Wed, Oct-15-03, 09:33
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Posts: 81
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 130/126/~115
BF:22%/20%
Progress:
Location: Vancouver, WA
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Aww... poor little thing....
Actually, I am halfway astonished that your teen-aged daughter would have this problem. I am fairly recently out of high-school (2 years) and know that adolescents tend to binge on the fatty stuff, the biggest problem is they mix it with carbs. When I was in high-school, I paid special attention to (WCA) What the Cheerleaders Ate.... it was amazing. They loved fried chicken, pepperoni, chocolate... granted, they prolly only took in about 500 cals of this daily. But did this food 1. give them energy for practice or 2. make them get fat? The answers, of course... 1.Heck, yes! and 2. Hell, no!
The most important thing is to be supportive of your daughter and remind her of how proud you are that she has been trying so hard. Also, remind the young lady that she has OPTIONS!!!! Find out if her school serves fast food at all during lunch.... mine served from Arby's and RatDonald's, and if I weren't a vegetarian and LF-eater at the time, I probably would have lost like an elephant in the Arctic. If she has any friends with vehicle access and a signature from you, she can very likely get a lunch-pass from the office. Does she even KNOW what drives up your social standing more than feeding some of the busy, 'popular' kids after an athletic practice or a game? If she got some fast-food to go and ate it there, and offered the fries to, say, some of the friendlier kids... well, she might even make a few new friends.
That may or may not work... some HS kids are nice, some can be brats. It is definitely worth the suggestion, though. And if all else fails, tell her WL takes longer for some people and that she owes it to herself to give it the old 'college try' and keep it up for one more week or two while she thinks it over... At 15, she is more than old enough to start thinking about her eating-habits as a very important factor in her WOL. It is not like it was not very long ago, when the two of you were choosing which Barbie-doll to buy.
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