How does a father talk to a daughter about his daughter’s weight?
Trick question.
He doesn’t.
That should be left to mom.
It’s a tough and complex discussion – no matter who does it.
But a dad risks irreparable damage pointing out a need for weight loss/fitness in his little girl.
The best a dad can do – I think – is to be a great example.
(I could do better.)
Get ripped for that girl.
The other problem was my body, which in retrospect I think of as an adorable butterball but which at the time seemed like a corpulent rebuke to my mother. I famously broke the zipper on my mother’s wedding gown when I tried it on at the age of ten, a story she took great pleasure in repeating for many years. She was very proud of her own ninety-eight pounds.