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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet another thread where someone blames the kid. But, you are the parent, Are you overweight? What do you cook? What does dad eat and cook?
How does she get to 13 and throws tantrums if there is no pizza she likes?
Here is the food honey, this is what we are eating. Enough is enough, but of course, that would entail you eating healthily and serving healthy foods!
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Look. I AM the parent. My kid still struggles with this. No, she does not throw tantrums. (I'm not the OP.) She'll eat just enough balanced food at a family meal that I can't really question her. It's that the next day, I'll find a brand new box of cereal gone. I tell the whole family to portion snacks into a bowl so that food lasts for a few days ... I know she sneaks a lot more. I try to say as little as possible so she doesn't have shame attached to food. I had an eating disorder, and she has a therapist. We're really trying. 
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No, you are not. You have a whole box of cereal at home. Great if it is an oatmeal box that you have to cook, awful if it is sugar cereal. You had an eating disorder, she is on the way to one.
We have to stop blaming the kids for their food choices when parents provide those food choices! We have pp on the diet forum saying that "it is not my fault I am overweight, it is my thyroid." Sure, ok, but she is 190 lbs when a while ago she was a healthy weight! So, people like that pp are denying responsibility for their own choices. People like you and OP are denying responsibility for your own choices. 
They want a treat? Make it a trip to the grocery store, that's what most countries do. No ice cream at home all the time, here is a dollar go buy ice cream at the corner shop. Just the fact that your dd sneaks food is a sign that you have created an eating disorder.  My dd has an eating disorder, guess who is to blame? Me and DH!
Every couple of weeks we have someone posting that kids are eating too much, how great that all these kids have their own bank accounts and buy their own food![/quote]

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