Is this a good amount of food to eat?!
Lunch- Chicken ceasar salad (small), popsicle
Snack- 1/2 cup of cheez-its
Dinner- Medium slice of broccoli cheddar quiche
Answers: Breakfast- banana
Lunch- Chicken ceasar salad (small), popsicle
Snack- 1/2 cup of cheez-its
Dinner- Medium slice of broccoli cheddar quiche
Not really. Your best bet is to see a nutritionist so they can tailor you a diet that suits you best.
The human body needs many things to run. Let's look -
Carbohydrates, fats, and some sugars go to fuel your body. Your complex and wonderous metabolism breaks down these simple blocks into complex chains used to fuel your working muscles and cells. Yes, believe it or not you do need fat in your diet, along with the "forbidden" carbs and even sugar! Don't put down that doughnut! It's full of, at least, three things you need to live!
Protein is used also. Your body constantly burns, tears, and breaks muscle fiber. You know when you perform a difficult task that makes your muscles burn? Such as push-ups, running, or even lifting heavy boxs? Your body is using those muscles and, constantly, tearing them and hurting and breaking them! That burning feeling is caused by lactic acid used to wash away and clean up the injury site. (yes, it is an injury, but not how you might think of an injury) Now your body needs to repair the site, so what does it call upon? Protein! Using the dead animal tissue, mainly muscle, of another creature your body can extract the essential proteins it needs to rebuild and make you even stronger.
Your bones get injured constantly too. Everytime you take a step, hundreds of microscopic fractures spider-web across and through the bones in your feet and legs. Everytime you tap a key too hard you cause hundreds more in your fingertips. What does your body need to repair and fill those fractures? Bones are made up of dead materials, such as calcium and iron and magnesium. The cells in the center of your bones extract such elements from your blood and use them to repair their hard outer shell, or the bone itself.
These are just some of the many, many examples. Your body requires many things constantly just to maintain itself.
Again, to help you fulfill your unique needs you should really seek the advice of a nutritionist. For now, I'd suggest something more like this:
Your meals start at night. Remember that breakfast means "break fast". You fast, or don't eat, all night. This puts your body into "starvation mode" and forces itself to retain every drop of useful matter inside itself. During this time you pack on useless fat on your tummy, hips, and thighs, you bloat with water, etc. To prevent this you need to recognize and respect your first meal of your day, which is actually at night.
Night meal (call it what you will) - Eat something to keep your body going. I supplement with Muscle Milk. Egg whites and toast with a glass of whole milk will work. This would provide protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, for starters. Your body does most of its repairs at night, so this provides basic building blocks to ensure that you are repairing whatever you might need to.
Breakfast - Eggs, toast, a banana, whole milk, maybe a bar of chocolate. This gets you a surplus of protein, fats, starches, carbohydrates, potassium, and everything else you need to get up and going! The bar of chocolate is for yourself as a treat, and to provide caffiene to help you wake up, and to provide more antioxidants. (Oxygen is terrible for humans as it ages us quickly. Oxygen has a single electron in it's outer valence shell, which means that everytime it comes into contact with another atom it either lends or steals an electron from the other's outer valence shell! This throws both atoms off and causes radicals which can age, cause cancer, etc. Antioxidants prevent this, so they are extremely important!!! They prevent cancer and keep you looking and feeling young.)
Snack between breakfast and lunch - Apple slices with peanut butter. This provides essential energy, minerals, vitamins, more fats and carbohydrates and sugars to keep you feeling energetic and ready! Plus, more antioxidants!
Lunch - Meat! Pile up some lean wholesome meat. Meat that is veiny (lots of fat streaking through it) or fatty, such as ribeyes, are not ideal. This fat is saturated, or animal, fat. It is extremely unhealthy for you. Saturated fats cause heart disease, arteosclorsis (wow, I know I didn't spell that one right! It means hardened arteries and veins), stroke, etc. Try to eat things like chicken, lean cuts of steak (eye of round is a good cut), and salmon or similar fish. Salmon is ideal in that it has many fatty acids which help with depression, skin problems, eye dryness, headache, on and on. You should be getting plenty of oily fish, such as salmon or tuna, or supplementing with Cod Liver Oil or Fish Oil. (Cod Liver Oil is stronger, so use it only if you're several low on fatty acids)
Snack between lunch and dinner - Nuts, berries, whole grains. This provides more carbs, fatty acids, and FIBER! (by now you have waste you need to dispel. Fiber is a simple thing in that, when presented to the body it doesn't change at all. It simply passes through the system. This is good because what it does do is it provides weight and solidity to your stools. Waste that is not softened and/or weighty will settle unnaturally in the colon, causing constipation, and can cause hemmoroids and colon cancer. I don't think I need to explain further as to why you should be consuming fiber...)
Dinner - A salad, maybe more fish, yogurt. The salad is important in that you need tomato, lettuce, cucumber, the fatty dressing, oils and even vinegar! More fiber and sugars and even plenty of water in these things. Yogurt is important and it is important that you get the right kind of yogurt. Only purchase yogurt that has a "Live and Active Cultures" stamp on it. This means that the organisms used to culture the milk into yogurt are still living in the yogurt. These are probiotics. Your body has friendly bacteria all through it which help it to maintain itself. Probiotics help to kill unfriendly bacteria, balance your body, and even help in digesting things like lactose (milk sugar which is too difficult for the body to digest alone) into more simple elements for your body to use.
Then back to your night meal, supplementing with snacks.
Now, please remember that eating like this is healthy, but it will lend to adding weight. To combat this you need plenty of muscle mass. I'm not saying you need to look like Arnold! But you do need to understand that girls typically do not have enough muscle. Try to do a few push-ups a day, a few sit-ups, maybe take up jogging, or even walking! Try to walk once around the block everyday. Muscle is useful in that it is ALWAYS hungry and fat is one of it's favorite foods. =D You don't need to know 2+2=4 to know that that's a damn good equation! And, hey, take it from me, muscluar girls are far more attractive to guys than weak little bone and skin bags.
Again, I cannot stress the importance of seeing a trained nurtrionist. They alone will be able to tell you what you should be eating, your caloric intake, how much exercise you should be getting, etc. Ask your family doctor who to see.
Best of luck and God bless!
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yeah that sounds normal
i dont eat much either, and im fine
Your breakfast, lunch, and dinner could be one meal in themself.
Well, as a 15 year old you should be eating alot more! All of those servings are very small and if your not on a diet you should see a nutritionist!
add a little more to your breakfast and you'll be fine
it sounds like its not that much but i dont think that is bad, some people just aren't as hungry. all the things you listed are healthy so i think you wil be fine.
It sounds like a good amount if all your doing is sitting down on your A** and not doing anything physical. If your running around all day (literally) or engaged in some type of sport activity with your school or some other organization, then I think your not taking in enough protein and calories.