Teens and tweens - weight management

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I have had a disordered relationship with food most of my adult life (emotional eating, yo yo dieting). I am very very keen that my DC (girl and boy) don't learn the same bad habits as me. I don't want either of them to have body image problems, I desperately worry about them having EDs, but at the same time, I wish someone had helped me manage my weight when I was a teenager because being overweight made me so desparately miserable.

How do you manage it with tweens and teens? I don't know how to talk to them about food and weight, or do i not talk about weight at all? What if they start piling on the pounds - surely there is a point at which you, as the parent, has to intervene because obesity is a bad thing?

I probably sound like a right cow - I don't think I am - I just want my children to be happy and healthy, and I'm scared of fucking them up.

I think the best thing to do it lead by example. Model the eating behaviours you want your children to have.
Don't buy junk. Buy some treats but encourage any snacking to be things like fruit, cheese and crackers etc.
I wouldn't mention weight from a vanity point of view I would talk about health. Encourage cooking together, exercise etc.

I wonder if this might help londoncentreforintuitiveeating.co.uk/courses/raising-intuitive-eaters