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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 531899" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Emotional side is of course important. But weight problems are also nutritional problems. If you want to look that side, look first to veggies. Is your son eating at least pound of vegetables and fruits a day? And more doesn't hurt at all. Also drinking enough water helps to keep hunger in control (people often mess up if they are hungry or thirsty.)</p><p></p><p>How serious your son is with his sports? if any, you can tell him, that if he wants to do great on them also next year, it is not an option to just lie around whole summer. He is the age there many start to train and differences will come huge very quickly. I have two sons who are serious athletes and when they were 12 or 13 they started to train seriously on their own even though they had some sport in season around the year. And in year or two differences were huge in their age groups between serious ones and ones who just came to meetings and did sport there and kids were split to very different level teams. In fact I once googled my difficult child and found out, that first time his name was mentioned in public message board for the fans of his number one sport as 'a talented kid worth keeping eye on' was when he had just turned 14 few weeks earlier. Professionals had heard about him earlier. I'm not saying that being a pro athlete is something parent hopes for their kids, but it is a dream of many 10 to 15 year-old boys. And may well motivate them to exercise and keep active. </p><p></p><p>And with the serious sport the nutrition problem change. For me it is basically how to carry from store and prepare the amount of (healthy) food my easy child consumes. And difficult child is worse, but he is luckily out of home. Do you have any idea what amount of (healthy) food it takes to come up to 5000-7000 kcal per day?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 531899, member: 14557"] Emotional side is of course important. But weight problems are also nutritional problems. If you want to look that side, look first to veggies. Is your son eating at least pound of vegetables and fruits a day? And more doesn't hurt at all. Also drinking enough water helps to keep hunger in control (people often mess up if they are hungry or thirsty.) How serious your son is with his sports? if any, you can tell him, that if he wants to do great on them also next year, it is not an option to just lie around whole summer. He is the age there many start to train and differences will come huge very quickly. I have two sons who are serious athletes and when they were 12 or 13 they started to train seriously on their own even though they had some sport in season around the year. And in year or two differences were huge in their age groups between serious ones and ones who just came to meetings and did sport there and kids were split to very different level teams. In fact I once googled my difficult child and found out, that first time his name was mentioned in public message board for the fans of his number one sport as 'a talented kid worth keeping eye on' was when he had just turned 14 few weeks earlier. Professionals had heard about him earlier. I'm not saying that being a pro athlete is something parent hopes for their kids, but it is a dream of many 10 to 15 year-old boys. And may well motivate them to exercise and keep active. And with the serious sport the nutrition problem change. For me it is basically how to carry from store and prepare the amount of (healthy) food my easy child consumes. And difficult child is worse, but he is luckily out of home. Do you have any idea what amount of (healthy) food it takes to come up to 5000-7000 kcal per day? [/QUOTE]
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