Does This Pizza Make Me Look Fat?

So how many times are fast food restaurants and processed foods blamed for childhood obesity? And how many times have fashion magazines, supermodels and Hollywood been blamed for giving young girls eating disorders and bad body images? OK, take all that and throw it out the window.
So I'm at Sweet Tomatoes (like Fresh Choice and Souplantation) today and behind me in line is a mother with her teenaged daughter and son. The other side of the salad bar is empty and the mom suggests to the girl that she go on the other side. She says,

"No, salad will fill me up and then I won't be able to eat anything else."

So I think that maybe she doesn't want a bunch of lettuce. But then throughout the whole line, she is commenting on the size of her mom's salad as being huge. When we get to the cashier, the girl has nothing on her plate. This is a really great and varied salad bar, too; it's not just lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers. Along with the usual suspects, it has beets, bell peppers, corn, jicama, banana squash, zucchini and many other vegetables. Also, there is plain pasta, grilled chicken, chickpeas, kidney beans and some low-calorie prepared salads. It would be extremely easy to have a nutritious and low calorie lunch at this place. Also, if you want something hot, there are plain sweet and idaho baked potatoes, 8 soups (half of them vegetarian), whole grain breads and hot pasta. But does this girl take any of that. No! She loads up on pizza. They have one kind of pizza: pepperoni. It's cut into 1" x 3" slices; it is meant as a side dish, not an entree. But that's all she takes. No vegetables, no lean proteins, no soups, nothing nutritious that Sweet Tomatoes offers.

I'm sure when she gets home and puts on her jeans she'll wonder why they make her look fat:

"Why can't I be skinny like the girls in Cosmo? I'll never be that skinny! My world is over!"