I followed your childhood obesity link to the Center for Disease Control and looked up more about BMI. This is something that I've heard a lot about over the past few years, but have never actually done the measurement.
The BMI Calculator tool on the CDC site is very easy to use and, since the girls had just had a check up, I did it for Callie & Sadie (I did it for me as well). As you guessed, Sadie is right on the cusp of obesity. Wow, now is the moment!
The recommendation is (no surprise) eat a healthy low fat diet, daily exercise, limit screen time. Okay, that seems doable.
My question is: How to best share this information with her? For the past year, I've not wanted to make her "self conscious" but I suddenly realize it is important to make her "conscious". Let's face it, she's already self conscious! I can see that in some of her comments and choices this summer about clothing and group activities.
Maybe showing her this simple graph/tool will actually give her, give us the tools to talk about this more openly together. What do you think?
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