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Help To Get Healthy
by ann453, Oct 15, 2006 12:00AM
I have a younger sister who is having a lot of problems with her weight. I am off at college so it is hard to help her. My parents are horrible role models in this category, esp. my mother. I have never been as overweight as the rest of my family, mostly because I hated my mother for teaching me such horrible habits and rebelled. I just hate seeing my sister so depressed and having no self-confidence. We have tried doing programs together but she never does them and since I am not home it is really hard. She is always calling herself fatty and my parents just let her call herself that and my mom often does the same thing. As you can tell, my parents dont really support her and I want to get them healthy too. I have talked to them many times about getting her to see a nutritionist and really getting her on track. She is 16, about 5 foot (maybe an inch taller) and weighs now to my knowledge at least 170. It is so hard for her and it hurts me to see her like this. I just wish someone could offer me advice on how to help her. I think she really needs support and home as well. So if anyone has advice on that too, it would be great. I just want my family to be healthy and happy. Thanks.
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in a healthy way. tell her to stop eating after 4 or 6 pm,
eat larger meals in the morning and small healthy meals at night. studies show that thinner people eat bigger breakfasts
and fat people eat larger dinners (in general) so thats a clue !
there is a book that i really like called "eat right for your blood type", i love this book, it's very interesting. it's
not about crash diets but more about changing the way we think
about the food we take in and how it may be benficial or harmfull to eat certain foods. good luck, tell her not to give up ! l.e.
in a healthy way. tell her to stop eating after 4 or 6 pm,
eat larger meals in the morning and small healthy meals at night. studies show that thinner people eat bigger breakfasts
and fat people eat larger dinners (in general) so thats a clue !
there is a book that i really like called "eat right for your blood type", i love this book, it's very interesting. it's
not about crash diets but more about changing the way we think
about the food we take in and how it may be benficial or harmfull to eat certain foods. good luck, tell her not to give up ! l.e.
yeah, having parents that don't support her must be tough. maybe they don't want her to be attractive and spend alot of time with boys. fear of the "empty nest syndrom", maybe ? fat on a girl (as on a "poor" guy) will keep most potential daters from knocking on your door ! (at least for white guys anyway, hehehe) she needs to find her weakness (everybody has one, mine is sweets) and pick her battles (such as give up the "worst" thing that she eats)instead of going cold turkey (no pun intended) on everything, and eating rice cakes... @#$#@%$#% rice cakes, i hate em !!! has she gone to your parents with a serious plee for their help ??? this is their daughter for god sake.
l.e.
If she can afford it, I highly recommend joining a gym and going with a buddy. A trainer will help her take weight off safely.
As I am learning, the only way to lose weight is move more and eat less.
Teens are notoriously bad eaters, they love junk, she needs a food guide to make it clear to her what her body needs each day.
You are a wonderful big sister.