I am a 15 year old girl. I am an avid runner, participating in both cross country and track. I am around 5' 8.5'' and 108 pounds. I am mostly muscle, with long legs. I kinda am thinking about going on a diet because, although I am comfortable with most of my body, when I look down at my stomach it looks really puffy. I do sit-ups and stuff but it won't go away! I'm also a vegetarian!
RSJ
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You are underweight. Don't diet. Work on your abs. You need to do crunches instead of sit-ups. Perfect Abs is a great dvd. Pilates with tone everything including your abs. Try a pilates class or get a dvd like Windsor pilates. You're very athletic, so it shouldn't take you very long to build up your ab muscles and flatten your stomach.
Anonymous
You are really underweight! The average weight for a person of just 5'1 is around 125 pounds, so you need to eat more and probably eat healthier. Your stomach is puffy because it's basically filled with nothing but air. Eat more!!
entropy
you seem like an average skinny 15 yr old girl, so for your age you are probably just right.just develope healthy eating and exercise habits now and worry about weight when you're full grown.
by the way, BMI isn't for teens, so these people telling you that you're underweight according to that are comparing you to adult women, you are very light, but LOTS of teenagers are very skinny and light, yet are completely healthy. when i was 15 i was 6'0" and weighed only 140lbs as a guy. maybe i was underweight, but i could out run and out jump almost everybody in my grade, and could easily dunk a basketball, so i'd hardley say i was unhealthy. like i said, worry about weight when you're older.
Rajab Mahmood
check you bmi if you want to see if your fat or not also i agree with everyone else you should gain weight and when you look down too see your stomach it looks puffy coz the skins moving down with it making it look that way
Toby Scott
There is no way you are overweight! You are probably underweight. Girls in general see themselves differently than others do. You think you're fat, but you are nowhere close to that. I think you should GAIN weight.