July 28, 2025 • 31 mins
In this inspiring episode of Authentic Talks, host Shanta interviews Pastor Steve Reynolds—author of Bod4God and founder of Capital Baptist Church. Known nationally as the "anti-fat pastor,"
Steve shares how he lost over 100 pounds by combining faith, fitness, and healthy eating.
Discover the powerful connection between spiritual growth and physical wellness, and how small lifestyle changes can lead to long-term health benefits. Pastor Steve also opens up about building a close-knit multigenerational family, staying rooted in community, and his mission to help others overcome obesity and chronic health conditions.
Whether you’re looking to lose weight, eat healthier, strengthen your faith, or reconnect with family values—this episode offers real talk, practical advice, and hope for lasting transformation.
Bod4God shows you how to:
Pastor Steve's websites and social media:
Website URL: http://www.pastorstevereynolds.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057108804050YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PastorSteveReynolds
Connect with the host:
Instagram: @AuthenticTalks2.0
Email: AuthenticShanta@gmail.com
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/authentic-talks-2-0-with-shanta--4116672/support.
Steve shares how he lost over 100 pounds by combining faith, fitness, and healthy eating.
Discover the powerful connection between spiritual growth and physical wellness, and how small lifestyle changes can lead to long-term health benefits. Pastor Steve also opens up about building a close-knit multigenerational family, staying rooted in community, and his mission to help others overcome obesity and chronic health conditions.
Whether you’re looking to lose weight, eat healthier, strengthen your faith, or reconnect with family values—this episode offers real talk, practical advice, and hope for lasting transformation.
Bod4God shows you how to:
- Honor God with your body and stop feeling guilty.
- Make change happen with a wellness plan tailored just for you and stick to your healthy goals for life.
- Manage your eating and retrain your taste buds to crave healthy foods.
- Get your body moving daily with fitness tips to increase energy.
- Build your circle of support to encourage, educate and equip you.
- Launch a fun and effective wellness program in your church or organization.
Pastor Steve's websites and social media:
Website URL: http://www.pastorstevereynolds.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057108804050YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PastorSteveReynolds
Connect with the host:
Instagram: @AuthenticTalks2.0
Email: AuthenticShanta@gmail.com
Website: www.AuthenticTalks2.com
Facebook: AuthenticTalks2
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/authentic-talks-2-0-with-shanta--4116672/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi guys, Welcome back to Authentic Talks. My name is
Chante Generally, and I am your host. On today's episode,
we're speaking with the author of Bod for God. Today's
episode speaks to faith, health and purpose, and the power
of family. I'm thrilled to welcome Pastor Steve Reynolds to
(00:20):
the show. He's not only been serving his community for
over forty years as the founder of Capital Baptist Church
in North Virginia, but he's also the author of several
inspiring books, including one that we'll be diving in today
titled Bod for God. We'll be talking about his powerful
(00:40):
personal journey, the intersection of faith and fitness, and how
he's managed to keep his family connected across generations. The
conversation is packed with wisdom warmth, so get ready to
be inspired before we dive in with today's episode. I
do want to talk about and share with you that
there's so many benefits of healthy eating, and when we're
(01:04):
taking off even a modest weight loss of five to
ten percent of that body weight, there's health improvements from.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That weight loss.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Again, those improvements in dietary quality can lead to a
significantly better health outcomes and it really translates to real
economic savings, emphasizing the fact that whole foods reducing ultra
processed intake. It includes being heart healthy, nutrient dense food
(01:34):
choices like nuts and whole grains, and this supports both
longevity and everyday wellness. And I do want to give
a disclaimer that I am not a health coach or
a nutritionist, but I myself had a personal journey as
well with my weight and managed to change my entire
diet and do additional things as well to help to
(01:57):
live a healthier life continuing to learn. So let's go
ahead and dive on in with today's episode. Please welcome
pastor Steve Reynolds too Authentic Talks.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Authentic Talks is all about authentic conversations. This show is
all about growth, love, respect, success, mind, body and spirit.
If you're looking to grow and become your authentic self,
then this is the podcast for you, and I am
your host, Chante.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Welcome to the show. Hi Steve, Welcome to Authentic Talks.
I'm excited to have you here and to talk about
your book and this amazing journey you've been on. Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Well, thanks for having me. Shante I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We're glad to have you. Before we dive in, can
I have you introduce yourself to our listeners please U.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So, I'm actually a pastor right outside of Washington, DC
in northern Virginia. I started at church over forty years
ago Capital Baptist Church and have been there ever since.
And so I'm thankful for that opportunity. But also God's
opened up the door for me to write some books.
I've been five different books, and today we'll have to
(03:13):
talk about bod for the best thing about me is
I'm a married man. I got an awesome white three
wonderful children, all three of them are married. And God's
given all three of my kids three kids. That means
I'm a grandpapa denied. That's the wonderful joy in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Wow, of nine, are they all with you? Guys out
in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
We're very blessed in our area. It's unusual, people scattered
all over the place, but we're blessed out. Our whole
family close by. We literally do life together. It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh, I love that. That's really good. You can probably
give us some pointers on how parents can keep all
generations together because there seems to be so much divide, right, Yeah, yeah,
I have to ask you. I do want to talk
about your book, Bod for God, because I love the
story of how you came to writing this book and
of your journey. But before we dive in, I want
(04:10):
to ask you, how have things been going with the church.
Do you find that after COVID things were a little
bit different? How was COVID and how'd you survive during COVID?
What does it look like now?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, well, there's definitely a divide there, I mean, no
doubt about it, and COVID was very difficult. I think
the good thing for our church and thankfully a lot
of other churches, we learned to pivot and do things online. Okay, Yeah,
So we really got serious about that and tried to
do really good presentation and we've kept that going and
(04:43):
so even now we have a good online following. And
there's people that came on site before COVID and they're
not coming back.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah okay, but we got a lot of people have
come back.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
But it's interesting to me people that can on site
for years will good number of them have just remained online.
I think that's one of the biggest one. But really, honestly,
there's certain things in our church, certain ministries literally that
are still lagging way behind. It's the rest of the
watch and experience.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
All that is because of COVID, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So, yeah, we're cringer habit and none of us are
the same because of cod it impacted. So I think
that's yeah. So I think we have to, you know,
realize that moving forwards something we'll always identify with. We
were there when the world shutting down.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yes, I love that you guys, I understood to pivot
and still reach out to the people who were at
home during that time because there was a lot of
people that were going through a lot of a lot
of different things, And so I think that's good. It
also allows for the church to grow even in the
upcoming years with it being online, because eventually people that
(05:57):
have never heard of the church will find it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So yeah, that's one hundred percent correct. And because of
writing books to people that did discover the church that
actually participate in the online service. So and so anyway
we can help people, I sottle turn.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
To well pastor Steve. Your story is incredible and can
you take us back to the moment when you realize
it was time to make a serious change, not just physically,
but spiritually as well.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, we're talking about health and wellness is specifically you know,
weight and obesie. I'm one of those people that struggled
with childhood OBSI I weighed over one hundred pounds in
first grade, actually one hundred and three. That was back
when the average kid weighed fifty two. I weighed one
hundred and three. So I'm double the side. Okay, I'm
not just a little bit bigger. I'm double the average kid.
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At that time, I did start using that to become
a decent athlete fifty football. I was a big kid,
but I was able to use my size to my
van and played football and end up going on to
college of a football football scholarship. At the end of
that I made a horrible decision and liftally walked off
the football field and said, I'm never ever ever going
(07:11):
to exercise again. In my wife, I was sick of it.
I was like literally eight years old till like twenty
two years old. That coach is yelling at me. I
was done with it. Sometimes we said we're gonna do
this stuff that we don't do well I kept my
promise to myself. I sugar kept my word. But for
a quarter of a century, I kept eating like a
(07:32):
football and I got up to about almost three hundred
and fifty pounds, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes. I
was a sick man, and honestly, I felt like I
was going to die. I think I wouldn't be allowed
today if I wouldn't have made the change. I wasn't
one of those people that tried to lose weight. But
I did get to this awakening where I said, Okay, listen,
(07:53):
you're gonna die. Okay, You're literally gonna die. And you
got this awesome wife, these three beautiful children, and you know,
you got this great church. You get to do life
with them, and you got a lot to live for. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, day, Okay,
you need to make a change. So I just had
this awakening that I'm going to make a change. And
(08:15):
so I'm a pastor, but more important, I'm the child
of God. I prayed and I said, God, what should
I do? And I just thought, I said to be
well pastor stick Okay, it doesn't call me past What
did you tell people to do wh they got a
struggle or a sin or whatever. Well, I tell him
to look at the Bible. And I just thought, God
said to me, well, why don't you follow your own advice,
(08:38):
Why don't you look at the Bible? And so I did,
and so God for God is based on I called
the greatest fault book in the world. Just through the
Bible that God helped me to changeform my life and
my health for today one hundred and thirty pounds later.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Congratulations, know a big guy.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But as far as I know, I'm diseased free. So well,
praise God.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yes for here, congratulations because that is huge. That's like
one hundred and thirty pounds. That's a lot to carry.
And that's a blessing to have off of your body
because I think that you prolonged your life. Just wou
get it off.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Pastor Steve, you mentioned that the Bible was your turning
point for with your health.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Can you share with all of us what scripture our
spiritual insights? First, open your eyes to treating your mind
as a temple.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah. So basically I like to study words in the Bible.
I just did a service. She's called but God. Those
two words, but God, they're there about three dozen times.
It's when God shows up. Basically bud God, you know.
And so I like to study words. So I thought, okay,
I'm gonna sell the word body. There's gotta be some
help for me in the Bible of Art. Just tell
(09:51):
you what the Bible says about the body, dug in.
It's in there one hundred and seventy nine times at work.
Sometimes the Bible describes the church is the body of Christ,
and sometimes it talks about our future body and heaven.
But most of the passages talked about my body. Right now,
I said, okay, I'm gonna study these passages, these body passages,
(10:13):
and from that I developed these four what are the
good for God keys? Basically which is D is for dedication,
I is for inspiration, is for eating, exercise, and teas
for teeth. And so from that study and other things
related to the body and the Bible, I came up
with these four keys. And that's what opened up a
(10:33):
new life for me.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh, I love that. That's a great share it. What
does it mean to honor God with your body?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, well, I'm all about maximizing the body. I mean,
you know, I'm not talking. You know, there's this's ease
ex street. Okay. There's people to perfect their body, okay,
and they just you know, all their life is just
focused on their body and try to make it perfect.
And then unfortunately there's many people that just reject their body,
that'll like themselves. They don't like the body. It's sad.
(11:03):
So for me, it's about just getting the most I
can out of my body, just maximize it and doing
my best to honor God and please him the best
I can, making choices that are good choice. One words,
the Bible says, whatever you eat or drink, do it
to God's glory, So you got to ask yourself, okay,
is what I'm eating and drinking here truly glorifying to God?
(11:25):
Thinking about that because the Bible says we're made by
God and for God. That's where the idea God for
God comes from. And the honoring God says, class is
one succeed and the Bible says were made by God.
He's our creator before God, so that means he's to
be our controller as well. Keeping that balance is critical.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Mm hmm. Yeah. I like that share too. I was
someone who struggled with my weight and when you mentioned
there's people that don't like their bodies. I went through
a phase where I was like unhappy with my appearance
and was like, I need to lose weight. But I
never really could get enough motivation to do it on
my own until I went to the doctor one day
(12:08):
and found out that I was pre diabetic. When I
found out I was pre diabetic, you would have thought
that someone was telling me that I was going to
die next week. Because I was sad. I was like,
I gotta do something.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
What do I need to do?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I turned to Facebook and I wrote a post on
there too, like all of my friends, and I was
like I went to the doctor and I said I'm
pre diabetic, and you just would have thought it was
so much more. But I didn't want shots. I was like,
the heck with that. I don't want to have.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
To do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I went to a weight loss clinic and paid money
and then they gave me these like hey, this will
take away your appetite. That worked, and it took off
thirty pounds or forty five pounds, but then I gained
double that back when I got off the medication. So
I recognize that you have to have the right mindset
and you want it and sometimes you have to make
(13:02):
major decisions in your life. To this day, I now
have to watch the soda and all the things that.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm really big on a lifestyle. Number one,
it's not just about the scale tell the one aspect
of all that. There's more to it. You gotta just
kind of keep keep keep that in the back of
your mind. But but you know, these these short term,
quick fixed plans. The truth, like you said that, it
can work as far as they can change the scale somewhat.
(13:30):
But the problem is, if it's not a lifestyle plan,
it's not gonna work. You need to enjoy it. I
literally enjoy my life to the I do't feel like
I'm giving up anything or suffering. And that's what that
takes time. The way my book for Good's written, it's
written to develop a lifestyle plan, a lived plan, just
some short term diet plan.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I love that, So a lifestyle change. And there is
a huge difference with the lifestyles like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
It's not mine, it's a major we're in a microwave culture. Well,
I all want things to have quickly. But you know
the truth is, you need to think about Okay, I say, okay,
if You're not gonna if you don't think you have
to do this the rest of your life. Just just
take a different way, Okay, start start working on you know,
like well, basically you got to retrain your taste buds.
(14:16):
So you got ten thousand taste buds for the reason
you crave what you crave is because of a repetition.
For me, those ice cream like very nice. Most nights.
Every night I would have a little bit of ice cream,
but it was probably like a thousand calories. I grew
up that way. Yeah, in my home as a child.
When I got married, I carry it on, that wonderful tradition,
(14:39):
and then I taught it to him my kids, you know.
And so to try to change that, it's not easy
because you have these trippers to God. So basically you
got to retrain your cravings and that takes some time,
because you know, you really want to enjoy your life.
I created taste buds. You want just enjoy it food.
It's not like it's bad as something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
How much was physical versus spiritual transformation, It's.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
The whole package. And I think the benefit for me
is that I asked out to be my personal strength,
ask God to help ask God's strengthen you. And you
know there's a great versus. The Bible says I could
do all things to Christ. It strengthens me. Lean into him,
rely on him, ask him to help you them play
by say God, I'm weak. It's a little hard airing committee. Yes,
(15:27):
I need your help. You know, do that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So you turned your personal journey into a movement that's
helped countless others. How did you begin implementing this in
your church and community? Did your kids end up being
overweight as well?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, we struggled. So basically for me, it started out
as a private decision and private journey. And the reason
for that is in my whole life, I never heard
anybody talk about this in church. I never had a
pastor and a professor in college. In my mind, you
would never were talking about health and white loss. So
(16:02):
the church service, it never occurred to me that would
even be possible. I'm staying the word body and coming
up with this di e t across stick for me
when I got to about seventy pounds of weight, laws
my church ouvigation was saying what are you doing? I
would actually make fun of healthy people. I literally couldn't
care less when anybody thought of me. And God knows
(16:22):
it's true. I didn't really care what God thought about it, Okay,
I was. I was, this is one air of my
life and I was going to live a bog for
steep okay. And so here I am changing and I
churches on what are you doing, man, This is not
our pastor, you know, And they started saying, tell us
what you're doing. And so I finally made a decision
(16:42):
that you know, I'm gonna actually preach on this. So
this is a cool story. So basically guy said, Okay,
I'm gonna preach on this. I'm gonna do a series
called Bog for God. And a few times a year
were like a postcard mailing to the community for different
things like we just mad on one today with a vacation,
Bibles or whatever. But at times us a sermon series.
So I send this card out to the community, Bod
(17:04):
for God. Here comes here steverail pastor steavebel is talking
about having the bod for Good. And I get a
phone call from a reporter for the Washington Post. She says, hey,
I got this card in my hand.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
She says, this is interesting. It's not every day you
hear a pastor check this out, especially a Baptist pastor
talk about weight boss. She says, that's unusual. I said
it sure is. She's saying, I tell him here these sermons.
I said, yes. But the whole time I'm hervious, you know,
(17:38):
and she comes. The first time she comes, she walks
out the door. It's not even say goodbye. It's over.
Thank God. She comes back the next week, I says,
this is excellent. I'm going to write an article about this,
and you can google it. It ended up on the
front page of the Washington Post, ended up being about
five or six some of the newspapers, and within days
(18:01):
I had local, national, international media all after me. Nice
and I'm just it's a miracle. I just feel like God,
you know, I didn't choose this. I didn't pick this.
God just did this. So basically, I'm thankful that He's
given me this opportunity. So it's from Hilton. I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's really nice. They say, you always have to be ready.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Because you never know when that day is no, when
your day's gonna come up. There you fly on them.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And you are a best selling author, your book has
made it there. I think that's really a good thing
because it is helping a lot of people. How has
what you have done in your life transferred over to
the family.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Are they now like, yeah, we're together, we're committed, but
they struggle. I mean I strugg Okay, this is a
hard area for us. Well, we're all together about one
daughter just also over one hundred pounds, so we're in
this together. The fourth key is T is for team.
So you got gas medication, eyes with inspiration teen. Big
(19:05):
part of your team has got a be the family.
These are close to see you you know, you know,
I mean, I mean there's even studies out there and
I have one or two of them in the book,
and they talk about how your friendships impact your health habits.
People you're hanging out with can have a big impact
on you. That is sure to be blank woman.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So when you were a child growing up, did you
have overweight parents?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Not too bad. I grew up in a small town
in southern Virginia and blue collar family, hardworking people, my
mother who was always on the dot. Okay, it wasn't
like a real big woman. It was that southern culture.
I don't know if you were or people talk about
or experience and where where you know, the food is
(19:53):
important and greasya and sugar. People like my mother really
showed her love food logout like I'm gonna take just
LIKEE neal for you or whatever we're gonna eat. She
was a good cook, she was a good selling cook.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes, is that right? And food does taste good when
it's good the right way. And it's symbolic of bringing
people together like Thanksgiving when you have dinner every night
or as many nights as you can with family sitting
at the table together. It brings a different experience. Yeah,
it's used in celebration and gratitude, all of those things
(20:29):
and love. You know, yes, I could see how that
could happen, you know, like you got me ready to
go eat. But I am interested in bad for God.
This is good stuff. I think it is empowering to people.
And I love that it's a family you talk about
team and that it's a family journey for all of you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah. So basically Blog for God. That is designed too
as an individual studying, but also you know, as a
group study. And so it's twelve weeks. It's not really
a reading book. It's more of a life change process.
Look but you can do about yourself and also have
an online course that you can do as an individuals.
(21:14):
But you know, getting together and three other people or
you know, hundreds and hundreds of churches have done as
a group study. It doesn't have to be a church
and being anywhere getting together and talking about it. Most
people that are struggling with eating, a lot of it's
emotional eating, life's hard, life shop and lots of people
turn to food for comfort. And in the Christian community
(21:37):
it's totally acceptable. Christians are the most overweight people who
are in America. Part of that is it's part of
the Christian culture that we can set us all go
figure out all you can eat like to work. Yeah,
people need support. People need to be able to talk
and share, talk about their hurts and pain that they've
been through and learn how to deal with that with
(21:58):
God's self. And that is trying to allow on food
because that's temporary company that it doesn't lack. And in
the end, you know, the Bible says if you sew
to your flesh or corruption, if you just give yourself
to your flesh and don't take care of yourself, you're
gonna corrupt your your body correct your health so so
people can get together and study together. That's even better.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If your body could talk to you today, what do
you think that it would say to you based off
of how far you've come, Let's say thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Now when you first started out, you buy that same thing,
it says, what are you doing? What is this substance water?
I've never felt that before?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
See, so you do drink more water in your diet today.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
At the end of every chapter, it's called small steps
to light and the three private areas are heating, exercise
in walk. So so water is a key ingredient to
help because your body is mainly walk. Okay, it is
like like I think, like the brain. I think it's
like eight inches of water or whatever you are. You're
(23:04):
One time I had a doctor saying you dropped you
off a ten story buildings and you hit the cement.
You just flatter cause your water. We're all water so great.
I'll never forget. That's not a very beautiful picture.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But what would you say to the person who is
listening right now who feels like lasting change is just
impossible for that well that goes back.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You gotta lay the right foundations. People always want to
go to the exercide park, like what do you eat?
How do you exercise? That's not where you start. That's
I call them the New York's Resolution crowd and last
about three days or whatever. You got to come back
and you got to lay a good foundation. And that's
D and I so D is dedication and for me
as a Christian, that means dedicating myself to God. But
(23:53):
if somebody's not a Persian, it still takes dedication. That's
still the foundation. You got to commit. You got to
go all in. And for me, it's I'm I'm gonna give.
Like I told you this, I had a bod for Steep, Okay,
so I had to say I gotta have a bod
for God. But then the eye is inspiration and so
that's the muscle of change. So you're having trouble changing.
(24:14):
The place to look is your inspiration. You have to
pick motivation. That's that's you know. It's it's fine to well,
I like to you know, there's a wedding come up,
and I want to wear this stress whatever. That's that's fine, okay,
But that's that's too tempering for me. You gotta think
bigger than that. How about living so yes, yeah, So
basically you gotta find your motivation, you find your inspiration,
(24:37):
and the good thing is you will shift where your
body does that, thank you, and it will happen. It
happens quicker than you think of that. I like to
say that nothing tastes so good as a bod for
God feels, and I mean, it really is a great
thing when you when you start seeing some changes, you know,
and you start having more energy and feeling not quite
(24:59):
a sluggish along the way. So basically, it's worth it.
You're worth it. You're worth taking care of yourself. You're
worth changing. You only got one body. Your health is
but lived on your life. You're You're never gonna rise
any higher in your life than you were called allows
you to do so. So if you want to accomplish
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some great things in your life, you gotta take care
of yourself because if you don't, it's gonna hold you down.
It's gonna hold you down. So make the change, make
that change, make that shange.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
What legacy do you hope to leave with God?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
For God, I want to have a legacy where people
understand there the Bible. But most people when they think
I'm mother, this a way. You know I'm gonna change
and they can go see you wait Watchers or Jenny Gregg.
I'm not against them at all. I just don't need
to go down. So I got the Bible. I passionate
about showing people to me. It's common sense. I believe
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God's to create. I believe God cred it, and I
believe he gave us a book called the The Bible
tells us how to live, and it's it's not surprising
to me. The Bible will give me some guidance on
how to take care of my health. It says God
made so basically that's my niche. I'm not a doctor,
I'm not a trainer. I'm actually a very ordinary person
still struggling or from perfect. But I hold my legacy.
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That dude that says the Bible can help you lose Wait.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yes, yes, I love that. So where can listeners learn
more and joining your wellness program? Or how can they
bring good for God into the church or their group?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah? So, so the So God is available pretty much
any bookseller. And so if you go on Amazon, make
sure you get the new version. It's it's revised and updated. Okay,
because there's more than one version that they won't take
down old stuff. Okay, so they don't. Yeah, that's hard
and get that. There's we put resell books and stuff
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that keep circulating out there. So so exactly get the
rights updated. But the best place to go is my
website pastor Steverednolds dot com Pastor Steve Bredolds dot com.
And the reason I say it's the best is because
there's free materials there. There's more explanation, there's more you know, examples.
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You know, the Bob for God is there, the course
is there, The Bob for God courses available there. The
other four books are on there. You know, my story's
on there. There's videos on there. You know, there's just
a lot of good stuff. There's a free startup thing
you can do quick start program you can sign up
for Pastor Steve bratls P A S T O R
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Steve S T E V E. Reynolds R E Y
n O L D S dot com. If you google
bog for God America's Anti fat past the website can
come up. Yeah, let's do it. Let's not procrastinate here,
no procrastinating. We're here. This is not by accident. We're
connecting here. This is intentional. God's got a plan and
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he wants to help us. So act I say, don't
not lose weight alone, team or losers, get on the
loser and tea. All right?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I like that, I really do. I enjoyed having you
on as a guest and to understand what bod for
God was all about. It's a movement. It's not just
about the scale, It's about a lifestyle. That's a powerful
message for those who may have been carrying unhealthy weight
and want to do something about it. It's a great
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support system that you've created here. Congratulations on your book
becoming a bestseller and on the weight loss and for
being able to keep it off because a lot of
people will take off weight but then they gain it all.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Back, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Okay, that's a lifest lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
All right? Before we end our episode, what is it
that you'd like to leave our listeners with? Is there
one takeaway or a message that you have not shared
that you want to let them know.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I just wank it forward. Your health is the lid
on your life, and I think you have a lot
of dreams, at least I hope you do. You got
a lot of goals aspirations. You know a lot you
want to do, okay, but you got to take the
help with you on that journey, okay, because if you don't,
it's going to hold you back and keep it from
being the man or woman you want to be, the husband,
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the wife of the parent, the grandparents, career, you know,
just a friend. Whatever you want to do in lie Okay,
Please realize that it's very, very important. Don't ignore it.
If they make it a priority. You're worth it. You
are one hundred percent worth it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You are worth it. We hope that you take it
to heart. Thank you so much, Pastor Steve Reynolds for
joining me on Authentic Talks. I really enjoyed the conversation
you guys. Go out and get this book. It's available
on Amazon and where books are sold, and you can
also go to Pastor Steve's website. All of the information
will be in the show notes for you guys. Thank
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you again. I really enjoyed having you as a guest.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Pastor Steve Reynolds for coming on Authentic Talks. I enjoy
the conversation with you, and I hope you all are
walking away as inspired as I am.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
From his dedications to serving his community.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
To his heartfelt approach to health, to the beautiful story
of a family that does life together. It's clear that
authenticity runs deep in his journey.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
If you're curious.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
About Pastor Steve's book, Bod for God, I highly recommend
checking it out. You'll find it's not just about weight loss,
it's about life transformation grounded in faith and discipline.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
As always, thank.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You all so much for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Be sure to take care of yourselves and each other.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Also, be sure to subscribe to the show, leave a review,
and share this episode with someone who could use a
little encouragement and truth today. Until next time, again, take
care of yourselves, keep it real, stay authentic, and take
good care. Thank you all so much for tuning in.
I'm chante with authentic Talks.
Hi guys, Welcome back to Authentic Talks. My name is
Chante Generally, and I am your host. On today's episode,
we're speaking with the author of Bod for God. Today's
episode speaks to faith, health and purpose, and the power
of family. I'm thrilled to welcome Pastor Steve Reynolds to
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the show. He's not only been serving his community for
over forty years as the founder of Capital Baptist Church
in North Virginia, but he's also the author of several
inspiring books, including one that we'll be diving in today
titled Bod for God. We'll be talking about his powerful
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personal journey, the intersection of faith and fitness, and how
he's managed to keep his family connected across generations. The
conversation is packed with wisdom warmth, so get ready to
be inspired before we dive in with today's episode. I
do want to talk about and share with you that
there's so many benefits of healthy eating, and when we're
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taking off even a modest weight loss of five to
ten percent of that body weight, there's health improvements from.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That weight loss.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Again, those improvements in dietary quality can lead to a
significantly better health outcomes and it really translates to real
economic savings, emphasizing the fact that whole foods reducing ultra
processed intake. It includes being heart healthy, nutrient dense food
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choices like nuts and whole grains, and this supports both
longevity and everyday wellness. And I do want to give
a disclaimer that I am not a health coach or
a nutritionist, but I myself had a personal journey as
well with my weight and managed to change my entire
diet and do additional things as well to help to
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live a healthier life continuing to learn. So let's go
ahead and dive on in with today's episode. Please welcome
pastor Steve Reynolds too Authentic Talks.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Authentic Talks is all about authentic conversations. This show is
all about growth, love, respect, success, mind, body and spirit.
If you're looking to grow and become your authentic self,
then this is the podcast for you, and I am
your host, Chante.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Welcome to the show. Hi Steve, Welcome to Authentic Talks.
I'm excited to have you here and to talk about
your book and this amazing journey you've been on. Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Well, thanks for having me. Shante I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We're glad to have you. Before we dive in, can
I have you introduce yourself to our listeners please U.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
So, I'm actually a pastor right outside of Washington, DC
in northern Virginia. I started at church over forty years
ago Capital Baptist Church and have been there ever since.
And so I'm thankful for that opportunity. But also God's
opened up the door for me to write some books.
I've been five different books, and today we'll have to
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talk about bod for the best thing about me is
I'm a married man. I got an awesome white three
wonderful children, all three of them are married. And God's
given all three of my kids three kids. That means
I'm a grandpapa denied. That's the wonderful joy in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Wow, of nine, are they all with you? Guys out
in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
We're very blessed in our area. It's unusual, people scattered
all over the place, but we're blessed out. Our whole
family close by. We literally do life together. It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh, I love that. That's really good. You can probably
give us some pointers on how parents can keep all
generations together because there seems to be so much divide, right, Yeah, yeah,
I have to ask you. I do want to talk
about your book, Bod for God, because I love the
story of how you came to writing this book and
of your journey. But before we dive in, I want
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to ask you, how have things been going with the church.
Do you find that after COVID things were a little
bit different? How was COVID and how'd you survive during COVID?
What does it look like now?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, well, there's definitely a divide there, I mean, no
doubt about it, and COVID was very difficult. I think
the good thing for our church and thankfully a lot
of other churches, we learned to pivot and do things online. Okay, Yeah,
So we really got serious about that and tried to
do really good presentation and we've kept that going and
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so even now we have a good online following. And
there's people that came on site before COVID and they're
not coming back.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah okay, but we got a lot of people have
come back.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
But it's interesting to me people that can on site
for years will good number of them have just remained online.
I think that's one of the biggest one. But really, honestly,
there's certain things in our church, certain ministries literally that
are still lagging way behind. It's the rest of the
watch and experience.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
All that is because of COVID, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So, yeah, we're cringer habit and none of us are
the same because of cod it impacted. So I think
that's yeah. So I think we have to, you know,
realize that moving forwards something we'll always identify with. We
were there when the world shutting down.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yes, I love that you guys, I understood to pivot
and still reach out to the people who were at
home during that time because there was a lot of
people that were going through a lot of a lot
of different things, And so I think that's good. It
also allows for the church to grow even in the
upcoming years with it being online, because eventually people that
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have never heard of the church will find it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So yeah, that's one hundred percent correct. And because of
writing books to people that did discover the church that
actually participate in the online service. So and so anyway
we can help people, I sottle turn.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
To well pastor Steve. Your story is incredible and can
you take us back to the moment when you realize
it was time to make a serious change, not just physically,
but spiritually as well.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, we're talking about health and wellness is specifically you know,
weight and obesie. I'm one of those people that struggled
with childhood OBSI I weighed over one hundred pounds in
first grade, actually one hundred and three. That was back
when the average kid weighed fifty two. I weighed one
hundred and three. So I'm double the side. Okay, I'm
not just a little bit bigger. I'm double the average kid.
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At that time, I did start using that to become
a decent athlete fifty football. I was a big kid,
but I was able to use my size to my
van and played football and end up going on to
college of a football football scholarship. At the end of
that I made a horrible decision and liftally walked off
the football field and said, I'm never ever ever going
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to exercise again. In my wife, I was sick of it.
I was like literally eight years old till like twenty
two years old. That coach is yelling at me. I
was done with it. Sometimes we said we're gonna do
this stuff that we don't do well I kept my
promise to myself. I sugar kept my word. But for
a quarter of a century, I kept eating like a
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football and I got up to about almost three hundred
and fifty pounds, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes. I
was a sick man, and honestly, I felt like I
was going to die. I think I wouldn't be allowed
today if I wouldn't have made the change. I wasn't
one of those people that tried to lose weight. But
I did get to this awakening where I said, Okay, listen,
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you're gonna die. Okay, You're literally gonna die. And you
got this awesome wife, these three beautiful children, and you know,
you got this great church. You get to do life
with them, and you got a lot to live for. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, day, Okay,
you need to make a change. So I just had
this awakening that I'm going to make a change. And
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so I'm a pastor, but more important, I'm the child
of God. I prayed and I said, God, what should
I do? And I just thought, I said to be
well pastor stick Okay, it doesn't call me past What
did you tell people to do wh they got a
struggle or a sin or whatever. Well, I tell him
to look at the Bible. And I just thought, God
said to me, well, why don't you follow your own advice,
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Why don't you look at the Bible? And so I did,
and so God for God is based on I called
the greatest fault book in the world. Just through the
Bible that God helped me to changeform my life and
my health for today one hundred and thirty pounds later.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Congratulations, know a big guy.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But as far as I know, I'm diseased free. So well,
praise God.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yes for here, congratulations because that is huge. That's like
one hundred and thirty pounds. That's a lot to carry.
And that's a blessing to have off of your body
because I think that you prolonged your life. Just wou
get it off.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Pastor Steve, you mentioned that the Bible was your turning
point for with your health.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Can you share with all of us what scripture our
spiritual insights? First, open your eyes to treating your mind
as a temple.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah. So basically I like to study words in the Bible.
I just did a service. She's called but God. Those
two words, but God, they're there about three dozen times.
It's when God shows up. Basically bud God, you know.
And so I like to study words. So I thought, okay,
I'm gonna sell the word body. There's gotta be some
help for me in the Bible of Art. Just tell
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you what the Bible says about the body, dug in.
It's in there one hundred and seventy nine times at work.
Sometimes the Bible describes the church is the body of Christ,
and sometimes it talks about our future body and heaven.
But most of the passages talked about my body. Right now,
I said, okay, I'm gonna study these passages, these body passages,
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and from that I developed these four what are the
good for God keys? Basically which is D is for dedication,
I is for inspiration, is for eating, exercise, and teas
for teeth. And so from that study and other things
related to the body and the Bible, I came up
with these four keys. And that's what opened up a
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new life for me.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh, I love that. That's a great share it. What
does it mean to honor God with your body?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, well, I'm all about maximizing the body. I mean,
you know, I'm not talking. You know, there's this's ease
ex street. Okay. There's people to perfect their body, okay,
and they just you know, all their life is just
focused on their body and try to make it perfect.
And then unfortunately there's many people that just reject their body,
that'll like themselves. They don't like the body. It's sad.
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So for me, it's about just getting the most I
can out of my body, just maximize it and doing
my best to honor God and please him the best
I can, making choices that are good choice. One words,
the Bible says, whatever you eat or drink, do it
to God's glory, So you got to ask yourself, okay,
is what I'm eating and drinking here truly glorifying to God?
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Thinking about that because the Bible says we're made by
God and for God. That's where the idea God for
God comes from. And the honoring God says, class is
one succeed and the Bible says were made by God.
He's our creator before God, so that means he's to
be our controller as well. Keeping that balance is critical.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Mm hmm. Yeah. I like that share too. I was
someone who struggled with my weight and when you mentioned
there's people that don't like their bodies. I went through
a phase where I was like unhappy with my appearance
and was like, I need to lose weight. But I
never really could get enough motivation to do it on
my own until I went to the doctor one day
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and found out that I was pre diabetic. When I
found out I was pre diabetic, you would have thought
that someone was telling me that I was going to
die next week. Because I was sad. I was like,
I gotta do something.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
What do I need to do?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I turned to Facebook and I wrote a post on
there too, like all of my friends, and I was
like I went to the doctor and I said I'm
pre diabetic, and you just would have thought it was
so much more. But I didn't want shots. I was like,
the heck with that. I don't want to have.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
To do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I went to a weight loss clinic and paid money
and then they gave me these like hey, this will
take away your appetite. That worked, and it took off
thirty pounds or forty five pounds, but then I gained
double that back when I got off the medication. So
I recognize that you have to have the right mindset
and you want it and sometimes you have to make
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major decisions in your life. To this day, I now
have to watch the soda and all the things that.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, yeah, so I'm really big on a lifestyle. Number one,
it's not just about the scale tell the one aspect
of all that. There's more to it. You gotta just
kind of keep keep keep that in the back of
your mind. But but you know, these these short term,
quick fixed plans. The truth, like you said that, it
can work as far as they can change the scale somewhat.
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But the problem is, if it's not a lifestyle plan,
it's not gonna work. You need to enjoy it. I
literally enjoy my life to the I do't feel like
I'm giving up anything or suffering. And that's what that
takes time. The way my book for Good's written, it's
written to develop a lifestyle plan, a lived plan, just
some short term diet plan.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I love that, So a lifestyle change. And there is
a huge difference with the lifestyles like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
It's not mine, it's a major we're in a microwave culture. Well,
I all want things to have quickly. But you know
the truth is, you need to think about Okay, I say, okay,
if You're not gonna if you don't think you have
to do this the rest of your life. Just just
take a different way, Okay, start start working on you know,
like well, basically you got to retrain your taste buds.
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So you got ten thousand taste buds for the reason
you crave what you crave is because of a repetition.
For me, those ice cream like very nice. Most nights.
Every night I would have a little bit of ice cream,
but it was probably like a thousand calories. I grew
up that way. Yeah, in my home as a child.
When I got married, I carry it on, that wonderful tradition,
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and then I taught it to him my kids, you know.
And so to try to change that, it's not easy
because you have these trippers to God. So basically you
got to retrain your cravings and that takes some time,
because you know, you really want to enjoy your life.
I created taste buds. You want just enjoy it food.
It's not like it's bad as something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
How much was physical versus spiritual transformation, It's.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
The whole package. And I think the benefit for me
is that I asked out to be my personal strength,
ask God to help ask God's strengthen you. And you
know there's a great versus. The Bible says I could
do all things to Christ. It strengthens me. Lean into him,
rely on him, ask him to help you them play
by say God, I'm weak. It's a little hard airing committee. Yes,
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I need your help. You know, do that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So you turned your personal journey into a movement that's
helped countless others. How did you begin implementing this in
your church and community? Did your kids end up being
overweight as well?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, we struggled. So basically for me, it started out
as a private decision and private journey. And the reason
for that is in my whole life, I never heard
anybody talk about this in church. I never had a
pastor and a professor in college. In my mind, you
would never were talking about health and white loss. So
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the church service, it never occurred to me that would
even be possible. I'm staying the word body and coming
up with this di e t across stick for me
when I got to about seventy pounds of weight, laws
my church ouvigation was saying what are you doing? I
would actually make fun of healthy people. I literally couldn't
care less when anybody thought of me. And God knows
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it's true. I didn't really care what God thought about it, Okay,
I was. I was, this is one air of my
life and I was going to live a bog for
steep okay. And so here I am changing and I
churches on what are you doing, man, This is not
our pastor, you know, And they started saying, tell us
what you're doing. And so I finally made a decision
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that you know, I'm gonna actually preach on this. So
this is a cool story. So basically guy said, Okay,
I'm gonna preach on this. I'm gonna do a series
called Bog for God. And a few times a year
were like a postcard mailing to the community for different
things like we just mad on one today with a vacation,
Bibles or whatever. But at times us a sermon series.
So I send this card out to the community, Bod
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for God. Here comes here steverail pastor steavebel is talking
about having the bod for Good. And I get a
phone call from a reporter for the Washington Post. She says, hey,
I got this card in my hand.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
She says, this is interesting. It's not every day you
hear a pastor check this out, especially a Baptist pastor
talk about weight boss. She says, that's unusual. I said
it sure is. She's saying, I tell him here these sermons.
I said, yes. But the whole time I'm hervious, you know,
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and she comes. The first time she comes, she walks
out the door. It's not even say goodbye. It's over.
Thank God. She comes back the next week, I says,
this is excellent. I'm going to write an article about this,
and you can google it. It ended up on the
front page of the Washington Post, ended up being about
five or six some of the newspapers, and within days
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I had local, national, international media all after me. Nice
and I'm just it's a miracle. I just feel like God,
you know, I didn't choose this. I didn't pick this.
God just did this. So basically, I'm thankful that He's
given me this opportunity. So it's from Hilton. I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's really nice. They say, you always have to be ready.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Because you never know when that day is no, when
your day's gonna come up. There you fly on them.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
And you are a best selling author, your book has
made it there. I think that's really a good thing
because it is helping a lot of people. How has
what you have done in your life transferred over to
the family.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Are they now like, yeah, we're together, we're committed, but
they struggle. I mean I strugg Okay, this is a
hard area for us. Well, we're all together about one
daughter just also over one hundred pounds, so we're in
this together. The fourth key is T is for team.
So you got gas medication, eyes with inspiration teen. Big
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part of your team has got a be the family.
These are close to see you you know, you know,
I mean, I mean there's even studies out there and
I have one or two of them in the book,
and they talk about how your friendships impact your health habits.
People you're hanging out with can have a big impact
on you. That is sure to be blank woman.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So when you were a child growing up, did you
have overweight parents?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Not too bad. I grew up in a small town
in southern Virginia and blue collar family, hardworking people, my
mother who was always on the dot. Okay, it wasn't
like a real big woman. It was that southern culture.
I don't know if you were or people talk about
or experience and where where you know, the food is
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important and greasya and sugar. People like my mother really
showed her love food logout like I'm gonna take just
LIKEE neal for you or whatever we're gonna eat. She
was a good cook, she was a good selling cook.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes, is that right? And food does taste good when
it's good the right way. And it's symbolic of bringing
people together like Thanksgiving when you have dinner every night
or as many nights as you can with family sitting
at the table together. It brings a different experience. Yeah,
it's used in celebration and gratitude, all of those things
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and love. You know, yes, I could see how that
could happen, you know, like you got me ready to
go eat. But I am interested in bad for God.
This is good stuff. I think it is empowering to people.
And I love that it's a family you talk about
team and that it's a family journey for all of you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah. So basically Blog for God. That is designed too
as an individual studying, but also you know, as a
group study. And so it's twelve weeks. It's not really
a reading book. It's more of a life change process.
Look but you can do about yourself and also have
an online course that you can do as an individuals.
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But you know, getting together and three other people or
you know, hundreds and hundreds of churches have done as
a group study. It doesn't have to be a church
and being anywhere getting together and talking about it. Most
people that are struggling with eating, a lot of it's
emotional eating, life's hard, life shop and lots of people
turn to food for comfort. And in the Christian community
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it's totally acceptable. Christians are the most overweight people who
are in America. Part of that is it's part of
the Christian culture that we can set us all go
figure out all you can eat like to work. Yeah,
people need support. People need to be able to talk
and share, talk about their hurts and pain that they've
been through and learn how to deal with that with
(21:58):
God's self. And that is trying to allow on food
because that's temporary company that it doesn't lack. And in
the end, you know, the Bible says if you sew
to your flesh or corruption, if you just give yourself
to your flesh and don't take care of yourself, you're
gonna corrupt your your body correct your health so so
people can get together and study together. That's even better.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If your body could talk to you today, what do
you think that it would say to you based off
of how far you've come, Let's say thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Now when you first started out, you buy that same thing,
it says, what are you doing? What is this substance water?
I've never felt that before?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
See, so you do drink more water in your diet today.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
At the end of every chapter, it's called small steps
to light and the three private areas are heating, exercise
in walk. So so water is a key ingredient to
help because your body is mainly walk. Okay, it is
like like I think, like the brain. I think it's
like eight inches of water or whatever you are. You're
(23:04):
One time I had a doctor saying you dropped you
off a ten story buildings and you hit the cement.
You just flatter cause your water. We're all water so great.
I'll never forget. That's not a very beautiful picture.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But what would you say to the person who is
listening right now who feels like lasting change is just
impossible for that well that goes back.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
You gotta lay the right foundations. People always want to
go to the exercide park, like what do you eat?
How do you exercise? That's not where you start. That's
I call them the New York's Resolution crowd and last
about three days or whatever. You got to come back
and you got to lay a good foundation. And that's
D and I so D is dedication and for me
as a Christian, that means dedicating myself to God. But
(23:53):
if somebody's not a Persian, it still takes dedication. That's
still the foundation. You got to commit. You got to
go all in. And for me, it's I'm I'm gonna give.
Like I told you this, I had a bod for Steep, Okay,
so I had to say I gotta have a bod
for God. But then the eye is inspiration and so
that's the muscle of change. So you're having trouble changing.
(24:14):
The place to look is your inspiration. You have to
pick motivation. That's that's you know. It's it's fine to well,
I like to you know, there's a wedding come up,
and I want to wear this stress whatever. That's that's fine, okay,
But that's that's too tempering for me. You gotta think
bigger than that. How about living so yes, yeah, So
basically you gotta find your motivation, you find your inspiration,
(24:37):
and the good thing is you will shift where your
body does that, thank you, and it will happen. It
happens quicker than you think of that. I like to
say that nothing tastes so good as a bod for
God feels, and I mean, it really is a great
thing when you when you start seeing some changes, you know,
and you start having more energy and feeling not quite
(24:59):
a sluggish along the way. So basically, it's worth it.
You're worth it. You're worth taking care of yourself. You're
worth changing. You only got one body. Your health is
but lived on your life. You're You're never gonna rise
any higher in your life than you were called allows
you to do so. So if you want to accomplish
(25:20):
some great things in your life, you gotta take care
of yourself because if you don't, it's gonna hold you down.
It's gonna hold you down. So make the change, make
that change, make that shange.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
What legacy do you hope to leave with God?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
For God, I want to have a legacy where people
understand there the Bible. But most people when they think
I'm mother, this a way. You know I'm gonna change
and they can go see you wait Watchers or Jenny Gregg.
I'm not against them at all. I just don't need
to go down. So I got the Bible. I passionate
about showing people to me. It's common sense. I believe
(25:59):
God's to create. I believe God cred it, and I
believe he gave us a book called the The Bible
tells us how to live, and it's it's not surprising
to me. The Bible will give me some guidance on
how to take care of my health. It says God
made so basically that's my niche. I'm not a doctor,
I'm not a trainer. I'm actually a very ordinary person
still struggling or from perfect. But I hold my legacy.
(26:23):
That dude that says the Bible can help you lose Wait.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yes, yes, I love that. So where can listeners learn
more and joining your wellness program? Or how can they
bring good for God into the church or their group?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah? So, so the So God is available pretty much
any bookseller. And so if you go on Amazon, make
sure you get the new version. It's it's revised and updated. Okay,
because there's more than one version that they won't take
down old stuff. Okay, so they don't. Yeah, that's hard
and get that. There's we put resell books and stuff
(27:01):
that keep circulating out there. So so exactly get the
rights updated. But the best place to go is my
website pastor Steverednolds dot com Pastor Steve Bredolds dot com.
And the reason I say it's the best is because
there's free materials there. There's more explanation, there's more you know, examples.
(27:23):
You know, the Bob for God is there, the course
is there, The Bob for God courses available there. The
other four books are on there. You know, my story's
on there. There's videos on there. You know, there's just
a lot of good stuff. There's a free startup thing
you can do quick start program you can sign up
for Pastor Steve bratls P A S T O R
(27:44):
Steve S T E V E. Reynolds R E Y
n O L D S dot com. If you google
bog for God America's Anti fat past the website can
come up. Yeah, let's do it. Let's not procrastinate here,
no procrastinating. We're here. This is not by accident. We're
connecting here. This is intentional. God's got a plan and
(28:04):
he wants to help us. So act I say, don't
not lose weight alone, team or losers, get on the
loser and tea. All right?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I like that, I really do. I enjoyed having you
on as a guest and to understand what bod for
God was all about. It's a movement. It's not just
about the scale, It's about a lifestyle. That's a powerful
message for those who may have been carrying unhealthy weight
and want to do something about it. It's a great
(28:34):
support system that you've created here. Congratulations on your book
becoming a bestseller and on the weight loss and for
being able to keep it off because a lot of
people will take off weight but then they gain it all.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Back, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Okay, that's a lifest lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
All right? Before we end our episode, what is it
that you'd like to leave our listeners with? Is there
one takeaway or a message that you have not shared
that you want to let them know.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I just wank it forward. Your health is the lid
on your life, and I think you have a lot
of dreams, at least I hope you do. You got
a lot of goals aspirations. You know a lot you
want to do, okay, but you got to take the
help with you on that journey, okay, because if you don't,
it's going to hold you back and keep it from
being the man or woman you want to be, the husband,
(29:24):
the wife of the parent, the grandparents, career, you know,
just a friend. Whatever you want to do in lie Okay,
Please realize that it's very, very important. Don't ignore it.
If they make it a priority. You're worth it. You
are one hundred percent worth it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You are worth it. We hope that you take it
to heart. Thank you so much, Pastor Steve Reynolds for
joining me on Authentic Talks. I really enjoyed the conversation
you guys. Go out and get this book. It's available
on Amazon and where books are sold, and you can
also go to Pastor Steve's website. All of the information
will be in the show notes for you guys. Thank
(30:01):
you again. I really enjoyed having you as a guest.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Pastor Steve Reynolds for coming on Authentic Talks. I enjoy
the conversation with you, and I hope you all are
walking away as inspired as I am.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
From his dedications to serving his community.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
To his heartfelt approach to health, to the beautiful story
of a family that does life together. It's clear that
authenticity runs deep in his journey.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
If you're curious.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
About Pastor Steve's book, Bod for God, I highly recommend
checking it out. You'll find it's not just about weight loss,
it's about life transformation grounded in faith and discipline.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
As always, thank.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You all so much for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Be sure to take care of yourselves and each other.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Also, be sure to subscribe to the show, leave a review,
and share this episode with someone who could use a
little encouragement and truth today. Until next time, again, take
care of yourselves, keep it real, stay authentic, and take
good care. Thank you all so much for tuning in.
I'm chante with authentic Talks.
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