Am I too Fat?

Question

I am 13 and 118 lbs. is that large or fat for my age? i play sports, but i think i am not skinny...but not fat... I also think i eat too much (snacks and stuff) during the day.... What are some kinds of food that fills you, or are good 4 u?

Answer 1

OMG NO, unless you are only 5 feet tall. But even then, you are 13 and you are still growing. This is the time for an awkward stage.
The Matrix has you. The only variable you can really control is exercise. Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. Build muscle. Eat what you want when you are actually hungry and stop before you are stuffed full. Try to eat a balanced diet, but don't limit yourself with a bunch or rules and diets. Diets don't work and are unhealthy in the long run. Only do things that are healthy and that you can do forever, for the rest of your life, like cutting fast food forever. 95 percent of dieters gain it all back in one year and 99 percent do in two years. Dieting is associated with weight gain over a long period of time. You need at least 1200 to 1600 calories every day just to perform basic bodily functions.

If women like you learned to love their bodies, a billion dollar industry that cashes in on insecurities and making people feel like they are not good enough would collapse. Quite frankly, being a little fat isn't as unhealthy as being thin. Anybody who thinks diets or restricting food types is a good idea is uneducated about the human body. Short cuts do not work. Most of the weight you lose is water weight. For health, eat a balanced diet and exercise for the health and endorphins and forget about an ideal shape. The average age a girl starts dieting is 8. 1/3 women are on a diet at any given time. 4/5 US women are unsatisfied with their appearance.
Your body has a set point weight that it wants to be. If you starve yourself, the body will fight back by lowering the metabolism to maintain it's ideal weight.
Limit your tv viewing. 1/4 TV commercials send out a message about attractiveness in this brainwashed society that has been seeing images of beautiful skinny women and mocking chubby people. It's worse for women: look at the number of average or uglier guys on tv and in movies versus the number of women. 30 percent of women in a study rated their ideal shape and it turned out to be 20 percent underweight. Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz meet the clinical requirements for anorexia, and so do 25% of playboy centerfolds. If the flippin mannequins became real women, they wouln't be able to menstruate. Women finally get some rights, but we limit ourselves like this and our bodies are reduced to objects we inspect and criticise. Men decide to only value women for their looks and a thin, attractive wife symbolizes social status for them. Girls call each other fat as the greatest insult they can muster. When did fat become worse than cruel, stupid, dishonest, lazy or cowardly. When did "chubby" start to mean the last four of those things?
We are killing our daughters and wasting our lives trying to meet an ideal that blows. I wish women would get together and fight it instead of letting others control us like this. Unless you are considered obese, or have a BMI of over 30, don't worry about it. Love your body and your confidence will light up the room and give other women permission to love themselves too. You don't want to start dogging your body in front of other girls. For one thing, if you say you are ugly all the time, you'll start to believe it and other girls will question their own looks.
Who cares? It's just the current society's little trend. And you know what? Even if you lose that weight, you'll never be "good enough". Trust me, get your mind off of this. In 50 years, who knows what we'll think is beautiful?

Answer 2

that depends on your height. but im 12, 5'3.5" and i weigh only 4 lbs less than you so you should be pretty fine. and during the day, eat things like light yougurt, friuts and celery with a lowfat peanutbutter or ranch is nice too.
i also drink lots of water . that fills me up to

Answer 3

i don't think you're fat at all. well it depends on your height too but i think that's a decent weight for your age. it's good that your playing sports too.


foods that fill me up are fruits plus it's good for you =]
it's also good to eat six small meals a day

Answer 4

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Answer 5

well if your tall.........no, but if ur short maybe a little, the snacking isnt doing you any good. You play sports so you probably pack a little muscle too

Answer 6

To fairly answer the question, I'd need to know your height.

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Answer 7

it depends on your height

Answer 8

keep exercising,,ask again later