I've got a friend who is 11 stones but she's not really sure if she is really overweight. We've been argueing for a long time.
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At 14 lb to the stone, your 153 lb female friend should be 5'5" to 6' tall (depending on her frame size) to not be overweight.
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It sounds like they want a response from you or maybe they want to make you feel bad about your weight. \nYou should try to talk to them about this and let them know how you feel. If they don't try to change, I'd work on finding some new friends. Friends should never upset you and hurt your feelings on purpose!
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yes..Try to note one whole day what she eats..i have a friend too shes obseessed with dieting.\nOur parents are ppl we depend on and want love and attension from..What ever they put in our heads we CAN NEVER forget.\nEven if its OUR own feeling about what they expect fromus.\nShes probably dieting like hell and not telling ya.\nhelp her...plz.
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I'm guessing u think u weigh too much. Have u just tried to talk ur problems out with some who cares or has the same problem? I use to think i didn't/ couldn't weigh enough. I ate everything in sight and couldn't get over a hundred lbs. I couldn't find anything to wear, everything was too big. even my size 0 jeans. So I guess i had to opposite problem. It went away after I had a kid. I use to talk to girls who had eating disorders to help them.
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Definitely not.  Keep an eye on your friend, because she may be heading toward the kind of thinking that leads to anorexia, the eating disorder where a young woman or teen girl of normal weight feels that she has no control over her life, and chooses dieting and over-exercising to control her body.  Accompanying this is a self-image that is always "fat", even though she may become rail-thin.  Another, related psyhchiatric illness is bulimia, where the young woman or teen girl will eat regular meals, but then secretly throws up so the nutrition is wasted.  I have had personal experience with this - a close friend had anorexia.  Let's hope your friend is not headed this way in her thinking.  If she is, she will need professional help a.s.a.p.
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Are you fishing for compliments?  I'll bet you know darn well that 5'6 and 134 lbs isn't fat.  If you FEEL fat, that's another thing but ask yourself realistically if you're just being hard on yourself or do you really truly believe you have a weight problem.
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give your friend the support a good friend would tell her that it is important to stay healthy and not worry if shethinksshe is fat she sounds like she is just right or a little to thin she should be proud that she doesnt have much bigger issues such as health etc.
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I think she may still be self-conscious even though she's lost weight.  She had been a thick girl for awhile, and even though she's lost weight, her self image may still be a little low. Or, it could be just that she likes doing something different. Who knows...
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Unfortunately I have had many friends with eating disorders, some much more serious than others. Some will listen to advice and some only listen to the voices in their heads telling them that they are fat.\n\nIf you think that your friend is still at a point where you can talk some sense into her tell her something along the lines of...\n\n"Look, you are my friend and I care about you a lot. It really upsets me that you can't see how beautiful you are. It makes me feel awkward that you seem to have developed some competitiveness about being the slimmest. Life's too short to worry about dieting and being thin. Just be healthy and enjoy life."\n\nIf you think that she is resorting to skipping meals or making herself sick then you need to speak to her parents or get her to speak to a doctor or counselor asap.\n\nYou need to also work out why she wants to be thin; does she feel unattractive and have generally low esteem? Has she grown up in a home where the mum always diets and has weighing scales around the house? I have friends with mothers who are like this and comments like "honey, you've put on weight" slowly eat away at them. Are there other areas of her life that she feels she has no control of and uses her food intake as a method of feeling in control of one area of her life? There may be a few reasons but by getting to the root of the problem you are more likely to find a solution.\n\nI hope some of this helps.
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i dont care what all the other people are saying, they are talking rubbish. There is NO way you can determine how much you should weigh from your height alone. Even the most simple BMI which isnt the most perfect proper measurement, gives a more realistic idea and thats from weight and height stats combined. You dont have much height on you so i would recomend no more than 11 stone for a healthy body. 10 stone is more realistic to what your likely to be. but then your probably young to be asking that kind of question so your probably like 9 stone?
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No, you’re NOT fat. 8.5 stones (British weight) is 119lbs, which is a healthy weight for a person 5’6”. You’re BMI (Body Mass Index) is 19.2 which means your weight is in the normal (towards the low end though) of the healthy weight zone. It’s easy to be caught up in the obsession over appearance and weight. You do not want to be underweight. Anorexia damages your organs and destroys your life and the damage to your body is irreversible. A good way to help you feel in control and good about your health and appearance is to get involved in sports or any kind of physical activity and deal with stresses and problems right away before they start to affect your eating habits.
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I think you should go talk to a your guidance counsaler about  this....tell them exactly what you just said in this question....tell them how you feel and try confronting your friend and find out what she thinks.....but make sure you tell whomever really quickly it might be serious....just say i have this friend who seems like shes not eating well has had excesive weight loss and etc....dotn be scared your doing the right thing.
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This is a loaded question, there are a number of reason a person can be overweight. Thyroid problems, lack of proper exercise,metabolism. I am overweight myself and most of the reason I am is because I had to relearn proper serving sizes of food, growing up my parents filled my plate and I got used to eating that much, I have had to modify my intake and increase my exercise to lose the excess weight.However my doctor has informed me that because of my bone mass I will never fit the height/weight chart and will always be looked at as overweight.
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I don't think she's fat at all!, my friend is skin and bones and thought she was fat, and she was trieng to loose weight, i kept telling her she's not and so did MANY other people, i also showed her the averge weight 4 a 13 year old online and she finally reliezed that she wasn't fat and stopped trieng to loose weight. Maybe you should do what i did and kept telling her she's not fat, try to get some of you guys friends support 2.
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That's fine.  I'm 26 years old.  I'm 5'5' and I'm only 100 lbs.  I've been the same since the age of 17.  People say I'm too skinny and say I should gain wieight, but I'm healthy.  THEY ARE JEALOUS.  I have a normal appetite.  I don't like soda, fries or junk food and I love walking and biking and other sports.  99% of the time, if someone tells you crap like that, THEY ARE JEALOUS.  When my mom comments, I know it's out of concern.  If you have an eating dissorder, tell someone you are comforable talking to and get help.  But if you are healthy, you should not care about what other people say.  If they call you skin and bones, don't be offended.  Just be glad you're not fat.  Don't be offensive or rude.  Fat people have a lot harder of a time than we do... but it's true we all get crap for something... being skinny, being fat, being black, being american, being different than the person talking shit.  Don't be offended or offensive.  You'll be fine.
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It doesn't sound like you are overweight, but everyone is different and it is dificult to go by weight and height only. I was told my ideal weight was to loose four stone, but after two I realised I was ok and, when I lost 9 lbs more, I looked awful - really unhealthy and ill. \n\nBest thing to do at the moment is not to loose weight as you are still very young and it could be really bad for your health, stopping things like your breasts growing. If you just watch what you are eating, do lots of exercise and let yourself finish growing (when you're around 20), you will find that you stretch and slim out anyway.\n\nWho cares what other people think anyway? Most girls are really bitchy when it comes to this kind of thing. Ignore them and enjoy becomming a woman.
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i have a friend like that, she weight about 5-7 more pounds then you, and is only 2inchs highter, shes having ALOT of problems as fare as her health goes so frankly, i'd tell your doctor, beucase its not healthy, plz for everyone that cares about you, get some help, teehee