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Is it better to have a BMI of 24 and eat healthy or BMI of 19 and eat junk?
Is it better to have a BMI of 24 and eat a 100% whole foods, plant-based diet or to have a BMI of 19 through eating unhealthy foods
I sometimes feel bad that I'm not at my goal BMI of 19 when I eat only healthy foods (green smoothies, salads, and soups literally daily) rarely eat oil or salt and never processed sugar. I know that a calorie is a calorie and I still sometimes struggle with binge eating on healthy foods, which is, the majority of the time, dried fruit.
However, I know some girls that eat a lot of junk and are a lot slimmer than me. Are they more admired by guys, just for having skinnier bodies? I also exercise a couple of days a week, too. Should I just step up my work outs? It's kind of defeating at times. Eat healthy, exercise, but still too close to being overweight.
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Since junk food is not healthy , the obvious answer is that eating healthy is better, no matter what your weight or BMI is. Lots of how look as a person is determined by the genes you inherited. It need not be your Mom that you follow after though, but may be an aunt or either grandmother. I have a daughter who looks more like Dads side of family. I am petite and skinny and two kids were like me. But the one daughter, even tho she eats only natural foods and avoids GMO food, gluten or processed foods and does yoga daily, has the body size of not me but her dads mom so she has a higher BMI than her siblings.
As for young gals who eat a lot of junk but are slimmer, don't confuse slimmer for healthier. I have a niece at 16 who has so many medical issues all due to diet and she is skinny, but not healthy. Her diet is real bad. Her mom is ill so its up to the kids to feed themselves and Dad cooks weekends and they do not eat any vegetables and hardly any fruit either.
Now lastly, are slimmer girls more admired by guys. Maybe when the males in question are in their teens or twenties, some will have been brain washed by media, growing up with ads of super models and only think they want that. However there are many guys who also do not like that look. They prefer someone a bit larger than a fragile china doll, a medium to hefty sized woman. And when a man has decided what type of woman he is most drawn to, he will only go after that. Secondly, its important to be self confidant no matter what your size is and I have seen that in women even who were extremely obese and at a nudist event I attended. There were 2 such large women. One had no one interested in talking to her, the other had males and females alike chatting with her. So I went by both to see what each one was like as a person. The one without people was ashamed of how she looked while the other oozed self confidence. I have since come across info on the web that says in tests with strangers, men and women, the men always gravitated to the women with self confidence in the end. Some went straight for self confidence and average looks while those who went for the knock outs first realized those ladies worried too much about how they looked and were shallow or had no interesting personality at all and by end of experiment, all the men were talking to the women with self confidence. If you are truly too close to being overweight, and its not how you perceive yourself, then yes doing a bit more exercise can help. I know its unfair but of three basic body types, the skinnieset people need the least amount of work out to stay skinny, or in fact little to none. Those of medium weight require moderate exercise while those with the larger body type closer to or already overweight, require the most amount of exercise. Even foods can differ that are best for certain body types or dosha's as described in Ayurvedic medicine of India.
Here is one link to determining your dosha by a quiz you answer. It might be helpful for you to look up a list of foods good for your dosha types, whether vata, pitta or kapha. I have discovered I was eating things that were not the best for me but still healthy foods. So this takes the idea of eating healthy a step further, eating the healthy foods that are best for your body type. Hope this helps you.
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