The pic is one and half years old. Gs the only real something I may have to offer, is that we all want to think that "now i have found the right diet"... can't tell you how many times that happened with me. The mind is very powerful, and couple that with our need to feel safe, healthy/free from dying, and it can trick you over and over. Almost all of those years were without the aide of the internet, so most info back then came from those little books you get at the health food store, that anyone can make and distribute. And going raw suited my personality, one of needing to be different.
Most of those years were raw, and a lot of raw vegan. I was lucky when I could find raw goats milk. Lucky from the view point of not truly starving myself. For about ten years I had my own grass fed goats, and still have chickens/ducks on pasture. Had been to France at the Instincto castle five times over as many years, about 15 to twenty years ago. Even though they offered raw fat, it wasn't promoted as a calorie source, as I use it now. Can still remember watching a woman ( who someone said was very sick) eat fat scraps off a cutting board with a knife and fork, and thought, "now that's the grossest thing in the world". Again, the mind is very powerful They were so keen on fruits; gorging on durian, mangoes, dates, sapotes, different honeys from all over,, all layed out, so easy to eat right up. So it's really only been about seven or eight years since I've given up using sugar for energy and have switched to fat. So far, it's been my saving grace. For I tend to believe that you can only go on for so long eating fruits/sugar/carbs before it catches up with you (insulin and leptin resistance etc). And I underline the fact that I had definitely abused my body with fruit juice fasts, and believing that fruits were the ultimate way to god.... or even just an ideal diet.
Here's something that might interest you. I am an amputee, left below knee. ( I'm the guy who created Oscar's legs). I have a very delicate fit within my leg. If I eat more than a little fruit, the size of the limb/stump will almost immediately decrease and I will settle further into the socket, which will cause uncomfortableness. I interpret this immediate response as indicating that sugars cause a weakening of tissues/cells (or the hormonal response) on a level that most can't notice.
It was the author of I think it's called Bible Life, who wrote about zero carb, where he said most will continue to suffer overeating foods that they find tasty than to admit they are causing themselves harm. That shook me up.
I am not saying low or near low carb is for everyone, hey, my grandmother lived happily till 100 and her dad till 105, but for those who have have abused themselves with fruit 'abuse' it's certainly has turned my life around. Just the mental clarity and inner peace is worth it for me.
