Dara-Lynn Weiss, author of memoir "The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet" explains her controversial decision of putting daughter on diet.

Last year Dara-Lynn Weiss wrote in an article in Vogue that she had put her 7 year old daughter on a diet to lose weight. This move was heavily criticized, so much so that a German tabloid titled her "Monster-Mutter No.1." In her new memoir, "The Heavy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet" Weiss explains why she needed to take such measures and addresses the issue of childhood obesity.

When US Today asked her if she was going to do a reality show "America's Littlest Loser" which is based around the book and reasons for her writing the book, she replied, "There's no reality show. It's a story about a parent's love for her child. It's about my decision - which was really difficult for me and my daughter -- to help her to be more healthy and more happy. It's not really about weight loss. It's more about the challenge of modern parenting where decisions are judged so readily."

Weiss reveals that her daughter was in preschool when she realized she had weight issues. The reason for her daughter's excessive weight, Weiss says was because of the "unusual relationship with the snack table, more ardent than the other children's." She revealed that whenever her daughter went for weight checkup, she was always heavier but not healthier.

In-spite of Weiss doing everything right like picking up her daughter from school, making home-cooked meals, walking to places, her daughter still faced weight issues, Why?

"This was not a lazy child. She didn't eat unhealthy food. People make assumptions about obese children or their parents. She was a child with an enormous appetite ... She has a brother a year younger, same parents, same food, who doesn't want to eat sweets," reveals Weiss.