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Here’s everything you need to know about teen obesity and to stay healthy:
* Roughly 18 percent of American teens aged 12-19 are obese. That’s nearly one in five!
* People who eat fast food are more likely to become obese than people who don’t.
* Kids who are obese between the ages of 10 and 13 have an 80 percent chance of becoming obese adults.
* Obesity puts you at greater risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, breathing problems, and even certain kinds of cancer.
* Obesity can lead to depression and anxiety–so think twice before making fun of an overweight kid in your class. It’ll just make you look like a jerk.
Do you know any obese kids at school? Do you struggle with weight yourself? Tell us everything in the comments!
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im over 200 i look at myself and i know why people dont wanna be my friend should i hate myself to
I dont know who you are or anything about you but i do know you should never hate yourself. I read this comment and it broke my heart cause 3 years ago i would have said the same thing, im 260lb now and only 19 years old and i have to admit im afraid for my future but i love every inch of myself and it wasn’t always that way i had plenty of people making fun of me, countless suicide attempts and my own mother embarrassed of me. I Changed when i went to the pool with my friends and we went to the beach, i was sweating because i refused to show my body and wore a long sleeve shirt (to make this story short) the man who is my husband today came from the surf shop with a bathing suit my size and shorts and told me he wouldn’t laugh if i didn’t, Ironically i did laugh and i grabbed some courage and put it on, today you wouldn’t catch me dead wearing a long sleeve in the summer, i had to be crazy lol i know i might seem weird it just a little advice from experience.
I am fat. I mean, not as fat as some other people but still really fat. I am 15, 5’2 and 150lbs. I hate myself and whenever I look in the mirror I am horrrified and appalled and all around disgusted with myself. I try to starve but my mom won’t let me, she forces me to eat and sometimes I get so mad and I think if i wasn’t for her making me eat, i wouldn’t be so fat. I try to excercise too, but I just can’t find the motivation to do it. I feel like no matter what I do, I will never look as good as everyone else. I cry about the way I look constantly. It’s so hard, I can’t even try clothes on at the mall because I am so scared they will not fit me, and if they don’t fit me I feel ashamed. It’s hard to go into a store and always see people who are better looking than me, or girls buying bikinis because they can. I can’t do that, I can’t go out in a bikini. Most of what I wear is baggy or loose because I don’t want to draw attention to myself or my body. I look at other girls and then at myself and I just want to crey. When it was winter, I would deal with these problems by cutting myself. But now it is summer, and I can’t cut because people will see. No matter what I do, I always end up wanting to be someone else.
I weigh around 220 but I don’t look my weight. All it is is my muscles! How do I lose my belly fat and thigh fat?
OKAY IM SOO EMBARRESED AND ASHAMED I LET IT GET THIS FAR…..IM ONLY 12YRS AND WEIGHT 21011
I DONT TELL NO BODY BECAUSE IM EMBARESSED!!!!!! DOES ANY ONE KNOW A EASY AND FAST WAY TO LOSE WIGHT EASY AND FAST BECAUSE I DONT ANT TO BE LIKE THIS FOR EVER!! SOO PLZ PLZ PLZZZ HELP ME !!1 ;O
Losing weight super fast like you want is never healthy.. But you can start by going online. There are certain websites that can tell you how many calories you should eat to be healthy for your age, height, and weight. Start with that, and try to exersise a little more than you do now. The weight should start to fall off.
I know many kids that are obese at my school . So when they ask me of how I deal with it I kinda tell them nothing. But when I read about obesity on Gurl. com I feel like I can tell something about it in the new school year that is coming up.!!!!!!!!!!
To strengthen the legs and make you look even more fab than you already are, I’d buy a yoga mat, and get Into upward facing dog position. Then, keeping your hands in the same position for the whole time you’re doing this exercise, move your feet off the yoga mat to one side, still in upward dog. After this, jump and move your feet to the other side of the mat, but still keeping your hands in place. Do this again and again, back and forth. Count how many times you can do this in one minute. As you progress and your legs get stronger, you’ll be able to do more in one minute.
i think if your plus sized (me) you should learn how to love yourself first before you try to change the way you look…i like the way myy body is.. (my boyfriend does too) and i hate it when these pretty teens hate themselves because of what society thinks “sexy” “hot” and “pretty” is…honestly.. its what YOU think is beautiful…not anyone else matters.. btw im 15
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Hello im 16 years old and im 5’3.i weight 179…is that bad i dont look fat ,i just need some exercising tips.
Are you kidding!? That is perfect to be 16 years old. If you don’t look fat then don’t worry about it because it must be your muscles. Muscle out weighs fat. You can ask a fitness person or look on youtube.com for exercising things that you can do to get more muscle. Muscles are sexy now a days!!!
i agree with you i am 12 years old and i weigh about 130 and wii fit says i am overweight but there are people in my school who are bigger than me so surely they cant weigh more! ifeel very fat and most of the problem is because i dont just eat when im hungry i eat just cause im bored and i HATE it!!! if anyone has any help pls reply to me
And i do excecise and eat right for the most part but i guess i just want to be pretty. ppl say i am but when i went to a concert and met a singer she told my best friend sh was cute and she loved her hair and i hate that no one ever says that to me! is there something wrong with me???
When I was 12, I weighed 130lbs. But most of my weight was from my muscles from playing softball.
I’m 14 years old and 93 pounds. I feel so fat! Recently though I noticed when I sit down I have rolls of fat! It makes me feel disgusting. How do I get rid of this? Please help!
Hi, M. I’m really twelve and i weigh like 140 pounds. I WISH i weighed 93 and you are totally lucky! i excercise and eat well but im still big. i guess im not obese but im definitley chubby!! and you are probably really really pretty so dont get down on yourself! 93 is really good i think! im no expert but i say your doin pretty good…
you are not fat! your rolls are probably loose skin. you even sounds so thin! not trying to e rude though. if also depends on how tall you are. When I was 14 I was about 5’5 and 130. SO hun, ur weight, is probably no an issue unless ur like 2 feet tall!!
hey im 15 and im over wieght and i dont know wat to do any more please help!
I need help. I hate myself, I hate my life, I hate everything! I weigh 380 lbs, and I’m FOURTEEN! HELP ME! I try and I try, but nothing I do works. My parents want me to change, but I can’t drive myself to the gym, and I don’t have a job and can’t get a job so I can’t really find a way to get my own dietician or trainer or anything. I… just… need help. And I can’t find any way to get it!
I think you need to learn to love yourself first the WAY YOU ARE! People love you and if you REALLY wanna change your weight, there are still a bunch of easy ways to exercise without going to the gym! One good way is walking, which youve probably heard before. Also practicing climbing up the stairs. One thing I’ve always thought was great is dancing, and anther is standing with your feet shoulder width apart and your hands on your hips. Then you turn your body to one side and then the other without moving your feet. Do this like forty times for one set. Eventually you’ll get up to three or four sets in a row. I’ve lost like twenty lbs, and you can too! You just need to be patient, because you won’t be seeing dramatic changes until some time passes with you doing exercise every day.
You don’t have to have a special trainer or even go to a gym, you just need to do stuff around your house. You can go out walking then come back and do yoga or pilates on youtube.com. You can also change your eating habits like a salad instead of a hamburger. Just remember that it might not give you instant results but if you keep at it YOU can change your body 1 day at a time.
I am like that, and i hate it when people take the Mick at school. we didn’t chose to be like this and i am on a diet i wish they would give people a break.
i know, how it feels i weigh 160 but i do not look like im actually pretty small or petite i should say, i just have tighs and hips…. and i know fat or flubber i call it goees in differnet places with everybody… but what is a good work out to do?????
I am as my wii fit says overweight but not like really overweight. I just have a muffin top but sometimes it’s really hard when i try and exercise it feels like i might pass out.
It all started when i was young and i would eat mcdonalds and all the fast food in the world but i still danced and was very active so it helped a little. But when i tried out for basketball and we had to do all that exercising i couldn’t because i had asthma but i tried my best. And i worked for a while but i am in high school now and am going to join more sports and try and be more active. But it’s just hard some times being a 150.7, I HATE IT and i need to get in shape.
This disgusts me. Yes obesity is a problem, but what about the portion of America that’s on the opposite end? I was once obese and because of the shame and self-loathing i went through i developed an eating disorder. at 15 i was hospitalized for heart problems, which, if you ask me, is much more dangerous than being hospitalized for heart problems as a middle-aged person. sure, a healthy lifestyle is ideal, but we can’t forget about the percentage of america that is starving themselves because of videos like this. encourage health and nutrition, but do not shame people out of being curvy and stop making americans who are already struggling feel worse about themselves. take it from me, it is much more dangerous to be severely underweight than to be obese.
Kids at my school are horrible so hateful if ur not a skinny little stick they call u fat i wished i had never moved here
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Yes I was like that before and then I started eating little at a time .. Like instead of eating lots at one sitting I just ate a little at a time and it was hard at first . but i went from around 200 libs to 145 !!! in like 2 months
and then I got a boyfriend 
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Holy crap that’s not healthy! Lol I’m actually around 200 right now and my goal is 130. I hope you did it healthy, but good for you for doing that girl!
how???