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[quote=Anonymous]I started a new eating regime end of February cutting nearly all ultra processed food from my diet. I’ve been sleeping better and feeling better than I have in YEARS. I’ve read volumes about nutritional biology over the last couple decades but wow nothing makes you connect better than a real purge of poison from your diet and the opportunity to feel the effects firsthand. The inflammatory pain I’ve suffered for years wasn’t just normal middle aged pain - it was my diet. The inability to drop weight despite rigorous adherence to calorie deficit - it was because what kind of calories you eat matters more than how many. In recent weeks as I’ve been eating a nutrient dense diet with each meal a balance of carbs protein and healthy fats my appetite has naturally decreased- my body is no longer constantly signaling hunger in the absence of nutrition. I ate a lot of crap and felt fine as a younger person, but clearly with age the body cannot tolerate the standard American diet so well. I feel good about aging for the first time in years y’all. I’m excited for the future! Can’t wait to wow my GP at my annual in December.

By the way I’m eating foods that are largely compliant with Mediterranean/blue zone diet. Every day I consume tea, usually green sometimes oolong or black. I daily consume some walnuts, garlic, very high quality evoo, eggs, raw unfiltered honey. I eat a lot of spinach and sun dried tomatoes, brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes and whole wheat pasta and fish and shrimp and chicken. Only consume beef/pork a couple of times a month. I’m eating delicious food but it’s definitely very different from the diet I was raised on and have eaten most of my adult life. I’m working toward more and more veggies and less and less meat, it’s just a process for me because while I am a very good cook, I don’t have a lot of experience with healthful and tasty preparations of vegetables- how sad is that?- so I’m slowly working my way through veggie cookbooks I’ve collected and building a repertoire of yummy healthy food. I try to always have some good food made and ready in my fridge so I am not tempted to grab something crappy out of haste and hunger. A few times over the last two months I have made a Dunkin run and immediately felt the yucky effects in my body of that food product as well as the tastelessness of it - once your brain and palate have recovered from regular consumption of UPFs, the stuff is quite distasteful. I feel like I’ve really had a lightbulb moment and my life is changing radically for the better.

Now I just feel sad realizing that so many Americans are likely sick from what they are eating and will struggle to realize it in all the confusing and morally judgmental messages from diet industry and medical professionals alike. [/quote]

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