So, I'm 17M, and I've been trying to lose weight for a little while (I'm trying to get from ~75kg to ~60kg, and then work on gaining a bit more muscle from there. However, despite my best efforts, I just can't seem to lose anything.
I run ~5km most days (split into one ~1k run before I eat breakfast, one ~2k run before dinner, and another ~2k before I wind down for the day) and do 30-45 crunches before bed (2 or 3 sets of 15). My regime has changed a bit over the years (I used to do an hour on an exercise bike most nights, but that stopped after the bike broke), but I'm adhering to it well almost every day, having just added the second run in a couple of weeks ago, and planning to increase the distance a little more when I can manage it. Normally, I'll play basketball for an hour or two with my friends every weekend as well. In addition, I walk almost everywhere I go - on school days, this amounts to something like 4km.
I think my diet is pretty decent. For breakfast, I almost always have a bowl of malt wheats with a banana chopped up on top (occasionally I have eggs on toast, or pancakes when my family is celebrating something, but this doesn't happen often enough to include it as routine).
My lunch most days consists of a sandwich (usually either ham, cheese and light mayo or cheese and plum chutney), sometimes with a small bag of crisps when we have prawn cocktail in the house, and usually with an apple. Once or twice a week I'll take advantage of my free periods in school to eat out with my friends; this is normally something from the fish and chips shop (I'm not going to say it's healthy, but it's one of the better chippies with very little grease and pretty good ingredients, and I normally only get a small burger and small chips) or occasionally McDonald's, but this is a very long walk for us so we don't go there as often (maybe once or twice a month).
Dinner depends on what my mum wants to cook, but I'd say it's pretty good stuff; chicken and rice with vegetables, pasta bolognese with lean meat, the occasional homemade pizza, and the like. Almost all of it is homemade, and I think my mum is pretty good with making sure we use healthy ingredients.
As for drinks, I have a lot of water and tea throughout the day (I'd say 3-4 pints of water and 4 cups of tea in any particular day). During the week, I have a few cans of low sugar soda, but I don't normally have more than one in a day. I've been drinking them a lot less often than I used to, and I hope to try and reduce the number even more in the future.
I'm fully aware that my lifestyle isn't perfect, but it's really demoralising to see the scale remain almost the same despite my hard work (a year ago, I would probably get tired just thinking about running 5km in a day). What I want to know is: is this something that will be solved as I increase my running distance and overall exercise level as I plan to, or will I have to start making major changes to my diet and lifestyle?
Edit: I should probably mention that almost all of my dinners are eaten with a good helping of salad: usually lettuce, cucumber, and tomato, and sometimes with peppers or other additions. In fact, I normally finish off whatever salad is left after my evening exercise, since I enjoy it, it's healthy, it cuts down on waste and it makes it easier to sleep than on an empty stomach.
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