Well being overweight stinks as a kid and overall it is unhealthy. i have been overweight all my life, well since i started cortisone. For me it severely affected my appetite and my mother did not know that she needed to watch what i ate because they did not tell her what cortisone would do. now i am considered obese. i have tried numerous times to lose weight and did on weight watchers when i was being under supressed. recently i have gained it all back and to be honest i am now comfortable with who i am. i did not like the person that i was when i was skinny. i would ideally like to be about 30 or 40 pounds less than i am now but that would still leave me overweight and i am fine with that. i think that it is important to teach your children how to eat and to let them know that they might have to be more careful than some people because they take steriods but more important is to teach them to be happy with who they are and not who society wishes them to be. As a parent, which i am not, i think that it might be important to stress less about what they look like and more about who they are. we would not treat cah kids differently because they have a congenital condition, why should we treat them differently cause of their weight???? thanks, ashley