Fat child wants to lose weight after playing with my siblings and I. This happened on Saturday, but I hadn't gotten a chance to post it. My younger siblings love tennis. They're not very good at it, but they have fun. So I grabbed my three siblings and my guy's son (ages 13, 11, 9, and 7) and took them up to the local high school to play on the tennis court. The courts have a chain fence around them and a door on one side. So if you hit the ball over the fence, you have to run all the way around the court to get it and then back around to reenter the court. After tennis, we always go to the track and run a few laps and race before heading home. After about 20 minutes of playing, another car pulls in and a group of three femayos climbs out, with a small female child, maybe 10 years old and about 50lbs too heavy, in tow. They get on the court next to us and start to play. They hit the ball so weakly and are too slow to make it to hit the ball back that they spend almost all the time waddling around picking up the ball. Meanwhile, my kids are running around, teasing each other, running out to get the ball form over the fence, and just having a grand time.  After about 15 minutes of playing, the hams decide they're done playing and want to leave. The little girl wants to stay and my 9 year asks her to come play with us. The hams say it's okay and she comes and joins our game. The ham adults go out the bench, put their rackets in their car, pull out some snacks (chips and a soda each) and go sit on the nearby bleachers to watch.  The girl (go ahead and just call her G) can't keep up with my siblings running around the court, but she's definitely trying and seems to be having more fun than playing with her parents. She even joined in on the teasing and made friends with the 9 year old sister. After another 45ish minutes, we decide to go to the track around the football field and run. G wants to come with us. The women don't want her to go to because they don't want to have to walk to the track to pick her up. I tell them that we'll have to come back this way because I parked by the tennis court, and they can see the track from the bleachers they were sitting on. They agree, so G walks with us over to the track. On the way, we talk about how many laps we're going to run, and since the bleachers were actually empty, except a fat guy watching his teenage son run, I suggested running bleachers. The kids agree on running two laps and then running the bleachers. If you don't know, running the bleacher is when you start at one end and run up and then down each set of stairs along the length of the stands. Since these were the main stands for the football field, there were maybe 10 sets of stairs and 25 steps on each. So we're running around the track, with G dragging way behind. We decided to wait for her to finish before starting on the bleachers. She only managed to run about halfway around the first lap before going to a walk. We were done with both laps before she finished the first.  "C'mon and run! You can do it!" My 9 year old (M) yells to her. "I can't!" G yells back. All the other kids start cheering her on, yelling for her to run and shouting encouragement to her. She does start to run, and gets about halfway around the track before she slows down again. She finally finished her two laps and we head up the stairs leading to the bleachers. We start at one end and start running them, with G again trailing behind a bit. Again, the other cheer and yell encouragement to keep going, and while she does a run a few steps, she ends up walking the last 6 sets. "How do y'all even do that? I wish I could do all that." G asks M. "We run a lot and don't get fat so it's not as hard. And we eat healthy foods all the time." M says. G is interested and M starts talking about some of her favorite foods, like garlicy green beans and roasted squash.  "I've never had squash. Mom says it's gross." G tells her. "Then come over and you can try some!" So M and G continue talking on the walk back to the car about their favorite foods, and all the things G has never tried and their favorite games to play outside and how G hates gym class because she can't keep up so nobody ever wants to play with her. M tells her if she loses weight, shell be able to play and keep with everyone else and they'll play with her. So G asks her to teach her how to do that. "You have to eat right and exercise. Like don't eat too much or exercise extra if you do." M tells her. "Can you teach me that?" G asks. "Sure!" So they exchange phone numbers and make plans for G to come over this weekend coming up so M can teach her how to exercise and so G can try some of M's favorite vegetables.