For the past decade or so I have jumped around diet to diet, or lifestyle some would say. I’ve done a lot of them, and some I stuck with and some I haven’t. But lord knows I have tried a bunch. These are my thoughts on some of them these days.
Paleo
This is the first major diet I had tried and to be honest I had really great success with it. And I can’t argue the idea, like most of the Ancestral based diets. If you think about it, it just makes sense. My downfall is I’m not a veggie fan and forcing myself to eat them got old, I leaned hard on brussel sprouts and asparagus. Eventually I just fell off the wagon. I think it doesn’t help that I drank back then also.
The Maker’s Diet
This one sounded cool, the good lord says… but I don’t like many fermented foods and I didn’t stick with it more than a couple of weeks.
Vegetarian/Vegan
I actually did this solid for about a year, maybe a tad longer. I didn’t really feel great, I was tired a lot, and I gained weight. I did not do whole foods, though. Not only that, but I gave in to all the fake meat stuff and various goodies, who knew Orios were vegan.
Carnivore
I went from vegetarian straight to carnivore. I love meat, I cannot lie. This I did solid for a bit with decent results. But fell off the wagon a lot.
Animal Based
Another ancestral based diet. The funny thing that makes me lean towards these types of diets is they make sense. Watch a couple episodes of “Naked and Afraid” and you see even the vegans go for meat. Not eating it makes zero sense. That being said, fruit makes a hell of a lot of sense also. If available, it is easy eats. Veggies beyond root vegetables, good luck not starving eating only vegetables in a survival situation in the wild.
Ray Peat
So, this isn’t an official diet, but Dr. Peat seemed to provide a lot of reasonable and well studied info that makes sense. It really makes me relook at everything before.
In the end, I am experimenting a lot now. The Ray Peat stuff has me the most interested, and I’m starting to experiment with his philosophy and that of those who have tried and wrote about it. It’s super early, but maybe in a few months I can talk how I feel about it and how my body is taking it. But this is the flow I’ve taken in the past years and the path I am on now.
Cheers!