Success stories anyone radically changed their health through diet?

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I’m mid 50s non smoker and non drinker but very overweight and recovering from hip surgery. Knees shot to pieces. Autoimmune disease 10 years ago after a huge life changing trauma.

I’m unable to do anything other than walk gently around the house.

I’ve made a start, water in the morning with Berroca, water at lunch and water before bed. I’ve started tai chi and vitamin D and iron as all of them were are really low.

looking at lots of homemade soup, homemade casseroles, and going down a med diet fish and salad etc

Any success stories and any diet that had really worked for you?

I lost 35kg doing keto, started doing some weights after losing about half the weight but the weight loss was purely diet. I have hashimotos. Keto works!

I have hashimotos that is what was triggered just over 10 years ago

I have crohns and associated arthritis. I’ve previously found following a really low carb/ketogenic diet made a huge improvement. I’ve fallen off the wagon over the past year and my symptoms are all coming back, so really need to give myself a kick up the bum and get back on it. Good luck with whatever you decide to try op.

I have had thyroid disease (graves and hashimotos) since my twenties, I’m in my late forties now. A Mediterranean diet high in legumes and fish has kept me in great shape. I run and weight train, too. I try to fit a nap in if I’m tired and sometimes I feel cold due to my really slow heart rate, but otherwise it’s been a non issue. I don’t drink or smoke.

I had PCOS and insulin resistance with a family history of thyroid dysfunction and felt awful all the time. Cut out sugar and processed foods and felt like an entirely different person. That was 20 years ago and even now I've relaxed my habits it feels like it was a total reset.

In the last 9 months or so I’ve managed to lower my cholesterol from 7+ to a level acceptable to my GP just by altering my diet.