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I am overweight.  Have spent more years overweight than not.  Had grandparents who obsessed over my weight when I was a kid.  I was a size four for many years and my grandparents dissected every bite I took.  So damaging.

A couple of years ago our pediatrician told us in the parents only portion of the appointment that our daughter had gained 20 pounds in a year and that it was too much.  She wasn't fat.  Maybe a little pudgy, but no one would look at her and think she was overweight.  I took our doctor very seriously.  I did not say a word to our daughter.  I just made a lot of changes.  I began meal planning like a fool.  I made it my life's work to cook dinner 6 nights per week and I served a protein and a veg.  I packed lunch every day for her.  I also quadrupled her activity level.  She expressed interest in a sport so she began taking lessons.  I also signed her up for an evening lap swim class so we were swimming 4 nights per week and she was playing her sport on the weekend.  Have I enjoyed every minute?  No, but she largely makes good choices when she isn't with us.  She drinks mostly water and a lot of it and she gave up soda on her own about a year ago.  Before then, she had soda only when we ate a meal out at a restaurant maybe once a week.  [/quote]

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