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I don't eat processed rubbish, eat more non starchy vegetables than fruit as per most healthy eating guidelines, choose low sugar over high sugar fruits.

Eat oily fish and seafood, add nuts and seeds to your snacks.

Eat more oily fish and seafood rich sources of bioavailable vitamins D and B12, DHA and EPA, or vegan wholefoods which are not.

Chicken breast really is not that nutritious.

Meat and salad is not a balanced diet that is restrictive, are you eating dairy or a substitute, oily fish and seafood, loads of nuts and seeds for the minerals and fibre? Carb rich foods should never be eliminated without the associated nutrients being replaced with other food groups.

Would be worth reposting on the Recipes board.

Any fat can suppress appetite/ increase satiety.

Not needing to chew food, it already being ready digested by being heavily processed, is part of what supports getting overweight. Chewing properly slows down eating so helping you feel fuller. Eat smaller mouthfuls if you don't already because that is another bad habit with many westerners, large mouthfuls of al dente…

Water weight? If you underate the first week for your activity level (which it sounds like you did) you will have depleted your muscles of glycogen so lost water. Eating sugars and starchy carbs plus a pile of sodium will put all that back on again. Net above your basal metabolic rate so you lose fat not muscle and water,…

They likely don't have any nutrients other than refined carbs: little fibre, vitamins, minerals or healthy fat so should really fall under the maximum 10% of daily calories as junk. Five packs of low calorie crisps is not low calorie overall, you are fooling yourself, and you may find you are eating a lot of salt and…

Canned fish in tomato sauce, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, fresh fruit, cheese, oatcakes, canned/ drained beans or lentils, good quality cereal bars, whey protein powder mixed with powdered milk, fruit juice.

MFP protein is the official minimum for health, it's not optimised for weight loss or training regimes. You will get some benefit in maintaining muscle mass from eating more than the minimum amount of protein each day (not sure what you define as 'high') but far more if you also strength train intensively. Eat protein…

How long is a piece of string, depends how much *free* air the manufacturer whips into the product to save money some products are half air. If the weight is not listed, weigh the tub full and again empty and do the maths.

Agreed, the exception is a corn fed chicken breast, otherwise I purchase whole chickens or bone in legs. And chicken breasts aren't even that nutritious http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/poultry-products/701/2

Why did you buy the oil are you following a commercial diet, did you read that it is healthy or will help you lose weight? Be warned many of the claims are based on no scientific evidence or just one study, there is no body of proof supporting magical powers. Just use it in cooking to replace saturated animal fats or…

Have nuts or seeds at every meal, if you are cutting back hard on starchy carbs (wholegrains, beans, lentils) you need to increase your mineral and fibre intake from nuts and seeds to compensate, don't underestimate how much you need. You may find your body responds very differently to different types of starchy carbs so…

Was paleolithic the early ages of man or is that an arbitrary line in the sand, which part of the period since it spans well over two million years? Our bodies have evolved or adapted significantly even since 'out of Africa' which is not the early ages of man - hair texture (afro, straight), hair colour, skin colour (very…

That sounds potentially eating disorder territory, best thing is the advice of a medical professional and the knowledge and support of family and close friends, not trying to self treat.

Did you make the soup yourself? If not it probably was packed with salt because most ready made stuff is, soup and cheese are two key offenders. You don't necessarily need extremely bland things, just not excessively salty things which is actually most fast and ready made food. Try avocado, I never knew that had a flavour…

I edited my post after I saw your food diary, sorry. Change your diet as I suggested also STUFF yourself at your evening meal, so full you literally cannot manage chocolate. Right now you are eating tiny servings and not balanced meals. That means your evening meal is three to five full servings of non starchy vegetables,…

Switch to low sugar/ sugar free dark chocolate instead of sugary rubbish, then don't worry - cocoa is packed with minerals and antioxidants. If you cannot do that you don't have a chocolate addiction it's the sugar/ fat combination, in which case review your diet and consider your triggers. When do the cravings begin, what…

I believe the research is equivocal and very much ongoing, it may depend on the specific 'blend' of species in the product you choose, just because it headlines Acidophilus doesn't mean that's all it is. http://www.jonbarron.org/article/obesity-and-probiotics…

I wouldn't take kids shopping unless essential (school uniform), wouldn't introduce them to fast food until absolutely necessary, would give then the healthy option because it's a regular day and a regular meal so you eat regular food and because I wouldn't want to deal with their mood swings the rest of the day or health…

Because US citizens use cups which is a million miles from an exact science. Because some people use per piece if fruit and there are variations in size. Because people don't complete the entries properly. Perhaps because some are fresh, some are including juice, some are in syrup.

Why bump the thread within half an hour? So many threads on crash diets/ fasts/ fads/ 'cleanses'/ 'detoxes' just run a search if you need to know NOW.

So many threads on this if you run a search: you need protein AND fibre AND water AND fats for satiety. You are spot on, meat plus veggies probably won't fill you up because there is not enough fat and possibly not enough bulking fibre. You are running massively under on proteins and fats, MFP settings are minimums for…

Why post a weight loss question in the Nutrition board and not on the Diet & Weight Loss board?

IMO you are being overly harsh and quite blinkered: healthy and diet friendly are not and have never been interchangeable terms. You are only looking at the calorie count, nutrition is far more complex even within each macro there are are healthier and less healthy, more or less 'fattening' options. Not sure what country…

I'm pretty suspicious of commercial diet books having dropped a couple of clangers in my time. Just previewed on Amazon and the references are not all to published papers they are mostly to news articles, YouTube videos and books like "Farming and Gardening in The Bible". Really? That would be an epic fail for a first year…

Yes people lose weight with both methods, read around some more threads and you will see that. You can also lose weight by starving yourself, plenty of those with disordered eating do sadly. The difference is how fast you lose and how much fat compared to muscle or water you lose, weight loss =/= fat loss. Remember that…