Going Wild with the Fat- Burning Man Abel James - 275

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What’s better than peeing in a cup every two weeks? If you thought, “listening to this week’s podcast of Barbell Shrugged,” then you’re more than right. On today’s episode, we spoke with the [Fat-Burning] Man himself, Abel James (@fatburningman), about his super-successful Wild Diet, how the philosophy behind it is nothing new –– yet still absolutely revolutionary –– in terms of helping one achieve physical success, and why making the most of the food that you eat every day is so important for attaining and maintaining optimum health.

Abel’s path to becoming the authority of eating right started in his early twenties when trying to do everything “right” just wasn’t… right. After experiencing the hardship of a fire that consumed everything he owned, Abel refocused his efforts, got in shape, and took on the moniker Fat-Burning Man. During this process, he realized that many of the so-called experts were hawking products and services that were more gimmick than substance, so he began thinking in terms of natural remedies to get in shape. Ultimately, he found that a diet is not about starving yourself, but instead treating health as nature intended and eating in a way that becomes a sustainable, lifelong habit.

From this emerged Abel’s credo of eating RAW (Recently Alive and Well), and it’s the bedrock of the Wild Diet. He discusses how avoiding processed approximations of food and getting wild-caught, free-range food can help consumers become mindful of what is going into their bodies.

Stayed tuned for a fascinating and educational conversation about eating, marketing, and other fun facts, like how Abel worked for the CIA, when he once peed into a cup every two weeks, and more!

This Week on Barbell Shrugged, We Interview the Fat-Burning Man, Abel James, to Discuss:

Abel’s Wild Diet and its distinction from Paleo
The importance of eating foods that were Recently Alive and Well (RAW)
Taking a mindfulness practice approach to eating
Avoiding processed, low-quality foods

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0:00.0	This is what I did for years and it took me my entire life to get burned by it.
0:06.3	You know, to kind of find the top and then realize that it was following a lie.
0:10.2	Now do the exact opposite. I just know that most people will never go through that process.
0:15.0	So I feel like it's my responsibility to tell people like, whoa, this is not as hard as you think it is.
0:30.0	I started up my podcast because I saw the people who were at the top and it was mostly big media, like Jillian Michaels, right?
0:57.6	I remember that and I hated that and I had been burned by reading some of the running magazines and got into the wrong supplements, tried, just drank the wrong Kool-Aid and a lot of that was because of my doctor and just like conventional wisdom.
1:10.8	And so having been burned by that, I wanted to take it down.
1:14.0	And so that's one of the reasons I think that passion was one of the reasons it went up so fast and kind of kicked her off the number one list.
1:23.3	And I think the first year I had over a million downloads and I was like, holy, nice.
1:29.2	Like that's nuts and one, a bunch of awards and all that.
1:34.0	But what's interesting is that in the years that have followed and I don't I don't tend to make the establishment very happy.
1:40.4	I will like play along with it a little bit mostly because I want to figure out how it works.
1:44.4	But in the years since zero awards but like 25 million more downloads.
1:51.6	So like when you do the math and you think about that it's very interesting to see how all this plays out because I know that people are still getting awards and award things are happening.
2:00.8	But it's like when you're not invited to certain things and you can see how it's well you can see how it's how it works in the music industry too.
2:11.2	Or in indie film or mainstream film or whatever.
2:14.4	And so I think what people need to be careful of today is trusting the wrong people who have like all these perfect things and they're by all right because you can you can buy those you can fake those.
2:24.8	Yeah, what are some things you look like? What are some telltale signs that someone might be faking it not legit.
2:31.8	I think if it's like if you take a step back and think like what is this person selling to me?
2:37.6	Right because usually if you if you hear someone on media there is some sort of agenda or there's something that they're doing otherwise they wouldn't be there.
2:46.8	Right it could be ego I suppose.
2:49.2	But in a lot of cases listen to like the built-in pitch at the end.
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