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From Tracy, child's age 15

I'm somewhat concerned about my daughter even though she is 15 and makes a lot of her own choices. She is 6' tall and weighs 210 pounds. She isn't enormous and doesn't have a large belly, but I can see some curving in her love handle area and its carried in her butt. I don't want to do anything rash but I don't want this to get worse. She doesn't have exercise problems as she plays basketball on the varsity team and aau team at school and runs often. She's actually really good, but I don't want this to interfere. Also, I've talked to a few coaches and they think that she should be put on a diet to get to around 175 for the sake of playing college basketball. I don't know what to do. She eats somewhat normally but in large portions...how should i address this problem with her without pushing her to far. She loves basketball and would do anything she needs to to get better and is extremely focused so i'm worried that if she sees this as a problem she could possibley do something extreme. Thanks for your advice.