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I have no breakfast as my fast is from 8pm to 12 noon each day (16 hours). Lunch is a baked sweet potato with cottage cheese or salad with avocado or leftover dinner or vegetable soup Dinner is the same as lunch but also could be fish curry with steamed veg, GF pasta with prawns in a spicy tomato sauce, vegan chili with…

There are people who are required to be on a gluten free diet for medical reasons. There is no reason for anyone else to cut out such a huge range of foodstuffs.

1 tbsp Olive oil, 1/2 tbsp cider vinegar, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1 tbsp dried herbs, 1/2 tbsp lemon juice. Shake vigorously in a small jam jar until mixed. Use as desired, keep in fridge.

This is the science behind the extended fasting period http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/zBx3JZJCKfNBrWgT0Qyj93/the-big-experiment-could-i-lose-fat-just-by-changing-my-meal-times However, losing weight is done by your calorie count, not by when you eat your calories. You have to do what works for you.

I'd agree with the good fats advice but I eat dried fruit like dates when I have a sweet craving and that helps. It doesn't reduce the calories necessarily but it improves the nutrients from those calories. I also allow myself some sweets in my diet because I like them, I just try to keep them minimal.

skip the smoothie and eat apples

Carbonated drinks can be a trigger, Dr Pepper use to set me off. Also eating at the wrong times of day (too early or too late)

MSG, wheat, spelt, brassicas, haricot beans, raw onion, raw sweet pepper, vinegar, yeast, peanuts, cow's milk, Jerusalem artichokes, cooked green sweet pepper. I don't process animal fat well so I don't eat meat. Hopefully that is the full list of what affects me. It becomes tedious having to work out what has set me off…

Blackened salmon - coat in spices and shallow fry until crispy on both sides. Brazilian Seafood Stew Horse Radish and Apple Glazed Salmon Spicy Fish with Stir Fried Vegetables Goan Fish Curry Sri Lankan Fish Curry Bangladeshi Fish Curry Salmon in Mustard Sauce I could go on.......

apples almonds carrots swede yoghurt soya desserts

Blackened salmon with a large pile of steamed veg

If you want to be full up eat protein or good fat (avocados) and lots of fibre foods like vegetables (not potatoes) and fruit. Eggs are quick and contain protein (try a frittata, layer sliced veg in a dish and pour over beaten egg, bake until cooked through) Fish is quick and contains protein (try making a spicy sauce with…

I used to get reflux acid indigestion until I realized I was wheat intolerant. Having removed the offending item from my diet it went away. Have you been eating something more often recently? You might be intolerant to that food

Yes, but don't heat it up

These things sneak up on you if you don't stay vigilant

At the moment I'm trying to get back on track before I go on holiday mid May so it is very simple. Breakfast - I don't eat breakfast as the longer 'fast' period is beneficial in making my body use insulin more efficiently. Lunch - I don't have lunch on Monday or Tuesday. Wednesday to Friday it's soya yoghurt with chopped…

I had to drop my calorie intake by quite a lot, 150 calories a day, to just maintain my weight. My calories were 1600 to maintain but are now 1450. I also only eat carbs once a week as I get all my carbs from vegetables and fruit. 5:2 with Monday & Tuesday being fast days Cardio is walking 4 miles on four workdays (2 miles…

More people understand coeliac than wheat allergy so I always tell people I'm coeliac if I'm eating out. It reduces my options but is safer than risking being made ill. We have a greater choice in the supermarkets for gluten free items and they are edible now (which they weren't for the longest time) and I don't care if…

I had to have three months off work because the world was going round and I couldn't fix on anything. It is only now, a year later that I realize it was all part of the joy of peri-menopause. Touch wood, it hasn't happened a second time. At least I'll know it isn't something dreadful if it does, last time I was imagining…

I get this, I'm so cold and no-one else is. I have layers of clothes available at work to add if I need them (as well as a blanket for my legs). I've gone to bed dressed for artic conditions and then had a night sweat..... you just can't win!

I've had this all my life, annoying but harmless

I manage to walk to work and back most days and two days a week I do strength training. The strength training takes me a maximum of 30 minutes and I don't get sweaty but it is toning all my muscles. I have to track my calories all the time as I have a terrible habit of just eating non-stop if I don't count them! It's made…

I tried a liquid diet for two weeks (my own foods liquidised) and it works really well. I think the body gets used to not having a full stomach and your stomach then shrinks. When you go back to eating more solid foods it is a good idea to have a couple of liquid days every week or two to help keep your stomach small. I…

These are the things I wish I'd have known when I was first diagnosed, it would have made the transition so much easier. 1. No liquid smoke unless labelled gluten free 2. No items labelled 'modified' unless it specifies what was modified and it isn't wheat 3. Aim to cook from scratch to start with and only look for one or…

Thanks for the reply. I'm still debating whether to pursue an official diagnosis and realise that being high-functioning will likely be met with a certain level of resistance to spending NHS funds on a diagnosis. For the minute I think I'll just wait to see how I feel in a couple of months. As my husband says 'a diagnosis…

I just cut my calories in general. I had to drop about 150 a day to stay the same weight rather than keep gaining. I eat lots of carbs but mainly from vegetables, rather than rice, pasta or potatoes, the fibre helps digestion. I eat about 120g carbs which is about 45% of my calories

I had to unlink the step count on the band with MFP. Now it records only the exercise calories and ignores my walking calories. Apparently it's a known bug but has no fix date as yet.

1 went on a liquid diet for a week. Milk, soup, fruit smoothie, etc. I was really hungry all the time for the first couple of days, but eventually I realized I wasn't actually hungry as I was eating enough calories. My stomach shrank as well which helped curb the large meals I had been able to eat After that I realized…

Perhaps I'll leave out the deskcycle, up to 16th June I'd already done 41.3 hours on that! The good news is that I've done 11.2 hours of walking up to the 16th June so I'll need to put in a bit more effort up to the end of the month to be able to meet the 24 hour target. Might even have to break out the Wii machine to make…

I'd be interested to see how long I exercise for. I log it all but have no idea how much it adds up to. Does using my deskcycle count? I'll count it in unless I'm told otherwise. Other than that mine would be walking as I do a lot of that but not much else.