Pediatrician wants a weight check follow up

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Your doctor is a MORON - PhD

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Anonymous wrote:You don't say anything about what your son currently eats, or his activity level. You probably need to cut out all screens and get outside, for starters. No juices, no packaged snacks, and no sweets unless it's a special occasion.

They're getting all of the above at school pretty much every day, so you need to lock it down at home to counteract that.

Op here. He eats too many snacks and sugar. His favorite drink is lemonade, and his favorite food is fast food. He exercises a few times per week, but I can tell that his increased weight gain has affected him in many sports. He plays soccer, basketball, fencing, scout and rock climbing.

He is ten. WTF is buying him this lemonade and fast food??? he's too young to work and earn his own money. stop buying him these things.

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Anonymous wrote:Wtf is an 88% BMI?

His Body Mass Index is at the 88%ile. It is a pretty standard measure of relative weight.

It usually listed as an integer between 0-25. Never heard it as a percentile.

Uh oh. Mine is listed as an integer ABOVE 25. Like most of the population. I wonder if you've ever heard of that?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was super skinny as a small child and we had to do anything to get him to eat enough calories to grow properly. By the time he was 10 he was no longer so skinny but he was super picky. He also had (and still has) the gag reflex and vomiting. He is 20 and will vomit (still!) if he eat something with a texture he can’t tolerate, especially if it was unexpected. He hates it, works on expanding his palate, and is getting better slowly. But it is a long road, so pace yourself.

What I hard a hard time doing was moving from “I must get the child to eat or he won’t grow!” to “I must offer healthy food and my child can decide whether to eat or not.” The early fear about lack of calories and nutrition lingers. But your child is over that now, and so you need to get beyond it too so that you can help him develop healthier habits.

I imagine the feeding clinic he attended would have some good guidance on this new (and haelthier!) life stage.

Lots and lots of previously underweight or prematurely born babies/toddlers grow into older children who are overweight. It's definitely a phenomenon. It's very hard to let go of the idea that you need to give your child a Pediasure every day with a bowl of ice cream as a snack, to giving your kid water and low fat milk and presenting him with veggies, whole grains, and proteins and letting him decide what he's hungry for. Parents with these underweight young kids have to basically force them to eat when they aren't hungry. And they encourage them to drink calories. And then it's very hard to stop those habits, and then you also end up with a kid who is used to being bribed to clean his plate who just gets used to cleaning his plate no matter what.

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10-11 was probably when DS was his "heaviest". Then he hit 12 and lost the baby fat without really doing anything different (he's always been active and had a good diet). So some of this may just be that pre puberty weight.

But also, you are in charge of what he eats. Stop buying so much junk food and lemonade. There is no need for him to be having lemonade and fast food several times a week. And I say that as a mom whose kid does eat fast food sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wtf is an 88% BMI?

His Body Mass Index is at the 88%ile. It is a pretty standard measure of relative weight.

It usually listed as an integer between 0-25. Never heard it as a percentile.

Uh oh. Mine is listed as an integer ABOVE 25. Like most of the population. I wonder if you've ever heard of that?

Then you’re a pig

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Youth sports

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I would get a new ped. Yours sounds terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Did your doctor actually advise that your 10 y.o. should LOSE weight, or that he should maintain weight/slow gain as he gets taller? Usually it's the latter.

What does your kid currently eat? How much exercise does he get?

Ending up 5'7" to 5'9" would be completely unsurprising for someone with a mother and grandmother who are 5'. Not a sure thing, of course, but not at all surprising.

+1

My husband is 5'10" tall and I am 5'2" tall. Both of our adult sons are 5'8" tall.

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Anonymous wrote:Did your doctor actually advise that your 10 y.o. should LOSE weight, or that he should maintain weight/slow gain as he gets taller? Usually it's the latter.

What does your kid currently eat? How much exercise does he get?

Ending up 5'7" to 5'9" would be completely unsurprising for someone with a mother and grandmother who are 5'. Not a sure thing, of course, but not at all surprising.

This! Boys do not only get their height genes from the men in the family and girls don't only get their height genes from the women in the family. I know a family where dad and daughter are quite tall and mom and son are quite short. Daughter was taller at 11 than her brother at 13 and is still taller at 14 than he is at 16.

That said, I have never heard a pediatrician recommend that a child who is still growing should lose weight. Usually it is to slow the gain as they continue to grow taller. Encourage healthy habits but please do not put your 10 year old on a diet!

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Anonymous wrote:You don't say anything about what your son currently eats, or his activity level. You probably need to cut out all screens and get outside, for starters. No juices, no packaged snacks, and no sweets unless it's a special occasion.

They're getting all of the above at school pretty much every day, so you need to lock it down at home to counteract that.

Op here. He eats too many snacks and sugar. His favorite drink is lemonade, and his favorite food is fast food. He exercises a few times per week, but I can tell that his increased weight gain has affected him in many sports. He plays soccer, basketball, fencing, scout and rock climbing.

He is ten. WTF is buying him this lemonade and fast food??? he's too young to work and earn his own money. stop buying him these things.

+1

Why is he consuming these things? Get them out of the house?

Lemonade should be a once in a while treat and fast food should just never happen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't say anything about what your son currently eats, or his activity level. You probably need to cut out all screens and get outside, for starters. No juices, no packaged snacks, and no sweets unless it's a special occasion.

They're getting all of the above at school pretty much every day, so you need to lock it down at home to counteract that.

Op here. He eats too many snacks and sugar. His favorite drink is lemonade, and his favorite food is fast food. He exercises a few times per week, but I can tell that his increased weight gain has affected him in many sports. He plays soccer, basketball, fencing, scout and rock climbing.

He is ten. WTF is buying him this lemonade and fast food??? he's too young to work and earn his own money. stop buying him these things.

+1

Why is he consuming these things? Get them out of the house?

Lemonade should be a once in a while treat and fast food should just never happen.

Echo echo echo

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Anonymous wrote:Your doctor is a MORON - PhD

Just curious, what's your PhD in? It's weird to just sign off as a PhD to call a doctor a moron, especially if your PhD is in something like civil engineering or English lit.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet.

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Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium.

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.

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A smoothie is a meal not a drink. Way different than lemonade and not a replacement for water.