Should early teens be worried about their weight?

Question

I feel fat. I am always called snacker in the hallways because that's one of my usernames. I don't know if they really think I'm fat or if it is just a joke. Everyone including my friends are really skinny, under 120 pounds. I weigh 146 pounds, I am 5 foot 2, and I am not confident in my body. Someone please help me with my confidence and learning to love my body. I am a 13 year old girl and I know I'm still growing. I don't want to develop obesity or diabetes when I grow up. I need to get better eating habits. I am a vegetarian which is hard so I often eat junk food and desserts. I have more sugar than I am supposed to daily. How can I loose weight fast and be confident and stop bad eating habits.

Answer 1

Worrying about weight when you're overweight is fine, but excessive worrying isn't. Ask yourself whether you're doing something to be healthy or whether you're doing something to be thin. The first is fine, the second is not.



Veganism is also no excuse for eating junkfood and desserts. How do you think vegan monks in East-Asia were fit enough to practise their martial arts all these centuries? They certainly didn't have access to junkfood.



As for healthy diets:

I don't know if you still eat eggs or not, but if you do, you could make two-ingredient banana pancakes for breakfast (just Google for the recipe). If you don't eat eggs, then just eat the banana and add an apple too. Or eat two different types of fruits instead.

Then for lunch, have a pasta salad. Throw in some tofu for protein, if you like.

For dinner, rice (or potato, if you prefer that) and beans (for protein), and then some other vegetables (the more variety of different types you include, the better).

Answer 2

I think this is a question for your parents and your doctor. It's not good for a young teen to obsess about weight and particularly to obsess about dieting, but you are overweight. If your doctor is concerned about your weight maybe you can get a referral to a dietician or nutritionist to help figure it out.

Answer 3

Drink lots of water, eat green vegetables and take a brisk 1/2-hr walk twice/day.

Answer 4

Well...... the only thing you can do about this is find out what JUNK FOOD is and get it out of your diet. If you're overweight, you got that from eating junk which is all around you.



If you want the science on this, get a copy of "Fat Chance" on Amazon books. It will define JUNK and how it works and what it does to your insides. It will tell you what to stop eating. And it also has some truths about all this exercise kids think will burn off the junk food they eat - it won't.