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Just tell him bluntly, OP. I've always been direct with my curious kids. Your son probably just wants to bond, because he can see you're invested in this and he loves you and wants to join in. Maybe he can participate by helping you shop for food while you educate him on what's healthy and what's not, but he doesn't need to actually eat less.

I'm not American, and reading these boards, I feel as if some posters are overly concerned with giving their kids eating disorders. It's OK for an adult or a teen to seek to influence their body shape and cardiac health with nutrition changes. Anorexia and bulimia are mental illnesses that mostly appear with genetic predisposition, so if you or a close relative suffer from that, then you need to be careful. But other families can be a lot more open and relaxed about it.

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OP here - thanks for this.  I should have mentioned that EDs are very common in my family.  I struggled with disordered eating as a teenager, as did my mother and my sister and my niece (niece had to get in person treatment) so I am very aware of and nervous about eating disorders. [/quote]

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