From Nick Z, Age 15 - 07/03/03 - IP#: 152.163.252.xxx  Click here to reply  
Start: 155 lb, Today: 130 lb - I was once overweight but I am know wiegh at a normal weight of 130lbs from once being 155 pounds. But know I am taking a health class and I have to write a report on obesity so I want to know how being obese effects the kids on this website so please write back on how obesity effects obese teens before July 8.
Reply from sarah, Age 14 - 07/06/03  - IP#: 63.229.200.xxx
Hi I am overweight and I feel like all the guys me and my friends see only like my friend and not me I hate it I cry myself to sleep at night sometimes because I want to be thin. I am call fat and pig alot and I hate it I only want to be thin again. So if you could give me advice email me at sweetie18552@msn.com		 
Reply from Amber, Age 17 - 07/03/03  - IP#: 4.3.188.xxx
It lowers my self-esteem and I can't even play with my friends because I feel I look like an idiot when I run around. I am worried about meeting people ( I once went out with a guy for 9 months before I would meet him b/c I didn't want him to think I was fat). I get tired faster than my thin friends and I feel that I am not as pretty as them (like when we meet guys I feel they only like my friends). When I grow up and I begin looking for a career I feel I wont get as good of a job being fat. I need to be physically FIT in order to be some of the things I want to be (Archaeologist, Titanic researcher, or an Egyptologist) and other careers I would like to choose I have to have a good physical APPEARANCE (like a lawyer or a social worker). Being fat puts a hault on my life now and if I don't change it soon it will put a hault on my future.