WHOA That's Good Podcast - Don’t Compare Yourself To Past Versions of Yourself

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

Sadie and her husband, Christian Huff, dive headfirst into how Christian recovered from an unhealthy relationship with fitness and learned to reject negativity. Sadie warns against unhealthy comparisons to other versions of ourselves, and the Huffs talk about how to get back on track with a healthy lifestyle, the lost art of commitment, ways to avoid toxic self-obsession, Christian's new show, "The 4:8 Men Podcast," and how often Sadie says "Whoa, that's good!" You can find joy and fulfillment wherever you are in your journey. Happy New Year! XO, Sadie Rob Huff - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up, fam? Happy New Year! Welcome back to the WoW That's Good Podcast. Thanks for joining us for another year. I can't believe we're in 2022, and I don't know about you, but think just feel good. I just have a lot of expectancy for this year. I think it's gonna be awesome. We're coming fresh out of passion and just good things going on. I'm so excited to start this podcast off. Normally we do this together, but I'm actually interviewing the one and only Christian Huff. What, what, how to score this? I don't even know in life and on the podcast, but I'm so excited.

We actually got to talk about the podcast he just came out with in December for a minute. So congrats babe on your podcast. Thank you. I feel blessed to be on this platform and share my platform. Hey, that's awesome. Teamwork makes a dream work. There we go. It makes the dream work. Well, I think it's awesome that you're speaking to men and it's about time for a good men's ministry to just pop up. I think it's awesome.

It is. We have thrown around some yellow bros here every now and then, but I'm thankful to be able to do something just specifically for men and women are, I guess, invited as well, but it's definitely targeted towards men. Yeah, I think it's awesome. Yeah, I used to always toe-crystalline. You should start yellow, bro.

And, you know, that wasn't a fit, but you had your your own calling and I think it's awesome that you're stepping into it Okay, so my question for you is a question to ask everybody on this podcast But a little different because your podcast is on faith and fitness So what is the best piece of fitness advice that you've ever been given? I love that are you gonna say well? That's good after I give it? Well, hey, don't put the pressure on me if it is good. I'm not. I will. I will. I will.

I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will.

I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I podcast at one point, I will say it was good. Or well, that's okay.

Well, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Well, actually, I would say, and this is not just a plug for the podcast, but the best piece of advice I would actually say was given on the first episode of the podcast by Adam Klingke and he said, trained for performance and not for aesthetics.

And I thought that was just really powerful thing, because that's kind of why, you know, it's not the root of why I wanted to start it, but it's kind of a lot of the backbone behind like, you know, wanting to encourage young men to train physically and not just about it from the aesthetic standpoint and not from looking good, you know, without a shirt on and just all those different things,

but it's really just to be healthy and to perform well. And I feel like that those have spiritual implications as well. So just every time I go into the gym, if I'm thinking about not trying to look better but trying to improve on lifts, they don't wanna get better at that idea of performance. So I really love that quote. It's so good.

Yeah. Okay, so I know most of your story, but I'm going to add like a doll and just ask you questions. So don't feel like I'm prying. I would ask you this, even if I didn't know, but has there been seasons of your life where you feel like you definitely have trained more for like aesthetics than for performance?

100%. Yeah, I mean, that's a than for performance. 100% Yeah, I mean, that's a temptation for everybody. I feel like. Yeah, 100% I think it's a fine line, but how did you find that balance in your own life and how did you come out of that season of training purely for looks rather than training for actual strength and stamina and whatnot? Yeah, that's good. Well, I grew up playing all kinds of sports, so I always grew up being physically active and training and working out and doing all those things. When I got to college my freshman year,

I didn't work out too much. I kind of thought that like, every day I'd walk probably about a mile to campus, so I kind of thought that that was like my idea of like a workout. I totally count that. And there's like a lot of stairs. And I was like, you know, I'm getting a workout. Like I'm walking probably about a mile,

I'm going to half every day, I'm going up and down stairs. But then I just like got out of shape, you know, physically like, like aesthetically speaking, I guess I just kind of got out of shape looking. So I really got into, like, started running a lot more and really got into fitness and then, probably about middle way through my sophomore year

of college. I think I was working out like six or seven days a week and probably seven days a week. And I was like only eating like chicken, broccoli, and brown rice, and sweet potato and all this stuff. I really wanted to look like a movie star, I guess you could say, if I'm just being honest.

And I just got some miserable with it. I ended up like resigning the gym and hating going, and I just kept forcing myself to do it. And I just kind of kept forcing myself to do it. And I kind of neglected some friendships because I was so, you know, focused on, you know, being healthy and eating what I wanted to eat that I kind of like, you know, stopped going out to eat with friends

and all those different things because they would go to places that wouldn't have, you know, what I wanted to eat, so to speak. And I remember one day, I can't really remember where I was, but I was like, I'm gonna not work out for a while. And I remember I took off like, I don't know how long, but I didn't work out for like a while. Um, it was probably like six months or so, six or six months, maybe something like that.

And I was like, I'm just not going back to the gym for a while because I was like, yeah, I'm just miserable. I hate this. So then I got like a healthy routine of like getting to get with friends. I got to go with Parker and Raleigh. So my good friends back in Auburn. We created this healthy schedule of like,

not that it's about overworking yourself and all these different things, but finding that balance of like, you know, not that it's about, you know, overworking yourself and all these different things, but finding that balance of like how to actually be physically healthy and spiritually healthy and do those things. So I think we'd work out, you know, maybe three days a week, four days a week maybe, and actually have like a healthy routine to it. And it became fun to go into a train with other people and good guy friends, especially. So that was kind of my thing. And it's like a lot of people tie into that of like,

I'm gonna go train for aesthetics, which is what I did for a while. And at the end, you end up one not really looking like what you wanna look like and you end up just not enjoying it. So that's just kind of my story with that. I think a lot of times like when you look back, the root of where things went wrong,

it's like whenever we got obsessed with self like when self was at the center of our motive, you know That's typically never a good Starting point because all you can do is feed yourself. It's selfish You know and for you it became so about like me what I look like Myself and you might think well how can fitness be anything other than that? Well, when you're strong and when you're healthy and whatever you, and even for you, that's a time where God really, you know, I feel like that's like you're in counter time with the Lord.

And so it actually can be done for more reasons than just self or just looking good or just whatever. It's your strong for our family. You sometimes I can't live honey's car seat and put it in the car and you do, like, sometimes. Sometimes, because when you're not there, I do it. Yeah, I do it. But I'm just saying, like, it actually is for others,

you know, it actually is a way that you give to our family. One thing that I've, you care the bags in the airport, I mean, genuinely you being healthy for our family. You mean some of the benefits. I mean genuinely you being healthy You mean you make some of the benefits. I reap a lot of benefits. I do. I'm blessed I like favored everybody it'll be a poor a man the girls will dig yeah That is a plug because that is just that's just true actually believe in his mission because like genuinely your fitness and your health has served our family And I'm really thankful for that

One thing I have walked with you through that has been hard is that you did go through a season where you train for aesthetics and you and you look good like you you look great You did look like a movie star. You trained really hard to do that and you did and but you weren't healthy So it doesn't matter therefore it's just whatever However so many people have heard reference that time of your life as like oh, dude You used to be so jacked of yourself where you're going Well, okay, yeah, but but that was before you got like this when we started dating and when we were early Mirry and you weren't like this yet and you kept like it was hard because people kept saying to you

Oh, you're talking about your college like that was the most Jackie Berryman you were ripped Oh, remember what your abs looked like your arms are huge and it was like always back to life that like I remember even on our honeymoon we had this great picture and I was like you you look so good and someone was like, well, you should have seen him his sophomore year of college. And it's like, that doesn't make you feel good because it's like, actually, you look great and you are healthy. And I think sometimes like we think that the temptation is going to be to compare ourselves to other people, but a lot of times we compare ourselves to other

versions of ourselves. And I think that's even sometimes the hardest thing is when we see a season of life we were in that we thought we'd let better in. And I think, but, but we were unhealthy. And I think for me, like, there's time I live where I've shared that I was unhealthy with my eating and my thinking. And, but that was the time that I was the most fit or skinny or whatever. And so many people complimented me on that time that for a while, like, I was the most fit or skinny or whatever and so many people complimented me on that time that for a while like I was like well the only way to get back to that is to be unhealthy again and that temptation to do that even though I didn't want to and

so how did you handle those comments and that season of your life because I feel like a lot of people are go through that like maybe there was a time they were super fit and right now they're not as fit, and people say stuff, or people's comments are saying stuff, but how do you like find contentment with where you're at? This episode is brought to you by Likinta, by Windom. Wherever your work takes you, you know it's going to be a good time, because you're staying at Likinta by Windom.

They have free breakfast, fully equipped gyms, and free high-speed Wi-Fi to help you take care of any last-minute business or help keep you in the know on all things sports. Tonight, Lakinta, tomorrow you triumph. Book your stay today at lq.com. You mean like in that space like we're like and that's I mean that space you can tell any space but they just find and consume it with where you're at because you could always compare yourself to another. Yeah 100% well I mean I think like even when I look back at like something like that like so feel like if you just acknowledge that even like with a comment like that like yeah I wasn't better shit then but like you don't like linger on that and you don't like, and I know that's easier to say,

like, you know, don't let that get to you or not. But like, I think at that point in my life, I was in a healthy spot of like, I can acknowledge that. At that point in my life, that was in the best shape. Like, and I didn't need someone to like, reference that because I already knew that. And I think even just by acknowledging it and saying, yeah, you're right.

But like, I was in a healthy spot enough to where I was, I just didn't really care. Like, but also I think one thing that helped you is like, you can acknowledge that, yes, you were in better shape than but you are happier than. And I think sometimes like people think, oh, well, if you're in better shape than you'll be happier because then you'll be more confident. And that's not true. I would say you are more confident on our honeymoon being fully you who you were, being married, being a godfiring man. Then you were softening your college, still figuring things out, eating sweet potatoes and

chicken every day, not going out with friends. Like, that wasn't fulfilling. Like, it was maybe fruitful. In a worldly sense, you were strong, you were buffed, you had a eight pack, I'm assuming. You were super fit, but even though now you now you are very fit, but at the time, not maybe as much, even though you still were insanely fit, you were happier. And I think that's the thing people have to realize

that they're gonna be seasons of your life that physically you change, outwardly you change, but inwardly, there's a word say, outwardly, you're changing, but inwardly, like you're renewed. And like that inward sense is what really matters. And that's why for a men it's powerful because you're saying that actually, while physical training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way because even when you're physically and fit, even when you get hurt, even when you have an injury, even whenever you're out for a season, even when you're pregnant or going through postpartum no matter what it is, if your heart is in

the right place, you can be happy, you can be content, you can be healthy, you can be strong, even if your body's not capable of doing those things at the time. Yeah, well, and that's what's even cool about the first, because after Paul says that, he says, holding present for, or I say, holding value for the present life and the life to come since that idea of like How we train ourselves spiritually is eternal like I can get as buff or as in good shape or as whatever you want to say Here physically, but that's not transient to you know to have in to eternal life But what I do for myself spiritually, that is gonna translate for that life, you know,

in a sense. And I think that's what Paul was trying to make that reference of like, don't get so consumed with that. And it's just even fun to think about, like I think someone, who's on a podcast recently, was like, do you think Paul was like doing pull ups? And it's just such an interesting thing to think about Paul,

like doing push ups or pull ups like before he's just going to preach the gospel. But it was a funny thought. But I think it's just so cool. I love that verse that's kind of where the whole thing started. First and before eight. Yeah.

Okay, so now you are in probably the best shape of your life. You are huge, obviously. You look great, you're killing it, but what's the difference now than when you were in college and you look great? Like how did you start back the training process? Did you say you took some time off the gym? How'd you start back in a healthy way? Because I think some people have done the fitness thing.

They did it unhealthily. They got an eating disorder or they got way to over working out or they just had an unhealthy view of fitness in the gym and you were there, but how do you get back and do it in a healthy way? That's good. Well, I feel like for me, like, at that period, it was the self-consuming idea of, like, I want to do this because I want to

look like Chris Simsworth. I want to be both in Jack and I want to be really like, like, when summer comes, I want to go to the showdown, like, just from a worldly speaking sense. And even at that time, I was a strong believer. So you can still have misconceptions on things like that and still be pursuing things that got. And honestly, it's been like transition periods. So from that period, it transitioned to trying to make it a point to work out with my good guy friends. And then out of the fitness side, training in the gym, we'd have good spiritual conversations.

And then when we started dating, it was almost like a transition period of like, I'm still doing that with my good guy friends. But there's also this underlying thing of like, if we progress and keep getting serious about a relationship, I want to be able to protect you physically. So then that's become like a byproduct of like some some some training of like if anything ever you know go sideways, I would ideally like to be able to protect you and now I have a daughter. So that's another thing of like and that's not obviously the root of anything but it's like it's a nice thought it's a nice thought of like if anything ever happened like I want to be able to take care of my family physically.

And then it just got to where like after that period, when I wasn't training with friends or whatever, and I still do this now, I could only really listen to worship or podcasts or sermons. I want to say podcasts, I I mean a sermon on the podcast. Because, and that's what I talk about a lot on all the podcasts that I do. That's just become my routine because I know that if I fill my mind with other things, like it's almost like that idea of like, if I'm going to work out and I'm lifting heavy weight

and I'm like pumping Drake or something, I will be if I feel like far more prone to like check myself out and be like, what do I look like? Cause it's like you're pumping worldliness into your mind kind of thing. So for me, it's just helped. Every time I go train physically,

like I'm trying to do spiritual stuff while I'm training. Yeah, that's awesome. There's been transition things of like, why am I training and training? It's your intention. Your intention is different. Training with friends, I want to work out to be in good shape to protect you and then we get married and things, you know, that's another element of seriousness for protection and now with honey, so it's just all the, I think it's awesome. It's awesome. I think it's really awesome to have a husband

who I know is strong and who is not only strong naturally, but actually like physically pushing yourself to be stronger. I think that's an amazing thing and you are so committed. Like you, you commit, when you do it, you commit to it. And you were like that in a relationship too. And I think that that is a lost arc in the world today is just committing to something. Because people think, oh, if it's not happening for me, then move on to the next thing. Oh, if I'm not seeing progress, move on to the next thing. Oh, I'm never going to be get at this. Move on. But there's something to committing. I mean, truly, you're not going to reap the benefit

or the reward that is there for you to receive if you don't commit to the process, you know? And so what do you feel like the power of commitment has really been in your life all around? That's good. Well, I think that just comes like, I'm a very disciplined person. I'm a one on the any gram, which I know that's not my identity,

but I'm like by nature, I like the schedule things, I like to plan things, I like to do, I like to have a plan, I like to be disciplined. If like, out of that discipline comes that idea of like, when I wanna commit to something, I'm gonna commit to it. And if like, that comes with, like of like, when I want to commit to something, I'm going to commit to it. And I feel like that comes with, like I said, the discipline thing.

But I mean, I just really feel like when you, I don't know, like when you commit to something that you really get to reap the benefits of it. Because I feel like if you don't commit, then it's kind of like, you know, you're not fully engaged in it. And I think even just for seasons, like there are more seasons where I feel like I might be committed

to certain things and other things. But I feel like that's just my personality type of like when I do something, I wanna go all in on it. And I don't like to have but anything. Yeah. So you're a versus. And you don't. And I think it's awesome. Even inspired me. Now I'm in the gym. I'm in the gym just working

now my fitness he my witness. You've trained four times this week. I know. Look, I'm starting to see what I see I see a hill. I see a hill. Okay. I hill. We're gonna feel like even like consistency. Adam, he was the first guest in my podcast. He had that good piece of advice, but even his thing was like, just all about consistency. And I feel like if you commit to consistency,

that helps you stay committed. It's easy to be committed to something when I feel like you have a consistent plan or something. Yeah, or if you have a goal, like for me, like my goal right now. Just to do one pull up. Just to do one pull up. Without without assistance.

Or assistance. Yeah, I'm not there yet, but that has literally kept me like wanting to be consistent because I know that I am not going to be able to do that without consistency. I know I have to consistently train muscles in my body that I don't typically train to do that. And so yeah, it keeps me going, it keeps me excited. Even my trainer is like such a galley woman and she keeps me motivated and excited to do it, my friends, and literally picking honey up in that

car seat, you see, motivated and inspired. Because I'm like, I want to be able to do it, my friends, and literally picking honey up in that car seat, you see, motivated and inspired, because I'm like, I want to be able to do that easily. I want to be able to like, you know, when she's, however old, just like be able to carry her around and run around with her and play with her and still do backpips on the trampoline and still play tennis with her at a competitive level. And so like like I know if I want to be that mom then I have to consistently train and So yeah, like I think your intention going into these things is everything And if we have a son You'll see me and him plan tackle football. Hey, maybe I'll be playing tacky. I mean more scared of me

to be you and honey versus me and son son Good job. You didn't throw out our potential name for a boy one day. And this is not saying that we're pregnant. No, we're not pregnant. Happy New Year.

We're definitely not pregnant. And wait for the surprise at the end of the show. No, just kidding. It's not there. And it's not that. OK, I have a question for you. Sorry. Let's try that.

No, I want to ask you because I think this is a cool story for people to know because sometimes you get things started and you never tell the backstory on how it happened. How would you even start for a minute? Because, you know, I think people might say, oh, we'll say it is about guys just made sense for him to do it.

And you were, like, you've never been like, I want to do what you're doing. You've never been like, I'm a started podcast or I want to have a ministry or I want to speak. You've always been like, hey, I to podcast, or I wanna have a ministry or I wanna speak. You've always been like, hey, I wanna serve the vision of our family. I wanna help with yours. I wanna help, you know, with honey and you,

and I wanna train for our family. I'm gonna be there, I'm gonna help you with your messaging. And you've always just kinda been that person to come alongside the vision of our family. And I feel like this kinda came really out of the blue. And with something that might have even been outside of your comfort zone, but I think it's so cool how this all happened.

So this was about a year, maybe like a year and a half ago at this point, Zady was speaking at an event in Corpus Christi. And we, after the event, the pastor and his family invited us to go to dinner. And I was reluctant to go because Notre Dame was playing Clemson and I wanted to watch the football game. Which I always tell him, you have to just go to meals and people and be present because you will, you'll be like, if you want to watch the football game

or you don't want that thing to eat, you're like, then I go and I'm like, it's the fellowship, not the food. We're still working on that. No, well, I would have been willing to go if, so I was like, okay, I will like, it's the fellowship, not the food. We're so working on that. No, well, I would have been willing to go if, so I was like, okay, I will go, but let's pick a restaurant where I can, there's the TV, because they will play the game.

There's the first game of the season. That's a real event, but whatever. It went to this really nice steak restaurant and clearly they did not have TVs. So then I had my phone plugged, like, you know, not like that, but, you know, I had my phone on my lap, kind of, dip throughout the dinner, watching some highlights here and there at the game.

And later that night, we left dinner and he texted me, excited here, more about your sports ministry idea. And I thought it was like the weirdest thing. I was like, that's weird, I don't, I literally, the only sports reference we talked about was me wanting to watch the football game. And I guess I came across really passionate about wanting to watch that.

You did. So he texted me excited to hear about it. And then the next day, he was like, yeah, you could do something like, and you could have it off of the first Timothy VIII that talks about, you know, physical training, being of some value, and goddess, having value for all things. And I kind of just didn't really think about it.

And then a few months went by and I kind of just referenced back to that. So it all kind of was birthed out of that moment just with that theme of that verse. But it originally started with the idea of like wanting to do sports camps for people from like a sport perspective. Like wanting to do like a camp like an event kind of thing. And it'd be a sporting event but having the gospel, like that being the overall theme of it. Because I was like if I think about my life growing

up, I never really really wanted to go to church camps, but at these church camps, you play sports at them. Like you play basketball, like football, soccer, Frisbee, whatever. And I was like, so what if you did, like what if you reversed it towards like, it's a sports camp that you happen here with a gospel at? So that's kind of how the whole thing kind of started.

And I was like, I could do these a few times a year. That'd be really fun. And then it was kind of like, well, if that's ever the goal, maybe I could start a podcast. And I feel like since I kind of had that thought that I feel like I've just really been more focused on a lot of the fitness side of it, instead of the sports side of it in a sense.

And even just going to the gym, the Lord's just opened a lot of doors to me to get a minister of the gospel to people to fitness. You've had so many lunches that you've ended up having with guys sharing the gospel just that you met the gym, who spotted you or whatever. And I think because you've started to see fitness truly as your mission of where God has you, what you're called to do. You see it with new eyes.

You see it with purpose. I'm going to tell told you this but my word for the next year for this year I guess is purposeful and like everything I do it needs to have purpose behind it there it needs to be purposeful so even if it's like a little thing like I'm going to the gym what's my purpose behind it and just making sure that everything I do I'm doing with like good intention and I think that that's kind of been like a theme throughout this podcast It like when you started doing this with purpose when you started doing this with good intention There's so much food that came with it. There's so much

Ministry that came with it and that's to say that like whatever your mission is is also your ministry You know ministry is 24 seven job For everyone whether you're in ministry or not if you're if you're a believer in Christ your mission is, is also your ministry. Ministry is 24 a seven job. For everyone, whether you're in ministry or if you're a believer in Christ, you're on mission, you're doing ministry. And so I think that that is so cool. And it's so cool that that came from a little seed planted

and that past you're almost challenging you as a slave. If you're so passionate about fitness, how are you to use it for the kingdom? Now you did. And I even talk about it with your dad a lot. Like, it's just that idea. Like when Jesus met Peter fishing, like he met Peter fishing, because that's what Peter's job was, that's what his mission was.

So it's even like with fitness, like it's, yes, it's a podcast. I guess about fitness, but like that's not, that's not, that's not it. Like it's a faith podcast that we kind of talk and do fitness about or on kind of thing. So it's like how do you meet people in fitness? Like Jesus met Peter fishing, but then you say, I'm gonna make you fish or a min. So it's like how do you meet people in fitness

and give them the actual mission they go to go, to go spread the girl. That's no matter what you do. Guys, if you're a teacher, if you're an insurance person, if you work at the mall, if you're a waitress, if you're a college student, like whatever you're doing, ask yourself, how can I do this with mission? How can I do this on purpose? How can I do this with intention behind?

It's a lot of people well and to make disciples. So one thing I love about your podcast is at the end of your podcast you have a challenge You give people two challenges actually a fitness challenge and a faith challenge and we're at the start of the New Year People are making New Year's resolutions New Year's goals What are they gonna do from the New Year? And this is the time where everybody gets into fitness the gym members show It goes super high And so if you could give people a challenge today you can do do both if you have it, I'll tell you your head. But what would you say?

That's how I was not prep. What would you say for your fitness challenge for the listeners in this new year? And it can be broad, it can be commit, or whatever. And what would you say for a face challenge for this year? That's good. Because everyone's challenging themselves at fitness and faith the start of the year.

That's good. Because everyone's challenged themselves in fitness and faith the start of the year. That's good. I want to say my two kind of tie-in together, but I feel like I don't know. You can maybe tweak some of that. Here's where I'm going. Because it's really honestly the kind of the hope of my podcast and the kind of what I hope that people actually give from it. But that idea of like, so I challenge you that like if you go to train physically, you have to either while you're training physically do something spiritual. Like so I would say listen to a worship song or listen to a sermon. Pray. Pray. Maybe have your Bible app open and after a set read a chapter

or read a verse or something. And if you don't wanna do that, then if you go to work out, like I said, it's Wednesday and I'm gonna go train and I'm gonna go work out in the morning, then I have to do something the same day that I go work out.

So where it's like, you can't physical train without also spiritual training. I'm good. So that's awesome. So even like for me it's like I can't I can't go train physically without having like a brief second of like what am I actually doing for my soul. Well because the thing is people say oh I have no time to read the word but they had two hours of the gym or an hour of the gym and they had an hour of social media time and they had all this stuff and it's like actually while you're at the gym, that's a great time to have time with the Lord. I love it. That's a thing. It can be like listen to an audiobook, like some Christian audiobook, read a Bible during a set, listen to worship song, share the gospel with one person at the gym. Like, it can be like there's there's so many different things that you can do to

fill that time. It's awesome. You don't have to be listening to Drake or you know future, the weekend, I'm trying to think of, I'm not listening to that stuff anymore, but someone like that, like you can have some positive spiritual, you can have some positive spiritual, you know, faith things that you can implement. So, it's awesome. I love it. Thanks for challenging us, babe. This is a great, great conversation and I'm so excited for people to hear it. I'm so excited for people to take on the challenge of being a for-8 man, but also if you're

a girl, because most audiences girls, like before-8 women, like like be people who care more about our godliness and our physical attributes, you know, the truth is, we are made in the image of God. And that means so much more than just our body image. That means so much more than just our physical appearance. That is like a very powerful thing about who we are that were made in the image of an Almighty God who's so powerful.

And the amazing thing is our body is capable of doing so much more than just looking good. It can have a baby for crying out loud. You can do so many things. You can run the race of life. You can pick people up when they're down. You can hug people. You can hold people. You can sit with people, walk with people, just do so much, you know, I protect people, whatever you're a healthy person. And so this is going to be a great year.

I hope you feel a challenge, but I also hope that you have the dress will to commit this year to being healthy body, soul, mind, spirit, all the things because let me tell you, whenever you do anything hard or anything worth value, it's gonna take commitment. They're gonna be hard days. They're gonna be days when you just don't feel like it. They're gonna be early mornings that don't, you really don't want to get out of bed, but that commitment and that consistency is going to reap so much reward. And so have a great start to this year.

Go out and get it. And also get in the word. Thanks for being my first guest. Thank you for asking me to be your first guest. Love you. Oh yeah!