To not understand why my healthy (I think) way of eating isn't making me feel energetic and fabulous

[LindyFoo]

AIBU to consider this is a healthy daily diet (not looking to lose weight as already a healthy weight). I want to feel more energetic and fabulous :-). Don't eat meat or drink alcohol. In my 60s, fit and well, very minimal stress.

AM
Smoothie with banana, kale, milk, peanut butter, avacado, skimmed milk powder, greek yoghurt
SNACK
Sourdough bread with peanut butter
MIDDAY
2 egg with onion, peppers, cheese and a mixed salad with olive oil dressing
5PM
Salmon with salad or brown rice with prawns and lots of vegetables and spices

What is missing? Or not helping?

Is that what you’re eating by choice or because it’s what you feel a good diet should be and hoping it will make you feel healthy and energetic? Just curious

Neezyp13
Is that what you’re eating by choice or because it’s what you feel a good diet should be and hoping it will make you feel healthy and energetic? Just curious

Both

Look up ‘orthorexia’.
You’re trying to eat so healthily that it’s become unhealthy.

Maybe a large glass of rosé and bag of crisps would make you feel fabulous
.usually does the trick for me

You can tell so many women on mumsnet were young women and teenagers in the 90s. The levels of competitive under eating, misplaced nutritional knowledge and eating disorders are unreal.
I worry about people’s bone density and anxiety as they age

Hahaa. Being thin wasn’t the only vibe in the 90’s though. As ever it was mostly a middle class issue. The lad culture meant lots of pint drinking. It was cool to be be fit and strong ( dance, running aerobics were all
popular) and everyone knew about osteoporosis

I like the way the 90s is considered to be a long time ago. It was yesterday and nothing has changed about life very much at all.

Health Coaches are also qualified. And both of the above recommendations are fully qualified, one an NHS health coach the other a leading sports dietitian. Google them.

Interesting- I grew up in a working class town and the struggle to afford hard candy nail polish and look like Kate Moss was real.
we drank pints and bottles of white cider but spent our lunch money on it so mostly went hungry and stayed thin.
The only knowledge I had of osteoporosis was a kid in my school who had ‘brittle bone disease’
The 90s seem like yesterday but so
much has changed ime

The 90’s were also the era of page 3 girls and boob jobs. Alongside lad culture the popular look was “confident and attractive”.

There were supermodels and Courtney Love type sub groups but angst ridden heroin chic wasn’t as pervasive as its made out to be.

Brittle bone disease did seem to be a thing then. Maybe less specialist schools so children with a range of conditions mixed in mainstream. But certainly osteoporosis was well known if only as an old lady thing There was lots of milk is good for your bones messaging in the 80’s and 90’s. You hardly see real milk these days.

The 90s was also the start of the Gladitors TV series. Not a lot of starving waifs in that.

Greek yogart daily made me feel awful, once I cut it down to 2-3x a week I was much better.

I don’t think many teenage girls watched it did they?
I remember it being more of a kids show?
I suppose you view the 90s through the lens in which you and your peer group saw them. I did work in Topshop at 17 and we didn’t keep any clothes over a size 14 on many ranges out on the shop floor. Even then I thought that was wild.

There was a children's spin off, but Gladiators itself wasn't a kids' show, it was prime-time Saturday night family entertainment.