Is this healthy eating for an active teenager?!


Question: Is this healthy eating for an active teenager.?
I'm 5'6 1/2", 155 Lbs, 16 years old 32" waist. My goal is 125 Lbs for boxing which I have been training in for almost a year. I still can't see my abs and have quite a bit of fat still on me. When I first started I weighed 175 Lbs :| So here is my daily eating and activities.

7:00 AM: Bowl of cereal with soy milk, 1 apple, 2 glasses of water, 1 cup of green tea.
10:00 AM: 1 Banana, 1 Nutrition Bar.
12:45 PM: 1 Mortadella sandwich on whole wheat bun, 1 peanut butter sandwich on 2 slices whole wheat bread, 1 apple, 1 Nutrition Bar, 1 bottled water.
3:30 PM: Chicken Breast, 1 cup Brown Rice, Garden Salad, 1 apple, 2 glasses of water.
5:30 PM: 1 and a half hour of boxing cardio class.
8:00 PM: 2 scoops Whey Iso Burst Protein Shake mixed with water.

I train in boxing 3-5 days a week and usually pig out on weekends. I don't lift weights and was thinking of starting to build some more muscle. Please help me out this weight loss is driving me crazy. Thank you.Health Question & Answer


Answers:
You are chossing great foods, and your goal weight is appropriate. However, there are a few problems with your diet.

1) You pig out on weekends. That's a problem. If you eat a lower calorie diet for 5 days, your body starts to go into starvation mode, which is fine. But when you eat large amounts of calories for two days, the body is still in that starvation mode, where it wants to conserve energy. So, the body sees all those calories and immediately puts them into storage as fat.

2) The best way to lose weight is to eat small, frequent meals. I see you don't eat a real meal after 3:30pm. This will make you hungrier in the morning and more prone to overeating.

3) Your lunch seems a little large for someone trying to lose weight. Two sandwiches.? Try this. There are many online calorie counting programs. I used calorieking.com, but they require a membership fee. I'm sure there's something out there that's free. Enter EVERYTHING you eat and see how many calories you are consuming. I bet it's more than you would have expected.

4) Weight training is great for weight loss. Muscles require more energy, even when they are not exercising. If you have a larger muscle percentage, then you are burning more calories all the time...even when you are sleeping.

Good luck.Health Question & Answer

Your diet sounds very healthy, but the pigging out on the weekends is probably what hinders you. Instead of doing that just continue what you do during the week, and only have one "cheat" day every couple of weeks. When you do have those dont go totally overboard though because it just ruins all the hard work Health Question & Answer

you should regularly do some push ups dips ,so that ull loose wt and make body so best luck and do some wt lifting your food menu is goodHealth Question & Answer



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