Diets Suck: The Ultimate Blueprint on Enjoying Food and Getting Lean with Josiah Novak
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What's the best diet? Keto? Paleo? Low-carb? High-fat? What about fasting? What's the best workout? Today we are inundated with diet fads and extreme workouts. How do we know which nutrition and exercise program is best for us?
Today we have Josiah Novak. He's the author of Diets Suck: The Ultimate Blueprint on Enjoying Food and Getting Lean. Josiah gets real about fad diets and exercise. He talks about how we need to focus on our health before aesthetic results. He also discusses his own personal crisis and how his foundation of healthy habits helped him get through an emotionally difficult time.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:15.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? What is going to be? |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, what is going on? |
| 0:30.0 | Today we are talking about health and fitness. |
| 0:35.0 | That's my best Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
| 0:37.0 | That's all I got. |
| 0:38.0 | So guys, we're talking today about health and fitness |
| 0:42.0 | with host of the True Transformation |
| 0:44.4 | podcast Josiah has been on the show before but super excited to announce |
| 0:50.2 | that he has launched a book called Diets Suck and how true is that diets can |
| 0:57.3 | suck there's no doubt about that but he is going to take us through just some simple things that he shares in his book, things that just make our lives a whole lot easier when it comes to our nutrition, our health, and also living life. I mean, to be all honest they do suck they can |
| 1:16.5 | suck I mean there's a lot of healthy benefits to being on a proper diet but we |
| 1:20.4 | also have to live life too you know if you want to have birthday cake, you know, if you want to have birthday cake, if you want to have pizza with your kids, have pizza with your kids. |
| 1:27.0 | It's all about balance, and that's one of the things that Josiah dresses in his book, diets suck. There's all kinds of other things that he goes into on the |
| 1:36.0 | podcast. I'm not going to spoil it for you guys. There's one unpredicted thing in this show, and that is before Josiah and I started recording today |
| 1:46.2 | man he was he was having a really really rough week really rough week and when we first |
| 1:52.2 | started having when we first started recording the show man he was |
| 1:56.5 | he was struggling he was struggling a lot you know you could tell the look on his face you know mentally and emotionally |
| 2:02.0 | he shares a story with his son his four-year-old son has been sick has been in and out of the hospital man this is really wearing on him right now |
| 2:09.3 | So I decided to just go organically with the show and kind of where my heart was leading and that was to really start, we spent the first half of the show talking about that, but we made it a benefit for you guys because men go through |
| 2:27.7 | really hard emotional things, really hard emotional things, and we don't necessarily have the best |
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