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[quote=Anonymous]I am 43 years old and over the course of the last 3 years, I have put on about 18 lbs (Just shy of the Covid 19!). In the beginning of the year I was making a big effort to lose the weight and was doing weight watchers, including going to meetings.

After I was on WW for about a month and a half, my oldest son started saying he wants to lose weight and asked me how he can lose weight. He is a normal weight for his height so I expressed to him that he is perfect as he is, that he is only 9 years old and is growing, that  he does not need to worry about losing weight and that he is at a perfectly normal and healthy weight for his age and height, etc. etc. When this happened I stopped going to weight watchers and made a big effort to stop talking about weight. (Not that I talked about it much, or at least I don't think I did).

Anyway I still have this weight to lose so over the past few weeks I have again been focusing on losing weight. I've been very mindful about not talking about dieting, and I have been eating the same dinners as I make for my kids, but just yesterday my son again said that he wants to lose weight and asked me how he can lose weight.  He said he is fat and he wants to be skinny.

It seems that he is picking this up from me because both times he has brought this up while I am actively dieting.  I want to be mindful of not influencing him or causing him to have body image issues, but I really do need to lose this weight.  My body has been hurting a lot more over the past few years, and I really think it has to do with the weight gain.

Is there a way to have this conversation with him so he understands that the fact that I need to lose some weight does not mean he needs to lose weight?
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