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[quote=Anonymous]I really worried that my son would be fat. I have struggled with my weight since I was around 10, and I was teased horribly in school, even though looking back I wasn't huge. I just was bigger than average. My husband didn't have weight issues when he was young, but he was always tall and stocky--football player kind of build. My son WAS chubby as a kid--not fat, but not thin, and he was on the shorter side. He won't be as tall as my husband. I always kind of tried to let him know that weight issues run in our family, so try to be healthy--without trying to make him have an eating disorder.

But around a year and a half ago as he became a teenager, he lost ALL of his baby fat and is a total string bean. He's still on the shorter side, though. I will be really happy if he reaches 5'10. Men ARE judged on height.

People have commented that he's SO thin now, and I definitely have talked to him about eating. I worry I've made him too conscious about it. He will sometimes say that he's not thin because he has a "belly," but really he just isn't very athletic. I've told him if he would exercise more, he would get toned. He definitely eat, though. But he is aware of calories, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Life is much harder when you're fat. [/quote]

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