my son with age of 8 years is grossly obese weighing 66 kgs. He is also dev hair growth. can you help us?
Obesity is a problem which a few other children also face in our family. My son is very fond of eating. but seeing his condition we as parents try to give him low calorie food. His height is normal. Mentally he is sharp and gets good grades in the school. Is very sensitive about his appearance and has a great desire to get smart and slim. His urge for the food is more than the kids of his age. We have conducted his thyroid tests which were found normal.He faces a lot of problems pertaining to respiratory infection and has to be given strong anti biotics every odd month to get over with disease. he was born premature with almost 6-7 week left in his DOD, was weighing then only 2.5 Kgs. VItal signs were normal. Some of the doctors here in Pakistan think that he is a case of Pickwickian syndrome but after studying on the syndrome I am not convince.Please help us make our child live a normal life. God bless you
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Get his thyroid tested!!!!
It’ll be hard, but cut his food little by little. Also, get him out and exercising! MAKE him go outside to play a little more each day. (Or make him do chores if you’re a meanie head!)
This will help. If he keeps gaining, cut out more and more bad foods, giving him only very low calorie foods.
thru him into sports like football anything that gets that heart pumping…
tough love. do it now while you can still instill some good eating habits. the hair is his hormones growing crazy. happens to fat women tool ask your doctor about it. but sounds like he likes to eat and it’s already causing health problems and you want to be a good parent and deal with the health problems but you’re not getting to the source which is his diet. just bite the bullet now, go see a nutrition and do what he/she tells you to do.
One way to help someone on a diet to eat less calories is to increase the amount of fiber in the foods he does eat. More veggies, fruits, whole grains and beans will help with that. This may mean a change for your family as a whole, but it would be helpful to eliminate high calorie and high fat foods from your home entirely. That way, he won’t be ‘tempted’ to eat them.
Exercise is key to losing weight. Does he have any interest in sports at all? If he could join a sports team of some sort, he would have a regular exercise schedule. Even someone who isn’t into team activities can benefit from doing individual ‘team’ sports like tennis, golf or running track.
It’s difficult to lose weight under the best of circumstances and I’m sorry your son and your family are grappling with this challenge. You can do it! Best of luck!
whether it’s a disease or not you should educate him towards an ability of responsibly choosing his food.
less meat – more vegetables
avoid restaurants or delivery services.
he should learn to cook –
it’s fun and the best way to learn which food is good for you!
try out some different schools / styles of healthy eating
like AYURVEDIC recipes, etc.
all the best for your son!
i think you must control his everyday bite and sup.eat too much isn’t necessary ,the most important thing is that he mustn’t eat too much fat.so you’d better find the exact heat of each kind of food, and ask him just eat the ones at low heat and fat.and ,ask him to do more sports.
I am obese but am quickly cutting weight while staying generally healthy. If you are in shape go run with him. If he says, “I can’t mom! It hurts!” say, “Good!” This hurt is the jump from dormant exercise, to good fitness. By the end of a 15 jog an obese child should be falling over in sweat and should even be crying. Obesity is a tough thing to beat, but can only be beaten by persistence. In addition eat well, protein, low saturated sugar, and give him rice cakes. If he likes rice cakes he could easily be fit in no time. Rice cakes can be entire meals if you add things as sides. As for the hair loss I am unsure, but you need to get him exercising everyday, even if it is difficult. It should be difficult.
Get all of the junk food out of the house, all the snacks that are packed with sugar and fat outta there! Make meals from scratch, and make sure they are packed with fruit and veggies. Dont let him eat the kinds of foods that are keeping his weight like this. I had to do this with my son and it was a struggle at first but he started to slim down by cutting sugar and junk food out of his diet, if he says well im not going to eat healthy then tell him thats fine hes just gonig to sit there and starve then, sooner or later he will get hungary enough to eat healthy food, i mean seriously one mom to another…. its OUR job to make sure what they eat is good for them, and its OUR job to make sure they are healthy and if he doesnt get off this track he will more then likely DIE young because of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, the list for diseases linked to obisity is really really long, i know you care about your son or you wouldnt of posted this but i would rather be really strict with my son and let him be really ticked off with me for a month or so till he got used to eating right then see him slowly kill himslef by stuffing his face with things that are unhealthy. Buy baby carrots, broccoli floretts, apples, oranges, banannas, string cheese, yougurt and things like that for him to snack on rather then chips, candy and “comfort foods” PUll all the macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets out of the house, and replace them with sliced lunch meat thats lean, Trust me if you are having problems with his attitude and mood swings this will also pull him out of this, before i thought my son should of gotton tested for ADHD then i changed his diet all around and hes a way way way better kid… at any rate the reason why i say get it out of the house is because if the food isnt there then he wont have to fight the temptation to eat it, thats most of the battle right there. He might be upset with you but just sit him down and tell him you dont want him to get sick later in life because he doesnt eat right, let him have the occational cookie or ice cream, dont deprive him completely but let him understand there is a time to treat yourself but not every day all day. If you need more examples and more ideas you can email me or call a good nutritionalist, they can be expensive though but they can help you set up a good diet for him
I hope that helps i dont want you to think im beating you down because i was in the same boat, not as drastic as yours but i know what helped my son and i hope it can help yours also 