Registered Dietitian in TX here to answer questions.

Hi,

I love making smoothies but a lot of recipes call for banana, peanut butter and/or yogurt and I'm allergic to each of these ingredients. I've been making berry smoothies (fresh blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries with a scoop of egg white powder, 3 oz. pineapple juice and water to desired consistency), but I want to try some new recipes. What can I use to replace banana, peanut butter and yogurt in smoothies and get similar nutritional benefits?

Thanks in advace for your help.

Chris

Replace bananas with any other fruit.
Replace peanut butter with any other nut butter.
Replace yogurt with soy yogurt.

Thank you! I just wasn't sure which fruit would give me the same nutritional value as bananas. I think I'll try mango. Have a nice day and thanks for offering your help to everyone.

Re-post. I never got an answer. Tks.

Tue 10/09/12 07:39 AM
Hi Tony, thank you for trying to help people on MFP.
I'm a 43 yr old female, 5'9", last weight loss was in May @ 158, last weigh in a few weeks ago @ 163. I have several medical problems which pretty much make me bed ridden so no I don't do any exercise unless u count hopping sideways on 1 leg with the help of my walker to and from the bathroom. I have done better this year on dieting & eating at least 5 servings of fruits & veggies everyday. I'm very limited on the foods I'm able to eat since I have to be taken care if so I get one cooked meal a day usually & the rest of my food is kept @ room temp in my bedroom. Along with the fact that I'm a very picky eater, I was raised with horrible eating habits including being allowed to eat ice cream or anything else I want for breakfast since my my mom said as long as u eat something. Being overweight is on both sides of my parents families, however both my parents r under weight cuz my dad only eats one meal a day & my mom can go about 3 days before she has to eat, so she will take a bite or 2 & be fine. I can't do that, I like to eat plus since I had cancer I'm really trying to eat a healthy diet. Since I dont exercise MFP gave me 1200 cals & most the time when I've seen people eat less than the 1200 people start telling them along with MFP that u need to eat atleast 1200 cals. According to u, since I haven't loss anyweight for a long time I need to eat less. So how many cals should I be eating? Also I was told that I should change the % of the different types of food so what % should I eat of each of the types? I'm always too high on my sugar just with the fruit I eat at times, or cuz I eat bad cereal (even though lucky charms says it's healthy on the box), & I really like having a half cup of low fat ice cream in a cone every night. I would also like to know if there us anyplace on the web that I can type the foods that I do like & have the site tell recommend foods that I should try based on the fact of what I like. It's too expensive to just start trying random food plus I have to have someone get it for me. My oldest daughter works hard to overcome the family diet problems & she said I shouldnt eat too many carbs cuz they turn to fat if unused which they would be in my body & that I should eat my ice cream @ lunch & not eat after dinner @ 6. I'm starving if I do that & when I get too hungry in not eat something I want I end up eating way too much & not the right foods. MFP friends have been trying to help me get more protein and less carbs and no ice cream or diet soda in my diet but over the last few weeks I've been real hungry & I've gone over my 1200 cals that I use stay just around the 1200 mark I know this is a lot & I'm a mess but thank you for any help u can give me, I'd really like to weigh around 125-35lbs but I've been stuck at 159-6? On the diet & before chemo 180.
 

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Another re-post. Thank you for all your time Tony.

Sat 10/06/12 03:02 PM
Thank you Tony for offering ur career knowledge. The first time I came to the message board to post a ? I really thought someone trained on my topic would answer, not just a whole lot of people giving their advice & like u know arguing their feelings against others. So thank you for taking ur time to help other people.
I'm having digestive problems & i was losing weight slowly for the beginning of the year after i joined MFP (weight watchers didn't work) til about the end of May, i know u stated that if ur not losing ur eating too much but i did lose 16lbs & i only get 1200 cals & it's stated that eating less than that causes ur body into starvation mode. So I'm hoping that u will be able to see where I'm going wrong on both counts.
I'm 43 with cronic pain in several parts of my body, the major part is my lower back which causes pain 24/7 & any movements intensifies that pain. I've suffered major headaches & migraines (avg 6 days week w/migraines lasting up to 3 days, but some medication I'm on for something else has worked better than getting 4lbs removed in a breast reduction -which didn't help at all, & any meds they have tried for me in the past) so now i avg 1-2 week, for as long as I remember. I have pain areas from head to ankle. I've had IBS which had not bothered me til the last few weeks since starting eating better this yr. 2 yrs ago I had my left leg amputated from below the knee cuz I had had a real rare cancer growing in my heal bone for yrs. My mom always said I had a high tolerance to pain & I'd like to believe that since I had the tumor growing in my foot for over 2 yrs when I noticed it hurting & just tried to modify my actions so I could keep working, I started by trying to not put much pressure on it, to walking on my toes, all the way til I was on crutches & could only take about 50 steps til I had to let it rest. My foot was red, swollen, could not have anything touching it so I would have to keep it in the air. No pain pills including dilaudid, morphine, or oxy would even touch the pain at all. I tell u all this so when I say I'm pretty much bed bound u don't just think I need to push through the pain or I'm just lazy. I do have a pain mgmt dr & he is fighting the ins co to try to work at lowering the pain. I'm also hopping that as time goes on I will at least get back to the pain level where I can get up & do some things but the prosthetic leg causes more problems with my back when I stand & walk with it, not to mention the leg pain itself & phantom pain. So no I don't exercise even though I know it is good for me. I am hopping that maybe I can start doing something small with my arms.
I'm female, 43yrs, 5'9", around 160. I eat cereal, kashi &/or fiber one bar, cheese stick, 13-26 natural almonds, 2teas-16teas peanut butter, 94%fat free 100 cal popcorn. Dinners usually range from 2slices whole grain whole wheat bread & jelly or 2pc dark chicken w/or w/o skin or steak fajitas or cheese pizza or spaghetti. Fruits & veggies are usually 5-8 servings most often half cucumber, celery w/pb, tomatoes, apple, orange (for winter, summer has more fruits). I was having 1/2 cup low fat mint chip ice cream every night but I got away from that for a week til I started feeling sick for the last 2weeks & it really sounded good again. I did have 2%choc milk 1/2 cup at different times since starting. I'm usually real close to the 1200, just a few cals under is what I aim for but sometimes a few over.
So now that you have my life story, what can I do to help my digestion problem that has started again? I'm almost always over on my fiber % so I would think I wouldn't have any problems like that. Do u want to lower my cals & to what number so I can start losing again & actually lose every week til I'm around 135?
I thank you again for ur time, especially w/how long this turned out.
 

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Can I just respond to the people that are reposting... it's entirely possible that Tony's not glued to his computer all day. It is Sunday and he may be enjoying the day and will respond when he has time. Or, he's taking his time to craft a thoughtful response to you.... just my thoughts for what it's worth.

Can I just respond to the people that are reposting... it's entirely possible that Tony's not glued to his computer all day. It is Sunday and he may be enjoying the day and will respond when he has time. Or, he's taking his time to craft a thoughtful response to you.... just my thoughts for what it's worth.

I wasn't trying to be rude or hurry him along, I just noticed that I posted back on page 14 and Tony had replied to people after me, so I assumed he didn't see my post. No hurry, just making sure I got noticed!

Hope you enjoyed your Sunday off.

"seems like there is a book here. that would have a much wider reach than this blog and could potentially help a lot more people. since mfp does not have a big ad budget like other online companies its still relatively unknown.

For example. The book could be something like "100 People who lost 100+ pounds and Kept It Off For At Least 2 Years". It should be written a professional writer, you, a psychologist, and a personal trainer perhaps with comments sections from the professionals on what those people did right."

there is a website - obesityregistry.com - that does just exactly that!!

Hi! Thanks for your help to everyone!
Im 19, and I'm 5'4", 129 pounds, and Id say approximately 20% body fat but Im not sure. Whats the best diet for someone who has trouble finding time to exercise? Also incorporating foods that are substantial and filling and wont make me feel hungry right after? And realistically, how long would it take for me to get to 118-120 pounds?I was 141 and it took me about 4-5 months to just get to 129. Thank you!

Bump......you r awesome!

How much could water retention from lifting -supposing that's true?- affect how much you weight? I started lifting with the "New Rules for lifting..." a month ago and this week started Insanity. It happened me before also that when I'm really sore, I weight more. Not much, like 2-5lbs more or less. The problem is that I seem to get stuck there for some weeks (it lasted like a month?). Last week I stopped exercising for the whole week because I was sick and suddenly one day I was 5lbs less, now I am back after exercising again and to those 2-5lbs more (depends on the day) and don't know if into a, plateu?, again. Haven't changed my diet habits or cheated, etc. I know it's not really muscle gain as it takes a lot of time to build it, but if it is not water I suppose I should be looking for a plateau/eating less then, or maybe it is something like non-linear fat loss if that's possible? It seems weird since I added more burnt calories to my pre-existent deficit with Insanity. I've lost 20lbs so far since June. I worry about keeping the same weight for weeks rather than for gaining something due to water retention or similar as I -think, at least- keep a nice deficit, it seems to me it should be "transitory"?

I am 5ft 4, and weigh right now 183 pounds, female, 22. Hypothyroidism, treated and normal (2.5). Normally eat about 1440kcal sometimes a little less, currently trying to up to 1600ish because of Insanity with little luck. I calculate my BMR with Mifflin-St Jeor and activity factor including exercise so don't eat those back as it's very inaccurate, also try as much as I can to count and measure everything. Currently at 125g protein, 56g fat, 109g carbs and trying to up carbs to 160g more or less. Ah, yeah, I have very bad sleep, normally if I can sleep (not always) get to sleep 3-4h on average since starting uni...a month ago.

Lots of questions, sorry and a very grateful "thanks"!

Hello!! I am a 44 year old with diabetes and hemochromatosis, I would like to know your single most important nutrition advice to someone with hemo?

Thanks!!

Bumping for later-this is awesome! Thanks Tony!

I was wondering if you could suggest low cal foods to increase calcium and iron as I am always on the lower end with my results. Thank you.

I believe the general recommendation is 0.8-1 g per KILOGRAM of body weight.

Sorry to correct, but I'm a dietetic intern....