how my boobs are going to react

amy19355

Enjoy your 18 year old boobs. You’ll look back fondly on them in the future, when it is pretty much a guarantee they will sag.

ashleyn4489

What type of exercise stuff do you use. I've lost a cup size after my kids and since I've started my journey. Mine look awful to me after the kids...

PAV8888

So it sounds like you're normal weight at 1.73cm / 72kg but are feeling that you have some fat on you (but unknown amount) and are feeling sluggish as compared to when you were in your earlier teens when you didn't exercise but were very active?

I am not sure that focusing on a major weight loss of 15kg that would take you to the lowest end of the healthy weight range is the best way to recapture that feeling at 18!

Forgetting whether you should or should not clean up your eating (so you were eating carbs before... why is that bad? Eat carbs, just add some vegetables and fruits and healthy fats and proteins ), forgetting even if losing a very small amount of weight might make improvements to your "excess" fat storage, your issue is the reduction of activity as you've grown older!!!

And your current plan does not address that!

People in their early 20s, or younger, and not obese have a lot of things they can and should do that will have a positive impact on their weight and body composition and long term outlook. Restricting calories to lose 33lbs is not at the top of the list!!

AnnPT77

taessane wrote: »

maureenseel1984 wrote: »

I don't eat vegetables at all (still not eating them tho) but it doesn't affect a child much as does when you grow older, I definitely was way thinner than now

Age?

Striving to be as thin as you were then is not necessarily realistic.

I am 18, I started gaining weight when I was 14, my height hasn't increased much since then (I gained another inch), I wasn't super thin then but I felt good, I ate too many carbs but as I said I was super active so I never gained weight, I don't know anything about going back to where I was but I know that there is too much fat in my body (I can't tell how much) and NO MUSCLE MASS AT ALL, so even if the number could be my healthy weight (I'm sure it isn't) it's not healthy right now plus I loved feeling light and I'd give anything to have that back. I am not as weak as pushing myself to achieve a norm that is supposed to be beautiful and forcing myself to believe it is.

I'm concerned that you're not so much feeling excess weight as an adult, but the advancing weight of adulthood itself.

Essentially no human, at 18, should ideally weigh what they did at 14. It isn't just about adding height (so weight along with it), but about "filling out" in a good way, getting the shape of a grown woman or man. For we women, there is the development of breasts, a widening of the pelvis, generally getting curvier overall around the hips or thighs. Pre-puberty, girls and boys aren't that differently built. As they mature, they tend to change shape in different ways, but both sexes change from that generic childhood narrow shoulders, narrow hips, flat behind, usually not very explicitly muscular look.

I'm concerned that you may be seeing some of those normal, desirable, healthy changes as "gaining fat". Most commonly, some fat is added vs. that skinny/narrow/bony (if not overweight) look of a child. But that's not "getting fat" as in becoming overweight necessarily. Still, some people find it alarming or in some way undesirable, and try to work against it.

If you felt better, "lighter" when you were more active and healthier, I'd suggest very strongly that you work on your activity level (gradually increase it) and health (eat nutritiously, and stop cutting calories for at least a few months). Try to eat enough to maintain your current weight, but be more active, both cardiovascular exercise (doesn't have to be fancy, walking works to start) and strength (bodyweight exercises that don't require equipment are a start, if you don't have equipment or access to a gym).

By eating enough to maintain your weight for at least a while, you give your body a chance to get stronger and healthier, and to let you feel better. If you feel weak, and bad, and unhealthy, sticking with reduced calories will not help your health and energy and appearance at your already fairly light weight, especially since it sounds like you may already have been calorie-restricting for a while. Get enough protein, figure out a way to eat some varied and colorful vegetables and fruits, get healthy fats like nuts, seeds, avocados, and olive oil. Eat enough calories of those healthy things, properly balanced, to keep your weight steady, let your body get stronger and feel better.

Get healthier, get stronger. Work on that for 6 months to a year at least, then re-assess. I'm betting you'll feel better, and that the health/fitness improvements will also make you look better, even in your own eyes.

Best wishes!

ETA: You'll find some bodyweight strength-improvement programs, as well as more traditional weight lifting programs, in this thread:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/

ExistingFish

I had a child's body at 14. My 9th-grade year I was the height I am now, but I was 92lbs and I had measurements of 32-22-32. For reference, my 4-year-old has a 19" waist.

By my senior year, I was 115lbs (essentially the same I am now), a 32DD/DDD (same I am now, the shape has changed though), and had much more womanly hips. Don't remember the measure. I've since had three kids, so my hips and breasts have changed, but I am at the same weight and bra size I was at 18. Not the same boobs, same bra size.

A 14-year-old is a child, and more than likely has a child's body. You ate a lot and didn't gain weight because you had a child's growing metabolism. Also why you had so much energy, I haven't met a child who did not.

ProgressShowing

I would guess you'll be fine. There are exercises that you can do to firm the pectoral muscles to help support your breasts.

My concern is sagging skin. My pics are already showing that, especially in my comparison pics. Right now, I'm okay with that because I'm losing inches and I feel better too.

AnnPT77

ProgressShowing wrote: »

I would guess you'll be fine. There are exercises that you can do to firm the pectoral muscles to help support your breasts.

My concern is sagging skin. My pics are already showing that, especially in my comparison pics. Right now, I'm okay with that because I'm losing inches and I feel better too.

Give it a year or two at goal weight, maintaining. And some of us (like me) look worse part way to goal, because a small amount of squishy subcutaneous fat is still conspiring with gravity to keep the skin stretched, until that fat mass depletes nearly completely.

But that's off-topic for this thread. Apologies, OP.

ProgressShowing

AnnPT77 wrote: »

ProgressShowing wrote: »

I would guess you'll be fine. There are exercises that you can do to firm the pectoral muscles to help support your breasts.

My concern is sagging skin. My pics are already showing that, especially in my comparison pics. Right now, I'm okay with that because I'm losing inches and I feel better too.

Give it a year or two at goal weight, maintaining. And some of us (like me) look worse part way to goal, because a small amount of squisy subcutaneous fat is still conspiring with gravity to keep the skin stretched, until that fat mass depletes nearly completely.

But that's off-topic for this thread. Apologies, OP.

Thanks for the encouragement! 🙂

taessane

AnnPT77 wrote: »

ProgressShowing wrote: »

I would guess you'll be fine. There are exercises that you can do to firm the pectoral muscles to help support your breasts.

My concern is sagging skin. My pics are already showing that, especially in my comparison pics. Right now, I'm okay with that because I'm losing inches and I feel better too.

Give it a year or two at goal weight, maintaining. And some of us (like me) look worse part way to goal, because a small amount of squishy subcutaneous fat is still conspiring with gravity to keep the skin stretched, until that fat mass depletes nearly completely.

But that's off-topic for this thread. Apologies, OP.

no, I find it really helpful I don't mind it at all

RunsWithBees

When I was losing my excess weight people always swore up and down and assured me I’d lose breast volume, I was actually looking forward to this because my chest has always been heavy. My breasts did not budge an inch. Not a single inch. They stayed exactly the same throughout my 43 pound weight loss and I lost from everywhere else but there. Since then I’ve had a mammogram and found out I have very dense breast tissue so they are unlikely to be affected by weight loss (barring starvation of course) so I’m stuck with ‘em. You are probably too young to have had a mammogram yet so you don’t know how dense your tissue is but really the only way to know for sure how your body will react is to actually lose the weight, maintain for a couple of years and then you will have your answers