Fat children:

Weight loss for kids is best achieved by keeping them busy and as active as possible. Children eat far more if they are watching the TV and use up far less energy.

How can I keep my child busy?

• If you can walk to school, then that is good daily exercise. They can take a scooter or roller blades to make it more fun if you can walk away from the roads.
• Take them out when you walk the dog, or take them to an activity center or a park once a week.
• Take them swimming, ice skating, or enrol them in a sports club which they enjoy.
• Have a family 'Friday Night Disco'. Put most of the lights off, turn the music up and dance together! Make up routines and copy each other. You will all have fun as well as get some exercise!

Above all, don't make your fat child feel bad about his or her size. Don't let them know you are worried about them. Treat all your children the same regardless of their size. After all, the above advice is good for thin people too! Being fat isn't the only health problem you can have.

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Weight loss programs for kids:

Don't put your fat children on a diet (diets never work and always result in more weight being put on. We know this from personal experience!) and try not to let them get too hungry. It is important that they should eat their main meals, but they shouldn't come to them ravenous.

Avoid junk food:
You can produce much healthier versions which are just as tasty! Roast chipped potatoes in the oven, cut small and sprayed with oil. Grill burgers rather than fry them, provide sliced tomato and cucumber and low sugar ketchup. Check out our Healthy Recipe page which is ideal for children of all ages.

Avoid fizzy drinks:
They contain phosphorous, which counteracts the bone strengthening effects of calcium. Offer your children low sugar squashes and juices. Make them smoothies and get those important fruits into them!


Have one day of the week when they are allowed sweets, then the rest of the time find healthier snacks they enjoy. Try them on bread sticks with a dip, fruits with a small amount of chocolate sauce, home-made ice lollies made with low sugar squashes or juices, small slices of home-made pizza with their favourite vegetable and fruit toppings! A bowl of cereal which does not contain too much sugar or chocolate.

Don't allow your fat children to feel deprived, try to find healthy foods and recipes which satisfy their sweet tooth. They don't even need to know you are doing this!

Keep all unhealthy, fattening snacks out of the house completely. Get rid of the crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks, that way no-one will be tempted by them.

Weight loss for kids can be achieved, slowly and healthily, by following these measures. You are laying the foundations of good eating habits which will last them into adulthood.

Above all try to keep them moving as much as possible, not by goading them and making them feel bad about themselves, but by finding an activity that they love - then doing it regularly - every day if time and money permits.

Check out our Child Height Weight Chart which will help you determine whether your child does have a weight problem and how severe.

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