HELP! My daughter is upset with my upcoming surgery!

My daughter is 15 1/2 years old. She is about 20 to 30 pounds over her ideal weight. She is in a size 12, sometimes a 14. I don't consider her obese. She hates her body and wants to try diet pills. She doesn't want me to have surgery and argues about it. She said if I happen to get smaller than she is and she can't lose the weight she threatens to kill herself. I have offered to join her up for weight watchers and I have even joined back in January in an effort to help her. She refused to go. I gave her all of my weight watcher material. If she follows it for a couple days she expects to be down several pounds. She gets mad whenever she goes clothes shopping because of her self image. I told her many many times how much I would love to be her size. Does anyone have any suggestions? Have any of you had similar teens with this problem? I leave next week in route for surgery.

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