What is up you guys welcome to the controversial thoughts section of the fundamental health podcast now on rumble.

If you want to see the videos associated with these podcasts, they are now on rumble like I said, YouTube is being a real pain in the butt for us.

So the new podcast videos are not on YouTube. I don't know why it has something to do with censorship and over censorship after one strike from the Jamie Seaman video, but got a rumble channel.

Obviously the audio for these is on all of the platforms that you usually listen to it. So this week, I wanted to talk about something that came up the other night when I was having dinner with friends, which is why I am not a fan of cheat days.

It seems like cheat days are common now. Every dietary strategy allows you to have one cheat day or a cheat meal, things like this.

And I spoke about this in my book, The Carnivore Code and also in my upcoming cookbook, The Carnivore Code, cookbook, which is available for pre-order on Amazon. If you want to go check that out, it's out in December.

But I'm not a fan of cheat days.

This is not because I'm trying to make you all miserable or because I'm just completely intense or overly disciplined.

It's because I think that cheat days create incorrect framing around what you are trying to achieve with your dietary changes and that leads to trouble and probably failure long term.

So when you have a cheat day, I fear that you are or that many of us with cheat days in our in our week may look forward to the cheat day as if that is the food freedom day.

That is the day that you get rewarded for all of the hard work you do during the week.

And I feel that framing it in this way during the week creates the reverse sort of mindset that we want.

We want an abundance mindset when we are eating the best foods on the planet.

All of you know that I believe these are things like meat, organs, either fresh or desiccated like we make it from hard and soil.

And the least toxic plant foods, things like fruit, honey, fruit is a wide variety of foods many of us think of not always as fruit like avocado squash, but also things we think of as fruit like apples, oranges, bananas, mango, papaya, pineapple.

These kind of things.

Papaya is especially good here in Costa Rica.

So that is abundance.

But if you frame your weekly dietary strategy around a cheat day on Sunday or Saturday or Friday, then you are really robbing yourself of the real evolutionary abundance of these foods.

These are the foods your ancestors treasured above everything else for millions of years, thousands of generations.

Of course, they didn't have access to junk food and nobody cheats with a steak.

Nobody cheats with an apple, people cheat with peanut butter, French toast like the rock or huge pizzas, which are not in any way shape or form contributing to your health or your long term fitness goals, your long term health goals, your long term goals at all body composition doesn't help at all.

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