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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to like Ellyn Satter, but I think the idea that children sneak and overeat sugary/caloric foods if you don’t regularly serve them as part of healthy meals is BULLLLLLLLLL. BULL. SO MUCH BULL.

Picture a small hill. This is the contribution of making something “forbidden.”

Picture Mount Everest. This is the contribution of the foods being highly palatable and the body being biologically wired to want them. [/quote]

As someone who struggled with binge eating and overcame it in adulthood, I can tell you you’re wrong! The reason is that things like Cheetos, cookies, etc actually dont taste that great and they don’t make you feel good, if you pay attention. So learning to tune into your body is what makes all the difference in the world.

Op I think you’re doing things right in terms of her eating but I’d be on the lookout for PCOS or high insulin. If her insulin is high, that’s what needs to be checked - not her weight - and that can be managed through meds, or more exercise, or other strategies. I still think you need to be very careful because you don’t want a kid to be obsessing about diabetes prevention either. But just food for thought that I think you have a good perspective but you still aren’t wrong that your instincts are saying something might be off here.[/quote]

Binge eating is a physiological disorder.  You likely would have been a binge eater regardless of what type of foods your parents had at home[/quote]

this is mostly true and does not contradict anything in my post. It is more about the restriction aspect.[/quote]

Parents don’t cause binge eating by telling their kid they can only have one piece piece of cake and not two or three. Or by not buying Cheetos except on road trips or whatever [/quote]

That’s fine unless you tell child A they can only have one piece of cake but child B gets as much cake as they want whenever they want.  I believe it’s the part about enforcing diets and restrictions on one child but not others that PP was concerned about.  They suggested limiting all the children to one piece of cake since none of them need 2 or 3 pieces anyway.[/quote]

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