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.