Ok, first of all my neighbor, a lil wirey guy of about 140 lbs of solid muscle. The guy is a state championship high school wrestling champ now about 45. He mows with a push mower. Hand shovels the walk and driveway as fast as I can blow it.
Ok thing is he is always grilling huge cuts of meat. I think he has also learned that protien is what men really need. (women too for that matter)
He prob learned as wrestlers do that to cut carbs is how he lost weight for matches and his good eating carried over. But I noticed that and I started to realize he eats a lot of meat (and prob not much simple carbs)
But very interesting as something you said clicked as i also feel best when I am eating meat or fish and worse eating carbs. I swear. In fact I almost always feel bad on all but the most complex of carbs like beans.
I gave up whole wheat bread a while back (unless it is seriously very whole wheat) and white bread way back. But we all prob do eat too many carbs. I have a lot of the same symptoms you are saying as well as a lot of antacids being needed for carbs but hardly not needed at all for protiens. And not needed at all for fish or chicken.
Really the vast majority of carbs are man made junk. Refined being the keyword.
I noticed the cheapest food out there (yeah money is always tight
) are also the best for you (except protein.. beef and fish which is is high priced but for the carbs only.. all the best carbs are the original carbs.. Beans, potatoes, true whole wheat. As soon as man gets in there and refines it is junk.
Beans are one of the carbs (actually a legume) which are really more along the lines of protien with lots of fiber.
Eating beans dishes is the best for you. 4 cans of beans is 3 bucks and lasts a week.
Plus a little seasoning. I usually eat it with potatoes or whole grain rice (not the best) or brown (very good but tasteless) or wild (the best) rice. Technically wild is a grain and not a rice.
(beans plus rice = complete protein) but beans baby will take the weight off if you keep the other junk out. Fiber up the wazoo.
I have fallen in love with beans.