Is this normal or weird?
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This is not typical teen diet - at least not teen who will turn into healthy adult with healthy teeth, good skin and hair and not being obese. Many teens eat like this, because they don't know that it will start showing not necessary right a way as fat on their bodies, but in their appearance. Pimple on pimple teens? See those women with tyres around their waist and huge bumms? Did you also notice that they are rather ugly? Look when you are in grocery store what they are buying/eating.
It is great that you excercise a lot and keep it up, but quality of food you eat will show on your skin, hair, nails, teeth..and I think that you do like to look good that way too.
The reason why you are eating junk food in your house is probably because you don't have lot of other snack food to eat - like low fat yogurts, huge variety of fruit, vegetables and yogurt dip. There are many other easy to prepare foods you can eat. The reason you feel like eating and eating is that you didn't plan on proper meals. Protein - meat, eggs, canned fish, cottage cheese and soy products are important as they keep your body from craving unhealthy food.
Considering that you have internet, you can search for healthy menu (not reduction), but suitable for keeping teen body looking great. Make a list of food you would like to have in the house and go shopping with your mom. Who is that junk food for anyway? Perhaps your mom will need some nudge to start buying good stuff (doesn't mean expensive, but healthy and tasty). You are a big girl now and you should have input into what food is in the house so you have something good and healthy to eat at all times.
Don't wait till you get bored. Explore internet, go to public library and see their non-fiction section. Start discovering how much you can do to have a fun and learn and see new things. When you get older you will know that there is so much fun stuff to do that lifetime is not long enough to do it all.
Good luck.
typical, lazy, broke teen behavior. (no offense, I lived through the raising of 4 teen boys with one left at home that thrives on junk)
your body wants to do something, buy some fruit and veges munch on them
Well I think binge eating is an answer to some teens when they are upset, but INSTEAD of binge eating, you should excercise. That way, you wont be gaining weight and exercise releases endorphins that make you feel happy, so your sadness will go away.
This is what everybody in your age do. Relax and just try to lower your junk food intake. It's okay to treat yourself from time to time with something junk, but not all the time.
very typical, unless you really are overweight, check the internet by using your height and weight. If you are not, quite worrying about it altogether, although a healthy diet is not only good for image but overall health.
sounds wierd to me mebbe its cause im not a teen and dont remember eating like this when i was one...whatever it is i hope u outgrow it.
Strickly Disaplining yourself would Solve it all. {period}
God, I hope that is not the typical teen diet!! If you must snack, pick something healthy, like fruit, or granola bars, whole wheat crackers and cheese, even pop corn, but for goodness sake eat real food more than 2X a week.
Your body need the nutrients in real food to grow healthy, because this is the body you will take with you the rest of your life. There is nothing wrong with a little junk food now and then but it shouldn't compromise the bulk of your daily nutrient intake, because there are no nutrients in it to speak of.
Pick up a book on nutrition, it's not hard to understand and it will help you make good food choices and you'll know why it is important and how to take care of your body through eating right.
It is in ur nature. Please eat well so that such cravings disappear.
Eat only when hungry and not more than thrice a day. Nothing other than water in between. Include plenty of uncooked vegetables and fruits in each meal, preferably 50%.
Chew each morsel at least 32 times. Do not touch articles of food or the cutlery in between. This will activate ur body to generate strong signals of hunger/fullness. Obey these signals.
Take light exercises and brisk walks (minimum 20 min duration) regularly preferably twice a day.
U will achieve what u have not even dreamt and that too in a reasonable time. Do not be in a hurry. It is however to be noted that one cannot change the shape or size of different parts of the body.
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