-- Posted by hi sarah at 12:00 am on June 12, 2008 my friends decided to go on this new diet where she eats gum all day and then dinner shes pretty big but that diet is going to hurt her how do i tell her not to do it when i did it for so many years and even worse diets than that i hate sounding like a hypocrite and if i tell her not to shes gong to say yeah well you did worse so you cant say shit which is true any ideas on how to secretly convince her not to do it? -- Posted by Anonymous at 12:01 am on June 12, 2008 maybe she needs to do that. -- Posted by Ad libitum at 12:02 am on June 12, 2008 Lol,eating gum as a substitute for food?! Erm, try telling her parents about it. And, if you two are at the same school, then alert the school nurse. -- Posted by shadowpool at 12:03 am on June 12, 2008 How about "As soon as you get off that diet you're going to immediately gain everything back plus ten pounds." Which is true. -- Posted by A6stringpoet at 12:03 am on June 12, 2008 tell her the truth -- Posted by kinkykelsey16 at 12:04 am on June 12, 2008 maybe tell her about a different diet that u think would work better? -- Posted by HEAD at 12:04 am on June 12, 2008 maby she needs to!!! -- Posted by sexybrown0304 at 12:07 am on June 12, 2008 If shes not going to listen let her do it...then when she see it doesnt work she feel real stupid -- Posted by poet01 at 12:08 am on June 12, 2008 tell her wit ur expererience, u know that its not a good thing to do. tell her shes her own person and ur not trying to boss her around, but u just want to warn her before she gets too far. because it is hard to stop once u get so far into it. and thats true, i know from experience. -- Posted by hi sarah at 12:09 am on June 12, 2008 Quote: from sexybrown0304 at 12:07 am on June 12, 2008 If shes not going to listen let her do it...then when she see it doesnt work she feel real stupid so i should let her do it and get really sick and possibly even addicted to it? i think im not going to do that -- Posted by Sailor CW at 12:11 am on June 12, 2008 Inform her of a thing called 'running'.  It works wonders. -- Posted by shadowpool at 12:22 am on June 12, 2008 If she really does need to lose weight, real info about metabolism and the proper way to lose weight might convince her.  When you eat very little, your body will learn to use less energy--your metabolism will slow--everything will slow way down.  And so you won't lose much weight.  Then when you stop the diet, your body won't stop being slow and the extra calories will pile on as weight in no time. Instead, she should eat 6 or 7 small, healthy meals every day, with a total of 1500+ calories, and do 30+ minutes of aerobic exercise (running, biking, swimming) every other day and increase the number of minutes as she becomes more fit. If she doesn't need to lose weight, then you should talk to her about eating disorders and not just her diet. -- Posted by silverrose42 at 12:26 am on June 12, 2008 Are you doing the new diet now, or did you stop?  If you stopped, then you can tell her you figure out how bad it was for you, and so you stopped. -- Posted by Scarlet Tears at 3:21 am on June 13, 2008 Tell her the truth and say I know I did it but i regret it or something