Get her on here if you can. There is SO much great info here. Sometimes when the info comes from a bf or family member, we don't listen. So it might help her to hear the right info from someone else. Feel free to give her my email if you want. I've starved/purged with the best of 'em so I know where she is coming from.

The bottom line is if SHE is not ready to learn, change her lifestyle than no one will be able to help her. She has to be willing to work hard and do it. Its the only way.

I realize that NOT ALL women want to look like Monica Brandt, but wouldn't life be a little easier if the average indiviual could actually walk up a flight or two of stairs (heaven forbid) carrying a few bags of groceries without feeling the need to collapse half way up?

Get your girl on here! We promise not to bite (well, maybe not at first!).

She is young and has so much ahead of her, although as the members before me had said - you can NOT FORCE the issue. It took me quite a few years before I LISTENED TOO! I think the "mag" idea was a good one. Try to support her with positive reinforcement ie compliment her when she is doing something right - eating healthy for example (but don't be the FOOD NAZI), try to get her to come to the gym with you or start out slow with walking together after dinner, and when something isn't quite right instead of harping, tell her that you are going to try to help her figure it out together.

OK - now I'm rambling - carb deprived I guess.