Mariana Adams-Foster : Striving for Perfection

by mrk1023

Mariana is my favorite character on The Fosters. I thought it would be interesting to write a story about her developing an eating disorder. This has not happened on the show, and I think Cierra Ramirez is beautiful and not fat, it's just something I thought of and wanted to write about.

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2:

The next day

As soon as she woke up, she went to the bathroom to weigh herself. She held her breath as she stepped on and looked down.

130.5 the scale showed. She exhaled and smiled to herself. She knew she was headed in the right direction and did not want to stop anytime soon. She decided to see how much weight she could lose in 1 day. She went on a 3 mile run around the neighborhood and didn't eat until dinner. She was starving but made herself a salad instead of eating pizza like everyone else was. Her moms always ordered pizza on Sundays but Mariana knew the calories in it were too high. If she wanted to lose weight, she had to eat healthy foods only. After dinner, she took a shower then stepped on the scale. It said the same as it did that morning. She opened her diet journal and wrote her weight at the top of the page.

130.5

ran 3 miles: burned 308 calories

salad: about 300 calories.

It was becoming routine to walk to the scale right after waking up. Mariana smiled when she saw 129.0 the next day. She felt amazing about losing weight and continued her diet by restricting herself to only fruits and vegetables, running at least 3 miles a day. She skipped breakfast and lunch most days at school and spent the after school period using the workout room. In a month, she was down to 120 pounds. She looked in the mirror and told herself she would lose another 10 pounds.