{"id":950,"date":"2014-03-29T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2014-03-28T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:29:38","slug":"do-you-want-the-real-answer-or-the-sexy-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/do-you-want-the-real-answer-or-the-sexy-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want the real answer or the &#8220;sexy&#8221; answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a noggin full of knowledge has it&#8217;s pluses and minuses&#8211; \u00a0On one hand, I have a wealth of knowledge that I can use to help others achieve their goals; \u00a0it also helps that this knowledge helps\u00a0<em>me<\/em> reach my goals.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, though, I have to deal with a lot of strange questions, and people that don&#8217;t actually want to hear the answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Basics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes down to it, you can think of everything relating to health, fitness, and nutrition in terms of Occam&#8217;s Razor: \u00a0The simplest explanation is often the correct explanation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does that apply?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the topic I field the most questions about: weight loss. \u00a0Everyone wants to complicate the matter into what foods to eat, when to eat, how to eat, why to eat, where to eat, and so on&#8211; \u00a0There are countless diet books, detox diets, and other strange things that serve as methods to glean money from your pockets and give you false hope.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many people ask me for advice on fat loss; \u00a0if a particular supplement &#8220;works;&#8221; \u00a0if a certain diet &#8220;works;&#8221; and so on and so forth. \u00a0Here&#8217;s one of my favorites: \u00a0Someone asked me what the best workout for a &#8220;six pack&#8221; is&#8211; \u00a0My response: \u00a0To reveal your abdominal muscles, you must reduce your body fat through proper nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>They never talked to me on the subject again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what&#8217;s your point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before asking someone for help, ask yourself a question: \u00a0Are you ready to hear the correct answer, or are you looking for someone to give you a &#8220;sexy&#8221; answer? \u00a0If you want a sexy answer, you&#8217;re really not ready to ask the question. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a noggin full of knowledge has it&#8217;s pluses and minuses&#8211; \u00a0On one hand, I have a wealth of knowledge that I can use to help others achieve their goals; \u00a0it also helps that this knowledge helps\u00a0me reach my goals. On the other hand, though, I have to deal with a lot of strange questions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Do you want the real answer or the \"sexy\" answer?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DfsS-fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinephysiques.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}