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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1723181" data-attributes="member: 41816">Family dynamics are so diverse, and what works in your family almost definitely wouldn’t work in mine.But... i read the original post and thread title with a bit of trepidation.My concerns are that with your personal history, and career choice, and the fact that this has already become an obvious ‘issue’ in your house, and your husband has already taken your son to the doctors... this has already become an elephant that cannot be put back in the box.As i said above, i have no idea what your family dynamics are, and i can safely say that there is no such thing as ‘normal’.But I can speak from experience (fat child in a slim family, where my weight was seen as a problem, an issue, something that needed solving, an embarrassment and a failing that my parents took to reflect on themselves) when I say that anything that causes your son to feel like he has a problem will make that problem grow in his own mind - and may affect him for decades.Here is a link to a PHC conference video with Joanne McKormick speaking.  At one point she says    ‘When I see a fat child, i do not see a child who eats too much.  I see a child with insulin resistance.’[MEDIA=youtube]RhfnMrR3HMU[/MEDIA]I cannot tell you what the solution is in your family, with your son’s unique personality and genetics.  But I do know that teenage diet regimes and exercise are just as likely to mess with his head as they will shave a pound off his weight.</blockquote>

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