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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weight watchers.  Seriously.  Healthiest way to lose weight and track exercise.

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Please don't do this. Completely demoralizing for a teen and she'll never stop counting calories for the rest of her life. Mom did that to me at 14 and it messed me up for years. Counting calories, points, portion sizes.  Nightmare.

I think others are wrong about OP staying out of it completely though. You can be supportive without shoving a gym membership at her or getting her involved in hard core dieting and creating yo to dieting. She knows she's overweight and she feels it. She may say she doesn't care, but she notices when she buys larger sized clothes and when she sees smaller girls in her class. Don't think it doesn't bother her. If she says it doesn't, that's just to stop a painful conversation. That's especially true when mom is slender and she thinks there's no way she'll ever be as attractive. And no, she isn't rebelling. She wishes she could be that small but feels defeated because she doesn't think it'll ever happen for her. (Once heavy teen with 108lb mom who is now a size 4 mom herself, so I'm speaking from experience.) the best way to support her is to limit screen time, keep sugary and salty snacks out of the house, and not make a big deal out of it. It's not dieting or a diet, it's just a lifestyle. If there was ice cream in the house I would eat it, but I would never go OUT to buy it. Same with chips or candy. Don't have it in the house, and make her life that much easier. It works![/quote]

But she's not overweight.  The only person who thinks she is overweight is her mother.  She doesn't, her doctor doesn't.[/quote]

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