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[quote=Anonymous]It sucks OP. I say this as someone who has been overweight and obese my whole life--being very overweight is hard. It's a huge mental toll. Nobody wants their child to suffer. It's normal to feel this way. You are doing all the right things. You just need to work on acceptance; you cannot control the size of your daughter's body and that's okay. To a large extent, she can't control it either.

I will tell you that my parent did the opposite of you; my weight was a huge topic. Tried to curb my eating, tried to force me to exercise, tried to shame me, tried to make it about health, tried to make it about boys liking me, tried....everything short of shipping me off to fat camp. I was never not aware that my size was a problem. In the end none of that made me smaller but damaged my self esteem and our relationship.

Your job is to ease the burden in the ways you can control. You make sure your daughter knows she is worthy, valuable, and beautiful no matter her size. She can pursue healthy eating and exercise no matter what her size. She deserves decent clothes that fit no matter her size. She deserves respect from peers no matter her size. 
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