Am i fat? what’s with my body?

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I am 19 years old. I’m 5’9” and weigh 150 pounds. Although I have skinny arms and legs I feel like I look fat. A couple of years ago I cut back on eating for a number of reasons, but most prominently because I used to be about 220 and I hated it. My father would make fun of my stomach it a lot and it hurt and I would have done anything to loose the weight. I dropped down to 110 in 5 or 6 months, and I’ve gained some weight again since then. I sort of have a weird bulging stomach that sort of hangs over and I absolutely hate it. When I look at myself from the side I’m shaped like a pear. I would do anything to get rid of it. Am I fat or chubby? I don’t think I’m considered overweight, but I don’t look the way I hoped I would (of course no one ever looks exactly the way they imagine, but I thought I would look less weird).

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  • Tealights
    4 years ago

    You're not fat, just insecure and your dad is an asshole who pays too much attention to your body (which is creepy).

    Get rid of belly fat by doing sit-ups and cardio exercises; as well as drinking more water and less soda/tea/etc, more fiber (fruits, vegetables, oatmeal, bread, all that healthy shit), and dedication.

    Lose weight for yourself, not because people shame you into it. Why? Because you'll never see the end. People have many different opinions that constantly change, so if you tailor yourself to what you think people find acceptable, you'll lose yourself. find your acceptable weight you're comfortable with.

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  • Boojum
    4 years ago

    BMI is a crude tool when it comes to determining healthy body weight, but for what it's worth, your current weight means you have a BMI of around 22, and that's right in the middle of the healthy range.

    When you weighed 220, your BMI was around 32, and that's in the officially obese zone. When you weighed 110 pounds, your BMI was around 16, which is seriously underweight.

    If yo-yoing between extremes like that should become the norm for you, it won't be healthy in the long-term and it would suggest serious issues surrounding food and body image.

    You don't say if you're male or female, but it's very common for women to have the pear-shape you mention because of where fat is naturally stored on women's bodies. I would suggest that you might need to think about whether what you see in the mirror is the reality and you really do have a "weirdly bulging stomach", or if what you're actually seeing is a body that's turning into that of a mature woman.

    Regardless of whether your male or female, if you don't feel much thickness when you pinch the flesh of your stomach, then what you're seeing isn't due to fat, but rather because of poor abdominal muscle tone. There are exercises which will help with that.

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    • Doesnormalmatter
      4 years ago

      Yeah BMI is shit. According to BMI, I was obese with six pack abs at one point in my life lol.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        4 years ago

        How does one get 6 pack abs anyways? I went for a month 1/2 doing 150 crunches, a plank for 1 minute, and a minute of twists (I think they’re called?) every night and saw NOTHING. I thought I was eating pretty healthy, too. No soda, a lot of fruits and vegetables, more protein than before, etc.

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        • Doesnormalmatter
          4 years ago

          It's a lot based on genetics, which I have pretty well. But exercising them barely does much for you. I train people all the time who want abs and do crunches and shit but you need to get lean, like really lean, and it helps if you build a truck load of muscle elsewhere in your body as well. The one way I can GUARENTEE you will get abs, is if you count calories, and just lower them about 200 cals a month. Find about your maintenance cals, and then eat a couple hundred under that for 4 to 6 months.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            4 years ago

            For the time being I don’t have access to a gym or exercise equipment. Do body weight exercises work well for building muscle elsewhere in the body?

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            • Doesnormalmatter
              4 years ago

              Yeah bodyweight can work, although not nearly as well. You can just have abs without being muscular everywhere else, but you will have to diet more aggressively.

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  • cupcake_wants
    4 years ago

    try weight lifting, it adds tone. it increases metabolism. and get rid of the sugar, use honey instead, like in coffee. don't eat fast food. what do you eat by the way?

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