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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I offer my kids the same meals. One is very hungry and wants a lot. One is not very hungry and does not want very much. They have similar activity levels. I’m serious — you guys thinks I should say “no you can’t have another bowl of soup, Larlo”? [/quote]

Yes! And follow it up with "we feed our bodies enough that they take care of us, then we stop."[/quote]

And then all of us here at DCUM can look for mom’s post when kid starts sneaking out of bed at night to raid the fridge.

Awesome that you have all the answers, though.[/quote]

Well, it would work for my kid- although my kids are slim because they were raised with “give your body what it needs and stop”.  Maybe parent your better and these answers might work for you.  When we got our cat she was pre-diabetic (elderly).  We calculated how much the cat needed to eat based on her age, current weight, and target healthy weight.  Then we weighed her food to understand the necessary portion size she needed - it was tiny.  We fed her that.  She was starving and would try to eat out the compost for about a month.  After she lost all the weight and was healthy weight, we kept feeding her the same.  Her activity level increased and eventually she started leaving food in her bowl and finishing it slowly - we feed her twice a day.

Point being - once a body adjusts to being “normal” then the responses and habits become “normal.

Sneaking food from the fridge indicates more of a mental health issue, i.e., feelings of food insecurity, similar to what the cat felt when she was eating from the compost.  Those feelings pass.[/quote]

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