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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My close friend and her husband are gym rats and are so incredibly fit. All 3 of her children are very very overweight. I wonder what goes on at her house for meals and why the kids are so much larger than the adults. They’re a nice family but it’s all I can think about. My friend was a chubby kid and had a lot of mental issues from being chubby. She’s lost it all by 16 and hasn’t been chubby since though. [/quote]

If she was chubby as a kid and then it evened out, maybe her kids will do the same. You just don't know.

I have the opposite issue. I was a super skinny string bean as a kid and filled out (but still very healthy weight) as a teen. My DC is the same and people freak out when they see a really thin kid and assume they are malnourished or being fed the wrong foods. I was a picky, light eater as a kid and my kid is too -- common to eat a few bites of something filling and feel full, rare to eat really big meals (does happen especially after a ton of exercise, but on a normal day with average exercise, just not a huge appetite). People also worried that there was something wrong with me as a kid, that I had an eating disorder or wouldn't grow or would have learning problems, none of which were true. I filled out and am now a very healthy weight, I believe my kid will too.

Some bodies just develop differently. Who knows why. There is no one size fits all for child nutrition.[/quote]

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