Help in health class plz!

**smokey the elder** · 10-08-2005, 08:26 AM

I wish I weighed 135 lbs...

Anyway, doesn't this example reinforce the body image problems young women often have?? Cutting out the fries and soda couldn't hurt, though.

**Flatcoatluver** · 10-08-2005, 12:09 PM

I wish i was 135 i would be smiling all day long!

I am just gonna have her cut down the fast food, and just be proud of her body, thanks so much, but is there any helthy foods she can eat at night that take no time?

**carole** · 10-08-2005, 03:21 PM

I have to agree with everyone's comments here, to say she needs to loose weight is ludicrous, she probably just needs a good workout at the Gym to tone up and loose some inches so her clothes fit her.

However her fast food intake is NOT healthy anyhow, for breakfast she could try a fruit smoothie, only takes a few seconds, using low fat milk and yoghurt, or you can buy breakfast bars which are supposed to be the same as having cereal and milk, just a suggestion.

Dinners, I am not so good at, I would never buy cartoned meals, frozen meals as such, they just donot appeal to me, I myself am loosing weight on Weight Watchers which I am doing by myself, and I have a product called a lite chicken, something similar would be available in the US, it is very low fat, like 1 and half points on the programme, tasty, I sometimes have that by itself with hot veges or salad or occasionally as a burger, it is sure working for me.

If I were you I would point out in my evaluation that this person DOES NOT need to loose weight, and this type of thing is very descructive to young woman's body images.

I am hoping this person is ficticious too, as honestly there is no way she would really need to loose weight, maybe just body fat, If that were the problem.

**binka_nugget** · 10-08-2005, 03:38 PM

Yikes.. what a sucky project.

When I went to the dietitian, she told me that a healthy weight for me would be about 125.. and I'm 5'1. 135 for a person at 5'6 seems pretty good.

I'm really lazy (that's an understatement

) but I managed to lose weight by doing really simple stuff. I replaced coke with diet coke.. which helped a lot since I drink *a lot* of pop. I also started eating breakfast. I hate cooking so I usually have cereal, or some fruit if I'm in a rush. I also started having more healthy snacks (salads, fruit, or veggies usually) through out the day, instead of 2 big meals. I'm sure if I actually exercised, I would have lost more weight but it's amazing how much you can lose by doing some really basic stuff.

**Flatcoatluver** · 10-08-2005, 08:14 PM

thanks guys, its a huge project worth 300 points what is dew on monday is just goal setting so i think with all your help i can write my paper. I will post it later and see what you guys think

**christa** · 10-08-2005, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by Flatcoatluver

I wish i was 135 i would be smiling all day long!

I am just gonna have her cut down the fast food, and just be proud of her body, thanks so much, but is there any helthy foods she can eat at night that take no time?

Cottage cheese at night. It digests slow which means that you burn more of it as energy instead of storing it as fat.