any teens following a 1200 calorie diet? snack ideas?

I am going to start on August 3rd 2009. I need some good snack ideas, both 100 calories and 50 calories. I am a cheerleader, so i eat the 100 calorie snack before practice, to keep me full untill dinner. any ideas?

no teens should be eating 1200cal per day... you should be eating AT LEAST 1500 calories per day

I pity the fool who actually responds to this giving advice

you need to eat more. period.

if you're active and in sports or doing conditioning of any kind, like during your cheer practices. You need to eat even more than 1500 a day. You will screw up your metabolism if you do not, and it will hinder whatever goal you are working towards and you will be UNhealthy.

No teen should be following a 1200 diet.  The BARE MINIMUM a teen girl should have is 1500, and that's for a very small sedentary girl.

Please go to this link http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/bodycomp/bmiz2.html put in your stats and use the activity level of at least moderate (probably should be very active since your a cheerleader)  to figure out how many calories you should consume in a day to maintain your current weight.   If you really need to lose (without your stats, I don't know) subtract 500 from the maintenance amount, and that's how many calories you should be eating in a day.

You need to use the CC tools to determine your burn, then deduct no more than 500 calories from that to lose weight slowly.  Do not attempt rapid weight loss because your body is still growing.  What you burn will not be fat, but muscle, organs and bone, making you weak and unhealthy, and prone to all kinds of health problems later in life.

Your main goal should be good nutrition.  Here's a website that many teens find helpful

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.a spx

Use it to find out what's appropriate for your age, height and activity level.

Here's another with lots of great information.

http://exercise.about.com/od/weightloss/a/tee nweightloss.htm?nl=1

Wow...when I was a teen (and I was a cheerleader as well) I ate AT LEAST...and I didn't count calories...but I know I ate a minimum of 3000 calories a day!!!  I ate two of every meal!  What I wouldn't do to go back to that time in my life!!!  Listen girlie...you have the rest of your life to worry about calories.  For now you should be focused on fueling your body and mind and staying active and happy!  The rest will naturally fall into place. 

Hi! no matter what your calorie goal is, 100-200 calorie snacks are good to have in your food repertoire. I'm a teen whose goal is 1200 calories as well and no, i'm no athlete, but i feel good and energized and healthy on 1200 calories a day, but if i workout i do scale it up to 1500 or so and i have been successful at losing weight. 

These are some snacks that tide me over between meals that are 100-200 kcal:

half a whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter 

cottage cheese with fruit or honey and cinnamon 

hummus on baby carrots or wheat pita

half a cup of raisin bran and half a cup of vanilla soy milk 

string cheese

an apple and 20-ish almonds 

tuna salad 

yummm 

funfriend and cheerleader: YOU. SHOULD. NOT. BE. EATING. 1200.

You need to grow. Your organs need to grow. You will starve yourselves on that amount.

Trust me.

funfriend and cheerleaderpink,

You are teenagers, therefore your bare minimum if you were not exercising at all is 1500 calories (1800 if you are male). Since you are exercising you need to eat 2000-2500 calories, maybe more ---> This is to lose weight.

Undereating once in a blue moon isn't the worst thing in the world, but making a habit of it and doing it on days when you have exercised so vigorously is dangerous to your health.

Besides the slowing of the metabolism and other bad effects on your health in the long-term, in the short-term undereating can lead to diet frustration and binge eating as it's hard to maintain what amounts to a starvation diet - this is especially the case if you are working out and burning loads of cals!

You need to provide your body with the energy it needs.

Also, you should know that this site is not really appropriate, at this stage, for teenagers. The site tools are meant for adults, and not children. For children and teens, sites like http://www.kidsnutrition.org/ are much more appropriate.

Calorie Count's mission is to promote healthy and sustainable weight management. We will give support to teens looking to healthfully manage their weight, but we cannot and will not support undereating teens.

Why eating only 1200 calories or undereating doesn't work

http://caloriecount.about.com/wont-lose-faste r-eat-calories-q3127

In the long run, you won’t lose weight faster by eating 1200 calories a day. Under-eating deprives your body of essential nutrients and leads to muscle breakdown to provide energy. With less muscle, you require fewer calories and you reach a weight low plateau more quickly. Restrictive dieting also places you at risk for binge-eating which can lead to weigh gain and a life of yo-yo dieting.

Will I go into starvation mode if I eat 1000 – 1200 calories a day?

http://caloriecount.about.com/starvation-mode -eat-calories-q2046

Your body will not selectively burn stored fat because your central nervous system needs glucose and you can’t make glucose from fat. But protein can be converted to glucose, and so the body breaks down your muscles to provide it. Ultimately, you lose lots of muscle along with fat, and that drives down your calorie requirements because muscle burns calories but fat does not. You then maintain a higher weight on less food making weight gain inevitable.

Read these threads to see what happens when you undereat for a long-time:

• The Body Neglected - This is what happens when you undereat for an extended period of time.
• From Ask Mary, the segment provided by our CC nutritionist Mary Hartley: On the dangers of undereating and what it does to your body.

ARE YOU WILLING TO UP YOUR CALORIES???

Undereating Teens Please Read This and take heed:

The Body Neglected
Quote from this article "

"There's a narrow window of time to accrue bone mass to last a lifetime," says Diane Mickley, MD, co-president of the National Eating Disorders Association and the founder and director of the Wilkins Center for Eating Disorders in Greenwich, Conn. "You're supposed to be pouring in bone, and you're losing it instead." Such bone loss can set in as soon as six months after anorexic behavior begins, and is one of the most irreversible complications of the disease."

"But the most life-threatening damage is usually the havoc wreaked on the heart. As the body loses muscle mass, it loses heart muscle at a preferential rate -- so the heart gets smaller and weaker. "It gets worse at increasing your circulation in response to exercise, and your pulse and your blood pressure get lower," says Mickley. "The cardiac tolls are acute and significant, and set in quickly." Heart damage, which ultimately killed singer Karen Carpenter, is the most common reason for hospitalization in most people with anorexia."

OMG if you guys are right than I've been totally under-eating for the past 3 months! I've been trying to stick to a 860 calorie cause according to this show called "Cook Yourself Thin" in order to find out how many calories you need to lose weight you gotta multiply your goal weight (mines is 86) by ten (860 calories for me). No wonder it been so hard for me to stick to this!

Original Post by i_scream_for_ice_cream:

OMG if you guys are right than I've been totally under-eating for the past 3 months! I've been trying to stick to a 860 calorie cause according to this show called "Cook Yourself Thin" in order to find out how many calories you need to lose weight you gotta multiply your goal weight (mines is 86) by ten (860 calories for me). AHHH!

How short are you that your goal is 86lbs? And according to your profile, you are 14! You need to start eating healthily, and probably should go see your pediatrician. You need food to grow, both in height but also all the growth that can't be measured. Please - eat!!!!!

I'm actually 13 and about 4'10-4'11.

Even more reason - girls keep growing throughout their teens - even if you don't change in height, you'll need extra calories to develop into a woman, feed your brain (yes, your brain is still growing)...

You are eating far too little even if were you a tiny old lady.

Use the teen calorie calculators and figure out how much you should be eating, but definitely do not eat less than 1500, and probably more if you are at all active.

Thanks for the advice!  :)

yes  yes yes to all of this!

in order for your basic physiological functions to, well, function you need more than 1200 calories. think about everything your body does: cleans your blood, pumps your blood, makes your lungs breathe, heart beat etce etc !