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"You all believe that losing one-hundred-plus pounds will solve everything, but it won't. Something far heavier is weighing on you, and until you deal with that, nothing in your lives will be right." --Betsy Glass, PhD, at first weekly group counseling session for ten severely obese teens admitted into exclusive weight-loss surgery trialPatient #1: Female, age 16, 5'4", 288 lbs.Thrust into size-zero suburban hell by remarried liposuctioned mom. Hates new school and skinny boy-toy stepsister.Body size exceeded only by her big mouth.Patient #2: Male, age 16, 6'2", 335 lbs.All-star football player, but if he gets "girl surgery," as his dad calls it, he'll probably get benched.Has moobies--male boobies. Forget about losing his V-card--he's never even been kissed.Patient #3: Female, age 15, 5'6", 278 lbs.Morbidly obese and morbid, living alone with...Pages of Teenage Waistland :
