I have a friend who is over weight i tryed to help her loose it by giving her some tips that my mom told me to give her she still eats junk food and alot of it and she's just making it worse! can somebody just tell me some more tips that i can try because i'd really like to help her she's my best friend!
2006-07-12 03:08:57 · 12 answers · asked by Lovin' Life (: 2 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
Sorry, your friend needs to help herself. There is nothing you can say or do that will help, UNLESS she wants to lose the weight and be healthy.
2006-07-12 03:12:17 · answer #1 · answered by kja63 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
The worse thing you can do with someone who is overweight is to point it out to them. They know they are overweight. How the overweight person interprets this is that you will like them only on the condition that they lose weight. That's not friendship or love. All you will end up doing is alienating them from you. If you want to help your friend without losing the friendship, keep setting an example by what you eat when you are with her, but don't point it out. Do things with her that require more exercise, but again, be subtle and don't let her realize what you are doing. If that means starting slowly, that's okay. Just getting her to walk more is a good beginning. The exercise will help her to burn more calories now and in the long run. As she loses some weight and starts conditioning her body to an increase in exercise she will want to do things more on her initiative. You are a very good friend to her and maybe someday she will realize it.
2006-07-12 10:32:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am having the same problem with my niece. She is 10 years old and weighs over a hunderd pounds. Everything we have tried just made it worse. I did get her to start walking with me until she fell on the asphalt and then it was over. Maybe if she likes to do some kind of activity like swimming, basketball, and etc... Try to do it with her and get her more active. When she comes to your house, get your mom to put out healthy snacks and hide all the bad ones. Talk to her mom and see if she will stop buying unhealthy snacks and start buying healthy ones instead. I am sure her mom is just as concerned as you are. Talk to her. Tell her you love her and don't want anything to happen to her. Maybe pick up some literature on obesity. Tell her when she eats junk food not to eat alot of it. Like a candy bar, instead of whoofing it down, just sit back and enjoy it. Savor every bite. Just try to be satisified with just one. Try to pump her up of trying to look good in a bathing suit and make her shoot for that goal. Summer is just about over, so tell her you are going to help her and have her looking good in a bathing suit by next summer. Go together and buy a bathing suit that is smaller and that she really likes and wants to wear. It will give her something to shoot for. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Good luck.
2006-07-12 10:23:44 · answer #3 · answered by Xena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to get her involved with sports go on a diebeties diet. That is the best diet around. tell her mother to get rid of the junk food in the house and replace them with healthy fruits and vegtables.
2006-07-12 10:14:16 · answer #4 · answered by yadi25 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to sound uncaring but the fact is that she is making her own choice. It's not that she doesn't have access to information or to healthy food, she just doesn't value herself enough and it probably seems too "difficult" to take better care of herself. She needs to be given positive encouragement & support and perhaps then she will have the strength to change her life for the better. It can be done!
2006-07-12 10:13:48 · answer #5 · answered by savagescorpio 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there are tasty foods that are actually good for like chicken pasta salad or conch salad. give her stuff like that on a daily basis
and she'll lose weight in no time.
2006-07-12 10:32:41 · answer #6 · answered by Marion W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oi get out of her business. She's your friend she needs support not constant lecturing, is she happy? Then ef off!
What she needs to do is make mind up herself noone else can help her if shes not willing to help herself
2006-07-12 10:20:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try subtle acts of getting her to do activites with you like walking wtih her everyday and go skating. Just don't push it on her cause she might be self-concious about it already and you don't want to hurt her.
2006-07-12 10:14:45 · answer #8 · answered by DeeLicious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell her to join dance. i dance and when you start to enjoy what you are doing you never really feel the real workout behind it but you know that you are getting it. because you might as well enjoy the workout then complain about it and how much it hurts.
2006-07-12 10:12:53 · answer #9 · answered by dancingstarr92 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
however good your intentions are ..she can only help herself..if conventional methods dont work ..try playing mind games with her,reverse psycology..try and shame her into dieting (tactfully)..sometimes to got to be cruel to be kind
2006-07-12 10:14:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋