Becoming Your Childs Weight Loss Coach
While being overweight as an adult is bad for both physical and emotional reasons, it is especially traumatic for a child. An obese child faces many emotional and physical problems. I will give you a few suggestion that hopefully will help you assist your child in addressing their obesity problems.
Obviously physical problems pose an immediate threat to a childs health and should be addressed immediately. These include diabetes, heart problems, asthma, and even cancer. Note that many of these ailments are chronic in nature and will follow the child through the remainder of his/her life. Therefore treatment of obesity needs to occur as soon as it is evident that a child is unable to control their eating successfully.
While the physical problems are serious, the emotional impact on an obese child can be devastating. The taunting and teasing a child will endure because of their obesity can lead to serious emotional problems. These include things like depression which can be brought on by all the emotional abuse as well as development of low self esteem. This can be further devastating because if a child withdraws from social interaction they will fail to develop proper social skills to interact with society.
Here a few things you can do to help your child lose weight:
1. Search the net, magazines, and books and come up with a plan to serve healthy, nutritious meals to your family. Also learn to prepare foods in ways that reduce calories. Grilling is much better than frying when it comes to meat preparation. Once you become an expert you can prepare great tasting meals that are low in caloric intake.
2. Only prepare enough food for one sitting. Do not encourage "seconds" by only cooking the exact amount of food needed for that one meal. Use lots of vegetables in your meals. they are nutritious and low in in calories. Be sure and check the calorie counts on the foods you are planning to serve.
3. Do not have high calorie snacks and junk out for your child to eat. If other family members can and like junk food make them buy it and store it out of sight of others.
4. Think about having your child join a teen weight loss group. Teens are heavily influenced by their peer group and so encouragement from other teens would go a long way to helping your child lose weight. It would also help them develop their social skills.
5. Get your "PhD." in nutrition and diet. Become the expert in the proper foods your child should eat.
6. Get your child into an exercise routine. As they are still developing it is very important for a child to have daily exercise. Maybe consider using sedentary activities such as playing video games as a reward for doing some sort of strenuous exercise routine. Be sure and point out that exercise will help them lose weight by increasing metabolism.
While you may encounter some initial resistance from your child, you will find that they are glad you are helping them achieve their weight loss goals. Your role should be similar to that of a cheerleader, never be negative. If you have ever had to diet you now how incredibly hard it can be. Remember, getting your child down to their target weight now can avoid serious emotional and physical problems later. - 17273
Obviously physical problems pose an immediate threat to a childs health and should be addressed immediately. These include diabetes, heart problems, asthma, and even cancer. Note that many of these ailments are chronic in nature and will follow the child through the remainder of his/her life. Therefore treatment of obesity needs to occur as soon as it is evident that a child is unable to control their eating successfully.
While the physical problems are serious, the emotional impact on an obese child can be devastating. The taunting and teasing a child will endure because of their obesity can lead to serious emotional problems. These include things like depression which can be brought on by all the emotional abuse as well as development of low self esteem. This can be further devastating because if a child withdraws from social interaction they will fail to develop proper social skills to interact with society.
Here a few things you can do to help your child lose weight:
1. Search the net, magazines, and books and come up with a plan to serve healthy, nutritious meals to your family. Also learn to prepare foods in ways that reduce calories. Grilling is much better than frying when it comes to meat preparation. Once you become an expert you can prepare great tasting meals that are low in caloric intake.
2. Only prepare enough food for one sitting. Do not encourage "seconds" by only cooking the exact amount of food needed for that one meal. Use lots of vegetables in your meals. they are nutritious and low in in calories. Be sure and check the calorie counts on the foods you are planning to serve.
3. Do not have high calorie snacks and junk out for your child to eat. If other family members can and like junk food make them buy it and store it out of sight of others.
4. Think about having your child join a teen weight loss group. Teens are heavily influenced by their peer group and so encouragement from other teens would go a long way to helping your child lose weight. It would also help them develop their social skills.
5. Get your "PhD." in nutrition and diet. Become the expert in the proper foods your child should eat.
6. Get your child into an exercise routine. As they are still developing it is very important for a child to have daily exercise. Maybe consider using sedentary activities such as playing video games as a reward for doing some sort of strenuous exercise routine. Be sure and point out that exercise will help them lose weight by increasing metabolism.
While you may encounter some initial resistance from your child, you will find that they are glad you are helping them achieve their weight loss goals. Your role should be similar to that of a cheerleader, never be negative. If you have ever had to diet you now how incredibly hard it can be. Remember, getting your child down to their target weight now can avoid serious emotional and physical problems later. - 17273
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Rick Jones is an author and also own several websites that sell wedding chair covers and wedding place card holders.
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