how much weight should i lose??

im not happy with what i look like at al but i dont know how much to try to lose.

im 15. 5'1 and i weigh 126.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o146/main_ street_riot/24mapuw.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o146/main_ street_riot/fatty-1.jpg

so see?? im pretty chubby. i was thinking get down to 110. what do yu think??

Oh My gosh!!! U r beautiful? What r u talking about losing weight? U look great but if you want to feel better about your body try cirquit training or weight lifting to keep your body more lean looking and toned. Remember muscle weighs more than fat!

It's hard to tell with those angles, but you look pretty good the way you are.  I would be careful calling yourself a fatty - you are at some people's goal!  I agree with vponce above.  Weight training might rearrange things a little more to your liking.

I totally agree! Your BMI is at 23.8 which is healthy. If you want to look leaner, then try weight-lifting to turn fat into muscle. You can maintain the same (or a similar) weight while looking thinner.

You might feel like you look chubby, but it's definitely a big part of your age. You don't want to screw up your body now by being either too big or too thin, right? You're 15, and you're definitely going to notice some more changes over the next couple of years where your body fills out in places that you didn't necessarily expect.

That being said, you have to love the way you look! Like vponce said, you look great. If you really think losing weight will make you look better, then take small steps. Try going down to 120, but get down there slowly. Do a mix of cardio and some strength training (cardio to improve your sense of fitness and burn cals at once, the strength to boost your overall metabolism and make you look leaner). Just do it slowly and be careful not to overdo it... teenagers need more calories than adults, and your body is really changing whether you see it or not. 110 might be too low for you, depending on your body type. So try getting to 120 first and then see what you think!

From one young adult to another, I can tell you that unless you're eating poorly/never exercising, you're going to have no problem toning your body and looking great.

thanks. im just sooo lazy though.

but ill have to try and get motre physical this summer!! lol.

its just that most girls my height are like 102 or 106. and im 20 pounds extra.

You shouldn't try to weigh what most girls weigh. You should weigh what you feel comfortable in because it's what YOU want not because of others. I'm 5'1 and my goal weight is 120. At 126 you look pretty nice and healthy which is what's important. I know that it's hard but don't go by what others think it's ideal.

Instead of focusing on loosing weight, convert it to muscle.  Unlike many women, I'm a big advocate of female weight training, especially in young ladies your age.  It does more to strengthen bone and muscle than any other form of exercise.  It also helps to raise your basal metabolic rate since muscle tissue also burns more calories, even at rest, than fat.  It will help prevent osteoporosis when you get older.  It doesn't have to take long either.

Done properly, you'll still look lady-like and not mannish like the female weight lifters (ewww).  You want to have someone at the gym show you how to operate the equipment properly.  Start of with bench presses.  Upper body strength is an issue for females.  This has the added benefit of building your chest muscles which make your boobs look bigger.  Find out what the maximum weight you can bench press is.  That means the most you can lift just one time but are unable to complete the 2nd repetition.  Go 5 pounds below that weight and do 5 repetitions of the bench press.  That's it.  It shouldn't take you 5 minutes to do and you're done with that for the day.  Next is the squat.  Again, find out what the maximum is and go approximately 10% under that.  If you can squat 200# once but not twice, than 200# is your max weight.  180# (200 - 20 or 10%) is your working weight.  5 reps and your done.  Do that three times a week.

Once you find that your working weight on any given exercise is getting easy, it's time to retest to see what your new max weight is.  Retest to determine your new max and then use that to bump up your working weight.  Once you get that down, you can start adding other things - preacher curls, leg presses, etc.  that will address specific target areas.  Follow the same kind of practice - nearly max. weight and just a few reps.  You'll be a toned, calorie burning machine.

Original Post by morrighu:

Instead of focusing on loosing weight, convert it to muscle. Unlike many women, I'm a big advocate of female weight training, especially in young ladies your age. It does more to strengthen bone and muscle than any other form of exercise. It also helps to raise your basal metabolic rate since muscle tissue also burns more calories, even at rest, than fat. It will help prevent osteoporosis when you get older. It doesn't have to take long either.

Done properly, you'll still look lady-like and not mannish like the female weight lifters (ewww). You want to have someone at the gym show you how to operate the equipment properly. Start of with bench presses. Upper body strength is an issue for females. This has the added benefit of building your chest muscles which make your boobs look bigger. Find out what the maximum weight you can bench press is. That means the most you can lift just one time but are unable to complete the 2nd repetition. Go 5 pounds below that weight and do 5 repetitions of the bench press. That's it. It shouldn't take you 5 minutes to do and you're done with that for the day. Next is the squat. Again, find out what the maximum is and go approximately 10% under that. If you can squat 200# once but not twice, than 200# is your max weight. 180# (200 - 20 or 10%) is your working weight. 5 reps and your done. Do that three times a week.

Once you find that your working weight on any given exercise is getting easy, it's time to retest to see what your new max weight is. Retest to determine your new max and then use that to bump up your working weight. Once you get that down, you can start adding other things - preacher curls, leg presses, etc. that will address specific target areas. Follow the same kind of practice - nearly max. weight and just a few reps. You'll be a toned, calorie burning machine.

ooh. thanks =]]

for 5'1" & the website i use... it says between 98-132

i'm 5'9" & it says between 125-169... that's a that's 44 lb difference lol so I think "healthy" also depends on what percent of how much you weigh is fat/muscle

at 126 and you are calling yourself a  fatty???

I just don't think that is healthy, but that is my opinion, lets promote health and a postive body image here!! its way more motivating than this post!!

at your age be ready for curves, ...as in hips and breasts... those add weight. You can't look like a 15 year old boy forever..  embrace women hood.

Well I didnt read ALL of the replies but I am somewhere between 5'1" and 2" and I am most comfortable at 115-118. NO you are NOT fat but as someone your size I can relate to how you feel. I have been 110 and dont like it because its too hard to maintain and I'd much rather be able to eat maintenance cal's at 115 which allows for a lil Mexican food once a week.

It's a personal choice and obviously your decision - just make sure you take a healthy approach about it and lose it slow with proper diet and exercise. No one knows better than me that you gain all that "fad diet" weight back. Who wants to be struggling with a new diet every other week when you can just devote a couple of months to better healthy living and be able to eat mantenance cal's from there on out? I did it and it's great. I feel so good, exercise has become a way of life for me and if I occasionally make a bad meal choice I just make sure I eat 100-200 cals under mantainance for the next two days.

Good luck!

If you're not happy with what you look like, you have do some strength training to tone your muscles. :P Weight loss isn't necessarily the way to "look better".

Chubby?? If anything, you look like you need to GAIN weight. Where are you chubby??

You actually look too thin, no offense.

If all of your friends weigh as little as you say, then they have eating disorders, hun. Trust me.

Unless they're like 4 feet tall, that is too skinny. NOT healthy. Please don't try to emulate them.

126 is a weight most of us would LOVE to be (well, I'm not sure whether I would, as I'm 5'9" so that would probably be far too underweight for me.)

For the most part, I agree with what everyone here has said so far. And I'd go with their info on body mass index since I'm not that experienced with that.

However, I'm not sure what countries everyone is from, or how old most of the women are, because they are all saying you're going to START growing boobs and hips soon.

If one is 15 years old, within the past 20 years or more, one would already HAVE their boobs and hips, and would probably have had them for several years already.

Kids develop way earlier than they used to these days, unless they happen to be late bloomers (which is perfectly fine and natural if they are. Some people just do.)

You seem to be a perfectly normally-developed 15 year old with boobs and everything to me, lol. I don't know what pics they're looking at.

Now if your boobs and hips start growing WAY bigger than normal, then you are probably gaining weight, and not just "growing up", but your shape may still change a bit in the next few years, but not drastically.

I have noticed there is a difference in different countries on what kids look like developmentally. Idk if it's genes, diet, or what.

I'm not sure about most other countries, but I have noticed a HUGE difference in the sizes of kids from the U.S. and kids from the U.K. at least.

From all the kids I have seen, the British kids who are twelve or so, are TINY compared to twelve year olds in the U.S. And I'm not talking about weight. (We all already know there's an obesity problem here.)

The twelve and thirteen year olds I have seen in UK look like small children. I have mistaken them for much younger. Most 12-13 year olds in the US have already grown taller and have boobs already, and most have already started menstruating.

I'm 18 and got my period at 12 and started developing very small boobs at 11, and by age 13, they were full size. It has been this way for everyone I know who range in age from 13 to late 30s. It is only women older than that that I know who developed later than that, except for a few exceptions in the younger group who were late bloomers.

There are a fair number of small kids in the US too, but the majority look like teens already by that age, so at 15 (I assume you are here in the US since you used American height and weight measurements), would already have been in puberty for quite some time now.

Most or all of you used American measurements as well, so if all of you reside here, I can only guess that perhaps you are from older generations where kids didn't develop as early as they do now.

A gynecologist in the late 90's said many girls were starting to menstruate as early as 9.

I don't know any girls over the age of 11 or 12 who haven't already grown hips and breasts.

Since you look like you have a small frame, the suggestions about weight training should be okay.

If you have any friends with large frames however, I wouldn't suggest that to them.

I know a few women here have said you won't get big. You will if most of your weight is in your upper body (yours from what I can see is not, so you should be fine.) When I was overweight, I carried most of my weight in my upper body, so I started lifting light weights (5 lbs.) and using a rowing machine thinking it would tone me up and make me look better. It made me look even more bulky and mannish. So even with your thin frame, try not to overdo it. I wouldn't lift anything over 2.5 to 5 lbs.

But if you are eating a healthy balanced diet of nutritious foods and getting regular cardiovascular exercise, you should be perfectly healthy, and probably not underweight. Some people are just naturally very thin and have a fast metabolism. Consider yourself lucky if that's the case!

But please do NOT LOSE any more weight. It wouldn't be healthy to be as tiny as you say your friends are.

I'm not sure quite what you mean by "lazy", but to keep in shape at your current weight and height and age with your seemingly good metabolism, going for a half hour walk or bike ride a few times a week would be enough.

Dancing, skating, even DDR would all burn calories and build some muscle tone, because as everyone here said, muscle weighs more than fat, so don't look at the scale and see you weigh more and freak out that you're "getting fat" if you do embark on  an exercise regimen.

Walking is easy, is relaxing on a nice day, will definitely clear your head and relieve stress, which I'm sure you sometimes have plenty of. I'm only a few years older than you, so I know how stressful being 15 (and even 18) can be, and it will make your legs and butt look great! :)

And if you want to be skinny so you WON'T have curves..DON'T.

If you're trying to be attractive to boys, they don't like skinny females with absolutely no curves.

Ones that do, probably secretly like boys, lol. Trust me on this one.

From your pics, I doubt you have any trouble attracting boys anyway, as you are very pretty. Don't ruin your looks or your health trying to look like everyone else. You're probably better-looking than most of your friends anyway.

Chubby?? If anything, you look like you need to GAIN weight. Where are you chubby??

You actually look too thin, no offense.

If all of your friends weigh as little as you say, then they have eating disorders, hun. Trust me.

Unless they're like 4 feet tall, that is too skinny. NOT healthy. Please don't try to emulate them.

126 is a weight most of us would LOVE to be (well, I'm not sure whether I would, as I'm 5'9" so that would probably be far too underweight for me.)

For the most part, I agree with what everyone here has said so far. And I'd go with their info on body mass index since I'm not that experienced with that.

However, I'm not sure what countries everyone is from, or how old most of the women are, because they are all saying you're going to START growing boobs and hips soon.

If one is 15 years old, within the past 20 years or more, one would already HAVE their boobs and hips, and would probably have had them for several years already.

Kids develop way earlier than they used to these days, unless they happen to be late bloomers (which is perfectly fine and natural if they are. Some people just do.)

You seem to be a perfectly normally-developed 15 year old with boobs and everything to me, lol. I don't know what pics they're looking at.

Now if your boobs and hips start growing WAY bigger than normal, then you are probably gaining weight, and not just "growing up", but your shape may still change a bit in the next few years, but not drastically.

I have noticed there is a difference in different countries on what kids look like developmentally. Idk if it's genes, diet, or what.

I'm not sure about most other countries, but I have noticed a HUGE difference in the sizes of kids from the U.S. and kids from the U.K. at least.

From all the kids I have seen, the British kids who are twelve or so, are TINY compared to twelve year olds in the U.S. And I'm not talking about weight. (We all already know there's an obesity problem here.)

The twelve and thirteen year olds I have seen in UK look like small children. I have mistaken them for much younger. Most 12-13 year olds in the US have already grown taller and have boobs already, and most have already started menstruating.

I'm 18 and got my period at 12 and started developing very small boobs at 11, and by age 13, they were full size. It has been this way for everyone I know who range in age from 13 to late 30s. It is only women older than that that I know who developed later than that, except for a few exceptions in the younger group who were late bloomers.

There are a fair number of small kids in the US too, but the majority look like teens already by that age, so at 15 (I assume you are here in the US since you used American height and weight measurements), would already have been in puberty for quite some time now.

Most or all of you used American measurements as well, so if all of you reside here, I can only guess that perhaps you are from older generations where kids didn't develop as early as they do now.

A gynecologist in the late 90's said many girls were starting to menstruate as early as 9.

I don't know any girls over the age of 11 or 12 who haven't already grown hips and breasts.

Since you look like you have a small frame, the suggestions about weight training should be okay.

If you have any friends with large frames however, I wouldn't suggest that to them.

I know a few women here have said you won't get big. You will if most of your weight is in your upper body (yours from what I can see is not, so you should be fine.) When I was overweight, I carried most of my weight in my upper body, so I started lifting light weights (5 lbs.) and using a rowing machine thinking it would tone me up and make me look better. It made me look even more bulky and mannish. So even with your thin frame, try not to overdo it. I wouldn't lift anything over 2.5 to 5 lbs.

But if you are eating a healthy balanced diet of nutritious foods and getting regular cardiovascular exercise, you should be perfectly healthy, and probably not underweight. Some people are just naturally very thin and have a fast metabolism. Consider yourself lucky if that's the case!

But please do NOT LOSE any more weight. It wouldn't be healthy to be as tiny as you say your friends are.

I'm not sure quite what you mean by "lazy", but to keep in shape at your current weight and height and age with your seemingly good metabolism, going for a half hour walk or bike ride a few times a week would be enough.

Dancing, skating, even DDR would all burn calories and build some muscle tone, because as everyone here said, muscle weighs more than fat, so don't look at the scale and see you weigh more and freak out that you're "getting fat" if you do embark on  an exercise regimen.

Walking is easy, is relaxing on a nice day, will definitely clear your head and relieve stress, which I'm sure you sometimes have plenty of. I'm only a few years older than you, so I know how stressful being 15 (and even 18) can be, and it will make your legs and butt look great! :)

And if you want to be skinny so you WON'T have curves..DON'T.

If you're trying to be attractive to boys, they don't like skinny females with absolutely no curves.

Ones that do, probably secretly like boys, lol. Trust me on this one.

From your pics, I doubt you have any trouble attracting boys anyway, as you are very pretty. Don't ruin your looks or your health trying to look like everyone else. You're probably better-looking than most of your friends anyway.