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[quote=Anonymous]OP I don't have any good answers. I have an 11yo son who has become overweight. He's so tall that he's still proportional for his height, but we know his diet is terrible and he's got more than the usual pre-pubescent belly. So we're going to see a nutritionist recommended by our pediatrician. It is totally normal by the way, at least in the early phases of puberty, for all kids to get a bit pudgy - in your son's case it sounds like he has not yet learned how to manage his relatively newfound independence wisely.

As sympathetic as I am, some of your language sounds a bit worrisome to me - "scared and ashamed", really??!! If you're talking to your son about his eating habits and weight with that kind of wording, you may be making him feel more stigmatized than supported, and encouraging him to hide his eating. Again, I don't know the right answers, but I think a professional should be helpful.

We have slowly become more frank with our son about the need to eat a healthier diet and get more exercise, but we are careful to keep the focus on health, not on appearance. It's hard enough to be a teenage boy; the last thing I would want to do is to contribute to making him feel lousy about himself. [/quote]

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