GRRRrrrrrrr! what am i doing wrong with this diet?!?

Question:

ok, i'm a 14 year old girl. i'm about 136-137 lbs. i'm 5'3". i've been eating cereal (life, raisin bran, honey bunches of oats) and milk for breakfast, and lean cuisines for lunch and dinner. i might have an apple, orange, pear, or hard boiled egg for a snack if i get hungry. i drink 8 cups of water a day. i try to exercise as much as i can. and i haven't lost any weight! i've been doing this for about 2 months! help me please!

thanks in advance!

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Kelly

Answers:
I would suggest to stop eating Lean Cuisine. Those prepackaged foods are loaded with sodium (salt). Salt makes you retain water.

You would be better off eating a salad with some kind of protein in it, such as chicken, tuna, or low fat cheese for lunch.

Also, stay away from enriched flour and hydrogenated oils.

Eating fresh foods as oppposed to prepackaged is your best bet.

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You're probably eating too many calories.

One bowl of cereal could be 600 calories alone. Figure another 700 for 2 Lean Cuisines, 100 for each fruit or 75 for an egg. Add the occasional other snack you don't have listed.

At your current weight you probably need 1500 calories to maintain and that's about what you're eating now.

Look on the cereal box and see what a serving is (3/4 to 1 cup), notice they use 1/2 cup of milk and no sugar. Measure out the cereal for a week so you get used to what a serving looks like.

Skip the fruit and add a small salad or pick veggies for snacks. Eggs are a good choice.

Remember you need to burn 3500 calories to lose just 1 pound. If you need 1500 calories to maintain 135 and you eat 1200, then you have a 300 calorie deficit. It will take about 10 days to lose 1 pound.

You can try a lower carb diet (ditch the cereal & Lean Cuisine)?

I would suggest counting calories. Really look at what you are eating. Don't go over 10 grams of fat per day. Multiply your goal weight times 10, and that it the Max amount of calories you should be eating daily(125lbs x 10= 1,250 calories). Next you need to make sure you are burning more than that daily. There are 3,500 calories in a pound. So you need to be burning 500 calories more than you are eating daily to lose a pound a week. Here is a website to help you count..

GRRRrrrrrrr! what am i doing wrong with this diet?!?

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