I'm sorry to say it, but as a chemist, I don't buy into a lot of the stuff you're eating. What exactly does "High potency bilberry extract" even mean? It sets of almost every warning flag there is for me. And why are you eating a lot of vitamins? If your diet is varied, extra vitamins is not going to do anything for you. In fact, the fat-soluble ones can be downright dangerous to eat too much of. Not "now" though, but if you for one reason or another go down in body fat, excessive amounts of fat-soluble vitamins can be harmful. And has the whole turmeric thing not been debunked? Nothing wrong with a bit of turmeric in your food, obviously, but it won't actually help you.
I have a far simpler philosophy when it comes to food:
Eat varied, don't eat too much. Veggies are good.
Also, exercise is good.
I do the following every day:
Eat whatever I can find in the fridge that works as breakfast. Usually it means yogurt (and some müsli) or some dark bread with butter or margarine.
For lunch I eat what I made for dinner yesterday. Can be anything that I like. As I like a lot of different types of food.
An apple or some nuts.
For dinner I make whatever I want that I can also have for lunch tomorrow.
And finally some dark bread or similar before I go to bed (can't sleep if I'm hungry).
The bilberry along with a few of the other supplements, like the fish oil, the astaxanthin, and the lutein, are all for eye maintenance and health. I spend a lot of time in front of my computer screen, often practically all day due to my work, and I am a dry eye sufferer. I want to take optimal care of my eyesight.
Vitamins are useful because although they are not a replacement for healthy food, often we don't eat enough, or we don't eat enough good food. Due to a condition I have a very low appetite. And it's true that too many of certain vitamins can be harmful, or even just certain vitamins taken in standalone or syntethic form. That's why I took a lot of time to find a formula that was optimized so as to do no harm and bestow total body health using the best of today's nutritional science.
Vitamin D, however, is not harmful even at high dosages, which can often be beneficial for some people, especially northerners.
Turmeric is one of the supplements that has the most solid clinical data behind it, for a huge variety of different ailments. However, turmeric has very low bioavailability, unless it is cooked in a very specific ways like Indians do. In order to harness its potential it is needed to get an extract that has the best possible bioavailability, else you are wasting your time.
Yogurt often is ladden with sugar or has low fat; you need healthy animal fats, especially in the morning. Dairy to an extent is problematic; that's why I never drink any milk, although I will use butter in full fat form, and on occasion some 10% fat Greek yogurt. Cereals are also bad and rich in glucids, and often again ladden with sweets; I am not buying any for my young son. So is bread. Margarine is made out of hydrogenated oils and is rich in bad omega 6 fats.
I eat grass-fed beef, dark leafy greens, eggs (7-8 a day), some chicken, some berries, and most of the time it suffices.
That's blatantly untrue. Weight gain/loss follows a very simple pattern:
If energy in > energy out you'll gain weight
If energy in < energy out you'll lose weight
Some people put on weight faster than others.
Exercise requires energy. Thus if you exercise you'll either slow down your weight gain or lose weight, depending on your energy intake.
The reason for people were less likely to gain weight back in the days was because of the food. Energy rich food that was not very filling was not nearly as common/cheap as it is today, thus people did not eat as much "junk".
The pattern is not as simple, as it's not only about the quantity of calories, but also about the different types of calories, which provoke different metabolic reactions. Not everyone has the same metabolism, but more or less, the same dieting principles can be used to make people healthy.
When it comes to burning calories, it actually takes a whole lot of exercise to burn just a few calories, and doing that exercise makes you want to eat more to compensate.
See this article for an explanation:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/oct/28/healthandwellbeing.features1
Exercise is not a panacea at all. Of course, to remain healthy, we need regular physical activity. But lack of exercise is being used as a scapegoat to depict the population's poor physical health and shape as a problem of their own making, when the real problem is that they follow the official dietary guidelines, and those guidelines are the ones that make them sick.