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overweight
im a female, im 13, and im about 5'5'' and a half, and about 120 pounds.
i know im not obese, or majorly fat or anything, but am at all overweight?
i feel like i have no will power, and i eat junk, and i just plain eat all the time.
what should i do?
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you are not even kind of fat. I am the same way as you. If you have a quick matabolism, then eating like that isnt too bad. But, you should be able to tell yourself"ok just one" and stick to it. Because when you get older, your metabolism will slow down and you WILL game weight! but dont worry you arent fat at all!!!!
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No for your height, you are not overweight at all. Your weight sounds just perfect to me.
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One problem is that we, as a society, are largely sedentary. For millenia, humans have had to work, and work hard, each and every day to scrape by. People needed to eat, and often eat quite a bit, to offset the calories they often burned. Look at communities that do a large amount of physical labor, such as the Amish; they eat a TON of food, but they have to - they burn a lot of it off day in and day out. Indeed I'm sure many of my ancestors did this too, ate diets high in carbs for example, to get by. Its not that there is anything wrong with you, or anyone else! Its simply what people have done for time predating known history.
There isn't anything wrong with eating large amounts of food - a healthy appetite can be, well, healthy. If, that is, you burn it off. When people diet they end up fighting urges they cannot control - and they will often lose the battle. Not to mention refined foods and sugars that fool the body into thinking its still hungry...the more natural the foods, the less processed they are, the better.
Its much easier, and healthier, to do a bit more exercise. The more calories you burn, the better. Most people aren't very active...they sit in chairs all day (at work and school), and if they would just increase their activity level they would find weight to be less of a problem. I bet there are a lot of things you can do to burn more calories and bring yourself more in balance - hell, I hate house-cleaning but often I do it if for no other reason than its either that, or normal exercise lol. Combine that with better diet choices (less soda/sugars, more veggies) and you should do much better.
Too long of an answer I'm sure lol, but in a nutshell: it might be easier to be more active, than to fight the urge to eat. You'd freak if you knew how much I eat.
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You're not overwight not underweight. You're at the average weight for someone your age and your height. Just keep maintaining whatever you're doing.
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Your not overweight at all. Not even close. Your body fat index is 20% and thats perfet.
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Eatting all the time is a bad thing, but your not fat. Just make sure you dont just sit down everyday all day. Get up and run go outside and run. Do something fun that way you wont think of it is "working out" so much.
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Be proud of who you are and the skin your in. Your not fat, and you shouldnt think it :] Just be happy.
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your bmi is 20
you are perfect!
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Just like the person below me said, you're not overweight.
Average weight for someone who is 5'5" is 125 lbs.
So you're just fine
You may have a high metabolism and thats why you feel like you eat all the time and dont gain anything, or why you feel like youre overweight. Some people are able to eat whatever they want and maintain a normal body image.
If you dont like the way you eat all the time, then cut down. You should eat 1500-2000 calories a day with a perfect balance of sweets, carbs & proteins.
Just try and eat healthier if its really a problem for you. Do whatever you have to do to feel okay with how you look/weigh =]
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Actually, your nor fat or overweight.
here's a place to go. you just type in the information it asks you and it tells you your BMI.
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* it says you have a perfect score and you should stay how you are at a BMI of : 20
which is perfectly fine because it shouldn't be more than 24 for your body height. To be considered overweight for your height you have to be 145 pounds or more. Hope I helped. *
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