Question Posted Monday September 15 2014, 11:01 am
Okay so I'm fourteen, 5'3 (or 5'2 or 5'4.. Not sure), and I weigh between 120 to 130 pounds.
So I was overweight in elementary school. Is it possible to still have that fat? I'm in ninth grade. I lost weight from eating healthily in sixth and seventh grade, but I may have gained some pounds. I'm not happy with all the fat on my stomach and face.
Okay, so my stomach is like huge. All my weight goes there somehow. It scares me because it makes me somehow believe I could've got pregnant (I know... But what if some guys' pants got to my front area while he bumped into me or something?). It scares me. And when I sit down, I have like 3 rolls and it's embarrasing. There's 2 big ones and one small one. I'm able to suck in my stomach to make it not noticeable, but I hate having to do that. What can I do? I've been eating so much healthier lately, doing jumping jacks, sit ups, lunges, etc.
adviceman49 answered Tuesday September 16 2014, 11:21 am: Continue to eat healthy and exercise so that your weight remains appropriate for your height and age. The excess fat as you call it may not be fat at all but excess skin.
When we are overweight our skin stretches to accommodate the weight gain. Depending on how much you were overweight, how long you were overweight and how quickly you lost that weight, your skin may not have shrunk back. It may not ever shrink back depending on the variables I mentioned.
As long as you remain in the puberty years this is not something to worry about as you are still growing and as you gain height that excess skin will be stretched to cover the growth. Puberty ends in general between a person’s 18th and 20 something birthday, usually before age 25.
Once you reach age 18 you can talk to a plastic surgeon about a tummy tuck to remove the excess skin. If the surgeon feels you are finished with puberty they will perform the operation. In general with the exception of a nose job plastic surgeons will not perform elective surgery on people under 18 or between 18 and 21 depending on how they stand with puberty.
What is important now and for the next 4 years is to eat healthy and exercise. By the way the only way you can get pregnant is through sexual intercourse which is a male' penis goes inside your vagina an ejaculates sperm. Bumping you cannot make you pregnant. [ adviceman49's advice column | Ask adviceman49 A Question ]
ammo answered Tuesday September 16 2014, 3:35 am: What you eat makes up a majority of a healthy lifestyle, the remaining being exercise. Although you have been eating healthy and exercise this could simply be a matter of youo being young and still developing. Your body is still changing and developing and so the changes in your bodys motabolism as well as other changes in your body could be what are affecting things but on this I am uncertain. Maintain a healthy eating habit and exercise and you will eventually start to see changes but it may also be advisable to speak to your GP/doctor as well as they can always advise on whether the reason you are not noticing anything is to do with what I said or there is something else that is going on.
I tried to contact a PT (personal trainer) that I know to ask his input on this for you and once I hear back from him I will try and update my answer with any new information he is able to provide as well including any advice he is able to offer what may help. [ ammo's advice column | Ask ammo A Question ]
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