Do you gain weight as you get taller?

Not necessarily, no. Young kids should gain weight as they grow taller, but teenagers may or may not.

It depends on the person. I don’t think it’s abnormal by any means, unless of course you think your health is at risk in any way

In general, it’s healthy to gain weight as you get taller. Your BMI is a measure of your weight vs. your height, so if you gain height while losing weight, your BMI will drop fast, probably out of the healthy range unless you were at all overweight to begin with. But it’s worth noting that the BMI is a very general measurement and isn’t set in stone. You can be healthy even if your BMI isn’t necessarily in the “healthy range.”

Only if you are eating more and exercising less (I am ignoring any possible hormone or metabolism issues for the purposes of this question). Weight has to do with how many calories in, and how many burned, and your muscle mass. There are mathmatical equations regarding things like 2000 calories a day and moderate daily exercise equals 130 pounds for instance (I pulled that out of my head, that is not the accurate numbers, but it is close more or less). Gaining height should mean you are eating more, your hunger demands should be increasing. The thing about being young is growing uses up a lot of calories, and everything is growing when you are young, cells are dividing and multiplying like crazy, so your calorie burn is faster than mine at 43, even if we are both just sitting around doing nothing.

Muscle tissue holds more water than fat, so someone who has built up their muscles weighs more, because water is very heavy.

So, the short answer is just because you are taller does not mean you will weigh more, but if you are average weight generally, you should be increasing your weight as you get taller. Sometimes it is hard for boys to keep up with their growth spurt during puberty it happens so fast, but it should level out. The only thing to watch for is if you have dropped a lot of weight and are eating well, that can be a bad sign and should be mentioned to your parents. But, it does not sound like that is the case at all.

I think it really depends on if you were a little heavy to begin with. You are going to use more calories as you grow. I would think if you are eating the same amount of calories but have become more active, you are going to get thinner. Teens require lots of calories if they are normally active.
Now if the person ate a lot more, had become inactive, then I would be concerned but even then it could just be that a growth spurt is using a lot of calories.
I have a cousin who grew 1 foot in about 4 years and he ate like a horse and was super thin. I imagined he gained some weight but he went from full looking to really thin. After he stopped growing it took him about another 2 years for him to gain adequate weight. He still looks thin but he looks much healthier.

@Pandora I was about 115 then and about 115 now

@cliofaye How tall are you?

@JLeslie I’m 5’3” and I’m still growing slowly

Sounds like you are a perfect weight. The old school rule is 100 pounds at 5 feet, and 5 pounds for every inch after. So 5’3” adds up to 115, 5’4” is 120 and so on. But really there is a range. For your height it is probably something like 110 to 120, not sure you could google height and weight charts. And, again, depending on how much muscle you have it could even be higher in weight and you would still be thin and normal weight, because the water held by the muscle weighs more as I mentioned above.

Moreover, your weight is shifting around, and through puberty women gain some fat, breast and around the hips and thighs. We have a higher fat percent than men, we need the fat to menstruate.

The exact opposite, actually. Ususally, getting taller maked you thinner.

@pshizzle She isn’t talking about how thin she is, she is asking about how much she weighs.