Weight Loss for kids
If your child has only been overweight for a year or so, STOP can bring them
back to a healthy weight in the same period of time, or much shorter
depending on your efforts and determination. If, on the other hand, an adult
has been overweight for 15 years, then their weight loss process will take
considerably longer.
The reason:
Simply put, they have spent the past 15 years developing bad habits
that now need to be broken and ideas about food that need to be reversed.
It will take longer to lose weight if you or your child has been overweight for
a longer period of time. A good rule of thumb to get back into acceptable
shape is one-two months of healthy living for every year of unhealthy living.
So if your child has been overweight for just a year, it will take only two
months to get them back down to the proper weight and size.
That is, of course, assuming that all the proper steps are followed.
All of this information is from STOP Childhood Obesity.
