I’m very new to weight loss and have some questions :)

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So I’m 5’4 and around 134 pounds and people around me have been saying Ive been looking chubby and as a teen my insecurity is crazy so i definitely want to maybe go down to 120 or until im happy with how my body looks. I was wondering if anyone has tips for that!! I don’t have accessibility to the gym so it could only be at home exercises but I do have 2 10 pound weights and a hydronic stepper!! Any routines would be greatly appreciated! Another worry I have which is kinda making me hesitate on losing weight is that I’m scared if I lose a little my breasts and butt will be gone 😭 aaa idk I’m so anxious about everything, would love someone to talk to!!!

age_is_just_a_number

Welcome to the MFP community. We are a great group of supportive people who like to swap ideas, share successes and do our best to respond to questions like yours.
In reading your question, my first thought is …. You need to surround yourself with people who care about you for you and worry less about what other people think if your weight.
Second thought … You need to evaluate for yourself what your goals are.
Once you let go of what other people think and focus on your goals, then you can achieve anything you want to achieve.

You are young and should be developing a positive body image and not be ‘dieting’. In terms of weight loss, if you really need / want to lose 10-15 lbs is to eat at a small caloric deficit. I recommend to all newcomers the following:

1. track your good for 2 weeks . This is just data, don’t make any changes, just get into the habit of tracking.
2. after that, review the data. Look for patterns and one small change that you could make to reduce the calories you consume.
   
3. Make the one small change, continue to track. Every few weeks make another small change.

In terms of what you eat, that is really up to you. Generally speaking, in this community we advocate for Whole Foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, lean protein, complex carbohydrates, whole grains drink plenty of water.

generally speaking, I’d target a 0.5lb loss per week. At that rate, it will take 6 months to lose 10-15 pounds. Slow and steady is the sustainable way to go. Building great eating habits, will set you up for a healthy life long term.

In terms of exercise, that is for building and maintaining muscle. Do what you enjoy doing and stay active.

Take care

COGypsy

If you're not 18, this site is not for you. If you're not an adult, a trusted coach or your pediatrician should be a better resource for weight loss for growing bodies.

rms62003

First of all you are NOT chubby! If you put your stats in a BMI calculator, you are a NORMAL WEIGHT (BMI 23). Don't listen to those people who tell you that you look chubby!

You might want to look into resistance training and toning instead of actual weight loss. This can change your body shape, and, more importantly, it also helps with your ability to do physical stuff.

You don't need a gym for resistance/strength training. You can google/youtube a lot of good bodyweight exercises to do.

springlering62

Let me at ‘em. I feel like going full Grandmama Bear on these jokers.

If friends, reconsider your friendship. Sounds like there’s some jealousy going on there, or perhaps a lot of insecurity on their end, and they’re download on you because, well, misery loves company.

If it’s some dude you like, how dare he? That’s a control thing there, that is.

If this is a sibling or parent, I’m sincerely sorry. Tell them whoaaaaa! This hurts your feelings and ask them to back off.

You’ve got rights and a mouth. Respect the one and use the other.

You could’ve lied about your age. Any of us could. I’m not worried about that- although I am worried that having put it out there, you may get creepy guys (and yes, they’re on every site) trying to PM you.

1962? That’s my IQ, not my age. I’ve been psyching everyone out here for ages myself, lol.

Seriously, many warm, innocent, internet hugs to you, babe.

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PAV8888

Me grumbly old guy. Nice ladies I'm sure will come around and fix grumbly!

Old grumbly guy says wake up girl and smell the roses. You are at an absolutely normal weight (do your numbers at BMI 23) and your friends are half kittened hormonal teens in a tizzy either trying to bring themselves and you down or thinking that there is actual meaning in whether one looks like a washboard or looks like a centerfold or looks like a 25% photoshopped and adjusted by an AI image of influencer Tok Tik Bleepie Boobiez.

The way to a lifetime of problems is paved by you worrying about being 134lbs instead of 120lbs and spending your time trying to lose weight.

IF HOWEVER you do find yourself SYSTEMATICALLY OVEREATING WHEN NOT HUNGRY… that's another issue. And that one has nothing to do with "dieting" to fix.

In the meanwhile, if you do NOT find yourself systematically overeating, forget forcing yourself into a cycle of compensatory under-eating (i.e. controlled starving to lose weight, also known as caloric deficit). JUST, GO OUT! Hit some balls. Kick or punch some bags! Whack an object with a stick. Lift something heavy and put it down a few dozen times. DO SOMETHING that uses your body and fills you with strength and energy (or spends some of both). Worry about how to become faster than you are today, how to jump and reach higher than you can today, how to be stronger than you are today, and even more so worry about how you can be smarter, more educated, more of a critical thinker, and how you can best navigate the world!

Screw the weight loss for the sake of adjusting your weight because your "posse" is trying to bring you down either by accident or on purpose!

Grumbly guy who was occasionally told that he was chubby by people he has had minimal interaction with in more than 40 years (except for the one or two of them that are actual friends) and who used that high school talk as an entry point to spending a good 30 of the 40 years truly and truthfully overweight and obese instead of dealing with the underlying causes of what was making him prone to overeat is out… and heading for a nice relaxing walk while listening to an audiobook!

Hopefully the nice ladies will appear and patch your feathers a bit and re phrase all this in teen appealing mellifluous prose!

AnnPT77

I can't improve on what PAV said. He's on target.

But I have been a teen girl, or teen woman, depending on what age we're talking about.

If you're a young-ish teen, then most of us are going to go through a phase where our bodies do some weird and unfamiliar stuff, which can include being a little more "soft" looking than we'd like, then suddenly having a spurt of growth or maturation that leans us out. I know it's cognitively inconceivable when in the middle of that, but we don't want to short-circuit that. Our bodies know what they're doing at that stage, and cutting calories or doing extreme cardio or something is pretty much just torpedoing our lifelong good health.

At that stage, or later teens, it's also standard to give our social set waaay much too much power. Guess what? They don't know very much smart stuff yet. That's not a vicious criticism, it's just normal because we're still learning pretty fast through those years.

Part of maturing is grabbing the steering wheel and turning away from that poorly-informed social influence, hard though that may be. As a teen, you're in a position to set yourself up for a thriving adulthood, and adulthood - at least for lucky people - lasts way longer than our teens. Get on that path of thriving now, whether your peers do that, or support you doing that, or don't do it or don't support you doing it. Give yourself a great future. If your friends don't want to come along, honestly . . . leave them behind, get better friends.

For best appearance - which I know is important in our teens - the path of thriving is also the path of best health, and that healthy path is easier to learn about and follow without getting sidetracked by dumb influencers trying to sell stuff with edited photos and lies.

How? Good nutrition. Enough protein, healthy fats, whole grains, veggies and fruits. Maintaining a healthy weight - with the note that you're already in a heathy range, even if you'd like a more streamlined look. Avoiding or at least minimizing alcohol or other recreational substances. Keeping treats, fast foods, so-called junk foods down to a reasonable proportion of one's eating (maybe 20% or less).

And most importantly for best appearance, including the streamlined look you're seeking: Exercise. Strength exercise tends to have the most impact on appearance. It's what many influencers actually did to get their "toned" look, a toned look they try to use to sell you some other thing, like supplements, diet plans, or their special secret exercise programs. (They're lying.) Yeah, do some cardio, too - any type you find fun - because heart health is a big deal long term. But getting stronger is not only great for health, it's great for appearance.

Think about getting strong, fit, well-nourished. That will pay off in appearance, and it will pay off in lifelong good health. You're at a stage where you can start establishing habits that will serve you well long-term into adulthood.

Dieting - when you're at BMI 23 - is not one of those good habits. Focusing there tends to lead us into poor self-confidence, long-term weight yo-yos, and actually worse appearance. How do I know? Been there, did stupid stuff. Insightful people are smarter these days than they were in my youth. Be a smart person. Your older self will be grateful.

Best wishes!