DC gained 5+ lbs last week at sleep away camp

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Anonymous wrote:OP back. Yes I'm the field trip/$18 lunch mom. Maybe I so have control issues but I do love him very much and want the best for him. He's ten weighs 116 lbs about two weeks ago, today he's well over 122.

The 'unlimited ice cream' camp is a great camp and I'm not gonna ban it just because the ice cream.

He is 10 and weighs 122 lbs! My 11 year old weighs half that. Where is he on the growth chart?

Your 11 yo is teeny tiny.

My 10 yo son is 5'4 and about 125 pounds, and healthy. There is a huge range of normal at this age.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound controlling. I'd binge at camp, if all my food was restricted at home and my mom was weighing me all of the time.

Children's food is restricted at home. All homes. This is totally normal. i don't know any kids who are allowed to eat whatever they want to eat. Not one single kid.

I don't restrict food at home. He makes choices and I make suggestions.

Let me guess...you offer sunflower seeds or chik peas as a snack and he gets to choose the lesser of the 2 evils? That's your definition of "he gets to make a choice"?

Yes, next she'll want him to live at home and commute to college to 'save money'

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Anonymous wrote:10 wings is a lot for a 4 yo, but not a 10 yo who's been active all week! I hope you didn't weight him the minute he got home; that's weird.

Thank god she at least let him go to camp so he had one week of peace out of 52.

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Divorced parents who don't get along, a dad who screams at him every night, and an OCD crazy eating disordered mom? Poor kid could probably use a few more Weeks at camp.

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How often do you weigh your son?

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OP, your other thread plus this one make it seem like you don't understand what is normal for an active tween to eat.
Kids that age can burn and consume a lot of food.

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I have a hard time believing he gained 5+ lbs in a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Divorced parents who don't get along, a dad who screams at him every night, and an OCD crazy eating disordered mom? Poor kid could probably use a few more Weeks at camp.

Different pp.

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My guess is he is actually overweight/chubby but since you see him every day it didn't really register. Once he was gone for a week and came back, you noticed.

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is he is actually overweight/chubby but since you see him every day it didn't really register. Once he was gone for a week and came back, you noticed.

Even if his is true, he's about to hit puberty and will thin out. OP needs to see a therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing he gained 5+ lbs in a week.

No way. It's water weight and probably constipation. Or else OP is exaggerating to make her point. I'm guessing 5 ounces would send her over the edge.

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Op, I feel for you. People who do not have children that get overweight easily have no idea. We can work for months with our son to eat right and one week at the wrong camp undoes everything. It is not just about the week. It is that it gets them back to wanting to eat junk. I struggled with my weight as a child. Some kids cannot eat as much as others or do not have the same full signals as others. We have tried on vane for years to not moderate food, just offer good food and set good examples, but there comes a time you have to say - you need to stop eating - at meal time.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just so frustrated. I need him make the right choices on his own with another week of camp next week.

I want to have another talk with him again but I know he's not gonna change right away I'm just so worried his weight will get out of hand very rapidly.

Good Lord. The child is hungry. FEED HIM.

Did you not read that the kid weighs 122 pounds? He is not hungry.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, what shines through here is your level of anger/frustration/emotional drama around his weight and eating. Not appropriate.

I think what shines through is the level of anger/frustration/emotional drama on the part of the many PPs on this thread who think an OP who is concerned with her 11 year old's 122 pound weight.

I would be concerned, too. That's heavy. The time to address it is now. You're a good mom, OP. Ignore the posters who always want every problem to be the result of bad mothering, rather than a problem that is begging for good mothering....

Keep up the good work, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:OP back. Yes I'm the field trip/$18 lunch mom. Maybe I so have control issues but I do love him very much and want the best for him. He's ten weighs 116 lbs about two weeks ago, today he's well over 122.

The 'unlimited ice cream' camp is a great camp and I'm not gonna ban it just because the ice cream.

He is 10 and weighs 122 lbs! My 11 year old weighs half that. Where is he on the growth chart?

Your 11 yo is teeny tiny.

My 10 yo son is 5'4 and about 125 pounds, and healthy. There is a huge range of normal at this age.

That is HUGE. Surely you realize that, right? The fact that your DS is massive has absolutely nothing to do with "normal" size and weight.

Seriously, he's the size of an adult.....