NOT FAT Cheat Sheet

Want to just get right to the point?!! Here's a cheat sheet written in order of importance.

If you’re only going to change one thing, embrace, no LOVE real, whole food dietary fat. Make sure you don’t eat without it because the number one key to being NOT FAT is to eat it.  Weird, right?  And yes, totally the opposite of everything we’ve been taught. It fills ya up, fuels ya brain and it’s delicious.

One super important caveat here is the point about real, whole food fat.  This means animal fats such as butter or tallow, fruit oil fats like olive and avocado, and fat from dairy, nuts, etc. In other words, real food. If it ain't found in nature (i.e., heavily processed), it shouldn't be on your plate.  This means vegetable and seed oils are OUT.  Out as in run like hell, avoid like the plague and remove from your pantry. These pseudo foods (think canola, corn, soybean, etc.) are industrialized/ highly processed, bleached and deodorized -- do you really need to know more?!!

From a fatness point of view, dietary fat really helps with satiety, which is not only about feeling filled, but also about the lack of interest in food. In other words, if you’re not hungry, you’re not going to eat shitty food. In summary, you must begin a love affair with fat. Here's an Unfake News post showing you my FAT Alphabet with more detail.

If you’d like to change a few more things, doing the following will change your life dramatically and quickly:

• Drastically reduce the amount of sugar you eat – it’s sugar, not fat or salt, that is the primary problem in our diets
• Avoid vegetable/seed oils (worth saying again) and high fructose corn syrup like the plague; super disgusting, carcinogenic and they screw up your metabolism
• Cut back on your consumption of grains which basically act like sugar once ingested (this includes bread, rice, pasta, pastries, etc... SORRY)

And if you always give it your all and want more:

• Stop weighing yourself so damn much; once every two weeks maximum
• Start walking if you don’t exercise; stop overdoing it if you’re over-exercising and getting injured
• Drink enough water and make this your primary beverage