May 23, 2019
Hello again, my friends. Welcome
back, I’m Brian Sanders and this the podcast that you just turned
on and don’t need a reminder on what it’s called. But maybe you
need a reminder of my name because I didn't put it on the cover art
and I didn’t put a picture of myself with my shirt off… yet. That’s
how you’ll know it’s a real podcast in the Fitness & Nutrition
section of iTunes. Until then, I’ll just say hello again to return
listeners and if this is your first episode make sure to start back
at episode one. Every episode is important and a valuable piece of
this elaborate web we call nutrition and health.
I had a great time kicking back
with the Fat Burning Man Abel James in this episode today. We are
on a really similar paths and believe in a lot of the same things.
He has a degree from Dartmouth in Psychological and Brain Sciences, he’s the
author of The Wild Diet, he’s a radio show host, musician, and was
also featured on the ABC show Diet Wars where he helped his
contestant Kurt lose 50 pounds in 6 weeks using, you guessed it, a
high fat diet.
He’s a great resource for
everyday living and tips and an awesome member of the community.
Let’s get to the episode after a few brief updates of what’s going
on lately.
We’re selling out of a lot of
the great grass finished sustainably raised meats at
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It’s a complicated process to use an entire animal, butcher it into
all the cuts, manage an inventory, and ship it out across the
country. In the meantime if you’d like to support this show you can
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You’ll get access to the comprehensive show notes Keto Kristi does
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so much, I really can’t express how appreciative I am of everyone.
Let’s hear from the fat burning fella himself, Abel
James.
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SHOW NOTES
SHOW NOTES
- Travelling opened his eyes to other ideas
around food and the culture around foods
- There
is a lot of tradition around food that people in the US are not
aware of
- Fast
food and institutions changed the traditions in the Western
world
- Our
ancestors had the right instincts around food, our grandparents
never ate like we do now
- It
just takes a little bit of common sense to realize why our current
nutrition climate is flawed
- quote
from Nina Teicholz “but like lost languages, lost skills, and lost
songs, it takes only a few generations to forget”
- We
live in this world where things are supposed to be getting better
and improving yet we have so many problems
- Abel’s technology detox went as long as 8
months
- If
you believe in fasting than you should believe in taking breaks
from technology
- We
should be eating seasonally
- How
he turned to a minimalist lifestyle, sold all his belongings, and
travelled around with his wife
- His
“Wild Diet” is based on eating whole foods, primarily seasonal
vegetables and meat
- Most
of your energy will come from fat if you are eating an ancestral
diet
- You
can abuse anything that starts out as healthy, so eat
seasonally
- The
American diet has extremely low diversity, ancestrally we had a lot
of diversity in the diet
- Eating intuitively
- On a
day to day basis he incorporates fasting, he started with 16/8 but
now he prefers to eat only one meal a day which comes naturally for
him
- He
breaks his fast with some raw vegetables and bone broth, and for
dinner he will have a home-made meal
- Eating out all the time likely leads to eating
poor quality food
- He
packs his own food when he travels
- When
you prepare your own food, you know what’s in it, you have
confidence in it and you won’t be blindsided by foods that set off
cravings for days
- It’s
important to recognize your “trigger foods”
- Are
the foods you are eating making you hungrier or satiating? This is
a good compass and very telling of if you are eating the right
foods
- The
words “paleo” and “keto” are misleading people to think these are
health foods when they are still hyper-palatable processed
foods
- If he
wants to celebrate with food he will make a healthier
alternative
- He
was featured on the TV show: ABC TV called Diet Wars, a fitness and
weight loss competition where trainers/coaches compete to get their
clients to lose weight
- His
client lost 82 pounds and has kept the weight off after a few
years
- During the Biggest Loser, everyone regained all
their weight or more, it’s not healthy to lose weight extremely
quickly or in unhealthy ways there are ways to do it
healthy
- His
strategy was to eat whole foods, embracting fat, and utilizing
intermittent fasting
- Nutrition is blown out of proportion in the
media with names like vegan, paleo, and keto, everyone is looking
for the new next diet but the truths lie in these simple principles
and there’s no one diet fits all
- His
show was almost 10 years ago and he still believes in the same
principles
- Where to find Abel James:
- www.fatburningman.com for
health and food related content
- www.abeljames.com for music related content
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