Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Strange, but the indoctrination I’ve been fed for so many years is hard to discard.....like eating butter.
My fp finally gave up on getting me to do the statin thing and I had some severe weight gain after a serious foot surgery.
I lost about 35 pounds in a few months with the caveman/Paleo diet.
He and my wife who didn’t need to lose weight worked on the Med diet for both of us.
He had us throw away any of the so called substitute foods like oleo, and buying real food. After we cleared out the substitute foods, he told us to throw out and never buy any any food with multiple chemicals or whatever. We did that.
His next thing was how to shop in a grocery store. Only buy items from around the outer edges and nothing prepared, in a can or package. So basically we, shopped in only the produce, meat and cheese/milk sections and fresh bakery items.
Again, he said to buy and eat real butter, eggs, seafood and meat. We had a good farmer’s market and became friends with a former Thai now local family with all types of fresh fruit and veggies. They did so well, they quit going to the farmer’s market and opened their own stand open from spring to about Thanksgiving. Now, they have several farms, they rent or own to grow their fresh produce. We shop there about 2-3 times per week.
When I/we gave up most carbs, my wife wanted to snack on something. She came up with putting the fresh fruit/veggies on the first counter top when you go into our kitchen. Since then she has added her nut mix, walnuts and almonds. So we grab a handful of her nut mix instead of carbs.