I’ve gone down a dress size in 3 months and have alleviated my awful foot and ankle pain in the process.
The reason I did it was because I was about to be diagnosed as diabetic type 2 and so had to make significant changes. The outcome was weightloss and so much more energy - alongside almost non existent pain!
It wasn’t easy but I quickly got into eating a very low carb diet. I removed pretty much ALL processed sugar from my diet (with the exception of low carb wraps in case I feel like a bread type product). One wrap has 14g of carbs.
So it’s now really easy - I just add carbs to any meal. That way, by eating proteins, healthy fats and low carb fruit and veg, your body will choose to burn fat before carbs and you will lose weight. I can’t really go full keto as I don’t have a gall bladder and so find it tricky to digest some fats but other than that, it’s pretty good.
An example brekkie is 1/2 bowl of no sugar&no fat Greek yoghurt with berries and a spoonful of almond butter. Sometimes I’ll have an apple with skin grated into it too.
For lunch a low carb wrap spread with mayo with gem lettuce, avocado and cucumber. Or a tin of oxtail soup without any bread.
For tea, something like spag Bol with no spag and I put lots of veggies in and sprinkle cheese on top. Or salmon with veggies or roast chicken without pots.
I also have a high protein (20g) Arla yoghurt most days which is super filling - I top it with blueberries and a tablespoon of flax seeds. They do contain sugar but because I’m eating so much less food in general, I seem ok with one of them.
Simply by eating this way for 3 months, my HBA1C came down 7 points!
But the quickest thing I noticed was lack of inflammation /pain.