DD is overweight - what to do?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t remove anything from her diet just yet but instead try to add. Lots if fresh fruit, veggies, filling protein etc. Fill her up on nutritious foods. Encourage exercise.

[Anonymous]

We stopped buying ice cream, cookies, cake, potatoe chips except for special occasions. That's pretty normal. You can still have crackers, fig newton's, etc., just not dessert or potatoe chips. Maybe once a week, we have ice cream as a treat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t remove anything from her diet just yet but instead try to add. Lots if fresh fruit, veggies, filling protein etc. Fill her up on nutritious foods. Encourage exercise.

yes, encourage peanut butter with apples. or nuts.

[Anonymous]

but realistically, you won't move the needle a ton unless DD plays a sport(s). Getting moving helps. And this us a chubby age before big growth spurt and during puberty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would try to up the exercise by having her take walks with you or joining you for some other family fun. Don’t say it’s for her to lose weight, though. Say you know you need more activity and it’s easier for you if you have company. Thinks like a yoga class will help her get in touch with her body and how it moves. She gm her up for a class to learn a sport. Push the water and get outside as much as you can with her.

12 year olds are not idiots, and they don’t deserve to be lied to even if it would work, which this wouldn’t. Come on. It’s perfectly fine to set requirements for exercise. Don’t lie about it or play any stupid mind games.

12 year olds are too young to feel like their parents want them to be thinner. Telling them they need to lose weight and setting exercise requirements is a great way to kill any future relationship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would up exercise and reduce junk food and eating out or take out, but not eliminate dessert. I wouldn't worry about what she is eating at friends houses. Whatever food changes you make, make them for the whole family.

If she's 10, she may be getting ready to go through puberty and have a growth spurt. You don't want to give her a complex because of her growth pattern, but you do want to be healthy.

+1

[Anonymous]

When you realize this is your fault, you'll know what to do.

[Anonymous]

This did not sound very overweight to me so I put it on the BMI chart and it came up "healthy weight." I'm not sure what the doctor based the observation on.

[Anonymous]

Follow the doctor’s advice. That plan was not too restrictive. Better for her to learn how to eat correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This did not sound very overweight to me so I put it on the BMI chart and it came up "healthy weight." I'm not sure what the doctor based the observation on.

Use the children's BMI calculator:

"Based on the height and weight entered, the BMI is 23, placing the BMI-for-age at the 95th percentile for 10 year-old girls. This falls in the Obesity BMI category."

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/bmi/calculator.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This did not sound very overweight to me so I put it on the BMI chart and it came up "healthy weight." I'm not sure what the doctor based the observation on.

Use the children's BMI calculator:

"Based on the height and weight entered, the BMI is 23, placing the BMI-for-age at the 95th percentile for 10 year-old girls. This falls in the Obesity BMI category."

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/bmi/calculator.html

Thanks, I did not know that they had entirely different charts; this kid BMI chart is based on weight percentile at the particular age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm stuck on your 10 yo being just two inches shorter than me

This is not uncommon for girls.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the pre-teen chunk up. I am surprised a doctor said anything.

Agree with cutting out things like chips — don’t focus on “processed food” as nearly everything we consume is a process (bread, cheese, yogurt, hummus, apple sauce, even milk, if it is pasteurized, is processed food). Watch portion size. Agree on limiting desert— no one needs sweets daily.

[Anonymous]

Go for a long walk after dinner. Is she in sports? Push fruit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the pre-teen chunk up. I am surprised a doctor said anything.

Agree with cutting out things like chips — don’t focus on “processed food” as nearly everything we consume is a process (bread, cheese, yogurt, hummus, apple sauce, even milk, if it is pasteurized, is processed food). Watch portion size. Agree on limiting desert— no one needs sweets daily.

We all know what processed food means and what it doesn't. Bread, applesauce, yogurt, those aren't the problem. Food that comes from a drive thru window, food that comes in a package loaded with preservatives, sugar, and/or other chemicals, etc.

You can argue to make this seem complicated and difficult - but it's understood by everyone. Ordinary, home-cooked food.