What are the signs that my child is exercising too much?

What are the signs that my child is exercising too much?

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I think that as soon as you guys are finishing your meal and your child starts to say, "Oh my god. I'm really eating too much. I think I need to go work out. I think I need to go for a long walk. I need to go run." Then what's happening is they've formed an association with needing to purge those calories in some way. And you will know when your child is exercising too much, because they come back from soccer practice and they feel like they have to go for a run. Hello! Something's going on over here! They're not feeling like that running around they did on the field was enough; they are needing to do more. Or you might walk into your child's room and you find them doing sit-ups in their room or something like that. A child who is doing sit-ups in an isolated way in their room has some sort of a compulsion going on with their exercising.