Try getting her into activities that keep her form being bored...

Portion control AND watchign what she eats will be good... But it goes beyond that. I eat when Im bored, always have... Keep her busy.. Do breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner... dont allow anythign inbetween there.. and watch the kinds of snacks your offering...

LET HER MAKE CHOICES.. So get a couple healthy things... and let her choose what she wants. Kids love to feel idndepenant.
INVOLVE her in the positive changes of weight loss... Dont put her down by all means LOL.. But help her understand why being healthy is important...

My nephew lives on his vidio games... and hes gained sooo much weight... I see his parents (430 lbs).... and see how the rest of us live.. Now that my eyes are open the the weight issues at hand.. I want nothing more then to help him make better choices.. unfortunatly.. hes 8.. and his parents let him out eat the adults.. WHO HAVE HARDY APPETITES....

Give her reasons to feel like shes eating healthy... get snacks for her that are sugar free and stuff.. so she still thinks shes getting yummy foods...


Duno.. my kids havent really ever had problems with their weight... I have always kept them from sweets, over eating, soda and too much juice. I guess in a sense I wanted to protect them from what I have endured my whole life.. I HATED being the fat kid in school.

Hope it helps

im 17, i think about 270/280lbs. i have a loving bf, family, and friends. i have been fat or overweight or w/e ever since i had memories. i've never been skinny or comfortable with my body ever. sometimes it happens but it doesnt last long. it runs in my family along with high blood, pressure and diabetes. i do not want to end up like some of the members of my family. but i feel like i dont have the decipline to contiue a diet or a workout or anything. i feel like i shouldnt be feeling like this because i havent really tried. but its not easy and i feel like im being lazy. but my mom wants me to get a surgury for years and ive avoided conversaitons about it andd have told very few of my firneds. i dont want to go though with it cause i feel like its the easy way out...plus surgury is like omg to me cause ive never had anything more than stiches. i dont even remember having those! soo yea...i feel like i should just try one more time, all or nothing. but idk. and it doesnt even nothing help that everyone and their grandmother is losing weight like nothing. and its frustraiting to see that. -sigh- i just dont kno what to do. should i go through and ginve in? or should i just keep trying and see if that works?

HEY !!
I just turned 19 today but ive been overweight my whole life. I feel disgusted with my pictures and i feel trapped in someone elses body. Sometimes i just want to dissapear. So I have decided to have the Gastric Sleeve. My surgery is scheduled August 13th. I really do hope you get approved for your surgery It will honestly change your life.  You can message me if you'd like :)

I am so right there with you guys on this one.  My beautiful sweet little 8 year old daughter weighs 120 lbs.  Her pediatrician has asked us to maintian her weight rather than focus on losing weight.  She is adjusting to our new way of eating.  I think right now it's easier for her because all of us are trying.  I had RNY in Feb 2009 but even her father and her brother are changing the way they eat.  I told my husband that this was not going to work unless the whole family worked on it.  I explained that if she felt singled out then she would  keep rebeling against the changes we were trying to make for her health.  My mom and stepfather have always been ones to sneak her bad foods too.  I finally had to bluntly  tell them that they were killing their granddaughter.  Ithink that they have finally gotten the point.  Luckily for her she loves fruits and vegetables.  She also tries to be just like me, and since there is a limit on the types of food I can eat, she sees herself as being like mommy when she orders grilled foods rather than fried.  Don't get me wrong, I let her have something "naughty" once in a while, but just not everyday like we use to.  She and I go for walks in the neighborhood and walk on the treadmill.  I don't push her about losing weight, just learning to be healthly.  And that's all I want for her is to be the healthiest her she can be.  I constantly tell her she's beautiful.  I thank god that we have been blessed with a wonderful pediatrician who she loves who is also acting as a support and encouragement to her and me  

thank you sweetie. i went to a psychiatrist and he put me on 2 anti-depressants and wanted to mood stimulants but guess what you gain weight with them!! i didnt come this far to gain the weight back, i'm working through my own issues and have such a great support system. i think it's alot tougher when you're younger because society has this standard of what a young girl should look like and i need to realize i'm not the average young girl. it's definitely a mental thing with me i hate recieving compliments somtimes because i dont feel like there legit but i'm working through it and it's going to be a slow process but that's okay...good luck with everything <33