Why Your Metabolism Loves It When You Eat Healthy Fats!

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

Did you know it’s really hard to unlearn what you’ve already been taught?

If you learn how to hold a fork or chop-sticks a certain way and then try and change the way you hold them, it’s really difficult to do!  Food is everywhere but your mouth!

Luckily, given enough time and patience, no matter how long we’ve been doing something, our brains are fully capable of learning new things.

Back in the day, I was taught some very unhelpful and erroneous things about nutrition, specifically the dangers and terrors of dietary fats.

I was taught to choose low-fat dairy products or I would give myself and my clients heart-attacks.

I was taught to choose low-fat crackers, chips, and cereals or we would all gain weight!

I was taught to avoid eggs and butter as they would clog my arteries like cold bacon grease in my sink pipes.

But, overtime, these erroneous notions have been debunked!  Science has changed!  We know more about the wonders and awesomeness of dietary fats. Including why some fats are absolutely spectacular and critical for a healthy metabolism, a healthy weight, and healthy hearts!

So let’s dive into Why Your Metabolism Loves It When You Eat Healthy Fats!

Your metabolism loves healthy fats because they produce the most good 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, 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 are poor sources 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 with some 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.

Because you are feeding it fuel that it can burn for lot’s of ATP, meaning long lasting energy, and few to no oxidative or chemical waste products that can harm our cells that might lead to metabolic damage.

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

Healthy fats keeps 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 bodies' natural processes to do that is by eating healthy fats and letting our bodies burn it for energy.

We know now that eating our 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. 

Which is great news for us, because guacamole, dark chocolate, butter, and cream are delicious! And we enjoy them whole-heartedly- 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!