Wine Country Mom » Dieting

A personal battle with child obesity

WineCountry.Mom — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:00:58 +0000

We're battling a weighty issue in our house. But thanks to a book sent to me by a dietician, we're finally on the right track.

5 tips to curb mindless grazing

WineCountry.Mom — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:23:01 +0000

Some ways to help you escape the Easter binge and keep you from mindlessly grazing empty calories.

Weighty Kid Issues

WineCountry.Mom — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:05:08 +0000

What if your child was upset by the size of their body? Would you put them on a diet, like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig?

Overweight Kids

WineCountry.Mom — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:25:20 +0000

It's not uncommon for kids these days to be a little overweight to severely obese. But is there something we can do to change this? (read the article...)

“ANYONE” can lose the baby weight

WineCountry.Mom — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:29:20 +0000

"Every woman can make time" to lose weight, according to Gwyneth. (read the article...)

Greek yogurt and arguing with my brain

WineCountry.Mom — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:06:03 +0000

Bathing suit season is right around the corner, and dang it, I'm wearing a bikini. Who's with me on shaping up for summer? And besides me, who's having a hard time motivating their body to get with the program? (read the article...)

Weight issues in kids

WineCountry.Mom — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:55:14 +0000

“Mom, I’ve gained weight,” the Taz told me with a forlorn look on his face after weighing himself on the upstairs scale.

It’s true. Over the past year the Taz has packed on a bit of baby pudge on his once trim body. It probably has to do with the way he helps himself to thirds for every meal. It may have something to do with the obsessive snacking he does in between meals. Maybe it’s his need to sneak some money outside whenever he hears the jangle of the ice cream man riding by on his bike. It’s all of those things, but it’s also the normal weight shift that kids go through around the age of 9 when their bodies slow down for a second in growing before shooting up like a weed. His sister went through the same battle at his age, and only lost the weight this last year when she went through a growth spurt. But she had also helped along the process when she became aware of her own body for the first time, and decided that eating more healthy foods and fewer proportions was a better answer than constant snacking.

The Taz had finally noticed his body, and now wanted to make a change.

Weight issues in kids are a very slippery slope. You want your child to be fit, trim, and healthy. But you don’t want them so obsessed with their body that they develop self esteem issues or an unhealthy relationship with food that goes from love to hate. Somehow, as parents, we must help our kids to be healthy, but not give them impulses to starve themselves (which later turns to more bingeing, which then turns into more weight gain) to “fit in”.

“Am I fat?” the Taz asked me. (more...)

Getting off the Dieting Roller Coaster

WineCountry.Mom — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:26:26 +0000

Dieting. It’s in every woman’s vocabulary. And the meaning of this word varies.

1. Killing yourself slowly.
2. Starving strategically.
3. Skipping foods you like only to eat them later when no one’s looking.
4. Being really good for weeks (or days) on end and then bingeing like food is going out of style.
5. Trying every damn diet that is deemed popular until you give up because it’s not working. (see #3)
6. Losing the same 5 pounds over and over again.
7. Gaining more weight each time you introduce a new diet to your system.
8. Cutting out pictures of fashion models as motivation to keep from eating that leftover piece of pie in the fridge.
9. Thinking murderous thoughts about that fashion model as you eat that leftover piece of pie in the fridge.

Can you tell I’ve been on the dieting roller coaster? (more...)