Can you please help me with my healthy lifestyle?

I try to eat healthy and do moderate excersize. I am 15, I am 5'3 give and take and I weight 118 lbs. Here is are 2 samples of my daily menu regime:

Day 1:

Breakfast: One small bowl of original special K cereal with 1% milk

Snack: 90 calorie special K cereal bar

Lunch: Grilled chicken over a salad with fat free italian dressing

Snack: Cherries, dried cranberries, half a Luna protein bar

Dinner: (if I order takeout from the chinese restaurant) Chicken with mixed vegetables, brown rice, string beans

Late night snack: Frozen grapes or a 70 calories, low fat fudgesicle pop



Day2:

Breakfast: 2% greek yogurt with peaches

Snack: Cup of Special K original cereal ( no milk)

Lunch: Chicken salad over lettuce

Snack: An orange

Dinner: (varies) Salad with tomatoes, lemon and olive oil dressing, Herb Roasted Chicken, broccoli

Late night snack: Cherries/ grapes, fruit bar popsicle



So here are my questions

1. Do i eat healthy enough that I could loose weight if I stick with it everyday

2. What can I do to improve my meal plan

3. Am I of the appropriate weight

4. If not please give me advice on shedding a few lbs (specifically in my inner thighs)

Thanks so much xxCan you please help me with my healthy lifestyle?
- special K cereal bar - This is just candy in disguise to make you feel better about it.
- half a Luna protein bar - some more candy
- 2% greek yogurt - A lot of fat and cholesterol. Nothing special about this but the price

1. Diets to weight don't work because the body goes into a kind of starvation mode where is squirrels away every spare calorie as fat and can even use bone and muscle tissue for energy.

2. You can't lose fat in a particular area of the body, sorry.

3. Weight is a very poor metric because bones, muscle, and fat all have different densities (fat being the lightest). The correct metric is the percentage of body fat.

4. Eating balanced meals as recommended in the Harvard Eating Pyramid and exercising at your target heart rate is the best way to reduce the percentage of body fat.

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Basically your diet is way too light on whole grains and cereals and too high on fats and protein. I know that the current fad diets say your supposed to eat fats and protein, but the only trials have been from the proponents of those diets (all wanting to sell something) with no independent verification (what independent verification there has been is negative).

Get a pulse meter so that you can insure you are exercising at the proper intensity.
sound good, but cut down on the late night snacks!



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Hi Nicole,



I would say that your current meal plan will work,especially if you are exercising three times a week. You are a bit overweight given your height and weight. If you need help with losing that unwanted weight around your thighs, please visit my blog at: http://www.healthforlives.com/category/health-and-fitness/

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