Starting Out Early: Trim Kids

More and more children today weight more than they should, and Trim Kids can help them get back on track.

This book, written by Melinda S. Sothern, T. Kristian von Almen and Heidi Schumacher, can help parents of overweight and obese children teach their children to eat healthy.

The authors, an exercise physiologist, research psychologist and dietician, bring a lot of experience to the table.

This eating program for kids comes at an important time because more than 30 percent of our nation’s children are overweight and more than 15 percent are obese.

This is alarming, because we know that if not addressed, these children will become overweight and obese adults.

They will have all of the health problems that come with too much weight, and that is not how we want our children to grow up!

This program is not a diet, but rather a lifestyle management program.

It will teach your children, and your whole family, what it means to eat healthy and be active.

It is a twelve week program that takes your family through the steps they need to follow to learn to reach, and maintain, a healthy weight.

The first part of the program focuses on teaching you about the program.

You learn about the program’s background and what the parts of the program are so you know what to expect as you follow it.

The second part of the Trim Kids program gets down to business.

This part of the book contains week by week guides to help you follow the program.

Each week you will focus on both eating and exercise.

For the diet part of the Trim Kids program the book provides you with menus and recipes, along with suggested grocery lists.

The book teaches you how to eat healthy by doing such things as lowering your sugar intake, increasing the amount of fiber in your diet and eating healthy snacks.

You learn about portion control as well, which most people need to understand a little better.

Trim Kids also focuses heavily on exercise and being active.

It provides you with a list of exercises you can follow, and gives tips on how to easily incorporate exercise into your lifestyle.

For example, by dancing during television commercials or only talking on the phone if you are also walking.

Beyond diet and exercise, Trim Kids also looks at behavioral patterns in children – the very things that have led children to gain weight in the first place.

By breaking these habits, and learning new habits, children can learn to follow a healthy lifestyle so they can stick with it for life.

The steps below should be followed by every member in your family. Including your kids!

• Incorporate a proven, complete nutritional program into your daily life.
• Enhance your nutritional program with a complete mutivitamin supplement because no nutritional program is perfect.
• Use a behavior modification and motivational program that will help you stay on track with your nutritional plan.
• Exercise at home with your own:
  Treadmill

  Stairstepper

  Exercise bike

  Elliptical trainer

  Hand weights or

  An aerobic video.

• See what kinds of weight loss aids your health insurance covers such as:
  Hypnotism

  Gym membership discounts

  Nutritional counseling.

Trim Kids is a great program; it helps children successfully learn to follow a healthy lifestyle, while losing weight and overcoming obesity.

Also, since the whole family becomes involved, it helps all members of the family maintain an ideal weight and be active.

Addressing obesity issues when a child is young is critical so you can enable them to avoid serious health problems.

So, go ahead. Help your kids and yourself follow the proven steps to weight loss success as mentioned above.

Your family is worth it!