How about Mark Sisson’s The Primal Blueprint
showing up on a New Zealand morning news show featuring one of Mark’s big success stories? I checked Mark’s results pages to see if Michelle Matangi was already there and she’s on page one about halfway down with lots of photos. She’s has also shown up here a time or two in comments. Here’s the before & after they showed on the program.
Michelle Matangi, Before After
And now go take a look at the program. It’s a real hoot with an obviously overweight female host trying to hide her horror over Michelle’s advocacy of arterycloggingsaturatedfat and then the idea that she doesn’t need carbs and in particular, from hearthealthywholegrains.
In the end, to my eye, Michelle ends up looking like a competent success story who could help others, whereas the dumbshit conventional "wisdom" regurgitator comes off looking like the ignorant puppet she is.
In fact, Michelle can help others and has set out to do so via her own blog: Primal Journey. Go give her a visit and tell her how great she did in that interview.
I live in New Zealand so I know how much New Zealand as a nation embraces the low fat whole wheat diet. I think Michelle did a great job trying to de-mystifying the fat phobia and focus on real whole foods.
One of the best selling magazine here is the Healthy Food Guide which promotes low fat, whole grain diet. Check it out at http://www.healthyfood.co.nz. It’s definitely challenging standing up against magazines such as this.
Haha! Lol’d when the host asked her if she ate biscuits. She sure looks like she enjoys her hearthealthywholewheatgoodies..
Good on you, Michelle!
Ditto what Janet said… as a university trained nutritionist in New Zealand, I am way out in leftfield from my profession by actively prescribing primal diets. And Michelle’s awesome success story speaks for itself as to why I do! Well done Michelle – you are a true inspiration. Will be sure to get your story & photos up on my blog soon!
Wow Richard, thanks so much for posting this!! It was truly awesome to be able to shed some light on the Primal Blueprint and hopefully inspire others to change their lives for the better. Thanks Janet, I used to read that magazine, not anymore LOL. Spencer the funny thing is before the interview in the green room she was eating a biscuit! Jamie that’s awesome that your a trained nutritionist teaching the Primal way, awesome stuff!!
Michelle:
Your progress and that of the young woman right above your transformation on Mark’s pages is truly astounding.
You are a most spectacular abasador, not only for paleo / primal, but for women in particular.
Thank you so much Richard, it’s so wonderful to be able to inspire others as you do also, your transformation is incredible and I love reading your site. I do hope that women come to realise that eating fat is crucial to great health.
You must get on Oprah. It’s a fat chance, but everyone ought to drop a suggestion on Oprah’s site.
I’m going to. You never know.
Imagine that! I love Oprah :) And your right you never know, I had no idea I would be on TV!
Well done Michelle. Tried to comment on your site but it doesn’t seem to work for me anymore.
Thanks sue, I’ve tried to fix it now so there shouldn’t be a problem, sorry about that.
Well done Michelle. You totally outshone her with good health and commonsense.
Jamie – I’d like a link to your blog please. We have a low carb/primal/paleo site here in NZ and all are welcome. http://www.lowcarbcooking.co.nz
Prue…. go for it!! I’d by honored.
Sorry – forgot the link! http://www.primalmuse.blog.com
Great job Michelle. Your story on Mark’s Daily Apple was one of those that helped to keep me going when I was trying to lose weight last year.
And, I’ve seen more fat RDs than I care to count.
you never know. Oprah did say something about vitamin D being good for you. The problem is that people around her can screw things up. Oprah is the queen when it gets product on the market.
Amazing Michelle what a spokeswoman for the real food way of living. Congratulations and best wishes with your new business!
Thanks Prue, the look on her face was priceless, the face I saw that wasn’t on camera anyway lol
That’s awesome Austin, so stoked!
Lou I can just dream :)
Thanks Gina for your best wishes!
Great interview. Thanks for posting the link Richard. Way to advocate, Michelle. She did look appalled about the bacon, and the lack of biscuits (she means “cookies,” right? not like biscuits and gravy). People have a hard time getting around the grain issue… even that whole grains aren’t great. They always want to say you need fiber.
TrailGrrl
“But don’t you need carbohydrates?” LOL! Good job Michelle! Way to represent!
Great job! You had that interviewer turning green with envy!
one word: ‘yowza’!
great job
You did so well Michelle, I wanted to comment at your site, but had difficulties for some reason, so I hope you don’t mind Richard, if I post my congratulations here.
There were some moments in that interview which if you hadn’t kept your cool so brilliantly, it could have gone badly, but you were fantastic.
My wife sent this video, which is anti-Paleo propaganda. It isn’t even funny because so much of it has no basis in reality.
Anyone know how to reply to that video with a link to this?
There’s a comment reply form on YouTube.
But I wouldn’t waste my time. The guy is obviously a deranged, abject moron. That, or a good actor.
I thought about the possibility of this being a double-reverse parody, but then I saw this guy’s other videos about the supremacy of raw veganism.
You’re right about the comments. So many articles on diet or politics or other subjects have comment sections which are flooded by abject ignorance and stupidity. It’s like shouting down the surf.
I just wonder what drove this guy to spend so much time putting on makeup, buying a steak he won’t eat, and so forth. Bizarre!
Thanks so much to all of you and your wonderful comments, it’s great to have soo much support!!
Eloquent and well said, Michelle, especially responding so clearly and emphatically that it is a “lifestyle” not a diet! I can’t count how many times I have had to politely redirect the tendency for most people to incorrectly pigeonhole my Paleo lifestyle into some quirky fad…but there’s strength in numbers and our numbers are growing, right (or more specifically, grokking? Ho-ho.)? And there’s nothing better than showing not telling–people can’t believe it seems as though I’m doing absolutely nothing and just magically losing the blubber and appearing to materialize into fit shape and that very fine space cadet glow of being healthy and energized. It is a little like magic, isn’t it?! Just finished The Primal Blueprint myself…
Is it okay to say here that another cool byproduct of living Paleo is not just getting in good shape but also having good (or better) skin?