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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/those-old-adolescent-thoughts/">Those Old Adolescent Thoughts</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 9, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Martinique Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">When I was in eighth grade and sitting at the cafeteria table with a group of girls, one of them sighed and said, “Maybe I should go on a diet”.&nbsp; Perhaps we were talking about boys, I don’t remember. Another one agreed saying she had “kind of a belly”. I was astounded. Somehow I had escaped early adolescence without wondering if I had a perfect body. It had just never occurred to me. My mother dieted, my older sister always thought she was too skinny and despite the worry around me, I was just blissfully unaware of what my own imperfections might be.&nbsp; I told her not to go on a diet. I though it sounded awful and I could not realistically understand why she would want to.&nbsp; But as the…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/those-old-adolescent-thoughts/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/those-old-adolescent-thoughts/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/those-old-adolescent-thoughts/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/those-old-adolescent-thoughts/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/body-image/">body-image</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/weight-control/">weight-control</a><br /><br /> </P>