Almost 5 yr old eats nothing but likes yobaby yogurt

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. I think there is just so much sugar in everything. I am trying to lose wieght, but those sugar salt things kill me.

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Just eat real food. Do not buy processed foods to the extent possible. For example, eat meat and vegetables or salad for dinner, not rice out of a box, etc.

Um, plain rice out of a box IS real food.

And it doesn't matter if you only eat "real" food vs. "real" + processed. Unless you consume fewer calories than your body needs, you will not lose weight.

A calorie is not a calorie. Sugar calories are metabolized differently from say meat protein calories. It is actually kind of hard to get fat just eating real food. And processed white rice out of a box is not real food. Please read something about nutrition that was not written in 1977, when the food companies started selling the lie that fat was the problem and a calorie is a calorie. Try eating vegetables and meat for a week. I bet you lose weight. Eat all you want and all the fat you want.

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Can you please start your own thread about your ideas of a healthy diet? OP was not asking about this.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please start your own thread about your ideas of a healthy diet? OP was not asking about this.

Ok well she might as well have asked "what should I do about my child only eating candy and no other food?"

Take away the yobaby and the kid will eventually eat something else. Never buy it again, and don't substitute some other sugary crap for it. But some real food and offer that. I would rather my child only drink milk than eat several servings of that junk.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here!!! Wow so many great responses that were actually helpful. I was busy with the kids all day and just got home.

Yes she never ate. Even at a young age. Of course she likes ice cream and chocolate but we don't give it often and she doesn't finish those either.

She will eat some fruit. Fruit pouches only flavor..... Mango banana orange. A little plain white rice or butter pasta. Loves restaurant bread an butter. I try to make the rice in a chicken broth.

My pediatrician is so unhelpful. I have feeding her as its always a struggle all day long. As sits at the table for hours til my husband screams at her or we negotiate bites for reward.

Terrible parenting I know but we are at a loss.

OP, I'm the PP whose child was consuming pretty much only milk at age 5. My ped was unhelpful too, as were the therapists who were treating my son for other issues. Eating problems aren't nearly as universally understood as people think. It took me forever to find resources to help. Even after my child started eating, which happened gradually after therapy, I was still physically feeding him for years until his intake was sufficient on his own.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please start your own thread about your ideas of a healthy diet? OP was not asking about this.

Ok well she might as well have asked "what should I do about my child only eating candy and no other food?"

Take away the yobaby and the kid will eventually eat something else. Never buy it again, and don't substitute some other sugary crap for it. But some real food and offer that. I would rather my child only drink milk than eat several servings of that junk.

NP lurker here. Lady, you are plain nuts. You have taken healthy eating and turned it into an eating disorder. Extremism in anything, including diet, is scary. One lousy yogurt cup occasionally is not the problem you make it out to be. Be very careful. If you don't tone back on your fanaticism, your children will grow up with an unhealthy relationship with food. Many, many people who have grown up with parents like you end up having no self control about all of the foods that you have excised from your diet as "crap" that when they finally fly the coop, they want to try many of those foods that were always off limits and eat far too much of it. Children whose parents discourage such foods, but don't make them completely forbidden often end up with healthier eating habits.

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can you measure everything you feed her and let us know what she actually consumes over a few days.

also you need to take the battle away. You offer her healthy choices and she chooses what to eat. I know that is SO hard when you feel like your kid is starving themselves but its what you have to do. You can not make it a battle you just cant.

call about feeding clinics.

does she eat more at school or when with other people?

have you tried to involve her in the shopping and peparing of food?

Can you ask her what she likes about the yogurt? IS it smooth, is it sweet, is it cold, WHAT?

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Hi OP. My dd was liked yours at 3 years. Ate plain noodles with butter, fruit pouches, loved milk and dairy. Didnt seemt to eat much else. She wound up with constipation and stomach aches so at 4 she is limited to 6 oz milk (3 before afternoon quiet time and 3 before bedtime) once slice of cheese at lunch, one serving of yogurt and then a serving of cheese if it was in dinner (eg Mac and cheese, pizza). She was 5% for weight and we visited 2 different feeding therapists at 1 year and 2 years and we were told both times since she was self feeding and maintaining her growth curve (she was always small) that she didn't need therapy. So we just plug along. She will now eat meatballs, breaded chicken (dipped in egg and breadcrumbs) and a decent range of fruit and veggies. Going to preschool helped a lot. Will your dd do chicken nuggets? Dd started with that and then I was able to substitute that for breaded chicken made at home. Can you take her grocery shopping with you? Dd loves to pick out a new cereal or a new yogurt (yes, I let her pick out trix or Dora or whatever but I prefer chobani). As she gets older she likely will get better but we don't make food battles at home.

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I am having similar problems with my 5 yo. He barely eats ANYTHING. I would give him hot dogs and chicken nuggets every meal, if he ate them. For example, yesterday's intake: 1 bagel w/jelly, 1 bite pizza, 2 potato chips (birthday party lunch), 1 pretzel and 1 fish stick. He tried a bite of spinach and made himself throw up because of it. I feel like he has 1 'good' meal each day, usually breakfast-in this case a whole bagel!

Anyone have any strategies to make their kids eat or at least try new things? I feel like we have tried everything, and we have even bribed! At this point, we want to see a nutritionist also, any recommendations?

Thank you!

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PP here-also, my 5 yo weighs 32 pounds and is 39 inches. Not even on the charts and hasn't been for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you south Asian by any chance?

Why does this imply?

Not the PP, but I'll bite. South Asian diets tend to be dairy heavy. My parents have a hard time restricting milk, and would let my 3 year old consume nothing but milk - the mentality is, "At least she's drinking milk, so we shouldn't be worried." In poor, vegetarian communities milk is a critical part of the diet, so it's not seen as such a huge problem to be consuming only the "best" thing.

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I didn't read through the responses, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating what other people have said.
There is nothing wrong with eating yo baby yogurt -- it beats a lot of other things that she could be eating. I am going to assume that she eats something other than yogurt -- probably just not that much other than yogurt. My 3 year old is pretty similar, she only eats cheese/yogurt, hot dogs, broccoli, pasta, french fries/tater tots, chicken nuggets, fruit, marshmallows, and ice cream. We have her taking vitamins and drinking whole milk so she's actually not that skinny/malnourished looking (I'm sure the ice cream is helping fatten her up).

Somethings I have tried over the years to get her to eat different things --
1. Greek yogurt -- she also developed a fondness for yo baby when her little brother was eating yogurt. We got her the greek yogurt marketed to kids -- she really liked it for a while. She also really liked the tubes of yogurt (Go gurt).
2. Greek Yogurt ice cream -- I thought this would be gross, but she really like it.
3. Mixing things in with the yogurt -- oatmeal for example. Sounded gross to me, but she liked it.
4. Giving her kid foods/things that have more sugar/chocolate than you would like: Kids cereal for example (lucky charms is a big hit in our house), chicken nuggets and french fries, mac and cheese
5. Changing the marketing of the food: My daughter really likes it when I put her food in a divided plate with little portions of everything.