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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a question for your child’s doctor, who can assess your child’s BMI. Tall kids, muscular kids, and active kids need more calories than their short, sedentary counterparts. My kid ate like a toddler until puberty and was always the smallest in the class. Then started eating man portions at age 13.

As for the suggestion to pump your child full of protein to satiate them — no. Kids don’t actually need that much protein. And the obsession with blunting hunger with high protein diets in adults should not be transferred to children. [/quote]

You don’t need a doctor to assess BMI. Doesn’t OP have access to a scale, a tape measure, and the internet?[/quote]

I put OP’s kid’s measurements into a calculator, using 6.5 for his age. His BMI is 55th percentile which is a very good place to be.  Clearly he’s got an appropriate appetite for his body and OP is doing a good job feeding him an appropriate variety.

I think that strategies like low carb, fixating on protein, or having a kid not eat snack while other kids are having snack a school, are problematic for any child but for a kid like this they are particularly bizarre.[/quote]

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