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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] My 12 year old DD is in the 15% and I know it has to be in part due to her diet and lack of protein. She was 90% until she turned 3 or so and started getting pickier and pickier.  [/quote]

OP, this was exactly my child.

Very slow drop in weight percentiles, from 60th to 8th for a few years, to 2nd and 3rd and eventually 1st.   Finally stopped growing in height, too, and went from picky to extremely picky/tiny intake of calories.

Get a copy of ALL Your child's height and weight from birth on,  plot out everything on mygrowthcharts.com.  Kids usually stay on about the same percentiles -- some variation sure, but within a band.  If your child was up at the 90th percentile until age 3, she probably ought to still be up at that level.  She isn't getting enough calories to fuel her growth.  
 
In my son, this severe picky eating was hard to notice because on paper it looked like he was eating an acceptable variety of foods.  But they had to be exact,  specific brands or cooked a certain way.   It was very very very hard.   It was eventually diagnosed as ARFID -- where kids are so severely selective that they simply can't get enough calories to grow and thrive.

[quote]She won't eat cheese, any type, it grosses her out.  No deli meats, red meat is on a day to day basis, she eats it 30% of the time when I make it.  Hates peanut butter and every other nut butter.   Only eats 1 type of yogurt (the one with the orios, which can't have much protein).  Won't touch greek yogurt which my other kids love. Edamame she will eat, but only sometimes.  She does eat all or most of her vegetables, so she will eat the side dishes during a meal and leave the main dish (meat). Won't touch eggs without gagging. She doesn't like fruit, so smoothies with egg/yogurt hidden in them are a no.

Here is the protein she will eat: Chicken, beans, chickpeas and most legumes.  I make legumes once a week, chicken twice a week, but the rest of us want variety so I also make pork (ribs, chops). She drinks 3 cups of milk a day, she likes milk. 
I make Banza pasta for school because she loves pasta, and it has tons of protein since it is made with chickpeas.  I mix it with a bit of regular pasta so that it makes a complete protein.

Can someone help me with protein ideas?  She will go to bed hungry no problem, rather be hungry than eat something she doesn't like.  
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My advice to you is to start counting calories and figure out how many calories a day she is consuming, and then massively increase the calories until she starts gaining weight up to her historic percentiles.   Or at least up to the 50th percentile!   Don't worry overly much about the protein.

I took my son to the Shepherd Pratt Eating Disorder Clinic where he was diagnosed with ARFID but they didn't have a lot of ideas back then as to how to increase his willingness to eat different foods.  That was a long, slow process but it eventually worked -- took several years and a ton of patience.   But the first thing I needed to do was to get his weight back to his former historic percentiles -- took a lot of calories because once he started growing again, he hit puberty and grew like a week so I had to keep feeding and feeding for the growth!!

Do everything you can to be sure she has food she likes and never let her go to bed hungry!!  Clearly she's one of these kids who WILL starve themselves -- she has shown that -- so meet her needs right now and feed her!
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