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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Anyway, what eventually worked for me -- somewhat ironically -- was just constant grazing. I say somewhat ironically, because many doctors were convinced my snacking was why  I wasn't hungry at meal time and told my parents to cut out snacks to get me to focus on meals; it totally backfired weight-wise, because my meal size remained the same and I lost the snack calories. Around age 12 a specialist suggested to my parents that they just let me snack/eat however I wanted for a month, but coupled w/ readily available snacks, treating snacks as meals from a nutritional perspective (so snacks were not junk food but just small servings of dinner foods, etc), and offering snacks; my weight shot up 5 lbs in 2 months (a big deal at the time and the difference between looking healthy or not), my caloric intake increased steadily and I felt nauseous less often. [/quote]

This is almost *exactly* what happened to my son, at a slightly earlier age!   He wasn't eating very much except snacks (and mostly empty calorie snacks like milk shakes or Goldfish crackers).  I cut out the snacks entirely, hoping to make him hungry enough to eat his fill of a proper dinner -- but instead he just lost the snack calories without increasing any meal calories.   And he fell off the BMI chart and just stopped all interest in eating for a few years.

When I finally started letting him snack whenever he wanted and eating whatever empty calorie snacks he was hungry for, he gradually started eating again, and putting enough weight on to grow again.   It was definitely not true that "he will eat when he is hungry" -- not for this kid anyhow. [/quote]

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