Fat Dad, Fat Kid: One Father and Son's Journey to Take Power Away from the "F-Word"

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I have always been the chubby kid and I have a terrible body image, but rejecting all the dieting trends as I hit my late 20’s is helping to rebuild my relationship with real food in normal portions. I also think daily about what I can do to improve my own health and relationship with food so that when he is old enough to see patterns, that I am a good example for him, and not just someone telling him what he can and can’t eat (especially if I don’t have control over it myself). Today i am still of the mind set of: I can eat what I want, how much I want as long as I work out daily. This realization that my food habits and patterns aren’t completely set from childhood is liberating, and I’ve enjoyed making healthy choices for myself. I guess in the end, through fat and thin, through empty coin purses and more comfortable lives, at the end of the day it is the love that I feel when I sit at the kitchen table that is the most important nourishment my parents have given me.Coach Stefano Chiriaco, with 20 years of experience transforming 1000+ busy dads is here to show you the way. He has also seen how some of his hard-to-break habits are affecting his children, particularly his eldest son, Gavin, who grew up during the years when his dad had “a little extra Shay on him. One thing that I truly appreciate about my mom, now, is how she cooked every day for a husband and 4 kids. But I have had a good influence on my father, he is now trying to eat better and has lost some weight. She was a size 16 when she got married (which would probably be about a 20 now), smoked constantly, and then became an alcoholic.

I just had a baby seven months ago and throughout my pregnancy and everyday now that he is starting to eat “solid” foods, I think about how I want his eating habits to be different from mine both as a child and now. My first attempts, despite my education, were sloppy and frantic and brought on mainly by fear and frustration with my body image. We talk about foods as either “helping your body to feel its best (lots of energy to do all the things you want to do, no headaches or sleepiness from too much sugar) or not. We owe it to our daughter to be here as long as possible, and that means taking care of the bodies we have. On the flip side, I have a friend who I think has an obsession to not gain her weight back so she exercises incessantly and I think that’s just as damaging for her little girl to see that as well.If you want to help support our CIC, please find a link to our PayPal below and in the navigation and make any affordable donations. But I watched what I ate and was keenly aware of calories and often fasted during my high school years – this was the 70’s and we were all striving to fit into our “Calvin Kleins. Photograph: ableimages/Alamy View image in fullscreen Cake, ice-cream, chocolate and fizzy drinks have kept me awake, but I’m getting bigger and bigger. Additionally to Fat Dads Kitchen, we'll also be operating as Fat Dads Community Kitchen providing a much needed lifeline in the fight against food poverty within Bristol. As for my parents, and mainly my dad, I hope they can begin to discover a new way to approach their relationship with food.