Personal Health - Nutrition

Been aware for some time now that I don't have a healthy diet. I am tired all of the time.. no energy to do anything. It's not from being a vegetarian. I am sick of everyone asking where I get certain nutritional needs when I tell them that I am a vegetarian. Everyone is concerned about the nourishment of a vegetarian, but not themselves. Meat-eaters assume that their because their diet is the most common, it is normal and thus the best for humans, but they don't know how nutritionally deprived they are too. (I'm not the one with the major risk of developing some cardiovascular disease- which is the #1 killer in America, followed closely by cancer. Sorry, but where is research indicative of cow, chicken, or pork (the main constituents in your diet) having properties to prevent/cure these diseases?)

I really am too tired to get into all of this tonight, I just wanted to start a post about it.

Go watch some documentaries like Food Matters (I got it & am very open to lending it to ya) or Food, Inc. to get you started and interested in your own wellbeing.

With this huge attempt at reform and creating a better life, I am finally going to get serious about my own health. Physical and emotional go hand in hand, and I am ailing in both. Reflecting on the diet I had as a kid up until now, I have probably been some degree of malnourished for most of my life. I don't eat 3 meals a day with snacks in between and cover all parts of the pyramid, and there seems to be no trend in my eating habits except it is all or nothing it seems. Either I want to eat and crave everything and thus eat as much as I can, or I don't feel like eating and thus just don't eat.

Anyways, to get done with this posting..

I want to keep a record (as accurate as possible) of my diet (optimistically my activity level too), and thus am utilizing online diet journals.

The USDA has one, but the system seems to be very outdated, and is very complicated, slow, and harassing to use. You can enter a meticulously detailed catalog of all your daily activities if you so desire.

My school health service page led me to the FitDay system. An easy interface, and allows you to customize the nutrient labels for foods. But it doesn't seem to account for burning those calories via activity.

This EveryDay Health one seems to be balanced to both diet and exercise, though it may be losing some of the detail because of it.