HELP? Ideas to motivate unhealthy teen daughter?

I bought my daughter wii games Dance,Resort, Fit and Zumba . She likes it so much. especially on weekends my both kids like to play wii rather than watching TV. She is also doing Tae Kwon Do. But does not likes to play sport. Last summer I enrolled in 1 week basketball and 1 week soccer camp to just try which one she will prefer, because it was only for week not the whole season she agreed to signing up.

Why not try get her to join a fun class. Does not have to be a sport maybe the likes of zumba which is great.

This just came in a Weight Watchers email:
Get the kids off to a healthy start and boost your own weight-loss by making fitness a family affair



TV and video games are sometimes stiff competition for physical activity.Try these activity boosting tips to get your kids off the couch and out of the house this fall.

Do it together
Kids love it when their parents join the game. So walk with them to the park, throw a Frisbee, fly a kite or kick a ball around. You're more likely to keep at an activity if it's something you enjoy. Let them tag along as you play ball, fish, hike, camp, surf or cycle. Kids enjoy making things, so set them a concrete goal, such as building a go-cart or clubhouse. This not only gets them moving, it brings about a sense of achievement.

Make it routine
Rather than trying to work "quality fitness time" into your family schedule—which can often get bumped as more urgent tasks take priority—add movement to everyday activities. If your children's pocket money is conditional on performing chores, for example, make the chores more activity-based (walking the dog, washing the windows or car, raking leaves or running errands). Don't drive them to social engagements; encourage them to walk or ride their bikes instead.

Make outings more active
Even so-called passive entertainments such as museums and theme parks can involve physical exertion (Disneyland, for example, extends over 185 acres, including parking; that's a lot of territory for little legs to cover!) The kids want to go to the movies? Walk at least part of the way to the theater. It's raining? Opt for energetic indoor pursuits such as bowling. Or turn up the stereo and have a dance contest.

Keep it simple
You don't need a garage full of sports equipment to have fun. The more structured an activity, the more likely a child's fickle attention span is to switch off. They'll get at least as much entertainment out of a ball (soccer, handball, basketball), a length of rope (skipping), a piece of chalk (hopscotch, sidewalk art) or nothing at all (leapfrog, hide-and-seek, tag).

Don't make an issue out of it
Nothing is guaranteed to turn kids off faster than nagging or harping on the benefits of exercise. It really doesn't matter which activities they participate in, or even how good they are at them as long as they keep it up. The key is making fun options available, while reducing less healthful ones, such as computer games.

Turn off the tube
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association children lose weight if they simply watch less TV. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that viewing be limited to one to two hours of "quality programming" per day, by contrast with the current average of over four hours daily; that adds up to almost 12 years parked in front of the TV by the age of 70!

Not only does TV take away from more active pursuits, but the average U.S. child has also viewed 360,000 advertisements before graduating from high school; many are for fatty snack foods, reinforcing unhealthy habits.

Make it safe
Many parents, frightened of strangers or busy streets, are tempted to keep their child safely indoors. But by tacitly encouraging inactivity, they're actually courting dangers of a different sort, since lack of exercise is linked with significant health problems later in life, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems and osteoporosis.

If you want to safeguard your children, go with them to the park or playground; always supervise potentially risky activities such as swimming. You don't always have time to oversee playtime? Check into the activities offered at playgroups, neighborhood centers or summer camps, then choose a program run by responsible adults.

When I was 15 I was a BRAT. Anything my parents told I would do the exact opposite of (well, as much as I could and still not get grounded). I did not want to be with my parents, I had a horrible relationship with them. But because I had such a bad relationship it helped me activity wise, I didn't want to be in the house with them so my friend and I would go for long walks around the neighborhood or jump on her trampoline for hours. I also did a lot of school activities because I didn't want to be at home.

When I was growing up though there were two things that my mom would tell me that still haunt me to this day. 1) Rachel, you have a huge forehead (consequently I now have bangs and can not dream of exposing my forehead) and 2) you're pretty thin, except your belly, that's where you carry your weight (since then I've gotten such a twisted form of my shape that I don't know if I have a big belly or not, but one thing is for sure, I'm always self conscious of it).

I think as a mom you're doing the perfect thing by buying only healthy things. Especially if she's dependent on you for money you know that she's not going out and buying junk food else where.

Bribery is probably the easiest way to be honest. Clothing, CD's, x-amount of money, larger allowance. That way she can make the decision to work to earn the "bribe" or to not, and you're not forcing anything on her.

I also liked the idea of having a doctor talk to her. As a parent, chances are she won't listen to you without getting mad. But with a 3rd party she's less likely to get upset. So either a doctor, or maybe a teacher or family friend that she's close with.

you could have snacks like suger free pudding and suger free jello, single serving size cups and if she doesnt like vegies to much you can buy a bag of vegies and stir fry them with a little bit of teriaki sauce it makes them taist awsome and its low in calories you can also switch everything like bread, pasta, rice, and noodles to brown rice, whole grain or wheat im almost 20 and i had my son three months ago i weigh 240 now and back when i was 15 i weighed 190 i some times think that if i had just took better care of my self and excersized and ate healthier i may not be at the weight i am today..

yeah. I was kind of always a chubby kid and my mom would give me "helpful hints" on exercising and losing weight and it just made me feel fat and unloved and I would go on crash diets that never worked. Now at 23, I'm the lowest weight I've been in the last 8 years, and it was because no one was pushing me to lose weight. I wanted to do it for myself. The most you can do is do your thing being healthy, but don't push it on her or it'll just give her self-esteem issues or make her think that you don't accept her. I know, because that's what my mom did.

This. I know this is such a tricky issue. But this.