T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Okay, if I EVER find out WHO has told Aprilia that she is fat I will personally force them to live with her in her current frantic state for LIFE!  Then I will beat them to a pulp for good measure.

I mean, I know she’s not thin, she’s certainly not the same build as, lets say, Big or StringBean but she’s  not in the same league as I was at her age either!  Clothes that fit her width fit her lenght too so she not out of proportion (unless Asda has started adding inches at the waist for our obese genreation?) In fact she has some teeshirts that are not much more than "boobtubes" these days as they are so short on her but still fit her width.  She has muscular legs, can’t deny that but they have shape.  She does have a small pot belly but she always has, I suspect she is probably still a bit sensitive to lactose but enjoys milk and it doesn’t make her ill anymore so I’m not going back to soya if we don’t need to.  She gets "doughy" just before she shoots up (again) but that melts away with each growth spurt.  She is at the top of "normal" for her height, so yes, given all the choc and biccies she could eat she would easily tip over into overweight but for now she’s in "normal.

 So why am I telling you this and how does it relate to the post title?  I bought her the Tumble Tot keep fit DVD for Christmas so we could have a bit of variety in our "PE curriculum" (becuase quite franckly I’m bored of the Kid’s Yoga!)  and she opened it with the declaration "oh good, now I can stop being fat" and promptly insisted we play it.  Being told to wait until lunch had gone down was just barely tolerated.  Being unable to do every single move as well as the instructor (but aquiting herself easily as well as the kiddies behind) got her frustrated until the point where she melted down completely at not knowing where her middle was.  A full hour later she was still sobbing that she would never get thin if she couldn’t do it right and whilst I know this is partly Christmas boom and bust looking back I can see it has been building up for a little while but just chose yesterday to come to a head.  At bedtime she asked me how many times she would need to do the video for it to "work" and I suggested that either 1 section a day (it’s in 10 min sections) and maybe a full run through the lot once a week would be more than enough added on to waht she already did.  She didn’t look convinced.

 I’m trying to get my head around how to deal with this.  Obvoiusly I’m happy for her to work through the video a few times a week, it won’t do her any harm, and as the weather isn’t condusive to charging round outside it should help tire her out.  I’m sure I can find some sort of "unit study" thing on the web on healthy eating and it wouldn’t do ME any harm to work through that, adding a bit of variety into our cooking sessions.  But how do I get her through this mind set?  Should I?  or should I leave her to work it through on her own and hope that she gets a bit more slender as she grows?  Agh!