From Michelle, Age 14 - 04/28/02 - IP#: 63.168.28.xxx  Click here to reply  
I was just reading over all your guy's messages, and I think it's great that we all want to help one another. But I think a lot of you are missing a major point. To loose weight, it takes a lifetime commitment. Once you get down to your goal weight, you have to work just as hard as you did to get there to maintain what you've accomplished. A lot of people just slack off, so make sure that when you go on a diet, you make sure it's not too hard for you, because most likely, your going to be doing it for the rest of your life. Oh, and a reply to the message about the skinny girls in the magazines, I definately know how that feels, I'm a red head with freckles (five foot one, and a size 13), but you know what, those girls are picked to represent a product because they are irregular, not because they represent the majority of the population which is over about a size 16 (women). I think it's great that some girls can be skinny naturally, but I'm naturally curvy, and I intend not to conform to anybody's idea of the "perfect woman" as long as I am healthy and feel good about myself. I hope you will consider that also. Good luck to all of you.