Whats the average weight and build for a 16 year old boy?

So right now i am 110 pounds and i find that to be way below average for a 16 yr guy...My height is around 5'6. On top of that i eat a lot of junk food (Chips, chocolate and ice cream), i don't even know how much money i spent on junk. Because of that it just boggles my mind how i've been staying at 110 pounds for a year already. I am also a vegetarian since i was 7 years old. I do work out frequently by lifting weights and doing pushups, so i'd say i have an average build. 25 pounds an arm is my maximum for dumbbell lifting.

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Age doesn't matter. I depends on height an weight. I'm 5'3 and I weigh 130 lb and I'm fit. 30 lb max for dumbell. Yea, you're overweight with a high metabolism. If you workout constantly and cannot eat meat, I'd recommend you to get protein shakes. Use it after you workout. And maybe in between classes when you get hungry. Eat carbs. Potatoes. Pasta. brown rice. To gain weight. At 5'6 you should be about 150-160 lb.

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• Protien and more lifting. I'm 15 5'9 140

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Would taking metformin xr in the morning rather than at night help weight loss?

I started taking 1000 mg at night about a week and a half ago for my pcos but the scale has not budged. In fact I think I gained a pound or so!

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Metformin is prescribed for diabetes. Of late docs have starting trying this med for obesity. But there is yet not enough evidence of its efficacy for weight loss. Sometime it can be harmful also if taken in higher doses. Better you try other traditional methods for weight management.

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• According to the patient package insert for metformin HCl ER tablets, in a 24 week study of 138 people, metformin caused a 0.5% weight GAIN in those taking 1000 mg daily, and a 0.46% weight LOSS in people taking 1500 mg daily. Because there was a relatively few people in the study, I would not draw hard conclusions, but it appears to not have much of an effect. Other studies have shown slight weight losses (1-2 pound LOSS over 16 weeks). At any rate, I would not expect large fluctuation in weight from the medication alone. Increased activity and reduced caloric intake are the only things that will result in sustained reductions in body weight.

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Im on a diet and my weight keeps changing?

Im a 23 year old male , im 5ft8 and weighed 180pounds at the start of my diet two weeks ago. Ive been eating 1000-1300 calories a day for the past two weeks, I used to eat ALOT of junk and takeaways. Now im eating veg and fruit with water and chicken and eggs for protein, I was 180 pounds at the start, sunday just gone I was 170 pounds when I weighed myself when I woke up, but then monday and today (tuesday) im 175 pounds. Now I did have a few beers on sunday and a bar and crisps as my treat day ( one day a week) . Why was I 170 pounds sat morning and 175 since. Thanks

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I'm done with my weight loss journey and completely happy with how I feel and how I look right now however losing weight is a challenge for anyone and even losing 5 pounds and keeping it off isn't an easy task. Also I bet you didn't know that 5 pounds of fat is about the size of 8 cheese burgers? That alone should be enough to make anyone want to get on the ball and start a change for the better. Weight loss can be really easy to learn but the problem is nobody wants to put the required effort that is needed to actually do it, instead people continually look for (easy) ways to do it. If there was an easy way to lose weight I don't think 35% of Americans would be obese. There was a time when I also wanted to lose weight and was tired of starting diets only to lose motivation and give up just a few weeks later after seeing no results. However, let me tell you it is literally one of the easiest things you will ever learn once you find a good and reputable place to learn it from and I say that only because the world is filled with magic diet pills, liquid flush diets and a thousand other quick fixes that promise xx pounds of weight loss in the first week and even though it is impossible they know you're going to do it because your desperate. I have probably tried every diet pill, liquid flush diet, and ab rocket machine known to man and have had no success with any of them nor do I know anyone that has ever had any success with them. I have also tried starving myself which works very well for the first few weeks' right before your metabolism comes to a complete stop and eating just the tiny bit makes you gain weight and you end up weighing more than you did before you started starving yourself. Companies promote weight loss to make money not to get people healthy again and that's because they know you're not going to be a customer and buy their products if you're no longer fat. http://fatloossfactor.com is a site I want you to go to when you have 10 or 20 minutes to spare and I want you to sit down and watch his video on weight loss. He helps people every day to lose weight I have never seen someone as committed as him and that will go so far out of his way to help someone. His weight loss program is one of the best I have ever had the enjoyment of doing and it is without doubt the best success I have ever had with any weight loss program. I also couldn't be happier with my body right now and I have never felt this wonderful in my whole life. In the end you just got to remember to stick with it and stay confident in yourself and in no time you can achieve the results you have always wanted. It's not hard to lose weight but most people have a hard time staying motivated and 9 times out of 10 it was because they weren't really committed from the beginning. Anyways I hope I helped you and I hope you make the commitment to change your body and life. Remember it's not easy to take the first step but you did, you're here right now taking it and the rest of the steps will fall into place. Have a wonderful day.

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