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Help me!! I need to lose weight!
I keep getting judged by my weight. I'm 12, F, and today this REALLLLLLY skinny girl compared me and my best friend.. "She's so skinny.. But like you're so big" I don't think I'm like obese or overweight, but I just hate how I look and I'm starting to think of getting anorexia.
I shouldn't loose weight just because other people want me to or other people compare me, but I want to do this for myself. I'm hopeing I get the new Wii U for Christmas so I can play Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. I know that'll help me lose weight!
Speaking of that, my brother has a Wii and I've been playing Wii Sports Resort but then yesterday he said I couldn't play it anymore.. I can bribe him, but I don't know what to do if that doesn't work.
Anyways, how do I lose weight? I want to lose like 20 pounds or maybe even 30. Well I'm sorry this is long but I'm new and yeah.. Anyways, thanks!
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Just limit yourself to 1500 calories a day until you achieve your medically prescribed ideal weight. You'll lose the weight slowly, you won't feel like you're depriving yourself and you won't experience the things people do when they try to crash diet.
Also, if you have access to a swim club, join one and swim a mile or two every day. It burns fat off of every part of your body, it tapers your body and it is low impact. Plus it will improve your cardiac health.
I've lost 60 pounds on the 1500 calories a day diet despite a sedentary job and not really getting that much exercise other than walking my dog every day.
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While exercise is always good and is recommended for everyone. Dieting at your age without your parents permission and knowledge is not good and should also be under your doctors advice.
You are 12 years old, just starting into puberty. If you do have some fat on you but not overweight this is the fat we parents call baby fat. It will disappear as your body morphs into womanhood. Your body needs this stored fat to feed the hormones that ore going to redefine your body and wake up the hormones that allow you to enter the world of being a women.
Exercising and eating properly during this time will greatly help you define your body by helping you tone and shape the women you will become. Eating properly means 3 proper meals a day with 3 proper snacks. Snacks that are healthy such as vegetables, fruits and nuts. The occasional candy bar or slice of pizza after school is okay just increase you exercises that day to account for the extra calories.
The worst thing you can do is to diet without your parents knowledge or your doctors supervision. Just because your friends are skinnier than you is not a good reason. Different bone structures determine how much weight you need to be. That is why you need to consult your doctor before and dieting starts. Only your doctor can determine what you proper weight should be.
It is for worse to 10 pounds under weight than it is to be 1q0 pounds overweight. so talk to mom and dad, eat properly and exercise. Your body will fill out over the next year or so, then you and your doctor can succeed if you need to diet. If your doctor is not telling your parent you need to diet then don't.
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Ask your parents to buy a lot of healthy food for you, and just start exercising more. Try going on walks with your dog (If you have one), walk to school instead of taking the bus. You can even walk up and down a set of stairs a few times a day. Small changes like that can go a long way.
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The best thing is to stay upbeat about youself. And to the weight loss, start running on a treadmill, or oliptical, then increase the time each day. Give yourself a reward at the end of the week non food related, to keep you motivated. Hope i helped :)
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