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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dh was fat as a kid and teen. He has often said he wishes his parents would have helped him by teaching him about nutrition and fitness. You all are doing your kids a real disservice. [/quote]

Not really. Studies show that all the education in nutrition and exercise in the world doesn’t really matter that much; most people have very little control over their weight. That’s why the new recommendations for pediatric obesity involve medication or even bariatric surgery for teenagers. The chances are high that even if his parents had tried everything to intervene it wouldn’t have mattered. It didn’t for me, I remained and remain obese despite my parents pressing the issue very very hard and trying to control my eating and exercise, taking me to doctors and nutritionist. Nothing they did helped me become a thin adult but it did really mess me up emotionally.

There was an episode today on this topic on The Daily podcast. I highly recommend your DH listen to it, it may help him accept that his parents didn’t do him a disservice at all. [/quote]

This makes no sense unless you disclose what you were eating each day and your activity level.

Stop this nonsense about how you just have no idea why you were obese. People are obese because they overeat, overeat the wrong calories (sugar carbs, fat), and don’t get a base level of activity output per day.

If you ignore that basic fact and skip right to meds, stomach stapling, hormones, you’re and idiot. Get on noom, and own it: everything that goes into your month. Write it down. Think about why you’re an eating agin, what yours eating. Empty processed food calories again? Write it down. Go over it yourself. Take baby step incremental changes. Have a goal for 6 and 12 months. Do it. [/quote]

I mean, I was a child. 8 years old. Obviously I was overeating, but why? Most kids can regulate. [/quote]

It makes TOTAL sense to me.  I was a kid like that too.  I ate way too much, and the wrong things - my parents tried everything and nothing worked.  I think that’s what PP means when she says most people have little control overt their weight.  I know that was true for me.  I was an obese child and became an obese young adult.  I found a program for food addiction that saved my life and I’ve been a healthy weight ever since.  Even with all of this knowledge from my own experience, however, it is still SO hard for me to watch my own kids get fat.  I still think maybe if they exercised more of if I tried to limit their food or whatever, things would be different.  When they were little we didn’t have a lot of junk in the house just because I don’t eat it - but I never restricted them and bought the usual things (juice boxes, kid food, goldfish etc) but for meals they pretty much ate what I eat and stayed at a relatively healthy weight.  Now that they can prepare and buy their own food they eat sort of like I did.  [/quote]

What food addiction program did you use?[/quote]

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