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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what do you know? with the recent gains he's now solidly in obese category. and trust me all obese kids have a complex of their body and an eating disorder - they overeat. my job is to help him overcome both.[/quote]

I presume you are responding to my post, 13:24, where I said quite bluntly that you were likely to end up influencing your child to develop an eating disorder. In hindsight, my delivery was harsh and unkind, and for that I apologize.

What do I know? Well, not your kid's specific situation, but I do know that as a young adult in my mid to late 20s I struggled with anorexia, and while there were a multitude of underlying reasons for that it certainly did not help one bit that my mom watched my weight like a hawk from around age 8 onward. Even when I was away at college, when I would come home or she would drop by to see me, it was one of the first things she would comment on. "you look like you lost/gained some weight." "how's your weight?" "your clothes fit [tighter/looser] than normal." "what have you been eating?"

None of those things helped me develop any sort of healthy relationship between my body & food. It was absolutely the wrong approach. I know my mother meant well, and I'm sure you do too, but I don't think the sort of approach that I get the impression you are taking with you son based on your posts is going to end well at all. It probably won't achieve your goal for him to have a healthy body, diet, and attitude about food or weight.

If he is actually obese, has his doctor had any useful suggestions for how to approach the situation?[/quote]

she suggested carbs reduction and regular exercise which was useful for the first three months but he gained back half of that the next six month when we relaxed on the carbs while increased exercise, but then summer came and you know the rest.[/quote]

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