I only stuck to it because of vanity. I feared one day, it would leave me eyebrowless (an irrational fear). 
Alx, I'm in remission. 
I feel like a child with a fork and knife pretending to eat air when dining out. I pack food everwhere like a nomad. 
Legumes are high in fiber. And it doesn't mean calories arent important even so, if you're eating healthier altogether you are definitely not overeating and you probably burn your energy more efficiently
Congrats for catching it before u went bald on ur browse. So u avoid meat and dairy?It was a skin-related condition.
it's not just a vegan diet because I wasn't eating potatoes or corn etc...I was strictly eating foods that are high in fiber so I wouldn't feel hungry and crave for chunk food. I was also eating adequate amount of protein (120g of protein per day) to preserve my muscles.
I am currently on the depression diet, where my sense of taste and smell is numbed.The Goal
The primary goal here was to drastically increase mental focus/concentration, but my body and mind could no longer keep up with my motivations and ambitions, I understood the issue here was the finding the right fuel from the very beginning.
The secondary goal was to keep the weight at no more then 190 pounds (6 foot), stop the wild weight fluctuations between 190-240 pounds that was always caused by injuries, stopping me from exercising, there had to be a better way.
Challenge
The level of pure disinformation in the dietary field is the worst I have ever encountered, I wished someone did a thread like this 10 years ago that went through all the FADS giving their insights, so I could have avoided all these very costly mistakes and wasted years.
I naturally despise learning from my own mistakes, preferring of course to learn from the mistakes that others have made so I don't make them myself, but there was no choice, everyone around me was either a walking zombie toothpick or a pathetically obese miscreant.
There was nothing to learn amidst the gross cesspit of deliberate misinformation, deceit and lies other then trying everything for yourself, every quack had studies to back polar opposite diets while having studies to disprove the others.
The whole scientific community are a bunch of quacks hired by the elite conglomerates; companies like Monsanto sets aside 100 million for these kinds of studies proving their products are good for you, no quack scientist they pay will ever dare prove the opposite, they will simply make the data fit the narrative that the master wants
Diets
Low Carb/Atkins
Went on this diet more then 10 times in all it's glorious variations in 10 years, each time after loosing 5kg water weight in the first week and becoming all excited about it, I would become very sick shortly after leaving me unable to continue further
Exercise was impossible, mental exhaustion was followed by excessive sleep cycles that I never had before, blood tests showed deficiencies in Vitamin D and Calcium which I never had before, despite taking good quality synthetic Calcium/Vitamin D supplements.
I came to learn a decade later, the excessive sleep was caused by the body being in constant repair mode, the calcium deficiency due to Animal protein excess which makes you secrete your reserve calcium via urine which plant proteins like beans prevent.
I came to learn that ketosis state is unnatural and the primary fuel for the body is glucose, ketosis only happened during periods of famines when the starch that sustained all civilisations including fruits/veggies were no longer available, hence the body switches to ketosis (burning fat) as a survival mechanism not as natural state which this diet teaches.
A Picture speaks a 1000 words, below is the Godfather of Low Carb diet.
Paleo diet
Experience the same results as the low Carb, the misinformation they used to hook me was the idea that this is the diet of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, completely ignoring that this was before civilisation with farming began.
It also ignores that those people ate organic meat unlike the poisoned ones today loaded with toxic hormones, chemicals and antibiotics. The fish is even worse filled with toxic arsenic and in the western world they farm it loading it with more toxic substances, it's no wonder the Somalis back home avoid it like the plague and people foolishly berate them for this despite knowing that nuclear toxic waste was dumped on our shores on top of the pollution.
The Maasai tribe in Kenya are your modern day hunter-gather community, despite their mostly organic meat which they consume, their life expectancy is a scary 40, they die mostly of malignant heart diseases due to clogged arteries because of the high animal fats consumed, they also frequently die of diabetes and high blood pressure both caused by excessive Animal fats, so much for emulating them.
Vegetarian
This was the original diet I followed after leaving home, no meat meant no oil for frying, so the two biggest fats and poisons were automatically cut off without me even knowing.
Functioning was at 50-70% because of the other poison I was consuming heavily unknowingly (diary) loaded with steroids, hormones, antibiotics etc. weight fluctuations was very slow in comparison to the others diets (1.5KG a year) despite intense regular exercise.
Vegan/ Starch based.
I looked at this diet but never tried because I associated this with women FAD diets, until a trip to Somalia after getting badly ill from the years of low carb abuse, synthetic pills, protein shakes and the rest of the crap, I had to quit work as result as I could no longer function.
I was encouraged by the recovery of a cousin of mine that went there who had cancer and was much worse then me
When I got there, I was simply put on a vegan diet of beans, sorghum, millet, sweet potato, with plenty of honey, papaya, dates and bananas etc with no meat/oil/dairy. (the locals all ate this)
Within 3 days I recovered fully with a 25 pound drop in 1 month and energy levels I never had before, on my return I put my whole family on it with the same results.
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It would be good to hear from the sspot community their experiences in this and bounce off ideas from each other, from the malnourished to the obese, what was your goals? your experiences? what did you try? how long? what were the benefits? etc.
This will be a good lesson for those that are willing to learn from the mistakes of others. I would have paid a fortune for information like this especially after what I gone through wasting many years in the wilderness.
wait so you're depressed
I had a feeling because I had my dp set to that during my period of mourning.
what happen?wait so you're depressed
How are you holding up? Are you receiving any care? We're always here if you need anyone to discuss things with.
Whats going on sxb i notice you mention this in another thread. Have you thought about seeing a therapist?
nothing serious lol
nothing serious lol
I think one of my favourite characters from GOT died, but I just can't seem to remember who it was since many die each episode
Yes man, however I have to turn to Allah.
I am good Alxam.wait so you're depressed
How are you holding up? Are you receiving any care? We're always here if you need anyone to discuss things with.
are you taking any medication. I went thru a time of depression and it was horrible.
Nothing at the moment.
you should get on some anti depressants especially when your depression flares up. it's better than nothing huno
