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[quote=Anonymous]Please do not micromanage your son. I understand your concern, but as other posters have written, there are right and wrong ways to handle the situation. I was an overweight pre-teen and teenager and my mom said and did stuff that still makes me cringe. If my dad and I would go out for dinner, she would ask my dad how much I ate and would tell my grandparents to stop feeding me so much. She would also make me get on the scale in front of her. There were occasions where she would make my favorite meals and not let me have any, because I had already "eaten it too many times" that week. She once even referred to me as a "porker" and said I was probably the heaviest person in my class. At the time, she weighed about 115 (she's 5'1") and was upset, because she had previously weighed 108.

I finally lost the weight as an adult and she still says stuff like, "Isn't life so much better when you aren't fat?" or "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." Ironically, she is the one trying to lose weight now (~130, trying to get down to 125, ideally wants to be 115).

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