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At this rate, am I doing fine?
Fourteen ; 5'3 ; 125 pounds.
Hello, there. For the past two weeks or so, I've been wanting to change my weight and health. My problem areas are my stomach and face. I do some light exercise inside aswell, here's an example of what I do daily:
300 jumping jacks, 120 lunges, 100 sit ups, 120 squats, 400 kick ups, and maybe some more if I feel like it.
Here is an example of what I eat daily:
For breakfast, I make a yogurt parfait (Low fat greek yogurt, granola, strawberries, banana). For lunch, I may have a vegetarian bean burrito (Checked the nutrition aswell). For dinner, maybe a vegetarian hotdog or something along those lines. I don't have many food options because I'm not sure what to have. For dinner, I sometimes bake a potato and have vegetables for sides. If I want any snacks, I'll eat fruits or vegetables.
At this rate, will I lose weight? If so, how long? And am I doing anything wrong? I want to be 110 pounds (I'm really thick and am not proud of my body at all) before 2015 or December, if that's possible.
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Here's the most important thing to think about: you're only 5'3". There's a good chance you're not done growing? You may find what you're imagining to be thickness is really your body preparing to grow (think of how babies store a lot of mass before a growth spurt and then slim out when they grow into kids, the teenage years often have similar growth cycles). If you restrict your calories at your age, you risk stunting your growth, which in the long-run often makes weight gain more pronounced, because more height can lead to natural slimming. Put off restricting calories and just choose nutritionally-dense calories and eat as much as you're hungry for to see whether you're going to continue to grow.
Eat a balanced diet and don't forget lots of veggies, protein and fats, because your body needs these! Your brain absolutely needs fat, so don't drop that from your diet in an overzealous attempt to lower calories. What's more, people who eat full-fat dairy have LOWER belly fat than people who eat reduced-fat dairy products. This study is one example: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) One thing I also know from being vegetarian is that those foods are often really processed and not as nutritious as actual foods: beans, nuts, colorful veggies, dairy, grains like quinoa or oats, and fruit--and watch to make sure you're getting iron and B12. I recommend nutritional yeast sprinkled on microwave kale chips. SO YUMMY!!
When you're 14, your facial anatomy is youthful and that natural padding may seem like a negative now, but that padding is what women pay $$$ to try to inject back into their faces to look younger in a few years! Facial fullness is a universal marker of beauty and you really don't want to target facial weight loss.
It seems like a lot of exercise and a lot of it isn't the most effective kinds--sit ups aren't that good for belly fat and they can cause back injury. Push-ups or planks or yoga might do better for ab definition. Instead of trying to do a TON of repetitive movements, it's much better for definition to do short bursts of higher-intensity strength training. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be healthy, but maybe doing a sport or group classes could be a fun way to stay fit and to have that social aspect that will keep you from driving yourself so hard that you end up with an eating disorder.
Think about all the wonderful things your body is capable of doing as you move and nourish it, try not to make it all about whether it meets some arbitrary standard. You'll find yourself growing naturally into the kind of person you want to be and feeling proud soon.
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