Episode 462: Wesley Hunt: The Ex-Military Method for Staying Lean While Eating Massive Meals

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1:55Okay, so how old are you now? You said you became a congressman in your 40s. So I imagine you're still like, what, 44, 45? 42. 42. 43. Okay, you're not old, first of all. So you're not old. I mean, listen, well, you're not 25, but like, you know, by the way, did you hear that 50 is the new 35? Have you heard that? And I believe it. And I'm going to live, I'm going to hold you to that. Well, listen, so that means like you're actually really only 30 or 29, really 28. Jay-Z had a song that came out, shit, 40 is the new 30. That was a while ago. Now they've moved it up. They moved it from 50 to 35.

2:35Yeah, I moved it out. So, okay, so then that's why. So what time do you wake up in the morning then? And also, that means you're intermittent fast. So you have no coffee, no water, no nothing until the floor? I do coffee and water. Oh, you do? Okay. But are you intermittent fasting or just like not eating food? I intermittent fast for 20 hours a day. So I do 20 hours for my last meal. Right. So that's what I'm saying. You do the one meal, but are you putting like anything in the coffee or just drinking black coffee? Black coffee. Oh, okay. Old school, black army, black coffee. Wow. When I started doing this, I will admit it was spiritual.

3:14That's how you really get to find. Oh, yes. It is tough. It is tough. After about a month of doing it now, I can't see it any other way. Really? Have you tried Prolon? I have not. Oh, you haven't? No. Because you do like this one meal a day. ProLon is like a whole fasting system, but there's a lot of back studies and has more research in science than I think any other fasting program in terms for its longevity. And so I haven't tried it yet, but I want to because a lot of times on this podcast, people do fast. They tell me that they fast, intermittent fast, water fast. But so I did a ton of research and that was ProLong has have does have the most backed research on all these like longevity benefits and like.

4:03I want to tell people, too, is like that works for me, though, that that's not for everybody. I mean, and I've. Yeah, of course, you're going to try. It's like trial and error. I've tried it all. I've tried six small meals a day. I've done it all. And then over time, I found out given my life, my schedule, what I have to do, how busy my days are, all the travel. This is what works for me. Yeah. Well, the thing is also, I think when people are so busy like you and travel a lot and when I'm in these like boats where I'm traveling a lot, you can really like, you know, you can easily, you know, see you can gain five to 10 pounds without even blinking an eye because you're not paying attention.

4:40Right. And like you're, you're still paying your rhythms off. You have lunches all the time. You have dinners all the time. Everything is being, you're, you're, you're eating at restaurants and takeout or, you know, they can never, you're not eating at, home. So right away, you have to add 500 calories to each meal. It's off top. Yes. It's off the top. So like, I like what you're doing. You're basically saying in order to kind of like stay on point, this is what works for me. You are correct. Yeah. Because otherwise you can like, that's why when my thing is I never make a lot, I never have breakfast meetings.

5:11I always want to have the same breakfast and even like dinner meetings I don't love. And I never go for drinks. I'll go for like a coffee or I'll go for something like that, but I'll never like go for the alcohol. is what crushes you. Alcohol will kill your gains. Alcohol will kill your gains. You could be doing everything right, and then you add that alcohol element, and then you're like, forget it. Because also your inhibitions are lower, right? So you're like, ah, fine, forget it. I'll have that piece of pizza. Or, oh, fine, I'll have that french fry. Oh, yeah. Or one drink turns to five. Or one drink turns to five.

5:44Exactly. Either one. I'm much more of a food person, so I see how it affects my food intake, not so much my alcohol intake. But yes, that's true.

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7:46So you do one meal a day. Are you a cardio person or you just do what you have? I'm a 10 ,000 a day step person. Okay, so 10 ,000. Five days a week, 10 ,000 steps at least. Okay, so are you doing that on like a treadmill? Are you just walking everywhere? What are you doing? Yeah, at some point in my apartment or I have a treadmill at my house. So at some point in the morning, after I wake up at some point, I knock out two miles, two to three miles on the treadmill. And usually I'm on the phone doing work taking calls, that kind of stuff. Knock that out on the treadmill. And then I do a mile walk before my workout and then a mile walk after my lifting workout.

8:22Right. So you're breaking it up so much better for you. Yeah. Yeah. It keeps you active. And then whenever I'm up in D.C., I mean, I've already, I mean, I don't know how long I've walked today. I've already walked. Just walking around D.C., walking to the Capitol and back, walking through the airport now. I mean, I'm already probably three miles in, but I'm already up here. That's amazing. I'll hit the gym and then I'll do a mile before and a mile after. Yeah. So like, are you doing splits? What's your workout? So my splits are three on, three on, one off, three days on, one day off. And then it's my first day is usually a leg day, quad heavy leg day.

9:01The second day is a chest and tricep day. Third day is a back and a bicep day. Then a day off, then shoulders, then another shoulders. shoulders, then arm day, and then another leg day, which is a hamstring-heavy day, and then a day off. Like it. Okay. And so are you, how long is each workout? 45 minutes to an hour. Okay. Do you take supplements? Do you take anything? Lots of, whey protein, creatine, and glutamine. Oh, okay. That's all? Yeah, that's it. Okay. So you're not taking omega-3? You're not taking omega-3? You're not taking vitamin D? No, no. And I am a big fish and a big steak eater.

9:42So I get a lot of those macronutrients. Oh, okay. So you're, well, you're only having one meal a day, though. How much can you get? Like, don't you have, are you deficient in anything? No, because this meal is a... A big meal. It's a...

10:01It's really funny. My best friend is up here with me. He works with me in the office. I mean, the other day, two days in a row. I mean, I had a 33-ounce thing. Oh, my God. Are you joking? No, I'm dead serious. Like, last night, I had a whole rotisserie chicken. That's awesome. That's like 70 grams of protein. I had an entire rotisserie chicken yesterday. My wife is like, she's like, what is this? I was like, you need to get two of those. Because one's for me, and then one's for y 'all. That's awesome. In my body, I think everybody is different. So a lot of people can't process all that protein in one sitting.

10:42And I hear a lot of people say, you know, your body can only process up to 50 grams of protein every three hours. I think that's a generalization depending on your blood type, your activity, what your body gets used to. Every human being is different. That has worked out. That has worked wonders for me. I mean, it's a massive. I love that. First of all, I'm a massive eater. So, I mean, I can probably like, I can probably take that down. But like, I think because you've been, I'm so active also, like I know people say a lot of things. You shouldn't have this. You should do that. Everyone has their own opinion.

11:18But everyone is so different, right? Like I can, like I'll have, I can have four chicken breasts in one sitting before somebody even has their third bite. Just because that's how I am. I eat so fast too. That's the problem. I'm like a huge eater and I eat fast. and everyone says slow down, slow down but when you're hungry, you're hungry so I get it, I get that 33 ounces, so what did you have with the steak? Do you have vegetables or do you have 33 ounces of steak, I had a whole sweet potato, I had broccoli and a dinner salad Oh my god, that's hilarious

11:56That's awesome It's an event It really is It's a significant emotional event for a lot of people I love it. Can we have dinner together maybe when you're out late? I would love that. I would love that. I would absolutely love that. Like, where do you go? What's your favorite steak? Like, tell me the best places. My favorite steak. So I eat at two restaurants when I'm up here in D.C. One of them is Joe's Seafood, Stone Crab and Seafood. Oh, my God. I love that place, too. That place. It's the best restaurant in D.C., in my humble opinion. I love that place. And then they have a porterhouse, 33-ounce porterhouse.

12:31They were bone-in and revived. they have stone crab claws. There's a very high protein meal too, by the way. Very high protein. Oh, I love this. This is, you and I are on the same page. Great. It is, it is wonderful. And actually, what's really funny, I actually went out to eat with one of my supporters one day and then he just sat there and watched. He said, Oh, I love that. I've never seen anything like this before in my entire life. That's amazing. What other places do you like, have you been to anywhere in LA yet? Do you get steak here? So Mastro's in that area is really one of my favorites.

13:11Yeah, I like Mastro's. That's really good. It's really cool. So I happen to be the congressman for the owner of the chain as well. And so I get to try out all the Mastro's all across the country. Best ones in Houston and Miami. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for telling me that because I didn't know that they're like, Like I had never been to the Mastro's in Houston or Miami. And so now that you said that, really? Okay, I'm going to try that. Okay, when you come here though, we're going to go to the one here. Great, let's do it. I'm in. That sounds amazing. Okay, so we got the steak part down.

13:47How about all the other stuff? Like do you do any kind of sauna, cold plunge, red light, any of those things? I do. So whenever I'm up here in D.C., there is a sauna down here. And after my workouts, I'll do 15 minutes of a sauna. Okay. no cold plunge not yet no i hate that thing i gotta toughen up oh it's so terrible pilot rv guy like i got tough enough on the cold isn't that crazy i know i'm gonna say i mean for whatever reason that cold just i i can do hot all day but the cold just it's so difficult it's great i've done it a few times yeah i've afterward it's great af afterwards but during it's really rough

14:30Thank you.