Any teenagers that are 16 and under?

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

Hii - i'm Tina & i'm 15, 16 on the 27th! Woo! <33

I'm currently 165 lbs (5'3) and I want to be around 120 lbs. I keep eating 2300 calories though! So i'm pretty much maintaining! If you have ANY advice on how to eat less please PM me! I want to loseee not maintain. >_<

 

im 15 weighing 108, trying to get back to 104 after a christmas binge. Found this site  in august searching for the calories for bubble tea haha. I hated my arms in a tanktop so decided to loose weight. Eventually i developed an ED and a mini EDNOS by extreme dieting. By december i lost control and binged uncontrollably :P. However it did help me recover on the ED. Planning to loose the weight again but i still get occasional binges..):

i'm 14, 169 cm and 74 kg. i'm recovering from bulimia, and part of me hates food because it feels like everyone is too controlled by it. i use it to feel invincible, haha. fun fact: i haven't been able to eat eggs since the summer, they terrify me.

the reason i'm on cc is that i get bored quite easily.

Heya, I had/have anorexia nervosa but since going beserker to get out of recovery the beserkerness kind of continued, so now I need to lose about 35lbs just to get back to my target weight..... eeeurgh.

 I jpined this site because I don't actually know how to lose weight without starving.... and I have a very perceptive mother!

So that's me.

I'm 15, measuring in at 65 inches and 115 lbs.

I was naturally pretty thin until about fifth grade... then, between divorce, moving, changing school, step parents, and new siblings my life became pretty stressful.  I turned to food for comfort.

Luckily, I began to hit my growth spurt right about then too.  Otherwise, I would have ended up being waaaay heavier than I did.  I would eat three bagels, each slathered in cream cheese, nearly every day.  Huge bowls of icecream.  Entire bags of chips.  Two or three servings of everything, at every meal.

Eventually it was seventh grade, I was 64 inches... and I was 140 lbs.  Bleck.

I knew nothing about nutrition, but understood the whole eat less / excercise more thing.  I lost weight ever so slowly until last year when, at 125 pounds, I found CC and later went vegetarian.  

Now I'm fousing on maintaining, eating healthier, and getting more excercise!     

I'm 13, 5 foot 4 1/2 inches and i weigh 160 pounds. Ive never been the most active person on the planet but i was active. that is until my dad made us move back when i was in 2nd grade. thats when i became and emotional eater, but it didnt start right away. when i started 3rd grade at my new school i was totally out of touch with the real world. I had always been one of the most popular girls in school, but now i ha no friends and everyone thought i was weird because i was a 9  year old absolutely obsessed with heavy metal and rock music. so i changed my image to fit what was cool(i.e. Hannah Montana, Disney Anything, ect). i didnt like myself anymore and i missed my friends so instead of going outside and playing with the kids down the street, i would sit in my house eating junk food because i didnt feel right anymore. i was taken out of my cozy subruban home where i had a school with TONS of friends and i was shoved into a world on out-skirts of town suburban neighborhood where the teens went around spraypainting trees and killing fish in the creek that is behind all of our houses. I had and still have no self- esteem and am struggling to keep together because of family issues that my friends have brought in CPS to resolve. When you look at me im a normal over wieght american girl with almost a A's in school, and im teased because of my wieght problem.

my turn? 15, 163cm, 55kg-ish. i joined when i was 14, 163cm 42kg...this site is great thank you for freeing me of my eating disorder!! before then i was an overweight, emotional eating child (parent's divorce), my eating disorder was used to gain control of my life, stress and my mum's attention - stupidity - I definately have it now!

Life is great for me now, all aspects, maintained for ages so it's not just a high of all my lows, i can balanced stress now also.

Ive had bad experiences, and no one is ever the same after an experience, positive, negative or otherwise, but what doesnt kill you makes you stronger!

I use CC to keep me on track, keep my disordered eating thoughts gone for good!

Now, food is a substance i eat to keep me full, not to manage my weight, but to keep me energised ( two different priorities). I'm not scared of it nor am i obssesed with it.

Original Post by musicismysavior5:

I'm 13 years old, I found calorie count when I was looking up the calorie info on chicken. lol. Basically I was thin my whole life because I was super active (I danced competitively and was practicing around 25+ hours a week), and I had the world's worst eating habits (seriously I weighed 84 lbs, was 4'10" and would eat like 4 bagels smothered in cream cheese in one sitting, and I had a starbucks vanilla bean frap. and one of their huuge sugar cookies every single day and I never gained a pound. lol) Thenn, I quit dance and didn't change my eating habits and man oh man found myself at 111. So I decided to eat healthier and add a little bit of excercise. I was quite successful with my weight loss and am now back at 82 lbs, 2 lbs lighter then I was in my dancing days, and mainly use calorie count for new healthy recipes, support, help with maintaining, and sort of as a source of entertainment (some of the threads and journal entries are quite compelling!)

You are SOOO underweight.

Your BMI is like 16 but it should be 20-24.

You need to gain weight.

I am 14, and came across CC in January when I was adding up my dinner calories one night. I am here to make sure I get enough calories everyday, seeing as I need to gain atleast 5 lbs. I dropped weight during my cross country season, without really even realizing it, and now am gaining it back with the help of my doctor and parents.

 

I'm 13, 5' 5 1/2" and weigh about 117 pounds. I joined CC cuz i wanted support in helping me reach my goal weight, maintain it, boost my confidence a lil bit, and get answers to sum questions! :)  i know y'all are gonna b like OMG GIRL YOU HAVE PROBLEMS AND YOU ARE FREAKKIN SKINNY!!! but..... almost every single one of my good friends is drop. dead. gorgeous. the pressure sometimes is too hard to handle...... my main problem is balance in diet and exercise. like 2 years ago i weighed like 126 or something like that and i was like around 5' 2" ish... i basically starved myself by only eating strict healthy foods and lost the weight, plus i grew 3 1/2 inches! BUT.... i think i messed up my metabolism!! ugh! :( so now i either diet or binge... one or the other! i can NOT seem to find a good and natural and HEALTHY balance! plus i realllllly want to exercise more! i want to play tennis and dance... plus i wanna run to build my endurance. i hate my fat arms and i think i have lovehandles! i'm pretty sure i have what's called a "pear" body shape.... big hips and thighs! i want to look HOT basically! haha i have like a 32 B cup size so i do NOt wanna lose my boobs but i DO want to tone up definitely!!!! I need balance! :)  haha no matter what i try i cant seem to stick to anything..... hmmmmmm help???? (ps... i wanna weigh like 112 ish!) AND i have a pool party early June so i wanna look HOT in that bikini :) ) suggestions?? please don't say exercise and eat healthy.. cuz that basic is actuallly really hard 4 me!