"It's a Girl Thing." How About you Mind your Business? - Comments

One meal a day isn't healthy. You don't need to control your portions like that, you need to control the kind of food your eating. Losing weight is way more about diet than exercise, even though both are important.

Do things like eat less red meat and more chicken and fish, switch to whole wheat bread instead of white, just generally make better eating choices and change your lifestyle.

Dieting isn't beneficial and it doesn't last in the long run. Just being generally healthier and smarter with choices like that is what makes the difference.

Even if you decide to start working out, go for runs and all that, you can gain weight, but it comes back as muscle. If you drink water and walk around for a while for a couple of weeks, you'll start to feel a change, even if you gain a few pounds. If you don't mind running, I would run a little bit. Make sure you drink water though, because that helps.

I'm not self conscious of my weight or anything like that, but when I first started my JROTC unit was when I started to get a more regular work out. We do pushups and situps ups one day, then a few days later, we'd play wiffle ball or something like that. The next week, we'd go run a mile, and I'm horrible when it comes to running, so I walked mine and sprinted at points. Just from doing that for a few weeks, I lost weight, but I also put it back on as muscle. If you just do stuff like that for a bit, you'll notice a different. I didn't change my diet much at all either.

I would just try to do stuff like that and stick with it rather than limiting yourself to one meal a day. I just got back from a mini-boot camp that I went to with some people in my unit (I talked about it quite a bit in this) and they made sure we ate three times a day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all three days. If I were you, like I said, I would keep walking, maybe run a bit, drink more water if you don't already drink a lot and just stick to that for a few weeks. You'll see a difference. Just be patient.

What they said also when you're 13/14 for me at least I grew taller and so I gained weight but my body didn't really change at all so that could also be a factor, it's just your body accommodating and it's totally healthy.

No, no, no. Do not restrict yourself to one meal a day. You will gain more weight. Your body will go into starvation mode and use the fatty tissue you have to sustain itself. Start drinking water, eat healthier, exercise. Eat six small meals a day instead of three big ones.
To be honest, I take a laxative every two weeks to help keep me regular and lose weight. I also drink water - it was hard but sodas are expensive - and I walk at least a mile every day. You can do it. Don't starve yourself, don't do anything that can possibly hurt you.

If you didn't know, if you restrict your meals you can gain more weight. Your body could go into starvation mode and gain. Seven pounds is a lot to some people. But if you are exercising more than usual, it's probably muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat. So you might have gained muscle from waking so much. The best thing to do is eat right and exercise. The first month or two you will gain a few pounds. But what you need to look at is how your clothes fit. Do that for the first few months, then you can go on the scale.

Restricting will only make it worse. Cut your portions and eat three times a day. Eat lots of fiber and drink lots of water, it'll keep you full and you won't want to eat between meals. Weight loss is primarily your diet. I've lost a pound and a half this week and I've not truly exercised once.

I suggest you not restrict.
I've done it back in high school and it made me fucking miserable and hate myself more.

Just eat healthier and take some walks, and don't think of your weight so much.
I don't have a scale in my house for precisely that reason---obsessing over weight.