if you could give me a link to a free online teen diet plan or give me some advice, that would be great, thanks so much!
a little more information…
i am fourteen years old, i am five foot three, and i weigh 104 pounds, my waist if 26 inches. you may say that i am still underweight, but i am a naturally skinny person and i just began gaining weight. my friends say im skinny and i don’t need to lose weight, but i have a small gut that really bugs me a lot! in september i weighed 95 pounds and i wanted to get to 100 pounds and i would be happy. i got to 100 pounds but i naturally eat a lot, i just have a very fast metabolism that is beginning to slow down. today i didn’t eat breakfast, but for lunch i had two cookies, and a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, croutons and chicken with italian dressing. when i got home from school i had two croissants, a cookie, a piece of cheesecake, and also half of a chicken salad sand which on plain white sliced bread. i will eat a full dinner of rice, meat, and salad and before bed i will probably have another piece of cheesecake or two eggo waffles with syrup
as yo can see, i naturally eat a lot and i don’t exercise, but i start lacrosse at the beginning of march. i just need a way to eat healthier and i think following a diet plan would help. any ideas?! please, thank you:)
its not that i want to lose weight, im happy with 104lbs. i just want my gut gone. but doing crunches suck! but i do them.
i do cheerleading workouts that i remember from when i cheered.
Well, to lose weight effectively, healthfully, and in a way that you can keep it off, you should lose no more than three pounds a week. (Plus you’ll also be losing water weight and getting rid of bloating, so there goes another load of weight – anywhere from four to twenty pounds.)
Cut out entirely (or as very best as you can):
-Junk food
-Carbs other than whole-grain and whole-wheat
-Anything with high fructose corn syrup
-Anything with "sugar" as one of the first two ingredients
-Butter
-Oil other than olive or canola oil
-Cheese
-Full-fat dairy
-Potatoes, other than sweet potatoes
Eat around 1,600 calories a day. This should consist of:
-Four or five servings of lean meat/protein
-One serving of whole-grain/whole-wheat carbs
-One serving of fat-free dairy
-Three servings of fruit
-Five servings of vegetables
-As many non-starchy vegetables as you want (this means no squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, corn, or lima beans.)
Example:
Breakfast – two scrambled eggs with salt and pepper on one piece of light whole-grain bread, one apple, small container of fat-free yogurt
Snack – orange
Lunch – grilled chicken breast with spices, spinach and lettuce salad with vegetables and dressing made from vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper
Snack – half-cup of baby carrots, half-cup of grapes
Dinner – one roasted chicken breast with spices, half-cup of black bean salad or black beans with spices, two cups of steamed vegetables with a teaspoon of olive oil and salt and pepper
Every day, you need to get cardio exercise for at least an hour. Ride a bike, walk, run, do jumping jacks, kick boxing, anything.