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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You and your DH do eat healthily but you are modeling basically dieting behaviors to your DD. Here is how you start the day for your dd.
Huge breakfast:
several rashers of bacon
3 eggs
bagel with nutella or cream cheese on.
Juice and ensure if possible.
You wake her up early and you make it and she starts by eating more and more, if you need you eat the same. She won't eat all of it the first week, but you do this. 
I hate to say this, but your eating is modeling your DD's eating. Sounds like you and your DH are very healthy food conscious, which would normally be awesome! but not for your DD, not in her case. Go to Texas Road House and you and your DH model eating a whole steak and baked potatoes and bread and a salad. I answered in earnest but your menu posting makes me wonder, if you are serious about your DD's issue or maybe a troll?[/quote]

I'm not the OP, but I have a question about this. I have three thin kids, one of whom is very, very thin, and he would NEVER eat all this. This isn't a normal breakfast. Very thin kid doesn't eat eggs. He'll have bacon or sausage on the weekend, but during the week, both because of time and because of what his body wants, he usually has cereal or a bagel or waffles with peanut butter for breakfast. For OP's child, who is under medical watch, of course a *bigger* breakfast is in order, but this amount of food doesn't seem reasonable for anyone, least of all a tiny girl. What is reasonable, yet also convenient and caloric? [/quote]

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