Weight Loss

I've been on a healthy eating/diet for a while now but I've only recently discovered CC, I was just wondering though am I taking in enough calories for a day? I'm a 15 y/o girl, 5'1 , 104 pounds (used to be 121 pounds). My goal weight is 100 pounds.

Today for example:

Breakfast - plain oatmeal with a few raisins and almonds.

Workout -

- 40 minutes on the exercise bike.

- 1000 jumps with the skipping rope.

- 40 minute pilate DVD.

Lunch: Fruit salad - (banana, apple, kiwi, apricot, grapes)

Snack - glass of carrot/apple/orange juice, 1 anzac biscuit

dinner (will be) - chicken and salad wholemeal wrap.

I was just wondering is this healthy enough for me for one day?

I understand your goal is to be 100 lbs. I would be careful, that would put you at a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 18.9 which is at the very low end of Normal Weight range (18.5 or higher) and you run the risk of having too low of body weight.

I think everything you ate was healthy, but I do not see enough calories for a growing 15 year old girl! You can use the tools on this site to log your food, check how many calories you consumed and how many you should be consuming.

How many calories are you eating? Since your a teen, I think the min you should be eating is 1800 cals a day.

If you are under 21, CC's tools are inaccurate and you should use this calculator instead: http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/bodycomp/bmiz2.html as you are still growing. Yes, even in the later years - there's more going on inside of you that you simply can't see.

A sedentary (and you are definitely NOT) teen female should be eating no less than 1500 calories per day for weight loss, a sedentary teen male -- no less than 1800.

You are not eating enough -- and while it has lot's of fruit, it is missing vegetables and whole grains. (of course, I understand it is a small snapshot).

Eating too low a calorie intake, or having a deficit from your BMR greater than 1000 results in something called "survival mode", where your body holds every last thing it can get expecting of a famine. Water, food, calories. While it can rebound with weight gain or weight plateaus -- what it does to the body from the inside is most important.

• The Body Neglected - This is what happens when you undereat for an extended period of time.

• Dieting & Metabolism - This article explains starvation mode and why undereating is counter productive.