 All right guys welcome back to the channel if you knew my name is Bobby guys in today's video I want to discuss every single diet form that I tried during my lifetime So to begin with this video we have to go way way back my first dietary intervention I started out when I was 12 years old when it was around about nine years I got very obese because as any kid I like the junk food I like the candies and all that stuff and I Indulged heavily in it when I was 11 years old. I couldn't take it anymore I was reminded that once upon a time when I was eight Seven or six I was the skinny kid and therefore I couldn't accept this new identity of being this fat kid I looked like the bullies that I used to know from my school and I didn't want to identify with that persona Therefore I was praying to God every single night. I'm not religious by any means anymore But back in the day as a kid I had only that outlet so to speak every night I would lay in bed and I would pray to God to Jesus Christ to give me the secret to Weight loss every single night would pray to the Heavenly Father to give me some sort of sign How do I lose weight because let's face it back in the day? There was no internet nowadays You have an abundance of information Anyways, it was one of those days when my mother took me with her to a friend of hers She and the friend were sitting around Drinking coffee talking about ladies stuff and I was the only kid there being bored out of my mind So therefore I started searching for toys for anything I could play with in that flat of The lady friend of my mom after half an hour being bored to death I found a ladies magazine and On that ladies magazine the cover page says the secret to weight loss, right? So I as a little kid I was convinced and God sent me a sign This is it so I checked the index and it said page number four the secret to weight loss I will never forget that day. I was so excited. My heart was pounding I couldn't wait to find out about the secret to weight loss page number four says the secret to weight loss is Stop eating after 8 p.m That was it Back then as I said, we didn't have more information. So therefore I took that piece of advice It was the only thing that I could get and I applied it straight away So they have to cut it as short as I can my first dietary intervention was intermitten Fasting I did it around about 20 years ago. It is a beautiful example of that information Information can paralyze you in many ways nowadays We have an abundance of information on the internet But it's still very very hard for people to apply that knowledge but back in the day as I said I just had that piece of advice and I applied it straight away for me It was a message of God from 12 to 16 years old I was intermittent fasting and I felt pretty good with it because I got the results I lost all the weight and of course I hit puberty. So therefore I was growing and my hormones kicked in needless to say So therefore I did a complete transformation from the fat chubby little kid I transformed into the skinny teenager But then I was too skinny and therefore I decided now it's time to build some muscle I was 16 years old. I started out with a body-building diet First I started out with just eating as many calories as I could I experimented with protein powders with creatine was eating a lot of cottage cheese was eating a lot of meats But then after a while I got the hang of it and I did the bro diet So to speak I started eating rice and chicken Religiously if you will six times per day with a couple of exceptions Sometimes I would have a little bit of beef Sometimes a little bit of tuna, but the main frame was rice and chicken six times per day And it worked tremendously. I'm not gonna lie It was a very very efficient and back in that time I was convinced that I found out about the truth I thought hmm all my life intuitively I've been craving carbs and fats and They sure as hell taste good, but they don't deliver results if I eat protein I see my complete body composition Changing that was absolutely true at that time once I start eating those foods that I intuitively didn't like at all. I Completely transformed and I developed tremendously in the gym So for muscle games that diet was perfect needless to say to this very day You can see it on the Olympia stage profession bodybuilders still eat in that style rice and chicken Rice and beef so on and so forth a high protein diet with moderate carbohydrates with low amounts of fat For muscle building it was perfect even as a vegan. I have to admit that But then after a while I thought I want to experiment with other diet forms Maybe there is something that I don't know yet and therefore I started out with the keto Genic diet the keto genetic diet never suited me I always felt a lack of energy even though I end up doing it for one year straight in that year I had different periods first I tried out with dairy with a couple of cheeses with Greek yogurt So on and so forth But it didn't really work the high amount of lactose in those foods would kick me out of ketosis Therefore I tried to find a cheese that had zero carbs, but even that didn't agree with me cheese Milk products in general would always make me puffy. I didn't enjoy them for the performance I would feel sluggish and my overall look would be watery So therefore pretty soon I had to realize that I have to cut out every dairy product So I end up eating just meat and eggs Even the eggs gave me some sort of sluggish feeling never enjoyed it And if I would leave the exercise need only meat I realized that I look much more crisp. You can call that bro science I'm just sharing my experience every time I would cut out eggs and dairy I would always look much much better and therefore after two months or so I decided to go full-blown carnivore. This is why I stated in previous videos I did the carnivore diet before it was called the carnivore diet and if I knew about it I just applied my bodybuilding knowledge to it of complete proteins that are found in animal products And therefore I said hey, you know what Greek yogurt cheese the biological value of those products is around about 70% Meat on the other hand is much much higher And therefore I'm gonna stick with red meat some chicken here and there and high amounts of animal fats in General but as I said that diet didn't work for me at all I felt sluggish overall even after just eating meat. I didn't get a good pump in the gym I was flat all the time obviously because you don't have carbohydrates to fuel your glycogen stores and Overall the taste was just disgusting to be honest even in rice and chicken days was always craving more rice I'm not making a point here that therefore you should be eating more rice But overall it was just absolutely unappealing to me because all I had to eat was meat After a while it became very very boring on that note people asked me if I tried it raw Yes back in the day when I was doing the carnivore diet I was eating some raw meat some raw fish the raw eggs as well at a period where I would have I believe up to six raw eggs Every morning so therefore I tried in both ways and I truly didn't enjoy it and I personally didn't had a benefit I would always perform better with rice with carbohydrates in general Therefore after that experiment I went back to a bro diet If you've been following me, you know, I always was a vegan at heart I always hated the animal agriculture the animal industry and therefore after being again back on the bro diet I started feeling very very conscious about the animals that have been consuming and therefore I decided To essentially choose the lesser of the two evils and I went for a pescatarian diet I said I still need my complete proteins and therefore I'm just gonna stop eating land animals altogether and I have to say I Felt fantastic ethically that point was alright with my decisions I didn't really had that deep connection when it comes down to fish and performance wise I have to say that I felt absolutely Fantastic at that point of time. I really felt great. My sleep was good My shape was always good It was really effortless to stay in shape whilst being pescatarian Don't get me wrong. I have to mention this on every single diet I always tracked my macros, but I really have to say that there is something in it that when you eat fish You really start leaning out the calories where the exact same no matter if I was eating beef or chicken or fish But on fish I always found that fish would lean me out without any effort So therefore I have to say to this very day I have to admit that the pescatarian diet suited me very very well Just a little side note before I continue. I really hate the taste of animal products, but I hate fish the most I really hate it discuss me just thinking of it the taste of fish as I said Performance-wise it was great. I felt amazing overall really and ethically at that point in time It was all right, but the taste was always big hurdle for me So therefore even though I felt good it was not a taste preference I'm not romanticizing that diet because it tasted so good It was really just due to the benefits that I would get performance-wise and shape-wise So moving along at some point that diet had to come to an end as well because I was confronting myself with the Animal agriculture and with industrial fishing because let's be honest even though it is wild caught It is still a big industry that you're supporting and therefore I couldn't do it any more I said to myself. I'm just gonna eat wild caught gaming meat now That must be the way and let's be honest again, I felt pretty good on that diet I was eating kangaroos. I was eating crocodiles Bison stuff like that. I was eating wild animals and I have to say that I felt good Maybe not as good as a pescetarian But I didn't really had a performance down or anything not an increase either. I felt overall just okay Taste-wise I really have to admit it was much more appealing to me than eating fish all day long That is a taste preference and that doesn't play into the conclusion of those single diets Because what I want to talk about in this video is how I really felt and how I performed and how my health Was at that time. Anyways after eating wild animals for a while. I couldn't continue with that either anymore So therefore I said This is it. Either I'm gonna become a hunter and I'm gonna kill my own animals or I'm gonna be congruent with myself And I'm gonna be a vegetarian. That was it back in the day I didn't know about veganism and therefore I said I'm gonna become a vegetarian then because if I cannot kill it myself There's something wrong here So I became a vegetarian and I was eating very protein rich So that means was eating a ton of eggs was eating a ton of light cheese and I was eating Greek yogurt Let me tell you out of all of those diets Vegetarianism was the worst. I felt completely shit It was the most sluggish that I ever felt. I was weak. I felt puffy I lost my shape. I just looked like a block of cheese pretty much You are what you eat. So therefore vegetarianism didn't suit me at all. It was horrible Again, I was counting my macros. It was all the same, but I was losing shape and size It just didn't appeal to me at all from a digestive point. It didn't agree with me at all Everybody knows those digestive issues when you're eating eggs and cheese. So it was overall horrible pretty soon I ditched it and I got back to pescetarian again That has always suited me the best But after a while and after a couple of more psychedelic experiences, I couldn't cope with that guilt anymore I didn't want to be the guy that has dominion over the animals at that point of time I didn't see my place as this conqueror of all animals I want to live in a symbiotic relationship with everything to be at peace And therefore I said to myself even if I lose all my gains, I will become vegan What I did in the beginning and I talked about this in previous videos was very very cautious I would eat rice with two cans of tuna and I would slowly replace it With tofu or take away one can of tuna and I would replace it with one pack of tofu So it was still half animal-based and half plant-based Slowly but surely I would gradually become vegan and let me tell you one thing Once I was 100% plant-based. I felt amazing. I never felt so good in my life This is the honest to God truth when I went vegan the very first time. I had such an unlimited energy It was unbelievable and I asked myself how can that be because with my background I always tracked my macros and I always ate clean food I never was into junk food or pizza since I started intermittent fasting as a 12 year old I left all of that behind me the last time that I really was indulging in dirty foods Was when I was 12 years old after that sure the occasional cheat meal But overall would always have a clean diet matter if it was ketogenic Pesketerian vegetarian so on and so forth and now out of a sudden when this vegan diet and I feel Absolutely amazing as myself. How can that be? So therefore there must be something here I am on to something this must be the right diet for me This was truly my belief system at that point because I didn't come from a sad diet Background and out of a sudden I feel good because I eliminated all the bad foods quite the opposite All I was eliminating was basically the fish everything else stayed the same I essentially was eating the same aside from the fish and I felt fantastic They say never change a winning system, but the curious mind that I am I had to experiment further So therefore I start with water first. I start with juice first. I went fully raw vegan and Then I end up being fully fruit area I was fruit area for around about one and a half years and in the beginning. I felt great I was very spiritually aligned But very very soon. I had to realize that I was losing tons of muscle at that time I thought I'm cleansing myself I'm getting rid of all the old karma if you will and now I'm becoming this pure Being fruits have the highest energy the highest frequency and therefore it is the only thing that really Digests well, and this is truly the food of the gods. This is truly what we are supposed to be eating I was 100% convinced looking back into my past everything seemed so grotesque What have I been doing eating all that animal protein, right? I thought I was truly brainwashed back in the day all that protein is not for human consumption All we need are the amino acids from fruits Even though fruits only have one gram of protein per fruit I still was convinced that that is all we need that this is all we need to build muscle to be healthy so on and so forth Very soon. I had to realize that I was in a dogmatic belief system I was trapped in an ideology in a religion if you will in a fruit cart And this is why I still give the fruitarians so much shit because nutritionally they're just not adequate Philosophically speaking, it is a very very beautiful thought a beautiful dream But if you really want to apply it and you want to perform good you want to be healthy overall Unfortunately, it doesn't work and I had to learn it the hard way pretty soon. I lost my libido I lost all my muscle as I said, and I couldn't sit on a chair for longer than 20 minutes Because my bones would stick out. I started looking anorexic and to be honest here I was anorexic in that sense because I believed This state of being with no extra fat with no extra muscles looking like a yogi an eschat This is what we are supposed to be as humans So therefore after realizing that I essentially brainwashed myself I went back to raw veganism and I started counting calories macros micros again I start implementing a lot of seeds a lot of nuts a lot of greens. I had those huge Salad bowls. I still had fruit as a primary fuel source and slowly but surely I started reintroducing raw Protein powders that diet suited me for a while and my buddy thanked me that I was giving it some type of nutrition But even that diet wasn't sustainable long term. I saw my buddy still declining I just couldn't maintain a general state of well-being a general state of strength and Health quite the opposite. I was always agitated I was always angry or let's say Angry and I was just drag. I experienced panic attacks Anxiousness so on and so forth and after a while I had to say this is it I have to end this. What is it a harm in a sweet potato? So after experimenting with certain cooked foods, I saw that they were very very well digestible for me I had no issues whatsoever quite the opposite. They started fueling my body again So I went back to a whole food plant-based diet as I did when I started out with veganism And I started feeling better by the day. This is the status quo of things now I find myself being on a whole food plant-based diet for over one year I have to say that I still feel like I am recovering of that raw vegan time I really have to say that and I'm not trying to give you guys shit if you want to be raw vegan Please do so I always said that on this channel no matter what you choose to do more power to you You want to be raw vegan you want to be vegan you want to be fruitarian You want to be carnivore more power to you this journey is about you not about me I can only give my advice my perspective my Experience if it helps you that is great. I'm just doing this to share. We are all still learning Or at least we should be every time you find yourself in some dogmatic belief You really have to start questioning it because how can it hold true? This is something that I had to learn the hard way not only through raw veganism or veganism or what have you But if I'm looking back to every single diet from that I've been doing I always thought that it is the ultimate truth at that moment of time But as I said in previous videos, it is true for that moment of time But it is not the ultimate truth and it doesn't mean that it will be true tomorrow Anyways to come back to the current state of things right now I'm on whole food plant-based diet and I do feel good But do I feel as good as I used to when I started out with veganism? No, that is the true answer here I always kept it real in this channel Therefore what I want to share here is my personal truth and the truth is at the moment I feel okay I do not feel as if I have those vegan superpowers that I used to have when I started out with veganism Since I did all those cleansers my health overall has declined That is just the case as for right now. I feel okay. I have good skin. I feel fit I am building muscle, but do I feel 100%? I would disagree so therefore to sum up this video. I truly have to admit out of all of those diets Temporary I felt the best on the vegan diet Long-term I felt the best on the pescatarian diet That is just the truth and I'm not afraid to admit it. This channel has always been an honest self-expression This is my perspective. I always share my truth And I know that some people will get pissed off and I know that some people will appreciate it And let's be honest here. If you are in a healthy mental state, you will appreciate different Perspectives even if they attack your ideology. Alright guys, and this is it for today's video It has been way too long. 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