If you lose weight by starving yourself, you will lose form.. you need nutrients while working out to maintain your body's form.. you don't want to look scrawny.. even some models look gross.

Actually no you won't. Your body will be putting on extra pounds due to water weight gain (bloating) and going into survival mode so it has something to live off of. Sure, you can try it, but be prepared for massive amounts of diarhhea, heart palpitations, dehydration, loss of muscle, the list goes on. Seriously though, have any of you young girls with body image issues considered getting a funhouse mirror? Seriously. It has been shown to help those women with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD, a syndrome similar to OCD, but these women often do not think they are perfect enough and as a result, often endure massive amounts of plastic surgery)and I am seriously wondering if those same mirrors could help with women who have body issues regarding their weight. You are not fat. And the proper way to lose weight is to make sure you are getting the calories you need or you will just lose MUSCLE MASS, not fat. Your body, going into starvation mode, will start storing EXTRA FAT so it has energy reserves to live off of. And if you did not have much fat to begin with, guess what? Your body will begin to waste away, eating your muscles (yes, including your heart) in order to get the calories and energy it needs to run off of. It saddens me that so many people are affected with some type of eating disorder, that society puts so much pressure on us to be these skinny little things. I have always been tiny. I have had the opposite problem. Being called anorexic because I am so tiny. Being made fun of for being skinny. It is not a blessing all the time. For one thing, try having children when you have no hips! Yup, that's me. Couldn't even carry a little one to term because of my natural internal build (a retroverted uterus and a small heart defect did not help in matters). My point is, fat or skinny, not everyone is going to like you or the way you look. YOU need to like you. If you are a girl, embrace your curves. They are there for a reason. If you are a guy, well let me tell you, my hubby has a bit of a "beer belly"...not huge, but the gut is there...and I LOVE IT. You do not have to be skinny to be loved. My sister got my dad's genes. She is short but very curvy with a big ol' booty. She gets guys clamoring over her all the time. And she also got stuck with the better appendages...boobs....I am soo jealous although I must admit that her boobs on my frame would be uhm, wierd. Ladies and men alike, love yourself how you are. If you are obese by a doctor's standard then by all means, exercise and diet. But if you are just right, then stay just right. Don't starve yourself. Its not worth your life.

I weigh 108 lbs and I am 4'11. I find that eating a normal 1600 calorie diet does not allow me to lose weight at all.. in fact I put weight on. I am pretty active. I gain muscle very quickly. So if I ate around 500 calories a day and I lost muscle would that be ok since I look too bulky because of the muscle???

No it would not be okay. If you don't like the muscle mass you are gaining, stop the type of exercise you are doing. Try lean muscle exercises instead, like swimming, dance, yoga, running. You would not be losing muscle due to lower caloric intake, you would be WASTING muscle due to lower caloric intake, in other words, your body would begin to use the muscle energy to feed itself. And you don't need to be losing weight anyway. At 108 lbs and 4'11 you are on target for the proper weight. Besides, you say you are active and muscle weighs more than fat. So you are really not gaining weight. You are gaining muscle mass, which is not a bad thing. A normal caloric intake is from 1000-1600 a day. Not 1600. It depends on YOUR specific body needs. For example, I have a blessedly fast metabolism, so I need more calories to support my metabolic burn. People who have slower metabolism need less caloric intake.

So Ive been reading what everyone else is saying and I know what you are prob thinking bc I think the same thing.But let me just give you a little in site. Ok so Ive been hospitalized for anorexia and and bulimia.And I have starved myself to where I lost all the weight I wanted to lose.But once you lose that 10-15 pounds,it wont be good enough,you'll want to lose another 10 pounds,and then another 10 pounds.And Yes,the answer to your question is,is that if you eat the bare minimum and work out,and then start eating again,you will gain weight,and prob even more.Your body will store the fat bc it is scared it wont get food again.Your going to do what you want to do,but I have done it twice already where I lost a crap load of weight very quickly,and when I started to return to eating again,I actually got to be the heaviest I have ever been in my life!And I know what it feels like to want to do this,and you just ended up failing at it,and so have I,but it is bc we are meant to eat...I know it is hard bc you want to lose weight fast and look good.But I hate to say this,and it makes me mad too but I can never see the weight I have lost,I ALWAYS feel fat and feel I could be a few more pounds skinnier.I do understand what you are feeling bc I have felt it my whole life,but please try to reconsider how you lose weight.Wouldn't you rather lose it the right way,and actually keep it off instead of losing it really fast and then gaining all of it back?I do believe in that saying that it is easy getting it off,but the hard part is keeping it off...Well good luck!

I am a recovering anorexic Don't dool yourself it you strat staving yoursefl you will go in this werid mode you won't come out of. Plus not eating lowers your metabolism. Just eat healthy and eat breckfast i really is the most important meal. I't good to eat a big breckfast and a small dinner and supper. This way you will burn just as much calories and will still feel full and no hungar pains.

I've struggled with weight issues my whole life. For a time in my life, I was much thinner than I am now, and I got that way from starving myself and working out. I guess I had the same idea these people did, and the thought process went something like this:

"If you don't eat, you lose muscle mass, which you need for burning fat, however, if I work out I'll be building muscle and my body will need fuel so it will consume my fat stores, which are really nothing but energy reserves. After all, people stranded on a desert island lose weight because they're using up all their fat, so all I have to do is trick my body into thinking I need muscle by working out while not eating."

I think I went like a week, almost two weeks, without eating. Then I started taking weight loss pills and drinking Slim-Fast. I did lose some weight, but I didn't keep it off and it led to unhealthy lifestyle choices. I guess what I'm saying is that it will work, but it won't do what you want it to do. I'm twice as fat now and I have an ulcer because of what I did to myself.

You need to do things healthy, and if you're young, you have a LOT of time to learn how to be healthy and make choices which will last for your life, not just for a couple weeks before school or until you make yourself sick.

to the girl who posted this bulletin
i know exactly how u feel i am on a baked grilled meat and vegie diet.
no fruit cause sucrose is bad
no bread,pasta,ceral,noodles anything like that cause of carbs this is my 2nd day
im not starving myself i do get hungry and dont eat but i think that is just self control

i do some crunches its too cold to run rite now cause i get sick easily always have n i def. dont need that

ive tried and tried to not eat
but i cant NOT not eat...
does that make sense?

i can skip breakfast, but i dont because i know how important it is. i wish that was the only meal i ate in a day.

i eat lunch with about 10 people and my mom makes it for me in the morning. and food isnt cheap... im a vegan so nothing is cheap. so i have to eat at least part of my lunch

i usually skip after school snacks cause no one can see if i eat one or not and its easy enough to lie about

dinner is really bad. i eat with my entire famiyl and if i hardly eat anything every night they will catch on

I NEED HELP.
dont tell me to eat more
dont tell me to eat healthy
i eat at least 1000 calories a day
i eat only the healthy stuff
some days i binge

its some type of disorder.
ive tried to throw up, i just couldnt do it.
on weekends and around other people i usually just dont eat because its uncomfortable.

im 5'4'' 127 and 15 years old

calories, my weight, what i look like
its the ONLY thing i have on my mind

I NEED HELP. and i know it.
i just dont want to admit it to anyone who will do anything...i dont want this control to go away.

usually i binge and loose it all. then i get depressed. its a viticious cycle and i want to end it.

i used to be really skinny, but i still thought i was fat. but now ive gained so much weight and even though i have more confidence in myself i still hate my body. ive been on a diet and excersizin everyday but after 2 months it hasnt made any difference! ive measured myself and ive gained a few cms on my waist! ive starved myself before, and i lost so much weight so im going to start again, little bit by little bit. no1 can talk me out of it dont even try.

what i do to lose weight is i eat portion controlled meals, for example half a cup of cheerios and half a cup of soy milk and a banana. 2 hours later i will have an apple and a string cheese. for lunch i'll have a sandwhich and some carrots and nuts for protein. After school i work out for an hour and burn around 300 calories. Dinner will be light like a salad (dressing on the side!) and some fruit.
drink water every time you eat!!!!!!!!!!!

by following this your not starving your body, its still getting all of the servings you need to be healthy and its all very light making it easy to work off..

GOODLUCK

i am a guy and when i was 16 i was 500 pounds and one day i snaped i stoped eating or eating very little and by the time i was 19 i was 200 pounds but i didnt look good my hair was brittle and i had a big patch in the front of my head were hair was and i lost almost all my muscle mass so i was even less pleased with my apperence than i was when i was 500 pounds i put 100 pounds back on my body in 6 months just by going back to my old eating habits now i am 290 but very musculer and my hair has grown back i am loseing the weight slow because i noticed when i dont eat even for a few days i loose muscle and hair rather quickly its a problem and once you start staving yourself it is hard to get out of the cycle because even when you eat normally you gain a lot of weight back very quickly because your body is starving and not only that you feel and look like caca so take it from me if you want to look good eat balaced diet protien cards and fats eat small meals 5 times a day but make sure you eat enough and if you want to see results as quick as possible run 3 times a week and weight train 5 times a week but while your doing this it is important to eat right and you will see the best results the quickest amount of time dont starve your self it is an endless cycle of bull**** and it will drive you crazy trust me eat right and weight train hard and you will look and feel asome very quickly and most important of all you will be healthy and dont weight your self every day only weight yourself once a week because your body weight changes hourly dont even go by the scale go by the mirror and you will feel better in the end