These days I am fairly sure that it was never my lifestyle, it was always the pressure to eat what is considered a healthy diet and the foods conveniently available from the supermarkets.
I have not changed anything very much, except gone back to the low carb diet I have been talked out of so many times - I am now eating much the same as when I was in my 40s, and I feel the same as I did when I was in my 40s, and I am acting as though I am in my 40s. I have lost weight and gained energy - but that was after I sorted out my blood glucose, not before.
Well, it was my lifestyle, and my diet.
Changed both, reversed diabetes.
I still eat supermarket food most of the time though, and I guess my 'healthy' eating now is what knocked you back before.
I know what you mean about 'pressure to eat a healthy diet' as well.
Seemed to be lots of knocking the Newcastle diet when I found it on here, I did it straight up, - all those chemicals, no real food.
I'm not dead am I?
So, stick to your guns, eat what you reckon works for you, ignore the ones that want to put you down, or try to baffle you with science.