u/Decent_Notice4797

So I lost my period 1 month before turning 16 ( march 2025 , ive always been small my whole life , my dad is like 5’7.5 and my mum is like 5’1.5 , but when I hit puberty and went into like year 11 I grew taller to aroujd 5’4 and became taller than both my older sisters ( one is 23 and one is 25 and they are both adoujd 5’2 ) however since loosing my period for around 1 year 4 months I measured myself around 5-6 months ago and measured 5’2-5’3 , however just today first thing in the morning I measured myself just loterslly under 5’4 . So I shrank for like 1 year 4 months but I grew a tiny bit just now . Im scared bc im 18 and they say girls don’t grow anymore , but I’m reducing exersizes like all the walking and just sticking to playing football my sport as I am going to America scholarship next year , and lifting weights and plyometrics etc . Im eating aroujd 2,300-2,500 sometimes more recently . Do u think I have any chance that my body is playing catch-up now and I might grow taller ? I still don’t have my period . But my uncles and cousins all average aroujd 5’8-5’11 .

So I lost my period 1 month before turning 16 ( march 2025 , ive always been small my whole life , my dad is like 5’7.5 and my mum is like 5’1.5 , but when I hit puberty and went into like year 11 I grew taller to aroujd 5’4 and became taller than both my older sisters ( one is 23 and one is 25 and they are both adoujd 5’2 ) however since loosing my period for around 1 year 4 months I measured myself around 5-6 months ago and measured 5’2-5’3 , however just today first thing in the morning I measured myself just loterslly under 5’4 . So I shrank for like 1 year 4 months but I grew a tiny bit just now . Im scared bc im 18 and they say girls don’t grow anymore , but I’m reducing exersizes like all the walking and just sticking to playing football my sport as I am going to America scholarship next year , and lifting weights and plyometrics etc . Im eating aroujd 2,300-2,500 sometimes more recently . Do u think I have any chance that my body is playing catch-up now and I might grow taller ? I still don’t have my period . But my uncles and cousins all average aroujd 5’8-5’11 .

Okay just looking for some advice and supporg here , for a bit of backstory I lost my period in march 2025 so one month before I turned 17 , the year before this i had gained a lot of weight when I was in year 11 , I had a chipped bone in my foot back then from football so was out for 2-3 months . Back then I loterslly ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted however it was never anything healthy , I hated vegetables and never ate fruit . I had a big appetite aswell as I was eating just pure junk foods . I was eating cakes pastries crisps chocolate , cheese strings , freezer processed foods for dinner like cheesy loaded garlic bread and fries and tempura prawns and bordseye chicken burger and loterslly loads of mayo . My go to breakfast was 2 bakery painau chocolates from Asda and at school I would get a cookie bakery style chocolate chip one aswell as a pizza slice or a sausage roll as our break time food , and hour later was lunch and I would get eiether fried chicken poppers and chips with mayo and fizzy apple juice , or a fried chicken wrap with another cookie , etc u get the jist it was a lot of junk food and I would snack of crisps and chocolate when I got home it was just the normal for me . Im not largely built so eating like this just made me look very puffy and Inflamed , but all my weight always goes to my stomach and boobs and hips and face . After year 11 I completely cut it off with the girls k used to hang out with and I joined a football college , so my exercise significantly increased as I was doing loads of pre season training and running and 1-2-1 sessions and also team training , I also started to go to the gym but I didn’t have a bloody clue what I was doing lol . This wasnt an issue tho , as I always had a good appetite and at this point k never knew about dieting or a calorie defecit , so from ur 11 i defintly lost weight but I just lost the excess weight that wasnt good so I looked better and felt much better . My dad is from Punjab and my mum is from England, as I grew up I realised I have that typical south Asian genetics of a skinny fat build , I don’t have much muscle especially on my legs they are skinny , but I have fat held on my stomach and hips no matter what . So it wasn’t until aroujd December time 2024 -January 2025 when I would see pictures of myself and hate them ( for reference I am gay and I would compare myself tk how I look to the boys at this college 24/7 ) I loterslly would cry at the pictures as I though I was so fat . I never weighed myself through this as it just wasn’t a thought . However in February 2025 I had discovered that you can loose weight by a calorie defect , so I downloaded myfitness pal and tracked my food. I didn’t completely know what I was doing nor did I have scales at home so I was eyeballing a lot but if I was to guess then when I was locked in on trying to loose weight at this time I was probs eating adound 1,700-1,900 cals which for a 17 he old still growing active student athlete who was training 5 times a week and playing a match on the weekend and 2 of the 5 days were double training days I know that this wasn’t enough . At the start my weight didn’t massively change at all , but as you know the longer I went on the more I learned , I started to become obsessed and I got a scale and was tracking loterslly every bit of food I consumed . So it got to aroujd April time and I was increasing my steps to minimum 12 k steps but averaging 15 k steps aswell as football sessions and fitness now and then and gym strength . I had such a bad relationship ship with food and I didn’t even touch any food that was “unhealthy “ I remember going on holiday and all there was tk eat was a ham and cheese toastie and I cried and refused . Around may time I saw a phot of me playing football and it was the best day of my life , I looked at in in absolute shock as I hadn’t seen a pic of me playing since December time . I was so slim ( now looking back I looked unwell for what I should be ) and I literally had barely any boobs as having big ones is an insecurity of mine .Sk from here on until end of June / July this was peak eating disorder behaviour , i knee I didn’t have my period but I wanted to look good for my holiday which was in august , so I was doing 15-20 k steps a day , 30 min incline tredmil , upper body strength session or lower body , core , and was eating 1400-1500 k cals which is nowhere near enough for what I was doing . I eventually told my mum , I think bc my stress was so high I didn’t realise how I’ll I had got . I went down to 47 kg , I then experienced abit of extreme hunger but found it hard to honour it . I won’t tell h loads more as it had been a long year of trying to get over my ed which im doing so much better now i allow myself to eat so much more and have “unhealthier foods “ but thats my backstory . I got tested for PCOS but it came back negative . For reference I am 5’3-5’4 , I think I maybe now weigh aroujd 55 kg ( i havnt weighed myself in a while so idk ) and im 18 . I do know that I have HA but then part of me is scared that I don’t and that im eating this much for no reason . How many cals do I need to be eating bc im not tall im smaller than average ( which im also insecure about my height I wish I was taller ) I struggle with sleep so bad , last week I averaged 4-5 hoird of completely broken sleep , finding it hard to fall asleep then waking up feeling like ik in survival mode and then being hungry for a snack . For reference aswell as ive returned from a 9 month ankle injury ( I believe that was due to missing period and underfueling i only got results on ankle aroujd 4 months post injury and it came back w grade 2 ATFL tear , which ive been rehabbing with a sports physiotherapist professional from Birmingham city , and I also got one on my knee and it came back with Hoffas phat pad syndrome , impingement , and chocndromalacia patellar grade 1 ) but my rehab plan has gone up in terms of Monday is a pitch session low intensity of accel decel , change of direction , dribble drills , and box to box runs at the end 1 set of 6 reps tuning from one box to the other in 10-12 seconds with 20 seconds rest , then it’s a upper body session strength with 4-5 exersizes and core at the end . Tuesday is wall and ball technical session , then at the gym low intensity plyometrics and strength lower session ( 5 plyometric exersizes and 5 strength ) , Wednesday is off , Thursday is the same as Monday but the fitness is abit longer , and the strength session is lower leg and core . Friday is another wall and ball technical session and then running mechanics and plyometrics at the gym ,and Saturday is a 4-5 k run and Sunday is off . I cannot change this schedual as my preseason start august the 4 Yh and I have to be somewhat ready for that . I know it seems like a lot but all the sessions are low intensity like barely much running at all . And they are helping my injury a lot . Recently aswell tho my right knee is making a clicking crunching noise when I walk up the stairs which isn’t nice and my shins tend to hurt a lot of I havnt slept well . So do I rlly need tk be eating 2,500 cals as I get loterslly so full . Morning breakfast is usually 230 g skyr yoghurt with 15-20 g honey , 46 g Bio&me granola , loads of modded berries and 15 g 85% dark chocolate , mid morning if I have training is usually a nature valley oat and honey bar , or peanut butter banana sourdough , or a squares bar ,etc changes all the time , lunch is usually 3 whole eggs with 2 slices Jason’s ciabattin sourdough with Kerry gold butter spreads all over . Afternoon recently ive increased my snack to a glass small of whole milk with honey mixed in , and 2-3 medjool dates with peanut and almond butter . Dinner ranges from either beef 5% fat mince , salmon fillet , or chicken breast , with either a Crosta and mollica wrap , rice , pasta , or potatoes , and either with avocado , cheese , cottage cheese , pasta sauce , olive oil on potatoes etc . And before bed it would either be a bowl of protein weetabix with whole milk and load of honey , or the same but mini shredded wheat , or 45 g oags with whole
Milk and honey and peanut butter , or sometimes occasionally a sweet treat which I still sometimes find tricky like a bakery muffin or cheesecake or M&S cookies etc . But like today is my Wednesday off day and I feel so full i had what I said I ate but I ive only had the glass of milk for afternoon as I feel not hungry and bloated .do I still have the dates ? I just feel like I’m gonna get even fatter before football and my coach always makes comments of peoples weight im just scared what do I do pls can I have some advice .
So sorry for the long ass message tho queens , just help a girl out !!!! Xxxxx