Alin75's advice column

This is usually what I eat, but I don't know if it's a good diet or not. It's low in calories and fat, but according to TheDailyPlate.com it's high in carbs and sometimes sodium. Let me know what you think.
For breakfast, I usually have either a VitaMuffin (google them!) with fruit, or a Dannon Light & Fit yogurt. Sometimes instead I have the yogurt with fruit. For lunch, I have either a turkey sandwich on whole-wheat bread with fruit, yogurt, or sugarfree jell-o, or a veggie dog. For dinner, I usually have a whole can of vegetable Campbell's Select Harvest Light soup with a piece of toast, a boca burger mixed with some bell peppers and egg whites, or low-calorie Lean Cuisine or Smart Ones meals, usually being a chicken or shrimp dish.

You get the general idea. Please give me as much advice as possible.

What are your stats, and what activities do you do?

No concrete advice of any kind can be given without that information. Any advice you do get will be a shot in the dark.

The diet seems rather low on calories. I for one would keel over with a diet like that. A tiny girl might not. As a paid user the only thing I can see is that you are "female".

So here is some general advice:

- You are missing your essential fatty acids, and particularly omega 3 (except perhaps on days when your evening meals include fish). These are crucial for your health, so do make an effort to include them. Good sources are: oily fish, unsalted nuts & seeds (particularly walnuts for omega 3), good quality oils (e.g. evo, canola) etc.

- Relative to your other meals, breakfast seems to have too few calories.

- A lot of your food appears to be processed. In general, the more unprocessed foods you eat the better.

That is about all I can say from the information above.

Good luck.

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(Rating: 5) well i'm 15, 5'6" and i weigh 129 pounds, i've lost about 35 pounds since October. thank you though!

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