What Every Teenage Girl Should Know About Losing Weight

When a teenage girl wants to lose weight, extreme care has to be taken to ensure that she is not taking risks with her wellness and wellbeing. Teenage girls are particularly susceptible to eating disorders, so care must be taken to ensure that any weight loss is undertaken in a sensible and structured way.

The best plan for teenage girls focus on the idea that gradual weight loss is best, and that weight loss should involve healthy eating and exercising in equal measures. Teenage girls must understand that skipping meals is actually counter productive and could sabotage their weight loss efforts rather than aid them. Going long periods without food actually slows down your metabolism and makes losing weight very difficult indeed. Teenage girls are prone to trying the starvation diet methods, but must understand that when they go for a long time without food, their body simply learns to store fat rather than to burn it. Your body effectively thinks that it is being starved and so when any fat comes along it holds onto it in starvation mode as it thinks that it does not know where the next sustenance is coming from. Teenage girls are often prone to skipping breakfast, too, and this is another method that can really slow down the metabolism and make weight gain far more likely than weight loss.

Teens should also skip unhealthy lunches such as chips and fizzy drinks, and opt instead for something like a chicken salad sandwich on whole grain bread, plus a piece of fruit and a glass of water or skimmed milk.

It may sound straightforward, but another thing that teenage girls need to bear in mind is that they may not actually be overweight. Body types and heights can vary enormously, so a tall girl may weight two or three pounds more than her short friends, without being overweight in any way at all. Many teen girls are obsessed with losing weight, even although they are actually already thin, and this is not healthy and should be avoided at all costs.

 

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Could Your Teen be Emotionally Trapped by Sex?

Sex education is vitally important for young people, but what it fails to recognise is that there is more to it that simply STDs and pregnancy. The emotionally and psychologically scarring effects that sex can have could be affecting teenagers more than we think, especially for girls who are more likely to suffer from depression and attempt suicidal than boys. For both genders, though, emotional risks are high with sex during this time.

 

Stress from fear of pregnancy and disease

The risk of pregnancy is high if you’re uneducated and new to sex, and for many teenagers this is a risk that leads to them being emotionally fraught. However, during puberty teens are naturally curious about this act that they are suddenly physically primed for. There is a 15 percent chance of the condom breaking during sex, a fact which scares many people that they could be at risk of an unwanted pregnancy, STDs or HIV/AIDs. School nurses often report that they have teenage girls crying because they’re worried that they’ve caught something from their first sexual experiences. This worry can scar the joys of carefree teenage life and can affect their overall wellbeing.

 

Feelings of regret

Regret is a common feeling after sex, particularly if it is your first time, for a number of reasons. Teenage girls tend to have an expectation, emotionally, of what their first time will be like and it very rarely delivers. Girls may start to feel cheated if they begin being ignored by the person they lost their virginity to. A recent study discovered that many people wish they’d abstained from sex during their teenage years due to regret about the act.

 

Abortion

The risk of pregnancy, as previously stated, is always present and often this risk can become a reality. In many cases, this results in an abortion for teenage girls which is loaded with emotional hazards. This act can lead to depression, guilt, anxiety, nightmares and a loss of self worth. Up to 70 percent of women who get an abortion do it against their better judgement, but feel that they have no other choice, which leads to regret and shame. While teens may consider abortion as just something they have to do, it can have repercussions later in life when they’re better equipped to realise what they’ve done.

 

Guilt

Guilt can affect teens strongly, as they may feel that they’ve done morally wrong in having sex so young or with someone they may not really care that deeply for. This is especially the case if the act took place under the influence of alcohol or drugs, often making the individual make bad decisions about the person they have sex with. If the guilt is due to religious reasons, this can be a sense of shame as well as the guilt of doing it so young. Boys tend to feel guilty that they didn’t deliver against the expectations that their partner had of the act. Counselors state that many teenagers worry about the guilt of having sex without precaution, or that they didn’t wait for someone they were in a long term relationship with.

 

Loss of self esteem

Teenage sex can quickly deteriorate into a sense of low self esteem and loss of self worth. Because teen sex is often with causal partners, they can end up regretting it the next morning. The risk of diseases can exacerbate this, if they catch a disease and then feel bad for not being more careful with their body. Counselors find that girls, in particular, face this emotional trauma after having sex with people during their teenage years.

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Warning: Obsession With Virginity Damages Teenage Girls

A new reality TV show is highlighting the difficulties faced by teenagers who have to take a vow of chastity due to their religious parents.

One participant in the show (on Lifetime) is a young woman called Korby Koloff. She is the first teenager to feature in the Preachers’ Daughters television show. The show is based around the idea that the daughters of religious preachers have a hard time balancing the pressures of normal everyday life as a teenager in modern society with the pressures of living the chaste life of a religious leader’s daughter.

The show focuses on the wellbeing of these young girls as they battle to find their own sense of sexual wellness, despite the pressures in both directions. One quote that is used frequently in the show is a Bible verse from 1 Thessalonians 4: ‘For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you abstain from sexual immorality’.

Following three Christian families which are headed up by pastors, the show looks into the ways in which the teenage girls are discouraged from having sex.

Korby, like most normal teenagers, is keen to go out on dates. At the age of 16 she feels that it is an appropriate time for her to be allowed to go out with male companions on dates. Her father, however, feels that she should not go on dates, as he does not approve of the dating lifestyle. Korby’s issue is twofold though, as she also has a mother who is a preacher. In addition to this, her mother works in a crisis pregnancy centre for Christians and works as a radio talk show host for a Christian station. The mother, Victoria, encourages her daughter to sit through a ‘sex talk’ at church where she preaches abstinence in graphic sexual detail. In the middle of all this, Korby’s sister drops the bombshell that she was not a virgin on her wedding night. The show follows the trials and tribulations of this, and two similar, families as they attempt to find a middle ground between what modern life dictates and what the extremes of Christian religion dictate.

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Low Birth Weight Babies Catch up at Puberty

If you have a baby, it is natural to be worried about every little detail to ensure that they get a happy and healthy start to life. That can mean a lot of fears surrounding babies with a low birth weight, who do not grow at the expected rate earlier in their lives. However, new research suggests that this might not be as much to worry about as we think.

A study, carried out by researchers from the KP Agricultural University in Pakistan and the University of Bristol, concluded that babies who gain weight slower than their fellow infants will catch up to the same size as their peers by age 13. This is very reassuring news for parents of children with low weight in their earlier years. The authors also advised that such parents should not attempt to over compensate for their child’s low weight by increasing the amount of calories they consume.

This news comes from the analysis of long-term research, which began in the 1990s, into a large number of health issues. Primarily, the analysis was looking into limited weight during infancy and whether this led to any negative health concerns later in life.

The interesting results of the study showed that on average, babies who had poor weight gain early in their lives had achieved around the average height and weight by the time they had reached age 13. While a majority of children who had slow weight gain early on generally had slightly lower-than-average height and weight as teenagers. However, overall the results were almost always within the normal expected range.

It is important that this research does not indicate that this will definitely be the case for all children as the data was not always available regarding whether the child had different forms of support to deal with the initial problem.

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Low Birth Weight Babies Catch up at Puberty

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