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Losing the weight
So I'm 13 and I'm trying to lose 20 pounds (I'm 5'1 and 135, and to have a healthy weight/bmi I have to be around 110-115). So while I'm on my diet can I have sugary things in moderation? For example, if me and my friends were to go out for icecream on Monday, but then I ate healthy for the rest of the week. Not completely cutting myself off, but just moderation, because I'm not trying to lose the weight super fast or anything.
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Young women your age should not diet without knowledge and consent of their parents and doctor or pediatrician. It is at this stage of your life, especially for women, that your body needs a minimum amount of calories a day in order to support the changes that are happening caused by puberty.
Have you looked at some of the female Olympic athletes. They may be in their late teens but their bodies look more like they are in their early teens. Many are flat chested and as for their periods go if they ever got one they have stopped. The reason is they use up all of the calories they take in training and they have little body fat for the body to draw on to in order to transform them into a women. When they stop training then their bodies mature and they get the bodies of women their age.
You may or may not need to lose 20 pounds. It all depends on your skeletal frame size. Right now you are at the high end for someone your height with a large frame. This is why it is important to talk with your parents and your doctor or pediatrician to first find out what your optimum weight should be.
Once you know how much you should weigh you need to both diet and exercise to both lose weight and tone your body for the look you want.
Know that you have this knowledge I can answer your question which is: Can I diet and eat sweets at the same time. This is both a yes and no answer. Your doctor or pediatrician will tell you the minimum calorie intake you need each day then give you a diet plan to follow for that calorie count. For the sake of this answer lets say your minimum calorie intake must be 2000 calories, which is not that much for a young active teenager. If you are following the diet and have a sweet snack that contains 500 calories then you have to adjust your calorie intake for that day. so if you had this snack between lunch and dinner you would have to adjust your dinner calories. In this diet plan Breakfast would be as high as 550 calories; lunch another 800 calories. This would leave 650 calories for dinner minus the 500 calorie snack leaving 150 calories for dinner.
IF you don't know the calories in the sweet then you can't have it. Of course if you know you are going to have a 500 calorie snack that day you can adjust those calories out over all three meals.
I know this has been long winded though this is what it takes to successfully diet. Most teenagers do not have the determination to stick to this type of program.
My advice is to see your doctor and find out if you are overweight. Then exercise and eat a little less at each meal. Cutout the between meal snacks or at least cut back on them if you need to lose weight. Remember this of all of what I have written. IT IS FAR BETTER AND HEALTHIER TO BE 10 POUNDS OVERWEIGHT THEN TEN POUNDS UNDERWEIGHT. Your doctor can explain why.
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