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[quote=Anonymous]About a year ago, when DS was 10, he started making comments about how he was getting fat.  He grabs his sides and makes comments about love handles, pushes out his stomach and complain his clothes won't fit soon.  DS is a SKINNY, very fit, very healthy kid.  He is quite athletic and strong to the point that at 12 he already has the start of a six pack and some decent biceps.  In the last few days he's downloaded a fitness app and started counting calories (Mom, did you realize I should only have about 1200 calories a day!?).  It has me worried!

We do try to be healthy people, don't keep junk food in the house (okay, the occasional pie or bag of chips does sneak in) and are pretty active, but certainly not fitness freaks.  My (naturally thin) husband does complain about his love handles sometimes when he puts his bathing suit on, and I (fairly slender) do watch my weight, but weight has never been a big topic of conversation and certainly not something we talk about with DS.

I'm concerned that these comments are coming so young and from my son!  Whenever he makes comments I remind him what good shape he's in, what a healthy eater he is, it's not about weight but health, etc., but could this be the start of something worse?  Anyone go through this with their son??  Any thoughts on action I should/should not take??[/quote]

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