how do you know you are fat?
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Find a chart online and compare your height and weight it'll tell you.
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no. go look in a mirror and even if its hard, try to think about it realistically.  look at yourself as a whole instead of focusing in on different parts here and there.  you are not fat, you are thin. \ni have a feeling that you dont eat very healthily and my advice is too eat regularly, even if its not a lot. even if its less than you should, eat regularly.
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A pound of fat is 3,500 calories in excess of the calories your body burns. You can calculate your basal metabolic rate (the minimum number of calories your body burns just being alive every day) and then using a tool like Fit Day online to calculate how many calories you're expending with your life style and working out. Compare that to the number of calories you eat every day.  The chances are--if you're working out and not eating excessively, your weight gain is probably mostly muscle. \n\nThere are scales you can buy that approximate fat and muscle composition, but the only way to find out for sure is to get doctor's measurements like underwater weight testing (fat floats while muscle doesnt).  If you don't want to pay money for things like that and just want to be healthy--take repeated tape measurements of your chest, waist and other body parts. The location of inch decreases/increases will tell you where the weight is going. You may be losing fat while gain muscle mass.
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some people are just thin.....you should ask your doctor if you are at a healthy weight....he/she can probably tell more by looking at you than someone could over the computer......your frame size and fat percentage are big factors
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If you look in the mirror and you see a big fat women but your friends tell you you are slim, (they would tell you) excersice obsessed\nYou are calorie obsessed and eat hardly anything a day just (so you can slim into that top) \nyour clothes are baggy on you \nOfcourse I am not an expert but if you are feeling like you have a problem then see your doctor and here is something thhat you can see for yourself whether you are underweight normal overweight or obese, http://www.lifescript.com/channels/channel.asp?goto=health_tools    go to that adress and figure out you bmi - body mass index everything is ight there
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Know if you need to lose weight\n\nHealth specialist use a measure called BMI, short for Body Mass Index. Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women. This gives a good measure of your total body fat. BMI compares your height and weight. It shows if you are underweight, at a healthy weight, or overweight.\n\nYou know how many pounds are there in 1 kg. Do not know let me help you, it is 1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pounds. Check out what your BMI is by using the BMI calculator.\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/adult_BMI/english_bmi_calculator/bmi_calculator.htm\n\nBMI                    Category\nBelow 18.5             Underweight\nBetween 18.5 - 24.9    Healthy Weight\nBetween 25 - 29.9      Overweight\nOver 30                Obese\n\n\nLook at the BMI chart to find out how much weight you need to lose to move from obese to overweight or from overweight into a healthy range. Knowing this can help you set a good weight loss goal.\n\nLabels: BMI, body mass index, Healthy Weight, obese, overweight, underweight
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Eat and exercise.\n\nMuscles weigh a lot more than fat. Keep in mind it doesn't happen instantly.
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You cannot decide where weight will go.  Body fat is deposited according to your genetic code.
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It doesn't sound like you are fat to me.  It sounds like you are quite healthy despite the fact that you don't like your body type or shape.  If you want to know what your % body fat is, you should have a skin fold test done.  It is a reasonably accurate assesment of body fat.  I'd would guess based on your meassurements, that you think your legs are too big.  If you are active and play soccer, your legs and hips are probably just muscular, which gives them their shape.  Your BMI ( which is a flawed assesment of health) is 20.8, which is very healthy, and quite far from being overweight.  You may not like your body shape, and you might not have a "perfect" body by American standards, but you are not fat.
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Thin = you look down and see everything on you body.\n\nChubby = look down and see your feet if you lean forward a bit. But not your genitals. \n\nFat = look down and can't see a thing even if you try leaning. (only way is with a mirror. \n\n:-)
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it doesn't really matter what you eat, do you have high matabolism.  if you really want to know if you are in good healthy weight, get your body fat measured.  if you are over 22%, then you are fat.   you should be around 12% or around there.
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Fat weighs a lot less than muscle. Your body is burning off the fat and you can notice that your clothes are getting loose on your body. I recall that in a class that a cubic foot of fat weighs about the same as one or two cubic inches of muscle. Other thing is to make sure that you drink plenty of water. It will flush out the fat and it will hydrate you properly. Weight is not the important thing here, it is the shape you are in.
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Fat = Any size you, or your body is having trouble dealing with. You are not a statistic, or medical phenomena. You are you. Unique. \nWhat you look like is up to you - "Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses." John Weitz American clothes designer. And you know how much loved fat cats are !\nIf you have lost self confidence because you feel you are fat and not a cat, give up your car and catching the bus; walk. Walk and get noticed. My fat cat is noticed by everyone, they talk to it and it is happy to wind itself arround passerbys legs in reply. \nAs a cat owner and not a cat, please do not give up eating - you will not loose weight, just get seriously ill. If asked I would say alter your diet, although my cat would violently disagree. Be yourself, be happy.
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1. Eat more calories than you burn.\n2. Gland problems can make one fat.
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if your 140 i don't think that you are fat. it might be what you are earting did you think about that? try earting in the food groups a litle more. i am 6 foot and weigh 135 and i don't think that i am fat. if you weigh that much mabey it's your mucels and it's a good thing.
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one explanation is that you develop muscle mass. the weight of fat in your body is replaced by the weight of muscle you develop. check if your muscles are leaner or do they contain more fat
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When you say that you are "covered in fat" is this your opinion or your doctor's.  You can be overfat at 106 if you have no muscle tone, but I doubt this your case.  A doctor or fitness specialist can measure your fat to muscle ratio.  Throw away the scale and get into a fun exercise class.  Stop looking in the mirror and concentrate on feeling strong and healthy.  What the scare and mirror tells you are not the true measure of those things.    \n\nAs an ex-dancer who knew a lot of girls with poor body image and eating disorders and seeing a fellow dancer collapse and die when in college I cannot urge you enough to talk to someone about your poor self image.  I bet you are perfectly adorable as you are right now!