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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP why the hell can’t your sons just eat more whole healthy foods? I find it really messed up that you won’t even consider getting rid of the calorie dense junk. They can just eat more potatoes at dinner. They don’t need the crap either. [/quote]

Clearly you don't have teen boys.  Come back and comment again when you do. [/quote]

For real.  Athletic teen boys easily eat 5000 calories per day.

That's not easy to do on hard boiled eggs and cucumbers (or whatever healthy snack you are imagining). [/quote]

How about avocado toast, banana peanut butter smoothies, egg salad sandwiches, chicken legs, chicken Cesar salad wraps. High calorie, and actually has nutrients.

There's no reason these boys need coke and chips. Sorry. If you think they're fueling properly you're wrong. Teenage daughter less likely to overeat avocado toast. [/quote]

All those things are too fattening to have around a teen who needs to lose weight. Avocado toast is not nutritious. Peanut butter is too fattening. Caesar dressing is way too fattening. Egg salad has way too much Mayo.

Nobody is feeding their sons Coke and chips if they’re an athlete[/quote]

I hate that word "fattening." Plenty of skinny people eat peanut butter and avocado toast.[/quote]

We’re not talking about a skinny person are we. Obviously the skinny male athletes can eat as much peanut butter as they want.[/quote]

{sigh} There is a big difference in the nutrient content and satiety level of healthy but calories dense foods such as peanut butter and avocado versus junk food like Cheetos and salt and vinegar chips. Op did come back to say she doesn't have any junk in the house (however did say in her op that she has to have snacks around for her athlete kids, so maybe she backpedaled, maybe she didn't).

If op's daughter goes low fat and low carb and deprives herself she will be hungry all the time, hangry, and possibly malnourished depending on her choices. If she can eat a balanced diet with (gasp) healthy fats and protein and (double gasp) complex carbohydrates, then she will be fueling her body with healthy foods, providing her cells with the nutrients they need, providing her brain with the fat that it needs as she is still growing and developing! She's not a 45 year old pre menopausal woman who has to eat celery and laughing cow cheese.

Op--I think your dd will be fine if she gets the unconditional love from you, you cook healthy well-balanced meals, and you don't deprive her for fear that she doesn't look like she's healthy. I would insist that she moves her body with intention multiple times a week-not for weight, but for mental and physical health. [/quote]

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