Kyla knows, at 15, it’s make-it-or-break-it time to change her bad habits. She admits she got to the weight she is by “sitting around the house and eating”, but the fear of being judged for her size has her in tears. Her mom, Rhonda, hurts to see her kids suffer because of their weight. She’s angry when people comment that, “Kyla is pretty, BUT…” Rhonda wants to spare her kids the pain of looking in the mirror every day and facing that they are obese. She sees Brandyn’s hopes of becoming a football player slipping away due to his weight, and it makes her cry that Mikey is ostracized because he can’t keep up with kids his own age.
Even more urgently, she’s worried about her own health and how being obese is making her kids prone to contracting the diabetes she suffers from. As the “Captain” of the family, Rhonda is aware she’s leading her kids astray. She has to take control of the ship and turn it around now, to save her kids and herself. Does she have the strength to do that, when they seem to loathe the idea of dropping their unhealthy habits and getting fit?
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