I don’t know Dr. Fung but the strategies I have found most successful (I am not and never was obese, but I was self-consciously overweight for a time and decided to do something about it) and I found that by cutting sugars and carbs to near minimal numbers that I lost weight very rapidly, my blood pressure improved, my blood sugar levels went way down (it was never even an issue but it still dropped dramatically) and my cholesterol numbers improved greatly. Just by ignoring the “food pyramid”. Some of it seemed counter-intuitive e.g. eating more meat why did my cholesterol numbers improve?
Sounds like you may be accidentally or lucked into the Mediterranean diet or as my wife calls it, the Med Way of life.
She is 81 now and her weight is the same as it was when we got married 60 years ago, (plus or minus 4/5 #’s.)
A couple of decades ago, we both gained a few pounds following the so called carbo diets. Then, we went to my wife’s Patients Mediterranean diet or as my wife calls it, the Med way of life.
Early in their decades old medical practice, my wife and her doctor inherited several “old” Italian patients. Decades later these many if not most of these “old” guys and gals were still around and active. So my wife learned from these winners in life.
We never diet and basically follow the Med diet. Good beef, lamb, seafood and poultry with basically whatever fruits and veggies are in season in our garden or a family whose business is fresh produce.
She keeps fresh fruit, veggies, Almonds/pecans on the kitchen counter we pass to go into our kitchen. If we feel like a snack, we grab a handful and eat it.
Our exercises are PT routines for bad backs,knees and shoulders. I also walk about a mile a day.
We enjoy our California glass of wine each day with dinner.
Her lab values are so good her doctor shows her lab test result profile to younger women as a motivation.
Basically our siblings live the same life style. One of her Brothers last year on Armistice Day wore his Viet Nam Dress Blues to a function at their Historical Society and donated that uniform afterwards to the society.