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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 12 year old girl with a BMI in the 97th percentile, her pediatrician wants me to put her on a more restrictive diet and help her lose 20 pounds. I am hesitant because I worry it will cause body image issues, I also think she is otherwise very healthy. She is a 3 sport athlete with big muscles, she can lift and squat more than I can and has a fast one mile run time. She also just got her period for the first time and it seems like her body is already going through enough changes. What would you do here?[/quote]
You know your daughter and you know, to some extent, her diet (kids out of the house and potentially local travel for sports means you don’t know it all).

She could just have an athletic or “big” body; we all know people like that. The pediatrician could be sexist or fat phobic. But I think you know your daughter. Does she love junky food in pretty big amounts and frequent and do you (or does she) excuse it because she “burns it off”?

If her doctor is blowing the whistle here, it’s time to take stock. That the doctor encouraged restriction suggests your daughter is eating too much garbage food. I’m saying this as an adult who definitely eats too much garbage. Work on the habits and choices now when they’re much more malleable.[/quote]

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