A man, who opted to remove highly processed foods from his diet, has revealed how much healthier his body is after sticking to a strict diet for the past six months
When it comes to our health, we all like to try and take steps to ensure that we’re being as healthy as possible. For most of us, that simply means monitoring how many calories we’re consuming and how active we’re being.
However, for one determined man that wasn’t enough. Instead, he opted to cut an entire food group from his diet. In a bid to be healthier, the diligent man chose to cut ultra-processed foods out of his diet and he says that it’s changed his life – and his body too.
The impressed man explained: “At the start of 2024, I decided to cut them out of my diet. I also cut out any foods with added sugar, like chocolate, cake or dessert, but not alcohol. I wasn’t really planning to do it for life – and I’m still not – I just felt a bit rough and a bit bloated after Christmas.”
He revealed that, since then, he’s been sticking to a ‘diet with pretty much no UPFs in it at all’ and is feeling much healthier for it and has been totally blown away by the results.
He said: “In the seven months I’ve been on this new diet I hadn’t weighed myself once – I don’t own weighing scales. But on the weekend, I found myself in a house that did have scales, so I jumped on and I was quite shocked by what I saw.
“I had lost at least a stone, maybe a stone and a half. I’m around 172cm (5ft 8in) tall and, while I’ve never really weighed myself regularly, whenever I have happened to be in a bathroom with scales in it, for the last few years my weight has been pretty consistent at around 11.5st (sometimes that would be closer to 12st and sometimes closer to 11st).”
He then revealed that when he weighed himself recently, he really “wasn’t expecting” what he saw and explained that when he stood on the scales he was shocked to see that he now weighed 10 stone.
He said: “I had definitely noticed that over the last few months my clothes fit differently and I had to use holes on my belt that I’d never used before. But I was still shocked to have lost that amount of weight, especially since I’ve not cut down the amount of food I’ve eaten, I’ve just changed the content of it. I also exercise fairly regularly, but I was already doing that before this year.”
In the wake of a newly released health report that has revealed that eating too many ultra-processed foods may increase the risk of dozens of harmful health conditions, it seems the man’s approach to his health may be one that’s worth considering.
The report, which was published in the BMJ, has revealed that UPFs increase the risk of 32 harmful health conditions, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and depression.
