Reply from Jenna, Age 16 - 12/9/00 - IP#: 207.65.74.109AJ, Hey sweetie! My name is Jenna. I know EXACTLY what you are taliking about. At the end of my 8th grade year I was 5'1" and I weighed over 180 lbs. And I wondered why I couldn't get any of the guys to look at me. I decided I HAD to do something! I had been to see a specialist about my weight (some help they did, NOT) I decided this is something I'm going to have to do myself. I made myself a long term goal and a bunch of short term goals. I have just recently, after about 4 years of hard work, I have reached my long term goal. I was almost in a size 20 pants (and man r they buggers tryin to find too) and XL-XXL shirts. My long term goal was to get down to 125 lbs and get down to a single didget size pants. I am now 16 years old and wear a size 9 pants and can wear M-L shirts. The way I did this was, just simply cut down on how much I ate gradually. I quit eating snacks. Quit drinking so many soft drinks, i didn't eat everything on my plate. I ate a small but nutritious breakfast (exp: cereal and juice) and I ate a simple luch and I ate a moderate supper. I tried to keep myself active. I HATE exercising and I'm one of those people that want immediate results! But u can't get that by exercising. I'm a Girl Scout and there's a local camp that I always went to, it really helped keep me active, by just constantly walking or doing some simple activity numerous times. Now THAT will get u some serious results. Another thing I discovered was yoga. As corny as it may sound it REALLY works and you will see SIGNIFICANT results within a week. Check it out on Yahoo, they have some really good websites on it. But there's 1 thing u HAVE TO GET before u can do any of this, and that's some self confidence. And I know that is so hard to get now, but just work at it. About your mom calling u that, thet was just wrong. Luckily I had my mom supporting me the whole way through, but I think u should sit your mom down and talk to her and tell her working on your weight problem but it'll take awhile and you're really going to need her support the whole way through. Quit comparing yourself to your friends. Everyone is individual in their own way. Nobody is alike, so don't bother comparing yourself. Your beautiful in your own way. What u need to do is make a long term goal, or what u ultimately want to do or reach, then make NUMEROUS short term goals, such as lose 2 lbs a week or cut back, or something like that. ALSO a big help is to drink ALOT of water cause it helps flush all the wastes all of the water out of your body and you'll lose weight faster. Just work up to it. If u ever wanna talk or need somemore support u can give me an e-mail at Friscos4@compu.net and just type Jenna in the subject line. Just stay with it! Good luck! :-) Love, Jenna :-) |