Thin Blog

 If you have ever been on a diet then you know how hard it can be to shed five or 10 pounds. With most adults being fairly clueless about the correct or healthiest way to lose weight it is hard to imagine the struggle that a young teenager or child may experience in their attempts to lose weight.  If you are a 10 or an 11 year old or even a 12 year old you can be at the mercy of what the parents have in the house and is made available for you to eat.  Even if a young adult was trying to lose weight such as the ages mentioned above it would be almost impossible for them to be able to lose weight without the strength and support of their parents.  If we were to take the age of a child down to that of a 5 year old with a weight problem, it becomes the complete burden of the parents of that child.

If a child of 5, 6 or 7 years old was overweight it has to be the decisions of the parents to make that weight loss for the child happen.  If the parents are not aware of the obesity problem of the child, and if the parents do not make a concerted family effort to do something about the child’s weight problem, then the child may be destined to become morbidly obese.  When a child is classified as morbidly obese it is even difficult to string the phrase morbidly obese and child together, in the same sentence.  If a child of almost any age were to be morbidly obese it needs to become the burden and the responsibility of the entire family to help this child learn, deal and ultimately manage this obesity burden.

There are ways that the activity level of a child can be increased without them even suspecting they are becoming more active.  Go to the mall and walk a few miles as everyone shops for “stuff” that they sell at malls.  Park your car far from the store and walk a distance instead of searching for that close spot near the door.  This is actually what is referred to as “accidental exercise” and it offers much promise to the health and well being of yourself and your children.  Start going out and do fun things as a family that include time that just gets the body moving.  Stop pampering the children so much, make them move and work and that alone will help contribute to their overall health.

Sure it may be tough for an 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 year old to lose weight but it is something that they can accomplish on their own, to some degree.  For these age groups to lose weight it really helps to have the support of the parents but for a 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 year old to lose weight it is completely in the hands of the parents.  The parents are the ones that need to put the play in motion that will lead the child down the path of a healthy life.  As parents we try to teach right and wrong.  We try to teach them about sex education and drugs but if they are suffering a weight problem many tend to think it is their problem.  If you are the parent of an overweight child then you need to step up to the plate and create the atmosphere that will allow them to grow into the adult that you desire them to become.  Helping them deal with their weight issue is just as important as other lessons parents need to teach their children. 

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