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Well MFP is telling you that you are under on protein, fibre and massively on fats - fats are essential nutrients for health and weight management not the enemy. You've not hit your target on - vegetables (three fruits, maybe one veg at lunch). You need blue/ purple (two servings frozen mixed berries at breakfast) and dark…

*sigh* I know! Let's pose a psuedoscience question with no moderate sensible responses just adversarial extremes of opinion. Is a varied balanced paleo diet healthier than the diet eaten by the average US/ UK citizen? Hell yes. Is a badly planned restrictive paleo diet healthier than a balanced wholefood diet that exceeds…

MyProtein is the most often recommended supplier, why are you looking for an alternative?

Nine servings of fruit and veggies in the full rainbow of colours, three servings of reduced fat dairy, lean protein at each meal and snack including oily fish regularly, healthy fats little and often (nuts, seeds, avocado, olives, cocoa), plenty of mineral/ fibre rich foods (nuts, seeds, beans, lentils) ... which of these…

Unless you are absolutely tiny already you should not be netting less than 1200, therefore EAT whether you want to hear it or not. Micronutrients are as important as macronutrients. Starving your body doesn't simply lead to shedding fat, it leads to shedding glycogen, water and muscle mass which is the fastest way to…

If you had influenza you'd likely not be posting or thinking about calories, it's hardcore - people die, my sibling could not scale the little ladder into his cabin bed when he was hit with the flu as a strapping six foot plus teen. Forget counting calories, try to keep your fluids up. Eat a balance of nutrient dense foods…

That website is just a serious of unsustainable/ unhealthy/ cranky/ faddy/ crash diets and adverts, doesn't that tell you something? Also note it claims "This diet comes from the Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital that is used for overweight heart patients in order to lose weight rapidly, usually prior to surgery." And…

Are you having the full three servings of dairy per day for calcium, protein and B12? There are plenty of nuts and seeds other than almonds, have a variety for the protein, minerals, short chain omega-3s and so on. Other options include Quorn, dehydrated soya 'meat', tofu, wheatgerm, no added salt yeast extract. Don't…

It's worth running a search, this comes up regularly.

Protein and fibre are minimums.

Loads of threads on this if you run a search, the topic comes up every couple of days.

Depends on your goals and any heath issues. Ratio of different types of fats in your diet are as important as the overall amount in terms of health. Dairy is healthy in moderation so maybe consider moderating your serving size, eating combined with other foods not alone. Be sure to get plenty of oily fish for the long…

There are plenty of foods that need a modest amount of processing to be edible, safe or palatable. If you think wheat berries, oat groats and pot barley are highly processed you have a very strange idea of what that term means: all can be eaten raw but soaked, sprouted or simply simmered in liquid. Don't try to pretend the…

Deep conditioner on my hair, there is published research to support it: doesn't absorb properly if you pile on the fake shine tho (silicones found in many commercial products). Two complements today on how shiny my hair is!

Depends on your goals, health status, medication, exercise habits and any number of other things.

Depends what the cause is - gas, constipation (even if you are regular), water retention or fat. It is normal for a female to have some fat in this area, some have more than others due to hormones and genetics. No one food will resolve any of the possible issues, really the whole of your lifestyle would need reviewing -…

Fibre cannot be digested by humans so doesn't have calories and doesn't mess with your blood sugar - there are two types soluble and insoluble and each perform somewhat different functions in the body. Fibre in fruit and veggies is important and helps feed the friendly bacteria in the gut but these foods don't bulk up in…

Best to be eaten as it comes/ grated is Wyke Superlight, but that is still only half fat and doesn't melt that well (works in some things not in others). Otherwise low fat cheddars are all rubbery, that is the nature of the casein protein. I also eat Tesco reduced fat halloumi dry fried in a pan - it is rubbery and salty…

No such thing, you don't need one vitamin or even a small group for energy you need the full complement of macro and micro nutrients plus enough overall calories. You can do more harm than good randomly supplementing with no regard for toxicity or how nutrients work synergistically and in opposition. Just eat a…

You don't need to eat meat for complete protein. Don't you eat the recommended three servings of dairy a day, plus oily fish several times a week? If so these are all sources of protein. Protein powders are not a substitute for real food, they are supplements or convenience foods. They generally don't supply all the…

Foods made from refined flour, table sugar and added fats are not exactly healthy regardless if they contain the protein gluten or not. Often they use rice or potato flour which turn to sugar in the body pretty fast. If you want healthier sweet treats consider making your own flapjacks with jumbo oats, block creamed…

If you don't actually like dark chocolate it's probably simply the combination of fat and sugar you are craving which might suggest you are undereating for your activity level, skipping breakfast or eating the wrong foods earlier in the day so your blood glucose is spiking and dipping. Have healthy filling snacks with you…

Why isn't eating healthily 'normal' or 'regular food'? What is abnormal about fruit, veg, meat, fish, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds? The only 'food' group some of us restrict is the junk category.

Get a new doctor who knows something about nutrition! Plenty of published research linking dairy products to lower body fat if you check PubMed. Having said that it is believed the calcium in dairy is a key player in the 'fat war' and cottage cheese is actually relatively low in calcium. You need to eat 1600ml to get your…

I point out to people all the time that they don't eat enough fruit/ veggies/ dairy/ oily fish, generally they come back with reasons or excuses or admissions, they don't say they eat those foods but don't log them. Too many people going around MFP saying you can eat anything, eat a vitamin pill and stay under calories or…

Problem is the conspiracy theorists would then claim the produce farmers had been lobbying the US government to con you all into thinking seven to nine servings of fruit and veg is necessary/ beneficial to health. In the last few days I've read on here that your official healthy eating guidelines are high in toxic meat due…

Refined grains are fortified in the UK because refining strips them of their nutrients, wholegrains are not. If what you claim is true I have no idea why wholegrains are fortified in the US. Fruits and vegetables are not a like-for-like substitute for the nutrients in grains - beans, lentils, nuts and seeds are closer.

Might bind some nutrients in your food.

What medical tests have been done to ensure you don't have a metabolic reason for not being able to lose? When you were logging for the dietician did you weigh everything or guesstimate, did you consistently log as it went into your mouth or at the end of the day? There are BMR calculators that work on lean mass not total…

Many articles and commercial diet books are written by journalists, alternative practitioners and other un or poorly qualified people and not based on any sort of science. Some of these rules have a grain of truth in them, many work to some extent because they boil down to one thing, fewer calories. Try reading quality…