Comments on: Fat 2 Fit #87 – Fat Enablers

By: Russ Turley

Russ Turley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:02:32 +0000

I can see where you’re coming from Caitlin. The skinny son resents the overweight son because his days of nacho night are over. I think the reason is still valid, it’s just the other unintended problems that will arise. Collateral damage you might say. As a parent you get control over what they eat at home, so I wouldn’t explain a thing to skinny son. He just gets to start eating better. He may blame, but he’ll eat more healthy either way.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:42:58 +0000

You gave some great advice to the mother with the overweight son. However, you said that you needed to make a decision that the whole family would eat healthier because one member of the family was having trouble with their weight. I agree with the eating healthier part but I don’t agree with your reason. You’re not doing it just because one person needs to lose weight. That could lead to blame. You’re doing it because it’s healthier for everyone. Junk food is bad for thin people as well, even if it doesn’t show up on the scales.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:52:44 +0000

I saw the shows you mentioned on TLC! I thought the same thing. I was yelling at the son to stop buying the cookies for his Mom! Another interesting thing I have noticed is husbands and wives. I’ve talked to women who have husbands who point out their weight issue (sometimes in not so subtle ways) and then either make it worse by giving them constant criticism about food, looks etc., or are the enablers who take them out to dinner and make them feel bad for going to the gym. What’s up with that?

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:19:13 +0000

I have a question what do you suggest to a young teenager who wont eat lunch and has many excuses but eats breakfast at 7am and his next meal is at 4pm He is starting to be body concious