weight control

Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.

Seventh-grader Tucker needs to come up with a winning science fair project in a hurry, so he uses his fat friend Angelo as an experimental subject and in the process learns about more than just science.

"Portion size is the key to the American obesity epidemic," said James Painter, chair of Eastern Illinois University's School of Family and Consumer Sciences. He believed that healthy choices could be found in every fast-food restaurant. To prove his point, he follows two graduate students - 254-pound Aaron and 111-pound Ellen - who ate portions suitable to their body types for a month. They could choose only foods from 10 fast-food restaurants and gas stations. Both ended up losing weight and lowering their cholesterol" - container.Their choices" - container.

"The fast food industry is providing what people want," said James Painter, chair of Eastern Illinois University's School of Family and Consumer Sciences. "It's people's choices that are making them fat." To prove his point, two graduate students ate fast-food for a month. They made healthier choices with portions suitable to their body types and both ended up losing weight and lowering their cholesterol. Viewers will learn how they did it, comparing calories, portion sizes, extras, and thinking "outside the bun" for healthier choices" - container.

After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.

Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss Huskey Peach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.

Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

Fifteen-year-old Olivia, unhappy because she is overweight and because she must care for her invalid grandmother after school every day, at first denies, then struggles to come to terms with both problems.

Overweight Kim's relationship with a handsome new senior is fraught with ups and downs before they are able to resolve their problems.