Sounds like the key is definately more exercise. What was different about Cheshire to Ireland? Does he not play out at home?
My youngest used to say things like that. She's always been very aware of her body and Lexie will agree here she's a very different body shape to my older daughter. And it has given her grief for years. Despite the fact that she's got a great figure. She's curvy and shapely where my older daughter is a skinny stick. But teenagers see the stick as beautiful. (Which she is but that's irrelevant
Anyway, for years all I vs got from her is 'areyou saying I'm fat?! Which is something I've never ever said to them. But I did have to resort to ' no im not but you know too much of foods like this will make you fat as you get older' because I've had to make her aware of what will happen whilst trying not to stigmatise her.
It's not been the easiest job but thankfully in the last few weeks. ( strangely helped by hospital food
) her body has begun to change shape and lose its puppy fat. Which has made her unbelievably happy
I've always cooked for them and fed them well, restricted sweets to Fridays during school and rarely had crisps and biscuits in the house. So they were seen as treats. But once they went to high school I got less control over their lunchtimes so I then had to be happy with the fact that the crap they ate at school and out of school was minimal when I put it into the big picture of what I fed them at home.
You will never find a perfect answer. But you have to be happy with yourself, knowing that you have done the best for them and one day they will thank you for doing this. Right now he won't fully understand but you need to be strong for his sake. This generation apparently is the first generation who can expect to die before their parents from obesity related diseases because of childhood obesity. I find that scary.
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