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My cravings are lessening but if I want something I'll have it. If I try and force myself to restrict something I'll just want it more, and I'll end up bingeing on it anyway. I have those high fat/carb/sugar things in moderation. I usually have a Mcdonald's ice cream once a week and try to work it into my carb total, if I…

So don't 'diet'. Change your eating habits slowly and think about it as a long term endeavour. Even if you binge, log it so you get an idea of what triggers your bingeing. You don't have to restrict anything, but try to eat the less nutritious stuff less often. You can work out at home. No barbells? Use litre bottles…

It's usually depression that causes me to stop eating optimally. I'm too exhausted to prepare and cook food, I stop going out, and I rely on takeaways. I'm hoping that by the time I have another episode (if it happens) my eating behaviour will have changed to the point I gravitate towards healthier options, so that even if…

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This sounds like the usual health fare presented by every news outlet. Today: "Coffee causes cancer!" Tomorrow: "Coffee is good for you!" And so on, with every product that gets a sentence written about it in whatever publication du jour that's popular with science minded peeps.

You could try keeping a handful of nuts, seeds and dried fruit on you to nibble on in a long interval between meals. You could also keep a bottle of water with you, or drink some diet pop or sparkling water to give you a feeling of fullness until you can have your main meal.

"Uncertainty remains". Even the scientists doing the studies are aware of the variables and the difficulties presented in conducting them. They're still theorising at this point and make it clear they haven't yet pinpointed all the factors that go into affecting intestinal sensitivity, so they can't say for certain why…

I think people are frustrated that you're propounding all sorts of dodgy nutritional, medical and scientific opinion as known fact. Look, if what you're doing works for you, fine. But using junk science to justify your consumption of meat soup is a bit much.

Hi Jonah, I too have major depression. I'm symptom free at the moment, and hope to stay that way for a long time, but you never know. I got called lazy for years and believed it, too. I wasn't lazy, though. I was depressed. The most active person on the planet can become virtually catatonic if they have depression.…

I'd say we're eating more highly processed foods than we were before. Most food is processed-- it undergoes at least one process to change it from it's raw state. So a boiled potato, for example, is processed food. But where we might have boiled, roasted, fried and mashed our own potatoes in the past, now we can buy ready…

Pulverised animal bones is what chalk used to be made of, and it was given in tablet form to children with calcium deficiency. To pulverise bones at home you'd need to dry them out in an oven on low heat for about three days before grinding them (while presumably chanting "fee fi fo fum").

But wouldn't you take in enough collagen from a normal healthy diet anyway? I wouldn't imagine you'd need that big an amount that you'd have to spend money on posh stock cubes. Maybe just make some calf's foot jelly instead.

Eating so little calories intentionally isn't going to help you fill stop. Weight loss is a marathon, in that it's slow and takes time, and it sounds like you're trying to sprint, and not looking at your eating behaviours which might end up doing you damage. Your body needs nutrients and if you restrict to this extent,…

I had bone tablets as a child for calcium deficiency, but "powdered bone broth" sounds like you're just buying fancy stock cubes. Personally I'd just use Bovril.

The thing about diet plans and fads is they don't retrain your eating habits, so once you come off them you return to your usual pattern of eating, which is what led you to put on weight in the first place. For me, learning how to eat more optimally has been a steep learning curve and it's been hard. Logging my food makes…

Maybe you can get rid of this idea of cheat days. 'Cheating' calls up all sorts of negative connotations, and the last thing anyone needs is to feel bad or guilty about what they're eating. You can eat what you want, and you're learning that some foods you used to eat aren't doing it for you anymore. As a result you're…

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One day isn't going to make a difference. You can make an adjusted calorie count tomorrow and do a bit more exercise. 15 minutes is better than no minutes. Stop beating yourself up over something that won't even count in the grand scheme of things, especially since you've been achieving success for months. It's normal to…

I'm sure you feel it's helping you, I just worry about this claim about only sleeping 2 hours a day. It takes longer than that to get to REM sleep and that's one of the most important parts of sleep. Also, the 15 minute female orgasm? That mainly relies mostly on the woman's body being stimulated, and I don't even know if…

I'd probably feel the same as you, but I'm T2 diabetic and have to log so I don't go over my carbs limit, and I have to know how much, if any, added sugar is in every item. It makes it easier when logging has to be done for medical reasons, so whatever hesitation I had is pretty much gone by now. If people are nosy you…

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I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes last year and I had to start changing my eating habits the day of my diagnosis. So really I had no choice but to change, but in the process I've discovered I like eating healthier, and I'm even starting to look forward to doing bits of exercise and building up slowly to eventually joining a…

Sometimes your hands and feet show the first signs. Little things like having to tie your laces a bit tighter, or rings and bracelets being a tiny bit looser. The more you get to know your body the more slight changes you'll see, and they can give you a lift and a bit of motivation to keep going. Your boyfriend's already…

I don't know what "eating clean" means, as a normal healthy diet doesn't need to contain any special ingredients or trendy food. If any part of this eating regime is stressing you out or taking up too much time/brainpower/figuring out, tweak it. Vegetables don't have to be fresh, tinned or frozen will do. Tinned fruit in…

If you haven't already, I would tell your doctor about the slimming supplement just to be on the safe side. Some supplements are contraindicated for some conditions. Apart from that, I wouldn't worry too much. You're not going to see changes on the scale every single week. It may look on the scales that you've not lost…

I think you need to stop pretending that you're ok, as you're obviously not. If it matters to you, then of course it matters. Could you work with a personal trainer who can advise you what exercises to do so you can tone your thighs, put on some muscle and fill up in the breast area? They might be able to advise you about…

I don't restrict anything, I have what I want, but I want different things now, and my cravings have adjusted. So now I'll have a couple bowls of muesli or granola, 3 or 4 sugar free sweets, a low carb protein bar or shake, or occasionally one of those low calorie cake thingies as a last resort. It's taken a long time for…

It concerns me that you're not getting enough sleep and that you're concentrating too hard on getting your weight down. You're only 37, so what are your long term goals? Are you going to keep up this regime for the next twenty years? For the rest of your life? Why are you in such a rush to change everything as soon as you…

I discovered cavolo nero and until a few days ago I didn't realise it was a variety of kale. I hate kale, except for that and the purple kalettes. I like cavolo nero braised with sweetheart cabbage, spring greens, lettuce and fennel in a broth made with vegetable stock and herbs. I'm trying roast sweet potato now and it's…

There's food that is better nutritionally when cooked, like tomatoes. Some foods aren't meant to be eaten raw, like potatoes, some root veg, beans and pulses, and we're not meant to exist on fruit and veg alone. We need a variety of foods for health. Smoothies are fine short term, but they're not sustainable, and they…