Posts by vwiggins

A 17yr old won't have the same body as an 18yr old it's hard to accept, but it's true. Women often get confused as they stop growing in height they think they are done growing but the truth is your skeleton carries on developing until you are in your early 20s and the shape of your body will be changing too.

Keep up the exercise and eat plenty of healthy food but don't worry about a number on a scale too much until you've got used to having an adult's body as opposed to a teenagers body.

Hedgren is right the way to make it stick is change one thing at a time. This takes longer but that's partly because you only change things that you can see your self doing long term. The problem with the 'diet' frame of mind is you try to do everything at once and then go back to doing nothing when you fail/finish.

I'd start by tracking everything I do and eat for a week; without changing anything at all.

This hopefully will show up some things it would be easy to add or remove from your life for ever, for instance I worked out that a friend of mine could lose 7lbs a year by stopping taking sugar in his tea! I added in an extra 20mins walking before work.

Just pick one thing and stick to it, once that is no longer an effort pick another. Eventually you will need to set a calorie target and stick to it but starting all at once just isn't for everyone.

You won't always get what you want, thin or not, and blaming yourself isn't fair. This is one of the reasons why weight-loss has to be for yourself.

The first step in being more attractive to others is in liking yourself, how ever you are. Work on self confidence as you approach you goal, things as silly as telling yourself you look good every day really work. Try and concentrate on doing things for yourself - be a bit selfish sometimes and put your self first. Once you get more comfortable with who you are other people will see how great you are too.

Out of the massive pile of old jeans under my bed only one pair was actually too small to do up.

0.25 lbs a month sounds about right if you are just doing what you were before. I think that for that last bit you really need to up the exercise.

Sometimes your body just doesn't want to lose any more though. Taking a break for a while and then starting again in a month or so might help but really really slow is what you can expect.

My metabolism is more or less controlled by tablets (as I have no thyroid) the first thing you notice with even tiny weeny changes in your levels are how hot or cold you feel so it would make sence.

Actually thinking about it if you feel the cold more than most people and have trouble losing weight it might not be a bad idea to get your thyroid checked.

Sometimes before starting out on a journey it's a good idea to find out where you are.

I'd recommend a week where, rather than change anything, you record everything (food and activity in the logs). Knowing what you are doing and measuring (weighing if possible) what you eat will help you to see where you can make some easy changes (trying to do everything at once or too quickly can be a reason to give up at the start).

Also take measurements, waist, hips, arms and thighs. It's really great to see the inches come off even when your weight gets stuck.

When you're ill it's best to listen to your body.

A good chicken soup is awesome though it is proven to have everything ill people need and is light on the stomach. The most important thing is keep fluids up.

indyquilter that formula is gibberish........ even if she was over 18 which she isn't. When we've got good tools that take into account many factors why mention something that common sense must tell you is rubbish.

120lbs is a perfect, slim weight for your height. But anything less is straying into an area you really don't want to be in. NO teen should ever eat less than 1500 calories a day.......

Ideally you should keep up the exercise and aim to eat 2300 calories a day. This will mean you get fit and 'toned' but still get the nutrition you need and stay a healthy weight.

I've looked at a few of the sites and I like this one

http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/healthyeatingcalculat or/eatingCal.html

I'd say you are moderately active.

No you should take it as, make sure you're eating 1500-1600 calories a day......

But other than that you are fine

I just wanted to add: a 15 yr old doesn't weigh what a 16 yr old or a 17 yr old does..... At that age I weighed about 100lbs....... I'd be very ill if I was that thin now.

You have to be sensible about your goals as a teen.

Original Post by stinkypillow:

18, 162 cm, 55-56 kg.thanks =)

You have a perfect (ie at the low end but healthy) BMI of 21, you need 2284 calories a day to maintain healthily if you are moderately active.

Until the age of 21 your muscles, organs and skeleton are still developing so the sort of diet you are on is not healthy. I used healthyeatingcalculator to get this information.

EDIT: The reason you have not lost any weight despite eating too little is your body will resist becoming under weight. Don't be surprised if after a month or two of eating properly you have put on a very small amount. To lose this you would want to eat no lower than 1700 calories until it goes and then go back up to 2284..... this way you'll be at your healthiest.

Cheat days are great but you are eating too much at the weekend and not just by a little bit!

If you stick to under 2000 on Saturday and Sunday you should see a change.