Now, the above reccomendations would seem pretty clear. I've made a dietary experiment on myself to test the 'eat less carbs + eat less proteins' points, or rather to optimize the quantitiy of carbs and proteins.
I just cut all natural sweets (honey, dried fruit, bananas) eating just fresh fruit, no more than one pound per day. I also cut all cereals, bread and so on.
I count all proteins and make sure not to eat too many of'em.
The result has been interesting but undesired to me, since I lost at least 5 pounds, starting from leanness. I do not wish to loose weight, rahter I'd like to increase some muscle mass. It was mainly water and fat but maybe a little muscle mass.
So I have to devise another strategy, maybe cutting animal proteins and resuming some bread.
A very interesting aspect which I noticed though is that I broke my former dependency on the sweet taste, even though I ate mainly natural sweets. I was a huge eater of honey, putting it in all hot beverages and sometimes on bread and butter. I also ate raisins together with almonds. Now a tiny amount of honey (I say almost microscopic) seems sweet to me, so the taste for sweetness has sharpened.
Mccoy you are fortunate you are able to afford such a diet. Do you realize what a diet of fresh fruits would cost in Michigan for most months of the year? All those fruits are shipped from thousands of miles away. At any rate this is by no means a topic that has been exhausted. i just think that the practicality of its implementation and how it fits each individual may be important as you have mentioned yourself. It may be difficult to put a square peg in a round hole.
