: How to lose weight as a 13 yr old? I've always been overweight around the 90th percentile, but right when summer started I gained like 20lbs. I grew an inch, yet it seems whenever I grow, I only gain like a couple pounds.

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To lose weight will require your 100% commitment to yourself to achieve it. First and for most you need to change your lifestyle, you said that maybe it is because of ending your sports and hobbies. Well absolutely it really accounts to that, you should bring back yourself being a sporty person. Aside from that, start drinking more water before a meal and right after or before your game/workout. Being healthy will start from the kitchen, you should eat healthy foods and stop eating in fast food chains, stop eating pizzas, burgers, avoid drinking alcohol and soft drinks because it only worsens your situation, they must go.
Since you are overweight, I suggest you take a walk every morning for about 40 minutes to 80 minutes, in that way you'll starting to lose weight slowly but surely. If you can improve it much better like walk for 40 minutes and run for 20 minutes do it on a regular basis Monday to Saturday and rest during Sundays.
Try to beat your own records and increase the number of minutes and your speed gradually.
If you feel that you can do more exercises, try to add these exercises at home to lose more weight like jumping jacks, push-ups, sit-ups, squat and etc.. If you decide to workout in a gym, I suggest you get an instructor that will guide you as a beginner. Goodluck.

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Assuming that you are a person in normal good health who wants to lose weight, the best approach for you is to either decrease your intake, exercise to offset some of your intake, or both.

You say you noticed the weight gain when all your sports ended. That does tell you something. Eating to maintain energy and strength during sports is physiological. Eating the same amount once you stop engaging in that sport is going to add weight.

There are all kinds of diets out there which, usually for monetary reasons, claim superiority over one another. You don't need to read about or follow any one specific diet to lose weight. If you decrease caloric intake over a sufficient period of time, you will lose weight.

Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize.

One approach you can take is to eat the same stuff you eat right now, but eat less of it. If you eat a Wendy's Baconator for lunch on Saturdays, leave some of it uneaten. Leave a third of your shake, a third of your fries, etc. At home, eat a smaller portion of everything equally. If you consume sweets, like soda or other nutritionally empty calories, cut them out or cut them back.

Exercise. Take walks, take hikes, ride a bike. A male your age probably plays video games. Cut back on these, and do something which exercises your body instead (it doesn't matter what; listening to your summer reading list on audiotape while walking/bicycling/etc. will do the job.) Learn to swim if you don't already know, and keep in shape this summer by swimming regularly.

If you have medical problems, have other symptoms of concern other than just weight gain (e.g. fatigue, constipation, a change in your voice/hoarseness, weakness, etc.), or any other symptoms of concern, see a doctor. If, after an honest effort was made to lose weight, you are unable to, you can see a doctor for more specialized help and to determine if you need testing.

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