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I had sauteed vegetables (green beans, baby corn, two servings from a bag of stir fry veg) with beef and prawns (shrimp), made a really fast sauce from Thai curry paste (jar) and coconut milk powder. I also intended to add peanut butter but forgot! I use dry spice blends or pastes for any South or East Asian food because…

You can't gain a kilo of fat in a week without eating 1000 EXTRA calories each day, more likely you have gained water - either TOTM or you have refuelled your muscles with glycogen (1g glycogen = 3g water) or salt intake.

Yes sweet potatoes are more nutritious - full of betacarotene and vitamin C. Here in the UK sweet potatoes count towards your vegetable intake, white potatoes do not. The best way to eat them is with the skin, as you are, it contains compounds which slow digestion and reduce the GI.

Here is something to put you off, have you looked at the price per kilo for the Oat So Simple? They seem to run up from £6 a kilo to £17 a kilo on Asda, that is the price of quality meat! By contrast Smartprice porridge oats are just 80p a kilo. Over at Tesco even the Jordans organic jumbo oats are only £2.70 a kilo, but…

Any alcoholic drink, oily fish.

Red wine for the resveratrol.

Chocolate and salty cravings may both indicate mineral deficiencies. A great non medication 'treatment' for PMS and hormone balance is diet and lifestyle modification - oily fish, mineral rich foods, plenty of fibre, carb selection and portion control for stable blood sugar, 10000 steps a day and so on but for the whole…

You may be best with a registered dietician or food psychologist than a nutritionist, depending which country you are in the latter job title is not always regulated.

There are various seed butters too if you want to avoid tree nuts altogether.

Cutting DOWN on meat and upping vegetable intake ... .two things mainstream health professionals have been banging on about for decades for the proven health benefits. COMPLETELY different to being a vegan and consuming no animal products whatsoever. You are an omnivore who eats more plant material than animal products…

Definitely up your intake of the long chain omega-3s but do also be careful not to take in too much omega-6s because the balance is key. This is helpful, some of the foods might surprise you given you have been calorie counting but Medscape is sound http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/775156

Plain jumbo or steel cut oats have no added sugar but you won't get oats with lower carbs, that is like wanting low carb bananas (which would be pretty great actually). If you use the jumbo or steel cut they take much longer to cook from dry so simply soak the oats in the milk overnight. Or a lower carb alternative…

Which all sounds logical until you consider that the United States is not the centre of the universe and other countries don't all run their healthcare system the same as yours. The UK National Health Service is the largest employer in Europe, it is NON profit making and bulk funded through taxation not individual direct…

Too many eggs might be bad for you but two a day is not necessarily too many unless you have a health problem that means you need to avoid saturated fat. I wonder if your nurse friends are out of date with their nutrition studies? Are you having omega-enriched or organic eggs for the better fat profile? Oats so Simple is…

Have you tried sleep hygiene? What time of day would you like to exercise, before or after work? Specific timing of meals is not that important because your whole day is shifted. But what you eat and drink is highly relevant, junk food soda and caffeine can mess with your sleep patterns and energy levels and cause more…

For a 'treat' food they look decent. If they fit into your 10% daily calories as processed/ added sugars/ added fats/ snacks at the frequency you eat them go for it.

We've noticed.

Are you eating enough protein, fats, mineral/ fibre rich foods and overall calories? If you cut back hard on beans, lentils and wholegrains you must substantially increase nuts and seeds to compensate for the lost fibre and minerals and increase fats for calories and satiety, you cannot just fill the gap with produce and…

There is some decent information on nutrition on various vegetarian and vegan society and charity websites, start with that IMO so you know what you must add or increase substantially as well as what you must omit.

Nuts and seeds in your breakfast, avocado or olives with your salad, cocoa powder in smoothies and snacks, block creamed coconut in Thai stir fries and South Asian curries, oily fish every day.

As I said "I'm not in any way suggesting a vegan diet is any more deficient than the standard US/ UK diet which we all know is appalling." You have misunderstood what the term malnutrition means, it encompasses many forms of poor nutrition including obesity and deficiencies not simply undernutrition/ undernourishment/…

Loads of threads on this each week, it's worth running a search.

Refined carbohydrates are NOT the same as simple carbs, two different classification systems are getting confused. Simple carbs are sugars, complex carbs are starches regardless if they are whole or refined. All digestible carbohydrates are converted to sugar in the body, so dietary sugar is not the same as blood sugar…

Carbs can help the body absorb and utilise the protein, also some 'protein bars' are actually intended to be the solid equivalent of a gainer powder not the solid equivalent of a whey isolate powder. Sugar tastes better and is easier to make palatable texture wise than many other carbs, and a lot of customers don't like…

Oily fish (sorry but it is; consider supplementing DHA, EPA and bioavailable vitamin D in the winter) Organ meats like liver Plain/ traditional dairy (limit the processed stuff) Omega-enriched or organic whole eggs Seeds (limit the ones richest in omega-6s). Bright and dark coloured non starchy vegetables Lentils Beans…

Could be an additive then, not necessarily the chicken. Chicken breast is not particularly nutritious anyway, maybe eat more oily fish and seafood to compensate and you will likely be healthier than many meat eaters.

The difference is important and the problem is many people don't know what you mean. I read far too often of people seeing a nutritionist and being told something completely unscientific/ irrational/ debunked/ broscience - and still we continue to advocate nutritionists instead of the appropriate medical or healthcare…

Small chicken breast could actually be quite a high 'dose', bearing in mind a serving is the size of your palm. Digestive enzyme balance can change to accommodate your diet, not sure if that would happen in as short time frame as two weeks. Have you just been avoiding land animal muscle meat or also other dense proteins…

Or you might have mild food poisoning. Maybe don't self diagnose, get a medical professional to do that. Coffee is probably not the best idea with those symptoms, it triggers adrenaline release and stimulates the gut so causing many of those symptoms on a lower scale.