parttimer
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- Oct 11, 2011
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I have been dating a girl that has three kids for a few years now. Her oldest is now almost 16 and weighs in at 215 or so at 5"10. He has steadily gained weight over the past few months despite diet changes and making him work out. This has been a battle to get the kid on track for years. She used to take him to a chiro that did that hocus pocus shit where he would have you hold your arm out and he would push it, based on what "toxin" he was holding and how many times your arm moved you took that many pills of this supplement. Kid was taking like 40 pills a day, however he was working out and eating ok, he started to lose weight, then he broke his foot. He has been adding weight pretty much monthly, I am guessing 3-5lbs per month. The kids dad doesn't give two squirts of piss about diet despite being the high school wrestling coach. Most meals when he has the kids comes from a box or a bag. Frozen chicken patties, nuggets, fries, hot dogs, mac and cheese. So two to 3 days the kid eats garbage. Our meals are fresh meat from a butcher, some form of veggie and sometimes oven baked fries.
The kid never ate breakfast even though I rode him about it. I also wanted him to track everything he put in his mouth. It wasn't so we could be shitty about what he ate, it was so we could see what could change and he could cut out. He was told it only hurts him to not list things, if we don't know, we can't fix it. So, we have started making him dedicate one hour per day to the gym. Since school has started he has to go at 5AM, I also gave him a journal to write down is calories burned. I checked it today. He is going 30-45 minutes per day and burning about 200 calories while doing purely cardio. Clearly he is not trying. I downloaded some charts that show someone his size jogging for one hour at at 5mph should burn about 750 calories. He was told he can't get his license until he has dropped to 180-185lbs yet he still has not lost much. In the first two weeks of him going, he lost 4 lbs. I told my gf today that she should give him a goal of something like 205, when he reaches that he can start back to weight training 2 days per week with me overseeing him. I have seen him work out before, its all about how much you can lift form is out the window, so he must be supervised which is why I said I have to go too.
The kid has new stretch marks coming in weekly and despite being told they are permanent, they keep coming. The kid is self conscious about his weight yet isn't doing anything to improve it. I went as far as giving her a macro breakdown but with the kid being in school it will be hard to get 5 meals in. I also told him he needs a gallon per day and he always says "I'm just not thirsty" so he doesn't drink. So anyone got ideas?
The kid never ate breakfast even though I rode him about it. I also wanted him to track everything he put in his mouth. It wasn't so we could be shitty about what he ate, it was so we could see what could change and he could cut out. He was told it only hurts him to not list things, if we don't know, we can't fix it. So, we have started making him dedicate one hour per day to the gym. Since school has started he has to go at 5AM, I also gave him a journal to write down is calories burned. I checked it today. He is going 30-45 minutes per day and burning about 200 calories while doing purely cardio. Clearly he is not trying. I downloaded some charts that show someone his size jogging for one hour at at 5mph should burn about 750 calories. He was told he can't get his license until he has dropped to 180-185lbs yet he still has not lost much. In the first two weeks of him going, he lost 4 lbs. I told my gf today that she should give him a goal of something like 205, when he reaches that he can start back to weight training 2 days per week with me overseeing him. I have seen him work out before, its all about how much you can lift form is out the window, so he must be supervised which is why I said I have to go too.
The kid has new stretch marks coming in weekly and despite being told they are permanent, they keep coming. The kid is self conscious about his weight yet isn't doing anything to improve it. I went as far as giving her a macro breakdown but with the kid being in school it will be hard to get 5 meals in. I also told him he needs a gallon per day and he always says "I'm just not thirsty" so he doesn't drink. So anyone got ideas?