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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh. My kids are allowed to have dessert on Thursdays. One other day per week if we go out to a nice restaurant. I went into their school and had the cafeteria manager set it up so that they were only allowed to use their lunch accounts to purchase the main meal and no one-off snack or dessert items. I've attended lunch at their school and there are a bunch of kids eating nachos and cookies for lunch. THIS is what happens when you don't pay attention to children. Like it's a mystery how kids get obese.... calories in> calories out[/quote]
Not really. My dd and ds ate chips and nachos and whatever they wanted. They are skinny young adults and were always extremely skinny. Most of the kids I know have done the same, and very few are obese. Some are skinny, some are a bit chubby, and some are just regular weight. I find that most kids have the ability to self regulate eating. It is crazy parents like you who limit and forbid certain foods that cause the issues or who model unhealthy eating. If not right now, then when your kids have more freedom and personal choice. That is because they were never allowed to make their own choices and listen to their own bodies tell them when they are full or still hungry. You should stop your condescending smirking at OP and other pps here, you have no idea how your kids will turn out as young adults when it comes to weight.[/quote]

I think you just got lucky. My husband and siblings grew up like your kids. They were thin growing up but really struggle with weight as adults. They were not taught to regulate and do not naturally regulate--when they were younger and very active their metabolism helped ... until it didn't. I grew up in a house with one scheduled snack per day. The only option around if you wanted to grab something extra was fruit. We typically only had dessert on weekends or at grandparents. My siblings and I are all thin, not snackers, and don't really work at it.

I try to model healthy eating and just not have nachos and other junk food around. I disagree that "most kids have the ability to self regulate eating" and every study on US children would seem to disagree too. In a culture with so much crappy unhealthy food available everywhere, kids need to be taught how to eat in a healthy way.[/quote]

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