I don't follow any one particular method, but work hard to consume mostly whole food plant based options based on observing many methods and trying a few myself. I decided to put all of my energies into that after being harmed even worse by so called professionals who heavily practice their gigs based on peer-reviewed information. I remain very jaded and cautious regardless of how many letters they have behind their name or how many peer reviewed studies they can produce. Not all things are suitable for all people, even the things the alphabet agencies highly suggest, even sometimes, as I painfully learned, especially the things they suggest.
I read and watched many different wfpb consumption suggestions, and those who were practicing them, through the years that convinced me it was the right path for me to take. Including, but not limited to, the Mucusless Diet Healing System (also received a pretty stern pm when I first joined for sharing that resource and explaining how helpful it was to me, but I still strongly feel it saved my life - I weighed over 300 lbs and was damn near bed ridden prior to discovering and using it), the 80/10/10 book, Rational Fasting, Nutritional Influences on Illness, Forks Over Knives, Eat This and Live, and Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life. Pulling from each source what felt right to my gut, literally and figuratively.
I started the process for the health of it, with close one on one guidance from a local friend who healed many of her own issues via practicing it, out of desperation from trying every damn thing else, immediately after a visit to the ER a little over two years ago.
Prior to that attempt, I had switched to only local meat, dairy, eggs, and what I thought was "cleaner" seafood options, yet was still suffering tremendously. Then I started watching documentaries about the path all things take to get to my plate and learned all that marketing of "happy cows/pigs/fish", and grass fed benefits BS was just that, BS. Fish swim in their own waste, along with what the humans pollute it with, and that just sounded so gross to me. I'd never had a reason to think of this stuff before. I was infuriated. Until animals start volunteering their body parts and secretions for us to consume, I'll happily refrain from exploiting all other living things. My heart can never again be okay with it.
It's the hardest thing I've ever done. EVER! Even in a community of others who practice vegan eating, I'm still looked at and often spoken to as an oddball for doing mostly whole food plant based and often read comments about how folks who eat that way must simply be way too obsessive/compulsive and are just too anal, militant, (insert favorite degrading adjective here). It often feels similar to the reception I typically get from some meat eaters, but oh well. Nothing worthwhile ever comes easy.
I decided to become a bit more lax in my discipline, especially over the winter time, to try more of the packaged vegan options I kept hearing rave reviews about, only to gain 30+ pounds back of the 110 I lost. That's enough proof for me that the wfpb option remains the healthiest and most highly functional option for my particular biology. I look forward to a day when it's as warmly embraced as many other things. But until then, I'll keep foraging for and growing as much of my own plants as possible while avoiding as much of the stuff made in plants that I can. Glad you're a part of the community. Welcome.