Im not aneroxic or bulimic, but I'm constantly worrying about how many calories and carbs are in certain foods. All day long I am thinking about what I have ate, and what I can eat thats healthy tomorrow. Im 14, and I'm not overweight, but I still want to lose fat. How can I stop worrying about food, and just eat healthy? Please help!
2006-06-13 16:43:26 · 6 answers · asked by Sonya 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Do you wake up and feel how skinny / flat your tummy is every morning? Do you check to see if your hip bones are still prominent? Do you go to bed thinking about food and awaken thinking about food? It is an obsession and you may need to speak with a professional - if it's not a disorder now, it could become one.
2006-06-13 16:47:25 · answer #1 · answered by MillwoodsGal 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is a small chance that you have an eating disorder that will need to be treated. But there's a good chance you're that normal kind of crazy teenage girls get to be and get over when they get a little older.
To a certain extent, the fact that you are 14 is a big part of the way you feel. The self-esteem of a lot of girls your age just plunges. People argue about whether it's society's expectations or hormones that causes it to happen, but nobody's trying to say it doesn't happen. This plunge in self-esteem does happen, and it's usually temporary, thank goodness!
Girls your age also tend to be a little obsessed with their appearance compared to folks who are younger or older. Partly, this is because the opinion of your peers has become more important to you than the opinion of your teachers and parents. Compared to your teachers and parents, your peers are a little shallow, so you've got a tough audience.
If you can hang on about four years, you'll find out that college women don't put on makeup to go fetch the mail from the mailbox in the front yard. OK to be fair, most high school girls don't either. But you'll find lots of college women who put on makeup for a formal or if they've been up studying all night--not on an everyday basis. They're at least as concerned with the development of their minds and job skills as they are with their appearance.
About your age, too, you start to think that everybody's watching you, all the time. Eventually, you'll realize that most folks aren't paying any more attention to you than you're paying to most of them. Shame you can't buy that realization at Wal-Mart. It'll happen when it happens.
Even though I'm 39 now, I remember 14 very vividly, and I wouldn't trade ages with you for anything! Your days are magic in some ways, but it's not the best days of your life.
As far as your weight goes--eat right, eat light, and exercise on a regular basis--even if it's only a 20-minute walk every other day. You develop those habits now, and you may never have to worry about your weight.
2006-06-14 00:13:53 · answer #2 · answered by Beckee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
doing lots of exercise is very healthy and you can lose fat but in order to do exercise you have to eat food with protein like meat and beans but if you donut want to gain fat don't eat anything that you cant read from the back of everything the nutrition's facts of any product
2006-06-13 23:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by miguel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm fourteen too, that's a little weird you would be worried about what you take in. If your not over weight then why would you worry?
I don't have any advice for you, I haven't had this problem before, but I guess going vegetarian could help?
2006-06-13 23:48:12 · answer #4 · answered by kiki Dee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok i'm like that too i just lost like 60lbs and now i'm scared to eat always worring about fats and calories too i constantly working out to make sure i burn it off right away.i'm 26 so i dont know how to help you cause i'm on the same boat but good luck with that
2006-06-13 23:48:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell your parents. Let them contact a professional on the subject.
2006-06-13 23:47:29 · answer #6 · answered by will 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋