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Old 08-23-2006, 12:44 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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Here is my take as a parent.

I have no doubt that you have a legitimate concern about being overweight. There is, after all, an epedimic of overweight children (forgive me for saying children but I can't call you a teen, can I?). However the idea of an 11 year old "dieting" disturbs me and I almost wish I could see pictures of you to give you an objective opinion since there is also an epidemic of distorted body images for children....before anyone accuses me of being to "sensitive" I will mention that my 4 YEAR OLD son, just the other day, asked his mother "does this make me look fat?" upon trying on a coat the other day. That shit is DISTURBING.

I also believe that at 11 years old it is TOO EARLY to start calling yourself an endomorph, mesomorph or any other morph...just as likely that you have simply not learned good eating habits and metabolism is a function of diet and activity level as well as gentics, not to mention those androgens I mentioned earlier. In fact, what you do during puberty can have a GREAT effect of where your body ends up wanting to be later on in life.

What an 11 year old should be doing is getting out and MOVING. Running around. Playing. Sports, tag, whatever. Get out from in front of the frigging computer, the video games if you play them, the TV...get off your ass and be a kid instead of a zombie. Find a physical activity you like, maybe somethng like Martial Arts...but just DO IT. Play, have a good time, the harder the better. Go out and get dirty.

Learn proper and healthy eating habits and make it a lifestyle. You have the time now to determine what the rest of your life will be like. Now I turn the soapbox over to someone else... .
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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