Dealing with an obese teen

[Anonymous 1]

Ewww

[Oliviasmom72]

Well you shouldn’t have ignored it for this long. She’s very obese and obviously has a unhealthy relationship with food and eats a lot of junk combined with jack of activity.

I would talk to her dr ASAP to rule out a medical condition. She is at risk though if all sorts of stuff.

Then she needs to eat healthy and get active.

I don’t know how you have waited so long. She’s been obese for a while it sounds like.

Get her on a scale. Stop buying junk. It’s going to be very difficult to reverse this. For her to get this big she has to eat junk all day and get zero excercise.

[Yogamom55]

You sound like you're making excuses. That's probably where she's getting the behavior.

[Anonymous 1]

Well you shouldn’t have ignored it for this long. She’s very obese and obviously has a unhealthy relationship with food and eats a lot of junk combined with jack of activity.

I would talk to her dr ASAP to rule out a medical condition. She is at risk though if all sorts of stuff.

Then she needs to eat healthy and get active.

I don’t know how you have waited so long. She’s been obese for a while it sounds like.

I know, but for some reason I always thought that eventually it would clear up on its own. Always easy to see the right option in retrospect...
She was at the doctors not long ago and he didn't seem to think that any medical condition was to blame. Iirc she had blood work done a year ago and I think they tested? I can't remember.
She's pretty much always been heavy ever since she was a toddler. She just never lost that baby weight I guess.

[Anonymous 1]

You sound like you're making excuses. That's probably where she's getting the behavior.

Do you think so? I'm not meaning to make excuses. Responsibility is definitely something I'm bad with... I must accept that I'm mostly to blame for this situation.

[Yogamom55]

Well you shouldn’t have ignored it for this long. She’s very obese and obviously has a unhealthy relationship with food and eats a lot of junk combined with jack of activity.

I would talk to her dr ASAP to rule out a medical condition. She is at risk though if all sorts of stuff.

Then she needs to eat healthy and get active.

I don’t know how you have waited so long. She’s been obese for a while it sounds like.

I know, but for some reason I always thought that eventually it would clear up on its own. Always easy to see the right option in retrospect...
She was at the doctors not long ago and he didn't seem to think that any medical condition was to blame. Iirc she had blood work done a year ago and I think they tested? I can't remember.
She's pretty much always been heavy ever since she was a toddler. She just never lost that baby weight I guess.

It's way past baby fat. You are being an enabler.

[Yogamom55]

You sound like you're making excuses. That's probably where she's getting the behavior.

Do you think so? I'm not meaning to make excuses. Responsibility is definitely something I'm bad with... I must accept that I'm mostly to blame for this situation.

That's not what I said.

[Anonymous 1]

Well you shouldn’t have ignored it for this long. She’s very obese and obviously has a unhealthy relationship with food and eats a lot of junk combined with jack of activity.

I would talk to her dr ASAP to rule out a medical condition. She is at risk though if all sorts of stuff.

Then she needs to eat healthy and get active.

I don’t know how you have waited so long. She’s been obese for a while it sounds like.

I know, but for some reason I always thought that eventually it would clear up on its own. Always easy to see the right option in retrospect...
She was at the doctors not long ago and he didn't seem to think that any medical condition was to blame. Iirc she had blood work done a year ago and I think they tested? I can't remember.
She's pretty much always been heavy ever since she was a toddler. She just never lost that baby weight I guess.

It's way past baby fat. You are being an enabler.

Well that's what I'm trying to sort out... stopping enabling her unhealthy habits so she can lose some weight.

[Anonymous 1]

You sound like you're making excuses. That's probably where she's getting the behavior.

Do you think so? I'm not meaning to make excuses. Responsibility is definitely something I'm bad with... I must accept that I'm mostly to blame for this situation.

That's not what I said.

For what am I making excuses, then?

[Yogamom55]

I know, but for some reason I always thought that eventually it would clear up on its own. Always easy to see the right option in retrospect...
She was at the doctors not long ago and he didn't seem to think that any medical condition was to blame. Iirc she had blood work done a year ago and I think they tested? I can't remember.
She's pretty much always been heavy ever since she was a toddler. She just never lost that baby weight I guess.

It's way past baby fat. You are being an enabler.

Well that's what I'm trying to sort out... stopping enabling her unhealthy habits so she can lose some weight.

Make her start walking with you. Get healthier together, you know?