How to help my morbidly obese son lose weight (10 points for best advice)?!

Question: How to help my morbidly obese son lose weight (10 points for best advice)?

so my son is seriously morbidly obese hes 8 years old 4'2 and 366 pounds has a 85 inch waist ( which means his belly is bigger around than he is tall which scares me knowing that to be healthy your tummy has to be half of what your height is) his body fat persentage is 61% and has a BMI of 102, and his pediatrician said if he keeps this up he will have a heart attack at about 20 years old. i blame myself for him being like this i always coddled him and when ever he wanted food i gave it to him. he is a coach potato who watches tv and plays video games all day, and he eats very unhealthy (which is my fault for feeding him greay and fatty foods) he also eats alot, for example one night my daughter caught him eating all the twinkees, brownees, cup cakes and cookies i had bought that day, but when she caught him he was fast asleep and it was too late he had eaten all of them (he ate 6 twinkees 12 fudge brownees, 4 cup cakes and 6 cookies in one night which amazed me appernetly he ate really fast and was stuffing multiple amounts of food in his mouth at once which makes me thing he knew what he was doing was wrong. he also likes to sneak food one day i saw him walking to his room and i just motherly kissed him on the cheek and hugged him i felt these weird lumps around his sides so i asked him to pull up his shirt and he was hiding twinkees and snickers bars under his fat rolls so that i couldnt see them and i asked him if he was hungry and he said no i just wanted to eat them. i tell him he can only have sweets for dessert but he finds ways to sneak them. also i catch him playing with his belly fat. i asked him "what are you doing with your belly" and he starts jiggling his belly and replies ", look mommy my belly is like jello see how it jiggles," it makes me think he does not know what being obese is and the risks he has. my husband is a little over weight he is 6'3 and 220 pounds and lives kind of unhealthy so i guess my son got his habbits from him. and i have a 16 year old daughter who is 5'2 and 110 pounds so she is normal weight ( shes those types of girls who doesnt eat alot and gets full quikly so the food she doesnt eat she will give to my son. i am 5'5 and 130 pounds so im thin and am able to do physical activities with my son. as for now he gets tired very easily he cannot run for more than a few seconds untill he gets aches and pains. and really cannot walk for more than 2-3 minutes untill he starts high breathing and has to sit down he can not do any sit-ups because his tummy is in the way and cannot do any push-ups because even when he gets into push-up position his belly is too big to get off the ground. so i want to start off slow and then intensify activiteis as time goes on. we live in Houstan, Texas so it is warm all year to excersise outside. what im asking is
what diets or healthy recipes can i use that a 8 year old would like?
what are some fun physical activities an 8 year old would like?
he likes football and baseball he used to play until he got too heavy to play.
im desperate i love my son with all my heart hes my baby and i dont want to lose him.

Answers:

1) talk to your husband, get him on board that your son needs to lose at least 200 lbs.

2) Start changing family dinners to be super healthy. No one is on a 'diet'. Diets don't work. Lifestyle changes work. Get everybody involved in cooking/preparing meals. Make sure he eats breakfast at home - oatmeal, cereal, fruit, O.J., toast. No super sugary cereal. If he bag lunches it, make it less chips and cookies and more nuts, carrots and dip, peanut butter and celery sticks. If he eats the school lunch, just leave that alone for now. And try to eliminate snacking after dinner, fast food, etc. (Google "kid friendly healthy meals" and other search words)

3) Start family hobbies that include hiking, swimming, gardening, going to the gym, evening walks, Wii Fit, active video games and anything else you can think of. Doing it as a family won't pick on your son and everyone needs more exercise. Plus it will teach your son that exercise is a big part of life and will make your family closer. Plan vacations around hiking, swimming, skiing, etc.

4) Start gradually but make it consistent. Changes won't happen overnight, it will take time, years even, to get your son to naturally eat healthier and enjoy exercise.

5) If the kids complain or ask why, tell them you and your husband's doctors have said that you two need to eat healthier and get more exercise and you need them to help you do that. In this way, you can get rid of the junk food in the house by saying that you don't have any willpower and if it's in the house you (or your husband) will eat it.

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Stop bringing fatty foods into your house dumbass. Or just poison all of your fatty food.

common sense

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Wow well is soda a problem? Because in some cases that can be the cause of weight problems. If your son is only 8 then don't keep unhealthy foods in the house. He has no other way to access the food. It not like he can driver the grocery store and buy the snacks himself

Do you know why he eats so much? Maybe there's a psychological reason as to why he feels like he needs to eat so much food. To help him eat healthy, your whole family should have a change of diet. Stop buying fatty and greasy foods and start cooking steamed vegetable and fish. If you're going to have sweets, you better get the low on sugar and fat kinds and make sure to start limiting the food servings because even if you have healthy food but you eat three plates of it in one sitting you won't lose weight. I think that proper serving size for a child would be a little less the size of your fist. Next you should do sport with your son. Heck make the whole family do it so he won't feel like he's being punished. You may want to start slow because forcing him into sports might make him hate it. Try to see which kinds of sport he likes. In the mean time you should try walking with him around your neighborhood then move on the jogging when you think he can handle it. You should also get him some children's literature about healthy eating!

This is just terrible...you seek help now when your son is 366 pounds?? That's more than an obese adult weighs! There's really only one way and that is to stop buying sweets altogether. Period. If he begs you, think about his health. Start walking with him everyday, and go farther everyday. That's really the only thing until he gets more able to do other things. If you can't go outside get a stepping thing like stairs and force him to walk up and down it, do more reps everyday. It's time for tough love b/c if you don't start now this kid is in for some MAJOR problems when he's in his teens. This is only the beginning, consult your pediatrician for more diet changes cause im not a doctor but I know cOmmon sense lol. Hope I wasnt too rough I was just appalled at your situation.

I am very sorry to hear about that. But there are many things you can do.
1. join a sports team.
2. try to eat healthy.
3. join a gym it is fun he can go with his friends.
4. very healthy but tasty snacks. try celery with peanut butter and raisins on top.
5. go to the park to hang out and go for a walk.
Good luck hope everything goes well.

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