Hi! So I’m a 16 y/o female. I am 5’1 and weigh 138 pounds.
I recently realized I am losing a bit of hair!
There are so many reasons this could be going on: stress/depression, season change (I heard that happens to some people?), anemia (I have the sneaking suspicion I have an iron deficiency) or— most likely— calories. I used to eat 800 calories a day because I was ignorant to how damaging it is, but that was months and months ago.. but now I am eating 1,200 calories a day, but I know I should be eating more because I am a teenager and I have also started exercising.
The thing is, I am so scared of gaining weight. I just want to feel good about myself and I am already in an overweight bmi and summer is coming up.. I want to be able to get down to like 125 pounds. I walk an hour every day and sometimes I do a REALLY light ab workout at night. Should I eat 1,400? I know people feel tempted to tell teens to eat more because it sounds bad to tell a teenager to restrict but please trust me when I say that my self esteem has been so low with this extra weight, I REALLY want to lose the rest of the weight.. Being short does not make this any easier :( The TDEE calculator said my maintenance calories is 1,600!!
Sorry if that was vent-y, if anyone has questions to help give me an answer I’d be glad to answer! I highly doubt my parents would take me to the doctor to talk about weight and advice (they already think I’m healthy and fine so it’d just frustrate them) THANK YOU if anyone can help me with this! I just want to do things healthy and right.
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