Fat doesn't make you fat!

2-5 pm Saturday 28th January 2012

In this workshop I will explore the origins of Fat in the diet, fad diets, low fat diets, the role of fat, why fat is essential, fat and cholesterol and fat and hormones.

Since opening Move Three Sixty Clinic in June 2011 I have worked with 30 clients Nutritionally for an 8 week minimum. Many people come to me specifically for weight loss, some come becasue they cannot sleep, some for weight gain, eating disorders, hormonal issues, bad skin or just be be healthy again. Whether or not people want to lose weight the fact is that if you eat to your metabolic type you will lose weight if your body has weight to lose until the body reaches homeostasis. Homeostasis is when the body is in balance. Whatever your symptoms are Metabolic Typing is for you. 

I cannot imagine a diet without Fat, in fact it must be quite dull. Food should be a pleasurable experience but the more you cut it out of your diet the less pleasurable it becomes. So why do so many of us have a problem with eating Fat?  Good Fat doesn’t make you fat. It’s the bad fat that you find in cakes, biscuits and crisps that make you fat. I eat bacon and avocado, lamb chops and an apple or sausages and pears regularly for breakfast and there is nothing better than crispy organic bacon rind and I’m not fat! 

So lets go back in time a bit and look at the diet of our Mothers and Fathers or Grandmothers and Grandfathers. They cooked with lard and butter and ate fresh produce and fresh cuts from the butcher. There was no low fat alternative. They cooked in beef dripping and ate dumplings. They looked great with tiny waists and broad shoulders. Today there is more bad fat than you can imagine staring us in the face where ever we go. Sometimes you can struggle to buy anything with nutritious value in shops as most foods have been around the world, injected, heated, treated, preserved, added with sugar, salt e numbers, soya, gluten the list goes on. It is then wrapped in plastic before we have the pleasure of eating it! Yummy sounds healthy! Yet today we are a fatter society than our parents and grandparents era and yet we eat low fat or no fat food! Something doesn’t add up. Could it be that fat is actually good for you? We got fat because we stopped moving our lifestyles changed, we went form walking to school to being driven, from playing outside to playing a computer game. However we blamed animal fat so we threw out the butter, cut the rind off the bacon and bought everything with a low fat label and guess what? We are still fat! The difference is that the low fat alternative you eat thinking your making a good healthy choice is loaded with sugar ,salt and preservative etc. 

So what to do? Well make eating a pleasurable experience, if it came form an animal that grazed in wild organic pastures or a fish that swam in the wild, if it grew up from the ground or fell of a tree then you can be safe in knowing that its good for you. Make food your medicine not your poison, we feed ourselves 5 -6 times a day. 

Do not feel guilty for eating a scrumptious meal loaded with taste, its good for you and makes you happy. Embrace fat!