The Balanced Diet perk simply won’t trigger since patch 1.3 on ps4. It went from almost always on to never on.
Yep same here, plus deft hand (lock picking perk) is not working.
You need to never get hungry or overeat for it to trigger. Don’t know if this is the intended behavior, I don’t have the English version of the game and the translation i have is something like you need to not overeat and never starve for 5 days, I thought there were different stages of hunger and waited to have the hunger notification before eating, if you do that you’ll never have the balanced diet buff. basically you need to maintain your “food meter” between 50 and 100.
Yes, I know. I wouldn’t report it as a bug if I was making him gob every day. I keep him at a steady ~ 70 and it never activates.
Is it really between 50 - 100? Really starting to be hungry bellow 50? Thats quite High :-(. How many energy you get when you “eat the pot”, please?
Pot is 25.
Potions have “nourishment” also so be careful when you’re close to 100 
Yep it is, as said the pot get you 25. I usually try not to exceed 75, this gives you some margin for potions if you need to buff up.
Thanks guys but starving really start at 50? I know I can test myself to see the icon to appear but I dont want to loose any time 
Yes, I don’t remember if it’s precisely at 50 or <50. The perk description is probably misleading, one could think starving is a more advanced state of hunger in the game when you basically need to stay in the the [50,100] interval, any value outside this interval will reset the timer. Also you can save before testing, sleep the maximum amount of time you can then wait until you’re <50.
Odd. I have that perk and as long as I keep him between 70-95 he’s fine and I’ve never had it bug out on me (PS4). I mean, are you absolutely positive you didn’t let him get just a tad hungry once, or barely overeat? I keep myself stocked with pancakes to stay in the safe range.