I'm 10 years old, but 130 pounds. Am I overweight or fat?
I would not do drastic changes without consulting a doctor.That said, if you are overweight, it means your current diet is not optimal for your body. There are a few changes you can do that are very safe and easy. You don't provide much detail in your post, so I can only make assumptions.First, what do you normally drink? I know at your age I drank lots of sodas. One single can of soda has more sugar than an adult male should consume in an entire day. All the extra sugar just gets stored as fat. Consider drinking water instead. Not juice, not diet soda, just plain water.I also had candy and desert every chance I got. Consider skipping the desert or having some fruit instead.Many kids avoid vegetables. I know kids that have never had a salad until they were 20. Ideally one should eat vegetables in every single meal.Those are weight loss 101 tips. Those are low risk things you can do. No doctor will advice against those things. What you don't want to do is stop eating and starve yourself to lose weight. Not only it's not effective, but it is flat out dangerous. This is really where you want professional help.You are about to go through puberty, this makes it very easy for you to slim down, but you do need to improve your habits.Losing weight and keeping it off is hard work. It will mean permanent changes to your lifestyle. Changing any habit is hard work. You might read the advice above and think it would be to hard to do. The good news is that you get used to it. If you were to start today, a month from now it would be second nature to you.
My little sister is only 11 and 6 pounds underweight?
start feeding her high carb foods. and give her a tub of ice cream. tell her to eat it. and if she really moves a lot. take her to the moves or something and let her eat popcorn and drink soda. its the only way of getting chubbier. but some people are built like that. no matter what they eat or how much they eat they just cant gain any fat because their metabolism is severely high and naturally too.
My little sister is being bullied because of her weight?
So my little sister is 12, and she's not by any mean overweight at all. She actually was underweight for a while and we've finally got her up to a good weight. She can fit into a small at Abercrombie! I mean come on.. Anyway, about a week or so ago she came home crying because her friends told her that she's getting to fat and that the boy she has a crush on said she looked like football player. They said that she needs to lose a little weight if she wants to keep hanging out with them. I guess they're all obsessed with this book called "the clique" ? Anyone know anything about it? Anyway, she's told me that she needs to go on a diet. I told her that she's doesn't at all. She didn't believe me and for the past few days she's been not eating a lot. It scares me. I told my mom and she had a talk with her, but I don't think it helped. Then today she left her facebook page on, and on almost every one of her pictures, her so-called friends were saying things like "Fatty" or "Jackie you really need to lose weight" even her best friend said "Fat a*s cow." I feel terrible for her. And now her friends having started changing it! They'll text her things like "Jackie I heard you slept with 3 guys you whore." Another was again from her best friend " Jackie, No guy would ever want you, your to much of a fat slut" What can I do? She won't leave them either. I guess they're the "popular" group at her middle school and she has it in her head that if she's not in they're group then she won't be happy. I guess her goal is to lose 30lbs by the end of summer. What should I do or say? Any advice?
My little sister is getting fat (read description?)?
My little sister is becoming overweight. She is in 1st grade. I struggled with my weight until about 10th grade. At that point, I was 5'6" and about 155 lbs. I am now a senior, and have changed my habits so its really not an issue any more. However, it really caused me to lose a large part of my childhood I think. I wasn't by any means obese. I was, and still am, on an elite swim team, exercising 14 hours/ week. A large part of that 155 was muscle, but my eating habits were very poor. It caused to me be extremely self conscious. I didn't want to wear bikinis, and I felt like I couldn't really be stylish because a lot of those clothes were unflattering. I wasn't confident, and I didn't like to eat junk food in public because I was afraid people would judge. To make it worse, my little sister, (not the 1st grader) who was 1.5 years younger than me, was stick skinny. That's what I was being compared to. I don't know how to explain it... I just feel like it was such a negative factor to so many aspects of my life. I do not want my youngest sister to grow up like this. My parents don't listen/ don't believe me when I tell them she is gaining weight quickly. I know she's young, and its not really fair to judge her body, but you can definitely see it coming on. Neither of my parents are "fat" at all, but my mom was overweight when she was younger. How can I help my little sister to overcome this gene? Is there anything I can do? Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
My brother always calls me fat an ugly but now also my little sister?
Okay I'm 19 years old I'm use to being called ugly and fat by both my mom and brother yeah they think it's normal and such. ( then my mom wonders why i have such low self esteem) I don't dress myself up most of the time cause sometimes i think "why even bother I'm fat and ugly" I'm currently in the overweight category i want to lose 50 pounds. But anyway I'm changing so I now try to put some effort into my looks. But see now the problem is that my mom and brother bring down but also my sister she 10 years old and overweight, and I can tell it affects her and I would hate for her self esteem to go the same as me. I know my sister will eventually lose weight. I'm taking two PE classes. I lost some weight already. As i was losing weight my brother makes comments like said something that hit me "Ha even if you lose weight your ugliness will still be with you" ....I don't know why is he such a jerk. But then he said something that brought me even more down "my friends agree that your ugly" and i have not one ounce of doubt about it that his friends have indeed said that. By the way he is 18 years old.
My boyfriend called my sister fat?
So I texting my boyfriend today about how I was giving my sister piggyback rides in my pool(long story lol) and he texted me back saying "omg your back must hurt so much! That's terrible cause your sisters big" my sisters a bit overweight and she's 10 and it kills me cause I feel like eating helps her cope(my mom died a few years ago) So when he said this I was in complete shock. It really hurt because my sisters my best friend and we've been through everything together. But I've been with my boyfriend for almost a year and I really do love him. But I love my family too. He even makes fun of my dad a lot(cause my dad won't accept him) what should I do?!? I wanna stay with him but my family is everything to me.
Is it wrong to not allow your overweight teen with a gut to wear crop tops in public? Why or why not?
When I was about 14 or 15, I was given panty girdles and told to wear them to “stop looking so fat”. I wasn’t actually fat, I now know - I had some teenage chubbiness and my boobs were huge for somebody as short as I. This led to years of low self-esteem, affected me socially and emotionally throughout my life. I’m now 60 years old and have a great figure for my age. I’ve never actually been “fat”, I was slightly overweight as a teenager for a couple of years - that was it! However, other people interfering in what I was to wear and telling me I was overweight resulted in me suffering from an eating disorder (mild anorexia) for many years and I never really got the message that I’m not fat until about my mid-forties.Be very careful in what you say to an overweight teenager - it can cause a lifetime of damage, socially, emotionally, psychologically, and even physically. I understand you being concerned about wearing crop tops, but if you would allow the crop top for a girl of that age who was slim, you should allow it for a girl who may be overweight.The most important thing you could do right now is to boost her confidence and let her know that the opinions of those who judge you on what you look like are not worth considering. People come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours - teach her to embrace her individuality and let her know that she’s worth a million whatever she wears. It’s her personality and character that are the most important things, not what she looks like - she should be taught to value herself and know that she IS beautiful.