The calendar says it is spring although in some parts of the country it still feels pretty cold. Regardless of the temperature however, at this time of the year we usually think about spring cleaning. Let me suggest that this year’s spring cleaning include eliminating any unhealthy foods in your homes. It is also a good time to try and change unhealthy family food behaviors. Send the food toxins in your environment running for cover!

If there are foods and snacks hidden in drawers and under beds, emancipate them. Give them to the food bank if they are unopened. If there are overweight kids or adults in your family who are limiting their food intake, help them by not having hidden foods for certain family members. Everyone in the family should be eating the same healthy food (except infants and toddlers). Prepackage healthy snacks in individual portions in your pantry or your refrigerator that everyone can eat.

Eat together when possible. Do not allow eating or snacking in your childrens’ rooms. Healthy eating is a family affair. Talk about it and do something about it. Spring into action today. You can help your overweight kids lose weight and learn a healthy lifestyle – now.

When you shop for your children’s clothes, you go to
the children’s department. When your child is sick, you
take them to a pediatrician, and if they need a plan to
lose weight, it needs to be one specifically for children.

Recently, I received a call from a Mom who told me how
great our program (That-a-Weigh Kids®) was. Her
teenager had been losing weight steadily and was learning
to make good choices for a healthy lifestyle now and in the
future. The Mom then went on to apologize that her
daughter wouldn’t be returning to That-a-Weigh Kids®
because she took her to another program that was geared
for adults but accepted kids. After all, school was starting
and Mom really wanted her daughter to lose 10 pounds in
4 weeks. The goal was pure weight loss, not having her child
learn how to make good food choices and how to lose
weight properly.

The truth is, what this child learned is that in the end
you do whatever you have to do to lose weight. How sad,
because she had lost weight by eating right, playing
hard (exercising) and was well on her way to being very
happy with herself without having to resort to shakes
and supplement bars.

You can give your child a wonderful gift by teaching
them the right way to manage their weight when they
are young. Supplements, shakes, vitamin shots and
fad diets send them the wrong message.