April 25, 2025 • 21 mins
In this energizing episode of The Naybors Podcast, we lace up our sneakers and dive into a real conversation about fitness goals—what they mean, how they evolve, and why it’s deeper than just losing weight or looking good. We open up about:
- Our personal fitness journeys and the lessons we’ve learned
- How fitness is connected to faith, focus, and family
- The pressure of body image vs. the power of feeling strong
- Setting realistic goals and showing ourselves grace in the process
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I thank you'all very much for tuning in to us today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, guess what, y'all, We're going to talk about something
that we've been talking about for a long time when
I don't know if we've been able to get to y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Let's talk about it in a.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Minute, Danny, it's the Neighbors podcast with recent Mike.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
They discausing different issues that affect up treating like that.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's the Neighbors.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Way, The Neighbors.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Y'all might be wondering, what in the world are you
talking about. Well, what I'm talking about is fitness. Fitness,
because a lot of times we talk about it, but
we don't be about it. So for myself, I have
been up and down, up and down. It's funny because
(00:56):
I I work out and I just show Mike, you know,
what I've been doing or whatever it is, and I'll
get to a certain point like I'll lose and then
next thing you know, I'm gaining again, like I'm heavier
again or whatever it is. So it's not like I'm
not doing anything, but it's just like I can't totally
(01:16):
lose it. I have been doing this fasting thing where
I'm only eating between the hours of six.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm sorry, twelve and six.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And so in all reality, I'm not eating breakfast and
I'm not eating dinner late. I'm not having no late
night snacks. Right, I have not had, as much as
I want a soda. I haven't had one in such
a long time. I don't even know what it would
taste like.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We had one.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
About that now.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
What I will say is that I have been taking
advantage of any time.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
If I have a moment recently, like if I eat
at twelve, I might sneak me a little quick snack,
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Cook here too, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
For five, you know, around three o'clock it might not
be five. But but but but Mike, I heard what
you were saying earlier. I'm off camp off the mic
about the sugar part, you know. But but That's what
I've been doing. I mean, I've been having struggles. What
about yourself.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I mean, look, I'll cut back with all the snacks
and all that. You know, I got all the movies
that right, and I went to the doctor's freeing this lead.
You know, she said, you know, I got my blood
break down. But you know, my one C is like
kind of up there, kind of up there on the border.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, And I'm like.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Huh, because then you know, when they do the blood break,
they go go like the last three months, I'm like,
yeah three months? Oh yeah, I throw down, yeah right,
like I did through that, and you know, and I
came to the point like, okay, I gotta do something
(03:07):
about this. Start exercise and all that, you know, gonna
get ready for my daughter's graduation, and you know, I start.
You know, the thing is discipline. You gotta discipline yourself.
You gotta except you say, okay, yeah, all right, I'm
gonna do this, do that. I'm gonna do this, do that.
But the thing is, are you're really gonna do this
and do that?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well I only can say for myself is that I
really didn't think I'll only be able to eat between
the hours and twelve and six. If you can do it,
you can do it. It's a lot easier than I thought. Right,
So I psyched myself out by not doing it before.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
See there you go, You see us playing mind games
with yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yep, that's what it was, you know, most definitely, And
that was the issue, you know. So so I think
that we talk ourselves out of it before it even begins,
and then when we started, we can't because they said
that once you do it at past twenty one days
now is a true habit, right right, you know. And
(04:05):
so I've been doing it now for two months.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Okay, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. I think it's been about two months now, you know,
so probably even more.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It might be longer than that, right, to be honest,
because it was whenever they started me on this blood.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Pressure medicine, gotcha. Yeah, okay, you know, so I was.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
On the blood pressure medicine maybe for two weeks, and
then right after that it was like pam, gotcha you know, so.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Because I was like I can't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I don't want to be on this very long right
right now, what I will say.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What I will say is that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I think it's been a combination of working out, a
combination of like you said, eating right and taking the medicine.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Like I have.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Regular numbers, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So so the last time I took my pressure, I
was at one twenty one over seventy eight versus being
at one over ninety five.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, I was high.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I was high.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And then at one point in time, like and that
was a high one, but most of the time it
was like one sixty eight, one seventy over ninety.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Five ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was a normal And now, and keep in mind,
that was a normal praying for the last four or
five years.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Gotcha, So it was a long time time, right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So so.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know, so with my pressure being down, in all honesty,
do I feel a difference in my body?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I do?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, you do? You feel more energetic?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I feel more energetic, and then I don't have as
many issues, right, you know. So the wife and I
we had a really really hard, stressful conversation the other day.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Sometimes I crush my toes, like, oh do I ball
up my toes?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It's weird, dude.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Don't don't look at me like that.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You wouldn't be I don't know, right, And so the
other day, because of that, my big to that where
I normally feel the gout in it was hurting. But
let's understand this, I haven't had a gout flare up
in three years, four years because of not eating as
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much red meat, not eating as much seafood, you give me, like,
having all this stuff that would blow it up. You know,
even if I had a beer or something like that.
It's very sporadic, you know, because and I do it
because I don't need another flare up, you get what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You know, any alcohol.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Will flare flare me up, you know, And so I
be really strategic in doing that. And so what I realized,
even with the food, with the blood pressure, you know,
now understand what the true habit would be, right of
doing it the right way, right, you know. So those
are the type of things that I've learned through my
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own process.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Yeah, It's just like you know, you got to come
to a point, especially all health wise, what you have
to do right to live to that next day, to
live that next week, to live the next month, to
live in that next year.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Right, So you know, I mean because in all honesty,
I mean, especially as parents, I know, I mean, I
speak for myself, like you know, you can speak for yourself,
but I want to be around to see some of
my kids and their milestones in their lives, right right,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So so.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
For yourself, where you said.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Something about, hey, your daughter's going to graduate you know
this week, I mean, and my daughter's the following week,
right about that, you know, what I mean, you know,
And so you want to be able to say, hey,
you know what, I was able to see my my
child's graduation from college, right right. You know, I want
to see, especially from my dad point of view. I
want to walk my daughter down the aisle, right, you know,
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when she's getting married, you know, so I want to
be able to be there for those milestone moments. And
I would love to have grandkids, right, so I want
to see some of them as well, because I want
to I want the opportunity to have a grand kid, right, hey,
come stay with me and give them back.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That I would feel that, that's right, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You know, so I think those are things that we
need to really consider, you know, as we're talking about this,
this whole fitness thing.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Right right, and you know it's I know it's a struggle.
It's a struggle. But also you have to set your
boundaries right and you I mean, you your all halftime.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
You do have time.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But if you got time to do this, do that,
hang you at the bar, whatever it's such and such
a you got time. You got time. Everybody got time.
You got time to go to the bathroom, you got
time to exercise. I ain't mean to sound grabbing like that.
You got time, you got time to what?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Man?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
In fact, what the hell you got time to watch?
You gotise? Let's be realistic, right right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You know, it's always excuse. You gotta stop using excuse,
and then the people like to validate the excuses. Well,
you know, I gotta blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's no, no, yeah no.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
If you got time to sit there and watch a movie,
you got time to exercise.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And that's the thing, like, what's the priority?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
What's your priority?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And evidently health.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Is not it, of course not.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
We take it for granted.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Then go easily, easily.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
You know, if we were to fall today, how long
would you feel that pain?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You really want me to ask that. Let me tell
you something. Every day I work up.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You know, I'm retired, and uh, I ain't gonna retire
like that because and they had an injury on that job.
I get up between six and seven o'clock in the
morning every day, even though on the weekends as well,
you know, get up in the morning and walk down
the steps. I'm like, oh God, I hold onto the
railway right right, because I'm like, oh, damn right, that's
(10:26):
all I leave.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Boom boom.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Think got a door right there, the closet, the doors,
so no't break befall. But man, mm hmmm, that pain't
feel me. It hit me for a minute. And am
all gonna bounce back out? Hell no, I'm not gonna
bounce back up now right, I'm gonna have to sit
there for marinate for a minute, you know, especially and
(10:48):
that you know quite a few times I threw my
back out. The hell, I'm crawling on the floor. I'm downstairs,
gotta go to the bathroom. Wow, wow, twelve steps right,
not down up, going up, And it's a struggle. That's
(11:08):
when it comes, you know. But whatever the job I
had was physical. You know, I was a dry truck
driver of Coca Cola. It was a physical job every day.
But the thing is, once you stopped doing that, you know,
you look at yourself blue where that comes from?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's crazy blue blue? Yeah, And you know you go
to doctors and all that.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh, at your height, you know you should be wearing
one hundred and seventy pounds like the last time I
weighed one seventy hours a young buck.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Right, you want me to look like her crankhead, and
I can't do that, right, I'm like, come.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
On, but the thing is.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I mean, as my wife said, she don't want me
to look like a bibblehead, right exactly, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is your head already big enough?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
That's between y'all two, I'm just right right right, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Want you walking around your you don't have enough muscles
in your neck, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
But you know it's crazy like you doing try to
join these gems you know where I understand, but these rices,
I'm like, no, I'm not paying that, especially when you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Have mother nature.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I'm about to say that, right, I'm about to say
that you can buy your own I mean, get your
own weights if you want to stand stepper, that's right,
like you know what that sometimes that's why it's good
to go up to the track, you know, up there
you can walk around, or you can walk up the
bleachers up.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And down right right, you know, for free?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Right that for a let?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It worn't free?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So why should I pay you twenty five dollars a
month and thirty nine dollars on yearly fee?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That stuff adds up, yep, it does. Mother nature is free, yep.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and the only issue that I know I have
for quite a while, as y'all just heard me talk
about gout right right, you know. I you know, I
had a problem with my gout for a while, just
trying to manage it, you know what I mean. And
so and then I already have flat feet, so my
(13:11):
archers were hurt after a period of time, you know
what I mean, And so and I thought I had
I think they called shin splints as well. So I
had all these issues with my feet, ankle whatever. I
can't tell you how many times, like my left foot
is just a problem foot, like it might be a
(13:32):
sleepy foot, you know what I mean, you know. And
so I can't tell you how many times I have
pulled a muscle in my foot, strained my foot whatever
it might have been.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And that's the foot that has a gut in it.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, you know, that's why your fo.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, pretty much pretty much. It's just it's just.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
You know, and so.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That would hinder me and like you said, taking a step,
you know, hey, I want all right, right, let's go walking.
Oh man, I really don't know, you know, And because
I baby that foot, right, what's wrong with us is wrong?
My knee is jacked up, right, right, So now that's
all out of alignment. What's what else is wrong?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
My hid? Right, it's hurting right because I'm babying it.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Because you're babying it, right. So basically you just giving
yourself excuses not to do.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It right, so right, you know, So I think that's
that's what some of us do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
We have these built in excuses right as to why
we can't do X, Y and Z exactly exactly, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But I ain't trying to be on this blood pssure
medicine forever.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Nah, man, No, I mean on the medication. I like
only take my town offs, that's it. But something got
to take every day, right, And I see, you know
my mom my parents. You know, I'm like, what my
mom pulled out that medicine Joan, I'm like, what the
heck is that?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh? These are she didn't say medicine. She does this
my medications. Medications.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
You had to take like six or seven different pills
a day. That's crazy, man. And you know, you know,
you don't know what in the actions you go have, man,
In fact, you it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I mean, so I gotta take a medicine to counteract
this medicine that that works with this, right right, Like
you know, it's too much to be worse too much.
Sometimes it can it can get depressing.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
You're like, man, I gotta do something. You gotta make
a change. The money gotta make a.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Change you right right okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
you gotta set in your mind all right like me.
You know, sometimes you can't find a person to walk
with you, work out with you. You gotta put do
it yourself. You gotta do it yourself. And you know,
excuse throw some music on you, be flowing, or have
a conversation with somebody walking around the track, right yeah, yeah, budget,
(15:48):
there's no excuse, right you know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So so like like I said, listen to you, no,
I just gotta really put it like no, Maurice, get
yourself moving, right yeah, let's go here and do this,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And but see that my challenge as well is me
wanting to be consistent with it.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Okay, I don't Sometimes I don't like starting something knowing
that I can't do it right as often as I want,
because I don't want to feel like I'm a failure.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, yeah, that's that's my issue.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Right, that's a lot of people's issues, y just yours,
and you just got to set there, you know, set
what can you do?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
All right?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You might have to start off like every other day, yeah,
or you know, at least do it like two to
three times a week.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Wake your way up.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Some people do it seven days a week, you do
they do? I mean, it depends on how you want
it bad how badly you want.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh yeah, I mean, and that's why, you know, when
you and I talked about it, I'm like, hey, you know,
maybe if we did it, I at least want to
do it five days a week. But we can do that,
you know, not wanting to take up you know, Saturday
or Sunday, you know whatever, but you know, Monday through Friday,
no commit to it, Like that's my mind. I mean,
I understand everybody's not going always feel the greatest, you know, right,
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you know, but I would I wouldn't mind getting up,
moving and doing it. I mean, I know that there's
at least one day a week where I can't do
it at the time I would want to do it,
you know, But that's I mean one day a month,
but otherwise all the other days, I can do it,
you know. And so yeah, so that's something that you know,
(17:33):
Mike and I we're going to probably once we do it,
we probably record from there.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
We could do that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, exactly, well we're doing it like hey, you like right, no, right,
take a walk with us mentality exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You know, back then, you know, we got the you know,
we got the neighbor. It's got the family out. We're
doing the thing. You know, you know, it could it
could be done.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Most definitely, especially if if that's your goal, like you said,
that's your goal, and you got somebody to do it with, right, exactly,
it could be done. That's that's the difference.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I mean, honestly, it's better to do it with others, right,
you know, you know, shoot the breeze past the time
you'd be like, oh damn, I did a mile, four
miles whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Wow, you know, yeah, it is what it is, because
I mean, because that's the thing, like, I gotta I
get some miles in, right, yeah, you know, I can't
just do oh yeah, we did two laps, you know, yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Because they said at least, like I read, you know,
at least get in like one hundred and fifty minutes
a week.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's like what about a half an hour
a day?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Right, right?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, But I mean i've uh, you know, we you
know what, y'all, We're gonna give y'all an update where
we are right by the end of the summer. Right,
I'm like, Yo, this is what we're doing, This is how,
you know, how it's working out. This is where we
started off at. You know, maybe we just need to
do that challenge, right, and maybe we are y'all challenging
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as well. Do y'all want to be a part of
this challenge as well? If y'all want to, like just
let us know, how about that?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You know what I mean? So again, everybody is doing
it together exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
We're all in on this definitely, right because all of
us everybody don't want to be on medication for the
rest of their life.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I mean, you know we hear from you. That's more
motive motivation for us, you know, like vice Ral, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You know. So so if y'all, you know, take a
look at a picture one day and y'all see Chubby
my reason next day, you like, when he becomes miss
the Olympian, Well, guess what.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I ain't going miscol.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
I'm like, okay, cool, ain't trying to be muscled date,
but the bustle bound days definitely day over few.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I ain't trying to be all like that either, but
you know, but just enough where y'all be like, all right,
I could tell like you're fit.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Yeah, basically I want to run to the corner without
running out the running out of breath, right right, right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right, you know? So so yeah, y'all, you know, just
let us know what you'all thought.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Sorry, y'all doing as far as fitness and how committed
or have you been with yours?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What's your journey?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
There?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You go, and remember no late nackt snacks. If you
don't snack, snack on some cook No not no cookies.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yeah that was some salary sticks. Yeah, I say salary
sticks and some apples stuff like that. Not no livestore
on an oyster is nothing like that, you know. I
mean that's a whole nother All right, we'll talk about
that next.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Time, because you may want that for other reasons. Dave
are y'all. Yeah, we thank y'all very much for listening.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, guess what, y'all, We're going to talk about something
that we've been talking about for a long time when
I don't know if we've been able to get to y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Let's talk about it in a.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Minute, Danny, it's the Neighbors podcast with recent Mike.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
They discausing different issues that affect up treating like that.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's the Neighbors.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Way, The Neighbors.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Y'all might be wondering, what in the world are you
talking about. Well, what I'm talking about is fitness. Fitness,
because a lot of times we talk about it, but
we don't be about it. So for myself, I have
been up and down, up and down. It's funny because
(00:56):
I I work out and I just show Mike, you know,
what I've been doing or whatever it is, and I'll
get to a certain point like I'll lose and then
next thing you know, I'm gaining again, like I'm heavier
again or whatever it is. So it's not like I'm
not doing anything, but it's just like I can't totally
(01:16):
lose it. I have been doing this fasting thing where
I'm only eating between the hours of six.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm sorry, twelve and six.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And so in all reality, I'm not eating breakfast and
I'm not eating dinner late. I'm not having no late
night snacks. Right, I have not had, as much as
I want a soda. I haven't had one in such
a long time. I don't even know what it would
taste like.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We had one.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
About that now.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
What I will say is that I have been taking
advantage of any time.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
If I have a moment recently, like if I eat
at twelve, I might sneak me a little quick snack,
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Cook here too, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
For five, you know, around three o'clock it might not
be five. But but but but Mike, I heard what
you were saying earlier. I'm off camp off the mic
about the sugar part, you know. But but That's what
I've been doing. I mean, I've been having struggles. What
about yourself.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I mean, look, I'll cut back with all the snacks
and all that. You know, I got all the movies
that right, and I went to the doctor's freeing this lead.
You know, she said, you know, I got my blood
break down. But you know, my one C is like
kind of up there, kind of up there on the border.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, And I'm like.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Huh, because then you know, when they do the blood break,
they go go like the last three months, I'm like,
yeah three months? Oh yeah, I throw down, yeah right,
like I did through that, and you know, and I
came to the point like, okay, I gotta do something
(03:07):
about this. Start exercise and all that, you know, gonna
get ready for my daughter's graduation, and you know, I start.
You know, the thing is discipline. You gotta discipline yourself.
You gotta except you say, okay, yeah, all right, I'm
gonna do this, do that. I'm gonna do this, do that.
But the thing is, are you're really gonna do this
and do that?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well I only can say for myself is that I
really didn't think I'll only be able to eat between
the hours and twelve and six. If you can do it,
you can do it. It's a lot easier than I thought. Right,
So I psyched myself out by not doing it before.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
See there you go, You see us playing mind games
with yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yep, that's what it was, you know, most definitely, And
that was the issue, you know. So so I think
that we talk ourselves out of it before it even begins,
and then when we started, we can't because they said
that once you do it at past twenty one days
now is a true habit, right right, you know. And
(04:05):
so I've been doing it now for two months.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Okay, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. I think it's been about two months now, you know,
so probably even more.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It might be longer than that, right, to be honest,
because it was whenever they started me on this blood.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Pressure medicine, gotcha. Yeah, okay, you know, so I was.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
On the blood pressure medicine maybe for two weeks, and
then right after that it was like pam, gotcha you know, so.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Because I was like I can't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I don't want to be on this very long right
right now, what I will say.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What I will say is that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I think it's been a combination of working out, a
combination of like you said, eating right and taking the medicine.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Like I have.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Regular numbers, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So so the last time I took my pressure, I
was at one twenty one over seventy eight versus being
at one over ninety five.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, I was high.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I was high.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And then at one point in time, like and that
was a high one, but most of the time it
was like one sixty eight, one seventy over ninety.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Five ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was a normal And now, and keep in mind,
that was a normal praying for the last four or
five years.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Gotcha, So it was a long time time, right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So so.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know, so with my pressure being down, in all honesty,
do I feel a difference in my body?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I do?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, you do? You feel more energetic?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I feel more energetic, and then I don't have as
many issues, right, you know. So the wife and I
we had a really really hard, stressful conversation the other day.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Sometimes I crush my toes, like, oh do I ball
up my toes?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It's weird, dude.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Don't don't look at me like that.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You wouldn't be I don't know, right, And so the
other day, because of that, my big to that where
I normally feel the gout in it was hurting. But
let's understand this, I haven't had a gout flare up
in three years, four years because of not eating as
(06:36):
much red meat, not eating as much seafood, you give me, like,
having all this stuff that would blow it up. You know,
even if I had a beer or something like that.
It's very sporadic, you know, because and I do it
because I don't need another flare up, you get what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You know, any alcohol.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Will flare flare me up, you know, And so I
be really strategic in doing that. And so what I realized,
even with the food, with the blood pressure, you know,
now understand what the true habit would be, right of
doing it the right way, right, you know. So those
are the type of things that I've learned through my
(07:16):
own process.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Yeah, It's just like you know, you got to come
to a point, especially all health wise, what you have
to do right to live to that next day, to
live that next week, to live the next month, to
live in that next year.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Right, So you know, I mean because in all honesty,
I mean, especially as parents, I know, I mean, I
speak for myself, like you know, you can speak for yourself,
but I want to be around to see some of
my kids and their milestones in their lives, right right,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So so.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
For yourself, where you said.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Something about, hey, your daughter's going to graduate you know
this week, I mean, and my daughter's the following week,
right about that, you know, what I mean, you know,
And so you want to be able to say, hey,
you know what, I was able to see my my
child's graduation from college, right right. You know, I want
to see, especially from my dad point of view. I
want to walk my daughter down the aisle, right, you know,
(08:15):
when she's getting married, you know, so I want to
be able to be there for those milestone moments. And
I would love to have grandkids, right, so I want
to see some of them as well, because I want
to I want the opportunity to have a grand kid, right, hey,
come stay with me and give them back.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That I would feel that, that's right, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You know, so I think those are things that we
need to really consider, you know, as we're talking about this,
this whole fitness thing.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Right right, and you know it's I know it's a struggle.
It's a struggle. But also you have to set your
boundaries right and you I mean, you your all halftime.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
You do have time.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But if you got time to do this, do that,
hang you at the bar, whatever it's such and such
a you got time. You got time. Everybody got time.
You got time to go to the bathroom, you got
time to exercise. I ain't mean to sound grabbing like that.
You got time, you got time to what?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Man?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
In fact, what the hell you got time to watch?
You gotise? Let's be realistic, right right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
You know, it's always excuse. You gotta stop using excuse,
and then the people like to validate the excuses. Well,
you know, I gotta blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's no, no, yeah no.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
If you got time to sit there and watch a movie,
you got time to exercise.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And that's the thing, like, what's the priority?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
What's your priority?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And evidently health.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Is not it, of course not.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
We take it for granted.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Then go easily, easily.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
You know, if we were to fall today, how long
would you feel that pain?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You really want me to ask that. Let me tell
you something. Every day I work up.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You know, I'm retired, and uh, I ain't gonna retire
like that because and they had an injury on that job.
I get up between six and seven o'clock in the
morning every day, even though on the weekends as well,
you know, get up in the morning and walk down
the steps. I'm like, oh God, I hold onto the
railway right right, because I'm like, oh, damn right, that's
(10:26):
all I leave.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Boom boom.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Think got a door right there, the closet, the doors,
so no't break befall. But man, mm hmmm, that pain't
feel me. It hit me for a minute. And am
all gonna bounce back out? Hell no, I'm not gonna
bounce back up now right, I'm gonna have to sit
there for marinate for a minute, you know, especially and
(10:48):
that you know quite a few times I threw my
back out. The hell, I'm crawling on the floor. I'm downstairs,
gotta go to the bathroom. Wow, wow, twelve steps right,
not down up, going up, And it's a struggle. That's
(11:08):
when it comes, you know. But whatever the job I
had was physical. You know, I was a dry truck
driver of Coca Cola. It was a physical job every day.
But the thing is, once you stopped doing that, you know,
you look at yourself blue where that comes from?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
It's crazy blue blue? Yeah, And you know you go
to doctors and all that.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh, at your height, you know you should be wearing
one hundred and seventy pounds like the last time I
weighed one seventy hours a young buck.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Right, you want me to look like her crankhead, and
I can't do that, right, I'm like, come.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
On, but the thing is.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I mean, as my wife said, she don't want me
to look like a bibblehead, right exactly, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is your head already big enough?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
That's between y'all two, I'm just right right right, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Want you walking around your you don't have enough muscles
in your neck, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
But you know it's crazy like you doing try to
join these gems you know where I understand, but these rices,
I'm like, no, I'm not paying that, especially when you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Have mother nature.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I'm about to say that, right, I'm about to say
that you can buy your own I mean, get your
own weights if you want to stand stepper, that's right,
like you know what that sometimes that's why it's good
to go up to the track, you know, up there
you can walk around, or you can walk up the
bleachers up.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And down right right, you know, for free?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Right that for a let?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It worn't free?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So why should I pay you twenty five dollars a
month and thirty nine dollars on yearly fee?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That stuff adds up, yep, it does. Mother nature is free, yep.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and the only issue that I know I have
for quite a while, as y'all just heard me talk
about gout right right, you know. I you know, I
had a problem with my gout for a while, just
trying to manage it, you know what I mean. And
so and then I already have flat feet, so my
(13:11):
archers were hurt after a period of time, you know
what I mean, And so and I thought I had
I think they called shin splints as well. So I
had all these issues with my feet, ankle whatever. I
can't tell you how many times, like my left foot
is just a problem foot, like it might be a
(13:32):
sleepy foot, you know what I mean, you know. And
so I can't tell you how many times I have
pulled a muscle in my foot, strained my foot whatever
it might have been.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And that's the foot that has a gut in it.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, you know, that's why your fo.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, pretty much pretty much. It's just it's just.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
You know, and so.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That would hinder me and like you said, taking a step,
you know, hey, I want all right, right, let's go walking.
Oh man, I really don't know, you know, And because
I baby that foot, right, what's wrong with us is wrong?
My knee is jacked up, right, right, So now that's
all out of alignment. What's what else is wrong?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
My hid? Right, it's hurting right because I'm babying it.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Because you're babying it, right. So basically you just giving
yourself excuses not to do.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It right, so right, you know, So I think that's
that's what some of us do.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
We have these built in excuses right as to why
we can't do X, Y and Z exactly exactly, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
But I ain't trying to be on this blood pssure
medicine forever.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Nah, man, No, I mean on the medication. I like
only take my town offs, that's it. But something got
to take every day, right, And I see, you know
my mom my parents. You know, I'm like, what my
mom pulled out that medicine Joan, I'm like, what the
heck is that?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Oh? These are she didn't say medicine. She does this
my medications. Medications.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
You had to take like six or seven different pills
a day. That's crazy, man. And you know, you know,
you don't know what in the actions you go have, man,
In fact, you it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I mean, so I gotta take a medicine to counteract
this medicine that that works with this, right right, Like
you know, it's too much to be worse too much.
Sometimes it can it can get depressing.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
You're like, man, I gotta do something. You gotta make
a change. The money gotta make a.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Change you right right okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
you gotta set in your mind all right like me.
You know, sometimes you can't find a person to walk
with you, work out with you. You gotta put do
it yourself. You gotta do it yourself. And you know,
excuse throw some music on you, be flowing, or have
a conversation with somebody walking around the track, right yeah, yeah, budget,
(15:48):
there's no excuse, right you know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So so like like I said, listen to you, no,
I just gotta really put it like no, Maurice, get
yourself moving, right yeah, let's go here and do this,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And but see that my challenge as well is me
wanting to be consistent with it.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Okay, I don't Sometimes I don't like starting something knowing
that I can't do it right as often as I want,
because I don't want to feel like I'm a failure.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, yeah, that's that's my issue.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Right, that's a lot of people's issues, y just yours,
and you just got to set there, you know, set
what can you do?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
All right?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You might have to start off like every other day, yeah,
or you know, at least do it like two to
three times a week.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Wake your way up.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Some people do it seven days a week, you do
they do? I mean, it depends on how you want
it bad how badly you want.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh yeah, I mean, and that's why, you know, when
you and I talked about it, I'm like, hey, you know,
maybe if we did it, I at least want to
do it five days a week. But we can do that,
you know, not wanting to take up you know, Saturday
or Sunday, you know whatever, but you know, Monday through Friday,
no commit to it, Like that's my mind. I mean,
I understand everybody's not going always feel the greatest, you know, right,
(17:11):
you know, but I would I wouldn't mind getting up,
moving and doing it. I mean, I know that there's
at least one day a week where I can't do
it at the time I would want to do it,
you know, But that's I mean one day a month,
but otherwise all the other days, I can do it,
you know. And so yeah, so that's something that you know,
(17:33):
Mike and I we're going to probably once we do it,
we probably record from there.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
We could do that.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, exactly, well we're doing it like hey, you like right, no, right,
take a walk with us mentality exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You know, back then, you know, we got the you know,
we got the neighbor. It's got the family out. We're
doing the thing. You know, you know, it could it
could be done.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Most definitely, especially if if that's your goal, like you said,
that's your goal, and you got somebody to do it with, right, exactly,
it could be done. That's that's the difference.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I mean, honestly, it's better to do it with others, right,
you know, you know, shoot the breeze past the time
you'd be like, oh damn, I did a mile, four
miles whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Wow, you know, yeah, it is what it is, because
I mean, because that's the thing, like, I gotta I
get some miles in, right, yeah, you know, I can't
just do oh yeah, we did two laps, you know, yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Because they said at least, like I read, you know,
at least get in like one hundred and fifty minutes
a week.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's like what about a half an hour
a day?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Right, right?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, But I mean i've uh, you know, we you
know what, y'all, We're gonna give y'all an update where
we are right by the end of the summer. Right,
I'm like, Yo, this is what we're doing, This is how,
you know, how it's working out. This is where we
started off at. You know, maybe we just need to
do that challenge, right, and maybe we are y'all challenging
(19:00):
as well. Do y'all want to be a part of
this challenge as well? If y'all want to, like just
let us know, how about that?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You know what I mean? So again, everybody is doing
it together exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
We're all in on this definitely, right because all of
us everybody don't want to be on medication for the
rest of their life.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I mean, you know we hear from you. That's more
motive motivation for us, you know, like vice Ral, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You know. So so if y'all, you know, take a
look at a picture one day and y'all see Chubby
my reason next day, you like, when he becomes miss
the Olympian, Well, guess what.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I ain't going miscol.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
I'm like, okay, cool, ain't trying to be muscled date,
but the bustle bound days definitely day over few.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I ain't trying to be all like that either, but
you know, but just enough where y'all be like, all right,
I could tell like you're fit.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Yeah, basically I want to run to the corner without
running out the running out of breath, right right, right.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right, you know? So so yeah, y'all, you know, just
let us know what you'all thought.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Sorry, y'all doing as far as fitness and how committed
or have you been with yours?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What's your journey?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
There?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You go, and remember no late nackt snacks. If you
don't snack, snack on some cook No not no cookies.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yeah that was some salary sticks. Yeah, I say salary
sticks and some apples stuff like that. Not no livestore
on an oyster is nothing like that, you know. I
mean that's a whole nother All right, we'll talk about
that next.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Time, because you may want that for other reasons. Dave
are y'all. Yeah, we thank y'all very much for listening.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
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