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[quote=Anonymous]I have a kid like this, without the complication of the thin older sibling though.  My son is just obsessed with food, it's weird.  He's 9 and also pretty active (does a lot of sports) so he hasn't put on a ton of weight, but when he sits more than normal, he gets chubby pretty quickly.

He does not really like protein, which I think is part of the problem, so we talk a ton about the variety of foods he needs to build muscle.  If he says he's hungry outside of meal time, he can eat as much fruit or veggies as he wants, but can only have a little of something else.  It's not perfect, and it feels like a constant struggle that I don't have with my other kids.  I do have a kid with ADHD, and I wonder about him, but this is practically the only symptom I see in him (he also interrupts people a ton), so we're not doing testing at this time.  I do think it's probably brain wiring though, even if it's not fully ADHD.  I try to deflect some of his "food noise" into other pursuits, since that works some too.  As in- "are you hungry or bored? Why don't we go shoot baskets?"[/quote]

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