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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Dd is 11 and overweight. We never eat fast food. No potato chips. No sodas. But every two hours she says she’s hungry and we don’t want to restrict food. I just decided to put all the control in her hands. I tell her what I recommend she eat (a banana with peanut butter as a snack, or apple and cheese) and she decides whether to eat it or something else. I’m hoping it helps her feel more in control and therefore eat less. [/quote]
Seriously? You are a parent and you put all the control in the 11-year-old hands. Why is it all or nothing? Why can't you cook healthy food and stop with peanut butter, and cheese, and cook her a stew? Nobody got overweight from eating three homemade meals per day.[/quote]

As stated elsewhere in this thread, it is impossible to micromanage food and portions in an older child.  While you can cook meals at home, do you tell them no seconds? Between school, holidays, birthday parties, family parties, play dates, relatives.. it is a constant stream of processed food, juice, soda, being offered to kids.  Do you follow your 11 yr old around at every social gathering telling them they can’t have that or they have had enough? Some kids eat a lot and have a bigger drive to over consume.  I’ve noticed kids at birthday parties that will eat a couple bites of pizza and cake and then run off.  Then there are some kids that eat all their piece and cake, ask for more and are licking the crumbs [/quote]

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