Ok I have an overweight 13 and a half yr old son, and I feel frustrated with gradually introduce healthy foods and give them more exercise thing. My son loves food and we eat really healthy organic food and tons of veggies and fruits.No one else in the family is overweight. He however does not seem to know when to or to want to stop eating. if we go into a store, he is stuffing food off the sample tray into his mouth as fast as he can inhale it. At parties he is piling his plate as high as he can get it and the relatives attitude of " oh let him eat, he is a growing boy ,does not help either'. He sneeks into our cabinets and he eats large amounts of carbs. If there are no sweet things such as granola bars or other snacks, he will eat large amounts of dry oatmeal or even frozen potatoes uncooked. When he stays at friends houses he gets tons of unhealthy food. Yet experts reccomend not to say anything to him because it might damage his self esteem. I do know he feels bad about this but there is not just an easy solution of oh go to the park more and cook healthy dinners because I have been doing that for many years now to no avail. We even have a lock on our pantry door that eveytime we change the code he seems to just figure it out so he can do more snacking. I feel bad about talking with him about this and I feel bad not saying anything too him and just letting him ruin his health.
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Ok I have an overweight 13 and a half yr old son, and I feel frustrated with gradually introduce healthy foods and give them more exercise thing. My son loves food and we eat really healthy organic food and tons of veggies and fruits.No one else in the family is overweight. He however does not seem to know when to or to want to stop eating. if we go into a store, he is stuffing food off the sample tray into his mouth as fast as he can inhale it. At parties he is piling his plate as high as he can get it and the relatives attitude of " oh let him eat, he is a growing boy ,does not help either'. He sneeks into our cabinets and he eats large amounts of carbs. If there are no sweet things such as granola bars or other snacks, he will eat large amounts of dry oatmeal or even frozen potatoes uncooked. When he stays at friends houses he gets tons of unhealthy food. Yet experts reccomend not to say anything to him because it might damage his self esteem. I do know he feels bad about this but there is not just an easy solution of oh go to the park more and cook healthy dinners because I have been doing that for many years now to no avail. We even have a lock on our pantry door that eveytime we change the code he seems to just figure it out so he can do more snacking. I feel bad about talking with him about this and I feel bad not saying anything too him and just letting him ruin his health.
July 23, 2010 - 11:08amThis Comment
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