Well, this is what happens when I get busy: I forget anniversaries. A couple of years ago, I went through a pile of mail I’d plopped on my desk and found a nice Happy Anniversary card from my mom, which included a check and instructions to use the money to take that lovely wife of mine out for a fancy anniversary dinner.
Gulp … the card had arrived exactly on time, meaning I was opening it late in the afternoon on the day of our anniversary. I hadn’t so much as picked up a card for Chareva, much less ordered flowers or bought a present. I stood there with a growing sense of dread, expecting her to walk into my home office any second and spring a card on me, perhaps while wearing something revealing. Announcing that I needed to run a quick errand at that point would be a dead giveaway. Thank goodness we established a no-divorce rule before walking down the aisle all those years ago.
After hiding the card and the check in a desk drawer, I ambled into Chareva’s office, acting all casual and such, and said, “So, Honey … I was thinking maybe we’d go out for a nice dinner for our anniversary. Do you have any place special in mind?”
“Oh my god, it’s our anniversary? Today? I totally forgot.”
I was tempted to feign being hurt and bank that for some future thoughtless-husband emergency, but a near-total lack of gamesmanship is one of the reasons we’re happily married. Plus I was afraid she might ask to see the card I bought her. So I confessed. We were both busy and we’d both forgotten.
I’ve been swamped lately trying to finish up a big programming project in addition to working full-time, which is why I’ve gone a week between posts now and then. It’s also why I forgot my fifth blogiversary last week.
Yup, my first Fat Head post was on March 20, 2009 – five years ago. Hard to believe, but if I’m tempted to dismiss the calendar and convince myself it’s only been a couple of years, all I have to do is compare then-and-now pictures of my kids – because I haven’t aged a bit, of course.
Here’s a picture of Sara from a recent post about our overabundance of eggs:
And here she is five years ago, posing for a mock magazine cover Chareva whipped up in Photoshop to accompany a post about Parents Magazine and their lousy dietary advice:
Good grief. Better not blink, or I’ll open my eyes and find her heading off to college … or suing me for uncompensated modeling work.
Anyway, it’s been quite a ride. I had no intention of starting a blog at first. When I put Fat Head in the can after two years of working on it while also working as a contractor at Disney, I was burnt out. Writing, researching, rewriting, rewriting again, flying around to conduct interviews, watching footage over and over, more rewriting, editing well into the wee hours for weeks on end, then finding out I had to buy a Mac and edit the whole thing together all over again in Final Cut Pro because the post-production houses in Los Angeles couldn’t read my Premiere Pro files. That led to stint of working three days around the clock with no sleep and two quick showers. I lost count of how many times I had to sit through the whole film during audio and video post. I would wake up in the middle of the night and realize I’d been dreaming about the film – often about something going very, very wrong with the film.
But hey, what’s a little emotional strain when you can toss financial strain on top of it?
Shooting and editing didn’t cost all that much – my biggest expense had been paying our animator — but I started dealing with major sticker shock once we signed with a distributor and I found myself scrambling to meet all of their technical and legal requirements. Producer’s liability insurance alone cost more than $7,000 to cover a worldwide market. Post-production fees ran several times that. Master tapes were hundreds of dollars each, and the distributor wanted a whole slew of them in different formats. When I went through my financial records later, I realized I’d ended up investing nearly $100,000 from start to finish. I wondered if it would turn out to be the biggest financial mistake of my life.
It nearly was. As I’ve recounted before, our first two distributors turned out to be incompetent or just plain crooked. The U.S. DVD distributor told me Fat Head was their biggest seller – hooray! – then went bankrupt owing me two years’ worth of DVD royalties. They’d been using the proceeds from their biggest seller! to float their operation before giving up and declaring bankruptcy. The foreign distributor sold Fat Head to several TV markets around the world, then claimed they’d lost money in the process. They sent me quarterly reports showing large and mysterious losses piling up, with no explanation of how exactly they were losing all that money on a film they were no longer attempting to sell.
It was a strange, strange time for me emotionally. Once I decided to start blogging (with a push from Jimmy Moore), I started hearing from fans around the world. I received lots of emails and comments from people thanking me for making the film, telling me how it changed their lives, etc. (And I learned the meaning of words like “gobsmacked” from fans in New Zealand.) The blog readership grew quickly. There was quite a bit of buzz about Fat Head in cyberspace. I started getting requests for media interviews.
So I’d be lying in bed at night – probably after writing a check to pay interest on the part of the post-production costs I’d financed by borrowing – and thinking, “What the @#$%!! I’m hearing from people all over the world, there’s all this chatter about Fat Head on blogs and in internet forums, and I haven’t seen a dime. How the @#$% is that even possible?”
I was royally pissed off about not being paid for the film I’d spent so much time and effort and money producing, but the subject matter had become near and dear to my heart – especially as I saw my own health improve – so I figured if this turned out to be a non-paying but passionate hobby, so be it. I kept blogging.
After moving to Tennessee and eventually accepting that we’d never receive anything but excuses from our supposed distributors, we decided to start selling the DVD ourselves through the blog. I added a DVD purchase page, then took Chareva and the girls to Kentucky for a two-day vacation touring some caves. I came home to find I had $400 worth of orders to process – the first time Fat Head had actually put money in my bank account instead of draining it.
The big turnaround, of course, was because of Netflix. While still trying to figure out how the hell my supposed distributors were losing money with an apparently popular film, I sent a DVD to Gravitas, a digital distributor. The president of the company sent me a polite email telling he doesn’t take on first-time filmmakers with no track record. Nonetheless, I occasionally sent him links to positive reviews and media interviews that were available online. A year or so after I’d first sent him the DVD, he called and said I’d finally persuaded him to watch Fat Head, and he happened to like it. So he was willing to break his rule about first-time filmmakers, but only by putting Fat Head on Hulu to test the waters.
He called again a few weeks later.
“Are you aware that Fat Head is currently ranked number one in the documentary category on Hulu?”
“No, I don’t have any idea how to check Hulu rankings. Wow.”
“So I guess you’re also not aware it’s currently the third-most watched film in any category?”
“Uh … no.”
“I’m glad I broke my rule.”
He told me he was moving on to Netflix, which, based on the Hulu rankings, was offering a pretty good license fee for a two-year run. I figured our DVD sales would taper off once people could watch Fat Head for free on Netflix, but what the heck, the Netflix royalties would more than make up for the lost DVD sales.
So Fat Head started showing on Netflix and our DVD sales quintupled the next week. We still receive orders almost every day. Heh-heh-heh … turn out people see a film they like on Netflix or Amazon Instant Play or iTunes and then decide to go buy a copy. Go figure. I don’t know how many people watched Fat Head on Netflix, but more than 225,000 of them took the time to rate it.
I eventually got away from the crooked foreign distributor – who refused to relinquish the rights despite those mysterious losses – by creating the Director’s Cut version and signing the foreign distribution over to Gravitas – honest people who send a nice royalty check every quarter. (As the president of the company told me, film distributors are like trial lawyers – it’s that darned 90% who give the rest a bad name.) Mere years after throwing a combination premiere party / 50th birthday party in Burbank to celebrate putting Fat Head in the can, I finally knew it wasn’t going to be a financial loser.
Whew.
The film itself took me on a financial and emotional roller-coaster ride for a few years. But the blog has never been anything but a positive for me – even when I hear from angry vegetrollians in the comments section. (Heck, that’s like shooting fish in a barrel.) I enjoy writing posts, but it’s the ongoing conversations in comments that make it fun. We have some very intelligent and well-informed participants here and in the Fat Head group on Facebook, and I learn more from them than they learn from me.
So five years (and one week) after my first blog post, I just want to say thanks. Sorry I forgot our anniversary, and I don’t have time to run out and buy a card, but I know you won’t hold it against me.
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Happy Blogiversary! I’m very glad you decided to make Fat Head. I know it will continue to be a blessing to many.
I’m glad I made it too. Without Fat Head, I probably wouldn’t know you … which means I wouldn’t know John, which means I wouldn’t played disc golf with John, which means I wouldn’t have studied his grip and eventually developed the “Half Dungan” grip that’s working for me now. So it was worth all the frustration with our distributors.
The first time I watched it I was on board but the wife was not. This did not work out so well =/ A couple of years later, about a month ago, I decided to watch it again. This time I decided I was going to follow your advice. The wife caved easily after seeing countless failed attempts over the years.
Today I am 27 days in and down 11.8 pounds. Roads trips and Camping Weekends are no longer a impossible diet nightmare. If we need to stop and McDonalds, Burger King or any other fast, convenient and easy to find establishment I have a plan and a phone with a lot of Apps. I simply follow what you did in the movie and watch the carbs/calories.
Your movie is changing my life. For the first time I feel like I am eating in a way that I can live with instead of knowing that failure is lurking around the next corner because I’m so miserable on this “diet”. Instead I find it difficult to get my calorie count up higher because I’m simply not hungry.
I still have a long ways to go but thanks for making Fat Head. I think it’s time I order that directors cut myself 🙂
You’re off to great start, and I predict success. Not being hungry all the time is key.
For me, it isn’t a simple case of not being hungry. When I am hungry, it isn’t crippling pains, and I have a habit of suddenly realising that I have been hungry for a while. Not being a slave to eating is a beautiful thing.
Yeah, it’s a different kind of hunger, and easy to ignore if you can’t eat for awhile.
It’s disappointing reading about your return from investment on Fat Head. Hopefully there will be a long term of income that will eventually have a satisfying income of no regrets. IMDB has a high rating for the movie.
It took way longer than it should have to see a return, but we finally started receiving a steady stream of nice checks after Gravitas got the rights.
Congratulations Tom! We are personally grateful for your introduction to a healthier diet and lifestyle for our family about four years ago. We went from a SAD to locally sourcing nearly all our food and starting a suburban garden in our back yard. I guess you were our ‘gateway locavore.”
I’m especially happy to hear that you are finally seeing a well-earned payback for all your efforts and passion.
Keep ranting!
Better late than never on the payback. We learned a valuable lesson about trusting distributors that will (I hope) serve us well later.
Wow, five years? It was 2009 when we first saw Fathead and it made an incredible impression on us. We didn’t, at that time, know exactly what to eat and how to manage our diet so it took awhile for us to figure that out (Wheat Belly finally convinced us). Without our viewing of Fathead though, we would never have had our “lightbulb” moment about insulin and fats etc. For that I am eternally grateful and have been paying it forward ever since on my own blog.
Every time another person “gets it” and has that lightbulb moment of their own it is wonderful. Thank you to you Tom and your beautiful family for helping me and my husband. You have made more difference to thousands of people’s lives than you’ll ever know.
Thank you.
Glad you started it. I first saw the film on Hulu and it took a while for me to watch it. I had seen Spurlock’s film and wasn’t impressed. Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Bought your first DVD. Bought your Director’s Cut. I bring it with me when I go offshore. Spreading the word. One by one.
I appreciate that.
Well this is one ‘gobsmacked’ Kiwi (New Zealander), that couldn’t be happier that you took both the time and the risk to go through with Fathead. It has certainly changed my dietary habbits and those too of friends who are interested enough to ask the right questions.
Well done Tom – you’re an angel on earth and through your unselfish efforts, have probably changed and saved more lives than you will ever know!
Keep up the great work.
Cheers mate!
Thanks. No plans to quit anytime soon.
I think we’re responsible for at least 6 of the sales – I can’t even remember how many copies we’ve given to friends and family, and of course we bought the Director’s Cut when you released it.
We found you at a time when our diet underwent a fundamental change. It’s morphing again – we’re eating more of a Western A. Price type diet these days, having reintroduced soaked/sprouted/fermented legumes and grains a few times a week (and I’m losing weight again) – but the core change that took place in 2010 when we removed industrially processed foods is still there (I’m convinced the worst thing we can eat are vegetable oils and processed soy).
We owe you a great deal, though, no matter what we eat, because you taught us how to wade through all of the confusing, conflicting information out there and interpret it in a sound, objective and intelligent manner. You’re a marvelous educator and I can never thank you enough for everything you do here.
My diet morphs now and then too as I learn more about what works and what doesn’t. It’s an ongoing quest.
That’s really interesting to hear the back story on the movie. It’s great, and I appreciate all of your work and stress over it. It’s awesome to get good information in a funny format. I sometimes find myself whispering…”follow the money…” 🙂
In the end, it was worth all the stress and frustration it took to get here.
Congratulations and here’s to many more years of blogging!
I plan to quit when I turn 80.
Happy Blogiversary! I’m very glad you decided to make Fat Head. I know it will continue to be a blessing to many.
I’m glad I made it too. Without Fat Head, I probably wouldn’t know you … which means I wouldn’t know John, which means I wouldn’t played disc golf with John, which means I wouldn’t have studied his grip and eventually developed the “Half Dungan” grip that’s working for me now. So it was worth all the frustration with our distributors.
The first time I watched it I was on board but the wife was not. This did not work out so well =/ A couple of years later, about a month ago, I decided to watch it again. This time I decided I was going to follow your advice. The wife caved easily after seeing countless failed attempts over the years.
Today I am 27 days in and down 11.8 pounds. Roads trips and Camping Weekends are no longer a impossible diet nightmare. If we need to stop and McDonalds, Burger King or any other fast, convenient and easy to find establishment I have a plan and a phone with a lot of Apps. I simply follow what you did in the movie and watch the carbs/calories.
Your movie is changing my life. For the first time I feel like I am eating in a way that I can live with instead of knowing that failure is lurking around the next corner because I’m so miserable on this “diet”. Instead I find it difficult to get my calorie count up higher because I’m simply not hungry.
I still have a long ways to go but thanks for making Fat Head. I think it’s time I order that directors cut myself 🙂
You’re off to great start, and I predict success. Not being hungry all the time is key.
For me, it isn’t a simple case of not being hungry. When I am hungry, it isn’t crippling pains, and I have a habit of suddenly realising that I have been hungry for a while. Not being a slave to eating is a beautiful thing.
Yeah, it’s a different kind of hunger, and easy to ignore if you can’t eat for awhile.
It’s disappointing reading about your return from investment on Fat Head. Hopefully there will be a long term of income that will eventually have a satisfying income of no regrets. IMDB has a high rating for the movie.
It took way longer than it should have to see a return, but we finally started receiving a steady stream of nice checks after Gravitas got the rights.
Congratulations Tom! We are personally grateful for your introduction to a healthier diet and lifestyle for our family about four years ago. We went from a SAD to locally sourcing nearly all our food and starting a suburban garden in our back yard. I guess you were our ‘gateway locavore.”
I’m especially happy to hear that you are finally seeing a well-earned payback for all your efforts and passion.
Keep ranting!
Better late than never on the payback. We learned a valuable lesson about trusting distributors that will (I hope) serve us well later.
Unfortunately, you’re unlikely to run out of things to write about the way things are going.
I discovered Fat Head in 2011, and went right to your blog. I spent the next few months working my way back to the beginning, and haven’t missed a post since. Thanks for the time you spend blogging and keeping us informed with some humor thrown in.
Keep it up!
I’ll quit blogging when the standard advice from the experts is to eat a diet full of natural fats, avoid gluten-containing grains, avoid all processed vegetable oils, and avoid sugar except in very small doses. So I’ll never be able to quit.
Wow, five years? It was 2009 when we first saw Fathead and it made an incredible impression on us. We didn’t, at that time, know exactly what to eat and how to manage our diet so it took awhile for us to figure that out (Wheat Belly finally convinced us). Without our viewing of Fathead though, we would never have had our “lightbulb” moment about insulin and fats etc. For that I am eternally grateful and have been paying it forward ever since on my own blog.
Every time another person “gets it” and has that lightbulb moment of their own it is wonderful. Thank you to you Tom and your beautiful family for helping me and my husband. You have made more difference to thousands of people’s lives than you’ll ever know.
Thank you.
Congratulations on your anniversary, and your gracious inclusion of all your online friends and fans in the celebration.
As for myself, your efforts and Dr. Donald W. Miller’s YouTube video – “Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats: They’re Good for You” where the two most influential sources of information that changed my health around.
So from one farm owner to another I offer my best to you and your family.
Remember: Every Time we butcher a cow – Another Angel Gets His Wings.
Regards, john
Happy farming to you and yours.
Glad you started it. I first saw the film on Hulu and it took a while for me to watch it. I had seen Spurlock’s film and wasn’t impressed. Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Tim,
If I had known that you were getting ripped off, I would never have bought those 4 DVD’s for my family from Amazon. I would much rather have gotten them from you directly, but glad that it all worked out for you (I guess it did anyway?). I am one of those who benefited greatly from the Big Fat Lies clips and then from watching the full movie. You introduced me to Dr. Eades, and his advice has changed my life dramatically, having lost 120 lbs and counting, as well as all the other benefits. I keep sending people to watch those clips so I hope they won’t go away! Thanks Tom!
We fill the Amazon orders for the Director’s Cut ourselves, so Amazon is finally a revenue stream. As for those first few years, well, I’m still grateful that people supported the film by buying copies and getting the word out. We’ve sold WAY more copies of my speeches than I ever anticipated, and I’m sure many of those sales were to people who bought the original Fat Head DVD.
It wasn’t just that Fat Head was eye-opening– most had already heard about Atkins by then, and associated the phrase “low-carb” with bacon and a man who died from a fall on some ice; it was the way you presented the information. You have a persuasive and human delivery. Thanks for the film, and thanks (maybe more) for the blog.
Thank you.
Bought your first DVD. Bought your Director’s Cut. I bring it with me when I go offshore. Spreading the word. One by one.
I appreciate that.
Cool story. Funny how on the various forums that Fat Head just seems like something that was always out there and accessible to all – not realising it was kinda difficult to get a hold of and probably didn’t do the creator any favours until nearly 4 years after it was done and dusted.
Well, better late than never. When it looked as if we’d never get paid, I consoled myself with the knowledge that I was building an audience for next time.
I, among many, hope that “next time” comes along very soon! I found Fathead quite enjoyable and loved your “Science for Stupid People”. (Bought both!)
I would relish a video debunking veganism. 🙂
The “next time” will be a DVD companion to go with a book for kids explaining how foods affect their health. If Gravitas is interested in releasing the DVD as a separate documentary through its digital distribution channels, I’m all for it.
Well this is one ‘gobsmacked’ Kiwi (New Zealander), that couldn’t be happier that you took both the time and the risk to go through with Fathead. It has certainly changed my dietary habbits and those too of friends who are interested enough to ask the right questions.
Well done Tom – you’re an angel on earth and through your unselfish efforts, have probably changed and saved more lives than you will ever know!
Keep up the great work.
Cheers mate!
Thanks. No plans to quit anytime soon.
I think we’re responsible for at least 6 of the sales – I can’t even remember how many copies we’ve given to friends and family, and of course we bought the Director’s Cut when you released it.
We found you at a time when our diet underwent a fundamental change. It’s morphing again – we’re eating more of a Western A. Price type diet these days, having reintroduced soaked/sprouted/fermented legumes and grains a few times a week (and I’m losing weight again) – but the core change that took place in 2010 when we removed industrially processed foods is still there (I’m convinced the worst thing we can eat are vegetable oils and processed soy).
We owe you a great deal, though, no matter what we eat, because you taught us how to wade through all of the confusing, conflicting information out there and interpret it in a sound, objective and intelligent manner. You’re a marvelous educator and I can never thank you enough for everything you do here.
My diet morphs now and then too as I learn more about what works and what doesn’t. It’s an ongoing quest.
That’s really interesting to hear the back story on the movie. It’s great, and I appreciate all of your work and stress over it. It’s awesome to get good information in a funny format. I sometimes find myself whispering…”follow the money…” 🙂
In the end, it was worth all the stress and frustration it took to get here.
Congratulations and here’s to many more years of blogging!
I plan to quit when I turn 80.
Unfortunately, you’re unlikely to run out of things to write about the way things are going.
I discovered Fat Head in 2011, and went right to your blog. I spent the next few months working my way back to the beginning, and haven’t missed a post since. Thanks for the time you spend blogging and keeping us informed with some humor thrown in.
Keep it up!
I’ll quit blogging when the standard advice from the experts is to eat a diet full of natural fats, avoid gluten-containing grains, avoid all processed vegetable oils, and avoid sugar except in very small doses. So I’ll never be able to quit.
Congratulations on your anniversary, and your gracious inclusion of all your online friends and fans in the celebration.
As for myself, your efforts and Dr. Donald W. Miller’s YouTube video – “Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats: They’re Good for You” where the two most influential sources of information that changed my health around.
So from one farm owner to another I offer my best to you and your family.
Remember: Every Time we butcher a cow – Another Angel Gets His Wings.
Regards, john
Happy farming to you and yours.
Tim,
If I had known that you were getting ripped off, I would never have bought those 4 DVD’s for my family from Amazon. I would much rather have gotten them from you directly, but glad that it all worked out for you (I guess it did anyway?). I am one of those who benefited greatly from the Big Fat Lies clips and then from watching the full movie. You introduced me to Dr. Eades, and his advice has changed my life dramatically, having lost 120 lbs and counting, as well as all the other benefits. I keep sending people to watch those clips so I hope they won’t go away! Thanks Tom!
We fill the Amazon orders for the Director’s Cut ourselves, so Amazon is finally a revenue stream. As for those first few years, well, I’m still grateful that people supported the film by buying copies and getting the word out. We’ve sold WAY more copies of my speeches than I ever anticipated, and I’m sure many of those sales were to people who bought the original Fat Head DVD.
It wasn’t just that Fat Head was eye-opening– most had already heard about Atkins by then, and associated the phrase “low-carb” with bacon and a man who died from a fall on some ice; it was the way you presented the information. You have a persuasive and human delivery. Thanks for the film, and thanks (maybe more) for the blog.
Thank you.
Cool story. Funny how on the various forums that Fat Head just seems like something that was always out there and accessible to all – not realising it was kinda difficult to get a hold of and probably didn’t do the creator any favours until nearly 4 years after it was done and dusted.
Well, better late than never. When it looked as if we’d never get paid, I consoled myself with the knowledge that I was building an audience for next time.
I, among many, hope that “next time” comes along very soon! I found Fathead quite enjoyable and loved your “Science for Stupid People”. (Bought both!)
I would relish a video debunking veganism. 🙂
The “next time” will be a DVD companion to go with a book for kids explaining how foods affect their health. If Gravitas is interested in releasing the DVD as a separate documentary through its digital distribution channels, I’m all for it.
Here’s to the next 5
Cheers from Ireland!!!
Cheers from the home of my ancestors. Thanks.
I’m submitting the second half of your post to Slashdot, as a straight-to-guts account of just how bad the movie industry has become, how it leeches off hard-working movie-makers into oblivion, and how going for direct internet sales is the proper way to short-cut those shameless middlemen and their ‘Hollywood accounting’ (where mysterious expenditures eat up all your profits).
If it gets published expect a nasty traffic peak 🙂
Yeah, we learned some painful lessons — but they’re learned.
Happy Blogoversary! Thanks to you and Fat Head, I’m half the man I used to be. It’s so nice to be able to buy regular-people clothes!
Almost 25 years ago, my wife and I both forgot our second anniversary. I remembered almost a week late and grabbed flowers on the way home. She remembered when she saw the flowers. “Whew!”
It’s definitely better if you both forget.
Congrats from the Netherlands! Keep up the very good work please and know its much, much, much appreciated. Fathead changed my life indeed and I’m spreading the word! THANKS!!!
Thank you for reading.
Now that you have a following, an established blog, and some good distributors, are you going to start making another movie, soon?
The book we’ve been threatening to write will have a DVD companion available.
Here’s to the next 5
Cheers from Ireland!!!
Cheers from the home of my ancestors. Thanks.
I’m submitting the second half of your post to Slashdot, as a straight-to-guts account of just how bad the movie industry has become, how it leeches off hard-working movie-makers into oblivion, and how going for direct internet sales is the proper way to short-cut those shameless middlemen and their ‘Hollywood accounting’ (where mysterious expenditures eat up all your profits).
If it gets published expect a nasty traffic peak 🙂
Yeah, we learned some painful lessons — but they’re learned.
Tom, the clarity and humor you bring to dietary issues is a gem.
To paraphrase the late Sir Winston Churchill, “never have so many owed so much to one man”
Thank you.
Happy Blogoversary! Thanks to you and Fat Head, I’m half the man I used to be. It’s so nice to be able to buy regular-people clothes!
Almost 25 years ago, my wife and I both forgot our second anniversary. I remembered almost a week late and grabbed flowers on the way home. She remembered when she saw the flowers. “Whew!”
It’s definitely better if you both forget.
Congrats from the Netherlands! Keep up the very good work please and know its much, much, much appreciated. Fathead changed my life indeed and I’m spreading the word! THANKS!!!
Thank you for reading.
Now that you have a following, an established blog, and some good distributors, are you going to start making another movie, soon?
The book we’ve been threatening to write will have a DVD companion available.
Congrats on the success, friend! You deserve great things, I even convinced my parents (who avoided eggs and fats like the Plague) to try high fat eating and now they don’t eat gluten anymore, and have eggs and bacon everyday 🙂 Thanks for adding years to their lives and mine!
Thank you, and congrats on persuading your parents.
I found ur movie by netflix too. February-ish of 2011 sitting around prgnant with my twins, morning sickness out the wazoo, worried about how much weight I was going to gain and along came Fathead the Movie! Loved it! The biggest thing i took away from the movie (besides disliking big govt more)was switch to coconut oil, beef tallow, olive oil and butter for cooking. I.didnt start trying actual lo carb until last fall when i came across something that made me think i could cure my husbands back pain by making him eat lo carb. I still fall off the wagon a lot. Sometimes for.weeks at a time. But Im still a believer and someday Im going to figure out the exact ratio of macronutrients so i.dont crave carbs and give in.
Also, i.must admit if.i hadnt seen that movie iwould probably still be cooking with parially hydrogenated vegetable oil garbage!! I cant believe i used to cook with that stuff. Im so glad i found that movie before my LOs were born. It was so timely for my life.
Getting away from those oils is a huge improvement all by itself.
It’s amazing how almost every slightly processed food has soybean/canola/vegetable oils in it. But dontchya know it’s hearthealthyoil!
The customers believe it and even most formulators believe it and the formulators can’t change because the customers believe in the healthfulness of those bad fats and the good fats are more expensive.
And most of the public is concerned only about cost and taste. And those who *are* concerned try to follow the low fat paradigm get hungry and eat snack food, that is less healthy than their ideal diet.
Tom, the clarity and humor you bring to dietary issues is a gem.
To paraphrase the late Sir Winston Churchill, “never have so many owed so much to one man”
Thank you.
Congrats on the success, friend! You deserve great things, I even convinced my parents (who avoided eggs and fats like the Plague) to try high fat eating and now they don’t eat gluten anymore, and have eggs and bacon everyday 🙂 Thanks for adding years to their lives and mine!
Thank you, and congrats on persuading your parents.
I found ur movie by netflix too. February-ish of 2011 sitting around prgnant with my twins, morning sickness out the wazoo, worried about how much weight I was going to gain and along came Fathead the Movie! Loved it! The biggest thing i took away from the movie (besides disliking big govt more)was switch to coconut oil, beef tallow, olive oil and butter for cooking. I.didnt start trying actual lo carb until last fall when i came across something that made me think i could cure my husbands back pain by making him eat lo carb. I still fall off the wagon a lot. Sometimes for.weeks at a time. But Im still a believer and someday Im going to figure out the exact ratio of macronutrients so i.dont crave carbs and give in.
Also, i.must admit if.i hadnt seen that movie iwould probably still be cooking with parially hydrogenated vegetable oil garbage!! I cant believe i used to cook with that stuff. Im so glad i found that movie before my LOs were born. It was so timely for my life.
Getting away from those oils is a huge improvement all by itself.
It’s amazing how almost every slightly processed food has soybean/canola/vegetable oils in it. But dontchya know it’s hearthealthyoil!
The customers believe it and even most formulators believe it and the formulators can’t change because the customers believe in the healthfulness of those bad fats and the good fats are more expensive.
And most of the public is concerned only about cost and taste. And those who *are* concerned try to follow the low fat paradigm get hungry and eat snack food, that is less healthy than their ideal diet.