3 Easy Ways to Eat More Good Fat So You Can Have Endless Energy

Today we are going to get practical and specific to follow up what we talked about last week about getting energy like a gas cooktop to boil water instead of trying to light a million tiny matches to get the water to boil.  Which is just an analogy for how what you eat either gives you big energy or tiny unsustainable energy.

Let’s first address the elephant in the room... the old advice that eating foods high in natural fat is bad for us and will make our cholesterol go up.

Eating foods like eggs, steak, bacon, cheese, whole fat dairy, coconut milk, avocado and guacamole, butter, olive oil or coconut oil won’t raise your bad cholesterol.  We’ve known that since the 1960’s. 

Not only will it not raise your bad cholesterol, it also will not cause heart attacks.  And...wait for it, eating natural fatty foods won’t cause you to gain weight.

Don’t worry if this is the first time you’ve heard that message.  Or if you’re still skeptical about eating naturally fatty foods.  It’s ok.  I’m beyond confident in this message and you’ll be seeing it more and more and then you can say, “hey that Hannah girl was talking about this like 2 years ago!  Huh!”

Ok, so let’s pretend that you totally believe me about cholesterol and heart disease and how eating fat isn’t too many calories.

There are still good fats and bad fats.  It's just not what you think.

To get great energy and lose weight and burn fat, we want to eat the good fats.  

Good fats are things that are fatty because nature made them that way. 

Bad fats are fats that man made. 

A good fat is fat found with meat, like ribs, sausage, bacon.  That is good fat.

Bad fat is man made fat like trans-fats, or soybean or canola oils.  Those are bad fats. They will not help us lose weight or be healthy or have energy.

So the fat we want to eat more of are natural fats like: butter, avocados, sour cream, cream, bacon, eggs, coconut milk, olive oil, seeds, peanut butter, brie cheese, olives, all the delicious natural foods.

Potato chips are not naturally fatty foods. They are a processed food cooked in manmade, bad oil.

Fried chicken will not help you lose weight.  That is processed and breaded and fried in manmade bad oil.

Roasted chicken thighs with the bone in and the skin on topped with a delicious guacamole is all good natural fat that nature made and will give you energy and help you burn fat.

Do you see the difference between healthy and unhealthy fats?

Man-made fats like vegetable oils, trans-fats, and shortening= bad.

Nature-made fats like avocados, nuts, dairy and meat= good.

Peanuts are healthy, french fries are not, guacamole is healthy, cheese dip made with velveeta is not.  (Cheese dip made with pure cheddar and gruyere is!)

If the food has been processed or cooked in a man made oil like soybean or canola, it just jumped the fence from healthy to unhealthy fat.

Naturally cured bacon is super great. 

Processed turkey bacon is not.

Okay so our next point is how to get more healthy fats in our everyday lives so that we can have amazing energy and train our metabolisms to burn our own body fat.

Ready? Great!

1. Cook with more butter, olive oil and coconut oil.  

But just those 3.  You can cook 99.9% of all your food in those cooking fats.  So, if you’re going to fry eggs, put just a wee bit more butter in the pan than normal to fry them up.  

If you’re sauteeing veggies, use a big hunk of coconut oil in your frying pan.  If you’re roasting fish or meat in the oven slather that baby with plenty of olive oil, yes even in high heat.

2. Add chunks of avocado, bacon, or sour cream to your meals.  

This works with all sorts of dishes besides taco salads. Avocado, sour cream or bacon bits can be added to most meals and everyone will be very happy.

Add a dollop of sour cream to your tomato soup.  Add chunks of avocado as a side to a grilled meat and grilled peppers. 

Bacon goes with just about everything, try wrapping bacon around mushrooms and grilling them on your grill. 

Avocado is a magical little fruit that is all things amazing for our metabolisms. It is super high in healthy fat and fiber! A real win/win.  I eat at least one avocado a day most days.

2. Choose fatty cuts over lean cuts of meat.

Yes! Choose chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts. Choose pork bacon instead of turkey bacon.  Choose 85% ground beef over 95% lean ground beef.  Choose a beautiful fatty cut of meat over the lean alternative and you will see you need less meat to feel full and you will love, absolutely love the taste of your food again.

Remember, eating healthy natural fats like avocado, naturally fatty meat like salmon or bacon, and cooking with butter, olive oil and coconut oil are amazing ways to let healthy natural fats back into your diet so that you can give your metabolism the energy it’s craving and start to train it to burn your body fat between meals.  It’s a win/win of multiple fronts. 

Eating natural fat is the key to glorious sustained energy, effortless weight loss and glowing skin!

This is what I teach you more about in more detail and with all the science to back it up in the Freese Method 12-week Metabolic Repair Plan Online Group Coaching Program. 

One of the best parts of the program is that when you are concerned about eating the bacon or trying to explain this to your husband or brother in law, you can bring your questions directly and personally to me, your guide to a healthy metabolism. In the program we have weekly coaching calls where you can ask all the questions that you’ve never been able to figure out on your own or through Google.

This mindset shift of letting natural healthy fat back into your life is a big deal!  It’s not easy to do!  It wasn’t easy for me to do.  It wasn’t easy for the other Registered Dietitian that just graduated from the Freese Method either, but once you try it, it’ll be clear that this has to be right.