How do I help my son find the motivation to lose weight?

DEAR DEIDRE: HOW bash I assistance my lad find the information to suffer weight?

Ever since helium was a child, he’s struggled with his size, but he’s present pushing 30 stone, and I tin archer it’s truly getting him down. 

He’s 30, and I’m his 59-year-old father. For years he’s had a hard clip managing his weight, but present things are hitting a breaking point. 

It’s affecting each facet of his life, and he’s struggling to bash basal tasks without becoming overwhelmed with fatigue oregon getting retired of breath.

The past clip helium visited the doctor, she told him helium was astatine precocious hazard for diabetes and bosom problems if helium didn’t marque immoderate changes to his life. 

I cognize helium wants thing much than to suffer the value and amended his life, but mentally it’s each taken specified a immense toll I deliberation he’s convinced himself he’s incapable. 

All I privation is to assistance him, but I’m wholly clueless. Please help.

DEIDRE SAYS: It tin beryllium hard to ticker your kid struggling with their value nary substance however aged they are. 

As a parent, you privation to bash everything you tin to assistance your child, but yet this is up to him.

Talk to him again and explicate you are disquieted for his health. Tell him that you’re determination to enactment and assistance him wherever you can, but helium is the 1 that has to instrumentality the existent changes.

You should besides promote him to travel up with his GP.

I’m sending you my enactment pack, Weight Worries, to assistance too.