Lol Lynne, so you got rid of the first lot of extra weight now your into the second? Lol
Is your son much over weight? Do you cook for him or does he cook for himself?
I laughed at that Chelly. Chris is very overweight but won't do anything about it. He's tall but weighs about 19stone with a lot of that being a huge beer belly. I cooked for him before starting exante but even though I fed him healthy meals he was (and still is) bringing home and eating lots of unhealthy snacks (eg full packets of biscuits, family packs of cripsp, cakes etc) from Sainsburies where he works, drinking lots of beer and having lots of takeaways![/QUOTE]
i totally understand this - i have 7 children. My eldest daughter is nearly 20 and at uni and she is around 19 stone. I see her reaching for comford foods when stressed or upset just like me, i feel so guilty for that. As a child my mum banned me having anything nice to eat, there was nothing good in the house. At 5 i was tsking pack lunches into achool with ryvita and carrot sticks, at 6 I was sent to boarding school cause of being bullied where i had to leave the dining room before desert was served and was the only child in the school not allowed sweets from the tuck shop. My mum had me on the cambridge diet at 11 during school holidays! I decided then not to ban my children from nice foods but all things in moderation - that approach did n't work with my daughter. Im so proud at the moment though, shes in her second week on exante and really trying hard. My second child is my nearly 18 year old son, hes 6ft tall and severely under weight, he is around 45kg (just over 7 stone). He has aspergers, adhd, odd and dyspraxia and his medication killsmhis appetite and he is one of those people that will not eat if he is not hungry, not even sweets or chocolates etc. His twin sister is a normal weight but she wants to loose a stone cause her hips are too wide, her words not mine lol. Next my nearly 17 year old twin boys, one is just a perfect normal weight the other is slightly under weight - he spend about 6 weeks in hospital last year with osteomylitis in his knee and he had just returned to school when he stupidly tried to jump over a concrete bollard (while still on crutches and fell landing on his elbow, totally smashing it to pieces, hes had two surgeries, 10 screws and 3 plates. He lost alot of weight during that time and has turned into a bit of a fitness freak. My 5 year old son is tall and skinny. My 2 year old daughter has become a bit of a chunk and i think i need to watch her closely. She was born really prematurely and had real problems weaning due to being tube fed for so long so she was kept on a high fat prem baby milk long past the recommended 12 months while we got her on solids and she piled on lots of weight so now im being careful with her diet.
I've hijacked this post, sorry x