Yup...exactly my experience too.

We looked at a private high school that required all students to participate in sports from 2-5pm M-F. Seems like a good model to me.

My skinny kid who has given up on sports has started walking everyday right after school, before clubs start. Hes getting his lazy friends to walk too.

My other boy made soccer team and plays M-F.

When they get home, Both are ready for dinner and homework. A well rounded day.

I have noticed the percent of over weight kids is very low. Im wondering why. Is there a real connection between grades/success and obesity...?

Shaming kids is not helpful.... and their future is a bit bleaker. How aweful.

I attribute this more to correlation and think socio-economic status is the more likely cause (poorer kids arw.more at risk for obesity and are less likely to be high achieving in school). I would like to see studies which account for this.

Your son's walking "club" sounds awesome btw!

I wore mostly size 2s with some 0s and some 4s, before pregnancy. I couldn't agree more that bullying is an issue for thin people, too. Although, I do think it might be easier to brush off (as a woman at least) and tell myself someone is "just jealous" or it is because as a society we are getting used to seeing obesity as normal and therefore the problem isn't me, it is an unhealthy new "normal."

I do have a happy story though. I was recently getting really bullied on FB by a super know it all cousin of my husband. She is a weight watchers leader and can't leave her "expertise" at work. I was very polite and repeatedly tried to get her to stop criticizing my low weight . I thanked her for her concern, said baby's growth is right on track, told her about my extremely large medical team following this high risk pregnancy including a dietician i really like, etc, etc.... I explained the difficulty of a diabetic pregnancy, sticking to a diet that keeps blood sugar in check while gaining weight. I talked about the scariest risks of this pregnancy to both me and my baby if I don't control my blood sugar including life long complications to me like blindness and kidney failure. I talked about the baby developing heart conditions, growing too big to be delivered, and miscarriage....
she wouldn't stop and instead got worse.
And then.... All these friends on FB (some who aren't even people who normally are really friends, more people i run in same circles as, so we play nice but aren't really that interested in friendship)..... Well people sure don't like to see a pregnant woman bullied about her weight. They were ruthless to her.
HAha, I appreciated it. And sent them private messages to thank them since I couldn't publicly do so.