Table 2.

‘We’re making changes’ Interview Quotes

Quote Number	Respondent	Child’s Weight Status	Quote
10	Mother of 11-year-old Girl A	Obese	I like to exercise, but I don’t do it often. We have a track right over here around Lake Montebello. On nice days—we have bikes also, so hopefully we’ll be able to use them more often, and at least set one day aside to go bike-riding or to go walk around the track. …My husband and I a lot of times will tell her…because she always talks about her weight… So he definitely tells her a lot that she should be doing this and that. I’m trying to get [my husband] to the track. I try to because we all have bikes, so there’s no excuse for that. ‘Let’s go ride bikes,’ or just run around the track. And they have exercise equipment too over there at the track. So Madison and I have hopped on it before. So hopefully we’ll have more days to be able to go over there and spend the time over there, whether it’s bike-riding, exercising, walking, whatever.
11	Cousin of 6-year-old Girl B	Normal Weight	I have to say, ‘Go outside and play’… So I will go outside and do something, walk. We have a store not far from us, so I said, ‘I’m going to go get some water. I ain’t getting in the car. I’m walking.’ What? [He’s] like, ‘We didn’t never walk before.’
12	Mother of 11-year-old Girl C	Obese	So about fitness and stuff…sometimes if they watching the cable station and they see something, they’ll try it. So it’s not like they don’t know nothing about no exercise, and they know we say something about it. And they might be like, ‘Well, ya’ll need to exercise too,’ …and we’ll be like, ‘Okay, good point.’