Getting Started

Start your Big Fat Challenge by working through these episodes, which are designed to help you to retrain your thinking and habits and make the high-fat, animal-based way of eating naturally make perfect sense.

Getting Started

Welcome: Start Here (8m)

How to get the most out of your Big Fat Challenge.

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Unnatural Stresses (8m)

Recorded in early 2022. Phil refers to the health collapse he experienced in late 2021 after a long summer of touring festivals, which forced him to go back to a much stricter régime to get back on track.

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Our Dietary Physiology (8m)

Recorded in January 2022. A brief tour of why humans are designed to eat meat and fat.

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Understanding Different Fats (12m)

Not all sources of fat (or oil) are the same. They have very different levels of nutritional value, and our bodies require different fats in varying amounts (some not at all).

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The Myth of the Balanced Diet (19m)

We frequently hear about the so-called “healthy, balanced diet”, but where did this idea come from, and what does it really mean?

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The Role of Exercise (21m)

(Recorded 2022) Conventional advice tells you that the key to getting an ideal body shape is to “eat less, move more”. This is a dangerous myth. Exercise plays an important role in your health, and it is very simple, but need not take a lot of time.

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Cheating and Falling off the Wagon (8m)

This is your challenge and is completely under your own control. Here’s why there is no “cheating” or “falling off the wagon”.

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How Much & How Often to Eat (13m)

This is a very common question. Fortunately, the answer is very simple!

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Ancestral Life: Our Touchstone (16m)

Why appreciating prehistoric human existence is the key to understanding our natural state of health.

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Redefining Food (13 m)

Presenting a proper definition of “food”.

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Food Miseducation (14m)

How and why we have been taught the wrong facts about what food is, and what constitutes a healthy diet.

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Building New Habits (8m)

Tips for embedding new eating patterns into your everyday life.

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Plants in the Web of Life (10m)

Plants have a vital role in the web of life, along with plant-eating and meat-eating animals.

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The Lists

The most common questions we get asked all start with the same three words, “Can I have..?” And frankly the answer is never simple. Yes, if you’re ravaged with autoimmunity, the list of what you can and should eat is very short, but for the rest of us there is a lot of nuance. That’s

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Is Carnivore a “Diet”?

Phil and Ben have a rant about nutrition, diet clubs, dietary advice.

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The 3 Rules (27m)

The same few rules come up again and again in The Big Fat Challenge coaching calls, so we decided it was time to write them down!