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From Sasha, Age 12

hey im 12 and I weigh 140 pounds and I dont know how tall i am and i have these funny white lines on my stomach. im really sad and i eat when im bored and i even eat when im excited - so, i , like , eat all the time. im not active - at all. my parents say i might get diabetes and all these other diseases and im so scared./ im sick of being fat because then i can't keep up in gym class, when my parents go hiking i can't catch my breath, even though people have accepted that me being fat i can't seem to accpet myself. like, when i had a boyf. a few months ago, he totally liked me the way i was but then i was also putting myself down se broke up with me. i have tried to lose weight for 8 years - even when i was 4 i was aware that i didnt look like the other girls in my class. But now its reached its peaking point and I don't know what to do. I've cried over it countless times, and now im a sopping, not to mention fat, mess/ Please anybody help me.