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Topic: RE: 19 and over weight
Hi Khira,
I really respect the fact that you realize you have a problem with your weight. You mention many of the things that other teens with a weight problem have experienced. You are not alone of course.
While there are tons of books and self help resources out there to spend money on, I do want to highlight one resource that you may not have seen.
Trim Kids is a book written by a really thoughtful person named Melinda Sothern. It is available on Amazon for 13 dollars. It is a 12 week program that anyone can do! Importantly, it is not a "diet book." It does contain some recipes that are healthy but it also puts them together with good common sense activities that get you moving.
Try it! You might like it.
Let me know, ok? If you have questions for Dr. Sothern, I can even find her for you!!
All the best,
Dr. Tom
I really respect the fact that you realize you have a problem with your weight. You mention many of the things that other teens with a weight problem have experienced. You are not alone of course.
While there are tons of books and self help resources out there to spend money on, I do want to highlight one resource that you may not have seen.
Trim Kids is a book written by a really thoughtful person named Melinda Sothern. It is available on Amazon for 13 dollars. It is a 12 week program that anyone can do! Importantly, it is not a "diet book." It does contain some recipes that are healthy but it also puts them together with good common sense activities that get you moving.
Try it! You might like it.
Let me know, ok? If you have questions for Dr. Sothern, I can even find her for you!!
All the best,
Dr. Tom
Thomas Inge, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Director, Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (www.childrenscolorado.org/bariatric)
Principal Investigator, Teen-LABS (www.Teen-LABS.org)
Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado, Denver
Executive Assistant:
Karen Warnock
Phone: (720) 777-3179
Topic: RE: 310 pounds at 17 years old
Corina and Steve,
All good info. I agree that you are pushing yourself too hard. We exercise Teens who are much more overweight than you are and have not had any serious complications of it yet, but we do have some guidelines!
Let me grab my favorite Exercise Physiologist to join us in this chat, ok? She is awesome and will have the right "prescription."
Keep up the good work!
Tom Inge
All good info. I agree that you are pushing yourself too hard. We exercise Teens who are much more overweight than you are and have not had any serious complications of it yet, but we do have some guidelines!
Let me grab my favorite Exercise Physiologist to join us in this chat, ok? She is awesome and will have the right "prescription."
Keep up the good work!
Tom Inge
Thomas Inge, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Director, Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (www.childrenscolorado.org/bariatric)
Principal Investigator, Teen-LABS (www.Teen-LABS.org)
Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado, Denver
Executive Assistant:
Karen Warnock
Phone: (720) 777-3179
Topic: Teens who had or interested in Sleeve
Hey guys!
I am 19 and had the Gastric sleeve done about a month ago. I am just looking for other people who have had the same surgery or if you have any questions about the surgery I am answer them for ya. Hope all is well!!!
I am 19 and had the Gastric sleeve done about a month ago. I am just looking for other people who have had the same surgery or if you have any questions about the surgery I am answer them for ya. Hope all is well!!!
Topic: RE: Teen people
Hry girl,
I am 19 and had the sleeve done about a month ago. If you ever want to chat about anything I am here. I didnt know there was a teen section of this soo I am deff excited to see other younger poeple who had the surgery.
I am 19 and had the sleeve done about a month ago. If you ever want to chat about anything I am here. I didnt know there was a teen section of this soo I am deff excited to see other younger poeple who had the surgery.
Topic: 19 and over weight
hi my name is khira and i am 19 yrs.old and i weigh 287.i never been over weight all my life,when i was a little girl i was always outside playing.then when i was 10 we moved to a different town and of course being 10yrs.old i was sad cause i didn't want to leave my friends.ever sice we moved here my life has gone completly down hill i started doing bad in school i started eating more cause i missed my old friends and i was sad.in middle school it got worse. being 12yrs.old you start to look at boys but nobody is looking at you cause your overweight.i remember being in school and likeing a certain boy and he being really grossed out that i liked him cause i was fat.i was always friends with the girl that all the boys liked,most of the girls i went to school with were blonde or brunette and thin and pretty and i wanted to be like them so bad. i always wanted to be that girl that all the boys thought was pretty.i finally have gotten to the point where i am comfortable with myself being who i am but i feel like i don't belonge in this body,like im not ment to be over weight.i always start working out but i never stick to it i always stop and then it's hard to get back on track again.sometimes i just sit in my room and cry cause i feel so alone and lost.i don't have many friends so it's hard to talk about issues like this since i graduated high school in 2007 i have been sitting in this house on the computer gaining weight every day.iv'e been looking for work but it's so hard right now i don't kno what to do im so tired of sitting in this house.i'll be turning 20 this year and i have no life.i wanna go out and have fun and enjoy being young i feel like im throwing my life away.i wanna lose weight for me and only me. i don't wanna do the surgery i wanna lose weight by exercising and eating right.i wanna get my life on track and start living.i have so many goals that i wanna acomplish and i feel like my weight is holding me back.
Topic: RE: 310 pounds at 17 years old
If your getting to the point of dizzyness then you are pushing yourself to hard. Just take it easy, dont over do it. and you should always eat before you work out, Drink plenty of water, Maybe you just got dehydrated. Your body is not use to exercise, Start slow and pick it up. Maybe if you asked your doctor about what he thought as far as exercising goes.
I to cannot go to bed early I usually go to bed around 4-5 am.
Hope this helps.
- In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself, and the limit of your self abuse is exactly the limit of abuse that you will tolerate from someone else.
Topic: RE: Please help me help my 14 year old son
I am a mother of a 15 year old girl who had sleeve gastrectomy at age 14. In the just over three months since surgery, she has lost 100 pounds. It was the best thing I have ever done for her. Our insurance wouldn't pay for it, so I borrowed the money to have it. It was $16,000, it might be her car money, but this is better. She is very mature and ready for surgery. I would think really hard about whether a young person could handle the restrictions, but it has been a wonderful thing.
Topic: RE: 310 pounds at 17 years old
Thank you for replying Corina! I do have a question. I've been trying to push myself and I guess I did it a little too hard and started to feel very dizzy. I nearly fainted, but I also hadn't eaten and I pushed myself very hard and hadn't done exericse in several days.
I got my BPM up to 176, where my maximum is 203. In prior exercise, it never got past 155.
I'm just scared now to exercise again because I'm afraid I'll push myself too hard and faint. I guess the panic disorder doesn't help much. But I really want to know if there's anything I can do to get rid of that feeling. It comes even when I'm doing little exercise too. Like walking at a slow pace where my BPM is about 135-145.
What happened to get it up to 176 was I was doing that ea active game where you do all these really heavy exercises like running in place and doing bicep curls and cardio and everything else. It's supposed to burn 250 calories, but I couldn't even get halfway through it (there were 16 exercises spanning about 20 minutes total).
I don't want this to ruin my ability to get the weight off. But feeling this way everytime I exercise just bothers and scares me.
My heart is fine, I don't have diabeties, and as far as I know, my thyroid is okay. I don't get good sleep. I usually can't get to bed before 3AM or later. I don't get the 10 PM deadline for the "healing" effects and I usually eat after 7PM.
I got my BPM up to 176, where my maximum is 203. In prior exercise, it never got past 155.
I'm just scared now to exercise again because I'm afraid I'll push myself too hard and faint. I guess the panic disorder doesn't help much. But I really want to know if there's anything I can do to get rid of that feeling. It comes even when I'm doing little exercise too. Like walking at a slow pace where my BPM is about 135-145.
What happened to get it up to 176 was I was doing that ea active game where you do all these really heavy exercises like running in place and doing bicep curls and cardio and everything else. It's supposed to burn 250 calories, but I couldn't even get halfway through it (there were 16 exercises spanning about 20 minutes total).
I don't want this to ruin my ability to get the weight off. But feeling this way everytime I exercise just bothers and scares me.
My heart is fine, I don't have diabeties, and as far as I know, my thyroid is okay. I don't get good sleep. I usually can't get to bed before 3AM or later. I don't get the 10 PM deadline for the "healing" effects and I usually eat after 7PM.
Topic: RE: I've failed my child
My dad had a RNY in 2002, right after we moved across the country. I had always been chubby, but the year after the moved I gained 100ib. My dad became the food police and it threw me into a deep depression. Don't let him bully her, I was happy until my weight became a constant source of arguments. My dad and I still have a rough relationship, especially now that I am considering weight loss surgery myself(it may also have to do with the fact that i'm 19 and our relationship is supposed to be changing into an "adult" one:)) Bottom line, most overweight teenagers know that they are overweight, and talking about it doesn't help. Listen and be there for her, and come up with weight loss game plans like exercising together, or eating healthy as a family. hope that helps. -sky
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