It's Hard!!

40 pounds is not "way" over weight. Unfortunately if the rest of your family is not in support of a life (eating) style change you are in for a tuff time trying to lose weight. Please seek out an "Over Eaters Anonymous in your area and set up your fitclick account it has helped me. GOOD LUCK

God bless you sweetie, I know how hard it is to be around tempting food, I am a caregiver to the elderly and I make a lot of food sometimes for them, but I have to be stonger than the temtations. If you need to talk to someone, I'm here for you.

I feel for you Jane. I've always been overweight too. It started when I was about your age, maybe a bit younger. I spent my whole life between diets and believe me it's never helped because as you said, family rituals like sunday night movies or junk diners because evryone is too busy to cook are too tempting. It's hard I know but you need to talk to your family about it, make them understand that they have to help you through this. After that, the only healthy way of losing weight is to burn your calories. I know its hard when you're overweight because you feel sluggish and it looks like evryone else at the gym does better than you but it takes time and it makes you feel better about yourself when you've had a good workout (even if you only do half what the fitter people do. It feels like a step forward). Don't give up!

Thank you all for your encouraging comments--It's nice to know someone cares:)

Eat these items when your hungry.. nuts, cheese, hot dogs no bread..if you have to snack look at the carb intake.. try to keep it less carbs, the more you can eat.. oh yeah.. same with protein.. if no protein stay away.. there should be a purpose/ benefit to your body, why your eating that food... also if you don't like to exercise.. turn your radio on and just dance and have fun.. no music.. just dance, jump and get a little goofy with it.. Good luck I know you can do it.. I did it 3 years ago and I HATED WORKING Out.. I was 252lbs.. and now I'm 188 lbs.. kept it off for 3 years.. Not good luck to you but GREAT LUCK.. you can do it.. just when you think you can't.. know that someone, me, is rooting for you....

Don't worry so much about weight. Some people are just heavier than others. For example when I was a teen I was 140 lbs but I was skinny! Instead concentrate on your actual size. Measure yourself and keep track of those measurements on here. It'll help you see that you are losing fat. Taking pictures of yourself helps too (make sure you can see your trouble spots in the photos). You don't have to show them to anyone. Just keep them for yourself to see how much you've lost (take them about once a month). You CAN lose the weight. Work out (but don't overdo it...there is a such thing as too much there) and eat sensibly. As others have said try to ask your parents if they can buy more fruits and veggies for you to snack on. It feels a lot better, to me anyway, to eat a bowl of fruit salad than to eat a bag of chips. :) Don't forget that just as someone can eat way too many calories and gain weight, the same is true for eating too little. Find out what calorie intake you sh

Are you counting calories? I understand what is like to be overweight as teen. You have to make up your mind to make changes now when you are young and it will follow you into adulthood. Take something you like whether it is dancing, biking, rollerblading and use that to your benefit.

just by comming onto the site you have done your self proud I also want you to grab a tape mesure and mesure your self so when the scale wont move you will still be able to tell if your lossing bc if your swaping fat for muscle the scale wont move and somtimes goes up thats why the tape mesure Ill tell you right now its not easy and theres no quick fix it will take time but it will happen so stay positive and youll do fine

First, pay attention to your own self image not what everyone else looks like. Rest assured skinny girls have problems too. I was one. Second, stay on this site no matter what your results are. If you log everything and I mean EVERYTHING you will see where your mistakes are. Then you can improve to a healthier lifestyle and see positive results. I know having junk food in the house is horrible. My husband loves the stuff. I make sure there are plenty of apples, oranges, and other fruits in the house. They are not the same as a chocolate bar or a twinkie but you can eat more of them to satisfy your desire to chew (eat) something. For example an apple has about 60 calories (and natural sugar). A small candy bar (not bite size) has about 210 calories (and processed sugar). You would have to eat almost four apples to one candy bar. Ask your parents to buy more fresh fruits and vegetables. Best of luck in achieving your goals. Hope to see you continue on this blog.