Weight Loss with Children

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Permalink Reply by Roger Moore on October 26, 2009 at 3:25pm

Hi Linda - the first question that comes to my mind is where is he getting the extra calories? Most importantly, make sure you have the whole family involved. You can't have dad & mom picking him up after the session and taking him to McDonald's after a session because they don't have time to make dinner.

See if you can get the whole family involved in the exercise component as well - try not to have him singled out from everyone else.

If you go to my web site and click on the childhood obesity tags (maybe its children & hypnosis) - you might find some useful ideas there.

Keep us posted on how this goes.

Roger

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Permalink Reply by Linda Knight on October 26, 2009 at 3:29pm

Thanks Roger, The extra calories appear to be coming at school (a veritable junk food paradise), and Mom is coming to do sessions as well for the same issue. I haven't interviewed her in depth, but her phone consultation indicated that portion control is her biggest issue, and I suspect that may be part of her son's problems as well (esp. if she is dishing up the food). I like your idea about getting the whole family involved in an exercise program and not singling him out. And I'm on my way to your website as soon as I finish typing this reply.

Roger Moore, PhD said:

Hi Linda - the first question that comes to my mind is where is he getting the extra calories? Most importantly, make sure you have the whole family involved. You can't have dad & mom picking him up after the session and taking him to McDonald's after a session because they don't have time to make dinner.

See if you can get the whole family involved in the exercise component as well - try not to have him singled out from everyone else.

If you go to my web site and click on the childhood obesity tags - you might find some useful ideas there.

Keep us posted on how this goes.

Roger

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