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whenever i run i get out of breath real easily so what can i do so i can run longer without getting so tired ? (link)
its probably just that you're not a good long distance runner. you should build up indurance by just running more and more everyday and keep pushing yourself until you can eventually run long distance without getting tired so easily


hey can anyone give me an idea about a good screen name? im having a lot of trouble lol so my name is christina and it can include the words summer a/o love, numbers and Xs and Os thanks so much ill rate high (link)
babiixchristina
sexiixchristina


Ok, so theres this guy, let's call him Cameron. I've been literally in love with him for over 2 and a half years. He's liked me that long too, but the problem is, one of his best girl friends (who is also my best friend) says that he likes five girls. Two of which are halfway across the country. Then there's me, and two other girls that must go to my school. On a scale of 1-10 he rated me a 9, and a girl in another state a 10. I'm getting really jealous and I'm not sure how to react to all this. He says he really likes me, and he even gave me flowers on Valentine's Day, but I'm just not sure what to do. Should I still keep my hopes up for him, or try to give him up since he likes 5 different girls? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. (link)
well hun, i think that you should just forget about him because if he can like 5 girls at the same time then oviously he is a player or he just cant make up his mind about who he likes. anyway this is just like cheating. if he says he likes 4 other girls what makes you think that when he goes out with you that he wont cheat on you either. also he is going to say that the other girls that dont live in that state dont mean anything to him but that is just a lie boys say.


ok so i have a friend (joann) who loves to sing, and wants to be a famous singer for her career and she works really LOVES to sing. i also love to sing, and know a great deal and music along with many of my friends. The problem is joann cant sing fo rthe life of her. everytime she starts to sing people laugh. shes ac=bsolutley awful. shes known in my school to be an awful singer. being a friend i cant tell her, and her parents tell her shes good. what can my friends and i do to help her see that maybe singing isnt the right thing for her? thanks!!
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Honestly, if you guys are friends.
You should be able to tell her, not rudely, just tell her she's not that great of a singer.


My best friend just found out she has a brain tumor its only 1% cancerous so thats a good thing but I dont know what to tell her I dont want to cry in front of her because Im afraid that will make it worse and I dont want to brush it off and act like I dont care either. Please help me. (link)
Be optimistic, all she may need is hope. Just let her know you will always be there for her, no matter what. Let her know that if she ever needs to talk you'll listen.

Good luck to you and your friend,

------->Maureen


13/f
Me and this guy have been best friends for like 3 years and we were really really close and i trusted him with everything. In 6th grade we went out but it was ntohign big or anything we lasted about a month. I went out with other people but in the middle of 7th grade i really started to believe that I loved him.. truely loved him. I told some of my "girlfriends" but I kept my feelings from him for a long time. Finally, he put me in the posistion where I had to tell him so I told him I loved him. For about a week we didn't talk but he said he was happy I told him. The next week he ended up with a gf who is my good friend. I never did anything wrong and he told other people that he hated me and he was never goign to talk to me again. This really hurts me becuase not only am i losing the love of my life but the best friend I ever had. What do I do??
I RATE 5's if you answered for reading all of this. (link)
If you didn't do anything wrong, I don't see what his problem is. Just talk to him about it. Tell him that you don't care whether he likes you back or not, if he just wants to keep it as friends, let him know that's ok with you, you just want your best friend back. Just make sure he knows there is no pressure on him for a relationship that is more than a friend. Even if you like him, if you like his friendship more, than you'll have to try and talk to him. If he accepts your friendship again, that's great but if he doesn't, I don't see what else you can do.

Good luck, I hope your best friend understands,

------>Maureen


sorry if this is long but anyone who can help me , it would be greatly apprecaited. Alright so it all started out when his boy moved away. but he moved back this year around like julyish and everyone was like curious of what would happen when there family moved back. Like would the old "groups' go back would everhthing be the same. So i made a promise to my friend that i would never ditch her for him. So everything was going good. I liked him right away when he got back and more than a friend but i didnt start hanging out with him till haloween. And as i started hanging out with him , i drifted away from everyone else. My bestfriend and everyone. And now i kinda lost all my friends at church . Oh yea by the way this is at church. and i usually bring my friend so im not like the only girl but she's not always going to be able to come and i want all my old friends back. My friend is mad cause i broke a promise to her. It would be really awkard for me to just go back to them . WHAT DO I DO . i miss them all soo much!

ill rate 5 for any help. (link)
Try and get together with them whenever you can, or with each of them individually (to make it seem more personal) and apologize for drifting away from them. Tell them why you drifted away from them (without sounding like your just making excuses). They will probably understand, and they've probably been in the same situation...

I hope it works out,

-----Maureen


Sometimes... I feel so chubby.

Well, like most young teenagers, I'm obsessed with my weight and staying healthy. Actually, it's not exactly my weight... It's just that I look kind of fat. I'm 14 years old... I stand at 5' 1" and I weigh just about 105 pounds... I never thought that I was over-weight (but am I?)... It's just I look fatter than how much I really weigh. Is that even normal? Does that even make sense?(o.O) My friends are always telling me I look fine and that I'm "skinny" but I know they're just saying that so I won't feel bad. A lot of my friends weigh more than me and are taller than me... but they look more... normal. Sometimes I just think I'm insecure... or something... Should I exercise more often? Should I try to lose just a little weight? Or am I just going crazy?

Thanks... (link)
Oh, I'm exactly the same way. I'm 5'0 and 112 pounds. It's because we're short. It's like everything's squished together, and if we were stretched out, we'd be bean poles. Exercise is always good. They say that 30 minutes a day for a growing teen is absolutely necsissary. Exercising isn't just for losing weight, but it's to help keep you in shape and you'll feel better about yourself. I hope I helped :)


Sometimes... I feel so chubby.

Well, like most young teenagers, I'm obsessed with my weight and staying healthy. Actually, it's not exactly my weight... It's just that I look kind of fat. I'm 14 years old... I stand at 5' 1" and I weigh just about 105 pounds... I never thought that I was over-weight (but am I?)... It's just I look fatter than how much I really weigh. Is that even normal? Does that even make sense?(o.O) My friends are always telling me I look fine and that I'm "skinny" but I know they're just saying that so I won't feel bad. A lot of my friends weigh more than me and are taller than me... but they look more... normal. Sometimes I just think I'm insecure... or something... Should I exercise more often? Should I try to lose just a little weight? Or am I just going crazy?

Thanks... (link)
Your normal, you dont need to loose any weight your fine.
But exxercising & eating right, always helps a person. But your not fat, so you know.
& dont always think your friends are just saying that, beacause your only a iche taller then me, Im 13, and I weight 127. So i know your fine.


what does it mean when you hold up your pinky.

as like an insult? (link)
Its the middle in chinese. (sp?)


My Best friend, is honestly considering suicide. He's messed up so much in his life. He has cheated on his girlfriend twice, and he even cheated on me when we were dating and he messed up really bad during our relationship, his mom recently died while we were dating and i helped him so much and now, i dont even know how to help him hes so messed up. He does weed around 3-4 times a day he even goes to school stoned. I've tried to get him to cut back and even quit but its honestly useless. His girlfriend found about the 2nd time of cheating and totally bitched him out and wont even talk to him. He IMed me on Aim and tells me he's going to commit suicide and i've been trying to get him to settle down and talk through it i even left him a voicemail, and im just so scared he'll actually do it... PLZ HELP ME I DONT KNO WT TO SAY ANYMORE TO HIM...

THANK YOU IF YOU CAN HELP IM ON THE VERGE OF CRYING BECAUSE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AND I CANT TAKE ANOTHER PERSON DYING THIS YEAR...

--Kim (link)
search on google or yahoo.
" boys and girls town nation hotline"
you can ask for help there.
& PLEASE TELL AN ADULT, YOU CAN SAVE HIS LIFE.
even if it doesnt take a slight junmp in your friendship.


14/f. My boyfriend just turned 17. I am a virgin, he isn't. He's had sex with 2 people. We have been together for probably about 4 months. He respects me and I know he loves me and always wants to spend time with me. I know that he wants to have sex but tries his best to repect what I want. I sort of want to have sex, I know he loves me and cares about me. But there is another guy who I talked to before I knew him and he was in love with me. For some reason I stopped talking to him. And I'm just confused about what I want. Please give me advice, and when you have sex, do you immediately start to bleed your first time? and how much? I will rate. (link)
Honestly you're boyfriend is 17 andf your only 14. And your still confused on exactly what you want. But its sounds like your still very unsure, I'd wait intill you were postive of the relatioship. And in my personal opinion 14 is way to woung for sex with a 17 year old.


i have an essay/ report to doo on dieting and im doing crash dieting in a few paragraphs.
what are some foos that people usually mostly focus on when crash dieting?

thanks (link)
crackers? idk.
I tried.


I am waaay too overweight, but I can't seem to get it off. I've tried counting calories combined with exercise, and I had to get down to 900 calories a day to lose weight, and even then it was less than a pound every two weeks.

The only thing that has every worked for me is the South Beach diet, and it worked really well. The only problem is that I kept getting really sick on it. I was dizzy, lightheaded, and nervous all the time, and I kept throwing up and having diarrhea.

I went to my doctor, but he doesn't believe me. He says that it's not possible for me to have such a hard time losing weight.

So here's my question. Can anyone tell me any medical reason that I might be having trouble losing weight? I'd like to go to the doctor with some suggestions, because maybe he's missed something. Also, can anyone suggest why I might've gotten so sick on South Beach?

And finally, has anyone had any realy success with any other diet that I might try? I don't mind dieting or exercising, so I'm open to anything that works!

Thanks in advance! (link)
Get a new docter.
And see if they can help you, i see no point in a docter just telling you that, they should be able to give you some tests or something.


OK well my friends bf's birthday was like two days ago and she doesn't know what to go him.
He is "gangsta" and she was thinking cologn but she can't find him any.
Does anyone have any good birthday present ideas? (link)
Buy him a pimpin (hah.) hat with his name writtin on it.
Or buy him a good cd ( or make him one full of love hiphop/rap songs)


okay so i basically hate my boyfriends mom.....so my boyfriend had his friend sleepover the other night and well early today my boyfriends mom finds a condom on his floor kinda pushed outta the way well my b/f n me dont do that kinda stuff at all!! and well we think that mabye its his friends and now my b/fs mom is saying how she is going to call my mom and tell her and i didnt do anything im not like that and i just hate his mom she has never liked me she always asks me about my family problems and she also called me a slut behind my back when she first met me and when she first met me i was still in the stage of all we would do is hold hands and hug i dont know wat to do cause shes gunna call my mom and im so scared please help! (link)
Wow. I am SO sorry that you are going through this. BUT it sounds like you are learning first hand why there is a very good reason "mother-in-law" sends shivers down the spines of most females! haha

Try and understand what you are REALLY dealing with here -
The relationship between a Mom and her son is pretty complicated - Your boyfriend is her baby and her instincts are to protect him from the world. I'm sure it's nothing against you personally...it's about her BABY growing up and suddenly she is having to share his affection and attention with a STRANGER!

And it never goes away! I'm 41 and still fight with my mother-in-law. She has actually said that I have "changed" her son because he used to drive 3 hrs each way just to mow her stupid lawn! I've accepted that this is never going to be better. This can be a good learning experience for you because - trust me - you WILL have this same thing happen to you time and time again with other boys' moms.

Ok so you only have two options...
1. Break up with your bf - but know that this will probably happen again with the next one.
OR
2. Learn to play the game. Accept that not many women are going to let another female just walk in and take their BABY! To a mother, a son is a "clean slate" that she has been able to mold into her idea of a perfect male...since birth...so there's a ton of time invested in this and from a Mom's perspective - it's going to take an amazing young lady to be worthy of all that work (and this girl better be appreciative of all that hard work!). Try and understand where she's coming from. I'm not saying she's right to make you feel bad. I'm saying to learn to work with what you have there. Put yourself in her place and try and say and behave the way she needs you to.

Some suggestions - Thank her for raising such a great guy. Tell her how lucky you are. Tell her what a great mom she is and you hope you can be like her some day. Ask her for recipes of your bfs fav foods. Just keep being nice. She probably won't ever come around TOTALLY - but you CAN help soften her up a bit. Besides, if you allow her to make this a competition for him and his affection, you will loose every time.

And regarding the condom...I'd rather talk to you on aim about that topic. But I think you should go ahead and talk to your mom. Tell her what you just wrote to me. It sounds rational to me. I would bet that she will be very understanding. Then your bfs mom can't hold that over your head. AND it makes you look innocent if you can look her in the eye and tell her that you've already talked to your mom. That gives YOU the power instead of your bfs mom.

IM me and let me know if this helps at all and good luck!!!!! This is a problem that has challenged every generation of females so at least you know what you are going through is VERY common! lol Much Love, Mrs S



i go to a tanning salon before dances, and i've been going every other day for about 3 weeks. i've been using the same lotion for about 3 weeks also. i went tanning yesterday, and today i woke up with these little bumps all over my thighs and stomach. they aren't red, but they are itchy and you can feel them if you run your hand over my skin. i'm not sure what they are - is it sunpoisioning from tanning too often? or maybe im allergic to the lotion? but i used it all over my body and there are only bumps on my thighs and stomach. what could this be? (link)
You tanned to much. Keep a type of cream on it, and stay away from tanning for awhile.


okay..well i just totally lied to my parents and i feel horrible..i seriously want to cry and this is going to ruin my night! they have done so much for me i cant beleive i did this..

first off i lied to them last weekend about something i was doing and then toda (a week later) they get suspicious and start asking me questions and they ask if im lying and i say no. i still think they are suspicious but i feel horrible!!

DONT SUGGEST.. "just tell them the truth" because seriously..im not gonna do that..i cant..but i promised myself im not gonna lie to them again..i will tell them the truth because i feel horrible. please dont call me a cunning lying bitch and blah blah and if i lied once i'll keep doing it more and more..well you dont know me if your gonna say it dont bother answering.

i just dont know what to do!
im lost and upset..
i will rate high for anyone who answers!
THANKS ALOT! (link)
People lie, its not that BIG.
you have to put the lie away.
And just go on with life, one lie wont hurt you.


so my periods been really weird latley. i had it in december, but i dont think iv had it since then. im kinda worried because my boyfriend and i mess around are both of our "areas" whave been near eachother but we have never actually had sex. I am also very underweight though. I know that being underweight can mess up your period. So i was wondering if its most likley my weight or if theres a chance im pregnant? thank you! (i rate high!) (link)
No sex- no pregnant.
If you do not have your period again by age 16 please see a docter.
Im sure its just irregular and soon it will get on track. But you could go see a docter, now if you'd like.
Or it could be late beacause your stressed out.


Well, I don't mean to sound conceited but a lot of people come up to me and say they like me, but it's always these guy's friends that like me. Is there something wrong with me that the guy who likes me can't come up to me and say it himself? Why is it always their friends? (link)
You idminate (sp??) them.
Your probably really pretty, and there so shy and its easy for there friends to tell you. so they get them. its NOT beacause there "stupid" its beacause when they really like a girl they go shy.




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