The present study aimed to get information regarding the girls' body mass index and discover the adoption, awareness, and effect of weight management practices. Nowadays, adolescents, overweight, and obesity are the primary concerns in developing countries and are becoming more frequent in developed countries. Therefore, dieting and weight-controlling practices are becoming more common among all adolescents, particularly girls. Girls participate in weight-control activities and follow benecial weight loss practices such as exercising, eating fruits and vegetables, fasting, skipping meals, and using diet pills. This study used 100 adolescent girls aged between 16 and 19 as the sample size. Among them, 70% were normal, 14% were underweight, and 12% were overweight, whereas 4% were obese. The girls followed diet and exercise mainly through intermittent fasting, walking, and running. However, some girls think skipping meals for the length would help them lose weight faster. Due to this, many girls develop different eating disorders the most common disorders among those girls were Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. The method that assists most in losing weight is exercise and dieting, but pills, laxatives, or surgery were less common and were not founded in the data collected.
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