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from my son Gage is 8 years old and
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weighs 206 lbs and Gage just can't stop
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eating he wants to eat all the time
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before Gage has finished eating lunch
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Gage is already wanting to know what
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we're having for supper he never ever
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feels that full feeling ever I like to
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eat pizza cor on the cob chicken nuggets
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french fries raw bacon I've caught him
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trying to eat frozen chicken patties hot
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dogs and he'll eat whatever he can get
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his hands on I'm all is hungry all the
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time when I try to stop Gage from eating
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he gets really really angry stop he
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Stomps his feet we slams The Doors he
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yells he hates me he's out of control
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leave me alone I've tried every thing
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that I know to try to get his weight
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under control well I've changed his diet
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I was cooking a lot of fried foods I
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started using a lot of chicken breast
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I've tried portion control I'll fix
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gauge a plate with the smaller portions
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he it's not enough food little he's hard
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to get to exercise I can hardly ever get
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him outside he has trouble walking
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running he gets short of breath very
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easily his last year Gage put on over 50
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lbs I took him to the children's
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hospital he was a borderline diabetic
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the doctors told me that I was killing
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my son I don't know what to do I've been
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to four five six different doctors they
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all blame me cuz I'm overfeeding him and
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letting him overeat I'm scared I'm going
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to lose him what scares me most about
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Gage's weight is that he's going to
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die okay I want to start out by talking
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about what we can agree on because I I
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got a feeling there be some things we
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disagree on but I want to talk about
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what we can agree on can we
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agree that he is way overweight
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absolutely can we agree that that's
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unhealthy absolutely can we agree that
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it's unhealthy mentally emotionally
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socially and physically absolutely when
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I say socially you know that he is going
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to be subject to taunting criticism
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bullying exclusion from
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activities uh problems with dating I
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mean there's going to be all kinds of
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issues and situations so we agree on all
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of that absolutely and and we agree when
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I say physically why do you agree
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physically it's hard on his heart his
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muscles his joints is that point well it
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is but it also makes him also makes him
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at risk for some diseases that you don't
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normally see in children right there are
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diseases that that we don't have the
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adults different types of diabetes and
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censal hypertension rheumatoid arthritis
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they're there we could I could go
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through a long list that there are a
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number of of diseases that you don't see
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until you get into adulthood that will
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show up in children that are as obese as
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he is so he is actually making making
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himself sick you say you tell him no but
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you give in I do okay and you give in
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because you don't want to hurt him
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emotionally I'm I'm afraid I'm hurting
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him emotionally and mentally worse than
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physically okay um Lisa says one of the
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reasons that her son is so overweight is
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that she can't control how much he eats
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look Gage eats huge portions for a
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little boy I really like to eat food he
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eats more than a grown man he eats more
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than William and I both together he goes
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back for seconds and thirds a lot the
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doctors recommended that I don't feed
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him we give him his portion so let all
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he gets leave me alone they don't see
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the fits the hurt the crying being upset
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because he's hungry I get mad when she
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doesn't give me food if I eat like 10
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chicken nuggets gug would usually eat
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like 20 or 23 before sometimes we're at
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the table and his brother William
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doesn't eat all of his meal after he
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gets done with he is he keeps asking me
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for money if I don't give it to him he
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gets really mad do you have a story or a
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question for me click the link in the
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description and tell me what in the
