have got a 12 year old son
very tall for his age -looks 15
always been very lean-not skinny but lean
just recently started getting a podgy tummy-he's not very happy about it
did his bmi thing yesterday and he is just into the overweight range so need to stamp on it pronto
a typical day's food is something like this;
breakfast-a bowl of cheerios or shreddies with semi skimmed milk
snack of a piece of fruit or a healthy cereal bar mid morning
lunch is usually a sandwich made with 2 slices of either wholemeal or granary bread, chicken/ham/cheese -the usual. salad on the side-tomato, cucumber, carrot sticks etc, fruit for pudding and a drink of diluted pure juice
dinner in the evening usually something like spag bol, chicken and baked potato and veg, -usual family meals.
he usually snacks on fruit or dry bread [weird] but of course will eat chocolate/cake etc if it's available which it usually is a couple of times a week.
where am i going wrong? is it portion size do you think?? i do give him quite large portions on the basis he is a big lad and is growing... maybe that needs to be cut
he has got a new bike and have also enrolled him at a gym where he can swim and use the cadio equipment in case it's lack of exercise