Is it because I like eating cereal, bread, and cheese?
like I had yesterday
breakfast: kashi cereal, hood whole milk, banana
lunch : two slices of pizza ( college campus) plus Powerade
yoga class, 1 and 15 mins
dinner: chicken sausage w bulkie roll, green beans. Cranberry juice.
You're still young, so should he able to make small changes to diet and/or exercise to help.
If that's a typical diet per day for you, yeah- start there. Get rid of the cereal, pizza, roll and sugary drinks (including cranberry juice).
I'm 51, 6'-0", hover around 200- 15-20lbs above being athletically fit (did an Ironman at that 185 weight), 5-10 above being more healthy (I'm carrying flab).... Based on my own experience for my body, not an online chart.
I've tried to eat balanced and healthy for a while...havent really exercised regularly for almost 15 years, although I walk a lot and use a bicycle to commute (10ish minutes), so I'm not completely sedentary (been jogging 6ish miles with friends once every week or two for the last few months). My weight has basically stabilized at this +10-15 lbs state for the last 15 years.
Breakfast- non-fat yogurt, banana or kiwi, coffee
Snack- handful of almonds
Lunch- salad w protein (usually chicken), or occasional grain bowl, cookie (I should be ditching the cookie)
Snack- almonds or other nuts or carrots
Dinner- random. Should be cutting down portion size, but basically whatever. I don't go crazy with carbs, but do add a desert...which, again, I should be ditching or having less regularly.