First of all, you will have to reconsider your own attitude to nutrition and life in general. After all, children rarely prepare their own food themselves, and if they do, they are from the products that are found in the parental refrigerator. Regularly buying sausage, you can quickly find that the basis of the child's diet were sandwiches, and not porridge and light vegetable salads. Well, constantly present in the house sweet can push back to the background even the most beloved sausage.
Jogging the whole family
The same is true with physical activity. In a family where it is customary to spend weekends on the couch by the TV, the child is unlikely to grow physically active. But in the one where he sees his mom and dad on yoga mats, regular jogs or at least doing morning exercises, he will grow up with the understanding that an active way of life is the norm. The earlier a positive example appears in front of the child's eyes, the easier it will be for him to adopt.
And the last. Sometimes the causes of excess weight in children are not only and not so much in overeating and lack of physical activity. If under your strict guidance your child has changed the way of life, but there are no results, then it is worthwhile to figure out what is the reason. And it is best to do this under the guidance of a child or family psychologist. The answers he has found can surprise you very much ...