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@LeChef
I've not posted on this thread before but have followed it for a while. I've had a bit of a breakthrough since xmas and thought others may possibly benefit from my experience.
I'm a chef and have always had a terrible diet mainly consisting of sugars and bread. I've always seemed to levetate around the 13-14st mark.
I was working in a busy steak/grill house and consuming a crazy amount of red meat and carbs everyday for about a year and felt horrendous as a result.
Change was needed so i decided to give up
meat and refined sugar. It worked pretty well for about a year and a half with the expected weak moments (mainly holidays, xmas and treating myself after exercise).
Anyway after this xmas just gone i decided it was time to properly take control of what i was eating. I gave up dairy alongside meat and sugar about 6 weeks ago and the results have been fantastic. I've lost weight and as a result my back (sciatica) has got much better. I'm sleeping fantastically and generally seem to have double the energy than before.
I think the root of the benefits has come from being militant about sugar. Unfortunately it is in pretty much all processed foods available, even in things you wouldn't expect. The whole 'fruit it healthy' thing has been one of the main eye opener's for me too. Just acknowledging that sugar is sugar, be it fructose or sucrose, in fruit or chocolate etc has helped me no end. I'm only eating low fructose fruits like blueberries, raspberries and honeydew melon, and fruit juice of a big no.
Another contributor to it all i believe has been the increase in capsaicin in my diet. I've started adding chilli to pretty much everything and i'm seeing positive effects digestion wise. I read an article of the effect of capsaicin on metabolism and it's ani-inflammatory properties. I have noticed positive effects in both areas. The general rule i've applied it the hotter the better. It takes a while to get used to but i'm convinced it's helping.
One last rule i follow is bread for breakfast only. Only rye or sourdough, or even better rye sourdough.