I'm worried about obese Da.?!


Question: My Da is really over wieght and smokes a lot too... He was in a car accident years ago and hes just gained ever since...
He has really high blood pressure and is always really tired...
He doesn't eat mush sweet stuff at all but loves an absolutely massive dinner.. .He excercises very little... My parents are split up and so I can't talk to Mum about it... I've said it to him, everyone even doctors have said it that he will die very early if he doesn't get in shape... However he doesn't seem to care, he often says sure didn't my mam and dad go in their sixties and amn't I gonna go too?.... He had begun losing wieght up until Xmas (Lost 2 1/2 stone) but hes put every bit of it and more back on now.
How can I get him to eat healthy and stop smoking?


Answers: My Da is really over wieght and smokes a lot too... He was in a car accident years ago and hes just gained ever since...
He has really high blood pressure and is always really tired...
He doesn't eat mush sweet stuff at all but loves an absolutely massive dinner.. .He excercises very little... My parents are split up and so I can't talk to Mum about it... I've said it to him, everyone even doctors have said it that he will die very early if he doesn't get in shape... However he doesn't seem to care, he often says sure didn't my mam and dad go in their sixties and amn't I gonna go too?.... He had begun losing wieght up until Xmas (Lost 2 1/2 stone) but hes put every bit of it and more back on now.
How can I get him to eat healthy and stop smoking?

I'm afraid you can't do much. When he has a major event he will come home from the land of DeNile and be very sorry he stayed so long.

You cannot make him quit smoking at all! Nicotine is one nasty substance and almost impossible to get off of once on it. He has to want to very badly before he does quit.

The only thing you can do is to try to feed him correctly!! Don't fix anything that isn't low carb! And have 6 or 7 very small meals of carefully planned foods.

Are you overweight by just a bit?? Tell him you are cooking so you can loose a bit of weight! And since diabetes is inheritable, you really should get into the habit of low carb lifestyle anyway.

Can you get him to go walking with you? Try to get him to go walking then make the walks longer and longer! Just convince him that you need to talk something over with him and you need to get your walk in at the same time.

But don't be the diabetes police, please! Arguing with him won't get the job done!

Good luck!

You can't do anything.
He has to want to do it for himself.

Good luck





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