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The Trump-Massie War is Exposing CON-Servative Cons!
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Alright, well, we've had some changes going on in the last month or so since Trump has taken the Oval Office.
Round two, and he's jump-started off to a pretty aggressive start.
A lot of great things happening.
A lot of, hmm, not sure what's going on things are happening, but we can talk about some of the cool things that are going on, and then some, and potential changes happening over in the next couple years.
With our country.
And I wanted to start with the Black Lives Matter Plaza being dismantled this week in Washington, D.C. Obviously, while Biden was in office, he and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., the woke mayor of D.C.,
installed this huge Black Lives Matter installation right in the streets of D.C. And they called it Black Lives Matter Plaza.
Just to remind everybody that Black Lives Matter.
And George Floyd needs to be elevated.
So this week, Trump ordered that this plaza be dismantled, and they have been going to work at it all week, dismantling this Black Lives Matter plaza, which I think is a great start, just like him, you know,
signing an executive order that states that there are only two genders in the United States, which should be...
Common sense, but there's only two genders.
Stop with these lies.
Potentially, then, we're going to go that route with Black Lives Matter.
All lives matter, not just black lives.
And here to weigh in on this and more is one of our favorite guests, Bryson Gray, a Christian conservative rapper that you all know.
His hit songs.
And he truly is Christian and conservative and embodies those facets.
So we're here to talk and delve a little bit deeper in that.
Welcome back to Shots Fired, Bryson.
How's it going?
Thank you so much for having me on.
It's going well.
How about with you?
It's going great.
Thank you.
Great to see you.
Me too.
Your thoughts on, like, what was the era of, like, what did Black Lives Matter represent and, you know, the lie that it perpetuated in our country?
And then what do you think this dismantling of Black Lives Matter plaza, what it could potentially mean moving forward?
As somebody that has had multiple real-life run-ins with Black Lives Matter, Honestly, they just represent LGBT, to be quite frank.
Is there another arm of the LGBT agenda, mafia?
Yeah, because you have a lot of black supremacist movements that are out there, but this wasn't one of them, because if you've ever ran into them in person, it's like 50% white, 50% black, some Asians mixed in there.
If you've ever had an altercation with them in real life, it's just a bunch of people claiming it's about black lives, but really it's about, you know, LGBT was founded by three lesbians to begin with.
But this Trump dismantling the thing is amazing because I know somebody when I was in D.C. during a few events for Trump, I know somebody that got a...
That got, like, jumped by Black Lives Matter, like, physically assaulted by Black Lives Matter because he walked through the plaza with a MAGA hat on.
So, I think, yeah, I'm not even joking.
So, yeah, this definitely is a good thing for it to be dismantled.
Black Lives Matter is a scam anyway.
Even mainstream degenerate music artists are now admitting it was a scam.
They took everybody's money, bought mansions.
They moved out of the neighborhoods.
They claimed they were fighting for it into the neighborhoods.
They claimed they were fighting it.
Yeah, and didn't we also, you know, this was a popular talking point a couple years ago, but I think a lot of people forgot that on the Black Lives Matter website even, it said, you know, they're a Marxist organization, and one of their goals was to dismantle the traditional nuclear family unit through,
you know, via Marxism and via different ways like pushing the LBGTQ mafia on us to dismantle the family unit and remove the father, stop revering the father in homes and create broken homes.
So a lot of people forget that that's a big point of it.
What better way to do that, too, but to push victimhood on Black people and tell them it's so hard, you can't get up in life, everyone's to blame except for you.
That is the opposite of empowering to any person.
But, of course, to a Black child growing up with that rhetoric being pushed down his throat.
And it's sort of like the...
The last straw that you have to break, if that makes any sense.
Meaning, if you look statistically, Black people are statistically still the most homophobic group of people.
Right.
True.
But it is shifting.
It's shifting for basic reasons, and Black Lives Matter is a part of that reason.
Even if you look at the celebrities they're pushing, if you look at everything that's happening right now, it's all to normalize homosexuality in the Black community.
And I think the plan is working swell.
Satan has a great chess move there.
He's not going to win in the end, but I think that plan is working.
So yeah, that's what Black Lives Matter represents, is to push the generacy, more victimhood.
And here's my thing, I get it.
The victimhood starts with the truth, that truth just doesn't expand as far as people want it to expand.
Black people were literally oppressed in the United States of America at one point in time, but my generation wasn't.
You see what I'm saying?
But it gives a good boogeyman.
You know what I'm saying?
And everybody.
Everybody of every race.
Humans have a natural thing.
Most humans have a natural thing to where they would rather blame somebody else and take responsibilities for what they're doing.
And once again, I think that's another thing Black Lives Matter represents.
It's scam people didn't play victim.
Definitely.
Well, and speaking of scams, I've really been inspired by your Twitter, or X, I still call it Twitter, but Twitter posts lately.
You've been really sounding off and calling out the truth in bold ways, where a lot of what I call con-inc-type influencers that call themselves conservatives are not doing.
And I loved it.
And one of the posts that you had that we can talk about is thinking I want followers that claim to be Christian while supporting homosexuals that support Trump is crazy.
I want you to unfollow me.
You're demonic.
So that's really interesting because, again, I think we were talking about this like conservatives have created such this big tent.
Where they're letting anybody in.
And under Trump 1.0, lots of gays came out and trans came out as conservative.
And lots of people saying they're conservative, and they became kind of icons in the Trump and the MAGA world.
But are they really, though?
And should we be glorifying them and lifting them up in the Trump movement?
So you're calling that out.
Tell us a little bit more about that.
Well, honestly, now...
I view it as synonymous with the Trump movement because Trump does it himself, unfortunately.
And I've been calling out this since 2020.
I actually have songs, when I used to make more MAGA rap, I have songs calling out this saying, if we keep allowing this, this was going to happen.
And, you know, people were mad at me back then for saying this was going to happen because in 2020...
It wasn't like it was now.
You could still say something that was viewed as homophobic and MAGA would love it.
It'd be beautiful.
You could say biblically sound things and everybody would love it.
But now the big tent has spread so far that you can't do that anymore.
Now you get hate from the MAGA movement if you say anything against any of these people.
Like Robert White, who people know as Blair White.
Robert White.
Was that his original name?
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, that's his real name.
Scott Pressler, that's their favorite.
Don't say nothing about Scott Pressler.
Oh my goodness.
Bro, it is crazy.
Richard Grinnell, one of Trump's right-hand men.
Richard Grinnell literally said being gay makes him a better Christian in an interview with one of the other favorite homosexuals, which is Dave Rubin.
When you notice this trend, these people are not only some of the most untouchable people in the MAGA movement, but they're some of the most prominent people in Trump's administration.
This started a while ago because people were so obsessed.
This is my problem now, and it was my problem even then, and it's why I'm in this position now.
Idolatry isn't really...
Just a word.
You don't have to say I idolize something.
Idolatry is an action.
And I started seeing MAGA just throw biblical Christians to the side because they felt like they could no longer support Trump, even though their values are still the same, but they will uplift homosexuals on the basis of them supporting Trump.
That means Trump is higher on your list than God.
Because you're throwing this person away.
They still follow God.
They just said they can no longer support Trump, but they're not Democrats either.
This person is just a degenerate, and they threw on that MAGA hat, and all of a sudden, they're the most popular person in the movement because they support Trump.
Look what that person did for Trump.
Scott Pressler, he did the swing stage.
That's why he gets so much respect, because of votes.
Elon Musk, he helped Trump win, you know.
But when it comes to people that believe in biblical values, that's not as high up on their list.
So that's why we're in this position.
That's why the Big Ten is what the Big Ten is, is because conservatism has never been cool.
And it's still not cool, not true biblical, not true...
Definitional conservatism.
But it's never been cool.
And now it's more cool to like Trump, even in the culture.
So people are just attaching themselves to anything that supports Trump.
And that's pretty much their...
I mean, to be frank, that's pretty much the golden calf for a lot of people, which is why we have a bunch of homosexuals running the movement.
Exactly.
You know, it's funny that you say that, because just this week, there was a picture that was released by this guy named Josh Seder, who pretends he's conservative, another gay guy masquerading around.
And what he does, he's like this stupid attention whore that he dresses up in drag and posts pictures of himself doing stupid tweets and kind of mocking things, but he claims he's conservative.
So there's pictures of him and Scott Pressler in bed.
And he's got his shirt off and everything, and there's multiple pictures of him and Scott Pressler in the bathroom and stuff.
He posts these pictures and then tags Scott, and then Scott Pressler writes back and says, hey, you posted these pictures without my approval, against my consent.
You're blocked.
I can't believe you would do that.
And there's this little catfight going on between these two dudes.
Now, everyone jumps to Scott Pressler's defense.
And I wrote a simple tweet back saying, okay, but why are we posting pictures or why do we have pictures of the two of you guys shirtless in bed?
And all the MAGAs came after me for that.
How could you say that to Scott Pressler?
We know he's gay.
What's the big deal?
What's the big deal?
He's gay.
You know, don't embarrass him for that.
I'm like...
I don't know.
I mean, it's just, it's hard to believe that if you're truly a conservative and you follow God, that you could be gay.
That you could, and also like flamboyantly gay.
But why are we?
It just feels like a masquerade to me because you know that marriage and love is between a man and a woman.
And I believe, I believe that gayness is like sort of being possessed by the devil in a way.
And I do think you can pray to have that sexual attraction healed.
Or write it.
And I just don't know if they're, you know, I don't know, but I just don't, I don't think that that's a true, someone who's truly a good poster card for the conservative movement is somebody who's gay, like you said.
Well, conservative by definition, anybody can look this up anywhere, it literally means to advocate for traditional values.
And in this country, the only time the definition of conservative can change is dependent on whatever those traditional values are in your country.
Unfortunately for homosexuals in this country, that traditional values just inherently involves opposing homosexuality.
Literally, socially, conservatism was created...
To oppose homosexuality.
Conservatism was created in this country.
Anybody can look this up.
It was created to oppose homosexuality and abortion.
So, by definition, claiming you are an active, flaming homosexual and posting pictures with shirts off.
Disgusting.
Yeah, I don't know if you saw that.
Yeah.
And I saw you rebuked, too.
There's an article saying, yes, I'm gay, and I have a relationship with God.
I don't need to repent.
Cope and seethe.
I can be gay and have a great relationship with God.
And you wrote, actually, you have a relationship with Satan, and you're going to hell since you reject repentance.
Yeah.
I mean, how can you call yourself a Christian and conservative when you're saying that?
Well, they're bolder now.
The homosexuals are bold.
It is just a slippery slope.
Christians was always right about a slippery slope.
We continue to be.
But they first take the word conservatism.
That was the first step.
And they successfully did that, calling themselves conservative gays or whatever you want to call them.
Then the next step is to take Christianity.
Look what Heidi said.
Her name is Heidi.
She literally said, yes, I'm gay.
I have a relationship with God.
And no, I don't need to repent.
The arrogance of saying something.
The sheer...
Arrogance of something that is clearly stated as sin in the Bible.
And you're saying, no, we don't care.
I don't like to repent.
Our relationship with God outside of that is just alarming.
And then she spent the last 25 hours on Twitter bullying people who protested that notion or oppose it.
So they are getting very arrogant and cocky in their demonic activity.
But that's due to a lot of conservatives accepting it and promoting it.
And then they're supporting, even right now, there's people that aren't gay that are supporting Heidi's side versus the Christian side.
Yeah, exactly.
And then one more thing, you know, I wanted to address, too.
You asked Grok these interesting questions that's pinned to your Twitter.
You said, Grok, please answer yes or no to these three questions.
Did Jesus' disciples observe the Sabbath?
Did Jesus' disciples observe Passover?
Did Jesus' disciples eat biblically clean food?
And then you said, is there evidence that the disciples ate biblically unclean food in the Bible?
So tell me a little bit about your thread right there and what inspired you to post that.
A lot of Christians have been using Grok as an ego booster or whatever theology they hold because Grok has a natural...
You know, mainstream Christian bias, which is why if you ask him what's the qualities of Jesus, he'll say love, compassion, you know, things like that.
Here's the thing.
It's an AI.
It's an algorithm.
If you force Grok to stick to the Bible, we'll get a completely different view and outlook on what the truth is.
And, you know, I'm a Torah observant Christian, and that's clearly controversial for everybody, everybody on all sides.
You know, Orthodox Jews don't believe in Jesus.
I do.
And mainstream Christians don't believe in keeping God's commandments.
I do.
So, I'm in the middle of this controversial.
But here go the thing.
People can disagree.
But what nobody can do is claim that this faith isn't the same exact way the apostles carried out their faith.
This is just an objective reality.
And when people start realizing this fact, they say, well, they were Jews.
And they were also believers in Jesus.
So, call it, make it, twist it, whatever you want.
Use the word Jew if you deem necessary, but the original Christians, which are the literal 11 disciples out of 12, because we know who Judas was, the 11 disciples, and then came Paul, but the 11 disciples that Jesus taught during his ministry,
they observed Passover, they kept Sabbath.
They ate biblically clean food.
And that's not to say I'm disrespecting people that don't do that.
You can do Easter.
Do as you wish.
But when you do Easter, it's best if you keep your mouth shut about people that observe Passover or people that keep Sabbath rather than going to church on Sunday.
Because the reason people keep their mouth shut is because there's no example in the Bible of doing the things you're doing.
There's no example of anybody in the Bible celebrating something called Easter.
It just doesn't exist, even after Jesus died and rose again.
If you will read the entire conversation with me and Grok, I may sort of specify after Jesus died and rose again also.
There is no example of anybody in the Bible not observing Sabbath as a rest day that God hollowed out in Genesis 2. So, I mean, there is no example of...
Any of these things being done.
Not saying you can't celebrate it if you want.
Hanukkah is not a commanded holiday in the Old Testament, but I still celebrate Hanukkah.
But what I'm saying is when people say I'm a Judaizer, or I'm a heretic, or I'm not a Christian, or I'm rejecting Jesus' sacrifice because I observed these things, that would literally be saying that every disciple of Jesus rejected his sacrifice.
Literally, everybody bring up Acts 10. To make it seem like food, you can eat whatever you want now, which is just, I mean, that's just evidence that they didn't read Acts 10. But outside of the context being about Gentiles, even in the vision, what did Peter say?
I have never eaten anything unclean.
And this was after the resurrection.
So, again, all I'm saying is everybody want to use Ai to think they're...
Their sect of Christianity is true.
If you really make AI biblical and force him to keep it biblical and ask Grok or any AI, because I did it on YouTube with Chad GPT, the same conversation, and we got the same results back.
When you get and ask these AIs which sect of Christianity between Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Torah-observant Christians, which one aligns most?
With how the disciples carried out their faith, the answer is going to be the same no matter what AI you use, and it's going to be Torah-observing Christians.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
Everyone's trying to distort the truth and everything, you know, using the AI to boost their own truth.
Like, oh, see, I can, you know, kind of sway it to, has confirmation bias.
Yeah, easy.
If you say, is Catholicism the one true church, It is all A. I would say, yeah.
But if you say that Peter actually found the Catholic Church or is that church history rather than biblical, it'd be like, yeah, it's not biblical.
You just start asking follow-up questions to make it more precise because it's going to boost your ego if that's all you want to do.
But if you make it biblical, it won't do that.
Yeah, very true.
Good point.
Okay, well, really great conversations here.
Last thing I'll throw at you, too, before we wrap up is, is this...
Sort of this attack, this attempted annihilation, really, of Trump towards Thomas Massey over this last week.
He's trying to primary him.
He's trying to oust him.
He's calling him out, saying he's a traitor.
I don't believe that at all.
I think this is a big misstep from Trump.
And I think Thomas Massey has been really kind of like the lone, true conservative.
But what's your reaction on this attack and attempt of ousting from Trump to Thomas Massey this week?
Well, this just proves people pit people over values.
Think about what the argument is over.
Trump is trying to, if I'm not mistaken, Trump is trying to, correct me if I'm being inaccurate, Trump is trying to extend a Biden spending bill.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
And Doge has already exposed all of this waste, fraud, and abuse in the spending.
So it's like, what?
I wonder.
Yeah.
Before this happened, if these same MAGA people backing Trump on this, if they supported the original Biden spending bill, I guarantee they called it ruining the economy because I was there to watch them do it.
So now that Trump is extending this spending bill, you have a conservative like, no, this is wasteful.
Why are we extending something Biden put in place for our economy?
This doesn't make any sense.
And Matthew's saying no, and he's getting attacked.
The person that's taking the obvious Really conservative position.
I'm talking about, like, this is just obvious.
Yeah, like, true conservative.
And he's the only one that's been, like, conservative through and through.
Called out the vaccine.
Called out COVID and the COVID spending.
He's been the only one that's truly that's not bought and paid for and upholding true conservative values and trying to, you know, pull Trump's feet to the fire with that.
And then Trump wants to oust him?
I think that's pretty telling.
And yet everyone's then jumping on Trump's side again.
And, you know, it's just like, what?
Yeah, you're right.
It's like upholding the person, glorifying and worshiping the person over what you say your values are.
Trump tomorrow can say something.
He can actually agree with whatever he wants to agree with from the Biden administration.
The people that's going to agree with everything he has to say, they're going to update their...
They're like robots.
They're going to update their card to make sure they're supporting this position, even though it contradicts what they said two weeks ago.
NPCs on the right.
Yeah, NPCs.
And that's a problem and it's going to be the problem.
And that's why I couldn't deal with it no more.
I can't be around it.
We used to call liberals the exact same thing.
We used to say liberals don't have true values.
They just follow whatever Democrats say.
And then here we are.
So, yeah.
It's sad.
It's sad.
Like, people have to wake up.
There's NPCs on the right, too.
There's brainwashing happening on the right.
We have to stop glorifying and worshipping the idol of the right, which right now is Trump.
So, Bryson Gray, always great to have you on.
Thanks so much.
Tell everybody, again, where they can follow you and download your awesome latest singles.
You can download my music.
I'm Bryson Gray everywhere.
YouTube, Pandora, everywhere.
And also, thank you so much for having me on and bringing me back on anytime you want.
Awesome.
We'll have you back on again soon.
Thanks, Bryson.
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All right, well, I don't know about you guys, but over here in Texas, this feels like the first really warm day of the spring.
And before, there was a big cold front and another cold front, and it was cloudy and dreary, a lot of rain, and it was very freezing, too.
But now it feels, now that daylight savings time happened and the days are longer and it's sunnier outside, I'm finally starting to think about swimsuit season.
Summer and looking and feeling my best because it's not just about looking your best.
Remember, it's also about feeling your best.
And, you know, every time, you know, winter kind of subsides, there's that thought of looking your best.
But during those months where it's winter, it feels like we're all just kind of hibernating, not really caring so much how we look, wearing our sweatpants, and we don't notice if we've gained weight too much, nor do we care, because it's cold outside.
We're not wearing swimsuits anytime soon.
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How's it going today, Dr. Sherwood?
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It's becoming bikini weather, isn't it?
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Exactly.
So, okay.
So, I'll be real with you.
During the wintertime, I typically scale back on working out.
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Focusing so much on looking my best.
And usually my pants feel a little bit tighter come March.
So when someone's kind of peeled back a little bit, like the average American, what would you say are some tips we can start there with how to, like, spring forward back into the exercise routine or kind of get things jump-started?
Well, certainly, you know, I think most people...
This time of year, I think most people realize that it's time to kind of get in shape for the shapely season, right?
So we tend to start off too hot.
In other words, we tend to start off too aggressive, and it leads to injuries.
For example, if we start off too much and we're not working out any, and we say we're going to work out starting tomorrow.
Every day, twice a day.
Well, that's not even realistic.
But it also can be quite negative because if you don't have good results or you get injured, that can set you back, right?
So I tell people, you know, we talk about nutrition a lot, but with the movement part, find time to move every day within your day.
You get 1,440 minutes a day.
That's what you get.
That's what I get.
Nobody gets paid anymore.
When you get paid that amount of minutes, you have to spend some of those minutes moving.
And I remind people, movement is life.
Lack of movement is rigor mortis.
So certainly stay moving.
And you don't have to go that hard, believe it or not.
Okay, so because I'm thinking, I need to get back in shape.
So I'm going to hit the gym four times this week.
And, you know, 30 minutes of cardio.
And then X this many, many minutes of weight training.
But then what happens after a week or two, I start feeling burnt out and then it starts slowing down.
So do you see in your practice a lot of people starting too hot and then they burn out really quickly?
Yes.
I like to set them what I call failure-proof goals.
For example, let's look at your situation.
Let's say you weren't going to the gym at all.
Let's say there's a big zero there or even a one time a week.
I know that's not right, but you get my point.
Yeah, I do more than that.
I'm not painting in the corner here, right?
The idea, let's say you're going one time a week.
I would say the next month, I want you to increase that to twice a week.
And if you say, well, I want to go more, and I'd say, fine, you can, but your goal is two times per week.
And if you're not training with weights at all, I would say your goal is one time per week to train with weights.
Then somebody would say, well, do I need to go hard with my cardio for 30 minutes?
But I've been doing nothing.
Well, I would back that off again to almost make it failure-proof by saying, you know what?
You might want to do 30. Let's start with 10. 10 minutes when you're there.
And if you get more of that, it's on you.
That's bonus.
But make sure you fulfill your goals.
And if you start those goals that are really failure-proof, you'll build success.
You'll build habit success.
You build a culture of success within yourself.
And you really get into a better habit pattern that way that's more consistent.
That's good.
Yeah, I mean, I think we've talked about this in other areas of your life, too.
Small wins equals big wins because you get the confidence that I can do it.
So you want to increase that and get more, you know, see more results.
When you set the bar too high, sometimes then you see failure, and that's very demotivating.
So start with your goals.
Yes, you have to see.
Both short-term and long-term.
That's the point.
You know, we all want to have a long-term, and this is long-term goals.
You want to have that beach body for the entire year.
I mean, that's a straight-up long-term goal, and that would be a good goal because that would mean, in effect, you don't have to worry about getting it back every spring, right?
Abs are built in the kitchen and while you're walking to and from the kitchen.
In other words, it's like with a fork, doing fork curls with salads.
And then when you're out walking around the house all the time and moving more, you know?
And so I always tell people to have the goal long-term to become excess fat gain resistant.
And short-term, you know, if you're not there, it's okay.
We'll work to get to that point.
So we have to have the short-term goals leading to a clear long-term outcome.
And if you don't, you're always going to be doing this repeat thing every year.
Yeah, it's torture kind of doing this repeat thing every year and yo-yoing back and forth.
And speaking of yo-yoing, I was reading an article today about things you should not do after 5 p.m. if you're trying to lose weight.
And I have lately committed some of these sins based on just, you know, being a busy woman and mom.
But one is, you know, binge eating after 5 p.m.
And what I do is sometimes I'm just, I'm really busy during the day, so I don't eat as much and I'm just, you know, I'm kind of skipping meals even sometimes and I'm going, going, going.
And then finally after five or six, I feel like I can relax and take a breath and that's when I eat.
And then sometimes I keep munching throughout the night or even late into the night.
And that's, I guess you would probably say that that's a no-no for burning fat, right?
That would be a big capital N, capital O, capital N, capital O repeated over and over and over again.
Ultimately, when you get the body in the evening time, we should be secreting melatonin to begin to tone down and get ready for bed.
But when we eat a whole bunch, we start secreting this other opposite hormone called cortisol.
And we end up going to bed with a full stomach and perhaps even higher blood sugar, which can disturb sleep and inhibit fat loss.
So we have this contraindication of that.
So after 5 or 6 o 'clock, I always tell people, Tone it down.
If you want to have a snack, make sure the snack is something in the area of like a fat or something like that because fat cannot convert to blood sugar.
So maybe if you want to have like a small handful of nuts or maybe a spoonful of maybe nut butter, unsweetened, of course, that might be okay.
Or a bite of a kingdom candy bar is fine.
You're not going to hurt yourself with that.
But ultimately, after 5 o 'clock, that's really good to do that.
After 5 o 'clock, what I do like to see people do is take a walk.
You know, instead of getting sedentary, I like to see them move because that can speed up the digestion process if they did have a less than optimal size of meal in the evening.
But if you start structuring the whole day like this, you want to think about breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, and dinner like a pauper, and have this sort of reverse.
Pyramid structure going upwards versus like this, you know, where we eat the typical largest meal at night.
Very interesting.
So probably not good to do like a big steak or a lot of like ground beef or something after like 8 p.m. or 7. It is a little bit concerning because it can absolutely disturb your sleep.
Now, I get it.
The carnivore diet today is very, very popular.
A lot of people do that.
In all reality, if I could get someone to eat a salad later on at night, you know, with maybe a little bit of protein, that would be a great thing because that would keep the glycemic load down and keep the digestion issues in a really premium.
So that's what I would do.
Now, there's people probably that can do that without any problems.
But as a whole, I would say there's a better way to do it.
Okay.
All right.
Those are good tips.
And now, the difference between, like, if you're trying to lose fat, Versus, you know, just tone up or gain muscle.
Would that be a difference in how you're working out, how you're exercising, or how you're, you know, what your diet plan is?
I have an interesting perspective on that.
I tell people do the same, do both of those at one time.
You know, we had this mentality that says, let me cut down and then build up.
Don't do that.
You want to build muscle and lose fat on a continual basis.
I mean, like 24-7, 365.
Remember that muscle is more metabolic.
It will move the metabolic meter a little bit faster and fat tissue won't.
So the more muscle you can maintain, good saying here, the more muscle you can maintain, the less fat percentage you can attain.
As a whole.
So that's just a good rhythm.
And so when you're doing training, what I recommend working out wise, you want to do three days a week of weight training minimum every week for the rest of your days.
And then you want to do every day, do some kind of cardiovascular training.
Don't take a day off of cardiovascular training.
I know people say, well, I'm going to rest.
Well, that doesn't mean you just lay around.
You can rest by walking on the beach behind you.
That's a restful day, I think, right?
Okay, so it could be pushing my kid in a stroller for a mile or so.
It doesn't have to be necessarily, I have to go to the actual gym, as long as it is cardio and, you know, I'm moving my body for a continuous period of time.
Yes, you can push Mavic around.
You could push that stroller with one hand if you needed to.
You could get wrist weights.
Put some wrist weights on your wrist.
You could put some dumbbell wrist weights or ankle weights on your ankles.
There's a lot of things you could do in really the activities of life.
Make them productive.
Just be creative.
There's nothing that says you can't be creative.
I can see you walking Maverick and doing leg lifts.
Maybe even pushing with a stroller and maybe trying to do a lunge while you're doing a stroller push.
I mean, these are things that are like...
Creative, but they'd be very effective.
And then I think with activity, people have a myth about thinking they need to get the heart rate way up high.
Simply not true.
Okay.
There's something called the anaerobic threshold, and keep this in mind.
180 minus your age.
So in your case, it would be 180 minus 29, right?
So we know that's true, right?
Exactly, right?
And so in that example, it would be 151.
So that would be considered your anaerobic threshold.
Okay.
And so in that case, above that number with your heart rate would be you're more in the anaerobic without oxygen.
Below that number, you'd be more with oxygen.
That's common sense, right?
Right.
Get this, folks.
It takes oxygen to break down fat.
If you get up too high, you won't be breaking down fat.
You'll be burning basically glucose.
So to get into the fat stores with activity, you have to keep the heart rate at a premium below your anaerobic threshold while keeping aware that occasionally you might bounce it above that to work the heart muscle.
Okay.
All right.
Cool.
That's a good tip, too, because, again...
There's so many myths out there, but a lot of people, that is definitely one.
You know, I need to get my heart rate as much as possible, as high as possible.
That is a dangerous myth, too.
And here's why.
Because if you get the heart rate up, the body keys into that, and it does something strange or probably normal.
It says, hmm, I don't think I'm doing Zumba.
I think I'm running from an animal that's trying to eat me.
And that's the way the body interprets that.
And so that means cortisol comes up.
Blood pressure comes up, respiration goes up, perspiration goes up, tension goes up, digestion goes down, and fat can be retained.
Awesome.
Okay.
All right.
Cool.
Very cool.
Any last tips for somebody who's getting back into the exercise scene and ready to try to get their best beach body by, let's say, by June?
So we've got a couple months for that.
Any final words for them?
Yeah, every day you want to do something that accentuates more and better movement.
I've given you some guidelines for the week, so move every day.
Eat well every day.
Drink well every day.
Make sure you're hydrating up.
I've got my hydrant.
And that's important because the more you get out and sweat, the more you lose electrolytes.
And if you become dehydrated, you will not lose weight.
So make sure that you find creative ways to drink up.
You want to also work on sleep.
We talked about how not to eat late and do some light activity late.
That will promote better sleep.
And then, really important, stay unstressed.
The world is too full of mess, man.
Stay unstressed, have a balance there, and don't be connected around all the time negative people because that will also not assist you in losing weight.
Remember, you become like the five people you hang out with the most.
So telling, yes.
That's such an important thing to remember.
You become like the five people you hang out with the most.
Amazing.
It's also very important to why you should have God.
Your relationship with God, with Jesus as the number one in your life so you can become more like Him.
He should be your number one.
And then the four other people you surround yourself with should be positive influences.
They should be inspiring.
They should be healthy in every way.
And too often people really discount that, who their influences are in their life.
So thanks for reminding me.
Yeah.
It's interesting too.
If you want...
To have a role model, find the role models that are actually doing it, that you know, that you can connect with, and then ask them.
They'll tell you the truth.
They'll tell you the secrets.
It's not a secret at all.
People are going to find out just basic little habits.
And you're right, Dana.
It's really mimicking.
It's really being.
It's being a disciple of Jesus himself because he gave us a living example to follow.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Always enlightening and inspiring.
Thanks so much, Dr. Sherwood.
It's great.
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We'll see you next week.
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