Episode 2: Today I have the absolute pleasure to talk with Matt Stone about the pitfalls of being too health-obsessed and why you could be leading your body down a very dangerous road. Matt also tells us how you can build your metabolism back up so you too can be a functioning human being once more! Within this episode you’ll learn how you can eat the foods you love, feel better than ever before, and exercise for enjoyment.
Matt Stone is an independent health researcher, #1 Amazon bestselling author of more than 15 books, and the founder of 180DegreeHealth, a controversial website that has challenged the status quo on health with a combination of cutting-edge science and radical common sense since 2006.
In his books, Stone lays out explicit instructions for achieving a high metabolic rate, the details of which are his greatest discovery in his decade of intensive research.
With an increase in metabolic rate, thousands of his readers and clients have reported improvements in a vast array of disorders: constipation, hair loss, low libido, acid reflux, insomnia, anxiety, cold hands and feet, frequent urination, allergies, skin conditions, chronic infections, infertility, and countless others, all while eating common, enjoyable, comfort foods to their heart’s content.
In this episode we discuss:
- What is “Diet Recovery”
- The pitfalls of obsessive healthy eating & low carb diets
- How calories are the key to raising metabolism and becoming a functioning human being again (YOU NEED LOTS!)
- How you know when your body is stressed versus when it’s recovering
- The Paleo Diet
- Why Poly Unsaturated Fats (PUFAs) are best avoided
Learn more about Matt’s work here:
- Go to 180DegreeHealth & receive your FREE Metabolism eCourse
- Like Matt’s Facebook Page
- Follow Matt’s Twitter
- Get some of Matt’s Books HERE
And here’s the link to my review on Diet Recovery: http://wp.me/p3D8tt-Wo
Also, PLEASE accept my apology for 32:00 and 1:04 where my dog decides to join in on the conversation with her not-so-adorable yappy bark. I would edit it out if I could but at the moment, my software can only edit so much. I’ll get better at this with time, rest assured!
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you know i love matt stone and YOU!!!
p.s. love the dog interruptions. hehe
This is a great interview, thank you. I started refeeding in December 2012 and did refeeding until March 2013 and then just started eating to appetite and what I felt like eating. It’s been amazing in many ways – a lot of troublesome symptoms have gone away and I feel so much better and happier. I sleep much better, I’m calmer, I don’t have to pee every 20 minutes, my hands and feet are warm, my body temperature is close to 37 C every day, I have good energy. AND I gained 25 pounds and am just now starting to see a bit of weight loss – or at least my clothing is looser, I haven’t weighed myself in a long time. Everything that Matt talks about in this interview is exactly what happened for me. This hasn’t been an easy process – I weigh as much as I did when I was nine months pregnant. I did want to go do so some quick diet or some ‘supplement’ or something to make that fat go away. But, I did feel so much better and I’d go read a blog or something would come in from Matt on facebook and I’d snap out of it. I am female and 54 years old, so this process is taking the time Matt said it would and because everything else has been so bang on with Matt, I am hanging in with this for good. And I am really grateful and actually relieved every single day to not be obsessing about every single bite of food that I put in my mouth and reading all the new research on the latest best super food or the research that says that research from a year ago is wrong and now experts say stop doing that and do this instead ETC. Eat the food you want to eat when you’re hungry, eat til you’re full, repeat. Pretty damn simple.
Deb,
Thank you SO much for sharing this with me. I am so glad you stuck with the rest/refeeding program and feel the benefits still today! I know the weight gain must be a little difficult to wrap your mind around, but the fact that you are HEALTHY, functioning and metabolizing like a beast means your health is long-term and stronger than ever before! I am so proud of you 🙂 Keep doing what you’re doing, eating the food and living life. You rock.
I love this. I am a Matt Stone devotee and I am so thrilled to hear the word being spread. Thrilled to find a new site to stalk.
Thanks so much April! I love Matt. Feel free to stalk my site anytime 🙂
This is one of the best podcasts ever for explaining people what really happens once you go on any calorie restricted diet. You feel jacked because the body is mobilising every defense mechanism. I’m still recovering from anorexia and orthorexia and I’ve experienced everything Matt talks about. Even when my blood markers were so off that my doctor thought I had leukemia I still couldn’t allow myself to eat more and god forbid any ‘junk food’. For two years I had absolutely no cheat meals.
Matt doesn’t talk much about it but the obsession with food is insane once you starve yourself. In the Minnesota Study the people talk about food all the time and several of them become chefs afterwards (even though they didn’t care about food before starting). I’ve also looked at videos on youtube, went by restaurants or just watching the family eat all the things I couldn’t to get the feeling that I was also eating it.
The cold I experienced was simply the worst. At some point I was scared to move or walk outside the door because I just wanted to get under the cover and stay there.
Although I have started eating ‘normally’ again I’m still only halfway back to my previous weight. It takes so much longer than people think despite an insane hunger when I stopped restricting.
I’m rambling, but you really deserve a lot of credit for doing all these podcast showing that healthy is not competing in a fitness competition. When I was at 54kg (my lowest was 49kg at 177cm) a few people said I looked so ‘fit’ and I was thinking ‘what the hell – I look emaciated’.
Your podcasts with Jay/HNA were also great!
Keep it up!
Hemming