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What do you think of my nutrition report?


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Some of you might know my saga, but to try & work out why I'm not shifting the extra lbs I completed an online nutrition report (validated by my country's health board and some of our top leading universities) to see if I could improve my eating habits to finally lose weight.

I'm slightly deficient in Iron, copper (?), Vitamin B5, Folate, Vitamin K and potassium- but not dangerously so. I am obese (tell me something I don't know! LOL!) and my fruit/veg and fibre intake is very good. My long chain omega 3 intake is very insufficient- which can cause/lead to a poor immune system? I need to up my oily fish intake or they recommend a pure omega 3 supplement to get my levels up? Overall it was quite spot-on. I liked the way they listed foods that would help areas I was deficient in, and they only recommended I maybe take a good multi-vitamin and a pure omega 3 supplement- not a list of 'x,y & z' that cost loads!

To lose weight they recommended the usual- choose carbs with a low GI (muesli, oats, stone ground wholemeal bread, basmati rice and pasta) avoiding high gi foods (baked goods- esp. with white flour). Choose fresh over packaged/processed, watch portion size, drink at least 8 glasses (2l) of water a day, exercise, limit alcohol.

And they recommend CLA (conjugated Linoleic acid)- which is thought to help maintain lean body mass when following a healthy low-fat diet and getting some regular exercise, also Chromium- needed to help insulin metabolise fat and stabilise blood sugar levels and produce energy, and green tea, which they say may boost the rate at which the body burns calories.

So basically I'm eating pretty well (apart from my oily fish!) and doing what I should to lose the extra weight....yet here I am- obese. Undecided

I just thought I'd post to see what you 'experts' think?

Sorry in advance if this should be somewhere else?

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