I make up for it with my fruit intake. I've never had a fruit i don't like, and eat plenty of it. Blueberry muffins and chocolate coated raisans aplenty and if I notice something is having an adverse effect on my health I'll stop. E.g. my beer drinking habits, I used to be at a bar at least once or twice a week last year (and nitestick will back me up there ) and have a few at home on the days when I didn't go. Result was I started getting pretty chubby around me waist lol, so I stopped drinking at home as much and pretty much stopped going to bars altogether. Now I'm more in shape again, I've returned to le bars but usually it'll only be once every week or two. Moderation and all that jazz..Didn't say eating fruit was unhealthy dude, I said eating more to compensate for no veg is unhealthy. Eating piles of sugar will make you fat *unless* you exercise enough to burn it up. Fruits contain lotsa sugar. Seeing as you've told me you don't do much exercise (apart from walking to school IIRC?) then it's logical to assume you'll end up being overweight. Lawyered!
edit: to put it another way, you could eat 5 small heads of broccoli every day and not get fat. Eat 5 small peaches every day and you're likely to start gaining weight, especially if the rest of your diet includes a lot of sugar too (which, in todays production processes, nearly everything does lol).
*note, I'm not a health nut nor do I really monitor what I eat. I don't eat biscuits/icecream/chips much because I prefer a steak or two
To be fair, i've had 4 months off doing nothing what so ever, i've definitely put on 20 pounds or so. Not that it means i was a healthy weight before.. heh.Was it you who mentioned something about ****ed up sleep and feeling tired and horrible? Jus' sayin'
Just ate a burger. Pulled out the stem bits of lettuce coz I'm hardcore.
End up ? I lol !
I'm 6ft 3 and weigh.. 233pounds. Thats a BMI of 29, i'm well into that overweight category
Anyway my point wasn't that i have a healthy diet, because i certainly don't, but that not eating veg does not necessarily result in vitamin deficiencies. Like i said, apart from being overweight from my excessive junk food diet (its really really bad, i should probably be much heavier than i am), my health is absolutely fine.
Your way to stay healthy is better than mine. Mine is just simple, eat what i want, and when i suddenly decide one day i've got too big like around now, i go on a 1500calorie crash diet. The last time i did it, it dropped me atleast 5lbs a week and got down to 195pounds. So i'll be doing that again very shortly, no doubt by the time i head to Uni.
