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Weight Loss For Teenage Girls

Teenage Nutrition Is Key

Weight loss for teenage girls is something that may need to be closely monitored by parents and a qualified nutritionist. Teenagers eating disorders statistics show that many teenagers with weight issues crash diet without care for nutrition.

Fad diets and teenagers sometimes don’t mix. Care should be taken when teenagers decide to diet.

Safe Weight Loss For Teenage Girls

The first thing that should be evaluated is “if” the teenager actually needs to lose weight. If she is not fat, but possibly only five to ten pounds overweight, then the “reason” to diet is not that great. Being five to ten pounds overweight is not unhealthy. Consideration needs to be taken into why she wants to “go on a diet”.

What is making a young person believe she is fat and needs to lose weight? What is she comparing herself to? What does dieting mean to her? She may need to see a counselor even before she begins to diet.

To lose a few unwanted pounds, let say, 10 pounds, all she really needs to do is become more active to burn stomach fat and eliminate processed foods from the diet.

In fact, anyone who wants to lose some extra poundage should eliminate all forms of refined and processed foods from the diet. There is a safe and natural way to lose weight, and then there are dangerous weight loss programs and diets. Which would you choose for your daughter?

Dangerous Weight Loss For Teenage Girls

Most overweight girls have a poor self-image. They go on fad diets, lose weight and still think they are fat! This is the low self-image speaking rather than the rational mind. Unfortunately, one out of four teenage girls and young women who diet are dangerously ill and malnourished from it.

Teenage nutrition is very important. When dieting becomes an obsession to your daughter, that’s when you know you are losing the battle. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are two common eating disorders among teenage girls that can have serious health consequences.

Safe Low-Fat Diet

A safe low-fat diet is not dieting! It is not choosing manufactured food products that are labeled “low fat”. A safe low fat diet is choosing naturally low fat foods. Here’s a list of 10-ways you can lose weight naturally.

Choose fish, chicken and turkey instead of fatty cuts of meat, such as ground beef.
Choose extra virgin olive oil and vinegar instead of ranch or blue cheese dressing.
Choose extra virgin olive oil instead of butter and sour cream.
Choose whole wheat breads instead of refined (white, wheat) breads.
Choose brown rice instead of white rice.
Choose oatmeal, granola, bran flakes, and whole-wheat flakes over sugary cereals.
Choose freshly squeezed juices over bottled juices.
Choose grilled chicken instead of deep fried chicken and chicken nuggets.
Choose bake potato instead of fries or fried potatoes.
Choose soy, almond, or sesame milk over pasteurized animals milk.

Winning the battle with eating disorders takes patience, courage, and the willingness to seek guidance from a professional who is qualified to give sound, encouraging advice to young women. If you have a daughter that is going through such a disorder, help her to recognize her value in society and uniqueness that God created her with.

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