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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, if we take you at your word and trust that your tween is really overweight and not about to have a major growth spurt, and if we really trust you to be a judge that he is overeating a lot, then you have a problem. Assuming you are not one of those pps who thinks anything above 110lbs for anybody is fat. 
The problem then is you and your family and your eating habits. I've yet to see overweight kids where parents are not causing it, often without realizing, or very skinny for that matter. Everything you wrote about how your DS eats is wrong. He has barely any food until dinner because he is too busy, you write. Of course he overeats at night, anybody would, especially a growing tween. All this needs to change, you need to make sure he has a great breakfast, super lunch and dinner will be smaller meal then. You also need to make sure he has healthy snacks. If he is in middle school, you need to give him that lunch right after school, if possible, so say at 3pm he will have a large lunch since he is eating nothing at school for lunch. First you have to change the way your family eats. I am sorry if I sound harsh, but I have seen too many kids suffer because of their parents not having a clue how to actually provide good/healthy and balanced eating environment to their kids. My own SIL, whom I really like, having an obese teen and obese child and telling me she is washing her hands off of her, while at the same time never, ever having healthy food in the house and making healthy food orders from restaurants. Also, stop nagging him to walk, run etc. Enroll him in a sport and don't make it optional. He is a tween and you are the parent.[/quote]

Sorry you have it all wrong - we serve healthy food and have lots of fruits and veggies available and served and serve healthy portions at dinner.   She mostly overindulges when she is elsewhere (a birthday party/Halloween party, or school lunch).  [/quote]

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