How much will i lose if i only eat

just plain salad is not a balanced diet, you NEED protien, and just salad doesnt give youa varity of nutrients, you could become malnurished... eat some chicken or eggs, add nuts to your salad and add more veggies like peppers and carrots and tomatos

Guys, we need to be reporting these people who are underage and trying to starve themselves. They should not be on here getting ideas on how to starve themselves further. It's not healthy, and they need to be getting advice from professionals, not us.

Agreed, but we were all, regardless of age, in his shoes. Really uneducated of our diets, how food worked, what calories were in what, etc. The OP probably just needs the basic guidance through diets and he'll be straightened out. I don't think he's looking for ways, or excuses, to starve himself. As he said, he's eating pizza and chicken nuggets. He is eating. Just not the right stuff. He's merely trying to figure out why he's not losing weight from what he's eating. Clearly its the pizza and chicken nuggets and there's probably some soda in there too.

Let's help him out, and not deride him for taking the time to learn about his diet.

You say eat a lot of food, but food isn't measured in volume, it is measured in calories.

You say you aren't hungry so you aren't starving, we are not disagreeing with you, we are saying your body is in a state of starvation, the symptoms of this are not necessarily hunger.

You are on a low calorie diet. Low calorie diets put your body into what is called "starvation mode". This doesn't mean that you are are starving of hunger and feel very hungry. It is state your body goes into where it thinks it is starving because of how few calories it is getting. Since it isn't getting enough energy it starts reducing the functions of your organs (like your brain!) so they use less energy. Then it also starts to consume your muscles as fuel.

So by eating about 700 calories, your body goes into starvation mode. The few calories you do give it are either used up as energy or stored as fat (yes, your body can turn lettuce into fat.).

What you are doing is not healthy. Let me describe in simple terms how the body works and what you want to do lose weight (because you know what you are doing isn't working, that's why you are here).

The body needs energy to function. The measure of this energy is called calories. For you body to operate properly (functioning organs, muscle and tissue repair, growth) it has a certain necessary requirement, called a base metabolic rate (BMR). If you did nothing but sit and breath all day, your body would expend your BMR of calories.

Every form of exercise you do during the day consumes more calories. That how your muscle work, they burn calories to produce motion (just like a car burn gas to move). If you have an sedentary lifestyle where you don't much strenuous activity you still have to factor in the energy burnt from daily activities. You take those calories and add it to your BMR, that gives you your total daily energy requirement (TDEE). Your TDEE is how many calories you need to consume to have a well functioning body and maintain your current weight. Find out your TDEE here: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html

Now that you know your TDEE you can easily find out how many calories you need to consume to lose weight. Subtract 500 calories from your TDEE and you will lose 1 lbs per week.

For example:
If your TDEE is 2000 calories and you eat 2500 calories, you will gain 1 lbs a week. This because there are 3500 calories in 1 lbs of fat. (500 x 7 days = 3500) The excess calories you put in your body gets converted to fat for storage.

If your TDEE is 2000 calories and you eat 2000 calories, you will maintain your current weight.

If your TDEE is 2000 calories and you eat 1500, you will have created a deficit of 500 calories. Your body will make up that deficit by burning fat and you will lose 1bs/week. That is how a healthy functioning body works and loses weight

If you create too much of a deficit, you body goes into starvation mode and everything changes. Furthermore, the more muscle you have, the higher BMR you will have, and by being in starvation mode you lose muscle and lower you BMR even more. So you want to start eating more and doing exercise to build some muscle.

Now that you know all this, your next step is to learn how to eat right and what to eat. Just salad and 2 WW burgers won't cut it!