seen me exercise you'll know how much this verse means to me. Hill me up, dude.

And we know the I don't have time thing, but you know what? You make time for what's important, right?

Brad:
And and it's true for me with my family, uh like you said, as a whole, and maybe you're sitting there and If you're not married or your kids aren't at home still, so get with some friends. Do something that uh that is Community. I think that's what we're looking for here is community accounting.

Accountability too, right? It definitely gives that and it helps make it more fun. And also people have different ideas of how to exercise as we call it, but just to be more active, I would say.

To be more active. So they may say, hey, let's throw the ball around. They may say, let's go for a walk.

They may say do something else. And you get to have a little more variety in what you're doing as well. So I like that community uh vibe of things.

I and That's good. Third in Third John, uh here's another verse to encourage you. Third John Uh you look at uh well chapter one, uh verse two.

Doug:
It's all I know.

Brad:
You never know how to read those on there. It's like all right. Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health.

So this when we're talking about healthy lifestyles, and this is where I'm getting to my uh my my next encouragement to people. Is that John is writing, and throughout the Word of God, we are encouraged. You're sharing verses, I am, as far as the things that God wants us to care about with our bodies.

So when we look at a healthy lifestyle, one way is to really step away from the electronics. Oh there is no way around that. And I This is something that's a struggle for me.

This is a personal and the things we're sharing today are personal things for us. These are not we read these in a self-help book and we're passing them along to you. These are things we know are tripper uppers in our own life.

So you get home after a long day. And I know my kids are hey, if I'm like, hey, let's throw on a fun movie or something, they're not gonna be like, no, Dad, we don't want to sit and watch something.

Doug:
Electronics? No, Dad.

Brad:
Or let's do uh, you know, if it's some gaming or something like that, your phones, oh my goodness, all of a sudden we get pulled into these things that not only pull us away from our families, they pull us away from Living a healthy life and everything in moderation. We get it. We're not saying don't sit and watch something.

We're not saying don't use your phone. We're saying be healthy with that and that will help you also have a healthy lifestyle. And how helped to have a positive impact on the dad bod going to a rad bod.

Oh I had to say it too.

Doug:
Besides these being things that that have tripped us up Honestly, these a lot of these again uh Brad and I have been back and forth, and we can tell you these work if you stick with them. Um, I love that. Try trading, maybe trading your TV time for maybe some Bible time or something, you know.

See if that let the Bible lead your body. How's that? I like that.

But for real. Um memorize some scripture that when you when you get tempted to put the wrong stuff in your body. That that whole scripture, um, you were bought at a price Therefore, honor God with your body.

Memorize scripture like that. Listen to this. This one, not to get super serious here, but this is 2 Peter 2.

19. People are slaves to whatever has mastered them. Um, I don't want to be a uh a slave to this stuff.

And again, we're talking everything in moderation. We're not talking about having a six-pack here But we're just talking about, hey, I would like to to be able to have time, some fun time with my kids. I get home from work.

and I'm too tired and I just don't have any energy, don't do especially the older you get, you're gonna find that the more this happens. You wanna give your best to your wife, you wanna give your best to your kids And uh it gets really hard when the energy is all gone. Don't just throw your hands up and go, well, I guess that's just the way it is that I get older.

Take a first step. Get get yourself in a little better shape. Um, get this, Brad.

How about this? I I was reading that one of the best things you can do. This one's easy.

I don't have a fancy way of saying this. Rest. So God designed us to rest, not just work.

And so check this out. I looked into this a little bit. And this uh scientist, this big scientific study, said when we're stressed, our bodies release this thing called cortisol.

And that signals our mind to consume more sugar and carbs. So you get stressed out, your mind says, eat more sugar and carbs. And uh uh according to the same study, the less rest you get, the more you have food cravings.

So so just uh a simple idea Get another hour of sleep. Maybe spend a little more time with your family. Whatever relaxes you.

Take a walk uh in nature, around the block, um whatever will give you some rest.

Brad:
I've got a little concern now because it's every time I go into the studio with Jesse, he starts chowing down on bread and sugar.

Doug:
I don't am I'm gonna Cortis Jesse, your cortisol is showing

Jesse:
Yeah, well I I don't I wouldn't say it I don't know if I have a dad bought it probably more of a father figure

Doug:
Oh, who's the one with the bad pun now?

Brad:
That's good. That's good. And Jesse, uh you've got work to do on it to get to a dad bot.

But I uh a couple things I would want to add. Don't try for quick fixes. That's a pretty straightforward one.

The fad diets, the I I know that there are times that doctors say, hey. you need this medication, everything else. I get that, but don't become so reliant on other things that you give up trying to Live the right way to live a healthy lifestyle because we can be tricked sometimes into thinking that things are going better.

I get terrified with the side effects on those commercials. I just do. It's and my kids laugh every time.

And the worse they are, the faster they're in the world. Death and depression. Death and depression are always in the mix.

And I'm like You may die if you take the mix So That's a simple one, but one thing that w really was on my heart too, I share, is I want to acknowledge The reality that some people in life, whether you male, female, that you have struggled with your health, sometimes that you have had a lot of life events That have hit you really hard. You have been hurt by people. You have been hurt in some really bad ways.

We won't get into those in this episode, but we I we want to acknowledge that we know some people have been hurt. And it has been hard for you to see yourself even in the way of saying, why would I care about this? Why would I care about living in a healthy way?

And I want to encourage you to remember that no matter what anyone else has told you, no matter what has happened to you, you are God's masterpiece. Yes. That we all Have been created in advance for good works that God prepared for us to do.

And it says in Ephesians 2. 10, we are his masterpiece. And in John 15, 15.

Let these words speak to your heart right now. Jesus says, I have called you friends Jesus, when you have that relationship with him, when you have said, Jesus, I want to follow you. Please come into my life.

I want this relationship with you. He says, I am calling you my friend. So just know that you have someone that sees you as his masterpiece.

No matter how you look, you are God's masterpiece, but he wants you To have a healthy life where you can experience his best for you. So I just want to encourage you with that because I know people, there are people who have been through a lot. But God is still there for you and still wants to help you live in a healthy way.

Doug:
Man, that's good. That's good. Um, this whole ambassadorship thing and our bodies and and what we do.

We remember that our kids are always watching us. Um and whatever habits you're developing, because that's what it is, it's it's about habits, um, they may very well develop. They're always watching.

They are wanting to do what they see you do, not so much what you say. Brad, I uh I wanted to get back um to this keep your mind on your motivation. And that you brought up motivation.

That's so important. You know Um, in the actor studio. Um, actors they go, What's my motivation?

Uh Good question though. Listen to this. I asked my 12-year-old son, who is Sam, who is a big exerciser.

He he is so committed to it. He really is. It's amazing.

Jump rope and and running and and even what he eats. I asked him this morning, you know what, son, why do you stick to this? W why do you care about being healthy?

You don't want without Uh, without missing a beat, he said, Dad, I want to honor God with my body.

Jesse:
Wow.

Doug:
Twelve years old. Wow. And that's a scripture that we've we've memorized together.

But a little side note, memorize scripture with your kids because it gets in their heart. Well I was like, whoa, straight from scripture. Um, motivation is vital because, man, if it's vanity, if it's just because I want to look better, it won't last.

But if it is rooted in your love for Jesus, in love for your family, There's a better chance it'll stick. And ambassadorship is a great motivator. Um, do I want to reach my neighbor?

What means I'm gonna spend time with them, conversations, have time for them. You don't have the energy. It's not gonna happen.

You wanna spend quality time with your kids? You know what, I'll do it tomorrow. I'm too tired and too many tomorrows, of course.

become never and we joke about it, but man, our our dad blot or or whatever our blot affects our families. We want to spend time together. We want to give 'em our best.

The Big Mac is saying no Say no to the Big Mac every now and then.

Brad:
I can tell you personally that uh to make these changes, again, I'm less than I was uh as far as the weight goes and healthier than I was, still treadmill, still go for walks and everything. I have a long way to go, but I can tell you that it has helped me feel healthier. It has given me more energy.

It has helped with back problems I've had for years. And they are not nearly what they used to be. Focus, all those things.

So I I hope that this has been an encouragement to you today. As we said, our goal today, when we talked about what we wanted people to walk away from this with, it was Hope and a realization that maybe things can be different. And so we pray that has been the case for you today.

Don't give up. Yeah, and let us know if you have thoughts on this episode. If you have questions for us, again send those to us because we'd love to hear from you Uh we hope that you guys have a great stretch out as we enter into all the holiday festivities and everything else we are praying for you guys.

We pray it's a great time, and that you can take some initial steps. To helping the dad bod bod become a rad bod. So until next time from Doug, Brad, and Jesse, go mad.