"Almost There" Accountability Group for Teens

Hey!  This is my first time back on the YCC in a while, but I'd love to create an accountability group for people who are >10 pounds from their goal.  We can have exercise challenges too!  Is anyone interested?  Just post your stats.

Name: Okie

HT: 5'6"

CW: 120

GW: 113

Age: 15

WOWZAHS, Lea!  Well, so far, you've won the competition. :) Let's wait another day or so to see if anyone else posts, but I think you've got it pretty much wrapped up.  =D Congrats!

xoxoxo Okie

*Sigh.* Okay, guys, here's my little dealy-o right now.  Feel free to skip this post if you don't want to listen to my rant.  

[Rant] Okay, so right now I am just kind of recovering from the weekend madness of cheating.  I tend to do this every weekend, but I've noticed that the amount of calories I consume on my cheat days have gone down drastically because choosing healthy options is more of a habit now than a chore.  But that's not the point.  This may sound sneaky or bad or like I am anorexic (which I'm NOT) or whatever, but my parents are on to me.  Yup, they don't know that I have been dieting.  So basically I had to totally eat fatty foods by the gallon this weekend to prove to them that I wasn't anorexic (they are extremely suspicious; here what they'd say: "uh-oh...you're dieting...you must be starving yourself!").  Believe me, I definitely did not want to.  I'd been doing so well for the entire week!  So now I am actually afraid to diet and exercise, but I want to so so so so so so so badly.  You have no idea.  I have never wanted to count calories more than I want to now, but now I can't.  So basically when I'm in my parents' presence right now, I have to eat fatty foods like a maniac--and then starve when they're not there in a desperate attempt to stay around my calorie range.  I hate it, and I wish they would just understand!  But they won't.  They think that I am starving myself, which I am NOW only because they are pressuring me into eating poorly otherwise.  Maybe I'm not explaining this well enough, but if you don't get it, feel free to ask.  If you do, is there any advice you can give?  I want to count calories!  And it's not just to be skinny--that was my old goal.  My new goal is just to be fit!  But I can't. :( Any advice? [/Rant]

xoxoxo Okie

Bump. Please?  I need help. :(

xoxoxo Okie

I would tell your parents, that satistics say the healthier you eat and are the less likely you are to get high blood pressure, diseases and etc.

That also includes exercise.

Have you tried to sit them down and just tell them that you want to be healthy for you, you are tired of eating empty foods, foods that give you face ache, bloat, headaches, makes your mood bad? Indeed eating refined sugar can make you depressed, angry etc. It also can give you headaches. So if you find all this online by researching it you can print it out and show to them that you want to be HEALTHY, and fit.

Hi Okie,

If it helps, my parents were completely supportive of my new diet/exercise lifestyle... until I hit about 132lbs. They started worrying and making comments about how I was getting really thin, and there were even one or two questions about whether or not I was eating! I finally just decided to sit down with them and show them what I'd been doing online - CC, my weigh-in group - everything. Instead of being freaked out and upset, they realized that I really DID know what I was doing. When I showed them my food log and some of the research about the # of calories I should eat to healthily lose, they became much more comfortable with my dieting. They could see that I wasn't starving myself and that I really WAS getting enough to eat. Since then, they've been great about trying to provide me with healthier alternatives and my mom always makes sure that there's something that fits into my diet for dinner. Sometimes, she or my dad will even go work out with me. (They're both moderately overweight.. but they're just wonderful about my dieting.)

It was kind of frustrating, especially because I have a sister about 2'' taller than I am who is 5lbs thinner (which classifies her as underweight), and she can eat pretty much whatever she wants with no exercise, and they don't question her health. With me, i'm practicing good nutrition and being very very careful to get enough calories, and I end up being the one to get questioned.

At the end of the day, your parents love you and they just want to protect you. When you're involved in something that could potentially be dangerous or could create a problem, their natural reaction is to pull you out of it. My best advice would be to sit down and show them your food log and a lot of what you have done. When they see that you're being a responsible, nutritious dieter, they're likely to try and help you succeed in that. Tell them you want their help - that you want to "become healthier" rather than "become thinner" (though the weightloss is certainly a perk..) Allow them to check up on you if they feel like they need to. Do everything you can to make them comfortable with the idea.

Its so much easier when you feel like you don't have to hide it. Your parents should be the people you rely on, not the ones you avoid. Hope that helps, and good luck!! :)

~Heather~ 

Lol, Lea, you kicked my butt on the workout stuff! :D Way to go, you!!!

I ended up with:

2 formal workouts, 90 mins each (180)

2 days of learning to play tennis (120)
[I'm only counting an hour each day since it was pretty light... even though we were there longer than that]

Random spinning on my colorguard rifle for about 5 min each night (30)

TOTAL: 330mins

(Note: I'm running my workout weeks Wed-Tues, so you probably want to exclude me from the game. I just want to post them to keep up with them! :D)

P.S.
When is weigh in? Tomorrow?