Interesting about the diet change. So you eat mostly saturated fat and not much carbs anymore or is your diet just more mixed now? What does a day of eating look like for you? I don't drink milk or OJ even though I am going to try getting OJ back in my diet. My skin isn't that oily, in fact it's actually quite dry. I think maybe this could be the cause of the acne by my skin over compensating with more oil production but who knows? Wouldn't more retinol just dry out my face even worse?
My skin isn't oily either, if anything it is too dry rather than too oily. It used to be oily before my 20's, maybe it was the pufa, gluten or something. So I concluded visibly oily skin isn't the root cause of acne. A habit I did develop however is to avoid touching or washing the acne prone areas. For a shower or bath, only a gentle rinse in lukewarm water and gently drying. Definitely no soap. As for my diet. I eat however much carbs I feel is right to keep satisfied and stress low, but mostly glucose (so basically, starches). But I derive a lot of my energy from sat fat, so obviously I don't need as much carbs as on a low fat diet. I eat in such a way that I feel stable, ie I never experience stress from hunger during the day nor during the night. It wasn't the case before, when I had to eat every 2 hours to avoid major unstability and wake up with severe hunger (ie, elevated stress).