When you are eating salads, do you keep up your level of protein intake .... steak (ha ha $$), chicken, fish, shrimp? If you are not keeping up your protein, that can cause issues like ‘stalls’.
Someone I follow on a podcast (’The Healthy Rebellion Radio’ with Robb Wolf & wife Nicki) was talking about not getting enough protein - she uses shrimp, very low carb, little protein ‘packages’. If she’s having trouble meeting her protein goals, she’ll add 5-10 shrimp to bump it up.
I lost 65 lbs (no processed food, no refined sugar, no vegetable seed oils), but it was slow go (over 2 years) ... guys definitely lose faster/easier! I’ve had to cut the dairy down, especially cheese, but I do heavy whipping cream in my coffee & use ghee for cooking. I also do not gorge on fat ... bacon is still good, but for example, I don’t eat all the fat when I’m having chuck roast. Overall, weight loss got me OFF the track for T2D and I have also enjoyed the benefits of greatly reducing inflammation - arthritis is gone, for one thing. I had surgery spring before last for a broken knee cap - the ortho said I will never need a knee replacement because I have no arthritis/inflammation in my knee - he was surprised. I also looked up good dietary inputs for healing bones - I was happy to learn I was already eating/supplementing what I needed to do ... bumped up the protein some, but that was it. The ortho also told me “you are a speedy healer!”. :-)
My journey sounds very similar. High cholesterol and A1C creeping toward T2D and aging joints. I’m a year into sobriety and 6 months low carb life. Cholesterol is down to 88, A1C down to 5.7, BMI now “overweight” v “obese.” My PCP has agreed on eliminating meds if my numbers hold. The statins have taken their sneaky toll on me.
It is really amazing looking back how much disinformation there is about food out there. Vast majority of it stemming from the FDA!