The healthy fat that helps you burn fat!

Today we are going to talk about Why Your Metabolism Loves It When You Eat Healthy Fats!

Your metabolism loves healthy fats because they produce the best clean energy with the least amount of oxidative waste and the least amount of hormone dysregulation.  You literally get the cleanest, biggest bang for your buck from healthy fats vs carbs or protein!

Healthy fats in foods like avocados, olives and olive oil, meat, and seafood, nuts and seeds, and whole-fat dairy products like butter, coconut milk, and even dark chocolate are great sources of clean, high-energy, fuel for your body to use.

In contrast, burning sugar from things like crackers, chips, bread, candy, low-fat dairy products, pasta, rice, and any processed type foods is a poor source of energy for your body.

Burning sugar for energy to run your metabolism is like striking match after match after match trying to boil a pot of water.  But burning healthy fats for energy is like firing up a gas stove.

Your body doesn’t like to burn protein. It’s a complicated process to turn protein into energy and it creates a waste product called nitrogen that is harmful to your body in high amounts and can lead to things like gout and kidney damage.

Your body loves it when you eat a nice avocado with salt and pepper, smoked salmon, and a few almonds.  It loves it when you eat my Chicken Thighs with Guacamole on top.  It likes it when you use heavy whipping cream instead of skim milk in your coffee.

Eating healthy fats also primes the pump per se for you to use your own body fat for fuel when you need to.  

Healthy fats keep your metabolic hormones stable and in a healthy rhythm that will allow your body to release your stored excess body fat to use for fuel too! It doesn’t actually know if the fat fuel it’s burning is from your avocado or from your belly!

This is what we call becoming a “fat-burner” vs a “sugar-burner.”

We want to train our metabolisms to use fat for fuel instead of sugar.  And part of how we train and stimulate our body's natural processes to do that is by eating healthy fats and letting our bodies burn them for energy.

We know now that eating healthy fats from whole-fat dairy and meat will not cause heart disease.  We know that it will not just automatically raise our cholesterol and clog our arteries. We can eat as many eggs as we want each week with little to no effect on our cholesterol levels.  We can enjoy butter on our vegetables without any fear of weight gain.

I hope this session will help you start to unlearn some of the wrong things you may have learned about the horrors of eating dietary fats.  

Now, to be sure, there are still some fats we would consider unhealthy fats, like soybean oil and other artificial seed oils that will do the opposite of what the healthy fats in salmon will do.  But the difference between unhealthy and healthy fat has matured and become much clearer over the last 20 years. 

This is great news for us, because guacamole, dark chocolate, butter, and cream are delicious! And we enjoy them wholeheartedly- get it? Without feeling like we are hurting our health.

If you are ready to learn the difference between healthy fats and not-healthy fats in a clear and simple way so that you can be the smartest gal in the grocery store, it’s time to join the Freese Method 12-Week program and learn how to become a Woman Who Eats Well!

Remember you can lose weight, achieve glowing health, and never stress about your weight again, we just need to repair your metabolism first with the Freese Method!