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writes: I have always been rather paranoid about my weight for good reasons, but recently i have begun to notice a differnce after looking in the mirror. I'm 13, and in biology we are learning about metabolism etc. I wondered if during adolesence your metabolism increases enough for me to continue to eat as I do (this isn't a lot bty!) but lose weight. Ia m asking this here as as far as I know, the main reason people ignore me is becasue of this. Will getting thing make more poeple interested in me?
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reader, anonymous, writes (19 November 2007): You might get a bit thinner but most people don't change radically. If you're already having an overweight issue, then don't expect the simple forces of puberty to fix it for you.
And even if teenage metabolism did burn a bunch of weight off, the weight would come right back on when you slow down the growing. (Ever hear of the very common "freshman 15" weight gain during college? That's what happens when teenagers start drinking at about the same time that they stop growing.)
There is a certain amount of natural preference for higher & lower weights that different people's bodies seem to want to maintain. You may be naturally prone to being heavy. That extra preference is something to pat yourself on the back for overcoming if you lose the weight, but DO NOT let it be too much of an excuse to yourself for staying heavy.
Your body can't physically stay heavy if you eat less and move more, no matter what the natural tendency might be. Your "natural tendency" can only make you want more or less food and make you feel more or less full, but it can't make 1000 calories add twice as much weight to your body as it does to someone else's body. That's the truth. The plain old basics of weight loss really do work if you just stick with them consistently enough.
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reader, AnnaW219  +, writes (18 November 2007):
 maybe yh personaly i dont even no what that word is
just dont give up and dont go on a diet cause youve heard about what happens i bet they go anorexic
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