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"&amp;quot;I know I&amp;#039;m not really fat, but every time I eat something like fries I get a horrible feeling that I did something wrong. What&amp;#039;s wrong with me?&amp;quot; \u2014Delilah, 15 There is nothing wrong with you, Delilah \u2014 you are experiencing what I call &amp;quot;The Language of Fat. It&amp;#039;s the ingrained notion of disordered eating \u2014 giving food emotional qualities like &amp;quot;fries = bad&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;salad = good.&amp;quot; Food isn&amp;#039;t emotional. It&amp;#039;s fuel. But we assign it a meaning and also give it a lot of value as far as impacting our own self-worth. Nutrition is best when in moderation. It&amp;#039;s okay to have fries. It&amp;#039;s okay to eat a balanced diet of all sorts of things. One &amp;quot;slipup&amp;quot; if you are on a diet isn&amp;#039;t going to ruin you. It&amp;#039;s the restrictions most girls put on foods that set them up for the binge. Society and our media culture tend to brainwash us with the notion that you are only a &amp;quot;good girl&amp;quot; when you are eating rabbit food or sometimes no food at all. Let go of that belief and begin to look at your eating with more flexibility. If eating fries literally/physically doesn&amp;#039;t make your body feel good, that&amp;#039;s one thing; but if it&amp;#039;s all in your head \u2014 thinking you&amp;#039;ve committed a cardinal sin because you ate a fry \u2014 that&amp;#039;s something you can work on. Right now, cut yourself some slack and go easy on yourself. Jess Weiner is an author, self-esteem expert, and Seventeen&amp;#039;s new Body Peace adviser. To ask Jess your body-image questions, share your thoughts, or vent your frustrations, leave your comments below or send them here. Jess will answer new questions every week! Learn more about Jess at withjess.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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