I'm 14 and I'm 119 pounds and I'm 5'4" . Is that too fat? Do I need to loos!


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I'm 14 and I'm 119 pounds and I'm 5'4" . Is that too fat? Do I need to loose weight?

I'm 119 pounds I'm 14 and I stand at 5'4". Is that too fat for my age and height. I feel like I'm obese. If it is and I do need to loose weight, can anyone recomend a quick and easy way to loose weight before the end of summer? (Before August the 15)

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Ok, I'm writing this even though I never like to respond to these things but I thought this might help you....
During the last half of my Eighth grade year when all of my class was celebrating the end of high school I became completely wrapped up in loosing weight. It all began when I randomly plopped on the scale one day and found to my horror that I had passed the 100lbs marker. At fourteen I was mortified. For some reason I had always just had it in my head that I would always be thin, but what I didn’t realize was that at 5'4'' and 115lbs I was.
The next couple of weeks I went back and fourth between feeling completely huge or ok with myself. At first it was just in the back of my head, but I quickly began being unable to pass a mirror without viewing my "fat" before looking away in disgust and humiliation. Unable to sleep at night I would stay up late desperately searching the internet for pictures of celebrities to justify my weight. I found none. Because by that time the beginnings of anorexia had set in and I was searching for a "thin" that in reality I would never have. I wanted to look like the long and lean stars that I idled like Keira Knightley and Audrey Hepburn, but at 5'4'' that just was not possible.
I began judging everyone who walked by me to make myself feel better saying "oh she’s fat, she’s huge, and the occasional, God she’s so thin I wish I could be her".
By the time I went shopping for a graduation dress I had it in my head that if I starved myself all week I would be thin and "Happy" for the big day. And so I tried to do it but my will power gave out an hour before the ceremony during a teacher student pizza party. I stood their famished having not eaten all week battling with myself before grabbing a piece of pizza and guzzling it down and then running off to the girls bathroom to cry. I cried because I had failed, I cried because of what I had become, but mostly I cried because I was ashamed. I had always been the strong one, who never would let myself be pushed around, I was the happy popular girl who never dreamed that one day would wake up and find themselves in this position. I wanted to stop but at that point I couldn’t, my little insecurity had turned to a full on obsession.
That summer was hell. I remember spending my little brothers 9th birthday with my hand down my throat in the bathroom. Bent on being thin for the first day of high school, I would set starvation goals for myself. Days without food would leave me delirious and I would then binge on uncontrollable amounts of food before starving myself again as punishment. At first I said you'll be thin by July, then I said August, September, November, Christmas, March, it went on and on. I tried so many weight loss plans buying books, DVD’s, anything but I would always loose hope and resort to starvation because they never worked "quickly" enough.
So now that it's July 2007, and I find myself reading your comment on “obesity” I just wanted to let you know that your not. I would give anything in the world to go back to the way I was before all of this started as I am just now beginning to get over my obsession. I'm now 5'4'' fifteen years old and weigh 136lbs. funny huh because I wanted to weigh less and ended up with more. But I’ve come to accept where I went wrong and find happiness with myself. I now understand how serious weight loss can be, especially for young impressionable teenagers like ourselves. Theirs so much more I wish I could tell you but I know that if your serious about loosing weight this probably wont help you, you’ll have to discover this kind acceptance for yourself. Maybe through a horrible trial and error, but hopefully next time you look in the mirror you will be reminded of this, and it will help you to understand that your beautiful, and you will be stronger then you ever thought you could be for knowing it.




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