Advice on what to do PLEASE!!!! REALLY URGENT!!!

[maya21]

Im 14 and 11 months, 5'8 and 147 pounds and im fat. exactly a year ago i was skinny and i could go swimming in bikini's and what not and now....i cant. im depressed about my weight all the time now, my friends still stayed skinny but from july 2010 to december 2010 i gained a massive load of weight and i have no idea where it has come from! my parents are skinny my two sisters are skinny, basically my whole familys skinny!!!

nothing in my life has really changed apart from puberty, growing taller and i dont like mcdonalds or kfc or anything like that since i was 9! the stuff makes me vomit after i eat it so i cant have it anyway. i have done sport for 8 years now including soccer 3 years, afl 8 years, swimming 5 and softball 4. so i dont understand!!! why me!?!? this isnt happeneing to my friends! i looked at my year 8 class photo and i was as skinny as **** and a year later i am fat,ugly and depressed because of my weight. for the past nine months i have been walking nearly everyday on top of doing soccer twice a week for 2 hours each and i run for enjoyment because it relieves stress. and nothing is working!

please! please help me!!! im at the point where i am trying to starve myself or not eat and i get sick like vomit, have major headaches and all. im trying so hard to lose weight and nothings working!!! please! im still young and i want to know what can help. it really sucks that my friends didnt go through it! none of them!!!! i cry almost once a day because of it and im down all the time. please, please help me!

much appreciated.

 

[backbeat]

When I was 14 I played hockey on the city wide all star team 5x per week. I was also captain of the football team, and played that 4-5 days a week too. I was still fat. For some of us, sports isn't enough.

Starving yourself isn't the answer. First off, you'll lose all your muscle and second you'll slow your metabolism down so your body gets fat again as soon as you eat. You do have to eat, just eat the right stuff. For me, what worked was cutting out all sugar. This means no fruit (including corn), no juice or pop, no bread, no potatoes, no rice, no pasta, no candy or deserts. Dairy is pretty bad too.

I don't believe in cutting carbs completely, but the carbs I eat come from slow release sources, so they don't spike my blood sugar and trigger fat storage. Slow release carbs are beans, steal cut oats, quinoa, veggies and such. Eat veggies and meat with every meal, a slow carb with most meals, and don't over eat. You'll cut weight.

That and working out 4 days / week lost me 70 lbs, but slowly (it took about 5 years). To make it faster, do wind sprints or some other high intensity interval training in the morning before breakfast. Losing weight isn't fun, but its not that hard once you get used to it.