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How can I help my sister lose weight?

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RainDancer · 01/08/2015 13:32

My sister is in her 40s and is morbidly obese. Her weight is badly affecting her health. She cannot walk for more than a few minutes at a time. I am very worried about her health, particularly as she has a minor heart problem. She wants to lose weight, but I think may be in denial about how much she actually eats. She knows her health is at risk. Jokes that she might just drop dead one day, but seems unable to do anything about it. I understand that, because all of my sisters have a difficult relationship with food. Question is, what can I do about it? She lives a long way from me so I can't drag her out for walks or cook her meals. I have seen these diet chef things where you basically subscribe and they send you all the food you should eat - do you think they are any good? I would be grateful for any ideas. I am happy to spend a fair bit of money on it. Talking to her about it is difficult because she is understandably very sensitive about it.

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Hellionandfriends · 03/08/2015 21:09

Can you visit her daily? Or three times a week? If so try wii dance or aim for a walk round the block. Even if she can only manage 3 mins to begin with, after a couple of weeks she will most likely be up to 5 mins, 10 mins after a month,

LifeIsBetterInFlipFlops · 03/08/2015 21:14

I understand where you are coming from Rain. No suggestions I'm afraid, but I hope she gets the help she needs, be it through you or elsewhere.

RainDancer · 03/08/2015 21:52

I know she needs to want to do it for herself. I genuinely think she does want to but has got so overweight she is just despondent about her predicament so I need something to energise and motivate her. I live a long way away Hellion so that isn't possible unfortunately. She does have a Wii though and quite enjoys using it I think. I might suggest some kind of goal to her - I know that would work for me - but it can't be anything she thinks she can't achieve. She doesn't have great self esteem so I suspect would just say there was no way she could do something like Race for Life. Maybe I could suggest buying her a pedometer and see whether she can set herself a daily target? Anything to get her started really. Thank you everyone for your kind suggestions.

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