Originally Posted by Grav

At 12 I was seeing dieticians at the local hospital regularly. I learned all about the healthy food pyramid, I was told to eat less fat, I was told to eat less everything. I was put on appetite-suppressing shakes. I was once put on a diet of nothing but crackers and cottage cheese for an entire month; when my rate of weight gain actually increased as a result of that one, I was outright accused of not sticking to the diet. Of course it had to be my fault; these were the experts in their field after all. My parents were at a loss, and I was outright miserable.