Diet Tribe

If you are legitimately overweight and need to shed some pounds, talk to your mom, doctor, P.E. Teacher, coach, etc to make sure your diet plan is healthy, effective, and attainable for a young teenage girl. All of the afore-mentioned people, as well as friends, cousins, siblings, etc can help motivate you to stay on track. You can tell the people Around you something like, "hey, I’m on a diet, so keep the twinkies away from me!" also, you can assign your best friend or someone to check on your progress every day. If you keep in mind that you’ll have to report to somebody that you ate a handful of mini marshmallows, you’ll be less likely to do it, you know?

Another thing about friends is that they make for great exercise buddies call up your girlfriends and be like "let’s go for a walk" so you can be social AND burn calories! Dancing is good, too. Hook up your iPod when no ones watching (or even better, get your friends/sisters/cousins, etc together for an epic karaoke dance-off party).

If you’re already skinny but you want to make the runway models cry in shame, that’s really not a good idea. Being healthy is one thing, being obsessive is outright dangerous. Talk to an adult before you jump into a serious diet, diets arent something you should just throw around loosely. Your diet should include a good amount of vegetables and vitamin-rich foods. Remember, little Elly Bee that you are just fourteen years old and you still have some growing up to do, don’t waste your youth trying to look like celebs that are years and years older than you! Who are also airbrushed, heavily made-up, wearing hundreds of dollars in clothes, photoshopped to look thinner, taller, curvier, smoother, natural-er….

Good luck & peace!! <3