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Raw carrots or celery - you can nibble on it all day long, if necessary, as both are very low calorie.

Try adding fats to the foods you don't like. A bit of salad dressing or butter is more than enough to get your body eating vegetables. Try cream on fruit. Once you have got your brain thinking that the 'high fat' food is pleasant and satisfying you can start to cut out the fat. Soups with herbs and spices is another way of…

Cold hands and feet is your body's way of keeping the core temperature up. Check that you are not losing too much muscle mass - its the muscles which make us warm blooded. Exercise will improve circulation and help warm the extremities - don't do so much that you sweat and get cooled down again.

Just grate and use raw in salads with other grated ingredients.

I don't weigh lettuce. Meat and fish is 2 to 3 oz for a piece the size of a pack of cards - I use that to guesstimate when weighing just is not practical.

Healthy food is usually the cheapest food on the shelves. If it is not frozen then the shop will want to sell it quickly. It is the popular brands that are now blamed for weight gains and when you buy them you are also paying for their advertising budget - so go for the independent suppliers. The cheapest meat cuts are the…

I got tired of using a spreadsheet to convert the nutrition info of what I ate into calories. WW is confusing with so many 'zero heroes' which can be very high in calories. MFP has a lot of errors in the food database but usually I can spot something that is way out and then input my own data.

You are asking the impossible. If you go low carb then you need to eat the fats to make up your daily calories so enjoy your meats, eggs and fish.

Why are you thawing the fish before cooking - fish should be cooked from frozen. If you are saving too many calories to fry in batter then my favourite recipe is to steam it (use vegetable stock) over onion slices, butternut squash and tomato. I serve the fish-veg mixture over mashed potato or sweet potato and use any…

Powdered brewers yeast tinned sardines / pilchards / anchovies (healthy fats) peanut butter high protein bread

Drinking too much can wash out water soluble vitamins and minerals so check that you are eating more of the foods that supply these nutrients to prevent deficiencies.

It is natural for our weight to vary by a couple of pounds or more from one day to the next. Worrying about it is not going to help. Nor can you do anything to prevent those natural weight variations. Weigh yourself every day and adjust daily calorie goals up or down until you find how many calories you need to be aiming…

That 'diet' foods and 'healthy' foods like fruit flavoured yogurts were what had helped slowly put my weight on over the years. That not eating enough fat resulted in me feeling hungry and eating more calories over the day.

I like to eat my salad last - gives me something to do while deciding whether or not I am hungry enough to need seconds. Usually I take more than 20 minutes over the meal so no longer have any desire for second helpings by the time I have chewed my way through a large salad.

Avoid diet foods. To lose weight you need to be eating fats, proteins and complex carbohydrates plus some fruit and vegetables. If possible do your own cooking from raw ingredients and avoid eating any convenience foods. That way you can be sure of what you are eating.

The research I have read recently all refers to eating mainly healthy animal fats - wild oily fish, free range eggs, grass fed animals for dairy and meat - and minimal fats from vegetables (even the high omega-3 options). Have you tried increasing foods high in dietary fibre (grains, pulses, vegetables, fruit) - a search…

half a cup of fruit or veg is 80 grams or one portion if you need to estimate, a portion is the amount that will fit onto the palm of your hand, excluding any digits a cubic inch (cheese) is 30 grams a small dice (butter) is 10 grams a pack of cards (meat) is 90 grams

Recently I have come to really appreciate the research that reveals that if we think we are eating a high calorie food then we will compensate by eating less later in the day. Since I banned all diet foods from my menus I find it is so much easier to stick within calories. Every time I have some spare calories that need…

Best advice I have ever seen is that to ensure a balance of nutrients 7 different foods should be eaten at every meal or 21 different foods over a day - that includes herbs and spices which are excellant sources of micronutrients. Makes it easier to eat a portion from each of the different colours for fruit and vegetables.…

Have a glass of water before every meal and drink another glass during the meal. Sip between bites of food. Eat with small utensils - so that you are forced to take longer over your meal. Chew your food until it disappears from your mouth - try to not swallow. No mention of fats (help you to feel full for longer) or…

Have you thought about changing where you shop so that you can buy more unrefined foods? Between eggs, dairy, meat, fish, grains, starchy vegetables, pulses, legumes, nuts, seeds, fruit and vegetables you should have no trouble eating your calories every day.

I would never think of early dinner / late breakfast as being a fast: I do that most weekends. On other days I eat over a 9 - 10 hour period; I can't see reducing that to eating within 8 hours making the slightest bit of difference.

As long as you don't go to bed for a couple of hours after the snack ... or has science disproved that advice?

One bit of advice I read once made a lot of sense - eat 7 different foods of varying quantities at every meal: 21 foods a day. With such a wide variety over the day you will be getting a good mix of nutrients and not too much of any one food group.

I find a good mix of fats, proteins and carbs at every meal suits me best - leaves me feeling satisfied for longer and helps avoid mid-meal snacking. If you are on low carb then breakfast needs to be protein and high fat.

Keeping well hydrated seems to help minimise the appearance. Not a cure, unfortunately.

There is some research that suggests fructose and some sugar alcohols are the main cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver. Cut out any foods that have these added and you will be one step towards improving liver function. Limit fruit to a couple of portions a day. Ditto for high fructose vegetables - lots of lists out there to…

Are you eating a balanced diet? By that I mean are you eating too many low calorie, fibre dense foods so that you have no appetite left for foods with higher fat and protein levels. Most of the calories eaten are used by our brain and internal organs and muscles at rest. Go too low on nutrients needed for your current…

I found that eating more at mealtimes solved the problem. It is just a matter of eating at times of day when you are hungry, not when habit dictates you should have a certain size of meal.

You are still within the recovery period - it takes months to fully recover from any operation. Follow professional advice on what you should be eating and minimum net calories per day to ensure healing is not affected. Exercise has little effect on weight loss unless you are training at marathon running levels. Exercise…