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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read Your child's weight - helping without harming by Ellyn Satter. It will help you with tools to help your daughter learn how to listen to her body's cues without you controlling her diet (which as you said, will truly only cause harm in the end). h

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But I always caution people to be very careful about a child seeing the book because the title makes it something that could make a child feel a lot of shame if they found their parent reading. I would just get it on kindle to make sure it's not lying around the house. The book actually ISN'T about weight, but the title would make a child think that.[/quote]

I'm annoyingly flagging my own comment again here - please read this op. Those posting here are not RDs, they are not trained in nutrition or how to actually develop a healthy relationship with food and be able to listen to your body.[/quote]

I’ll flag this also!! What people are describing is the opposite of intuitive eating. By putting out limited portions of food and telling her there isn’t more, she isn’t learning how to listen to her own hunger cues. You don’t want to have a quick fix here, you want her to learn healthy eating habits that will last her a lifetime.[/quote]

She doesn't have hunger cues!  OP is describing a child who wants to eat 2-3 slices of cake or a fifth slice of pizza.  I have hosted 15 parties and have NEVER had a child ask me for a THIRD slice of cake/cupcake.  That isn't hunger at 10 years old - it's gluttony.

There is nothing wrong with telling your children there is no more of whatever after everyone has had a serving, and if they are still hungry they can have more fruit or veggies.  I hate it when people say this on this site...but...this is why Americans are fat.[/quote]

That is not the way your child gets her hunger cues back. [/quote]

Again - this is why your kids are fat.  It is FINE to tell your child they cannot have a third slice or cake or fifth slice of pizza.  And that there are plenty of items on the fruit or veggie tray the host provided.  If they turn those down...they aren't really hungry, just being greedy (which is fine on occasion).

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If my daughter wanted five pieces of pizza I would wonder what was going on but I wouldn’t tell her to stop eating. Of course when people overeat they aren’t overeating because they’re hungry, I don’t always eat just because I’m hungry, but trying to control her like this isn’t going to help anything.

And my daughter is not fat, she is actually quite thin, but even if she was fat I wouldn’t use your messed-up approach to controlling eating. [/quote]

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