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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought with kids you weren't supposed to have them lose weight -- just maintain weight and have them grow taller.[/quote]

I heard that too but OP's son was 105 pounds at the end of last summer as a SEVEN year old. My 7 year old weighs 49 pounds. It would take years to grow into that weight. The problem with being so heavy is that it is harder to stay active as compared to thinner kids. If you look at how much the in shape kids are running around  at a soccer practice or at the park compared to heavy kids, the skinnier kids move more. So it is a vicious cycle of exercising less and gaining weight. OP try to find activities where your child really is moving. Swimming, soccer, and hiking, riding bikes are good. Baseball and most beginning martial arts classes are not. [/quote]

Maybe, maybe not. My overweight kid just ran a 5K and she smoked a bunch of skinny kids. Yes, the very fastest kids were lean and crazy fast. But children can be overweight and healthfully active. One of the reasons not to focus as much on weight loss is because if the child did gain weight because the child was sedentary or eating poorly, fixing those things may lead to some weight loss - many children pick up and extra couple pounds over the winter and shed them quickly as the good weather comes about. No one's focusing on "weight loss" for those children. And if her son is overweight because his body tends to hold on to weight, focusing on weight loss can be depressing because he's likely to lose slowly, or plateau often. Much better to focus on increased health - "in the past month we've gone from not even being able to jog 1/4 of the track to being able to jog the whole way around!"

Making healthier life choices is what's important to focus on, not the number on the scale. That way lies madness.[/quote]

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