Childhood Obesity – Helping Your Child
John Furnem
A child that suffers from overweight or obesity is one that
should regarded as having a temporary disease, the obesity
condition is dangerous for the child heath and has effect on
his social life, self esteem and confidence. When you decide
that you want to fight, and beat childhood obesity you should
think carefully or a plan and a tactic you will use to fight
this condition.
The three major keys in losing weight and having a successful
diet plan are regular physical activity, performed on a set
schedule and without exception the physical activity will
encourage the child to get better and hopefully cause him or
her to focus on activity rather than on food or the discomforts
of the diet.
The next key to fighting childhood obesity is naturally a diet,
making a diet plan should be done after advising with a diet
professional that has all the tools and information about your
child and his or her needs. making a realistic plan that will
take a long time to complete you will gradually adapt new
eating habits, showing the child that there are different kinds
of foods and that making the child conscience of the things they
eat and their effect on weight and the body. Increasing the
awareness to the effect of different foods is a very important
thing since it clearly identifies the cause and effect
relationship to the child.
The last key for beating childhood obesity is as important and
as natural as the first two, it is slowly and gradually
changing the behavior of the child, and sometimes of the whole
family, the new behavior patterns can be treated as rules
first, make sure you explain why it is not good to eat candies,
and more impotently you should make sure that your child knows
that from time to time he or she are allowed to make an
exception and have a candy, do not delete and block sweets from
their lives completely since this usually has the opposite
effect on kids.
The behavior change is a major one and if effects all the rest
of the keys mentioned here, you should try and set rules in the
beginning, if you can have a family meeting and set those rules
it will be beneficial for everyone, making the children feel
that they are setting these rules, you should encourage your
kids to set rules and live by them, when you first start you
can also join their activities to show them they are not alone,
and from time to time you could explain how important it is to
follow the rules and the benefits that are waiting in the end
of the road.
A technique I have heard about some time ago uses imagination
and positive thinking to encourage obese children to maintain a
diet and physical activity routine. The parents have a weekly
talk with the child and they go over all the last week events,
good and bad, trying to explain what happened and why, not
forgetting to compliment the child on his or her achievements.
Once the events have been reviewed and points made clear the
parent and the child close their eyes and imagine how it would
be like in a month or two ahead, with more weight loss and
better fitness and daily routine, talk about all the benefits
of losing weight, like nicer clothes, better feeling, more
energy, social admiration and so on, just make sure that the
goals are realistic and can be achieved in a month or two of
hard work, when your child achieves this you should mention the
talk to him or her and demonstrate how belief and will power has
real effect on life.
About The Author: John Furnem specializes in work psychology
and Stress disorders, he has written articles and held
workshops/seminars on the effect of stress on children and
adults . John writes articles at
://childhoodobesity.zupatips.com/ for
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