How Fattening is Fat?

Fat does not make you fat. Extra carbohydrates are stored as fat.

White flour and white sugar are empty calories that suck your body of its nutrients. With America’s normal “low fat” diet of white flour and white sugar, we are both fat and malnourished. Diets don’t work because they send your already malnourished body into survival mode and tell it to prepare better for the next time of “starvation” by storing more fat than before. As soon as you go off the diet, your body stores even more fat to prepare for your next diet, so you gain more weight than before.

If you want to be healthy and a normal weight, eat real food. Don’t buy boxed garbage; cook things yourself. Eat organic meat, eggs, butter, lard, raw dairy, nuts, seeds and veggies, with small amounts of fruit, sprouted grains and natural sweeteners like honey and maple syrup. Don't go down to zero carbs - that is not healthy either. Small amounts of carbs are good to give you energy and to balance out your diet. Don't be afraid to have some potatoes with your steak and salad or make a Sunday dessert. And don’t worry about the fat, especially animal fat. It has been consumed since creation and is good for you. Pile on the butter – yum! This diet will not make you super model thin, it will keep you at a normal, healthy weight. Organic real foods do cost more, but you will make up for it because you will be satisfied with way less. Plus you can grow real foods yourself if you want to – you can’t grow factory food.

The only time I have seen someone eat this way and not lose weight was in someone who also had a severe yeast overgrowth in their gut. If a yeast overgrowth is severe, you might have to fix it before any weight will come off. Over and and over again, I am seeing people go down to a normal weight and maintain it without ever going hungry just by eating this way. This is no new fad, it is just going back to a more old fashioned diet. I think that real food tastes way better too, and people who normally eat junk rave about my cooking.

Some good reading:

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
Death by Supermarket by Nancy Deville