7 Weight Loss Advices for Kids and Their Families

Thu, Aug 13, 2009

Here is a sure-fire list of diet dos and don’ts to assist your family defeat obesity:

1. Be a ‘healthy’ role model. The number one thing that parents can do is to be a good role model for their kids, Parents so frequently unknowingly set their kids up for failure. If there are chips, cookies and Twinkies and no fruit or vegetables when your kids search for snacks, how can they succeed? Line your refrigerator and cabinets with fresh fruits, nuts, low-fat cheese, easy things for kids to snack on besides ‘junk food’.

In a 2000 survey conducted by the CDC, to 80% of adults reported eating fewer than the suggested five or more servings of fruit and vegetables daily — not good role-model actions.

2. Be optimistic. Don’t tell your kid to ‘lose weight’ say, ‘Let’s be healthy and start taking care of our bodies’. Focus on the foods you can consume, not the ones that you should limit eating. Say, ‘Let’s go pick out fruits and make a fruit salad,’ not ‘Don’t eat this or that.’ Instead of saying, ‘We have to exercise,’ say, ‘Lets go to the park.’ Make use of positive words and phrases when talking with your child.

3. Make healthy consumption a family affair. Create family meals together and for the entire family. Do not single out an fat family member with individual diet food. Your entire family can benefit form healthy eating regardless of weight.

A family that eats together, eats better, according to a latest research in the journal Archives of Family Medicine. The research showed kids who report frequent family dinners have healthier diets than their peers who don’t.

4. Prevent portion distortion. When serving food you have to employ portion control, buffet-type or family-style situations tends to promote overeating. Fill up on salads and cooked vegetables at meals and always wait 10-15 minutes before having a second helping. Second helpings should only be taken if in fact hungry.

5. Start the day off right with a good breakfast. A bowl of low-sugar cereal with low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt with a granola or breakfast bar, or an English muffin with peanut butter, rather than a doughnut or muffin. A healthy breakfast will put your family on the healthy track for the rest of the day.

6. Make time for physical activity. Make physical activity a family activity. Each night after dinner in the summer, go for a half-hour walk and make it an activity that kids anticipate. If you can afford it, enroll your kids in dancing or a sporting activity that they like for the reason that they need to like it to keep doing it. Or just turn on some dance music and have a dance party around the house.

7. Try again. Weight loss and healthy eating is not easy. There will be times when you and your family will struggle with this new way of life. It is important to keep trying. Failure is sure if you are not trying.

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