How do you tell your child they need to lose weight?

It must be hard for the kids moving to a new area, getting use to a new school and trying to make new friends. If you really want to help them then I think you need to make the time to help them even if you do work. It only need to be a 30 minute walk/bike ride/scooter or whatever routine daily, say after dinnertime. Go together as a family and enjoy it together. Not only are you exercising and contributing to losing weight, you're bonding as a family and maybe the kids might open up a bit more about their surroundings and what they are finding difficult at school or with making friends. Another thing you can do is to buy more nutritional and healthy food/products and cut down on fats and introduce low-fat products. If you all do it together you can all succeed together and support each other along the way. Those are the first few things I would probably do to get my children active. I wouldn't come right out and tell them they need to lose weight but change my routine and introduce an exercise workout daily and change the products I buy and look for more nutritional products. We had to when myhusband got diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes recently so I stripped the cupboards and started reading nutritional labels, attending a diabetic education course to find out more info on diabetes. My husband has to lose 40-50 pounds and even though its not easy, we buy foods that are more nutritional as oppsed to biscuits, chocolates, fatty foods and alike. I eat what he eats so I am supporting him all the way. I need to lose a few pounds too. My son is only 5 and even though i have introduced a few low-fat products I still have to make sure he is getting enough nutrients too. Good luck and I hope this helps. Sorry if I rambled too much.

as a mom you will find the natural 'instinct' to take care of your kids-you all ready have the idea.start with your husband aswell and the kids will follow the parents.not much of advise):

All I can suggest is sacrifice. Make time. Encourage ALL the kids to get out with you, not just the one daughter. Have fun, you would be suprised at the energy you may have once you get going. Maybe it is a momentum thing, who knows? volleyball, hiking through the woods, scavenger hunts, swimming, gardening, etc. Another suggestion, to go along with the first one, do not buy any kind of junk foods. There are so many good foods out there that actually burn more calories digesting than are actually being consumed. Search online for calorie burning foods, and buy them. Check the sodium and sugars in the processed foods you buy. I could not believe the amount of sodium in canned veggies, we started a garden and now we can our own. Not only is there no salt, but I know whose hands have touched it. I know what has been put into the jars or freezer bags. A trick I used with my kids, I chopped up veggies and left them on a tray in the fridge. You know kids, they don't want to fix anything to eat, so they eat whatever is there. Do not cut out all sweet or salty things, but do not make them so easy to get to. Soft drinks are also bad. Every now and then, OK, but not every day and always available. And last...do your best not to let your daughter know these changes are for her benefit, let her know they are for the whole family.

I think that there are ways that you can go about it without hurting their feelings...like if someone told you hey you need to lose some weight that would make you think that they were calling you fat and that would hurt your feelings...so I think that if you would start going out and saying that you were going to walk around and ask them if they want to come because it would be fun if they would come with you! Whenever you go to the store start buying food that is healthier and stuff like that and they will start losing weight!