14 years old

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doinurmop

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So I thought I might post here, since I've been hugely paronoid for a while, I'll try to make it short.

I'm 14 year's old, few months away from being 15. and I'm 19 stone 7 pounds, 5 foot 5 inches, I've been getting into a diet, I've found I love grapes, they're filling, I'm trying to drop any kind of fizzy drink ENTIRELY, and I'm keeping things like crisps, chocolate, and such In moderation, not to mention my mother makes sure to get ones that aren't AS bad, as the top brand ones, if we have any take out, it'd only be once a week, if any at all, she makes sure to basically buy everything low fat, and doesn't put anything in grease, now I've recently gained 2 pounds in one week, it might be fluxuation, I did only check this like 5 minutes ago on the scales, but whenever I gain or don't change at all, I get extremely paronoid, my mind races into thoughts like.

"Is this diet even working?"

"Will I continue gaining weight?"

"Will I die?"

Which I just can't stop thinking, I go swimming once a week,I walk down the block delivering magazines everyday, yet I always get paronoid, if my weight goes up by a tiny bit, I get paronoid, even though with this diet I've lost 1 stone in 1 year, and aiming for 9-10 stone.

Is there something I'm doing wrong in my diet so far? Am I just too paronoid?

I might of rambled a bit here..
 
Hey, welcome to the site.

Don't stress about your weight like that, that'll increase your weight with unnecessary worry. Weight fluctuates all the time. Exercise builds lean muscle which is going to weigh more than fat. The better way to "weigh" yourself is to take measurements. Just because the scale doesn't show it, doesn't necessarily mean you're doing something wrong. Sometimes it's just within the look.

I'd instead weigh once a week. Stay hydrated, weigh yourself first thing in the morning when you wake up. Erase the paranoid thoughts.

As long as you expend more than you take in, you should be fine!

What does a current day of eating look like?
 
dudeitstime said:
Hey, welcome to the site.

Don't stress about your weight like that, that'll increase your weight with unnecessary worry. Weight fluctuates all the time. Exercise builds lean muscle which is going to weigh more than fat. The better way to "weigh" yourself is to take measurements. Just because the scale doesn't show it, doesn't necessarily mean you're doing something wrong. Sometimes it's just within the look.

I'd instead weigh once a week. Stay hydrated, weigh yourself first thing in the morning when you wake up. Erase the paranoid thoughts.

As long as you expend more than you take in, you should be fine!

What does a current day of eating look like?
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I've been asking my mother to get a appointment with the doctor, so I can get a proper measurement, but I don't think she can get one yet. I would assume I expend more than I take in, It's kinda hard to calculate my calories, I can do my lunch and breakfast and have a safe assumption there, but I don't really see the boxes of what my mother cooks, so I have to make a blind guess on that.

Usually I assume my calorie intake is around 2000 a day? I limit chocolate now, to just one a day, if any that is, this excludes advent calendar, since it's december though. And I don't do proper excercise everyday, I have to rely on the calories you lose just by living, which for me should also be around 2000.
I'll be honest I'm not a fan of excercise, unless it's swimming, but the public pool is only once a week for us.
 
2,000 shouldn't be too bad at all. You don't necessarily need exercise to lose weight. There are ways you can diet without exercise. A lot of us hate exercise, but we find activities that we like and enjoy and it doesn't seem like exercise. Try doing little things like stairs over the elevator or getting up to change the channel over using the remote. Little things can help. But you don't *need* exercise to lose weight. I have not exercised at all in the last two months and I've dropped a considerable amount of weight. And I'm the very definition of a couch potato.

Stick to what feels right, if you're still not seeing your weight go down after two weeks, then try making some further cuts. Could be your mother is using excess butter adding to more calories than you think. Just little things like that can add up. Always good to know what exactly you're taking in. But I'd say for now continue your path and adjust if you're not seeing results as you'd like.
 
dudeitstime said:
2,000 shouldn't be too bad at all. You don't necessarily need exercise to lose weight. There are ways you can diet without exercise. A lot of us hate exercise, but we find activities that we like and enjoy and it doesn't seem like exercise. Try doing little things like stairs over the elevator or getting up to change the channel over using the remote. Little things can help. But you don't *need* exercise to lose weight. I have not exercised at all in the last two months and I've dropped a considerable amount of weight. And I'm the very definition of a couch potato.

Stick to what feels right, if you're still not seeing your weight go down after two weeks, then try making some further cuts. Could be your mother is using excess butter adding to more calories than you think. Just little things like that can add up. Always good to know what exactly you're taking in. But I'd say for now continue your path and adjust if you're not seeing results as you'd like.
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I guess I should just wait two more weeks or something, to see if it's been going down.
As for the butter, my mother is HIGHLY against putting fat things like that in dinner at all. The worst she'll add is a smidgen of salt
 
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