Becoming Your Childs Weight Loss Coach
While being overweight as an adult is bad for both physical and emotional reasons, it is especially traumatic for a child. An obese child faces many emotional and physical problems. I will give you a few suggestion that hopefully will help you assist your child in addressing their obesity problems.
The physical ailments that occur when a child is overweight are the most immediate threat to your child's health and so need to be addressed quickly. There are many complications to being overweight and some of the major ones include asthma, diabetes, heart problems, and even cancer. The added problem of many of these health problems is that once they develop they tend to be chronic conditions and will follow your child through their entire life. That is why it is critical to address your child's obesity immediately.
While the physical problems are serious, the emotional impact on an obese child can be devastating. The taunting and teasing a child will endure because of their obesity can lead to serious emotional problems. These include things like depression which can be brought on by all the emotional abuse as well as development of low self esteem. This can be further devastating because if a child withdraws from social interaction they will fail to develop proper social skills to interact with society.
Here a few things you can do to help your child lose weight:
1. Become an expert in food nutrition and preparation. Surf the net, read books and magazines and educate yourself on food preparation and calorie counts. Little things such as grilling meats versus frying will greatly reduce the amount of calories in a given meal. If you really commit yourself to this you can become an expert in serving tasty meals that are low in calories.
2. Only prepare enough food for one sitting. Do not encourage "seconds" by only cooking the exact amount of food needed for that one meal. Use lots of vegetables in your meals. they are nutritious and low in in calories. Be sure and check the calorie counts on the foods you are planning to serve.
3. Get all high calorie snacks out of the house. Be sure to have plenty of fresh fruit available. If others want high calorie snacks have them put them out of the sight of other family members.
4. If needed, encourage your child to join a weight loss group tailored for children or teenagers. This will help with social development as well as helping them to loose weight. Teenagers are heavily influenced by their peer group.
5. Educate yourself in proper health and nutrition. Encourage your child to learn and be sure that you also learn everything you can in regards to dieting and weight loss.
6. Get your child into an exercise routine. As they are still developing it is very important for a child to have daily exercise. Maybe consider using sedentary activities such as playing video games as a reward for doing some sort of strenuous exercise routine. Be sure and point out that exercise will help them lose weight by increasing metabolism.
Make sure you are always encouraging when it comes to your child's weight. Children and especially teens are sensitive to the slightest criticism. You want them to not only lose weight but also have a well rounded impression of themselves. Even if they do not say so it will mean a lot to them that you care enough to help them achieve their weight loss goals. - 17274
The physical ailments that occur when a child is overweight are the most immediate threat to your child's health and so need to be addressed quickly. There are many complications to being overweight and some of the major ones include asthma, diabetes, heart problems, and even cancer. The added problem of many of these health problems is that once they develop they tend to be chronic conditions and will follow your child through their entire life. That is why it is critical to address your child's obesity immediately.
While the physical problems are serious, the emotional impact on an obese child can be devastating. The taunting and teasing a child will endure because of their obesity can lead to serious emotional problems. These include things like depression which can be brought on by all the emotional abuse as well as development of low self esteem. This can be further devastating because if a child withdraws from social interaction they will fail to develop proper social skills to interact with society.
Here a few things you can do to help your child lose weight:
1. Become an expert in food nutrition and preparation. Surf the net, read books and magazines and educate yourself on food preparation and calorie counts. Little things such as grilling meats versus frying will greatly reduce the amount of calories in a given meal. If you really commit yourself to this you can become an expert in serving tasty meals that are low in calories.
2. Only prepare enough food for one sitting. Do not encourage "seconds" by only cooking the exact amount of food needed for that one meal. Use lots of vegetables in your meals. they are nutritious and low in in calories. Be sure and check the calorie counts on the foods you are planning to serve.
3. Get all high calorie snacks out of the house. Be sure to have plenty of fresh fruit available. If others want high calorie snacks have them put them out of the sight of other family members.
4. If needed, encourage your child to join a weight loss group tailored for children or teenagers. This will help with social development as well as helping them to loose weight. Teenagers are heavily influenced by their peer group.
5. Educate yourself in proper health and nutrition. Encourage your child to learn and be sure that you also learn everything you can in regards to dieting and weight loss.
6. Get your child into an exercise routine. As they are still developing it is very important for a child to have daily exercise. Maybe consider using sedentary activities such as playing video games as a reward for doing some sort of strenuous exercise routine. Be sure and point out that exercise will help them lose weight by increasing metabolism.
Make sure you are always encouraging when it comes to your child's weight. Children and especially teens are sensitive to the slightest criticism. You want them to not only lose weight but also have a well rounded impression of themselves. Even if they do not say so it will mean a lot to them that you care enough to help them achieve their weight loss goals. - 17274
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Mae Summerville is an author and also own several websites that sell wedding chair covers and wedding place card holders.
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