From Laurie, Age 13 - 05/19/02 - IP#: 67.82.119.xxx  Click here to reply  
I'm so sick of being like this im 5'8 and 140 maybe even 145. I dont like how i look and it makes me uncomfortable. My older sister is 5'6 and she weighs about 115 at the most, whenever i go out with her i always feel that all the attention goes towards her and her incredibly small size 3 waist. It is so unfair, truth be told i wish i could look like her, even if it meant being 5'6. but i cant shrink now its too late, i do however have time to lose weight before we go to the beach and thats what i need help with. I would LOVE to get down to about 120 the closer i am to being 100 lbs the better. So please if you have any diet tips or you want a diet buddy shout me a holla at cheer_n_dance4life@hotmail.com
P.s not only that but i cheer and dance usully during the fall- spring season and do jr.lifeguards during the summer and all the other girls have teeny tiny little waists. my parens say its baby fat and it wont leave until in 16 maybe even 18 but theres no way im gunna wait around for that to happen and besides i want to look good for my fiirst year of high school next year! please help!
Reply from you're headed for trouble, Age 18 - 05/20/02  - IP#: 12.246.30.xxx
e-mail me please
sarah w
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Reply from Sarah, Age 18 - 05/20/02  - IP#: 12.246.30.xxx
hey,
being 5'8 and 140-145 or whatever, you are perfectly healthy. You will find over the next few years, hopefully sooner than later, that you have so much more to offer the world than your weight...what you focus on is not what other people see--what other people see and appreciate are the smiles, the warmth you radiate, the authenticness of all your feelings--good and down, angry and elated--just try for me, for a couple of days to say to yourself "My body is created for this moment, I am created to live in this moment, my life is in this moment." Living in weight sucks, I've wasted my last 5 years there and I've lost a lot of friends and loved ones because I refused to look at myself the way the looked at me. Read Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher--maybe you're too young, or lacking the perspective to appreciate it all now--but it will make things clearer as you go.
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Reply from cas, Age 14 - 05/19/02  - IP#: 65.27.187.xxx
115 your sister is an 5 6/ ahhh. im 135 an im 5 6.. i know how you feel.