Nutrition: How have you guys felt on different diets?

[asiandudexxx]

Unfort most people ( myself included) live to eat rather than eat to live, not to mention beverage! LOL

Ain't that the truth!

Everyone is different!

Now food to me isn’t important. I get my kicks from my GF and my work. Once every week or two I go out and eat anything and don’t worry about it anymore. At home we have NO processed foods at all, NO sugar, NO preservatives. I really don’t watch how much I eat; I just eat till I’m full and stop.

Don’t know if this is what you’re after but it worked for me.

Definitely everyone is different and some people flounder on diets that many others succeed at and vice versa. Getting other people's POVs is enlightening because you see some variation but a lot of commonality.

For psychological health, it's the best when food is an afterthought and you eat till your satisfied. When I was cutting, I always had to stop myself because I had hit my macros already. Leptin kicked my ass and when I had refeeds, it was like sugary-heroine.

When you eat whole natural foods (meats vegetables) the carbohydrates break down much slower. Less insulin relase into the blood. The body has to adjust. Takes a few months. On the other side of the carbohydrate "addiction" you will feel better and your performance will increase
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As for diet, I prefer the Paleo or Weston A. Price approach. The later allowing for some grains, legumes, and dairy

Some guys enjoy IIFYM as it relates purely to body composition, but I am after performance and health as well, so I am with you on that. I aim to follow a lower fat butchered paleo (i.e. some beans and dairy).

I believe that for me, addressing nutritional deficits has been the best thing I've done. I was tackling the issue slowly from multiple angles, so it's hard to say - or impossible - for certain what made the most change.

But I can say for certain that having high-normal testosterone was not the answer for me.

There is a reason I stress things such as ferritin and iron, B vitamins, D, etc, and other aspects of nutrition. I believe, as do many others from experience, that it is the real key to improvement. And it goes far beyond "not drinking soda."

Amen. I'm on the same journey (my doc is into optimizing micronutrient intake). What sucks is HRT protocols are another confounding factor. I'm not sure if it's what I'm consuming/not consuming, lifestyle changes, the changing aspects of my HRT/effects of my medication kicking in, etc.