03/10/2026
High cholesterol
Diabetes
High blood pressure
Liver issues.
Theirs nothing to lose by choosing a better way of eating..
TWO VERY DIFFERENT VIEWS ON FOOD. 🥩🥚🥔
One guy lives almost entirely on meat and eggs. He's fit, active and says he feels great.
Then you listen to someone else telling you eating meat is bad for you.
So who's right?
For me, that's actually the wrong question.
The question I'm interested in is: what works for ME?
Because before I changed anything, this could quite easily have been my normal working day:
🥤 2 Huel drinks
🥔 Packet of crisps
🥐 Sausage roll
🥤 Bottle of cola
🍫 Couple of chocolate éclairs on the way home
🍟 Evening meal — usually something processed thrown in the oven with chips.
And sometimes I could demolish an entire tin of Quality Street in one sitting.
And I ate like this, in one form or another, for YEARS.
So I have to ask myself:
Was THAT a healthy, balanced diet?
Yes, there was nutrition in some of it. There was protein, fat, carbohydrate and some vitamins and minerals.
But look at the bigger picture.
I was relying massively on convenience food, refined carbohydrates, sugar and highly processed food while eating relatively little fresh, whole food.
I was giving my body plenty of calories.
That doesn't automatically mean I was giving it great nutrition.
Eventually my joints were throbbing. My knees hurt. My ankles hurt. I was strapping my knees up before going plastering. I was becoming internally fat, my stomach my handles and I'm feeling kinda low and exhausted...
Maybe my body had every right to be saying:
“Mate... something needs to change.”
So I changed it.
I went keto for around 10 weeks.
Steak. Eggs. Fish. Chicken. Pork. Cheese. Yoghurt. Salads. Vegetables. Olives. Some berries and nuts.
And something remarkable happened for me:
My joint pain disappeared.
That doesn't prove keto cures joint pain.
And it doesn't prove carbohydrates were responsible for mine.
I changed too many things at once to make that claim.
But it DOES tell me that changing my diet made an enormous difference to how I felt.
And keto gave me something else that's incredibly valuable:
It broke my old relationship with sugary and highly processed foods.
No more sweets every day. No more crisps. No more bottles of fizzy drink. No more automatically reaching for supermarket bread and convenience food.
Now comes the interesting part.
I'm going to start introducing some carbohydrates back into my diet — better-quality carbs, gradually — and see how my body responds.
If my joints remain great? Brilliant.
If something consistently seems to bring the pain back? That's useful information too.
I'm not interested in joining Team Carnivore, Team Keto or Team Carbs.
I'm interested in making better choices for myself.
Going keto was incredibly important for me.
But perhaps the biggest achievement wasn't simply removing carbohydrates.
It was proving to myself that I could walk through a supermarket surrounded by foods I'd eaten for years and think:
No thanks. I can make a better choice.
That's what Your Life. Real Food. is really about.
Not perfection.
Not telling everyone what they SHOULD eat.
Better choices. Your body. Your life.
