I'm 14, 5'3", 210lbs. I need to lose weight, I might starve myself.?

Question

I'm 14, 5'3", 210lbs. I need to lose weight, I might starve myself.?

Answer 1

First of all, starving yourself is not the answer. If you do that, you may just end up gaining more weight because your body will realize it's being starved and it'll store fat easier.



Now then. If your mom starves herself, I'm sorry for her. She must feel miserable all the time.



That being said, I have to say, I know very much how you feel. When I was 14 last summer, I was borderline obese, and it didn't help me at all going into high school. I understand how you feel and where you're coming from.



Now, you're 5'3", so your ideal weight is somewhere around 120 pounds unless you have a very slight build. Saying that you'll never be happy unless you're under 100 pounds is unreasonable. To get there, healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds a week- and don't feel bad if, sometimes, you don't lose weight, because that's healthy as well. Also count you calories while losing weight. If you're sedentary (not active/a little active) you should eat about 1700 calories a day, if you get about an hour of exercise you should eat about 2000 calories, and if you're very active (2 or more hours of exercise) you should be eating 2500 calories a day.



Cut out all soda and drinks except milk and water. You should drink 1 or 2 glasses of milk a day because you're growing (make sure it's 2%), and you should shoot for 6 glasses of water a day, 8 if you can. It's not hard if you keep drinking it, because you could be dehydrated without knowing. Water is also good because sometimes if you think you're hungry, it may just be that you're thirsty. And, make sure that you have a glass of water about 15 minutes prior to breakfast lunch and dinner- it'll decrease your appetite. Drinking water helps out your kidneys, making it to where your liver, which takes care of body fat, doesn't have to work for your kidneys, thus letting your liver work better so that it doesn't have to store fat because it can't get anything else done. Water also makes your skin look better.



As for meals, you should eat whenever your stomach starts growling and hurting. This means that you're hungry, and it's the natural cue for mealtime. In between meals when this happens, eat a piece or two of fruit, a cup of cottage cheese, a handful of nuts, or something else that's healthy. You don't need a lot because there's about four hours between meals and you won't need a lot to sustain you. At your meals, just control your portions. If you're eating macaroni and cheese, a large spoon should be enough, for example. Just pay attention to the serving sizes and how much you can eat. Do not eat fast food- it's nasty, it's terrible for your whole body, and it makes you feel slow and sluggish. You can eat a lot more of the healthy stuff than the junk food and sweets. Also, you can eat if you're hungry after dinner. A midnight snack is fine as long as it's healthy- you won't gain weight if it's a grapefruit, but beware if it's a cupcake!



Also, you should be getting an hour's worth of exercise a day.I'd recommend jogging, since it gets rid of fat on your entire body instead of a particular area, but if you're not up for that at the moment, start with brisk walking. If you live in the city, try walking a block twice, or if you live in the country walk a block once. Join a school sport, buy a bike and ride it around, play with the family dog, go out and swim, whatever is fun and works for you. If you keep making yourself do this, you'll come to find that it's really fun to be outside and have a good time while getting exercise. If you're doing something you think is boring, like walking, get an iPod and listen to music while you're on the treadmill. Just stay active. And remember this: What someone says is a great workout for them may not work or work the same for you. Jogging, playing basketball, and riding my bike are great workouts for me, but they may not work the same for you because you're not me- maybe swimming, volleyball and yoga work better for you. What I'm trying to say is you need to find what works best for you and your interests.



Remember, there's no shortcuts to a healthier body. Starving yourself begins to work until you kill yourself, diet pills work until you stop taking them, and fad diets work until you decide you're fine without them. The best way to lose weight (and be a healthy person) is to live a healthy lifestyle.



Good luck. If you want to lose weight, you can.

Answer 2

As a mommy of 3 girls, and a former obese person, I am here to tell you a simple theory. You can spend all the money you want on diets or gym memberships, starve yourself, hate yourself, binge and purge, long to look like girls on the magazine covers, whatever - but what it all boils down to is that you have to Eat Less and Move More. Yes, you are obese and need to lose weight. There is no miracle cure or diet that will make you skinny. You don't have to deprive yourself, you simply have to eat less food. Put down the fork before your plate is empty. Don't go for second helpings. Stay away from fast food. These are simple things you can easily do. You don't have to run marathons, you simply have to increase your activity level. Walk up stairs instead of taking the elevator. Turn on music and dance in your room. Talk a walk and look at your neighborhood. While you are on the phone do exercises or chores. Get sweaty once in a while. Nobody can do this stuff for you. If your intake of food is less than your output of energy, weight can not stay on your body. There's no blaming metabolism or family history for keeping you overweight. You never saw any fat people in concentration camps. Every bite you take(or don't) is your choice. Every opportunity to burn some calories is your choice. It is a simple equation and you can definitely do it. The excess weight you carry won't be off in three weeks, but you will see gradual progress if you eat less and move more. You can live the whole rest of your life at a healthy weight if you learn to do this right now. Good luck.

Answer 3

time to hit the gym...eat smaller portions, its not as hard as you think, its all in your head. do you really want to change? suck it up and get some will power. most of us have had some sort of weight problem or not been in the best of shape all our lives, its what you do with yourself when you hit rock bottom. wake up tomorro, eat fruit, veggies, and do not eat afet 8 oclock at night. DO IT FOR YOURSELF, NOT FOR EANYONE ELSE, THTS THE ONLY wAY YOU wILL SUCCEED!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 4

don't starve yourself, eat healthier, less, and exercise

Answer 5

Don't starve yourself, that is bad for your organs! Exercise by running and stuff or you can join a sport whether your good or not it doesn't matter. But you should feel comfortable in your skin. You need to accept yourself for how you look. Be greatful.

Answer 6

Don't starve yourself, because that makes your hungry and you end up eating more. And being constantly unhappy because you are always hungry makes you more likely to overeat. If you obsessed with being seriously underweight, you have a problem. Try to get counseling because you can easily develop an eating disorder. In fact, you probably already have one in the form of overeating.



You can't stay at a healthy weight if you are constantly dieting. In fact, constant diets are more dangerous than being consistently overweight and people usually end up weighing more in the end.



A reasonable weight for you would be 114-151, depending on your bones. This is based on how long people live, see the link below. Try eating six small meals a day instead of three large ones. That way you only have to go a couple of hours without eating. Reduce your sugars and fats. Do moderate exercise every day, even if it's walking a mile. (That's about 20 minutes of walking.) Try to do at least five minutes of activity that makes your heart race a couple of times a day.

Answer 7

ya definitely dont starve yourself. lose weight the healty way. go to the gym and work out. actually, you dont even have to go to the gym, you can plan a workout routine at home! run at home and do some exercises indoors! good luck and hope this helped!

Answer 8

Yikes, it sounds like your whole family has issues with food. You poor thing, no wonder you're worried about your weight with the way you've grown up. Please take care of your body and love it and cherish it. Feed it and nourish it. Look in the mirror and say something nice to yourself every day to combat the negative messages you are hearing from your aunt and others. Starving yourself is not the way to go, as you probably learned from your sister. 5'3" and under 100 pounds is gross. No one wants to see a walking skeleton. Whoever that guy is who picks on you is either an asshole or he likes you, or both.

Answer 9

Brightly coloured turmeric not merely makes your curries taste fab, nevertheless it contains curcumin, an active ingredient that breaks down high-protein dishes, burns fat in addition to holds back the growth connected with new fat tissue, according towards Journal of Nutrition.

Answer 10

well.....first of all, let's look at your BMI. according to your height and weight, your BMI (body mass index) is 37.2

the BMI ranges are as follows:

Underweight : <18.5

Normal : 18.5 to 24.9

Overweight : 25 to 29.9

Obese class I : 30.0 to 34.9

Obese class II : 35.0 to 39.9

Obese class III : > or = 40.0

I wouldn't recommend you to starve yourself because when you don't eat, you tend to eat A LOT when u get the chance to. Dieting is not a good nor healthy option either, so let's rule that out too.

What I would tell you to do, would be to exercise and eat healthy food. If you love cheese, butter, hamburgers, red or lean meat, or any other stuff that make you gain weight, either stop eating them or reduce the amount of intake each day to help you reduce your weight.

I'll tell you about my experience from about one year ago. I wasn't overweight, but i had to trim down a lot to get into the perfect shape. So, I started using the AB-Lounger, doing about 500 sit-ups per day, and later on, i moved on to 1000 per day. It takes no more than 1 to 2 hours if you do it while watching TV. Along with the exercise, i used to eat salads (with a wee-bit of pa-meson cheese :) lol ), drink lots of juice, and other healthy stuff that made me feel full. And guess what?!?! I went from a size 4 to a size 0!! woohoo!! the shocking part is that i did this for only 2 and a 1/2 months!!

Try it coz i think it'll definitely work on you too. u just need to have the commitment and dedication. learn to love your body and try to do good to it. let me know if i helped :) (oh, and dont pay heed to those ppl who say tht u shouldnt be worried about how fat or thin u r at 14, because it makes a big difference. and dont worry if any kid in ur skool makes funn of u. all u say is "it can b u tomorrow". tht'll put 'em in line ) <333 gud luk!!

Answer 11

Well I go to the gym but If you're not comfortable then I would get the workout machines @ home and try some exercise videos......There is also Curves which is a Women Only gym with women of all shapes & sizes.....I joined when I was 10 but now I go to a Community gym! =) Hope this helps!

Answer 12

Mustard is a secret bulge-buster. The idea boosts your metabolism and boosts natural ephadrine, the hormone in which burns fat. According to Jeya Henry, professor of human nutrition from Oxford Brookes University, just a tablespoon as part of your food can reduce a flabby waist by 20 %!

Answer 13

America's foods are very high in fat unlike us Asian people. So, to lose weight without starving yourself, you have to balance all your favorite foods into 3 groups. Slow carbs, Fast carbs, and Protein. Mostly everyone says that carbs make you fat but thats just part of it. You don't have to give up your favorite foods.... you just have to know HOW TO EAT them.



Ok, so.... lets say you have steak. That's protein. You need just two more foods that have SLOW carbs and FAST carbs. Like pasta is a slow carb, and sweets or desserts is fast carb. When you eat all those 3 type without dieting or starve, you'll lose weight. But, before you eat these..... just in case... do as many jumping-jacks or any other excercises as you can to boost up losing-weight... also.... this is not a diet.. something called metabolism?

Answer 14

Go bland. Plain, straightforward, unseasoned food such as smoked chicken, plain rice and a bare baked potato are nutritious your palette will tire of all of them quickly, unlike salty moreish highly processed food, which keeps you snacking and piling within the pounds.

Answer 15

plant or weed a garden or care for indoor plants

Answer 16

Believe in yourself. How often have you shown admiration for someone and their achievements then instantly thought, ‘I’d love to accomplish this, but I just can’t. ’ Don’t limit your achievements from your thoughts. You can do whatever you want to do.

Answer 17

Brightly coloured turmeric not solely makes your curries taste fab, however it contains curcumin, an active ingredient that fights high-protein dishes, burns fat along with holds back the growth of new fat tissue, according for the Journal of Nutrition.

Answer 18

take a break from blue moon belgian white a 164 calorie treat and grab a miller genuine draft which is only 64 cals

Answer 19

There is this old trick, but it works! BUT I dont think you can do it. This trick was used a long time ago and I know people doing it before new years as we speak. What you do is dont eat for 5-7 days and only drink lemonade when hungry. Water is ok when thirsty. No Juice! or Milk. JUST WATER



Or you can run 2 miles every other day and eat ONLY 1700 calories per day.



Good Luck

Answer 20

odds are you re eating too fast try holding a conversation while having a meal so you re not gulping down more than you need to feel full

Answer 21

strap a parachute to your back and spend 30 minutes skydiving over the volcanoes in tongariro national park new zealand

Answer 22

Mixing up your exercise routine

Answer 23

don t save calories up to splurge on junk

Answer 24

stand while waiting for a train

Answer 25

Daily excercise is the key

Answer 26

eat watermelon