I’m a nutshell, she’s 10, she just came to us last week after 7-8 weeks away from us (she’s usually here fri-sun every weekend and most of the school holidays) for a while before lock down it was obvious that she was starting to fill out. We put this down to starting puberty etc.
Now she’s very obviously overweight. I was the fat kid, I was teased and bullied about it by my family and it lead to awful self confidence issues and later on an eating disorder and an exercise addiction. I don’t want that for her but at the same time I don't want her confidence being affected. We’ve been going for hilly walks everyday and she’s really struggled with them and been very obviously out of breath.
She seems to expect sweet treats several times a day. We encourage her to snack on fruit but she refuses and throws a fit.
We eat healthily on the whole and she’s recently started to eat vegetables which is obviously a good thing.
I think being out of routine with school and not being able to go to her usual sports clubs really hasn’t helped matters (she usually goes to dance, swimming and gymnastics every week after school so she’s usually pretty active)
We’ve spoken to her mum and she said she really struggled with her behaviour and mood swings. She’s on her own so hasn’t got the back up of a partner etc and often gives in to her which obviously isn’t helping but on the other hand I know how difficult she can be to deal with. Has anyone got any advice?