I was just wondering about exactly how many teenagers there are on this site who are under 16 years of age. What has your experience been like with food and why do you use CC?

Hi! I'm Cinthya and 13 years old, 14 in June. Well, food whoa. Let's see. It was always up and down. Long story but I'll try.

newborn- healthyful

as an infant- very, very chubby baby =] (to much nesquick) but the doctor always told my mom there was nothing wrong so ok

for the next few years- i look at my pictures and i see myself as pretty average but ive heard people say kind of chubby so...

binging! my mom tells me i would hide and go in the cupboards and eat all the sweets

thats my BIGGEST weakness: sweets, i could eat them all day, but no

so i kept on gaining weight and i never did anything about it, i went to the store and it was always a hastle; nothing fit right

doctor always said it was okay; he said as i grew i would lose the weight

he could've said something........

well i was always up and down then im not so sure but last year i ended up losing about 3 sizes

everyone complimented and i love it

seriously, no idea

my mom says i gave up sweets chips soda etc and ate my main meals snacked healthy

now that i think about yeah i kind of remember doing that

and i worked out a bit

(flashback of eating raisins and granola in front of the computer =])

i guess its kind of like right now but im kind of healthier now

so yes, i lost all that weight and well thing is i started eating unhealthy getting in bad habits, i ate of course but not healthy

like i had a pastry every day for breakfast and then my two other meals, sometimes skipped lunch at school, so hungry when i got home, and that was just a few weeks ago

until...i found something so obvious: you can eat alot of healthy food as oppose to a small amount of unhealthy

i had a huge perspective change these past few days

ive always loved food and love enjoying it

my grams allways say evrything in moderation

i get that now, but cc is just so amazing

its only been 2 days, but i love it and cant stand not knowing the calories in food

so yeah im 105lb at 4'11'' - seriously =] and i just want to loose the last 5lb and mantain for as long as i can living healthy and in moderation. i am confident, but not when it comes to my body - at all. i want to stop worrying about it so much.

*i agree - cc is highly addictive....

*so much more to it, complicated but i bored you enoough...=]

I'm 14, and found this site when my school said that it was blocking another calorie counting website I had been using for health class. I was so used to logging my foods that I just kept going with it.

Food has been my enemy for years, especially fast food. I'm now a vegetarian and trying to gain more muscle after a life of being out of shape.

I'm 16.  I found this site through a health class ("Wellness", it was an overview of several health topics), and since I'd been looking for a good way to improve my diet for a long time, I kept coming back.  It's helped me hugely.

I am not diagnosed with anything, but I do have a bizarre eating disorder where I cannot eat when I am stressed out- anything I put in my mouth causes me to vomit, and even smelling or thinking of some foods can cause me to gag.  I am not anorexic.  I have never wanted to be skinnier, and in fact I want desperately to gain weight.  I get very panicked when I don't manage to eat enough.

To make matters worse, I also have trouble eating because I have Executive Dysfunction.  I literally cannot remember to eat lunch a lot of the time.  I have gone whole days on less than 500 calories because somewhere between my room and the kitchen, I forgot what I was doing and got distracted.  This is hard to explain to people who haven't experienced it.  I have various coping mechanisms in place now that help me, and I rarely get less than 1600 cals a day now, but it still isn't easy.  Thanks to this problem I haven't managed to gain any weight at all since I joined, although I have maintained my 110 lbs, which is good.  I want to get to 120 and then stay that weight.  I'll be proud of myself if I even manage 115, though.

I'm also a vegetarian, partly by choice but mainly because meat makes me vomit (as you can tell, I have an over-active gag reflex).  The only meat I ate before becoming a veggie was bacon.  I never gave up fish though, since I'm an extremely picky eater and have ridiculously sensitive taste buds, I eat very few things and my diet would be too unhealthy if I gave up fish.

(Seriously, though, I can taste the difference between milk kept in glass and milk kept in plastic.  I can taste it when a brand changes their recipe and I don't like it most of the time.)

 

So, yeah, it's a struggle.  CC has really helped me do better though, I feel a lot healthier and stronger now and less panicked since I am no longer losing weight.  The worst time for me was last year, when I was losing weight even while I actively tried to gain weight- and several times then, doctors congratulated me on having lost weight, completely failing to notice that I was unhealthy!  It made me feel sick.

I'm 15 yrs old and i joined CC last year and would use it on and off but now i seem to be on it everyday. I didn't know so many teens used it so now I'm definetely going to be on it alot longer looking through all the forums and such.

i am and 16 and my friend used to use cc and i decided i would give it a try. i dont really count calories because it doesnt help me much but i like the forum for tips.

I am 16, found cc a year ago, now I am making a come back.

I use to belong to some crazy pro-ana community {long story} one day I want to loose weight and be healthier the smart way, I googled and found cc.

My food relationship history is looong. Right now, I just want to get back into shape, get that perfect somebody back (20pounds). And stay there forever and ever. Words can not explain how much I love that perfect somebody, and how much I miss that perfect girl 20 pounds lighter. I will burst into tears when she comes back again, I miss her, I am glad that it is possible for her to come back.

I'm 16, and found cc last year but am using it more seriously now. I use it because I'm unhappy with my weight gain in the past year! I stopped being as active as I was and gained 15 pounds. Now I'm trying to lose it and get back to 115! It's not easy for me though.

I had the WORST eating habits. Nothing but sweets. It's hard not to binge for me but I'm trying! Haha. Today I broke down [REALLY bad day] and ate a lottt of ice cream >_< I'll just have to try harder, hahah

I'm 14, 5'6 and 165. I've been struggling with my weight ever since 4th or 5th grade, and my doctor said it would go away once i grew, but it really didn't. So I've been able to maintain my weight at 165 for about a year by myself, but then by chance I came across CalorieCount, and it's really helped me track my eating and exercise habits. I don't like relying on other people for help, but the website is good because it helps me keep myself honest and see how I'm really doing. I haven't been on that long but I'm really seeing an improvement- i've lost a few pounds and I'm eating way healthier. So YAY CalorieCount!

Im fifteen and I found this site thanks to my health teacher who suggested we start a food log and suggested this site as a guide for the numbe of calories in the foodds we were eating. So I decided to join.

Back in March I was 158 and only 5'3 so I decied that I better start to lose some weight now I'm currently around 138-136 and using calorie count as a way to eat healthier and lose the rest of these stubborn pounds.

16, found the site when i was 15 and in the middle of developing an eating disorder...i used the forums to help me out but it backfired on me, eventually i developed an ED and now im recovering but now i have made friends on here and they have helped me and i am doing much better now but i still struggle to accept myself