I have been eating relatively healthy (with the exception of my dinners, as I live at home I have little influence over my dinners) I cut out the most obvious unhealthy snacks I use to eat and replaced them with something healthy, but it seems my amount of eating has increased. at the moment Im eating for breakfast 1 cup of yoghurt (lite) Morning tea Rice crackers (98% fat free) Tuna - in spring water, not oil Lunch 1 x club sandwich cucumber slices afternoon tea 1/2 sliced capsicum 1 manderin 6ish ill have a protein shake Dinner (about 8) Whatever is cooked which is usually unhealthy. I weight around 73kg-75kg, with a fair bit of muscle on me. Does this seem excessive for someone of my weight? Should I try cutting it back a bit? I found when I first started this I started getting dizzy (im guessing lack of iron in my diet?) this seemed to have stopped after I started eating tuna and taking fish oil supplements
Doesn't seem excessive to me- in fact it seems a tad on the light side. And definitely lacking in vitamins and minerals.
If I ate like that I would be as skinny as a twig. Maybe you should count how many calories you are consuming everyday.
Cheers, so should I buy some mutli vits or something like that? Is it better to get vitamins naturally or are the mutli vits an ok source? How would I go about getting minerals. Is there any type of food that is healthy but has a strong amount of minerals in it?
Well, first eat real foods. Avoid processed foods as much as possible and start getting in your fruits and veg. I am always a fan of avoiding multi vits, but they aren't bad when it comes down to it. But with some moderate adjustments- such as adding berries or other fresh fruit to yogurt along with some fiber such as wheetabix or granola/meuslix. Take some fresh veg or fruit with you for snacking etc. Really you shouldn't have to have multivits if you are actually eating real food. If all you eat is processed crap, then yes, you'll need vitamins.
I thought I would be eating enough fruit n veges with what Im eating. with the cucumber, capsicum,mandarin, yoghurt (has real chunks of strawberry in it) dinner has mixed veges. And the club sandwich is mostly vege (with ham in it) I dont eat much processed food.
I don't think you are getting the at least five servings a day that you should be getting- and that's a minimun. Seven is better. And no, the pieces in the yogurt don't count as a serving and if its the prepackaged yogurt its little more then corn syrup and some clotted milk. Its better to find lightly sweetened yogurt (I prefer goat's milk actually) and a half cup of real fruit.