When I was eating more starch and less protein, I tended to feel more sluggish, less energy, and maybe more bloated. It seems like starch is really the main food that just seems to sit in your stomach.
Intuitively, I just sort of want to give No Starch a second go, that’s the biggest reason. I enjoyed putting a very low fat diet to the test earlier this year (with high glycine and gelatin content), and while it did good things for weight and was okay with energy, I was most surprised at how the rough skin on my elbows and heels got really smooth.
As far as benefits I am looking for that others have mentioned, those would include weight loss, elimination of excess water weight, better energy, digestion and transit time. Plus, it just seems like it would be “fun.” I was re-reading some of the benefits of fructose in particular, and was wanting to experiment with things like pure fructose powder and agave nectar, along with all the other sugary foods.
One other thing, I’ve been dealing with the sort of “wheat belly” since I was about 8 years old. Have never been “lean” for pretty much as long as I can remember. I think there are probably several factors that contribute to this, including visceral fat, excess water/inflammation, fatty liver, and an inflamed intestine. One of the big contributors to all of those, I suspect, is excess bacteria in the gut, which would lead to excess amounts of endotoxin, serotonin, lactate and such. I’ve been thinking about a protocol that would lower the bacterial load would include antimicrobial foods (like carrot and coconut oil), better digestive enzymes and stomach acid, use of activated charcoal, biofilm disruptors, flowers of sulphur, raising metabolism overall and standard antibiotics. Going No Starch and opting for more sugar would help a couple of those things, plus it should cut back on the food for bacteria. sugars (mono and disaccharides) are much easier to break apart and digest than starches (which are long chains of glucose), plus starchy foods tend to have other problematic substances which could feed bacteria and/or lower metabolism.
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