How do I get skinny?

I am fat. Everyone says im skinny, but I am 11 and my brother is 14 and we wheigh the same. I want to wheigh 70 pounds like every other girl in my class!I am addicted to food and cant keep away from it. I am a horrible exersizer!Nothing works!Not even diets!What do I do?
meg107
Asked Jun 08, 2011
You can not get different results by eating the same pattern. To change the results, you always have to change what you're doing. That's the first realization you have to come to. Once you get beyond that, the rest will fall into place.

The mathematics are simple. When you eat 3500 more calories than you burn, you gain one pound. When you burn 3500 more than you eat, you lose one pound. The answer is simply to burn more and consume less. If you consume the exact amount of calories needed to maintain a normal weight for a person your size and level of activity, eventually you will become that weight.

Rob
Answered Jun 08, 2011
Edited Jun 08, 2011
There's a lot of debate on the 3500 cal rule... especially if there are hormonal issues at play. Sometimes the body can decide to hold onto the weight anyway, so that's not a hard and fast rule. It's much more complicated than that... says the girl who lost over 100 lbs...
I'm sure there are some other variables involved in a few cases but the current epidemic of obesity isn't the result of a big hormone shift in the population, it's about lifestyle. There is a world of rationalizations out there but the facts are that a person has to find the right balance between what they consume and what they burn to maintain a healthy weight. Look at the USDA study on weight loss. If a person has problems they feel are due to something else, sure, see a doctor but the answer to, "how do I get skinny" is stated above.
Rob Jun 09, 2011
At age 11, you only need to be concerned with dieting if your doctor says it's medically necessary. You're at the perfect age to begin to develop eating disorders and dysmorphic body image issues. My concern is that you're at the little seedling stages of that.

Also, keep in mind that the scale cannot show all the relevant numbers. There are a lot of factors you didn't mention. When thinking about what a healthy weight is for a particular individual, height is important. So are bone density, body frame, muscle and organ mass, and ethnicity... and hormonal issues. There are a multitude of factors that contribute to body weight, not just the amount of fat on the body.

Something is going to be "different" about you your entire life... because we're all different! I think the sooner you accept that and learn to love and accept yourself for who and what you are at any given moment, the better off you'll be. Letting others' opinions of you determine your self-esteem is so painful. Better to develop you're own inner strength. It is called "self"-esteem for a reason.
skyDancer
Answered Jun 08, 2011
Edited Jun 08, 2011
Make sure you stick to your eating and exercising routine; no matter how hard it seems, as the results will be well worth it. However, do not completely deprive yourself, now and again allow yourself one treat, but ensure this is only now and again and not on a frequent basis.

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thankfulooo
Answered Apr 24, 2012

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