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Heyo merry Christmas! Just got my weight measured im 61kg, my mother who has obesity is 71kg while my father is 74kg, ;–; Yeahhh. Just need some tips and good habits. When this virus is finally over i plan to walk 16 minutes (according to Google maps) to get to the bus station would that help?
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Hello, yes I am sure walking is good for you! Please, do not forget - weight is not the only important thing. It also matters how tall are you. For example, I am around 64kg - but!! - I am almost 180cm tall so I am OK. There is also Body Mass Index – BMI calculator so maybe you could keep your weight on a normal scale. Do not forget - you are only 13 years old so your body needs nutrition, vitamins, and minerals for growing, so no diets! try to focus on healthy food and live actively (sports, walks, running,... make your choice) Good luck!
ReplyYou're better off talking to a Dr about what's good for you. You don't want to be underweight or do unhealthy things either.
ReplyHello! As a 13-year-old you are still growing, and you are on the right track thinking about good habits. Walking is great! Explore different ways of moving your body -- find the ones that bring you joy. If something is joyful it is easier to incorporate into your day-to-day life and you are more likely to keep doing it over the long term, or return to it if you get in a funk for a while. I personally hated team sports and gym and running, but enjoy walking (especially in nature) and moving my body in water (which is harder in winter now because of the pandemic, unfortunately, but I know I will return to it when the weather warms up and in winter when the virus goes away!). I wish someone had helped me tune into my own body when I was your age and discover what I liked, rather than push me to do stuff I hated.
The other thing is to be attentive to what you put in your body, and why. Not dieting (the yo-yo aspect is actually really bad on bodies), but just finding healthy eating habits that you love, if you're not doing that already, and noticing if there are times that you use food to meet needs other than hunger.
And some element of how much you weigh and what your body shape is is genetic, so look to your family tree to get a sense of what healthy and strong can look like for you, its not the same for everybody. There are people who weigh twice as much as me who are in better shape and healthier.
I hope this helps!
ReplyCheck out youtube videos for hula hooping and weight loss. I think you would like it. Its a fun way to exercise, and you would be amazed at the weight people have lost doing it. ❤
ReplyPhysical activity is almost always beneficial for a variety of reasons. But other considerations are important too, such as where you live. There are environmental factors, such as pollution, that might be detrimental if you have asthma and if your walk is along a stretch of a busy highway. Other environmental factors may include whether your walk could include an economically distressed inner city neighborhood where you might encounter increased risk for being an unintended bystander victim of drug related gang violence or an intended victim of abusive police power practices (or both). There are infrastructure considerations like whether you route will provide you with continuous sidewalks (a safe distance from the road) protected from automotive encroachment and standing water by a suitable curb with adequate runoff drainage and safe crossings at intersections. Other considerations include whether will you be required to walk at night or in bad weather or at times of the day and / or of the year when poor viability might make you less visible to drivers.
Where I live, I would never suggest a young person walk from my house to a nearby train station because the journey would require a seriously dangerous walk along a steeply inclined, narrow, winding road, with partially obstructed views of oncoming traffic. One lane of this road is always flooded with several inches of water due poor drainage. There is no pedestrian footpath or curb.
I assume you are telling us that you are obese. As a young person living in a house with obese parents, it is not going to be easy to lose weight on your own (especially through diet). I congratulate you for trying to get some advice and for asking for help.
If possible, I would ask your parents to see if they would be interested (together as a family) to address your family's obesity. Can it be addressed as a family problem with a joint consultation (like in a family therapy setting) perhaps by meeting as a group with a healthcare or nutritional professional? I don't know what resources are available to you in your community, but I think you will be more likely to succeed if you and your parents are all onboard together. Things like eliminating certain types of foods in the house have worked very well for me, but not when someone else brought food into the house that I am supposed to avoid. I can resist temptation for the hour or so I am in the grocery store (shopping for the family). I am not so good at resisting any temptation when it lives in my kitchen 24/7. Will power alone is a very difficult way to change dietary habits, especially if you are share your living space with people who don't share your priorities (like eating healthy and losing weight).
I have had good success on multiple occasions (I don't always stay successful) managing obesity and type 2 diabetes with diet alone (without incorporating regular exercise) by changing my shopping and eating behaviors in ways that eliminate difficult will power battles. I model my own households purchasing and consumption practices on what is now called the ketogenic diet (look it up and do your own research). I avoid all carbohydrate rich foods, I avoid all processed foods----there is a significant amount of material on-line--and as the popularity of this diet type has increased--so does the amount of available material). Be careful pursuing information on-line however. Because our lawmakers have failed to protect us from corporate interests, the internet has become a very difficult place to navigate safely. The good news is that a lot of people (like me and others) want to share what they know. In order to learn about and experiment with the ketogenic diet, or any diet for that matter, you don't need to subscribe to, or buy anything from, anyone on the internet (avoid any websites that are trying to sell you something/anything including knowledge). Furthermore, as a response to a previous comment, there are plenty of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) in low (or no) carbohydrate whole foods.
It sounds like what you have been doing so far hasn't brought you the results you desire, so trying trying something new might help. The fact that you are asking for help and have found a suitable website to do so is a great first step in the right direction. Good luck to you.
ReplyWalking a bit every day, or going for a short run is always good for people. Don’t try diets or things like that because they can actually be quite destructive and will hurt you in the end. So yeah, I’d say try to hit the gym and do some weight training or try to run a bit. Remember that it’s a process, so even if you can’t run 2k one day, start slow and then slowly increase the distance! You got this.
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