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Losing 40 pounds

Jyeeunie98
Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
edited February 2 in Health and Weight Loss
How do y’all do that? I’m at 140 rn, but my goal is 40 pounds lower than that.

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    What is 140rn?
  • Go_Deskercise
    Go_Deskercise Posts: 1,630 Member
    rn = right now

    so 100 is your goal?
    how tall are you?
  • Jyeeunie98
    Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
    5’5?
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    Thank you go deskercise

    Yep. Gotta know your height.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    edited February 2021
    5'5" and 100 lbs? Why such a low weight? I'm also 5'5", and 100 lbs is a 16.6 BMI, which is pretty underweight. If you're going for a certain look, a recomp might give you better results.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    dragon_girl26 wrote: »
    5'5" and 100 lbs? Why such a low weight? I'm also 5'5", and 100 lbs is a 16.6 BMI, which is pretty underweight.

    what she said. it is not a realistic or healthy objective.
  • Jyeeunie98
    Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
    I need to get it down this much for a music thingy and I let it get out of control :(
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    I did lots of music things in high school and it never required me to be at an unrealistic weight. Which is also making me wonder how old you are..
  • Jyeeunie98
    Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
    Oh, I was thinking. I have a performance to get into this college and I feel like I would be more confident
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Jyeeunie98 wrote: »
    5’5?

    A goal of being 100 Lbs would put you about 15 Lbs underweight.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,116 Member
    Jyeeunie98 wrote: »
    Oh, I was thinking. I have a performance to get into this college and I feel like I would be more confident
    When a school or college has to determine your WEIGHT to decide whether or not you're RIGHT for the school instead of your TALENT, then that's NOT college you need to attend. 40lbs is almost half of what you want to weigh. Think about that for a second. And you're really willing to risk your health for that?
    Sorry if I sound harsh, but I've dealt with clients who had issues like this WELL after they got out of school with ED. And it sounds like you're willing to do that now. It's NOT something you'll want to have to try to overcome.


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  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    edited February 2021
    If you are just looking for some confidence, maybe setting a more reasonable goal would do the trick.
    You could lose 15-20 pounds and still be in a healthy weight range.

    HOWEVER, that would not happen quickly. When you don't have a lot to lose, healthy weight loss takes a lot of time and patience. It's never a good idea to attach a deadline (like your performance). Crash dieting could lead to dangerous and unhealthy habits.
  • Jyeeunie98
    Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
    It’s in May, that gives me plenty of time. And any diet I’ve tried in the past doesn’t work
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    Jyeeunie98 wrote: »
    It’s in May, that gives me plenty of time. And any diet I’ve tried in the past doesn’t work

    maybe because you don't have anything to lose :/
  • Jyeeunie98
    Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
    edited February 2021
    I still feel like everything would be better if I got it off??
  • Jyeeunie98
    Jyeeunie98 Posts: 7 Member
    If I lost the weight I would feel better :/
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    edited February 2021
    Trying to get to underweight will not make you feel better. Sorry
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    Jyeeunie98 wrote: »
    If I lost the weight I would feel better :/

    Try mastering a challenging exercise program instead of focusing on a FORTY pound weight loss, which is too much for your height. Start with this. If it's not challenging enough, let us know and we will offer more suggestions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdAPUA3GY4
  • Speakeasy76
    Speakeasy76 Posts: 961 Member
    May isn't really enough time to lose 40 pounds, especially in a healthy and safe manner. 15-20 pounds may be doable.

    Having said that, how do you feel about your ability to actually PERFORM for the audition? I'd think that would be the main thing I'd focus on for now. No school that's worth anything would discriminate based on size--or at least they shouldn't.

    I can understand that you would feel better about yourself performing on stage if you lost some weight. Like others have said, 100 pounds at your height is underweight. Truth be told, you may look strange at that weight (and not in a good way), especially if you've always been on the heavier side.

    Trying to lose a large amount of weight in a short amount of time to "look good" for a certain event is often a recipe for disaster, and almost no one keeps it off. At your age, if you focus on educating yourself about healthy eating, and healthy sustainable weight loss, as well as finding some activity you actually enjoy (and not "punishment" for eating) I can pretty much guarantee you'll be so much further ahead than so many other teenagers (and adults, too). You may even be able to avoid the Freshman 15, and hopefully set up habits that will stick with you for life.

    I was an overweight teenager once, and went on a crash diet and dropped a lot of lbs quickly. I thought I'd feel so much better about myself, and I did a bit, but I still wanted to be even thinner than I was. I also wanted to weigh 100 lbs at 5'6. The smallest I got to was 115 lbs, and at that point I was aiming to eat 500 calories a day. My body couldn't take it anymore and I ended up getting into this pattern of starving myself, then bingeing. Of course I gained all the weight back, and it set up a pattern for years of this kind of cycle of disordered eating and not feeling happy with myself. So--know that I understand where you are coming from, but hopefully you will learn from what I and others have told you and not fall into that pattern as well.
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