I loved reading your diet and exercise story and feel you are on the exact right track. I’ve also been learning how much effect our gut bacteria have on all our health issues. Clean foods, healthy fats, definitely, but it seems fermented foods (you’ve already got the yogurt — and if your beer is natural it may also count) are important as well as some form of good starch (resistant starch) — makes the gut bug population stable as well as happy. And when they are happy we are happy. Your good starches can be your potatoes, both sweet and white. Both are good wholesome foods. They’ve gotten bad raps too.
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With potatoes, I eat the skin. I see so many people discarding the skin on baked potatoes. Drives me crazy as that is packed with nutrients and fiber.