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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the OP of the thread on whether Ellyn Sattler works for kids who can’t regulate their food intake.  My daughter is definitely overweight, and has no “off” switch when it comes to food she likes (not just junk, but anything she really likes.).  Always has been like this.   But she now wants to lose weight, and I’m really struggling with how to approach it for all the reasons given here.  A week of trying Sattler’s approach has led to, I would guess, a doubling in my child’s consumption for the week (and I assure you she was not going hungry before).   Even she said “I’m not going to lose weight eating whatever I want.”  I don’t care what my daughter looks like—she takes my breath away with her beauty.  But she gets made fun of for being fat, and I don’t know how to help her in a way that doesn’t lead to more issues later.  So I feel for you, OP.  [/quote]

I don’t think Sattler works for kids who are willing to eat everything including healthy items but just eat too much. You just have to limit food for some kids so they learn not to overeat. Their is obesity in my extended family so my sister and I both were committed to trying to keep our kids at a healthy weight. My sister followed Sattler and her kids are all overweight. They just eat too much at one sitting. From a young age they are adult sized portions. I decided to limit portions for them. One slice of pizza is enough for a 5 year old. When my son wanted another slice we told him no. At dinner everyone gets one serving of food there are no seconds. If you are still hungry we tell our kids they need to wait an hour. But by then they rarely ask for food an hour later. In previous generations kids didn’t get seconds. Everyone got one serving and that was it. There wasn’t an endless supply of prepared foods. [/quote]

I am always skeptical of people who claim they are following Ellyn Satter and add random letters to her name.  How much of her work can you possibly have read if you think her name is Sattler or Satterly?

How old are your kids?

You're gloating about the fact that you followed techniques that are proven to backfire in adulthood.  Are your kids adults?  [/quote]

I don’t follow Sattler because when I researched her method around 10–15 years ago I was skeptical that her method works for kids growing up in families with a family history of obesity. She does not believe in controlling portion size at any age. Not even when kids are preschoolers. If you think of how good is served in other countries or generations before, this is just not how people ate. Everyone at the table had to eat and families used to be bigger. Kids didn’t get unlimited portions.

Many, but certainly not all, kids will overeat if given access to too much food on a regular basis at sit down meals. Once a  hold gets used to eating too much they can’t regulate food intake. The best predictor of if a child will be obese as an adult is if they are obese as a child. Every year a parent can delay their child from being overweight/obese it means a smaller risk of being an obese adult. My kids are now 14 and 16 and they are normal weight. As teenage boys they eat large portions at time which is understandable. I have no problem with it now. But I layer the groundwork in childhood of restricting portions because a child just shouldn’t eat the same amount as an adult. [/quote]

I don’t think “many” kids do overeat, especially not preschoolers. Every birthday party I go to, there are half eaten pizza slices, cupcakes with one bite taken out - most preschoolers stop eating when their full. More often than not, the kids that can’t stop eating are the ones who have been told “you can’t have cake - it’s junk food!” and then they go to a party and stuff themselves with cake.[/quote]

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