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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did all of these things as a child and I don’t think it’s about your parenting at all. It’s biological. I have always and will always struggle with sugar, just like an alcoholic.

Ime the best thing you can do is not have any sweets in the house except when you’re eating them. So the Halloween candy gets eaten for two days and then thrown out. Chocolate chips don’t stay in the pantry, they get bought for baking day and then discarded. It’s way too much to ask her to know they’re there but not eat them at this age. Help her by removing the temptation, don’t punish her for giving in to it.

The other thing that works for me is having frequent, low carb snacks. So nuts, cheese, etc. I have to stay ahead of the clock. And i do better when my meals are weighted towards protein and fat and good carbs (eg peas, sweet potatoes etc. I can have pasta/bread/whatever but it has to be outweighed by the other things).

As she gets older, I think it’s a better strategy to just talk openly about sugar and how it makes us feel in the moment and long term, and how it affects our health rather than try to box in her behavior with consequences. You might not succeed but you almost certainly won’t succeed trying to continue as you’re going.

Nature Valley protein bars have chocolate and are sweet, but they’re mostly peanuts and they don’t spike my blood sugar. You could try those as a great option. [/quote]
That is a lot of baggage projecting on a four-year-old that ate a couple of pieces of candy. You clearly know you have a disorder, but yet you think you should give advice on parenting a 4-year old that you know nothing about? [/quote]

op please don't listen to the original pp here. I have empathy for that pp, because I used to be them, thinking i just had some biological craving for sugar that was more than others and I had to CONTROL MYSELF. but the fact that you did all of this as a young child pp (I did too) is not a sign that you have an inherent problem! It's a sign that your parents were RESTRICTING YOU. and restriction leads to overeating of the thing restricted. So you are still restricting yourself as an adult (I did too) so you still think that you just can't control yourself. Sorry, this gets me firey because many of us have been convinced to think this way and it is so detrimental and doesn't actually lead to healthy eating. Research says that lowering restriction along with other efforts to listen to ones body would help the situation not hurt, so I hope the op will heed that advice.[/quote]

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