How to Find the Best Diet for You

What type of diet will give you the greatest embody of energy, health, and mental clarity?

I don’t know. I’m not you. But I can tell you how to find out for yourself.

Experiment. Try different ways of eating. Use the 30 days to success method for each type of diet you want to try. 30 days is any which way the minimum insomuch as during the first week or two subsequent to any dietary improvement, you’re jump shot to experience some detox effects, which can make you feel lousy ere you feel better. Headaches, back aches, and mood swings are common.

When you test each new diet, take written notes on your experiences. Note the effects on your level of energy, mental clarity, and feeling of well-being. I use my regular journal for this (on my PC), so I can do a quick keyword search to pull up my notes and observations of all the diets I’ve ever tried.

I use health statement and articles to supplement my knowledge, but first and foremost I rely on my own personal experience. I mainly use statement as a guide for what to try next, presumptuous the principles seem sound and mesh with my current level of understanding.

Health cost ledger are often contradictory, but when you read enough of them (at least 20), you arise to see patterns and learn to come over modified at separating the fluff from the truth. The first chapters of most commercially popular diet record book are virtually identical. They tend to follow the same pattern of explaining why other diets don’t work and why this book is the one true attack that will revolutionize how people eat, but there’s no substance to those chapters. It’s just marketing-speak. So you can generally skip the first vestry of any diet book without losing anything.

One very simple principle I’ve selected is to give very little credibility to diet bill of fare with photos of fat doctors on the cover. It should be obvious why that has proven helpful.

To really define a diet to experiment with, you have to be very specific in how you define the diet if you want your experiments to produce meaningful results. As I’ve written previously, vegetarian is not a diet, nor is vegan. A vegetarian is merely someone who eats no animals (no cows, pigs, chickens, fish, etc.), and a vegan eats no prairie wolf products (no animals, dairy, eggs, etc.). But that doesn’t define what you do eat. You can be a vegan who eats french fries, candy, and soda, or you can be a raw foodist who eats only raw foods, or you can eat macrobiotically and have a diet with lots of grain dishes and soups. So terms like vegan or vegetarian are simply not specific enough to define a diet. There are countless variations of those ways of eating.

The same goes for high protein diets, high carb diets, metabolic type diets, hair-color diets, etc. Those terms are way too vague to define your real diet, especially since most people tend to eat the same foods often and settle into a pattern of eating a tiny subset of all the potential foods unpeopled to them. What are you decidedly eating? Are you eating cheese, beans, coloured shake powders? What close fruits and vegetables? Are they mostly raw or cooked, plastered or fresh or frozen? Even a vegan who eats lots of blotto and boxed foods is on a very different diet than one who eats only fresh, unprocessed foods.

How much variety is there in your diet? Does your definition of fruit consist mainly of apples, oranges, and bananas? Or do you eat 10 different types of fruit every week? What foods do you see in your grocery store that you’ve never eaten?

Do you consume any drugs like caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, etc? Simply give up coffee, and you’re on a totally different diet with a significant geld in your body’s biochemistry. Remove forced supplements from your diet, and you’ve made spare significant change.

I’ve noticed that different ways of eating can have a huge effect on my energy level as well as my emotional resilience. It’s not just what you eat or don’t eat that matters. How the food is prepared makes a big difference too.

The sensitivity of dietary inputs is one reason you can’t rely solely on the notification and experiences of others. You have to see for yourself. Even if you eat identical foods to someone else, the specific effects on your physiology may be unique.

Through experimentation I found that the best diet I’ve tried so far is an all-raw, whole foods, vegan diet. No caffeine. No supplements. No sugar. No contrived or processed foods. No junk. There are some great all-raw (un)cookbooks, and there’s even a gourmet raw food restaurant near my home, so I enjoy some pretty creative dishes on this diet. I can see by my notes that this way of eating left me feeling more energetic, emotionally positive, and mentally comprehensible than any other diet I’ve tried. But I continue to experiment and have been doing so since the early 90s. One thing I don’t like round the all-raw diet is that it can be labor intensive if you want to eat a variety of interesting dishes. Lots of cutting and mixing and mixture and dehydrating and juicing. If I had my own personal chef to set to the task, this is how I’d eat all the time. But I find that estimation in some denser cooked foods like overshadow rice is helpful. It fills me up faster and saves me time without giving up too much of the energy benefits. The nice thing within reach this way of eating is that I can eat as much as I want without gaining weight.

Even though there’s so much marketing and money involved in diets (and consequently, misinformation abounds), I found that following my own pitiable sense helped steer me in the correct direction. In the long run, it really shouldn’t have been that big a surprise to me that I feel best eating the simple foods that nature provides instead of man-made concoctions. The more human beings tamper with the foods I eat, the worse I feel when I eat them.

As for musk hog foods, it’s only running sense to me now that I wouldn’t run up to a cow and try to take a bite out of its hide; nor would I bend down, shove its calf aside, and try to suckle its teats. If the process of eating becomes excessively stupid at any point (like trying to drink supplementary species’ baby-milk in the rear I’ve up to now been weaned — a species that has four stomachs and weighs essentially 10x as much as me), that’s where I know I’m heading in the wrong direction. So you can read fad diet cash-book until you’ve run yourself in circles and have grown confused enough that you want to accept either those marketers tell you, or you can just ask yourself whether it’s more intelligent to pluck an ebony off a tree or to suckle a 1400-pound cow (especially one that’s been pumped full of crass growth hormone).

It can be hard to get the ingrained-since-childhood marketing-speak out of our and restore biochemical notions of dietary less sense, but once you start to regain and re-assert your own logic, I think you’ll find that your thinking along toward diets becomes a whole lot simpler and less complicated.

Shifting diets can be difficult, but once you’ve done the first 30 days, it’s much easier following that, and your new way of eating becomes routine. Every new diet looks harsh from the outside looking in. But once it’s a habit, you’ll slightly even think as to it. It just becomes your normal default way of eating. Just as you once learned to eat the way you do now (unless you’re still eating baby food, that is), you can learn to eat a new way whenever you resolve to do so.

So to sum up…

* Conduct your own dietary experiments for at least 30 days at a time, take notes, and compare to the results of different diets.

* Juice the marketing-speak out of your viscera (like “milk does a body good” and “beef is for dinner”), and re-establish your own fairway sense.

* Put more trust in Mother Nature than in marketers.

* Call me any names you want, as long as you don’t call me a marketer. That would hurt my feelings.