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I am 47
CW 189
BBM 33
Height 5.3
GW 136 although I would be sooo happy with 140
looking for people with similar goals. It used to be easy to loose weight but always had problems with maintaining it. Since over 40 loosing weight is a real struggle. I need support
By Denise Mann
HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) -- There's a right way and a wrong way to persuade your adolescent to eat healthy and help avoid obesity, a new study suggests.
Pointedly connecting food with fatness or talking about needed weight loss is the wrong way and could even encourage unhealthy eating habits, researchers report.
Instead, discussions that focus on simply eating healthfully are less likely to send kids down this road, a new study shows.
"A lot of parents are aware of the obesity problem in the U.S -- it's everywhere you turn -- but they wonder how to talk about it with their children," said study lead author Dr. Jerica Berge of the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis.
She advises that parents "tell kids to eat more fruits and vegetables because eating them will make them healthy and strong. Don't connect these conversations to weight and size."
The study is published online June 24 in JAMA Pediatrics.
Childhood obesity has more than tripled in adolescents in the United States over the past 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This has had a profound effect on children's health, with condition formerly only seen in adults, such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, now being diagnosed in children.
The new study included survey data from more than 2,300 adolescents with an average age of about 14 and more than 3,500 parents.
Overall, the data showed, conversations about eating that focused on a child's supposed need to lose excess weight were linked to a higher risk of problem dieting and other unhealthy eating behaviors among adolescents.
On the other hand, parents who talked about healthy eating and living but did not focus on weight and size were less likely to have children who dieted or engaged in other unhealthy eating behaviors such as anorexia, binge eating or bulimia.
These benefits were seen in both overweight and normal weight teens, the study showed.
Overall, about 28 percent of moms and 23 percent of dads of kids who were not overweight said they had conversations that focused on healthy eating, while only 15 percent of moms and 14 percent of dads who had overweight children said they talked about health.
About 33 percent of moms and 32 percent of dads of non-overweight kids said they discussed weight and the need to lose weight; for overweight kids, that number rose to 60 percent of moms and 59 percent of dads.
Berge stressed that even when parents say all the right things about eating, it doesn't matter much if children see Mom and Dad ignoring their own advice.
It's "do as I do," she said. "Modeling does have a big role in showing kids the type of behavior that you want them to take on."
Don't Lose Sight!I have worked out EVERY SINGLE DAY in April. Okay, fine. I know it has only been four days but hey, I am off to a good start.
The past few weeks months have been not so great on the weight loss front. In my training for the half marathon, I ate more calories and wasn’t too concerned with my eating because I found when I ate more, I had more energy to run. That being said, the exercise was just combating the calories I was eating and there wasn’t much weight loss. In fact, there was some weight gain because I wasn’t thoughtful with what I was eating.
Then, after my half-marathon, I stopped exercising for two weeks. The first week was all about time because I was working and getting ready to go to Philly. Then, when I am normally doing my long workout, I was in Philly.
I have done good the past few days with my walking/running and eating so I feel like this month is going to be a good month to focus back on the plan and have some success.
Here are my goals for April:
Workout at least 7 times a week for at least 10 minutes. I will be accountable to you, my readers EVERY SINGLE week. That way, it will keep me focused (I know working out seven times a week is extreme but my goal is only 10 minutes and some days, that is all I will do. If I miss a day, I have to workout twice on a different day to make up for the missed day. This seems do-able for me).Only eat mindfully. No more snacking without counting. No more “just a bite” of this or that. I’m going back to the whole “snack it, track it” phase of weight loss.That’s it. Two main goals that are key in how I feel and look. I will focus on these two things and hopefully I will get the pounds back down to where they were in October. I need to lose 10.2 pounds to get back to a total loss of 100. I want to do that this month.
What are your goals for April? April is going to come and go whether or not you choose to be successful. This month, I am going to focus and have a successful month. Will you join me?
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Focus on the PositiveDecember GoalsMarch Madness Don't Lose Sight!I have worked out EVERY SINGLE DAY in April. Okay, fine. I know it has only been four days but hey, I am off to a good start.
The past few weeks months have been not so great on the weight loss front. In my training for the half marathon, I ate more calories and wasn’t too concerned with my eating because I found when I ate more, I had more energy to run. That being said, the exercise was just combating the calories I was eating and there wasn’t much weight loss. In fact, there was some weight gain because I wasn’t thoughtful with what I was eating.
Then, after my half-marathon, I stopped exercising for two weeks. The first week was all about time because I was working and getting ready to go to Philly. Then, when I am normally doing my long workout, I was in Philly.
I have done good the past few days with my walking/running and eating so I feel like this month is going to be a good month to focus back on the plan and have some success.
Here are my goals for April:
Workout at least 7 times a week for at least 10 minutes. I will be accountable to you, my readers EVERY SINGLE week. That way, it will keep me focused (I know working out seven times a week is extreme but my goal is only 10 minutes and some days, that is all I will do. If I miss a day, I have to workout twice on a different day to make up for the missed day. This seems do-able for me).Only eat mindfully. No more snacking without counting. No more “just a bite” of this or that. I’m going back to the whole “snack it, track it” phase of weight loss.That’s it. Two main goals that are key in how I feel and look. I will focus on these two things and hopefully I will get the pounds back down to where they were in October. I need to lose 10.2 pounds to get back to a total loss of 100. I want to do that this month.
What are your goals for April? April is going to come and go whether or not you choose to be successful. This month, I am going to focus and have a successful month. Will you join me?
Photo Credit
Focus on the PositiveDecember GoalsMarch Madness
