The NEW Food Pyramid + Breakfast Challenge

IT’S TIME TO UNFAT YOURSELF

The food and nutrition system is a failure. 2/3 of Americans are obese or overweight. In some cases, obesity is as high as 50%. I just learned this one — worldwide obesity has tripled since 1975!

The system is broken, but nobody is admitting it. We’re still being force fed the same bullshit that got us here in the first place. It didn’t used to be this way, and it doesn’t have to be this way.

If you’re reading this, statistically speaking you are likely overweight or obese. To unfat yourself, you have to accept that everything you learned or think you know is wrong.

YOU CAN DO IT

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” — Serenity Prayer

You might not lift weights or strength train

You might not sprint, jump, walk, or move much

You might not train sports or martial arts

…But you do eat

… And you can change what you put in your mouth

We’ve all been lied to, so I don’t blame you for not knowing before.

But now you can know what is good for you, and what is not good for you.

Here is the framework that makes knowing the difference super super easy.

THE NEW FOOD PYRAMID

The food pyramid you used to know is useless. Throw it away. Here is a more accurate, practical, and simple categorization that you can use every day.

1. Food —  plant and animal products that are high in nutrient density, this should be 80%+ of your calories.

2. Dessert — plant and animal products that have low nutrition or no nutrition. These products might be tasty but should be limited to 20% of your calories. Prioritize Food.

3. Poison — these products provide no value, often manufactured to be poisonous, and are unfortunately regarded as okay or even considered healthy. Better substitutes already exist. Avoid poison entirely.

— Foods to prioritize and eat —

• Beef: champ protein source, ideally grass fed and grass finished

• Lamb: like beef but smaller and furry

• Salmon: sea beef, ideally not farmed

• Fresh fruit: ideally in season, don’t juice your fruits.

• Eggs: it’s nice to support farms that treat their cluckaroos right

• Game: wild meats, not for everyone

• Small seafood and fatty fish: like sardines, anchovies, oysters, shrimp, and scallops. The lower on the food chain, the better

• Fermented foods: sauerkraut, kimchee, yogurt, kefir

• Birds: chicken/duck/turkey, avoid ground meat because it is mixed with the gnarly bits

• Honey

• Fresh vegetables: LOTS of debate about which are ideal, just figure out what suits you best, perhaps none do. Root vegetables are generally regarded as most acceptable. Eat them raw or cooked, and be careful to not use too much fat because the calories can add up. Don’t juice your vegetables.

• Fat: butter, cream, extra virgin olive oil (you have to get the pure Mediterranean stuff)

• Cooking fat: coconut, avocado, ghee, tallow

• Potatoes: all varieties including sweet potatoes, and all formats including french fries, hash browns, and tater tots. Must be prepared in cooking fat, not seed oils.

• Maple syrup: we’ll give it a pass, but it has to be the pure stuff

• Salt: very necessary

• Milk

• Nuts

• Spices

• Herbs

— Dessert to eat sparingly —

• All restaurant food

• All packaged food

• All processed foods

• Cheese

• Grains: bread, pasta

• Whole grains: still dessert

• White rice

• Brown rice: still dessert

• Sugar

• Corn

• Bacon: this shouldn’t be here, but there are simply no substitutes, so we’ll allow it

• Fresh fruit juices

• Sprouted foods

• Beans, legumes

• Cake, pie, cookies, donuts

• Croissants, bagels

• Dried fruit

• Seeds

• Oats

• Tofu

• Beer: no or low hops, like lagers or pilsners

• Wine: no additives

• Spirits: no additives, preferably clear

— Poison, do not eat —

• Soda: grow the fuck up. Maybe you should also stop smoking cigarettes.

• Breakfast cereal: are you kidding me? Grow the fuck up already. Sylvester Graham (of graham crackers) and Will Keith Kellogg (founder of the cereal brand) were religious zealots and invented their products in a movement against sexuality.

• Granola: hippie cereal

• Instant oatmeal: fake news cereal

• Fruit juices: fruit soda

• Processed meat: meats are meant to be fresh, lunch meat is preserved with chemicals

• Pork: in theory pigs could be healthy, but they are fed literal trash, which means their meat is trash. Also they are homies with high emotional intelligence, so maybe we shouldn’t be eating pigs. Jews and Muslims had this figured out a long time ago.

• Soy: super disruptive to testosterone production, makes you weak

• Hops: same as soy, IPAs give you boobs

• Seed oils: this is probably the biggest hidden problem of our diet today, because they are in everything and will make you gain weight. Google to learn more, it is incredible how pervasive they are. These are only used because they are super cheap, but don’t taste good at all. Seed oils include canola/rapeseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, grapeseed oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, rice bran oil, flaxseed oil. Use real fats instead, because real fats are healthy and super tasty.

• Pancakes and waffles: you wouldn’t eat cake for breakfast, grow up

• Canned spirit mixes: alcohol soda

• Fortified wines

• Most beer, especially IPAs and pale ales

• Sugared spirits

THE POINTMAN BREAKFAST CHALLENGE

You’re not going to change everything overnight, but it is possible to make big gains quickly.

It’s way easier than you might expect, and it starts with breakfast.

The problem with breakfast as we know it in America is that most of the breakfast foods are in fact poison. Just see above. When you eat that poison for breakfast, it puts your body in chaos mode.

Not a good start to the day!

Intermittent fasting is super popular now, but I’ve been doing it for more than a decade. I’ve explored every angle of it as well as time restricted eating.

There is no secret to intermittent fasting.

If you eat the typical American diet, you are putting your body in chaos mode every morning.

When you fast, you simply skip the chaotic morning assault on your hormones and blood sugar, and your body has a chance to normalize for once. With a harmonized body, you will tend to feel less hungry and eat more reasonably. This is a good thing.

Here’s the great news — you don’t have to do intermittent fasting to feel better and improve your health.

You just have to start your day with a quality breakfast. Here is the Pointman Breakfast Challenge:

• For breakfast, eat Food (as defined above)

• Do this for 10 days

That’s it. You don’t have to change anything else in your day. But you will probably notice that things do change.

If your health isn’t where you want to be, please try the Pointman Breakfast Challenge for 10 days.

Reply back and let me know how it goes.

Stay healthy my friends

Nate