From Sandy, Child's Age 7 - 02/22/06 - IP#: 71.2.155.xxx Click here to reply
My daughter is 7 years old and she's about 4'6 and weights 135lbs. I don't know any other kids her age that are this tall or this heavy. She weights more than I do, and she can eat more than I can. How do I explain to her that she is too big without hurting her self esteem? I don't know what kind of diet to put her on or how to explain to her that she can't eat all the things she wants to. Its so hard to explain health issues to a seven year old. I have always been thin, and that makes it harder to understand why she is so big. I worry so much about her, she hates to exercise and when she does her breathing gets heavy and her heart rate goes way up. any advice would be great, I don't know anyone else in the situation to talk to thanks
Reply from krystal, Child's Age 7 - 07/21/06 - IP#: 69.178.35.xxx My daughter is 7 to and she weighs 114lbs. I do understand what you are going through. and the only thing I can advise is that you exersice with her and eat healthly. please feel free to email me kjaime80@gci.net
Reply from mac, Child's Age 3 - 03/10/06 - IP#: 69.163.2.xxx remove all the junk food from your house. only buy healthy foods and try to get her to go on walks with u
Reply from john, Child's Age 12 - 03/08/06 - IP#: 69.114.34.xxx Give her a smaller portion of food,a smaller plate, and a smaller fork, that way she will eat less. Also, if you see a junk food commercial on telivision, say to her, "Those kids may be skinny now, but if they keep eating that kind of food, they will be overweight. "The companies just want money when you buy the food, and they don't care about how you look. Also, tell her that you can die if you become too overweight. I hope this helps.
Reply from nicole to lola, Child's Age 12 - 02/28/06 - IP#: 88.111.23.xxx keep to a strict diet matbe you can go walking together to help her lose weight make sure she snacks on fruit and drinks plenty of water chicken beef lamb and fish(un breaded) are good for you brown/granary bread lay off cheese butter or margerine and through away all candy she may not like this but it is the best in the long run o and lay off soda's i hope i helped good luck nicole p.s i no its hard being over weight i'm 150lbs myself i wish your son luck if you want any more help from me leave a message write from sandy to nicole and i'll know
Reply from Dee, Child's Age 7 - 02/23/06 - IP#: 88.111.118.xxx my 7 year old is 4'6 135 she ge really upset if people call her fat i'm just hoping she will grow out of it
