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How can I get skinny and stay skinny?
I'm 5'4" and 163-167 pounds (i vary per time of day, lol). And im not liking that. i mean i'd rather be 5'8", and im still hoping that will somehow happen even though im 15. my parents are 5'9" and up, and my sister is 5'11" so i'll be pissed if i stay this height forever. what can i do to grow taller, naturally, btw?
anyways thats not my main question (though i'd still like that to be answered. the height thing) as of right now, i want to be 105-110 pounds. 170-110 = 60. so i have to lose around 60 pounds. how do i do that? like i go on some websites like lookbook.nu and im like how do they get so skinny! i used to not even be fat, but we just had to move to america, the land of big portions (we used to live in the uk) which made my family gain weight in general. my mom goes to the gym now and has lost like over 20 pounds. but we cant afford for me to go so im stuck at home. i also have medical reasons to lose weight, im at risk for diabetes cause its hereditary. like my grandpa had a slight version of it but beat it by switching to a healthier lifestyle. like he still has it but its not as bad as it could have been. im black and from an african family.. so like we make food really flavorful and stuff too. but i dont know how to do portions, when in the day i should eat, how to stop cravings, when to exercise, how to exercise, which stretches to do.. and all that. i play volleyball but the season starts after summer. i dont want to waste my summer slopping around. its july 20 and school starts on september 1st or like a few days after. how much weight can i lose from now to then, and what should i do? i hope this also correlates to how i can grow taller too. obviously being 5'8", it would be fine to be a few more pounds higher than in the 100s-110s cause i'd still look skinny. tall people get all the luck. im so mad cause i got my period at age 10 and i've been 5'4" since 5th grade. but it just doesnt make sense, coming from a pretty tall family, unless i just got the sucky short genes. i hate other people growing taller than me and i dont want to wear heels all the time. like i joke about it sometimes but its a big insecurity. especially w/ volleyball. like i am an Outside hitter but i worry about college since like obviously a 6 foot 3 girl would be able to block me easily, though i do fine now because i can jump high. i miss being one of the tall kids in elementary school.. like now in high school everyone is growing taller than me and its just like ughghghghe9u390r. i dont care when people are like "your able to choose from more boys" like wtf there are tall boys too! thats just a BS way to make someone feel better.
what do i want to be? tall and skinny. like i need a recipe site too or something.. i dont know when to eat or when to exercise too. or even what types of foods i should be eating everyday too. like im sure im not doing the food pyramid right. but it just seems like so much food. like lately i havent been eating much cause i just havent been hungry but sometimes i do binges. like yesterday i ate a whole box of crackers i opened w/o asking my mom and just read the calories. its almost 1,500 calories! i felt horrible and then didnt eat dinner. i havent eaten dinner lately either cause i dont want to eat cocoyams and spinach. like i'd rather have pizza or pasta. and im lazy to warm it up in the microwave. but i know its bad to like starve myself sometimes like that cause then i end up binging and like my body would absorb more of the food i eat. the main thing is exercising i guess. like crap. i need to be practicing running for vball tryouts but i only did it once this summer like by myself in my neighborhood. its so hard to go out there. i dont have an ipod which would be really helpful.
please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh yeah by doing what you tell me to do, how much weight could i lose in about 42 days, aka 4 weeks?
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Okay so. In terms of height, there's nothing you can do to make yourself taller. Obviously you can wear heels to give the appearance that you're taller, but that's really the only thing. Since you're only fifteen you very well may grow taller, females don't stop going through puberty until nineteen or so. As for weight. Supposedly it's healthy to lose about a pund and a half a week, but I think it's fine to lose about three or so. Which means in four weeks you could lose twelve pounds. Probably not as many as you wanted to lose in time for school, but weight loss is a long process. There aren't really any shortcuts to losing weight. There are a lot of diet pills out there but a lot of them don't even work. The bes things to focus on are exercising and healthy eating. You don't have to go to a gym to lose weight because there are a lot of exercises you can do at home. First, cardio workout tapes are great if you want to be able to watch something and be instructed how to do everything. Depending on what kind you get, they can be fairly cheap. There are a lot of things you can do that are a great way to work out but will still feel fun, like going for a bike ride, playing a sports game with friends, walking a dog, swimming, or going skating. There are lots of small things you can do every day that will provide you with more exercise as well. Take the steps instead of the elevator. Ride your bike instead of riding in a car. Another thing that will really help you lose weight is strength training. Muscles help inrease your metabolism, which in turn helps you lose fat. You can do strength training at home with weights. If you type in strength exercises at home into google it will come up with a large list of sites with different strength exercises, both with weights and without. As for eating. Its best to eat three meals a day, and two snacks. A trick with food is to eat until you're satisfied, not until you're full. Eliminate extra calories from your diet by replacing soda and juice with water, and cutting desserts and junk foods and fast food down to one or two days a week. Carbohydrates like pastas and breads are okay to eat, just not every day. Snack on healthy foods like peanuts, pretzels, and low butter popcorn. Make a fruit smoothie for breakfast instead of having sugary cereal. If you work out often and eat healthy you should be able to lose weight, but it will take time for results to show and for you to lose the amount of weight you want. Don't give up and your hard work will pay off. Let me know if you have any more questions. Good luck :)
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