I'm quite concerned with my diet!

[Anonymous]

so I started cleaning up my diet about 3 months ago but in the past month and a half I've started to really take initiative, not because it's a matter of weight loss but because I felt like I was just running myself into the ground with all the late night binging and weird eating times. For example, when I was at my peak weight, 158lbs and mind you I'm 5'6, I ate anywhere from 2000 to 2500 a day in things like fries, pasta, and pizza! Right now I'm about 135lbs and thriving on a diet that is often under 1200calories. For the past weekish I've literally eaten 10lbs of broccoli and approximately 2.5 cartons of eggs and nothing else because meat just seems really unappetizing. I was wondering if eating a diet that consists of 70% vegetables is okay? (Let me stress the point of how I don't have an eating disorder, I just really don't want to eat anything else and my current diet is giving me twice or even three times as much energy as my past one)

[peacenic]

UNDERSTANDING I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL LICSENCED DIETITIAN:

as long as You are eating enough beans to keep Your protein levels up.

YOu can totally live a healthy life being 100% vegan,keep in mind You really

need to keep a eye on Your blood pressure and try to avoid cheese...k?

[djvtech]

Why should she avoid cheese?

[peacenic]

too much fat,disrupts digestive system,

[baliguy11]

wow. I am not a nutritional expert but you have energy, lost weight, thriving(your term). Doubt your diet ratio is a problem. Crap, now I have to feel guilty and go clean out my fridge. Thanks a lot for the guilt trip. I am going for some celery now.

[rachiee]

You really need multivitamins. Veggies are good for you but they can't give you everything that meat can. Its perfectly fine to eat 70% veggies as long as you add in the multivitamins.

[Longshot]

I would say you need to get a little bit better balance including fruit and protein.

My diet was unbalanced and I went to see a nutritionist who got me on a good 1500 calorie regimen. It includes protein, veggies, fruit and some carbs.

[Anonymous]

You're OK. Read "Fit for Life" by Harvey Diamond. It's kind of similar to what you've been doing as of late. You'll really relate.