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IMO fruits, vegetables, beans, lentils, natural dairy.

So many threads on this: juice counts as one serving a day regardless of how much you drink or how many different veggies you juice. Consider blending instead - soups and smoothies - or experimenting with different recipes. I can eat all sorts of veggies in a richly flavoured sauce (curry, stir fry, mediterranean tomato…

Fill yourself up on a pile of non starchy vegetables and low sugar fruits - at least nine servings a day but you can have more - plus lean protein at every meal and snack, ground flax or chia seeds, beans and lentils. You might be interested in the Smarter Science of Slim website and podcasts, it actively encourages eating…

Fresh fruit, dried fruit, vegetables, houmous, tomato salsa, guacamole, plain Greek yoghurt, nuts, seeds, natural peanut butter, traditional soft or hard cheese, protein bars, hardboiled eggs .... quite a lot of foods don't contain any added nasties.

I believe fibre is technically a non nutritive or indigestible carbohydrate or non starch polysaccharide, it's not classed as a regular macronutrient because it passes right through undigested and is effectively calorie free. Hopefully your doctor is trying to get you to eat more fibre rich wholefoods (fruit, veg, beans,…

Kale caesar (dressing on the side) Pan roasted wild salmon and seasonal vegetables (double veg instead of starch) Calories totally depends on serving size: I can live without dessert, but not wine!

I could live without meat - indeed I did for a while when particularly broke and don't large servings nor daily now - but not without cheese or fish. Many vegan alternatives to meat/ fish/ eggs/ dairy are processed rubbish with lengthy ingredients lists and the diet NEEDS to be supplemented and/ or fortified, which is…

Feel free to consistently eat more than your TDEE of low sugar fruits and non starchy vegetables - yes the low calorie, nutrient dense ones. For an overweight male that would be 3000+ calories or ~5.2kg of blueberries or ~7.3kg of carrots and that is deliberately avoiding the low carb/ cal stuff like leafy greens!!

Consider red cabbage or aubergine (eggplant) - many people don't eat enough from the blue/ purple family. I like South Asian vegetable curry with the aubergine, cheese coleslaw (red onion, carrot shavings) with the cabbage. I also love Chinese or Thai style stir fries, soups, sauteed veggies with yoghurt and cheese,…

Diary is still locked. The MFP protein and fat settings are minimums not optimal.

Whey isolate powder, defrosted frozen mixed berries, avocado or peanut butter or coconut cream or low fat oft cheese, stick blender with its own lidded beaker. Should take you under two minutes to blend and rinse the blade under a running tap.

Seriously? And what has she suggested you have instead of dairy for calcium? What qualifications does this nutritionist have?

So what you are saying is it's factory processed? Lawn grass is a natural plant, would you eat that? Unbleached toilet paper is plant fibre, that is edible according to too many with eating disorders, would you eat that? A 100g serving of celery contains useful amounts of vitamin K, vitamin A, folate and potassium but like…

You don't have to label your meals, but if you do the 3.30pm one is a second lunch or afternoon snack and 7pm is dinner IMO. The whole point is to eat regularly which is generally done to limit hunger and cravings and to keep the blood sugar stable, if you cut back to three or completely change the timing you are not…

UK health/ fitness/ nutrition magazines are mostly appalling, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Right kind of food: you won't get fat eating piles of low sugar fruits and non starchy vegetables unless you have a metabolic disorder. There are plenty of healthy foods which can be combined with the piles of fruits and veggies to fill you up - lean meats, oily fish, beans, lentils, seeds especially ground flax or chia.

You got that response from me not only because of the highly restrictive eating pattern alongside exercise but because you used language like 'fears'. I don't see how any mentally healthy adult can not know it's not normal or healthy to eat like that. If there is definitely no eating disorder I'd point him in the direction…

How do you know the dairy is the trigger, have you tried plain live yoghurt instead of sweetened Greek? Without dairy, you will struggle to get the recommended daily amount of calcium from wholefoods - you would need ~400g almonds or ~750g spinach for an adult female's intake (1g) example. Canned oily fish (salmon,…

17% protein by what measure, calorie count? Romaine is 1% protein by weight. Few people eat a whole 600g head that is a very misleading serving size, if you look at the per 100g it's pretty low in all minerals and very low in omega-3 (short chain anyway not the useable long chain format). If you ate 600g of almost any…

Sedentary is up to about 6000 steps a day it's not simply doing nothing, are you doing the caloric equivalent of that much on the bike? If not you are still sedentary. You will get the most accurate results by calculating your BMR from your lean body mass (get bodyfat tested) and your TDEE from using a pedometer or heart…

There have been several threads on this within the last week if you run a search.

Edible =/= food.

There are healthy and unhealthy variations in every diet group - people eating balanced vegan/ vegetarian/ paleo/ clean omnivorous/ lower carb/ lower fat diets, and those who could be 'labelled' the same but eating way too much of one thing and not enough of another. I see people all the time on MFP and in real life who…

Glad I did not offend, and well done for quitting smoking if you can do that you can almost anything! The more food you can get mailed out the better, can they mail canned oily fish or is that too heavy/ bulky? That would supply essential fatty acids, protein, vitamins and even minerals if you eat the crumbly bones.

Just buy peanut flour, same stuff as PB2 without added sugar or salt and cheaper.

That is a highly restrictive fad diet not clean eating. Clean eating is generally nutrient dense wholefoods, a balance of most or all food groups supplying ALL the nutrients the body needs for health and then some. The only thing clean eating restricts is processed/ junky/ refined cr@p. Your body has many organs involved…

Juice counts as one serving a day regardless of how much you drink. Blending into soups or smoothies make more sense.

All nutrients are equally important, we need a balance of them all, macros are not the whole story. Weight loss can be done in a healthy way or an unhealthy way, the two concepts are not interchangeable. First thing I look at is the ingredients not the macronutrient split, if I don't like the quality of the ingredients I…

Edible =/= food, if it cannot be digested it is not nutritious so I don't know why you would post this on the Food and Nutrition board.

Protein powders are supplements or convenience foods not meal replacements. They are fine in smoothies, but on their own you are likely missing out of a raft of nutrients from a wholefood meal. Most people find it tough to hit nine servings of fruit and veg and three of dairy if they don't spread it out through the day…