Well I certainly can't give any good dietary advice. I wouldn't say I was unhealthily fat, but I'm sure a doctor would. And I have noticed when watching Love Island that I seem to have a different physique to most of the contestants.
I definitely don't want to take away from francij and Dave's sensible advice. As francij says we have been subject to propaganda for at least 80 years, and the advice keeps changing. Eggs being a notable one for going in and out of fashion each decade. I've just seen a doctor on tiktok (probably not a peer reviewed scientific channel) saying ignore everything you've heard about cholesterol.
When it comes to salt, only 25% of the population are sensitive to salt. Yet we have politicians looking pompous and proselytizing about salt, taxing it and giving us all advice about it. I say give everyone a salt sensitivity test on the NHS help the people who need it and let the others get on with their lives. Apparently 90% of people eat twice the recommended salt intake, but I really can't see why there is a recommended salt intake at all for the 75% of the population it doesn't affect.
So my advice is whatever is currently considered good dietary advice you can ignore because it will change tomorrow.
Our ancestry suggests we started in trees eating fruit, then ate some meat, did a bit of cooking, and quite recently planted a bit of wheat. We have partially evolved to cope with these changes, but let's be honest we haven't even evolved to get the walking on two feet sorted yet, and the digestive system really needs a makeover. As far as evolution is concerned living long enough to produce two offspring is considered a success, anything more is a bonus.
Whatever you decide to eat make sure you enjoy it.
(p.s. I know even if you're not sensitive to salt eating a kilogram of it in a day will kill you)
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When I saw your post I wondered if going on hormones made it inevitable that fat would move to your waist and hips. Although most are suggesting a change in diet.
We've always been label watchers and hardly eat meat. Our regime is never buy anything that has more than 5g of saturated fat per portion and watch the sugar levels. That cuts out biscuits, pies, cake and chocolate but you can have them every now and then.
If you're keener cut out meat with fat, chicken is OK, cut excess fat off bacon etc.
We banned biscuits, chocolate and cake from our house 2 years ago after our GP health check up and lost 5kg each in 6 months. Those temptations once in the house are hard to resist.
It's a way of life and like packing up smoking, not having sugar in tea, not layering on the salt it becomes a norm and you wonder how anyone could do those things.
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Thank you all for as usual the great replies, I shall take info on board , and try and shift this spate tyre ,, keep well and stay safe my brothers