I also hate that overweight parents pass on their terrible relationship with food to their kids. It took me years to fully undo the damage my learned food habits caused, and a lot of kids won't escape that cycle because they have no idea there's anything wrong with what their parents presented as 'normal'.  It's not fair to ruin a child's ability to enjoy physical activities when they don't know any better! I'm only now as a healthy adult rediscovering all kinds of different sports and activities that I struggled with and hated as an overweight kid. I regret that I missed out on the opportunity to properly enjoy these things before I stopped having the free time to devote to it. I don't want that to happen to other kids who still have a chance to avoid it, but it will if we just pretend everything's fine.