Tue. Feb 24, 2009 | 3:17 PM

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An emotional and empowering hour you can't miss.

Obese teens talk about their struggles with weight and the heartache they've experienced due to their size. Meet their concerned family members who are afraid their loved ones will die if they don't do something to start losing weight now. The teens hear the straight (and sometimes painful) truth from a doctor, and they meet with exercise expert Jorge Cruise to develop a weight loss program that's right for them. Plus, "Cheetah Girl" Sabrina Bryan shares her own story about growing up overweight. This is an hour you can't miss!

Tell Us: Are you picked on because of your weight?


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i always thought having some workouts was the remedy for obese and big belly people..not untill just the other day when one of my friends who has this big belly as if he was a political leader,was prescribed some concotions by this mobile Maasai man...my friends stomach(belly) is now flat. TAMBUA,HAMISI,KENYA
Posted by david lulasa 02/24/09 11:55 PM
 
hey tyra i have never had a weight problem but i know ppl who get made fun of for there weight my 8 goin on 9 year old sister bein on and my 17 goin on 18 year old cusin they get or got made fun uf by there so called friends i watch this and heard bout it i tried to set things straight but its not easy. my little sister thinks of herself as fat and sometimes cries herself to sleep she has put herself on a diet. my cusin she was made fun of behind her back alot as well as people sayin it to her face. i jus dont think people should talk bout people like that cause what if it was them. people that need to hurt people like that have promlems with themselves.jus had to put that out there.
Posted by alyssa 02/24/09 11:16 PM
 
i need help im 309 icant take it anymore im so sad all the time no friends just like these plz plz plz someone help me i cant take it anymore please
Posted by ariel 02/24/09 10:33 PM
 
I am overweight as well, and I grew up in a town that is very stuck up. Not only do i deal with people commenting on my weight but i have to deal with being half black as well. Alot of people here don't like either. It was weird for me to go to cities where people said i was beautiful and curvy not FAT! I am tryin my hardest to embrace my curves but it's still hard for me!
Posted by Keisha 02/24/09 10:31 PM
 
I have been overweight all of my life and yesd I have been picked on relentlessly sometimes. I have come to terms with the fact that no matter what someone will not like something about you whether it is weight,race,religion,politics or anything you just can't please everybody and I feel I don't have to just as long as I please God and my family and myself. I AM A BIG BLACK BEAUTIFUL QUEEN. yeah I said it!
Posted by florencia 02/24/09 10:21 PM
 
hey tyra my name is joyce i am 19 going to be 20 i have been laught @ by friends b/c of my weight and i fleed verry bad even my boyfriend keep telling me the same over and over each day
Posted by joyce 02/24/09 10:19 PM
 
I am one of those people who ignore or make fun of people over weight. I am 13 and I do not start it my self I hear it being said from others and then I repeat it. That is it the brightest thing to do. People who are not the most popular ones most of the times have the better heart. I feel bad about it and I did some thing like this the other day, some one dyed there hair and I told every one, but they all said they thought she was going to dye it black but it was blond because people say she is kinda different, but I never really got to know her my self that well so I don't really know her but I just take their word for it. not knowing, and now i can't look at her in a way with out thinking what other people say about her. I want to change, so I well try to stay out a situation that lead me to this problem.
Posted by L.S. 02/24/09 9:42 PM
 
Hy tyra my name is adriana , I am 19 years old and people always pick on me because of my weight, i am only about 90 lbs... sucks any advice??
Posted by adriana 02/24/09 6:28 PM
 
Hello Tyra, My name is Fateerah, I am your biggest fan i have been trying to get tickets for so long. But i wanted to comment on this situation. I am 25 pounds over weight. But alot of people say it doesnt look like it.But I 14 going on 15 years old soon and i do sometimes get made fun of my weight my friends would joke around saying that i need to stop eating and that im getting fat. But deep down inside i want to cry because i see so many people in my hight school that are adverage sized and i have to be the really thick girl you can say. When i went to the doctor she told my mother and I that i cant afford to gain any more weight and i tried not to cry but i couldnt help it. But when i look at those girls that was in the video i think that its very sad. And i feel bad that she doesnt know how it feels not to have a best friend. Because if i knew her i would make her my best friend. Because i dont look at the facted that she is over weight i look what is deep down inside.
Posted by Fateerah 02/24/09 6:20 PM
 
Hie I live in Puerto Rico and I have 13 years.I think that the word is not gona end in 1012 because enibodey can knou that only good can know that.
Posted by Paola Acevedo Zeno 02/24/09 6:17 PM
 
When I was younger I was made fun for my weight all the time. Now I guess i have come to terms with my weight I am not a size 2 or 8 and I am fine with that I have friends who take for who I am...I'm not that much older than girls in high school and the truth about HS is that no one in there is happy with their body or situation in life...HS is just tough on anyone. Being overweight is unhealthy yes, but your weight doesn't make you, you...its everything inside. its what your friends and family see that maybe you haven't seen yet, but in time you will.
Posted by melissa 02/24/09 6:14 PM



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