7 year old and dieting??!
Dara-Lynn Weiss, a writer with Vogue magazine, wrote an article about her daughter's weight loss journey. Bea, her then 7yr old daughter had always had a big appetite and even though she wasn't exposed to junk food , would still manage to eat more than her sibling . She tried for several years to get help for Bea but when Dara-Lynn was informed by Bea's paediatrician that Bea was clinically obese and had high blood pressure, Dara-Lynn decided to intervene. She turned to Dr. Joanna Dolgoff's book- “Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right” . Each family member was given a weekly allotment to comply with/to but Bea's were the most restricted. This lead to questions from Bea why she couldn't eat like her brother and sometimes lead to public displays which left Dara-Lynn, looking like an unnecessarily strict mother. The backlash though was much worse after the article was published. with all sorts of criticism- selfish, hateful, even calling her a f**ked up woma...