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One, salads made with unhealthy ingredients are still unhealthy. If you pile cheese, baco-bits, ranch (or any thick dressing), chicken strips, lots of croutons, etc, you'd be better off eating a burger. Cheese and dairy dressings are unbelievably high in fat.
Second, if the salad has too much iceberg lettuce, or too many light fruits and veggies with limited nutritional value, you wind up adding empty calories without giving your body enough of the nutrients it needs. At your age, that will include protein (not necessarily from animals) and fat (limit on saturated fats), as well as complex carbohydrates and vitamins.
Make salads without any dairy (including the dressing) or meat, or add a yogurt-based dressing with low fat. Add heavy veggies and fruits, and nuts. Go for variety. Limit iceberg lettuce, use greener lettuce. Apples, raisins, pineapple, walnuts, avacado, chickpeas, edamame, tofu, beans, are all nice ingredients, in addition to the usual tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, etc. Make it colorful (for variety of nutrients) and a bit solid. Use an oil/vinegar based dressing, or make one yourself (A little olive oil can be shaken together with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, or anything else with a tang).
You can eat too many salads. If your body isn't getting enough protein (again, doesn't have to be meat--beans, soy products, and whole grains have a lot of protein, and less fat, and are easier to digest than meat), fat, complex carbs, and grains, it will crave more and more of whatever you are eating to make up for it, and you may wind up eating too many empty calories. Eat other foods--cooked veggies are important, full grains (brown instead of white rice) are important. Balance your daily intake.
Check fat content on soups, especially if they are canned/bottled. Some of them are loaded with fat and sodium and sugar. Saturated fats should be avoided as much as possible. SUgar, too. Unsaturated fats you don't have to worry too much about, as long as the total calorie content isn't too high. Sodium can make you retain more water, which isn't so good.
Overall, avoid empty carbs (white or "wheat" bread that isn't whole wheat, pasta, etc--go for whole wheats, chips), fats (cheeses, hamburgers, fried chicken strips), anything fried (fries, chips), and sugars (especially in drinks, sodas, candy). Read labels, avoid added sugars and saturated fat. Avoid fake fats (Olestra and nonsense like that, you'll see it in "fat free" or "reduced fat" Pringles or other foods). And keep drinking lots of water. And if you find yourself craving sugar in ways you can't fight, tell a doctor.
DON'T diet, not at your age. I'm not a doctor, so if your doctor tells you otherwise, listen to her, but what I've seen from younger people trying to diet is that they hurt themselves more by not taking in all the nutrients they need. Just change what you eat. Eat more nutrient-dense food, avoid junk food, and exercise an hour a day (doesn't have to be all at once or too vigorous--just make sure you are active for at least an hour a day). Alter your lifestle to include more physical activity. You'll find that you eat less if you get the nutrients you need from less food. Exercising will also give you energy, and that will make you feel hungry less often. Your body is growing and trying to get all the nutrients and energy you need from what you eat. If you eat empty calories with little nutrition, your body ignores the calories and craves more of those nutrients, making you want to eat too much. For instance, potato chips have little nutritional value, so if you eat potato chips, you have to eat a lot of them to get just a few nutrients your body needs. If you eat an apple instead, your body gets what it needs more quickly, and it won't crave more.
And, limiting your intake catches up with you. You'll get hungry and suddenly binge on what your body needs, and undo anything you gained by limiting your intake. Don't limit your intake, just change your intake so that your body gets what it needs with fewer calories and less fat.
And finally, everyone who says you are beautiful is right. Don't tie your self-worth up in your weight or your image of your body. If you want to lose weight, do it for the health benefits, and judge your success by how healthy or unhealthy you feel, not by what the mirror or the scale says. Otherwise you'll trick yourself into saying "I have to loss x pounds, or x inches," and then you wind up limiting what you eat instead of seeking better foods, and that leads to more health problems than a couple of extra pounds will. You CAN be heavy and healthy, and you can be thin and unhealthy, and it is better to be the former than the latter. So don't judge yourself by your weight or size or any such thing. Anyone who writes like you do at your age is a beautiful person, and don't let some modern, twisted cultural images of "beauty" define who you are. Every culture changes what it thinks is "beautiful," so trying to chase that ideal is just a waste of valuable life force. You could make yourself look like Britney Spears only to have culture decide that the way you used to look is really what they want to see. The things you have--intelligence, reasoning ability, compassion, sense of humor--are timeless measures of worth, and there ain't no one on Earth worth more than you on the things that count. Only worry about your weight in terms of your health and energy level. If you decide you want to look different, change your hair style or clothing, not your diet.
My thirteen year old is going through this, and I've been trying to give her the same lecture. Hm, I write it down much better than I say it, so maybe I should try writing it down for her, too!
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