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I eat mostly whole foods and have learnt to just go with my instinct and if unsure just go on the safe side. I've found even with verified items there to be inaccuracy, for example I just went and searched for potato to demonstrate. The top verified entry 'Potato' gave me 56cal for 100g, next one down verified was 'Potato…

Celebrate the little wins... tightening my belt one notch, t-shirt fitting better, getting into the next size down jeans. Irrelevant of how much you lose, if you are well in a week without eating something you didn't plan congratulate yourself as it's a win! Keep a diary and each day give youraelf 3 ticks, 1 for being in…

I weigh everything I cook, and check against packet as MFP is terribly inaccurate sometimes! If I'm doing a recipie I've done before and logged in MFP I don't bother re weighing anything except the proteins and the difference in veg is usually so tiny. When I eat out I have a rough guess and try to be truthful. The only…

As others have said are you weighing everything and measuring oil? 1tbsp oil for example is approx 135 cal, which for me is over 10% of my goal. Just remember the numbers are a guide only, if your losing weight try upping the calories a little bit and see if you still lose weight or maintain in the next couple of weeks. I…

If she just gave you some numbers she doesn't know what she is doing or she is trying to dumb things down. EVERYONE is different and the only way you will be able to know close your true metabolic rate is either going in a very very expensive machine or by slowly reducing your calories until you start to see weight loss.…

'cheating' is part of life, if you ever want to maintain you will always have times you need to go out and enjoy yourself. To do that you just need to ensure you balance it out. That means that if your on 1200 cal, if you want to splurge go ahead but you need to ensure you eat down for a few days to balance it out. For…

Plant based too

Anything that's mostly vegetables, salad(avoid lots dressing),fruit's (except avacado,coconut) will be low fat but you have to note the cooking method. Avoid anything that's fried especially deep fried. Anything creamy,nutty or with coconut will be higher fat as will processed meats, fish and chicken or vegetarian options…

It depends on whether I'm having soup or salad for lunch but sometimes I end up eating 10-12 different veggies a day. A high veg day looks like: Breakfast: Frozen fruit (mix of cherries,strawberry,blueberries,peach) with 0% greek yoghurt. Lunch: Salad (tomatoes,rocket,spinach,cucumber,cress,roasted red pepper,sun dried…

Perhaps we are a little more up on health and safety in the UK, because I've never really had any issues. I once had a caterpillar in my salad in a pub, but the salad was clean so I assume the caterpillar was too big to get washed through the sieve. The worst experiences I've had with food have been outside of the UK. I…

When you say low carb do you mean eating low amounts of complex carbohydrates or, or eating as few carbs as possible cutting out fruit and veg? 5 days a week I try and eat as few complex carbs as possible, for the simple reason that complex carbs have a high calorie density and often provide little nutritional value…

Milk doesn't sound like a very feasible option. I pad out my protein with fage 0% greek yogurt: 57cal 4g carbs 0g fat 10g protein for 100g of yoghurt, I either eat 150-200g with frozen fruit, or smoothie it for a protein breakfast. So milk based products might work, but still don't see it being cost effective.

Yesterdays salad: Fennel - Bulb, raw, 43 g 13 Herb - Parseley, 0.5 Cup 0 Sb - Sainsbury's - Baby Leaf Spinach, 7.0 g 2 Sainsbury's - Wild Rocket Baby Leaf, 100 g 30 Generic - Fresh Mint Leaves, 10 g 7 Raw - Spring Onion, 20 g 6 Orange Zest - Ingredient, 1 teaspoon 2 Tesco - British Cauliflour, 150 g 53 Morrisons - Rice…

I had stuffed peppers for dinner last night: Stuffed peppers per person: 45g(dry weight) brown rice, cooked tbsp sunflower seeds few sun dried tomatoes, soaked for 20mins then chopped cup spinach diced 1/4 -1/2 avocado diced depending on your calorie limits handful of basil garlic clove crushed 2 spring onions diced 1/2…

You can get good results with much smaller amounts of oil. For onions you can get away with 1tsp and still make them brown and golden, but just lower the temperature so they don't burn and cook for longer. If they start to stick add a tbsp of water. You can fry almost anything in a really good non stick pan either dry…

I'm going to try these at the weekend, with some baked fruit I think this might go really well: 1 Peach,peeled + sliced 1 Nectarine & sliced, handful of plums sliced Put in a bowl, cover in 1/2 tbsp balsamic vinegar and 2 tsp sugar/splender/stevia drops Bake 180C 30mins, stiring half way. This goes really well with yogurt,…

Eat Less.

I keep breakfasts under 250cal so normally I have one of these: - Liberte 0%fat Greek yoghurt (8g protein,80cal) +1 banana + 100g frozen berries microwaved til soft -2 warbatons sandwich thins + 2 slices thin cured bacon + tsp ketchup - vanilla + honey flavoured porridge sachet with almond milk + sliced banana mixed in +…