Teen girls become obsessive over dieting.

Many holiday resolution: include the desire to shed a few pounds, but for some teens, dieting is a constant battle against. society. CPL spoke with two teem who have been tempted to risk their health in favor of a smaller size.

Cali Hersh, 16: I start dieting every morning but I never continue and it ends at noon.

I've basically tried everything I did two weeks of eating salads over Christmas vacation a fey years ago; I think I lost 10 pounds, but all I ate was salad. I tried laxatives but [they] definitely don't work. I would actually love to be bulimic but I know I would never do it because I'm just too scared to go through with it. It's crazy what people do to lose weight.

I get really obsessed about it. I get kind of obsessed with counting every calorie.

It's just looking at other people and wishing you could have that body. I want to be this skinny model with the perfect figure Just walking around and seeing people in real life in front of you so skinny and pretty and it's just unfair sometimes. Dieting makes me think that it all car get better. But it also makes me more insecure and crazy. I remember when I was little and I was chubby. I never thought about it and how happy I was not knowing how fat I am.

Dieting has made things so much more confusing. I'm always worried about how many calories is this, how many points is this or how many carbs are in it. It's just a waste of time. I wish I can be happier and enjoy being out with my friends and just hanging out all the time, but now it's just the constant worries.

Dieting is hard. It is really, really hard to just sit there and eat salads and not order that hamburger that you really want. I feel stupid when I'm on a diet because everyone tells me: "Cal, you don't need to diet. You're skinny." Blah blah blah. But I really don't think I am.

I guess the most extreme diet I've done was the Hollywood Diet where you starve yourself for two days and then only drink orange juice. You're supposed to lose five pounds, and that was complete baloney.

Vicki Samuels, 17: I started dieting when I was 13. My mom really wanted me to diet, and I was looking at the way people were looking at me and I didn't want to be chubby, so I started dieting.

I did Weight Watchers, which was OK I guess. I mean it works, but it kind of makes you neurotic. I think it focuses too much on how much you weigh. I lost weight but now I'm crazier about food and I obsess over it more than I ever did before Weight Watchers.

I tried so many diets, from Slim Fast to the Special K diet. My mom's friends invented a baby food diet where I would just eat baby food, and I guess that was the worst because baby food is really disgusting, and I didn't lose any weight.

When I diet I feel very restricted. It's unfair because you're like, "This isn't what the world should be about." You should be able to eat whatever and enjoy it. It's sick. I'm guilty of it and a lot of people are. Dieting is one of the worst things to get addicted to.

I think a lot of the problem is you walk into these stores, and all you see is beautiful, skinny, like 2-pound girls and you say: "This isn't fair. I want to look like that." The number-one pressure isn't TV. It's hard walking to the mall and seeing all these skinny girls. I want that body even though in my own head I know that I'm never going to be very skinny, that's just my body, but you can't help but wish and want.

My mom is the one who kind of persuaded me to go to Weight Watchers, but she really doesn't understand now how I'm very sick and compulsive about it. Both my parents eat a lot and don't gain weight. My father is the type of person that he'll know you're dieting and, even though I'm on Weight Watchers and you have so many points and you save up your points and you have a chocolate bar, and he sees you in the kitchen, he'll say "You eating again?" and it's really discouraging because here you are not doing anything wrong but you're getting put down.

My friend Jessica, she's crazy about dieting. She lost 30 pounds, but she did bulimia and anorexia and exercising, and she always tells me these tips from pro-anorexia Web sites. I think she also helps me, pushes me to diet.

PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE)