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Ready, steady, diet

Spring break in the US is greeted by a controversial underground movement known as "pro-ana," or pro-anorexia, with a race to lose as much weight as possible before jetting off on holiday

By Alex Williams  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

Sometimes that change of mood can happen right after spring break, as opposed to before.

On a Xanga blog ring called the Bikini Coming Soon Challenge, one 19-year-old related the anxieties she was experiencing only days after returning from a week on the beach with friends: "Tonight I was looking on Facebook at people's albums from spring break. I saw the guy's album that I kind of was starting to like before spring break. In his album were pictures of all these pretty girls -- tan, skinny, looked perfect in their bikinis -- and all these guys were commenting on the pics: `She is so hot!' or `wooowww!!' Stuff like that. Seriously, that's what I want.

"This just makes me want to lose so much weight and then have those guys see me."

She concluded: "I hate boys, I hate my body. Goodnight."

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