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September 20, 2005, 12:54 pm PDT

How to help w/o doing damage...

Quote From: lorihelmy

I was a fat child. a fat teen and yes a fat adult. about ten months ago i had a gastric bypass.  I dont wish this for your son or mine.  Mine is 41/2.  I am soooo paranoid about him being obese (he already weighs 50lbs) i didnt allow any process sugar till the age of 2.  at one point he told his teachers at his new kindercare that i told him sugar was poison for him and i didnt allow him to eat it.  they asked me if he was diabetic and allergic to it!  the reason why i got my gastric bypass was an attempt at keeping him from getting overweight.  I dont allow him to watch tv.  have him enrolled in tai kwan do and read all labels that come into my house.  try changing one habbit at  a time.  go for a walk for fiffteen min. after dinner.  dont allow candy in your house.  NO SODA not even diet.  water and milk.  you may not be able to stop him from being overweight but you will be able to curtail the amount of overweight he is.  also enrolling him in martial arts is not a bad thing.  then if kids pick on him he only needs to take out one of them.

Hi... Sorry to hear what you've had to go through, so thanks for listening to my problem.  Gosh, I'm a label reader (my son has become one also), I rarely let him watch t.v. or play computer games, he's always on his bike or running around w/friends, I never buy candy or bake (except his birthday cake), he's not allowed to have soda (in fact, he doesn't like it), he must drink a gallon of water a day.  It's hard to know how much to do or explain without damaging his self-esteem.  He's smart enough to see through the "it's all about a healthy lifestyle" stuff, even though it's the truth.  He will often look at what I say (ever so gingerly) as "there's something wrong with me".  Any advice there? 

  

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