The Healthy Foods That Make You Fat

Food choice and quality, above all other aspects of nutrition, are the first thing I teach my clients; what you eat is initially far more important than the timing or the quantity of consumption. Often the first step is helping clients make the switch from sandwich heavy lunches to big hunks of protein and copious amounts of organic veggies.

But at some point, quantity does matter. Remember Michael Pollan’s famed line from In Defense of Food:

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

(I’d add to that “plenty of protein” but that’s a discussion for another day.)

The truth is, just because it’s “healthy” doesn’t mean that it will promote optimal health. Not to mention, over consumption is certainly not going to promote fat loss; too much of anything is going to throw you off balance. Binging on healthy food is not a habit that you want to cultivate, regardless of how harmless the food itself might seem.

So that leads me to the question, what is the healthy food that is actually making you fat?

Well, simply put, it’s the one that you eat too much of. The one that you can’t stop eating. The one you eat in excess, all the while convincing yourself it’s okay because it’s “healthy.”

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